For the Ming Dynasty and even the Chinese dynasties, it is extremely difficult to obtain silver from silver mines, because the silver content of the ore in the silver mine is very low, and it takes time and effort to mine the ore, and after refining, often only a little bit of silver can be obtained.

Over time, it became common to know that silver mines did produce silver, but very little.

As little as all the silver mines in the world combined, the strength of tens of thousands of people is exhausted, and the annual silver acquisition is as little as tens of thousands of taels, as much as tens of thousands of taels, and at most more than 100,000 taels.

However, the silver mines of the Wa Kingdom can mine millions of taels every year, and there are at least hundreds of millions of taels of silver mined in the whole country, and this is just a silver mine.

Emperor Hongzhi was really frightened by this number, there is such a terrifying silver mine in this world, is this a silver mine, or a silver mountain?

So much so that he lost his voice and shouted: "How much?!" ”

"The minister said that just this silver mine can mine millions of taels of silver every year, and all of them can be mined out, at least hundreds of millions of taels."

Xia Yuan pointed to the position of the circle on the map, and repeated it again in an extremely determined tone.

Zhu Youzhu looked at him deeply, and after a while asked, "How did you know about the affairs of the Japanese Kingdom?" ”

"This, it's actually hard for the minister to say" Speaking of this, Xia Yuan was silent, and at the same time his face showed embarrassment.

How did he know, he tried to make up this nonsense, but after thinking about several reasons, he didn't think it was good, and it was impossible to say that I dreamed of it, this Hongzhi Emperor was afraid that he would not believe it, and he was suspected of insulting the emperor's IQ, and it was not too big or too small to be considered a crime of bullying the king.

So I showed this kind of embarrassment, and let the emperor think about it for himself, and it would be best to make up for it.

People tend to trust their own judgments.

Seeing that he said that it was not easy to say a word, and then he kept silent, and showed a look of embarrassment, Emperor Hongzhi's eyes were slightly condensed, and he consciously made up the answer in his brain, "Have you ever had contact with the Japanese Kou?" ”

Xia Yuan was stunned, "Wolver? ”

"Didn't you know it from the mouths of the pirates? Oh, if it weren't for the Japanese Invaders, how would you know about the Japanese Kingdom? ”

Emperor Hongzhi sighed, revealing a wise face that was holding a pearl of wisdom and had already seen everything.

"Ugh"

Xia Yuan was a little stuck, colluding with the Japanese was a big crime, but at this point, he could only bow to the ground in fear, "Your Majesty clearly sees the wisdom, the minister does not dare to deceive, and the minister will die." ”

"I don't need to die, and I didn't say that I would pursue this matter."

"Thank you, Your Majesty for your forgiveness."

"It's not that I forgive, but that I don't pursue it. Don't think about deceiving me in the future, although you and I are monarchs and ministers, we are also sons-in-law. It is human nature that children have some affection. You don't need to deceive me, as long as it's not too much, I'll protect you. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Hongzhi's face was unfathomable, "What's more, even if you hide it, how can you hide these eyes?" ”

Xia Yuan's lips squirmed a few times, but he finally chose to keep silent.

Zhu Youzhu turned his head to look at the eunuchs, the shipbuilding diagram had been turned out, and it was being held in Xiao Jing's hand, but he didn't mention it.

"What did Fang Cai's son-in-law say, did you hear it?"

Xiao Jing lowered his head, "Back to the emperor's words, the slave didn't hear anything." ”

The rest of the eunuchs also immediately replied, "The slaves and maids didn't hear anything." ”

Zhu Youzhu snorted, "Put the shipbuilding drawings on the case, and you can go out later." ”

"Yes."

Although Xiao Jing was very curious about the silver mines of this Japanese country, he always remembered the identity of his minion, and after answering, he put the shipbuilding map on the imperial case, and then led several eunuchs out of the warm pavilion.

