Astronomy 9, November 27, morning. In the council hall of the lord's mansion of the Hizen Luo family, there are all parties that have business relations with the Luo family.

The first party is Zhengliang and Taijiuling. Although the Luo family has begun to promote the law of Leshi Lezuo in the territory, the trade of grain, salt and various minerals that affect the stability of the territory is controlled by the Luo family. And Tai Jiuling began to exert his strength in some daily livelihood businesses under the shareholding of several wives of Zhengliang. These two represent the interests of the Luo family.

The second party is Wang Hai. What he represents is the interests of Zhu Zining and You Jianxia, who are still in the Ming Kingdom.

The third party is the newly involved Nanban Andimo. Ribery (i.e., Zhu Qinfeng) and Zuo Moyang, a Ming merchant who smuggled with the Southern Barbarians.

In fact, there is another party that is not present, and that is Kamiya Sakusai and Amada Nobuyasu. But for these two, Masato doesn't plan to let them directly trade face-to-face with these people in front of him for the time being. The main purpose is to prevent some advanced techniques, such as firearms techniques, from spreading to other powerful people in advance through them. The other Haoqiang foundations are stronger than the Luo family, once they get these skills, the speed of digestion will inevitably be faster than that of the Luo family, and the leading advantage that is not easy to win back will be gone.

Now Masahiro relies on these technical advantages to offset the accumulation gap caused by time.

For Kamiya Sausei and Yuda Nobuyasu, before they fully gained the trust of Masayo, or became the retainers of the Luo family, Masara was ready to let the Luo family act as an intermediary and resell their goods between the two sides. Such. The Roche family was able to earn a certain amount of price difference, and was also able to temporarily ensure that some advanced techniques would not be introduced to the rest of Japan too quickly.

After getting to know each other, Masato was the first to speak: "Everyone, my family will explain first. We are able to provide goods. Currently, we can provide you with a variety of local specialties, as well as gold and silver, as well as copper and snow salt. As I believe you all know, there is silver hidden in Japan's copper mines, and there is no way to separate silver from copper mines in Japan, but you must have a way. Masato said bluntly.

"And I hope to be able to buy the following materials from you, firearms, techniques, and even craftsmen from the Nanban. It would be even better if the two of them could provide shipbuilding. Of course, the family is also willing to buy all kinds of Nanban items," Zhengliang said to Zhu Qinfeng.

"For the Ming Kingdom. The family also wanted to get all kinds of firearms and all kinds of techniques, and even all kinds of craftsmen, and if they could also provide shipbuilding, they were willing to pay a huge price for them. Of course, all kinds of items from the Ming Kingdom. The family is also willing to buy. At present, the family needs a large amount of gunpowder and saltpeter," Zhengliang turned his head to Wang Hai and Zuo Moyang and said, "At the same time, the family welcomes bankrupt refugees and orphans from the Ming Kingdom to come and settle down. The family treats them as equals as if they were their own people. ”

"Also, as long as a certain fee is given. We can provide maintenance for your caravans, including the voyage from Ming to Japan," Masarashi continued. "We will set aside a tax-free place for you to trade." Masato threw out the most important bargaining chip.

Masarashi put forward these ideas after careful consideration. First of all, the Southern Barbarians and the Ming people must have come mainly for gold and silver. Especially for gold, the local gold-to-copper ratio in Japan is only 1:5 or even 1:4. But in the Ming Kingdom, the ratio has risen to 1 to 12 or even fifteen. And in Europe, it is even more exaggerated, it has reached 1 to 20. It can be said that as long as you take a trip, you can become a monopoly. …,

At the same time, they are willing to buy some local specialties and then sell some of their specialties to Japan, which can be said to be mutually beneficial.

For the Luo family, providing them with armed escort can not only take the opportunity to train the Luo family's naval army, but also obtain a lot of information from all over the world through trading with them. Why not?

"His Royal Highness Zhengliang is talking about tax exemption?" Wang Hai immediately asked.

"Yes, it's completely tax-free," Masarashi affirmed.

"Okay, I'm sure I'm going to support it," Wang Hai said. He had already foreseen the future prosperity of the tax-free place set up by Zhengliang. You must know that even those overseas trading ports and islands controlled by pirates are subject to taxes. Everyone goes to sea just for profit, and now that the Luo family has provided such a place, with the prosperity of the waterway, a large number of ships from all over the world will inevitably be ushered in. And Wang Hai can even get items from other regions through here. You must know that Lu Dao is not just doing business from Japan to Mingguo. With the increase in the supply of goods and goods, business will inevitably improve.

