Who doesn't have ambition?

For example, don't penniless beggars ever dream of one day being able to make ends meet?

For example, the ugly monster who looks like a toad, hasn't he ever imagined that one day he will be able to marry a wife as beautiful as a fairy?

To put it a little simpler, even if it's a useless waste, haven't you ever thought of getting ahead?

It can be said that everyone has ambitions, but some people are ambitious and some people are ambitious, and what determines the size of ambition is the environment in which each person lives or the basic conditions that each person has.

It's like Otomo Sorin, doesn't he have ambitions?

Ambition, maybe he really doesn't have it, because in Dongying, ambition is not called ambition, but ambition.

All the princes of Dongying have ambitions, and Otomo Zonglin also has them, but the environment in which he was originally located suppressed his ambitions.

When he took over the throne of the daimyo and couldn't even control the retainers under his command, he naturally didn't have time to think about what to dominate Kyushu and dominate the world.

However, this time is different, if you can buy a thousand iron cannons from the hands of the Great Ming Taishi, and clean up the rebellion in Higo Country, it is not too simple, as long as you have a thousand iron cannons in hand, it seems that it is not very difficult to defeat the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Domain in Hizen Country.

You must know that there is not much difference in strength between the three wealthy clans in Kyushu, everyone has twenty or thirty thousand horses in their hands, and no one can help anyone, but there is a rebellion within their Otomo clan, and the power has become weaker, once he takes back control of Higo Province, plus a thousand iron cannons, the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan are not his opponents at all.

At this time, he not only had the ambition of unifying Kyushu, but even wanted to conquer Shikoku, conquer Honshu, and dominate the entire Dongying with the help of a thousand iron cannons!

It's a pity that Wang Zhi couldn't sell him a thousand artillery pieces at all, because this didn't match Yang Cong's strategy.

Yang Cong didn't really want to help the Otomo clan unify Kyushu, but the strength of the Otomo clan was the weakest among the three wealthy clans in Kyushu, so he asked Wang Zhi to come to the Otomo clan first and say, sell some iron cannons to the Otomo clan, let the Otomo clan slowly become stronger, and when the strength of the Otomo clan surpassed the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan, he would ask Wang Zhi to contact the weakest one and sell the iron cannon to others under various pretexts.

Of course, it is also possible that once the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan are beaten by the Otomo clan and can't find the north, they will take the initiative to come to Wang Zhi to buy iron cannons, then it will be simpler, as long as they push the boat down the river, and find an excuse to sell some iron cannons to others, so that people can withstand the other two.

In short, his strategy is to help whoever is weak, so that the three of them will fight endlessly!

A thousand iron cannons, Wang Zhi can indeed find a way to get it straight, but he pretended to be embarrassed: "This, our master doesn't have so much stock there, if you want, we can find a way to get it for you, but this time we can only sell two hundred to you, because we have so much stock in our hands." ”

Otomo Sorin's original intention was to take out the blood original, buy a thousand iron cannons at a time, strengthen his strength, first recover the Higo country, and then destroy the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan.

In this way, not only will he not lose money, but he can also make a lot of money, after all, the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan are also wealthy families that have lasted for more than a hundred years, and the silver in their hands is definitely more than one million taels, even if they hide all the silver, it doesn't matter, as long as they take the entire Kyushu, are you afraid that they will not be able to dig up more than one million taels of silver, and it is only a matter of time before they dig out tens of millions of taels.

It's a pity that the Ming Taishi was able to get 200 iron cannons.

Two hundred doors, only 240,000 taels, compared with more than 1 million taels, is much less, but he is not happy at all, because what he cares about is not silver at all, but strength.

He was a little unwilling and said: "Is there really only two hundred, please go and tell your master, I can give more silver, as long as I can buy this kind of iron cannon for two thousand taels." ”

Dizzy, these princes of Dongying are really rich, but unfortunately, it's useless to have money, this time they will only sell you two hundred doors, as for the price of sitting on the ground, it will be a matter of the future.

Wang Zhi shook his head without hesitation and said: "Your Excellency, we really only have so much inventory, if you want to, we will find a way in the future, this time there is really no way, you also know that casting artillery is quite time-consuming, and our family master will not be able to get thousands of artillery pieces for a while." ”

He believed this, because it had taken so many years for the Otomo clan to forge an iron cannon.

The reason why they can't cast iron cannons is not that they are too stupid to paint scoops according to gourds, but the main casting iron cannons has too high technical requirements, and they don't have this technology.

The iron cannon is not just a random iron ore to melt and then pour the sand mold into the mold and it is over, if it is so simple, just pull a blacksmith to cast the iron cannon.

The problem is that the iron cannon cast in this way can't be used at all, because the strength is too poor, they haven't tried, and the shape of the iron cannon cast every time is similar to that of others, but the gunpowder and cannonballs are stuffed in, a little fire, "boom", the cannonball didn't fly out far, but the fragments of the cannon barrel flew out far away, if someone was nearby, it would be good not to be stoned to death by the flying fragments.

If you use the technical terms of the Ming Dynasty, this is a typical explosion chamber, as for the reason for the explosion chamber, it is not only related to the material of the barrel, but also related to the processing accuracy of the barrel and shells, which have to be explored slowly.

The Ming Dynasty has a history of more than 100 years of casting artillery, and these "technical difficulties" have naturally been overcome long ago, but few of the princes of Dongying can overcome these difficulties, because the iron cannon has only been introduced to Dongying for more than ten years, and they have not had enough time to explore and experiment.

In short, at this time in Dongying, casting iron cannons is still a very advanced technology, as for the efficiency or something, it is naturally outrageously low, Otomo Zonglin subconsciously thinks that it is good that Daming can cast two hundred iron cannons a year.

If people don't have inventory, what can they do?

He could only sigh helplessly: "Okay, I want these two hundred iron cannons, in addition, please ask the master of your family to help and get us more iron cannons, as for the silver, it is not a problem at all, two thousand taels and one doors are no problem, I am not joking with you." ”

Wang Zhi smiled secretly in his heart, but on the surface, he pretended to be solemn: "Okay, I will tell our family master about this, there is one more thing, you have to pay attention, this cannonball, you can't make it yourself and stuff it in, if the size is not suitable, it is also easy to explode, if you run out of shells, you can buy it from us, we still have a lot of this." ”

When Otomo Zonglin heard this, he couldn't help but be startled, but fortunately, Wang Zhi reminded him, otherwise, he would really let his subordinates cast the cannonball, after all, this cannonball will be deformed as soon as it is shot, and it can't be used, he still knows this.

I didn't expect that this shell would explode if it was not suitable, and when the time came, the loss of more than 1,000 taels was a trivial matter, and it would be troublesome if all 200 iron cannons were blown up, and what would he do to recover Higo Country, and what would he do to compete with the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan!

He hurriedly nodded and said, "Okay, okay, I know, by the way, how much do you sell for shells." ”

Wang Zhi said unashamedly: "This is cheap, ten taels of silver a piece, how much do you want?" ”

The cost of ten shells is estimated to be less than one tael of silver, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was ten taels, this guy is really dark.

Otomo Zonglin didn't know that this guy was hacking him, he roughly estimated it, and then said boldly: "Then let's have 10,000 pieces first." ”

This guy, that's also a typical person who is stupid and has a lot of money, 10,000 shells, that's 100,000 taels of silver!