Wang Ba used cannons to clear the way, but then it was to distribute food to the Japanese workers.
The news spread quickly through Japanese businessmen and Tang spies lurking on Japanese islands.
Wang Ba will stop here for three days in Kunisaki. If Kitakyushu, Ube and other surrounding areas within a day's sail dare to let Wang Ba come again, the lord will come here with representatives of the Japanese workers' families to collect food and ship the food on their ships.
go back.
Wang Ba doesn't care whether the Japanese lord wants to rob him or not. The Tang people he cares about keep their word and will never owe wages.
"General, one shot of that cannonball is worth six guan." The gunner finally finished flipping through the thick book of regulations and came to Wang Ba with a distressed look on his face.
"Six, six dollars?" Wang Ba felt like his face was cramping.
This is not shells, this is money. There is a huge pile of six guans!
"The shell is made of pure copper. It's hard to tell for the cannonball. It's either made of iron or lead, or a mixture. I went to check the brand-new cannonball. The regulations say that one six-gun shell is probably true."
Is it worth it?
Wang Ba began to have doubts. You must know that the Japanese gave 200,000 shi of food a month. In Tang Dynasty calculation, it was 50,000 shi. How much does Nanyang rice cost for 50,000 shi, which is one thousand guan. It is said that this country
All the food distributed in Donggang is not worth the cost of these sixteen shells.
Sixteen pieces, that's more than a hundred dollars.
"Oh!" Wang Ba hit himself hard: "I knew it would be too expensive to use the old artillery. This is just a free fight, I don't know how much gold will be lost.
These bastard Japanese are such bastards. Go further in and ask the other ships to fire their cannons. The Xiang Yu should not fire any more easily."
The purchasing power of six guans in Datang today is almost equivalent to more than 20,000 yuan in later generations.
A four-inch ordinary cannon shell costs more than 20,000 yuan. On the one hand, Datang's industrial technology is not good, and on the other hand, Datang's metal itself is expensive. The initial trial production price of the first cannon shell was more than 100 yuan. This is still in the
After improving the manufacturing capacity, the cost was reduced to six thousand dollars.
Six Guanqian. A slightly different calculation would be.
Six guan of money can buy 130 to 150 shi of ordinary high-quality rice. A family can eat two or three shi of rice a month, which is good. For an ordinary poor family, this cannonball can
Let a family of five eat good rice for two or three years. Based on this calculation, how can we say it is not expensive?
It's no wonder that Wang Ba regretted firing sixteen shots at a time.
The Japanese know what artillery shells are, what war is, and what giant ships are.
Rice is everything in the eyes of Japanese people. Whether they are Japanese workers or the lords of Japanese islands, they are a little crazy for this rice.
Every city lord robbed the rice from the Japanese workers, and the lord of Kunidong City was no exception.
When Wang Ba's fleet left, the Lord of Kunidong City sent people to each family that received rice. Only this time, he seemed to have changed a little. The people he sent said to all the Japanese workers' families: "Each family only needs to pay five points.
One-tenth of a meter is enough, it’s a tax.”
As long as you pay one-fifth, you will still have four-fifths.
The Japanese agreed without any resistance.
The male city lord was the only exception. All the guards at the port retreated, leaving the port to Wang Ba.
"Heap an extra ten thousand stones for this person who knows the fortune!" Wang Ba was very generous.
That night, the Lord of Datian City came to the dock quietly wearing women's clothes.
The sentries only believed it after seeing the token Wang Ba had left behind.
"What did the Ichijo family get?" Oda Kazuo saw Wang Ba and went straight to the topic without turning around at all.
But Wang Ba smiled: "What does your Datian family have?"
"There are many people rebelling over there, but because they are all ordinary untouchables rebelling, they cannot make a big splash. If we, the lords, are supported to re-establish the emperor, we will be the most trusted collaborators of the Tang Dynasty." Kazuo Ohta said.
Get your own chips.
Wang Ba did not answer, pretending to be thinking with his head down.
In fact, he was cursing in his heart, you Ota Kazuo is just a bird, you dare to challenge this general here. Wang Ba had the urge to fall out, but he remembered a passage that Wang Jishan said to him, including one sentence
That's what I say, when you feel like killing someone, it's better to have a cup of tea and take a break.
If you really want to kill someone, just kill him.
However, there are many ways to kill people. You should read His Highness the King of Qin’s theory about sheep eating people.
"Okay, what do you want?" Wang Ba endured.
"Whatever the Ichijo family has, we in Da Tian must have what we have?" A male lion from Da Tian asked loudly.
Wang Ba really wanted to point his finger at this guy's nose and curse him a few words, and then ask him, "Why do you do that?"
But this is not a place to fall out. Wang Ba’s mission this time is to distribute food. To put it cruelly, Wang Ba is responsible for distributing food, so that the food of these Japanese civilians will be snatched away by the nobles, so that the Tang Dynasty can attack here first.
