Chapter 506: The Terrible Wealth That Came to Me [1 Update]

In the Age of Discovery, represented by the maritime powers of Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands, it can be said that they seized a lot of wealth.

And Daliqisi, as the governor of a detachment of the Portuguese fleet, can imagine that with his status, if he wants to loot wealth, it is really not a difficult task.

It's like Dongying, if a fleet like Daliqisi lands in Dongying, it is really not a problem to break the country established by the Ming Dynasty in a few places, and it is millions of taels of gold and silver to be looted casually.

It is not surprising that Daliqisi was able to take out hundreds of thousands of gold coins in one go, and at the same time, it also made Chu Yi realize that during this period, the maritime powers of Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands had bared their fangs and began to grab overseas wealth on a large scale.

Fortunately, because of him, under his guidance or persecution, a considerable number of people stepped out of the country and set their sights overseas.

Although the policy of closing the country is said to be an ancestral system, the system has always been broken, and the reason why there are so many people above the court who resolutely oppose the opening of the sea is for the sake of interests in the final analysis.

The Ming Dynasty forbade the sea, but the gentry and magnates of the people were privately engaged in sea trade one by one, devouring a large amount of wealth.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened the sea, when a large number of people have stepped out of the country and obtained a lot of wealth from overseas, it will inevitably attract more people to go out.

When this torrent gets bigger and bigger, I'm afraid that even he or the great tomorrow won't be able to stop this torrent, and at that time, anyone who dares to say that the forbidden sea will definitely be the enemy of such a huge torrent.

In the face of such a torrent, unless the army is used, I am afraid that no one can stop this general trend.

Taking a deep breath, the corners of Chu Yi's mouth curled slightly, and he said, "Since this is the case, this king will give you this opportunity!" ”

Daliqisi, who had been worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Chu Yi agreed to agree, which meant that he could save his life.

However, at this moment, Chu Yi's next words made his heart rise all of a sudden.

I only heard Chu Yi say: "But before that, I want to wronged Your Excellency, and I will go to the capital first." ”

Chu Yi made up his mind to select some officers in the Portuguese fleet such as Daliqisi, or people with aristocratic backgrounds, to be escorted to Beijing.

If those officials above the court learned that they could get a lot of wealth from these people, they don't know what kind of expressions they would have.

A Daliche thought he could come up with hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and the Portuguese naval officers who were supposed to be willing to pay a lot of gold and silver to redeem themselves.

In the port of Tokyo, a steady stream of convoys came from the direction of Kyoto, and a convoy composed of thousands of Ming troops was escorting hundreds of large vehicles.

Each of these carts was filled with large boxes and stretched for miles, and it was Lu Dazhu, who was in Kyoto, who sent people to transfer the wealth confiscated from the powerful families in Kyoto to this port.

As the closest port to Kyoto, according to Chu Yi's order, all the wealth confiscated from Kyoto was packed and then escorted to this port after some selection, classification and statistics.

The Port of Tokyo is a large port, and although it has not been occupied for a long time, there are a large number of ships in the port at this time.

Because Chu Yi ordered Li Degong and Pang Seventeen to send a large number of warships to Iwami Port to meet the Portuguese fleet, the number of warships left in the port of Tokyo was not too many, but a large number of supply ships were docked.

You must know that Zhai Luan led an army of 100,000 across the sea to carry so many soldiers and horses, and the Ming Dynasty transferred a large number of ships from the country, although a considerable number of supply ships have returned to the Ming Dynasty, but there are still nearly 100 merchant ships and supply ships docked in this port.

A large number of ships docked in the port, coupled with a large number of logistics materials piled up here, it can be said that the port of Tokyo is definitely a logistics center for the Ming army.

In order to ensure the safety of the Port of Tokyo, Chu Yi dispatched 10,000 horses to guard the Port of Tokyo just in case.

Although Iwami Port said that it was responsible for some of the logistics, as the army was on the verge of Kyoto, it was too far to transfer materials from Iwami Port to Beijing alone, so it was naturally not as convenient as the Port of Tokyo.

The number of ships and soldiers stationed in the port of Tokyo is several times that of Iwami Port.

When a large number of convoys slowly arrived from Kyoto Castle, dozens of miles away, the general in charge of the port of Tokyo received the news early and sent men to meet them.

A carriage moved forward slowly, and Yu Dayou, Zhai Luan and others rode horses slightly behind the carriage, which could make Zhai Luan, the deputy commander of the army, lag behind, and it was conceivable that the owner of the carriage had no one else except Chu Yi.

Even if he is a commander of an army like Lu Dazhu, he is only comparable to Zhai Luan in terms of identity, and it will not make Zhai Lan take the initiative to lag behind.

