Shen Zhou entered Edo Bay with a fleet, and then swept the coastal cities around Edo Bay with a thunderbolt, and then defeated the Chiba clan who attacked him, and finally had to choose to surrender, and the other forces nearby saw the strength of the Ming army, and they were all frightened and did not dare to move, and even sent women money for peace.

For these Wa clans who showed favor to themselves, Shen Zhou also did not refuse, all the gifts were accepted, and then handed over to the supervisor in the fleet, and then the supervisor distributed these things in the name of the imperial court, although the same is to sell the hearts of his subordinates, but it can only be done by the prison army on behalf of the imperial court, if Shen Zhou gives a reward to his soldiers without authorization, then there is a suspicion of bad intentions.

After receiving these gifts, the fleet under Shen Zhou was indeed quiet for a while, but after Shen Zhou and Li Anliang settled down Edo Castle, they immediately began to expand, first the Ota clan, which was closest to Edo, suffered a catastrophe, and it is said that the reason was that Shen Zhou wanted to take the daughter of the Ota clan as a concubine, but people were unwilling, so Shen Zhou used the excuse that his dignity was insulted, so he raised troops in anger and destroyed the Ota clan, and the daughter of the Ota clan was also taken to the side as a maid.

After the destruction of the Ota clan, the army of the Ming Dynasty began to border the emerging Hojo clan, at this time the Hojo clan had just been founded by the head of the family, Hojo Sakumo, occupying Izu and Sagami countries, and the family's power was on the rise, if there was no arrival of the Ming army, more than ten years later, the Hojo clan would annex Musashi, Shimoso and other countries, and become the overlord of the Kanto region. Although the Hojo clan does not have the power of the future, it is also a first-class power among several clans near Edo.

However, it is a pity. The Hojo clan has great prospects though. But the arrival of the Ming army interrupted the process of development. After Shen Zhou destroyed the Ota clan, he immediately sent troops to Sagami with lightning speed, and defeated the Hojo clan in just a few days, and the country of Sagami also fell into the hands of the Ming army.

However, after taking control of most of Sagami and Musashi, Shenshu did not send troops on a large scale, but slowly encroached on the Shimochokunku region bordering Edo, which was the territory of the Chiba clan that had been defeated by Shenshu before. For the invasion of the Ming army, they dared not speak out, and they could only keep retreating.

It was also during this time that Li Anliang finally came forward, and he began to recruit Japanese people in the name of the Ming Dynasty to form a servant army, after all, with the expansion of their territory in the Japanese country, the army brought by them was soon a little overstretched, and even the 10,000 Korean troops were the same, so it was imperative to recruit local Japanese people.

Speaking of which, after many years of war, the people of the country were also struggling to make a living, and Edo was not the political center of the country. However, they were also often threatened by war, such as the Hojo clan and the Kamihama clan. Countless Japanese people were displaced by the constant fighting between them, and it was not uncommon to see them dying of starvation on both sides of the fields and roads.

It is also the situation of the Wa State, so when Li Anliang released the news that he was going to recruit soldiers, and the army could not only eat enough, but even have military salaries to take, although the military salaries of the servant army could not be compared with the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, and even compared with the Korean army, but they also fed a family, which the other clans of the Wa State could not compare with the army of the Ming Dynasty at all, because their army was only responsible for providing food to the soldiers, and there was no military salary at all.

Generous remuneration plus three meals a day, this is much stronger than the Japanese soldiers only eat two meals a day, plus the Japanese people in this era do not have any concept of home and country, so when Li Anliang released the news of recruiting servants, countless Japanese people flocked to enter Edo City, hoping to join the Ming servant army as soon as possible, so that not only do they not have to starve, but they can also have a full meal at home.

However, although there are many people who sign up, the conditions for Li Anliang's recruitment are also very harsh, first of all, the Japanese servant army only recruits people over the age of sixteen and under forty, of course, those who have martial arts or have been on the battlefield are preferred, but there is a prerequisite for all this, that is, the person who signs up must have a family, and after entering the servant army, he must move his family to live near Edo, which is mainly to ensure the loyalty of the Japanese people, after all, they are far away from the Ming Dynasty, and they don't want to recruit the Japanese army to fight back, so when those Japanese people are fighting outside, their families are hostages.

After all, the Ming army provided such favorable conditions, of course, it was impossible to accept everyone, and in order to ensure the loyalty of the soldiers, moving the family to the vicinity of Edo was also the most effective means, so even if the conditions were harsh, they could not stop the enthusiasm of the Japanese people to eat well, which made Li Anliang's recruitment work go very smoothly, and in just three months, 50,000 Japanese soldiers had been recruited.

