Chapter 248 Promotion of Firearms
"But once the Moroboshi family occupies the second sub-island and forms an island chain, half of the main island will be threatened by the opponent's new fleet, which will also pose a huge threat to the Mori family and even cut off the Mori family's naval route. The consequences are unimaginable!" As a general of the Mori family, Mori Hidemoto was very aware of the importance of the sub-island and hurriedly persuaded.

In fact, the strategic layout of the Mori family has always been to form a huge naval system by occupying the two secondary islands. While echoing each other, it also achieves the purpose of being able to attack and defend. Therefore, it is more clear what the consequences will be once the Moroboshi family occupies the two secondary islands. It can be said that the Mori family will have to live under the control of the Moroboshi family in the future.

"The other party is a smart guy, so we have to use smart methods. Simple deception will not work." Daimyo Mori shook his head and smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that even if they don't let them, the Moroboshi family won't go?

How is that possible? Anyone with a little strategic vision knows the benefits of occupying the sub-island, and the Moroboshi family just happens to have this ability, so it's not something that can be stopped just by saying so.

In this situation, it would be better to go with the flow and use this opportunity to release the goodwill of the Mori family as much as possible to ease the relationship between the two sides.

There is no way. The Maori family really can't withstand any blow now.

If there is another major defeat, the enemies on the border will certainly not be able to hold back and launch an attack. By then, with internal and external troubles, the Mori family may not be able to hold on.

So even though he knew that raising a tiger would bring trouble, the Mori Daimyo had no choice but to go with the flow.

He felt a kind of suffocation and indescribable feeling, as if he had to push his warriors' buttocks in the middle of the night when he stayed overnight at their homes.

At this moment, the Mori Daimyo hoped more than ever that the two sides could form a marriage alliance. He would even marry all his daughters to the other party and ask the other party to come on time.

The reason for doing this, in addition to the deterrence from the Moroboshi family, the most important thing is that the Mori Daimyo covets everything from the Moroboshi family.

Money, resources, firearms, ships, once the Mori family obtained these, he was confident that he could go to Kyoto during his lifetime and achieve the highest achievement that all daimyo dreamed of.

Unfortunately, as long as the Moroboshi family is not stupid, they will not leak this information. Then, the Mori Daimyo received the news that the merchants of the Moroboshi family were coming with a large number of cannons to sell. He and Mori Hidemoto immediately looked at each other, unable to figure out what the Moroboshi family wanted to do and whether there was any conspiracy.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Yan Xu needs the Maori family to hold the front, at least before he carries out the next round of expansion, so it is necessary to strengthen the rapidly declining strength of the Maori family.

In addition, he planned to promote firearms to the outside world, and using the Maori family as an advertisement was just right, killing two birds with one stone.

For Yan Xu, the Mori family cannot fall, at least not now, because the Moroboshi family cannot take over such a large territory.

There is nothing that can be done about it. The Moroboshi family is too small and has insufficient talent pool. It is okay to manage a secondary island, but after occupying Amano Castle, there is a serious shortage of management personnel. Don't you see that the main island of Amano Castle, which is so large, is managed by only Kadokuma Ishimune, Kazuha Shizuka and Fuki.

So even if the Mori family is willing to surrender, Yan Xu may not dare to accept it, because he simply does not have enough manpower to take over. If he uses all the people from the Mori family, who will be annexing whom?

Therefore, after occupying Amano Castle, Yan Xu gave up many opportunities and remained on the sidelines because he lacked independent talent.

There is no way. Even if he conquers countless territories, who can he find to manage them?
Appointing the other party right after defeating him, this is not a joke. Anyway, Yan Xu doesn’t dare to do so unless he has enough power and is not afraid of the other party’s rebellion.

Theoretically speaking, after occupying a city, in addition to stationing troops, Yan Xu also needs to appoint a city lord and place some people in the original management team.

Without a small team of personnel, it is impossible to take over the management of a city, because in addition to the city, large areas outside the city are also under the management of the city. This requires more professional personnel to take over, otherwise the so-called occupation is only in name only.

