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Chapter 334 Samurai and Ashikaru

The Japanese boy standing next to Zheng Sen is Zheng Sen's younger brother Takawa Shizaemon.

"Little Takawa, please see Tadaoy!" Takawa Qizaemon bowed to Zhao Peng at 90 degrees.

Zheng Sen laughed: "Zhongyonghou, this is my younger brother. I am young and ignorant. Please forgive me! Zhongyonghou, let's go upstairs and sit down to discuss."

This large Anzhai ship is fifteen zhang long and five zhang wide. It has five decks. There is a layer of paddler deck under the main deck, and the paddler is responsible for paddlers. In fact, there is another layer under the paddler deck, which is a watertight area below, which contains heavy objects, fresh water and food. It is separated by partitions, but the anti-sinking effect is far less than that of the Chinese ship's compartment.

The first floor above the main deck is a gun deck, which houses the Guokong cannons.

The meaning of the National Collapse Cannon is that this kind of cannon is extremely powerful and can destroy a small country with one shot (of course, it refers to a small country in Japan), so it is called the National Collapse Cannon. In fact, the so-called National Collapse Cannon is just a large-sized Flamen, which is equivalent to the thousand-pound Flamen aircraft of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there are very few Chinese-collapse cannons in the hands of the Japanese. There are only four Chinese-collapse cannons on this large-sized Anzhai ship. The rest are large tubes. The so-called large tubes are a kind of cannon unique to Japan, with a length of about one and a half meters. The firing method is not the way China and North Korea use to light cannons with torches, but the trigger and fuse ropes like bird guns to fire the large tubes.

There are eight large cannons on this Anzhai ship, each of which has the same power as the Ming Tiger Squat Cannon. In fact, it is an oversized mesh rope gun, so the large cannon is also called the large iron cannon.

In those days, Japan's firearms were remarkable, except for the mesh guns, and other firearms were very slim. Especially for artillery, Japan's artillery making technology was extremely poor. Not to mention that compared with China, even North Korea could not compare.

On the artillery deck is an iron cannon deck. The so-called iron cannon is a medley gun. An iron cannon deck is arranged inside the iron cannon deck, which is specifically responsible for shooting out of the shooting hole.

Going further up, there is the upper deck, which has a wooden castle on it. Around the wooden castle, there are a large number of sailors who are prepared to jump to the gang to fight. In the wooden castle, iron gunners and archers are also arranged.

On the second floor of the wooden castle is a commander's tower attic named Tianshou, where the commander sits in command of the battle.

Although the tonnage of Anzhai Ship is not large, it is very tall.

However, the Anzhai ship had neither keel nor ribs. The entire ship adopted a spliced ​​wooden board structure, which led to the very poor strength of the Japanese ship. Therefore, in the Wanli war against Japanese aid to Korea, Chinese and Korean ships adopted the method of impact to deal with Japanese ships. These spliced ​​ships without keel and ribs basically dispersed as soon as they collided.

Although this Anzhai ship is much taller than the Princess Kunxing Clippers, if it hits, Princess Kunxing can hit and sink ten such ships in a row, and it will be unscathed.

Zheng Sen took Zhao Peng to the Tianshou attic on the top floor of the Anzai ship. Originally, Tianshou was the command platform, but it turned into a conference room. Zhao Peng, Zheng Sen, Takawa Shizuomon and Takawa Masao were sitting in the attic with a table in the middle.

Takawa Masao first said: "The loyal and brave man, who has fulfilled his mission, has successfully recruited 1,000 samurai and 2,000 samurai. With these people, we can easily take over Jeju Island."

"We are willing to pay a lot of money, how can we recruit so many people?" Zhao Peng asked.

Takawa Qizaemon: "The Tokugawa family ended the Warring States Period, and all the samurai who failed were not demoted to civilians. However, their vassal lords lost their own land. They originally sent dozens of stones of food to the samurai every year, but now they can't send it out. As a result, those samurai who lost their warriors had only one knife left and could only beg for their lives. According to you Chinese, they were reduced to beggars. There were so many such poor samurai in Japan. No matter who was willing to pay the money, they would be willing to work for whom."

