Chapter 456: Can you come across the sea for revenge?
Others may not know the temperament of these alien races on this small island, but Chu Yi knows it very well.
Just looking at the reactions of Sun Meng and others, one can tell that Sun Meng and others did not take these alien races to heart at all, but this cannot be blamed on people like Sun Meng.
You must know that today the Ming Dynasty is still a great central empire. It can be said that all directions are surrendered. All nations come to court, and it is the absolute supreme kingdom of heaven.
As soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Meng and others saw that even the grassland aliens who had established the huge Mongolian and Yuan Empire in the past were not a threat, let alone just an island country.
Chu Yi was worried that people like Sun Meng would underestimate the Japanese foreigners too much. With this mentality, once they met the Japanese foreigners, they would most likely suffer a big loss if they were not careful.
It seemed that he did not expect that Chu Yi would remind them so solemnly, and even the reckless Sun Meng showed a bit of seriousness on his face.
With a quick glance, Chu Yi glanced at Yu Dayou with satisfaction and admiration and said: "Yu Dayou, I have ordered you to be the vanguard. The army is setting off, and the target is Shi Jianguo!"
Shi Jianguo
The Ouchi clan has ruled the Iwami Kingdom for a long time. During the turmoil in Japan, a small island country suddenly split into dozens of large and small countries, and the Ouchi clan established the Iwami Kingdom.
The small Iwami Country has hundreds of thousands of citizens. Because the country occupies the Iwami Silver Mountain, its financial resources are quite sufficient. In addition, the surrounding countries such as Izumo Country and Aki Country are eyeing it, so it is said that
The Ouchi clan has a total of five thousand soldiers.
It may seem like a joke that a country only has five thousand soldiers and horses, but this is completely normal in Japan. After all, these so-called small countries are not even as small as the Ming Dynasty. A county that can raise thousands of soldiers and horses is still a militancy.
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The Ouchi family had more than 5,000 soldiers, and 2,000 men and horses guarded the Iwami Silver Mountain and supervised the slaves to dig the Iwami Silver Mountain and extract gold and silver.
A city wall that looks like a slightly larger earthen fence forms the only city in Iwami Country.
This city is made of loess and gravel. It is only two feet high and only a few miles in diameter. If such a city were placed in the Ming Dynasty, it would be a small city within a small city. Any city in the county would be larger than this one.
The city is tall.
It was daybreak, and many seemingly poor people entered the city carrying their burdens.
Most buildings in Japan are mainly made of wooden houses, which is also common in Shijian Kingdom. In this only city, there are wooden houses everywhere.
In this city, there are a few courtyards built with bricks and stones, but they are the residences of the Ouchi clan and several high officials of the Ouchi clan.
A three-door courtyard covers an area of almost several acres. At first glance, it looks a bit like a landowner's house in the Ming Dynasty. However, this courtyard is where the family of the Ouchi family, which rules the entire Ishimi Kingdom, is located.
Ouchi Yoshihiro is currently in a hall. In the living room, besides Ouchi Yoshihiro, are several retainers whom Ouchi Yoshihiro relies on, including Tao Xingfang, Yamada Narimitsu, Ohno Shiro, etc.
Ouchi Yoshihiro's eyes fell on Tao Xingfang, who was sitting in the first place on his left, and said: "Director Tao, how is the situation at Ishimi Yinshan? How much silver can be produced this month?"
Tao Xingfang raised his brows and said with a bit of joy on his face: "Master, last month's silver production has been transferred from Shijian Yinshan to the warehouse, totaling 92,300 taels of silver."
Yoshihiro Ouchi nodded slightly. This data was not beyond his expectation. Iwami Silver Mountain was the largest silver mountain in Japan. During this period, the annual silver output of Japan was almost 200 tons, which is five to six million.
As much as two taels of silver.
Shijian Yinshan accounted for about 20% of the silver produced in Japan. This means that Shijian Yinshan's annual silver output is over one million taels, which is nearly 100,000 taels of silver per month.
It is said that the Ouchi clan guards such a silver mountain and can get nearly one hundred thousand taels of silver every month. The entire Iwami Kingdom should be very wealthy, but this is not the case.
The people of Iwami Country are very poor, and almost one-tenth of the people in the country are forced to go to Iwami Silver Mountain to smelt silver ore.
As for other people, the best were forced to become soldiers of the Ouchi family, either working hard to farm on the barren land, or fishing on the sea in the wind and rain.
