"Gold and silver mines?" Zhu Song was stunned for a moment and said, "You kid won't be deceived, right?" ”

Zhu Song knew that there were silver mines in his country, but he hadn't heard that there were also gold mines in his country?

And from the point of view of time, although this silver ore is occasionally found in the book, the discovery of the amazing reserves of silver ore should have been mined in the sixteenth century, that is, two hundred years later. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's 200 years earlier, so there's no reason why it could be mined?

"Uncle Songhuang, we didn't believe it at first, but when we saw that almost all of the shops run by this guy were gold and silver accessories, and the purity of those accessories was very high, we believed him."

Zhu Youyi was still thinking about Fang Cai's affairs, and when he answered Zhu Song's question, he also had some heart palpitations.

"In this case, you go and bring this guy, and this king will ask first." Zhu Song still couldn't believe it.

"The slave is already waiting outside the main hall." Zhu Youyi nodded and ordered someone to call the guy in.

"Little Ishii Matsune knocks on the heavenly envoy!" It didn't take long for a middle-aged slave with a fat head and big ears and a somewhat exaggerated tonnage to walk in, and while kneeling to Zhu Song cautiously, he was still speaking stiff Chinese.

"Your name is Matsune Ishii?" Zhu Song looked at him condescendingly, "You open your eyes and look at the people around you, we are not people you can tease at will." ”

"The little one doesn't dare to deceive the envoy of the Celestial Empire." Ishii Songgen peeked at Zhu Song and them, and saw that all the people in this hall had a black face except for Yang Shiqi, and they looked very difficult to speak.

"Okay, with your words, it's done, if you dare to deceive this king, this king can kill you now!" Zhu Song was very satisfied with this effect, and continued: "Let's talk about it, you said that you know that there is such a place with a large amount of gold and silver reserves, where is it? ”

Ishii Matsugen had already thought of his rhetoric and replied: "Returning to the Heavenly Empire, the gold and silver mines that have been discovered by the small ones are ...... No, most of the place is silver mines, and only a small part of the gold mines. ”

"Getting to the point." Zhu Youjiao listened a little impatiently, and his voice was a little rougher.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Glancing at Zhu Youyi with some fear, Ishii Matsune continued: "The boundary of that place is near Iwami in Shimane Prefecture, San'in Region, because there are often small volcanic eruptions and ground movements, so there are not many people living there, and the small ones were discovered here by chance. ”

"Shimane Prefecture, Iwami Silver Mine!" Hearing Ishii Matsune's words, Zhu Song touched his chin and pondered.

Iwami Silver Mine, to be precise, should be Iwami Silver Mountain.

Iwami Ginzan was the largest silver mine from the late Warring States period to the early Edo period.

Someone once calculated that in the 17th century, Iwami Ginzan's silver production accounted for one-third of the world's total silver production.

Now it seems that this guy is not lying, and dogs. Good luck with, I was lucky enough to find this place.

"Didn't you find out how much silver was in that mine?" Zhu Song stared at him and asked.

"The little one did find someone to detect it." Ishii Matsune nodded obediently and said, "According to the information detected, it is not a silver mine at all, but a silver mountain!" It has been seven years since the discovery of the small one, and the small one has been mined for seven years, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. ”

"Damn, what did you say?"

Except for Zhu Song, who had known this result for a long time, everyone in the hall was a little unable to control it.

Over the years, it is unlikely that Ishii Matsune himself discovered the Iwami Silver Mine, and I believe that others have discovered this place.

In seven years, the mining of so many people is only the tip of the iceberg of silver mining, isn't this pit people?

The current Ming Dynasty, but unlike when the pre-Qin Dynasty lived in the Tang Dynasty, the current Ming Dynasty implements the silver standard, and all gold and silver are precious metals, which can be used for life.

Therefore, when they heard that a silver mountain had been found in their country, everyone was really surprised.

