Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 159 Blood Silver ([-]-in-[-])

In fact, Zhu Zhanhe feels that Ishijian, especially Ishijian Datian, is quite difficult to defeat.

After all, it is a silver mine, and it is impossible for the Japanese country not to pay attention to it. Therefore, the resistance Zhu Zhanhe encountered here was actually the greatest. The resistance he encountered in Zhanhai City and Tuyuan City was not so great.

However, it only took Zhu Zhanhe three days to capture this place, and he did not use a force attack.

He sent people to spread the news and spread the news that the Ming army would not collect taxes. The miners in Shijian Mine rebelled against him.

Afterwards, Zhu Zhanhe did fulfill his promise that the Ming army would not collect taxes in all the places conquered by the Wa Kingdom, but the premise was that each village would send a certain amount of young and strong men to work as miners every month.

Moreover, miners do not work for nothing. All miners are responsible for food and housing, and you will be given a certain amount of food every month.

To Zhu Zhanhe, all this didn't matter, because he also snatched the grain from along the way, but he didn't snatch it from the common people, but from the homes of nobles, officials and warriors.

As for those in the powerful class...

Originally, Zhu Zhanhe had planned to spend the New Year this year on the Japanese island, because this year was a very important year for him. Iwami Yinshan had to be stable. Who wouldn't be jealous of the annual output of one million taels of silver here? ?

You know, during the Yongle period, the largest and most commonly used currency in the Ming Dynasty was not gold and silver, but Yongle Tongbao, which was copper coins.

One tael of silver is one thousand taels, which is equivalent to more than 1600 yuan in later generations (Internet data). What about 100 million taels?

Don't look at the TV series that say that Ming Dynasty's annual tax revenue was more than 7000 million taels. That is really nonsense.

In the Ming Dynasty, almost all taxes were based on physical taxes, and during the Wanli period when overseas silver poured in and silver prices plummeted, one tael of silver could cost more than 200 kilograms of rice.

This is after the sharp drop in silver prices.

In the Yongle period before this, silver was actually very scarce. In the early Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty's annual tax equivalent was about one thousand to fifteen million taels.

A silver mountain can produce one million taels of silver a year. This number may seem small, but in fact it can already cover one-fifteenth or even one-tenth of Ming Dynasty's annual tax revenue.

The most important thing is that even with reckless mining, Iwami Ginzan can still be mined for at least 100 or even 200 years.

How could Zhu Zhanhe not pay attention to such an important thing?
However, something happened and Zhu Zhanhe had to leave to return to Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the time when Qian Yong and the others returned to Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanhe received the news more than a month later, but even so, he still had to go back.

This also led to the fact that he didn't spend this year in Wodao, nor in Yunnan, but in Yingtian.

Yingtian Mansion, Chang'an Avenue.

Zhu Zhanhe was riding a horse, followed by a long motorcade. Chang'an Street was crowded with people, but they all gathered on the street and at the intersection, looking at the young man they had not seen for almost two years.

Zhu Zhanhe, who was riding a horse, was wearing armor. Although the armor was a bit small due to the rapid physical development at this age, it did not prevent people from paying him reverence.

From the eighth year of Yongle to the present, this young man has gone through four years of fighting, and has won all victories. Not only has he secured a large territory for the Ming Dynasty, but he has also made the enemy lose the confidence to resist.

It is this kind of person that the people respect.

However, Zhu Zhanhe had no intention of staying and quickly disappeared from people's sight, but the motorcade behind him dragged on for a long, long time.

Fengtian Hall.

Although there are snowflakes in the sky and the weather is a bit cold, this does not dampen people's enthusiasm at all.

Although, not everyone thinks so.

"His Royal Highness."

Entering the palace, you are not allowed to ride a horse, drive a car, or carry a sword. Therefore, when Zhu Zhanhe arrived at Chengtian Gate, he habitually got off his horse and removed his sword, but he was stopped by the gate guards.

"Your Majesty has ordered that you don't have to do it this time."

"Huh?" Zhu Zhanhe was stunned for a moment, then turned to look in the direction of the city gate.

However, although Duanmen and Meridian Gate were both wide open, Zhu Zhanhe could not see the scene outside Fengtian Hall due to the obstruction of Fengtian Gate.

This is the old man showing off, right?
Zhu Zhanhe nodded slightly towards the city gate guard, then got on his horse.

The sound of the city gate opening made people tremble in the bottom of their hearts. Chengtianmen, a gate that was basically unpassed on weekdays, ushered in the first passerby in Yongle 12 years.

The convoy entered Chengtian Gate, passed through Dragon Boat Gate and Meridian Gate all the way, bypassed Fengtian Gate (Fengtian Gate is not a gate, it is a palace! It is a place to go to court!), and entered the Danchi (chí) outside Fengtian Hall from the Wulou on the left .

Danchi is the square in front of the palace.

His Majesty Dan, Zhu Zhanhe sat on the horse with his head held high.

He has the qualification not to dismount, but that doesn't mean everyone has it.

Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping dismounted and stood on the left side of the horse, with 76 carriages slowly lining up behind them.

At this moment, even the Danchi of Fengtian Hall seemed a little crowded.

Soon, Zhu Di led hundreds of civil and military officials to appear above Danbi and at the entrance of Fengtian Hall.

Zhu Zhanhe dismounted from his horse and knelt down on one knee: "My grandson pays homage to Grandpa Huang. Grandpa Huang pays his respects to Jinan."

"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty bows to Jinan!"

Zhu Ling, Zhu Ping, and the soldiers escorting the convoy knelt down on one knee along with Zhu Zhanhe. Although there were only more than a hundred people, their voices resounded throughout Fengtian Danqi.

"Zhen An!" Zhu Di waved his sleeves, his face was full of joy.

There is the joy of a soldier's victory over his teacher, but also...

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Zhu Di lifted up the hem of his clothes and went straight down to Majesty Dan.

Suddenly, both the prince Zhu Gaochi and the accompanying civil servants and generals panicked, but Zhu Di had already begun to give elixirs, and they could not stop him.

In the middle of the Danbi is a dragon-shaped relief, which can only be walked by the emperor during major events such as enthronement. Moreover, he does not walk directly, but is carried by people on the steps on both sides. The emperor sits on a shelf and walks from the Danbi. "Flying" above the dragon-shaped relief of His Majesty.

As for weekdays, the emperor walked on the steps on both sides of the Danbi dragon-shaped relief, while the courtiers could only take the steps on the outside.

Zhu Di is the emperor and can walk on the steps next to the relief, but do the ministers dare?

Let alone civil servants and generals, even Zhu Gaochi didn't dare.

There is no other way but others can only hurry down from the other side.

"Well..." After getting off Danbi, Zhu Di helped Zhu Zhanhe up and looked up and down.

"I'm taller and stronger..."

"Grandpa Huang..." Zhu Zhanhe felt that his heart was a little touched, but he still took two steps back and turned sideways.

"Grandpa Huang, this is what we captured from our Ming Dynasty's eastern expedition to Japan!"

When Zhu Zhanhe spoke, Zhu Gaochi and the civil and military officials also came down the steps and stood on both sides.

Originally some people still wanted to say a few words, but as Zhu Zhanhe opened his mouth, everyone shut up.

"Grandpa Emperor, this time our Ming Dynasty dispatched more than 11 soldiers, starting from Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong, passing through North Korea, passing Tsushima, and first descending to Changmen Zhanhai and Tuyuan."

"After that, we passed through the Kanmon Strait and successively conquered Toyozen, Chikuzen, Hizen and other places, and then turned to attack the mainland of Wajima. We first broke through Nagato, then forced Iwami to capture Iwami Ginzan!"

"Since the expedition, the soldiers have seized the equivalent of more than two million taels of silver. Mining started at Shijian Yinshan a month ago, and by the time of my grandson's return, a total of 14 taels of silver had been extracted!"

After hearing what Zhu Zhanhe said, everyone turned their heads and looked at the 76 carriages lined up on Danqi.

The big boxes one after another above are no longer boxes in their eyes, but money.

Among them, Xia Yuanji was the most excited, and his eyes were already shining when he looked at those big boxes, and he couldn't hide it at all.

More than 200 million taels of silver, even in a prosperous year, this is worth more than [-]% to almost [-]% of the income of the entire Ming Dynasty. If it is in a famine year, this is more than [-]% of the income!
This is equivalent to your monthly salary of 1 yuan suddenly becoming [-] yuan. Even if the company's performance is not good, it will still be [-] yuan at the same time!

If the current situation wasn't inappropriate, Xia Yuanji would probably jump out and hug Zhu Zhanhe and kiss him twice!
"Well, okay!" Zhu Di patted Zhu Zhanhe's shoulder heavily, with a look of great relief on his face.

"Xia Yuanji?"

"My minister is here!" Xia Yuanji, who had already been unable to hold back, jumped out immediately.

"I'll leave these to you."

"Yes!"

Xia Yuanji became excited immediately, and immediately began to call the soldiers escorting the carriage to the household department.

"Xia Shangshu, they can leave, but you can't." Seeing that Xia Yuanji couldn't care about anything, Zhu Zhanhe hurriedly called out to him.

"Grandpa Emperor, my grandson led the soldiers to conquer Iwami Shimane and Ota, and occupied Iwami Ginzan."

"During the conquest of Ishimi and Nagato, Sun'er specially ordered that the Japanese people along the way be given preferential treatment, so Sun'er successfully recruited many miners."

"Shijian Yinshan can produce more than one million taels of silver a year. This amount is already very large. Sun'er thinks that the Ministry of Household Affairs may need to intervene."

"Xia Yuanji?" Zhu Di looked at Xia Yuanji when he heard the words.

"Yes!" Xia Yuanji's mood at the moment could no longer be described as elation, and his whole body was about to fly.

"Weichen arranges for someone immediately!"

"Okay, let's go, let's go..." The smile on Zhu Di's face did not diminish.

