Shanghu County, General Staff.

After Li Jin welcomed Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and Xu Da and his party into the house, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were immediately attracted by a huge map in front of them.

On this map, the topographical map of each island of Wajima is clearly drawn.

The islands of Shikoku, Kyushu, and Honshu are all included on the map, and the mountains and rivers on them, and even a small hill are marked.

You can see at a glance what the topography is like.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the map of Wa Island in front of him, and it was the first time he could see how big the so-called Wa Island, the hometown of the Wakos, was.

After silently calculating the area of Wadao in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be surprised, this so-called Wadao Island did not even have the size of Zhejiang Province.

Then where did this country on the island get the courage to dare to send people to invade its own Ming Dynasty?

After Li Jin saw a few people standing still, he took a long baton from the side and began to point out the country on the map.

"Look, these two places are the targets we want to attack this time."

Li Jin pointed to two places marked in red on the map and said:

"The name of this place is Iwami County, and the county is full of high mountains, lofty mountains, and it is very steep."

"In addition, the property here is also extremely poor, and the Japanese people here are destitute and often wander elsewhere to find another way out."

"But here, there is the largest silver mine on Wajima, Iwami Silver Mountain."

"At the bidding meeting before, I have already said that the Iwami Silver Mountain here has at least 500 million taels of silver reserves."

"As long as we take here, our silver will be rich and abundant, and we will not be able to spend it in this life."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up and looked in the direction of Li Jin's finger.

It was as if he had seen a mountain of glittering silver there, which made his heart surge.

After introducing Iwami Ginzan, Li Jin pointed to the Kyoto area of Wajima and began to continue to introduce:

"This is the heart of Wajima, Kyoto."

"The emperor of the indigenous people of Wajima lives in this place."

"However, the current Wadao is a bit similar to our Spring and Autumn Period, and is falling into the stage of princes competing for hegemony."

"So this emperor of Wajima is also in name only, and he can't command the heroes at all."

"On the contrary, the princes on the island are constantly fighting the emperor's idea, wanting to take this emperor captive to their own territory."

"Coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes."

"Our attack this time is to take Kyoto, forcibly land in Kyoto in the name of helping the subject country, and then hold the emperor of Wajima in his hands."

"Kyoto Bay here is a natural deep-water harbor, which is suitable for the large-scale operation of our naval fleet."

"After that, we will respect the king and take all the gold and silver mines on Wadao Island as our own."

"Although the Holy Decree of the Emperor of Wajima does not have any authority now, but in our hands, it will be different, those who follow me will prosper and those who disobey me will die."

"Presumably, it won't take two years for our navy to completely conquer Wadao, incorporate the entire Wadao into the territory of our Ming Dynasty, and become the bridgehead of our Ming Dynasty on the sea."

Li Jin drew a boss cake for Zhu Yuanzhang and planned a blueprint for future maritime supremacy.

And the occupation of Wadao is the first step of the Ming Dynasty's maritime hegemony.

"Good!"

Zhu Biao listened to the blood boiling, high-fived loudly, his face was red, and he was obviously choked by the big cake painted by Li Jin.

But Zhu Yuanzhang seemed relatively calm, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang had no interest in the land of Wadao at all.

As Li Jin said, the island is full of mountains and hills, and it is not suitable for cultivation at all.

What is the use of such land?

What interested him was the gold mines and silver mountains on the island, and with these things, he himself did not have to worry every day that the treasury was running out of silver.

Now the Ming Dynasty is in ruins, and silver is needed everywhere.

If the court has silver, it can give out silver to help the people and make the people live a better life.

There were also Mongol-Tatar rebellions in the north and Tusi in the southwest, all of which needed to be put down.

But when the army is dispatched, it needs silver, and Wajima can bring silver to himself, which is the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang never forgets Wajima.

"After all, Wadao is a subject country of my Ming Dynasty, if it is annexed, I am afraid it will cause panic among the surrounding subject countries, so don't mention this matter again."

Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't look down on Wajima, and if he really occupied this place in the future, he would send troops to pacify the chaos on Wajima.

The expedition of laborers is another large sum of silver.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the money in his pocket was really not enough to spend.

However, Li Jin disagreed, Wadao has been our Chinese territory since ancient times.

