How much silver can Iwami Silver Mine produce in a year?

This, Maori Yuan is really not clear, because the silver mine has always been directly managed by the Ouchi family, and others don't want to get involved at all.

However, he had also heard a lot of rumors, and judging from various rumors, the silver output of the Iwami Silver Mine was about 500,000 taels a month, or about 6 million taels a year.

His expectation is actually so much, six million taels a year, which is enough, after all, the Maori family originally had a total of hundreds of thousands of taels of family business, and several million taels a year was already an astronomical amount for him.

As for how much benefit the Ming Dynasty Ministry of Industry Shangshu wants to make from it, it doesn't seem to have much to do with him, as long as it can reach the expected six million a year, it doesn't matter how much he earns from the Ministry of Industry.

Besides, he can't manage it even if he wants to, the iron cannon in someone's hand is the key to his life and death, how dare he offend others?

Thinking of this, he simply gritted his teeth and said: "Lord Hou, you should have also heard of it, Iwami Silver Mine, the silver mine produces at least six million taels of silver a year, and I don't want much, you can give me six million taels a year." ”

According to Yang Cong's analysis, the annual silver output of the Iwami Silver Mine is about 600 to 10 million taels, and after the Ming Ministry of Industry took over, it is not impossible to double the silver output!

In other words, as long as the Maori yuan is not too greedy, 6 million taels or even 8 million taels a year is acceptable.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that Maoli Yuan was only six million taels, Hou Zhitan immediately nodded without hesitation and said: "Okay, six million taels is six million taels, as long as His Excellency the General signs a contract with us, we will immediately send you two hundred artillery pieces, and also send you 20,000 shells and sufficient gunpowder, and even, we can send a certain number of musketeers to help you attack the city." “

When Mao Liyuan heard this, he couldn't help but tremble with excitement, no matter what kind of "No. 1 Wise General of the Warring States" or "No. 1 God of War in the West", at this moment, he couldn't control his mood, you know, whether there are these two hundred iron cannons is a world of difference.

If he didn't have these two hundred iron cannons, no matter how unwilling he was, he would have to withdraw his troops, and without the proceeds of the Iwami Silver Mine, he would not be able to support so many men and horses, and after withdrawing, he could only reduce his men and horses to 10,000, or even about four or five thousand.

If he provokes the Nizi clan like this, people will definitely not give up, and when the time comes, as soon as the Nizi clan comes over, will the other wealthy clans of the Ouchi clan help?

Don't think about it, those guys will definitely hide and watch the show!

The Nizi clan, that is a powerful existence than the entire Ouchi clan, how can he fight with others in a local wealthy clan of the Ouchi clan, let him be full of wisdom, and in the end, I am afraid that he will inevitably perish.

However, with these two hundred iron cannons it is different.

At this time, the Nizi clan didn't take his men and horses seriously, and it would be good if they could mobilize 40,000 troops to deal with him, and it was estimated that there would be no follow-up support for the Nizi clan, that is to say, as long as he was taken by surprise and defeated the 40,000 horses in this blowing stone city in one fell swoop, Iwami Country would be at his fingertips!

Is it difficult to defeat these 40,000 horses?

With three hundred iron cannons, plus the support of the Ming musketeers, he thinks that this is not difficult.

So, Mao Liyuan signed a contract with Hou Zhitan very happily.

As for whether Mao Liyuan will regret it, Hou Zhitan is not worried at all, and Yang Cong is even less worried.

The binding force of the contract has always been proportional to the strength of both parties, as long as you are stronger than others, you don't have to worry that others will violate the contract.

Yang Cong even hopes that Mao Li Yuan will break the contract, if Mao Li Yuan really dares to violate the contract, he can justifiably send troops to occupy Iwami Province, and when the time comes, let alone silver, he will not give anyone a single hair!

The second money-making treaty in the history of the Ming Dynasty was signed in this way, and the profits brought by this treaty were even far greater than the treaty signed with the Tartars, because the treaty signed with the Tartars was that people lost 10,000 war horses a year, and the Ming Dynasty could earn hundreds of thousands of taels if they died, and Dongying's treaty was not a problem to earn millions of taels a year.

As for how much silver he can earn in a year, it's really hard to say at this time, because Yang Cong has not personally visited the Iwami Silver Mine to investigate, and everything will have to wait for Maori Yuan to take Iwami to know.

This time, Yang Cong also made a bloody investment, in order to "help" Mao Liyuan to take Iwami as soon as possible, he even did not hesitate to send troops for free, after the treaty was signed, he sent 10,000 elite Ming troops, with 200 iron cannons, straight to the city of blowing stones.

Of course, there were more than 200 pieces of artillery with this 10,000-man horse.

Two hundred iron cannons, which were given to Mao Li Yuan, were used for the 10,000 Ming army elites at this time, but the standard at this time was 1,000 medium guns, that is, more than 200 catties of the new type of continuous artillery.

At this time, even if Mao Liyuan really saw the firepower of the Ming army, he didn't even contribute much, and the city of Blowing Stone was taken, and the army of 40,000 Nizi was even beaten.

There is no way, the firepower of the Ming army is too fierce, a thousand medium guns are fired at the same time, that guy, the city wall can't bear it, more than a dozen rounds of artillery shelling down, some arrow stacks have even been cut off, coupled with the continuous attacks of the Ming army's musketeers, the defenders on the city wall don't even have the courage to probe, because a probe will be beaten into a sieve!

This guy, not to mention the Nizi generals in the city, even he was stunned with fright, if it wasn't for the Ming army generals reminding him to hurry up and order someone to rush forward, he would have even forgotten that he was attacking the city.

Until Blowing Rock City was taken, he was still in a dream.

Who the hell is helping who to attack the city!

The next thing is simple, with the lesson of Blowing Stone Castle, the army of the Niko clan is simply frightened, as soon as they see the elite of the Ming army and the Maori clan alliance rushing over, they will run away, and they don't even need to fight, and soon, the Maori clan alliance or the elite of the Ming army will take the entire Iwami country.

This result had far exceeded Mori Motosa's expectations, and he had thought that even with 300 artillery pieces, it would take at least a few months to take Iwami Province, and his men would have to suffer at least tens of thousands of casualties.

I once thought that in less than half a month, the entire Iwami Kingdom would be taken, and the casualties of his men and horses were less than 1,000 in total.

He felt that he was following the Ming army to pick up cheap, and under that kind of ferocious firepower, even if it was him, he could only desperately escape!

This time, the firepower of the Ming army also suppressed him, what to rely on, what to violate the contract, he couldn't think of these things.

Just kidding, offend people, people will make you doubt your life every minute.

This is also the effect that Yang Cong wants, he just wants to let Mao Li Yuan understand that in front of the elite of the Ming army, what Mao Li army is a dish, you kid, it is better to be honest and obedient, otherwise, killing you is as simple as stepping on an ant!