Hosokawa Maharu is not a playboy who knows nothing.

Less than a hundred years after the Warring States Period, he was still very clear about his identity and mission. In the future, as a supporter of his elder brother, Zong Yizhen, ruled the Matsushima, and promoted the family name of the clan and did not shame his ancestors.

"If you can really get an Okan, I can convince my father to buy it." Hosokawa Maharu said: "But the price..."

"A large tube is only 1,000 taels of silver." Lin Zongsheng added: "It can also be settled with other commercial goods such as sulfur, copper, gold, etc."

There was originally a silver mine in Sasuyama on Tsushima Island, but it has been almost exhausted due to long-term mining in recent years.

In addition, Tsushima Island also has lead, but Lin Zongsheng did not mention it, so he may not be able to sell it.

Anyway, it's all a big tube!

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

Moreover, not only can the Mama defend itself with a large tube, but it can also sell the large tube to any vassal, or even the shogun. This is a powerful weapon for the military and country!

"One thousand taels of silver..." Hosokawa shook his head: "What other benefits can I do?"

Lin Zongsheng smiled and said, "The price of the Ming Dynasty's large tube may be difficult to reduce, but Zhenchun Palace can extract labor costs from projectiles and cannon medicines. Especially when Zhenchun Palace resells the cannon medicines to other vassal lords, no one will know that as long as you draw a small handful and replace them with fine sand."

Hosokawa Maharu couldn't help but open her mouth.

This deal is absolutely possible!

...

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

"What did you say in your conversation?"

"Do you know that you have leaked the information about the source and speed of our military officers?"

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

"Have you agreed on the time and place of the next meeting?"

...

Yang Wei was glad that he took the initiative to submit the report and the hearing was not too sharp. In the end, he was found to have leaked secrets at a low level and was sentenced to three days of imprisonment.

Fortunately, there was no stain in the file.

However, the North Korean attendant Park Deok-hwan was not so lucky. She was expelled from the army for making a fuss and sent back to North Korea.

Now the entire North Korea knows that serving in the Ming army is a great thing for glorious ancestors. Once you successfully survive the service period, you can get rid of your low status. If you make military achievements during your service, you can even obtain the nationality of the Ming Dynasty and migrate to live in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty! That is no less than the Pure Land. Even the old women in the countryside know that it is better to join the army than to believe in Buddhism. In the end, the Buddha can only allow you to be reborn in the Pure Land in the next life, but joining the military may allow you to go to the Western Ming Dynasty in this life - or the Pure Land in the Pure Land.

In short, Yang Wei never saw this Korean escort soldier again. When he came out of the confinement room, he was waiting outside the door for a thin escort soldier who was as thin as a monkey. His name was Kogoro, who was the first group of volunteer soldiers recruited by Chen De in Japan.

Because Japan has a low national status and is not a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, this group of Japanese soldiers cannot be used as official members of the Ming army, and can only be a team of non-partitions, named: Japanese Yishang.

The Japanese Yi soldiers were divided into horse teams and infantry teams. The former was ronin and wild samurai who had the ability to fight. The latter was mostly bankrupt civilians who came to make a living. Therefore, the former was placed in North Korea by Chen De and used as a supplement to combat power, while the latter was mostly left in Japan to serve as mail-offs and laborers.

Nowadays, the Japanese Yi soldiers have reached a scale of thousands of people.

"Don't think that leaving the Ming Dynasty can ignore military discipline. 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 a lesson in dissatisfaction.

Yang Wei saluted helplessly, scratched his itchy scalp, and tentatively said to the Japanese soldier: "Can you understand Chinese?"

"Hayi!" The Japanese soldiers worked very hard to cheer up and said with their chests straight.

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

"Hayi!"

"..." Yang Wei looked at the very serious attendant: "Let's go."

"Hayi!"

"You actually don't understand what I'm talking about, right?"

“Ha…Ye…”

“…”

Unexpectedly, Yang Wei finally returned to the camp and took a shower as he wished.

Because I met Wei Yun who came to lead the people.

Wei Yun returned to Tsuma one step earlier than Chen De. The reason for coming back was to see the staff sent by the General Staff as soon as possible to facilitate the assignment of work.

In Korea and Japan, any Ming officer is as valuable as spring rain. Especially for officers from the Military Academy, even if their qualifications are mediocre, they can definitely undertake daily affairs, rather than needing to teach step by step like the Koreans and Japanese.

As soon as Wei Yun got ashore, he received news that Yang Wei was imprisoned, but he sneered at the charge of "leakage of secrets".

How big a secret can a young lieutenant who has just arrived in Japan have to reveal?

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

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

Yang Wei is so young that he almost feels unreliable.

Can this young man, who is sixteen or seventeen years old, really suppress his soldiers?

