After the military parade, Wang Ze cordially received thousands of meritorious soldiers, and took the generals to award them medals, and then set up a sumptuous banquet in a huge garden on the outskirts of the city to entertain the soldiers, which triggered a three-day carnival.

It was not until the fourth day that the frenzied atmosphere in the city of Changzhou was relieved, but with the unfolding of the exchange of military achievements, from the sixteenth day of the first month to the end of the entire month of February, which lasted for a month and a half, the people of the entire islands in the East China Sea under Wang Ze's rule were particularly excited.

They can't help but be excited, this time Wang Ze in order to reward all the meritorious soldiers, it can be said that he has made a bloody investment, although the gold should be stored as a reserve and not issued to the soldiers, but relying on a large number of copper mines, the huge output of silver mines, a large number of newly minted copper coins, brand new silver coins continue to be sent to the hands of soldiers.

Until many years later, there are still a large number of old people who still remember very clearly the spectacular scene when the money was first divided, the golden copper coins were piled up into a hill seven or eight meters high covering an area of hundreds of zhang square, shining with golden light in the warm winter sun, like a golden mountain that appeared out of thin air, so that many soldiers and people were stunned.

In the era when good copper coins were hard currency, these soldiers and people who were originally from the bottom of the society had seen so many copper coins, especially in the Northern Qi Dynasty because of the prevalence of private minting of small money, so the people at the bottom simply did not use copper coins, and directly bartered.

These people didn't even have a hundred copper coins in their hands when they were in Sanqi, let alone the mountain-like pile of money in front of them, and the shock in their hearts was incomparable.

What surprised the soldiers and the people even more was that there were four or five such hills of copper coins, and there was also a hill of silver coins next to the copper coins, which attracted everyone's attention.

Since the occupation of Iwami Ginzan, relying on a large number of manpower and excellent machinery, the output of Iwami Ginzan has gradually increased from dozens of catties and 100 catties per day to 4 or 500 catties, and if destructive mining is carried out, 85% of the silver content of 1,000 catties per day can be easily reached.

Originally, silver was also a precious metal currency that could be used as a national reserve, but because the islands of the Wa Kingdom were also rich in a large amount of gold, most of the mined silver was minted into standard silver coins by Wang Ze, except for a few that entered the vault of Choshu City.

Whether it is silver coins or copper coins, because of the high amount of silver and copper, it is very popular with the people and foreign merchants, with these money, the people of the East China Sea seem to have been beaten like crazy purchases, and other families who have no children to join the army are even more drooling after seeing it.

Later, when they saw the amount of land received by the families of the meritorious soldiers, they were even more envious and jealous, so the number of people applying to join the army in the counties of the East China Sea suddenly increased, and there was no way to make the land so attractive to the Han people.

Although everyone had the Yongye field promised by the little marquis before, but those lands belonged to the country's cultivated land, and they would be taken back by the government after their deaths, but now the land obtained by their own children who joined the army and made meritorious contributions will always be their own, even if they die, they can pass on the inheritance to their children and grandchildren.

As a soldier exchanged a few hundred acres of land for a few hundred acres of land, and a large number of people began to spread to the entire newly occupied area as a family unit, and the living space of the Japanese and Ezo people was further compressed.

After a winter of clean-up, the resistance of the Japanese people in the mountains around Kyoto west of Lake Biwa has been severely damaged several times, and there are probably not even 100,000 remaining Japanese people in the area, and they are mainly concentrated in the mountainous areas of the central Kii Peninsula with complex terrain.

Even the remaining Japanese people, under the continuous advance and encroachment of the armed colonization teams that are advancing step by step, are constantly decreasing in number and territory, and there is no need to use the army to deal with them.

Compared with the miserable remnants of the Japanese people on the Kii Peninsula, the Japanese forces who retreated in the central mountains were also not happy, and after Zhang Hang's several key hits and the elimination of several groups of Japanese tribes who frequently harassed the Hanmin Tunbao in Pingmachuan and other places, the remaining Japanese people were already honestly staying in the mountains and forests, and no longer dared to take a step towards Pingmachuan.

The outside could not be plundered, and the remnants of the Japanese people in the central mountains did not have a strong centripetal cohesion, so the powerful tribes began to plunder the small tribes, and the resulting series of conflicts led to the continuous decline in the number of Japanese people in the central mountains, according to Zhang Hang's department of the Dryad Scout, the number of Japanese people here has dropped to about 200,000.

At present, with the Nongwei Plain as the boundary, most of the land of the Wa Kingdom in the west has been occupied by Wang Ze, with the establishment of Xia County and Hu County, a large number of people have migrated here, and the production and life here have begun to get on the right track, with the good foundation support of Qinjin and Changzhou County before, it will become rich here in a few years.

