Trade & money

If you just tried Perisno before playing Gekokujo you are in for a surprise. Gekokujo is Warband on a shoestring.

Hard enough to start without a horse and a bow. Stoning looters unconscious is to be considered here as the first source of income as their gear is of very little worth. As with most mods, trade prices are not set yet so no point in trading in the first 8 to 10 days.

Trade.

Given the shape of the map and the distance between villages and towns, trading can be time consuming, but can be rewarding if you focus solely in the southern regions of the map.

Dye and spice are extremely cheap in Hakata, Nagasaki, and Kagoshima. Silk is likewise very cheap in those towns and also Yamaguchi and Izumo. Fill your inventory from these towns.

If you capture the neutral fort at Tsuschima, that fort produces spice for free. You usually can get 1-3 free spice to sell per week.

Go north along the route Hiroshima-Okayama-etc. until you reach the Miyoshi towns (Kyoto, Nara, Sakai). Along the way, sell spice and the occasional dye at each town you pass. Sakai in particular usually will buy silk at 900-1000 mon apiece, and dye starting around 230 apiece. You should make 5000-6000 mon from that city by itself. Nara and Kyoto buy silk and dye at slightly less, but still better than any other spot on the map. Emptying your inventory between Hiroshima and Kyoto should net you between 10-14,000 mon.

Setting up a business in a town.

You need to have 5 relation with a town (and good relations with the lord in charge) to set up a business. Dyeworks cost 16,000 apiece, so make sure it will be worth buying one. The best towns to start dyeworks are Hakata and Izumo; their cheap dye and silk prices make dyeworks quite valuable.

Neutral Forts.

There are six places worth capturing as soon as possible. They provide goods on a weekly basis at no cost. See the page "neutral forts" for more information. Tsuschima is by far the best one to start with. You can't take all at once, since ownership is based on your Leadership skill.