Datang first village

Wang Ba used cannons to open the way, but then it was to distribute food to the Japanese workers.

The news quickly spread through the Japanese businessmen and the Tang spies lurking on Wa Island.

Wang Ba will stop here in Guodong for three days.Those within a day's voyage of Kitakyushu, Ube, etc. dared to let Wangba come to the door again, and the lords brought representatives of the Japanese workers' family members to come here to collect food, and shipped the food back in their ships.

As for whether or not the Japanese lords will be robbed, Wang Ba doesn't care.The Datang people he cares about mean what they say, and they will never owe wages.

"General, that cannonball costs six pennies per shot." The gunner finally finished flipping through the thick book of regulations, and came to Wang Ba with a troubled expression on his face.

"Six, six pennies?" Wang Ba felt his face cramp.

It's not shells, it's money.Liuguan money is a lot of money!

"The casing is made of pure copper. I can't tell if the shell is made of iron or lead, or mixed. I went to check the brand new shell. The regulations say that a six-coin coin is probably true."

does it worth?

Wang Ba began to have doubts. You must know that the Japanese gave 20 shi of grain a month, and the calculation of Datang would be [-] shi.How much is Nanyang rice like [-] shi, that is, [-] guan.It is said that in Donggang of this country, all the food distributed is not worth the money of these sixteen shells.

Sixteen coins, that's more than 100 coins.

"Oh!" Wang Ba slapped himself heavily: "I knew it would be too expensive to use the old artillery. This is a free fight, and I don't know how much gold was knocked out. These bastard Japanese. What a bastard. Go further in and tell the rest of the ships to fire, and the Xiang Yu should not fire any more lightly."

The purchasing power of Datang’s current Liuguan money is almost equivalent to more than 2 yuan in later generations.

A four-inch ordinary shell costs more than 2 yuan.On the one hand, Datang’s industrial technology is not good, and on the other hand, Datang’s metal itself is expensive. At first, the trial production price of the first shell was more than [-] guan, but after improving the manufacturing capacity, it was reduced to [-] guan.

Six pennies.It's just a calculation with a different image.

Six pennies.You can buy ordinary high-quality rice for 130 to 150 shi.It is not bad for a family to eat two or three stone rice a month, for ordinary poor families.This shell can make a family of five eat good rice for two or three years.Calculated as such.How can you say it is not expensive?

It's no wonder that Wang Ba regretted that he had fired from the sixteen cannons.

The Japanese know what shells are.What is war.What is a giant ship.

Rice is everything in Japanese eyes.Whether it is a Japanese worker or the lord of Wajima.It's a little crazy for this rice.

Every city lord has robbed Japanese workers of rice, and Guodong City lord is no exception.

When Wang Ba's fleet left, the lord of Guodong City sent people to the various houses that led the rice.Only this time, he seemed to have changed a bit.A person was sent to tell all the family members of the Japanese workers: "Every family only needs to pay one-fifth of the rice. This is tax."

As long as one-fifth is handed in, there are still four-fifths.

The Japanese agreed without any resistance.

The male city lord was the only exception. All the guards at the port withdrew, leaving the port to Wang Ba.

"For this sensible person, pile up an extra [-] stones!" Wang Ba was very generous.

That night, the Lord of Datian City quietly came to the pier in a woman's attire.

The sentinels believed it only after seeing the token left by Wang Ba.

"What did the Yiyi family get?" Da Tian Kazuo saw Wang Ba, and went straight to the point without turning a corner.

Wang Ba smiled: "What do you have in the Datian family?"

"There are many people rebelling over there, because they are all ordinary untouchables rebelling, so there is no big wave at all. If you support us lords to re-establish the emperor, we will be the most trusted collaborators of Datang." Kazuo Ota took out own chips.

Wang Ba didn't answer, and pretended to be thinking with his head down.

In fact, I was cursing in my heart, Kazuo Ota is that bird, dare to challenge Ben here.Wang Ba had an urge to turn his back on him, but he still remembered a passage Wang Jishan said to him, one of which said, when you want to kill someone in your heart, you might as well drink a cup of tea and take a break.

If you really want to kill, just kill.

However, there are many ways to kill people. You should read the theory of His Highness King Qin's sheep cannibalism.

"Okay, what do you want?" Wang Ba endured it.

"What does a family have, what does Datian want?" Datian Kazuo asked loudly.

Wang Ba really wanted to point at this guy's nose and curse, and then ask him, why are you?

But this is not a place to turn faces. Wang Ba’s mission this time is to distribute grain. To put it cruelly, Wang Ba is responsible for distributing grain, so that the grain of these Japanese civilians will be robbed by the nobles. popular support.

Will the Ota Kazuo in front of him be a collaborator, or whether he is worthy of cooperation.

"City Master Datian go back to rest first, Rong Ben will think about it." Wang Ba thought that now is not the time to reply.

