On May 15, Ichiro Oe finally saw the arrival of a fleet on the sea after the rain. However, this was not a battleship from Dongying, but a battleship of the Ming Dynasty, and a team of five hundred people came down from the ship.

These people have shaved their hair like the Toei samurai, but from their faces and clothing, it can be seen that they are not Japanese people.

The well-informed Oeichiro recognized these as the Ezo and Jurchens from the north.

They soon took over the management of the island and had everyone stop mining and regroup. Any Japanese who disobeyed the order were directly killed by these rough and ferocious Jurchens, and hung on the flagpole, and made wine vessels out of the skulls of the Japanese people.

There were originally simple shacks on the island, but these places were obviously not enough to live in, so as soon as everybody began to cut down wood and build houses.

But the number of houses built seems to be a little too much......

The best houses are made of logs, with thick walls, which are resistant to wind and snow in winter.

There are a large number of medium-sized houses, similar to the original houses on the island, made of wooden planks and grass, which can also protect from the wind and rain.

And the simplest house is a nest of ground, but there is a roof on top of the nest to keep out the rain.

By the end of May, when the houses were all built, a larger fleet sailed over, and more Japanese people disembarked from the ships, and these people brought Kyoto Shogun's Mansion had been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and all the daimyo and generals who resisted were killed, and all the nobles and samurai who did not flee into the mountains now were obedient to the Ming Dynasty.

Ashikaga Yoshimori's shogun's mansion has long been burned down, and the current shogun of Toei has become his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshiji. And Ashikaga Yoshinori and the emperor are now restrained and fled into the mountains, making a final struggle with the Ming Dynasty.

Question this news, Ieichiro can't accept this fact, but these samurai who were familiar with him before him will not deceive him.

That night, he faced Kyoto and committed suicide by caesarean section.

The fleet not only transported more than 5,000 laborers, but also transported more than 500 women, plus the Ming fleet of 500 Jurchens and more than 1,000 people, the island has exceeded 10,000 people.

All the weapons of the samurai were confiscated as early as the beginning of May, and each person was given an iron pickaxe and a basket.

A few more of the original stone mills were brought in, enough for the islanders to sift through the gold.

There are not many Ming people on the island, all of whom live in newly built communities in the port area, and are guarded by heavily armed Jurchen people.

These Ming people were responsible for the daily production statistics, and were also responsible for receiving explosives from ships every day, and then using the explosives to open mines.

The number of people who opened the mine has tripled, and now there are explosives again, and the production efficiency has increased more than fivefold.

Originally, the daily gold output was less than fifty taels, and the rest were copper ore and silver ore, and now even all the copper ore was refined on the spot by the Ming people.

Almost every day, there were Japanese people who were executed by the Jurchens for disobedience, and after such a month, all the people were honest.

The Ming people have always behaved very civilized, except for the first selection of a hundred beautiful women to live in the port area, the remaining four hundred women were all arranged on the island.

Although the management has become stricter, the treatment of the Ming people to the Dongying people has improved. In addition to food, the island also began to sell clothes and alcohol, and with five days' wages, you could also enjoy the service of young and beautiful women.

Three years, this is the service time of the original miners on the island, as long as they work honestly for three years, they can be freed.

The samurai, on the other hand, had to work for five years before they could be freed. The last samurai and minfu to be sent over, they were all on the defeated side, and it would take ten years to regain their freedom.

According to the amount of contributions, each person can receive different treatment, the system is determined by the Ming Dynasty, but the management and suppression are the responsibility of the five hundred Jurchens.

In a month's time, it was a well-ordered construction site.

The whole island of Zodo has become a natural prison, a natural mine. There were no ships, no weapons, and even though they numbered five times more than the Ming and Jurchens combined, they could only work honestly.

And these more than 1,000 Ming soldiers, their main task is not to supervise this treasure island, but to ensure the safety of transportation from Daming to Nuer Gandusi.

