Actually, Iwami, especially Iwami Ota, Zhu Zhanyan felt that it was quite difficult to fight.

After all, it is a silver mine, and it is impossible for the Wa Kingdom not to pay attention to it, so the resistance that Zhu Zhan Yan encountered here is actually the greatest, and the resistance he suffered in Zhanhai City and Tuyuan City at the beginning was not so great.

However, it only took three days for Zhu Zhan to take this place, and he didn't use the method of forcible attack.

He sent people to spread the news everywhere, and spread the news that the Ming army did not collect taxes, and the miners in Iwami's mine rebelled themselves.

Afterwards, Zhu Zhan did fulfill his promise, and the Ming army did not collect taxes in all the places where the Ming army was defeated, but the premise was that each village sent a certain amount of young men to work as miners every month.

Moreover, the miners are not in vain, all the miners are in charge of food and shelter, and a certain amount of food will be distributed to you every month.

For Zhu Zhanyan, none of this mattered, because the grain was also snatched by him from along the way, but not from the common people, but from the homes of nobles, officials, and samurai classes.

As for those in the elite......

Originally, Zhu Zhanyan had planned to spend the Chinese New Year on Wa Island this year, because in his opinion, this year is a very important year, Iwami Silver Mountain has to be stabilized, who can't look at the annual output of one million taels of silver here?

You must know that during the Yongle period, the largest and most commonly used currency in the Ming Dynasty was not gold and silver, but Yongle Tongbao, that is, copper coins.

One tael of silver is a thousand yuan, which is equivalent to more than 1,600 yuan (network data) in later generations, what about one million taels?

Don't look at the TV series that it says that Daming has more than 70 million taels of taxes throughout the year, that's really pure nonsense.

In the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost all taxes were mainly taxes in kind, and during the Wanli years when overseas silver poured in and silver prices plummeted, one or two taels of silver could also cost more than 200 catties of rice.

This is after the collapse of silver prices.

In the Yongle years before this, silver was actually very scarce, and in the early days of Yongle, the annual tax conversion of the Ming Dynasty was about 1,000 to 15 million taels.

A silver mountain, a year to produce a million taels of silver, this number seems to be very small, but in fact, it can withstand one-fifteenth or even one-tenth of the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty a year.

The most important thing is that even if it is mined recklessly, Iwami Silver Mountain can be mined for at least more than a hundred or even two hundred years.

How could Zhu Zhanyan not attach importance to such an important thing?

However, an incident happened that made Zhu Zhanyan have to leave to return to Daming.

Compared to the time when Qian Yong and the three returned to Daming, Zhu Zhanyan was more than a month late when he received the news, but even so, he still had to go back.

This also led to the fact that he did not spend this year in Wadao, nor in Yunnan, but in Yingtian.

Ying Tianfu, Chang'an Street.

Zhu Zhanyan rode a horse, followed by a long convoy, Chang'an Avenue was overcrowded, but they all gathered on the side of the street and at the corner of the street, looking at the young man they hadn't seen for almost two years.

Zhu Zhanyan, who was riding on a horse, was wearing armor, although the armor was a little small because of the rapid physical development at this age, it did not prevent people from looking at him with reverence.

From the eighth year of Yongle to the present, this young man has won all the victories after four years of fighting, not to mention laying a large territory for the Ming Dynasty, and making the enemy lose the confidence to resist.

This is the kind of person that the people revere.

However, Zhu Zhanyan did not have any intention of staying, and soon disappeared from people's sight, but the convoy behind was very long, very long.

Fengtian Hall.

Although the sky was snowflakes and the weather was a little cold, it did not make people less enthusiastic in the slightest.

Although, not everyone thinks so.

"His Royal Highness."

When entering the palace, he was not allowed to ride a horse or drive, and he was not allowed to carry a sword soldier, so Zhu Zhan Yan habitually dismounted and unstabbed when he arrived at Chengtianmen, but was stopped by the city gate guards.

"Your Majesty has instructed that this time, you don't need to."

"Huh?" Zhu Zhanyan was slightly stunned, and then turned his head to look in the direction of the city gate.

It's just that although the end gate and the noon gate are wide open, because of the barrier of the Fengtian Gate, Zhu Zhanyan can't see the scene outside the Fengtian Palace.

Is this the old man showing you?

Zhu Zhanyan nodded slightly towards the city gate guards, and then turned over and got on his horse.

The sound of the city gate opening made people's hearts tremble, and Chengtian Gate, which was basically unpassable on weekdays, ushered in the first pass in the twelfth year of Yongle.

The convoy entered Chengtianmen, passed through the Dragon Boat Gate and the Noon Gate all the way, and bypassed Fengtianmen (Fengtianmen is not a gate, it is a palace!) It's the place to go to court! ), from the left side of the martial tower, into the Danqi (chí) outside the main hall of Fengtian.

Danqi is the square in front of the palace.

Under His Majesty Dan, Zhu Zhanyan sat on horseback with his head held high.

He has the qualifications not to dismount, but it doesn't mean that everyone has.

Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping turned over and dismounted, standing on the left side of the horse, and the seventy-six carriages behind them were slowly lined up in order.

At this moment, even the Danqi of the Fengtian Hall was a little crowded.

Soon, Zhu Di led hundreds of civil and military officials to appear above His Majesty Dan and at the gate of the Fengtian Palace.

Zhu Zhanyan turned over and dismounted, kneeling on one knee: "Grandson to see the imperial grandfather, the imperial grandfather bows to Jin'an." ”

"Meet His Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty bows to Jin'an!"

Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping, as well as the soldiers who escorted the convoy, knelt on one knee with Zhu Zhanyan, although there were only more than 100 people, but the sound resounded through Fengtian Danqi.

"I'm safe!" Zhu Di waved his sleeves, and his face was full of joy.

There is the joy of the victory of the soldiers, and there is also the ......

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Zhu Di directly lifted the hem of his clothes and went straight to His Majesty.

Suddenly, both the crown prince Zhu Gaochi and the accompanying Wenchen generals panicked, but Zhu Di had already begun to descend from His Majesty, and they couldn't stop it.

In the middle of the Dan Majesty is a dragon-shaped relief, which is only when the emperor can walk on a big event such as ascending the throne, and it is not a direct walk, it is carried by people on the steps on both sides, and the emperor sits on the shelf and "flies" above the dragon-shaped relief of the Dan Majesty.

As for weekdays, the emperor walked the steps on both sides of the dragon-shaped relief, and the courtiers could only walk the outer steps.

Zhu Di is the emperor and can walk the steps next to the relief, but do the courtiers dare?

Not to mention the military generals of Wenchen, even Zhu Gaochi didn't dare.

There was no way, and the others could only rush down from the other side.

"Well......" After getting off the Dan Majesty, Zhu Di helped Zhu Zhan Yan up, and his eyes kept looking up and down.

"Taller, stronger......"

"Grandpa Huang......" Zhu Zhanyan felt a little touched in his heart, but he still took two steps back, and then turned sideways.

"Grandpa Huang, this is the capture of our Ming Dynasty's Eastern Expedition!"

When Zhu Zhan Yan spoke, Zhu Gaochi and hundreds of civil and military officials also went down the steps and stood on both sides.

Originally, some people still wanted to say a few words, but as Zhu Zhanyan spoke, everyone shut up.

"Grandpa Qiqi, this time I dispatched more than 110,000 soldiers from Dengzhou Mansion in Shandong, passed through North Korea, passed through Tsushima, and first went down to Changmen Zhanhai and Tuyuan two cities."

"After that, I crossed the Kanmon Strait, successively conquered Toyozen, Chikuzen and Hizen, and then turned to attack the Wajima mainland, first broke Nagato, and then forced Iwami, and took Iwami Ginzan!"

"Since the expedition, the soldiers have seized more than 2 million taels of silver, Iwami Silver Mountain began mining a month ago, and a total of 140,000 taels of silver have been refined when the grandson returns!"

Hearing Zhu Zhan Yan say this, everyone turned their heads and looked at the seventy-six carriages arranged on the Danqi.

The big boxes on it are no longer boxes in their eyes, but money.

Among them, Xia Yuanji was the most excited, and his eyes looking at those big boxes had already shone brightly, and he couldn't hide it at all.

More than two million taels of silver, even in a prosperous year, this can be worth more than one percent of the income of the entire Ming Dynasty, if it is in the year of famine, this is more than two percent of the income!

This is equivalent to your salary of 10,000 yuan a month suddenly becoming 12,000, even if the company's efficiency is not good, it is 10,000 steps!

If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion now, Xia Yuanji would probably be able to jump out directly and hug Zhu Zhan Yan and kiss the two of them!

"Well, good!" Zhu Di patted Zhu Zhanyan's shoulder heavily, with an old and relieved expression on his face.

"Natsuhara-yoshi?"

"Wechen is here!" Xia Yuanji, who had long been unable to hold back, immediately jumped out.

"I'll leave it to you."

"Yes!"

Xia Yuanji was immediately excited, and immediately began to beckon the soldiers who were escorting the carriage to go to the household.

"Xia Shangshu, they can go, but they can't." Seeing that Xia Yuanji couldn't care about anything, Zhu Zhanyan hurriedly shouted to stop him.

"Grandpa Huang, before that, Sun Er led the soldiers to conquer Iwami Shimane and Daejeon, and occupied Iwami Silver Mountain."

"Previously, during the conquest between Iwami and Nagato, Sun Er specially ordered to give preferential treatment to the Japanese people along the way, so Sun Er successfully recruited a lot of miners."

"Iwami Silver Mountain can produce more than 100,000 taels of silver a year, which is already a large amount, and Sun Er thinks that he may need the intervention of the household department."

"Natsuhara-yoshi?" Zhu Di looked at Xia Yuanji when he heard this.

"Yes!" Xia Yuanji's mood at the moment can no longer be described as elated, and the whole person is about to fly.

"Wechen immediately arranges people!"

"Okay, let's go, let's go......" The smile on Zhu Di's face did not decrease.

