Li Su's faint words made Su Izo's heart turn up a monstrous wave, if there is the help of the King of Shu of the Tang Dynasty, then it is easy to defeat the eldest brother and his noble alliance, he said: "His Royal Highness the King of Shu is serious!" For the Su family, there is no way out now, and the result of failure is that the family is wiped out by the eldest brother.

"Seriously! But the premise is that you have to pay the ransom, so let's do it, I won't embarrass you, pay half first, with such a port, the wealth of your Su family will definitely not be less, if you can't even take out this little thing, it will be meaningless to support you, this king might as well talk to the eldest brother. Li Su threatened, if he helped the eldest brother, then the Su family would definitely be defeated.

Su I Ezo changed color when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the King of Shu, our Su I family is willing to accept this condition, however, because silver is not in circulation, although we occupy the silver mineral land, but we do not mine a large amount, and we can't hand over half of the amount now, but as long as His Royal Highness the King of Shu gives our family three months, we can hand over five million taels of silver to His Royal Highness the King of Shu at one time!" ”

"Three months? Well, this can also be considered, but you have to stay in the Ryukyus as a hostage, this is no problem, but you don't have to worry, we will let you go back as soon as the ransom arrives, and then our cooperation will officially begin, so you have to pay the ransom for these three months, otherwise the army of the eldest brother will probably kill none of your family. ”

A trace of cold sweat broke out on Su Izo's forehead, this King of Shu is really not so easy to fool, he gritted his teeth and said, "No problem, just three months!" ”

Li Su smiled, "Of course, this is the best, then Minister Su I can now write a letter to your family and ask them to come to the ship to discuss this matter." ”

Soga Ezo nodded, picked up the pen and began to write. After the letter was written, Su I Ezo went to the dock with the help of Su Dongxu to find a Japanese businessman, this Japanese merchant obviously knew Su I Ezo, took the letter and hurriedly went back, after a short time, a dozen meters long sea ship sailed towards the fleet, and a person who looked very similar to Su I Ezo got off the ship.

"Into the deer!" After the man got on the boat, Soga Ezo exclaimed, "Why did you go back to Nanozu?" ”

The young man did not answer Su Izo's words immediately, but observed the surrounding situation, and his eyes paused when he saw Li Su. He continued: "Pingjin City has been breached by the coalition forces of the middle elder brother. ”

"What! So fast! Soga Ezo exclaimed.

Su Irulu nodded, his expression was dark, he remembered the content of his father's letter, and said, "Father, is the content of the letter true?" ”

"It's all true, that is the King of Shu of the Tang Dynasty." He gestured to Li Su, who was sitting leisurely in his chair.

Li Zhuo's eyes swept over the two from time to time, they communicated in Chinese, which he couldn't understand at all, but judging from the expressions of the two, it was definitely not a good thing.

It was discussed for a while. Su I Ezo walked up to Li Yu and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Shu, this is my son Su I into the deer." ”

"Su I enter the deer to see His Royal Highness the King of Shu of the Tang Dynasty!" Soga said in stiff Chinese, and he didn't seem to be as proficient in Chinese as Soga Ezo.

Li Su nodded and said, "Excuse me, how about it?" How have you discussed it with your father and son? ”

Soga Ezo hesitated. Said: "There is no big problem, it's just that Pingjin City has been broken by the middle elder brother, and the coalition army will soon attack the fiefdom of the Su family, and we are worried that it will affect the mining of silver mines." So I hope that Your Highness will be able to sell us weapons, but Your Highness can rest assured, we will buy these weapons with gold. ”

"You want to buy artillery? It's impossible. This kind of weapon will not be sold by this king. Li Su shook his head, these cannons were sold to them, although Li Su believed that they could not imitate them at all, but some earthen cannons they could still imitate, and this was not conducive to his future plans.

Su I entered the deer young and vigorous, he said: "His Royal Highness the King of Shu, if you don't provide support, I'm afraid that our Su I family will be finished in three months, and it will be even more difficult for you to ask for things at that time." ”

I have to say that Su I am very smart, his words are in Li Su's mind, in history, this middle brother is a very wise person, if such a person is allowed to rule the Wa Kingdom, it will be very unfavorable to his future colonial plans, and a scattered Wa State is what he wants.

