Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1591 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire ([-]) Negotiation
In terms of money business, since Luo Yuan has no final decision-making power, the two parties can only roughly determine their intentions.In terms of price, the final result of the negotiation was 5000 taels for each new-style big blessing boat, and 3 taels for each new-style small blessing boat.

The price reduction of the big blessing ship is not too big, and it is still maintained at the price of the armed transport ship; but the small blessing ship is indeed too small, and the level of armament is not very good in Luo Yuan's opinion, so the price is compressed a little bit. The price of 4 taels has dropped by 3, and finally [-] taels per ship is actually not cheap.

Of course, Luo Yuan dared to agree to such a transaction. Another key is that the Toyotomi family is a real big buyer. The intention reached by the two parties is that Jinghua will deliver 230 large blessing ships and [-] small blessing ships every year, with a total value of Up to [-] million taels of flat silver!

Although Luo Yuan himself is not very clear about the final cost price of these two new types of large and small blessing ships, but judging from the profit margin of Jinghua's previous shipbuilding business, it is definitely no problem to earn 100 million taels a year.That's right, in this era, Jinghua's shipbuilding business is making money in this way.

During the conversation, Luo Yuan raised a question. He asked the Toyotomi family why they bought so many warships.Toyotomi Hideaga replied: My brother intends to subdue all Japanese naval forces and complete true unification.

In fact, Luo Yuan basically didn't believe it, especially when he thought of the master's various arrangements in Japan. According to the master's habit of preparing in advance, he should think that Japan's trends are very noteworthy.

What developments are worth noting?Of course it is a military movement, and Toyotomi Hidecho's order for such a huge warship this time is obviously a typical military movement.

However, because the master has explained this before, Luo Yuan thinks that the master probably doesn't think that these naval armaments can bring much harm to Jinghua.As for the reason, on the one hand, of course, the strength of the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet is strong enough, on the other hand, it may be that the bullying Japanese navy has no experience in fighting a decisive battle.

To be honest, Luo Yuan has been in Japan for a few months this time, and during this time he has really studied some of the more brilliant battles of the Japanese navy.However, even in the famous "Itsukushima Battle", the navy only carried out a surprise troop transport in a storm, and no serious decisive battle at sea took place.

In short, in Luo Yuan's view, the various Japanese naval forces have only carried out some small fights in a childlike manner. In most battles, the naval forces are relatively only armed troops.

Not to mention whether Toyotomi Hideyoshi has the ability to take all the dozens of naval forces in Japan under his command in a short period of time, even if he really has this ability against the sky, these naval forces that were not under each other still have many relations with each other. Discord, to complete the real integration, to reach the level of the fingers, it is by no means an easy task.

Luo Yuan couldn't help wondering about the master's intentions. Could it be to do business with the other party for a few years first, and then find an excuse to catch them all when the other party's strength is getting stronger?If that's the case... that's wonderful!

However, Luo Yuan never thought that Gao Yushi was a cheater, he didn't even need to "find an excuse", because Toyotomi Hideyoshi would take the initiative to provoke trouble at that time.What's more, what he didn't expect was that Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't know much about the navy, and he didn't even have the idea or even the idea of ​​a "decisive battle at sea". The reason why Toyotomi Hideyoshi bought the warship was actually for escort.

That's right, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was stimulated by the strong maritime power of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and believed that if troops were launched against North Korea in the future, the Maritime Trade Alliance might interfere.But Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not understand the navy. In his eyes, the role of the navy was to transport the army to the opposite bank, and then ensure the delivery of part of the food and grass (the other part was forcibly collected by North Korea).

The limitations of the times always exist, just like in the original history, when the decisive battle of the ocean became the dominant idea of ​​the British Royal Navy, the Second German Empire was still fantasizing about the role of the fleet.

During the period of the Third Reich, because the navy couldn't explode its troops, it first thought about playing sabotage warfare, and after failing, it went to play tricks such as unlimited submarine warfare.Although it was indeed possible to achieve momentary brilliance, it could not escape defeat after all-the famous sea wolf tactics had almost no effect on the entire war in the last year or two.

The main premise on which all the existence value of the navy depends is to be able to win the decisive battle at sea!In the eyes of Gao Pragmatism, if the navy wants to do it, it must be the first, because only the first is decisive, and it is useless to be the second—unless you can ensure that you will never turn against the first navy.

