Warring States Eagle

"Sit down." After everyone entered the meeting hall and saluted Zheng Liang, Zheng Liang said.

"My lord, I heard that a mine was found in your territory. I wonder if it's true?" Zhu Qinfeng's representative asked Zheng Liang immediately after sitting down according to the etiquette of the Warring States period.

Zhu Qinfeng stayed in Zhengliang's territory specially for this foreign devil, and was in charge of daily communication with Luo's family.As the trade between the two sides grew, and Zhu Qinfeng himself could not stay here for a long time, so at the suggestion of Zhu Qinfeng's wife, he left behind this foreign devil who could speak the local language fluently.

"Luther, there is indeed such a thing, and I am planning to find you. We may have a new opportunity to cooperate here." Zheng Liang said.

"Oh? Dear lord, please do not hesitate to order. As long as we can cooperate, I will definitely support you. This is what our boss told us before he left." Luther immediately said respectfully when he heard that there was money to be made.He was originally just a young sailor on Zhu Qinfeng's ship. If he hadn't learned the local language by chance, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to stay here, so he knew the importance of making good friends with good politicians.

"That's it. I have discovered a new silver and copper mine in my territory. Of course, this is only temporary. Maybe more mines will be discovered in the future. I plan to cooperate with your boss to mine. We will provide resources and manpower. You need Provide technology, and after most of the minerals are produced, we will give priority to replacing your gunpowder and muskets." Zheng Liang said to Zhu Qinfeng and Wang Hai's respective envoys in the territory.

"In terms of technology, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the West, the ash blowing method is quite mature. So I hope you can introduce the technology to my territory. And teach my people the specific operation methods. Of course, I will also follow the If you sign a long-term cooperation contract, as long as mines are discovered in my territory in the future, I will give priority to cooperation with you, and you must guarantee that according to the agreement, you will only provide us with something that other lords here do not have." Although after this time During the Great War, weapons such as muskets officially appeared before people's eyes, but Zheng Liang still hoped to delay the time for other tyrants to obtain muskets as much as possible.

"As you wish. Dear lord." Luther immediately agreed.He knew a little about the agreement between his boss and the young lord, so Luther agreed without hesitation.

"In addition to silver mines and copper mines, I have also discovered porcelain clay mines and sulfur mines here. I hope to introduce some simple porcelain-making techniques from the Ming Dynasty. I hope that your treasurer can help me build a simple porcelain in my territory." For the manufacturing workshop, it is best that you can bring some immigrants from the Ming Dynasty who know how to make porcelain."

"In addition, I also hope that you will provide some sulfur purification technology or even immigrants who understand this technology. We are willing to exchange minerals with you for gunpowder or even saltpeter." Zheng Liang put forward some of his conditions one after another.

"Yes, my lord. I will notify the shopkeeper in Ming Kingdom as soon as possible." Wang Hai's envoy said respectfully.

After talking about the most important conditions, Zheng Liang put forward some main ideas.Then let Shao Ce Kamiya, who has been smiling all the time, be responsible for communicating the specific details with these two people.

As for Li Hongfei who came to report, Zheng Liang asked him to continue exploring within the territory, and at the same time, he wrote a letter and asked him to bring it to Togo Heiji when he returned to Hizen. After all, the mining of the mine and the establishment of related workshops also required him. to organize.

Just as the territory of the Luo family was preparing to mine ore and build workshops, after half a month of spreading, the result of the great battle between the two overlords in northern Kyushu was finally known to the world.

From the end of the 11th year of Tianwen (1542) to the beginning of the 12th year of Tianwen (1543), if you want to ask what has attracted the most attention from the Kyushu tyrants, it is that Ouchi Yoshitaka led the army to go to Izumo and Otomo’s family took the opportunity to attack Hizen. Two big things happened.

The former major event, because the place where the war took place is a bit far away from the mainland of Kyushu, so not everyone will pay attention and know the progress in time; while the latter event happened directly in the mainland of Kyushu, and the result even affected the next step of some tyrants strategy, so it has attracted much attention.

Although after the war, out of strategic considerations, Masara blocked the channels for understanding the battle situation in Hizen in the southwestern region of Chikugo, but Masara could not block the three directions of Chikuzen, Bungo, and the northeast of Chikugo.After half a month of dissemination in these directions, the result of this battle is finally known to the world.As a result, the entire Kyushu was surging.

The southernmost part of Kyushu, Hirasa Castle on the banks of the Satsumagawa River.

Hirasa Castle, which was built in the upper reaches of the Kawauchi River and controlled a large fertile field, finally regained its former peace today.

Just three days ago, the Shimadzu family and the Ijuin family army led by Shimadzu Takahisa jointly broke through Hirasa Castle controlled by the Irikuin family and the Hishikari family.Although the Satsuma Peninsula has been unified for a while, and has become the guardian of the Satsuma Kingdom, it is clear that half of the Satsuma territory is occupied by other powerful families, and the situation in Satsuma is not peaceful.

On the clean wooden floor of the meeting hall, traces of blood can still be seen, which seems to tell the tragic scene of the battle a few days ago.

"Matasaburo, what do you think?" Shimadzu Takahisa, who was nearly thirty years old, sat on the main seat and looked directly at a ten-year-old boy in the retainer group below.

This young man is the eldest son of Takahisa Shimadzu. His childhood name was Torasumaru, and his common name was Matasaburo.After Yuanfu, he was named Zhongliang. Later, due to the influence of the taboo of Ashikaga Yoshiki's name, he changed his name to Chen, and finally changed his name to Yoshihisa.This is Yoshihisa Shimadzu, the boss of the Four Tigers of the Shimadzu family who will become famous in the Warring States Period.

Although Masaburo is only ten years old, he has shown the characteristics of being good at strategy since he was a child, so Gui Jiu also intentionally took him to participate in the discussion, and often asked him questions to train Masaburo.This time Guijiu repeated his old trick.

I saw Matasaburo sitting up straight, saluted his father Guijiu, and then began to say in a serious manner: "Father, the ambition of our family is to restore the original old territories (Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga country), the northern part of Kyushu is too far away from the main family. The opinion of the minister is that we only need to continue to pay attention to the war between the Otomo family and the surrounding tycoons. However, the information mentioned that the Luo family who defeated the Otomo family used A firearm similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, I think this should be investigated more carefully."

The Warring States period was the Lolita era, and even more so, the boyhood.We say it is Lolita era, because girls from aristocratic families in this era will marry at a very young age due to various political needs, and we say it is boyhood era, because teenagers in this era start their families at a very young age, Even boys over the age of eight, you can see it as an adult.Matasaburo, who is now ten years old, explains this fact well.

But Zhengliang, who was far away in Chikugo, didn't know that what he was most worried about was actually seen by a ten-year-old child. (To be continued..)