When an old and thin old man of the Wa Kingdom was accepted by the Han officials and given two silver dollars in full, the Japanese samurai known as the Imperial Allied Army really believed in the Great Han.

Two silver dollars, silver dollars with white flowers, not silver dollar bills, nor the Keicho Ding silver and douban silver of the Edo shogunate.

After the opening of the Tokugawa clan, the three-way system of gold, silver and copper was implemented, with seven kinds of gold, including large and small judgments, two kinds of silver, including Ding silver and Douban silver, and copper coins.

The Japanese gold coin is an oval-shaped gold coin that resembles a gold leaf. Ding Yin is a sea cucumber-shaped silver ingot, Douban Silver is a small broken silver, and Ding Silver and Douban Silver are weighed. In the early years, Ding silver still had 84 percent silver content, which was relatively strong. However, in the past two years, the shogunate's Ginza has begun to produce inferior silver, and the silver content has been declining, and last year's new Ding silver was only 57 percent.

Many Japanese people prefer the silver dollars of the Tang Kingdom, and since last year, many Han silver dollars have flowed into Japan. At first, it was smuggling, but after Liu Jun found out about it, he calculated the accounts and found that the outflow of silver coins was actually very profitable. Importing silver bullion from Japan and then repatriating silver coins was actually very profitable.

After all, the silver coins of the Han Dynasty are not 100% silver, and they contain only more than 80% silver. Between one entry and one exit, Liu Jun made a lot of profits, so Liu Jun cracked down on the smuggling of underground silver coins on the one hand, but on the other hand, he personally set up a smuggling team and directly monopolized this silver smuggling.

Therefore, before the Han army attacked Japan, the Japanese merchants preferred to use the silver dollars of the Tang Kingdom rather than accept the Keicho Ding silver, which was increasingly low in silver content from the shogunate.

I did get two silver dollars, and those imperial allies believed the words of the Son of Heaven of the Han Empire, and sure enough, every Japanese could exchange money, whether it was a man, a woman, or a young man, as long as it was alive, it was worth nothing.

After the Han army occupied the island of Kyushu. Outside of the four feudal domains, there have been a number of feudal lords who surrendered and surrendered, such as Kuroda Tadayuki of Fukuoka, who abandoned the castle and fled at first, but after Kurume Castle was captured, he decisively surrendered to the Han Dynasty and was willing to follow the Han Emperor to fight against the shogunate. In addition, Hosokawa Tadashi, the lord of Kumamoto's domain, also surrendered to the Great Han. Kumamoto was a great feudal domain of 520,000 koku, but Satsuma, Fukuoka, Saga and others were attached to the Great Han one after another, and Hosokawa Tadashi could not resist the Great Han alone, so after thinking about it, he simply surrendered.

The Hosokawa clan is not deeply rooted in Kumamoto, this was originally the territory of Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga, the battle of Sekigahara, both of them were on the wrong side, Konishi Yukinaga was executed after the war, and later the Kato clan was also relocated by the Tokugawa family a few years ago. The Hosokawa clan became the owner of Kumamoto, but after all, it was not for long.

There are also some who would rather die than surrender, but they have all been broken and destroyed, and many of the vassals did not need the Han army to take action, and the submissive vassals took the initiative to destroy them.

The samurai armies of the attached feudal lords were reorganized according to the mercenary formation, and the original feudal lords still commanded their own samurai soldiers. Their official name is the Great Han Emperor's Cooperative Army. Sixteen associations were organized, which are the sixteen feudal domains that are now attached to the Han army. Each feudal domain was given a number of associations, and each was allowed to keep 5,000 soldiers.

The various feudal cities in Kyushu were garrisoned by Han troops.

The first task of the Imperial Concord Army after its formation was to gather the people of Kyushu into a few major feudal cities. Liu Jun has set up Kyushu as a province, and on the basis of the original nine kingdoms, four prefectures have been established: Zhuzhou, Feizhou, Fengzhou, and Sazhou, with a total of 16 counties.

Kyushu is large in size. However, Japan is a relatively backward place, better than Hokkaido, but far inferior to Honshu Island, and even less than the Kanto Plain.

