However, speaking of which, this thousand muskets are worth five thousand taels of gold, which seems to be a little too profitable, Zhang Fan has also seen the arms transactions between Daming and Fusang before, whether it is cold weapons, or pig iron, or finished muskets, there are indeed a lot of transactions between Daming and Fusang.

And since Fuso Island is now the time of the Warring States period when the daimyo of various parties are dividing and fighting each other, at that time, not only did one of the forces come back to show their legitimacy to the Ming court, but many times, they would also make a request for a deal with the Ming court at the same time.

In this regard, although the Ming court also understands the truth that a country cannot have two masters, in the official face it is to recognize the orthodox status that is exchanged for the fight between themselves, and in the official face, the two sides are like a bargain, and as long as the other party can afford the price, the Ming court will dare to sell almost anything there.

But in private, if other daimyo also want to buy something, the Ming court will not refuse, after all, there is silver to make, why not sell it, and no matter how fierce the fight on Fusang Island is, what does it have to do with the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the most important point is that whether it is the war on Fusang Island now, or the people there look up to the Ming Dynasty, in short, even if there are already some old-fashioned weapons and equipment in the Ming Dynasty, they can still sell them at a good price, which is of course the most important.

However, over the years, the situation has been much better, not that the conscience of the imperial court has found that it will not do this kind of thing, but it has been continuously discovered over the years that the eastern coast of the Ming Dynasty has often been plundered by the Japanese Invaders, and the Japanese Kou are no longer just a katana that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, but there have been things made by the Ming Dynasty themselves.

If I sell you a weapon, and then you use my weapon to rob me, of course no one will do such a thing.

Today, Oda Nobunaga is very powerful, although the position of general is still held by Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and the Muromachi shogunate has not yet fallen, but in several battles, Oda Nobunaga and his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu can have the upper hand.

And Zhang Fan saw Oda Nobunaga but it was not because he had no ambition, on the contrary, Oda Nobunaga was very ambitious, what Zhang Fan hoped was that the entire Fuso would be disrupted by his hands, after all, the greater Oda Nobunaga's power, then the more enemies he had, and the more wars would take place on Fuso Island.

At that time, a lot of things have been consumed in the flames of war, then it will be more advantageous for the Ming Dynasty to dump their own goods, and at that time, once the monopoly is formed, the economy of the three islands will be quickly crushed, and obviously, now is not the twentieth century, for the scattered Fuso, it is simply impossible to launch any foreign aggression to divert the domestic economic problems.

It's also funny to say that Zhang Fan is taking revenge on them for something they haven't done yet, but will inevitably do in the future.

However, after Zhang Fan listened to Wang Xiliang's words, he had some doubts in his heart, the transactions made between the Ming Dynasty and various forces in Fusang in the past were all recorded here, and Zhang Fan also looked for them, but no matter at any time, even if there was an urgent need for weapons there, or when they were inquired about by Jinyiwei's secret agents, none of the transactions after the pirate Wang Zhi introduced the musket to Fusang could not be worth the price that Wang Xiliang brought back now.

This is equivalent to a musket sold for a sky-high price of five taels of gold.

"What the hell is going on," Zhang Fan couldn't help but ask this question, "I have never had it before, why can a musket be sold for such a high price now, is it because you have raised the price," Zhang Fan said, looking at Wang Xiliang and Zhao Xiande, especially Zhao Xiande, after all, he is a businessman, if there is anything about business, it is not wrong to ask him.

"My lord has misunderstood this time," Wang Xiliang said, "but the price of a penny has not been raised,"

"Lord Hui," Zhao Xiande also spoke, "I didn't say the price at all, and that Oda Nobunaga gave this price,"

"This ......" Zhang Fan was even more puzzled by this, Oda Nobunaga was an open person, good at accepting new things, and he also had a lot of iron artillery under him, it was impossible for him not to know the price of the musket.

And now, such a proficient person will take the initiative to raise the price and pay more for things, which is obviously very abnormal.

"Is there anything going on there in Fusang?" asked Zhang Fan.

"It is true that a lot of things have happened," Wang Xiliang replied, "and that Oda Nobunaga is now in a bitter battle."

"Oh, let's hear it," Zhang Fan asked when he heard him say this.

Three years ago, because the princes on Fuso Island, especially the group led by Ashikaga Yoshiaki, deeply felt that after Oda Nobunaga's success in Kamiro, the power he possessed could even restrict the actions of the general, so many people were extremely jealous of Oda Nobunaga, and some of them even held a grudge.

