Chapter 553 Spanish War Horse
In the port of Kyushu's Hirado Port, Zhu Qinfeng's southern barbarian ship "Knight" was quietly anchoring there.
Although I have admired the hugeness of this Southern Barbarian ship from a distance, every time I see it with my own eyes, Masayoshi couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom of human beings. Without the help of later machinery, he could actually create such a huge ship. This is a standard European sailboat with double-layer portholes and four masts. There is a double-layer ship tower at the back of it. Unlike in the past, this time, a new bow image of a fully armored knight was installed on its bow.
Since Hirado Island opposite is the current port for the Luo family's foreign trade, many local merchants from Japan and even Ming countries would choose to stay here, which indirectly caused dozens of shops to be built on the Hirado Port, including several shops that were controlled by Masayoshi's wives and concubines.
Although these shops are usually open to local people, their biggest function is to serve as long-term goods warehouses. As long as they negotiate with merchants from all over the country on Hirado Island opposite, they will send people to the warehouse here to pick up the goods and then transport them to Hirado Island opposite to the transaction.
"Welcome, my old friend!" When Zhengliang led a large group of people to board Zhu Qinfeng's ship, the latter immediately greeted him enthusiastically, "Your complexion is really not comparable to last time."
"Hmph, old friends don't dare to be like this, and do you think I look so good now?" Zhengliang said to Zhu Qinfeng.
Shortly after Zhu Qinfeng traded with Shimazu family, Masara received relevant information. In Kyushu, Oui family, Otomo family and Shimazu family, Masara was the three most concerned tyrants. For this reason, Masara arranged a lot of tyrants in their territory. In addition, Zhu Qinfeng's southern barbarian ship was so obvious. Naturally, it soon attracted the attention of the Luo family's tyrants. After a little inquiry, the information about Zhu Qinfeng's transaction with Shimazu family was naturally sent to Masarara.
After receiving Zhu Qinfeng's ship docked at Hirado and requested to meet Zhengliang, Zhengliang did not need Zhu Qinfeng to come to meet, and directly brought a bunch of people to Hirado Port to prepare to launch an army to seek revenge. Of course, Zhengliang's purpose was actually to blackmail more benefits.
It is impossible to say that the bad behavior of the Southern Barbarians tearing up the cooperation agreement will not arouse Zhengliang's anger. However, in this chaotic Warring States period, everything is based on interests. If there is greater interests in front of Zhengliang at this stage, Zhengliang will probably tear up the cooperation agreement without hesitation.
In a word, interests are paramount. So after experiencing the initial anger, Masayoshi quickly calmed down. Now even if he turned against the Southern Barbarians, Masayoshi would not gain much benefit, and even lacked a trade channel. At the same time, it also pushed the Southern Barbarians to powerful forces such as the Shimazu family, and these powerful people in turn used the Southern Barbarians to develop and grow and then deal with the Luo family. Of course, Masayoshi saw from this incident that everything was based on his own strength. If the entire coastal waters of Kyushu, no, or even the entire coast of Japan were his world, why would it be so embarrassing?
However, no matter what, at this stage, when the Luo family could not control the fate of others, the same sentence was still the same, and the interests were higher than anger. Now Zhengliang suppressed his anger because the Southern Barbarians tore up the agreement, and then came to the port in person to see if the Southern Barbarians could get what benefits could be obtained from the Southern Barbarians by tearing up the agreement.
"Haha, my dear old friend, it seems you already know what happened the day before yesterday?" Seeing Masayoro's expression was unkind, Zhu Qinfeng knew after a moment of thinking that he had violated the agreement and traded with the Shimazu family.
Facing Zhu Qinfeng's kind smile, Zhengliang not only did not say a word, but even maintained a cold expression, which made people look like he was here to showdown today.
"Old friend, please don't get angry. In order to make up for your losses, I have brought you a good gift this time. This is all given for free." Zhu Qinfeng continued to say shamelessly. In fact, he was unwilling to lose Zhengliang, a friend and business partner at this time.
At least so far, the Luo family is his main partner in Japan. As for the lords in other places, due to lack of mutual trust, he must rely on the Luo family to develop trade locally. So overall, both of them still have to continue to cooperate. However, both of them also know that after experiencing this, their relationship will be more of a relationship of interests.
"Come on, pull it out." Under Zhu Qinfeng's instructions, a beautiful war horse soon appeared in front of Zhengliang.
This is a silver-white horse, with its shiny fur reflecting the brilliance of the sun, but the mane and tail on its neck are golden. Its neck, shoulders, waist... is full of a force that is about to explode. The tense muscles on the four legs are quite strong. The horse is just a little short, with a top of its head and a height of only 1.4 meters. With its strong body, it seems like a huge rock standing there.
"Is this a Spanish pony?"
"Haha, I knew you would know it. Yes, it is the local war horse from my hometown. How about it? It is much better than the war horses in your territory, right? I forgot to tell you that it is still a strong young man less than two years old." Zhu Qinfeng said with a smile.
"Oh?" Zhengliang's eyes lit up when he heard this. As Zhu Qinfeng said, this war horse was indeed much stronger than the local Japanese pony in the territory. He knew it was a good horse at a glance. Zhengliang couldn't help but have an idea in an instant, that is, to breed war horses.
A long time ago, he had thought of getting some war horses from the Ming Kingdom and then mateing with local war horses to cultivate a new generation of war horses from the Luo family. Unfortunately, the war horses in the Ming Kingdom were basically castrated in the military and on the market at this time. Therefore, this idea has not been realized.
Now that such a strong Spanish ponies suddenly appeared, Zhengliang's plan was naturally raised again. It is not an easy thing to cultivate war horses.
Not to mention, it takes a long time from the time of pregnancy to birth, and then birth to growth to become a war horse. Even the daily feeding of war horses is a matter of consuming a lot of resources.
If the war horses only eat grass, they will not be able to gain weight. At this time, the cavalry in the Ming Dynasty usually relied on bean cakes, hay, alfalfa, and wheat as feed for war horses. It is not easy to maintain a small ranch in the Luo family and a horse riding of 500 war horses. If such a breeding plan is added, it is probably the case that Dongxiang Heiji, who is in charge of internal affairs, will come to Zhengliang as soon as possible and refuse to do it.
Chapter completed!