Chapter 264: Wajima Follow-up
Ying Tian Cheng.
Zhu Yuanzhang has been busy with the opening of the sea and the affairs of Wadao recently.
As the dust settles on Wajima, it seems that the time has come for the sea to come to fruition.
Under the planning of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to temporarily use Shanghu County and Dengzhou County as ports to open the sea.
In addition, the city shipping department was set up in these two places, and commercial taxes began to be collected from merchant ships entering and leaving.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also asked the navy to patrol the waters of the Ming Dynasty, and once someone dared to go to sea without permission, he would take it immediately.
If you dare to resist, sink it on the spot.
Therefore, Shanghu County and Dengzhou have instantly become the two most eye-catching cities in the country.
Shanghu County was originally under the governance of Li Jin, with a large number of people, and when more people poured into the city and saw the majesty and splendor of the city, they suddenly felt incredible.
In this way, under the arrangement of Zhu Yuanzhang, Shanghu County began to expand again.
Until it can accommodate millions of people, Shanghu County at this time can no longer be called a county, but should be called a mansion, even larger than the scale of Yingtianfu.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not appoint a new prefect to Shanghu Prefecture, but directly governed it himself, and Zhu Yuanzhang could only rest assured if he held it in his hands.
As the prefect of Yangzhou, Yang Xian made remarkable achievements last year, and Zhu Yuanzhang was happy.
directly promoted Yang Xian from the prefect to the second rank of the political envoy of Wajima.
However, what Zhu Yuanzhang told Yang Xian was that the manpower of Wadao needed to be imported into the territory of the Ming Dynasty for labor transportation, which was actually a disguised slave trade.
How smart Yang Xian is, this kind of thing is known as soon as he hears it, coupled with his character, he is originally very ruthless, and this time the Japanese people of Wadao are doomed to be finished.
After the island was completely pacified, Zhu Yuanzhang withdrew Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Zhu Di and others from the island, leaving only Lan Yu to guard the local town.
However, in order to reward Lan Yu's meritorious deeds, Zhu Yuanzhang named Lan Yu as the Duke of Liang Guo.
Lan Yu has waited for so many years, and finally became the top magnate in the Ming Dynasty, and the excitement in his heart is beyond measure.
However, Lan Yu still needs to wait for a few years on Wa Island, after all, all the generals have been withdrawn, leaving only 100,000 guards to be responsible for the vigilance of Wa Island, and Lan Yu is under great pressure.
Even Tang He, who was stationed in Ishimi Yinshan, was recalled by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Liu Bowen did not stay.
However, before leaving, Liu Bowen told Lan Yu not to kill too heavily on Wa Island, to attack the city and attack the heart.
It is possible to recruit servant troops on Wajima, and the Wajima people have extreme personalities, but the inferiority of the nation is also very obvious.
After Li Jin's massacre of Tokyo, the Wajima people seemed to have broken bones, and their will to resist the Ming Dynasty became weaker and weaker.
In the end, even all the daimyo began to surrender on their own initiative.
Liu Bowen asked Lan Yu to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions, and then recruited 50,000 servants locally to suppress a possible rebellion.
Lan Yu readily agreed, and Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded in agreement.
Subsequently, Lan Yu recruited nearly 80,000 people in the Saikaido and Nankai provinces of Wajima as Wajima's servants.
In the days that followed, these servant armies fiercely suppressed the uprisings of their former compatriots, and the ruthlessness of their attacks made Lan Yu stunned.
The cruelty of the means made Lan Yu breathtaking, and he felt as if these servant troops were a little psychologically perverted.
You know, those people used to be their compatriots, but they did it without any emotion, even extreme hatred, as if they were their enemies.
And Lan Yu, as the conqueror, seems to be the master of these servant armies.
After the matter of Wadao was dealt with, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered his eldest son who was thousands of miles away.
Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang began to ask Mao Xiang about his eldest son's recent situation.
But when he heard about the changes in Hepu County, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and directly shot the case, and said angrily:
"Li Jin, that dog thing, as the prefect, actually took the lead in raising the price of food??"