"Hachiman Mahasattva! Uncle, are you saying that the golden currency of great merchants will not be easily traded? It's a guarantee of reputation used to conduct trade ten times the value of gold?"
"That's right! It can be understood this way!... In the trade within the Capital City, there are expensive goods from various regions. The weaponry and tea sets from Sakai Port, the ceramics and seafood from Hakata, the Japanese paper and swords from Echizen, the hemp cloth and tea from Omi, the Kyoto ceramics and silk from Mountain city, the warhorses from Owari and Akita, the lacquerware from Kaga and Noto, and even the silk porcelain from the Ming Dynasty... The more valuable the products, the harder it is to trade them through bartering! Sometimes settlements take years..."
