Chapter 245 A dead widow is a good widow

"It's okay, but I still have a business to talk to General Chen!" Zhang Zhongjian, the bearded guest, looked at Chen Ying and said: "If General Chen Ying agrees, Zhang will not take a penny from this batch of goods, but can give another 50 million money to General Chen!" ”

When Chen Ying heard this, he was slightly stunned. He was secretly strange just now, according to later generations, the bearded man established a force overseas, and also claimed to be the Buyeo country, but it is not very clear when this Buyeo country was founded, and where it was founded. But one thing is for sure, Zhang Zhongjian is definitely not bad for money.

Therefore, in terms of transporting this batch of armor, Chen Ying increased the price of the commission by hundreds of times, for fear that he would not be able to impress the bearded customers. 50 million yuan is 50,000 yuan, this money is a huge amount of money on ordinary people, but on Zhang Zhongjian, it is definitely nothing.

Zhang Zhongjian smiled slightly: "Zhang has a reluctant request, and I hope that General Chen will fulfill it!" ”

Chen Ying said: "Zhang Daxia, but it doesn't hurt to say it! ”

"I have long heard that there is a general under General Chen's command, who is good at making weapons, the knives and guns created are extremely sharp, and the armor created is abnormally strong, Zhang wants to purchase a batch of armor from General Chen!" The bearded guest smiled: "The number doesn't need to be too much, just like the kind of black armor under General Chen!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Zhongjian stretched out his finger and pointed at the soldiers of the Mo Dao Army beside Chen Ying and said: "Their armor is good, and the Mo knife in their hands is also good in my opinion, Zhang wants to buy 35,000 pairs of armor, 5,000 Mo knives, 10,000 horizontal knives, I don't know what the price is?" ”

"The price, it's easy to say!" Chen Ying remembered that some of the so-called Buyeo countries were actually in the Wa Kingdom, and he didn't know whether it was true or not. If the Buyeo State built by Zhang Zhongjian was really in the Wa Kingdom, Chen Ying really didn't mind fighting a proxy war. With Zhang Zhongjian as a person and Chen Ying as an equip, the two sides showed their strengths and fought with the Japanese country. This kind of thing was not uncommon in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Africa during the period of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 20th century.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying smiled and said: "I heard that Zhang Daxia still has a momentum overseas, is it on the side of the Wa Kingdom?" ”

"Wa Guo? It used to belong to the Wa Kingdom, but now it's not! The bearded man replied with a smile.

"Wa Kingdom?" Li Xiuning asked in surprise: "Is it the one who angered Yang Guang because of 'the sunrise is the place where the Son of Heaven is nowhere to be written'?" ”

The so-called 'sunrise place of the Son of Heaven to the book day is nowhere to go', in fact, it refers to the former Sui period, the Wa State sent envoys to pay tribute, but the king of the Wa Kingdom claimed to be the Sunrise Son of Heaven and called Yang Guang the Sun No Son of Heaven, and his tone was very arrogant, which also angered Yang Guang, thus cutting off the contact with the Wa State.

"That's right, it's that Wa country!" The bearded man nodded and replied, "The Wa Kingdom is located in the eastern sea of Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje, and is only separated by a small strait, and there are three islands in the Wa Kingdom, with Honshu Island being the largest, and the place where I am located is located on Tsukushi Island, the southernmost part of the Wa Kingdom, and the area of this island is about the size of a Zhongju, and it is such a big place, and more than a dozen countries have been established...... Hey! ”

Hearing this, Chen Ying was immediately relieved.

In his heart, only the dead widows are good widows. Anyway, Chen Ying doesn't know much about Zhang Zhongjian in history, but Chen Ying is happy to let Zhang Zhongjian go to the woe country. Anyway, now Datang does not have the strength and mind to take care of the open sea, in fact, it means that Datang has completely restored the unified land until Zhenguan four years, that is, Datang has no energy to take care of the East at least in the next ten years.

Chen Ying's biggest advantage in Datang is not actually fighting. The last thing Datang lacks is elite soldiers, even if there is no Chen Ying, Datang can still beat the surrounding countries to the ground. However, Chen Ying's best field is actually industrial large-scale production, once Hebei is pacified, Chen Ying will focus on industrial production for a long period of time, with Chen Ying's ability, it only takes about three years to upgrade the equipment of the whole army of the Tang Dynasty, and the equipment production capacity will be surplus within five years.

"Sell, I'm afraid Zhang Daxia can't afford it!" Chen Ying pointed to the Mingguang armor on Mo Daojun's body and said: "This armor is made of high manganese steel, and the hardness can be forty or fifty higher than that of 100 steels. ”

Zhang Zhongjian actually didn't see it, when he was in the Battle of Happy Valley, Zhang Zhongjian accidentally saw the Mo knife army lined up into a knife wall, like a wall to advance, killing the Xia army to collapse the army, while Chen Ying was cleaning the battlefield, Zhang Zhongjian relied on the courage of the artist, quietly took the sheep, and took a set of high-manganese steel Mingguang armor and a Mo knife, after repeated trials, Zhang Zhongjian finally reluctantly admitted that ordinary horizontal knives could not split this Mingguang armor at all, the most wonderful thing is that this armor is lined with cork, It can effectively cushion the force on the armor and raise the impact of the soldiers on the soldiers.

