In Nagasaki Port, a notice was suddenly posted on the wall of the busiest shopping street, causing many Japanese people to stop and watch.

"Daming Zhoushan Qiyun Firm, a large number of Japanese warriors are recruited, and the treatment is good, and those who are interested can go to Shengyue Island to apply." There are only a few lines on the notice, showing information about the recruitment of samurai.

In the Wa Kingdom, the samurai were the lowest aristocratic class, and they had always relied on the various daimyas to serve them, relying on their own martial arts to eat, and they could be regarded as professional soldiers in the Wa Kingdom.

Decades have passed since the so-called Warring States period, and now the three islands of the Wakuni are all under the rule of the shogunate, and there may be differences between the major daimyos, but there are not many cases where they meet each other at every turn, as in previous years. The advent of peace also made the samurai profession less useful, and the daimyo did not want to spend money on food to feed too many idlers.

However, there are many samurai in the Wa Kingdom, and there are many wandering samurai who cannot find their masters to rely on. Nagasaki was the only port of the Wa Kingdom, and many samurai would come here in search of opportunities. The Ming maritime merchants are all wealthy, and if they can work for the maritime merchants, they are no worse than following the big names.

Therefore, when the Qiyun firm posted a notice to recruit samurai, it immediately aroused the interest of many people. On the same day, a samurai came to Igetsu Island by boat to apply.

In order to deter these widows, Chen Yue ordered Ma Chuang to take two hundred soldiers fully armed to line up on Shengyue Island, and the soldiers put on their armor and lined up neatly, with a murderous atmosphere. Dozens of large sea ships in the bay are practicing with their masts like a forest. The huge formation of Qi Yun Merchant made these people frightened, and then they were extremely excited, the stronger the strength of the main family, the better the future if they could join.

Ma Chuang was in charge of the recruitment, mainly to check the martial arts of these Japanese people, Ma Chuang selected the ten best soldiers in martial arts from the army, and ordered the recruited samurai to compete with them. Only a soldier who can win a battle is qualified to stay. Most of these soldiers are also from military families, skilled in martial arts, and have experienced the strict training of the Pingnan Army and the brutal battles on the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness is not bad.

Ma Chuang announced that if he wins one soldier, he will be eligible to stay, if he wins two soldiers, he will get higher treatment, and if he can win three, he can be a leader.

The rules were simple and straightforward, and from this day on, there were battles and battles on the island every day, and some of the Japanese samurai were victorious and stayed as they wished, while others left by boat in despair.

Anyone who can stay has a salary of at least thirty taels of silver every year, which makes the Japanese warriors inexplicably happy. And the salary that can beat two soldiers reaches fifty taels a year, and if you can win three soldiers, you can become a small leader in the army, and the salary can reach as much as one hundred taels!

The news spread as the departing samurai came out and immediately caused a sensation in Nagasaki. Although there are many silver mines in the Wa Kingdom, the people are very poor, and the samurai who have fields and attached serfs are just that, many samurai are simply poor, and it is good to be able to fill their stomachs all year round, and the only property on their bodies is the katana they carry with them, and the knives may still be passed down from generation to generation.

The news soon spread to Nagasaki, and many foreign samurai also came to Ikugetsu Island, and for a while, there was an endless stream of samurai wearing Japanese costumes.

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On Hirado Island, Li Guozhu is very busy these days, in addition to dealing with the remaining goods of the Qiyun firm, he also has to think of purchasing various things for Chen Yue.

The boat back can't be empty, but there is really nothing good about the things of the Wa Kingdom, except for specialties such as folding fans and katanas, there is nothing worth pulling back to the Ming Dynasty. After consideration, Chen Yue entrusted Li Guozhu to purchase a large number of such strategic materials as copper, iron and sulfur.

The iron ore mine in the country is not very good, but there are a lot of copper mines, and they are all large mines rich in copper. The copper ore purchased back to Zhoushan for smelting can be used to cast cannons, although the copper cannons are heavy but not easy to explode, and the quality is better than the iron cannons. And because there are many volcanoes in the Wa country, sulfur resources are even more abundant, and sulfur is an indispensable substance for making gunpowder.

Of course, the strategic resource of copper and iron is strictly controlled no matter which country it is, but there are many famous people in the Japanese country, and Li Guozhu is deeply rooted here, so it is not difficult to get a copper mine. And iron is difficult, because the Wa country itself is also short of iron.

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A few days ago, they raided and captured nearly 100 people, including eight from the Netherlands, and the rest were Nanyang Chinese and Javanese. The Chinese say that although many of these people went to Nanyang hundreds of years ago, they have an inseparable connection with the Ming people. After a little persuasion, they all surrendered to Qi Yun's firm. After all, for them, it is much better to work for the Akito with the same root than to follow the red-haired ghost.

And the surrender of these more than 50 Chinese made Chen Yue gain a lot, because with them, at least there was no problem in driving those two Dutch armed sailing ships. Because these Chinese were the backbone of the Dutch fleet, the Dutch were high, and the general work was done by these servants, while the Javanese natives were lazy and stupid, and could only do some manual work. Therefore, the technical work of operating a sailboat is done by the Chinese.

Of course, the core of navigation was in the hands of the Dutch, and it would not be handed over to the Chinese in any case.

Among the more than 50 Chinese, one of them was Lin Fusheng, originally from Chaoshan, Guangdong, who had been on the island of Java for two generations, could speak and write, and knew Dutch, and was appointed by Chen Yue as an interpreter to communicate with the captured Dutch. Many of the other Chinese can speak Dutch, but not many can write.

There is also a man named Chen Fangbo, who was originally Aban on the Dutch ship, who was responsible for leading people to raise and lower the sails. There is also a man named Luo Jiadong, but he is the gunner on the ship, responsible for leading people to operate the artillery. There are more than 30 guns on each ship, each of which requires at least two people to operate, once the battle is not enough, the Dutch will let the Chinese follow to do some auxiliary work, Luo Jiadong then learned the skills of operating the cannon, and the skill is highly used by the Dutch.

As a result, Chen Fangbo and Luo Jiadong were appointed as officers of the hundred households, responsible for teaching the sails and artillery skills of the Zhoushui soldiers.

With the addition of these Chinese, at least there was no problem in driving the two armed sailing ships, but Chen Yue had no intention of sparing the eight captured Dutchmen.

In these years, those who dare to venture thousands of miles to the East have two brushes. And the core of the seafaring skills was in the hands of these Dutchmen. For example, positioning at sea, measurement of latitude and longitude, and so on. It is precisely because the Ming Dynasty does not understand these technologies that the Ming ships can only sail along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and cannot go to the ocean at all. Of course, the eunuch of Sanbao went to the West back then, but the chart of the eunuch of Sanbao has been lost, and it is very difficult to follow his footsteps.

Only by truly mastering the positioning technology can the Ming people rush out of the offshore sea and rush to the whole world.

Therefore, it is extremely important to persuade these Dutch to surrender.