Yiyin looked at Christina and slowly put down the knife he was playing with.

His gentle gesture made Lilu breathe a sigh of relief and said with a flattering smile.

"I am willing to serve you, Lord."

Yiyin did not look at Lilu, but stared at Christina and said.

"If you want to participate in this battle, your ship and the cannons on the ship will be requisitioned by me."

Christina nodded.

"I am willing to serve you, Lord, but I have a request."

Yiyin frowned.

"What qualifications do you have now to negotiate terms with me?"

Christina shook her head.

"Lilu and I are guilty people. We are willing to serve you for free, but the crew on the ship will not be willing. The voyage contract does not include fighting for the island lord.

Without their assistance, the ship cannot move and the cannon cannot be used, so I hope you can give them a corresponding reward so that I can have a reason to persuade them to serve you."

Yiyin touched his chin and asked.

"How much profit can you get from sailing to the island country?"

Christina looked at Lilu, and Lilu said.

"A ship of goods is worth a hundred gold coins from your place. We follow the monsoon and can come once a year and stay for three or four months at a time."

Yiyin nodded.

"One hundred gold medals?"

The small sentence weighs one tael, and Lilu only gets one hundred taels of gold for one run.

In the early Ming Dynasty, one tael of gold was worth four taels of silver. During the Wanli period, due to a whip, the Ming Dynasty began to move towards the silver standard. During the same period, a large amount of American silver poured in, and the gold-silver ratio dropped to about one to ten.

The island country has a large gold reserve, and the gold-to-silver ratio is much smaller than that of the Celestial Empire, so there is the incoming money trade of precious metal arbitrage, which is how Imai Munehisa made his fortune.

One hundred taels of gold is a huge amount of money for ordinary people. Lilu took a boatload of people and traveled half the world just counting on this little gold.

Of course, they exchanged the gold-silver ratio of commodities along the way, and the income from one trip was by no means as small as one hundred taels of gold, but this gold was an indispensable basis for their arbitrage.

Yiyin thought for a while and said.

"I will hire all your crew members, just give me a price."

When the subject of money was mentioned, Lilu's eyes lit up and she became energetic. She pinched her fingers and muttered.

“I don’t know if this war will end this year. We may not be able to leave in time for the monsoon, and next year’s profits will be lost.

Gee, that’s a lot of money.”

Lilu secretly looked at Yiyin, and when she saw Yiyin was about to pick up the knife again, she was frightened and said quickly.

"Four hundred... no, three hundred and eighty gold coins! Do you think that's okay?"

Yiyin glanced at her without counter-offering.

"Then three hundred and eighty gold medals."

Lilu felt a little distressed when she saw Yiyin agreeing so readily. It seemed that her quotation was too low.

Christina nodded.

"I will try my best to persuade the crew to serve you, and we will leave the island country after this war is over."

Yiyin looked at Christina. He had a feeling that as long as the war was over and he left the island country, the red-haired female officer would not come back. She would convince Lilu that Yiyin would never see them again.

Christina wanted to complete the contract and leave freely, but Yiyin was unwilling to let her have her way.

Yiyin hopes to keep these two southern barbarians for his own use. Especially the proud Christina, Yiyin likes to see her rebellious and helpless look.

Turning his attention to Lilu, Yiyin knew that Christina was difficult to deal with, so he decided to start with Lilu.

"Lilu, you said before that there is an agreement between the southern barbarians. You cannot give the artillery to the islanders for use.

So now, you not only give me artillery, but you also fight for me, doesn't this violate the agreement between the Nanman people?"

Lilu smiled bitterly.

"Wise Lord, you are right, I have seriously violated the agreement. Therefore, the Western and Portuguese Chamber of Commerce will definitely punish me.

To be honest, I bought my trade license from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce with the help of a Portuguese friend.

Therefore, I will soon lose my trade license, and all trade ports leading to the island country will be closed to me, refusing my request to dock for supplies.

This time, it should be the last time I take the island route."

Yiyin nodded.

"I am very satisfied with your honesty.

But I don’t understand why the Nanman Cult can provide artillery to the daimyo of Kyushu without being severely punished, but you must accept the punishment?”

Lilu sighed.

"The Liberian Peninsula is one of the most influential areas of Southern Barbarianism. Westerners and Portuguese people are very pious, so as long as it is to spread the glory of Japan, exceptions can be made for anything."

Yiyin smiled.

"I understand, they violently broke the agreement between the Southern Barbarians, but because of their faith, they can be forgiven by you Southern Barbarians.

However, they also grossly interfered in the internal affairs of the island country and induced the lords of the martial arts family in Kyushu to convert. I cannot forgive them.

