However, Lan Xiang Hua Chu's answer disappointed Yu Qiuping - because the drawings and technology brought by Itami Yasuki and the others were very fragmentary, and Lan Xiang Hua Chu and the others had never seen a real artillery piece, the imitation process suffered a setback.
Bottleneck. In the past few years, they have been busy producing iron cannons, long guns, short knives and utensils. It was not easy to complete the replacement of all the Tokiwabei and Mingbeibi, but they have not put much energy into the artillery.
It seems difficult to expect the Department of Military Industry to develop artillery in a short period of time, but the threat of Awaji Navy from Anzai Toyasu is like the sword of Damocles, always hanging over Sakai Port. Yu Qiupei tried to collect some large cannons, but failed
It was found that most of the cannons were fake and defective products, and the few large cannons that could fire normally were of pitiful power - according to Yasuki Itami's calculations, they couldn't even compare to a one-pound cannon. In desperation, they had no choice but to ask for help.
Congress put forward a proposal to purchase artillery from Nanman merchants.
When Yu Qiuping submitted the budget bill for purchasing large tubes to Congress for review, he unexpectedly encountered opposition. At this moment, in the hall of Congress, Yu Qiuping was standing on the podium, talking to the businessmen and representatives of wealthy families in the audience.
Start a debate.
"The top priority is not to quickly build a navy that can compete with the Awaji navy?" Hara Yorifusa, the leader of the upper house and the respected leader of a wealthy family, saw that everyone was a little surprised but no one dared to speak. He relied on himself and Yu Qiuping.
After many years of friendship, he was the first to stand up and said: "I know that I have never seen the world, and I have never seen the big cannon that His Highness described, but I heard from several bosses that it was just a larger iron cannon. Anyway, I said
, All wars depend on soldiers, what’s the use of just having a bunch of large iron cannons?”
"Your Highness, I also understand this, but it is not realistic to build a navy now." In order to persuade the two houses of parliament to approve his large budget, Yu Qiuping specially brought Itami Yasukyo, "Next, please
Navy expert Itami-sama is here to explain it to you. Itami-sama used to be the commander of the Imagawa family’s navy. He also traveled to Europa for many years and is very familiar with Europa’s naval technology.”
"Your Highness has given you the award, how can I deserve such praise?" Itami Yasukawa's dark cheeks turned red, and he nodded towards Yu Qiuping in embarrassment, and then walked up to the podium. He told Yu Qiuping what he had said at that time.
He repeated the rhetoric of not rushing to build a navy, and explained it to the members of Congress, and soon got their understanding.
"Then I wonder if we can invite our Shima Navy to come and help in the battle?" Nonomura Yukinari gave another suggestion. The Shima Navy he mentioned is currently commanded by Kuki Yoshitaka. Shima Country is located in the southeast of Ise Country.
This small corner along the coast has a stone height of less than 20,000 koku and is not even as large as a county. However, since Shima Country is a strategic point in the Ise Bay, it has been rich in various naval forces, that is, pirates, since ancient times. And Kuuki
Yoshitaka's Shima Navy had been loyal to the Oda family before the Ise Kingdom was taken over by Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga was very optimistic about this capable subordinate, and also ordered all the nearby naval forces belonging to the Oda family to
If assigned to his command, there would probably be more than two hundred large and small ships in total.
After defeating the Mishima Navy of the Mori family and dominating the Seto Inland Sea, the Awaji Navy under Fuyayasu Anzhai may have a total number of ships of 800, among which the number of giant Anzhai ships is even more numerous - and Shima
The navy only has three giant Anzha ships. Letting the Shima navy fight against the Awaji navy is useless - the first battle of Kijinguchi in the history of Yu Qiupei's previous life ended in a disastrous defeat for Kuki Yoshiro - but at that time
His opponent was the Maori navy.
