Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 623 It Has to Be a Rebellion
So Yinshan is just a pretext.

The original intention of banning the sea has never changed.

From the initial defense against Japanese pirates, it has changed to the current Ming Dynasty's struggle with the aristocratic families and pirates along the southern coast.

The so-called forbidden sea is the rule of the ancestors. In fact, this rule has been changing.

Regardless of the rules, this is the result of Daming's failure to compete for Haili.

On the one hand, Daming has no way of controlling maritime trade rights, so after the opening of the sea, the sea will fall into a situation that is more difficult to control, and the status of the government-run port will decline rapidly, so that Daming can't even keep the sea in his hands.

On the other hand, another part of the forces that control the interests of maritime trade will not allow Daming to open the sea.

Now it's not the emperor and the people competing for profit, but the small people will compete with them for profit.

The stable situation at sea will be destroyed by a large number of small people flooding into the sea.

This money is not earned by everyone.

The game is monopoly.

The most helpless thing is that if Zhu Youjian wants to break this situation, he really has to play monopoly, so as to drive other monopoly players. Only when they expand outward and ignore the little interest under their noses, can Xiaomin get a little Take advantage of loopholes to survive.

The attack on Iwami Yinzan was much easier after a Niulu crossed the river.

Under the cover of artillery fire, they survived the attack of the shogunate army. Under their cover, the Black Banner Army built a pontoon bridge overnight, and the army crossed the river and entered the opposite bank the next day.

Set foot on Mt. Yataki Shiro.

Immediately afterwards, they fought with the shogunate army in the mountains. In the afternoon, the shogunate army retreated but ambushed the black flag armored troops in front with explosives, causing a lot of casualties.

But since then, the shogunate army has no gunpowder visible to the naked eye, so they can only fight back with bows and arrows, and are timid to fight close to the black flag army.

After consecutive defeats, a lot of losses, and being battered by artillery bombardment, the fighting spirit of the shogunate army plummeted.

In the evening of that day, the forward of the Black Banner Army saw the mine of Iwami Yinshan and many buildings and residences in the valley.

The place was small, and the shogunate army forced the local miners to join them in resisting. The Black Banner Army did not attack at night, and they really kept watch all night, and even arrested a dozen black flag armored men who had strayed into the valley without authorization.

At dawn, they beheaded the armored men to boost their morale, and they were defeated in less than half an hour.

During the two-day battle, Black Flag beheaded 2 people and captured more than [-] people. The remaining [-] shogunate troops fled to the Yoshinaga Domain in the north.

Zhu Youjian naturally came to inspect the silver mine.

"One million pennies?"

"A total of 20 guan and 790 liuwen silver, but this was from last year, and this year's mining went smoothly, so, so there may be more."

Both the mine foreman and the boss were bet on both sides, and they answered with a smile carefully.

Zhu Youjian was quite satisfied with the answer, and ordered the black guard in front to get out of the way so that he could see more of the dark mine.

"Just write an annual output of 150 million taels of silver."

"Whoo."

Naturally, this number was to be passed back to Liaodong, and then to Daming.

And that's not an exaggeration.

When the output of Iwami Silver Mine was the highest, the annual output was 38 tons of silver, which was one million taels.

Even if Japan's own silver is produced and there is a large silver depositor in East Asia, Ming Dynasty, the value of silver depreciates, and the value of Iwami Silver Mine is extremely terrifying.

Now the annual output is converted into silver, which is about 40 million taels.

"Very good, mining can't stop, let's work as usual! If you don't have enough manpower, just raise it."

Black Flag is not short of manpower or troops.

It's just not very useful.

Among the soldiers who recruited and surrendered, the elite became armored men, and the samurai class surrendered and sent them to the Black Association Army in the south. They are all Japanese and it is easier to communicate with them. Even if there is turmoil, it will not affect the Black Flag headquarters.

Those who do not surrender are naturally coolies, and they do everything in the rear to build roads and bridges, and the samurai are not immune. Of course, it is also possible to find a way to pay for redemption.

After all, the banner class on the Black Flag side also had to maintain the dignity of the noble knight class.

After inspecting the silver mine, Zhu Youjian lived in Ishijian Yinshan.

Let the soldiers under your command see the silver dug out of the silver mine and smelted, and then reward some silver, which can increase morale.

By the way, give Kato Akitomo another chance. After all, he has never fought Black Flag head-on, and what he leads is only a small feudal clan. It would be good for everyone to surrender directly.

It would be even better if the shogunate army who had been defeated many times on the opposite side could vote together.

It is only that little distance away from Osaka, as long as the shogunate army makes a gap in this long and narrow island country, then Zhu Youjian would dare to lead the troops directly to the Japanese capital of Kyoto.

While waiting for the messenger to reply to the letter, a ronin was arrested by the black flag sentry.

Sanada Shouxin finally sent back news.

Seeing Zhu Youjian, the Ronin trembled like chaff, knelt down and shrank, not daring to look up.

This is all due to Zhu Youjian's physique that is different from ordinary people. He has not played many battles, but he has already gained a notorious reputation among the people as "the king of evil spirits with black flags". Wearing armor with three arms and one eye, and drawing a bow with three arms, as long as he sees it with one eye, he will be shot no matter where he hides.

Ronin regretted it very much when he thought that it was meal time when he came.

I was even more scared when I was brought in and saw that there were small tables all around.

"Prepare a table for him too."

As soon as Zhu Youjian spoke, the Ronin found himself on the table, not on every table, but on a separate table in the corner of the big tent full of warrior generals in gorgeous and solid armor.

Being flattered for a while is not enough to describe his mood.

"Okay, let's talk while eating! Let's put aside the matter of Shikoku Island, Ichiro Nakata, I haven't read the letter yet, let's talk about the recent situation of your first army."

"Hi, hi!"

Ronin knelt down on the spot: "Master Shouxin robbed the shogunate army's food delivery team in the first battle, and then robbed the military convoy transporting weapons, and captured a castle town in the Tottori domain! At present, there are tens of thousands of soldiers !"

"Very good, get up and eat!"

"Hi!"

The food at the headquarters of the Black Flag is better than that of the Heixie Army, so Zhu Youjian and the other generals eat better.

The ronin is like eating dragon liver and phoenix marrow, and weeping intoxicated on his face without knowing it.

The generals in the hall couldn't help laughing.

Zhu Youjian was a little disappointed.

Sanada Mamoru's rebellion is a bit too small.

1 people really can't make a fortune, and according to the internal structure of the rogues, it is not bad that 1 of the 1000 people can really fight.

But he didn't expect that news from the enemy's rear came from the sticky pole that afternoon.

Information within and behind the enemy has always been a big problem.

A group of black-casting Japanese people were quickly trained at the sticky pole, and they were frantically urged to infiltrate for a while, and now they have finally achieved some results.

There is no surprise here for Sanada Shoshin, but Otake Heihachi's Ichikui armed uprising is quite impressive.

(End of this chapter)