Chapter 34: Sweeping the Mud

Mud bombardment Nagasaki

Countless mud bombardments wore extremely thin single clothes, withstood the cold wind, and their skinny bodies shivered in the cold wind, shouting trumpets and desperately carrying a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, grain, dried fish and other materials onto the big ship docked in the port. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Countless Han soldiers wore warm cotton jackets and well-made heavy armor, and patrolled back and forth in the port with weapons in hand, and as soon as they found that there were mud bombardments, lazy people, slow work, stealing things to eat, etc., they immediately went up and directly cut off one of the opponent's arms and threw them into the sea.

These people are extremely ruthless, completely ignoring each other's pleas and cries, even if they face the hideous mud bombardment people who want to desperately kill people, they still kill people with expressionless faces.

"Tsk, I really want to stay in the mud forever! Remove all the gold, silver, pearls, and so on, and then kill all the men and women of the mud, and finally make the mud bomb a province of the Han Dynasty! On the second floor of a restaurant next to the wharf, Meng Qiu stood at the window and said with a smile on his face.

After defeating Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Meng Qiu directly waved his army north, easily defeated the remnants of the Muromachi shogunate, which had no leader, and eliminated more than 20 daimyo with a certain strength in a row, establishing his hegemony after the mud bombardment. Meng Qiu decided to continue his favorite work of robbing money, food, and killing people, and feed the Han Dynasty.

The people of the whole country eat vegetarian food all year round, and officials, nobles, and emperors occasionally eat a meal of meat, and eat fish and pickled vegetables most of the time. In fact, this is all mud bombardment of the little devil's own doing, staying in a mud bomb like the bird does not, the chicken does not lay eggs, every day of the year earthquakes, except for earthquakes, volcanoes are lacking in everything, except for valuable gold, silver and pearls.

A large number of gold and silver mines were discovered during the Warring States period:

Located in Ota City, Shimane Prefecture, Iwami Ginzan (γ„γ‚γΏγŽγ‚“γ–γ‚“) was the largest silver mine in the late Warring States period and early Edo period, and its production was estimated to have been about one-third of the world's production at the time. At the beginning of the Edo period, it was called Sama Silver Mine (γ•γΎγŽγ‚“γ–γ‚“), but after that, the silver mines gradually dried up, and after the Meiji era, it was mainly mined for copper-bearing minerals.

According to the book "The Old Records of Iwami Ginzan", as early as 1309 (the 2nd year of Yankei), when the daimyo of Zhou Fangguo Hiroyuki Ouchi visited Iwami Province, there was a record of silver mining on the occasion of visiting the Hokuto Myomi Bodhisattva, and later Mishima Kiyoemon, the owner of the copper mountain in Izumo Kunido Utari Yi Village, who was subordinate to Ouchi Yoshixing, helped the Ouchi family excavate the underground silver vein in March 1526 (Daiei 6), and his son Ouchi Yoshitaka succeeded to the throne in 1533 (Tenmon 2) through the Hakata merchant Kamiya Toshisada to recruit craftsmen. The ash blowing method, which we learned from overseas, has greatly increased the output of silver. At that time, the annual output of silver was about 200 tons, and the Iwami silver mine produced 38 tons (million taels) per year, worth about 10,000 kan.

After the increase in the production of Iwami Ginzan, the surrounding daimyo Ouchi Yoshiko, Ouchi Yoshitaka father and son, Niko Suhisa, Niko Haruhisa, and Mori Moto fought for the dominance of the silver mountain, and it was not until 1562 (Eiroku 5) that the Niko family surrendered to Mori Motosho, and the Mori family won the victory. Later, in 1584 (Tensho 12), Mori Terumoto, the grandson of Motomori, submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and became the main source of funds for the Mori family and the retainers of the Toyotomi family, and Hideyoshi's later invasion of Korea. Later, in 1600 (Keicho 5th year) Mori Terumoto failed in the Battle of Sekigahara, was greatly reduced by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Iwami Ginzan was accepted by the Edo shogunate as a direct jurisdiction, stationed in Ginzan to manage, the first Ginzan commissioner was the famous Okubo Chang'an, he took Yasuhara Denbei, who knew a lot about the mines, as an assistant, and rapidly developed Ginzan to provide the shogunate with foreign money to promote the overseas trade of vermilion ships, and in 1602 (Keicho 7), there was still an output value of up to 4~5,000 kans, but since then the output has gradually declined.

