Chapter 1424: Leave Both Ships' Cargoes! Take the Two Bags of Gold!

"Sen! It's getting dark, and it's too much trouble to unload and load bags of rice! And I came here this time with a limited boat, and I can't hold so much..."

"Witness the Lord God! So, since there are still two ships of cargo that have not been delivered, you might as well sell these two large ships to me together with the goods on board! Just calculate how much gold a ship costs. Absolutely Let you make a lot of money!”

Zuvaro smiled, stretched out his strong hand, and grabbed Morino Qing's wrist. Hu Nu and Xiong Da also took a step forward to block Morino Qing's monk soldiers.

At this moment, seeing the look on the "Golden Chief"'s face, Morino Qing felt a chill in his heart. He quickly looked around, sweat dripping down his forehead.

"Ah! Dear Golden Chief... These five big ships of mine are all the best cargo ships in the merchant house! I have searched all around Lake Biwa but can't find many good ships like this. They transport goods from north to south, but My hen that laid the golden eggs...ugh..."

Morinoqing's wrist tightened, and the corners of his mouth twitched in pain. He secretly cursed "barbaric Mongolian barbarians", but he was still hesitant in his heart whether to keep the big ship or not.

This is not a question of "money". But right now, before "Wufeng Shipowner" Wang Zhi packs up Guangdong's sea-going ship technology and brings it all to Kyushu, the shipbuilding industry in China is really not doing well!

Such a light and good cargo-carrying ship, capable of sailing in the near sea or even the ocean, must have rare senior shipwrights and spend several months to a year to build it.

The wood used to build big ships has always been extremely rare and hard to come by. Therefore, in order to reduce costs, shipbuilders usually use the complicated "keel splicing" method, which further increases the shipbuilding process and time!

In other words, after handing over these two good ships, new ships will not be built for at least a year and a half! However, those ordinary boats can't keep up with the speed of such large ships. To achieve the same cargo volume, many more ships and many more paddlers are needed!

In fact, in the entire country, there are only three merchant groups that have such shipbuilding capabilities and can conduct offshore or even ocean trade: the "Omi Merchant Group", the "Sakai Port Merchant Group", and the "Hakata Merchant Group"! Even the "Ise Merchant Group" with a long history does not have the ability to enter the market at this time.

Among them, behind the "Omi Merchant Group" are Kyoto nobles and monastic forces, and their shipbuilding skills can only be said to be average. They controlled the shores of Lake Biwa and were better at offshore vessels such as the "Bensaibune", and as the strength of the shogunate weakened, they began to gradually decline.

And behind the "Sakai Port Merchant Group", there is no doubt that the Hosokawa family is in charge! They controlled the majority of the "expansion trade", owned large-scale ocean-going ships, and regularly conducted extremely profitable tribute trade with the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the level of shipbuilding was the highest in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the "occupying ship" that Morino Kiyoshi managed to obtain before was bought from Sakai Port with a lot of money through the nobleman's request, and he even got a North Korean shipwright! Unfortunately, in the end, both the boat and the people disappeared in the vast north...

As for the "Hakata Merchant Group", it is the Ouchi clan, the overlord of the Western Kingdom. The Ouchi clan was behind the scenes, controlling the profits from North Korea's trade and forcing North Korea to set up a Japanese pavilion. The "Hakata Merchant Group" is also growing rapidly through constant trade and plunder, and has gradually developed a tendency to catch up from behind! For example, if the North Korean trade route is opened next, he will definitely have to deal with Hakata businessmen...

"Buddha! Ah! Golden Chief, please let go, let go!... I promise you! I promise you!... I will sell the boat to you!!..."

Morino Qing screamed twice in pain, and then under Zuvaro's "power", he had to nod in agreement. He shook his head and sighed, looking at the "savage and generous golden chief" with a wry smile on his face, but a fierce heart in his heart. He must make a killing this time!

"Zu! I can cut the flesh of these two ships for you! But each Benzai ship costs twenty kilograms of gold!..."

Morino Kiyo's asking price is astonishing! You know, this kind of 400-stone single-masted merchant ship has a carrying capacity of about 50 tons. Compared with the previous 200-ton ocean-going ocean-covering ship with a load capacity of 70 tons, it obviously carries less weight and has simpler technology, making it much easier to build!

The cost of building a 200-tael ocean-covering ship in "Longjiang Treasure Ship Chronicles" is 200 taels of ship material. As for the official craftsmen who were recruited, they received almost no wages. They only paid more than a dozen taels to take care of the food and accounting, which was a cost of two hundred and twenty taels.

Therefore, even if this 400-koku ship is built in Japan, the technology is insufficient, the cost of ship materials is higher, and the shipwright's labor fee must be paid... Even if all miscellaneous expenses are taken into account, such a 400-koku ship The merchant ship reached the sky, that is, three hundred taels!

According to the exchange ratio of one gold and ten silver, this is almost 30 taels of gold, which is less than two kilograms of gold! But as soon as Morino Kiyoshi opened his mouth, he raised the price tenfold, asking for twenty kilograms of gold!

