Twilight slowly fell, and the afterglow on the horizon faded into a deep dark blue.

Night is about to fall, and the whole world seems silent and solemn.

The distant peaks and trees faded into the darkness, leaving only a faint silhouette.

Occasionally, a few night birds fly by, making a mournful chirp.

Between the mountains and forests, twilight came like a tide, quickly covering the entire Iwami Silver Mountain, making everything in the Silver Mountain slowly fall into darkness.

Li Jin, under the leadership of the traitors, finally approached the outside of the Japanese camp before nightfall.

Since he did not know the situation inside the camp and it was getting late, it was decided to start the attack half an hour later.

When the sun completely set, the darkness enveloped everything, and the fire began to rise in the camp, Li Jin asked people to slowly surround the camp, and then the group rose to attack it.

"Kill!!"

The battle broke out very hastily, but the end was also very abrupt, just a cup of tea.

The Ming navy, with its superb skills, rushed into the camp of the Japanese and captured all the Japanese in the camp.

Of course, friendly exchanges with these Japanese people are naturally indispensable, and the Japanese who dared to resist are now all lying on the ground stiffly, and their bodies are still a little warm, but they have lost their heartbeats forever.

After shooting and killing hundreds of Japanese people, the remaining Japanese people put down their weapons with great interest.

Like the Japanese army at the foot of the mountain, these Japanese army on the mountainside are even more unbearable.

Because he is the confidant of Miyoshi Changqing, he is naturally a powerful man in Iwami Castle, eating, drinking and having fun every day, in an endless stream.

But since coming to this poor country where birds don't, these Japanese soldiers have lost their old fun, and they can't bring outsiders here, so they can only get together to drink and gamble.

In this large camp, there were only miners and slaves, and there was no threat to them, the defenders, and naturally they indulged themselves more and more.

Li Jin can be said to have completely occupied the entire Iwami Silver Mountain without much effort.

After Li Jin confirmed that no one had escaped, he directly stationed in this camp halfway up the mountain and began to count the harvest.

As Li Jin speculated before, this camp was specially built by Miyoshi Changqing in order to excavate the Iwami silver mine.

However, Li Jin found that the scale of mining here is not very large, and at most it can only dig less than 30,000 taels of silver a month.

It can be seen that Miyoshi Changqing has just discovered this silver mine, and it has not been long since the excavation, otherwise the amount of silver mined every month is definitely more than so much silver.

However, Li Jin also had some surprises.

In the camp, there were still 100,000 taels of silver that had just been smelted and had not had time to be transported away, and all of them were cheaper than Li Jin.

Subsequently, Li Jin asked the professional miners who came with him to begin to evaluate the reserves of the entire Iwami Silver Mountain.

In order to protect the safety of these professionals, Li Jin directly sent 2,000 people to protect the safety of these more than 100 people, and let them be dispatched.

The miners and slaves in the camp were kept in separate custody by Li Jin, and after the reserves were not fully assessed, Li Jin decided to stop digging Iwami Silver Mountain for the time being.

As for these captured Japanese soldiers, Li Jin directly waved his hand and demoted all these people to miners, and in the future, he was specifically responsible for the mining of Iwami Silver Mountain.

In addition to the Japanese army on the mountainside, there were also a few hundred people at the foot of the mountain, and the two teams together made up exactly a thousand Japanese miners.

The original identity of the miner remained unchanged, and Li Jin turned the slave who was originally oppressed by the Japanese army into a caretaker.

These people were originally slaves captured from all over the country by Miyoshi Changqing, not only desperately mined silver every day, but also were oppressed by these Japanese soldiers, and their lives were miserable, and life was worse than death.

Now that the serfs have turned over and sang, the Japanese army that originally oppressed them was reduced to slaves, and he became the caretaker of these people, so naturally there is revenge and revenge.

The next day, before Li Jin got up, he heard the cry of a ghost crying wolf outside the tent.

