The Bohai Kingdom mentioned by Li Xiao and Li Dan was founded by Da Zuorong, who was born in the end of the Su Dynasty.

At that time, after Japan's defeat in the Battle of Baekje Village, the country had always been in fear of the Tang Dynasty and Silla joining forces, so it used diplomatic means to deliberately approach the Balhae Kingdom and form an alliance to form a strategic encirclement of Silla.

Historically, Japan has sent envoys to the Bohai Sea many times, and the two sides have completed tributary trade.

The envoys from Japan in the Bohai Kingdom generally began to choose the nearest point to land in Kyushu, but due to frequent storms, the ship was destroyed and people died, so they switched to Noh Noto Echichu to land.

At that time, the Bohai Kingdom chose to start from Yongwon Province in Tokyo (about present-day Hun@Chunshi, Jilin) or Nanhai Province in Nanjing (Hamxing City, North Korea), and then reached Notoetsu in late autumn and early winter, using the northwest wind blowing from the mainland.

Li Dan and Wang Tanzhi had hardly heard of this route, but after Li Xiao explained it in detail, they understood that this was indeed an excellent sea route for trade to North Korea, but it was just a little farther.

As for the trade between Japan and Lee's Korea at that time, it was relatively convenient for both sides at first, and at that time, Korea called the merchant ships that came from Japan to trade as Xingli Japanese ships.

Generally, Japan transported pepper, danmu, vermilion, copper, gold and other substances to Korea, and Korea returned salt, fish, rice, Korean ginseng, and cotton, which was in short supply to Japan at that time.

Both sides received a lot of oil and water from this trade route, and it was the only important maritime trade in Japan at that time.

However, after the Miura Rebellion, relations between Korea and Japan deteriorated, and at that time, Tsushima's Zong Shengmao actually led 4,500 troops across the sea to attack Korea.

As a result, the Korean court was extremely hostile to Japan, and trade between the two sides stopped, but in the end, the two sides had no choice but to return to the negotiating table because of the huge benefits of each other's trade, and finally they could only sit back at the negotiating table and sign the Treaty of Inshin on both sides to resume trade between North Korea and Japan.

However, the Joseon Imperial Court imposed strict restrictions on the status of Japanese ships that came to trade with Japanese ships.

Originally, Japan's Kyushu and China's local daimyo could participate in trade with Korea, and then there were only two major forces left in the Assa-Japan trade, one was the Tsushima clan, and the other was the Ming maritime merchants who had their hands and eyes to the sky at that time.

And Li Xiao is now using Li Dan, a Ming maritime businessman, to open a new sea trade channel in Noto for trade with North Korea.

Although this cross-sea trade is not as rich as tomorrow's trade, it is enough for Li Xiao's current situation of asking for money everywhere.

In order to cope with the Nagashino Battle a year and a half later, and the general trend of the Oda family sweeping the world like the sun, Li Xiao must accumulate enough capital for himself to survive in this current crisis.

At present, Sado Jinshan is still in the first exploration, and according to the estimation of Chang'an, it will not be put into production until November this year at the earliest, so that the maximum output value can only be reached after three to five years according to the normal rate.

However, in the face of the general trend of the Oda family sweeping the world, once three to five years passed, no matter how much Sado Kanayama mined at that time, it would be useless.

Therefore, at present, there are any channels to make money, and Li Xiao must open it up.

Li Xiao has a lot of money, and the first priority is to expand the standing reserves.

He had heard the news that Nobunaga had formed a good relationship with the Portuguese on the condition that he would convert to Catholicism.

He inquired from the Portuguese about the tactics of Li Xiaoxi's phalanx, and had already introduced large barrels and iron cannons to equip the Oda army.

This news made Li Xiao feel that his little wings had finally fanned the historical situation.

However, Li Xiao is not worried about the tactics of the Western Phalanx, in fact, he uses an improved version of the Western Phalanx of Gustav II, not the Western Phalanx of this era, so he doesn't have to worry about seeing through it. …,

But Nobunaga will certainly have a deeper understanding of his own tactics, not as ignorant as Shibata Katsuie did when he first fought him.

Therefore, the expansion of the standing army is beyond doubt.

Li Xiao's new round of armament plans has already been discussed with his retainers.

Li Xiao's five standing reserves will be expanded.

Among them, Kamioka Bei and Snake Tail Bei will add one more Western Phalanx to the establishment, and Qibenbei will increase by two.

One Western phalanx is the standard sequence of two hundred and forty people, and three is nine hundred and sixty people.

In this way, Kamioka and Snake Tail have three Western Phalanxes, and the Banner is five.

Before Kamiokan, the snake tail was prepared, plus the reserve bow ashigaru, spear ashigaru and a special small lotus team, a total of 800 people each.

After the expansion, the two reserve units were increased from 800 to 1,100 men, which is equivalent to the establishment of one regiment in the new-style army.

In addition, Li Xiao also assigned a subsidiary large barrel team to the two reserves, and uniformly equipped with the six-pounder guns in the large barrel reserve.

The large barrel attached to the reserve was a hundred men and had six six-pounder guns.

In this way, Kamioka and the snakes are equipped with a total of 1,200 people.

As Li Xiao's direct military force, the flag is the most strengthened, with five western phalanxes, with a strength of 1,900 people, it is also a subsidiary team.

This is more than the maximum capacity of 300 to 1,500 men in Japan's general reserve.

