In the blink of an eye, it's three days.

Li Jin had a rare three days of rest in Iwami Silver Mountain, and during these three days, Li Jin was resting except for checking the progress of the exploration team every day.

Since the beginning of the plan to conquer Wajima, Li Jin has been like a machine that has been spinning for a moment.

Until now, I finally had time to take a break for a while.

The slaves in the camp also slowly accepted the status quo.

If you are obedient, you will have a full meal, but if you are disobedient, you will be hung on the camp, burned to death by the sun, or even die of thirst and starvation.

For three whole days, the ears of these slaves rang with the hanging people, the miserable cries from their mouths, and the miserable state of being dried by the sun.

All this greatly shocked these former high-ranking Japanese soldiers, and it is only now that they finally realize that times have changed.

Therefore, these slaves were all honest one by one, and they no longer dared to resist the oppression of the guards, so they could only silently bear the whip in the hands of the guards.

Li Jin would never have thought of what he left for this camp in the future?

In the future, with the expansion of the Ming Navy, more and more defeated people from Wadao were sent here for labor reform, and these people became third-class slaves, that is, the lowest slaves.

Not only to be oppressed by the caretakers, but also by the first-class slaves, that is, their predecessors.

When later generations discovered the ruins of Iwami Ginzan, 100,000 bones were dug up from below, so the camp was called the Japanese concentration camp.

It was filled with bloody violence, carnage, and inhumane torture.

But now Li Jin has no interest in these, he just thinks about when he can completely estimate the reserves of Yinshan.

In the blink of an eye, it was another two days, and just when Li Jin was about to run out of patience, the good news finally came.

"My lord, I've found out!!"

An old professional miner came to Li Jin panting.

Looking at the excited and radiant look on his face, Li Jin knew that what he was going to hear next would definitely be good news.

"Under this silver mine, the silver stored can reach at least 800 million taels of silver."

"It's made, we've made a fortune this time!!"

"What?"

Li Jin's eyes suddenly widened, and there was some disbelief in his eyes.

Although he knew that the silver reserves in this silver mountain would be very rich, in his estimate, it was only 500 million taels of silver at most.

But the results of the current investigation are far beyond his imagination.

800 million taels!! It is so huge, even if a million silver is mined every year, this silver mine needs to be excavated for 800 years to be hollowed out.

And one million taels of silver is already a quarter of the Ming treasury.

The Ming Dynasty now has tens of millions of people and hundreds of millions of trillions of land, and the taxes collected as a result are only four times that of this small silver mine.

Subsequently, Li Jin remembered that this silver mine has its own 30% shares, that is, he is now a wealthy businessman worth 240 million.

240 million taels, even if it was the highest value of Heshen back then, it was nothing more than that.

Li Jin's heart was overjoyed, but then he remembered something, and asked urgently:

"Can the production of this silver mine increase again?"

"Absolutely, we've found several places that are good for mining caves."

The miner confidently replied:

"If the adults agree, we can increase the mining output tenfold, and the monthly output of silver ore can reach 300,000 taels."

"As long as there are enough people, the output will never disappoint adults."

Li Jin was pleasantly surprised, the output of 300,000 taels in a month is nearly 4 million taels a year, which is equivalent to the treasury tax of the Ming Dynasty in a year.

With such a terrifying amount of mining, Li Jin hesitated.

After all, scarcity is expensive, and if a large amount of gold and silver suddenly flows into the Ming Dynasty, it is not a good thing.

Now the Ming materials are still scarce, if a huge amount of gold and silver flows into the Ming market, it will only cause inflation.

After bowing his head and thinking for a moment, Li Jin still did not mine silver without restrictions, but chose a conservative method and said:

"First, we can triple the output to reach 100,000 taels of silver per month."

"There is no need to mine on a large scale, and there are not enough people right now."

"Whoa."

The miners hurriedly surrendered their orders.

Even if it can't be mined unscrupulously, but the silver mine will not run, and sooner or later the silver will become Li Jin's bag, just a matter of time.

Thinking of this, Li Jin immediately said loudly and arrogantly:

"Okay, brothers have worked hard this time."

"Each person will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, I hope the brothers will continue to work hard, and there will be countless silver mines waiting for you to mine."

The miner's already excited face suddenly turned extremely red, obviously unable to help himself with excitement.

knelt on his knees, didn't know what to say, just kowtowed to Li Jin to express the excitement in his heart.

Li Jin stretched out his hand to help the miner up, and then said:

"In the future, you will be the leader of these miners, and you will be responsible for managing your team."

"You can't let them be wronged, and you can't let them be proud and complacent, do things well for your officials, and your officials won't treat you badly."

After the miner leader left gratefully, Li Jin immediately wrote two secret letters, asking the herald to quickly send the secret letters to Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor who was far away in Yingtian.

Next, Li Jin began to arrange manpower to go down to the mine and collect silver ore.

With the discovery of the reserves, this mine will inevitably become a man-eating cave, because a large amount of labor is needed to work day and night for Li Jin.

Although there were only about a thousand slaves now, Li Jin thought that sooner or later it would become a new city.

Historically, cities built on mines abounded.

San Francisco is a classic example.

To this end, Li Jin arranged for people to begin to explore the surrounding terrain, intending to build a city along the mountain and build a highway.

In order to dig out the silver ore, it can be transported to the port in time, and then transported back to Daming.

These things are more tedious and are destined to be impossible to complete all at once, and can only be advanced step by step.

Just when Li Jin was preparing to build a castle, the envoy of the Ashikaga family of the Northern Dynasty had already come to Iwami Castle and wanted to ask to see the general of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Da did not come forward, but asked these people to rest at the mansion of Iwami Castle temporarily, and then sent someone to Iwami Silver Mountain, called Li Jinxiang back, and began negotiations with these people.

Xu Da understood the purpose of these people's coming, but Xu Da didn't want to participate in diplomatic matters.

Professional things have to be handed over to professional people to do, and Li Jin is naturally familiar with this, so Xu Da directly called Li Jin back and was fully responsible for solving this matter.

After Li Jin got the news, he was a little stunned.

He didn't expect the people of the Ashikaga family to come so quickly, and in his expectation, it would be possible to wait until the Northern Dynasty was beaten by the Southern Dynasty to be overwhelming.

Looking at it now, there is no shortage of capable people in the Ashikaga family, and even this person's vision is still very far-reaching and superb.

Li Jin immediately arranged the things in hand, and asked Uesugi Kenshin to take good care of the slaves and work, and not to slack off.

At the same time, he also asked the staff officer of the War Department to arrange for the nearby guards, so that there must be no mistakes and let the people in the know escape.

Finally, he asked his deputy to explore the surrounding terrain as soon as possible, and prepare to build a city and build roads.

After everything was arranged, Li Jin finally went down the mountain with Shi Shiran, ready to have a good talk with the envoy of the Ashikaga family.

Now that the Ming army has occupied Iwami Province as a foothold, it has been wedged into a nail, and the next step is to tear through the defense of Wajima.

It is enough to sow discord between the two Koreas, intensify the war between the North and the South, and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

For this negotiation, Li Jin had a bold idea in his mind, as long as it was completed, Wadao would be completely open to the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the ownership of Wajima was truly in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

As the so-called Wajima world affairs are in the Ming Dynasty, Ashikaga Zun, Emperor Daigo can only cry out in vain, who dares not to obey?