A murderous massage is finally over. Chongwen stood up, breathing smoothly, his ears and eyes were clear, and his whole body felt light when he walked. No wonder the chief soldier can't leave this old blind man, he feels a few years younger after a massage, and it is not impossible for the old helmsman to keep a seed after such a few times.

Chongwen casually put on his bathrobe, tied a cloth belt, and strode to the bathroom door. The old blind man sat on his knees, and almost his entire front body was bent on the floor, giving him a big gift. Chongwen suddenly stopped, turned around slowly, looked at the old blind man and asked, "Have you ever heard of a big white bird?" with a hooked beak, a crown, and a short tail. ”

The old blind man's hoarse voice said, "The villain is blind. ”

Chongwen laughed and said, "I almost forgot about it." Pull open the door and walk away.

Hanako waited for Chongwen to change into a lake silk light robe, and the master returned to the study, unconsciously the flower world had been in charge, and Huashan Yoshimasa knelt in the shadow of the porch and bowed.

Hanako asked, "Would Your Highness want to eat?" ”

Chongwen shouted: "Of course I want to eat, I have eaten a stomach full of dried fruits, and I haven't eaten yet." ”

Hanako turned around to instruct the cook, and Chongwen said again: "Let the catfish boy send the map of the country, Suruga country." ”

Hanako replied, "Yes." ”

In a moment, several delicate side dishes were put on the table, and Chongwen looked at the map while eating, and the bamboo chopsticks with oil were compared on the map. The old blind man said that he walked from Changwei Mountain for three days and arrived at a big city. The three-day journey is about 100 miles, so this big city should be Shotsu Castle in Suruga Province, that is, the residence of Suruga to protect Imagawa Taifan.

No, the mastermind behind the scenes is not Imagawa Taifan, Chongwen shook his head slightly, because an old blind man can't walk a hundred miles in 3 days, and at most 70 miles. A large city 70 miles away from Mt. Changwei, there is only Junfu Castle west of Shojin Castle.

Sunfu was the largest and richest city in Suruga, but this castle did not belong to the Suruga Guardian, but to the Kanto Shogunate. Then the person behind the old blind man is also obvious, the mother of the Sibo righteous general, do you think the blind man can't reveal your identity?

Chongwen smiled proudly like a child.

Money is such a wonderful thing, it can sway everyone's will and make thousands of people do one thing together. For example, the current Hirado Castle has become a huge war machine, and a lot of money is scattered, and almost everyone is working frantically for the boatmen, from the septuagenarian to the 10-year-old boy.

If this is true of one city, so can ten hundred cities.

Chongwen has experienced great changes in human ethics that cannot be spoken to others, and the time of life and death at sea has made him understand more and more that the thing that causes him great pain is imperial power, and the most ruthless emperor is the family. It is impossible for him not to hate the imperial power, he believes in money more than the imperial order, and he longs to secretly create a money empire, a commercial sea country different from Dakang, a country without imperial power.

However, this country is not comparable to the Great Kang Yu country, in Nanjing, he has a household treasury as soon as he opens his eyes, and in his sea country, there are more than 7,000 mouths waiting to eat every day when he opens his eyes, and he feels that he is about to be driven crazy. There is no imperial power and the government, only their own hard work, busy heels to beat the back, just to fill those grain ships, it is not a life of people who really enter the mother.

Of course, there were also happy things, such as the trade between Ryuo Island and Nanyu and Hirado so naturally. Chongwen didn't interfere with anything, but everyone knew that Longwang Island was rich, and the businessman's nose was better than that of a dog, so he naturally knew where the money was.

Today's Longwang Island doesn't need to be sneaky, with the backing of the powerful boat master of the East China Sea Business Group, who else dares to fight the idea of Longwang Island, rest assured that the bold opening of the door to do business is, Chongwen's blind tossing in the past few months is not in vain.

Except for money, Dragon King Island really doesn't have any production, but that's enough, the early material difficulties no longer exist. Huang Qian spent a lot of money to purchase two 300-material foreign boats, one of which made the maiden voyage to Pinghu, bringing 2,000 catties of ** and 11 guns, of which 1 kg of guns 4 doors, 2 and a half pounds of guns 7 doors. This is the first batch of medium-sized guns on Longwang Island, firing 2 and a half catties of live ammunition or shotguns, 3 catties and 4 taels of medicine, 320 steps of flat shooting, and a maximum range of 2,000 steps.

In addition to this, there are 86 individual bird guns and 38 double turtledove horn guns, and this heavy firearm has a movable herringbone bracket that acts as support when shooting. It is really a sharp weapon in the field to fire 1 tael and 2 yuan for firing lead, 8 yuan for medicine, 200 steps for firing range, and 100 steps to break armor.

Chongwen had a little more money on hand, and the old arms he replaced began to arm the pirates. The biggest benefit fell into the hands of Wu Ping, his boat was equipped with 4 rapid-fire guns, including 1 2-and-a-half-pound guns, which was enough to become a leading ship.

As soon as the boat division arrived on Fukue Island, the nine ghosts Kara ran to Hirado and asked to join the group. The Nine Ghost Family was killed in the Battle of Friendship Island, and the group would have no reason to refuse, but the Nine Ghost Family is now poor and has no money to pay money to the cabinet shop. How could Chongwen watch his old friend suffer a loss, and privately lent the Nine Ghost Family 150,000 taels of silver, the conditions were as lenient as the first loan, and the Nine Ghost Family naturally became the merchant group cabinet Fang Qidong.

