The new owner of Tsurumi City is a genuine Southern Barbarian, Celtic, an Irish man. This is the third mate whom Maeda spent a lot of money to poach from the Southern Barbarian whaling ship. Celtic used to work in a shipyard in Dublin. Later, because his life was too boring, he joined a whaling fleet that needed more adventure. After working on the ship for seven years, he was still alone. Because of his bad habits of alcoholism and gambling, he didn't even save enough of his wife. Maeda's invitation undoubtedly lit a bright light for his dark life. After he heard that he could become the owner of a castle, he was even willing to spend his rest in a foreign country.

Maeda Genyi and I accompanied him around in Shiwu City. The original purpose of the construction of Shiwu City was to defend, so the three-story brick and stone city stood on the hills of Shiwu like a bunker group. Later, in order to recruit ship workers from the South Barbarians, the flat roof was specially converted into a spire, and such a slightly Gothic-style castle appeared.

Celtic walked around the city of Hewu and patted the granite walls in unfamiliar Japanese and said, "You must be west, my favorite ones. That is to say, as long as I agree to work for the Kudo family, this city and the five villages outside the city will be my territory."

I replied, ‘That’s right. The five villages outside have 3,000 stones of land, which means that 3,000 stones of grain can be produced every year. Mr. Celtic, you know that a person’s annual ration only costs two stones, but of course you cannot take these 3,000 stones alone. The leader will hand over two to you as land rent and two to the lord for annual payment. That is to say, you can get 600 stones of grain from five villages every year and feed 300 people.’

‘Oh.’ Kyle nodded and asked, ‘Is the lord here Lord Kudo?’

‘It’s my and my lord Nobunaga Oda, and the year here is half for me and my lord.’

Celtic calculated by his fingers, "Your lord, you, me. The farmers here have only been exploited for three levels. It's so happy."

I can't hear whether Celtic is making jokes. After all, Celtic's hometown is not far from the UK, which is good at humor. Fortunately, after seeing the housing, Celtic immediately started preparations before shipbuilding. Hewu Port is a natural deep-water port. The shipbuilding industry here is developing well in Japan. Although most of them are built fishing boats, shipyards, timber farms, etc. are all available.

After accompanying Celtic to transfer the docks and timber farms of several shipyards, Celtic shook his head repeatedly, 'Your Highness, if you are building fishing boats here, you will not be able to use me at all. They are doing well now, but with their current scale and materials, they can only continue to build this small Japanese fishing boat.'

‘What else is needed?’

‘Then I need to know what type of boat you need first.’

On my side, Ishikawa Goyoumon opened a slightly yellowed paper. This is a drawing left by a shipworker persecuted by Ming Kingdom a hundred years ago to escape to Ise Ninja Village, Japan. It is marked with a structural diagram of the two thousand main warships of Ming Kingdom. In fact, the impact of the Ise Ninja Land and the foreign cultures of Ming Kingdom interacted with each other. At the beginning, these outsiders brought various technologies, including the most commonly used drugs and gunpowder technologies, were imported from Ming Kingdom. After hundreds of years of integration, a special war culture was evolved into. This is the Ninja.

There are Chinese characters above, only Maeda Genyi and I can understand it. I explained to Celtic in English, "The total length of the boat is forty yards, twelve yards wide, six yards of draft, four floors above and below, the bottom layer is the earth and rocks in the ballast, and then the soldiers' residences. The first floor above is the place for combat and activities, and the top is the command room, which is a hundred sailors and 300 combatants. There is a main mast on the ship, with a sub mast in front and behind, and a double rudder design, so it is easy to advance and retreat in the deep sea. It's good."

Celtic looked at the drawings carefully and exclaimed, "Oh, I haven't seen many designs here before in Dublin. This is a miracle. However, Your Highness, there are two questions. If you want to build a forty-yard boat, you must have a forty-yard keel. Do you know what a keel is? I don't know, I tell you that a keel is the beam of the house. How long a beam can you build a house? I have seen it in these wood yards. The longest wood here is only about ten yards, and the hardness does not meet the requirements of the warship. According to the design on this boat, it is best to be hard spruce, and the hull must be made of solid oak, otherwise your ship will sink to the bottom of the sea as long as it is hit twice.

Another thing is that it takes fifty yards to build a ship that costs 50 yards. It is not something that can be built in a month or two. I hope you can find wood before the dock is built. Remember, a boat requires three keels.’

It is much more difficult to find a spruce that is 40 meters tall in Japan than to find a virgin over 18 years old. With a population of more than tens of millions, there will always be dinosaurs that cannot be married, but Japan is just a little bigger, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small place. After all, there are only one province in the Ming Dynasty. There are only trees that are tall and stout in the primeval forests that are tall and stout have been long been cut back by these great names of all generations. The Emperor General cut back to Xiutian Shou Pavilion, how could he leave it for me?

I said in a negotiating tone, ‘This, forty-meter spruce may be too rare. Look, Mr. Celtic, the keel can be connected by two twenty-meter spruces.’

Celtic snapped his fingers, 'No problem. As long as you promise not to let the boat leave the port, it will not suddenly break in half on the sea when it encounters wind and waves.'

‘Hungry.’ It seems that I have put in some effort. The tall spruce and oak. To be honest, I have been in Japan for so long and have never seen what oak looks like. I doubt whether there are such trees in Japan. However, I know that there is a land without a home, and this place is the legendary Siberia. It is a place where people feel chilled when they think about it.

I definitely won't go to that ghost place. It's six months a year how people live. The scapegoat has long thought about it. Half of the prisoners of war in Miyazu Castle still have about 200 people, and even the family members are 700 or 800 people. Before Zhang can load a ship to Jinshan. Several of the whaling fleets are specially used to hunt whales in the Bering Strait area, and they are asked to take them to Siberia to log for me.

I thought of such a good idea in an instant, and I was indeed a genius. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile. In the eyes of retainers such as Ishikawa Goemon, this strange smile was a sign of a stroke.

‘Ba.’
Chapter completed!