When the eyes returned to the Ming Dynasty in May from Zuodu Island in June, the most sensational thing this month was the loot that His Royal Highness Taisun brought back from Dongying.

Prior to this, no one could have imagined that in just one month, Taisun would bring back so much gold, silver and materials from Dongying, as well as a shipload full of antiques.

Even Zhu Di had never seen so much gold and silver at one time, he asked people to put these gold and silver on the square outside the Chengtian Gate, and sent heavy troops to protect them, but he allowed all the people of the Ming Dynasty to watch them up close.

This is actually Zhu Zhanji's idea, he just wants to use these gold and silver as bait to attract everyone's attention outside the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is trade, starting mines, or invading, as long as it can stimulate the people of the Ming Dynasty to explore, it is worth it.

Zhu Di didn't support this plan at first, but when so much gold and silver was placed in front of him, he couldn't help but be moved.

Everyone thinks that the Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and everyone thinks that the Ming Dynasty is rich in products. But in just one month, Zhu Zhanji has scavenged so much wealth from Dongying, which has also made everyone reflect on whether he is a frog at the bottom of the well?

Of course, these gold and silver are nothing to the Ming Dynasty, and the annual tax of the entire Ming Dynasty exceeds 20 million taels of silver according to the calculation of gold and silver.

Together, these gold and silver are only more than one-fifth of the annual tax of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this is Taisun's harvest in just one month!

Today's Daming, the harvest of one acre of land does not exceed five dollars of silver a year, and the family has thousands of acres of fertile land, but it does not fall into three hundred taels of silver.

However, if you start a workshop and build an iron pot, in just a few days, you can exchange four coins of silver with the internal supervisor to ensure the harvest in drought and flood.

Building 2,000 iron pots a year makes far more money than the harvest from farming, and this account can be calculated by anyone.

The power of capital is extremely powerful, no matter what the era.

Even if the Ming Dynasty has strict household registration management and inconvenient personnel circulation, the outlets of internal supervision and Jinyiwei all over the country have become the best publicity channels.

You don't need to go out of the county, you don't need to go out of the state, as long as you can spin cloth, as long as you can make silk, as long as you can make ironware, everything can be exchanged for silver dollars when you get to the outlets of the inner prison.

After a month of fermentation and publicity, even the villagers in remote state capitals knew that there were countless mountains of gold and silver overseas, and knew that as long as they spun cloth in their spare time, they could exchange silver with the internal supervisor.

Of course, this kind of propaganda has also been resisted by countless businessmen and opposed by civil officials, because the internal supervision is now tantamount to robbing countless businessmen of their jobs, and the civil servants oppose it mainly because they are afraid that the idea of seeking profit will ruin the stable social atmosphere.

However, in the face of millions of taels of silver, military generals, nobles, including merchants who already had a stable business with the internal supervisor, also vigorously promoted the benefits of foreign trade.

After all, there were only a few of these silvers looted, and most of them were still through trade, so that the Japanese people took the initiative to take out the gold and silver buried in the ground.

This kind of debate can never go away, it is nothing more than that the positions of supporters and supporters will always change over time.

But there is one thing that almost no one objects to anymore, and that is the foreign strategy.

It's just that the war against Dongying has made a profit of several million taels in a short period of time, and even the most ethical Wenchen has seen how amazing the dividends of the war are at this time.

Except for a few Qingliu who believed that such a foreign conquest would damage the state of the Celestial Empire, the vast majority of people became supporters of the war.

There are also some vested interests who are also calling for the opening of the sea ban, and foreign trade cannot be completely controlled internally.

But such opposition is to compete with Zhu Di for profit, he reprimanded a group of people and suppressed a group of people, and this wave will naturally disappear.

Now the contact between civil officials and businessmen is not too deep, and the generals and nobles follow in the footsteps of the royal family, the royal family makes a big head, and they make a small head has formed a tacit understanding, and in a short time, everyone's appetite has been satisfied.

