"It seems that the destruction of the Japanese kingdom in March is not impossible to achieve."

After listening to Xue Jun's recital, Li Yu smiled.

"According to the current offensive of our army, as long as Li Shangdan takes Harima Province, the combined forces of Izumo, Hakugi, and Inaba take Tanba Province, the combined forces of Tango, Wakasa, and Kaga capture Omi, and Xue Ne's landing at Gogi of Wakoku, we will be able to form a three-sided encirclement of the Goki region of Wakoku. With the low combat effectiveness of the Japanese army and the level of defense of the city, it was possible to take Wugi to eliminate the Japanese in ten days. ”

Xue Sima was convincing, but he ignored the movements of the eastern states of the Wa Kingdom. Twenty-four countries in the eastern part of the country were controlled by the reformers, who were supporters of the policy of the Sea People. The area under its jurisdiction accounts for half of the territory of the Wa Kingdom, and the population also accounts for one-third. So far, no country has come into contact with our army, which shows that they intend to resist the sea people to the end. Even if our army captures Wuji, the people of the sea will inevitably flee eastward, and the plan to exterminate the Japanese will probably have to be discussed in the long run. ”

Li Yu agreed with Pei Yanxiu's words and asked left and right: "Do you Aiqing have a way to deal with it?" ”

"Your Highness, the Sado Island occupied by Wang Aoke, the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, is located right behind the Eastern Imperial Commanding Powers of the Wa Kingdom, and he can be given additional troops and horses to lead his army to land in the Echigo Kingdom and attack the Eastern Imperial Commanding States from the rear. As a result, the people of the sea could not get the support of the soldiers and food of the eastern countries, and even if they fled east after losing Wugi, it would be difficult for them to confront our army by relying on the eastern countries that were facing attacks from both sides of our army and the soldiers and food were running out. ”

"I remember that some time ago, I sent him 30 additional warships and 3,000 reinforcements, and he should have 80 warships and more than 4,000 soldiers under his command. With his current forces, it is not a problem to capture Echigo Province on the other side of Sado Island, and then to attack Vietnam and China to the south, it will be enough to fight back against the rest of the Eastern Imperial Imperial Army with the surrendered Kaga Imperial Division. ”

In the middle of the island of Honshu, there are many mountains and mountains along the coast of the Whale Sea, and most of the countries in the eastern part of the country are on the Pacific coast, and the transportation on both sides of the mountain range is not convenient.

In Li Yu's view, Wang Aoke obtained Echigo and Echichu with his current strength, which was enough to block the counterattack of the Japanese army according to the mountain danger, and he could also get the support of the soldiers and horses of Kaga, Tango, and Wakasa who surrendered, and it was not a problem to form a group of 10,000 soldiers and horses to cross the central mountain range of Honshu Island and attack the countries on the Pacific coast.

"Your Highness, according to Wang Aoke's report, in order to prevent him from landing, the Wa Kingdom built nine water cities along the coast of Echigo Province, and gathered nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses. He once led his army to attack the water castle defended by the Japanese army and failed, so he had to send troops to Sado Island to ask for reinforcements. ”

"Your Royal Highness, Wang Aoke is the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, and he is good at water warfare and not good at land warfare to have the defeat of the city of Woshui. His Royal Highness intends to attack the eastern Japanese countries from Sado Island, and when another good general is selected to be the commander, Wang Aoke will be the deputy to lead the Yellow Sea Fleet to assist. ”

Pei Yan was reminded of Wang Aoke's predicament, and Cui Jing hurriedly stood up and played.

"What Cui Senjun said is reasonable, all roads are invincible on the battlefield of the Wa Kingdom, but Wang Aoke failed to attack the Washui City, which is really not good-looking."

Li Yu pondered for a long time and decided: "I will send 3,000 troops led by Heiya Changzhi to Sado Island, and command the entire army on the island to be listed as the Eastern Route Army for Attacking the Japanese." Do you have any objections? ”

"Since the black tooth Changzhi surrendered to my Tang Dynasty, he has made many military exploits and rarely failed, His Royal Highness sent this person to go, according to the minister, His Royal Highness can relax about the war."

"Hahaha...... Then I will borrow Xue Sima Jiyan. ”

Li Yugang wanted to break up the meeting, but suddenly thought that this time he did not hesitate to dispatch more than half of the soldiers and horses of the Andong Protectorate to attack the Japanese State, wasn't it just for the gold and silver deposits buried under the Japanese State?

