On January 24, after receiving Yu Qiuyu as hostage, the merchants from Sakaimachi and Ishiyamachi immediately started their activities. They had been waiting for this moment for too long. Every businessman who knew the inside story understood what a great business opportunity would be before them. This was not just a huge deal, but it was very likely to earn wealth that was as rich as a country, or even become a businessman like Lu Buwei.

During the period when Yu Qiuping and Miho's family confronted each other, Sakaimachi and Ishiyama-cho even cared about the outcome of the battle more than Yu Qiuping and Miho Yoshigen. If Yu Qiuping lost, all the power he promised before would be wiped out. They risked huge risks and spent a lot of money to hire ninjas to send back the front line information every day in order to understand all the trends as soon as possible.

However, when Yu Qiuping was defeated and Miyoshi Yoshi was captured. Yu Qiuping took control of Sakaicho in the negotiations with Miyoshi's family and the merchants were not as happy as they expected. Because Yu Qiuping is at its peak now, even if the contract is broken, Sakaicho and Ishiyama-cho merchants could not do anything to him. In order to ensure that Yu Qiuping fulfilled his previous promise, the merchants unanimously decided to terminate the supply of food and grass to Yu Qiuping and force Yu Qiuping to offer his son as a hostage.

After the supply of food and grass was terminated, the tension among the merchants even exceeded the moment when Yu Qiuhei and Miyoshi's family were confronted. There was already a rumor of wind coming from Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, and the hardliners led by Amano Kyoto were urging Yu Qiuhei to directly enter Sakaicho to solve the problem once and for all. The merchants in Sakaicho were frightened and hurriedly prepared to spend money to hire Sagamachi, Neirachi and other mercenaries to help.

However, all this tension stopped with the arrival of the carriage carrying Yu Qiuyu. Yu Qiuhei sent two legitimate sons as hostages in one breath, and ordered Fukushima Ansei and Mimaezaki Nakashu to not get close to Sakaimachi, which was enough to show sincerity. The relieved merchants could no longer bear it and immediately made public the agreement between Yu Qiuhei and them, and auctioned the parliamentary quota to merchants in Kinki.

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As soon as the news came out, the entire Kinki and even the whole world were shocked. Daming from each family immediately sent his own envoys to spy on whether the news was true. The warriors and allies of the Oda family, and even Ashikaga Yoshiki, also went to Oda Nobunaga and Yu Akihei to verify whether all this was true. After receiving a positive answer, the warriors, merchants, Miyaki, samurai, and even civilians in the world were even more intensely discussing this matter.

It would be fine to transfer the power of the family to the samurai who had a foreign family, but he actually gave the legislative power and the power to approve the budget to the merchants in exchange for support. This was definitely a shocking move. After learning the news, Miyoshi Yoshiki was even more enlightened and finally understood why Sakaimachi's businessmen left the Miyoshi family and supported Yu Qiuping.

Yu Qiuhei didn't expect the world's response to be so violent, and he felt secretly lucky. Fortunately, he had reported to Oda Nobunaga before, otherwise if this matter was revealed, Oda Nobunaga would have asked him.

This is why Oda Nobunaga, a new human, would agree to his subordinates to do this. If any traditional Japanese samurai would probably be angry at Yu Qiupi's rebellious behavior and ordered him to cut his stomach immediately.

However, even Oda Nobunaga seemed to be unable to accept such a system. He sent an envoy to ask Yu Qiuhei to take back his power from the merchants as soon as possible after stabilizing the situation. Although Yu Qiuhei agreed to Oda Nobunaga, he did not agree with it in his heart.

After a brief shock, the merchants in Kinki immediately realized the huge opportunity in front of them. This is the legislative power! The annual taxes, tariffs, transaction taxes, passports, markets, and various laws on the lifeblood of merchants are formulated by this Congress! If you can squeeze in, you don’t know how many benefits it will bring. You can formulate laws that are beneficial to your merchants to strengthen the caravan, encourage trade to open up the road, and even use it to formulate laws to suppress competitors! With the identity of a member of parliament and the huge power that comes with it, many people have to come to ask for their own affairs in the future.

They repeatedly confirmed that the Congress has the ability to challenge Yu Qiuping - possess Yu Qiuyu as a hostage; Yu Qiuping's treasury will also be controlled in Sakaimachi, and if you want to use the money, you must go through the permission of the Congress; if Yu Qiuping really wants to be tough, at most you can transfer to the Sanhao family with this money, so that Yu Qiuping can't afford it.

After confirming again, the rest of Sakaimachi, Ishiyamachi, and Kinki immediately sent their confidants to Sakaimachi, bringing huge amounts of cash to prepare to bid for the 100 parliamentary quotas. In addition to the merchants in the Kinki region, even many merchants from Shikoku, China, Hokuriku, and Ono regions also flocked to them. However, Yu Qiuhei did not dare to show off so much. He politely rejected merchants from other places and allowed only Sakaimachi, Ishiyamachi and his territory to participate in the bidding. Although this made others complain, it was firmly supported by Sakaimachi, Ishiyamachi, Hanoi, and Izumi.