Later, the solution that Oda Nobunaga and Kuki Yoshitaka solved was to build an ironclad ship. The ironclad ship covered the outside of the ship with iron sheets and removed the redundant masts and sails to achieve fire protection, arrow protection, iron cannon resistance, and roasting bomb resistance. effect, in order to strengthen the defense. He switched to using large wheels driven by human power as power, and
Using iron cannons and large barrels as attack methods, they successfully defeated the Maori navy.
Yu Qiuping once proposed this idea to Itami Yasukichi, but this idea was scorned by Itami Yasukichi. He bluntly pointed out to Yu Qiuping: Such a design would turn the ship into a coffin floating on the sea. Indeed, because A large number of Japanese ships are used for naval battles in rivers or offshore areas such as the Seto Inland Sea, and there is not much consideration for maneuverability and stability against sea winds. The structures of Japan's small morning ships, Kanbune ships and Anzha ships are all similar. Building a small rock fortress on a deck and fighting naval battles as land battles is indeed like a coffin. The ironclad ship is even worse, even the masts and sails are removed, almost moving a small city to the sea Come and fight.
"But this living coffin is indeed useful, isn't it?" Yu Qiuping once retorted at that time.
"His maneuverability is really poor, and his speed is so slow that he is almost like a turtle being beaten." Itami Yasuyoshi refused righteously, "It can only be used for defense and has no offensive capabilities. I want to use it from After driving out of Sakai Town, we probably have to rely on trackers to pull it along the shore. If we want to build it, we need to build a Western-style mast battleship."
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After learning that the Shima Navy was completely unable to compete with the Awaji Navy, the leaders of the wealthy families in the Upper House stopped. But the businessmen in the Lower House were talking to each other in embarrassment, not knowing what they were thinking.
"What's wrong? Could it be that the price of the big tube is too expensive?" Yu Qiuping asked in surprise when he saw the merchants in such a dilemma.
"It's not a matter of price, but those Southern Barbarians may not be willing to sell." Tsuda Muneji, who has always dealt with arms more often, said with some difficulty, "To be honest, in order to prevent Sakai Town from being threatened, we have also tried We bought large barrels from Nanman merchants, but they were unwilling to sell them at all costs. Even if their boats had dozens of large barrels lined up on both sides of the ship, they were still unwilling to sell them. Even if we offered a few thousand taels, we would not sell them. The price was ten thousand taels of silver, but they still refused."
"Is that so..." Yu Qiuping frowned, feeling very worried about the attitude of the Nanman merchants. Yes, in terms of his understanding of the history of Japan's Warring States Period, it seems that only Otomo Zonglin got several countries from the Nanman merchants. ), relying on them to withstand the fierce attack of the Shimazu army. The reason why those Nanman merchants were willing to sell the artillery to Otomo Sorin was probably because Otomo Sorin himself had converted to Christianity and was vigorously promoting Christianity in the territory. Not only did they worship on time, but also built buildings Churches, encouraged missionaries, and wantonly demolished Buddhist temples. Such actions also succeeded in making him angry and resentful in Japan, where Buddhism is prevalent. This is something Yu Qiupei could not do in any case - because the Honganji Temple is right behind him. .If he converts to paganism for the sake of Otsutsuki, Honganji will break the truce agreement and attack him without saying a word.
"How about this? I'll ask Sena-sama to go talk and give it a try." After Yu Qiuping hesitated for a long time, he made up his mind to give it a try, "Bosses, could you please help Sena-sama make a recommendation?"
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"What? Hongye, you want me to use 5,000 taels of gold to buy a big tube?" Sena Shiyi just heard Yu Qiuping's request for a few seconds, and immediately jumped up like a hair, and pinched Yu Qiuping with both hands.
neck, and yelled at him, spitting on Yu Qiuping's face, "Are you crazy? Do you know what 5,000 taels of gold is? That's 20,000 taels of gold! 20,000 taels of gold, a full 20,000 taels of gold, you
Just buy a big tube? Buy a lump of iron? Can that lump of iron be sold by the pound for 10 pieces?"
Yu Qiuping had long expected that Sena Shiyi would fall into madness, but he was still frightened by his appearance and was speechless for a while.