After Wang Hai, the other two also agreed very much with Zhengliang's policy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, here, I hope that we can make a gentleman's covenant, and you can only cooperate with our own family. In other words, I hope that you will not cooperate with other lords in private, and of course, this family can assure you that you will get the greatest benefit by cooperating with this family," said Masaara. He didn't expect these guys to always abide by the agreement to only trade with the Luo family, and everything was still decided by strength and interests, so Masahiro had no interest in signing a paper agreement.

Now that the Luo family can sit here and discuss with these people, it is just a good chance to meet them and seize the opportunity. Yes, what the Luo family can do is to seize the opportunity and act before the other heroes can react. The goal that Zhengliang wants to achieve is only to let these people only maintain cooperation with the Luo family for the time being for two or three years. After all, in more than two years, other Nanban people will also land in Japan one after another. At that time, all of them will have the same opportunity.

As for Zhengliang's request, several people attending the meeting unanimously agreed. At least for now, the Roche family is still their best choice.

So, on November 27, the ninth year of astronomy, at the initiative of the Luo family, the trade around the Ming Kingdom, Nanban, and Japan officially began, and the participating families also formed a business alliance. In the future, this alliance played an immeasurable role in promoting the development of the Luo family, and with the rise of the Luo family, the influence of this chamber of commerce gradually spread to the farther sea.

After receiving the promises of several merchants, Masara asked Togo Heiji, who was also attending the meeting, to compile a letter to the effect that the Luo family had reached a trade agreement with the merchants of the Ming Kingdom and the Nanban. The Luo family is willing to transfer the goods obtained from these parties to the Shenya family and Yutian Nobuyasu to operate, and after collecting the collection costs, the benefits of the Luo family, the Shenwu family and the Yuda Nobuyasu family will be divided equally.

Why doesn't the Roche family buy and sell alone? First of all, the Luo family lacks sales channels and means, and the manpower is limited, while the Kamiya family and Yuda Shinyasu just have this advantage, and the so-called strong alliance is also here. If the Roche family sells it themselves, the income obtained is even worse than the income obtained by the three parties from the joint sale.

Secondly, the Roche family can also collect information from all over Japan through the sales channels of these two houses.

In the end, the Luo family can be said to be beneficial to these two families. The two families who got the benefits naturally tried their best to meet the needs of the Luo family in terms of material procurement. Sometimes, these two can even play an unexpected role. …,

After receiving the letter from Masayo, Kamiya Sakura and Yuda Nobuyasu regretted that they could not directly trade with those merchants, but they were also very happy after thoroughly analyzing the Luo family's plan. As a result, the Luo family, the Kamiya family, and Yuda Nobuyasu reached a business alliance on their own.

It had been a day since the meeting with the Ming merchants and the Nanban merchants to reach a cooperation agreement.

"This Amada Nobuyasu is really interesting, does he want to be independent from Naya" After reading the affirmative letter from the Kamiya family and Yuda Nobuyasu, Masarashi couldn't help but think. According to his memory, there are other people in the Naya family in Kaimachi now.

"Your Highness, urgent report" At this time, Yinuo walked quickly into the council hall and reported to Zheng Liangyu.

"What?" Masara raised his head and asked. What Yinuo sent must be an urgent matter, because only in an emergency, Yinuo will directly enter the council hall without being informed by the guards outside the door.

"The battle of the Japan-Belgium Peninsula was a great victory," Yinuo's voice was full of excitement.

"What?" Zhengliang stood up with a "swish".

"Your Highness, the detective has just delivered good news, and the battle launched by Lord Sun Goro and Lord Heizo in the Hibiki Peninsula has been a great victory, and the Hibizu Peninsula has been fully included in the scope of the family's territory. This is a handwritten letter from Lord Pingzo to His Royal Highness," Ichino said respectfully.

"Quick, show it to me" Masara quickly took the letter from Yinuo's hand. Ran Kai opened it and looked at it.

After the Luo family's generals perished in the west of their territory, the only thing left was some pirates entrenched along the coast who were still resisting. Among these pirates, there are many pirates entrenched in the Hibiki Peninsula. Of course, it is also due to the large number of forces, which makes them unable to combine in a short period of time, posing a powerful threat to the Luo family.

The Hibi Peninsula is located northwest of the Roche family, on the west shore of Itaya Bay. At the easternmost point of Hibido is a rocky mountain called Mt. Endomi, and one of them is a cape called "Osaki", which is only a few hundred meters away from Mukaijima, where the territorial waters of the Luo family meet the waters of the Hirado Matsuura family. On the west side of the Hibiki Peninsula is the Genkai Beach, and it is only a few hundred meters away from Eagle Island, where the pirates are entrenched in the west. The waterway between the Hibiya Peninsula and Takashima Island was an important waterway, and once in mastery, the Roshi family would be able to attack any landing point between Imari Bay and Hirado Port in Minamimatsunura County. It can be said that the strategic location is important.

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