Chapter 150: Long Island Harbor

According to the agreement between Oda Nobunaga and Yang Guang, it was 2,000 taels for Tsukasama to hire the Goho Fire Gun team to help in the battle, and 9,000 taels for the purchase of 300 Goho guns, for a total of 11,000 taels of gold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

It's just that there are no gold mines in the Owari area, and Oda Nobunaga's own gold reserves are not much, and there are a lot of materials captured from the Imagawa army, but the gold is only a few thousand taels, and there is no way to make up the amount that should be given to Yang Guang.

Oda Nobunaga sent the 8,000 taels of gold he could to the shore of Nagashima and personally wrote a letter to Yang Guang to apologize, asking if Yang Guang was willing to wait a little longer or accept other goods to compensate.

Yang Guang absolutely could not accept the arrears of payment, but he partnered with Ye Zongman to do business, so he naturally had to take into account the latter's needs. According to Ye Zongman, sailors from the Ming Kingdom often did not bring cash back, but bought goods, which would be more profitable.

Since this was the case, Yang Guang simply took the shares that should be given to Ye Zongman, and asked him to make a list of the goods needed according to the wishes of the sailors, and then hand them over to Oda Nobunaga, and prepare the goods for trading according to this list.

The purchasing power of gold and silver is very strong, according to Ye Zongman's calculations, if the part of the gold owed by Oda Nobunaga is really exchanged for equivalent goods, his four fortune ships will not be able to fit at all, and suddenly a large number of goods from the market will also have a great impact on prices, even if Yang Guang and Ye Zongman don't care, Oda Nobunaga can't agree.

So Yang Guang revised his request again and personally went to the castle tower of Kiyoshu Castle to discuss a solution to this problem with Oda Nobunaga. Yang Guang proposed a lease method, leasing the rudimentary pier on the coast of Shimo-Nagashima from Oda Nobunaga, and preparing to expand and rebuild it. The new port of Nagashima would be managed by Ye Soman, and Oda Nobunaga would not be involved, but could send personnel to check the accounts and collect taxes.

Of course, Oda Nobunaga would not refuse to allow the merchants of the Ming Kingdom to do business in his territory for a long time, and Ye Zongman did not expect that in the case of declining conditions, he would have the opportunity to obtain the right to build and operate a port like the old lord Wang Zhi, and both parties were very happy.

Yang Guang's purpose in doing this is not to make a profit from the port, his arms business can at least have more than 1,300 times more than 1,300 times the terrorist profits, there is a port to gain a foothold, and cooperate with the Japanese daimyo, Ye Zongman can come and go on his own in the future, and he doesn't need to bow down every time.

After the official start of construction at the port of Nagashima, Ye Zongman found that he did not have enough personnel at hand, so he issued a conscription order through Oda Nobunaga in his territory, and soon gathered thousands of people. These forcibly conscripted people were a little resistant at first, but after discovering that they could eat enough to eat if they worked hard, they quickly threw themselves into the construction of the port with great enthusiasm.

The news spread farther and farther, and even the merchants around were hurrying in with all kinds of goods, hoping to sell them for a good price. There is that kind of far-sighted businessman who directly approached Ye Zongman, hoping to lease or even buy a residential shop in the port as a location for his future business.

The deserted seashore on Long Island suddenly became lively, and it also gave Yamamoto Kansuke the opportunity to quietly visit Yang Guang again, and he used his identity as a foot merchant as a cover, bringing enough gold to buy Yang Guang's 500 Wufeng guns and a large amount of lead bullet gunpowder.

Within a month, the new Long Island Port began to take shape. Ye Zongman did not want to be fat in one bite, but according to his current strength, he first built a prototype to ensure that more than a dozen 1,000-material lucky ships could dock, which could provide food and shelter for the sailors on these ships, and replenish food and water for these ships.

This is Oda Nobunaga's territory, and there is no need to worry about the safety of the land, Ye Zongman only needs to leave 40 people in Nagashima Port to maintain normal law and order.

As for the threat from the sea, given that the Owari area is far from the traditional shipping routes of maritime trade, no one will compete with such a small port in the bay unless they deliberately try to cause trouble.

"Brother Zhao, do you remember those Francophone people we rescued at sea?" Wang Ying hurriedly came over from the dock and said to Yang Guang: "After we clashed with the Miyoshi family in Jiegang, we put them all down and left. Who knows that these people got two ships from somewhere, and they actually came to us. ā€

Yang Guang put down the book in his hand and said while thinking: "This is located in the bay, and there has been no storm on the sea recently, so they have other plans, right?" ā€

"Yes." Wang Ying said quickly: "They hope to buy some Wufeng Guns from us. But these people don't have that much gold, and they're going to trade it for our Franc cannon. Uncle Ye asked me to ask you, he wanted to set up a few cannons at the key points, even if it was only 4 or 6 pounds, it would be a deterrent for ships at sea. ā€

Yang Guang laughed and said to Wang Ying: "If I can make a five-peak cannon, I can naturally make a five-peak cannon." ā€

Wang Ying showed a surprised expression on her face, and said in a loud voice: "I understand, I understand!" Then he hurried back to the docks.

Yang Guang watched Wang Ying's back disappear from his sight, and was about to pick up the book to read again, when a young Japanese woman walked in with a sumptuous meal, put it on the table, and bowed respectfully and said, "My lord, please eat!" ā€

He had rescued the woman from a group of drunken men, and after questioning, he learned that all of her family had died, so he found her a job in the harbor of Long Island so that she could earn money to support herself.

Japanese civilians do not have a surname but only a nickname, this woman claimed that her mother dreamed of a tiger when she gave birth to her, so she used this to make a name, so Yang Guang called her "Tiger Ji" in the countryside.

Originally, Yang Guang did this just to show his hands, and there was no other meaning, who knew that this woman actually regarded herself as Yang Guang's slave, and did things for him respectfully every day, no matter what Yang Guang said, she kept bowing her head and saying "yes", and then continued to do it her own way, so that Yang Guang had no way to take her.

In the past half a month, Yang Guang has said it several times, but if others don't listen to him, they don't bother to bother anymore, so they directly send this woman out, and sit at the table to prepare for the meal.

Tiger Queen returned to her next room, lifted her head, and looked at her with hatred in her eyes. After being by Yang Guang's side for half a month, she basically figured out Yang Guang's work and rest habits, and would sleep for a while after lunch, and no one would disturb him at this time, so she put some weak drugs in the meal, ready to avenge her dead father with her own hands.