The population of Kyushu as a whole is more than one million.

But with a population of more than one million, Liu Jun attaches great importance to it. Population is one of the most precious resources of our time. When the Han army attacked Japan, it was not just three things, wealth, population, and land.

Therefore, after conquering Kyushu, Liu Jun obtained hundreds of thousands of people from various feudal cities, but there were still most of the population living in the countryside outside the feudal cities.

In order to make these locust armies more active, Liu Jun announced that for each population he brought back, he would give a reward of at least two and a maximum of twenty silver dollars.

When the first batch of silver bounties was distributed, the locusts completely believed in the credit of the Han Emperor, and the locust armies began to actively sweep around for the Han silver dollar.

Is two silver dollars a lot? For Dahan, it's not much. But two silver dollars is not a lot for the Japanese. Not only for those peasants and soldiers, these two silver dollars can buy a lot of things, but even for those samurai who rely on the harvest of money, it is also a lot.

Many samurai don't even have a territory of a hundred stones, only a territory of dozens of stones, even if they are five dukes and five people, how much is it in a year? The income of forty or fifty stone is really not as good as that of a village-level landlord of a big man.

When they joined the Imperial Army, they became vassals of the Han Emperor, and their families did not have to be sent to concentration camps. And for each person they caught, they got a share of the two rewards.

They can also grab a handful of people by the way when they catch someone. Although the Emperor of the Han Dynasty repeatedly reiterated to them that it was forbidden to burn, kill, loot and other things, as long as it was not too much and took a little privately, the Han army would turn a blind eye to it. This benefit is a good benefit for the locust army.

With silver dollars, everything could be bought in the merchant ports of Hirado and Nagasaki, and in the shops opened by the Han Chinese. Grain, cloth, clothing, silk, porcelain, glass, tea, salt, sugar, tobacco and liquor, etc.

"Actually, we don't need these locusts at all."

Liu Yunsheng said to the emperor that he didn't even feel the need to build this co-subordinate army, and the Han didn't need them at all. Today's navy strength is sufficient, even if the strength is tight, it is completely possible to transfer the army from within the empire.

"They are still very useful, in less than two months, the whole of Kyushu has been swept by them several times, so far, in addition to the 80,000 imperial troops and their more than 200,000 family members in Kyushu, at present, more than 1.57 million people have been sent in our various concentration camps."

The commander of the navy asked Zheng Cai and asked the emperor, "Do these people really want to send them all to the mainland?" ”

With the enthusiasm of the locust army, the effect of the sweep is remarkable, or coercion or inducement or coercion, the locust army has concentrated almost all the Japanese on Kyushu Island into a few prefectures.

The number of more than 1.5 million is indeed a bit scary.

Some ministers did not feel the need to send these Japanese to the Central Plains. It's okay for the empire to send officials directly to rule here, and these Japanese don't have to be obedient citizens of the Han Dynasty?

"This has been decided a long time ago, and I will not change it halfway."

Liu Jun looked farther, Japan, with a population of more than 20 million, must completely dismember and dismantle him. Only then could the Han Empire rule truly and permanently on this archipelago.

Moreover, the Central Plains is indeed in great need of labor, such as mining, road construction, and various reclamation and border development.

"The camp is almost done, and then the people are officially loaded onto the ship and transported away."

For the past two months, Japanese people from all over Kyushu have been sent to concentration camps, but the camps were not for massacres. Liu Jun was reluctant. That's waste, and it's shameful to be wasted.

In the camps, preparations for epidemic prevention and disinfection, registration and screening were carried out, and they were given appropriate training, such as teaching them simple Mandarin, and most importantly, categorization.

In order to maintain stability, try to group these people together according to their families, but in general, according to their different levels of education. as well as professional skills, status, and so on.

Among them, the most important ones are not the lords and samurai of the past. Rather, it is those craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, shipwrights, and other craftsmen from all walks of life, who are the focus of attention.

In the concentration camps, the identities of these people should be ascertained one by one, a detailed file classification should be established, and finally they should be submitted to a special yamen, the newly established yamen. It was specifically for the purpose of housing these Japanese.

