In fact, Chu Yi insisted on going to the east before, and I don't know how many civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had opposing opinions in their hearts, of course, these people did not dare to say it even if they were opposed in their hearts.

Even so, many people were waiting to see Chu Yi's jokes.

In the eyes of these people, spending so much manpower and material resources, crossing the ocean, and spending so much energy to deal with a small barbarian country is simply a manifestation of reckless military force.

Everyone is waiting for the day when Chu Yi returns from defeat, and then they want to see what kind of face Chu Yi still has to face the Son of Heaven and the Manchu Dynasty.

However, at this moment, Yang Yiqing's words made these people's eyes widen one by one, and their faces were full of disbelief.

The expedition to Dongying did cost a lot of financial and material resources, and even if you count the gold and silver invested in the construction of a large ship, it was at least 10 million taels of silver.

The small country of the Dongying Barbarian State, even if it can really be knocked down, how much property can be looted by digging three feet into the ground.

However, Yang Yiqing actually said that the booty brought back by Chu Yi this time was worth as much as five million taels, which was almost equivalent to a year and a half of tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty if it was placed in the past.

Zhu Houzhao sat there, looking at the reactions of the civil and military officials below him, and couldn't help but smile a little at the corner of his mouth.

The data Yang Yiqing said was obviously a piece of music submitted by Chu Yi through formal channels, and these would not reach him until they went through the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor.

But in addition to this chapter of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, Chu Yi sent Yu Dayou to present a secret letter to Zhu Houzhao.

In the secret letter, Zhu Houzhao knew very well how much wealth Chu Yi, who had gained a firm foothold in the land of Dongying, had looted in the past six months.

More than a dozen countries, large and small, were destroyed, not to mention the others, these dozen or so countries alone looted nearly five million taels of property, which was also the amount of gold and silver that Chu Yi sent people to escort back and proclaimed in the Manchu Dynasty.

However, there are many gold and silver deposits in the land of Dongying, especially a mine in Ishimi Silver Mountain, where Chu Yi, Lu Dazhu and others frantically grabbed a large number of slaves to excavate and smelt mineral deposits, and the monthly output of Iwami Silver Mountain has reached nearly one million taels a month from the beginning.

In addition, there were some large and small gold and silver deposits in those destroyed countries, but all these deposits, Chu Yi sent people to reduce the captured Dongying alien race to slaves and send them to the mines.

Perhaps the output of these large and small deposits is not comparable to that of Iwami Yinshan, but when more than a dozen gold and silver deposits that can be called rich mines are started together, the monthly output of gold and silver is almost hundreds of thousands of taels.

That is to say, if these mineral deposits are combined with Iwami Silver Mountain, as long as there are no major accidents, Daming can steadily harvest almost 1.5 million taels of gold and silver every month.

If it is calculated in this way, it will be nearly 10 million taels in half a year, and nearly 20 million taels in a year.

This figure is too astonishing and exaggerated, but in historical facts, Dongying's annual output of gold and silver during this period reached as much as six or seven million taels.

Now that the Ming Dynasty, which controls a part of Dongying's mineral deposits, has several times more slaves in the mine than in the past, under the high-intensity excavation and smelting, it is not surprising that the gold and silver that can be produced have doubled or tripled.

In Chu Yi's secret letter to Zhu Houzhao, it was stated that the loot worth nearly five million taels was sent to the treasury, and Chu Yi prepared another shocking gift for Zhu Houzhao.

A total of 10 million taels of gold and silver, which is the amount of gold and silver mined by the Ming Dynasty in the gold and silver deposits occupied by Dongying for almost half a year.

This is 10 million taels of silver, although it is said that after several raids and exterminations, both the treasury and the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven are very full, but whether it is nearly five million taels of loot or 10 million taels of silver, it is very amazing for the treasury and the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven.

No one would dislike too much silver, even if Chu Yi had told Zhu Houzhao about how terrifying the silver produced in Iwami Silver Mountain was, but Zhu Houzhao didn't believe it in his heart.

It's not that I don't believe in Chu Yi, but in Chu Yi's way, the silver production of Ishimi Silver Mountain is too amazing, if you don't see it with your own eyes, I'm afraid few people will believe it.

Now Zhu Houzhao understands that almost seventy percent of the tens of millions of taels of silver are from the Iwami Silver Mountain, a rich gold and silver mine, and Zhu Houzhao can be regarded as believing that there is really such a rich mine as Iwami Silver Mountain in this world.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao also became more and more determined to send troops to Dongying, this is only the harvest of more than a dozen small countries in Dongying, if the entire Dongying is really occupied, is it possible to loot more wealth.

Daming is really short of gold and silver, which is very clear in Zhu Houzhao's heart, as the Son of Heaven.

Before, I didn't know that Dongying contained such a wealth of gold and silver, if I had known these for a long time, let alone the ocean, even if it was a big difficulty, the Ming Dynasty would try his best to take Dongying for himself.

Chen Ding swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a grunt, his eyes wide open, and he looked at Yang Yiqing with a look of disbelief on his face.

Obviously, Chen Ding, who is the head of the household, was also shocked by this number.

