Zhu Yijun knew that the powerful bureaucrats who dared to continue hoarding silver were no longer competing for economic interests, but for political interests, and for the sake of political interests, they even did not hesitate to break the net at the cost of redistributing the new party officials in the future to meet the interests of the emperor, so that their old party could make a big profit on the assets they had sold cheaply.

But Zhu Yijun was reluctant to do this.

He was disgusted by this cruel form of infighting to increase his wealth.

He also didn't want Daming to have a situation where every first assistant who did things would not die well, and his wealth would be divided once.

That's the case.

Undoubtedly, the ministers at the first and auxiliary levels will have no sense of security in terms of property, they are only willing to pursue short-term interests, and when they are still in power, they will only want to squander all the resources that can be realized and squandered, and they will not consider long-term interests, and they will also take the initiative to use national resources to frantically curry favor with most vested interests in order to seek stability in order not to liquidate their own families.

Therefore, even if Zhu Yijun knew that Zhang Juzheng's party must have accumulated a lot of wealth after controlling the power of the court for so many years, and it must be a lot of gray wealth, he did not plan to liquidate these people.

As if he didn't plan to liquidate Zhang Juzheng.

As an emperor from later generations, it is impossible for him to only stare at the people at home and even do something cunning and dead lackeys when he knows that there is a lot of wealth outside that has not yet been grabbed.

Zhu Yijun is now anxious to see the Zhang Song from Dongying just to find out whether Ma Gui has grabbed more benefits for him outside to solve a series of political and economic crises caused by the lack of silver in China.

Ma Gui did not disappoint Zhu Yijun.

After he led the army to Okura Castle, he immediately launched a counterattack against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army, and used the method of joint water and land operations to occupy the mountain castle and Yamaguchi Castle first, cut off Toyotomi Hideyoshi's retreat, and attacked Toyotomi Hideyoshi's grain route with a few elite firearms and the latest equipment Thunderbolt first, forcing Toyotomi Hideyoshi to have to make Senshi Hidehisa lead 20,000 troops back to the army to protect the grain road.

On the subject of operational command, the Ming army, which had thousands of years of military history, made Toyotomi Hideyoshi suffer a big loss as soon as it came up.

And then, Xianshi Xiujiu was caught by Magui again.

The main force of the Ming army, 50,000 troops, blocked the retreat of Xianshi Hideyoshi with artillery and firearms, and then completely annihilated the army of Xianshi Hidehisa, and the Daimyo of the Four Kingdoms, Xianshi Hidehisa was captured alive, and was forced to agree to compensate Da Ming with 2 million taels of silver, and cede Tang Zhucheng as the garrison of the Ming Water Division, and Da Ming would give him a chance to make meritorious contributions to the chaos and continue to be the Daimyo of the Four Kingdoms.

However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not stupid and did not passively wait to be beaten.

Thereupon.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi heard that Senishi Hidehisbe had been defeated and his grain route was cut off, and when he realized that the Ming army had already landed in China (the name of the Japanese region) and copied his own back route, he decisively gave up the attack on Kokura Castle and led his army to retreat to Sakurao Castle.

However, on the way back, the Daming Navy Division suddenly appeared from the direction of Shikoku Yuzuki Castle and attacked Toyotomi Hideyoshi's fleet, causing nearly 30,000 horses and horses of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to die in the belly of the fish.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was also deeply frightened after seeing the Ming army's fleet of huge bird ships, and knew that he despised the Ming Empire as much as Xiyi, and as soon as he landed at Sakurao Castle, he decisively retreated to Kozan Castle.

At this time, Magui first sent troops to the Iwami area controlled by the daimyo Mori Terumoto of the Wa Kingdom, and surrounded Iwami Castle.

Because the daimyo of the Japanese kingdom, Mori Terumoto, had led his troops and horses to attack Kyushu with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and because his troops were mainly naval forces, he suffered the most serious damage as early as Toyotomi Hideyoshi withdrew to China, and it also caused the general Nakagawa Kiyozaemon who was guarding here with 2,000 men to wait for reinforcements.

However, Ma Gui strictly ordered the Ming army not to capture Iwami Castle.

As a commander-in-chief, Ma Gui has his own considerations.

Moreover, he is different from Li Rusong, Li Rusong likes to see the opportunity to attack decisively, but Ma Gui likes to take one step at a time, and the combat goal in front of him has not been completed, so he thinks about the next one.

This in the history of Wanli Aid to the Dynasty reflects the difference in the command habits of the two.

