golden scales

Hosokawa Maharu is not a playboy who doesn't understand anything.

Less than 100 years after the end of the Warring States period, he is still very clear about his identity and mission—in the future, he will support his elder brother Zong Yizhen's rule in Tsushima Island as a member of the family, promote the family name of the clan, and not shame the ancestors.

"If you can really get a big tube, I can convince my father to buy it." Maharu Hosokawa said, "But the price..."

"A big tube only costs a thousand taels of silver." Lin Zongsheng added: "Sulfur, copper, gold and other commodities can also be used for settlement."

There used to be a silver mine in Mount Sasu on Tsushima Island, but it has been almost exhausted in recent years due to long-term mining.

In addition, there is lead in Tsushima Island, but Lin Zongsheng did not mention it, and it may not be sold at a bid.

In any case, it's a big tube!

As a member of the former Western Army camp, Hosokawa Maharu was also educated since childhood that the Tokugawa Shogunate was not his friend.

Moreover, not only can Tsushima use a big tube to defend himself, but he can also sell the big tube to any feudal clan, even the shogun. This is a weapon for military affairs!

"1000 taels of silver..." Hosokawa shook his head, "What else can I benefit from?"

Lin Zongsheng said with a smile: "It may be difficult to lower the price of the big cylinder in the Ming Dynasty, but Zhenchun Palace can extract labor costs from projectiles and gunpowder. Especially when Zhenchun Palace resells the gunpowder to other feudal lords, as long as one A small handful, if you replace it with fine sand, no one will know." Update [-] East Neighbor Night Banquet Song Shang Qi Hosokawa Maharu couldn't help grinning.

This sale is totally doable!

……

"Why did you go to meet Zong Yicheng before reporting?"

"What did you say in your conversation?"

"Are you aware that you leaked information about the source and speed of our army's officers' replenishment?"

"Did you accept the other party's gift? Entertainment?"

"Have you agreed on a time and place to meet next time?"

……

Fortunately, Yang Wei submitted the report on his own initiative, and the hearing he received was not too sharp.In the end, he was found to be a low-level leaker and sentenced to three days of confinement.

Fortunately, no stain was left on the file.

However, Park Deok-hwan, a North Korean servant, was not so lucky. He was expelled from the army and sent back to North Korea because of his arbitrariness.

Now the whole North Korea knows that serving in the Ming army is a great thing for Guangzong Yaozu.Once you successfully pass the service period, you will be able to leave the humble status.If you have military exploits during your service, you can even get the nationality of Ming Dynasty and move to live in Ming Dynasty.

Daming!That is a place that is not much better than the Paradise of Elysium.Even rural old women know that it is better to join the army than to believe in Buddhism.After all, the Buddha can only let you live in bliss in the next life.But joining the army may allow you to go to the Western Ming Dynasty in this life—or the Paradise of Elysium.Update [-] East Neighbor Night Banquet Song Shang Qi In short, Yang Wei never saw this North Korean servant again.When he came out of the confinement room, there was an attendant as thin as a monkey waiting outside the door.His name was Kogoro, and he was the first batch of volunteers Chen De recruited in Japan.

Because Japan's national status is low, and it is not a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, these Japanese soldiers cannot be formal members of the Ming army, and can only be an independent team outside the staff.Name: Japanese volunteers.

The Japanese volunteers were further divided into cavalry and infantry. The former were ronin and wild samurai capable of fighting, while the latter were mostly bankrupt commoners who came to earn a living.Therefore, the former was placed in North Korea by Chen De to supplement his combat power, while the latter stayed in Japan mostly as a handyman and laborer.

Today, the Japanese volunteer army has a scale of thousands of people.

"Don't think that you can disregard military discipline if you leave Daming. If you come in again, even the Japanese soldiers will be useless." Outside the confinement room.A lieutenant officer in charge of this place taught Yang Wei dissatisfiedly.

Yang Wei gave the military salute helplessly, scratched his itchy scalp, and tentatively asked the Japanese soldier, "Can you understand Chinese?"...

"Hay!" The Japanese soldier tried his best to pull himself together, puffing out his chest.

"Then take me back to the station and take a shower first." Yang Wei said.

"Hay!"

"..." Yang Wei looked at the serious attendant and said, "Let's go."

"Hay!"

"You don't really understand what I'm saying, do you?"

"Ha... Yi..."

"..."

Never imagined.Yang Wei finally returned to the camp and took a bath as he wished.

Because I ran into Wei Yun who came to lead the people.

Wei Yun returned to Tsushima one step earlier than Chen De, and the reason for coming back was to meet the staff officer sent by the General Staff as soon as possible so that he could assign work.

In North Korea and Japan, any Ming military officer is as precious as spring rain.In particular, military officers who graduated from the Armed Forces University, even if their qualifications are mediocre, they can definitely undertake daily routine work, unlike the Koreans and Japanese who need to be taught by hand.

As soon as Wei Yun got ashore, he got the news that Yang Wei had been detained in confinement, but he sneered at the charge of "leaking secrets".

How much secret can a little second lieutenant who just arrived in Japan reveal?

Wei Yun ordered people to drive the carriage and go to the punishment camp.