So the forces calling for the opening of the sea ban are very small and have not become a climate.

The gold and silver were displayed for a week, and then all of them were transported to the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, where they will be minted into gold, silver and copper coins.

And that steel has also become a raw material to make various industrial products.

A holy decree to reward the grandson also came to Dongying with the second batch of auxiliary fleets.

For Zhu Zhanji, any reward is actually meaningless, he is the grandson himself, his status is only below the two of them, no matter how much money and how many guards he has, when he already has supreme power, it is nothing more than icing on the cake.

For example, his guard was increased by two to 12,000 men, and his guard of honor was allowed to add two horses and a few more farms, which was strictly meaningless.

Along with Zhu Di's commendation decree, there was also a stack of private letters, including Zhu Di's, Zhu Gaochi's, the crown princess, and his concubines.

Compared with the official decree, Zhu Zhanji cares more about these private messages, and is more willing to discuss some issues with Zhu Di in private.

For example, Zhu Di agreed not to use these gold and silver for the time being, and when he went back, he set up Daming Bank, and the news that these gold and silver were used as reserve funds made him extremely happy.

Hu Liangdi is already eight months pregnant, and in more than two months, her second child will be born.

Although he has a heart to conquer, his status is too high, which also restricts him.

As the heir of an empire, as the commander of an army, he could not lead the battle, which also made him less fun in war.

I can only stay on this huge boat every day, and even when the weather is good, I want to go fishing on a small boat, and the people around me are extremely nervous, and this kind of war is really boring.

However, Ashikaga Yoshinori and the Toei royal family have not yet been captured, and he can choose when this war will start, but he can't choose when it will end.

The true strategic goal of ending the war without capturing Ashikaga Yoshimochi and Emperor Go-Komatsu was not achieved.

In this process, the most pressure is not on him, but on Liu Sheng, who is now the governor of the Shenji Battalion and the chief soldier of the army.

On May 13, the Ming army was in a state of ......, no, because the Japanese people along the way either fled or surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. They faced no resistance and were welcomed into the Kyoto Plains as if they were home.

After the army arrived in Kyoto, it experienced its first resistance at the Kamogawa River.

Although the Japanese prepared a rattan shield soaked in tung oil, the black powder of the Ming Dynasty had already left the initial stage and developed from powdered gunpowder to a granular state.

Although today's black powder is still under this name, its effectiveness exceeds the predictions of the Dongying people, and their rattan shields cannot withstand the attacks of the new muskets at all.

Otherwise, at the beginning of the Shenshibu River, it was impossible for the Ming army to rely on the original black powder to blow up the walls of the Menchuan family.

The war was one-sided at the beginning, and the Japanese could only rely on street fighting to cause some trouble to the Ming army.

In just three days, Ashikaga Yoshinori's army was driven out of Kyoto, and victory seemed to be within reach.

However, the subsequent development exceeded Liu Sheng's expectations, and although the Japanese who fled into the mountains fell into absolute disadvantage, the Ming army was forced to lengthen the battle line, which also greatly reduced the power of the musket.

Liu Sheng now regards the entire Shenji Battalion as his own life, and of course he is unwilling to divide his troops to attack in order to occupy an all-round advantage, because this can also cause heavy casualties among the Ming soldiers.

The number of the Ming army was still too small, and it was impossible for more than 20,000 people to even completely occupy Kyoto. It is equally risky to fight against hundreds of thousands of desperate Japanese people in the mountains and wilderness.

Therefore, the main energy of the army was on Kyoto, on the liquidation of the imperial family personnel and the liquidation of the opposition.

Unless he obtained accurate information about Ashikaga Yoshinori and Emperor Go-Komatsu, Yanagi refused to send troops.

But even so, Ashikaga Yoshiji and they are satisfied, and now Kyoto is completely in their hands, and most of the officials are also controlled by them, as long as they are given a little more time, they can control the whole situation.