The Ouchi clan occupies such a big piece of meat in Iwami Ginzan, and has always been the object of prying eyes from surrounding countries. It can be said that they are constantly fighting with the Izumo and Aki countries. After years of fighting and fighting, the Iwami country has suffered extremely heavy losses.
, it is rare to see men coming and going among the fields.
The successive years of fighting and fighting also made Shi Jianguo miserable. He had a large amount of gold and silver, but he was not even equipped with weapons and supplies.
Although Japanese samurai swords are famous for their sharpness, there are very few such famous swords, and only high-ranking samurai have the opportunity to own them.
As for the ordinary soldiers at the lower level, it would be good to have weapons, let alone samurai swords. Many soldiers even made the mistake of cutting bamboo poles into spears.
Ouchi Yoshihiro looked at the first person on the right, Ouchi Yoshiyasu, who was the elder of the Ouchi clan. He assisted Ouchi Yoshihiro in taking charge of the Ouchi clan's finances and managed the logistics of Iwamikuni.
All I could hear was Ouchi Yoshihiro saying: "Ouchi Yoshiyasu, Kokuzhong's food and ordnance are all ready. Have those Mingren caravans outside the ports promised to help us get Mingren ordnance?"
The Ouchi clan has always been in contact with many merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and has more or less obtained some ordnance from these merchants. However, the ordnance those merchants can bring is only a very small amount, which is simply not enough to be used in repeated battles.
It can be said that the Ouchi clan has never given up its efforts to purchase ordnance from the Ming Dynasty. Every time when high-level officials of the Ishimi Kingdom gather, Ouchi Yoshiki will ask how many ordnance they can obtain. This is directly related to the Ouchi clan.
Can our rule be stable and long-lasting?
The huge Japan has never lacked farmers who join the army for food, but the lack of sufficient ordnance has restricted the expansion of their military power.
Japan has always been short of iron ore, otherwise there wouldn't be so many craftsmen working hard to build sophisticated weapons. They are really short of raw materials and cannot afford to waste them.
The Ouchi clan had a large amount of gold and silver, but they were unable to obtain sufficient ordnance. Not only the Ishigami Kingdom, but also the huge Japanese country, large and small, all faced the same problem.
Many times, in battles between several countries, there are many casualties but very few dead. This is because the fighting soldiers simply do not have deadly weapons in their hands.
Ouchi Yoshiyasu shook his head slightly at Ouchi Yoshihiro, and said with a bit of a wry smile: "A small amount of ordnance can be obtained at a high price, but if it is a large amount, these Akito simply do not have such great energy."
A fierce look flashed in Ouchi Yoshihiro's eyes and he said: "It seems that we can only hope that Nakajo Heri can gain something!"
Ouchi Yoshihiro and others knew that these merchants who dared to go to sea to do business might not be able to bring many weapons to trade with them, but they were definitely well-equipped.
Many of the Ouchi clan's sophisticated weapons were obtained through Nakajo Auri, a group of men who disguised themselves as pirates and robbed merchants at sea.
Randomly plundering a caravan, not to mention the looted goods, there are at least hundreds of weapons alone, which is almost enough for them to wear out two wars.
If this were not the case, Ouchi Yoshihei would not have strongly supported Nakajo Heri's plundering outside.
Tao Xingfang said with a bit of expectation in his eyes: "Don't worry, head of the family, Mr. Nakajo is eyeing a big fish this time. I think you will definitely gain a lot from this trip."
Tao Xingfang couldn't help but think that Nakajo Heri's return would not only bring a large amount of loot, but also a large number of weapons. Many of the Ouchi family soldiers under his command could be replaced with better weapons.
I'm so excited, I can't wait for Nakajo Heli to come back soon.
A retainer had a somewhat worried look on his face and opened his mouth, as if he had something to say.
Ouchi Yoshihiro glanced at the other party and couldn't help but said: "Murakami-kun, do you have anything to say?"
Murakami Masaichi took a deep breath, and under the gaze of everyone, he said with a bit of worry: "Master, the fleet that Lord Nakajo went to plunder this time may have a big background, I'm afraid..."
Before Murakami Masaichi finished speaking, Tao Xingfang said with a bit of disdain: "It's just a caravan. Even if it has a big background, it doesn't matter. The other party is at most a caravan supported by a powerful person in the Ming Dynasty.
Forget it, even if it was robbed, so what, can the other party still come across the sea to take revenge?"
Everyone present couldn't help laughing after hearing this.
