Why is it said that the Wa Kingdom has now become the backyard of the Ming Dynasty?

Domination is only one of the reasons, and the most important thing is the situation around the Wa Kingdom.

North Korea has always been the dog leg of the Ming Dynasty, although there was a situation where Wang Shizi Li Chu seized supplies, but now Wang Shizi Li Chu has been abolished, and North Korea's attitude is very good, so the situation has returned to the previous situation.

Originally, the matter of the seizure of supplies did not spread in the Ming Dynasty, and North Korea has also increased the value and quantity of tribute in the past two years, so the vast majority of Ming people still think that North Korea is more obedient than before.

In addition to Korea, the rest is the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The current Ryukyu Kingdom is not actually a treasure island as people think, and in this era, the Ryukyu Kingdom mostly refers to a group of small islands in the southern part of the Wa Kingdom.

In later generations, they had another name: Okinawa.

Korea and the Ryukyus are the two most important transit points for the Ming Dynasty to go to the Wa Kingdom, don't underestimate these two places, these two places gave the Ming a lot of turnover space.

There are two obedient younger brothers watching, and the aristocracy and samurai class of the Wa Kingdom have almost been swept away, and the Wa Kingdom has naturally become the back garden of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this back garden cannot enjoy the flowers, and you can only grow some useful things with dung.

This dung refers to the Japanese people, and the useful things are naturally minerals and potatoes.

Sado Island.

Zhu Zhanyan did not follow Zhang Fu to Iwami Silver Mountain to take a look, but went directly north by boat and went to Sado Island.

On the way, he also saw the scenery he created: Jingguan.

Shinji Lake is a large lake, and it is divided into two sections, and the lake water finally flows into the sea, so Zhu Zhan Yan saw the Jingguan that he ordered to build even on the boat.

Although the distance is far away and can only be seen through a telescope, the pleasure it brings to Zhu Zhanyan is still very sufficient.

"Meet His Royal Highness!"

Sado Island.

As soon as Zhu Zhanyan got off the boat, Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng greeted him excitedly.

It's been a year on Sado Island, and they also want to go back, although the people over there in Yunnan, and even their family members will look at them with strange eyes, they still want to go back, and they want to go back to Zhu Zhanyan's side to serve.

"Good work." Zhu Zhanyan patted Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng's shoulders, his face full of emotion.

Finding someone who is willing to give everything for you, even their life, is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and it is extremely difficult.

And Zhu Zhanyan now has three such people.

Now, Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng are on Sado Island, guaranteeing that they can send nearly 10,000 taels of gold to Yunnan every month, which is Zhu Zhanyan's confidence in the future, and it also allows him to start preparing for the next plan in advance.

This credit can't be shared with outsiders because of the plan, but Zhu Zhanyan himself will keep it in his heart.

Looking at the miners working in the distance and the surrounding supervisors, and then looking at the mental state of Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng, Zhu Zhanyan finally had a trace of comfort in his heart.

At the beginning, he arranged Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng here, hoping to use those Japanese people to let Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng vent their emotions, because if they didn't vent, then these two people would probably be useless.

It's hard to admit it, but most of the time, it's the easiest and most effective.

Night.

Zhu Zhanyan sat in the tent that had been set up improvised, looking at the folds presented by Qian Yong, which were all the recent situation of the Wa Kingdom in the past two years.

At the beginning, Qian Yong was really born poor, and he was the kind of person who didn't even know whether he could survive, so he didn't know much, and he was taught by Zhu Zhanyan later.

But even so, he wouldn't fake the affairs of Sado Island, but read them while studying, and finally let people send them to Iwami Silver Mountain, hand them over to Xia Xuan to deal with, sort them out and send them to Yunnan.

If it weren't for Zhu Zhanyan who specially instructed them to say that Xia Xuan could be trusted, Qian Yong really didn't know what to do.

"Qian Yong, can you handle this matter well?" Zhu Zhanyan didn't look up, and asked while looking at the fold in his hand.

"Yes." Although he didn't know why Zhu Zhanyan asked this, Qian Yong still nodded without any hesitation.

"Then, it may take a while to work hard for you in the future." Putting down the fold in his hand, Zhu Zhanyan raised his head and looked at Qian Yong.

"I will bring the three phoenixes back this time, because on Chinese New Year's Eve this year, I met the prince of the Timurid Empire, Ulube, in Yingtianfu and made a deal with him."

"One of them is that they should hand over a thousand men to us for the harassment and insult they had suffered in Timur territory."

Speaking of this, Qian Yong was stunned.

To put it mildly but very realistically, before they met Zhu Zhanyan, they were a group of mud-legged people, and if they didn't have an adventure, they wouldn't have reached the current height in their lives.