There are now nearly 100 million taels of silver in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, which can be said to be rare since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

But the speed at which the Ming court spends money is also as amazing as flowing water, not to mention the rest, just for shipbuilding, the household department has allocated tens of millions of taels of silver.

Then there are the large and small water conservancy projects that are currently being carried out everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and these projects are all paid employment according to Chu Yi's suggestion.

Not to mention the others, just these, every month the imperial court has to take out millions of taels of silver to pay wages, so although there is still a large amount of silver in the treasury, as a household secretary, Chen Ding has experienced the days when a penny of silver is broken and bloomed.

Now that Chu Yi has gone to Dongying, he has harvested nearly five million taels of loot in just half a year, how can this not shock Chen Ding.

Hearing Chen Ding's subconscious words: "In the land of the Dongying Barbarian State, how can you harvest so much loot? ”

Just listening to Chen Ding's tone, he was obviously very surprised that Chu Yi had harvested so much loot in the land of Dongying, after all, in the eyes of Chen Ding and others, except for the Ming Dynasty, which was the upper kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, all other countries were barbarian foreign countries and poor and remote places.

Looking at many steady and all of them showing a look like Chen Ding, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart, he could understand why Chu Yi would say that these officials of the Ming Dynasty were staring at the acre and three points of land in front of him one by one.

Obviously, there is a vast world outside the Ming Dynasty, but these people are immersed in the self-feeling of the so-called Heavenly Empire and cannot extricate themselves.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao coughed lightly and attracted the attention of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to himself, and he heard Zhu Houzhao say slowly: "All of you think that the land of Dongying is a barbarian land, and it is all poor and remote land, but do you know how much silver flows into my Ming Dynasty from the land of Dongying every year?" And in the land of Dongying, how much silver can be produced every year by just one Iwami Silver Mountain? ”

Among the many civil and military ministers of the DPRK and China, there may be a very small number of people who have some understanding of Dongying because of their background, and know that Dongying is actually not a barren place. But if you really want to say how much silver Dongying flows into Daming every year, and Ishimi Silver Mountain produces silver, no one can really say.

However, everyone looked at Zhu Houzhao, since Zhu Houzhao raised such a question, then Zhu Houzhao must have understood this.

Jiao Fang, as the head of the ministers, stepped forward and saluted Zhu Houzhao and said, "Please also ask Your Majesty to make it clear and solve your doubts for the ministers!" ”

What Zhu Houzhao knew was what Chu Yi said at the beginning, so he listened to Zhu Houzhao and said slowly: "I don't know too well, but the companion once said that the small country of Dongying has millions of taels of gold and silver flowing into my Ming Dynasty every year, and there are many gold and silver mines in Dongying, especially Iwami, Sado, Izu and other places, among which Iwami Yinshan has an annual output of millions of taels of silver......

One astonishing number after another came from Zhu Houzhao's mouth, but he heard the heads of the civil and military ministers in the hall buzzing.

Da understands how silver is lacking, this is very clear to the people present in the civil and military, the great Ming Dynasty, the annual silver production is only hundreds of thousands of taels, how can such a little silver be enough, plus those powerful and gentry have a preference for hiding silver, which makes the flow of silver among the Ming people extremely rare.

Even at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had to issue treasure banknotes to alleviate the crisis of silver shortage.

Now Zhu Houzhao actually said that Dongying produces millions of taels of silver every year, how can this not shock everyone.

Those civil servants were all shocked, but the generals and nobles present were bright-eyed, and they looked eager to lead people to kill Dongying immediately and occupy Dongying.

I saw a general swallow his saliva with a grunt, and said to Zhu Houzhao with emotion: "The last general implores Your Majesty to send troops, and the minister is willing to raise troops for Your Majesty to go to Dongying to help the general manager!" ”

As the general spoke, the rest of the generals and nobles reacted and immediately bowed down, and one by one they shouted to lead the army to the land of Dongying to lay down Dongying for the Son of Heaven Zhu Houzhao.

If there was still opposition to Yang Yiqing's previous plea for the Son of Heaven to send 100,000 troops to Dongying, then even those ministers showed their intentions at this time.

If it is really as Zhu Houzhao said, then this means that Dongying is a treasure land, not to mention the rest, just producing millions of taels of silver every year, if such a place is not occupied, then they are not worthy of standing here.

Jiao Fang respectfully said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the old minister seconded it!" ”

As for the rest of the civil and military officials, seeing that the general situation was like this, coupled with the temptation of the benefits that could be seen, finally everyone bowed down to Zhu Houzhao and implored Zhu Houzhao to send troops.

Zhu Houzhao's face was filled with a little smile, he had said it to such an extent, if these civil and military officials still insisted on opposing it, then don't blame him for being polite.

Before Chu Yi set out to fight in Dongying, he had told him several times that for these civil and military officials, they must be ruthless when they should be ruthless, otherwise it will be difficult to establish the majesty of the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Houzhao is indeed generous, but this does not mean that Zhu Houzhao will not kill, for those who have touched Zhu Houzhao's bottom line, Zhu Houzhao will not hesitate or be soft at all when he kills.