After Wei Yun took Yang Wei, he didn't speak any further along the way.

Yang Wei returned to the camp, put his rattan box, took a shower and changed his military uniform, and went to Wei Yun's dormitory. Wei Yun was a little surprised by Yang Wei's visit. Generally speaking, it was a very rude behavior for subordinate officers to visit their superiors so rashly, unless there was enough military information.

"I am full of vigilance against Ma Fan." Yang Wei said in a shocking way.

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

"Otherwise, the vassal lords here will not care about the number of grassroots officers in our army." Yang Wei said: "Although Bei Yi made the mistake of leaking the secret, you can also see panic from the surprise of the vassal lord. If they sincerely form an alliance with our dynasty, the stronger our army, the more at ease he should be."

After hearing this, Wei Yun did not argue, but changed his perfunctory expression just now and asked the attendant to make a cup of tea for Yang Wei.

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

"Thank you." Yang Wei thanked him. In fact, he had no special hobbies for tea. He lost his life as a scholar at a young age and did not have so many habits to pay attention to.

Wei Yun also took a sip of tea himself and said, "In Japan, we have never expected them to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Whether they are loyal has nothing to do with our work. Your specific duties are..."

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

"Very good." Wei Yun said in disdain in his heart, "You can definitely see that every action of ours is based on the established plan. However, Japan is in short supply of manpower, so you can't just stand by and watch. What are you good at about work?"

Although Yang Wei took a shower and washed his hair well with soapcorns, he still couldn't help but reach out and grabbed his scalp and said slowly: "If you are good at it... maybe you're writing a report."

Wei Yun was a little amused and laughed: "It's impossible for me to let a second lieutenant officer do something like this that a female official can do. You go back and think about it first, and just make sure before Chen Junmen comes back."

"Yes!" Yang Wei stood up and saluted, said goodbye.

Wei Yun sat on the chair, watched him go out, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and thought of a very good arrangement in his mind, but he didn't know how long it would take for him to learn Japanese.

Yang Wei came out of Wei Yun's dormitory. When he returned to his dormitory that was ten feet long and wide, he took out a book of "Yi Zhou Shu" from the vine box and read it. It was not until the lights in the camp that he put down the book and lay on the wooden bed and fell asleep. The moment before he fell asleep, he seemed to see the moonlight shining into the pane and landing on himself.

But I fell asleep indifferently until the wake-up call rang early the next morning.

This was the first night when Yang Wei arrived in Japan, just like nearly a thousand nights later. It was calm, stable, and lonely.

...

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

"I am the second lieutenant of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Wei." Yang Wei used the words of Qian, but did not salute.

Zong Yizhen was not at all displeased and stood up and bowed. He introduced himself again.

Wei Yun said to Yang Wei: "I invite you to come today to analyze the Shimahara Rebellion. You can directly say that Yizhen Palace's Chinese is very good."

Zong Yizhen originally knew how to speak Chinese, but because of the Ming Dynasty's strategy for North Korea, he keenly realized the existence of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, he invited scholars and merchants who were proficient in Chinese, such as the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, as his teachers.

Because he was taught Chinese characters since he was a child, it was not difficult to speak orally. In addition, he was diligent and intelligent, in just two years, he was able to speak a strong Shandong accent.

"The Shimahara Rebellion..." Yang Wei got the question without any preparation and walked in front of the sand table.

The main battlefield of the Battle of Shimahara on the Sand Chamber, various flags were already prepared.

According to the combat records in his hands, Yang Wei repeated the offensive and defense, lines of each unit, which were slow and heavy. At the same time, he analyzed the tactical purpose of the commanders of both sides and its impact on the overall strategy. The structure was clear and logically integrated, which made Zong Yizhen admire several times.

"One side is a well-trained 120,000 Shogunate Army, and the other side is a mob with more than 10,000 actual combat power. The Shogunate Army defeated the weak with the masses, and it seemed that the outcome was obvious." Yang Wei had no interest in the name of the Chezhi Dan Sect, the Ming Dynasty, as the Ya Sect. He was unfair about the Shogunate ban on the Shogunate slaughtering so many civilians.

This injustice made Yang Wei involuntarily enter the camp of the Yajiao army. He said: "But I think that if the rioters have the organizational capabilities of our army, even if the combat power is weaker, the 120,000 shogunate troops may not be able to successfully wipe out."

This is what Wei Yun wants to hear.

Isn’t this meeting really a whim?

In fact, it was the Ming army's investment in the future governor of the Zong family!

The next head of the Zong family was asked to learn the combat ideas of the Ming army, which aroused his desire to reform the vassal army and strengthen his dependence on the Ming army. It can be said that the Ming army officers obtained command of the Japanese vassal army.

And the basis of everything is to make Zong Yi truly admire him. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!