It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to directly destroy a country with a well-established feudal social system, first of all, the Japanese state is much stronger than the likes of Annam.

Secondly, Zhu Youzhen knew that there was really no temptation for the Ming Dynasty to rashly attack the Japanese mainland, after all, if it was about grain production, it could not compare to Annam, compared to mineral resources, and not comparable to Mongolia... Even inferior to North Korea.

If you don't look at Iwami Ginzan, there are basically no decent resources on the entire island except for sulfur and hematite.

Therefore, even if Zhu Youzhen has a great plan for beating up the Japanese country, he has to consider the profit margin between input and output....

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen chose to try his best to destroy the fragile paper money market of the Wa Kingdom with counterfeit money, and at the same time began to mix sand with Tokugawa Iemitsu in the territory of the Wa State.

It can also be called a great gift from Zhu Youzhen to the Tokugawa shogunate, that is, the peasant uprising.

No country has been able to achieve any good results in the course of a peasant uprising, especially a peasant uprising that is constantly tug-of-war.

If there is no way to eradicate it in the short term.

In the long run, this situation will continue to worsen, after all, for the historical Ming Dynasty... The peasant uprising was a big enough pit.

In the period that followed, the Ming Dynasty continued to use counterfeit banknotes to carry out more rampant silver exchange operations in the northern part of the Wa Kingdom, which was still under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate.

After all, later, the banknotes that stay in the warehouse will really become waste paper, and at the beginning... Daming is still relatively hidden, and it can even be said that he is still relatively polite on this point.

The amount of silver that can be exchanged by a third party is also quite limited.

But now it's different.

The more silver was exchanged, the greater the economic crisis of the Tokugawa shogunate, even if Iwami Ginzan was able to produce a steady stream of silver.

However, it is only a relatively rich silver mine.

It's not really a silver-white mountain that shines with a silvery white light.

Grain.. Among the trade commodities that can be obtained now, almost only those rice can be looked at by the Ming Dynasty.

The road from paper money to silver was becoming more and more difficult, and some officials of the Tokugawa shogunate had noticed something unusual and began to track down the large number of banknotes that appeared on the market.

At the same time, the Tokugawa shogunate also warned the daimyo under its control to pay attention to whether there were any incidents of exchanging a large amount of paper money for silver in their territories.

If there is one, it is necessary to control the person as soon as possible and report it to the Tokugawa shogunate.

In the following period, it became more difficult to exchange paper money directly for silver, and the Ming Dynasty completely used these Japanese banknotes, which would be invalid in the future, to buy everything that could be seen and taken away.

For a while, the number of banknotes on the market has increased to the point that many people are jaw-dropping!

....

Nagasaki.

At the door of an exchange office, the faces of many merchants were already full of anger and puzzlement, waving their fists and insulting the exchange office: "Hey! Why did we bring paper money and not allow us to exchange it for silver? ”

The only thing that could respond to them was the expressionless samurai, and no one else was willing to come forward and give them an explanation.

Time passed a little while, and the sun was three poles up.

Many merchants have been here for a long time, but they have not exchanged for silver that can be used to trade with the Ming Dynasty...

This made them more and more anxious.

The mood also gradually became more irritable.

"When will you be able to give us an explanation, you didn't have such an attitude when you used silver to exchange paper money! Soulless people! ”

"Yes! Could it be that there is no silver left in the exchange office of the feudal city? Then the banknotes in our hands won't become scrap, right..."

"Huh!? Wouldn't it, really? If that's the case... We're going bankrupt in our family! We used all the silver to buy the raw materials, but now the money we receive has been paper money for a long time! ”

Talking about this was constantly happening outside the exchange office, and it was not surprising that Nagasaki, where the Japanese trade was the most frequent.

It's just that the large increase in paper money over a long period of time has caused a large-scale increase in the price of many goods in the market.

If Zhu Youzhen is here, then he will say it cordially.

Isn't this inflation??

A column of solemn-looking samurai walked towards the merchants, and then the leading samurai spoke directly, "You... The banknotes you used are suspected of being counterfeit, so we can't exchange them for silver now, and you have to follow us to investigate! ”

With that, a large number of samurai rushed out behind him, trying to control all the merchants present... You must know that in the Wa Kingdom, the hierarchy between people is quite fixed.

Although the merchants were able to live in better conditions, they were still a little pale when faced with samurai wielding sharp blades.

I saw one of the businessmen sit on the ground in an instant, his eyes were full of incredulity, and he cried in pain, crying and saying, "How is it possible... We are all very well-behaved businessmen... How can paper money be counterfeited? ”

"Take it all! Imprisoned in the shogunate! ”

No one would give these merchants any answer, in fact, how could the Tokugawa shogunate have the ability to distinguish counterfeit paper money.

After all, all his banknotes are from Daming, and those counterfeit banknotes are also under the instruction of Zhu Youzhen... Bi Ziyan secretly sent it to the Wa State through Jinyiwei.

Fundamentally speaking, it may be that the Japanese banknotes exchanged today will be counterfeit tomorrow that another person will exchange for silver.

At the time of production, I even made a neighbor on a printing machine....

The naked currency war made the Tokugawa shogunate, which was already gray-haired by a large-scale peasant uprising, even worse, and Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was usually proud of his might, was like a frosted eggplant.

Sitting paralyzed in the shogunate, I only heard what he was muttering to himself...

"It shouldn't... It shouldn't be! I just got some silver from those peasants, didn't I already buy goods from the Ming Dynasty to fill the shortfall? How could there be so many extra banknotes all of a sudden! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu can't figure it out, but someone has already seen it...