It's just that these unscrupulous descendants, who have forgotten their ancestors, now have the opportunity to recover, how can they give up?

"Lao Huang, why is your vision still so short?"

Li Jin hated that iron could not become steel.

"Wadao has been our Chinese territory since ancient times, and the first emperor personally ordered Xu Fu to cross to Fuso."

"At that time, Fusang Island was now Wajima, which was originally full of savages, but later it was because Xu Fu arrived there that civilization appeared."

"So the people there should be the descendants of our Chinese people, but now that they have forgotten their ancestors, we should let them recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors."

"Besides, the most valuable thing on the island is not gold and silver, but the population."

"Now that our Daming has just been established and there is a shortage of labor, shouldn't the population there be transferred to Daming to contribute to the infrastructure construction of Daming?"

Zhu Yuanzhang knew what bad idea Li Jin was holding, and he obviously wanted to sell all the men on this island to Daming as slaves.

But this kind of thing, Zhu Yuanzhang just wants to say, it is really too much to his heart.

Judging from Hu Weiyong's feedback on the use of Japanese slaves, the Japanese are simply born slaves.

These widows eat less, work more, are hard-working, and most importantly cheap.

If it weren't for Hu Weiyong's use in the winter, these slaves wouldn't have died so much.

However, before Li Jin and Xu Da, tens of thousands of Japanese pirates were captured, these pirates were extremely evil, and they were physically strong, and they had to work all the time in this life to wash away their sins.

As soon as these Japanese captives landed, they were picked up by the elated Hu Weiyong.

After having this group of slaves, Hu Weiyong's highway construction was greatly accelerated.

In the past, only three sites started construction at the same time, and many people froze to death, resulting in slow progress.

Although the weather is still cold, with the addition of these tens of thousands of slaves, Hu Weiyong's motivation has soared, and he feels that he can do it again.

Every day, he led people to patrol the construction site.

Of course, these slaves were not so obedient, but under the bloody suppression of the Beijing camp, Hu Weiyong used the twenty-three torture tools of Jinyiwei one by one in front of a group of slaves.

Needless to say, Jinyiwei's cruel and ferocious torture tools made these unruly widows suddenly become much more honest.

Even if it was freezing cold, these wouldn't dare to disobey Hu Weiyong's orders, and obediently worked hard to make the greatest contribution to the infrastructure of the Ming Dynasty under the whip of the soldiers in Beijing.

But Hu Weiyong grew wise after eating a trench, and he didn't really squeeze these slaves to death like last time.

Instead, he bought some shabby clothes for these would-be robbers, no matter what, at least they wouldn't be easily frozen to death again.

Of course, food, or wheat bran and grass roots, food is for people to eat, where are these Japanese people still considered masters?

Under the oppression of Hu Weiyong's slave owners, these slaves are 007 every day, even if they are hungry and freeze to death, but their bodies are getting thinner and thinner.

Hu Weiyong was not interested in the health of these slaves, he only saw that the highway was progressing faster and faster, and he would soon be able to climb up.

Zhu Yuanzhang is also very satisfied with Hu Weiyong's progress.

Zhu Yuanzhang still attaches great importance to Hu Weiyong's new expressway.

Now that the Japanese have been cleared, the opening of the sea is already in progress.

Zhu Yuanzhang's most ideal port to open the sea is naturally Shanghu County.

The development here is already a big city, all kinds of handicraft workshops are available, if you add the opening of the sea, it is very likely to surpass Yingtian and become the first city in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang just took this opportunity to collect taxes from Shanghu County, and he also had to collect heavy taxes.

In the past, the commercial tax of Shanghu County was put into his own pocket by Li Jinxiang, but now Zhu Yuanzhang has opened the sea to Shanghu County and returned the peach to Li, Zhu Yuanzhang can naturally collect the commercial tax here to the imperial court.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Shanghu County would be his cornucopia in the future.

The highway built by Hu Weiyong will become a road paved with gold.

Shanghu County as the starting point, Yingtian as the end point, and then use the prosperous business of Shanghu County to drive the development of Yingtianfu.

It is conceivable that in the near future, this highway alone will bring much income to the imperial court.

Now, the process of the highway has been greatly accelerated, and Zhu Yuanzhang is naturally overjoyed.