These five hundred Korean people were carefully selected by Jiang Wei. They are not ordinary Korean people at all. After all, ordinary Korean people are simply a group of illiterate people who have no knowledge. They may have heard of the Ming Dynasty, but they simply cannot
Understand what kind of country Ming Dynasty is.
After all, it is extremely difficult to exchange information these days. People who are not the middle and upper class of Goryeo society do not even have channels to learn about the Ming Dynasty.
They didn't know anything about the Ming Dynasty and what the household registration of the Ming Dynasty meant. It was impossible for them to be bewitched by Han Du.
Only those who know something about the Ming Dynasty know how important the Ming Dynasty household registration is. It can be said that this is a good thing that they can't exchange for money. As long as they have the Ming Dynasty household registration, they will become a real Ming Dynasty person.
, their family and descendants, even if they completely escape the suffering of Goryeo, they will be able to live their lives with dignity in the future.
Handu sent Tan Qing to use warships to quietly send these people to the north and south of the Japanese country in the dark. These people had only one mission, and that was to send back the information they had found no matter what method they used. Send it back.
The more important the information, the higher the reward they can get.
Before leaving, Han Du also distributed 10 taels of gold and 50 taels of silver to each person. Naturally, it was because wealth has the power to influence the gods. Han Du really hoped that these people could find out valuable information, and usually this was the case.
Information about him can only be obtained from people with status in the Japanese country. If you want to get close to such a person, a penniless beggar has no chance.
Secondly, it is also to enable these Korean people to work for themselves wholeheartedly. After all, I am now willing to give them such gold and silver, which means that my promise to them is absolutely true. In this way, it can also make these Korean people no longer have any lies.
Work for yourself without any hesitation.
From then on, Han Du lived deeply in the Governor's Mansion, while Tan Qing led his warships to travel north and south on the sea of Japan, constantly sending back various news from the north and south of Japan.
From these news, it is not difficult for Han Du to see that the Japanese Southern Dynasty was really vigorous this time. According to the news sent back by a Korean, it was probably after Komatsu Lingzi bought the grain back that the largest scale in history began in the south.
The conscription of soldiers. The ronin who had nowhere to go before they had a chance to eat for three days were all attracted by the huge amount of food provided by the Southern Dynasty. Even the Japanese who farmed the land were forcibly recruited in large numbers.
At the same time, news from the Muromachi shogunate in the north also came back, and the Muromachi shogunate was doing the same thing as in the south.
, they also knew what was going on in the Southern Dynasty, and they were also recruiting rogues and Japanese people on a large scale. After all, they were not blind. It was obvious what the Southern Dynasty wanted to do when they recruited rogues and peasants on such a large scale.
Perhaps outsiders would wonder how effective the newly recruited peasants of Japan would be when they entered the battlefield. In terms of combat effectiveness, the ronin were better. After all, the ronin were running around, and their survival depended on their bravery and ruthlessness. No.
Such werewolves would have either been killed midway, or they would have been fed to wild beasts in the wilderness. And those farmers have no fighting power at all. They have been digging in the soil for food all their lives.
What combat capability?
But for both the north and the south of Japan, even farmers were enough.
The north and south of Japan have been fighting for decades, and the truly rigorously trained elites have long been exhausted. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had been preparing for several years, and finally trained 80,000 elites to unify Japan.
It was reduced to ashes under heavy artillery fire.
Now the Japanese state, whether in the south or the north, is in a state of ruin. We don't all have decent elites, so let's recruit the peasants to fight.
Anyway, a war is a fight, and a fight is a fight, as long as these peasants can go into battle and make up the numbers. If they can kill one of the opponents, they will make a profit. Even if they can't make any achievements, they can resist the opponent's knife.
The greatest use for farmers.
Therefore, the news that Han Du received later made him extremely speechless. The battles between the two sides blossomed continuously on the northern and southern borders of the Japanese country, and several battles often broke out in one day.
But if you think that the battle in Japan was really fierce and the sky was dark and the earth was dark, then you are completely wrong.
Judging from the information Han Du himself received, the two sides were fighting together without any structure, which was similar to a street gang fight, or even worse. For example, one of the battles was like this. This time, the Muromachi Shogunate was the attacking party, and the Southern Dynasty
This side is defending the city.
Although the Japanese country does not have a decent city at all, it is said to be a defensive city, but in fact it is just a low city wall. But no matter how bad the city wall is, it is still a city wall. If you send people to occupy the city wall, you can give the Muromachi shogunate a condescending position.
