Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 83 Just think of it as buying a personal accident insurance!
Yuanye's reason for wanting to find the monkey was simple: he was just free.

Recently, he had no money and nothing to do, and he remembered Monkey, so he wanted to find him and give him a beating in an attempt to change history - Monkey was directly related to the Korean War and indirectly related to the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty. If he could beat this guy upside down and turn him into a fool, maybe he could save tens of millions of people!
What a great merit this is! With this merit, he might even become a saint on the spot and ascend to heaven right away. He could then directly ascend back to the modern times and no longer have to worry about being trapped in the medieval Japan and losing his life by accident one day.

Unfortunately, he traveled through time at the wrong time, and Monkey couldn't find anyone at this moment, making it hopeless for him to ascend. He could only go and see his future wife first to see if he could lay the foundation for his future success.

So the next morning, he took Aman and Aqing, carrying two cans of soy sauce and a box of rice cakes as souvenirs, and went to visit Asano Nagakatsu in Furuno Castle - these souvenirs may seem a bit silly, but they are very normal in Japan, and they can still be presented five hundred years later, not to mention in ancient times, which is already very decent.

It took 20 to 30 minutes to ride from Takeuchi-sho to Naguno Castle, so he let his horse run free and asked about the new workshop director, Maejima Juichiro, "How is Maejima doing in the workshop?"

"Everything is normal." Ah Man had been traveling outside for a while, so he didn't miss any news from home. "He moved to the workshop and lived with the 'old, weak, sick and disabled'. He worked very hard and was honest. He didn't ask any questions. He doesn't seem to have any bad intentions, and there's no one behind him."

Yuanye nodded slightly, feeling relieved. He felt that if Maejima Jichiro was really an honest and hardworking person, and he was willing to work for him sincerely, then even if his talents were mediocre, it would not be impossible to make him a regular employee after two or three years.

He told Ah Man to keep an eye on Maejima Jiro for a while, and to stop caring about him once he was sure he was alright. Then he asked Ah Qing, "How much money is in the account this month?"

"There are more than four hundred and thirty strings of cash." Ah Qing was actually just a part-time keeper of the treasury. The account book was with Yayoi, but she had a rough idea of how much money was in the treasury.

Yuanye felt it was okay. Currently, there were enough people and the supply of raw materials had also increased. The profitability of the workshop had increased significantly, and he could earn 430 kan a month or so. That meant a guaranteed annual profit of 5,000 kan, which was almost the same as the annual income of the Araki-Maeda family - the actual strength of the Araki-Maeda family was only 6,000 to 7,000 koku, which was about 5,000 kan in cash.

Of course, this is just income, strength is another matter. The Arako Maeda family still has 7,000 to 8,000 people, one person can beat him into a pulp, and these people are the greatest wealth of the Arako Maeda family, in this respect he is still far behind.

Now that income is recovering and finances are beginning to recover...

Yuanye thought for a moment and asked Aman, "Should we recruit some more people? Should we start recruiting the more elite Lang Party members?"

He had this plan a long time ago and wanted to recruit a group of thugs to increase his fighting power. However, he only had more than 200 strings of cash (the medical expenses for treating the wounded) and the restart capital for the workshop. He did not dare to act rashly, which is why it has been delayed until now.

"Should we recruit some more capable fighters?" Aman hesitated, feeling that it was a bit redundant for the time being. "It seems that there is no demand for this at the moment. Oda Nobunaga has subdued all the mountain bandits and river pirates of some size in the four counties under Owari. Now the roads are much safer. Even if there are still a few scattered thieves, they dare not mess with people like us. It seems unnecessary to spend this money."

After a pause, she added, "You don't need it either. We live in Oda Nobunaga's manor. Even if someone wants to kill you, they have to destroy the manor first. Not many people in Owari can do it, and even fewer dare to do it."

Raising an elite party of men is not as simple as just getting one person; it is very expensive.

If you want to send Langdang to the battlefield, you can't let him go naked, right? At least give him a set of meat balls, right? This is the minimum of ten strings of money.

If you want to make it look a little more decent, with a higher iron content in the domaru, it would allow these men to live longer and have stronger fighting power. It would probably cost you 16 or 17 strings of cash to start, 20 strings of cash would be considered good. Then you would need to equip yourself with a battle hat, battle boots, leggings, a dagger, a bow and arrows, a gun, and all kinds of daily necessities. Twenty-five strings of cash might not be enough.

These people also need to eat every day, and they eat a lot. It costs two or three strings of money to feed one person for a year. If they train a little harder, they will eat more and better food, and they also need some rewards to encourage morale. Sometimes two or three strings of money are not enough, and three or four strings of money are needed.

Overall, if you want to arm a Lang Dang into an elite Lang Dang, train him to be able to fight, and make him loyal enough to charge into the battle and not flee easily, you need to prepare at least 30 strings of money to be safe. However, it is useless to recruit only one or two such guys. You need to recruit at least a team for each move. The 430 strings of money will be gone in the blink of an eye, and she is a little reluctant to part with it.

After listening to her analysis, Yuanye also sighed.

War is such a waste of money. I thought five thousand strings of cash a year was a lot, but it turns out that they only have more than a hundred men armed, and they are "ordinary servants" at that. If I want to upgrade them to "iron cannon men" in order to keep up with the trend of the times, I estimate that I will have to spend another seven or eight thousand strings of cash or even tens of thousands of strings of cash.

This is a bit too difficult. In "Taikou 2", you can just click twice and you never have to worry about military strength. But in reality, there are so many trivial things.

