477.Crusade to Japan (20)

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epydz ("The Chinese Shangguo recruited porters, and provided two meals per ri, plus white rice triads; Huaxia Shangguo recruits Lifu,"

Although the townspeople who didn't have time to escape from Edo cowered and hid in their homes, but the ri's words from the alley still found a gap in their ears, although this was a trap for the Xia army, but people are iron rice and steel, and they are hungry and panicked if they don't eat a meal, and the Edo residents who are used to buying food by ripe have little savings, and after the whole family starved for a long time, individual men finally ventured out and walked to the recruitment point of the Xia army."

"At present, our army has a total of more than 3,700 prisoners, and now it has been disrupted by the instructions of the headquarters and used as auxiliary troops."

After taking over Edo Castle and Edo Town, an imaginary mountain of gold was displayed in front of the Chinese soldiers, not to mention anything else, in the inner treasury of the shogun in Edo Castle alone, there were about 3 taels of large gold and 150,000 small gold of about 3 coins, and as for the rest of the gold and silver treasures, pearls, tortoiseshell, famous paintings, and rare books, and in Edo Castle, the treasury controlled by the Kandai Commissioner, the mansions of the daimyo of the Edo towns, and the shops of the wealthy merchants, there were dozens of times the wealth of the shogun's inner treasury. The gold and silver alone may exceed five million taels, and as for the copper coins and bronze utensils, they are filled with dozens of large ships

In addition to gold and silver treasures, another major harvest of the Xia army was rice, although the autumn harvest was not completely over, but in the interval between the two blockades of the Xia army, more than 500,000 koku of rice was transported to Edo, a metropolis with a population of nearly one million, through six routes and waterways, and it was not surprising that all of them fell into the hands of the Xia army

With so many goods, the Xia army naturally had to send them back to China one by one, but there were several restrictions on the Xia army's transportation of the spoils, first of all, the shortage of transport ships, and there was no way to make up for this problem in a short time. Secondly, transporting things from Edo Castle and Edo Town to large ships parked in the sea also required a lot of manpower, mules, horses, vehicles, and even small boats

Of course, the huge Edo, mule, horse and horse vehicles, and small fishing boats can still be found, but the manpower is relatively troublesome, and it is naturally impossible for the Xia army to carry out the task of refinement to use most of the strength on it, so the use of prisoners and the recruitment of local people have become the only option

"In addition to the auxiliary army, the branch envoy Qin also temporarily recruited more than 1,000 Edo people to serve as laborers."

"More than 3,000 captives and more than 1,000 people in the city gathered together, and it would be troublesome if they fell in their lives" Having said that, but in fact, because there are warriors and ronins among the captives, and the subordinates of the warriors are not the same, plus there are civilians caught in the period, so the possibility of a collective rebellion is still low, of course, the cautious Yang Bokang is not willing to capsize in the yin ditch, so he looked around and said by name, "Fu Dujian, you and take the second regiment of soldiers and horses to bomb along the road"

Fu Shaolin understood that this was for him to gnaw bones, but he had already obtained the military merit of being the first to arrive in Edo Town, so naturally he couldn't help but give his colleagues a little meat, so he could only promise with a wry smile: "Get the order!" ”

After Fu Shaolin retreated, Yang Bokang thought about it again: "This dynasty strictly prohibits private looting, and the order outside the city should try to be stable."

Fu Shaolin, who was in charge of military discipline, had been assigned by Yang Bokang to guard the auxiliary army, so Yang Bokang said by name: "Ye Fentong, you take a regiment of soldiers and horses to patrol the city, and once there is a rebellion, capture it on the spot."

Ye Zuowei, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the 4th Division of the Longxiang Army, had just taken the order and retreated, and Gong Tian, the commander of the Oriental Naval Division, ordered someone to pass the message to ask for a meeting for his nominal superior, Yang Bokang naturally couldn't put up a stinky display of the teacher to let people pass Gong Tian's visit, so he dispersed the military discussion and personally greeted him

"Tianze, why did you go ashore without notifying" Yang Bokang said Gong Tian with some complaints, "You have to hand over the notebook in person, aren't you going to let the group of crows in the Supervision Yuan impeach the old man for not knowing how to be humble?" ”

"What the teacher said," Gong Tian shook his head, "How dare the student, alas, speaking of which, this is not because of money"

"Troubled by money?" Yang Bokang frowned, "What's going on?" Come on, come on, go in and talk again" While talking, Yang Bokang led Gong Tian to a hall "This is the White Academy used by the shogun to manage the government, but the Japanese people like to sit cross-legged, so there is no chair, so they can only sit with a horse."

Gong Tian was not in a hurry at the moment, he just swept the interior layout of Bai Academy, and asked with some doubts: "Is this the general's administration office?" Why is it so low, it makes people feel a little restrained."

"The Japanese are originally short, and today's generals are said to be similar to children," Yang Bokang casually explained, "You and I feel restrained, and the Japanese people can't help but feel extremely open."

"This is also true" Gong Tian nodded, sat on the maza, and then got back to business, "The envoy of the military branch sent someone to pass the word, saying that there was a profit of millions of taels, and the students thought that they would send them back to China as much as possible, and this time they also wanted to ask the teacher, when would the loading be completed, and the students would personally escort them back to China"

"A few million taels is not bad, but it is not so quick to find out if it is scattered in the city, let alone loading it on the ship" Yang Bokang stroked his beard, and naturally had some speculation in his heart, so he seemed to ask casually, "Don't be in such a hurry?"