Chapter 190: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas
However, the real excitement in Long Island Port had to be the moment Yang Guang's fortune boat docked, hundreds of merchants of all kinds flocked from all over the port market, chattering to stop everyone who got off the ship, hoping to find out the news of Yang Guang and Wufeng Gong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course Yang Guang will not come forward to deal with this kind of thing, he has Ye Zongman's subordinates to take care of everything, from the news they fed back, Yang Guang found that the matter about this new type of firearm of the Ming Kingdom has spread in almost the whole of Japan, and the various achievements of Wufeng Gong have also surprised countless people who have heard of it, and many people have really obtained such a branch at a high price through various channels.
After some testing, every user believes that this is a firearm that can change the times, light weight and easy to carry, the loading steps have been simplified, and the effective range can be hit very accurately.
After the Japanese obtained the firearms from the Portuguese, they quickly copied them and spread throughout the country, but this time their imitation efforts failed without exception. Seamless steel pipes from modern time and space are simply not something that can be done by the technology of this era, even if there are really one or two qualified imitations occasionally made by that grandmaster-level craftsman, it is impossible to equip them on a large scale.
In this case, as long as it is not the kind of person whose IQ is low to the lower limit, they will look for the seller of Wufeng Gun as soon as possible, or buy it in large quantities, or obtain the production method, so the small Long Island Port is lively little by little in this situation.
Wufeng Gun is not an ordinary commodity, and it cannot be obtained purely by the highest price, and it is necessary to control the inflow of areas and quantities, otherwise the original evenly matched situation is likely to become one-sided because of the large amount of equipment of this kind of arms, which is not conducive to the long-term development of the arms business and the subsequent upgrading work.
Of course, the Oda family must be an exception, this is the preferential treatment that Yang Guang gave to Oda Nobunaga, a big customer, he is simply building the Oda family's army as a flagship store, any prospective customer who has doubts about his goods and feels that the price is too high, as long as he pays attention to the Oda family's achievements, he can understand the truth that you get what you pay for.
In this case, Yang Guang will definitely be the first to meet with Ikeda Hengxing and ask him if the Oda family has any intention of purchasing. Perhaps because of Oda Nobunaga's explicit instructions, Ikeda said that the Oda family was now strapped for money and could not make large purchases, but only purchased seven or eight kilometers of barbed wire from Yang Guang.
Looking at Ikeda Hengxing's back, Yang Guang couldn't help but sneer, don't say that Oda Nobunaga has made up his mind to carry out the "black eats black" to the end, this approach can indeed allow him to expand quickly at a low cost, but it will offend a lot of the daimyo who bought the fire gun, which is no different from "drinking water to quench thirst".
But then again, a daimyo with a good reputation and strength is also very powerful, which is not in Yang Guang's interests. The more enemies Oda Nobunaga had, the greater his dependence on Yang Guang's arms trade, otherwise why did Yang Guang spend so much effort to lay out here in the first place?
After Ikeda leaves, a merchant from the Rokkaku family walks in and offers to buy 2,000 Goho guns at once, promising to come up with enough gold.
Because of the geographical location, the Rokkaku family has extensive exchanges in Japan's Warring States, and the territory is relatively rich after years of operation, and it has made a lot of money by reselling the business of Wufeng Gong before, so it can be said that there is not a lot of money in the pocket, but it is still a little difficult to take out 60,000 taels of gold at once.
As Yang Guang's "first-class agent", the hexagonal family has been in the wind and water during this time, and it seems that there is no need to make such a desperate move.
Because he didn't know much about the current situation in Japan, Yang Guang did not rashly agree to the other party, but just asked the other party to wait for two days first, and he wanted to think of a safe way to come out.
The merchant of the Hexagon family only thought that Yang Guang was ready to sit on the ground and raise the price, and he hurriedly hinted that he was willing to accept a more "reasonable" price, and if it really didn't work, he had to sell him 1,000 pieces first, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the master's family.
This only aroused Yang Guang's suspicions, and Yang Guang asked the businessman of the Hexagon family to wait for a while, and then went to another room to call Suzuki Shigehide, and after careful inquiry, he quickly understood the reason.
It turned out that Oda Nobunaga had not long ago moved his residence from Kiyoshu Castle in the south to another city closer to the border between the two sides, and this move was undoubtedly to tell everyone that he was preparing to invade the Mino region in a big way.
In this case, the most anxious must be Saito Yoshiryu, so this batch of Goho Guns of the Rokkaku family must have been bought and resold to him. At this critical juncture of life and death, let alone 30 taels of gold, even if the price is doubled, I am afraid that I will have to grit my teeth and buy it, otherwise the gold saved will not fall into the hands of the enemy?
After figuring this out, Yang Guang returned to his previous room and agreed to the request of the Hexagonal merchant, but he did not increase the price in principle, and still maintained the original price of 30 taels of gold, but no longer gave lead bullets and gunpowder.
When the merchants of the Hexagon family escorted 1,000 Wufeng guns away, the other merchants who saw this scene were simply red-eyed, and they wanted to immediately push away the guards and rush in to do business with Yang Guang.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, someone raised the Wufeng gun high and fired a shot, and the gunpowder explosion made the people at the scene slowly calm down, at this time Yang Guang came out and told everyone that he had brought more than 10,000 Wufeng guns this time, and the Hexagonal family bought only one-tenth, and the rest of the people as long as they obeyed the order of the port, they would definitely be able to buy it, and they didn't have to worry about anything.
It doesn't really matter how much the hexagonal family buys, the key is whether you can buy it or not, and how much you can buy. After all, Wufeng Gong is 30 taels of gold, except for the daimyo, who has ambition and enough economic strength to support, no one will buy thousands in one go. Therefore, after hearing this statement, the hearts of most of the merchants present calmed down, but there were also a few people whose eyes were rolling, obviously with other thoughts in their hearts.
Yang Guang dared to announce the news in public, so he was not afraid that someone would have other ideas, on the contrary, he secretly hoped that there would really be a blind guy who would bump into him, so that he could show his strength well.
This news was passed to Oda Nobunaga that night, and after listening to the ninja leader kneeling in front of him describe the situation at that time, Oda Nobunaga shook his head slightly and said to himself: "It's a pity, if it was a few months earlier or a few months later, at this time the arrow has to be sent, there is really no spare energy." (To be continued.) )