Chapter Seventy-Three: Mountains of Gold and Silver
The first time he did something, he was messed up, and he was put out crying, Wang Xiao picked up his wine glass and waved his hand, "Everyone, drink." β
The teacher plays the music of the 'Song of the Emperor's Ming'. The dancers appeared on the stage and danced the martial dance 'Dance of Calming the World'.
The atmosphere of the banquet suddenly became lively.
No one doubted Wang Xiao's words, Fusang would definitely be unlucky.
Because the Ming Dynasty is the superpower of this era, it can fight whoever it wants, and destroy whoever it wants.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu originally passed the throne to his second son, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu. Ashikaga Yoshimori, the eldest son, staged a coup d'Γ©tat to overthrow his younger brother and kill him.
This kind of thing is not related to other countries. But Wang Xiao is ready to attack Fusang, this is the best reason to start a war.
As a suzerain, it is only natural for a suzerainty to interfere in the rebellion of a vassal.
The grand banquet lasted until late at night.
Fireworks in the sky, exquisite food and drink, magnificent music, and heart-warming dance.
All of this made those messengers from the countryside addicted, and they felt that they had reached the pinnacle of life. They all said that they would hold on to Daming's father's thigh for 10,000 years without wavering.
Beginning the next day, Wang Xiao met with the envoys of various countries who came to pay tribute and congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne.
Yesterday, Wang Xiao said that he wanted to fight Fusang, and the envoys of various countries saw it with their own eyes.
When facing the saints, one is more respectful than the other.
The Ming Dynasty of this era is well-deserved to be the first in the United States, and the surrounding countries can only be carefully worshipped, and no one dares to provoke.
When receiving Han Changqi, the extremely respectful North Korean envoy sent a generous gift list.
"150 taels of gold, 700 taels of silver, 40 horses, 20 linen cloth, 10 full flower seats, 2 curtain seats, 10 colored seats, 50 catties of ginseng, 10 leopard skins, 20 otter skins, and 20 yellow brushes."
There are a lot of things, but the quantity is not very good. It can even be considered shabby.
However, when it comes to the poor place of North Korea, he has to come to pay tribute several times a year, so Wang Xiao doesn't care.
"I accepted North Korea's wishes."
Wang Xiao closed the gift list and nodded slowly, "You guys did a good job." β
Han Changqi was moved to tears, "The Great Emperor Shengming." β
Wang Xiao was ready to chat a few words, so he let him go. After all, he had to meet with more than a hundred envoys from his junior brother in the past two days, and he didn't have so much saliva.
Han Changqi continued to salute here, and took out a book of music and handed it over, "The king of our country has specially selected a daughter of the clan to pay tribute to the emperor and serve the emperor." β
North Korea is still taking the harem route that has lasted for many years.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, North Korea presented a large number of beauties to the palace of the Yuan Dynasty, and the famous Queen Qi was the only foreign queen in Chinese history. Aiyu knows Rita, which can be said to be the pinnacle of North Korean women.
After Li Chenggui ascended to the throne, he wholeheartedly confronted the Ming Dynasty. During the Hongwu and Yongle years, they both paid tribute to the beauties of the Ming Dynasty.
Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, of course, he wants to make a statement and continue this policy.
In fact, this beauty was selected for Emperor Hongxi, but it was only selected here, and Emperor Hongxi hung up over there. They didn't waste it, they just turned their heads and prepared to give it to Wang Xiao.
There are eight characters of the birthday of the beautiful woman on the chapter, and the family history is even very detailed in the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Han Changqi also took out a portrait, saying that it was painted by the best painter in North Korea.
Wang Xiao opened the portrait and looked at it.
The appearance is still good, and it is by no means the South Korean beauties whose faces were reborn in later generations. Properly natural.
Putting everything away, Wang Xiao nodded slowly, "Since it is your sincere heart, then I will accept it." β
Han Changqi was grateful, and immediately bowed and thanked him.
Wang Xiao is resolute in his work, and he must do what he says.
Two months later, a huge fleet led by Zheng He himself sailed towards Fusang.
At this time, the combat effectiveness of the Fuso army was extremely poor, and it was completely different from the army of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which invaded Korea more than a hundred years later.
Fuso was short of food, and Emperor Tenmu did not eat meat because of his belief in Buddhism.
For thousands of years, the people of Fuso were all short and skinny. The so-called samurai stood in front of the Ming generals like elementary school students.
Fuso lacks iron, and the few iron tools are used to make weapons. Therefore, when fighting, they basically wear armor and hats made of bamboo.
The samurai are better, the top samurai may have iron armor, and the first class can use deerskin as armor. But there is no difference between these armors and those who have and do not have them in front of the strong bows and crossbows of the Ming Dynasty and the new muskets.
The training of the Fuso army was very poor, and the main force was all peasant soldiers.
The so-called peasant soldiers are peasants, and let these peasants with hoes all day long pick up bamboo guns to fight against the professional Ming army, that is, drive the sheep to attack the tigers.
The sailors of Fuso are actually pirates and fishing boats. Relying on them to fight against the treasure fleet of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the two sides is even greater than that of the land battle.
Moreover, Wang Xiao sent troops in the name of avenging Ashikaga Yoshiji.
The Fuso people who were loyal to Ashikaga Yoshitsugu took the initiative to lead the way, and they also got a son of Ashikaga Yoshitsugu to be the leader to help do the internal response.
With so many prerequisites here, the armed conflict between the Ming and Fuso is as plain as water.
The war lasted less than half a year before it was over.
Two large-scale water battles broke out between the two sides in the Seto Inland Sea. After the landing, three large-scale land decisive battles were fought.
As a result, the Ming army crushed all the resistance forces that dared to resist, and fought all the way to Kyoto, the only city in Fuso.
