He had even once thought of sending Kinoshita Fumijiro to the Chita Peninsula to breed horses for him, simply because horses were desperately scarce, and the Chita Peninsula really wasn't suitable for large-scale horse breeding. The natural environment was what it was, and nothing he could do would change that. Even the small stable he built up till now wasn't producing; it was basically about to be declared a failure, and they were switching to raising cattle instead.
But this problem had already been solved after the "trade expedition." The Houjou family was poor and very willing to barter horses from the Takeda family in exchange for Wanjin-produced gunpowder iron cannons, printed textiles, and porcelain. This greatly eased their economic pressures, and once in a while, they could even make a small profit.
