Chapter 160 If you die, you will be buried in the foundation!It's so cool to use the little devil as a human being! Five days later in Daming City.
Ouchi Yoshihiro's younger brother, Ouchi Hiroshige, inherited the position of head of the Ouchi family under the supervision of Chen Hanmuying.
And those ministers also celebrated their new master in the relatively simple 'palace'.
What makes all the Ouchi clan's ministers sad is that Yamaguchi Castle used to be magnificent, but now the wooden house assigned to them by the Ouchi clan can only accommodate a mere hundred or so people.
Although they have re-supported their master, and nominally the Ouchi clan still rules six kingdoms.
But the range of activities for all of them is now limited to a radius of 200 meters.
All the words sent by the Ouchi clan passed through the hands of Chen Han and others.
The remaining countries, except Zhou Fangguo and Shi Jianguo, don't know what happened.
Because no one expected that in just over a month, such a big event would happen in their country.
Even when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu received the letter from the soup that Ouchi Yoshihiro died of illness and his younger brother succeeded the family head, he was confused.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu looked at the letter and said that Ouchi Yoshihiro suddenly fell ill and died a month ago.
His younger brother was ordered to inherit the position of head of the family, and also requested that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu grant the title of Kyushu Tankai to their family.
Kyushu Exploration is still in charge of Imakawa Ryotoshi. Although Ashikaga Yoshimitsu knows that Imagawa Ryotoshi has a good relationship with Ouchi Yoshihiro, he will never give the position of Kyushu Exploration to Ouchi.
So when he saw this letter, which on the one hand reported the news of Ouchi Yoshihiro's death from illness, and on the other hand was a letter asking for an official position, Ashikaga Yoshi was so angry that he tore up their letters to pieces.
Now that they were retreating steadily in the Northern Dynasty, the Japanese slaves in the Southern Dynasty controlled by Zhao Shenyan expanded the entire Shikoku area from the original corner of Tuzuo Kingdom to occupy the entire Shikoku Island.
We are currently preparing to attack the places in China where the Yamana clan and other clans are located.
Just when he was worried, he received a letter from Ouchi.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was so angry that he didn't even have time to find out what happened to the Ouchi clan in more than a month.
As for the Ouchi clan, except for the relatively concentrated population in the coastal areas of Ishijian and Zhou Fang Kingdoms, most of the inland mountainous areas are villages and have not been developed much.
Everyone lives their own lives, just turning in some food on weekdays. Who cares about which daimyo is killed today and which daimyo becomes the leader of his family tomorrow.
Anyway, in their eyes, they have always believed that the common people don't care about the famous names that are firmly established in the country.
So no news leaked out at all.
Except for the people of Shijian Kingdom who were robbed, there was no news at all from other countries.
Only the Yamana clan on the side, who once occupied two countries by the Ouchi clan, has become active in recent times.
They heard that all the people in Iwami Country had disappeared inexplicably, so after some testing, a large number of landless people in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Yamana clan invaded Iwami Country and took all the fields as their own.
But they probably won't be happy for long, because in a month or two, when Chen Han and others start mining, these ordinary people who are so happy and feel that they can enjoy their lives by occupying those fields will find that suddenly there will be a large number of The soldiers captured them and sent them to silver mines to work as miners.
While Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was getting angry, a minister came forward: "General, from the Iwami Country and Nagato Country within the territory of the Ouchi clan, news of the start of the war has been reported during this time. Should I Could it be that we really encountered Japanese pirates?"
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sneered, "Just believe him, how can you be so naive?
Don't you know that those Japanese pirates are all thugs raised by his Ouchi clan?
Have you all forgotten that the many robberies that occurred in the Seto Inland Sea all have the shadow of his Ouchi clan behind them? Now we have no way for him to ask for help. He actually directs and acts in a show. Let him make trouble on his own.
Didn't they say they wanted to go to war with pirates?Let them fight. As said before, our first priority now is to curb the development of the south.