Seeing that the rest of the people in the hall had walked out, and there were few people who were idle, Emperor Hongzhi paced over, picked up the shipbuilding diagram and looked at it, put it down again, and continued: "You have had contact with the Japanese Invaders, why did the Japanese betray their own family and country, and tell you about the situation in this kind of Japanese country?" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhu pointed to the map, "Even this map of the Japanese Kingdom has been drawn by you." ”

Regarding this question, Xia Yuan thought about it, and basically had an idea, he thought about the rhetoric, and asked rhetorically: "Your Majesty thinks that my Ming Dynasty is in trouble?" ”

"They are brutal by nature and indulge in aggression."

Xia Yuan grinned, "Your Majesty is extremely right, but why is my Ming Dynasty the most serious, like the Tang and Song dynasties, although there were also Japanese troubles, but they are not as serious as my Ming Dynasty." ”

Zhu Youzhu frowned, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was indeed the case, he had read all over the history books, and it was true that among the previous dynasties, the Ming Dynasty was the most seriously troubled.

At this moment, his appetite had been hoisted, and he didn't have the heart to think about the reason, but just asked, "Why?" ”

"Because the Wa Kingdom is now in civil strife, the scale of its civil strife is comparable to that of the Spring and Autumn Period in China."

Although there are always people in later generations who contemptuously call the so-called Warring States Period of the Wa Kingdom, where dozens or hundreds of villages fought, in fact, this is really brainless.

Not only is it black that is the Wa Kingdom, but it is also black that is China.

After hundreds of years of war, the remaining soldiers of the Japanese state can definitely be called the elite created by the war, and how many elites were sent by the Japanese state, there are records of more than 200,000, and there are records of more than 100,000.

But no matter which one is accepted, it will not be less than 150,000.

An army of 150,000 is regarded as a super-large-scale war in Chinese history, and even many times it is a war that determines the survival of a dynasty.

But he was still beaten down by the Ming army.

So you don't have to go to the Warring States Period of the Black Wa Kingdom, the territory is small, and you can't stretch your legs when you dance, but the population is large, tens of millions of people.

The daimyo who has an army of 100,000 under his command has a number of first-hand numbers.

Such a military strength may not be enough compared with the Warring States period in China, but it is enough to compare with some small and medium-sized vassal states in the Spring and Autumn Period.

"Comparable to the Spring and Autumn Period, is it so turbulent in the country now?"

"In terms of the level of war, it's even worse. The war in the Wa Kingdom happened to start when the Ming Dynasty had just established the country, and the war arose, and many people in the Wa Kingdom fled across the sea in order to escape the war. ”

Zhu Youzhu bowed slightly, revealing a sudden look, and continued: "So he went into exile in my Ming Dynasty and became a plague for this widow?" ”

"Yes."

"Then the troubles of my Ming Dynasty have stopped a little over the years, and they are far less serious than those in the period of Taizu Taizong, is the civil strife in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Japanese Kingdom about to end?"

"It's still early, now is at most a relatively intense period, and it is estimated that there will be dozens or hundreds of years after the end.

Your Majesty should know when the greatest number of people fled the war, one was at the beginning of the war, and the other was the most intense period of the war. ”

Once the story starts, the rest is easy to tell, Xia Yuan continued: "For example, the Jin Dynasty's clothes and crowns crossed to the south, the Hu people just went south to wreak havoc, and a large number of scholars and people fled to Jiangzuo, but when the Hu people ravaged for dozens or hundreds of years, there were still a large number of Han people left in the north, but not many people fled, there should be many reasons, but the minister thought about it, he should be used to the war and participated in the war." ”

"The same is true for the Wa Kingdom now, from the beginning of the war, to the present, the war has lasted for decades, and it has passed the initial stage of fleeing in large numbers, but it is not the most intense time of the war, so although there are Japanese troubles in the Ming Dynasty, they have not been able to form a scale, at most they are just sporadic riots."

(End of chapter)