When I helped the limping Tanegashima Shiyao back to the exit of the woods, everyone fell into an unusual silence, but no one objected.

During the Warring States of Toei, this kind of exchange between friends (or non-friends) was common, and whether they won or lost, they could enhance their relationship (or kill them), so although Tanegashima Tokiyao suffered a heavy blow to the back, he did not express the slightest dissatisfaction.

As a samurai, you naturally walk the talk. And so our grain trade was finalized. However, in order to be acceptable to both parties and easy to operate, we have also agreed on some detailed terms. For example, the purchase quantity, payment method, delivery method, etc., are all negotiated by both parties and determined quickly.

Since there were no other doubts, as soon as the contract was signed, I immediately took my leave and went to the "Ming Dynasty" to carry grain. Naturally, Tanegashima welcomed me with both hands, hoping that I would be as soon as possible, and immediately reported to the Shimazu family.

The Tanegashima family buys a lot of food, in other words, in fact, they are also buying food through the road, and it is not his Tanejima family who really needs food, but his main family, the Shimazu family, the Shimazu family who seized the blade sea musket - of course, this is the fundamental reason why I came all the way here and sang this play with all my heart.

The preparation of food is not a problem at all, and the food he needs only accounts for about half of the food we receive. According to the agreement, we will deliver the goods in Tanegashima, and the goods will be counted as delivered from the ship, and our contract will be considered completed.

Tanegashima pays a deposit of 20% first, and after the goods arrive, the other 80% will be delivered. This clause is also a general clause during the Warring States Period, and both parties must abide by it, otherwise the credit will be ruined, and it will be difficult to move an inch in the future.

In this way, after returning to Sakai Port from Kagoshima without stopping, I immediately gathered all my henchmen to the council hall and secretly deliberated on the next step.

Soon after, we sent a letter to the Tanegashima family who had been waiting for us, saying that the grain would depart from Bohai Port in three days and arrive and be delivered in six days!

At the same time, we also informed Tanegashima that due to the huge volume of transportation, our Suzuki Chamber of Commerce had insufficient transportation capacity, so we hired the largest maritime chamber of commerce in the Bohai Sea of the Ming Dynasty, the Ninghai Chamber of Commerce, to help with transportation. Tanegashima naturally has no opinion, with the intervention of a third party, the risk is less and the guarantee is stronger!

At this point, the first step of my plan has been completed, and the rest depends on everyone's acting skills!

The first to set off was a team of flat-bottomed sailing ships of the Ming Dynasty, a total of eight, flying the flag of Ninghai shipping, full of grain, and headed straight for Kyushu Island. In order to prevent accidents on the road, there is also a convoy of six ships behind! It's Arashi's fleet, but it's covered under the banner of other chambers of commerce!

Sailing on the sea, my mood is unusually good! Not only because of this open environment, but also because of my heart! Getting rid of the shackles of identity in the Ming Dynasty, I feel more and more like a fish in water, and I like this feeling of freedom!

By the night of the fourth day, our fleet had reached a distance of fifty nautical miles from Tanegashima. According to my plan, the two fleets were separated. The convoy headed straight for Tanegashima, while Arashi's fleet quietly disappeared into the vast sea......

Four hours later, we met the long-awaited Tanegashima Shiyao at the pier of Akaogi Port. Seeing that I had pulled out the grain of eight boats, and each boat had a very deep draft, it must have been grain, so a grand welcome ceremony was held for us at the dock!

The people of the whole island gathered at Akaogi Port, and the people of the island gathered outside the port, eagerly watching the buckets of grain being removed from the ship and transported into the warehouse at the dock!

Looking at the cheering crowd, there was no joy or sorrow in my heart, because to put it bluntly, this is just a business for me, and to put it more thoroughly, it is just a conspiracy! Since it's a conspiracy, someone has to pay for it!

