Outside Yamabuki Castle, the Maori clan's camp, a crisis is quietly approaching, and at this time, except for the soldiers of An Yi Province, they can barely maintain their composure, and the soldiers of other countries under the Ouchi clan are full of worries.

The balance of this big victory and defeat has obviously shifted to the side of the Nizi clan, and if there is no miracle, the Ouchi clan, which has suffered from civil strife, is likely to be defeated and beaten by the Nizi clan, so it is strange that they are not worried.

At this time, Mao Liyuan was a little panicked, if the Ming Ministry of Industry Shangshu refused to give him some iron cannons on credit, the consequences would be unimaginable!

As for whether the Ming Ministry of Industry will give him the iron cannon on credit, he is really not sure at all, you must know that the iron cannon is in demand in Dongying at this time, and the other princes are taking a lot of silver to buy it everywhere, why should people give him credit for nothing?

With apprehension, he personally welcomed Hou Zhitan into the tent, and after a few words of greeting between the two, he said with a little embarrassment: "Lord Hou, I don't know if you may provide a batch of iron cannons in the near future?" ”

Hou Zhitan nodded without hesitation and said: "No problem, our family master has already ordered the Ministry of Industry to step up the casting of iron cannons, not to mention more, we will be able to come up with one or two hundred guns." ”

One or two hundred?

If he can bring another two hundred iron cannons, he will definitely be able to bombard, and the defenders of Yamabuki City will not be able to raise their heads!

It's a pity that he doesn't have any money at this time.

He held back for a long time, and then he blushed and said: "This, I've been a little tight recently, this silver, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it up for a while, otherwise, you send the iron cannon over first, and after taking Iwami Country, I will pay double the money, what do you think?" ”

You guys want to take credit!

When Hou Zhitan heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Are you kidding?

You don't know how sought-after iron cannons are, don't you?

If it weren't for our Yang Daman's efforts to keep it for you, the two hundred iron cannons forged in the past two months would have been sold long ago, and you still want to play with the empty glove white wolf!

If Hou Zhitan was a serious businessman, he would probably get up angrily and leave at this time.

Fortunately, he is not a serious businessman.

However, he didn't want to give money and wanted iron cannons, and Hou Zhitan couldn't be the master, so he simply said directly: "Your Excellency General, this is related to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, I don't dare to make decisions on my own, I have to go back and ask our family master." ”

Alas, sure enough, it's good if people don't refuse.

Mao Liyuan could only say helplessly: "Please also ask Lord Hou to say a few more kind words in front of your lord, as for the price of this iron cannon, it is easy to say, two thousand taels and one door are fine, as long as I take Iwami Country, I will definitely return it twice." ”

This guy is saying a good thing, what if you don't take Iwami Province?

Isn't this account going to come back!

Hou Zhitan felt that Yang Cong was afraid that it would be difficult for Yang Cong to agree to this kind of thing.

He ran back and said to Yang Cong, Yang Cong was also dumbfounded, this Maoli Yuan, really dare to speak, such a thing as an iron cannon, on credit?

Yang Cong is not worried that Mao Li Yuan will not be able to take Iwami Province, he believes that Mao Li Yuan will definitely be able to take Iwami Province, because the guardian of Iwami Province is not Toyotomi Hideyoshi, this guy seems to have lost to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the other princes, he should still be able to win.

Question, why is this guy on credit?

If this guy is a laizi, it will be funny, in order to avoid making jokes, Yang Cong still recruited Wang Zhi over to see if Wang Zhizhi knows what the situation is.

Wang Zhi came, Yang Cong called Hou Zhitan again, and the three of them discussed secretly in the study of the Governor's Palace.

Hou Zhitan explained the situation he encountered in detail, and Wang Zhi suddenly said: "This Maoli Yuan is really brave enough, only more than 30,000 people ran to provoke the Nizi clan, he is afraid that he is poor and crazy!" ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be curious: "Oh, how do you say this?" ”

Wang Zhi hurriedly explained: "My lord, you should also know that the Maori clan is not from a prince's family, its ancestor is just a shogunate official, such a family, there must not be much savings, under normal circumstances, they can have a savings of hundreds of thousands of taels is considered to be the top of the sky, this money, they are buying iron cannons, and recruiting an army, it's just a joke, he's afraid that the Maori clan can't even afford to raise these 30,000 troops, no wonder they are in a hurry to attack Iwami Province, I estimate that they must be for Iwami Province's silver mines, Because the silver mine in Iwami Province is the largest in Toei. ”

The background of this Maori clan, placed in the Ming Dynasty, is equivalent to a local official family, and it is great to have hundreds of thousands of taels of savings.

They ran to attack Iwami Province, it is estimated that as Wang Zhi said, it was for the silver mines there, the question is, how big is the silver mines in Iwami Province?

When Yang Cong heard this, he said with great interest: "Is the silver mine in Iwami Country very big?" How big is it? ”

Wang Zhizhi sighed and said: "It's not very clear how big and small the silver mine of Iwami Country is, but I heard that most of the silver in Dongying comes from Iwami Province." ”

So powerful?

What is the concept that most of Toei's silver comes from Iwami Province?

You must know that at this time, the silver production of Toei accounts for one-third of the entire world, and it is conservatively estimated that it is more than 10 million taels per year, that is to say, the silver production of Iwami Province is at least 6 million taels a year!

This guy is terrible, you must know that the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty at this time is less than six million taels a year, that is to say, the income of one Iwami country is higher than that of the entire Ming court!

When Yang Cong heard this, his eyes couldn't help but show a trace of essence, uh, to be precise, a trace of greed.

At least six million taels a year, if you want to say that you are not red-eyed, it is false.

Of course, Yang Cong's red eyes did not want to take the Iwami Silver Mine as his own, he wanted to include the Iwami Silver Mine in the pocket of the Ming Dynasty, so that the income of the Ming Dynasty could easily be doubled.

He thought about it carefully for a while, and then asked solemnly, "What do you mean, did the Mori clan run to attack Iwami Province because they had no money?" They don't have money, the Ouchi clan is rich, the Ouchi clan is a famous overlord of the Western Kingdom, can't more than 30,000 people and horses be raised? ”

When Wang Zhi heard this, he hurriedly explained: "My lord, the Ouchi clan is indeed rich, not to mention 30,000 horses, they can raise 50,000 horses, the problem is that the Maori clan has not fully controlled the Ouchi clan at this time, that is to say, they can't touch the Ouchi clan's money at all, once they move the Ouchi clan's money, the other wealthy clans under the Ouchi clan will definitely attack it in groups." The villain estimated that the reason why the Maori clan was desperate and gathered so many people was also to completely usurp the power of the Ouchi clan. It's a pity that they can't afford the consumption of so many horses, so they will run to attack Iwami Province. ”

Does this mean that the Maori clan is already in a dilemma, and it is difficult to ride a tiger?

Yang Cong nodded slowly and said: "Well, very good, monkey, you go and tell Mao Liyuan that two hundred iron cannons will be given to them on credit, no problem, however, Iwami's silver mine must be handed over to the Ming Ministry of Industry for mining." ”

Yes!

People desperately went to attack Iwami Country for the sake of Iwami Country's silver mine, and at this time they taught people to hand over the silver mine to the Ming Ministry of Industry for mining, can people agree?

When Hou Zhitan heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

That's too much, isn't it?

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but smile and said, "What's the matter, can't it?" Can their smelting technology be compared to our Daming? Aren't we going to mine and smelt much better than them? Besides, we don't want to occupy the silver mines of Iwami Province, but we can discuss what we divide into. ”