Kabunakama (TWS2)

Kabunakama (TWS2)
Chain	Market Type
Requires	Buildings: Merchant Guild Arts: Kinza Mint Resources: Crafts
Enables	-
Spawned Defence Forces	-
Basic Building Statistics	Cost: 8000 +2000 to wealth from commerce in this province +35 per turn to town growth from commerce within this province +2 experience levels for metsuke recruited in this province Consumes Food: 2 Enables recruitment of Rank 1 metsuke Limit: 1
Clan Effects	Each market chain enables you to sustain one additional metsuke
See main article; FotS Buildings

Description

To price everything is to value nothing.

This is a merchants’ association or mutual trading company, where the powerful manage trade both for themselves and others. The kabunakama even controls the trade activities of smaller merchants’ guilds, can set prices on goods, and can even bar dishonest or immoral merchants from trade altogether. The kabunakama does not exist to promote competition among merchants, but cooperation and, as a result, it boosts a province’s wealth and growth enormously and also improves the quality of metsuke who are recruited as agents.

Historically, kabunakama had much in common with the merchant adventurers and great trading companies of Europe. Often, they were granted trade rights in a town or over a particular commodity, but were then expected to pay substantial taxes to the shogun or daimyo for the privilege. Selling monopoly rights was something that all ruling classes did, as it was profitable and did not involve nobles in any of the sordid money-grubbing of common trade. Merchants did not, however, trade overseas with foreigners, except in very carefully controlled ways. Despite their enormous wealth, the merchants of the kabunakama did not improve their social status: as trading townsmen they were still far lower in the social pecking order than honest, hardworking peasant folk.

Additional Bonuses

If the player is first to construct this building type then he gets:

• +5% to the success chance of metsuke actions.

Other Information

Unlike the Rice Exchange and Merchant Guild, the Kabunakama does not consume additional food. It provides +1000 Region Wealth and +15 to Town Growth compared to the Merchant Guild.

The combination of the Kabunakama and a Law Court will allow you to recruit Exceptional (Rank 5) Metsuke who are nigh-unstoppable when it comes to apprehending troublesome agents and buying off enemy troops. They are also very efficient at collecting taxes and are more than willing to make sure that your Clan gets every bit of Taxable Koku from the Province that they've been assigned to oversee.