In Heiankyo, Shirakawa and Toba sat opposite each other, and they had received news from the fast horse.

"Goryeo wants to open a trade route with our country, what do you think?" Shirakawa asked.

"My grandson thinks it's good, and now there are many businessmen who have gone to Jeju Island to trade in violation of orders, so it's better to let it go." Toba replied.

"Confused!" Shirakawa shouted, and Toba fell to the ground in fright, not daring to look up.

After a while, Bai He said, "Let me ask you, as soon as the maritime merchants are opened, who will benefit?" ”

Toba looked up and didn't speak.

Bai He snorted, "Yan Xi Nian, my country issued a ban on purchases, why do you say it?" ”

Toba couldn't answer.

Bai He sighed and said, "These people say they are from Goryeo, but they are actually from the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Fujiwara family issued a ban on purchases because the Tang Kingdom at that time had become extremely weakened because of the Anshi Rebellion and the Huangchao Rebellion, and our people could not learn anything when they went to the Tang Kingdom, and even the safety of their lives could not be guaranteed.

Second, many people in the Tang ships at that time came because of the defeat in the Tang Kingdom, and taking them in would only cause trouble for ourselves.

Thirdly, because after the Tang ship visited, those local tycoons would often loot the goods before the government set the price, so that the real profits were not owned by the government.

Now it is indeed the same as you said, after a hundred years, the Tang State has also become the Song State, but if the ban is lifted, do you really think that these Guan Li can be obtained by the Inner Government? ”

Toba suddenly realized, "Indeed, if the ban is lifted, those local heroes are the most profitable people, in this case, we can reject these Song people." ”

Bai He nodded and said, "That's what I mean, be quick at this time, be sure to settle this matter before the city guards know about it!" ”

- Settsu

"Xiao Langjun, Mr. Xu has gone to Heianjing this morning with Yuan Weiyi." Cheng Min walked into the room and said to Jiang De.

Jiang De was snoring and rinsing his mouth, he spit out a mouthful of foam, and said with a smile, "It's good to go, do you think Mr. Xu can succeed this time?" ”

Cheng Min said hesitantly, "Who is Mr. Xu?" Definitely. ”

Jiang De shook his head and said, "I don't think so.... Let's go, yesterday we looked at the evening scenery of this Settsu, and today we will take a look at the daytime scenery of this Settsu. ”

Walking out of the house, Jiang De opened the folding fan, looked at this piece of Tang style building, and couldn't help but sigh a little, wait for another thousand years, and if you want to find Tang Feng, you can only go to this country to find it.

Walking on the road, Jiang De carefully observed the nearby shops, and found that there were also many Song and Liao goods here, but the quantity was very small, the price was extremely high, and most of the people on the road had vegetables, short stature, and tattered clothes.

"This is the second largest city in the Wa Kingdom? I didn't think it yesterday, but today I know the poverty of the Japanese country. Hua Diao sighed and said, "It can't be a disaster here, right?" ”

Yue Fei looked at the people who were kneeling on the ground in a row, took a breath and said, "What's going on?" Except in the disaster area, I have never seen so many people selling their bodies. ”

Jiang De shook his head and said, "It's not clear. ”

Hua Diao said with a soft heart: "These people are really pitiful. ”

Jiang De thought about it and stepped forward, and those who knelt on the ground and sold their bodies saw Jiang De walking forward, they all hurriedly raised their heads, and some even wiped their faces, hoping to look better and be looked at.

"Which of you can speak Chinese?" Jiang De asked.

Everyone looked at Jiang De stupidly, looking like they didn't understand at all.

Jiang De shook his head, he didn't understand Chinese, but he couldn't use it, so he turned his head and said, "Forget it, let's go." ”

"Big... My lord, I.. I speak Chinese. A weak voice came, Jiang De turned his head to look, and a man who was only one meter four tall stood up, only to see that his face was about twenty years old, thin skin and bones, but his eyes were bright.

"Do you know Chinese? What's your name? Where are the people? What will be? Jiang De asked with a smile.

"I... I don't have a name, they call me a monkey. The man lowered his head and said, "I used to be a servant for a Song merchant, so I learned some Chinese. ”

"Monkey... Monkey? Jiang De hurriedly turned around and saw that Yue Fei and the others were still there, so he was sure that he hadn't crossed over again.

