Chongwen sighed: "There are more monks and less porridge, so what can I do... After thinking about it in his heart, he continued: "I can only sell you a bowl of guns, with 60 catties of gunpowder and 40 pieces of iron bullets for 1 catty, for a price of 1,800 taels." 50 guns, each with *** 3 catties, half a catty of lead, each rod is 32 taels, and the total price of firecrackers is 1,600 taels. If you count the bowl mouth, it is 3,400 taels. ”

After listening to Chongwen's offer, Huashan Zijiu was happy and resentful.

Happily, with this batch of munitions, the Birch Mountain family will become the strongest naval army in Kyushu, he has seen the power of the Dakang gun, no matter how brave you are, you can't stop the bullets from raining down. And although this price is not cheap, it is not a lion's mouth, in the past he couldn't take out 3,000 taels, and went to Ryukyu to make a fortune, this money is really nothing.

The complaint is that Da Tou Hai is also stingy, and he is only willing to sell so little, how to help. He whispered, "That... That I Fangjin water army is poor, and it is easy to follow the big sea to earn some family business, and how to contribute to the merchant group due to lack of armament. That one... Sell 2 more guns, I heard that you have 2 and a half pounds of guns, and it doesn't hurt to sell 2 guns for 1 pound. ”

Chongwen shook his head again and again: "Don't even think about it, I'll sell it to you, and the rest of the Qidong won't eat me." What you are thinking about now is not to buy more guns, but how to use them, you don't know how to handle them, and how many firearms are useless.

You first choose some capable ones to act as gunners, and I will send instructors to you, coaches in peacetime to practice shooting, and in wartime they will be taught and commanded. In the future, when the output of our Longwang Island gun field will increase, and your gun gunners will also learn to fight, it will not be too late to buy more arms. However, you have to open the salary of teaching, and the value of Longwang Island is 80 taels of silver per month. ”

Birch Hill blushed for a long time, stretched out a finger and said, "Don't worry, I will never wait for the teaching... Add 1 more door, and it will be a child-mother gun. ”

Chongwen's head shook like a rattle: "Don't think about it, at most sell you 10 more firearms, don't pull it down." ”

Huashan Zijiu hurriedly said: "Yes!"

After sending away Huashan Zijiu, Huashan Yizheng returned to Chongwen's side to serve, Chongwen's footsteps hurried to the small meeting hall, Wu Zhi, Chai Demei, and Yan Shan Lao had been waiting for a long time.

Takabun told them in detail about Yamaguchi Castle, and finally said, "I think it would be in the best interest of the merchant group to support Ouchi Mochiyo to become a deacon of the shogunate. We need a stable country, a country that is open to us, so that what we can't do in Dakang can be done here. ”

Yan Shan asked, "What's the matter?"

Chongwen said: "For example, if we are in Dakang, we can't open a big weaving and dyeing factory, and even if we start it, it will be swallowed up by the powerful and strongmen." But in the country, we were able to sign a treaty of trade with the shogunate, allowing us to open factories and mines, and force them to pay their little money, as well as to use their cheap materials and labor.

We can also buy their land, and with the land, a lot of materials are much cheaper. For example, cotton, in Dakang to buy lint at least 15 Wen per catty, but if we buy land in the country, we recruit our own people to plant, the cost will be controlled below 10 Wen, how much more money will we make?

We also have to control his coastal rivers and estuaries, so that their city tax is under our control, which is impossible in Dakang. In short, it is beneficial for us that Ouchi and Ouchi are in control of the country. ”

Chai Demei frowned and said, "I'm afraid that if we raise a white-eyed wolf, it's not impossible to fight against the master." ”

Chongwen sneered: "The master of the cannon is impossible for any beast to resist, we can push him to the table, and we can also drive him down to replace him, it's just a lot of effort, at least for now, their brothers are in our best interest." ”

Yan Shan Lao nodded and said, "I agree with the strategy of going to sea... It's just that this cannon can't be controlled by your Longwang Island family, and you can't let the heroes of the bureau hold a bow and arrow to open a mine in the country. ”

Chongwen said with a smile: "Naturally, the guns still have to be sold, but now the arms are really limited, each artillery is limited to one purchase, and the guns cannot exceed 50, otherwise it will not be good for the army to get into trouble for this bit of ammunition." In the future, my Longwang Island cannon workshop has expanded, and then gradually opened, in the future, our East China Sea merchant group will have everyone to hold guns, one color gunboat.

