After the first unfair contract was signed, the Emperor of Turtle Mountain was extremely happy.
Although he wanted to cancel the title of the emperor.
However, this was nothing much. After all, the Japanese only felt that the Emperor was a part of their territory. Every time they met the Chinese, they automatically called themselves the Emperor of the Wei Nation and not the Emperor.
Now, at most, he could not shout on his own land.
However, this was not unacceptable.
On the contrary, their gains would be extremely huge.
The first batch of Zhu Bai directly gave the Latter Turtle Mountain Heavenly Emperor a batch of iron weapons.
As for how these iron weapons came about…
Of course, he got it from the Hainan Guard.
Since he came to Japan, Zhu Bai's original plan was to occupy the Ishigami Silver Mountain and make some deals with Japan.
Those weapons that had been eliminated and broken could undoubtedly be traded.
Hence, he brought them along.
However, he did not expect that such a transaction method would actually be carried out under such circumstances.
"Your Highness, they actually agreed?”
Looking at Zhu Bai who was smiling, Xue Neng calmed down from the ups and downs in his heart. He still could not help but speak with disbelief.
"Everything has value!”
"I can give them enough value, so what's there to disagree with?”
"In fact, if I wanted to, that Wei Nation minister wouldn't mind giving up their Emperor's head.”
Zhu Bai laughed.
Then, he looked at the map in front of him.
At this moment, a huge gold mine appeared on the map.
"Let's go. We should go and see the biggest gold mine in Japan.”
He waved his hand and spoke with a smile and excitement.
"Jinkuang?"
Xue Neng couldn't help but be stunned. He couldn't react in time.
But at this moment, Zhu Bai didn't care if he could react or not.
He walked out of the temporary encampment.
It was also the moment he walked out.
Soon, a soldier ran over.
Behind the soldiers were a few excited middle-aged men.
"Your Highness, we have confirmed that there is a gold mine here!”
When a middle-aged man saw Zhu Bai, he couldn't help but speak with excitement.
"Your Highness, I'm afraid this is a rich mine. It's hard to imagine that the Wei Nation has such a rich mine.”
The other middle-aged man couldn't help but say the same.
"Good, very good!"
"Thank you for your hard work. I promised to help you cancel your craftsman status. After I return, I will report this to the imperial court.”
The corners of Zhu Bai's mouth carried a smile.
He spoke directly.
These people were naturally the mining talents he had asked for from Qiongzhou Prefecture.
Although he had the map, he couldn't possibly say that there was a gold mine there.
Moreover, the map display had its limitations. Generally, it would only show an area, so it still needed to be searched carefully.
The miners also needed it.
As for the removal of his craftsman status, he had agreed to it.
He needed all kinds of talents under his rule, so he naturally didn't mind roping in some.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
"Your Highness, thank you!"
Hearing Zhu Bai's words, the few people's expressions could not help revealing wild joy, hurriedly kowtowing in thanks.
The removal of the Craftsman's Registration was too meaningful to them.
It was so big that they could pay almost everything for it.
This excitement even suppressed their joy at seeing so much gold.
Zhu Bai didn't care much about this. As King Qiong, it wasn't a problem to cancel their craftsman's records.
In comparison.
He was more concerned about Ishimi Yinshan.
The largest gold and silver mine in East Asia was what he was concerned about.
The amount of Ishiki Silver Mountain's reserves was almost a secret in the future, and it was impossible to find out.
However, from the scattered records, one could feel how terrifying it was.
In 1533, Yoshitaka succeeded to the throne and recruited craftsmen through the Hakata merchant Kamiya Hisashi. He used the refined antimonium technology he learned from overseas to greatly increase the production of silver, so that the annual production of silver at its peak was about 200 tons.
The heyday of silver mines in the island country (the end of the 16th century? At the beginning of the 17th century, it produced about one-third of the world's silver production. Moreover, almost all of this silver was mined at the Ishimi Silver Mountain.
Just this alone was enough to show that it was ordinary.
Previously, Zhu Bai had said that he would earn ten thousand taels a year.
To the entire Ishiki Ginzan Mountain, it was like a drizzle.
200 tons of silver was 32,000 taels per ton, which was more than 6 million taels. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the ratio of gold to silver was between 1:4 and 1:5. Even if it was 1:5, it was still more than 1 million taels of gold.
And at this time, Da Ming's annual financial income was only equivalent to more than ten million silver.
The annual production of this stone silver silver mountain had almost reached one-third.
It was simply not something that could be described as terrifying.
Therefore, after the Southern Dynasty ceded this piece of land.
Zhu Bai began to build quickly.
The first thing to do was to start building barracks here.
And the port.
Soon after, the tall city walls surrounded the entire Ishigami Silver Mountain.
That's right, he was prepared to surround this area with a wall.
To the real world, this was undoubtedly a massive siege, but to Zhu Bai who had the system, the difficulty was not that great.
He believed that it would be completed within a year.
As for the barracks and port, this was to ensure that he had the ability to recruit a large number of soldiers and arrow ships from Japan at any time.
Precious metals were very important to him and the entire Great Ming.
Needless to say, in the later stages, all the stronger troops and arrow ships would need gold.
Many buildings also needed it.
This was even more so for Da Ming.
Meng Yuan's escape to the north had swept up a large amount of wealth. Currently, the entire Great Ming was extremely lacking in precious metals. Many places had even resumed bartering.
Although Old Zhu continued to use paper money, in this era, the credit of paper money was not perfect. Paper money had actually been in a state of collapse for a long time.
Under such circumstances, if they wanted to develop Great Ming, the importance of precious metals was unquestionable.
As for Zhu Bai, if he could continuously bring benefits to Old Zhu from overseas, then his development overseas would not be restricted.
Even those civil officials.
Even if he was restricted, he could just run to Australia or America.
However, having Da Ming to rely on was completely different from developing alone.
The speed at which he could improve was also incomparable.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, or if he had not developed to a certain level, he would not make such a choice.
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