Perhaps for the Fuso people, Oda Nobunaga can be regarded as a generation of heroes.

But for Xu Shiyang, he is very annoying.

In 1790, Huaxia bought more than 2,700 slaves from the Daimyo of Fuso, compared to more than 8,000 the year before and 15,000 the year before last.

In other words, with the expansion and unification of Oda Nobunaga in Fuso, the work of purchasing Fuso slaves to supplement the labor gap of the empire has become increasingly difficult.

"Actually, Fuso people are quite easy to use." Li Feihu sighed: "Very obedient, and quite diligent, but this business can't go on...... by the way, his personality is very similar to Your Highness, some people call that Oda Nobunaga 'Xu Shiyang of Fuso'." ”

Oda Nobunaga was indeed a very iconoclastic figure for the country of Fuso, he claimed to be a Buddhist but severely suppressed the Ichijo sect, some said he respected the emperor and some said he suppressed the emperor, and he seemed to be very good at learning new techniques.

For example, the muskets of Huaxia were the first to be vigorously supported by him, and he also used them to achieve brilliant battlefield victories.

Not only that, Oda Nobunaga also carried out several reforms in Fuso, including the separation of peasants and soldiers and the establishment of a professional army.

and large-scale land seizures in order to increase their authority and concentrate as many resources as possible into the war of unification.

From this point of view, he is indeed somewhat similar to Xu Shiyang.

However......

"It is enough to have one Xu Shiyang in this world."

Xu Shiyang said unceremoniously:

"It's a good thing that there are a few more people like me in Huaxia, I don't care, but others can't."

The so-called hero of the other, my enemy, Xu Shiyang and the "Ming Jun" of the foreign race will not sympathize with each other.

"So what should we do?" Li Feihu asked.

"Be prepared, we may react against the Fuso Oda family in a very short time."

"To go to war?"

"Yes, not now, though." Xu Shiyang replied: "Let's try first to see if we can defeat this guy by supporting the enemies of the Oda family, if not, we will go into battle ourselves." ”

One day, Huaxia will personally go into battle to annex Fusang, not because Xu Shiyang remembers the hatred of another plane, but because of more realistic interests: Fusang has a large amount of arable land, rich deposits of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper, sulfur and limestone, and can also provide a large number of slaves.

Unlike Goryeo, which was a poor place where total occupation would cost money, direct control of Fusang would bring a lot of benefits.

Of course, Fuso has a large population and is a place of long-term war, so it is not easy to conquer it completely, and at least a few years of war preparation must be available.

Another point is that Xu Shiyang is not particularly familiar with the history of the Warring States period of Fuso, another dimension, but he knows that it was not Oda Nobunaga who finally ended the troubled times of Fuso and unified Fuso.

After him, there should be at least one Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and then the Tokugawa shogunate.

The history of this plane is not the same as the plane when Xu Shiyang came, he doesn't know if the replacement of Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa will take place, but since this is possible, and the full conquest of Fuso will take more time to prepare, then Xu Shiyang does not mind waiting a few more years.

If the empire were to face a divided Fuso, it would certainly be easier to deal with than a united nation.

"Fusang can make some preparations in advance, and the current strategic goal is to completely eliminate Yan Zonggan in the north and the pirate group on Taiwan Island in the south."

Xu Shiyang ordered:

"Get these two jobs right first."

……

I landed at the newly opened island port in the north, paid a tax according to the rules of the north, and was given a wooden tag as proof of identity, so I could move freely in the north.

It's really free, no one comes to spy on me, and I don't have to report to the government in advance where I'm going.

According to the children of my family who often come to the north, it is because I am Han Chinese.

The North traditionally regarded all Han Chinese as compatriots, even if they were not nationals of the North who had been incorporated into the people, they could enjoy civilian treatment - only after a crime was clearly committed would they be demoted to commoners, and the Han people would not be demoted to slavery, and the North would rather have people beheaded than allow Han people to be enslaved.

Hearing this, I realized for the first time that the north seemed to be deliberately trying to forcibly raise the status of the Han Chinese.

I thought about it carefully, and in the past, my friends and I seemed to prefer to use culture as a criterion to distinguish between Chinese and barbarian, while the north seemed to value bloodline more.

Two days after arriving in the island city, I hired a couple of ox-drawn ox carts to travel around several places in the north.

The bullock cart has a very high frame, with thin and long strips on the four wheels on both sides, and long iron plates stacked on top of each other are installed under the frame.

I couldn't figure out why, and the driver couldn't explain it.

However, sitting in the car, I really didn't feel any vibration, and it was very comfortable.

The only flaw is that the ox carts are very slow, and a whole team of ox carts is even slower.

Luckily, I wasn't bored in the car, because I found that my driver knew a lot and talked to him and heard a lot of interesting news.

—————— Zhang Zong's northbound diary

……

Zhang Zong has money, and when he hires an ox cart, he directly charters a car, and he says that he will give three months of money for the carriage and horses, and if he has fun, he will have a reward before leaving.

This is a big customer, so the drivers of several cars are almost family-oriented, and at least two drivers are assigned to each car.

For example, Zhang Zong's one, the driver and father and son went into battle together, took turns to drive him, and was also responsible for taking care of the camel and cow.

"My family's cattle are Mobei black cows!"

The coachman's father boasted to Zhang Zong with some pride:

"It's a lot of strength to pull the car!"

"The old man is really diligent, can he leave his son such two cows and a cart, and can top fifty acres of good land, right?"

Zhang Zong doesn't mind chatting more with the people at the bottom, as long as it's fun, he's such a character.

"Hahaha, I think the harvest is better than fifty acres of good land!"

The old man laughed:

"It's not all mine, I still have a loan in the bank."

"Is there a lot of loans?" Zhang Zong asked with a smile.

The Zhang family also lent money in Jiangnan, and basically ordinary tenants borrowed more than ten yuan, and they didn't have to think about being able to pay it off within three generations.

"It's okay, it's not less, but it's a lot better than when the head of the family was still there."

The old man smiled and said:

"I guess I'll be able to pay it off after ten years of hard work. But at that time, the oxen should not be able to pull the cart, so they will spare the next cart. ”

"Well, cattle can still sell meat and skins, but it's not worth much. When the time comes, you will have to go to the bank for a loan to buy cattle. ”

When you go to the loan again, you can borrow a little less, and then maybe you can pay it back in 6 or 7 years, and when you take out a third loan, you can borrow a little less, and then it will take 3 or 4 years to pay it back.

The old man's plan was to leave his son two big oxen and an ox cart after twenty years.