However, it seemed that the Arako Maeda family had only a dozen samurai and more than a hundred men, and after following Oda Nobuhide in two defeated battles, they were almost penniless, and even the main city was left unfinished.

It seems that it is so difficult to have some ability to protect yourself in troubled times!
We still can't slack off, we still have to find a way to continue making money! Seeing him sigh, Ah Man felt relieved, thinking that he had finally given up the idea of burning money, but she didn't expect that after Yuan Ye sighed, he actually told her: "In that case, let's recruit ten people first! It doesn't matter if there are difficulties, we will save slowly, and it will take one or two years. Anyway, there is no danger for the time being, and we still have time."

Although this was difficult, and even these ten people were of little use in the short term, it was a sheer waste, but he still felt that he had to recruit them, otherwise there was no point in keeping those broken copper coins. He couldn't eat much a day, and couldn't spend that much money, so he might as well start accumulating them day by day, turning broken copper into strength for a rainy day.

Ah Man looked at him in disbelief, and couldn't understand: "You really have a little money and you're wasting it. Can't you save some money? You're not going to fight, so what do you need so many brave men for? You can't use them at all! Do you really have to throw money into the water?"

You wild child...

Yuanye was about to retort and argue with her about who has the final say here, but considering his new personality, he hesitated for a moment and then slowed down his tone, sighing deeply: "I always have a premonition that troubled times are coming... I mean, more troubled times than now, so improving your strength is always useful, even if the improvement is minimal, so... just listen to me! As for the money, you don't have to worry too much, I will find a way, I can't let everyone starve!"

After Ah Man finished his retort, he was ready to have a quarrel with him, and he had to argue with him to see who was right and who was wrong. He didn't expect him to change like this. He looked at him suspiciously for a while, hesitated for a moment, but didn't sing the opposite tune with him. "Forget it, it's your money, spend it however you like! I just don't think there is any place to use them... But forget it, you have a point. The world is getting more and more chaotic. If something happens, it's not bad to have more people to take the blame!"

Oh? She gave in so easily? In the past, I would have to argue for a while before I could force her to agree. Afterwards, she would keep complaining and would make all kinds of "foresight" when something went wrong. It was so annoying...

So you, a wild child, have always been soft-hearted and not hard-hearted?
I haven’t noticed this before!
Yuanye just wanted to be the original Beiyuan Xuande and accumulate experience for the new character. Unexpectedly, he seemed to have accidentally discovered the weakness of this wild child Aman. So... it's not impossible to order her around like this in the future!

He thought to himself and immediately turned the corner: "I don't have much experience in fighting and killing, so I'll leave this to you! You pick the people carefully and see what kind of weapons they need. Make a list for me and then you can go and buy them."

"Okay!" Ah Man gave up on being a rebel, and these trivial matters naturally fell on her shoulders. "I'll tell you when I've made up my mind. I can also ask Ah Qing to teach them some martial arts so that more people can survive the fight, so that the money won't be wasted."

Yuan Ye looked sincere, feeling that the new character was really useful, and he added more pressure, patting her shoulder vigorously: "No problem, you can do it, I believe in you, you have always been reliable!"

"What a bunch of bullshit! Of course I've always been reliable!"

Ah Man replied, feeling a little relieved, but he always felt that Yuan Ye was acting strange these past two days, as if something was not right, but he could not tell what was wrong with him. He frowned and thought for a while, then turned to Ah Qing who was sitting behind him and whispered, "That second-hand donkey at home...you should keep a closer eye on it, there might really be something wrong with that second-hand donkey!"

Apart from the fact that the second-hand donkey sneaked into Yuanye's room late at night and kicked him in the head every day, she really couldn't think of why Yuanye became so weird.

However, his weirdness is quite comforting, which is not a bad thing...

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Yuanye chatted with Aman all the way and finalized the monthly "military expenditure". He planned to improve the military strength a little bit every month, just in case, just like buying a personal accident insurance - there is no other way, it can only be done this way. It is just in the early stage of development, and the annual income of 5000 guan cannot be paid in advance. The current financial resources are limited, and nothing can be done at once. It can only be accumulated slowly. It is estimated that it will take about a year to see initial results.

But to be honest, he is already doing pretty well. 99% of the warriors without inheritance rights can't do what he does. Most of them can only find a lord, support three or five people with their annual salary, and see if they can be lucky enough to make great achievements on the battlefield, get a piece of knowledge and action, and then develop.

Yuanye didn't chat with A-man anymore and started thinking about how to make another fortune and create a new industry that was completely under his control. As long as he took over this industry, it would be ruined and it would never cause the technological surge in Japan's strength in the Middle Ages. However, before he could figure out a clue, A-man led him to the house of Asano Nagakatsu.

Asano Nagakatsu's house is very grand, even more grand than the Kinoshita family's. After all, it is built in the castle town and is an urban building, so it is naturally more respectable. Harano dismounted in front of the house and looked at the four ink characters "Asano Dangshu" on the nameplate next to the gate. His divergent thinking problem came back.

The Asano family, the future "Lord of Ako Domain", and the protagonist of the "Chushingura" incident, was quite famous in later generations in Japan.

This is a typical example of fate playing tricks on people. Even if Asano Nagakatsu was drunk, he would never have thought that an orphan girl he adopted would allow the ordinary Asano family to become the ruler of a country and last for hundreds of years.

I don’t know if this can be considered as good people being rewarded!
(End of this chapter)