Looking at the group of civil and military forces below, Zhu Houzhao showed a little smile on the corner of his mouth, and said secretly in his heart: "Big companion, have you seen it?" I persuaded the Manchu civil and military ......"

Early in the morning of this day, when a group of civil and military officials went down to the court, many people looked a little in a trance, and when these civil and military officials dispersed, a news spread in the capital at once.

Whether it was the imperial court that the imperial court would send 100,000 troops to the land of Dongying again, or the rumors about the land of Dongying being rich in gold and silver suddenly spread in the capital.

Everyone only knows that Chu Yi, the chief administrator of the expedition to Dongying for half a year, sent people to escort the spoils back to Beijing, and in just half a year, he actually transported back gold and silver worth five million taels, which shocked the people in the capital.

In the restaurant, on a table near the window, several scholars sat there, and one of them said with a bit of amazement on his face: "Have you heard the rumors that Dongying is rich in gold and silver? ”

One person shook the folding fan in his hand, and his eyes narrowed: "This news has already been spread to everyone and everyone knows about it, so we naturally know." ”

While speaking, the man looked at several people: "Do you think that Dongying is really as rumored by the Chinese martial arts, with an annual output of several million taels of gold and silver?" ”

The scholar from before looked up at the man and said, "What? Brother Feng doesn't think that your lords will be deceived so easily, or will our chief manager deceive the civil and military forces in the court? ”

Just as the two were arguing, a man in Tsing Yi who was present coughed lightly and said, "Two, let's ask Brother Zheng to tell you about Dongying's situation." ”

Suddenly, the eyes of several people fell on the body of a man present, this person looked to be about twenty years old, dressed in a talent suit, looking at the position he was sitting on, it was obvious that among several people, this person's status should be the lowest.

Zheng Ke was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but react, in their group, Zheng Ke, who was the only one from a merchant family, was undoubtedly the one with the lowest status, and he had never been a foil in the past days, and he had never been the focus of attention.

Now Zheng Ke is being stared at by a crowd, which makes Zheng Ke not nervous.

However, Zheng Ke nodded slowly under the gaze of several companions and said: "Thanks to the blessing of the general manager, with the opening of the sea by the imperial court, our Zheng family's maritime trade business has become more and more prosperous. ”

A scholar couldn't help but eagerly say, "Brother Zheng, let's say, is Dongying really that rich?" It produces millions of taels of gold and silver every year, which ...... That sounds incredible! ”

Zheng Ke nodded slowly under the gaze of several people and said: "The specific amount of silver produced by Dongying every year, to be honest, I am afraid that no one will know, but one thing is certain, that is, the land of Dongying is indeed rich in gold and silver, maybe what the court said is a bit exaggerated, but it is not far behind." ”

"Shhh...... In this way, just for the sake of those gold and silver, I should also send troops to occupy the land of Dongying! ”

At this moment, a big man on the side left a small piece of loose silver on the table, glanced at Zheng Ke and the others and turned to leave.

In the capital, in a courtyard that looked very ordinary, a figure fell into the courtyard lightly, and it was the sturdy man who was above the restaurant before.

Shangguan Yun stood in front of a room, and said to the closed room with a bit of respect: "Subordinate Shangguan Yun, ask to see the sect leader!" ”

With a squeak, I saw the closed door slowly open, and a fluttering voice came from the room: "Shangguan Hall Master, come in!" ”

The voice was a little weird, Shangguan Yun took a deep breath and slowly walked into the room.

This was a room that looked quite elegant, and what frightened Shangguan Yun the most was that his Oriental Sect Master was sitting there in red at this moment, and in front of him was a picture of a moonlit night.

With just one glance, Shangguan Yun could be sure that the content on this picture was obviously the scene depicting the undefeated Dongfang at the beginning and Chu Yi, the general manager who is now in full swing.

As the imperial court becomes stronger and stronger, it is naturally much more confident when facing the gangs in the rivers and lakes, especially a sect like the Sun and Moon God Sect, the imperial court has changed its previous attitude of letting it go and even ignoring it, and now all the sects that are in trouble must consider the consequences of the arrival of the army.

Therefore, under this general trend, even the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, which was extremely powerful in the past, now has to keep a low profile enough, otherwise, once it is targeted by the imperial army, let alone a Sun and Moon Divine Cult, even if it doubles several times, it is not the opponent of the imperial army.

Slowly turning around and shooting, Dongfang Undefeated, who was dressed in red, stretched out his hand and made a move, and suddenly saw a jar of wine fall into Dongfang Undefeated's hands, took a sip of wine and said: "Have you ever found out about Chu Yi, when will he come back from Dongying?" ”

At the beginning, Dongfang Undefeated fought with Chu Yi, and the two were almost evenly matched, because of the defeat of the Caoyun Governor's army, Dongfang Undefeated decisively withdrew and left, before leaving, Dongfang Undefeated once said that one day he would improve his cultivation, and he would definitely come to Chu Yi again to fight.

As a result, when Dongfang Undefeated woke up from the retreat, rushed over, and tried to find Chu Yi to fight, he learned that Chu Yi actually led a large army to Dongying.

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