The technology of sericulture was no longer a secret in China at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Bai Minghe clearly knew that right now, in 1452 AD, there was already a large-scale silk industrial park in Italy. It seems that Spain will also start a new silk industrial park, which of course is only a large-scale handicraft workshop in this era.

There is raw silk in Wajima, and the quantity is not small.

At least, as far as the entire Wadao is concerned, it is barely enough to be self-sufficient, and the silk of the Ming Dynasty is more gorgeous and beautiful. This is the gap in silk technology, but the process of raw silk is not a big secret, only need to train a group of skilled workers for the Takeda family, which Bai Minghe believes that some merchants in the Ming Dynasty are willing to do.

"Seven acres of mulberry fields and a load of silk. A load of silk officials gave you the goods equivalent to one hundred taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty, no matter what goods you can choose, including stainless steel ......" When it came to stainless steel, Takeda Nobuei was moved, and immediately asked: "Is it the Tang knife given by Lord Bai?" ”

"You have to understand that it takes a process for steel to become a knife. But you're right, it's indeed this kind of steel. ”

Shiranazuru's words made the last line of defense in Takeda Nobuei's heart collapse.

"This official will settle an account for you. You can harvest two stone meters per acre of land, and if you go up to seven acres of land, it will only be fifteen stone meters. Changed to raw silk, a hundred taels of silver is not a hundred taels of silver. Daming's goods can at least double your profits. For example, if you think about the peasants in your territory wearing clothes that are comparable to those of the samurai in other places, will anyone be willing to come to your territory? ”

Takeda Nobuei still sat on his knees in a kneeling position, and Shira's words made sense after thinking about it.

The place where he is located is mainly mountainous, and the terraced fields are still learned from the Ming Dynasty, but they are also very poor, and there will be an income of two stones of rice in one acre of land.

According to Bai Minghe's algorithm, his income will skyrocket. Tenfold, twenty-fold increases.

"It's just, what do the people eat without rice?"

Bai Minghe laughed heartily a few times: "How much rice do I have, and the rice in my hand is so much that the four provinces of Jiangnan in Daming can no longer farm." Have you ever seen a hundred miles of mulberry forests in Huzhou? Of course, the raw silk of your Wadao Island is definitely not as good as the lake silk, but I believe that if you work hard, it will not be too bad. ”

Takeda Nobuei was still a little skeptical.

"Spread the word to Humencang, the official wants to take the guests there. Have the stewards of the warehouses prepare the keys and the wagons. Then I arranged for someone to call Oda and the people from the southern family to come over. ”

With that, Shirana Crane stood up and made a gesture of invitation to Nobuei Takeda.

"Lord Bai, please first!" Nobuei Takeda opens the door for the white crane.

There is a pier in the south of the island, where the boat is already waiting. Not long after the white crane got on the boat, the ship in the distance also waved the flag. It means that the person has already received it, whether it is a remittance ship, or goodbye to Humen Wharf.

The white crane signaled to see him at Humen, and it only took half an hour to cross the sea.

The fleet of the Japanese did not really enter Guangzhou Bay, and the location where they stopped their ships was Guanghai Xinwei, which was the location of Zhuhai Venus Bay in the later generations. It is mainly garrisons and not freight, so you only need to have suitable shipbuilding, ship repair and barracks, etc., and you don't need a lot of waterways.

The sea route is about 90 miles away, and the one on which the white crane sits is the latest sail and oar.

The oars are not rowed oars, but wheels with a diameter of two meters on each side of the hull, and each group of four people in the boat pushes the winch at a speed of fifteen knots. With the help of wind at the same time, it can reach up to 20 knots.

There is also a smaller one. The short, thin one, which can reach speeds of up to twenty-four knots, is designed specifically for coastal transmission. Because each ship can only have ten crews, and there is not much resistance to wind and waves, it can only be used for coastal delivery.

The one where the white crane sits only has twenty-four crew members. This also includes the boatman and the person on board.

Smoothly, it took less than an hour to reach the lion's mouth, and the speed here began to slow down, and even the speed of seven knots could not be reached. One reason is that it is already upstream, and the wind is much lighter. Another reason. There are so many boats here that in many cases the distance can make you jump from one boat to another.

"So many ships!" Takeda Nobuei sighed.

Zeng Tao said beside him: "Humen Wharf, the daily throughput has reached 77,000 stones. Many valuable goods have been allowed further north, and the newly built Lianhuashan Wharf is still a little smaller, but it also has a throughput of 9,000 stone per day. ”

Every day! This amount made Takeda Nobuei really not know what to say.

The goods on this day exceeded the number of foreign transactions in his territory for more than a year, and this huge gap made his heart full of flavors, and there were all kinds of tastes.

Soon, Nobuei Takeda sensed another gap, and that was the size of the ship.

When I first entered this Taiping waterway, I didn't see a giant boat, and a giant boat more than ten zhang long in front of me was really the gap between a tiger and a kitten compared to the boat that Bai Minghe was sitting on.

But there were even bigger ones, a fleet of ships more than twenty feet tall and several feet high blocking the waterway, and all the ships were waiting for the huge ship to enter the harbor first.

