An hour later, everyone returned to the ship satisfied. Chen Zuyi is still very satisfied with punctuality. In this hour, Chen Zuyi counted the gold and silver on several warships.

The two robberies totaled 6.4 million taels of gold, and in addition to the silver taels for the deceased, Chen Zuyi took out 3 million taels of gold and distributed them to his subordinates. Of course, this includes the soldiers of the three battalions who remained on Lombok.

Many of the non-commissioned officers on the ship were participating in robbery operations for the first time, and they had only heard of it before, thinking that they were all exaggerated. This time, they really got the benefits, and everyone cheered.

Where did Datu and Haja divide so much gold? When a piece of dry goods belonging to their battalion commander arrived, the whole person was trembling, even if he was a deputy for a lifetime, he couldn't earn so much gold! It's better to be a pirate! I secretly decided that I had to write to a few friends immediately when I went back, so that they could bring troops to join as soon as possible! How can you be a pirate and be happy as a soldier!

The fleet sailed not far from the coastline of Japan, and this time they not only looted gold and silver, but also looted the warehouses in Sunset City. He also received 1,200,000 quintals of rice, and several thousand swords, and thousands of bows, and countless arrows. It's all new guys who haven't used it before.

"We'll find another port to get rid of all this stuff and we can go home. I don't know how many people Songhai and Lin Jiaotou have trained? "In the blink of an eye, it will be almost two and a half months off the island, and it will be delayed here for a few more days, and if the return journey goes well, it will take two more months, so it will take five months to pass.

The fleet continued north, and after a day's sailing, this time it reached Kii Castle on the main island of Japan, which was only 200 kilometers from Kyoto, Japan, so there were tens of thousands of troops stationed there, led by the Hosokawa family. Kii's guardian name is Hosokawa Nagyanagi, a young daimyo in his twenties who has just inherited his father's position.

Hosokawa Nagyanagi is an ambitious fellow, and since he took over Kii Castle, he has vigorously improved law and order and developed people's livelihood. It only took two years to put the originally chaotic Kii Castle in order. The population has skyrocketed from 150,000 two years ago to 300,000 now, and Hosokawa is very complacent when he sees the prosperity he has today. But ever since he had been under his rule in plain clothes, he had been frowning and sighing from time to time.

It turned out that due to the rapid growth of the population, there was a shortage of grain and rice in the city. Originally, it wasn't a big deal, but you just had to talk to the main family in Kyoto and bring in food from the neighborhood. Here's the trouble, the people under his rule are tyrannical because they have emigrated to nearby cities. The guardian daimyo of the cities next to him also had their own confidence, and they did not give him face to the Hosokawa family. People also make it clear that they can give you food if they want it. But you, Kii Castle, must return the peasants who fled to your side, otherwise everything will be left to be discussed!

Hosokawa Changliu was depressed, I returned to the peasants you moved in, what else do I want food for! But if it is not returned, there is a situation where there is no food to sustain. When he was in a dilemma, a local tax collector came to report that a caravan had come to the port, and 1.2 million quintals of rice were for sale and were looking for a buyer.

Hosokawa Nagyanagi became excited when he heard this, and while asking the caravan leader to come and negotiate the price, he asked people to invite the grain merchants in the city.

After a short time, the three major grain merchants in the city arrived. When they heard that there was grain to harvest, their eyes lit up, and their grain stocks had bottomed out, and they could not bring back grain from other places.

The merchant of the fleet also arrived at the daimyo's mansion a short time ago, and he appeared to be a young scholar in his twenties, who claimed to have the surname Meng.

"Shopkeeper Meng, I heard that there is grain for sale in your caravan?" Hosokawa Nagyanagi hurriedly asked.

"General Hui, we have 1.2 million quintals of grain for sale here, all of which are high-grade white rice, and there are no impurities!"

"A load of geometry?" One of the grain merchants couldn't help but interject and ask.