They have occupied Shikoku Island and will soon attack Kinki. This is our current priority.
As for the Ouchi clan, they should just leave it alone. Once the Southern Dynasty is pacified, I will attack with my troops and destroy him in one fell swoop. "
All the ministers thought it made sense.
It is estimated that Ouchi Yoshihiro is also asking for trouble. At first, he refused the excuse of Sakimitsu asking him to send troops, but now it has become the final outcome of his prophecy.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu asked him to send troops, but in order to evade the request, he directly said that pirates and Japanese plunderers had occurred in his territory.
Therefore, he did not have time to pay attention to the orders of the Muromachi Shogunate, so he could only deal with his own internal affairs first.
Unexpectedly, Ming's army attacked at this time.
As a result, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and all the surrounding clans did not believe the lies about their attack, and no one knew what was happening in their country.
This is really the best proof of the cry of wolf.
Because of this, it not only provided a good cover for Daming's attack this time, but also cost him his own life.
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After Chen Han and the others returned to Daming City, after some inventory, they made a huge discovery.
First of all, this trip has been very rewarding.
In terms of floating wealth alone, there are as many as 20 taels of gold, 300 million taels of silver, and countless grains.
The area near Yamakou City is worthy of being a place where rich families gather. After collecting everything directly this time, Chen Han and the others even had enough to ship the nearly 300 million taels of money they had robbed directly back to the Ming Dynasty.
Because they have just plundered the dozen or so cities in Shijian Kingdom, and the supplies they have obtained are enough for them to develop themselves for two years.
Accumulating too much property in Daming City is not conducive to the development of Daming City.
So under Chen Han's suggestion, 200 million taels of silver and 15 taels of gold were directly shipped to the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, I have to report to His Majesty the Emperor and others on the progress of their work here for more than a month.
By the way, it is already the first month of the 25th year of Hongwu.
Looking at the scene of falling snow outside, Chen Han was particularly emotional.
It has been more than three months since I went to sea, and the progress is quite smooth.
Not only did it develop various cooperation with Hepo Port in North Korea, but it also dumped cotton cloth to North Korea.
It also eliminated the Japanese pirates who once wreaked havoc in the Ming Dynasty on Tsushima Island.
Although it cannot be said that the roots of the Japanese pirates have been completely eradicated, at least a blood revenge has been avenged.
He directly occupied the entire Tangli and built it into the current Daming City.
The captive population reached 25.
The entire Daming City has doubled in size in an instant, and these people basically do not need to pay any salary.
Just give them something to stutter and they have to work. This is such cheap manpower.
And now, the food that I and others have obtained alone has reached tens of millions of so much food, Chen Han knew that even if he stopped colonizing, he would have to hollow out the entire Shijian Silver Mine first.
The next day, Chen Han began to arrange for people from the Ministry of Transport to load the excess 200 million taels of silver onto the ship.
Then he reported all the current construction status of Daming City to His Majesty the Emperor who was far away in Daming.
Chen Han spent a long time writing this memorial, writing more than 1 words in calligraphy, and then described all the situations here in detail.
And he looked forward to how much contribution he and others can make here in the future.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Han began to arrange for the entire mining department, exploration department, and construction department to work day and night.
More than 20 prisoners made great contributions to the foundation of the entire Daming City.
No matter what the identities of these prisoners are, as long as you are a prisoner, you have to work for me.
No matter you were a wealthy person or a commoner before, as long as you have the courage to work, everyone must work, even in three shifts.
Under this kind of progress, casualties will inevitably occur.
As for Chen Han, this so-called casualty, this time he no longer showed mercy like a modern person.
He knew very well that showing mercy to his enemies was the greatest crime against himself.
So even if we are building roads, even if we are mining, mining, or prospecting, one or two people will die and be captured almost every day.
These are the ancestors of the little devil, and Chen Han uses them very smoothly.
Just like when these little devils captured the people in the Northeast and forced them to dig coal in the coal mines, causing countless deaths and injuries.