The foundation of public support.
Is the Kazuo Ohta in front of me a collaborator, or is he worthy of cooperation?
"The Lord of Datian City will go back and rest first. General Rong will think about it." Wang Ba thought that now was not the time to reply.
Ohta Kazuo was not in a hurry, and he did not expect Wang Ba to give an answer. He immediately said: "I can wait until next month, when General Wang comes to Japan again. My eldest son's family hopes to get the favor of King Qin of the Tang Dynasty.
Handwritten. Resign!" After saying this, Wang Ba turned around and left without waiting for a reaction.
Wang Ba stared at Ohta Kazuo's background for a long time.
"What is this?" Wang Ba asked the staff beside him.
Several staff officers shook their heads: "It's hard to say. This guy is really powerful. He is the only one who has not robbed the Japanese of food. We have no excuse to kill him. If we kill him like this, I am afraid it will affect our future plans."
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"But I just want him to die?" Wang Ba's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
A staff officer said beside him: "Otherwise, just kill him. No need for 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, whatever he wants, you can talk about it yourself. The Ichijo family talked the same way, telling him to go to Chang'an to formally register with the Ministry of Rites, and then wait for the summons from the Qin Palace. If he doesn't even agree to this, he must
His Highness gave him an explanation and killed him directly for the reason of being disrespectful!"
Wang Ba took a bite of a cigarette and said, "This seems very interesting. It's just that it's hard for His Highness to take him to Chang'an City like this. This reputation is not good, and His Highness is currently in Huating."
"Send him to Jeju Island and see if he can survive." The staff officer smiled sinisterly.
Wang Ba patted the staff officer heavily on the shoulder: "What a good plan, let's do it like this."
However, Wang Ba did not immediately ask to see Ohta Kazuo, but drove the boat to the inner sea of Wajima and visited several more ports.
Wajima Sakaisen Port is a few dozen miles south of the later Osaka Castle. It is only a hundred miles away from the capital of Yamato and Heijōkyo on Wajima.
Facing hundreds of catapults, Wang Ba ordered the Xiang Yu to sideways the ship five miles away, and then opened the gun doors, exposing all the muzzles.
Someone under Wang Ba shouted: "Ask the family of your Japanese worker to come and collect food. If you dare to move, we will blow up your port. Kunidong Port only has one ship and one gun. I don't know how many of you can block it here."
wheel.
I had long heard that the Tang Dynasty's fleet entered the inland sea and destroyed Kunitō Port in an instant, so Prince Shotoku was waiting at Jiequan Port. He fully planned to let the Tang Dynasty know the determination of the Japanese to fight, but when he saw that the Tang people
Prince Shotoku felt a sense of fear when he saw the giant ship dozens of feet long.
Not only him, but all the Japanese soldiers have lost their fighting spirit.
"No answer means rejection. Our general will fire after dozens of calls." After that, the caller began to count down, ten, nine, eight...
When the count reached three, the flag at Jiequan Port was lowered.
Wang Ba stood on the deck: "Are you sure you can break the flagpole, but try not to hurt anyone."
"Just take a look." The gunner replied and gave an order to his best gunner. When the flag was lowered halfway, a shot broke the flagpole and the shell flew another ten miles.
Far behind, it exploded on a hill.
"The flagpole was broken, so no one should be hurt." His subordinates reported, and Wang Ba just laughed heartily.
It was only five miles away, and even if he couldn't see his face clearly, he could still see the laughing gesture. Prince Shotoku's heart was bleeding, and he couldn't help but turned sideways and glanced at the impact point of the cannonball with his peripheral vision. He couldn't help but
If you dare to look back, you are afraid that you will lose your momentum.
The people on the boat continued to yell at the Japanese: "Our general said that your flag is lowered too slowly, so we will help you."
"You bastard!" Prince Shotoku hated him, but there was nothing he could do.
Ship after ship began to unload goods, and food for at least 40,000 workers was put down here.
Seeing the mountains of rice piled on the pier, Prince Shotoku didn't understand at all why Tang Dynasty really sent rice to their families when they could use them as slaves. You know, this time it was hundreds of thousands of kilograms of rice.
, so much rice can support any local noble group in Japan to launch a large-scale war.
Or, let your territory not have to farm for a year, but still 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 is already far away. The last few boats that unloaded the goods didn't bother to care about what would happen to the rice. After dumping the rice on the ship, they asked a random Japanese official on the dock to press a button.
I took my fingerprints and drove off in the boat. The Japanese didn't even take a second look.
What did the Tang Dynasty people want to do?
Prince Shotoku was puzzled.
When Wang Ba went back, he picked up Ota Kazuo according to the staff plan.
Ohta Kazuo never thought that this was a conspiracy, because if they wanted to kill him, the Tang Dynasty 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 the Ichijo family. (To be continued.
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