I am a person who attaches great importance to maritime trade. I welcome friends from the sea to come to the island country to trade fairly with us and exchange what we need.

But I cannot tolerate the Nanman Cult hiding private goods in free trade and using their interests to seduce the martial lords into behavior that is inconsistent with their status.

Until now, the Nanman Sect has not been granted the right to preach by the shogunate. They have no right to preach in the island country, and their behavior is very rude."

Yiyin accused Nanman Cult, which made Lilu a little confused. She was just an ordinary businessman, and all she cared about was money.

Regarding faith, the Nanman New Sect is not as fanatical as the Nanman Cult. Therefore, she doesn't understand why Yiyin wants her to say this.

Yiyin spoke indignantly for a while, and finally showed his drama.

"The shogunate has its own rules. On behalf of the shogunate, I welcome the mutual benefits brought by the Nanman trade.

But the current disorderly trade state and the disrespectful behavior of privately using trade to mix religious demands must be stopped.

I will implore the shogunate to set up a general agent for the Nanbarians. Lilu, as a Nanman I trust, are you willing to serve as the general agent for the Nanbarians and become the bridge between the shogunate and the Nanman people?"

Lilu couldn't quite understand Yiyin's long diplomatic rhetoric, but she did understand the last sentence of Nanman's general agent.

As the intermediary between the shogunate and Nanman merchants? Lilu's mind became active.

The Nanman Sect has spent many years trying desperately to squeeze into Kyoto and obtain formal communication channels with the shogunate, but they have failed due to the brutal interference of Buddhism.

The most recent one was when Gao Xuenai launched the Heavenly Punishment in Kyoto. Master Xianru issued a decree and ordered the Zahe people to go to Luo and massacre the Nanman missionaries hiding in Kyoto, causing a bad impact.

Nowadays, the leaders of the Nanman trade are the Westerners and the Portuguese, most of whom are devout Nanman believers. The Nanman religion has huge power in the Nanman trade.

As the guardian of Buddhism, Yiyin tried to use pure Nanman merchants like Lilu to strip away the connection between Nanman trade and Nanman religion.

Doing this has three major benefits.

First of all, Lilu was given enough sweetness to make her unable to leave the island country's trade lines, so she could only choose to work for Yiyin, and Christina, who cared about her, would most likely not be able to escape.

Secondly, try to kick out the influence of the Nanman Sect from the Nanman trade. This will weaken the threat of the Nanman Sect to Buddhism, and the various Buddhist sects will definitely support Yiyin even more.

Finally, through its current absolute dominance in the shogunate, Yiyin faced the demands of the Nanman people and established the Nanman general agent. It seemed fair, but in fact it was hoped that the Shiba family would dominate the Nanman trade.

After tapping the potential of the Hokuriku Dou trade route and Takada Haruno has begun to use financial means to quench his thirst, Yi Bank needs to plan for the future.

Yoshihiro is not Oda Nobunaga. He cannot control the land through centralization and obtain a lot of land income to maintain his rule.

The Wu family valued the land more than their own lives, and depriving them of control over the land was forcing them to rebel.

Yoshigan asked himself that he did not have the courage of Oda Nobunaga. He was the leader of the traditional samurai family and could not engage in land reforms that aroused the hatred of the samurai family.

However, the Sibo family must further develop its economy in order to maintain strong financial and material resources, convince the martial arts families all over the world, and go one step further.

If Yiyin wants to compromise with the land aristocracy, it can only rely on business and replace land income with commercial income.

The commercial market within the island country has been exhausted, and the logistics in Kanto and Kansai are basically under the control of the Shiba family.

Takada Yono could even use the financial tool of food stamps to casually dig out two million koku for military expenses in the Hokuriku Road trade market.

This is an advantage and a disadvantage.

Financial wealth is no better than land wealth. It is just a number and will be gone if you say it is gone. If you want to continue playing this wealth game, you must constantly look for new economic growth points.

The Nanman trade will be Yiyin's next target.

Since the Nanman religion is at odds with Buddhism, and since the Sibo family needs to control the Nanman trade, they should support the English and Lan people like Lilu and Christina who believe in Protestantism.

The new Nanman sect headed by the Lan people and the British cared more about the interests of trade itself, unlike the devout Nanman believers of the Westerners and Portuguese.

Use the Lan people and the British to check and balance the Westerners and the Portuguese, let the Nanman Protestants block the Nanman religion, and make the Nanman people go after dogs on their own.

The establishment of the Nanman General Agent is to limit the trade channels of Nanman trade in the island country and facilitate Yiyin to control this financial path.
To be continued...