The imperial court would classify people differently and prepare places for them to be placed, such as shipwrights who would send them to various shipyards as much as possible. Blacksmiths may be employed in industries such as steel smelting and manufacturing, and if they have no special skills, fishermen may be assigned to some fishing fleets in coastal areas. Farmers may be sent to the frontier to pioneer the land.

In short, everyone has to make the most of their value.

All unmarried women over the age of fourteen are also required to enter the file separately, and they will be ruled by the imperial court and given them official matches. They were betrothed to unmarried men among the immigrants in the Han frontier.

Many people migrate to the frontiers, mostly because of poor conditions in their hometowns and poor family backgrounds, and they leave their hometowns in order to make a living. Many immigrants are still single, and the cost of marrying a wife is very high, especially among the immigrants in the frontiers, and there are even fewer suitable women.

It's a good idea to match the Japanese flower girls to the immigrant singles. Not only does it benefit the immigrants and gives them peace of mind, but it is also a good way to digest the Japanese. These women are now Japanese, but when they marry the people of the Han Dynasty, they will give birth to sons in the future, and they will also take their father's surname, and they will be the same people of the Han Dynasty as their father.

Japanese children between the ages of 10 and 15, both boys and girls, were registered and sent by the imperial court to various technical schools. Now Dahan has opened a lot of new technical schools, which have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. These schools are all emerging because of the rise of today's industrial and commercial manufacturing industry, the continuous expansion of labor needs, especially the increase in the requirements for skilled workers.

The traditional model of a master with an apprentice, after all, the cycle is too long. The rapid expansion of a large number of factories has made it difficult for this old-fashioned mentoring model to catch up, so some industries, or some large factories, have begun to invite some old masters to engage in batch training. There are both part-time technical schools and full-time schools. Liu Jun is also very aware of how much this kind of technical school will be helpful to Dahan's industrial and commercial manufacturing industry, so he also strongly supports it.

Now I am going to send all these Japanese teenagers and girls to those technical schools, where the older ones work part-time and study, do apprenticeships in factories during the day, and listen to lectures in schools at night to learn technology, and even learn some cultural classes, and learn Mandarin to recognize Chinese characters.

These children were separated from their parents when they were teenagers, and in a Han Chinese environment, and within a few years, they were no longer Japanese. At that time, they spoke Chinese and wrote Chinese characters, everything was in Han style, and they became workers of the Han Dynasty and contributed to the Han Dynasty.

The girls work for a few years, grow up, and can also pull the official match to solve the problem of lifelong events for those old and difficult men in the empire.

For children under the age of 10, they will continue to be with their parents for the time being, but they must also start studying Chinese characters in school after they reach the age of five.

These more than 1.5 million people in Kyushu really look like a lot in the concentration camps in Kyushu. It is very expensive to eat every day. It can be subdivided, it is just a small river integrated into the Han Empire in the Central Plains.

"When the transport ship came from the Central Plains, it brought supplies and some Han Chinese immigrants, and then when it returned, it loaded Japanese immigrants and went back."

"There are also trophies such as gold and silver, which happen to be not empty." Liu Yunsheng said with a smile.

Lay down Kyushu. In addition to getting more than a million people, the loot obtained by the Han was also quite rich.

The gold, silver, jewelry, and other artifacts confiscated from the destroyed daimyo castles alone were considerable, not to mention the large trading port of Nagasaki, which was an export center for many Japanese silver and copper, and a large amount of silver and copper produced in Japan was shipped to Nagasaki. Even when the shogunate banned the export of silver and copper, there were still many big copper merchants who quietly transported copper, and now the silver and copper in these warehouses have become the trophies of the Han Dynasty.

Copper alone was copied from Nagasaki and Kyushu and more than 10 million catties. So much copper. Even if a large number of new copper mines have been opened in Japan in recent years, it will be at least two or three years of output.

In addition, silver of various fines has been harvested, and it is estimated that more than 90% of the high-purity silver can be refined 5 million taels. There are also a lot of various gold judgments and gold points, about more than 300,000 taels.

As for other food, dried fish and other materials, there are still a lot, but these things can be directly converted into military supplies, and there is no need to transport them back to the Central Plains.