However, after seeing Yang Wei, Wei Yun fell silent.

Yang Wei is really too young, so young that it almost makes people feel unreliable.

Can this young man of sixteen or seventeen really restrain his soldiers?

After Wei Yun picked up Yang Wei, he didn't speak all the way.

Yang Wei returned to the camp, put away his rattan box, took a shower, changed into his military uniform, and went to Wei Yun's dormitory.Wei Yun was a little surprised by Yang Wei's visit. Generally speaking, it is very rude for a junior officer to visit his superior so hastily, unless there is a sufficiently important military situation.

"Tsushima Fan is full of vigilance against us." Yang Wei said surprisingly.

Wei Yun didn't change his expression, and asked, "Why did you say that?"

"Otherwise, the feudal lord here would not care about the number of junior officers in our army." Yang Wei said, "Although the lowly officer made the mistake of leaking secrets, panic can also be seen from the astonishment of the feudal lord. If they sincerely form an alliance with our court, we will The stronger the army, the more at ease he should be."

Wei Yun was noncommittal after listening, but changed his perfunctory expression just now, and asked the servants to make a cup of tea for Yang Wei.

"This is last year's autumn tea. The conditions are limited, so let's drink it." Wei Yun said.

"Thank you." Yang Wei thanked him, but he didn't really like tea.He lost his life as a scholar when he was too young.There are not so many exquisite habits.

Wei Yun himself took a sip of tea, and said, "In Japan, I never expected them to be loyal to Daming. Whether they are loyal or not has nothing to do with our work. Your specific duties are..."

"Ensure that the North Korean Army can implement the established plan of the General Staff Headquarters." Yang Wei said.

"Very good." Wei Yun said with disdain in his heart, "You can definitely see that every action of ours is carried out around the established plan. But Japan is in short supply of manpower. You can't just stand aside and watch .About work. What are you good at?"

Although Yang Wei took a shower and washed his hair well with saponins, he couldn't help but reach out and scratch his scalp.Slowly said: "If you are good at it... Maybe it is writing reports."

Wei Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's impossible for me to let a second lieutenant officer do what a female officer can do. Go back and think about it first, and make sure before Chen Junmen comes back."

"Yes!" Yang Wei stood up, saluted, and left.

Sitting on a chair, Wei Yun watched him go out, took a sip of tea.I thought of a very good arrangement in my mind, but I don't know how long it will take him to learn Japanese.

Yang Wei came out of Wei Yun's dormitory and returned to his one-foot-long dormitory. Feeling bored, he took out a book of "Yi Zhou Shu" from the rattan box and started to read it. He didn't put down the book until the light-off signal came from the camp.Lie down on the plank bed and fell into a deep sleep.In the instant before he fell into a deep sleep, he seemed to see the moonlight shining through the pane and falling on him.

But he fell asleep indifferently, until the wake-up call sounded early the next morning.

This was Yang Wei's first night in Japan, and it was the same as nearly a thousand nights in the future.Peace, stability, and solitude.

……

"This is Zongyi Zhendian, he is the eldest son of the lord of the Tsushima Domain." Wei Yun called Yang Wei and introduced him.

"My servant is Yang Wei, Second Lieutenant of Ming Dynasty." Yang Wei used modest words, but did not salute.

Zong Yi was really not displeased at all, stood up and bowed, and introduced himself again.

Wei Yun said to Yang Wei: "I invite you here today to analyze the Shimabara Rebellion. You can directly say that Yizhendian's Chinese is very good."

Zong Yizhen didn't know Chinese at first, but because of Daming's attack on North Korea, he was keenly aware of the existence of Daming, so he invited monks and businessmen who were proficient in Chinese from Ming and North Korea to be his teachers.

Because he has been taught Chinese characters since he was a child, it is not difficult just to speak.Coupled with his diligence and intelligence, he was able to speak Mandarin with a strong Shandong accent in just two years.

"The Shimabara Rebellion..." Yang Wei got the question unprepared and walked to the sand table.

On the sand table, the main battlefield of the Battle of Shimabara, flags of various colors have also been prepared on the side.

Yang Wei replayed the offensive and defensive lines of each unit according to the combat records in his hands, slowly and heavily.At the same time, analyze the tactical purpose of the two commanders and their impact on the overall strategy.The organization is clear and the logic is coherent, which made Zongyi really admire him several times.

"One side is a well-trained 12 shogunate army, and the other side is a mob with actual combat strength of more than [-] people. The shogunate army outnumbers the few. It seems that the outcome is obvious." Teach without the slightest interest.However, he felt dissatisfied with killing so many civilians despite the shogunate's ban on religion.

This grievance made Yang Wei involuntarily enter the camp of the Christian army.He said: "But I think that if the rebel army has the organizational ability of our army, even if the combat power is weaker, the 12 shogunate army may not be able to successfully wipe out it."

This is what Wei Yun wants to hear.

Is this meeting Zong Yi's true whim?

In fact, it is the Ming army's investment in the future governor of the clan!

Allowing the next patriarch of the clan to learn the fighting ideas of the Ming army aroused his desire to reform the military and increase his reliance on the Ming army.

And the basis of everything is to make Zong Yi really admire him.

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