It is dangerous to respect gold and silver and abhor rice like this because if three or four Provinces are in famine, Provinces with rice to spare can help them, but, if twenty or thirty Provinces are simultaneously in famine, there will not be enough rice to spare. In such a time, it is not possible for people to survive by drinking decocted gold and silver.'
「此故に金銀を第一として穀を心とせざるは甚だ危き心掛なり、其故に三四ヶ国の饑饉なれば、有年の国のより饑饉の国へ廻し遣はす米穀も有べきなれども、もし、二三十ヶ国も一統に饑饉せば廻し遣はす米穀も有べからず。その時に至て、金銀を煎じて飲むとも命は助る間敷なり」