The two sentinels who were specially transferred to perform for Matsudaira Nobutsuna opened his eyes!

It turns out that the iron cannon can still be used like this!

Hundreds of musketeers lined up in three columns, spaced more than two meters apart, so as not to get in the way of their respective arquebuses. (Some friends may ask, why don't you take out the flintlock pistol, aren't those already the mainstream firearms of the protagonist's troops?) Nonsense! Isn't it now that you are planning to sell a large number of products such as arquebuses, which are about to be obsolete, to the devils? ）

The queue of about seven paces moved slowly forward against the rain of arrows on the opposite side, of course, the arrows were removed and replaced with dye, so that people could count the number of wounded, killed, and incapacitated. Walking to a place fifty paces away from the opponent's formation, a brass horn sounded, and everyone took the fire gun from their shoulders, blew the fire rope, checked the medicine pool to load the projectile, and raised the fire gun to pull the trigger together in the officer's command!

The dense three rows of projectiles beat the nearly 1,000 neatly arranged scarecrows on the opposite side to simulate the military formation, and after being pierced by the scorching projectiles, many straw men began to smoke and burn, and for a time the smoke on the school field was filled with flames, and the power of this round of shooting became more and more amazing.

"It turns out that the iron cannon has such an amazing power in close shooting, if it is used to deal with the soldiers and horses of the southwestern domains, it should be simple and effective, as long as some ashigaru is recruited, and the iron cannon is trained to be used, it is comparable to the power of the big barrel!"

Matsudaira Nobutsuna decided to be bold and use all the money he was going to use to buy a large barrel to buy iron cannons!

"Lord Changshi, I wonder how many iron cannons the Great General can sell to our country?" Matsudaira had a sincere smile on his face.

"This is for you! How much are you going to buy. We can sell you as much as we want! ”

The smile on Li Peilin's face doesn't know why, it is always reminiscent of the old fox who stole the chicken.

"Then, is it still forty rounds, twenty rounds of each containing medicine?!"

Matsudaira Nobutsuna nervously calculated, and repeated the price of the arquebuses sold by the South Central Army before.

However, this time it was a surprise to him.

Li Peilin raised an index finger and shook it, "No, no, no!" Forty was the previous price, and now this price has to be adjusted. ”

Hearing Pei Lin's words, no matter how good Rao is Songping Xingang's cultivation, he couldn't help but scold in his heart. "Yale! You people who have no faith! Bastard! See we're going to buy your stuff. Sit on the ground and start the price! ”

But on second thought, who can blame for this? It seems that the Shimazu family should be reprimanded first, it was they who sat on the ground and made a lot of ill-gotten gains when the Nanzhong Army was in trouble. Only then did the Nanchu Army make up for the losses in the embankment in the arms trade with the Tokugawa shogunate.

"In view of the fact that the purpose of the Tokugawa shogun's purchase of these materials and weapons was to maintain stability and harmony in Fuso. With the approval of the general. We are ready to give preferential policies in this trade with Fuso. ”

After seeing Matsudaira Nobutsuna's face change like a kaleidoscope. Li Peilin slowly said the answer.

As soon as these words came out, it almost made Matsudaira Laozhong shout that the general was full!

Being able to trade at the same price was already a surprise to Matsudaira Nobutsuna. And on this basis, there are some discounts, how can this not make him suspect that when he prayed to Amaterasu last night on the body of Tianzhu Orchid, he was heard by the great god who watched this scene of hand-to-hand combat in the sky, and guaranteed the realization of this wish with supreme mana.

"Please tell the shogun, I will conquer the shogunate, and approve the purchase of 3,000 iron cannons!"

After a little calculation, Matsudaira reported a figure that was enough to deter the entire Japanese archipelago.

"I wonder if the general will allow it?"

With some apprehension and expectation, Matsudaira Nobutsuna looked forward to Li Peilin's reply with the child's hope of getting toys and new clothes from his parents.

"Three thousand? Only going to buy these? What about other items? ”

Li Peilin's purpose today is completely a taste of a clearance sale.