Japan is adjacent to the Ming Dynasty, but the connection between them has never been severed. In the eyes of people like Ouchi Yixing, the Ming Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven, but their Japan is not bad either.
Although the Ming Dynasty has strong national power, there is nothing they can do against Japan, right?
Besides, merchants had no status at all in the Ming Dynasty. Especially under the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's policy of banning the sea, those merchants who went to the sea would not be legally supported and protected by the Ming court, so they were considered plundering.
If they do, they will definitely not attract the attention of the Ming court. Even if those businessmen have great backgrounds, they will definitely not alert the Ming court.
Obviously, the news that the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of opening up the sea under the auspices of Chu Yi has not yet spread in Japan. Although the Ouchi family was able to sense that during this period, there seemed to be a lot more Ming merchants coming from the sea.
The Ouchi family has never considered why these maritime trades suddenly surged.
Anyway, in the eyes of the Ouchi family, these maritime merchants are all fat pigs. As long as they are targeted, they will only end up being robbed.
Just like the Gu's caravan that was targeted, it was precisely because the Gu's caravan was not small in size and its strength was exposed when Ishijian was conducting transactions that it was targeted by Nakajo Heli and was chased at sea.
It took several days and nights to kill Gu.
Murakami Masaichi sighed slightly, he could only hope that he was worrying too much.
But it was said that Chu Yi led the huge fleet to sail on the sea, and God was good. He did not encounter any wind and waves along the way, and appeared in the Japanese offshore coast with smooth wind and current.
The big ship passed through the islands. Following the guidance of the guide left by the Gu family, Chu Yi and others finally saw the location of Ishijian Country.
Iwami Country is famous for its Iwami Silver Mountain. The tall Iwami Silver Mountain can be said to be very eye-catching. Looking from a distance, you can see the continuous mountains.
An old man with dry and dark skin was bowing slightly at the moment, and said respectfully to Chu Yi, Lu Dazhu and others: "My lords, that is where the Shijian Silver Mountain of Shijian Country is located!"
At this time, the name of Shijian Yinshan had gradually spread, and the Gu family had come to Shijian country several times to do business, so naturally they were familiar with the name of Shijian Yinshan.
Although the amount of silver produced by Iwami Ginzan is not very clear, we do know that Iwami Ginzan produces a large amount of gold and silver. Of course, I am afraid that only a very few people who really know the details of Iwami Ginzan know what Iwami Ginzan is.
What kind of silver mine.
The annual output was millions of taels, which lasted for hundreds of years. It was not until hundreds of years later that the silver mines were gradually exhausted. At this time, it was the largest silver mine in Asia, and even the entire Japan before American silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty.
, accounting for almost more than half of the inflow of silver into the country.
The annual output of silver is 200 tons, as much as five to six million taels. Most of this amount of silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty through trade. This is just Japan. If you count the surrounding countries, large and small, and even count the gradual replacement of Japan and occupy the mainstream
of American silver, it can be said that the benefits contained in the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty were simply astonishing.
Chu Yi looked at the mountain of stone and silver through the telescope, and couldn't help but reveal a somewhat strange look in his eyes.
Even if he could not occupy the entire Japan this time and only occupied the Shijian Kingdom, it would not be in vain for him to lead the army to the east.
As one ship after another passed through the safe waterway and approached the port, the appearance of such a large-scale ship in the sea outside the port naturally alarmed everyone in the port early.
The person responsible for managing the port was Ueno Nakamitsu, a retainer of the Ouchi clan.
Dressed in silk and satin, Ueno Nakamitsu, who was dressed like a wealthy gentleman of the Ming Dynasty, was enjoying the gentle countryside under the service of several servants. Suddenly, the door of the room was knocked by a servant and said: "My lord, my lord, it's not good, it's not serious."
alright……"
Ueno Nakamitsu couldn't help but frowned, and shouted at the door: "What on earth is going on in such a panic, disturbing my good deeds..."
I could only hear the servant trembling: "Sir, there are so many ships, so many big ships..."
Ueno Nakamitsu was slightly startled, then he changed his clothes with the help of several servants, walked to the door on wooden clogs, opened the door and stared at the servant kneeling on the ground, and said with a cold face: "What big ship? Where is it?"
A big ship coming?”
The arrival of a ship meant that he was going to make a fortune. Ueno Nakamitsu, who managed the entire port, had made a lot of money from the port over the years. When he heard that a large number of ships were coming, Ueno Nakamitsu's first thought was
That is how much benefit I can get from those Ming merchants.
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