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Chapter 436: Splitting Silver Mountain, Fusang Branches

It took only three months to pacify the Liao Kingdom and Goryeo, but it took almost a year to restore production in Liaodong.

In order to stabilize Liaodong, Guo Rong moved 100,000 people from Shandong to Liaodong. Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, with large tracts of land and fertile soil. Although the climate is cold, people can survive in winter with kangs and coal briquettes.

At this time, Li Chongjin had also found cotton from the Western Regions. With cotton, the problem of keeping warm was easier to solve.

In order to attract the people, Guo Rong introduced a large number of policies. A family of soldiers in Liaodong could be allocated 500 acres of land, and ordinary immigrants could be allocated 200 acres of land.

Although the land here can only be cultivated once a year, two hundred acres are enough for a family of five to live a good life. As for the soldiers, in addition to the five hundred acres of land, they are also allocated forest farms and pastures, and all the soldiers raise horses.

As long as there is no problem with the 16,000 soldiers, there will be no problem with the land of Liaodong.

In addition to the Khitans, there are also Bohai people and Goryeo people in Liaodong. The number of Han people is not dominant, but the Han people occupy the best land. In just ten or twenty years, the number of Han people will increase rapidly.

By that time, this place had completely become the land of the Han people.

After stabilizing Liaodong, Guo Rong sent people to Japan by ship. The distance from Goryeo to Japan is very short, and there is no problem with the current navigation technology.

Guo Rong did not send a large army directly, but sent a caravan to collect intelligence from Japan and record the hydrological conditions along the way.

Guo Rong did not intend to use too many troops for this expedition to Japan. About 50,000 would be enough.

At this time, Japan was in a state of fragmentation and had limited strength. Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese at this time were not as good as those of the Great Zhou, let alone those of Goryeo.

Richard discovered when he was in Japan that except for the warriors who wore armor, the ordinary soldiers only had a piece of clothing and a spear made of bamboo.

Even the armors worn by the warriors were mostly made of bamboo and leather, with only one iron piece on the chest. This kind of weaponry was no match for the Zhou army.

Guo Rong had the army stationed in Liaodong for a year to sort out the situation there. On the other hand, Zhao Kuangyin also began to lead his army across the sea to attack Japan.

The Central Plains army's cross-sea attack shocked Japan greatly. Especially after seeing the Central Plains army's unstoppable attack, all parts of Japan were no match at all.

The emperor and ministers of Heian-kyō hastily assembled a large army. At that time, the Japanese were short, and only 1.5 meters tall was considered tall. Facing the soldiers of the Great Zhou army who were generally over 1.7 meters tall, it was like a father beating his son.

The bows and arrows in the hands of the Japanese were mostly made of bamboo, and they shot bamboo arrows. Facing the armor of the Zhou Kingdom, these arrows were not even enough to tickle them.

The battle was over in less than an hour. The Japanese army of 30,000 fled in panic, and the battlefield was littered with Japanese corpses. The remaining Japanese were frightened and fled in all directions.

Zhao Kuangyin did not give them any chance and directly sent out cavalry to pursue them. The cavalry here in Japan are short and have poor load-bearing capacity. They are called war horses, but they are not even as tall as donkeys.

It was already good enough for them to be able to run 300 steps in one charge, but the tall horses of the Central Plains Dynasty charging out was something they could not even imagine.

The army charged forward and captured Heian-kyo in one battle. The Japanese king did not even have a chance to escape and was captured. Zhao Kuangyin sent the captured king back and then began to eliminate the Japanese resistance forces in various places.

For the sake of convenience, Richard even came up with an idea to directly bring tens of thousands of Koreans from Goryeo, give them simple weapons, and then let these Koreans fight the Japanese.

When these Koreans were in Korea, they lived worse than slaves. The noble families of the Koreans oppressed the lower classes more harshly than the Central Plains. Now Richard sent these Koreans to Japan and directly allocated land to them. As long as they could kill those Japanese, they would get land rewards.

This order was like a shot of chicken blood for the Koreans. In order to gain land, these Koreans fought very bravely and were very suitable as vassal troops.

The Japanese government planned to spend 20 years to relocate 100,000 to 200,000 people here, as well as 100,000 Koreans, 100,000 Khitans, and 100,000 Bohai people.