So, once again, I was struck by a nervous mentality. If there were a blood pressure monitor today, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's blood pressure was estimated to have traveled back and forth from one hundred and two hundred and twenty many times, and it was like a roller coaster. Flying into the sky for a while, rushing into the trough for a while.

"Now there is such an opportunity, if you buy one more iron cannon now, it is equivalent to buying two more!"

Li Peilin's words are full of mystery and temptation.

These words made Matsudaira Nobutsuna fall into the clouds for five miles.

What does it mean to spend the money of one iron cannon and buy two iron cannons?

What logic is this? How can such a result be calculated?

"The fact that Lord Matsudaira was able to send much-needed medicine from thousands of miles to the time of the epidemic in our Nanzhong army is a testament to his hospitality. I won't treat you as an outsider. The key to the manufacture of this iron cannon is that the gun tube is the most difficult to manufacture. My Nanzhong is full of overtime every month, and it is only a monthly output of thousands of guns, and in addition to the equipment of the battalions in various places, the only ones that can be exported are only hundreds per month. At present, there are only more than 6,000 firecrackers in the warehouse, and the meaning of my general's intention is to sell this batch of firecrackers at one time. ”

Six thousand iron cannons? Each forty runs, even if there is a discount, at least 240,000 yuan must be prepared, plus other procurement items, I am afraid that the general will take out all the income of this year, and it may not be enough!

At this time, behind him, an accompanying samurai reported to him in a low voice in his native dialect.

"Lord Middle, my subordinates met Kazuo Koga of the Shimazu family on the dock a few days ago, and he was carrying gold and silver down from the ship, so his subordinates talked to his subordinates, and it is said that Shimazu-sama also intends to purchase iron cannons, armor and other items in large quantities!"

The words of this samurai made Matsudaira Nobutsuna like seeing the sun through the clouds!

It turns out that the so-called cost of one iron cannon to buy two iron cannons comes from this!

Not bad! It takes time and effort to make iron cannons, and Tanejima cannons, which the Shimazu family is proud of, produce no more than 100 guns per month! If he had bought all the guns from Minaminaka, which was known for producing firearms, the Shimazu family would not be able to buy enough guns to equip an iron cannon team for a while. Didn't you spend the money of one and buy two iron cannons?

I've got one more here, you've got one less! One in and one out, isn't it exactly two iron cannons?

Thinking about the situation when they met on the battlefield in the future, and the thousands of iron artillery teams under his command poured bullets on the Shimazu family's team, but the Shimazu family was powerless, Matsudaira Nobutsuna decided to buy it!

However, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to ask for the soft words of the good students of the Nanzhong General's Mansion. Say something nice. Let them agree that they can transport the goods in installments and pay the price.

"Lord Nagashi, I would like to buy all of these iron cannons on behalf of General Tokugawa!"

Maybe it's because of the guts. Lord Matsudaira Nobutsuna looked extremely bold.

"There are just two things to ask Lord Changshi to forgive!"

The first is the issue of payment of price. Don't say anything else. These 6,000 iron cannons alone are at least more than 200,000 yuan, and this money is more than 200,000 yuan in silver dollars. But the same Nanchu Tsuho was enough to unite the daimyo to overthrow the Tokugawa family.

According to the book "The Old Records of Iwami Ginzan", as early as 1309 (the 2nd year of Yankei), when the daimyo of the Zhou Defense Province visited Iwami Province, there was a record of silver mining on the occasion of visiting the Hokuto Myoken Bodhisattva, and later Mishima Kiyoemon, the owner of the copper mountain of Izumo Kunita Yi Village, who was subordinate to Ouchi Yoshiko, helped the Ouchi family dig out the underground silver vein in March 1526 (Daiei 6), and his son Ouchi Yoshitaka succeeded to the throne in 1533 (Tenmon 2) through the Hakata merchant Kamiya Toshisada. The ash blowing method, which we learned from overseas, has greatly increased the output of silver. At that time, Japan produced about 200 tons of silver per year, and the Iwami silver mine produced 38 tons (million taels) per year, worth about 10,000 kan.

Therefore, if these more than 200,000 Nanzhong Tongbao are in Japan, it will inevitably cause a situation of mass attack. If you exchange the huàn with the domestic currency ratio, it will cost more than 20 million taels of silver!

