Iron cannons, large range, sufficient deterrence, easy to defend the city, this is an obvious advantage.

However, due to the relatively high cost of iron cannons, coupled with the shortcomings of slow firing speed, long intermittent intermittent fire, unusability in rainy weather, and insufficient power and accuracy, it cannot completely replace other cold weapons. Moreover, it is precisely these shortcomings that make it unable to be organized into actual combat as a single formation force, and must cooperate with other arms of the armed forces.

Therefore, in the Warring States Period, the proportion of iron artillery troops of the major names basically did not exceed 25%. Theoretically, there are only about 20 iron cannons in 10,000 stones, and 2,000 iron cannons in 10,000 stones.

The Hosokawa family's current thunder artillery battalion has always been 3,000 people, and for the proportion of iron artillery in the army, it is less than 10%, which can be said to be quite low.

Hosokawa Nobumoto was looking down and preparing to expand the Thunder Artillery Battalion, and it just so happened that this tournament included not only samurai with melee combat, but also samurai who were good at using iron cannons.

"The Satake family wants two thousand iron cannons? Is it? He looked up at the three of them who had returned, and he was listening to the report of the envoy at Nijo Castle.

"Yes, the lord, because there are a lot of iron cannons, so the ministers have no exclusive power, and it is up to the lord to bring back the Satake family's request!" Hosokawa Shinyuki has also become calm now, and there are few impulsives and irrationalities that he had at the beginning, and it seems that people need to exercise.

"Well, you're doing a good job, you don't care about the rest of the commercial issues, I'll arrange for someone else to do it." Hosokawa Nobumoto praised it twice.

"It's the lord, if there is nothing else, the marriage task of the ministers and others will be completed, and they will return to their skills immediately." Hosokawa Shinyuki and the others bowed and obeyed.

"Well, go ahead." Hosokawa Nobumoto nodded, signaling that he could step back.

"Huh! Fujitaka wait a minute. Hosokawa Nobumoto seemed to suddenly remember something and stopped Hosokawa Fujitaka, who was about to go out together.

"What else does the lord command?" Hosokawa Fujitaka came back alone and sat down and asked respectfully.

"Hmm... Ling Aiyi hasn't been out of the cabinet yet, has he? "Hosokawa Nobumoto has recently been looking for a suitable candidate to marry Matsudaira Nobuyasu.

"Yes, Yi Ye's temperament is a little stubborn, and he planned to train for another two years and then get married, so as to save himself a shame. Don't you know, my lord, what did she do..."Hosokawa Fujitaka began to talk about his precious daughter, those naughty deeds. I feel a headache for this.,Hosokawa Iya is not young.,But all day long I only know how to play hippie.,There's no lady at all.,It's a sad marriage.。

"Hehe... It's good to be lively, it's good to be lively. Hosokawa Nobumoto's eyes lit up when he heard these anecdotes, what climbed trees to catch birds, what went down to the river to fish, isn't this kind of flamboyant personality just right to indirectly affect Matsudaira Nobuyasu? It is a good medicine to let him get rid of his grief as soon as possible.

"My lord? Is this okay? Hosokawa Fujitaka's eyes widened, and he lost his temper a lot for this, but Yi just couldn't change it.

"So... How about I find someone for you to control her? Hosokawa Nobumoto's implication was to marry her, and to ask for the opinion of this father.

"Okay, my lord, my lord is really worried, if my lord has a suitable candidate, it would be better, my lord will follow the lord's arrangement." Hosokawa Fujitaka happily accepted.

In the past, Oda Nobunaga used strong measures to arrange marriages, and did not discuss them with the parents of the children at all. Hosokawa Nobumoto, on the other hand, likes to use gentle means so that he will not be disgusted by his courtiers.

"I decided to take Yi as my adopted daughter and marry Matsudaira Nobuyasu, do you think it's feasible?" Hosokawa Nobumoto decided to tie up the two families by marriage, after all, one is the lord of Tango, and the other is also the lord of Mikawa in the future.

"Huh? Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord! "Hosokawa Fujitaka is grateful, this is a great thing.

"Okay, that's it! Let's get married during the Chinese New Year this year. Hosokawa Nobumoto was also very satisfied, and he also forgot one of his own concerns.

"Yes! If the lord has no other instructions, his subordinates want to go back as soon as possible to inform the good news, so they can be prepared. Hosokawa Fujitaka bowed his head and prepared to say goodbye, this saw that he had entered the Layue Gate, the time was already very tight, and the things he married were fortunately prepared in advance, but there were some ritual processes missing.

"Okay, let's go." Nobumoto Hosokawa waved his hand, signaling that he could step back. Then he ordered to Asai Manfukumaru, "Go and call Yahachiro and Mingyan." ”

Soon, Honda Masanobu and Nakajima Akito entered the inner pilgrimage.

"Yahachiro, I'm going to replace all the old iron cannons from the previous Thunder Artillery Battalion and sell them to Kanhachi. Then the latest iron artillery was mobilized from the iron cannon workshop, and the strength of the mine artillery battalion was expanded to 5,000 men. Hosokawa Nobugen looked at Honda Masanobu, he seemed to be the head of the Hosokawa family.

"Understand, my lord, then at what price will I sell it to them?" Honda Masanobu asked, bowing his head.

"Hmm... Let's go at cost price... Forget it, it's not a little bit of money, just give it to them. Hosokawa Nobumoto thought about it again and felt that buying and selling was not as good as a gift.

"Send? But the lord, this time it was all given to the Satake family, then his strength will skyrocket, isn't it... A little containment? Honda Masanobu was taken aback, these days, it is rare to see a daimyo with more than 3,000 iron cannons.

"Hehe... I didn't say I gave it to his Satake family? In the name of my third job, Hosokawa Kyozhao family Yagatata, I will give a meeting gift to Yayakata, Kanto Yamagata. As for what you still want? Ming Yan... As an arms dealer in Kyoto, you can talk about it. Hey... In business..."Hosokawa Nobumoto smiled slyly, these three thousand iron cannons were distributed among the eight families, and the average number of iron cannons was only 375 each, which was far from satisfying the princes of the eight states. You must know that in addition to these eight, the "Oriental People" alliance also includes Sano, Mibu, and Minagawa in Shimono, and small wealthy families such as Tagaya and Mizutani in Shimoso.

"The lord is wise, and the other two families of Koyama and Chiba in the shape of the eight houses are currently subordinate to the Hojo family because they are related by marriage to the Hojo family. The quota of these two families can be given to the local small wealthy families, which can better demonstrate the sincerity of the family. "Honda Masashi is worthy of being an expert in government affairs, and he directly optimized the content and made this plan more substantial.

"Then His Majesty is responsible for the business dealings behind, is there any limit for the total amount?" Nakajima also knew his responsibility.

"The total... No more than two thousand per family... No! Only Satake's family is allowed 2,000! Yuuki family thousand! All the others are under a thousand! "Hosokawa Nobumoto originally wanted to sell more, but suddenly it occurred to him that they were a whole, and if the iron cannons of each family were concentrated, it would be a big force.

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