When Yongle was five years old, they met Zhu Zhan Yan and got this opportunity, and now, Zhu Zhan Yan still remembers the humiliation they suffered at the beginning, and remembers to help them take revenge.

Even if this was just Zhu Zhanyan in passing in order to confuse Ulube's sight, but being able to raise it proves that Zhu Zhanyan at least thought of them.

This made Qian Yong ...... I didn't know how to express my emotions for a while.

"I know, you're also aggrieved." Looking at Qian Yong's expression, Zhu Zhanyan sighed lightly.

"But you also know that Sanfeng is a woman, and she has to pay far more than you and Jian Xiao, so I want to let Sanfeng go back first."

"As for you, don't worry, there will be a chance in the future, because what you bring back is something that no one can refuse."

In fact, the Wa Kingdom has already entered the right track, at least Zhu Zhan Yan doesn't have to worry much, he came to the Wa Kingdom this time, first, he wanted to see the specific situation, after all, what it looks like on paper is not the same as what he saw with his own eyes.

In fact, it is true that he only knew that the Sado Gold Mountain alone consumed nearly 50,000 Japanese miners in a year, and he also knew that Qian Yong and Zhu Sanfeng had repelled Ezo's attacks four times.

But in fact, the Echigo area of Wa Province and the places further north can be said to be almost empty, and the rest of the people are still working in the gold mines.

The situation in the south is a little better, but it is limited.

Iwami Silver Mountain also needs miners, and together with the Sado Gold Mine, these two places will consume nearly 90,000 miners a year, and this is still under the condition that Zhang Fu is very restrained.

If Zhang Fu is as unscrupulous as Qian Yong, it is estimated that it will take less than ten years for this Japanese country to be equivalent to the destruction of the country in the physical sense.

Yes, the Wa Kingdom has a population of 11 million, but when Zhu Zhan Yan swept the land unscrupulously, it is estimated that a million or more people were used as fertilizer or building materials.

Coupled with Qian Yong's "results" this year, the population of the Japanese country has lost at least two million.

In this era, the ratio of men and women was unbalanced, and the proportion of young and strong was even smaller, and 3 million young and strong people out of a population of 11 million in the Japanese kingdom were considered to be the top of the sky.

The two million are gone, and the remaining one million will be exhausted in less than ten years.

"I've seen the situation here in general, you don't have to worry about the miners, there will be supplements in the future."

Zhu Zhanyan said as he flipped through the folds in front of him, picking up a few things that Qian Yong couldn't solve.

"Also, you have to be a little more restrained in the future, those who disobey discipline or even want to attack you can be solved without hesitation, but those who are willing to obey your arrangement still have to save a little use."

"Finally, the aspect of gold refining can also be relaxed, it is not necessary to use young and strong, there are many processes that can be completed by women and young and old."

"Just don't use our own people."

In this era, the refining of gold and silver ore is basically the same method, that is, the chemical replacement of lead and then the sootblowing method can be used to obtain relatively high purity gold.

Everyone knows that lead is harmful, so Zhu Zhanyan has been using Japanese slaves to do this from beginning to end, and the final soot blowing method is the same, which is a work scene with excessive lead content.

However, now the miners are already a little stretched, and the white slave trade reached with the Timurid Empire has not yet been implemented, and it is estimated that the first batch of old white will not be received until this summer or even the second half of the year, so it is really necessary to save the use of Japanese slaves.

Moreover, even if the old white bought from the Timurid Empire arrived, it could not be open to the use of Japanese slaves, because the initial number would definitely not be very large, and it would take a while for the white slave trade to grow and expand slowly.

"The villain knows." Qian Yong nodded.

Previously, because under the influence of emotions, and Zhu Zhanyan had said that he could act arbitrarily long before he came, Qian Yong really felt like a wild horse off the leash.

But a year has passed, and the emotions are almost vented, and Qian Yong has naturally calmed down a lot.

To put it mildly, Qian Yong has really killed people in the past two years.

"As for other aspects...... Zhu Zhanyan hastily flipped through the folds again, and only raised his head after making sure that nothing was missing.

"You've done a good job, you've not made a mistake, you haven't even thought about anything inappropriate, just continue later."

"Oh yes, there's another one, potatoes."

"That thing has to be held in your hand, there must be no problems, and you must beware of someone stealing seeds."

"Yes!" Qian Yong suddenly turned pale.

Zhu Zhanyan didn't even explain this kind of thing like the potato plan, but he just mentioned it hastily and there was no follow-up, because this kind of thing is unnecessary and can't be told to others.

The first is that the worldview is different, and they can't understand it, and the second is that it's not a good thing after all, and the fewer people who know, the less risk of leakage.

Besides, Zhu Zhanyan still has a follow-up plan in his hand, the plan is not mature yet, how can he hype it up?

(End of chapter)