After that, Ashikaga Yoshinori committed suicide in despair, and the emperor, ministers, and high-ranking officials of Kyoto Castle went out of the castle and surrendered.
According to the contract signed by the two parties in Shimonoseki, Fusang was to compensate the Ming Dynasty with 2 million taels of silver as compensation. The high-ranking members of the Ashikaga Yoshinori family all committed suicide by cutting their stomachs to apologize.
After that, Fusang had to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty with 200,000 taels of silver and 2 million stone of grain.
At the same time, Fuso wanted to cede Sado Island, Tsushima Island, Kagoshima Island, and the entire Iwami Province to the Ming Dynasty.
Fusang opened up the whole country to commerce, and was only allowed to do commercial trade with the Ming Dynasty. All taxes are set by the Ming Dynasty.
The number and equipment of the army in Fuso were strictly limited, and the sails were not allowed to go to sea.
In addition to the specified number of fishing boats, if a warship or merchant ship goes to sea, it must compensate the Ming Dynasty for the same weight of copper ore.
This contract completely broke the backbone of the Fuso people, and there was no chance to stand out again.
Even so, the new general of Zhengyi, the Japanese king Ashikaga Yoshisho, who accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, still agreed happily.
If you don't agree, you can't help it, if you don't agree, it's all over.
When Zheng He's fleet returned full of booty, Wang Xiao immediately ordered Zhu Zuojing, the king of Jingjiang, to be transferred to Fusang Shijianguo to become a vassal.
The chicken that Jingjiang King was chosen to be for the monkeys was because Jingjiang King was a soft persimmon.
The source of King Jingjiang is not Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants, but Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng.
When Zhu Wenzheng was under house arrest until death, his son Zhu Shouqian, nicknamed Tiezhu, was canonized as the king of Jingjiang.
This iron pillar has too poor character, and bullying men and women is rampant in the feudal country, and Zhu Yuanzhang abolished him again. His son Zhu Zanyi succeeded to the throne.
Zhu Zanyi died during the Yongle period, and was succeeded by his concubine Zhu Zuojing.
You see, it's just a person from the big house. Not only has the reputation been bad for generations, but this has been passed down for generations, and the relationship has long been distant. He, Zhu Zuojing, is still a concubine.
Wang Xiao transferred him to the Fusang Mountain where the bird did not pull shi, and the kings did not cry out for him at all.
In the eyes of these kings, who had lost all rights except to eat, drink, and be merry, as long as the knife did not fall on their heads. Even if it is a reseal, at least the prince is retained.
In Wang Xiao's view, having a beginning is equivalent to having a precedent. After that, it is logical to transfer other princes to go overseas.
If you want to oppose it, why not oppose it at this time?
For the sons of Emperor Hongxi, who have not yet been crowned kings, Wang Xiao is not so polite.
He directly ordered that Emperor Hongxi's concubines who had sons should all leave the palace and be raised by their sons.
And all of them, except for the two who were deposed, lost their titles. He only got the title of Zhenguo General.
This title can only be passed on for one generation, and the next generation will be demoted to the general of the auxiliary state, and then the next generation will be the general of Fengguo, until the later lieutenant of Zhenguo, lieutenant of the auxiliary country, and lieutenant of Fengguo.
After waiting for Lieutenant Fengguo, he will be directly removed from the knight and become a commoner.
These people have not the slightest power in their hands, nothing but money.
Although he resents Wang Xiao for being ruthless behind his back, if he can accept it, there will be an auxiliary general who can get a piece of money and food. If they don't accept it, what happened to King Zheng before that is their example.
In order to solve the problem of the fat pig prince of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Xiao can be regarded as racking his brains.
Those who already had the throne before were all sent overseas to remote places to guard the sun, moon, and dragon banners, bathed in the morning sun forever.
As for the aftermath, all of them can only live with one piece of money and food, and after a few generations, they will be ordinary people.
Aside from using the knife, this may be the best way to deal with the millions of clans in a few hundred years.
The compensation money obtained from Fusang and many trophies were invested by Wang Xiao into Zheng He's fleet.
Replenish personnel, replenish ships, train sailors.
Their next target is the Lion City of Malacca.
Wang Xiao wanted to establish an advance base in this choke point as a large rear to India.
As for the current state of Malacca, all the members were relocated to Champa for resettlement.
The development of Iwami Ginzan and Sado Island was also put on the agenda.
The rice obtained from Fuso will be used as a stipend to hire locals to work hard in these two areas.
Wang Xiao doesn't care about the local environment, sustainable mining or anything. It is directly a violent excavation that fills human lives, all in order to mine a large amount of gold and silver with all its might.
Based on the data we have seen and the surveying and mapping calculations of the Ministry of Industry, if we use the ash blowing method to refine and dig day and night, we can mine 400 kilograms of gold and nearly 40 tons of silver in a year from Tsuruko Silver Mountain and Aikawa Gold and Silver Mountain on Sado Island.
As for Iwami Ginzan, it can almost reach more than 30 tons of silver, as well as the output of a large number of associated copper mines.
The rest of Fuso did not spare its production, and designated only silver through commerce, thus taking away all the gold and silver of the whole country.
These huge incomes will support many of Wang Xiao's follow-up plans.
After working hard for a long time, Wang Xiao finally has a rare leisure time.
On this day, when he was reading in the imperial study, the eunuch came in and reported that Concubine Jin had brought a snack she had made for the emperor to taste.
Concubine Jin is a beauty from North Korea, and it is said that this is the first time the two have met after the canonization.
"Let her in."
Wang Xiao put down the words in his hand and looked out of the door, only to find that there were three beautiful women in palace clothes standing outside.