Five hundred thousand people coming here are enough to suppress the Japanese.

After defeating the Japanese, they could no longer organize tens of thousands of troops to attack. Richard also began to send people to Iwami Province to look for silver mines.

There are many silver mines in the island country, but the largest silver mine is the Iwami Silver Mine, which is also one of the purposes of Zhou Kingdom's attack on Japan.

The imperial court sent a large number of prospectors to Iwami to explore the location given by Richard, and soon discovered the silver vein. Mining silver requires a large number of people, and the easiest way is to capture Japanese people to come and mine.

So Zhao Kuangyin changed his combat purpose and began to capture a large number of Japanese people, and then sent them to the Iwami Silver Mine to mine.

The officials sent by Zhou to mine silver originally thought that the Japanese would be difficult to manage, but after using them, they found that these Japanese were actually very happy to mine.

This surprised the officials, but Zhao Kuangyin knew the reason very well, because these poor people at the bottom of the Japanese society were not considered human beings at all.

Even as cannon fodder in the war, they could not get enough to eat, but after coming to the mines, they were able to eat enough. It must be said that the powerful nobles in various places were surprisingly consistent in not being human.

In the eyes of those people, these poor people at the bottom of society are just cannon fodder. Since they are cannon fodder, they will naturally not let them eat enough. What's more, they are worried that these cannon fodder will run away after eating enough.

When they arrived at the mines, because mining was hard physical labor, they could not dig much if they were not well fed. Therefore, the officials here made sure that the miners were well fed. At the same time, in order to encourage them to mine actively, the officials also gave them some meager rewards, such as fish and meat for those who dug more silver, and even captured many women from Japan and sent them here.

This made the Japanese miners feel that this place was simply great. Although the work was hard, they could eat enough and had meat to eat. If they worked harder, they could even have women to sleep with.

On this day, they actually felt happy.
It turns out that happiness comes from comparison.

Guo Rong didn't care about these things. He was more concerned about the output of the silver mine. After adopting the latest silver smelting technology, the silver mine quickly got on track. A large amount of silver was smelted and transported back to the country by ships.

Then the silver would be sent to the Baoquan Bureau to be pressed into silver coins, which would eventually be circulated by the imperial court in various ways.

In the end, there was a steady supply of silver coins appearing on the market, and the court's money shortage was temporarily resolved.

When Guo Rong's army conquered Japan, Richard also went to Japan. At that time, there were still a large number of monsters, Yin Yang masters, etc. in Japan. Richard directly attacked these monsters and Yin Yang masters. He captured a large number of Yin Yang masters and monsters, and then made them withdraw from the secular world. Richard's strength made those Japanese monsters and Yin Yang masters very dissatisfied. So a large number of monsters and Yin Yang masters joined forces to deal with Richard.

Needless to say, the result was that these monsters and Onmyoji were directly crushed to death by Richard.

Even the Buddhist sect in Japan wanted to get involved. The monks in Japan were even more extreme than those in the Central Plains. The monks here not only owned a lot of land, but they could also get married and have children. Richard would naturally not spoil these monks.

Red lotus fireworks fell from the sky, and thousands of monsters, Yin Yang masters, and monks were directly burned to ashes. The whole of Japan was in panic, and it was at this time that these Japanese monsters and Yin Yang masters realized how powerful Richard was.

Therefore, a large number of monsters began to stop and hide in the mountains, while the Yin and Yang masters wanted to pretend to be submissive and lie dormant for a while, and then come back after Richard left. But Richard didn't give them any chance.

Richard directly released the constructed golem to attack and wiped out those Onmyoji families. At the same time, he began to clean up those evil monsters in Japan.

This time, Richard forcibly divided yin and yang, isolating the connection between humans and demons.

After he came to Japan to clean up the Onmyoji and monsters, the fox demon sent him a message asking for help. After hearing the fox demon's call for help, Richard was surprised to find that the fox demon actually fought with the Yamata no Orochi.

What surprised Richard even more was that the Fuso branch was actually in the hands of the Yamata no Orochi.

After seeing the root of the hibiscus branch, Richard immediately decided to take it back. How could such a sacred object fall into the hands of a barbarian monster? From the fox, Richard also learned that the Yamata no Orochi was able to be resurrected because of the power of the hibiscus branch.

