(Sorry, the two chapters are released in a row, the order is wrong, everyone will look at the one hundred and fifty-sixth chapter first)

Unlike the bustling Nagasaki, the village of Koga, located on the inner side of the Nagasaki Peninsula, is particularly Kiyoning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn the early morning, you can hear the waves rolling on the beach outside the village, and at noon, you can hear the chirping of the trees.

However, with a large number of wandering samurai living in the Matsuura family courtyard in the village, the peace of the village has been shattered this year, and they are often seen practicing in the wilderness, and they are often seen practicing on the beach.

The children of the village would often gather around their training ground, laughing at their poor boating skills. However, as time passed, the sound gradually disappeared, the leaves gradually turned yellow, and the children in the village gradually lost interest in their training, because the situation of falling into the sea in a hurry during rowing had been repeated for a long time, and they lost interest when they lost their jokes.

When he learned that the scarface samurai was the seriously ill man Yamada Kazetaro who he and others treated on the desert island, Li Xingjiu no longer troubled Yamada Kazetaro, and he no longer always pestered him to compete. Of course, at this time, Yamada did not dare to use his previous name, but took a pseudonym of Takeshita Lang.

Since he was no longer hostile, Li Xingjiu gradually found many advantages from Takeshita Lang. Takeshita Lang is tenacious and good at leading soldiers, as a small leader, he obeys dozens of samurai under his control, and all training is the best.

Takeshitaro's sword skills are never easily revealed, but Li Xingjiu can feel that it is a real killing skill, a martial art tempered by countless battlefield battles, on the contrary, although his sword technique is gorgeous, it lacks a little murderous aura.

Slowly, Li Xingjiu became more and more appreciative of Takeshiro and became closer and closer. For this young man who has helped him, Takeshiro also likes it very much, and he also instructs Li Xingjiu on his knife skills from time to time.

On this morning, when the samurai were about to train as before, a person from the Qiyun Trading House suddenly came to Koga Village and pulled Cao Changjiang, who was in charge, and muttered for a long time. Then Cao Changjiang ordered the dozens of samurai in charge of Takeshiro to withdraw to Matsuura Annex, and there was no need to train again.

There were boxes of white flowers and silver on the ground, and dozens of Japanese samurai were dizzy to see, and their breathing gradually became short.

"Guys, I've raised you for so long, it's time to use you!" Cao Changjiang looked at the neat and silent warriors in the queue, and nodded with satisfaction: "Now there is a very important thing for you to do, but it is also very dangerous. You don't need to ask or inquire about the specifics, just follow the orders of your leader, Takeshita-kun. Each person is paid a hundred taels of silver, and you take half of it first, leave the address of your home, and the remaining half will be sent to your home after the incident, whether you live or die! ”

"Whoever is willing to come forward and take the money, have three days of vacation, and assemble here after three days." Cao Changjiang finally said.

A Japanese wandering samurai can't save more than ten taels of silver all year round, and everyone is not moved in the face of such a large sum of money. But they also know that money is not so easy to get, but since they have embarked on the road of samurai, it is their fate to go into battle and fight, and death in battle is their final destination!

One by one, the warriors stepped forward silently, took the silver handed by Cao Changjiang, and left the detailed address of their home, which was a guarantee for them to get the follow-up silver, and at the same time cut off the possibility of their rebellion. There are family members in the hands of their employers, and even if they die in battle, they will never surrender to the enemy!

On the "Princess", the station of the Dutch fleet, several Dutch captains were deliberating.

"I heard that the Ming people of the Qiyun are constantly recruiting people and buying ships, and the situation is not good for us." Captain of the Dutch ship "Earl" Mutroudau.

"That's right, General Zheng Hongkui warned me that Qiyun Commercial Bank is not easy to deal with. But so what? Who can compete with us Dutch in the middle of the ocean? Is it just the kind of junk boat that Akito? "Captain Geert of the Princess is as proud as ever.

"Mr. Geert, although you are right, we must be careful, you have forgotten that it was these junk ships that caused us Dutch heavy losses in Liuluo Bay ten years ago, and the 'Brouckersheaven' and 'Weiringen' were destroyed by the Ming!" James, captain of the third Dutch ship "Lemsen", reminded.

"The opponent in Liuluo Bay back then was the Zheng family, and we were fighting against the warships of the entire Daming Kingdom! Now, Qiyun Trading House, which only owns two ships, and it is in Japan instead of the Ming Dynasty, how can it be compared to back then? Geert said disapprovingly.

James could not refute Geert's words, and in his heart he despised the Culk ship, but out of caution he persuaded again.

"Mr. Geert, what you say is very reasonable, but there is a saying in Daming called 'Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years', and I think it is always good for us to be cautious."

Murtru, the captain of the Dutch ship "Earl", also agreed: "James is right, let's be careful. Most of our annual trade income is on our ship, and if we lose it, we can't afford the consequences! ”

"Well, gentlemen, what do you think we should do?" Seeing that the other two said this, Geert also had to compromise.

"Ming people can recruit people to buy ships, why can't we do that?" James said.

"It takes silver to recruit people to buy ships, how much silver do you say we should come up with to run this matter? 100,000 taels, or 200,000? Would the Governor of the Governor, Mr. Kuichi, allow such a ridiculous thing? Geert exclaimed.

"But Mr. Kuichi does not know what we are doing, and we cannot ask him for advice. But in my opinion, losing some silver is nothing compared to failure. Mutru said disapprovingly.

After intense discussions, the three of them finally reached an agreement and decided to pay 10,000 taels of silver for each ship, and a total of 30,000 taels to buy a ship to recruit servants.

Although they looked down on Daming's Junk ship, they couldn't take care of it in order to defeat Qiyun Trading House. However, what made them angry was that even if they were willing to spend money, they couldn't buy a boat from the owner of the Ming ship.

The Zheng family's ships are too few and not too much, how can they be willing to sell them. Most of the surplus ships of the other Ming shipowners had been bought by the Qiyun Trading House, not to mention that even if there were redundant ships, the shipowners refused to sell them to the Dutch.

In the end, I had no choice but to buy some Japanese-style sailboats. Japan has been closed to the rest of the country for many years, and even before the closure of the country, its shipbuilding industry was not developed, otherwise why the trade between China and Japan has been controlled by the Ming maritime merchants for more than 100 years. The sailing ships he built were too far from the fortune ships of the Ming Dynasty, let alone the Galen ships of the Dutch. Good ships could not be bought, and the Dutch could only pinch their noses and buy a dozen or so Japanese ships, each of which cost less than five hundred taels of silver, and the quality of the ships that could be bought was obvious.

As for recruitment, it was even more troublesome, they started too late, most of the wandering samurai near Nagasaki were recruited by the Qiyun Trading House, and all they could recruit were some eliminated samurai, and even some farmers who had just put down their hoes. (To be continued.) )