The apprehensive Li Guozhu did his best to be a landlord and invited the Huang family to enter the port to rest and drink. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Guozhu was in a dilemma, and finally arranged his subordinates to prevent accidents, invited Li Er and the six tent rooms to his home for a drink, and asked his subordinates to see the Huang family horses living in the port, and he came to the Huang family's warship on the open sea to ask for a meeting with Lord Huang.

Huang Sheng had no intention of killing Li Guozhu, the agent of the Japanese State, and did not want him to misunderstand, so he chose not to go to Li Guozhu's private port, nor did he ask him to come to his own ship.

Who knew that this pirate and maritime merchant was a character, and he took the initiative to take only a few followers out of the private port to the Huang family's warship to ask to see him.

Of course, Huang Sheng did not neglect him, and the two talked happily in the conference cabin. After some pleasantries, Huang Sheng asked Li Guozhu to allow the three vermilion ships he had just captured to enter the port for simple repairs, and asked him to help with some materials and craftsmen.

Zhao Shimin brought more than a dozen shipbuilding masters, but he didn't bring the steel pipe used to re-erect the mast, and now he can only ask Li Guozhu to help him use the ready-made wooden mast in his dock.

This lord is too unsophisticated, and every time he comes, he robs pirates! Li Guozhu still remembers the behavior of this great Ming civil official last time.

Now I saw the adult grinning and telling himself that they had captured three pirate ships again.

Li Guozhu hurriedly went to take a look at the pirate ships captured by the Huang family, these three vermilion ships are equipped with eight guns, and they are all copper-core iron cannons, which are not much different from their own warships, and the Huang family easily grabbed them?

Feeling incredulous, he took his entourage aboard the captured ship to find out, and saw the displaced guns from the broken mast, and then looked closely at the shrapnel that was deeply embedded in the deck and bulkhead, and felt extremely strange.

Is there a hiding place for people on deck with such dense shrapnel? What kind of shells have such a lethal effect?

He knew that it was not good to ask about the secrets of other people's weapons, and with doubts, he came to the 'Guangning' to meet Lord Huang Sheng.

Li Guozhu suddenly had an idea in his heart, the Huang family has artillery that can cause a large number of casualties on the deck of the enemy ship, and no one dares not to give face with such strength, and he is even more respectful to Huang Sheng.

Immediately ordered his men to lead the way, and let all the craftsmen in his dockyard help repair Lord Huang's loot as quickly as possible, and use the materials no matter how much is needed.

Huang Sheng is most concerned about whether Li Guozhu has got a copper ingot, and now the Huang family is vigorously developing the shipbuilding industry, and the demand for corrosion-resistant white copper is endless.

Nickel can be purchased in large quantities from Yunnan, and then copper ingots can be obtained from Japan, and high-quality nickel white copper is used in a large number of seagoing vessels, which not only increases the firmness of seagoing ships, but also extends the maintenance time and improves the utilization rate of seagoing ships.

Huang Sheng asked: "Gongzi Li, this official wants to buy more copper to bring back to Daming this time, I don't know how much supply you have in your hands?" ”

Li Guozhu poured bitter water and said: "Lord Huang, I'm afraid that the grass people will disappoint you this time, the grass people used all their connections to collect for a year, but they only got 100,000 catties." ”

100,000 catties of copper is used for a fart, Huang Sheng was very unhappy, and said: "Or is it because the Japanese general Tokugawa Ieyasu refuses to trade?" ”

"Of course, not only my family, but no one has bought Japanese copper ingots, and the 100,000 catties in the hands of the grass people are completely secretly carried out by a few daimyo with fishing boats many times."

"In this way, Tokugawa Ieyasu must have accumulated a lot of copper ingots in his hands, right?"

"That's natural, Japan's copper mining and refining is still the same, and there should be a lot of inventory only in and out."

"When the official comes back after fighting a few thieves, is Li Gongzi interested in going to Edo with the official to meet the general of Zhengyi for a while?"