So two years ago, Oda Nobunaga, in order to defeat the Echizen daimyo Asakura Yoshikei, who had ignored his orders several times, broke the alliance with Asai Nagamasa, and together with his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Art of War began a month ago.

At that time, the armies of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu were invincible, and the various castles of the Asakura clan were broken with only sporadic resistance, and the two armies approached Kanesaki, and when the troops approached the castle, Asai Nagamasa, an ally of Kita Omi, suddenly sent troops to attack the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu from behind.

As a result, Oda Nobunaga fell into a sudden crisis, and at that time, under the efforts of Kinoshita Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who were in charge of the Oda military palace after the break, the Kanesaki retreat was successful, and Oda Nobunaga was proud to get back to Kyoto safely, but Oda Nobunaga was extremely miserable this time, and it is said that when he returned to Kyoto, he was left with only ten guards.

At that time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the general who was already a little unbearable for Oda Nobunaga, felt that this was a good opportunity to overthrow Oda Nobunaga, and the confrontation between the two had shown a sharp state, so Ashikaga Yoshiaki took this opportunity to issue an order to defeat Nobunaga in the hands of various daimyo in Fuso as a general, so the three people, including Asakura Yoshikei, Asai Nagamasa, Takeda Shingen, Mori Terumoto, and Miyoshi, and even the temple forces such as Mt. Hiei Enryakuji and Ishiyama Honganji Temple were also agitated and formed"Nobunaga Siege".

In order to fight against the encirclement network, Oda Nobunaga can also be regarded as painstakingly trying to break his head.

And after two years of hard fighting, in October of this year, things changed again, Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu have been defeated in the past two years, and Nobunaga surrounded the network, the main force is Takeda Shingen's army, and in October this year, Takeda Shingen's military generals attacked Iwamura Castle in Higashimino when they were resisted by the city lord, that is, Oda Nobunaga's uncle Iwamuraden, but Akiyama Nobutomo also used a plan, because Iwamuraden's daughter Yukihime's son Takeda Nobukatsu was born with Takeda Katsuyori, Therefore, Iwamuraden and the Takeda family also had a courteous relationship, and finally Iwamuraden Kaijo surrendered.

And because of this, Oda Nobunaga's fifth son Fangmaru was sent to Kai as a hostage, and most of the entire Higashimino also fell into the control of the Takeda family, and in the territory of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Tokugawa army was defeated by Takeda in the battle of Ichigenzaka with the Takeda army, and then even the Motoe and Mikawa castles fell one by one, and the alliance between Nobunaga and Tokugawa fell into the most miserable situation.

And at this time, Wang Xiliang and others went there with a thousand muskets, although this batch of arms is not much, but for today's Oda Nobunaga can also be said to be a charcoal in the snow, naturally, Oda Nobunaga also did not care about how much it should cost, or quietly calculated with Wang Xiliang and others, and directly bought the musket at a high price.

And besides, although the chaotic and warring states on Fuso Island have lasted for more than a hundred years, in the final analysis, the scale is too shabby, not to mention those big names, there are some families with good strength, and there are a group of trained and even generations of soldiers who have fought in the army, which can be regarded as the most worthy capital of a daimyo with status.

But it is precisely because this group of people is so precious that few daimyo will put these last family backgrounds on the battlefield, and they have also become a strategic weapon, and the people who charge into the battlefield on weekdays are some armed peasants, and those in better conditions may have a tattered armor, and those in bad conditions may not even have weapons.

Moreover, the most important point is that the number of people in the war there is too small, and there are hundreds or thousands of people who can already be regarded as capable of shocking one side, as if there are tens of thousands of people fighting on both sides, and it rarely appears.

Therefore, these 1,000 guns, which are not too many, are also very important to Oda Nobunaga today.

"Then Oda Nobunaga also said," Wang Xiliang continued, "If we can sell it, he still wants to buy it, what do you think?"

"He still wants," Zhang Fan listened and said, "Sell, of course sell, why not sell if you have money to make, besides, now there are a lot fewer widows, and we are not afraid of being beaten by our own muskets, and we will sell hard, but now there is no inventory, I have to go and tell Your Majesty about this matter," Zhang Fan seems to have made up his mind to make war money.

"However, can Empress Dowager Li agree," Wang Meng on the side asked with some concern, after all, Zhang Fan's fortune was a bit inhumane.

"It's okay, I have my own plans for this matter," Zhang Fan smiled mysteriously,