The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 83 Meeting the Needs of the Ming Dynasty for Hundreds of Years
The reason why Zhu Ying is so familiar with the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Mainly because of a special place: Diaoyu Island.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Yang Zai of the Ming Dynasty went to Ryukyu as an envoy, and found and landed on Diaoyu Island on the way.

The earliest historical records that later generations have seen to record the names of places such as Diaoyu Island and Chiwei Islet is "Songfeng Xiangsong" written in the first year of Yongle.

Since the tributary system started in the fifth year of Hongwu, and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Ryukyu Kingdom has always been the darling of the Ming Dynasty's tribute.

The Ming Dynasty had strict requirements for paying tribute, not only limiting the number of tributes, such as one tribute every two years and one tribute every three years.

Including tribute roads, there are also tribute roads specially set up for pilgrimage.

In terms of the number of people, it is currently limited to less than 200 people.

For example, during the Tumu Fortress Change in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, during the orthodox years, Wala actually sent more than [-] people to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps because there were too many people, Daming "rewarded less than usual".

It is precisely because of "rewards that are not as usual", Wala believes that this is an impolite and provocative behavior, which triggered the Tumu Fort incident the following year.

But the current Ryukyu Kingdom is backward and barren, bowing down to the Ming Dynasty and only looking forward to it.

This attitude aroused Zhu Yuanzhang's favor, and gave a lot of preferential treatment to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Because of its backwardness and barrenness, the Ryukyu Kingdom did not have the ability to build seagoing ships, so Ming sent the ships directly.

However, due to the lack of tools to maintain seagoing ships, after the Ryukyu Kingdom arrived in Daming many times, seagoing ships were damaged, which made them unable to go back due to embarrassment, so they could only ask Daming for help.

The Ryukyu Kingdom also has unique native products. Because of the volcanic landform, the Ming Dynasty mainly obtained military supplies such as sulfur for making gunpowder and horses for land transportation.

Products from Southeast Asia, including some sumac, pepper, and frankincense, also appeared in the tribute materials to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ryukyu Kingdom is not unified now, but has three countries: Shannan, Zhongshan, and Shanbei.

Because it was too barren, when paying tribute, the envoys of the three countries also set off together.

In order to suppress the collusion between Japanese pirates and residents in the coastal areas, Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban policy.

After the sea ban was implemented, Ming was faced with the problem of finding a fixed overseas trade channel that could replace local merchants to provide products from various countries to Ming.

Among the many tributary countries, Zhu Yuanzhang chose Ryukyu, which has special geographical advantages, making Ryukyu the only transit point connecting Ming Dynasty with East Asia and Southeast Asia's maritime trade.

That is to say, Daming gave Ryukyu the benefits that originally belonged to the merchants of Ming Dynasty.

This is why throughout the entire Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has been severely attacked by Japanese pirates.

Among them, coastal smugglers and merchants, the loss of maritime trade benefits can only be recovered continuously by colluding with Japanese pirates.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang and Ru Yu were very clear about the situation in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Ru Yu frowned and said, "The Wa country is like Ryukyu. It's a small country with few people. It's barren and far away from the East China Sea. What's the point of conquering it?"

"Now that I, Ming, support Ryukyu, it will be possible to make Ryukyu compete against the Japanese kingdom in the future. After containment, the trouble of Japanese pirates will naturally be eliminated."

His Majesty was here, and Ru Yu didn't hide it, and directly expressed the thoughts of the court.

The current support and preferential treatment for Ryukyu, the main idea is to let Ryukyu grow up and replace the status of Japan.

This policy has indeed been well implemented. Later, Ryukyu once suppressed the Japanese country in terms of comprehensive national strength, and developed maritime trade, known as Jinliang of Wan Guo.

As a vassal state, Ryukyu is extremely loyal to Ming Dynasty, or in other words, has always been loyal to the entire land of China.

Since Hongwu became a vassal state in the fifth year, it lasted for 500 years. Even if the Ming Dynasty perished and the Manchu Qing ascended the throne, they did not stop paying tribute.

Until the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom forced the Ryukyu Kingdom to stop paying tribute to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and use the Wa Kingdom Year Name instead.

Then it was announced that Ryukyu was abolished and set up as a prefecture, and the so-called "Ryukyu Disposition" was completed. Ryukyu was forcibly merged into the Wa Kingdom and Okinawa County was established. So far, the Ryukyu Kingdom fell.

Zhu Ying listened to Ru Yu's meaning, pondered for a moment, and then told the news that there are gold mountains and silver mountains all over the territory of Wa Kingdom.

However, this not only did not arouse Ru Xun's favor, but subconsciously wanted to sneer.

But Ru Xun soon realized that the person sitting next to her was His Majesty, so she quickly suppressed her sneer, but her facial muscles trembled.

Then he said: "Young Master Zhu, don't take offense. I once spent three years in Japan as the envoy Zhao Liangbi of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. There is no mountain of gold and silver like what Young Master Zhu said."

Hearing this, Zhu Ying was a little embarrassed.

He didn't have the slightest impression of Zhao Liangbi's mission to the Wa country, and thought that Daming had no understanding of the Wa country.

Subconsciously looked at the old man, only to see the old man turned his head away.

Obviously, the old man is also aware of this matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang has read a lot of books. When he was humiliated by the Japanese country, he ordered to collect all the records about the Japanese country. He is not as strange as Zhu Ying imagined for the Japanese country.

The reason why he didn't refute Zhu Ying directly is that Zhu Yuanzhang estimated that the grandson's face would hurt his self-esteem if he directly pierced it.

Ru Yu was already extremely skeptical about Zhu Ying, so naturally she didn't think so much about it.

Iwami Yinshan was only discovered at the end of the Meng and Yuan Dynasties and began to be mined.

Moreover, due to the underdeveloped survey technology, Iwami country in the current Wa country does not know that Iwami Yinshan will have such a large reserve.

200 years later, during the heyday from the sixteenth century to the first half of the seventeenth century, Waguo silver accounted for about one-third of the world's silver production, most of which came from Iwami Ginzan.

Among them are not only silver mines, but also mineral veins such as chalcopyrite, pyrite, and galena have been discovered in the development room.

After the embarrassment was over, Zhu Ying pondered slightly, and said, "Shang Ru doesn't know about it. I got the news from overseas fan merchants. At present, a huge silver mountain has been found in Shi Jianguo in the territory of Waguo."

"Among the Fan merchants, there are those who are good at surveying ore veins. They initially judged that the silver ore content is extremely huge. It is appalling, and it can be called the most I have seen in my life."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words, a flash of understanding flashed in his eyes.

He sort of understood why Dasun cared so much about conquering the Japanese kingdom, it turned out that it was because of the discovery of the Yinshan vein.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly. After all, the eldest grandson was still limited to the status of a businessman and pursued too much profit.

But a mere silver mountain, could it be compared with the silver mountain in Daming?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help asking: "Sun, please tell me in detail, how much silver can be produced by the Yinshan Mountain?"

Zhu Ying said indifferently: "Ishijian Yinshan in Japan is enough for the Ming Dynasty today, and it can be used for hundreds of years."

Hearing this, Ru Yuan froze immediately.

Zhu Yuanzhang even stood up and asked: "The grandson's words are serious!"

Zhu Ying replied calmly: "It's absolutely true. As early as a few months ago, I sent my confidants to confirm again, and there is absolutely no falsehood."

"Even my confidants came back to report that the reserves of Yinshan are only higher than the previous estimate."

(End of this chapter)