Chapter 59: A Grim Situation
Just like the later American emperor Roosevelt was a little happy when he received the news that Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese state.
In fact, Lin Chong was also happy when Lin Chong heard that Tamna Island was attacked by the Japanese Kingdom.
There is no other reason, after sacking Xingqing Mansion, Lin Chong started to attack Xingqing Mansion.
Of course, there are reasons for the hatred of the Japanese people in later generations, the disdain for the perversion of the Japanese people, and the vigilance of the Japanese people who have always coveted the land of China.
Another important reason is that the Wa Kingdom is too rich.
You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, China was still a country with an extreme shortage of silver, gold could be used as currency, but silver could only be used as a reward for the emperor, if it was worth anything, it was even more valuable than gold.
In the Song Dynasty, although precious metals were still scarce in China, silver could be used as currency, and its value plummeted, with the exchange rate with gold falling to one tael of gold for five taels of silver (Note 1):
So the question is, where did so much silver come out of China?
The answer is that a small part of it was obtained through the Maritime Silk Road, using silk and porcelain, in exchange for trading with Westerners, especially middlemen Arabs.
In contrast to China, the West (mainly Africa, Central Asia, and Northern Europe) was rich in gold and silver, such as Rome and the Great Food Empire, which used gold and silver coins as their currency.
It's just that they didn't have much to offer to exchange with Chinese silk, porcelain, and tea, so they could only buy gold and silver, so the gold and silver accumulated by the West for more than a thousand years continued to flow to China.
And this process will continue until the Qing Dynasty, when Europe's own and the silver they have stolen from all over the world are still flowing into China, and then they will not be happy.
So there was the opium trade, the cigarette sales of Lin Zexu and Humen, and the history of the Opium War and later China's humiliation.
Therefore, the textbook saying that China was beaten because it was closed to the country is actually nonsense.
The real reason is just the opposite, fundamentally speaking, China's business is doing too well, and the Yin country cannot compete with China in trade, so it began to use a shady trick - drug trafficking.
Then China began to ban drugs, and the Yin Kingdom did not allow China to ban drugs, and forced China to buy other goods, and forced China to become a dumping ground for its drugs and other goods such as foreign cloth.
However, during the Song Dynasty, the navigation technology was not as developed as in later generations, and the West was too far away after all, so the silver flowing into China from the West was still relatively limited.
Therefore, most of the remaining silver actually flowed from the Wa Kingdom.
Many people may not believe it, but at that time, the Wa Kingdom was simply a place with a heinous amount of gold and silver, unlike the Wa Kingdom in later generations, which was four broken islands full of volcanoes (the gold and silver were basically mined).
Not to mention anything else, just saying that in the Ming Dynasty, silver mines in the Americas had already begun to develop, but the silver production of the Wa Kingdom could still account for one-third of the world, which shows how high the silver production of the Wa Kingdom was.
Moreover, all along, from the Tang Dynasty, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty sent overseas monks to China, all of them were extremely generous, and everything they bought had to be paid with gold sand; During the Song Dynasty, he took countless gold and silver to China to buy and buy.
This is still in the case that the technology of the Japanese people is not developed, and many chess stones that have only been discovered in later generations, such as Sado Kanayama, Iwami Ginzan, Date Ashite Gold, and Shingen's Chess Stone Gold, have not yet been discovered.
Even the Ikuno silver mine, which has been discovered, has only been initially developed, and the mining volume is less than 5% of the total reserves.
Once the Wa Kingdom was occupied by the Liangshan Army, coupled with the advantage of Lin Chong's traversers, whether it was prospecting or smelting technology, it was many times stronger than the current Wa people.
When the time comes, a huge amount of gold and silver will be mined, and even if Liang Shanjun doesn't do anything, he will no longer be short of money!
It's just that although Lin Chong really wants to fight the Wei Kingdom, the Chinese have always paid the most attention to the right name and the famous teacher.
Fighting Goryeo can also be said to recover the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and Goryeo refuses to accept the king's transformation and goes against the reason of seeking glory against the lord to carry out the conquest, which can be said to be justified and justified.
But there is no such reason to fight the Japanese state, of course, it is not impossible to force it, but it is not good after all.
If the soldiers feel that this is an unrighteous war, then what can be used on the battlefield to boost morale?
Could it be that the Jurchens and the Mongols used robbery, burning, killing and looting to motivate the morale of the soldiers?
Then the nature of the Liangshan Army's benevolent and righteous army and the righteous army has changed, and it has become a bandit army and a beast army similar to the Jurchens.
Lin Chong was struggling, but he didn't know that the Japanese people themselves took the initiative to send the reason to the door.
Lin Chong was naturally a little happy in his heart, but even if Lin Chong was happy in his heart, in the face of the big mistakes made by Ruan Xiaoer and Gao Yu, Lin Chong still had to express his due attitude, that is, the dereliction of duty of the two must be dealt with seriously, punished severely, and notified to the whole army.
This can be regarded as a wake-up call for others, otherwise the Liangshan army has been invincible, and many people will inevitably be arrogant and slack.
Therefore, even if everyone stood up to intercede for the two, Lin Chong still insisted on giving the two the most severe punishment: "Mr. Wen, immediately issue a document in my name on Tamluo Island, Ruan Xiaoer and Gao Yu, as the Taishou and the generals of the navy, paralyzed and careless in defending the territory, causing 2,000 casualties among the soldiers and civilians on the island, and three warships were burned and seriously injured, which is really an unforgivable crime!"
The two of them are now relieved of all their duties and escorted back to Liangshanbo to be handed over to the Judge Advocate General's Department! At the same time, this incident will be used as a typical notice to the whole army, and the whole army will strengthen the education of the sense of danger: war is just around the corner, and the Liangshan army is now an enemy on all sides......"
Everyone was silent when they heard this, in fact, not only Ruan Xiaoer, who was far away on Tamluo Island, Gao Yu was negligent, even many of them were inevitably a little floating sometimes.
I felt that the Liangshan army was invincible and invincible, and the army lord was a man of destiny, so he didn't need to be afraid of any opponent at all, but he didn't expect that the current Liangshan army, as the army lord said, was already full of enemies.
Zhao Song, Jurchen, Liao, Wa, as well as the remnants of Goryeo and the remnants of the Western Thieves, all had hostility towards the Liangshan army and even regarded them as the number one mortal enemy.
Once the slightest carelessness Liang Shanjun is likely to be shattered!
And even if the Liangshan army can win in the end, it can be the enemy of the whole world, and countless jackals are eyeing each other, just waiting for the Liangshan army to rush over and bite when they are negligent.
For example, wasn't it bitten by the Japanese country this time?
And now the situation has suddenly become very sinister, you must know that since the army has been formed, the most talked about is the word blood.
Our ancestors were a very bloody people; Zhao Song was not properly castrated and bloody, and self-abolished martial arts; The Liangshan Army must awaken the blood of the people and regain the nation's self-confidence in force.
Therefore, Liang Shanjun pays the most attention to revenge, and it is revenge immediately.
Now that the Japanese have launched an undeclared war, they have secretly attacked Tamna Island and killed our soldiers and civilians, and once this matter is notified to the whole army, all the soldiers will inevitably be in a state of turmoil, and they will strongly demand revenge and start a war against the Japanese state.
But in this way, the Liangshan army is bound to send a large number of soldiers and horses to the battlefield of the Wa Kingdom, once they are stuck in the quagmire of war and cannot get out in time, Zhao Song, Liao, and Jurchen will unite to attack again, and the consequences will be unimaginable!