When I supported the limping Seed Island Shiyao back to the exit of the woods, everyone fell into abnormal silence, but no one expressed his objection.

During the Warring States Period of the Ultimate, such exchanges between friends (or non-friends) were common. No matter whether they win or lose, they could enhance their feelings (or die). Therefore, although Shi Yao suffered a heavy blow in the back, he did not express any dissatisfaction.

As a samurai, we naturally have to do what we say. So our food trade was finalized like this. However, in order for both parties to accept it and facilitate operation, we also agreed on some details and clauses. For example, the purchase quantity, payment method, delivery method, etc., were negotiated by both parties and quickly determined.

Since there were no other questions, once the contract was signed, I immediately said goodbye and went to the Ming Dynasty to transport grain. The Seizushima family naturally welcomed me with both hands, hoping that the faster I would be better, and immediately reported to the Shimazu family immediately.

The Seed Island family bought a lot of food. In other words, they actually bought food through the means. It was not his Seed Island family, but his master Shimazu family - the Shimazu family who seized the Knife Sea musket - of course, this is also the fundamental reason why I came here thousands of miles away and sang this with all my heart.

The preparation of grain is not a problem at all. The food it needs only accounts for about half of the food we collect. According to the agreement, we must deliver the goods on Seed Island. Once the goods are disembarked, our contract will be considered to be completed.

The Seed Island family will pay a deposit of 20% first, and after the goods arrive, they will deliver the other 80% after they are shipped. This clause is also a common clause during the Warring States Period of the United States. Both parties must abide by it, otherwise the credit will be abandoned, and they will be afraid that it will be difficult to move forward in the future.

In this way, after returning to Sakai Port from Kagoshima, I immediately summoned my confidants to the meeting hall and secretly discussed the next step.

Soon, we sent a letter to the Seed Island home that we were waiting for, that the grain would set off from Bohai Port in three days and would be expected to arrive at Seed Island in six days and be delivered!

At the same time, we also informed Seijima family that due to the huge transportation volume, our Suzuki Chamber of Commerce lacked its own transportation capacity, so we hired the Ninghai Chamber of Commerce, the largest shipping chamber in Bohai, the Ming Dynasty, to help with transportation. Seijima family naturally had no objection. With the intervention of third parties, the risk was smaller and the effectiveness was guaranteed to be stronger!

At this point, the first step of my plan has been completed, and the rest depends on everyone's acting skills!

The first one was a fleet of flat-bottomed sailboats from the Ming Dynasty, with eight ships in total, carrying Ninghai sea transport, and heading straight for Jiuzhou Island. In order to prevent accidents on the road, there was also a flotilla of six ships following behind! It was Lan's fleet, but it was under the banner of other chambers of commerce to cover it!

When sailing on the sea, my mood is unusually good! Not only because of this open environment, but also because of my heart! I have freed from the constraints of my identity during the Ming Dynasty, and I feel more and more like a fish in water. I like this feeling of freedom!

On the fourth night, our fleet had arrived fifty nautical miles away from Seed Island. According to my plan, the two fleets separated. The transport fleet drove straight towards Seed Island, and Lan's fleet disappeared quietly in the vast sea...

Four hours later, we met Shiyao, who was waiting for the wait-in-home island at the pier of Chiweimu Port. Seeing that I was pulling the grain of eight ships in a mighty manner, and each ship was very well-drained, and it must be all food, so we held a grand welcome ceremony for us at the pier!

All the well-known people on the island gathered at Akaoki Port, and the people on the island gathered outside the port, eagerly watching the buckets of food being taken off the ship and transported into the warehouse at the dock!

Looking at the cheering crowd, I felt no joy or sorrow, because to put it bluntly, this is just a business for me. To put it more thoroughly, it is just a conspiracy! Since it is a conspiracy, someone must pay the price for it!

Shi Yao paid very quickly in Seed Island, without the expected arrears of the price. The reason is very simple. He hopes to retain such a "capable and valuable" trade path. To a deeper level, he thinks that I can be paid, so he completed the trade with me with a positive attitude of making friends.

Celebration banquets are indispensable, but what makes me very painful is that although I have lived in Japan for so many years, I have never been interested in raw food and seafood. Looking at the table full of fish, seafood and other things, I really have no appetite, so I can only accompany pickles and sushi...

During the meal, Shi Yao from Seed Island repeatedly expressed that he hoped that the cooperative relationship would be stable for a long time. I still agreed to it. Why not do such a cost-free thing?

After I had enough food and drink, I went back to the house to rest. Shirashima Shiraku and others continued to make trouble and arranged for ships to transport most of the grain to Kagoshima and handed it over to the main house, Shimazu family.

Seeing them busy and loading the food they had just unloaded back onto the ship and preparing to transport it away, I couldn't help but sigh again that the barrenness of Japan is really the original sin that causes many problems.

I remember reading an article when I was a child, which talked about the reasons why the Japanese Fusang people were keen on war. In the final analysis, it was because of poverty!

This poverty does not mean lack of money, but poor resources. Before World War II, the school teacher asked the children: "Do you like to eat duck pears?"

The children replied: "I love to eat!"

The teacher asked again: "But Japan doesn't have it! But there is Tianjin in Central Plains, what should I do?"

The guided children replied, "Go and grab it!"

So people always say that it is actually the poverty of their own resources that has created the driving force for Japan's foreign war.

But I have always been reluctant to agree with this view. Poverty is definitely not a reason to start a war!

When Rabbit was founded in the previous life, his family was poor and deserted, but he had millions of troops, and they were all elite soldiers who could fight for a hundred battles! This was fully reflected in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

If we follow the theory that poverty requires war, is the rabbit the most important thing to take on this path? But in fact, there is no. Except for several Patriotic Wars, the rabbit has been focusing on developing inward.