However, compared with those who entered the servant army, the number of eliminated widows is more, for these eliminated widows, Li Anliang in line with the principle of not wasting, after discussing with Shen Zhou, he set up a security army in addition to the servant army, these security forces have no quantitative regulations, and there are not many requirements for personnel, but the treatment is very different from the servant army.

For example, the servant army has three meals a day, using the standard equipment provided by the Ming Dynasty, and there is a military salary every month, but the security army can only eat two meals a day, and there is no military salary, as for weapons and equipment, they can only use some weapons that the Ming army eliminated that are about to be scrapped, and they don't even have military uniforms.

But even so, those who can enter the security army are still very excited, after all, the security army is also a place to eat, and compared to other clan armies, the food in the security army is much stronger, and they can eat enough every time, unlike other clan armies, maybe they will cut off a few meals one day.

In addition, what makes the security army even happier is that they are called the security army, generally speaking, they don't need them to go to the battlefield, they are only responsible for the security situation in various places in peacetime, at most, when they encounter robbers and other robbers, they will send several times the army to exterminate it, it can be said that it is very safe, unlike other clan armies, God knows when Lu Dao will throw his life on the battlefield?

Li Anliang recruited so many Japanese troops at once, and the amount of food and money spent was not a small amount, and the pressure on logistics was also very great, but Shenzhou They were navy and had a special grain fleet, as long as the food was not enough, the fleet would transport grain from Daming, among which the regular army of Daming ate rice and flour, and as for the Japanese army, they ate dried sweet potatoes and corn flour.

With the promotion of sweet potatoes and corn in the Ming Dynasty, these two kinds of food have now been flooded, but the more so, the stricter the control of these two crops in the Ming Dynasty, all the sweet potatoes and corn that are transported to the Ming Dynasty must be processed to ensure that not a seed can be left on the land abroad.

Of course, if Daming wants to completely put an end to the outflow of corn and sweet potatoes, it is simply impossible, after all, this thing has been promoted throughout the country, and Daming's control over the frontier is not so strict, so it is only a matter of time before it spreads, but Daming has issued a warning to the surrounding countries, anyone who plants these two crops without the consent of Daming will inevitably cause Daming's anger, and then wait for Daming's army to crusade.

The dried sweet potatoes and corn flour they transported from Shenzhou are produced on the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, the land in these two places is fertile, and the output of sweet potatoes and corn is very large, and they want to process them into derivative products such as vermicelli, but the market for such products has long been seized by Taiwan and other places where sweet potatoes and corn are planted first, so some places are worried about so many sweet potatoes and corn.

It is with the support of the two high-yield crops of sweet potatoes and corn that Li Anliang dares to recruit unscrupulously in the Japanese country, and there is no need to worry about how to feed these Japanese people, this is the benefit of too much food in the Ming Dynasty, but too much food is not necessarily all good things, for example, the Ming Dynasty is now encountering some problems encountered by too much food, the most significant impact of which is that it becomes a little difficult for Zhou Zhong to move the people of the Ming Dynasty out of the country.

There is more food, and a large amount of grain has been stored in various parts of the country, so that even if there is a famine, there is no need to worry about the problem of food, as long as the local officials have a little conscience, open the granary during the famine, the victims can survive the famine safely, and for those traditional Ming people, as long as they can have food to eat at home, they will stay at home with peace of mind, even if they are poor at home, they are not willing to risk going to the wild place overseas.

So in this case, the number of disaster victims who moved out of Daming every year in Zhou Chong was decreasing day by day, and even according to the estimates of the officials of the Governor's Office, there would be no more disaster victims in Daming within three years at most.

For this result, Zhou Zhong was also very helpless, and even sometimes he would think, if he had known that the people in the Ming Dynasty would no longer migrate out because of the effect of corn and sweet potatoes, would he still give sweet potatoes and corn to Zhengde? However, Zhou Chong's conclusion has not changed, even if he knew that Lu Dao was like this, he would have donated corn and sweet potatoes, after all, he could not watch so many Ming people die of hunger every year.

There is still a large amount of land overseas waiting for the people of the Ming Dynasty to develop, but now Zhou Chong's immigration work has encountered the above big problem, which also makes Zhou Zhong have to change the original immigration strategy and use another method for immigration. (To be continued......)