Seeing that Zhu Youyi, Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu had a look of surprise on their faces, and they couldn't resolve it for a while, Zhu Song coughed lightly and said, "What you said is the truth?" ”

"The little ones don't dare to deceive in the slightest. In Iwami in Shimane Prefecture, an amazing amount of silver was indeed discovered! ”

Ishii Matsugen's tone was very firm, as if he was afraid that Zhu Song would not believe it, and continued: "In order to facilitate the mining of silver mines, the small one specially bought a piece of land in Shimane Prefecture, built a house and a silver smelting plant, if you don't believe it, the small one can take you to Shimane Prefecture to have a look." ”

"Don't tell this king, this Iwami mine is only mined by yourself." Zhu Song looked at Ishii Songgen with a smile and said, "With such a large reserve of Ishimi silver mine, it is impossible for this imperial court not to discover it. ”

"Discovery is discovery, but they don't dare to mine it on a large scale." Hearing Zhu Song ask about this, Ishii Matsugen seemed to have thought of something, and there was a bit of mockery in his tone:

"I once heard from a friend that the imperial court secretly organized two large-scale mining operations, one unfortunately encountered the ground movement, and seven or eight thousand soldiers died, and the other encountered the eruption of a volcanic group, and this time the whole army was almost wiped out. Since then, the imperial court has not mined again. ”

"No, if they don't mine themselves, won't they restrict you?" Zhu Song is very clear about Xiao Yue's selfish urine, and what he can't do by himself often doesn't allow others to do it.

"The imperial court is naturally unwilling." Ishii Matsune's face had a look of resentment, "The imperial court has established a 'Silver Mine Supervision Division' in Shimane Prefecture, and as long as the silver mine is mined from the Iwami Silver Mountain, we will hand over fifty percent." ”

"Hahaha, Hou Xiaosong is still not ruthless enough, if it is this king, you will definitely hand over seventy percent of the refined silver!"

Zhu Song laughed and said, "Okay, there's nothing for you here, you go back and prepare for your life, and in two days, this king will arrange for soldiers to go to Shimane County to investigate, and you will lead the way." ”

"Yes, the little one understands." Ishii Matsune nodded obediently, turned around and left.

Here they don't want to stay for a breath of time, these people are terrible.

When Ishii Songgen came out of the Taiji Palace, Zhu Youjiao said to Zhu Song: "Uncle Songhuang, do you believe him?" ”

"What if you don't believe?" Zhu Song asked rhetorically and said, "Could it be that you forgot those gold and silver bricks that were found on Kameda Kogoro's ship when you were in the 'control zone' of North Korea?" If it weren't for Hou Komatsu's instructions, he would be able to carry so much gold and silver with a ship with a mere thing that was not in the stream? ”

"Isn't it according to the ship's own person that those gold and silver are going to do something in the Korean Kingdom?" Zhu Youyi said with some consternation: "Besides, it is said that it is not big, and it is not small to say that it is not small, and it is still a problem to make more than 100,000 taels of gold bricks and silver bricks?" ”

"It's not that simple!" Zhu Song waved his hand and said, "Send someone to take a look tomorrow!" ”

"That nephew ......" Zhu Youyi remembered that Zhu Song was going to drive him away just now, and wanted to take this opportunity to stay.

"What are you?" Zhu Song glanced at Zhu Youyi and said, "Don't think that this king will leave you guys behind if he needs manpower now." Write down all the messages that came to you from Nanjing. In two days, you guys will go back to Nanjing!" ”

Zhu Youyi immediately lowered his head and replied with some dejection: "Yes!" ”

……

The next day, Zhu Song really sent an army of 5,000 people, led by Zhang Fu, to Shimane Prefecture.

It didn't take long to get from Kyoto to Shimane Prefecture in the San'in region.

On the 7th, the 5,000-strong army made a round trip from Kyoto to Shimane, which also included three days of reconnaissance on the Iwami mine, and the army personally dug some rough stone from the Iwami mine and brought it all the way back to Kyoto.

Zhang Fu, who returned to Kyoto, went directly to the palace to meet Zhu Song.

"How? Is Ishii Matsune lying to us? Zhu Song asked straight to the point.

"Lord Wang, a happy event, it's really a great event!" Zhang Fu couldn't hide the excitement on his face, and that face smiled happily:

"As Ishii Mazune said, the Iwami mine does have a big mountain, and the mountain is full of silver ore, and it can be easily refined into silver. According to the calculations of the brothers who followed him in the firearms battalion, even if I tried my best to dig the silver mines, there would be no problem in a hundred years. ”

"That's right!" Hearing Zhang Fu's words, Zhu Song showed a relieved smile on his face.