Zhao Peng asked again: "What about that? Are they not farmers who farm? Are they willing to work hard for money?"

Takawa Qizaemon laughed: "The land of Japan is small and the people are large. The farmers farm for the vassal lords, generals, and samurai, but there are only a few places to grow. There are too many people who want to farm, so some people become coolies, some people become dock workers, some people even become pirates, some people go to Hokkien to make a living, and some people go to Annan to fight for the Annan people. Anyway, those who have no way to survive are looking for their own way. Since you are willing to pay for money to recruit people, people will come."

Through the introduction of Takawa Qizaemon, Zhao Peng realized that he had offered a monthly price of copper coins, but the Japanese who came to register were unable to get a chance to get a chance. In the end, after careful selection, the Takawa family selected two thousand feet.

The monthly salary of samurai is always a copper coin, and the monthly salary of samurai is three-month copper coin. Such income can be regarded as an astronomical figure in Japan. Although Japan is a major copper producer, Japan's coin minting technology is too poor, so the Ming copper coin is very popular in Japan. Ordinary Japanese poor people may find it difficult to see copper coin from the Ming Dynasty in their entire lives.

You can receive a consistent salary of copper coins every month, which is already a high income among Japanese farmers.

After hearing these things, Zhao Peng suddenly had a vicious idea in his mind that he could harvest the Japanese for a long time: drive the Royal Silver Crown to Japan! At the beginning, he also issued gold coins, silver coins and copper coins. After the Japanese were accustomed to the Ming Dynasty coins, they secretly launched paper money in the name of small silver notes!

After the banknotes issued by the Ming Dynasty were widely circulated in Japan, it was announced that the banknotes would be decoupled from gold, silver and copper coins! At that time, as long as the Ming Dynasty started the printing press, it would be able to suck blood from the Japanese.

If inflation occurs in China, it can be passed on to the Japanese. The Ming Dynasty's banknotes in Japan will inflate all the Japanese's wealth to China. In this way, if there is sufficient wealth in China, the domestic market will not be inflationary, and inflation will be bricked by the Japanese, which is just like the wool shearing operations of the Americans in later generations.

The two thousand footballers recruited, of which 500 were large shield archers. When they marched, they carried a large shield on their backs. When it was time to fight, they put the shield in front of them, and then took off the bow and arrow and could shoot.

The Japanese shield is a bamboo shield, a shield woven with bamboo. There is a shelf at the bottom of the shield and can be placed on the ground. There is also a shooting hole on the shield, which allows the iron gunner to shoot out of the shooting hole. The shield woven by bamboo is very light in weight and can easily run by one person, but this bamboo shield has a good defense against bows and arrows.

The bows of these shield archers are also bamboo bows, which are made of multiple bamboo pieces together. The Japanese bamboo bow is the longest bow in the world, with a length of two meters and more than one 7.8 meters. Moreover, the power of the Japanese bamboo bow is not bad, and it has a very strong lethality within a hundred steps.

Another 500 people were gun shield soldiers. Japanese spears were also made of bamboo gun rods. After cutting the bamboo into bamboo slices, the bamboo slices were tied together to make the gun rods. They were very flexible because the bamboo was not easily cut off after being processed.

When marching, every gun and shield soldier also carries a bamboo shield on his back. When fighting, he stands the shield on the ground to resist long-range attacks by his opponent.

Why do Japanese people like to use bamboo for bows, shields and spears? That's because bamboo is everywhere in Japan, and using bamboo to make weapons is cheap and just suitable for Japanese people who lack resources.

The remaining 1,000 foot guns are all iron gunners. The so-called iron gunners are actually messengers. This sport team consisting of 1,000 iron gunners, 500 archers and 500 spearmen can effectively cover the attack of 1,000 warriors.
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