The branches of the hibiscus tree represent the rebirth of dead trees. Although the true fire of the sun on the branches is extremely powerful, it is also the source of power for the growth of all things. The Yamata no Orochi was successfully resurrected by relying on the branches of the hibiscus tree.

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Richard originally thought that the Fusang tree branch was just fake news from the fox demon, but he didn't expect that the news was actually true.

So the Yamata no Orochi was in trouble. He thought he was very powerful, but when facing Richard, all eight of his heads were smashed to pieces by Richard, and he was deader than dead. As soon as he took out the Fuso branch, it was snatched away by the Phoenix next to it.

The solar true fire on the Fuso branches was very strong. Even the Yamata no Orochi had held the Fuso branches for hundreds or thousands of years but had not refined it. It was inconvenient to use and was eventually grabbed by the Phoenix with its claws.

Richard directly cut off the flesh of the Yamata no Orochi, and then grabbed its corpse with force.

——【Soul extraction! 】

——【Soul Binding!】

A golden light appeared, and the next second, the hideous soul of Yamata no Orochi was forcibly extracted by Richard. Then another golden light flashed, and golden chains bound the soul of Yamata no Orochi.

The next second, a golden light flashed, and the soul of the Yamata no Orochi was instantly shattered. Then a powerful force extracted all the fragments of the Yamata no Orochi's soul into a gem.

A soul crystal that sparkled with golden light fell into Richard's hands.

[The violent soul of Yamata no Orochi! ]

"A high-level legendary soul crystal, a good harvest, and this Yamata no Orochi still has five points of divinity!" Richard put the soul crystal into his pocket with satisfaction.

After killing the Yamata-no-Orochi, Richard directly used the gourd to put the Yamata-no-Orochi's body into it.

After dealing with the Yamata no Orochi, Richard picked up a branch of the Hibiscus tree to inspect it. The branch was not big, and the thickest part was only 30 centimeters. The branch looked like a mulberry tree, but there was a burning flame on it.

After getting closer, Richard could clearly feel the amazing heat on the branches and the powerful force contained therein.

"The sun is really hot!" Richard carefully picked up the hibiscus branch. Even he felt the pain from the flames.

The true sun fire has not been ignited. If it were ignited, the area within a radius of ten miles would probably be reduced to ashes.

Richard continued to investigate the hibiscus tree and soon discovered that it was not dead. No, it should be said that it was not completely dead.

Deep within the branches of the hibiscus tree, there is a dormant vitality.

After this hibiscus branch was broken, the vitality of the branch was hidden, so the hibiscus tree looked dry.

After sensing the hidden vitality, Richard showed a hint of joy on his face. Although a piece of hibiscus wood is precious, it is not irreplaceable. But if this hibiscus wood still has vitality, it would be different.

Having vitality means that this hibiscus tree can continue to be planted. If the hibiscus tree successfully recovers and begins to take root and sprout, then this hibiscus tree is likely to grow into a new hibiscus tree.

Richard was going to plant this hibiscus branch in his sub-dimensional world. The hibiscus wood represented the power of the sun, and with the hibiscus wood replacing the sun, the sun and moon in the sub-dimensional world would be complete.

At that time, the growth of the sub-plane will become faster.

After putting away the Fuso wood, Richard left Mount Fuji. The Yamata no Orochi was hiding in Mount Fuji. After dealing with the Yamata no Orochi and those Onmyojis, no one and no monster dared to disobey his orders.

Richard single-handedly wiped out all the ghosts in Japan. What happens next depends on the power of the people who rule the Great Zhou court.

Guo Rong adopted the same method and set up a military system in Japan. Moreover, the military here were more like manor nobles in comparison.

There is no other way. If you want to firmly control Japan by relying on this technology, you must leave a strong enough army here.

Since Japan is far away from the Central Plains, if you want those people to immigrate, you naturally have to give them enough benefits. So Guo Rong took out a lot of land as a reward to attract those soldiers to stay here as soldiers.

At the same time, the imperial court also formed a powerful navy. With the support of this navy, the Central Plains could completely control Japan. Such a fleet would land anywhere near the sea, and those Japanese people would have no chance to turn over.

(End of this chapter)