Zhang Zhongjian thought at that time that if he had such armor and a sword, he would be able to sweep the three islands of the Wa Kingdom (note, during this period, the Wa State did not form a unified state and Yamato nation). Zhang Zhongjian frowned and said, "How can such a pair of armor be sold for one or two hundred pieces, right?" ”

In fact, Zhang Zhongjian did not tell the truth. It stands to reason that such armor should be hard to find, but Chen Ying can be mass-produced, and the defense power is not reduced at all.

"Yes, even if a pair of armor is a hundred, three thousand five hundred pairs is three hundred and fifty thousand, and the price of the Mo knife is only high compared to the armor!" Chen Ying's cost price at this time was only a dozen yuan, of course, he just wanted to sell it to Zhang Zhongjian, so that the two sides could reach a mutually beneficial relationship.

Zhang Zhongjian said: "This batch of equipment needs millions of yuan? ”

"yes!" Chen Ying nodded solemnly and said, "And this is still the cost price, I don't have any money at all." ”

"That's it!" Zhang Zhongjian said: "Is General Chen a cashier?" ”

"Of course!"

Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile: "It's good to collect cash, it's good to collect cash." If General Chen is willing to trade in silver, then I will double the high-manganese steel Mingguang armor, 10,000 Mo knives, 10,000 pairs of Mingguang armor, and as for the horizontal knives, 30,000 handles, all of them will be 5 million taels. This time he went to Qinglin to transport goods, and Zhang transported them for General Chen for free, without taking a penny, and as for the deposit, I hope that General Chen will send out an inventory. ”

"Bad ......" Chen Ying only remembered at this time that although the Wa Kingdom was an island country with few resources, they also seemed to be God's favorites, and from the 16th century to the Edo period, the Iwami Silver Mine in Ota City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, was the largest silver mine in Japan and even in the world. Japan became one of the world's leading silver-producing countries, so much so that one-third of the world's silver was produced in Japan at that time, and Japan was called the "Silver Islands" by the Ming Dynasty. At the peak of production at that time, the annual output of the Wa Kingdom was as high as 200 tons. If it is converted into taels, it is 6.4 million taels.

Although Zhang Zhongjian did not fully occupy the three islands of the Japanese Kingdom, it was obvious that his hand had reached out to the island of Honshu, otherwise, it would be impossible for him to take out five million taels of silver without blinking his eyes.

Of course, it is impossible to take out these five million taels of silver in a year, and it will take three years to deliver them in installments, but if five million taels of silver pours into Datang, this is not a good thing for Datang, but it is likely to cause a new round of inflation. Such a large amount of money poured into the Central Plains, not only will it affect the agriculture, handicraft industry, but also the textile industry in the Central Plains, and it is likely to cause the earliest economic crisis in history.

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "This is not good, it must not be delivered in silver, we can take the way of silver six, grain two, wood two, timber two, timber from the three islands of the Wa Kingdom, how much I want, and grain, of course, the rice production of the Wa Kingdom is limited, but since Zhang Daxia has a ship, he can cross the Indochina Peninsula from Zhuzi Island!" ”

"Indochina?" Zhang Zhongjian thought about it, but he really didn't know that there was still this place.

looked at Zhang Zhongjian with a puzzled face.

Chen Ying took a branch and sketched the location map of the four islands of the Japanese Kingdom with a few strokes on the ground, and then drew simple drawings of the large and small Ryukyus and the Indochina Peninsula.

Looking at the Zhongnan half drawn by Chen Ying, Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said, "It turned out to be Lin Yi!" ”

After Emperor Wen of Sui destroyed Chen, the world was peaceful. It happened that Lin Yi had not paid tribute for a long time, and the ministers said that there were many strange treasures there, and Emperor Wen was itching in his heart after hearing it (hehe, the story of Liu Song was very attractive), so he sent the general Liu Fang to the south at the end of Renshou. The king of Linyi led the giant elephant to battle, but the Sui army could not defeat it. Liu Fang had a plan, so he dug a lot of traps on the battlefield, and then pretended to retreat, and Lin Yi's soldiers chased after him. As a result, the elephant soldiers were all trapped, and there was confusion and a great defeat. Liu Fang hit the national capital, and the spoils of war included eleven golden gods. In the first year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (605), Yang Guang sent an army to the south to destroy the Linyi country, and divided its place into three counties. The occupants were not convinced, resisted repeatedly, and finally succeeded in recovering the country.

Chen Ying drew the topography of the later Zhancheng country and said: "In the Cham country, there is a kind of rice called Cham rice, which can grow three seasons a year, and the mu harvest can be as much as five stones, Zhang Daxia can send people to the Cham country and transport the rice back, as long as it is transported to Chang'an, I will settle it for you at the price of Chang'an rice!" ”

Due to the establishment of Li Tang at this time, successive wars, the price of grain in Guanzhong has also risen, and now it has exceeded 200 wen and one stone, Zhang Zhongjian silently calculated, he has more than 3,000 large and small ships, each time can transport about 600,000 stone of rice. It is also worth tens of thousands.

As for the timber that was named for the Wa Kingdom, Chen Ying did not have a good heart. If the forests of the Wa Kingdom are cut down at this time, once the ecological balance is broken, I am afraid that it will be a question of whether the Wa Kingdom will be able to grow grass in the future.

Zhang Zhongjian and Chen Ying discussed casually, and in the conversation in a few words, the fate of the Wa State and the Cham State was already doomed.

However, it was under the impetus of Chen Ying, an otherworldly butterfly, that a new round of bloody rain was set off in the Wa Kingdom.

Chen Ying did not have any uneasiness in conscience, he always firmly believed that only dead widows would be good widows.

PS: There are still 26 monthly tickets for 300, it's time to add more. What do you think, guys?