Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 622 It's time to talk about interests

This time Wang Chengen was finally able to go into the sea himself.

For this reason, he boarded a boat after leaving the Nanjing Imperial City, lived on the river, and entertained guests on the river.

In name, he went to Guangzhou to buy firearms and cannons at the order of Emperor Longwu.

In recent years, the firearms produced by the Nanjing Industrial Zone are the best in the Ming Dynasty, and they are exclusively used for the front lines. Originally, if such excellent firearms were in the hands of the Ming army, it should not be a problem to put down a thief.

But right.

Even when the firearms left Nanjing, they also drifted away.

Coupled with the fact that the payment issue has not been resolved, the Ming Dynasty and the Western Thieves are still in a stalemate. Even though the Ming Dynasty has a large army, it is really difficult for them to make a difference in Shu in the face of the Daxi Dynasty, which was in the early stage of the regime and was very stable internally. .

This time, in order to go south, Wang Chengen spared no effort to demote a wave of firearms produced by his own factory, and went to Guangzhou to bring some 'advanced' ones back to improve and imitate them.

The reason is false, but the voyage is true.

It's just that in the eyes of Ming officials and gentry, Wang Chengen's trip is still because Guangzhou and Guangxi are suitable for planting sugar cane, and the sugar factory needs to be relocated.

Talking about business clearly.

As soon as Wang Chengen boarded the ship, merchants from Guangzhou began to visit.

After repeated visits, the largest shareholder of Guangzhou's unbuilt sugar factory, 'Liu Dashanren', naturally spread the word.

It just happened to get together with the 'Li Dashan' who was used by Prince Daming when he donated under the pseudonym.

No, Liang Yu, the commander of Jinyiwei, also boarded the ship, and Xia Shanhu, the chief reporter of Sun Moon News, was as bold as ever.

"The next issue of the weekly magazine will be interesting!"

"He is a green-skinned ruffian who doesn't know how to behave, dare to go to the door of the prince, just wait and see, he will be beaten out in a while."

Impossible to type out.

Wang Chengen warmly greeted the two of them to sit down, took out a small box from the left and right sides of the screen.

"I've read them all, but I still keep a copy. You must keep the list in your majesty's letter. Jun Yang, Ming Gong probably won't be able to leave. The only thing we can do is see if you can fight for a trip to Bashu. The old man is about to travel to the west, and the affairs of the capital will be supervised by Ming Gong!
Also, His Royal Highness Prince Yong also needs to be careful. His Royal Highness King Song is in charge of the black and yellow flag to attack Daxi. He must not only protect the thief general, but also prevent His Royal Highness Yong Wang from being affected by the war. When the time comes, cooperate with the sticky pole. Let the two Highnesses meet, yes, yes, the gift to the son of His Highness Prince Yong must not be forgotten."

These three were the only ones staying in Nanjing.

Wang Chengen, who was in charge of affairs, wanted to leave, and Liang Yu couldn't stay, and the remaining You Shoulong left Wang Chengen's big boat shaking his hands.

Now that he has gone down the mountain, Lord Tiger, he will be the secret leader of the Eunuch Party, the godfather of Nanjing's underground world, and the most fearless reporter in the newspaper office.

This is not.

Immediately there were people who couldn't bear it and ran over.

"Master Tiger! Tell me more! What did Wang Qiansui say?"

"Go away! You'll know when the next issue of the weekly magazine comes out! Hey! Lord Tiger won't say anything, but Lord Tiger will be greedy for you! What Wang Qiansui said is not a big deal! There will be bigger ones in the next issue! It came from the Japanese country overseas thing!"

Naturally, the major event cannot be the matter of Iwami Silver Mine.

The news couldn't have spread that fast.

The matter of the Black Flag landing on Kyushu Island was published in the last weekly magazine, and there was just a quarrel within Daming over whether or not to send troops to save Japan.