Looking at the smile on Zhu Song's face, Zhang Fu broke out another dose of fierce news: "In Shimane Prefecture, there are not only silver mines, but also gold mines are widely distributed, although they are all in dangerous areas, they can also be mined!" ”

"Gold mines, there really are gold mines!" Zhu Song was a little surprised, "Are you sure?" ”

"Sure, according to Ishii Matsune's own account, those gold mines are only partially mined because they are difficult to mine." Zhang Fu pondered for a while and continued: "Moreover, the official restrictions on gold mines are so high that few of the businessmen who open the mines are willing to mine gold. ”

"I see." Zhu Song laughed and said, "This is cheap, let's be clear!" ”

"The prince is right!" Zhang Fu nodded and said, "But when the last general led his soldiers to Shimane County, the mine was already full of Japanese slaves, and they were all digging frantically!" ”

"Well, that's easy to solve." Zhu Song thought for a while and said, "In this way, you send a team of soldiers to Shimane County to garrison, and in addition, this king will play the Four Emperor Brothers, and let the Four Emperor Brothers send more soldiers to this book at the same time, and then select a few officials from Si Tianjian to come here and go to Shimane County with the soldiers." ”

Si Tianjian is the department responsible for observing celestial phenomena, calculating solar terms, and formulating calendars in the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Zhu Song wanted Zhu Di to send a few officials from the Heavenly Prison came out was to be able to effectively detect ground movements and volcanic eruptions.

Although it can't be predicted with extreme accuracy, how much does it work?

"In addition to frequent earth movements and volcanic eruptions, if we want to mine gold and silver ore, there is also the question of who will mine it." Zhang Fu thought that the problem was comprehensive, "If it is our Ming people, not only must we transport people from the mainland, but also pay attention to their safety at all times." ”

"Don't we have ready-made labor?" Zhu Song laughed softly: "These days, there are still Meng Can, but they have caught a lot of young adults. Count these guys as unlucky, send them all to Shimane Prefecture, and count them as contributing to our construction of the four modernizations. ”

"Uh...... Four modernizations, construction? "Zhang Fu is stupid, what is the construction of the four modernizations?

"Ahem, nothing." Zhu Song knew that he was bald, and hurriedly said, "Okay, you must be tired after going out for a few days, right?" There is a hot spring on the southeast side of Kyoto, which has been occupied by our Ming army, so you can take your brothers to soak in the hot spring and eat something. ”

"Then the prince, the lower officials will retreat first!" Zhang Fu bowed his hand to Zhu Song and withdrew from the main hall.

……

"Hey, this time it's really unlucky, just because we caught some Japanese slaves, Uncle Songhuang actually drove us back." In a restaurant in Daming Dengzhou, Zhu Guiqi's face was irritable.

"You kid can have a snack." Zhu Youyi glared at Zhu Guiqi and said, "Haven't you seen it yet?" The reason why Uncle Songhuang drove us back was for our good. ”

"For our good?" Zhu Guiqi was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother You, how do you say this?" ”

Zhu Yuexian and Zhu Mengcan also set their eyes on Zhu Youxuan, and these two boys obviously couldn't figure it out.

"You guys, can't you just use your brains to think about it?"

Zhu Youyi put down the wine cup in his hand and said, "You think, this is the first time we have gone out to the vassal country, although we have made some meritorious achievements, but in the eyes of General Zhu Neng, this meritorious service is nothing." This has just captured Yuben, and we are wantonly arresting male and female slaves in Kyoto, isn't this a great achievement, relying on merit to take advantage? ”

"But, but it's all a trifle?" Zhu Guiqi still doesn't understand, but they are just slaves, what is this? Anyway, there is no more book at the moment, and there will only be a 'Japanese slave control area' in the future!

"Why don't you understand?" Zhu Youyi was almost angry, "You say, who is the biggest hero in this campaign?" ”

"Uncle Songhuang and General Zhu!" Zhu Guiqi and Zhu Yuexian blurted out.

"That's not right!" Zhu Mengcan touched his chin and said, "It should be the Fourth Emperor!" ”

Syllable!

Zhu Youjiao snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, naturally it's the Fourth Emperor!" If there were no Four Emperors, our army would not have been able to reach the book at all. Oh, and now our Ming army has beaten down the four emperors, and the four emperors haven't said that they are moving the spoils, so we will rush to catch slaves and give them to relatives and friends, you say, if this matter is passed to the four emperors, what will the four emperors think? ”

Don't look at Zhu Di's smile on their royal nephews on weekdays, but in the final analysis, they are the emperor and the Ninety-Five, and he doesn't nod his head about some things, if you move, it will be an infringement of imperial power!

Thinking of this, Zhu Guiqi and Zhu Yuexian, the two little guys, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.