Compared with the western part of the country, which had almost completely wiped out the Japanese people, this half of Choshu Island northeast of Lake Biwa was occupied for a short period of time, and the land here was more extensive and the terrain was more complex, so Wang Ze's occupation of this place was mainly based on Pingmachuan (Kanto Plain), Taizhou and Lindeng (Xiongdeng Peninsula) as the core, and then gradually encroached on the Tunpu set up on some small coastal plains.

Most of the people living here are armed colonizers and militia families, and it is also the place where the militia of the East China Sea conduct their annual armed trials, and they use the remnants of the Japanese and Ezo people as training to practice their battle formations. 62

As the people of Jeju Island, Jinjin, and Choju County spread further north, the three counties, which had already completed the land allocation, began to face the problem of population scarcity, and the migration activities that had been stopped began again.

Nearly 2 million people who had originally accumulated in the east of Weishui heard that there were ships from the East China Sea coming to pick up people, so they signed up one after another, and nearly 600,000 people asked to emigrate to the East China Sea in just one month, which almost scared Wang Ze and quickly wrote to Wang Yong and Liu Xin to ask them to control the number of immigrants.

According to the estimation of Yangku, it is best that the new migrants that can be accepted by the entire counties of the East China Sea should not exceed 20,000 per month, if the number of single people is too large, it is advisable to use 15,000 people, and if all of them are complete families, it can be relaxed to more than 20,000 people.

However, if the number of migrants exceeds 20,000 for four consecutive months, it is very likely to cause chaos in the resettlement areas.

Despite the greetings, the number of people brought in by the first emigrant ships still reached 25,000, but fortunately, these were all complete families who came together, and the people were relatively honest.

Although the big guy was busy working for a lot of days, the scarcity of labor in the three counties was quickly made up for by these new laborers.

Not only have the populations of the three counties recovered, but even the sparsely populated islands of Whale Island (Hokkaido) and Sakhalin Island have attracted a large number of people to move due to the encouragement and tilt of the Tokai government, and the total number of people in the two places has exceeded 100,000.

There are a large number of excellent fishing grounds around Whale Island, accounting for about half of the annual fishing volume in the East China Sea, and there are large areas of excellent pastures on the island, so the immigrants here are mainly fishermen and herder families.

After a large number of cattle and sheep arrive next year, it will become a key development area of animal husbandry in the East China Sea, and on the eastern coast of Whale Island, because of the prosperity of the fishing industry, a number of small towns upgraded and developed by Tunpu have grown rapidly, and these small towns are mainly engaged in seafood processing, and they are also the most densely populated places on Whale Island.

As the number of people increased, the demand for seafood became stronger throughout the East China Sea, so when the fishing range was expanded, the fishermen and whaling fleet of Whale Island even discovered a series of islands in the northeast of Whale Island, which were like pearls on the sea.

Fishermen value the islands for their excellent sheltered harbours, where they can take refuge from high winds and waves, and the chain of islands means that there are plenty of reefs, which attract more revenue.

However, the fishermen who saw this series of islands at first glance were not surprised, because they had already heard of the Huishen route map from some Taoist priests of Haotian Daomen, and they described this series of islands on it, and now they just confirmed that the road traveled by their predecessors was not nonsense.

According to the Taoist priests of the Haotian Dao Gate, along this series of islands can lead all the way to a continent, even larger than the radius of the Middle Earth Divine Continent, the land on which is fertile, full of beautiful rivers, and the descendants of the White Emperor live there.

The descendants of these White Emperors are also yellow-skinned, black-haired, and still retain the custom of wearing bird feather crowns, which is incomprehensible to the fishermen, and these Taoist priests are bent on risking their efforts to spread the glory of Haotian there, and want these tribes who still retain the ancient legacy to naturalize Haotian God.

For this reason, many Taoist priests wanted to hire fishermen's fishing boats to explore the eastern continent, but the fishermen, who had a great respect for the Taoist priests, refused.

The fishermen of Whale Island are not very interested in the so-called rich and beautiful new continent, they only care about the large area of excellent fishing grounds in the east and northeast of Whale Island, and now they can live well on themselves by relying on such a large area of excellent fishing grounds, why should they venture to the New World.

The whaling fleet had traveled further than the fishermen because of the whale hunt, and had so far explored only a dozen islands to the northeast, setting up supply depots on the larger islands, and then establishing a few rudimentary ports.

Although no fishermen have officially settled here, with the arrival of a group of slaves, the construction of this place has gradually begun, and in the future, it will develop into a fishing town, and the island will soon have a name: the Kuril Islands.

Although Wang Ze is also very concerned about the newly discovered string of islands, he is currently most concerned about the next political reform of the Eastern Navy.