"Huh? The grass people have been operating here for many years, but they have only dealt with a few Japanese daimyo and have never met the general of Seiyi, so I am afraid that I will not be able to introduce you. ”

"I don't see him, but you go to negotiate with him, sell our goods, and buy what we want and they have."

"This ......, Lord Huang, I'm afraid that the grass people don't have such skills, and the general of the Wa State is not the grass people who can see it if they want to, and they still need to negotiate? Adults look too highly at the grass people. ”

"Anything is possible, and we will see when the time comes. I wonder how many warships Li Gongzi has? Don't count those who don't want to skim the boat with Da Ming grass. ”

This is someone's military secret, where is it good to ask such a question, Li Guozhu pondered for a long time and said: "This ......, I don't know what my lord means by this?" ”

"Li Gongzi, don't get me wrong, this official is a friend not an enemy, sea trade pays attention to strength, the Li family has been in business for two generations, presumably the strength should not be underestimated, this official is ready to form an alliance with Li Gongzi from now on to achieve great things."

So that's the case, Li Guozhu and Huang Sheng showed goodwill just to get in touch with him, and if there was something to ask the Huang family in the future, he was extremely happy to see Huang Sheng take the initiative to form an alliance.

Naturally, he couldn't let Lord Huang underestimate him, and said frankly: "Under the command of Cao Min, there are fifty warships of the third fortune ship and above, nearly 500 guns of more than four pounds, and more than 100 small warships also have some combat effectiveness, and sometimes the evil tiger is also afraid of wolves." ”

"Li Gongzi has such strength, the Japanese general will definitely give you a chance to negotiate fairly, and we will definitely get fair trade conditions."

"My lord, the grass people are stupid and want to hear about it."

"You gather all the warships under your command and wait here, and when the officer comes back, he will take you with his troops and drive all the warships to Edo Bay to ask for a deal with the general Zhengyi, but he can't help but refuse."

"Are you going to force the Japanese to submit by force? I'm afraid this can't be done, and the Japanese sailors in Edo Bay are not easy to mess with! ”

"You have to mess with it or not, what will Li Gongzi's business do if it goes on like this, over time, your family will decline!"

Huang Sheng's words went to Li Guozhu's heart, since the death of his father Li Dan, the family's business and family wealth have been taken away by Zheng Yiguan and Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu is better, and he still maintains a cooperative relationship with the Li family, Zheng Yiguan has hundreds of sea ships and has become a giant in the South China Sea.

Li Guozhu took the warship to ask for an explanation, but was beaten by others and lost more than a dozen warships.

He vowed to take revenge and return to private Hong Kong to accumulate strength, but it backfired, because Japan was developing in the direction of closing off the country, business was subject to many restrictions, and the Li family's silver was not easy to earn.

Li Guozhu's strength is getting worse and worse, and the enemy Zheng Yiguan is just the opposite, the Zheng family can be said to be making money every day, he recruited rebels, and now claims to have no less than 1,000 warships and more than 30,000 men.

And Li Guozhu's strength is less than 20% of Zheng Yiguan's, and now he has only 5,000 men and horses, and due to the sharp decrease in income, it is difficult to raise soldiers and warships.

Xu Xinsu saw that Zheng Yiguan was developing rapidly, and felt a lot of pressure, and he united with Li Guozhu to regain control of the Nanyang trade, who knew that he was no longer at the same level as others.

The two families were vulnerable to a blow, and Xu Xinsu, who had no choice but to lose his troops, spent a lot of money to bribe Yu Dayou's son, Yu Zhigao, the chief military officer of Fujian, and mixed up with a general manager of the five-grade water division.

Li Guozhu fled back to private Hong Kong and painstakingly built a defensive fort, and now he doesn't want to take revenge, but to save his life, for fear that Zheng Yiguan will come to retaliate, and it is really not a taste to tremble every day.

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