The entire Xishan Workshop area was suspended, and the loss was not a small part. Especially the shutdown of the steel furnace directly caused all the melting steel to be scrapped.

The molten iron and slag are mixed together and cannot be taken out at all. The entire blast furnace must be pushed down and demolished before it can be rebuilt.

After all the delays, steelmaking could not be made for at least ten days. Without the support of steel, all the rest of the workshops stopped, and the losses in just a few days were as high as tens of thousands of silver coins.

Such a huge loss made Comrade Xiao Zhu angry. Eunuch Lu was called back to the palace by Comrade Xiao Zhu. Although he was not removed from the position of military supervisor, he was carried back to the West Mountain.

After this incident, Eunuch Lu became honest and stopped interfering in all matters in the West. He hid in the room to recuperate and never came out.

Li Fan did not take a single eunuch seriously at all. Due to the delay in shipping food, he took his fleet to sea until May.

...

In Gifu Castle, Japan, Nobuta Oda walked back and forth in the room, and the folding fan in his hand was unable to drive away the heat in his heart.

The moment the door was pulled, he didn't care about his identity, so he ran over and asked, "How is it? Is there good news from the Sheng family?"

The attendant who came in knelt on the ground and did not dare to look up, and said hesitantly: "Lord! Lord Shibata Katsuki said..., saying that the other three elders supported Lord Shin-chi as the head of the family..."

Nobutaka Oda didn't hear the following words, and his mind was blank.

How is it possible? Nobuta Oda is just a child who has not been weaned in his infant. Why do those three family members support babies to live in the house? Is he not as good as one child?

No! No! No!

These damn family members have completely broken their consciences! It is much easier to control a child than to be an adult.

"Baga!" Nobuta Oda could no longer hold it back and kicked the attendant on the shoulder. The attendant rolled and broke through the door and fell out. After landing, he quickly knelt down.

"Haishiba Hideyoshi! I, Nobuta Oda, will never surrender. The world I have won by my father should belong to me..." After a long roar at the yard, Nobuta Oda calmed down.

He asked to the trembling servant, "What did Shibata Katsuki say?"

The attendant quickly said, "Shibata Katsuki said that he would join forces with the rest of the family and would definitely not let Hashiba Hideyoshi succeed.

You also let you pretend to agree to Hideyoshi Hashiba first, and wait until the time is right before taking back the Oda family's world!"

"Fake a promise? This is impossible!

I am the only heir to the Oda family. I asked me to pay a visit to a baby in my cradle. I would rather choose to commit suicide by septum…!”

Just as Oda Nobuta was talking, rapid footsteps sounded outside the yard. A samurai ran in quickly and saw Oda Nobuta bowing and said, "Lord! There is a Ming fleet outside the harbor. We are going to enter the port to trade with us..."

"Baga!" Nobuta Oda was angry. If a Ming merchant came, he would be very happy. Having a merchant means a large amount of goods, which were not available in the war in Japan for years.

But now Oda Nobuta doesn't have the intention to do so. The position of the head of the family has been stolen by others, so there is no intention to trade with the Ming people.

"Let Akito get out! I don't want to see those cunning businessmen, do you understand?" Oda Nobuka roared.

The samurai was a little hesitant, but when he saw Oda Nobuta's scary look, he retreated again, and quickly turned around and ran out.

Nobutta Oda got angry again and sat on the steps depressedly. He understood that Shibata Katsuya was right. With the support of three old people, even children in their infancy could become heads of the family.

All he could do was wait, wait for news from Shibata Katsuya, and accumulate strength to regain his own rights.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A faint sound of Otaku came over, and Oda Nobuta looked in confusion in the direction where the sound came. Could it be that Hashiba Hideyoshi couldn't help but take him down?

Nobutta Oda stood up and walked out. Before he could reach the door, the samurai ran back in panic.

"The lord is not good! The Ming people are too arrogant. The subordinates go and tell them not to enter the port. They don't listen until they don't listen. They also destroyed several of our boats. They said... and said..."

"What else do you say?" Oda Nobuta's face sank. The samurai of the Oda family was in his own hands. How could a few Ming people who came from afar dare to forcibly break through?

The samurai swallowed and said, "They also said that you would like to greet outside the city in person, otherwise you would have to bombard Saki Fu Castle!"

"Baga! Damn Akito bullied me too! I want to cut off their heads and hang them on the city, so that everyone can know the consequences of offending the great Nobuka Oda!

Come! Let the navy prepare! I want to capture these wise men alive!" After saying that, he didn't look at the warriors, and walked out with great strides.

The warrior followed behind with a look of distress and said, "Lord! The Ming people's sea ship is huge, are we thinking about it?"

"What are you thinking about? Are they still powerful in the Gifu Castle iron-clad ship? The Akira ship is huge? I'm apocalypse!" Nobuta Oda said, and walked towards his carriage without looking back.

Standing on his own Iron Armored Anta ship, Oda Nobuka felt a sense of satisfaction. This Iron Armored Anta ship represents the strongest maritime combat power in Japan. Its length is sixteen meters and its width reaches ten battles. It has more than 300 samurai inside, which is enough to be called a maritime fortress.

Under the escort of more than fifty warships, the iron-armed Anzai ship slowly sailed out of the harbor. Nobuta Oda sat on the top floor of the Anzai ship, feeling the solidity of the board under his feet, and said without even raising his eyelids: "Where are the timid and cowardly Ming people? Why don't they surrender?

All the warriors obey the orders, and all the Ming people who do not surrender will be executed! Don’t let them run away!”

"Hi!" the warrior answered loudly and trotted to send orders. Not long after, the drums of "rumble!" sounded on the Iron Arctic Anzai ship, and dozens of Japanese warships moved and headed towards the Ming people's fleet not far away.

It was not until this moment that Oda Nobuta looked up, and his eyes suddenly became wide open, with a look of seeing a ghost.

None of the giant ships in the distance were smaller than his Anzhai ship, and there were many, with fifty or sixty.

These are all Ming people's ships? Are Ming people so rich? They drive such a giant ship to do business?

He wanted to take back the order he had just given, but was afraid of losing face in front of all the subordinates, so he had to force himself to sit down.

Fortunately, the other party's sea ship was huge, but it did not cover the iron armor. The other party came to do business and would definitely not do it easily. As long as you find some face in the next negotiations, you will allow Ming people to enter Hong Kong to do business.

Li Fan looked at the dozens of Japanese ships sailing out of the harbor with great interest. Except for one of the clumsy Anzhai ships, none of them could be taken seriously by him.
Chapter completed!