465. I'm here to sell big tubes
The poor little samurai of the Otomo family really didn't know the dragon banner of Fengyun Shiba, and he didn't know who Nikolai was, but the pride of the samurai didn't allow him to say that he "didn't know, hadn't heard of it", and it would be humiliating to say so. He heard that the name of Nicholas seemed to be a Western name, and it might have some origin, so he glanced at his subordinates behind him and ordered, "Go and ask Mr. Arumeda to ......."
A few ashigaru boats also headed ashore, and after a while, the soldiers sent a Westerner to Iyun's ship. It was a missionary, dressed in black missionary clothes, holding a Bible with a red cover, about thirty years old, with a relatively thin build, and a somewhat polite appearance.
It turned out that this person was a Portuguese, named Arumeda, born in Lisbon, a missionary, he was ordered by the Pope to come to Fuso to spread Catholicism, and Otomo Sorin's faith in Catholicism, so he got the help of Otomo Sorin, set up a Catholic church in Funai Town, while preaching, while practicing medicine, he is a very famous public figure here.
Arumeda got on Yiyun's big ship, looked up at the dragon flag on the ship, and immediately stood in awe, he was different from the low-level warrior who was not well-informed just now, he still knew a little about the things on the sea, so he respectfully asked in the big cute language: "May I ask which of the heroes in the Eighteen Zhizhi of Fengyun came?"
Zheng Zhifeng smiled: "It's me, Zheng Zhifeng!"
When Arumeda heard this, she hurriedly saluted: "It turns out that you are here!" Zheng Zhifeng is not a good fighter in the Eighteen Zhi, but she is very famous, because she is the only woman in the Eighteen Zhi, and she is Zheng Zhilong's sister. The status in Fengyun Eighteen Zhi is second only to the three brothers Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, and Zheng Zhibao in front, and it is one level higher than Liu Xiang or something.
Arumeda asked in Da Meng language, "I heard that Fengyun Eighteen Zhi is invading Southeast Asia under the order of King Jiashan, why did you come to Fusang?"
Rub, this guy is so flexible with messages. As soon as Yi Yun heard his question, he said in his heart, this Portuguese knows a lot, and he actually knows that Zheng Zhilong is invading Southeast Asia under my orders...... Nasty Age of Discovery, nasty Westerners. It's true that there are these cockroach-like guys all over the world.
Zheng Zhifeng laughed twice: "You are really well-informed, since you even know that my brother is playing in Southeast Asia, then you must know that I ran away from home, he was in cahoots with that King Jiashan, and actually took me to King Jiashan to be the princess, I want to run out and don't listen to him." ”
Arumeda listened to this. He laughed twice: "It seems that you are really Zheng Zhifeng...... Just to test you just now, please don't mind......" It turned out that he already knew that Zheng Zhifeng had run away from home, and the question just now was just to test whether Zheng Zhifeng was pretending.
After figuring out her true body, Arumeda stopped talking nonsense. He turned around and said to the low-level warrior in Fusang language: "This is Lord Zheng Zhifeng, the hero of the sea, who is in charge of the Water Ghost Army of Fengyun Eighteen Zhi, and his status is noble, you should hurry up and inform Lord Otomo Zonglin......
The samurai replied with a "hi", but there was a visibly unconvinced look on his face, after all. Zheng Zhifeng is a woman, and in Fusang, a woman is not a creature of noble status. It is a tool for warming the quilt for men, and its function is similar to that of a hot water bottle, except that it has one more use for OOXX than a hot water bottle.
Zheng Zhifeng snorted coldly and said, "Order the whole ship, fire the salute!" Salute to the samurai of the Otomo family!"
"Yes!"
The female artillerymen on board answered in unison, and each stood in his own gun position, and they did not reload the cannon. It's just stuffed with gunpowder, and this is called a cannon in the sky. It is used for demonstrations or salutes. ...,
Three Daifuku ships, each with twenty cannons, a total of more than sixty, these cannons roared at the same time, the sound suddenly shook the sky, and the rumbling cannons frightened the samurai and ashigaru on the shore to shrink their necks in unison.
"The collapse of the country?"
"Is it a national collapse?"
"Whoa...... This woman actually has sixty large cylinders under her hands...... What a great woman......"
The samurai, whose face was a little contemptuous, was also taken aback, and then he realized that although the other party was a woman, it was a woman with a fleet, which could not be taken lightly.
"I understand, I'm going to inform Zonglin Gong!" the samurai hurriedly disembarked and rowed to the shore.
Soon after, a large crowd of samurai came to the shore, and many ashigaru, embracing a bald man. This bald head is about forty years old, and he is actually wearing a monk's robe, which looks quite like a monk. However, judging from the anger revealed from the corners of his eyes, eyebrows, etc., he can't be a monk, and the monk doesn't have such fierce eyes. This person is the twenty-first head of the Otomo family, Otomo Sorin.
Otomo Zonglin is actually busy, because of the fall of the Shimazu clan, Kyushu Island is now panicking, Otomo Zonglin is afraid of being beaten by the prince from this big Meng country for no reason, and is gathering all his men to hold a "big assessment", and there are many samurai shuttling back and forth in his main city, which is really busy.