The days of being the emperor in Kyoto were not difficult, the tactful and coquettish girl, the yellow gold, and the white silver were all sent to him by the other party.

If it were a young general, I am afraid that he would have fallen in front of these sugar-coated shells a long time ago.

However, Liu Sheng is in his forties this year, has experienced many ups and downs of life and death, and knows very well what he wants now.

Zhu Zhanji has more than 1,000 people in Kyoto who are responsible for counting the wealth of all parties, how dare he swallow everything privately?

He took the women, and he also accepted the gold and silver, but most of them were directly arranged by him to be sent to Osaka to honor his grandson.

But as far as he knew, although the grandson also possessed a few beautiful princesses of the Japanese Emperor, he was not greedy for women. Most of the beautiful women were rewarded by him to the soldiers, or they were ready to be sent back to Daming to sell.

These widows are docile, obedient, and intimate. Nowadays, the people of the Ming Dynasty who have a little money are willing to buy one either as a child bride or as a slave.

The pressure began in mid-June, and for a whole month, Ashikaga Yoshinori, who had experienced the wheat harvest of the Japanese people and had no food, ventured into an attack on the famous grain-producing area of the Kiyoshu Domain, which later became Nagoya.

Of course, there was no Nagoya in this era, and Nagoya would not appear until 200 years later, but it was the largest grain producing area in Toei outside of Kanto.

For the sake of food, Ashikaga Yoshinori took a risk, and with the cooperation of his supporters, he really succeeded.

At the same time, the large army that had withdrawn from the south also reached the southern mountains of the Kyoto Plain, attracting the firepower of Ashikaga Yoshitsugu and the Ming army, which made Liu Sheng quite miscalculated.

For this reason, Zhu Zhanji issued the first letter of reprimand, believing that Liu Sheng's passive response to the battle and lack of initiative led to this result.

Otherwise, it would be better to go north or south than to stay in Kyoto, which has no rivals.

Liu Sheng is not a wise general, and his combat is not particularly good, he can become the Marquis of An Yuan, mainly because of his diligence and meticulousness.

In particular, after being responsible for the preparation of the firearms battalion, he also participated in the Second Northern Expedition in recent years.

In Kyoto for a month, except for the drive away Ashikaga Yoshimochi and the emperor, he did not even achieve decent results. Originally, he didn't care about it, but as soon as Zhu Zhanji's reprimand letter arrived, he had to behave.

The letter of reprimand was accompanied by Zhu Zhanji's battle plan, in which he asked him to evacuate Kyoto and leave Kyoto to Ashikaga Yoshitsugu while dealing with the large army from the south, while Ryu Sheng went all the way north to carry out a major reorganization of the north and destroy all resistance.

In order to cooperate with the actions of the army, Zhu Zhanji sent 50,000 troops to set up supply points along the coast to cooperate with the army's attack, and at the same time ordered 2,000 Yulin guard gunners and the artillery battalion of the Shenji battalion to reinforce the army.

Receiving the order, Liu Sheng immediately gathered a large army and began a sweep to the north.

On June 19, the army met the 10,000 harassing army led by Ashikaga Yoshinori in Shiga, and the meritorious Yanagi pursued closely and blocked Ashikaga Yoshikyo in the mountainous area of Gozashoyama, killing more than 3,000 enemies and besieging Ashikaga Yoshikyo.

The sixth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, after losing his weapon, stuck a brush into his nostrils and knocked his head on a stone.

However, this way of suicide was not safe, because the penetration was not deep, and he was in pain for two days and two nights before he completely lost his breath.

On June 22, the army arrived at Ogaki, in the western part of the Cheongjiang Domain. Here, Ashikaga Yoshikyo himself led a large army to snipe.

However, the intelligence system of the Ming Dynasty had already figured out the arrangement of the other party, and the gap in weapons turned the ambush war into a death war, and the Japanese people completely piled up the valley with their lives to let Ashikaga Yoshikyo escape.