The bidding in full swing immediately opened, which also opened Yu Qiuping's eyes to the financial resources of the merchants. The starting price of 5,000 guan is not too much or too little, but there are hundreds of merchants who can afford to auction this price. In the rich Kinki, there must be many people with a net worth of more than 5,000 guan. However, it is really surprising that there are still so many people who can take out 5,000 guan out of thin air to participate in the gamble. Seeing that the auction price is getting higher and higher, and it has already reached 7,000 guan, Imai Soku and others think it's a matter of

The love is not so good. Isn’t such an auction just as Yu Qiukai’s beloved? Although the money in the treasury needs to be used with the permission of the parliament, it is still Yu Qiu’s family’s money, not their merchants’ own money. It is not a problem to waste it like this. Sokuha Imai originally wanted to secretly buy the small businessmen and tell them not to increase the price. But the ruthless crow judge sent by Yu Qiukai to supervise the ruthless crow judge, Keidu Amano. He immediately confiscated the money Imai Sokuha took to bribes and warned Sokuha Imai that there would be no next time.

In desperation, Sohi Imai, Sohi Tsuda and Sohiko and others joined forces with a large number of the largest businessmen to hold a gathering. After reaching a consensus, they summoned all the merchants who came to bid and explained their plans.

This time, no one will bid maliciously. The bidding price cannot exceed 6,000 yuan. If you are willing to give out 6,000 yuan, you will enter the next round of negotiations. Among this group of people, except for the six people who have been appointed to have quotas, the 94 quotas of Congress were selected by drawing lots. The remaining people do not need to be anxious. Imai Soku promised that in the later constitution, the term of office of members of Congress was five years. Five years later, the 94 people would have to give the attendance to those who did not become the ones to draw lots again.

Although there were still many wealthy businessmen who expressed dissatisfaction with this, Imai Soku, Tsuda Soku and six others joined forces with a large number of small businessmen who could not stand the bidding to pressure them and forced them to accept this condition. After drawing lots under the supervision of Amano Kyoto, the 100-person Congress was elected, and the Yuqiu family also received a treasury of 600,000 yuan. The first meeting of the Congress was held in a large mansion dedicated by Imai Soku - which was later converted into a parliament hall. The first thing after the election of the Congress was to fulfill its promise and formulate the first law in the Constitution - the term of office of the congressman was five years.

Immediately, Yu Qiuhei sent Sena Yoshinori as a representative and applied for two budgets from the parliament. The first budget was the maintenance cost of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle - all the building materials were used to repair houses for the people, so Maple Leaf Mountain Castle was still half-dead after it was burned. The second budget was the military budget of Yu Qiu's family for the first half of the year. It included training costs, food costs, military production costs, and temporary budget for Yu Qiuhei to do cheaply. The two budgets combined together were nearly 200,000 yuan. When Sena Yoshinoriri reported, even his voice was trembling - he had never spent so much money in his life.

People feel refreshed when they are happy. These businessmen have just obtained the power they have dreamed of, so they naturally have a lot of favor for the Yuqiu family. In addition, they and the Yuqiu family are grasshoppers on the same rope. If the Yuqiu family is defeated by the Miyoshi family, the power of their parliament will be shattered. How could they give up the power they earned with the boss so easily? Therefore, for Yuqiuhei's first budget, the parliament immediately passed the votes of 98:2. When Semine Yoshi returned to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle with a carriage, he was immediately unconscious because of excessive excitement. It took him a long time to rescue him.

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After that, the Constitutional Assembly of Congress was immediately convened. Keido Amano presented them with the Civil Code that Yuqiu family had previously formulated in the territory as a reference for basic laws. The members of the Congress basically followed the laws in the Civil Code and did not change the power of acting officials, judges, civilians, etc. For the Yuqiu family, the respective authority of the three agencies of the Congress and the court were basically based on the rules left by Yuqiuhei last year.

However, when legislation was carried out to the aspects related to merchants, merchants were in trouble. If possible, they would like to cancel all taxes against merchants and not write them into the law. However, if there was no tax, the treasury of the Yuqiu family would be inadequate. The Yuqiu family did not have enough funds, so they could not maintain the army, and no one could protect their power. After repeated discussions and weighing for many days, under the advocacy of Imai Soku, the Congress abolished all tariffs in the Yuqiu family territory in the law to enable freedom of trade. However, the tariffs entering and leaving the Yuqiu family territory and adjacent countries remained in the status quo. The transaction tax on goods was even subtlely increased.

After several days of discussion, Sokuhi Imai, Sokuhi Tsuda and Sokuhi and others gradually established their own authority in the parliament and had a vague trend of becoming merchant leaders. However, they still faced considerable challenges. Sokuhi and Shiro from Ishiyama-cho seemed to be trying to formulate a tax law for Sokuhi Imai, Sokuhi Tsuda and these Sakaimachi who own a large amount of property - to impose property tax. This made Sokuhi Imai, Sokuhi Tsuda and these wealthy people panicked and had to hurry to win over some other small merchants, asking them not to vote for Sokuhiro's proposal.

In Congress, no matter how rich you are, a seat is a vote. If Shiro Sukiyoshi proposed a tax clause for wealthy merchants, many small merchants might flock to vote for support. Imai Soku, Tsuda Soku and they couldn't make money - because Amano Keito explicitly prohibited bribery.
Chapter completed!