Tanegashima Tokiyao paid very quickly, and did not say that he was in arrears, for the simple reason that he wanted to keep such a "capable and valuable" trade route. On a deeper level, he felt that I was a good person, so he completed the trade with me with a positive attitude.

Celebratory banquets are indispensable, but to my great pain, even though I have lived in Toei for so many years, I have never been interested in raw food and seafood. Looking at the table full of sashimi and seafood, I really had no appetite, so I could only be accompanied by pickles and sushi......

During the dinner, Tanegashima Shiyao repeatedly expressed that he hoped that the cooperative relationship would be stable for a long time, and I still promised that this kind of thing without cost would be why not.

When I had eaten and drunk enough, I went back to my dormitory to rest, while Tanegashima Tokiyao and the others continued to toss, arranging for ships to transport most of the grain to Kagoshima and deliver it to the main family, the Shimazu family.

Watching them busy loading the grain they had just unloaded back onto the ship and preparing to transport it away, I couldn't help but sigh again that Dongying's barrenness was really the original sin that caused many problems.

I remember reading an article when I was a child, which talked about the reason why the people of Fuso were keen on war. In the final analysis, it's because of poverty!

This poverty does not mean that there is no money, but that there is a barrenness of resources. Before World War II began, the school teacher asked the children, "Do you like to eat pears?"

The children replied, "Love to eat!"

The teacher asked again: "But Dongying doesn't!" But Tianjin in the Central Plains has, what to do? ”

The guided children replied, "Go and grab it!"

Therefore, people always say that it is actually the barrenness of their own resources that caused the driving force of Dongying's foreign wars.

But I have always disagreed with this point of view, poverty is definitely not a reason to start a war!

At the beginning of the founding of the previous rabbit, the family was poor and white, but it was a garrison of millions of troops, and they were all elite soldiers who could conquer and fight! This was fully embodied in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

If according to the theory that poverty leads to war, is it the rabbit that should take this path the most? But in fact there is not, except for a few Great Patriotic Wars, the rabbit has been concentrating on inward development.

Of course, it can also be said that the rabbit has a lot of resources, everything that should be, everything. Then I felt like I was stuck in a paradoxical cycle again. In the end, I think it's more appropriate to attribute this to the character of the people.

The fundamental reason why the Dongying people started the war was indeed because of belligerence! Just a few years later in history, after Toyosei Hideyoshi nominally unified Dongying, he immediately launched a war against Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty, why?

Is it because of arrogance?

Is it because of barrenness?

Maybe there are all of them, but they are certainly not the most fundamental reason. In essence, I think it is Toyosei Hideyoshi's power technique, the Toei Warring States, which has been fighting for more than a hundred years, and it should be said that this warlike factor has been deeply engraved in the bones of the Toei people!

Toyosei Hideyoshi nominally unified Dongying, and watching the warlike feudal officials of the whole Dongying sharpen their knives but Huo Huo had nothing to do, and he was so anxious to stay at home that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and he must have been terrified in his heart as a ruler. The best way to keep yourself and your descendants safe is to consume them!

So Toyosei Hideyoshi sent a large number of living forces to the Goryeo battlefield! At that time, Zhu Yijun of the Mingshen Sect was going all out to fight the battle of counterinsurgency in Ningxia, and he was not ready for a two-front battle, so the foolish Tosunari Hideyoshi withdrew first.

When Fengcheng Hideyoshi reacted and sent troops to attack Goryeo again, Li Chengliang, a general sent by the Ming Dynasty who had recovered his anger, would fight head-on with the generals of Goryeo, and finally beat them to the ground!

This battle knocked out the arrogance of Toyosei Hideyoshi's worried subordinate princes, and he was very relieved. But at the same time, it also knocked out the last trace of vitality of the Ming Dynasty and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The final result was that the Ming Dynasty was replaced by the Qing Dynasty, and the Toyosei clan was replaced by the Tokugawa clan.

I can't help but sigh in my heart, forgetting the war will be dangerous, and the belligerent will die, this is not a deception!