And the general of Kamioka Bei is still held by Fujido Takatora, and the snake tail is determined by the mountain tiger.

There is no general general in the flag preparation, and Shigang Yiyu takes the rank of general as the leader of Li Xiao's side, and generally replaces the position of the formation with the temporary management of the flag.

As for Hideji Kano, Naosue Ichiyanagi, and Kanzo Yamamoto are all general-level generals of Kimoto Bishigaru.

And Tsuchiya Changheng's sun and moon preparation, that is, Li Xiao's horseback riding preparation.

The Sun and Moon Preparation is the most powerful reserve for this rectification, and Tsuchiya Masahiro has been promoted from the original 500 cavalry generals to 700 cavalry generals in one fell swoop.

With the addition of two hundred cavalry, Li Xiao followed the European standard and set up a dragoon.

That's right, the dragoons were dismounted muskets.

Although Li Xiao owns the horse farm of Hida Kisoma, in terms of Japanese horses in this era, the proportion of war horses that are really in line with battlefield battles, charging and fighting, and samurai riding and shooting is too small.

During the Warring States period, for each samurai on horseback, the minimum amount of knowledge and action was between 200 and 300 koku.

Therefore, Li Xiao maintained a cavalry of 500 horsemen, which was almost the limit of the existing ranch.

The dragoons, on the other hand, were less selective about horses, and even pack horses could be used as mounts, and musketeers could maneuver with the battlefield when they were not engaged in combat, and in wartime they dismounted to fight, suppressing the enemy with ferocious iron cannon fire, and then retreating on horseback if the enemy approached.

The dragoons were equipped with an iron cannon and a rib bar.

As for shooting cavalry immediately, Li Xiao thought about it and was still too cheating, although Nobunaga's ambition was unparalleled in the power of riding iron, but it would definitely be discounted in actual combat.

In the history of the Warring States period, it is said that only Date Masamune formed a similar iron cavalry army, and although he looked majestic and handsome, his iron cavalry was defeated by Sanada Yukimura in the Osaka battle.

On the contrary, the Swedish cavalry of Gustav II is equipped with an arquebus team to shoot immediately first, and then engage in close-range combat, but this combat method requires too high tactical literacy, and Li Xiao does not think that it can be achieved in a short time at present, so he still honestly equips the dragoons.

Such a cost is not only relatively low, but also easy to operate, which can quickly form combat power.

As for Rui Costa's large equipment, there is not much change in terms of personnel. …,

Small and medium-sized six-pounder guns were assigned to the subordinate large barrels of each reserve, and the large barrels were naturally replaced by larger caliber guns.

Twelve nine-pounder guns, and two twelve-pounder guns. In this way, Li Xiao's power can be raised to a higher level.

I believe that when fighting, if the big barrel and the large cylinder team attached to each reserve team open fire together, it will be a spectacular scene, even if it is the world's strongest city, Odawara City, will be divided into ashes under Li Xiao's shelling.

But Li Xiao's plan is very beautiful, but all the expansion actions are only words, the reason is very simple, there is no money.

The expansion required horses, iron cannons, large barrels from the Portuguese, and all sorts of weaponry, all of which required money.

Although the size of the reserve team will not be maintained in the future, it will take time to accumulate wealth.

Li Xiao is poor and white at the moment, it is impossible for the world to adjust the pie, even if the Shanxi coal boss is not able to get rich overnight.

In the next few decades, the mining of Sado Jinshan will immediately turn into money and smash it on Li Xiao's head, so Li Xiao can only fight on the idea of giving credit to Portugal and Ming maritime merchants again.

However, in the matter of credit, Li Xiao can't borrow money without evidence, so it is one way to let the other party see his future output and choose it as collateral.

"I want to use the two profits from trade with North Korea and Wajima Minato as collateral in the next few years, and temporarily borrow 100,000 yuan from Brother Li and Brother Wang, I don't know if it's possible?"

Li Xiao offered chips to Li Dan and Wang Tanzhi.

Li Xiao is not worried that these two people will not agree, firstly, he has a good credit, last time he owed the Portuguese, as well as the loan of the Ming maritime merchants, after the strategy Noto, he benefited from the three families of Sanbao Temple, the Naga family, and the Hatakeyama family.

In addition, this autumn, the annual tribute income of Li Xiao's territory in the new year also gave Li Xiao money to pay off his debts.

The second is Wajima's location, which can open up trade with Korea this time, and is definitely a good anchorage for Ming maritime merchants who want to get settlements in foreign countries.

Even for this reason, Li Dan will not offend Li Xiao.

Li Dan and Wang Tanzhi exchanged glances, he thought for a while, and said: "Lord Li, we businessmen do things, pay attention to the word righteousness and profit, the first time we borrowed money to you, it was out of righteousness, and it was also to build friendship, but if you borrow money from our Chamber of Commerce again, this time you must do business." ”

"How?"

Li Dan smiled and said: "This 100,000 guan is not a small amount, even if I can't take it out in one go, I need to persuade everyone in charge to do it, so there must be a suitable reason, so how about lending it to your Excellency at the interest rate of one and a half a year?" ”

Li Xiao's eyes narrowed, the interest rate of one and a half is not too high, and in the future, with the output of Sado Jinshan, he can definitely afford to repay this money.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao smiled and said, "Very good, then it's a word." ”