Since obtaining the right to mint coinage, Longyin Qianzhuang has minted millions of gold, silver and copper Kaiyuan Tongbao every year, but found that it is far from meeting the demand for currency in the market.

After investigation, it was found that because the currency minted by Longyin Qian Zhuang was full of value and had a beautiful appearance, and because the imperial court only minted copper coins and did not mint gold and silver coins, it was sought after by the world. As a result, the coins minted by Longyin Qian Zhuang were brought to the mainland of the Tang Dynasty by merchants in large quantities, but they were not used for commercial transactions but were stored by the people who obtained them, and they were still traded with copper coins minted by the imperial court.

Nuofei Li Yu strictly ordered the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate to collect taxes and make external purchases, and the commercial houses under the royal palace were only allowed to use the currency minted by Longyin Qian Zhuang when trading. Maybe this will be used as bad money to drive out good money, and all the coins minted by Longyin Money Village have been hidden by the people, and Li Yu can't even get it back.

In order to solve this problem, one is to increase the amount of coinage and put in the currency to meet the demand of the Datang commercial market. As the quantity increased, the preciousness decreased, and the people were naturally willing to trade the currency minted by the hidden Longyin Money Village, thus squeezing the currency minted by the imperial court out of the market. The second is to expand the influence of the royal firms in the local economy of the Tang Dynasty, and the largest currency circulation is none other than the merchant group. As a result, both local merchants and foreign merchants in the Tang Dynasty could not bypass the economic and trade relations with the commercial houses of Yanwangfu, and no matter how unhappy the merchants were, they could only take out the currency minted by Longyin Qianzhuang to seek trades.

No? That can only be exchanged for real money at the Dragon Yin Money Village.

In this way, the coinage of Longyin Qian Zhuang can enter a benign development and create huge profits for Li Yu to create coinage.

If you want Longyin Money Village to increase the amount of coinage, it is definitely not something that can be done by talking about it.

Although Li Yu had put into operation gold mines in Denglai and Taipei, he also explored several small gold mines in the Liaodong Peninsula in search of gold, and organized people to mine them.

The annual output of more than 40,000 taels of gold is too small to meet the world's largest market currency demand.

At present, only Wang Aoke organized people to mine the gold and silver associated mines on Sado Island, which had not been around for a long time, and they brought back more than 1,000 taels of gold and silver at a time.

The only thing that made Li Yu happy was the largest silver mine in Northeast Asia, and Ishimi saw that the silver mountain was already in his hands, so he was close to exploring and mining the silver ore.

"I heard that there are many gold and silver deposits in the underground of the Japanese State, and our army is now seizing the various Japanese orders in the country to organize craftsmen to explore as soon as possible, and I have found that when the Japanese State is conscripted and sent to carry out form mining to supplement military supplies."

"Where will Wei Xun be looking for gold?"

"The Ministers Are in ......"

Looking for gold, the left guard will Li Laiheng, and the right guard will Xie Qian.

"You two shall immediately select skilled craftsmen from your command and personally lead a team to Sado Island, Iwami Province, Inaba Province, and Tajima Province to explore and mine gold and silver deposits, and the required labor shall be requested by the local garrison to be requisitioned for labor according to the king's decree. If someone does not obey the order, you two can play the king's punishment. ”

"......"

In addition to Sado Gold Mine and Iwami Silver Mountain, the Oshu Gold Mine is famous for its gold placer production. It's a pity that the Oshu gold mine is still in the territory of Mutsu Province, the northernmost part of the Japanese country.

As for Inaba and Tajima, Li Yu only vaguely remembered that each of the two countries seemed to have a large amount of silver reserves.

After Li Yu dismissed the meeting, the officials and generals present were a little puzzled, the gold and silver mines on Sado Island were said in the past, after all, there was Hu Anjun's expedition team and Wang Aoke to explore and determine, but Iwami and Inaba and Danma Sangoku could not say it, and no one reported that there were gold and silver mines found in the local area.

At present, the Tang army occupies more than 10 countries under the Japanese order system, but Li Yu's instructions to Li Laiheng and Xie Qian asked the two of them to go to Iwami, Inaba, and Tajima to explore, which is intriguing.