"Monkey, what a strange name." Hua Diao covered his mouth and smiled, "But looking at his thin and small, he really looks like a monkey." ”

Jiang De shook his head and said, "People should have their own names, they can't be called monkeys, it's okay to call them nicknames, but it's a bit insulting to call them proper names, I'll give you a name, just call it Toyotomi Hideyoshi." ”

"Toyotomi Hideyoshi?" The man lowered his head and read it again, and hurriedly kowtowed, "Thank you for the name!" ”

"Among the people here, if there are any people you can trust, take them all away, find a place to settle down first, and then you go to the dormitory to find me, Cheng Min, give him some money." Jiang De waved his hand and said.

Cheng Min took out a money bag and handed it to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked at the bag of money, and said in disbelief, "Aren't you afraid that my lord will run away with the money?" ”

"You dare!" Niu Gao glared angrily.

"Haha, run away, run away, if you want to leave me for this bag of money, then it's better to leave early." Jiang De laughed, and no longer looked at the person he gave the name Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after all, this person was not the real Toyotomi Hideyoshi, even if he ran away, he didn't care.

"Thank you for your trust, Hideyoshi will definitely serve to death!" Toyotomi Hideyoshi knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Jiang De glanced back, nodded, and left with the person again.

"Armory? Xiao Langjun, we are all martial artists, let's go and have a look here. Hua Diao pointed to one place and said.

Jiang De saw that it was a big shop, and said with a smile, "Let's go, go in and take a look at the smelting technology of the Wa Kingdom." ”

When he came to the shop, Cheng Min said, "Is there anyone?" ”

"Ah, it's a guest official of the Song Kingdom, come, but you want to buy a sword? The swords we have here are all carefully made by the masters, and they are all of the highest quality. The shopkeeper hurriedly came out and said with a smile.

"Take the best, let's see." Jiang De said.

The shopkeeper in the store quickly picked out a few knives and put them on the table, Jiang De motioned to Yue Fei and the others to take a look, Yue Fei took out the knives with a sigh, slashed at the air a few times, and then took out a sweat towel and threw it in the air, slashed it violently, and the sweat towel was broken by the knife and floated down in two pieces.

"Good knives!" Yue Fei looked at this knife with a sigh.

"A good knife indeed!" Niu Gao and the others also looked at this sword in amazement, with a look of amazement.

The shopkeeper said, "Our swords are all made by real masters, and none of them took less than a year." ”

"What do you say? How long will it take a year for this knife to be built? Yue Fei asked with wide eyes.

"This is still short, some knives, there are no ten or eight years, they can't come out!" The shopkeeper said proudly, "Otherwise, how could you Song people like our swords so much?" ”

"A year's time...."Jiang De smiled and asked Yue Fei, "Yue Fei, you say, if the enemies you face are all holding such sharp blades, how to deal with them?" ”

Yue Fei thought for a while and said, "If you fight alone, it is indeed troublesome, ordinary spears are probably not the enemy of this sword, but if it is above the military formation, such a blade is a little short, as long as the spear is strong, it will be broken." ”

Jiang De turned around and said, "I want all these swords, do you have good bows and arrows and good spears here?" ”

"Yes! Yes! Please take a look inside! The shopkeeper saw that it was really a big business, and rubbed his hands and said happily.

When he came inside, it was a large courtyard, and Jiang De saw a pole of spears and bow and arrow trees being maintained on the shelves.

"This bow is so big." Huadiao is a person who loves bows, he looked at the bow, and was very interested in stepping forward to take a bow and a bow, only to see that the bow was more than two meters high, and the big one was terrifying.

"Come, get an arrow." Hua Diao said, the shopkeeper hurriedly asked someone to take an arrow and handed it over, Hua Diao took the arrow to the arrow target and shot the bow, the arrow was like a meteor, hit the bull's-eye, Jiang De and others clapped their hands together.

"Good bow!" Huadiao praised.

"This lord has good eyesight, and it took at least eight years to make the bows we have here, and they are all of the highest quality."

"Eight years? How did it take so long? "Hua Diao also knew that it would take a long time to make a bow, but I had never heard that it would take eight years.

