Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 110 Time is money, my friend

After seeing the spectacular scenery of 24 salvos, Hideka became more eager for the Nanban cannon. He returned to Marugame that day, boarded the "Anthony", and exchanged feelings with the captain Perez Stricker. .

In today's era, Britain is not the empire with colonies all over the world on which the sun never sets, and English has not yet become a widely used language for communication between different countries.

In addition, the Spaniards and the British did not deal with each other, so naturally they would not learn the language of the enemy country. Xiujia had nowhere to use his college English level 6 skills, so he could only use his hands and feet to communicate with each other.

Previously in Sakai Town, there were specialized Sakai merchants or missionaries as intermediaries for translation, but now they are in the countryside of Japan. In the absence of translators, the two danced and danced for a long time because they did not understand each other's meaning.

Fortunately, gold is the currency in circulation in this world. Xiujia and Perez communicated for a long time, so the gold they took out at the end made people understand.

Xiujia took out a 10 taels of gold and put it on the table, wrote the Arabic numeral 100 on the paper, and pointed to the 12-pound cannon beside him.

Mathematical calculation formulas would not be widely circulated in Europe until the 17th century. Therefore, even if Xiujia wrote "X (multiplication sign)" on the opposite side, he couldn't understand what it meant. He simply didn't have symbols, and the bare numbers came to be intuitive.

Finally, after gesticulating for a long time, Captain Perez seemed to understand what Xiujia meant, and said happily, "I'm tired, I'm tired, no, Prema (no problem)".

"Ah, are you tired?" Doesn't that mean renting?

Fortunately, Xiujia paid special attention to their conversation when he rented artillery in Sakaicho for the first time. Knowing that it meant renting, he blurted out in anxious English "No, No, No, Kong Pulai (buy), Kong Pulai. "

"Kong Pu is here? mo~mo~mo, mo Lisan see, mo Kong Pu is here"

The word Lisan see, Hideka heard it several times when he rented artillery in Sakaicho. It probably means the permission order issued by the Christian church. At this time, the mission of Christianity in Japan encountered a bottleneck. The love of firearms, on the condition of selling artillery, exchanged missionary permission to the Japanese daimyo.

It’s just that the Japanese daimyo at this time are generally Buddhists or Shintoists, and there is little reason to accept the existence of Christianity. Otomo Yoshitomo’s original purpose of accepting Christianity is to exchange for Nanban weapons more conveniently, and to suppress the imminent movement in the territory. The power of Buddhism.

He thought that he could use the emperor's mind to strike a delicate balance between the two when he introduced another religion. Unexpectedly, the power of Christianity was too great, and the speed of its preaching was beyond his imagination. Less baptized believers, finally, under the temptation of cannons and Nanban merchant ships, Otomo Yoshitomo chose to follow the "officials".

As the first territory of Christianity in Japan, the missionaries did give Otomo Yoshitaka a lot of help, and even formed a mercenary army for him to fight for him, but it is a pity that Otomo's family was finally defeated by Shimadzu's family in Hinata Otogawa , the country is gone forever.

However, the success of Otomo's family in opening up the kingdom of God on earth has encouraged many Christians, waving the big stick of the Nanban franchise trade to negotiate terms with daimyos from all over the world, and one of the licensed products is cannon.

Of course, the Hide family would not allow Christianity to be preached in the territory. The teachings of Christianity only know the emperor of heaven, but not the lord, which is not good for the Hide family's own rule. This is also the reason why Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu suppressed Christians twice after they unified the country.

But the show will not give up. The British commentator Dunninger said that as long as there is 10% of the profit, it will be used everywhere; if there is 20%, it will be lively; ; 50%, it will make people ignore all laws; 100%, it will make people not afraid of crime, even the danger of hanging.

There is nothing that cannot be negotiated, and there is nothing that can be stopped by a ban. When the United States sanctioned Mao Xiong, didn't Toshiba in Maruko Country still export CNC machine tools to Mao Xiong for profit?

So Xiujia directly changed "100" to "200". Perez's expression moved slightly, and the second officer beside him tugged at his sleeve, seeing that the price was indeed a bit attractive.

At this time, the price of a musket in Europe is 20 gold coins, and the price of a 12-pound cannon should be 5000 yuan in gold coins. Converted to city gold, it should be about 1000 taels. Xiujia directly paid twice the price, and the profit is enough to make people Exciting, but not enough to break their psychological defenses.

When Xiujia changed "200" to "400", the second mate next to him excitedly began to greet God. Perez was a little moved, but he was still struggling because he was afraid of being punished by the Eastern Church.