But that is obviously impossible, because the navy itself is an offensive arm, and the value of its existence is to gain command of the sea through offense.If you are number two, can the number one navy come to beat you and kill the danger in its infancy?
Unless, like the American emperor after the disintegration of the Red Empire in the north, it maintains the strength to beat the sum of other navies in the world for a long time, then there is no need to fight the second child.

Of course, the development of weapons in that era was very different from what it is now, and there was a situation where "big powers do not directly war with big powers".This situation has a lot to do with the "asymmetric advantage" in terms of weapons and equipment. For example, the anti-ship capability of hypersonic missiles, no one dares to try it, so when another Second Navy starts At the time of its rapid rise, the U.S. emperor, as the boss of the navy, seemed to have nothing to do.

In short, in Luo Yuan's opinion, even if the navy of Toyotomi's family buys ships according to the current specifications for ten years in a row, it will not be able to defeat the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet.This idea did not come out of thin air, but was supported by internal top-secret information.

After Luo Yuan became the commander of the Kanto Squadron, he received the "Vision for the Establishment of the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet in the 20th Year of Wanli" planned by Gao Yushi himself.In this "vision", Gao Pragmatism made detailed arrangements for the size of the two-ocean fleet two years later.

There is no need to elaborate on the garrison of the main fleet and each sub-fleet for the time being. Just talking about the total amount will explain why Luo Yuan thinks that the Toyotomi family can’t beat the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet even after buying a ship for ten years:

"By the end of the 20th year of Wanli, the Dongyang Fleet will have one first-class battleship, three second-class battleships, eight third-class battleships, twelve first-class cruisers, 24 second-class cruisers, and 140 armed transport ships.

The Nanyang Fleet needs to have four first-class battleships, seven second-class battleships, seventeen third-class battleships, 28 first-class cruisers, 36 second-class cruisers, and 280 armed transport ships. "

In this vision, only armed transport ships are the closest to the target, and the total shortfall is only 34 ships.Cruisers (including high-speed reconnaissance ships) have the largest total shortage, but since the construction experience has been accumulated enough, it only needs to expand production.

The problem lies in the battleships. Not only is the total amount of the first, second, and third-tier battleships far behind the boss, but Jinghua doesn’t even have a first-tier battleship, and there is not even a second-tier battleship in service. Only one has just been launched and is currently in Zhuchi ( Beibu Gulf) for sea trials.

Of course, there are many reasons for the delay in the construction of battleships. One is that Gao Yushi is very concerned about this kind of costly warship, so that the two major shipyards compete with each other, and the design drawings have been changed again and again. It's not once or twice;

The second is that the timber needed for battleships cannot be cut from the mountains and needs to be properly dried for many years. Although Gao Yushi has started a lot of preparations since he was in Guangxi, the stock is enough, but there is no shortcut in terms of time—the largest The shortcut is to transport it to the inland of southern Xinjiang (the coast is too tidal), and dry it in the shade in a high temperature environment (but not exposed to the sun)... In short, it is just ready for use.

Fortunately, when all the conditions are ripe, the construction speed of ships in this era is much faster than the large warships of later generations.After all, the displacement is many times smaller, and the ship does not have those extremely complicated circuit equipment, electronic equipment and other high-tech equipment—for example, on an aircraft carrier in the 21st century, the total length of wires and cables alone is as high as more than 2000 kilometers , to install more than [-] telephones, it can almost be said to be a steel city on the sea.

However, it is much easier to build warships in this era. Basically, you only need to build the main body of the ship and install the artillery on it. China has never been short of woodworkers.

According to Luo Yuan's estimation, Jinghua's two major shipyards and the third shipyard under construction in Dingnan may significantly reduce the production of armed transport ships in the next two years, thus fully shifting production capacity to warship construction.As for what to do with the market gap in Daming's domestic market after the production capacity of armed transport ships has dropped, Luo Yuan is not clear, but he believes that the master must have a plan.

In fact, Gao Pragmatism does have a plan, which is "maintenance outsourcing".That is to say, Jinghua's three major shipyards (including the soon-to-be-built Dingnan Shipyard) will only be responsible for construction, and the maintenance work of the armed transport ships that were originally lucrative will be transferred to the object he intends to win over as a profit distribution.

