Chapter 506 The terrible wealth that was stolen [1 more]
In the Age of Discovery, represented by the maritime powers Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands, it can be said that they gained a lot of wealth.
As the governor of a squadron of the Portuguese fleet, it is conceivable that Dalikis, with his status, would not have a difficult task if he wanted to plunder wealth.
Just like Japan, if a fleet like Dalikis landed in Japan, it would really not be a problem to break the countries established by the Ming Dynasty in several places. A casual search would yield millions of taels of gold and silver.
It was not surprising that Dalikisi could come up with hundreds of thousands of gold coins in one go. At the same time, Chu Yi realized that during this period, maritime powers such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands had bared their fangs and began to seize overseas wealth.
Fortunately, because of him in the Ming Dynasty, under his guidance or coercion, quite a number of people stepped out of the country and set their sights overseas.
Although the policy of seclusion is an ancestral system, the system has always been broken. The reason why there are a group of people in the court who firmly oppose the opening of the sea is, in the final analysis, for profit.
The Ming Dynasty banned the sea, but the gentry and powerful people among the people conducted sea trade privately one by one and devoured a lot of wealth.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened the sea, when a large number of people go out of the country and gain a lot of wealth from overseas, more people will inevitably be attracted to go out.
When this torrent gets bigger and bigger, I am afraid that not even he or the Emperor of Heaven will be able to stop this torrent. At that time, anyone who dares to say that the sea is forbidden will definitely be such a huge torrent.
of enemies.
Facing such a torrent, no one can stop this trend unless the army is used.
Taking a deep breath, Chu Yi raised the corners of his mouth slightly, nodded and said: "In that case, I will give you this opportunity!"
Daliqisi, who had always been worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Chu Yi agreed, which meant that he could save his life.
But what Chu Yi said next made him feel excited.
All I could hear was Chu Yi said: "But before that, I want to aggrieve you and go to the capital for a while."
However, Chu Yi made up his mind to select some officers from the Portuguese fleet such as Dalikis or people with aristocratic backgrounds and take them to the capital.
If the officials above the court knew that a large amount of wealth could be obtained from these people, I don't know what their expressions would be like.
A Dalikis could afford hundreds of thousands of gold coins, so the imprisoned Portuguese naval officers must have been willing to spend a large amount of gold and silver to redeem themselves.
At the Port of Tokyo, a steady stream of convoys came from the direction of Kyoto, and an escort team composed of thousands of Ming troops was escorting hundreds of large vehicles.
Each of these large carts was filled with large boxes and stretched for several miles. Apparently Lu Dazhu, who was in Kyoto, sent people to transfer the wealth confiscated from the wealthy families in Kyoto to this port.
As the port closest to Kyoto, according to Chu Yi's order, all the wealth confiscated from Kyoto will be packed into boxes and escorted to this port after being sorted, classified and counted.
Tokyo Port is a large port. Although it has only been occupied for a short time, there are currently a large number of ships gathered in the port.
Because Chu Yi ordered Li Degong and Pang Shiqi to dispatch a large number of warships to Iwami Port to fight the Portuguese fleet, the number of warships left in Tokyo Port was not too many, but there were a large number of supply ships docked.
You must know that the former Fan Zhai Luan led an army of 100,000 across the sea. In order to carry so many troops and horses, the Ming Dynasty mobilized a large number of ships from the country. Although a considerable number of supply ships have returned to the Ming Dynasty, but in this port
There are still nearly a hundred merchant ships and supply ships docked.
A large number of ships are docked in the port, and a large amount of logistics materials are accumulated here. It can be said that Tokyo Port is definitely a logistics center for the Ming Dynasty army.
In order to ensure the safety of Tokyo Port, Chu Yi dispatched a total of 10,000 troops to guard Tokyo Port just in case.
Although Iwami Port is responsible for some of the logistics, as the army approaches Kyoto, the distance to transport supplies from Iwami Port to Kyoto is too far, and naturally it is not as convenient as Tokyo Port.
The number of ships and soldiers stationed in Tokyo Port today can be said to be several times that of Iwami Port.
When a large number of convoys came slowly from Kyoto City, dozens of miles away, the general in charge of Tokyo Port received the news early and sent troops to respond.
A carriage moved forward slowly. Yu Dayou, Zhai Luan and others were riding horses slightly behind the carriage, which could make Zhai Luan, the deputy commander of the army, fall behind. It is conceivable that the owner of the carriage, except Chu Yi, did not
Someone else.
Even an army commander like Lu Dazhu was only equal to Zhai Luan in terms of status, and he would not let Zhai Lan fall behind on his own initiative.
Chu Yi simply arranged for Qi Jingtong to send someone to escort Dalikisi and others to Tokyo Port, and then brought them to Tokyo Port.
