different warring states of japan

Chapter 701 The Northland Business is Difficult

For Takada Yono, the most important thing is always to prove his worth to the lord.

Even if you are scolded by the lord for a waste of money and money, you will burn your hands with too much money.As long as the lord can firmly remember her rich financial resources, it will be a successful hype.

Nothing can prove that she is rich and willful than spending tens of thousands of pennies to create a pile of useless waste armor.

Takada Yoshino is not afraid of Shiba Yoshigin scolding her, but he is afraid that the lord will ignore her and look down on her.

Sohisa Imai had a hard time understanding Yono Takada's complicated feelings for Yoshihiro Shiba, and of course he couldn't understand her crazy behavior of throwing money into the water.

Japan did not lack iron in the agricultural era, Japanese swords and even Kanhe trade, one of Japan's main bulk exports to China.

Japan is a volcanic island and has some minerals.Even the veins are shallower than the surface for easy mining, it just lacks the large-scale iron mines of the industrial age.

Iron in Japan was very cheap in this era, and it cost about four to five kilograms of pig iron for a bucket of rice, or three hundred cash.

But pig iron needs a lot of water and coal to be smelted to make steel, and the loss is almost three to one.

In this era, iron and steel smelting is an advanced technology, and Japan does not have the ability to smelt on a large scale.

Only the Celestial Dynasty can provide mature iron products near Japan.Even the southern barbarians who pioneered in Southeast Asia also imported iron materials from Guangdong to make muskets.

Imai Zonghisa was very embarrassed.

"My lord, I made a rough calculation.

If you want to build the quantity you need in the past six months, you will not only have to try your best to buy steel smuggled from China, but also occupy a large number of craftsmen in the port town.

Maybe the quantity is not enough, you need to take the initiative to contact smugglers, and go to other commercial towns to attract craftsmen to come to work.

This cost is not low.A set of plate armor should have at least forty or fifty ties, and a vest might need seventy or eighty ties. "

The price that Sohisa Imai said was scary, but he didn't mean to intimidate Yono Takada, he really wanted this price.

The equipment used by ashigaru is about four or five kilograms of pig iron, and it costs three hundred paper materials. If you find someone to build it, it will cost about half a penny.

But with this little expense, many poor big names can't afford it.Possessions are leased to Ashgaru, and they will be stripped back after death.

As for the steel used in plate armor, the cost of iron alone is five to ten times that of pig iron.

A full body armor weighs at least [-] kilograms, and as much as [-] kilograms, and the complicated craftsmanship requires skilled craftsmen to smash it out for a long time.

Not to mention that after the Sino-Japanese trade was cut off, the price of smuggled goods was high.Imai Zong scratched his head for a long time just because a large number of craftsmen ate, drank, scattered, and hired money and food in the past six months.

A set of plate armor is at least forty or fifty guan, and the vest is larger than the human armor, at least seventy or eighty guan.

Even if the work is started day and night, and the standard is unified and rough, it will cost [-] to [-] guan.The sum of other types of expenditures will not be less than [-] guan.

After spending so much money to create a batch of useless scrap armor, Sohisa Imai really wanted to cut open Yono Takada's head to see if there was any water in it?
But she didn't have the guts to do so, let alone refuse, so she could only wryly smile and mess around with her.

[-] yuan, if you find a well-known samurai name, it is enough to cover the entire military expenses of the four reserve teams for a year.

Four backup teams can rule a territory of [-] to [-] shi, occupying one side.If there is a corner in the near nest, even General Ashikaga will have heard the name of this samurai.

In Echigo, for the sake of [-] kan, Shiba Yoshigin and Uesugi Terotora joined forces and almost killed Uesugi Morishinaka.

And Takada Yoshino didn't even bat an eye, and directly threw [-] kan to create a batch of garbage, and let Shiba Yoshihiko know that he had to scold this prodigal bitch to death.

Armor doesn't just have to be built and left alone. Armor is the tank of this era, and it takes a lot of materials to maintain it.

Rust, cracks, links, broken patches, that's a bottomless pit.If you use it once in battle, you may need to spend another [-] yuan to find steel and mature craftsmen to repair it.

Brain sick to play this?In a poor place like Japan, can we use full-body plate armor, a feudal-era tank?

Moreover, as iron cannon technology becomes more and more mature, armor-piercing gunpowder weapons are the natural enemies of heavy armor.Plate armor is doomed to decline, and the money is pointlessly spent.

Takada Yono, a fake samurai who was born as a commoner, might not know these things, but even if she knew, she didn't care.She is not a traditional samurai, she only has Yoshigin Shiba in her eyes.

As long as Shibo Yoshigin has any mood swings towards her, whether it's pity or scolding.Takada Yono would swallow it hungrily and relish it over and over again.

In other words, Imai Zongjiu thought well, but her brain was filled with water and she was sick.

The two were talking when there was a knock on the door.Yuihama Yui opened the door, walked in quickly, and saluted Takada Yono.

Takada Yono frowned slightly, as the Mibu Wolf Group used it smoothly, she gradually became dissatisfied with Yuigahama Yui, the newly selected group leader.

This Ji follows the rules and has too many scruples in doing things, which doesn't fit well with Takada Yono's unconstrained thinking.

But she is the head of the Shinsengumi handpicked by the lord, so Takada Yono reluctantly tolerated it, but she gradually became a mouthpiece for communicating with the lord.

Takada Yono was interrupted halfway through speaking, and said coldly.

"What's up?"

Yuigahama Yui kowtowed to the ground and said.

"There is an urgent message from Hokuriku. There seems to be turmoil in Nanao Castle. The closure of Nanao Port may affect shipping after the spring."

"what!"

Both Takada Yono and Imai Sohisa were shocked.

It snows heavily in the north in winter, and Nanao Port and Naoetsu are not suitable for winter sea transportation. They are both frozen ports waiting for the spring.

Everything is ready here in Sakai Port, the caravan has received a large amount of subsidies, and they are gearing up for a big fight in the spring.

At this time, the turmoil in Nanao Port will directly affect the confidence of several merchants in the Hokuriku Road trade route.

Takada Yono looked at Imai Sohisa.

"Can you block the news?"

Imai Sohisa shook his head.

"Impossible. We and the merchants of the Tokaido are subsidizing and robbing the initiative of the trade route.

They must also be keeping an eye on the Hokuriku Road trade route, and any clues will be used by them to undermine the confidence of the caravan and make them change course.

Not only can we not cover up what happened in Nanao Port, but we have to be open and honest. "

Takada Yoshino nodded, this was a helpless move, and he was used by the other party instead of trying to cover it up.

The lack of Nanao Port only shakes the confidence of businesses, and the route from Tsuruga Port to Naoetsu is still possible.

But this is a bad omen, it will be used by the merchants of the Tokaido, magnified, and the number of caravans going to the Hokuriku will decrease.

Takada Yono said, frowning.

"This matter is not something we can solve. Contact the Echigo side to see if the Lord knows about this matter and if there are any follow-up instructions."

Takada Yono sighed, she was majestic and full of confidence in front of Imai Zonghisa.

In fact, on the stage where the samurai daimyos are fighting, she and the merchants in Sakai and Hong Kong are all ants.They rely on the strong to survive, and they can only accept the changes in the face of change.

This is the reality she is unwilling to face but has to face.

(End of this chapter)