Not only that, Chongwen also vigorously strengthened the firepower of the Kumano Naval Army, and sold him 3 bowls and 5 guns for 1 catty, which provoked the pirates to be angry and noisy. It's not that Chongwen is biased towards Yanchun's own father, but the Kumano Navy is at the forefront of the Boat Division, controlling the Jijima Sekisho, and once this choke point is taken away by the Hosokawa family, it will inevitably take a lot of effort in the future.

Ryuo Island also sent 40 pairs of armor and 1,200 leather belt carrying gears, the armor is Amami Oshima's wild boar skin armor, and 40 Western-style cast iron helmets, which are the masterpieces of old Benito. The country is too short of leather, most of the filthy and tanned leather is controlled by the powerful and powerful, and money can't buy it, and there are too few leather craftsmen on Longwang Island, and these armors are just better than nothing.

Without armor, he would suffer a big loss in close combat, which reminded Chongwen of that filthy multi-headed bullet Zaemon. I've been a busy mess these days, and I didn't bother with that guy. Chongwen didn't want that guy's things for nothing, the sea gave the sailor an unruly heart, and he naturally hated slaves. It's just that he's curious, where did a filthy man who came to Hirado get so much leather and conjure it up?

"Hanako, go to the kitchen to get some wine and meat, Yizheng, bring that filth to me, I asked him a few words. Chongwen held the injured hand in his left hand, and Hanako changed the medicine for him. The wound on his right hand was not light, and the blade hurt the tendons and metacarpal bones, and if there was no good doctor, he might have been crippled.

An old pirate gave him a recipe and concocted a miracle medicine for bone and muscle. The squid is a powerful sea creature, after the limb can be regenerated, with the calcined black hair bone ground into powder, add gallnut, calcined pearl, calcined calamine, calcined keel, make frankincense, make myrrh and other medicinal materials, prepared into a red wound medicine, called sea cricket, so Chongwen's injury healed quickly.

Considering that there were many knife wounds in the army, this medicine was also made into a medicine and entered the boat's grain ship... Of course, this medicine is not cheap, and it is impossible for the emperor to give it to his soldiers, but the East China Sea merchant group must do so.

Because the soldiers of the merchant group are the private soldiers of the governor of each family, and they are only assembled into an army during the war, once they are killed, they will inevitably be blackmailed by these Chedong, which will be a huge pension, and it is possible to swallow up the profits of the bureau, and this little medical money is nothing. The East China Sea Merchant Regiment may be the army that is most afraid of death in Beiju Luzhou, because it really can't afford to lose.

These days, Chongwen's right hand is inconvenient, and it seems more and more important for the little maid Huazi, dealing with the text and maps, picking up all kinds of things, and even eating, drinking, and Lazar can't leave this well-behaved little girl. Unconsciously, the child grew up by a year and looked like a girl. Sometimes Chongwen is also secretly worried, Hanako's future in-laws are also a troublesome matter, and it will be repaid if she marries into an irrelevant family.

In a moment, Kayama Yoshimasa led Danzaemon into a quiet room. The arrangement is a table, a table in front of everyone, kneeling and eating, not because Chongwen is good at this bite, but to avoid the embarrassment of eating at the same table.

But what kind of means Sayuri has, the old friend made her chop it into meat sauce, and it was natural to rectify a filthy man. After a few days of hard work, the filthy bull learned to be obedient, there were no taboos, and he could do whatever he wanted. The face towel was also removed, the beard was trimmed, the bun was dry and neat, the body was clean, he was dressed in a robe, and his feet were also dressed in foot clothes, and he looked like an ordinary merchant.

Danzaemon is at the bottom, Kayama Yoshimasa sits opposite each other, Chongwen is in the main seat, and Hanako is in charge of Yusake.

Yoshimasa pointed to the seat opposite him with a cold face, sat down obediently with Saemon, and bowed. Chongwen also said with a cold face: "Eat." The wooden chopstick pointed to the food table.

The filthy puppeteer picked up the wooden chopsticks and began to eat. Chongwen didn't eat it, he took a sip of the wine cup with his left hand, put the wine cup on the dining table, and Hanako poured him full with the wine pot. Chongwen said to the filthy bull again: "Drink." ”

Danzaemon bent down and took a sip of the cup in both hands.

Chongwen said: "Let me ask you, you said that you would donate 680 collars and 8,000 leather belts, but is it true?"

Danzaemon turned to Takafumi, his head on the floor and replied, "Exactly." ”

Chongwen continued to ask coldly, "Then where did your armor and leather belt come from. ”

Danzaemon continued to crouch on the ground and responded, "On the way to Hirado, the people passed through more than 20 settlements. Although Kansai and the Chugoku region are not under my jurisdiction, I told them all the way about the Tokai merchants, and they were amazed and willing to support the Tokai merchant group with me.

We were very poor, and we couldn't get anything but leather and grass shoes, so we made up these leathers to show a little gratitude. Now, the entire Kansai and Chugoku regions are carrying goods, and women and children are also carrying them on the road, and they are concentrated in Kuroi Village, Nagato Province, hoping to dedicate them to the Tokai merchant group through leather merchants... If His Highness does not accept it, the people can only apologize with death. ”

As soon as these words came out, Chongwen and the others all gasped. Hope, what a tremendous force it is to make so many untouchables travel long distances, carrying their hands on their shoulders, and dedicating their blood and sweat to the merchant group. It is no wonder that the determination to commit suicide by playing Saemon is so great, and if it is rejected by the merchant group, it means that the hopes of thousands of people are dashed, and it is indeed impossible to live.

Chongwen silently took a sip of wine and said slowly, "Do you know why I want to kill you?"