It has been almost a year since Chu Yi left the capital to conquer Japan. Now Kyoto has been captured, although many of the local famous names have not been destroyed. Even with the capture of Kyoto, Japan has been stimulated.
Many big names have shown faint signs of joining forces.
But Chu Yi never paid attention to those famous names in Japan.
After all, after destroying more than a dozen countries, Chu Yi knew very well the composition of the famous names in these places in Japan.
Perhaps a few decades later, after experiencing the turmoil of the Warring States Period, the land of Japan gave birth to a number of heroes such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and other figures in the chaos.
Even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after unifying Japan's military power, led such a group of elite soldiers and generals who had gone through troubled times to land in North Korea in an attempt to challenge the Ming Empire's status.
As a result, they were casually suppressed by the Ming Dynasty. It is conceivable that Japan will be easily suppressed by the Ming Dynasty in its heyday in the future, not to mention that a large number of Japan's future heroes and generals during this period have not grown up.
With hundreds of thousands of elite troops, as long as the generals who lead the army are not too incompetent, it is not difficult to completely pacify Japan.
Chu Yi is preparing to return to Beijing. Chu Yi has gained a lot from this trip to Japan. Not to mention other things, Chu Yi is most concerned about his luck. In one year from the time he landed in Japan to now,
The price skyrocketed, soaring to nearly a million.
Chu Yi has roughly summarized the rules. Whenever a local name is destroyed, the altar of luck will be shaken, and then the luck will skyrocket by tens of thousands.
Chu Yi has no doubt that if the remaining local famous names are completely wiped out, then the luck he can get will most likely reach as much as two million.
It can be said that so much luck is far beyond Chu Yi's expectations.
However, Chu Yi is preparing to return to Beijing. The situation is now very good. Although there are still a lot of big names in the land of Japan that have not been pacified, Chu Yi can easily pacify Japan by leaving it to Zhai Luan or Lu Dazhu. He will not be able to stay here any longer.
It was of great significance. After all, he had already verified that no matter whether he did it himself or not, if these Japanese famous names were destroyed, the Luck Altar would gain a fortune.
Another point is that Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has sent people to convey orders to him several times, hoping that he can return to Beijing as soon as possible.
Coupled with this battle with the Spanish fleet, Chu Yi, who had already had the idea of ​​returning to Beijing, finally made a decision.
port of tokyo
As Chu Yi's motorcade arrived, that afternoon, the huge motorcade from Kyoto also arrived at the port.
The person in charge of escorting was a guerrilla general. The guerrilla general carefully handed several thick account books to Lin Pingzhi, who then handed them over to Chu Yi.
Chu Yi flipped through it casually and his eyes couldn't help but shrink.
What is recorded in this account book is the detailed data confiscated in Kyoto.
Although Chu Yi had long been mentally prepared, he also knew that Japan, which had not encountered foreign enemies for thousands of years, had accumulated a lot of wealth.
At least 30% to 40% of this wealth was deposited in Kyoto. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty's actions of confiscating properties in Kyoto suddenly emptied the wealth accumulated by Japan over hundreds of thousands of years.
Although Japan is an island country, it is very rich in gold and silver mineral deposits. There are more than one rich mine like Iwami Silver Mountain. You can imagine how much wealth it has accumulated over the years.
Fifty-five million taels of silver, six million taels of gold, countless jewelry and jade...
No wonder Chu Yi was so shocked. Even with a large amount of gold and silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty, Japan still accumulated so much wealth. This was just Kyoto. If those local famous names were completely pacified, it was impossible to say that they would be able to collect at least as much wealth as the Ming Dynasty.
Ten million taels of gold and silver came.
Thinking about how later Japan claimed hundreds of millions of taels of silver from the Qing Dynasty, Chu Yi suddenly felt that the tens of millions of taels of gold and silver on this account book were not that much.
Of course, Chu Yi also knew in his heart that with the large amount of American silver and Japanese silver flowing into China, China was able to accumulate a large amount of silver. During this period, it was absolutely beyond imagination that he could collect so much silver from Japan.
You must know that Chu Yi ransacked the houses of the Ming Dynasty several times, especially in the Jiangnan area, where the wealthy gentry who had gathered almost half of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty were confiscated and their families were exterminated, but they only received hundreds of millions of silver.
Although the Ming Dynasty has been richer than ever in the past few years, as the national treasury is full, the court has been spending money lavishly. A large number of projects have been launched at the same time, taking money from the people and using it for the people.
Most of it has been spread out by now.
Chu Yi could imagine what the reaction of the civil and military ministers above the court would be like once he returned to the capital with the huge wealth gained from the seizure of the capital.