Chapter 503: The dwarfs should pay off their debts now!
Jeon Wook was in a rather bad mood, he thought that Japan was a very wealthy place where he could feed his war with war, but in fact, the loot captured was very limited.Even if Tsushima Island is turned upside down, all the broken copper and iron are counted, it is still not enough to make up for the military expenses of Quan Xu's troops on Tsushima.I didn't see the millions of taels of silver in my imagination, but only the Japanese who were so hungry that their eyes were straight.Quan Xu has never been to Japan, but he has seen a lot of small videos shot by the media, he has played the online game of the Warring States Period, and naturally thinks that Japan is very rich at this time.In fact, Quan Xu was misled by the information of later generations, and Quan Xu's mistake directly made the General Staff of the whole family army fall into passivity, so the supplies originally planned to be transported, especially the food and food part, were completely insufficient.The next day, Quan Xu left Tsushima Island with his main warship on his seal, and handed over Tsushima Island and the subsequent offensive against Honshu Island to Yang Yandong, the commander-in-chief of the front.Although Mao Yuanyi's level is higher than Yang Yandong's and his ability is stronger than him, Mao Yuanyi was taken away from Tsushima Island by Quan Xu, the reason is actually very simple, Mao Yuanyi is not ruthless enough.Standing on the deck of the Seal, Mao Yuanyi asked with some doubts: "Master Hou, where did you get the information that the Japanese are very rich?"
”Quan Xu had no way to say that he was misled by netizens and the prosperity of Japan in later generations, he stubbornly said: "I thought that the Japanese samurai were very rich and lived a very nourishing life, and the Japanese shogunate, which had been supporting 80,000 flag samurai for many years, was even more wealthy......
Mao Yuanyi smiled bitterly: "As far as I know, Japan is not as rich as Hou Ye imagined."
It is true that Japan produces millions of taels of silver every year, but the vast majority of this silver flows into the Ming Dynasty through Hongyi, and very few of it really flows into the Japanese people.Therefore, the shogunate rarely paid their samurai with silver or copper coins, and they were all paid brown rice. ”The Ming Dynasty raised pigs from officials and the army, and the original very low salary was also discounted, and the treasure money that was too hard to wipe the butt was used to fill the number.In this regard, Japan is better than the blue.Mao Yuanyi said very seriously: "It is indeed brown rice, an ordinary warrior can receive ninety catties of brown rice every month, and these ninety catties of brown rice are all the sources of income for their family." ”Quan Xu suddenly realized: "No wonder they are so poor, with such a stingy boss on the stall, it is impossible to think about it without being poor!"
”The ancient history of Japan is a history of tragedy, and they spent more than 2,000 years telling the world what it means to say: "There is no saddest urge, only more sorrowful."
The characteristics of this ghost place in Japan are that there are many mountains and few lands, the land is barren, and agricultural production is greatly restricted.Japan lacks iron ore resources, Japan's arable land area and output have not been able to rise, Japan lacks advanced technology, and Japan lacks ......
In short, there is a lack of everything, except volcanoes, earthquakes, typhoons, and plagues.Until the Ming Dynasty, Japan still did not have its own currency, and could only obtain copper coins through trade with the Ming Dynasty.Vendors flock to the market, bronze mirrors, silk, porcelain, spices from Europe, samurai wearing two katana, one long and one short, and the exquisite pavilions and temples, beautiful landscapes, and colorful cherry blossoms, the whole of Edo is like a paradise on earth.But out of Edo is another world entirely, the Ming Dynasty is divided into one side, there are many bandits, and the yellow-faced and thin-skinned peasants endure as much as seventy or eighty percent of the tax and work hard, and they do not rest or fill their stomachs all year round, and when they fight, they have to take bamboo knives and bamboo guns to help, which is simply hell.The Japanese shogunate had 80,000 highly skilled samurai, and these samurai were the foundation of the shogunate.However, the Japanese samurai are not engaged in agriculture and business, they know how to practice martial arts or cut people all day long, and the money issued by the shogunate is their only source of income, and the most terrible thing is that these guys are all excellent and super high!