"Ten taels and one loads, Tong Su is not bullied!" Meng Chengbi saw that the other party cared so much about this batch of grain, so he simply added four taels privately. Originally, when I came over, the main bus was waiting to be reported for six taels and one load.

"It's a little higher, we can eat it all, what do you think, shopkeeper Meng?" Hosokawa Nagyanagi and several grain merchants glanced at each other, making sure they understood what they meant, and then spoke.

"At least nine taels, our host knows that you are short of grain, so he specially went to Dayu City on Jiuzhou Island to buy this batch of grain at a high price!" The reader told a lie, and even he almost believed it.

Hosokawa Changliu and the others whispered a few more words, and then spoke, "Nine taels and one load are fine, but this business tax has to be paid by you!" ”

"Is the general joking with the villain? If you don't pay taxes, you still don't have the final say? After nine taels of tax, there is no two prices, otherwise we will pull it away! Meng Chengbi sneered and was about to leave.

"Why bother with Shopkeeper Meng! Taxes are trivial, we pay them! One of them, a grain merchant named Yokoichi Haragami, hurriedly got up to fight the original field and signaled to Hosokawa.

"Okay, it's up to you, we're going to pay the money, how about delivering it tomorrow?"

"Good! The villain is waiting for you at the pier! After Meng Chengbi finished speaking, he gave a salute and then retired.

Several people watched Meng Chengbi leave, and Yuan Shangheng unconsciously lowered his voice a little and said: "Lord, if we do him, we can save more than 10 million taels of silver!" ”

Several others were also impressed after hearing it, and felt that it was feasible. Only Hosokawa Nagyanagi was silent for a long time before he said, "It's easy to kill them!" But what about the future? ”

"Please make it clear!"

"If we kill this group of grain merchants this time, there will always be rumors. The next time there is a shortage of food, will someone sell us food again? ”

"This ......" several grain merchants all bowed their heads and pondered, although the price of grain was very high this time, but with the current price of grain in Kii City, they still had money to make, if they did something desperate, they could only move to other cities in the future and start over, but how could it be so easy to start over!

"It's the villain who is not thoughtful!" Yuan Shanghengyi bowed his head and admitted his mistake, but he couldn't grab it, so he bought it with silver.

Then they set their shares and the amount they were to give, and then they went out to prepare their money.

The next morning, a few grain merchants in Shangheng used a wagon to carry 10.8 million taels of silver to the wharf for trading. The settlement went smoothly, and neither side came out of the demon moth. The Black Shark Gang fleet replenished its fresh water and supplies yesterday, and set sail as soon as the deal was over. immediately announced the distribution of five million taels of silver again, so that the soldiers were even more determined to work for him. Datu and Haja are even more die-hard loyalists!

Yuan Shang Yokoichi is still sighing that this Meng shopkeeper is really a vampire, this fleet keeps going to buy goods all the time, and it is estimated that it will come here to trade in a few days. When the time comes, keep their prices down! Then he began to instruct his men to speed up the carrying. After being busy for a while, he suddenly heard a series of horses' hooves behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a group of cavalry stopped behind him. The leader he knew very well, it was his own brother, the cavalry general Haragami Shuichi.

"Yokoichi, how long has the fleet been out of port?" Without waiting for him to greet first, my brother asked anxiously.

"Which fleet?" Hara Yokoichi was a little confused.

"Yaga!" Yuan Shangshu was in a hurry, and a slap was thrown in the face of his younger brother, "The fleet that sold your grain!" ”

"They've been gone for about half an hour, and my brother is going to make a deal with them?"

"Alas! They are robbers! They robbed the dock controlled by the Spo family on Kyushu Island and sold the goods to Tosa Castle. Then he broke through the Sun Curtain City, killed the guards, and came to us with food and belongings! Ashikaga Shogun has ordered the coastal cities to keep an eye on their whereabouts, and if they are discovered, they will be killed! As soon as Yuan Shangshu finished speaking, he got on the horse with a snort and was going back to report it.