"Won't the families of those co-conscripts be sent to the Central Plains?"

"Stay in Kyushu for the time being."

80,000 enlisted soldiers and their more than 300,000 family members are also a big number. Many officials believe that their families should be sent to the Central Plains. In this way, there is a stronger control over the co-operative army. However, Liu Jun felt that the military was very handy, and when they encountered some Japanese villages that refused to relocate or even rebelled, as long as the Han army passed a word, they could immediately kill and destroy each other.

The migration went so smoothly. It is precisely the ruthlessness of these co-operative troops.

The court doesn't have to do it yourself, and you don't have to dirty your hands, and the assistant army can do things very well. Moreover, the Great Han has just conquered a Kyushu, and the island of Honshu has just occupied a corner. The offensive on Shikoku Island has not yet been launched, and when these people are used, let their families stay, which can be regarded as a pacifying reward for them.

"How's the Hiroshima Project going?" Liu Jun asked.

"For the past two months, we have been making a big attack on Hiroshima and then pushing eastward, forcing the shogunate to continue to increase troops in the Hiroshima area. If it weren't for the shogunate's fear of our navy and our attack on the Edo lair, I'm afraid that they would have been pressed down by the whole army. But even so, there are now more than 100,000 people gathered in the Hiroshima area, and after two months of confrontation with them, these Japanese are now in a dilemma. ”

Liu Yunsheng reported to the emperor the movements of the Japanese, and more than two months have passed since the official attack on Tangjin.

At the beginning, the Han army took Kyushu like a storm, but there has been no movement since then.

The biggest move was the construction of a camp in the Choshu Domain, the establishment of several fortresses, and the posture of moving from Kyushu to Honshu and then using it as a base for a large-scale attack.

"More than 100,000 people, don't really believe in the cowhide of the Japanese. It's just the force of some feudal lords in Sanyang Mountain, it is estimated that there are less than 20,000 samurai, and the rest are all gathered peasants, just make up the numbers, and Edo will bluff. ”

The Han army had also seen through Edo's arrangement.

After all, Japan's unique terrain makes them lack strategic depth, and the Han with strong sea power does not need to fight all the way through the mountains along Honshu from the west, and can directly kill from the sea to the Kanto Plain.

Therefore, even though the Han army continued to build castles and camps in the territory of the Choshu Domain, Tokugawa did not dare to really transfer the main force to Hiroshima, which was far away from Edo.

They were also afraid of the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, so the main force of the Tokugawa family, with their 80,000 banners as the main force, was still assembled and stationed near Edo.

The army of more than 100,000 people gathered near Choshu was actually the armament of the feudal lords of Sanyo Province such as Hiroshima. At most, there are 20,000 elites, and tens of thousands of peasants are not enough to make up the number of 100,000.

"In fact, judging from the situation we took Kyushu, most of the strong cadres outside the Edo shogunate, especially those feudal domains, were extremely weak. Why don't we go straight to the Yellow Dragon and attack Edo directly from the sea? Once Edo is taken, then the other feudal domains will only be leaderless and scattered, right? ”

The issue is raised again.

"It's summer, and the sea is going to be stormy, so a long expedition to Edo from the sea is not only burdensome with transportation and supplies, but also unsafe."

It was only on this reason that Liu Jun rejected the proposal to attack Edo directly.

"Summer is coming, the navy should not attack Shikoku Island first, let them help transport the Japanese on Kyushu Island back to the mainland first, they are already ready to receive and resettle there, and they can't delay it any longer."

"What about Choshu?"

"It's almost the same here, let the Concordant army go to Choshu, and the 80,000 Concierge Army is enough to kill the bluffing army in Hiroshima." Liu Jun said. "Also, those thousands of mercenaries have performed well recently, and the raids on the coast of Honshu have caused a lot of trouble for the Japanese, and when the alliance army attacks Hiroshima, let the mercenaries go around the back to fight the Matsue Domain of Iwami, and snatch the Iwami Silver Mountain for me!"

Liu Jun has been thinking about this stone silver mountain for a long time. (To be continued.) )