Therefore, when Magui strictly ordered the Ming army not to capture Iwami Castle but had to bombard the city with artillery every day, Magui deliberately asked the Wa monks to inform Toyotomi Hideyoshi of the news that Iwami Castle was still surrounded by the Ming army.

Iwami Ginzan is the foundation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's domination of the world, he can't sit idly by, and considering that Mori Terumoto has been greatly injured, and because he learned that Iwami Ginzan is just a small Ming army, he personally led a large army to Iwami Ginzan, wanting to fight this small group of greedy Ming army by surprise, and by the way, boost morale.

Outcome.

However, he was surrounded by 50,000 Ming troops, 20,000 Korean soldiers, 5,000 Yehe Jurchen soldiers, and 20,000 Japanese soldiers in the valley around the Yueshan Mountain of the Wa Kingdom.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi fell into a bitter battle because of this, and his troops were killed in a river of blood, not to mention the Ming army with superb firearms, they couldn't deal with it, even the strong Jurchen soldiers also made them suffer a lot, only the Korean soldiers could still be counterattacked by them, and they could get a respite for a while.

But the desperate Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been difficult to turn around, after Magui personally came to order the Ming army to start a general offensive, Toyotomi Hideyoshi can only lead his own elite of a hundred battles, to Magui's Chinese army suddenly, wanting to die with Magui.

After all, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Chinese army has fought in the Wa Kingdom for so many years, and its combat effectiveness is still quite strong, the charge is very orderly, and the iron cannons used are also very sophisticated.

However, after Wang Rulong, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, personally led the veterans up to kill a few deserters, the new soldiers of the Beijing camp quickly recovered a lot of combat effectiveness, and reorganized themselves to block the offensive of Toyotomi Hideyoshibe.

At the same time, Wang Rulong also personally commanded the officers and soldiers to launch a counter-charge.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main force was completely unable to parry the Ming army, which was taller than himself, had a higher armor equipment rate than himself, advanced firearms than himself, and had more numerical numbers, and was more geographically advantageous by charging downhill from uphill to downhill, and finally had to be completely dispersed.

Seeing this, Ma Gui ordered more Ming troops to rush over and strive to kill and wound more Japanese people.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was too short, more than one meter and three points, so he couldn't run as fast as others, and his army had completely collapsed, and he couldn't take care of him, so soon the Ming army with long feet had caught up with him and surrounded him in the middle with a sense of battle.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had to stand still, turn around and draw his sword, and look up at these Ming troops.

Then, Toyotomi Hideyoshi struggled to look at the Ichimei army closest to him in front of him.

But because the Ming army was very tall, he didn't fight back, and only pressed his head with his hand, so that Toyotomi Hideyoshi couldn't move, and the knife in his hand could only be cut on the Ming army's waist armor, causing no damage, just like an adult man holding down a seven-year-old child with a knife and slashing indiscriminately.

The Ming Dynasty has been reforming for fifteen years, if you count the reform of the Longqing period, young Han men under the age of 30 because the world has been ruled for more than 20 years, so basically the quality of life has been improved a lot, the phenomenon of malnutrition among the civilians has been greatly improved, and the average height has also risen a lot, and the Ming soldier Li Dafu in front of him is nine feet tall, originally just a standard-bearer, and now because the whole army attacked, he relied on his long feet and rushed over first, which made Toyotomi Hideyoshi very helpless in front of him, and there was no overlord at all.

Li Daifuku also lifted Toyotomi Hideyoshi's waist next, lifted it up, and lifted it back to the Chinese army's tent.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi kicked and screamed on all fours, but no matter how much he kicked and screamed, it was to no avail, and it wasn't until he was entrusted to Magui that Li Daifuku let him go.

"How a short and stubby one."

Magui couldn't help but say something when he saw Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and then, he ordered Toyotomi Hideyoshi to be taken down.

Subsequently, Magui began to order the capture of Iwami Castle.

Nakagawa Kiyozaemon chose to commit suicide by caesarean section after Iwami Castle was captured.

After the Ming army captured Iwami Castle, a large amount of silver was confiscated from Iwami Castle, and the entire Iwami Silver Mountain was controlled.

Half a month later.

Ma Gui sent a secret report to Zhu Yijun, saying that he had captured Toyotomi Hideyoshi alive, and according to his secret purpose, he copied Iwami Castle and obtained more than 8 million taels of Iwami silver, and through inspection, it was found that Iwami had a large silver mountain, and now the annual output of silver is between 100 and 2 million taels.

(End of chapter)