Xia Yuanji has been the head of the household department since the first year of Yongle, and it has been twelve years, how could Zhu Di not understand his character? immediately laughed and scolded him to leave.

"Grandpa ......"

Seeing Xia Yuanji leaving, Zhu Zhanyan turned his head to face Zhu Di.

"Now that the handover has been completed, the grandson will retire first......"

These seizures did not allow Zhu Zhanyan to bring people back in person, because it was not worth it, and the conquest was not over yet, and there would be many seizures in the future, so there was no need for him to come back at all.

The real reason for him to come back is still Qian Yong and the others, as for responding to the sky, it's just by the way, he is a line of the Han King, a courtier, escorted and captured, he won't come, but when he comes back, he can't help but come to Yingtian.

At this moment, his mind is not in this palace at all, nor is it in Yingtian, he just wants to return to Yunnan, because he still has a lot of things to do.

He had a grand plan in mind, a plan that would not cost a single soldier, but would have a great chance of conquering the whole world.

One, enough to threaten the whole world.

"Huh!" Zhu Di grabbed his grandson's arm and looked at him with emotion.

A scene suddenly appeared in Zhu Di's mind, it was still in the grassland, the child who was only ten years old, dressed in a dragon suit, but his wits were frequent, and the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty were breathless.

And now, he has grown taller and stronger, but he has been separated from himself.

"Grandpa asked the Ministry of Industry to make you two other sets of armor, your set is already too small, go take a bath first, then accompany grandpa to have a meal, and then go back."

……

Zhu Zhanyan lowered his head and did not speak.

He didn't want to stay here for long, not because he still had a grudge, or because he was really in such a hurry that he didn't even want to delay a meal.

He had already given up Iwami Ginzan and given this cash cow to the old man, so he didn't want to stay here longer, and he didn't want to be squeezed more by the old man.

He understood from the time he knew that his third uncle was going to join the domain, and the old man still didn't think about letting him go.

Whether it's because of family affection or for exploitation, the facts won't change.

But......

He also knew that the old man said this for his own good.

Today, to greet him in front of the Fengtian Palace, this is not in accordance with the regulations, because firstly, the war is not over, and secondly, the results of the war are not big enough, so they should not be greeted in this Yingtian Palace.

But the old man still did it, the purpose was to gag some people's mouths.

After all, although Zhu Zhanyan just said a word, everyone knows what kind of scene Nagato, Chikuzen, Toyozen and Hizen are like.

Thousands of miles of red land, thousands of miles of people, this used to describe the scene of the great famine, but now it is used here to be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Good ......"

After a long time, Zhu Zhanyan still nodded in response.

"Someone!" Zhu Di was excited when he heard this, and the joy on his face was already overflowing.

"Herald the Food Bureau! Let them prepare a few of the dishes that the children love! ”

"Yes......" The little snot beside Zhu Di hurriedly bowed and retreated.

"Let's go! Go to Qianqing Palace with grandpa! ”

At this time, Zhu Di didn't care that Zhu Zhanyan was still wearing armor, and directly grabbed Zhu Zhanyan's shoulders and walked in the direction of Qianqing Palace.

Behind the two ancestors and grandchildren, a group of civil and military generals looked at each other.

"Squire, this ......" Huang Huai was a little unwilling, and hurriedly pulled over the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin.

They had already made an appointment, and they would take advantage of Zhu Zhan's return to Beijing this time to make trouble, because they were afraid that it would be difficult to encounter such an opportunity again in the future.

The hundreds of thousands of people in the grassland, plus those who can't be counted in Jiaozhi, plus the current Wa Kingdom, under the prestige of Zhu Zhanyan, there are now at least four or five hundred thousand bones piled up.

During the Spring Festival this year, although there were fewer people who came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, it was mainly because Zheng He's fleet sent away many envoys from distant places, in fact, there were far more envoys to pay tribute this year than usual.

Not only that, but the envoys who came to pay tribute this year, whether they were Siam, Nanzhang, or Warat and Uliangha Sanwei, they all had a common characteristic, that is, they were extremely restrained.

This is a good thing in the eyes of many people, because the Ming Dynasty is strong, and those subordinate countries are afraid of the strong national strength of the Ming Dynasty, which is the embodiment of the country's strength.

But in the eyes of the ministers, it was different.

For the civil servants who were deeply influenced by Cheng Zhu Lixue, this kind of peace and admiration obtained by deterring by force should not exist, and the real orthodoxy should be to serve the world with benevolence and righteousness, so that they will willingly recognize the status of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, and let them come to pay tribute and worship with their hearts.

Instead of coming to worship because of the fear of being destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, as it is now.

In the eyes of the generals, the seizures brought back by Zhu Zhan Yan on this trip are the proof of his military exploits.

In Xia Yuanji's view, the seizures brought back by Zhu Zhan Yan from this trip are a supplement to the household department.

But in the eyes of the ministers, the seizures brought back by Zhu Zhanyan on this trip were all stained, even blood and silver dripping with blood all the time.

(End of chapter)