Chapter 784: Looting
Tokugawa Hidetada looked at the past word by word, although he may not be able to understand the intent of all the articles, but he vaguely felt that these many Japanese countries were extremely harmful, and they could not be signed easily, so he continued to plead, "Please also ask the general of the country to be more lenient, the contempt country is really unable to meet all of them." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Not a word of this treaty can be changed, only whether it is signed or not." Li You said coldly, now that the strength of the Wa State can no longer stop his 30,000 army, in addition to Zhang Xianzhong's constant troubles in the Wa State, he is not afraid that Tokugawa Hidetada will not agree, "If Tokugawa Xian's nephew refuses to sign, then the official may have to consider another person to sign." ”
Hearing this, Tokugawa Hidetada suddenly sweated his back, of course he understood the intention of Li You's words, after losing more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, Tokugawa Hidetada barely relied on the soldiers and horses in his hands and Li You's support to sit in his current position, but it was not without competitors, if Li You turned to support his brother Matsudaira Tadakichi, Yuki Hideyasu and others, or Toyotomi Hideyoshi's adopted son Yushiba Hidekatsu, or even other daimyo such as Maeda Toshinaga, there was a possibility of replacing him.
This sentence made Tokugawa Hidetada recognize the current situation, if he angered Li You because of his obsession with the interests of the Japanese state, his position would soon be replaced, and those who succeeded to the throne might sign more harsh terms, and their own lives would be lost.
"I understand what the general of the kingdom means, and I will go back and discuss with everyone." Tokugawa Hidetada returned with this treaty, and after some heated discussions, in the end, the remaining powerful factions of the Japanese kingdom had to roughly agree to Li You's conditions and began to discuss the details of the contract with him.
"Iwami Silver Mountain is the property of the Toyotomi family, and it is the main source of military expenses for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, so I should be compensated to the Ming Dynasty, and it will be worth two million taels of silver!" Li You opened his mouth first.
"My lord! At its peak, Iwami Silver Mountain produced one million taels of silver a year, and it was worth more than two million! Okubo Chang'an, who served as the director of Iwami Ginzan, hurriedly said that Iwami Ginzan's production once accounted for one-third of the world's silver production, and the price given by Li You was too harsh.
"Dare to love the general of the kingdom and add more!" Before the start of negotiations, Tokugawa Hidetada and the others had already prepared to give up Iwami Ginzan, but they didn't expect to be able to exchange for such a little silver, which made them feel unacceptable, so they listed Iwami Ginzan's previous production in the past years to offset more compensation.
"Look, it's clear from this record that Iwami Ginzan's annual output is declining year by year, and who knows how much more silver can be mined? The price of two million taels given by the official is already very generous. Li You argued with reason, but refused to give in at all, and finally the representatives of the Japanese state had to agree to this price.
Later, Li Yu set his sights on another treasure of the Wa Kingdom, which was once the world's largest producer and the economic pillar of the Tokugawa shogunate's 100-year-old economy, Sado Kanayama is located on Sado Island in the northern part of Honshu Island, which has not yet been discovered, and the future director of Sado Kanayama is also Okubo Changan.
This gold mountain that can be mined for hundreds of years was also taken by Li You at a very slight price, and the excuse he gave was to set up a sailor transit port on Sado Island, of course, in the treaty, it was also limited to all the output of Sado Island to belong to the Ming Dynasty, and the Wa Kingdom knew nothing about it, and it was easy for Li You to take this gold-cast island, and then Li You took away several mines with amazing reserves from the Wa Kingdom according to his memory, such as Ikuno Silver Mountain, Kai Kai Gold Mountain, and Abe Gold Mountain and Fuji Gold Mountain of the Imagawa family, The Aizu Ashina Ginzan, the Inaba Silver Mine and Tada Silver Mine excavated in the Hideyoshi period, and the Hachigou Gold Mine in Hitachi Province by Satake Yoshishige swept away almost all the precious metal producing areas in the Wa Kingdom, and with these can slightly alleviate the problem of the lack of silver taels in the Ming Dynasty.
These are the memories left by Li You in his previous life playing the Warring States games of the Wa Kingdom, but I didn't expect it to play such a huge role at this time, if I let those game makers of the Wa Kingdom know, I'm afraid I will be so angry that I will vomit blood.
Some people say that the Ming Dynasty actually died in finance, and after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he took a series of stupid economic measures, and the bulk of the state taxes were overwhelmed by the poorest people in the northwest, so as to attract the displaced people; Now with the gold and silver of the Wei Kingdom as support, Daming may be able to withstand the disaster of the Xiaoice River and drive those Tunguska savages back to their hometown.
With the mines, the guards are naturally indispensable, and the soldiers left in each mine may not be too many, but all of them add up to a large number, and in order to strengthen the liaison between these armies, Li You also took a lot of ports on the four islands of the Wa Kingdom, once an incident occurs somewhere, the Ming sailors can immediately gather nearby troops and transport them to the place where the incident occurred, and the general small disturbances are enough to easily quell them.
And if there is a big turmoil, the Ming Dynasty will not sit idly by, the current Wanli Emperor is very sensitive to the mine, he sent the mine supervisors everywhere to the mine to collect taxes, so that the gentry who mastered the mine complained, but also enriched the Ming Dynasty's inner treasury, so he was able to get the three major expeditions of Wanli in his office; And the later generations of Chongzhen did not have this ability, and was fooled by the gentry to take back the mine supervisor, only knowing that he oppressed the poor people, so there was turmoil in the future.
As long as the Wanli Emperor sees the benefits of the gold and silver mountains in the Wa Kingdom, he will definitely pay more attention to it, so as to establish a strong sailor to deal with the turmoil that may occur at any time, in fact, this is Li You's biggest purpose, so that the Ming Dynasty will turn his attention back to the ocean, which is much more important than a few gold and silver mountains.
Previously, the Ming Dynasty rarely obtained direct economic benefits in foreign wars, and Li You brought back tens of millions of taels of silver in one breath during his attack on the Wa State, coupled with the subsequent steady stream of wealth and the maritime trade of the Wa State, which was enough to make the court and gentry tempted, and if they had enough benefits, they were not afraid that they would not be moved.
"Alright, we're done with the mine and the port, it's time to talk about other things!" The value of this harvest alone exceeded 40 million taels, but under Li You's persecution, coupled with the lack of understanding of some of these mines at this time, the final compensation was only a few million taels.
But the mines alone are not enough, the wealth plundered by the Japanese state in the Central Plains in the future is not only this, Li You has set his sights on another item.