Of course, it can also be said that the rabbit family is vast and has everything they should have. So I feel that I have fallen into a paradoxical circle again. In the end, I still think that it is more appropriate to attribute this to the national character.

The fundamental reason why the Japanese launched a war was indeed because of the belligerent! Just a few years later in history, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi nominally unified Japan, he immediately launched a war against Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty. Why?

Is it because of arrogance?

Is it because of poverty?

Maybe they all, but they must not be the most fundamental reason. In essence, I think it is Toyonari Hideyoshi's power strategy - the Warring States Period of Japan, which has been fighting for more than a hundred years. It should be said that this kind of warlike factor has been deeply engraved in the bones of the Japanese!

Toyona Hideyoshi nominally unified Japan. Seeing the belligerent officials in Japan sharpen their knives but had nothing to do. He was so anxious that he scratched his head as the ruler. In order to ensure the safety of himself and his descendants, the best way is to consume them!

So Horiyoshi Toyoshi sent a large number of vital forces to the battlefield of Goryeo! At that time, the Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun was doing his best to fight the rebellion in Ningxia. Without being prepared for the two-line battle, Horiyoshi Toyoshi who fooled him to retreat first.

When Toyoto Hideyoshi reacted and sent troops to attack Goryeo again, the Ming Dynasty sent general Li Chengliang, who was angry, and the generals of Goryeo, attacked them head-on, and finally they were beaten!

This battle defeated the arrogance of the princes under Fengcheng Hideyoshi, who was worried about, and he felt relieved. But at the same time, it also destroyed the last trace of vitality of the Ming Dynasty and Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself, and was the last straw that overwhelmed the camel.

The final result was that the Ming Dynasty was replaced by the Qing Dynasty and the Fengcheng family was replaced by the Tokugawa family.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart that forgetting to fight will lead to danger, and fighting will lead to death. I will be honest and I will not deceive you!

I am not wary, but I am not afraid of war, and I will never forget to fight. I can't help but think of it as the Seed Island family's grain transport fleet left the port and headed towards the northwest.

Shimazu Yoshihisa, I will eventually ask you to repay what I owe to me! With the principal and interest.

For more than a day, I stayed on Seed Island. There was nothing else, just to hold on to Baban Qingding and take out his old foundation! The one who gained the most was Haleha, but I was undoubtedly the one who gained it in the end!

On the morning of the third day, a solemn atmosphere suddenly began to spread on the island. Wu Youmon came to see me, and the first thing he said was that the grain was stolen by the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce at sea!

I was shocked and asked in surprise: "What's going on?"

Wu Youmon looked at my expression and stopped talking, and finally said: "It should be the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce waiting for an opportunity to retaliate..."

The trade has been completed, and the conflicts are now happening, and the Seed Island Family and the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce. In fact, it has nothing to do with me, but I asked about the situation out of morality.

Wu Youmon's last doubts disappeared, and he just shook his head.

I'll ask again, what did you seize the Blade Sea? Such a big grudge!

Wu Youmon gritted his teeth and squeezed out the word "iron cannon" and said goodbye and hurried away.

Looking at his panicked back, a smile of joy appeared on the corner of my mouth! I always have to pay it back when I come out. Remember to keep your eyes open before reaching out next time!

News keeps coming, but ultimately, the naval army of the Seed Island family suffered a great loss at sea. The Band Sea Chamber of Commerce did not return the items or communicated. Whenever they saw the Seed Island family's naval army, they immediately served artillery!

I heard from the people of the Seed Island family that it is not unreasonable that the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce has risen so quickly in the past two years. Just this sea power is not comparable to an ordinary famous name! In addition, it is not far away, who knows that someone will rob? So my family is like falling flowers and flowing away from the grain ship and holding their heads in their arms!

Have you asked Shimazu family for help for this? I heard that Shimazu family is confronting their mortal enemy Otomo family. If they can't even handle these things in the rear, then from now on... I'm afraid that Seed Shimazu family will fall from the Shimazu family's list to the end!

But what should we do now in this state of being neither up nor down? The other party does not accept mediation at all! After being delayed for a long time, who knows what troubles will happen?

Shi Yao was at a loss when Seed Island. When I went to say goodbye, I sighed and shook my head.

I couldn't help but sigh: "This situation is really unexpected. If it were me, I could only find a third party to communicate. It would definitely not work if I went there by myself. Who asked you to take the other party's things?"

After saying that, he shook his head and was about to leave, but Shizushima Shiyao grabbed me and whispered: "Mr. Suzuki, I want to ask you something else!"

I was surprised and said, "What's the matter? I will definitely lose my food if I look for it again!"

Shiyao Shishima shook his head and said, "No! He is not looking for other food, but wants to ask Mr. Suzuki as a third party to go to the Blade Sea for us and mediate this dispute!"

I was stunned on the spot! After a long time, I laughed and said, "The Seed Island Palace must be joking! My relatives and I are not close to each other, or even enemies in the shopping mall, how can we be this third party?"

But Shizushima Shiyao just refused to let go and pulled me and continued: "In terms of ability, demeanor, and mind, Mr. Suzuki is the best choice! I hope Mr. Suzuki will not refuse! After the matter is completed, there will be a good reward!"

But I still refused repeatedly. Shi Yao from Seed Island just begged. In the end, I couldn't help but agree to "ask". Shi Yao from Seed Island was very happy and promised a bunch of thank you gifts!

In this way, as the negotiator of the Seed Island family, I went to the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce fleet anchored on the sea to mediate the interception of grain...
Chapter completed!