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Chapter 41 Iwami Silver Mountain (Fourth More)
After the first unequal contract was signed, Emperor Kameyama was still very happy.
Although, to cancel the emperor’s honorary title.
But this thing is nothing, after all, the emperor actually only feels that he is shouting at one-third of an acre, and every time they meet the Celestial Dynasty, they automatically call themselves the lord of the Japanese country, not the emperor.
Now, at most, he can no longer shout on his own one-third of an acre.
But this is not difficult to accept.
Instead, their gains will be enormous.
The first batch of Zhu Bo directly gave the Emperor Kameyama a batch of iron weapons.
How did these iron weapons come about?
Of course, it was obtained from Hainan Wei.
Since he came to the island country, Zhu Bo’s original idea was to make some deals with the island country after occupying Iwami Silver Mountain.
Those eliminated and broken weapons can undoubtedly become trade items.
So bring it together.
I just didn’t expect that this kind of transaction was carried out in this way.
“Your Highness, they actually agreed?”
Looking at Zhu Bo with a smile, Xue Neng calmed down amidst the ups and downs, but he couldn’t help but speak in disbelief.
“Everything has value!”
“I can give them enough value, so what’s not to agree with.”
“Even if I think about it, that Japanese minister probably wouldn’t mind sending their emperor’s head.”
Zhu Bo opened his mouth with a smile.
Then he looked at the map in front of him.
At this time, a huge gold mine appeared on the map.
“Let’s go, it’s time for us to see the largest gold mine in this island country.”
He waved his hand, with a smile and an excited mouth.
“Gold mine?”
Xue Neng couldn’t help but be stunned for a while, but he couldn’t react for a while.
It’s just that at this moment Zhu Bo didn’t care whether he could react.
Stepping forward, he walked directly out of this temporary station.
And that was the moment he walked out.
Soon, a soldier ran over quickly.
Behind the soldier, there are several excited middle-aged men.
“His Royal Highness, it has been confirmed that there is really a gold mine here!”
When a middle-aged man saw Zhu Bo, he couldn’t help but speak with excitement.
“His Royal Highness, I am afraid this is a rich mine. It is hard to imagine that this Japanese country has such a rich mine.”
The other middle-aged man couldn’t help but speak the same way.
“good very good!”
“It’s hard work, this king promised you to help you cancel your craftsmanship. After returning, I will report to the court, and you will follow me in the future!”
Zhu Bo has a smile on his lips.
Speech is direct speech.
And these people in front of him are naturally some prospecting talents he wants from Qiongzhou Prefecture.
Although he has a map to show it, he can’t say that there is a gold mine there.
Moreover, the map display also has limitations. Generally, only one area is displayed, and it still needs to be carefully searched.
Prospectors are also definitely needed.
As for the removal of the craftsmanship, he also agreed.
He needs all kinds of talents under his rule, and naturally he doesn’t mind attracting some.
“Thank you, Your Highness!”
“Your Highness Wan En!”
Hearing Zhu Bo’s words, several people couldn’t help showing ecstasy, and they quickly kowtowed to thank them.
The cancellation of the craftsmanship is of great significance to them.
Big enough, they can give almost everything for it.
This excitement even suppressed their joy to see so much gold.
But Zhu Bo didn’t care much about it. As King Qiong, it was not a problem to cancel the craftsmanship of several people.
By comparison.
What he cared more about at this time was Iwami Ginzan.
This is the almost largest gold and silver mine in East Asia that he is concerned about.
The storage volume of Iwami Ginzan is almost a secret in the future and cannot be proven.
But from the sporadic records are enough to feel its horror.
In 1533, after his succession to the throne, Zidouchi Yilong recruited craftsmen through Kamiya Shouzhen, a businessman from Hakata, and greatly increased the production of silver with the refined technique of ash blowing learned from overseas, making the annual silver production at the peak of about 200 tons.
In the heyday of silver production in the island country (the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century), it produced about “1/3 of the world’s silver production”. Moreover, almost all of this silver production is mined in Iwami Ginzan.
These alone are enough to see in general.
Zhu Bo said before that he earns 10,000 taels a year.
For the entire Iwami Ginzan, it is simply a drizzle.
Two hundred tons of silver, 32,000 taels per meal, is more than six million taels. The ratio of gold to silver in the mid-Ming Dynasty was between 1:4 and 1:5, even if it was 1:5. One million taels of gold.
At this time, Daming’s fiscal revenue was only equivalent to more than 10 million silver a year.
This Iwami Ginzan’s annual output has almost reached one-third.
It’s not even scary anymore.
So after the Southern Dynasty ceded this piece of land.
Zhu Bo just started building quickly.
The first is to start building the barracks here.
and port.
Subsequently, the high city wall directly surrounded the entire Iwami Ginzan range.
That’s right, he’s going to surround this area with walls.
In reality, this is undoubtedly a huge siege, but for Zhu Bo, who has the system, it is not that difficult.
I believe it will be completed within a year.
As for the barracks and port, this is to ensure that here in the island country, he has the ability to recruit a large number of soldiers and arrow ships at any time.
Precious metals, both for him and for the entire Ming Dynasty, are very important.
He doesn’t need to say more, in the later stage, all the more powerful units and arrow ships need gold.
A lot of buildings also need it.
And even more so for Daming.
Mengyuan Beitun has swept a lot of finances, and now the entire Daming is extremely scarce of precious metals, and many places have even resumed bartering.
Although Lao Zhu continued to use paper money, in this era, the credit of paper money is not perfect, and paper money has actually been in a state of collapse.
In this case, the importance of precious metals is unquestionable for Daming to develop.
For Zhu Bo, if he can continuously bring benefits to Lao Zhu from overseas, then his overseas development will not be restricted in any way.
Even those civil servants.
Although even if it is restricted, it is a big deal for him to go to Australia and America.
But having a Ming to rely on is completely different from developing alone.
The speed that can be improved is not the same.
He wouldn’t make such a choice until he had to, or until he developed to a certain level.
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(fourth more)
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