Li Jin thought that there had been some mutiny, and hurriedly got up, intending to go to suppress the turmoil.

As a result, before he could get out of the tent, a staff officer from the War Department came in directly and reported:

"My lord, the slaves were frantically whipped with whips, and some people couldn't bear it anymore and chose to fight back, and now the two sides are fighting each other."

"Excuse me, my lord, what should we do?"

Li Jin was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the so-called slaves were the Japanese soldiers who were still acting yesterday, and the people who whipped them were the slaves before.

Now that he is in power, he naturally wants to express his previous dissatisfaction angrily.

But this is exactly what Li Jin wanted to see, his face was happy, and then he ordered:

"Slaves are slaves, and these people don't seem to know who they are."

"Immediately send out the army, arrest these rioting slaves at once, and hang them on the walls of the camp."

"I'm going to show these slaves who is the boss in this camp!!"

The staff officer hurriedly took the order and left, and then Li Jin heard the continuous shouting and scolding, followed by a terrible scream, until the sound disappeared completely, and Li Jin walked out of the camp with Shi Shiran.

After Li entered and exited the camp, he saw more than a hundred slaves of the Ming Navy pressed to the ground, and the resentment in his eyes could no longer be seen at the beginning, but turned into boundless fear.

Li Jin waved his hand casually, asking people to hang up all these people and dry them for three days first.

Then he slowly walked up to a group of slaves and said in a deep voice:

"You have been defeated, and becoming a slave is your best destination."

"If you don't cherish this opportunity, I will make you unable to survive or die in the future!"

"As long as you obediently serve me for ten years, after ten years, I will definitely set you free."

Li Jin's words were quickly translated into Japanese by the translator next to him and spoken to the slave in front of him.

When these slaves saw Li Jin's cruel methods, they were all silent, and they did not dare to speak or resist.

Li Jin then looked at the previous slave again, and now turned over to be the caretaker of the master, nodded at these with a smile, and said softly:

"You are completely liberated, and your next task is to let these slaves work hard for me."

"As long as enough ore is excavated, I will not be stingy in rewarding you."

"But if all these people die in the pit, then I'll fill you in and continue mining for the official, understand?"

Grace and power, Li Jin's words made the faces of those guards whose identities changed suddenly change greatly.

However, seeing that Li Jin didn't seem to mean to punish them, they gradually grew bold again.

One of the young men was pushed closer by the guards and said flatteringly to Li Jin:

"My lord, we have been rescued by you, and we have regained our freedom, and we are willing to follow your lord from now on, and we will never betray."

"If the adults are useful to us, we will never shirk, and we will definitely go to the knife mountain to repay the adults."

After the translator's translation, Li Jin showed a smile on his face and asked:

"Interesting, what's your name?"

"The villain's name is Kenshin Uesugi."

The guard's face was extremely respectful, and he did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Li Jin saw that this person still had some knowledge, and then said:

"In the future, you will be the leader of these people, and if you have anything, you can report to me at any time."

"Remember, I don't want these people to become a bunch of waste under your hands, I want you to drive these slaves and create value for me, that's your role."

"If one day you disappoint me and can't generate value, then your fate is no different from these slaves, understand?"

Uesugi Kenshin was overjoyed to hear that he had become the leader.

Although Li Jin's words made him a little worried, he still knelt down without hesitation and said loyally:

"The villain is the retainer of the adult from now on, and will never betray."

"Retainers?"

Li Jin was dismissive and said:

"I don't need a retainer, you want to be a retainer of the Ming Dynasty, not mine."

"From now on, you only need to be loyal to the Ming."

"Da Ming?"

For the first time, Uesugi Kenshin learned about countries other than Wajima, but this also made him yearn for Daming.

In the following days, Li Jin stayed in Iwami Silver Mountain, and after informing Xu Da of their respective situations, Li Jin quietly waited for the results of reserve detection in Iwami Silver Mountain.