Smuggling Daming

Shenzhou led the fleet into Edo Bay, and then swept the coastal cities around Edo Bay with thunder, and then defeated the Chiba clan who attacked him, and finally had to choose to surrender. Other nearby forces Seeing the strength of the Ming army, everyone was too scared to move, and even sent money to the woman for safety.

For these Japanese clans that showed their favor to him, Shenzhou never refused to come, and all the gifts were accepted, and then handed over to the supervising army in the fleet, and then the supervising army distributed these things in the name of the court. The same is to buy and sell the hearts of his subordinates, but it can only be done by the supervising army representing the imperial court. If Shenzhou rewards his subordinates without authorization, then there will be suspicion of evil intentions.

After accepting these gifts, Shenzhou's fleet was indeed quiet for a while, but after Shenzhou and Li Anliang settled Edo Castle, they immediately began to expand. First, the Ota clan closest to Edo suffered the blow of destruction It is said that the reason for the disaster was that Shenzhou wanted to take the daughter of the Ota family as a concubine, but she was unwilling, so Shenzhou used the excuse that his dignity was insulted, so he sent troops to destroy the Ota family in anger, and the daughter of the Ota family was also killed. Do receive and become a maid by her side.

After the Ota clan was destroyed, the Ming army began to border on the emerging Hojo clan. At this time, the Hojo clan had just been founded by the patriarch Hojo Soun, occupying the two countries of Izu and Sagami, and the family power was on the rise. If there was no With the arrival of the Ming army, more than ten years later, the Hojo clan will annex Musashi, Xiazong and other countries and become the overlord of the Kanto region.Although the Hojo clan does not have the power in the future, it is still a first-class force among the several clans near Edo.

However, it is a pity.Although Hojo has great prospects.However, the development process was interrupted by the arrival of the Ming army.After Shenzhou destroyed the Ota clan, he immediately dispatched Sagami with lightning speed, defeated the Hojo clan in just a few days, and the Sagami kingdom also fell into the hands of the Ming army.

However, after controlling most of Sagami and Musashi, Shenzhou did not send troops on a large scale. Instead, it slowly invaded the Shimosogoku area bordering Edo by encroaching on it. It was defeated by Shenzhou before. Chiba's territory.They dared not speak out against the encroachment of the Ming army, and could only keep giving in.

It was also during this period of time that Li Anliang finally came forward. He began to recruit Japanese to form a servant army in the name of the Ming court. The same goes for the [-] North Korean troops, so it is imperative to recruit local Japanese.

Speaking of which, after many years of wars in the Wa Kingdom, the people in the country are also living in dire straits. Although Edo is not the political center of the Wa Kingdom.But they are also often threatened by wars, such as the Hojo clan and the Shangbin clan.They also fought endlessly with each other, and countless Japanese people were displaced because of this. Japanese people who died of starvation can often be seen on both sides of the fields and roads.

This is also the situation in the Wa Kingdom, so when Li Anliang released the news that he would recruit troops, and the army not only had enough to eat, but also had military pay, although the military salary of the servant army could not be compared with that of the regular army of Ming Dynasty, it was even less expensive. It cannot be compared with the North Korean army, but they can also support a family. In this regard, other clans in the Wa Kingdom cannot compare with Daming's army, because their army is only responsible for providing food for the soldiers, and there is no military salary at all.

The generous salary plus three meals a day is much better than Japanese soldiers who only eat two meals a day. In addition, Japanese people in this era have no concept of family and country, so when Li Anliang released the news of recruiting servants Afterwards, countless Japanese swarmed in, scrambling to enter Edo City, hoping to join Daming's servant army as soon as possible, so that not only would they not have to go hungry, but the family could also have a full meal.

However, although there are many applicants, Li Anliang's recruitment conditions are also very harsh. First of all, the Japanese servant army only recruits people over the age of 16 and under the age of 40. Of course, those who have martial arts or have been on the battlefield are preferred. There is a prerequisite, that is, the applicant must have a family, and after entering the servant army, the family must be moved to live near Edo. This is mainly to ensure the loyalty of the Japanese. After all, Shenzhou and the others are far away from When the Ming Dynasty fought, they didn't want the Japanese army they recruited to fight back, so when those Japanese were fighting outside, their families were hostages.

Regarding the harsh conditions of using family members as hostages, those Japanese people think it is normal. After all, the Ming army provided such generous conditions. Of course, it is impossible to accept everyone. In order to ensure the loyalty of the soldiers, the family members were moved to the vicinity of Edo. It is also the most effective method, so even if the conditions are harsh, it can't stop the enthusiasm of the Japanese to eat enough. This makes Li Anliang's recruitment work go very smoothly. In just three months, he has recruited [-] Japanese Soldier.

