After nearly a month of repairs, the Ming Army Camp in Hakata Bay has complete ditches and firewood, complete barracks, and is safe enough.
His Royal Highness the King of Chu finally came to land from the ship. Although he had the title of King of the Sea, he still couldn't bear to stay on the ship for more than a month.
"Just a few days after arriving on the shore, I felt that the ground kept shaking and I couldn't walk anymore." Lao Liu smiled bitterly and said to his uncle: "I feel better today."
"Your Highness is so capable of enduring hardships." Hu Quan said with emotion: "There are really very few nobles in the world who can do this."
"Compared with herding cattle and begging for food, where is this?" Lao Liu stretched his muscles and said sincerely: "Besides, the soldiers are the ones who really suffer. Compared with them, my hard work is nothing."
"Our Ming army officers are not afraid of hardship, death, but they are afraid of losing the battle, and they are afraid of not being paid." Hu Quan said with a smile: "I can get double pay with His Highness, and I can win so much happiness. No kid can do that."
It will make you cry."
"Hahaha, uncle said that, I will be proud." Lao Liu smiled from ear to ear.
"I'm not flattering you, I'm really amazing." Hu Quan exclaimed: "Before, the emperor repeatedly raised the idea of attacking Japan and conquering the Japanese, but he was dissuaded by the ministers. Even Cao Guogong and Uncle Chengyi publicly opposed it, thinking that it was too much.
Naval warfare is too dangerous, Japan’s strength cannot be underestimated, and Japan cannot repeat the mistakes of the Yuan Dynasty.”
"It was His Highness who insisted against all opinions and insisted that victory was certain, that led to the conquest of Japan." Hu Quan said convinced: "The results proved that His Highness was right. This conquest of Japan is easier than fighting pirates in the past."
"Hahaha, you can't say that." Lao Liu waved his hands and said with a smile: "Back then, Chen Shanghai and Fang Datong were the same as Chen Youding. Fang Guozhen's navy background, from battleships to sailors, was top-notch in the world. We want to
If you didn't catch them off guard with a trick, it would be really difficult to deal with them."
"Japan's navy is the real level of pirates. It has not improved in hundreds of years and is completely worth mentioning. We have spent so much money over the years, built so many treasure ships and giant ships, and trained our troops for so many years. The level of
It has far surpassed what it was back then, and such results are completely reasonable and reasonable, and there is nothing to be proud of."
"Besides, Japan is divided between the north and the south, and the southern dynasty is weak. It's just a corner of the country, and it's not united internally. It's on the verge of destruction. Otherwise, Prince Huailiang wouldn't have taken the risk and sent samurai to help Hu Weiyong's coup." Lao Liu continued:
"We take the opportunity to surrender them, and we will get twice the result with half the effort. My master and Cao Guogong are not willing to take action rashly because they don't understand Japan, and we can't say that they are wrong. After all, we are separated from Japan by the sea. The land they gain is not enough to provide supplies, and the people they gain are not enough.
The order, no matter how you look at it, is a loss-making business."
"Yes. Fighting is just like doing business. You cannot lose money, otherwise no matter how rich your family fortune is, it will be ruined." Hu Quan nodded, this is a very convincing reason. "Even my subordinates were a little worried before, until they entered
Dazaifu..."
"I didn't expect little Japan to be so rich. There is gold and silver everywhere." He smacked his lips and said, "When I was the king of the mountain, I never had such fun robbing."
"Then have you ever thought about where all these gold and silver come from?" Lao Liu asked with a smile.
"The people support the people," Hu Quan said without thinking.
"It's really not the case." Zhu Zhen shook his head and said with a smile: "The Japanese people are extremely poor, and there are no fat sheep like rich businessmen, but they can't find so much gold and silver."
"Could it be that it grows in the ground?" Hu Quan couldn't help laughing.
"It's true." Zhu Zhen laughed loudly and said: "Uncle is right. This country has many mountains and little land, and the products are poor. But the ground can grow gold, silver, and copper, so these princes and nobles are all poor and have only money.
Already."
"Really? Is there such a country?" Hu Quan asked with wide eyes.
"Yes." Lao Liu nodded and explained to his uncle that this is because thanks to the collision of the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate, gold and silver related to magma and hydrothermal systems are widely distributed in Japan, and the deposits
Most of them are exposed on the ground and are very easy to mine.
Hu Quan was confused by what he heard. How could he understand what plate collision is and why gold and silver are related to magma and hot springs?
"You just need to know this." Lao Liu said helplessly: "There are large and small Jinshan silver mines everywhere in Japan. Kings and daimyo have mines in their names. So much gold and silver can be saved by mining."
"Your Highness said so, and we understand." Hu Quan swallowed his saliva and said, "How many more times can we rob it?"
"Take it easy, uncle, we are no longer kings of the mountain," Lao Liu said with a wry smile: "We have many ways to make them take out the gold and silver and hand them over to us, and they have to thank us, so why use robbery?"
What about?"
"Yes, trade, trade." Hu Quan nodded and said with a wry smile, "It's mainly because I've become addicted to robbing recently."
He saw with his own eyes that His Highness sold silk porcelain from the Ming Dynasty overseas, and merchants from Persian food, as well as princes and nobles from Southeast Asia, rushed to buy it at ten times the price, saying it was really cheap.
A country like Japan, which is poor and has only enough money, is simply the best trading partner.
"Of course, in addition to trade, we can also set up a few gold and silver mines and run them." Lao Liu said with a flash of golden eyes: "The metallurgical level of the Japanese is basically the level of our Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Not only is it very wasteful
, the efficiency is still extremely low, just find some mining masters from China, and the annual output can be increased by more than ten or dozens of times."
"This business can be done at all costs!" Hu Quan swallowed and said: "What our Ming Dynasty lacks most is gold and silver. It turns out that they are all prepared for us on Dongying Island."
"Now you will still say that conquering Japan is of no use and will only waste national power?" Lao Liu asked with a smile.
"That will never happen!" Hu Quan hurriedly shook his head and said: "Not only do we have to defeat it, we also have to occupy it for a long time! Let it become the gold and silver mountain of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Hahaha, I think so too." Lao Liu also laughed proudly. He knew that as long as the Chinese people's perception of Japan was changed, the fate of this country would be forever changed.
At this time, Deng Duo came in and reported that Wang Bi and Yang Shiqi were back.
"Invite me soon." Lao Liu was in a good mood and stood up to greet them with a smile. As soon as the two came in, he asked: "Did you enjoy the surrender ceremony?"
"It's not bad." Wang Bi smiled and said, "Let His Highness do the talking. Their king is coy and refuses to show up."
"It's normal, so I didn't go either." Lao Liu said indifferently: "As long as he hands over the three artifacts, I won't embarrass him."
"That group of people went to ask him for instructions, but they were very reluctant anyway." Wang Bi raised his eyebrows and said: "Yi Weichen said it was all meat on the chopping board. Why are you being so polite to him? Just arrest the person, and he will
Be honest."
"Hey." Zhu Zhen shook his head and said, "That way he would be worthless and would be of no use to us."