This is why the daimyo of Kyushu were contracted to contract the exchange business from the Shinto Bureau to Kyushu. The huge spread against huàn has brought huge profits.

However, this problem was easily resolved by Li Peilin, who was smiling, and suddenly made Matsudaira Nobutsuna have the urge to bow down!

"Since there is a huge difference in the exchange price between the currencies used by the two countries, it is not only not conducive to trade, but also easy for traitors to take advantage of, so as to expand their strength and covet a big position." Li Peilin almost said it directly, and the interests of such a currency comparison greatly outweighed the damage caused to the southwestern vassals.

"Then it is better to ask the old and middle adults to discuss with me, and sign a contract to stipulate the exchange ratio and amount of the currencies between you and me. In this way, it is beneficial to the trade activities of Fusang, Nanzhong and Daming. I wonder what Matsudaira-kun thinks? ”

What a currency swap is, not only Matsudaira Nobutsuna doesn't understand, but even Li Peilin, who said this word, also doesn't understand it. However, this statement and the mention of yì, including the fact that so many iron cannons are sold to the Tokugawa family today, have been carefully studied by the high-ranking members of the Shouhan and Southern Chinese Army.

All these old arquebuses piled up in the warehouse were disposed of at once, and the funds in exchange could be used to expand the scale of production, add steel-making blast furnaces, set up several more shipyards, and build the new Victory and other main warships that had been designed for a long time.

In many of the time-traveling novels in Shouhan's impression, Pig's Feet snatched Iwami Ginzan and Sado Island as a source of funds for his own industry and army. However, what these people did not think of was what kind of social crisis would break out in a country without hard currency.

The reason why the Curtain Movement broke out in Japan was not the awakening of the consciousness of the Western bourgeoisie, but because the Western powers, led by Britain, wantonly exchanged gold and silver in Japan to make huge profits. This caused a large outflow of gold from Japan, which in turn caused a series of problems.

Shouhan didn't want to lead Japan to the other extreme because of his short-term pursuit of profits, which was a situation that no amount of gold could contain.

For the sake of some interests, leaving a huge hidden danger and evil neighbor to future generations, this is what Shouhan does not want to see.

The best way is to keep Iwami Ginzan and Sado Island in the hands of the shogunate, let the shogunate organize manpower and material resources to exploit them, and then transport them to Nanchu one by one to buy all kinds of industrial products and daily necessities.

Currency control your economy, tie your economy to my industrial and agricultural system. Make you my vassal, provide me with worker ants, raw materials, and act as a dumping market for products.

There's no need to snatch Sado Island and Iwami Ginzan.,Painstakingly organize mining and smelting by yourself.,Just reach a currency transaction with the devil using the protagonist.,When the devil will cry and shout that the gold and silver in his house are given to the protagonist to "mint" coins.。

Such a means is far simpler and easier than sending a fleet to pacify the Japanese countries, and the cost is not the same.

But the effect is several times greater than the use of force.

How vicious the intentions! However, in the eyes of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, such a method was another goodwill unleashed by General Nanchu Li to the shogunate!

"Lord Changshi! I don't know what you call currency swaps, how to exchange huàn? Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked in a trembling voice about Lord Li Peilin, who was in charge of the affairs of the military, civil affairs, finance, and other affairs in Nanzhong.

"In the future, if you and I trade commodities, we will use all the silver dollars and gold coins minted in South China. If you use silver, it will be one or two silver coins for huàn, and if you use gold, it will be two gold coins for huàn one gold coin. ”

In this way, from the Japanese side. The trade with Nanzhong is the most cost-effective. Because the weight of the two gold judgments is almost 37 grams. The protagonist has a gold coin weighing 50 grams, which contains 37.5 grams of gold, a few silver and copper, and it is the most cost-effective to use gold to judge the devil.

But. Regarding the internal circulation of Nanzhong Tongbao in Japan. Immediately, it came to the mind of Nobutsuna-sama Matsudaira. As the leader of Nanzhong Tongbao's strong Cheng Dù in Japan, he is very familiar with the old China of Nanzhong trade, and he has also profited a lot from Tongbao's price difference against Huàn. Once Tongbao's status is threatened, I am afraid that the various daimyo will also rebel.