After that, Ashikaga Yoshikyo had most of the grain burned, and fled into the mountains with a small portion of it.

He wanted to use the strong wall to clear the wilderness and consume the power of the Ming Dynasty, but this time the burning of grain made him lose the hearts of the people, and this burning of grain also became the main reason for his rapid failure.

Before burning grain, although Daming had some supporters, most of them remained neutral, as long as a small number of them were desperate to become Japanese traitors.

But after this, more and more generals, the daimyo, were completely inclined to Ashikaga Yoshiji, or simply Daimei.

Due to the lack of fertile land, Dongying has been in a state of food shortage. In the past wars, the burning of grain rarely occurred, and it was a shame for the people of Dongying to waste food, not to mention burning hundreds of thousands of stone of grain at once.

This will leave at least hundreds of thousands of people in a state of starvation, which is unforgivable.

Moreover, the impact on the Ming Dynasty was minimal, because the Ming Dynasty was not prepared to collect grain from Dongying.

This is not a land war, the roads are rough, and the grain transit is difficult.

From Yingtianfu to Dongying, the giant treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty can transport tens of thousands of stone grain at a time, and only ten ships are needed, and the grain transported is enough for less than 200,000 people in the Ming Dynasty to eat for more than half a year.

What's more, in addition to food, there are countless big fish in the sea to supplement nutrition, and now the most lacking thing in the Ming army is only vegetables.

However, this problem is not a problem after the situation in Osaka stabilizes and more and more Japanese people take refuge in the Ming Dynasty.

It's June, and there is no shortage of all kinds of vegetables, and countless farmers are pulling truckloads of vegetables to the port every day.

So, when Ashikaga Yoshinori fled into the mountains, he found that he had received less and less support.

However, it was not until early July that he realized that this burning of grain had become the beginning of a sharp turn for the worse, and that he himself had sounded the bell of defeat and dug his own grave.

In Nagano, the Tachita clan, who had been his loyal followers, not only refused his request to travel north, but also directly informed the Ming army that they had been besieged.

The emperor fled east to Kofu, ruled by the Takeda clan, but this family, which had been inherited for three hundred years, had already taken refuge with Ashikaga Yoshitsu with Uesugi Zenhide.

They set fire to four wooden bridges over the river, completely blocking Ashikaga Yoshinori's northward journey.

Subsequently, they were forced to engage in a decisive battle with the pursuing Yanagi in the Hokudu River valley northwest of Kofu.

In this battle, because of the determination to break the cauldron and the cover of the dense mountains and forests, Ashikaga Yoshinori's men and horses also caused more than 1,000 casualties to the Ming army, but the huge weapon gap gave them no chance to turn the tables at all.

After more than 10,000 casualties, the army of nearly 40,000 people completely collapsed, and countless people fled into the mountains and forests, but nearly 1,000 samurai were captured alive, and more than 10,000 people.

Ashikaga Yoshinori was eventually killed by caesarean section, but most of the members of the imperial family of Emperor Go-Komatsu became prisoners.

The surrender of Ashikaga Yoshiji, the death of Ashikaga Yoshiji, the capture of Emperor Go-Kameyama, and the capture of Emperor Go-Komatsu also officially announced the current management class of Toei, and the top-level structure was controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

And the death of Ashikaga Yoshinori also announced that the scale of the Dongying resistance class has lost its core, and now the Ming Dynasty has revenge and revenge, and it can be liquidated one by one.

Before that, Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying and Sun Lin, who came from Yingtianfu, extorted a lot of wealth from the daimyo in the Kyoto area.

Zhu Zhanji moved his body, looked at Osaka Port in the distance and asked, "When will you be ready?" I'm getting a little impatient. ”

The generals couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your Highness has been waiting for months, but today I can't wait!" ”

"Of course......" Zhu Zhanji said meaningfully, "I have been waiting too long to ascend to the land of Dongying as a conqueror." ”