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Our bow is a bamboo bow, not to mention anything else, let's talk about bamboo, we must choose to grow in the shade of the mountainside of the 3-year-old bamboo, and then the length of this bamboo must be consistent, and it must be dried naturally in the shade for 3 years after taking the material; After the bamboo is removed, it will be baked continuously for another year and a half as needed, and the eight years are not long at all. ”

As he spoke, the shopkeeper took another bow and flattened it, pointed to the end and said, "Look, our bow has also learned the Maruki bow of the Banto samurai, as long as the bow is removed, the spear head can be inserted here, and the archer can become a spearman for melee combat in just a few breaths." ”

As he spoke, the shopkeeper took an iron spear and demonstrated it on the spot, and such a novel tactic made Jiang Dedu nod constantly.

"This is a short bow, for adults with horses."

It turns out that Japan and bows are divided into two kinds, just now Jiang De saw more than two meters high is an infantry bow, now see more than one meter is a cavalry bow, Jiang De tried it, and found that the power of these two kinds of bows is not small, and the later rumors of less than 30 meters of the killing distance is completely different, just say that this infantry bow, the effective killing distance is at least 70 meters.

Jiang De came to the place where the spear was put again, and found that the quality of the spear here was poor, and when he asked, he knew that the original Wa Kingdom did not attach importance to the spear during this period, but the most important thing was the bow and arrow, Jiang De thought about it, and said with a smile, "Okay, we also want these and bows, and send them all to the ship." ”

They walked out of the hotel and went to a tavern, where they asked for a private room.

"Today, you have all seen the weapons of the Wa Kingdom, and you have also met a lot of Japanese soldiers and samurai on the way, what do you think of the military strength of the Wa Kingdom?" Jiang De asked.

Niu Gao hammered his chest and said, "Just these little dwarfs, isn't that one to die, two to two to die?" ”

"Brother Niu don't underestimate the enemy, I see that their weapons are excellent, and the martial arts of those northern warriors are also superb, so they are not easy to deal with." Cheng Min retorted, "I think that in the military formation, the bow and arrow are the first, and the bow of the Japanese people has a long range and is not small, so it is not a small enemy." ”

Hua Diao agreed, "Goryeo is also good at shooting, if you talk about archers, I'm afraid it's Goryeo good, but if you want to talk about bows, the Maruki bow of the Wa Kingdom, according to my speculation, the range is probably better than our Song bow." ”

Jiang De closed his eyes and thought about it, and finally said, "Our army has a wide range of bows and arrows, and it is time to unify them, and we will start to do it when we go back, okay, we will go back after we finish eating." ”

After a day of walking, they returned to the dormitory and sat down to rest.

"Xiao Langjun, it's been a day, and this Settsu is like this, even Goryeo can't compare." Niu Gao shook his head and said.

"The country is poor, but it is begging for food with a silver bowl." Jiang De replied.

"Big brother? Could it be that there is something very valuable in this country? Yue Fei asked curiously.

Jiang De smiled: "Didn't you notice today? At the end of the day, the silver here is much more worthless than ours. ”

"It's true." Everyone also bought a lot of things today, and they also saw that the price of silver and copper in the Wa Kingdom was different from that of the Song Kingdom.

Jiang De continued, "This is because there is a lot of gold and silver in this country, do you know? If you want to say a number, if you take the country, the gold and silver dug up from the country every year will be at least one million taels. ”

Everyone gasped, what kind of concept is this, even if it is one million taels of silver, with the ratio of Song State at this time, it can also be worth two or three million copper coins, which can already be compared with Song Guoshi Bosi.

And this is the money that has been dug up, as long as it is circulated, I don't know how much benefit this million taels of silver will produce.

"This country is so rich, so why are they still living so poor?" Yue Fei asked puzzled.

Jiang De smiled and said, "This is very simple, there has never been a revolt of the people in this country for thousands of years, no matter how the officials squeeze, these people only know how to dig in the ground, you say, such a country, will the people in power care about the life and death of the people?" ”

The smile on Jiang De's face gradually disappeared, and he patted the table and said, "Those in power only know how to fight for power and profit, and those who are officials only know the fish and meat people, and the people of the Japanese country are not lazy, but they work hard every day, but with these people in power, these people of the Japanese country will not be rich even if they are a hundred years old!" If you think about it, even meat is not allowed to be eaten by the people, so what is the need for such a country to exist? ”