In the end, because the rebellious son of the Wa Kingdom is not like North Korea, he has had many ties with Daming besides paying tribute in the past century, and has also donated a lot of money to the lords of Daming.

Plus the current Daming doesn't have that ability.

So the matter of sending troops was shelved. After all, it was a tributary country. If the suzerain country gave up directly, the other tributary countries would inevitably look bad when they knew it, so they could only shelve it.

But right now, Shi Jianguo was indeed being attacked by the Black Banner Army.

Zhu Youjian led and replenished a large number of servants. An army of more than [-] troops marched northwest through the Hiroshima Domain.

In the end, the shogunate army and Iwami's garrison were forced to gather in one place, barely gathering 4 people, and confronted each other on both sides of a large river about [-] meters wide in the south of Iwami Yinshan.

"Build a floating bridge!!"

Without planning to make a detour, Zhu Youjian ordered logging to build a bridge directly relying on the lack of decent heavy firepower on the opposite side.

Then sit on a high place and look at the mountains on the opposite side.

Iwami Yinshan, a silver mine located in an overseas tributary country, is one of the main sources of silver in China.

In addition, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, the sea overlords, formed a silver import line from America, to Europe, and then to Ming Dynasty.

Daming also insisted on relying on foreign silver to prop up the trading system and financial system with silver as the base currency.

This financial system is chaotic and inefficient, and its benefits have already been fully understood.

Most of the silver comes from overseas, so whoever controls the sea power of foreign trade in Daming basically controls the right to mint coins and the ability to control the economy.

This is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty banned the sea and only set up a few government-run ports for foreign trade and export.

Compete with the aristocratic families that have already occupied the profit chain of the sea trade, ensure the official operation of the sea trade, ensure that the sea trade can be completely under the supervision of the Ming court, and suppress the smuggling trade.

Hold the minting power in your hands.

Obviously Daming failed.

And Iwami Ginzan did not reduce production as severely as Zhu Tianxing said. There was a reduction in production, which started 50 years ago, but Iwami Ginzan was mined until after the Meiji Restoration, and it was not completely closed until 1943.

And there is not only one silver mine in Wa country, but other mines besides silver mines.

The copper mines that Daming lacked are also found here.

"Master, half of the pontoon bridge was set on fire by the Japanese army."

Zhu Youjian was looking at the mountain, and Zhu Tianxing sent bad news beside him.

The place where Ishijian Yinshan is located is surrounded by a semi-ellipse by this big river. If you want to make a detour, you have to go around a long way, and the bridge on the river has almost been destroyed, and the remaining bridge looks like an ambush .

"Continue to build, go around a little farther to build, and send another Niulu across the river at night."

"Whoo!"

The news sent back to Liaodong stated that Iwami Yinshan had been captured, and it also focused on describing how exaggerated the silver produced in this place was, and also exaggerated the amount of imported silver in Ming Dynasty.

It is almost enough to post all of Daming's overseas silver profits on this silver mountain.

In addition, the copper mine has to be brought along for a while.

The core point of the full-text compilation of the newspaper article is to write about how easy it is to fight the black flag and how rich the harvest is. The local products of the Japanese country are poor, the soldiers are weak and the people are poor, but they enjoy a lot of rich minerals.

Do you understand overseas treasures?

The order is on the way, and it will be published in the newspapers in Liaodong in half a month.

Let alone a river right now, even if the shogunate army on the opposite side is doubled, the river is filled with magma, and Zhu Youjian has to fight over it.

And this set of exaggerated words had already been spread among the Black Banner Army, which made them very excited. Looking at the hills across the river, they were panting, and some even prepared shovels and so on.

Get ready to cross the river and find a good place to start digging.

Naturally, the recruited Japanese auxiliary soldiers could not know the output of the silver mine. It had nothing to do with them who ate carrots and yams three times a day and could not earn much money all year round.

So after they heard the news, they were very excited.

(End of this chapter)