Ota Kazuo was not in a hurry, and he didn't expect Wang Ba to give any answer, so he said immediately: "I can wait, until next month, General Wang will come to Wa Island again. My big man's family hopes to get the King Qin of the Tang Dynasty. Handwritten. Resignation!" After saying this, without waiting for Wang Ba to respond, he turned and left.

Wang Ba stared at Kazuo Ota's background for a long time.

"What kind of thing is this?" Wang Ba asked the staff officers beside him.

Several staff officers shook their heads: "It's hard to say. This guy is very powerful. He is the only one who hasn't robbed Japanese people of food. We have no excuse to kill him. If we just kill him like this, I'm afraid it will affect the future plan. "

"But I just want him to die?" Wang Ba's eyes were full of killing intent.

A staff officer said beside him: "If not, kill him. You don't need a reason, just kill him. The Japanese don't know why we killed this guy."

"No, take him away!" Another staff officer said.

"Any good ideas?" Wang Ba became interested.

"Just say, what he wants, he can talk about it by himself. Yiyi's family also talked about it in the same way. Tell him to go to Chang'an to formally file with the Ministry of Rites, and then wait for the Qin Palace to summon him. If he doesn't even agree with this, he must His Highness gave him an explanation and killed him directly, the reason is disrespect!"

Wang Ba bit a cigarette: "This one seems very interesting. It's just that, taking him to Chang'an City like this, it's hard to explain to His Highness. This reputation is not good, and His Highness is now in Huating."

"Send it to Jeju Island and see if he can survive." The staff officer smiled sinisterly.

Wang Ba patted the staff officer's shoulder heavily: "It's a good plan, let's do it like this."

However, Wang Ba did not ask to see Kazuo Ota immediately, but drove the boat to the inland sea of ​​Wa Island for a few more ports.

Wajima Sakai Spring Port is a place tens of miles south of Osaka Castle in later generations.It is only a hundred miles away from the capital city of Wajima Yamato, Heijo-kyo.

Facing hundreds of catapults, Wang Ba ordered Xiang Yu to turn the ship across at a distance of five miles, and then opened the gun doors, exposing all the gun ports.

Some of Wang Ba's subordinates shouted: "Call the family of that Japanese worker of yours to get the food. If you dare to move, we will blow up your port. There is only one round of artillery in Guodong Port. I don't know how many times you can block it here." wheel.

It has long been heard that Datang's fleet entered the inland sea and instantly blew up Kunitsu Port, so Prince Shotoku was waiting at Jiequan Port.Full of intentions to let Datang know the determination of the Japanese people to fight, but when he saw the giant ship of the Datang people tens of feet long, Prince Shotoku felt a kind of fear.

Not only him, but all Japanese soldiers have lost their fighting spirit.

"If you don't answer, you refuse. Our general will fire after dozens of voices." After finishing speaking, the caller began to count down, ten, nine, eight...

On the count of three, the flag of Jiequangang was lowered.

Wang Ba stood on the deck: "Are you sure you can break the flagpole, but try not to hurt anyone."

"Just look at it." The gunner responded, and gave an order to the best gunner under his command.When the flag was lowered halfway, a shot broke the flagpole, and the shell exploded on a hill after flying about ten miles away.

"The flagpole was interrupted, so it shouldn't hurt anyone." Wang Ba just laughed heartily as his subordinate reported.

It's only five miles away, even if you can't see the face clearly, you can still see the laughing gesture.Prince Shotoku's heart was bleeding, and he turned sideways involuntarily, and glanced at the landing point of the shell from the corner of his eye.He didn't dare to look back, fearing that he would lose his momentum.

The people on the boat continued to yell at the Japanese: "Our general said, your flag is lowering too slowly, we will help you."

"You bastard!" Prince Shotoku hated, but there was nothing he could do.

Ships began to unload goods one by one, and at least 4 laborers have put down food here.

Seeing the mountains of rice piled up on the pier, Prince Shotoku didn't understand at all why he actually sent rice to their family when Datang Wanwan could use those as slaves.You must know that this time it is hundreds of thousands of stone meters, so much rice can support a large-scale war launched by any local noble group in the country of Wa.

Or, let your own territory not have to farm for a year, but also have something to eat.

"Order, move these rice to our warehouse." Prince Shotoku ordered.

Some Japanese generals didn't understand: "What if the Tang people are angry?"

Will the Tang people be angry?Wang Ba's big ship was already far away, and the last few small boats that unloaded the goods didn't bother to care about what would happen to the rice, after dumping the rice on the boat.Let any Japanese official on the pier press a fingerprint, and then drive the boat away.The Japanese didn't even take a second look at it.

What do the people of Tang Dynasty want to do?

Prince Shotoku was puzzled.

When Wang Ba went back, he picked up Kazuo Ota according to the staff's plan.

Da Tian Kazuo never thought that this was a conspiracy, because if he wanted to kill him, the Datang people could kill him at any time.Being willing to negotiate with him means that he has value, and this value is higher than that of a family. . )