After the Meiji Restoration, Iwami Ginzan was managed by a private team, but it was ineffective, and finally closed down in 1943 (Showa 18).

Sado, which was famous for its production of gold and silver, began the development of Kanayasu after being designated as a shogunate domain by Ieyasu, the first shogun who established the Tokugawa shogunate. At its peak in the 17th century, it was said to be the world's largest producer. After the collapse of the shogunate, the Meiji government converted Kanayama into a government-run business, and promoted modernization by using cutting-edge mining techniques at the time.

Not to mention the small gold mines, it is no wonder that mud bombardment was regarded as stupid and money-rich idiots by pirates in the West and southeast China before the Meiji Restoration. During the Warring States period and the Tokugawa shogunate period, many daimyo and wealthy people bought firearms, porcelain and tea from the West and China.

Meng Qiu will not miss such a good place, although a large amount of gold pouring into Dahan is easy to cause inflation, but it can not be called by China! There are many stupid European big trees on the southeast coast, who have come to China to do trade at the risk of falling into the sea to feed the king. Just buy their goods directly with gold, let them go back with gold, and cause inflation in European countries, it is best to use gold to directly sell out the grain in Europe, so that the Europeans will starve to death with gold.

Without hesitation, he issued an order to let the death squad occupy several gold mines with large output in the country, and then captured hundreds of thousands of mud bombers as coolies to mine gold day and night. Coolies were not allowed to wear clothes, and they could rest for half an hour for four hours and eat two meals a day. A meal includes a small rice ball and half a corn, Meng Qiu actually didn't want to take care of the rice, and he was depressed about the output of the gold mine, so he had to let the devil eat as little as possible.

"How can it be that you are full of food and drink, and you don't want to rebel? I don't deserve to die of hunger if I can't eat enough, I don't know how to steal, rob, and do it myself? After asking the caretaker of the gold mine to convey the above ideas to the coolies, Meng Qiu continued his journey of "sweeping the mud".

In addition to gold and silver mines, there are also rice and wheat grown, dried fish and dried plums made by yourself, and miso, a specialty of Ni Bang.

Miso (みそ), also known as soy sauce, is made by fermenting soybeans with salt and different koji seeds. Miso is the most popular seasoning in mud bombardment, and it can be used in soups, meat dishes, and hot pot bases. Since miso is rich in protein, amino acids, and dietary fiber, regular consumption is good for health, and drinking miso soup can also warm up the stomach when the weather turns cold.

Miso is popular for its nutritious and unique flavor. Miso is similar to Tohoku miso paste, bean paste, soybean paste, and tempeh, which are made by the propagation of beans through mold. It is said that it was transmitted to the mud bomb by the monk Jianzhen of the Tang Dynasty, and there is also a theory that it was transmitted to the mud bomb through the Korean Peninsula.

The condiments that are better to carry than soy sauce, in Meng Qiu's opinion, as long as they are not available in China, they should all be removed, and they should not be left for the mud bombardment devils at all. "Why are you staying, waiting for the devils to slow down and invade us? It's better to get rid of them all now, kill and maim the little devils, and then find an opportunity to kill all the little devils in the future, so that it will be safe", with this idea, Meng Qiu organized a large number of mud bombardment puppet army, and all the members were all mud bombardment little devils who surrendered themselves, looting and confiscating grain, dry goods, miso and other war readiness resources everywhere.

"It's not like I don't give you a way to live, do I? More salt, more fishing to make dried fish, 100 catties of salt for half a catty of grain, 300 catties of dried fish can be exchanged for 5 catties of grain! Under the brand of Meng Shanren, Meng Qiu tried his best to squeeze the mud and bombard people.

A large number of gold, silver, jewelry, grain and other materials were continuously loaded from Nagasaki to Dahan, a large number of mud bombardment people were sent to see Aunt Amaterasu because of resistance to grain confiscation, hunger and cold, etc., a small number of mud bombardment puppet army while slapping their own compatriots' wives, daughters, and sons, while enjoying the wine and food snatched from the hands of their compatriots, grateful for Meng Qiu's kindness, while working harder to squeeze their compatriots.

"Well, it's a river crab, it's beautiful, this is what the mud bomb should look like in the new era!"