However, compared with those Japanese who entered the servant army, the number of Japanese who were eliminated was more. For these eliminated Japanese, Li Anliang, based on the principle of not being wasted, discussed with Shenzhou and established another They set up a security force. These security forces have no quantitative requirements, and they don't have many requirements for personnel, but their treatment is very different from that of the servant army.

For example, the servant army has three meals a day and uses the standard equipment provided by Ming Dynasty, and there is also a military salary every month, but the security army can only eat two meals a day, and there is no military salary. As for weapons and equipment, they can only use Some of the weapons that were eliminated by the Ming army and were about to be scrapped did not even have military uniforms. Standing together, they were colorful and looked pitiful.

But even so, those Japanese who can enter the security army are still very excited. After all, the security army is also a place where they can eat, and compared with other clan armies, the food in the security army is much better. They can also eat enough, unlike other clan armies, who might lose a few meals someday.

In addition, what makes the public security army even more happy is that they are called the public security army. Generally speaking, they do not need to go to the battlefield. They are usually only responsible for the security situation in various places. It can be said that it is very safe to wipe out the army of the times, unlike other clan armies, who knows when they will lose their lives on the battlefield?

Li Anliang recruited so many Japanese troops at once, and the food and money he spent was not a small amount, and the pressure on logistics was also great. However, Shenzhou and the others are the navy, and they have a special fleet for transporting grain. The army would bring food from Daming. Among them, the regular army of Daming ate rice and flour, while the Japanese army ate dried sweet potatoes and corn flour.

With the popularization of sweet potatoes and corns in Ming Dynasty, these two kinds of grains are now overwhelmed, but the more this is the case, the stricter the control of these two crops in Ming Dynasty, all the sweet potatoes and corn shipped outside Daming have to go through Processing, to ensure that not a single seed is allowed to flow to foreign lands.

Of course, it is impossible for Daming to completely stop the outflow of corn and sweet potatoes. After all, this thing has been promoted throughout the country, and Daming’s control of the border is not so strict, so it will be a matter of time before it spreads, but Daming has already done so. It issued a warning to the surrounding countries that anyone who planted these two crops without Da Ming's consent would inevitably arouse the wrath of Da Ming, and waited for Da Ming's army to crusade at that time.

The dried sweet potatoes and corn flour that Shenzhou and the others transported were produced in Shandong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula. The land in these two places is fertile, and the output of sweet potatoes and corn is very large. They want to process them into derivative products such as vermicelli, but this The market for such products has already been seized by Taiwan and other places that first planted sweet potatoes and corn, so some places later are worried about so many sweet potatoes and corn. Fortunately, Zhou Zhong needs a lot of food when he immigrates overseas. Find a good market in Liaodong and other places.

It is because of the support of two high-yielding crops, sweet potato and corn, that Li Anliang dared to recruit soldiers unscrupulously in the Japanese country, and he did not have to worry about how to feed these Japanese people. This is the benefit of too much food in Ming Dynasty, but too much food Sometimes it is not always a good thing. For example, Daming is now encountering some problems caused by too much food. The most obvious impact is that it becomes difficult for Zhou Zhong to move the people of Daming out of the country.

There is a lot of food, and a large amount of food is stored in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, even if there is a famine, there is no need to worry about the problem of food. As long as the local officials have a conscience and open the granary during the famine, the victims can Survive the famine safely, and for those traditional Ming people, as long as they can have food to eat at home, they will stay at home with peace of mind. land.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the number of disaster victims that Zhou Zhong relocated from Daming every year decreased day by day. Even according to the estimates of the Governor's Office officials, within three years at most, no more victims of disasters in Daming would move out.

Regarding this result, Zhou Zhong was also very helpless. Sometimes he even wondered, if he had known that the people in Daming would no longer migrate out because of the effects of corn and sweet potatoes, would he still donate sweet potatoes and corn? For Masanori?However, Zhou Zhong's final conclusion remained unchanged. Even if he had known this earlier, he would have donated the corn and sweet potatoes. After all, he couldn't just watch so many Ming people die of hunger every year.

There is still a large amount of land overseas waiting for the people of Ming Dynasty to develop, but now Zhou Zhong's immigration work has encountered the above big problem, which also makes Zhou Zhong have to change the original immigration strategy and use another method for immigration. (To be continued..)