After a deep sigh, he said, "I don't sell you artillery, but I can sell you something else." With that, Li Su pointed to the plate armor worn by a soldier.

For Li Su, selling the plate armor to the Japanese people will not increase the threat of the Japanese State to him, because now Li Su's musket can completely penetrate the plate armor, and these plate armor can defend against bows and arrows and swords, but it can't defend against the bullets of the musket, and Li Su will not sell the reinforced plate armor equipped by the Yizhou army to them, but sell the original plate armor, but even so, the combat power of the soldiers of the Su I family equipped with the plate armor will also be a straight line substitute.

"Your Highness is talking about this kind of armor?" Soga Ezo's heart moved.

"That's right!" Li Su said to Sun Dongxuxi: "Take two sets of plate armor and put them on, let them experience it for themselves." ”

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Su I Ezo and Su I Irilu immediately looked at each other.

Ten minutes later, Su I Ezo and Su I Irilu were both wearing plate armor, and at this time, several soldiers suddenly swung their knives and slashed at the two of them several times in a row, causing the two of them to scream again and again.

"How, is this armor okay?" When the shocked two took off their helmets, Li asked with a smile.

The two of them no longer know how to describe the feelings in their hearts, if they are equipped with this batch of armor, his family army will be invincible, Su I Ezo said excitedly: "We want this kind of armor, but what is the price of this armor?" ”

Li Su showed an expression that should be so, and he said: "The production of this kind of armor is very troublesome, and it also requires exquisite iron-smelting technology, and the cost of a set is at least one hundred taels of gold. ”

"A hundred taels of gold?" Su I's scalp tightened, his eyes turned around on Li Su's face, and he saw that Li Su's expression was very calm, he knew that this kind of armor couldn't be so expensive, but there was nothing he could do about it when the Tang Shu King Lion opened his mouth, after all, this kind of armor was the only one, "We want five thousand sets!" He understands the financial resources of the Su family, which is already the limit.

"Deal!" Li Su showed a victorious smile, today's Yizhou industry is not as good as in the past, and the production of five thousand sets of armor is enough in just one week, "Delivery within a month, but our Yizhou rule is to pay half of the deposit first." ”

Su I Ezo hated it so much, but he could only hate itchy, after all, money is just something outside the body, and if he stabilizes his rule, he can quickly scavenge it back, but if he loses the family's foundation, it will be all over, under the two measurements, this choice is very easy, that is, Li Su doubled the price, and they had to agree.

The two sides reached an agreement verbally, and Su I Ezo and his son discussed it, and Su I Irilu showed an embarrassed expression at first, but finally gritted his teeth and agreed.

"His Royal Highness the King of Shu wait a minute, our people will transport the gold over soon!" Su I Ezo said, "But this matter has to let my son Irilu go back in person!" ”

"That's fine." At this time, Li Su was very tolerant of the two, after all, the two of them would be his cash cow in the future, and the mineral deposits of the Wa Kingdom would soon be in his pocket.

Su I entered the deer and saluted Li Su, and then returned the same way, and Li Su explained Sun Dongxu's treatment to Su I Ezo in front of Su Izo, so that he could feel at ease.

One hundred taels of gold is a set of plate armor, five thousand sets is 500,000 taels of gold, half of which is also 250,000 taels, and it takes twelve and a half tons to convert into tons.

After verifying that it was correct, Li Su asked the soldiers to carry the yellow-orange-orange gold into the warehouse, "Within a month, it will still be this port, and we will trade here!" ”

Su I Ezo translated Li Su's words to Su I Izulu, Su I Izulu nodded and said something to Su Izu, and then Su I Izuru bowed to Li Su and left.

Looking at the last box of gold entering the warehouse, the corners of Li Su's mouth curled, and he said, "Set sail and return to Ryukyu!" (To be continued......)