It's not hard to imagine how hard it was to raise so many samurai who didn't do anything just to eat.Naturally, the shogunate, which was also very sloppy in hand, could not afford to pay these samurai so much, so they could only use rice to offset the amount.Poverty, on the contrary, Quan Xu's "Japan Village Project" has been fully developed, he has five or six hundred daimyo appointed by himself, these daimyo naturally have no money, equipment or something, is the broken copper and iron on Tsushima Island, however, with the price of a can for a day, these new daimyo quickly recruited their own samurai.Some of them recruited three or five, some recruited seven or eight, in short, these daimyo slowly took on the appearance of daimyos.For Japan's affairs, Quan Xu didn't worry about it, he threw it directly to Yang Yandong, and Shi Lang, the hound, was also promoted by Quan Xu, because of his courage in battle and ruthlessness in killing, Quan Xu promoted Shi Lang to be the colonel chief of staff of the Taiwan Task Force, from a flag commander to the commander of more than 15,000 people.Shi Lang is not considered to have been promoted three levels in a row, but ten levels in a row.Quan Xu is gone, and Mao Yuanyi is also gone.The entire Tsushima Island began preparations before the battle against Honshu Island, not to mention that Tsushima Island was poor and did not have much food, and searched the entire island, and the rice was only more than 3,000 catties.That's right, it's not 3,000 koku, it's 3,000 catties, and these rice are still a delicacy that only Zong Zhiwu and high-ranking officials of the Shogunate have the opportunity to enjoy when they arrive.The only plausible trophies were thousands of live chickens, hundreds of sheep and hundreds of cattle, and the pirates slaughtered the chickens and stewed them in the soup, and the sheep and cattle were not spared.Often the most high-end ingredients, are the most simple way of cooking, these live chickens are killed, boiled with water, add some shrimp, abalone, almost no condiments, delicious, the meat is tender and refreshing, eat and want to eat.As for beef and mutton, everyone divided a few taels, and there was no way, the whole family army sent too many soldiers and horses, and they couldn't be divided at all.After eating and drinking enough, the Taiwan task force began to board the ships one after another, and the fleet began to sail out of the harbor and sail towards the four major islands of Japan.On the flagship of the attack on Honshu Island, there were naturally fresh mutton, fish, and hundreds of live chickens sent from Tsushima Island in Japan.Shi Lang asked people to make live chickens into white chopped chickens, and mixed spicy soy sauce for Yang Yandong to eat.Yang Yandong was a little sullen.He could see that Quan Xu was a little disappointed in the battle of Tsushima this time, not that they suffered heavy casualties, nor that the attack was not smooth, but that the capture on the battlefield was too small, far lower than Quan Xu's expectations.Seeing that Yang Yandong was a little unhappy, Shi Lang smiled and said, "General Yang has something on his mind?"
”"It's not a matter of heart, it's just that the Hou Ye ......"
"Tsushima Island is just a small island, it is already poor, and it is very normal to have no seizures!"
Shi Lang has followed Zheng Zhilong for many years and knows some about the situation in Japan: "General Yang, do you know, of course the Japanese on these islands are very poor, too remote, they can't even eat rice, and the dishes they eat are fish or fish."
However, there are many merchants and dignitaries in the Edo area of Japan, and merchants from all over the world are trading there, and countless gold and silver goods are imported and exported every year, so it can be said that they are very rich!
”"Will the Japanese get rich?""
Of course, where is not the poor dying and the rich dying?"
Shi Lang looked at Yang Yandong and said: "General Yang, you tell the brothers of the whole family army not to be discouraged, when you reach Edo, you can collect a large number of loot by grabbing a few blocks!"
The richest city is waiting for them, and there are Japanese girls with all kinds of charms......"
Speaking of Japanese girls, Shi Lang immediately thought of the Tagawa family, and dozens of Japanese women around the Tagawa family.The Tagawa clan is the daughter of Shitagawa Nanazaemon, the lord of the Hirado Domain, and you may not have much impression of the strength of this owner, and the territory of the Hirado Domain is 63,000 koku, which is about 45,000 acres.It is similar to the cultivated land under the jurisdiction of an ordinary town in the Central Plains, so it is more intuitive to understand, it is such a rich man, when he marries his daughter, he marries more than 100 people.Among them, there were twenty-seven samurai, and the rest were women.Shi Lang's status is nothing in the Zheng Group, and he is not even like Yan Keying and Zheng Cai, who can enjoy the services of Japanese women.Shi Lang said with a smile: "Speaking of Japanese girls, General Yang, you may not know, Japanese girls are also good, beautiful and gentle, very good at serving men, when the time comes, I will ask our soldiers to pick ten of the youngest and most beautiful virgins to give to you, to ensure that you are trapped in the gentle country and do not want to come out!"
”Yang Yandong was depressed in the first half of his life, until he met Quan Xu, he didn't even have a family, he said a little disapprovingly: "Then if you let a Japanese woman leave a son and a half daughter, wouldn't it be a string?"
”Unlike later generations, although the sun sets in the West Mountain, both official and non-governmental, Fanbang women have never been cold.Shi Lang smiled and said, "What's the big deal, it's just a plaything!"
”Fortunately, Shi Lang has never seen a Japanese aristocratic woman, a Japanese aristocratic woman, with white powder on her face that can't be pierced by bullets, and a mouthful of teeth blackened with dye, if she is not mentally prepared, she will definitely be scared.Of course, these are not the most important, the most important.The Ming Empire lit up its iron fist and smashed it into Japan.Although the development of firearms has matured, the Japanese samurai are still in the stage of heads-up before the battle, and they are confident in their katana.In fact, the samurai of Japan were far behind the times in this era.Yang Yandong stood on the deck, looking at the port that was getting closer and closer, and the flames of hatred burst out in his eyes.In the past, you have always attacked us and plundered us, and now I have come to your lair with more than 10,000 troops, and we have not forgotten what you have done.Now, boys, pay off your debts!
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