Xia Yuanji has been the Minister of Household Affairs since the first year of Yongle. It has been 12 years. How could Zhu Di not understand his character?He immediately laughed and scolded him and asked him to leave.

"Grandpa Emperor..."

Seeing Xia Yuanji leave, Zhu Zhanhe turned his head to face Zhu Di.

"Now that the handover has been completed, my grandson will take his leave first..."

These seizures did not allow Zhu Zhanhe to bring people back in person, because it was not worth it, and the conquest of Japan was not over yet, and there would be many more seizures in the future, so there was no need for him to come back.

The real reason for him to come back was Qian Yong and the others. As for responding to the sky, it was just in passing. He is a lineage of the King of Han, and he is a subject.

At this moment, his mind is not at all in the palace, nor in Yingtian. He just wants to return to Yunnan, because he still has a lot of things to do.

He has a grand plan in mind, a plan that is very likely to conquer the whole world without spending a single soldier.

A plan that could threaten the whole world.

"Hey!" Zhu Di grabbed his grandson's arm and looked at his current appearance with emotion.

A scene suddenly appeared in Zhu Di's mind. It was still in the grassland. The ten-year-old boy was wearing a tuanlong suit, but he made frequent clever tricks, overwhelming Bei Yuan's remnants.

But now, he has grown taller and stronger, but he is separated from himself.

"Grandpa asked the Ministry of Industry to make two more sets of armor for you. Your suit is already too small. Go take a bath first, then have a meal with grandpa, and then go back."

……

Zhu Zhanhe lowered his head and said nothing.

He actually didn't want to stay here for a long time, not because he still had a grudge, or because he was really anxious to the point where he didn't even want to delay a meal.

He had given up on Iwami Yinshan and gave this money tree to the old man, so he didn't want to stay here any longer or be exploited more by the old man.

He understood it from the moment he knew that his third uncle was going to join the feudal clan, and the old man still didn't want to let him go.

Whether it's because of family affection or for taking advantage, the fact will not change.

but……

He also knew that the old man said this and did this for his own good.

Today, it was against the regulations to welcome him at Danchi in front of the Fengtian Hall, because firstly, the war was not over yet, and secondly, the results were not great enough, so he should not be welcomed at the Yingtian Hall.

But the old man still did it, just to silence some people.

After all, although Zhu Zhanhe just mentioned it in one sentence, everyone knows what the scene is like in Nagato, Chikuzen, Toyozen and Hizen.

The red land is thousands of miles away, and there are no people for thousands of miles. In the past, this was used to describe scenes during great disasters, but now it is more deeply rooted in people's hearts when it is used here.

"it is good……"

After a long time, Zhu Zhanhe nodded in agreement.

"Come here!" Zhu Di was excited when he heard this, and the joy on his face was beyond words.

"Send an order to the Food Bureau! Let them prepare some dishes that the prince likes to eat!"

"Yes..." The little snot next to Zhu Di quickly bowed and retreated.

"Let's go! Follow grandpa to Qianqing Palace!"

At this time, Zhu Di didn't care that Zhu Zhanhe was still wearing armor, and directly put his arm around Zhu Zhanhe's shoulders and headed towards the Qianqing Palace.

Behind the grandfather and grandson, a group of civil servants and generals looked at each other in confusion.

"Sir, this..." Huang Huai was a little unwilling and hurriedly pulled over Xie Jin, the chief minister of the cabinet.

They had already made an appointment to take advantage of Zhu Zhanhe's return to Beijing this time to attack, because they were afraid that they would never encounter such an opportunity again in the future.

The 10,000+ people in the grassland plus the uncountable people in Jiaozhi, plus the current Japanese state, under Zhu Zhanhe's reputation, there are now at least 50 million corpses piled up.

This Spring Festival, although there were fewer people coming to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, that was mainly because Zheng He's fleet sent away many envoys from far away places. In fact, there were far more envoys paying tribute this year than usual.

Not only that, the envoys who came to pay tribute this year, whether they were Siam, Nanzhang, or the three guards of Oara and Ulyanha, they all had a common characteristic, that is, they were extremely restrained.

This is a good thing in the eyes of many people, because the Ming Dynasty has become stronger, and those subordinate countries are afraid of the strong national power of the Ming Dynasty. This is a reflection of the country's strength.

But it was different in the eyes of civil servants.

For civil servants deeply influenced by Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, this kind of peace and admiration obtained by deterring force should not exist. The real orthodoxy should be to conquer the world with benevolence and righteousness, so that they will willingly admit that the Great Tomorrow Dynasty is the country His status made them sincerely convinced to pay tribute and worship.

Instead of coming to worship because of fear of being destroyed by the Ming Dynasty like now.

In the eyes of the generals, the seizures Zhu Zhanhe brought back from this trip were proof of military exploits.

In Xia Yuanji's view, the seizures Zhu Zhanhe brought back from this trip were supplements to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But in the eyes of the civil servants, the seizures that Zhu Zhanhe brought back from his trip were all stained with blood, and even the blood silver was dripping with blood all the time.

(End of this chapter)