On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Seongsan Port on Jeju Island, the Daemung Naval Division is about to set sail.

Lu Yu and Chen Mingde, the political envoys of Shandong Zuobu, made a final inventory: more than 3,000 craftsmen and their families had boarded the ship, and the mining tools and daily necessities were also ready.

In the past, the Japanese naval division attacked Jeju Island, and after the failure, they all fled to Ushijima, and now they have been captured by the Baoding Central Guard soldiers who were transported back by the naval division.

More than 12,000 people, almost all of whom were captured alive. The Ming army cherished these captives very much, and they were good labor for mining.

In addition, there is a backlog of nearly 40,000 captives in Hakata Port, and the sailors will take 10,000 to Sado Island first.

Seeing that there was no problem in all aspects, Lu Yu pulled Chen Mingde and instructed: "The Holy Lord moved two guards from Xuanfu and Huailai to Sado Island to defend it.

You are to transport them and their families, and the sailors are to leave 5,000 soldiers to garrison them temporarily.

Then you have to come back and transport another 30,000 Shandong refugees to Sado Island. ”

Chen Mingde was a little stunned after hearing this: "There are still 30,000 Shandong refugees? Can an island hold so many people? ”

Lu Yu gestured: "Sado Island is more than 100 miles long from north to south, and it has a long mountain range from north to south, sandwiching a plain more than 20 miles long and 10 miles wide in the middle.

Don't look at it as an island, but it is full of fertile land.

Even miners and peasant households are not a problem to accommodate more than 100,000 people.

When the time comes, you will put the two garrisons transferred from Xuanfu in the two places near the sea at both ends of the plain, and the second batch of Shandong refugees will be placed in the middle of the plain.

This time, there are officials from the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Households, as well as the Sado Prefectural Commander and his subordinates, so you can transport the people properly and let these officials worry about it later. ”

Chen Mingde nodded, then there would be no problem.

After loading personnel and supplies, the fleet of the Daming Naval Division set off in a majestic manner.

After more than a year of training, Daming Sailor has accumulated rich experience in ocean sailing.

After the fall of the Japanese sailors, the ocean transportation of the Ming Dynasty has become very safe. The fleet sailed along the northern coast of Japan, with several islands and ports to stop at along the way.

In the event of a storm, you can take shelter in the harbor in time, and the safety is greatly enhanced.

It had only been a day since Chen Mingde led the main force of the naval division to leave, and before Lu Yu had time to catch his breath, Huang Song's Guangdong naval division returned from Seoul and docked at Chengshan Port for replenishment.

Huang Song was very happy that he could finally take the Guangdong sailors back to the south, which was still a little too cold.

Tobu purchased a large amount of ginseng and other goods from Goryeo and Joseon, and had Huang Song transport them to Annam and hand them over to the governor Baekyu to sell them. After selling the purchased grain, it was shipped to Japan and sold at a high price.

In addition, Tobe also purchased 50,000 stone of grain from North Korea, and asked Huangsong to be placed on Jeju Island to wait for other ships of the Navy to be transported to Japan for resale.

Lu Yu watched the Guangdong sailors unload the grain from the ship on the port in a daze, and his face was full of helplessness: Shen Yi, Xiao Rong, and Geng Jiuchou of the household department are also too philistine, but they are all from the two lists of Jinshi, and they are not steadfast and good at collecting taxes, so they actually started a government-run trade.

After slandering for a long time, Lu Yu shook his head helplessly and expressed his understanding to Shen Yi, Xiao Di, and Geng Jiuchou.

After all, they can't be blamed entirely, before An Guogong sold 100,000 stone of grain to the Chisong clan, as soon as he casually sold it, he earned 100,000 taels of silver with tears in his eyes.

Beijing should not have received this news yet, and once the household department knows that the business is so easy to do, it will definitely become more aggressive and fanatical.

The two Beijing household departments got together, collected all kinds of taxes, carefully calculated, and tossed around for a whole year, and the total cash collection was about 4 million taels.

This is still under the condition that the emperor is selfless and transfers more than one million taels of gold and silver to the household department every year free of charge.

However, it is different for the household department to do business on its own, and it will not be able to sustain the income of 5 million taels just by selling grain, porcelain, and tea to Japan this year.

Lu Yu entered the state, thinking about it, he began to nod his head again and again: "The Holy Lord originally calculated the six departments in this way, and a few years ago, the three major weaving bureaus in Jiangnan were also assigned to the Ministry of Industry by the Holy Shang.

Now the Ministry of Industry is also happy, but let's focus on selling silk overseas.

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households are comparing to making money, and in just one year, they are addicted to making money.

The ministers of the Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and Yuanjia dynasties, who strongly opposed the opening of the sea ban and the ocean-going trade, would completely change their position, and when the time came, they would cry and cry and cry for the Holy Lord to send troops to destroy the Manjapahit, so as to recover the old port and restore control of the Western shipping routes. ”

Lu Yu looked westward, and from more than 2,000 miles away, he could imagine the faces of the misers in the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households.

After the Guangdong sailors unloaded the grain, made a good handover, and loaded the supplies, Huang Song came to bid farewell to Lu Yu.

Huang Song had to go from Jeju Island to Ningbo, then load a batch of goods from the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, and then go south along the coastal sea to Annam.

Today, the value of Jeju Island as a transit port has begun to appear.

The two most dangerous sections of the entire Oriental trade route are from Ningbo to Jeju Island and from the ports of Shandong to Jeju Island.

These two sections require a thousand miles or so on the ocean.

When the ship arrives at Jeju Island, supplies are replenished, and then it can sail along the offshore sea to the ports of Busan, Hakata, etc.

……

Sakai Port, the camp of the Ming army.

Poor Xu Heng and Jin Xing have been hiding in Tibet for several days.

The big tent of the Chinese army couldn't go back, so Xu Heng and Jin Xing grabbed the military tent of a commander and hid in it to drink tea and chat.

Jin Xing sighed while drinking tea: "This errand given by the emperor is really difficult, a group of Japanese guardian daimyo crying and shouting every day begging us to sell food, this feels weird." ”

Xu Heng echoed: "Who says it's not, the old man has been fighting for decades, and it is the first time he has seen this situation, the enemy doesn't fight, but runs to our military camp to buy food, what is this called."

Especially on the Kanto side, the combined forces of the Kamakura Shogunate, the Muromachi Shogunate, and the Kanto Shogunate were in full swing.

Now that they are all right, no one will fight, and they will all retreat to the cities and fortresses to reduce the consumption of food.

Some daimyo still have grain in their hands, but this year's drought will definitely not yield much grain in the fields.

We also have limited food, so they have to fight in advance.

He couldn't grab it when he came late, so he saved his own food and ate it, and waited to starve in the second half of this year. ”

Jin Xing replied: "We were forced by the enemy to hide in Tibet in this way, and it will be written in the history books in the future, which is also a big joke." ”

"It's like boiling eagles, stay up with them. When the main force of our sailors comes back, we will sell food again.

We occupy central Japan and are responsible for selling grain; Mining in the north and south of Japan. After the two shogunates surrendered, their wealth was confiscated, and then the Buddha was destroyed.

This war fortune has been greatly increased. Japan's oil and water is more than that of North Korea, and North Korea is just some mountain ginseng and other goods, and there are no plains, so it is not good to plant land. ”

(End of chapter)