Ming Dynasty: Evolution from snake to national guardian beast

Chapter 178 The dying struggle of the Japanese island daimyo

It was the first time for these people to take a sea ship, and it was very miserable to have vomiting and diarrhea on the bumpy sea.

However, as time went on, Qiu Fu and others finally recovered. At least now they were no longer so seasick, and they were even in the mood to get on the deck and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the ocean.

Stone view city.

After Bai Chu completely captured the entire Ishimi Silver Mountain, the entire county began unprecedented large-scale infrastructure construction. The first thing to start construction is the city wall of Iwami Prefecture.

In Zheng He's view, the city wall in Shijian County was not worthy of being called a city wall at all. It was simply lower than the wall of a village in the Ming Dynasty and had no defense.

Originally, Bai Chu did not plan to build the city wall. After all, the real defense is offense. With the power of the Ming army, the Japanese pirates on the Japanese island could not be the opponent of the Ming army.

Bai Chu was confident that the Ming Dynasty's navy was now invincible and there was no need to build city walls. City walls were just a self-comfort for the weak.

But both Zheng He, Qiu Fu, and even Zhu Di personally wrote letters suggesting building the city wall first.

The importance of Shijian City is self-evident. If you don't expect victory, you should expect defeat. Zhu Di has high hopes for Shijian City and cannot afford to lose anything. Helpless, Bai Chu could only plan the city wall first.

Bai Chu was a professional in urban planning. He directly converted a modern urban planning map from the system and then modified it according to it. In just half a day, Bai Chu had drawn up the entire planning blueprint of Shijian City.

Zheng He was shocked when he saw the plan drawn by Bai Chu.

Looking at the large piece of paper in his hand, and the dense markings on it, various areas of the city, even each house was carefully marked on the white paper. You know, Zheng He had never seen this kind of blueprint for designing a city since he was a child.

In the past, when building a city, at most the core area was roughly marked out. If the city was found to be too small, it could be expanded again. But Bai Chu's big move seemed to be about rebuilding the city of Beiping. Zheng Hezhi felt extremely shocked.

"Mr. Bai, isn't this a bit too aggressive?"

"Iwami Castle is just a city for Japan. No matter how well we build it, it will ultimately serve as a wedding dress for Japan."

"you are wrong!"

Bai Chu was very satisfied with the blueprint he had planned.

"Since this city has been occupied by our Ming Dynasty, it will become the territory of the Ming Dynasty from now on."

"Not only Iwami Castle, but also the Japanese islands are all indivisible territories of the Ming Dynasty. How can you say that someone else is making the wedding dress?"

"Today, the reserves of Shijian Yinshan have been proven to be 643.5 million taels of silver. This means that Shijian City will become an important gold mining city in the future." "There will be countless gold diggers from the Ming Dynasty. Coming to Ishijian City is destined to make Ishijian City prosperous."

"Moreover, Shijian City will also become the most important export city for immigrants in the future, so Shijian City is definitely more important than we imagined." Hearing this, Zheng He nodded slowly. Just a few days ago, after passing After more than ten days of hard work by three hundred miners, they finally fully ascertained the reserves of Shijian City.

This also made Zhu Di decide to continue sending reinforcements to reinforce Shijian City, because the current situation in Ming Dynasty has meant that Ming Dynasty must not give up Shijian City. This mountain of stone will become the most important cornerstone for Zhu Di and his son to usher in the prosperous age of the Ming Dynasty. He can greatly accelerate the arrival of the prosperous age of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of the future development of Shijian City, Qiu Fu and Zheng He no longer opposed Bai Chu's plan, but strongly supported Bai Chu's actions.

Immediately, Bai Chu ordered the Ming army to begin forcibly collecting corvees near Shijian City. Those who dared not to obey the corvee were directly demoted to slaves and continued to contribute to the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure operations. After all, there had been a massacre before, so Bai Chu could only let the Ming army search the surrounding areas for Japanese people.

In the end, under Bai Chu's order, more than 30,000 Japanese were captured around Iwami Castle. Basically, all men over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixty were recruited.

More than 2,000 of them tried to escape from the corvee and were directly demoted as slaves by their families, working as cattle and horses for the Ming Dynasty.

At first, Bai Chuyi wanted the Japanese to bring their own dry food, but Zheng He couldn't bear it and opened the granary in Shijian City to provide these Japanese with rice porridge subsidies for two meals a day.

In the end, Bai Chu did not stop him. After all, if so many Japanese people really starved to death, the next infrastructure plan would also be affected.

But what Bai Chu didn't expect was that after hearing that Daming would take care of the food every day, the Japanese who were originally extremely angry would actually become grateful.

This change of scene made Bai Chu a little dumbfounded.

What they didn't know was that the previous daimyo of the Miyoshi family who recruited these Japanese would not be as kind as Zheng He, and no one would provide them with two meals a day. It was natural for the daimyo to recruit Japanese people, but they were all subordinates under his rule. Why should they provide food and grass to these subordinates?

Now, Ming Dynasty's actions unexpectedly captured the hearts and minds of some people on Wajima Island, making the corvee workers in Iwami Castle more diligent and active in their work.

Most of the Ishimi City wall with a circumference of more than 30 miles has been completed in less than ten days. Only the towers and arrow towers on the wall have not been repaired, but the entire wall has been erected. stand up.

Even Bai Chu was shocked by the progress. It was really unbelievable. The slaves of Japan Island were so easy to use. No wonder the beautiful congresses in later generations would find Japan Island as their lackey. Just when Bai Chu started building Iwami Castle in full swing, the entire Japanese island was in turmoil.

The Ashikaga family summoned all their daimyo and immediately led all their troops to Luoyang, Kyoto.

For a time, the wind in Luoyang, Kyoto, was trembling, and everything was covered with soldiers. In just ten days, 150,000 soldiers and horses had been summoned, which was almost all the soldiers and horses under the Ashikaga family. Some daimyo even summoned children and elderly people from the city, just to respond to the Ashikaga family's call.

Bai Chu and others had naturally received the news, but Bai Chu didn't care.

After receiving Zhu Di's support, Bai Chu's army had reached 100,000.

Now Hakuchu is not afraid of the Ashikaga family coming to fight for him. What he is afraid of is that Ashikaga Takauji leads too few people, and he will have to slaughter them city by city, wasting time. Now that the Ashikaga family has summoned an army, it can be said that it is Baichu's solemn intention. He only needs to wait quietly for Ashikaga Takauji to come and die.

Bai Chu planned to quietly accumulate strength, wait until Zhu Di's next batch of reinforcements arrived, and then wait for the opportunity.

Zhu Di has asked Qiu Fu to tell Bai Chu that the current army of 100,000 is just a forward force, and there will be larger armies coming in the future.

It seems that the gold and silver on the Japanese island have completely attracted Zhu Di's attention. Zhu Di plans to completely eliminate the army on the Japanese island, and then occupy the magpie's nest and occupy all the Jinshan silver mines.

(End of this chapter)