This time, Chen Han buried those who died directly into the roadbed.
The biggest casualty was due to the huge stone roller weighing more than 3000 kilograms. Because the rope was not fastened tightly, it rolled directly down the hillside, crushing more than 100 prisoners to death in one go.
Even so, Chen Han did not stop, but continued with the smell of blood.
Maybe the prisoners here all understand what kind of work they have to do. If some people are really killed or injured, the compensation given by Chen Han is still good.
After giving them a little more food, everyone didn't take it seriously.
Anyway, in their eyes, their own lives are like this.
Not to mention that even if someone dies while working, people from the Ming Dynasty will still give him a pension.
Even when Chen Han sent their children to the school here for brainwashing, they felt that this was a rare gift to them.
Through this enhanced PUA, Chen Han fully convinced all the captives here.
Even one or two casualties per day among more than 20 people are nothing compared to such a large base.
While Mu Ying and the others were training every day, they launched an all-out attack. They were able to knock down the captured city at full speed, then pull in all the supplies and rob the entire population.
They knew that their method of making enemies everywhere would definitely attract the attention of the Muromachi Shogunate.
But for Muying and others, they already know very well what the level of the Japanese army is now.
Why not do things that take advantage of you?
Then, the Japanese slave people who occupied the land of Ishijian Kingdom discovered a strange phenomenon.
The land was allocated to them, but the tax collectors were not short people like them, but tall and strong.
They claimed to be officials of the Ouchi clan, so they planted their land and were taxed before harvesting the crops.
What they didn't know was that the people they were paying taxes to now were actually people from the Ming Dynasty.
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One and a half months passed quickly.
When Chen Han and his fleet arrived at Ningbo Port, the whole Ningbo was boiling.
Everyone has heard that although the Ming Dynasty has not directly relaxed the sea ban, it is no longer very strict.
There are also some people who can go out to sea to fish after obtaining the government's permission.
What made them even more delighted was that the number of merchant ships coming up from the Nanyang belt seemed to be increasing day by day.
From the first month to February now, several batches of Nanyang merchant ships have been anchored outside Ningbo Port.
The Shibosi Yamen, which had been abandoned for a long time, began to be rebuilt on the basis of the original Yuan Dynasty Yamen, and more officials moved in one after another.
The phenomenon of points being drawn after ships enter the port after the first lunar month tells a very important thing to these keen traders in Ningbo.
That is, the imperial court may lift the sea ban and allow ordinary people to conduct overseas trade.
This is a great opportunity for ordinary people, especially for businessmen with a keen sense of smell.
They have long been eyeing the cheap cotton in the Songjiang area.
I also heard that cotton cloth in the Songjiang area has been produced on a large scale after the introduction of new technology. The efficiency is extremely high and the price is very cheap.
But now merchants throughout the Ming Dynasty are selling these cheap cotton cloths to inland areas.
What gave them even more misconceptions was that food prices in the entire inland region had suddenly dropped.
Selling grain to inland areas was originally a very easy business, but now the market is not rising, so things like cotton have become the main thing that everyone sells.
But after all, it will be saturated, so traders along the coast focus on overseas trade.
The establishment of the Shipping Department of Ningbo Prefecture and the increasing number of ships brought from Southeast Asia all show that the current direction of the court has changed.
When the first Eastern Expeditionary Fleet dispatched by Chen Han and the others returned with profits, the entire Ningbo Prefecture was even more excited.
Although they didn't know what was carried on the ship that got off the port from Ningbo Mansion.
But it's hard to resist the enthusiasm for that fleet.
On the third day after landing at Ningbo Port, all the letters passed through layers of inns and quickly arrived at Zhu Yuanzhang's study in Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son were extremely excited after seeing the news brought back by Chen Han.
Even before Lao Zhu opened the envelope, he summoned Xia Yuanji and Princess Jiangdu to the study...
(End of this chapter)