Look at the security soldier again, there is a knife mark on the breastplate, and it is not cut through the deepest part, Matsuura Jiuxin is also a samurai, and the power of that knife is quite large, but the plate armor is the whole force, lined with soft fibers, and there is a layer of stab-proof clothing inside, and most of the force is gone, and the soldier is just shaken by the shock, as if nothing happened.

Shocked, really shocked!

Not only Matsuura Kushin, but his son Matsuura Ichiro also stared in disbelief.

Wang Yue was very satisfied with their reaction. The Japanese sword has been repeatedly trained, and its properties are similar to those of Chinese Bailian Steel, resulting in its sharpness and incomparable sharpness, but it is easy to break;

As for the armor, needless to say, the devil's "big armor" looks very scary, and there are two horn-like decorations on the helmet, called "Punching Angle Fu Xuan" looks very majestic, but in essence, the whole set of big armor is made of bamboo and leather, and a small amount of metal is dropped, and the protection is very pitiful, and the plate armor produced in the starting point city is not the same.

The power of science is invincible, and the protective power of medium carbon steel plate armor that has been "quenched and tempered" by comprehensive heat treatment process is equivalent to fifteen times that of homogeneous low carbon steel plate.

The cuirass of the security forces is 15 mm thick, and the protective force is equal to 225 mm of homogeneous steel armor plates, even if the enemy weapon slashes in the direction of the normal at a 90-degree angle, the lethal kinetic energy that penetrates it will exceed 250 joules, compared to 60 ...... in the era of cold weapons In the range of 130 joules, with the martial arts of Matsuura Kushin, it will not exceed 200 joules.

The huge gap in metallurgy has reduced the individual's martial bravery from a key weight that determines the outcome of a war to an insignificant position. Instead, logistics, discipline, coordination, organization, and equipment are the guarantee for the victory of the modern army.

The performance of this armor was so amazing that Matsuura Kushin threw the broken hilt at random and asked cautiously, "How much does this armor cost?" ”

Wang Yue smiled and said, "Only one hundred and twenty taels!" ”

"What? One hundred and twenty taels! Matsupu Jiuxin was afraid that Wang Yue would regret it, so he immediately said: "I want a thousand pairs of this armor!" "He intends to equip his samurai and his own soldiers with plate armor.

The price of a set of chain mail is at least three hundred taels, which is iron, because it is all handmade and weighs more than 20 catties, so it is expensive.

The plate armor produced in the starting point city is steel, and the weight is twelve catties, even if it is sold for scrap steel, the minimum cost of this material is thirty-six taels, and the finished product is at least five hundred taels or more, but Wang Yue only needs one hundred and twenty taels, which is simply a tearful sale.

It's another big order, and in this way, the total price has reached 470,000 taels, and Matsuura Jiuxin's subordinates are almost armed to the teeth. Wang Yue asked, "Songpu-kun, could it be that there has been a big move recently?" ”

Matsuura Kushin sighed and said, "I can't watch the Matsuura family fall like this, so I have to find another way." ”

Saying that, he arched his hand to Wang Yue and said: "This time, Songpu Jiuxin came to Daming in person to meet Lord Wang, just to do business with Lord Wang, and I will do the goods in the starting point city by my Songpu family." ”

Songpu Jiuxin wants to do its own sea trade? Wang Yue understood after thinking about it, in fact, it was smuggling. The products of the starting point city have been sold in Japan for some time, and their influence has spread, and its advantages in price, quality, and performance are difficult for its local products to compete.

Because the Nagasaki port has a city tax, if Matsuura Kyushin buys goods by himself, the goods will enter Japan from Hirado, and the city port tax will be saved, and the goods will be price competitive.

In fact, Matsuura Kyushin can also contact other merchants, and the sea ships are free to go ashore, and the Matsuura family only collects protection fees, and the tariff on the fee saved to pay to the shogunate is still lower than the city tax of Nagasaki Port.

If the shogunate investigates it, Matsuura Kushin can push two five or six, and the confidence is to arm the military to the teeth.

Wang Yue smiled and said, "I don't have to say, the gate of the starting point city will always be open to Songpu Jun. ”

Whoever makes the goods in the starting point city is the same, anyway, it doesn't matter.