They really dared to do this without perfect preparation. Even if the warehouse was full of supplies, those people would dare to make an account book full of deficits for him. In less than a day, the warehouse would become empty, and no one would be able to find fault with it.

This is the biggest obstacle to Yan Xu's expansion, so he needs the identity of a daimyo, only in this way can he attract more talents to come and join him. But this takes time, and the Mori family was almost killed by him. Once the Mori family can't stop the invasion of the outside world and the war breaks out, the Moroboshi family will not be able to develop with peace of mind, so Yan Xu will let merchants go to sell iron cannons to help the Mori family stabilize the situation.

As for whether the Mori family will use this to counterattack the Moroboshi family, as long as the other party is not stupid, they will not have such an idea.

With a large number of arquebuses, the borders of the Mori family would be stabilized, and the reputation of firearms would spread, making it easier for merchants from the Moroboshi family to sell arquebuses everywhere.

Selling weapons has always been one of the main sources of income for the Moroboshi family, and they have been selling swords and guns everywhere before.

However, he no longer cares about this little profit. Moreover, with the two wars between the Moroboshi family and the Mori family, firearms will definitely come into the eyes of those daimyo. It is only a matter of time before they increase the number of equipment and the intensity of research.

In this situation, it is meaningless to suppress the development of firearms. It is better to seize the market while the market is booming.

As for selling guns everywhere, it might backfire on oneself.

Of course, but Yan Xu doesn't care.

The striker rifles equipped by the Moroboshi family were the pinnacle of breech-loading muskets, with a slow rate of fire, a low hit rate, and a service life of only a few hundred rounds. How could the iron cannons defeat his army?

Therefore, promoting firearms is not only not harmful to the Moroboshi family, but also beneficial. It can not only control the firearms market in the Japanese world, but also increase the war costs of daimyos in various places, killing two birds with one stone.

As to whether local daimyos would reject firearms, it is unlikely.

Although firearms have many shortcomings, they also have many advantages. Otherwise, they would not have gradually replaced cold weapons. Not to mention that the two wars between the Moroboshi family and the Mori family have perfectly demonstrated the power of firearms. The daimyo could not help but be tempted, at least the Mori family certainly could not help it.

Moreover, when technology and production cannot meet demand, purchasing relatively cheap cannons from the Moroboshi family is undoubtedly a good choice.

Although this would make the arms channels subject to control by others, as long as a large number of iron cannons were equipped, it would be easy to defeat previous enemies and win. This was enough, and not many people could resist this temptation or threat.

The bald eagle has the most say in this regard. Once a natural disaster or man-made calamity occurs, the first thing they think of is not to stockpile food, but to buy guns. Especially when they find out that their neighbor has bought a big gun, they will go crazy and try to get a big gun at any cost. Otherwise, the stockpiled food will belong to their neighbor, the money will belong to their neighbor, and even their beautiful wife will belong to their neighbor.

In addition, the iron cannon is easier to train and promote. A farmer only needs a short period of training, a iron cannon, and a little luck, and he can kill a warrior who has practiced martial arts for many years on the battlefield.

Anyone can figure out whether this deal is worthwhile, even if the odds are low. One hundred arquebusiers versus one hundred samurai. The cost of the former is not even one-tenth of the latter. One round of volleys can pay off, and two more rounds can make a huge profit, so who would refuse?

In this case, as long as one daimyo equipped himself with a large number of iron cannons, other daimyo would follow suit and engage in an equipment race.

And once they got used to the iron cannon, Yan Xu took advantage of it to take control of the war in Japan.

As for whether other daimyos would follow suit and produce iron cannons, Yan Xu was not worried about it, because no one could compete with him in terms of output and cost. The countless cheap seamless steel pipes in the modern world were his greatest confidence.

Just as Yan Xu thought, although they couldn't understand the intentions of the Moroboshi family, the Mori family still raised money as quickly as possible to buy these cannons, and then imitated the Moroboshi family to train a more professional cannon team.

(End of this chapter)