No one knows what Du Ziteng and Shimazu Nakayoko talked about, and Shimazu Nakayoko's originally bitter melon-like face even had a little smile on his face when he left.

The Akira did not seem to have any intention of occupying the castle, and after collecting their ashigarilla weapons, they retreated to the docks, where they formed defensive positions.

After Shimazu Nakayoko returned to the city, his waist was no longer sore, his legs were no longer painful, and it was not difficult to pay back an extra 1.8 million taels of silver every year.

That night, the samurai of the Shimazu family surrounded all the wealthy merchants in the castle. All of these merchants had a loan relationship with the Shimazu family, and they lent the silver judgment to the Shimazu family, and then earned more silver judgment from the Shimazu family's territory.

Now surrounded by the Shimazu family, all the merchants are terrified. Soon the merchants were taken outside the castle and beheaded one by one, on the grounds that the merchants had colluded with the foreign feudal clan to overthrow the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma domain.

This operation flattened the ditch that Shimazu had eaten, and not only harvested 300,000 taels of silver, but also forgave him the heavy debt that had been pressing on him.

In the past, he did not dare to attack the merchants because once he did them, no one would come to the Satsuma Domain to do business.

That kind of Satsuma clan is a pool of stagnant water, and sooner or later it will be finished. Now that the Ming people have arrived, he is no longer afraid of the oppression of merchants.

The goods needed by the Satsuma Clan were naturally delivered by the Ming people, and the prices were very fair, much better than those black-hearted merchants.

The first trick Du Ziteng gave him made Shimazu's face smile, and it seemed that as long as the second method was used, he could repay this year's reparations.

The third method, when used, not only allowed the Shimazu family treasury of the Satsuma domain to be filled with gold and silver, but also allowed them to compete with the shogunate.

Shimazu Nakayoko's movements were fast, and it didn't take a few days to send the first batch of 1,000 Japanese girls to the docks. These women, all between thirteen and twenty years old, were given to the Changxing Army by Shimazu Nakayoko for ten taels of silver as compensation.

This is only the first indemnity payment, and more will be sent in the future. Women can only give birth to children except for maidservants, so the price is only ten taels at a lower price. The price of a man in the prime of life is twenty taels, and as long as Shimazu gets enough people, he can pay back the compensation.

However, the population of the Satsuma Domain was limited, and the young and strong were all lost to the Changxing army, and there was no way to live. So Du Ziteng gave Shimazu Nakayoko the third idea, that is, to snatch.

Robbing other Ming on Kyushu Island, Kyushu Island is not only a Satsuma Domain, but also Hinata, Higo, Hizen, Nagasaki and other Ming Dynasty.

Not only did they have the population, but they also had land, and gold and silver. As long as you attack those places, there will be countless gains.

The merchants of Changsheng Island, who had followed Zhang Dou to the Wa Kingdom, also entered the castle to discuss trade with Shimazu Nakayoko, and their eyes turned into holes.

The Satsuma clan had a reputation for poverty, and their main source of income was sugar from the Ryukyus.

Ryukyu sugar was transported to the Satsuma Domain and then boiled into brown sugar. This kind of black sugar is a luxury item in the Wa Kingdom and is very popular with the nobles of the Wa Kingdom.

The second income was actually to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and they grabbed the right to pay tribute after they occupied the Ryukyus.

Every year, the gifts sent to the Ming Dynasty were exchanged for several times the profits, and these revenues finally allowed the Satsuma Domain's financial income to balance and not continue to borrow to survive.

The merchants of Changsheng Island led by Wang Gang did not see it that way, first of all, the Wa Kingdom closed itself off. Only Nagasaki could trade goods, and the merchants there were already dissatisfied with the severe exploitation of the shogunate.

If one more treaty port is opened in the Satsuma Domain, the goods of the Wa Kingdom will be concentrated here.

Then it will be Nagasaki again. The Japanese knives, tortoiseshells, paper fans, lacquerware, gold and silver of the Wa Kingdom were all best-selling goods sold to the Ming Dynasty and the West, and as long as they could get the goods, they would not worry about selling at all.

Although the Satsuma clan did not produce these things, they were able to obtain these goods from the Wa Kingdom. With these goods, not only the merchants of Changsheng Island will be profitable, but even the Shimazu family will be very profitable.

In a friendly and enthusiastic manner, the two sides reached one agreement after another, and these agreements included not only business, but also the sale of 1,000 arquebuses and 10 3-pounder cannons to the Satsuma clan on the island of Shosei.

The old-fashioned arquebus Changsheng Island alone sold for fifty taels of silver, and the three-pounder cannon was even more than one thousand taels and one men.

These things were paid by the Shimazu family in cash, and they urgently needed this batch of firearms to supplement their strength because of the heavy losses.

The Changxing Army debated for a long time about the sale of firearms to the Japanese people, and finally Zhang Dou decided to sell the weapons to the Satsuma Domain.

There are three main reasons: First, Changsheng Island can make a lot of money in this transaction.

The arquebuses sold to the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain were all old guns that had been eliminated by the Changxing Army's flintlock guns, and these guns had been accumulated in the Changxinggou warehouse and could not be disposed of.

This sale to the Japanese is a waste utilization, which can not only empty the warehouse, but also obtain a huge profit.

The second point is that the Shimazu family of the Satsuma clan fought a big battle with the Nagako army, and their strength was seriously damaged. If the Satsuma Domain was attacked by other Ming Dynasty and lost again, the Changxing army would also suffer losses.

Even if the other daimyo don't come to attack, the Shimazu family will take the initiative to attack other daimyo in order to repay the loan. For the sake of the Changxing Army itself, it is also necessary to let the Satsuma Domain recover its strength as soon as possible.

Thirdly, the Satsuma clan purchased weapons from Shosei Island, but what about the other daimyo domains in Kyushu? As long as one or two feudal daimyo were eliminated by the Satsuma Domain, the remaining feudal daimyo would buy firearms from the Changxing Army.

When these Ming Dynasty had weapons, they would definitely not be willing to accept the rule of the shogunate again. At that time, a new civil war will definitely begin, and the Japanese will once again enter the Warring States period.

A chaotic and war-torn Wa Kingdom is in the best interests of Changsheng Island, so in order to provoke the Wa domestic line, Zhang Dou will definitely sell weapons to the Satsuma Domain.

As for whether the Satsuma Domain would rebel against Changsheng Island if it got the weapon, Zhang Dou was not worried about this question at all.

The weapons sold by Changsheng Island to the Satsuma clan and sold to them in the future are all obsolete old weapons, which are much inferior to those used by the Changxing Army for their own use.

In addition, the 3-pounder cannon sold to the Satsuma clan was far inferior to the artillery used by the Satsuma army in terms of range and power, and even if the Satsuma clan used these weapons against Changsheng Island, it would definitely break its head and bleed.

Shimazu Nakayoko was overjoyed by the conclusion of the firearms deal, although it was not the flintlock gun used in the hands of the Changxing army.

But such a fine arquebus could not be forged by the Japanese country itself, and he was full of praise after trying the arquebus once.

The arquebuses created by Immortal Island are far stronger than the arquebuses of the Francophiles, both in terms of range and accuracy.

Moreover, the difference between the two in terms of price is not large, and Shimazu Nakayoko is confident that he will defeat the Osumi domain with this batch of arquebuses.

When Zhang Dou left, he said leisurely to the Satsuma Domain: "Wa Kingdom, let's mess up!" ”