"Brother, what about all this food? But if we spend money to buy it, will the higher authorities pursue it? Yokoichi Haragami hurriedly grabbed the reins of his brother's horse.

"It's hard to say, you know that the Yamana family is one of the four hereditary families, and it's not much worse than the Hosokawa family. If the Hosokawa family is unwilling to offend them, they will have to sacrifice you! After saying that, Yuan Shangshu took out the reins in his brother's hand, clamped the horse's belly, and left with the guards.

Yuan Shanghengyi stood stupidly for a long time, and then urged everyone to hurry up. When he returned to the city, he said that his father had died in Kyoto, and he was going to handle the funeral and transfer all the grain to other families. Thinking about this joint, he hurriedly urged the guy to move quickly.

Hosokawa Daimyo's Mansion.

"Report to the lord, it's a step too late to go to the humble position, and the robber who sells grain has gone!" Yuan Shangshu knelt on the ground carefully and respectfully, not daring to raise his head.

"Get up, it's not your fault! Hum! As long as he doesn't touch our Kii City, what do we do? Hosokawa Nagyanagi was not only not annoyed, but also gloated a little. I heard that the famous Rimu City of his mountain was destroyed and miserable, because they were not strong enough, and they still occupied high-quality gold mines!

Thinking of the gold mine, Hosokawa Nagyanagi's eyes lit up, and he went to the sunscreen to take a look under the guise of a bandit, maybe he could take some advantage! Just do it!

"Nagano, recruit General Laibu to meet me!" Let the guards around you immediately call the general of the navy.

Yuan Shangshu said puzzledly: "Lord, is this preparing to pursue?" ”

"Hmmm! Since the Ashikaga Shogun has given the order, you can't be indifferent, and wait for your cavalry to get on the ship together and follow the pursuit of the pirates! ”

The original tree is full of question marks, and the naval battle needs cavalry to fight, which is a bit, don't you think your family has died enough?

"When you get out to sea, if you don't see the pirates, you go to the sun. If it's still a mess there, you must take care of it for the general and wait for the next guardian to arrive, do you understand? Hosokawa Nagagayanagi's narrow eyes were full of conspiracy, and even the dullest person would understand his thoughts.

"Hey! Occupation of the ...... Defend the castle and never let pirates invade again! "Harakami Shuichi hastened to show his loyalty.

Hosokawa Nagyanagi nodded with satisfaction, "Roar!" If it happens, Lai Bu will be the old family, and you will be the new guardian of the sun! ”

"Thank you, Lord, the original family will always follow in your footsteps!"

However, it was said that the Black Shark Gang fleet had left the port and had to go all the way south and return the same way. They just didn't know that all the coastal naval forces in southern Japan had converged, gathered about a hundred warships of less than 500 materials, and had been waiting in the port of Osumi Castle for a long time, just waiting to find their traces, and then rush up to deal with them.

Speaking of Japanese warships, it is very strange, the Muromachi shogunate only nominally controlled the daimyo in various parts of Japan, and was unable to form their own armies, so they had to let the daimyo form their own samurai armies.

The water division is a gold-swallowing beast, and to build a real water army, the investment is more than ten times that of the army. Therefore, the daimyo in various places only built an otaku ship of 200 materials and a gate ship of 300 materials at most.

Anyone who has watched "The Battle of Liang Ming" knows that these two kinds of warships are as fragile as paper paste in front of the fortune ships of the Ming Dynasty, and their only advantage is that they are fast enough, and there are 16-40 slurries on the ship, that is, in addition to running away, everything else is bad.

The last time the Black Shark gang robbed the four big ships of more than 1,000 materials, they were jointly built by the Spo family and the Panasonic family, and they are already giant in Japan! However, it was only those merchant ships that were built, and they could not afford to build such large warships.