However, we have never had so many arms in the past, and we will not fight with guns, everything still has to be learned from scratch, I will send someone to teach the use of firearms, and the salary can be paid by each family, and the teaching is 80 taels per month. ”

Wu Zhi said: "This is natural, I think there will be no objections from each family." There is another thing to be explained, this firearm is a militaristic weapon, and it is the foundation of the merchant group's life, and no one can covet money and resell it to outsiders. ”

Chongwen said: "Mr. Wufeng is right, there is another layer, since it is the foundation of my business group's survival, are each family recruiting craftsmen to add manpower to the Longwang Island Gun Field." At this scale, it will not be able to meet so many group households for a while. ”

Elder Yan Shan laughed and said, "You are not afraid that everyone will learn your cannon casting skills and lose a great source of wealth on Dragon King Island." ”

Chongwen said: "If it was so easy to cast a cannon, it would have been all over the East China Sea a long time ago. There are dozens of processes involved in casting guns, and each craftsman will only have one on hand, and there are very few real cannon casting masters. ”

Wu Zhi praised: "Shrewdness is not to go to sea." He suddenly changed the topic, and asked with a twinkle in his eyes: "I heard that Longwang Island is developing a new type of gunboat, is that thing for sale?"

Chongwen Zhengse said: "Sell, why don't you sell, I am a businessman, except for my brothers on Longwang Island, there is nothing that cannot be sold." And there is no limit to gold and silver, there is no money to exchange goods, grain, cloth, dyes and silk, paper, ink, copper and wood, any goods can be exchanged for ships. I think Fukue Island is good, how about I exchange you for a new gunboat?"

Wu Zhi's face turned pale, and he said angrily: "Hello, it doesn't make sense, you have hit my family's idea." ”

Chongwen patted the table and sighed: "That hand is a good Hui dish, Yan Hu Ji, let me not worry about it." ”

The hall burst into laughter.

Chai Demei stroked his lips and beard, and said: "The main hall has just received news that General Spoyi has gathered 30,000 troops in Shimoso Furukawa, it seems that the 10 countries of Kanto are still interested in the shogunate, and the Kamakura Dukes only have 10,000 direct leaders, so I am afraid that they will be unlucky." Is our business group going to help Kamakura, and we can't let the Spo family become bigger. ”

Chongwen shook his head and said: "It's not that simple, do you think that the Kamakura Princess's only one supporter, Ouchi Yoshihiro? Judging from the news from friends in Kyoto, some forces have signs of falling to the Kamakura Principality, Mino's Toki Kannao, and Yamana Tokiyoshi is in Tamba, they have all been cleaned up by the shogunate, and now they have frequent contacts with Kamakura. These places are between Kanto and, and the Spo family may not win.

There is another layer, compared to General Spo, the Kamakura Princess, is more troublesome, we must not let him become the next shogun, wouldn't it be good to let General Spoyi remove this trouble for us. ”

The third elder in the hall gasped, and Chai Demei said in a lost voice: "Scared, it turns out that the big sea does not support the Kamakura Gongfang. ”

Chongwen sneered: "Although he intends to smuggle trade and will not conspire with Nanjing to harm us, he is also a dead brain who closes himself off from the country and maintains the little tyrant of the powerful, and he will not let us show our strength in the country."

It's the 10-year-old Yoshinori Kakune, what does he know as a child, what kind of exploration and trade, and that's not what Yoshiyuki Hosokawa and Michiyu Sasaki mean, do you really think Yoshimitsu's opinion? With Yoshiyuki Hosokawa by his side, he will arrest us to curry favor with Nanjing; if he is surrounded by Ouchi Motoyo, he will be the shogun who opened the sea and trade. ”

Yan Shanlao said: "Understood, let's still stand still and let them eat dogs." ”

Chongwen said: "It can't be completely immobile, now there are not 6,000 pirates from the coast of Dakang to Hirado, but also 5,000, eating and drinking and fighting every day, scourging the merchants and people of Hirado, and fighting a fart in the long run."

It's better to find a deserted island, away from the world of flowers, and practice the artillery battle array. Now they are like this, a rabble, with no fighting spirit at all, even if they have firearms, they will be given for nothing when they meet the shogunate army who can fight. ”

Yan Shanlao groaned and said: "What the big sea said is that there must be water and people in the place where the army is organized, and it can't be too far from the main hall, I have a good place in my heart." ”

Chai Demei said: "I have one too. ”

Chongwen looked at Wu Zhi with a smile and said, "I also have one." ”

Wu Zhi's face changed greatly: "Do you want thousands of bastards to plague my Fujiang Island?

Chai Demei said: "Of course, the bureau has to pay, how can there be a reason to use other people's places in vain." The pirates also only practiced martial arts in the mountains, and could not harass the villages and towns of the plains in the lower reaches of the Fukue River. ”

Wu Zhi scolded: "That's not good, it's a mother, that's thousands of kills!"

Yan Shanlao said with a straight face: "Wufeng Gong, this is not right, what did we say when we joined the group? Everything must be subject to public opinion." Now the regimental meeting voted to approve the right fist of the flotilla stationed on Fukue Island. ”

Wow, there is no doubt that 3:1, the resolution was passed, and Wu Zhi, the sea tycoon who was vertical and horizontal, wanted to cry without tears.