The snow on the road has not yet melted, but a young green stem has been eager to break through the soil, which is particularly eye-catching in the white expanse, as if to use its tenacious vitality to announce to the world - spring has arrived!

Chu Fan stared at the tender sprout for a long time, and then he figured out what day it was, March 21, 1628, the twenty-sixth day of February in the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese Kanei ...... Well, Chu Fan didn't bother to care what year the Japanese year was.

"Hey~~Hey~~"

Zhao Hai and seven or eight guys on the boat beside him were shouting the trumpet, laboriously carrying the heavy wooden boxes off the carriage, trembling along the board to the "Dawn".

Inside the wooden box are copper ingots, the best goods in Japan in this era.

These days, Chu Fan and they are busy dealing with He Jianxin and Alfonso, and Chen Shangren is not idle, running to those businesses he is familiar with every day to purchase goods for the return trip.

Paper fans, knives and other things are also returned, two days ago luck was good, the old man from the most familiar business got 7,000 catties of copper ingots, the price is also appropriate, as long as it can be shipped back to Dengzhou, at least 50% of the profit!

Chu Fan didn't have anything to do this afternoon, so he came over to load the ship, and by the way, he took a look at the "Dawn".

The "Dawn" was quietly moored in a small inconspicuous pier on the Urakami River, motionless.

All the sails had been lowered, and only the two tall masts stood bare; The haphazard deck, which had always been filled with ropes and sails, was now empty, and looked unaccustomed; There are still traces of the octopus pirate attack on the ship, and the broken wooden baffle has been re-nailed with a wooden plank, like a patch on a garment.

Chu Fan already has a special affection for the "Dawn", it is no longer a simple ship, it seems to have a life, and has become a good brother who lives and dies with him.

Walking on the empty deck, Chu Fan's brain was spinning rapidly.

He had already thought of attaching his non-speaking brother two ballistas, one in front of the foremast in the bow and the other on the platform behind the aft lookout.

The bed crossbow for the crossbow frame is a standard three-bow bed crossbow, but it must be able to rotate 360 degrees and have a certain pitch angle; Crossbow arrows need to be specially made, and Chu Fan is ready to test the iron hollow crossbow arrows, which can be filled with ** or fierce fire oil.

Even if such a ballista has a limited range, it has the explosive power similar to that of a flowering bomb or the burning power of an incendiary bomb, which is definitely a terrifying existence in this era.

However, Chu Fan's idea may not be completed in Nagasaki, he asked Kishimaru to ask, the craftsmen who can build bed crossbows and pour hollow crossbow arrows are only in the army of the shogunate, and it is impossible to serve the people, and it is useless to give no money.

"Childe! Son! ”

The shouts from the shore interrupted Chu Fan's imagination, and when he looked up, he saw a young man from his own running towards the dock panting, waving a post in his hand.

Chu Fan's heart moved, and he got off the boat in three steps and two steps, and came to the dock.

"Childe, someone came to visit, Uncle Ge asked me to send you this post." The young man gasped and said, handing the post to Chu Fan.

Since the popularity of fairy grass cigarettes in Nagasaki, there are countless people who come to visit and want to buy goods. The only person who can ask Ge Bi to send someone to send a prayer post is that person.

After waiting so long, is it finally here?

Chu Fan suppressed his excitement and opened the post, he didn't read the content first, and found the payment directly.

Sure enough, it was written there "Higo Kumamoto Castle Tadaji Kato worship"!

For a moment, Chu Fan had the urge to look up to the sky and smile.

I was right!

No matter what era the businessman is, he still follows the famous saying of Master Ma, "Once there is a proper profit, capital will be emboldened. If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With a 20% profit, it becomes active; With a 50% profit, it takes risks; With 100% profits, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging its head. ”

His own fairy grass cigarettes are unique, and in a sense, they are still necessities, as long as they can achieve a monopoly, not to mention 300% profits, even 1000% profits are not wishful thinking.

If Tadaji Kato can't even see this, then he doesn't deserve the title of the head of the Japanese business community!

On the day Murakami bought the first batch of cigarettes, Chu Fan set a time for the head of the Japanese business community - one month.

If this Tadaharu Kato doesn't move within a month, then Chu Fan will no longer consider cooperating with him - if he doesn't even have this bit of vision and courage, Chu Fan can conclude that he will inevitably be replaced by someone else.

For example, according to Fan Zhenglong, more than half of the tea leaves in the Wa Kingdom were out of his hands, and I heard that standing behind him was a certain elder of the shogunate. This guy had a lot of pomp, and he didn't show up, but he asked the shopkeeper in Nagasaki to drive a long carriage and drag a full 100,000 taels of silver to the Fat Wind Pavilion, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said, "I have all the money."

Although Chu Fan didn't like his domineering style very much, this sensational incident in Nagasaki still made Chu Fan rank the tea merchant in second place, and when the January deadline was up, Chu Fan was ready to smash all the remaining cigarettes to him.

Counting the days, today is already the last few days of the January deadline, and while Chu Fan sighed that Kato Tadaji was calm, he was also more curious about the head of the Japanese business community.

What kind of style will he have? Is it the same as a tea merchant?

When he returned to the gate of the Fat Wind Pavilion, Chu Fan found that there was no silver car lined up in a long line, but there was no one in sight outside the door, and it was very quiet.

As soon as he entered the front yard of the Fat Wind Pavilion, Chu Fan saw a short figure in a black kimono, standing quietly in the empty front yard, the fat shopkeeper Ji Xiang Pill was by his side, his fat face was flushed with excitement, full of incomparable admiration, and he accompanied the words diligently, bowing deeply from time to time, and his forehead was about to touch the ground, so that Fan Zhenglong on the side could cover his mouth and snicker.

"Your Excellency Master Chu, are you finally back?" While speaking, Jixiangmaru glanced at Chu Fan and shouted in surprise.

Chu Fan waved his hand, stopped Kishimaru's introduction, and his eyes stayed on the "Kato Tadaji" who turned around.

I saw that the other party was about thirty years old, with a shiny head under the high hairline, a pair of triangular eyes shining, and two long rattail beards on the lips that were impressive, and the whole person exuded a strong aura of a superior person who had lived on the people for a long time.

"Your Excellency Tadaji Kato, I'm glad to see you." Chu Fan glanced at the bellflower family crest on his placket and smiled.

But when Fan Zhenglong turned these words to the other party, the face of the rat-tailed beard changed suddenly!