In Akama Seki-no-machi, in Hagiya's main store, Ryutao looked through a thick stack of account books, Zao, Tsuru, and Akuni sat behind him and waited, and Injiro sat at the bottom, respectfully reporting the details of Hagiya's development in recent years.

"The buying and selling of commercial houses has covered daily necessities such as grain, fruits and vegetables, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, as well as a small amount of minerals and seafood, but of course the most profitable is still our Hagiyaki ......."

“…… In the past six months, the profits of commercial housing have dropped sharply, mainly because the Murakami naval army has blocked and restricted us in the Zhoufang Beach, cutting off our access to the Seto Inland Sea, and now we can only buy and sell by land or open sea, so we ......"

"Why did Murakami's water army do this?" Long Tao frowned and interrupted him, "Doesn't Takeshi Murakami know about Hagiyaki's connection to me?" ”

"Back then, my lord, you did Hagiyaki trading, and the head of the village naturally knew this, but he may not know that you are the big boss behind Hagiya." Injiro paused and continued: "Besides, even if he knew that the small estimate, the Murakami Navy would still do this, because behind all this, it should be the Maori family. ”

"Maori?"

"Yes. After the Battle of Itsukushima, the Mori family destroyed the Ouchi family, and its power increased greatly, and the Murakami Navy Army took refuge in the Mori family because of its great contribution in that battle. ”

In fact, basically every navy will choose a certain daimyo to take refuge in order to gain their support.

Unlike Satomura, most of them are isolated from overseas, and if they are cut off from food by nearby daimyos, they will face difficulties in surviving.

In addition, pirates are different from ninjas, most of them hope to make a career and become a hegemon, and their goals in life are closer to that of samurai, so it is easy to get closer to the various daimyo in the political arena.

Therefore, it is not surprising that after the Maori family gained power, Murakami Takeshi took refuge in them.

"What a Maori family!" Long Tao sneered: "On the one hand, I went to send someone to lobby Hagi City, and on the other hand, I came here again, using both soft and hard, it seems that I have to take Hagi City!" Why didn't Changjian tell me about this? ”

Injiro smiled and said: "Maybe Lord Takekawa thinks that there is no need to worry about such a trivial matter, I heard that he is preparing to build our own dock in San'in Chong, and in the future, Hagiyaki will go to sea directly from there, and go to the sea to scatter to various places, and the Tango Navy will not belong to the Maori family, as long as we open up the relationship, we can immediately build a new sales channel." The power of the Maori family has not yet reached the point of covering the sky with one hand, how can a single Murakami naval army block us? ”

"Changjian is really capable!" Long Tao smiled slightly, "But you tell him, there is no need to be so troublesome, the Tango Water Army has obeyed my orders at the moment, and I will also take down the other water bars one by one, and in the future, the sale of Hagiya will be unimpeded in the whole of Japan, regardless of water or land." ”

"Yes!"

"The Maori family is so ignorant, we can't easily forget it." Long Tao turned to Jujube again, "Sister Zao, you have mastered the needle of life and death, so I will trouble you to go back a few times and assign new tasks to the twelve ninja villages, first, to ensure that Hagiya's sales channels on land are unblocked, and second, let them block all the sales channels of rice, grain, salt and other necessities that enter the Maori family, I want to let the prices soar under the Maori family, once there is civil strife, see how he will deal with Hagi City." ”

Jujube nodded, but her beautiful eyes were full of reluctance.

Long Tao patted her hand and comforted: "Don't worry, when I take down a few sailors here, I will soon go to find you in the vicinity." ”

Tsuru opened his mouth and said, "Lord Yi, over there of the Murakami Water Army, I will take Shino and Komatsu on a trip." ”

Long Tao nodded and said: "I have this intention, Wu Ji's personality, I still appreciate it, if you can persuade him to submit, it is naturally the best, unless it is absolutely necessary, I don't want to use the means of life and death needle to deal with him." ”

"I will definitely try my best to persuade the Bukit leaders to submit!"

Long Tao said: "Although I am relieved of Wu Ji's personality, but as the lord of Yiqi, he is a subordinate of the family behind him, and sometimes he may not be able to help himself, so the three of you must be more careful when you go here and protect yourself!" ”

Crane smiled: "Don't worry, with the skills of the three of us, it should be no problem to protect ourselves." ”

The group rested for one night at Akama Pass, and the next day they went their separate ways, and Ryutao asked Tsuru to take twenty shrine maidens to Itsukushima Shrine for temporary resettlement, leaving only Ah Kuni alone, and continued to escort Goa to Hirado no Machi with him.

Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu and bordered by the Tsushima Strait, Hirado no Machi has been an important port for Japan's foreign trade since ancient times.

After Long Tao and Ah Guo followed Geya into the town, they went straight to the Nanban Merchant House.

A white woman in a long aqua green dress greeted her, she was slightly shorter than Goya, her short ear-length hair made her more and more delicate and delicate, her skin was as white and greasy as Goya, her appearance was soft and lovely, a pair of big eyes were like two bays of clear autumn water, bright and moving, her eyes were flowing, and there was some cunning in her purity.

Goya pounced on and hugged the woman, the two stunning beauties hugged each other affectionately, the spring flowers and autumn moon have their own good scenes, and the beauty is dizzying.

"Goya, is this the sister you said was twelve years older than you?" Long Tao stepped forward and stared at the white woman tightly, "If I hadn't heard you say it earlier, I would have even thought this was your sister!" ”

Lilou Jacob blinked her big bright eyes and asked, "Goa, who is this?" He speaks Dutch so fluently! ”

Goya smiled: "Sister, this is Mr. Ashikaga Yoshiji, thanks to him along the way, I can come back safely!" ”

"Oh? Looks like you have a lot of stories to tell, go in and tell them slowly. ”

Carpets, round tables, high-backed chairs, ceiling oil lamps, windows with glass...... In the living room, which is completely different from the style of Japanese HOS, Goya and Lilu are chattering non-stop, while Long Tao and Ah Guo are admiring all kinds of novel Nanban creatures.

Half an hour later, the two sisters finally finished talking, and Lilu came to Long Tao.

"Mr. Ashikaga, thank you for taking care of Goa all the way this time! Listen to Goya, do you want to work with our Jacobt Chamber of Commerce? ”

"That's right." Long Tao nodded and said, "I want to establish a long-term and intimate cooperative relationship with your Chamber of Commerce." ”

Lilu's smart eyes rolled and said with a smile: "Mr. Ashikaga has done Goya a great favor, you will always be our best friend, however, the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce are too involved, and I can't decide it casually, to establish a business partnership with us, but also to see Mr. Ashikaga's strength, in your saying, to make a big deal, you have to have a lot of capital." ”

Long Tao smiled slightly, "Miss Lilu, why don't we find a quiet place to talk, so that you can see if the capital is enough?" ”