I'm not warlike, but I'm not afraid of war, and I won't forget to fight—I can't help but think as I watched Tanegashima's grain fleet leave the harbor and head northwest.

Shimazu Yoshihisa, what you owe me will be paid back to me after all! With interest.

For the next day or so, I stayed on Tanegashima Island, nothing else, just to pull Baban Qingding and dig out his old foundation! The most rewarding thing is Halleha, but in the end, it is I who is undoubtedly profitable!

On the morning of the third day, a solemn atmosphere suddenly began to permeate the island. Wu Youweimen came to me, and the first thing he said was - the grain was snatched by the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce at sea!

I was shocked and asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Youweimen looked at my expression and stopped talking, and finally said: "It should be the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce waiting for the opportunity to retaliate......"

The trade has been completed, and now the conflict is between the Tanegashima family and the Blade Sea Shokai, which actually has nothing to do with me, but I still asked about the situation out of morality.

The last trace of doubt in Wu Youweimen's heart disappeared, and he just shook his head.

Let me ask again, what exactly did you seize from the sea of blades? Such a big grudge!

Wu Youweimen gritted his teeth and squeezed out the word "iron cannon", then said goodbye and hurriedly went.

Looking at his panicked back, the corners of my mouth couldn't help but show a happy smile! You always have to pay it back when you come out, and remember to keep your eyes open before reaching out next time!

The news kept coming, but in the final analysis, the water army of the Tanegashima family suffered a big loss at sea, and the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce did not return the items, and the second did not communicate and negotiate. Whenever you see the Tanegashima family's navy, you will immediately be waiting for artillery!

Listening to the people of the Tanegashima family, it is not unreasonable that the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce has risen so quickly in the past two years, just this sea power is not comparable to ordinary daimyo! Coupled with the fact that it was not far away, who knew that someone would rob it? So my own house is completely like falling flowers and flowing water, and I was beaten and dropped off the grain boat, holding my head and running away!

Do you want to ask the Shimazu family for help? I heard that the Shimazu family is facing off against the sworn enemy Otomo family, and if these people can't even handle these things in the rear, then from now on...... I'm afraid that the Tanegashima family will fall to the bottom from the Shimazu family's list!

But what should be done with this state of not being up or down now? The other party does not accept mediation at all! If it's been delayed for a long time, who knows what will come out of it?

Tanegashima Shiyao was at a loss for a moment, and when I went to resign, I sighed and shook my head again and again.

I couldn't help but sigh: "This situation is really unexpected, if it were me, I could only find a third party to communicate, it would definitely not work to go by myself, who let you take the other party's things?"

After speaking, I shook my head and was about to leave, but Tanegashima Shiyao grabbed me and said in a low voice: "Mr. Suzuki, I want to ask you one more thing!"

I was amazed, "What's the matter?" If you look for food again, you won't be able to do it! ”

Tanegashima Shiyao shook his head and said, "Definitely! I don't want to find another food, but I want to ask Mr. Suzuki, as a third party, to go to the sea of blades for us and mediate this dispute! ”

I was stunned! Liang Jiufang laughed and said, "Tanegashima Hall must be joking!" I'm not related to Jian Hai, and even the enemy in the mall, how can I be this third party? ”

Tanegashima Shiyao just didn't let go, pulled me and continued: "In terms of ability, bearing, and mind, Mr. Suzuki is really the best choice!" I hope Mr. Suzuki doesn't shirk it! After the deed is done, there will be a great reward! ”

I still refused, Tanegashima Shiyao just pleaded, and in the end I couldn't save face and agreed to "ask". Tanegashima Shiyao was overjoyed and promised a bunch of thank-you gifts!

In this way, as a negotiator of the Tanegashima family, I went to the fleet of the Blade Kaisho at anchor at sea to mediate the interception of grain......

If you want me to say, this double reed, you have to sing like this!