After the money business is settled, it is easy to talk about political matters.Toyotomi Hidecho first made a point, requesting the Maritime Trade Alliance to express its support for Kanbai Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification of Japan, and submit a letter of credence to the Ming emperor on his behalf, asking the Ming court to recognize Japan's "Toyotomi Gongyi".

Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself has always underestimated the strength of Ming Dynasty, especially in terms of military strength, but he is aware of Ming Dynasty's political influence, especially its political influence on Japan.The reason for asking the Maritime Trade Alliance to submit the letter of credence is also because of political influence.

There is no way around it. In the past, the shogunate of any dynasty had to seek approval from China. Let alone the family of the Ashikaga shogunate of the Muromachi shogunate. Aren’t they all “Kings of Japan” conferred by the Ming Dynasty?

Whether you like it or not, no one can ignore China's influence on this three-acre land in East Asia.It doesn’t matter what Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself thinks, the important thing is that if Daming approves and canonize it, there will definitely be a lot of silence in Japan-don’t look at everyone seems to be quite obedient now, but as long as Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s brain is not confused, he must know Many big names just forbear for the time being, but in fact many are dormant and waiting for the opportunity.

With the canonization of Ming Dynasty, Fengchen Gongyi would be safe, at least no one would dare to say that Fengchen Gongyi was not orthodox.The pot that Oda Nobunaga expelled the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and brought to Toyotomi Hideyoshi by the way was officially unloaded.

For this condition, Luo Yuan agreed conditionally. "Conditional" means that Luo Yuan promised Toyotomi Hideaga, saying that his master would agree to submit this letter of credence on behalf of Toyotomi's family, but Luo Yuan did not dare to blindly agree to the emperor's reaction after seeing the letter of credence— — Whether to admit it or not is a matter for His Majesty the Emperor, and it doesn't matter what other people say, so no one can guarantee it.

This answer was also given by Gao Yushi in advance, because Gao Yushi made plans for the most likely reactions of the Toyotomi family, and told Luo Yuan how to deal with them one by one.

Toyotomi Hideaga had no objection to this, and even felt that "it's going well", and then proposed another one: since the Maritime Trade Alliance recognizes Guan Bai's orthodox status, it should immediately cut off the cooperation with the "traitor public enemy" Hojo family , took back the Marine Corps and no longer provided any form of support to the Hojo family.

Of course, Luo Yuan has to bargain. He correspondingly proposed that it is possible for the Maritime Trade Alliance to suspend cooperation with the Hojo family and stop supporting them, but there are three major prerequisites:
First, Toyotomi Hideyoshi needs to recognize the legality and validity of the Misaki Castle Lease Contract signed between the Maritime Trade Alliance and the Hojo family as his Samurai Sekibai, and ensure that this contract can be successfully completed in the future;

Second, Ninja City, as "the territory of Mrs. Ru's natal family", should not continue to be attacked. Guan Bai needs to withdraw his troops from Ninja City immediately, and ensure that the Narita clan in Ninja City will not be held accountable after this battle. independent and legitimate dominion".

Third, Misaki Castle was established as the first port of the Kanto region by the Maritime Trade Alliance. It is reasonable and legal to conduct business in any region of the Kanto region. The Japanese court, that is, localities, cannot impose additional taxes, and must unify various tax rates.After the tax was paid, the Japanese imperial court (actually the Toyotomi family) and the daimyo from all over the world did not care about how to share the accounts of the maritime trade alliance.

For Luo Yuan's request, Toyotomi Hideaga readily agreed to the first and third items, but he raised different opinions on the second item.

Toyotomi Hidecho said that Guanbai had decided before the war that after the eradication of the Hojo clan, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Tokugawa Ieyasu, would be moved here.Since the location of Ninja Castle is surrounded by the Tokugawa fiefdom, it is actually impossible to maintain the so-called "independent and legal ruling status", so he proposed that the Narita clan also transfer the feudal title.

Luo Yuan asked where the Narita clan was transferred, and Toyotomi Hidecho said that Guan Bai had not yet decided.Luo Yuan said: "In this case, please move the Narita family to Yusheng City in the north of Misaki. If Guan Bai can agree, the matter will be settled."

Toyotomi Hideki pondered for a moment, and said: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely convince Lord Guan Bai."
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