Evaluated by the force coefficient of this era, the Hirado Domain has become a regional military strongman after the armament. The strong force has lost its balance with the other forces in the surrounding area, and if it causes the slightest conflict, there is a possibility of war.

It's just that Matsuura Kushin has just come into contact with modern weapons, and he hasn't fully realized what its true combat power is, and maybe after a period of training, he can really realize how powerful his strength is, and then there will be a lot of excitement to watch.

Matsuura Jiuxin had already understood that their Matsuura family was the first force to buy weapons from Wang Yue, so he felt that Wang Yue did regard him as a friend, so he was grateful: "Our Matsuura family's kindness to Lord Wang must be unforgettable. ”

Wang Yue said loudly: "If you want to help, you will help to the end, and the weapons of our Tiance Army must be trained in the way of our Tiance Army in order to exert the greatest power, so I will send a few officers to assist Songpu Jun's troops in training." ”

He just wants to make Songpu Jiuxin's power stronger, don't look at Songpu Jiuxin is now just a small name, and he has no ambition at all, Wang Yue wants to urge him.

"Lord Wang is really thoughtful, these new guns really need the guidance of the Tiance Army." Matsuura Nine Channel.

Wang Yue warmly entertained Matsuura Kushin and his party, and Matsuura Jiuxin was inconvenient to delay too long in Daming, because the shogunate's control over these daimyo was very strict, so he only stayed in Shanghai for one day and went to Shanghai to pick up the goods. Wang Yue sent a telegram to the starting point city, and the weapons and ammunition would be sent to Tianjin in advance.

Japan is currently known as "the world is quiet", but in fact, after the shogunate issued the "Lockdown Decree" four years ago, there has been turmoil in Japan.

The Tokugawa shogunate, like the Toyotomi regime, had a deep distrust of foreign Catholicism. For the Tokugawa shogunate, the Kishitan daimyo were almost exclusively from the Western army camp of the past, and the shogunate had always feared that the Catholic faith would be used by the daimyo to launch an anti-shogunate rebellion, and then collude with the southern barbarians.

Politics combined with religious distrust led to the growing persecution of the Chechitan religion by the shogunate. Kitakyushu was the main place for the Cheshitan cults, and it was under strict control by the shogunate.

In 1628, the shogunate elders Toshikatsu Doi and Tadashi Sakai "inspected" Hizen Kuni-Shimahara Prefecture and burned 570 Kiritan followers at the stake once.

In 1630, the shogunate issued a "ban on religion": the Chechitan were ordered to renounce their faith within two months or be put to death.

Thanks to the efforts of the Daimyo of Kishitan, such as Hirotaka Terasawa, Tadanobu Matsuura, and Yoshinari Mune, the "ban on religion" was finally stopped.

However, in 1633, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun, once again issued a "ban on religion" and ordered the main defender of the Kiritsu religion, Hizen Karatsu 240,000 stone daimyo Terasawa Hirotaka Seppuku, and the Karatsu domain was subseparated, and the 66,000 stone daimyo Matsukura Katsuie of Yamato Nobukiyama became the head of Terazawa, and the brutal persecution of the Kiritan sect began.

In 1633~1638, as many as 10,000 Chechitan followers were burned to death by the Matsukura Katsuie. The contradictions have become extremely intense.

At the end of this year, a large-scale Shimabara Rebellion will break out in Japan, and the daimyo of the southwestern feudal clans, such as Satsuma and Nagasu, have always been hostile to the shogunate, and if the shogunate is unable to suppress Amakusa Sadashiro in time, then the daimyo of the foreign daimyo who had been brutally suppressed and disgruntled by the shogunate, especially the daimyo of the Western Army, who had participated in the Battle of Sekigahara, are likely to rise again.

Because of the harsh "arbitrary politics" of the "Aoi Sandai" period, many ronin, who were changed from various daimyo families, echoed the many ronin, and by the time they arrived at Iemitsu, the number of ronins had swelled to 500,000 in the fourth year of Kean'an (1651). It would not be that much, but there are always two or three hundred thousand people.

These ronins have no income and are burdened by their samurai status. With resentment in their hearts, once there is a chance to rekindle the flames of war and gain fame and fortune, they will not give up.

These were the root causes of Japan's troubles, and the sudden rise of the Hirado Domain was bound to add even more variables.