These guys don't know how much Nanzhong Tongbao they have hoarded in the treasury of their home! Once depreciated. It's just a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, it's strange if these guys don't rebel!

He now thinks of whatever he wants, and he doesn't care about any etiquette and decency, and all he thinks about is the neat and orderly strings of copper coins that glow with blue and yellow in his cellar and in the general's treasury.

"My lord! So what about Nanzhong Tongbao? The solidity of this thing in our country is far beyond the imagination of adults! "For those ordinary peasants and low-level samurai who relied on selling their labor and their daughters to obtain dozens of treasures in Nanchu, Matsudaira didn't even bother to think about it, he only cared about the interests of the shogun and his own family, and of course, the interests of his colleagues should also be taken into account.

"Old and middle-aged adults, should we talk about these details on another occasion?"

Li Peilin was a little displeased, this group of Fusang dwarfs gave three points of color and wanted to open a dyeing workshop!

Rao is from Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and he has long been trained to the point that he can't even beat the 32-pound dragon cannon, but when he heard Li Peilin's understatement, he also felt that he was a little too careful, and his attention to money seemed too great.

When the group left the stands and returned to the general's palace, they held frank and friendly negotiations in the council hall of the palace on how to further develop trade between Nanzhong and Fuso.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna has the magic weapon of currency swap to suppress the array, and he has become a lot more courageous. It is no wonder that Iwami Ginzan alone can produce millions of taels of silver every year, which is a million silver dollars when exchanged for Nanchu silver dollars, not to mention the three major gold mountains of the Edo period, such as Sado Island and Dohi Gold Mountain. The shogunate had ample currency reserves that could be used to pay for the goods purchased!

As a result, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and his trade delegation were like a group of nouveau riche, sourcing frantically from Nanchu's foreign trade goods.

Almost all previously agreed trade volumes have been overturned and at least more than doubled.

Everyone knows very well that once the currency swap agreement is approved by the Tokugawa Shogun, it will inevitably cause huge price fluctuations in Fuso, and as for what kind of fluctuations, everyone can't analyze it now, so it's better to use this opportunity to reserve more supplies for yourself and the shogun!

Prior to this, however, Li Peilin and Matsudaira Nobutsuna had a heated debate in a secret room on the issue of preferential treatment for the purchase of military equipment.

According to Matsudaira Nobutsuna's intentions, it was planned to pay the price of thirty silver dollars for an iron cannon, while the Nanchu side needed to increase the distribution of five rounds of medicine on the original basis. But for such a lion's big mouth, Li Peilin refused to accept it no matter what. I've already said I'm going to give you a discount, and you're still asking for a rebate coupon?

However, looking at Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who had a loyal expression, suddenly Li Peilin laughed, "Damn it, damn it!" I actually forgot the saying that the big business and the big silver of the earth! ”

Sure enough, after changing my thinking, the negotiation went a lot easier.

"Songping Laozhong, how about this, we still trade at the price of forty yuan per iron cannon, but for every two hundred iron cannons, how about I give ten iron cannons to your lord?"

Giving away physical goods, which is far more appropriate than discounting.

The ten extra ten iron cannons for every two hundred are three hundred. Whether it was to go back to the Tokugawa shogun for forty yen a piece, or to find a suitable buyer, such as the wealthy Osaka ten, or a daimyo with a lot of gold in a certain storehouse, these 900 iron cannons were a great temptation.

Soon, a huge military trade was completed.

Immediately afterwards, it is the procurement of various people's biological resources and daily necessities.

However, there was one problem that made Matsudaira-sama difficult.

Japonica rice alone is hundreds of thousands of koku, how can this be shipped back to Japan?

"It doesn't matter, if your envoy is willing to add a freight fee to the price of these goods, how about we deliver it to the Fuso military and civilians and hand it over in Edo?"

"By the way, you can also let those student dolls of the Sailor Academy have a chance to go to sea for internship and see the scenery of the Oriental sea."

Li Peilin once again thinks about the sake of Oriental customers. (To be continued......)