"Haha! Okay! It's so refreshing, it's a deal! A big ship with twenty kilograms of gold, I want these two ships! As for the other three ships, if you sell them, they will all be at this price! ... Hu Nu, Get the money!”

"Pa!..."

"Ah! Buddha!!... How much gold do these golden clans have?!..."

Another forty gold talismans hit his eyes. Morinoqing felt dizzy and almost groaned. He didn't know what to say. The slight dissatisfaction he felt at being forced to sell the boat disappeared instantly like foam on the sea under the dazzling golden light. His heart was beating "bang bang", and he couldn't help but want to sell all the other boats...

"No, no! These three ships have to go back to transport goods. I can't sell them!... Buddha! Stop and contemplate, stop and contemplate!... When we return to Lake Biwa, we will immediately ask the shipbuilders to build large ships, and build ten ships at a time!..."

"Xiang Jilang! You quickly collect this gold and send it to the ship! Let the sailors and monks of the other two ships get off, and let the warriors of the Shanta tribe take over on board... Quick! Take the gold away, don't let it shine in my eyes again! Quick!!..."

Mori No Kiyoshi covered his eyes with his hands, not daring to look at the shining gold again. He was afraid that his shaky Buddhist teachings would be completely destroyed by bottomless greed. But Matsushita Xiang Jilang had already fallen. He was like a hard-working bee, ecstatically carrying forty kilograms of gold. Even if he was too tired to straighten his back, he would personally deliver it to the flagship!

"Hey! Dear Golden Chief, the crews on the two ships have already disembarked... You can send someone to board the ship and count the supplies inside..."

"Four hundred shi of rice, plus freight, 2 kan per shi, 80 kan per jin of gold, a total of ten jins of gold... Two hundred sets of samurai domaru, all good goods from Nara and Kyoto, 18 kan per set, forty-five jins of gold... 800 spears, 400 katanas, and 100 heavy rattan bows... What, you said our bows are not very good, and the katanas are not easy to use, bring more spears and axes next time?... Okay! Then I won't count these swords and bows as yours, I'll give them away for free! You just give the price of a spear, 1 kan for two, and five jins of gold!... A total of fifty jins of gold!"

Morino Kiyoshi calculated very quickly, and in just a moment, he sold all the military supplies and goods to Zuvaro at three times the price with tears in his eyes. And Zuwaro didn't say much. No matter how much of these food and military supplies were stored, it was worth it! These good goods that can supply tribes and armed warriors are not only in short supply in the kingdom's strongholds, but also in the Maha tribe far away in the dense forests and rivers!

"Tiger slave! Go back to the boat and bring another box of gold! What, the boxes are full? Then use the leather bags!..."

"Yes! Great Chief!"

Tiger slave strode up and down the boat, with a leather bag on his shoulder. He didn't quite understand why the northern tribes valued food and weapons the most, but these southern tribes could actually take out so much at once? They didn't want tribal people or fur, but only the shining "golden stones"! If these golden stones were placed in the cold northern forests, no Jurchen tribe would look at them twice!

"Ding ding! Bang!..."

The heavy leather bag fell in front of his eyes, and another fifty kilograms of gold flashed with golden light. The pleasant sound of the gold colliding was like the most beautiful Buddhist sound, making Morino Kiyoshi's heart "thump" and his legs almost weak.

"Buddha! Stop and contemplate, stop and contemplate! For the last few hundred boxes of rice wine, tea, and salt... I won't charge you any more money! Enough, enough, don't take out any more gold! If you take out any more, my Buddhist teachings will be broken!..."

"To be honest, this salt is very cheap, even a few hundred kilograms doesn't cost much. If you didn't want it, I wouldn't have bothered to transport it here... But this wine and tea are more expensive. Especially tea!... What? You've never drunk tea? Then you can try it later. I'll treat you to a good tea! Not the old tea that sells in large quantities, but the best kind!..."

Speaking of this, Morino Kiyoshi also felt thirsty and was eager to drink some refreshing tea to calm down the intense emotions aroused by the gold. He turned around and saw Songxia Xiangjilang, who had already carried the "golden leather bag" and was running back with staggering steps... He sighed softly and finally said to the young monk soldier beside him.

"Rongdong, go to the boat and get the best Echizen 'Gyokuro Tea'! The Golden Chieftain is so generous, we have to bring out the real good tea to treat him well!"

"Echizen is your hometown. You are a descendant of the famous family of the Saba clan, and you are also very familiar with this tea... Next, you will order the last tea!..."

"The cup is connected to the heaven and earth, and the sweet fragrance warms the heart... Let's use this cup of Gyokuro tea to bid farewell to the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Ezo land and the generous and heroic Golden Tribe!... Then, more than 220 kilograms of gold were put on the boat, but only 'pure heart meditation' and the profound Buddhist teachings that can barely control it!... And this huge amount of gold was brought back to the capital, and the subsequent changes in wind and rain, the subsequent magnificent waves, and the direction of this flowing golden road..."

"Namo Amitabha! I only hope that the Buddha will be merciful and protect us!..."