"Hongye, why don't you speak? Ah? Why don't you speak?" Se
When Ming Shiyi saw that Yu Qiuping had stopped speaking, he started to shake Yu Qiuping's neck even more angrily, and at the same time continued to yell: "You have the ability to buy guns, but why don't you have the ability to speak? Ah? You speak!"
"No, no, Yoshihei, please listen to my explanation!" Yu Qiupei was pinched by Sena Uji, so he couldn't breathe. He hurriedly opened Sena Uji's palm with both hands and gasped repeatedly with a red face.
"Why do you spend money randomly? Why do you!" However, Sena Shiyi did not calm down. Even though he was not as strong as Yu Qiuping and was controlled by Yu Qiuping, he was still yelling and knocking people outside the door.
Longzi was so frightened that he quietly opened the door and observed secretly, fearing that something might happen.
"This is not your money!" Yu Qiuping stared at Sena Shiyi's eyes, and suddenly let out a loud roar. Sena Shiyi was suppressed, and when Sena Shiyi didn't react, Yu Qiuping flew quickly again
Repeated three times:
"This is not your money!"
"This is not your money!"
"This is not your money!"
"Isn't this my money? Then whose money is this?" Sena Shiyoshi asked foolishly, unable to calm down.
"It's the money of those businessmen, the taxes they pay! These money are the taxes they paid, not the taxes of the Mitsubishi Caravan!" Yu Qiuping said to Sena Shiyi like a brainwash, "You are spending other people's money now.
Money! Spend other people’s money! Spend other people’s money!”
"Spending... other people's money?" Sena Shiyi muttered to himself somewhat dullly, as if he had been successfully hypnotized by Yu Qiuping. Seeing this, Yu Qiuping quickly made further negotiation requirements to Sena Shiyi: "When the time comes, I will
A boss will recommend you to negotiate with a Nanman businessman! You must keep these two points in mind! First, you must use gold when paying the bill! Do not use silver! In the future, all transactions with Nanman people will be done in gold, not silver.
!”
"Why is this?" Sena Shiyoshi came to his senses and immediately asked excitedly after realizing that it was a financial problem.
"Because in Japan, our gold and silver exchange ratio is about 1:4, but in Europe, the gold and silver exchange ratio is more than 1:10!" Yu Qiuping recalled the knowledge he learned in his previous life and whispered,
"So as long as what we pay is gold, we don't have to spend more money, but for those southern barbarians, it is equivalent to more than three times the profit!"
"Also! Don't be afraid of spending money! Spend a lot of money and knock that Nanman businessman unconscious!" Yu Qiuping made a gesture of throwing something hard, for fear that Sena Shiyi's understanding was not deep enough, "I don't need you.
I don’t have that much money to buy a lot of big barrels, and the Nanman people won’t sell that many, so you don’t have to bargain! It just costs a lot of money to buy two or three doors! I’m not here for defense, I’m buying them for Hanamaru.
They are doing experiments! Let them study these big barrels and find a way to make cannons themselves! If we can make iron cannons ourselves, then the big barrels can also be used!"
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Sena Clan is Sena Clan. The business that the Sakai merchants had not negotiated finally succeeded with his eloquence and no expense spared. He spent 10,000 taels of gold to buy it back for Yu Qiuping 3
Large cannons (itami Yasuki's appraisal showed that these three are all three-pound cannons) - it seems that Sena Uji has successfully bargained for the price. As expected, asking Sena Uji not to bargain is like letting the sun rise from the west.
possible.
After having these three large cannons, Yu Qiuping immediately sent them to the Military Industry Department of Lanxiang Huachou, asking them to work overtime to study and find ways to come up with molds and systematic cannon-casting methods, and strive to cast cannons by themselves as soon as possible.
Sena Shiyi looked at the big tube he bought at a huge price and was sent to the Military Industry Department like this. He couldn't help but feel that his heart was bleeding. He pestered Yu Qiuping more than once, and pleaded pitifully more than once: "Hua
It’s other people’s money, right?”
Chapter completed!