In addition to having your own processing plant to be able to manufacture them, in general, there are only two ways to buy muskets. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

One is to order from a blacksmith with the ability to process muskets, and the other is to buy from a wealthy merchant with international trade ability.

Blacksmiths that can process muskets are now relatively rare, and not only do they need to be ordered in advance, but they also use relatively crude techniques for casting muskets.

So Kosenda began to contact the wealthy merchants in Sakai Town himself to see who had a stock of muskets. Most of the goods in their hands are imported, and the quality is relatively better.

But unfortunately, although Coheseda has already started to contact businessmen as soon as they get the funds, muskets are not a mass consumer product after all, and few people buy them, and businessmen will not hoard too much inventory in their hands. The average merchant can have a ten-eight-strip in his hand, which is already a lot.

Imai Munehisa is the man with the largest number of muskets, but he only has forty-five. And twenty of them were commissioned by the Suzuki family to buy on their behalf, and the Suzuki family could come back to pick up the goods at any time.

Although the Suzuki family is a small daimyo, they are famous for their musket warfare. The head of the family, Satsuo Suzuki, and his son, Shigehide Suzuki, commonly known as Sagasunichi, were famous people who wielded muskets.

Moreover, these people are very good at fighting guerrillas, and while facing the enemy head-on, there are often people hiding in the forest to shoot black guns, specializing in sniping the opposite general, and their actual combat ability is very strong.

The Suzuki family's geographical location is relatively close to Sakai Town, which is also considered their sphere of influence. Gao Xianda still wants to lead his troops to Luoluo in the future, and at this time, he doesn't want to set up a group of enemies for no reason, so he still doesn't want to fight them for twenty muskets.

Therefore, Coxianda searched among the merchants for a long time, and only scraped together more than 50 muskets, and the models and specifications were not quite consistent. Gao Xianda now somewhat understands why a daimyo like Oda Nobunaga, who has been training musket troops from the beginning, has only 200 musket troops in his hand.

"Since you have money in your hands, why don't you just talk to the Nanban merchants? It just so happened that a fleet of Nanban merchants had recently docked in Sakai Town. "Imai Munehisa now also knows that Gao Xianda is a big benefactor, and his relationship with Gao Xianda is also very harmonious. He knew that he had not met the needs of Coxenda, and he still had a trace of apologies for Coxenda. So some information came out.

"But I don't have a way." Gao Xianda Road.

Nanban merchants generally refer to people who came to Japan by sea to do business during the Age of Discovery. Most of them were blonde and blue-eyed, and to the Japanese at the time, they looked like yokai. So the Japanese contemptuously called them Nanban.

They are not like local merchants who can set up shops on the street. Because of the language barrier and the need to travel to various places to run trade, their base is on the ship, and they cannot stay in one place for a long time.

So if they want to sell what is on the ship quickly, they only deal with the big merchants who can trade the bulk commodities, and then they resell them.

Imai Munehisa and other wealthy merchants knew that this kind of monopoly could earn high profits, so the trade information of the Nanban merchants was generally hidden from outsiders.

But this time is different, Gao Xianda has spent a lot of money here in Imai Sohisa, and his favorability with Imai Sohisa is already full. Moreover, the things that GOXADDA wants are relatively special, and the demand is small, which belongs to the buyer's market. Imai Munehisa pieced through it and didn't make much profit. It's better to directly recommend Gao Xianda to Nanban merchants, and you can also sell Gao Xianda a favor.

So Imai Munehisa said, "If you say that, it seems that everyone is not friends!" With me here, are you afraid that you won't be able to get in touch? ”

After saying that, he immediately took out a pen and paper, wrote a note, stamped his seal, and then asked his subordinates to take Gao Xianda to find the Nanban merchant who had come recently.

"You don't have to look too highly at them. Don't look at their blond hair and blue eyes, in fact, they are not very powerful, and sometimes they don't even understand the arithmetic. Imai Munehisa instructed Takayama to say.

"Thank you!" Gao Xianda nodded.

Gao Xianda followed the staff of Nawu and walked all the way along the pier to a large boat, and under the big boat, there was a small tent.

"This is it. If there's anything, just tell their captain. Their captain's name is Rafi Yale, and you ignore the others. As he spoke, he glanced at a stout young man sitting in the tent.

Gao Xianda didn't know why, so he was still very polite to them, and said, "Hello, I am the person who came to buy things introduced by the wealthy businessman Imai Munehisa. Would like to meet your Captain Rafi Yale. ”

But the stout man was obviously not very good at Japanese, and he didn't react to what Gao Xianda said.

Gao Xianda had to repeat it to him slowly. The man still didn't know much.

Gao Xianda now understands why these Nanban merchants can only do business with wealthy merchants, they don't have translators, and they really can't sell things to ordinary people.

However, since this person was European, Gao Xianda's mind moved, and he asked in English: "Do you speak English?" ”

The man's eyes lit up obviously, knowing that Gao Xianda spoke English, so he said in simple English: "You wait a minute." Then he turned his head and shouted a few times.

It wasn't long before a sturdy old man came out and complained to the young man.

Then the young man explained a few more words to the old man, and the old man turned to Gao Xianda and said in English, "Why, you can speak English?" ”

"Of course." Gao Xianda nodded. As an indigenous native of Los Santos, English is his mother tongue.

The old man seemed to have spent a long time in England, but not London, so his English had a strong flavor of the northern suburbs of Scotland. As for Cossenda, who has been mixing with black people (including Brad) in Los Santos all year round, Cossenda's English is thick with a slight black accent. So the accents of the two people, in the eyes of the British at that time, could not be called authentic.

Fortunately, the basic level of English of the two people is very high, just like a Shandong person and a Henan person chatting together, although they each have an accent, but speaking slowly does not affect the communication.

Because Gao Xianda is a standard yellow face and Japanese dress, after the old man said a few words to Gao Xianda, he also sincerely praised Gao Xianda's English is very authentic, but the accent needs to be strengthened......

It soon became clear to Gao Xianda that this was a Portuguese caravan, and that neither the old man nor the young man were the captains of the ship.