When the number was changed to "600", Perez couldn't bear it any longer, took the pen in Xiujia's hand and wrote down the number "800". Now the second officer only had one thought in his mind: "The excommunication of the horse, after In front of 10 times the profit, any excommunication is not worth mentioning."

最终双方约定以2.5万两黄金购买2门12磅火炮和3门6磅炮以及相应的弹药，6磅炮本就不是船上的主力火炮，有效射程只有不足500米，多数用于接舷时速射使用。

The two parties finalized the deal, and Xiujia directly sent a letter to Hanfang Zhengxing to ask him to go to Sakaicho to replace the money house and exchange the copper coins for gold.

Opeth finalized a big deal, and this voyage made a lot of money. He pulled Xiujia and barked "Amu Dog, Amu Dog", and gave Xiujia a brass telescope at the end. Xiujia didn't know that this meant friend in Spanish, so it sounded weird.

The existence of the change house is mainly for the convenience of merchants and samurai to exchange gold and silver for copper coins for transactions.Although Japan is rich in gold and silver, copper coins have always been used as the main currency due to the influence of mainland civilization.

The best quality is of course the official copper coins from the mainland that came along with the exploration and cooperation trade, such as Yongle Tongbao, etc., and with the outbreak of the Yingren Rebellion, big names from all over the country will privately mint the top-ranked copper coins into evil money as rewards in order to raise military expenses Gold was distributed to soldiers.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was short of copper, and the government along the coast of the Ming Dynasty banned the sea but not the copper trade.Assuming that Xiujia transported 1000 guan equivalent copper mines to Ningbo in Japan, in exchange for 1000 guan Yongle Tongbao, which is also the only currency in circulation between China, Japan and South Korea.

Xiujia took the 1000 guanyongle tongbao without buying anything and went directly to North Korea to exchange for 200 taels of silver. When they arrived in Japan, they could exchange for 50 taels of gold. These golds could be directly used as currency for trade with the Nanman, and even used to lower prices.

Why not just take advantage of the gold gap between China, Japan and North Korea and exchange it directly with gold?In China and North Korea, gold is not a currency in circulation, and the government will not return it to you. It cannot be scaled up just by exchanging it with private smugglers.

If Japanese iron cannons and samurai swords were transported to Daming and exchanged for silk to bring back to Japan, or exchanged for ginseng from North Korea to bring back to Japan, the business would double the profit.

The next day, Hanabou Masako sent the 1 taels of gold looted in Okayama to Marugame as a deposit and handed it over to Opes. Opes cooperated with unloading the cannon from the ship, but before the full amount arrived, the Spanish sailors took care of it and loaded it.

These 5 cannons were transported to Wushan by Xiujia along with the follow-up troops. Xiujia specially selected 100 people from the iron cannons and 400 people from the directly-administered cannons to form the artillery to follow behind the Spanish sailors. Learn how to handle artillery.

On November 11th, Hideya set up a D-type reserve team under the fog. Marugame left two Akasaka, Mino, and Tsuyama reserve teams with a total of 7 people stationed. Koyama and Maruyama left a D-type reserve team in total. , with 6000 standing staff, 1 B-level reserve teams with 4500 people, and 8 D-type reserve teams with 10000 people for a total of 2 people. They moved to the center of the Marugame Plain and set up formations on Ruyi Mountain beside the Bachuan River.

On the other side, Changzong's relatives didn't know the true strength of Ukita's army who went ashore at first, so they could only throw out all the banners and ninja troops in their hands, hoping to capture a few prisoners and ask them what happened.

It wasn't until 3 days after Xiujia logged in that Yuanqin learned of the real situation of Ukita's army. According to the captured tongue, there are all kinds of strange things.

Some said, "The main formation of the main hall is located in Tianwu City, and the tents are several miles away from Mianyang, with no fewer than 5 people."

Another person said, "The main formation of the main hall has been moved to Ruyi Mountain and camped in the face of Bachuan. There are no less than 2 people."

The previous statement is too shocking. Changzong and Ibu Yuanqin are so old and have not seen what an army of 5 people is like. Besides, how can the three countries of Jibei have the strength to gather 3 people?

The second statement is not much different from my estimate. I think the 2 mentioned by the tongue should be an imaginary number in the official propaganda, but the real number should indeed exceed 1. Yuan Qin must deal with it carefully.

On November 11th, Chinji of Changzong's army who besieged Zhidu came to meet up. Yuanqin ordered the soldiers to take a rest in Shengrui Castle, and the whole army moved to Mount Iino early tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)