The troops caused a large number of casualties.
However, the Nanchao side did not defend the city. Instead, they directly opened the city gate and took the initiative to engage in a melee with the Muromachi shogunate at the city gate.
What's even more bizarre is that the Muromachi shogunate clearly came to attack. It was obvious that they had the advantage in numbers, and it was obvious that the Nanchao side lost the only geographical advantage in vain, but the final result was that the Muromachi shogunate lost.
The defeat was complete, and the army of several thousand ronai and peasants dispersed in a rush.
Such incredible battles are happening almost every moment on the border between the two sides.
These news made Han Du dumbfounded and shook his head helplessly. However, from these news, Han Du could also see that things were indeed going according to his plan, and the effective strength of the Japanese country was being rapidly consumed.
Take the battle just now, for example. Although the one who should win lost, the one who should lose won instead. The whole battle was baffling. However, in this battle, both sides lost at least nearly a thousand people, and there were so many wounded.
Three to four thousand. ??
With the current medical level of this Japanese country, even disinfection and sterilization cannot be achieved. Although these wounded are still alive, at least half, or even 70%, will die in the near future due to lack of timely treatment, wound infection and other factors.
will die one after another in the future.
In this way, it is equivalent to the Japanese losing 2,500 to 3,000 young men in this battle.
This number seems a bit incredible. Two to three thousand people were lost in one battle. If there were no less than ten such battles every day, wouldn't it mean that two to three thousand people were lost?
But what has to be said is that at this time, cold weapons can harvest people faster than hot weapons sometimes. After all, although hot weapons are powerful, everyone knows each other and will choose to hide first.
Then look for the right opportunity to launch cold shots. Moreover, everyone will not gather together, but will be scattered in units of several people. Even if a bomb falls, it will only kill a few people.
But fighting with cold weapons is different. Thousands of people are gathered in a small place, and everyone is slashing face to face with knives. If one party is defeated, half of the lives of others are not lost.
It is difficult to escape from the battlefield.
After all, everyone is running on two legs, and the winning side is at a time when their morale is high. Why do you think that others will not be able to outrun you? Only the opponent is delayed by being hacked.
If you let it go, the people on the losing side will have a chance to escape.
Such battles were staged every day in Japan, and the strength of Japan was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye with the war between the north and the south.
But as the fighting continued, the anger of both the North and the South was aroused, and both sides became red-eyed. Now each side wants to completely eliminate the other, and there is no room for other people and things in their eyes.
The army has suffered heavy casualties, what should we do? Then continue to recruit! What should we do if we have finished recruiting young men? Then recruit both young and old people to the battlefield! What should we do if there are not enough young and old men? Then recruit women
They were also recruited to continue fighting.
The food is almost gone, what should I do? One word, buy! The sword and armor are almost gone, what should I do? One word, buy!
At first, Han Du was still leisurely watching the news of various battles coming from the Japanese country. However, as both the north and the south were clamoring to buy food and iron knives, Han Du no longer had time to care about the chaos in the Japanese country.
Immediately report to Lao Zhu and ask him to transport all the swords and guns eliminated by the Ming army here.
Since Han Du mass-produced steel knives, the Ming army began to gradually replace the original iron knives. After using sharp steel knives, no soldiers were willing to use these things.
Although the iron knives he had replaced were not valuable, given the character of Lao Zhu, an old farmer, he was reluctant to throw them away.
In the Ming Dynasty, only the common people were willing to buy a half-obsolete iron sword for tens of coins. But when it was shipped to Handu, it could easily be bought for ten coins. And it was still traded in real gold and silver.
Calculated, an iron sword from Handu can be purchased at a price almost a hundred times higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.
With a profit of a hundred times, the ordnance business is indeed the most profitable.
Under the fire of Han Du, the war between the north and the south of the Japanese country started quickly, and then quickly escalated into a large-scale melee. Both sides were completely furious. From the autumn of the 29th year of Hongwu, they fought directly to the 30th year of Hongwu.
In April, there was still no sign of cooling down. Even in order to resist the other side's offensive and defeat the other side, both sides stopped spring plowing without hesitation and directly spent large amounts of gold and silver to purchase grain from the Jeolla Province Governor's Palace.
Han Du had already planned this step, and dispatched the navy in advance to send a large amount of food and old ordnance. These things were prepared for both sides of the Japanese country, and they would be sold to them as soon as they came with real money and silver.