Chu Yi simply arranged for Qi Jingtong to send someone to escort Daliqisi and others to the port of Tokyo, and then brought people to the port of Tokyo.

It has been almost a year since Chu Yi left Beijing to conquer Dongying, and now Kyoto has been taken, although many of the local daimyo have not been destroyed. Even with the capture of Kyoto, many daimyo of Toei, who had been stimulated, had faint signs of uniting.

But Chu Yi never took Dongying's big names to heart.

After all, after destroying more than a dozen kingdoms, Chu Yi couldn't be more clear about the ingredients of the local daimyo in Dongying.

Perhaps decades later, after experiencing the baptism of the troubled times of the Warring States, a group of heroes such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and so on were born in the chaotic war.

Even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after unifying the military strength of Dongying, led such an elite army that had gone through the troubled times to land in Korea, trying to provoke the status of the Ming Empire.

As a result, it was suppressed by Daming casually, but it is conceivable that Dongying was easily suppressed by Daming in its heyday in the future, not to mention that a large number of future Dongying heroes and generals in this period have not grown up.

There are more than 100,000 elite troops, as long as the generals of the unified army are not too incompetent, it is not difficult to completely pacify Dongying.

Chu Yi is about to return to Beijing, this trip to Dongying, Chu Yi has gained a lot, not to mention the others, the luck that Chu Yi cares about the most, from the beginning of landing in Dongying to the present, in a year's time, it has skyrocketed, soaring by nearly one million.

Chu Yi has roughly summed up one rule after another, every time a local daimyo falls, the altar of luck will shake, and then the luck will skyrocket by tens of thousands.

Chu Yi had no doubt that if the remaining local daimyo were completely destroyed, then the luck he could obtain would most likely reach as much as two million.

With so much luck, it can be said that it is far beyond Chu Yi's expectations.

However, Chu Yi is preparing to return to Beijing, the current situation is very good, although there are still many big names in the land of Dongying that have not been pacified, but Chu Yi can easily pacify Dongying if he hands it over to Zhai Luan or Lu Dazhu, and it doesn't make much sense for him to stay here, after all, he has verified that whether it is him doing it himself or not, these Dongying names are destroyed, and the Altar of Luck will gain a fortune.

Another point is that Zhu Houzhao, who is the son of the great tomorrow, has sent people to him several times, hoping that he can return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Coupled with this battle with the Spanish fleet, Chu Yi, who had already given birth to the idea of returning to Beijing, finally made a decision.

Port of Tokyo

With the arrival of Chu Yi's convoy, the huge convoy from Kyoto also arrived at the port that afternoon.

The guerrilla general in charge of the escort was a guerrilla general, who carefully handed over several extremely thick account books to Lin Pingzhi, who then handed them over to Chu Yi.

Chu Yi casually flipped through it, and his eyes couldn't help shrinking.

This account book contains detailed data that was confiscated in Kyoto.

Although Chu Yi had long been mentally prepared, he also knew that Dongying, who had not encountered a foreign enemy for thousands of years, had accumulated a lot of wealth.

At least three or four percent of these riches were precipitated in Kyoto, and it can be said that the Ming Dynasty's move to raid the family in Kyoto suddenly hollowed out the wealth accumulated by Dongying for hundreds of thousands of years.

Although Dongying is an island country, the gold and silver deposits are very rich, and there are more than one rich ore such as Iwami Silver Mountain. One can imagine what kind of wealth has been accumulated over the years.

55,000,000,000 taels of silver, 6,000,000,000 taels of gold, and countless jewels and jade......

No wonder Chu Yi was so shocked, a large amount of gold and silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty, Dongying still accumulated so much wealth, this is only Kyoto, if those local daimyo are completely pacified, it is impossible to say that at least tens of millions of taels of gold and silver can be scavenged.

Thinking about the hundreds of millions of taels of silver claimed from the Qing Dynasty in the future, Chu Yi suddenly felt that there were not so many tens of millions of taels of gold and silver in this account book.

Of course, Chu Yi also knew in his heart that with the inflow of American silver and Japanese silver into Huaxia, Huaxia was able to accumulate a large amount of silver, and during this period, it was absolutely unimaginable that he was able to scavenge so much silver from Dongying.

You must know that Chu Yi raided his house several times in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, the gentry and magnates who gathered almost half of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty were raided and exterminated, and they just got hundreds of millions of silver.

Although it is said that in the past few years, the Ming court has been unprecedentedly rich, but with the abundance of the treasury, the court spent money that was also lavish, and a large number of projects were started at the same time, taken from the people, used for the people, I am afraid that the national treasury has been scattered out of most of it at this time.

Chu Yi could imagine what kind of reaction the civil and military ministers above the court would be if he returned to Beijing with the huge wealth he had obtained from confiscating Kyoto.

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