Chapter 690: The Arms Trade (Page 1/1)

The winter of the fifth year of the Apocalypse was unexpectedly not too cold, and the people in Shandong were lamenting God's mercy. This is one of the few winters in recent years that people can easily survive, and in the spring, people are busy in the fields.

People are beginning to hope that this year will be a good omen, as long as the wind and rain are good, they will be able to collect more food, so that the whole family can keep wild vegetables for a full meal.

Things also began to develop in the direction of the people's prayers, and several spring rains in the early spring moistened the earth, making the people's enthusiasm for planting crops even higher.

There was a busy scene everywhere in the fields, and laughter spread throughout the land of Shandong.

Ding Tao sat in his own field, looking at the crops that were growing happily, and his heart was full of joy. This year's rain is good, and the crops in the fields are growing very well, so it will be a good harvest if it continues.

Although it is now the envoy of the May agricultural slack, Ding Tao still likes to sit in the field and watch his green crops. While he was admiring his field, a boy of seven or eight years old ran from a distance.

The boy ran and shouted, "Daddy! My mother told you to go home and eat! ”

Ding Tao kindly touched his son's head and said, "Dog leftover!" What did your mother cook for us? "The name Gouyu is very marketable in the land of China, and it is said that the Lord of Yama does not like such names, so it is easy to feed by calling ugly names......

"Steamed cakes with wild vegetables! It's delicious! The boy said happily. It's the farming season, so it's good to have a full lunch and a lot of wild vegetables for dinner.

Ding Tao immediately stood up, patted the dust on his buttocks, and pulled his son towards the village. As he passed by the entrance to the village, the boy saw a large locust on the road, lifted his foot and stepped on it.

The locusts in the ground seemed to be stupid, and did not fly at all, and were trampled by the boy. At this time, an old man sitting at the entrance of the village said, "Not good! Very bad! The locust god will be angry, but everyone will starve to death! Not good! Very bad......"

Neither father nor son had a chance to talk nonsense about the old man, and walked towards their home. But in the field where no one is paying attention, locusts that are about to open up are lying on the tender grass and feasting.

The sharp teeth made a rustling sound on the young grass, and soon the locusts ate up one of the young grasses, flapped their wings and flew down to another young grass to continue feasting.

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It was already summer when Jang Doo returned to Jeju Island, and it had been a long time since the last time he did anything to the shogunate. The signs of civil strife in the Wa Dynasty had already appeared, and many daimyo had already disobeyed the dispatch of the Wa State.

There are also people who begin to covet Iwami Ginzan, and if it weren't for the elite samurai of the Tokugawa family arranged there, I'm afraid that they would have already changed owners.

Nagasaki, the direct consul of the shogunate, was swallowed by Satsuma, and it was also called to protect the legitimate rights and interests of merchants from infringement. There is no way to deal with this, and the Tokugawa family is now dormant. As long as no one touches his direct collar, he doesn't care about the outside world at all.

Quite a few daimyo have seen this, and they are recruiting troops to prepare for a big fight. The samurai who were originally impoverished in the Wa Kingdom suddenly became popular, and these guys were once again active in all parts of the Wa Kingdom.

But the Wa Kingdom seems to have reached a consensus, that is, not to provoke the Ming people, especially the merchants of Changsheng Island. Therefore, in the Wa Kingdom, it is common to see a big fight between two daimyos, and a caravan of the Ming people comes on the side.

The two daimyos immediately stopped, respectfully invited the caravan to pass by, and then the two sides fought again. Every Ming person can hold his head up and proudly tell those Japanese people that I am a Ming man!

Recently, Jeju Island has also seen a lot of Japanese people, and it is said that they are all messengers of various daimyos. They came to Jeju Island for one purpose, and that was to buy the iron cannon of Changsheng Island.

It would be even better if you could buy a large tube, these people have been staying in Jeju Island for a long time. Since Zhang Dou did not come back, Du Ziteng did not dare to sell firearms indiscriminately, but arranged them in an inn and sent people to strictly guard them and prohibit them from walking around Jeju Island.

When Zhang Dou came back, it was the moment when the envoys were waiting anxiously, Du Ziteng asked Zhang Dou, and Zhang Dou immediately gave a clear answer: "Sell!" Be sure to sell! What are the arquebuses seized from the dry wax and the Dutch not being sold? If the ironware workshop is not enough, it can produce another batch to sell, and the more it is sold, the more chaotic the Wa country will be. A chaotic Japanese state can compound the interests of the Changxing Army! ”

Du Wisteria immediately led all the envoys to the firearms test site, and when the envoys saw the power of the arquebus, they immediately said that they would buy a large number of them.

As soon as someone took the lead, the rest immediately couldn't sit still. In particular, the daimyo who was next to him was still hesitating about the price of the arquebus, and when he heard that his neighbor wanted to buy it, he immediately couldn't sit still.

Buy it! Smash the pot and sell iron, but also buy! Ignoring the high price of 100 taels of silver each, this group of Japanese people bought up the more than 5,000 seized, arquebuses at once.

The profit of the arquebus alone woke up the Changxing army with a smile, and the price of the next paper shell bullet was also very expensive. That's a lot of consumables, a lot of them are used for training in peacetime, and even more for them in wartime, which is a big deal that lasts a long time.

In the end, it was these people who bought arquebuses, but what about the rest of the daimyos? As long as you don't want to be annexed, you will definitely come to buy the weapons of the Changxing Army, so that the gold and silver of the Wa Kingdom will slowly flow into the pockets of the Changxing Army.

Moreover, this is still a buyer's market, and if the Japanese want to get firearms, they have to come to Changxingjun to buy them. If Changxingjun is unhappy, then I'm sorry, I just won't sell it to you, and you won't have a problem!

The arms trade has always been the most profitable trade, and the Changxing Army relied on the sale of firearms to the Japanese to support the development of the Changsheng Island Bank.

Because the silver dollar issued by Changsheng Bank has a sun and moon pattern on both sides, it is affectionately called Ming Yuan by the people. The Ming Yuan, which is exquisitely worked, has become a hard currency in the transaction once it is circulated, and now the people who go to the street to buy things and use silver are all local and old, and they will be laughed at.

Now the most popular is to put a stack of Ming Yuan on the counter when paying the bill, and the stack of shining silver Ming Yuan has become a favorite of merchants.

The Ming Yuan also flowed out of Changsheng Island and gradually entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In this regard, Changxingjun did not interfere, it is a matter of time before Ming Yuan replaces the transaction of cash silver, and when the time is ripe, Changsheng Bank will further implement credit currency ~ banknotes.

Today, the Changsheng Bank has spread all over every corner controlled by the Changxing Army, from the northernmost Vladivostok to the southernmost Old Port Propaganda Division.

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