Who doesn’t have this thing for ambition?

For example, the penniless beggar never fantasized about being rich one day?

For example, have you never imagined how beautiful a wife one day, who is as ugly as a toad?

To be simpler, even if it is a useless waste, have you never thought of making a name for yourself?

It can be said that everyone has ambitions, but some people have ambitions and some have a small ambitions. What determines the size of ambitions is the environment in which everyone is or the basic conditions that everyone has.

Just like Otomo Sorin, does he have no ambitions?

Maybe he really doesn't have ambition, because in Japan, ambition is not called ambition, but ambition.

All the princes in Japan had ambitions, and Otomo Sorin also had them, but the environment he was in originally suppressed his ambitions.

When he took over the position of Daming, he couldn't even control his retainers, so he naturally had no time to think about unifying the Jiuzhou and dominating the world.

However, it will be different now. If you can buy a thousand iron cannons from the Ming Dynasty and deal with the rebellious group of Feihou Kingdom, it would be too simple. As long as you have a thousand iron cannons in your hands, it would not seem difficult to defeat the Ryuzoji clan and the Satsumashimazu clan of Feihou Kingdom.

You should know that the strengths of the three great families of Kyushu are not much different. Everyone has 20,000 to 30,000 people in their hands, and no one can do anything to each other. It’s just that there was a rebellion within their Otomo family and its power became weaker. Once he takes back the control of the Hokage Kingdom and adds a thousand iron cannons, the Ryuzoji family and the Shimazu family are not his opponents at all.

At this time, he not only had the ambition to unify the nine states, but also wanted to use a thousand iron cannons to help conquer the four countries, conquer their own states, and dominate the entire Japan!

Unfortunately, Wang Zhi could not sell him a thousand cannons at all, because this was inconsistent with the strategy set by Yang Cong.

Yang Cong was not really trying to help the Otomo family unify Kyushu, but the Otomo family among the three major families of Kyushu was the weakest. Therefore, he asked Wang Zhi to come to Otomo family first and said that he would sell some iron cannons to the Otomo family, so that the Otomo family would gradually become stronger. When the Otomo family's strength surpassed the Ryuzoji family and Shimazu family, he would ask Wang Zhi to contact the weakest family and sell the iron cannons to others under various excuses.

Of course, it is also possible that once the Ryuzoji family and Shimazu family are beaten so hard that they can't find the North, they will take the initiative to come to Wang Zhi to buy iron cannons, which is even simpler. As long as you go with the flow, you can find an excuse to sell some iron cannons for others so that you can withstand the other two companies.

In short, his strategy is to help anyone who is weak, so that the three of them can continue to fight endlessly!

Wang Zhi could indeed find a way to make up a thousand iron cannons, but he pretended to be embarrassed: "This, our head of the family doesn't have so much inventory. If you want it, we can find a way to get it for you. However, this time we can only sell 200 doors for you because we only have so much inventory."

Otomo Sorin originally wanted to take out the bleeding, buy a thousand iron cannons at a time, strengthen his strength, first recover the fertilizer and then destroy the Ryuzoji clan and Shimazu clan.

In this way, he will not only not lose money, but also make a big profit. After all, the Ryuzoji family and Shimazu family are also wealthy families that have lasted for more than a hundred years. They have absolutely no more than one million taels of silver in their hands. Even if they hide all the silver, it doesn't matter. As long as they take down the entire Kyushu, are you still afraid that you will be able to dig out more than one million taels of silver? It's only a matter of time to dig out tens of millions of taels.

Unfortunately, the Grand Master of the Ming Dynasty was able to get two hundred iron cannons.

Two hundred sects, only 240,000 taels, which is much less than one million taels, but he was not happy at all, because what he cared about was not silver, but strength. After having the strength, the silver was not coming.

He was a little unwilling to accept it and said, "Is it really only two hundred? Please tell me about your family leader. I can pay more money. As long as I can buy this kind of iron cannon, I can pay it."

Damn, these princes in Japan are really rich, but unfortunately, it’s useless to have money. This time I will only sell you two hundred doors. As for the price on the ground, it will be a matter of the future.

Wang Zhi shook his head without hesitation and said, "Master Master, we only have so much inventory. If you want to, we will find a way in the future. There is really no way this time. You also know that casting artillery is quite time-consuming, and our head of the family won't get thousands of artillery for a while."

He believed this because they had not cast an iron cannon after so many years.

The reason why they can't cast iron cannons is not that they are too stupid and can't copy it. The main reason why they cast iron cannons has too high technical requirements, and they don't have this technology.

The iron cannon is not just about taking some iron ore and melting it into the sand mold. If it is so simple, just pull a blacksmith and cast an iron cannon.

The problem is that the iron cannons cast like this cannot be used at all, because the strength is too poor, and they have tried it. The shape of the iron cannons cast each time is similar to that of other people. However, when gunpowder and shells are stuffed in, a little fire, and with a "boom", the shells have not flew far away, but the fragments of the gun barrel flew far away. If someone is next to them, it would be nice not to be killed by the flying fragments.

If we use the Ming Dynasty technical terms, this is a typical blow-off. As for the reason for the blow-off, it is not only related to the material of the barrel, but also to the processing accuracy of the barrel and shell. These have to be explored slowly.

The Ming Dynasty cast artillery for more than 100 years. These "technical difficulties" have naturally been overcome. However, few princes from all over Japan can overcome these difficulties. Because iron cannons have only been introduced to Japan for more than ten years, they do not have enough time to explore and experiment.

In short, in Japan, casting iron cannons is still quite advanced. As for efficiency, it is naturally outrageous. Otomo Sorin subconsciously believed that it would be good to cast two hundred iron cannons a year in Ming Dynasty.

If they don’t have stock, what can they do?

He could only sigh helplessly: "Okay, I want these two hundred iron cannons. In addition, please help your head and get more iron cannons for us. As for the money, it is not a problem at all. It is okay to have two thousand taels per cannon. I am not kidding you."

Wang Zhi laughed in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be solemn: "Okay, I will tell our head of the family. There is another thing you have to pay attention to. You can't make this shell by yourself and stuff it in. If the size is not right, it will be easy to explode. If you use up the shells, you can buy them from us. We still have a lot of them."

When Ototo Sorin heard this, he was shocked. Fortunately, Wang Zhi reminded him, otherwise he would have asked his subordinates to cast shells. After all, the shell would be deformed and could not be used anymore. He still knew this.

Unexpectedly, if the shell is not suitable, it will explode. At that time, the loss of more than 1,000 taels is a trivial matter. If two hundred iron cannons are completely exploded, it will be troublesome. What will he use to regain the Houguo? What will he compete with the Ryuzoji clan and the Shimazu clan!

He nodded quickly and said, "Okay, okay, I understand, by the way, how much does your shell cost?"

Wang Zhi said shamelessly: "This is cheap, ten taels of silver each, how much do you want?"

The cost of ten shells is probably less than one tael of silver, but he actually said ten taels of each one. This guy is really dark.

Otomo Sorin didn't know that this guy was damaging him. He estimated it for a while and then said generously: "Then let's have ten thousand first."
Chapter completed!