At this time, he suddenly heard that there was a pirate on the sea, and he didn't care much about it, but when he heard that the other party had sixty large cannons fired together, he became nervous and hurriedly ran to meet him.
Why are you so nervous when you hear that there are 60 guns? The reason is simple...... There are a lot of artillery on the other side!
Although the Otomo family is famous for its large barrels, but if the officials think that the Otomo family has thousands of cannons, then it is wrong, the Otomo family is just a local powerhouse, and the number of large barrels owned is less than 200 guns, which is still made by pouring the whole family's efforts to smash pots and sell iron, if the Otomo family really has thousands of cannons, then Kyushu Island would have been unified by him a long time ago.
If you think about it, with the strength of Otomo's whole family, there are less than 200 cannons, but a woman from the sea actually has 60 cannons in her hand, and this woman is not against the sky? No matter how you look at it, this woman's identity is more noble than those samurai and his subordinates in his family, so he left the samurai in the city and ran out to greet the guests.
Zheng Zhifeng didn't stay on the boat anymore, accompanied by Yi Yun, Chen Yuanyuan, and Lu Xi, he walked to the shore and took a photo with Otomo Zonglin, of course, you have to say something about the weather first, you don't have any kind of nonsense after eating, and only after finishing speaking, did you start to get to the point.
Otomo Zonglin asked politely, "What did Lord Zheng Zhifeng come to my small place for?"
Zheng Zhifeng smiled and said, "Of course it's business!"
"Business?" Otomo Sorin was a little confused: "I didn't see the adult's goods......"
"My product has been shown to you. Zheng Zhifeng smiled: "They also screamed together just now." ”
"Huh?" Otomo Zonglin paused, then came to his senses, and said with great joy: "Are you here to sell big tubes?"
"That's right!" Zheng Zhifeng said with a smile: "I ran away from home and stole my brother's three boats, and now I don't have enough pocket money, so I plan to sell the cannons on my brother's ship and exchange some pocket money to buy some rouge gouache." ”
In fact, these words were taught to Zheng Zhifeng by Yi Yun, before they came, they had already replaced the cannons on the ship with the eliminated smoothbore cannons, in fact, they themselves had already switched to cannons, this batch of old smoothbore guns has nowhere to deal with it, and it is quite troublesome, it is better to sell them to Fusang people who are stupid for money, and make some money, but Fusang is also a place where there is a great shortage of artillery, ordinary daimyo have no artillery at all, and they will not buy cannons. Almost most of the artillery was produced in Otomo's house, and these old guns could only be sold to Otomo, so there was this play. ...,
When Otomo Zonglin heard "buy rouge gouache", he immediately sweated profusely, oh my God! You don't want a powerful big tube, but you actually sold it to buy rouge gouache...... It's a terrible thing!
You must know that Otomo Sorin has always wanted more cannons, so that they can be used when grabbing territory with the two old rivals Shimazu and Ryuzoji, but the big barrel is not easy to come by, and the Westerners can only sell him a small amount of cannons once, because the Westerners will not have many cannons on the ship, and it is impossible to sell them all to him.
It took several years for Otomo Zonglin to save food and inspection, and he looked forward to the arrival of Western merchant ships, and when he came to one, he went to buy a few cannons with a straight face, and when he came to another one, he went to buy a few with a clean face, and it took many years to put together nearly two hundred large barrels, what a sad experience.
Now, this woman actually threatens to sell guns, just to buy rouge gouache, which is simply unbearable for uncles and aunts!
"I'll buy it! I'll buy it!" Otomo Zonglin jumped up excitedly: "How many doors are you going to sell......? Can you give me twenty?"
"What?" Zheng Zhifeng snorted: "How much is ten or twenty guns worth? It's not enough for me to buy a piece of rouge, I'm going to sell all the sixty cannons on the three ships, you or?"
"Yes, of course!" Otomo Zonglin was so excited that it was almost like the New Year, he brushed the ground and jumped up half a day high, and shouted: "Come on, hurry up and come to someone, hurry up and give the gift of the guests, please invite Lord Zheng Zhifeng into the city to rest, let's slowly negotiate the deal...... Take out all the tea utensils I treasured...... Shiga teapots, eggplant tea bowls, Nitta shoulder washaki tea bowls, and Uesugi scoop single tea bowls are all taken out......"
Otomo Sorin's hands danced there, and he didn't have the demeanor of a big name.
Zheng Zhifeng next to her laughed so much that her stomach cramped, she turned around and made a grimace at Yi Yun, who also grinned and gave her a thumbs up, indicating that she acted very well.
With the support of the samurai of the Otomo family and Ashigaru, the group walked in the direction of Fuuchikan Castle.
As he walked, Yi Yun carefully looked at the environment here, and saw that Funai Pavilion Castle was a very heroic castle, which was built on a plain, unlike Fuso Castle, which was mostly on the top of a mountain, because it did not need to rely on the terrain to defend it at all...... At the head of the castle of Funaikan Castle, there are rows of large cylinders, and if you look at the past, there are at least hundreds of gates...... This is the capital of the Otomo family!