"Hey, little ...... White-sama! A shout came from the huge ship of fortune.

Originally, I wanted to call Xiaobai, maybe I saw Takeda Nobuei here, so I temporarily changed my words.

Bai Minghe first glanced at the number on the hull, and then looked up: "General Lei, why are you on this boat." ”

There was thunder on board, and this lucky ship was supposed to go to Siam to load grain according to the arrangement. Transporting grain is still the most reliable ship, the ship is large and stable, although it is slower, but grain is not a valuable item, naturally not afraid of delaying a few days. It's just that the white crane was a little surprised, and it is said that the thunder should be in Little Luzon.

Thunderbolt laughed a few times and took out a fist-sized ruby from his arms.

This gem is in the sun, especially when viewed from the bottom up, and the dazzling red light pierces the depths of people's hearts.

Bai Minghe also smiled: "Put down the hanging basket!" ”

There are many hanging baskets on both sides of the ship, some of which are used to pull people, and the larger ones are for the convenience of loading.

The white crane got on the lucky boat, and the boat naturally entered the port as planned and parked at the berth dedicated to officials. The people of the Takeda, Oda, and Nanbu families were also pulled on the fortune boat.

Zeng Tao whispered beside him: "This general is the commander of my Daming Water Division. General Ray. ”

In the face of the thunderous sky who only wore a set of light navy leather armor, the three guests of the Japanese people gave enough respect. Lei Jingtian returned the salute with the Ming military salute, but Bai Minghe said on the side: "When we meet for the first time, Lei Jingtian will not give a small meeting gift. ”

"Well said, well said!" Thunder shocked people to give three daggers of the standard in the Ming army. These three are definitely compared to the knife given by Bai Minghe, but they are also made of steel. It's much better than a normal sword.

After giving the gift, Lei took out the ruby again: "My eldest daughter is getting married, so I must have some dowry." This piece of festivity, it was not easy to find. How about borrowing two craftsmen from the palace to polish it for me, and I will find a piece for your princess wife! ”

Lei Jingtian also heard just now that Sun Yuanjun was actually named a princess, so he naturally wanted to exchange himself for a good gem.

"You're well-informed." Bai Minghe smiled, turned to Zeng Tao and said, "Return the guest to see the goods in the warehouse." After that, he said to Takeda Nobuei: "If the topic just now can be continued, this boatload of rice will be yours." You can exchange a load of raw silk for 500 koku of rice here! ”

"Hello!" Takeda Nobuei bowed respectfully and followed Zeng Tao into the cabin.

Lei Jingtian's expression changed: "You didn't come to me on purpose, did you, and you didn't send anyone to inform you in advance." ”

"It was an accident to meet you, originally I took them to see the Humen Guancang. General Lei, don't tell me badly. I tell you the truth, I am fooling them into planting mulberry trees instead of farming. A load of raw silk is 500 stone rice, and when the time comes, they will all plant mulberry trees, and the rations are stuck in my hand, which is an arrow that shoots ten and eight birds! ”

Lei Jingtian is a rough man, but he is not a stupid man.

"They don't look stupid!"

"But what if Wajima enters the Warring States period?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically.

"You're ruthless." How can Lei Jingtian not understand that a small country will definitely give up growing food for the sake of its own development and in the face of strong enemies around it for sufficient military spending, even if he knows that this is a huge crisis, he will give up.

Bai Minghe said: "They must be thinking that if they occupy other people's territory, they will have more fields, and then those fields will grow grain." But the greater their power, the stronger the enemy they faced. So I will still plant mulberry again and come to me for food, this is called the dove's plan, knowing that it is poisonous, the more you drink, the more it hurts, the more you can't drink it. ”

"Poison! It's really poisonous. So what's the matter with me? Lei Tianxin said that in this plan, what arrangements were made for him.

"It's nothing for you, your task is to get back to Luzon as soon as possible. Train Mo Long's people into a usable navy, and let all kinds of people around them learn how to write in uniform. The white crane responded with a smile.

It was an accident that he encountered thunder, and it was this accident that brought him many benefits.

The warehouse full of grain was piled up to the top of the warehouse as sacks, and this ship was close to 30,000 stone of rice, and this fleet alone had 20 such large ships, and this fleet alone had 600,000 stone of rice.

The one from the Oda family is actually the head of the family, Hosoda No.

Speaking of which, he has a good relationship with the Takeda family, but there is a difference in identity between the two sides. Both Takeda and Nanbu are older than his Oda family, Wajima is a society that pays attention to status and hierarchy, and Oda Nano also thinks deep down in his heart that it is absolutely correct for the Ming Dynasty to feast Takeda Nobuei first.

The three widows absolutely did not believe that this fleet was specially designed to cheat on them.

This was a temporary arrangement, and the fleet actually returned to port to bring back the grain.

"Takeda-kun, I seem to have heard that General Lei talk about the palace, the princess and something like that." When Zeng Tao was some distance away from them, Nanbu Hibiki whispered to Takeda Nobuei. (To be continued......)

PS: When I drink the wine, I feel that the wine is very bitter.