The county seat (administrative center) of Izumo Province is located in Matsue Castle in Shimane Prefecture, which is not a seaside city, and is still hundreds of miles away from the sea. This is undoubtedly tantamount to self-abandonment of martial arts, coupled with the fact that you are not familiar with the road, it is easy to fall into ambush.

If he is currently leading the Shenji Battalion, even if he abandons the ship and takes the land route, Xu Jin is not worried at all, but now he only has Qiu Luan and Chen Yu, the two Adou generals, and only thirty percent of the soldiers under his command are equipped with flintlock pistols, in order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, Xu Jin decisively gave up attacking Songjiang City and turned to Datian County.

Daejeon Prefecture is a coastal city, and the most important thing is that the Iwami Silver Mine is located in the prefecture. Xu Jin's move can not be described as ruthless, Iwami Silver Mine is the lifeblood of Izumo Country, as long as the Iwami Silver Mine is controlled, Niko Qing will not be allowed to do so for a long time.

Soon, the fleet of the Ming army appeared on the sea near Datian County, and the Japanese people in Datian City were so frightened that they packed up and ran away.

The fleet of Izumo Province had been completely wiped out, so the Ming army successfully landed without encountering any decent resistance, and it only took about an hour to take Ota Castle and capture the castle lord Niko Naga alive, and then the Ming army sent troops to occupy the Iwami Silver Mine, which was located in the forest on the outskirts of the city.

The Iwami Silver Mine is the economic lifeline of the Izumo Kingdom, and it is guarded by heavy troops, so the Ming army took the Iwami Silver Mine and paid nearly a thousand casualties, however, the harvest is undoubtedly huge, as much as 300,000 taels of silver stored in the nearby warehouse, and a large number of by-products - copper, you must know that copper was also used to mint money in ancient times, and the value is quite high, and now these silver and copper are all laughed at by Governor Xu, this wave is definitely not a loss, and there is a lot of profit.

Carefully calculated, Xu Jin has already made more than 2.3 million taels of silver by sending troops to quell the rebellion this time, and it is estimated that he will net more than one million taels of silver in addition to the cost of sending troops, plus the five million taels of silver promised by Zhixin Meizi, it is simply a full amount of money, which is enough to make up for the losses caused by the siege of Alta to Daming last year.

It is said that war is a money-burning game, but if you can plunder wealth from the other side, it is a good thing to be profitable, you don't see that when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, the great powers were all full of fat brains, and it was not enough to rob, but also ceded land and paid reparations, and various unequal treaties.

There is no way, if you are backward, you will be beaten, if you want not to be beaten, you have to make yourself stronger, when you are strong enough, only you can beat others, and Xu Jin is currently doing this, so that the Ming Dynasty will become stronger and stronger, so that there will be nothing in the Qing Dynasty in the future, and the history of humiliation that was pressed on the ground by the powers and rubbed for a hundred years will not appear again.

Nizi Jingjiu and Nizi Yongheng are both core members of the Nizi family, and now they have become prisoners of the Ming army, however, Xu Jin did not kill them, but let them go, and asked them to bring a message to the head of the family, Nizi Qingjiu, and limit him to come to ask for guilt within two days, otherwise the army will come to Songjiang City.

On the afternoon of the second day, the lord of the country, Nizi Qingjiu, came with a group of subordinates and climbed on the ground, and also learned to carry a bundle of dry firewood - to bear the guilt of Jing pleading.

The lord of Izumo Kingdom, Niko Haruhisa, was about forty years old, his hair was almost shaved, and he had a handful of short hair in the middle of the person, a very typical Japanese samurai dress, he was shirtless, carrying a bundle of dry firewood, looking at Xu Jin tremblingly, looking hesitant, obviously not sure that the handsome scholar with red lips and white teeth in front of him was the famous killer Xu Jin.

"Bold, dare not kneel when you see our Governor!" Taining Hou Chen Yu shouted majestically.

It is said that Chen Yu, Marquis of Taining, miscommanded in the naval battle two days ago, causing many casualties, and almost caused the Ming army to be defeated.

Xianning Hou Qiu Luan and Taining Hou Chen Yu were originally from the Xungui group's camp, but Qiu Luan was annoyed that Chen Yu's pig teammate almost affected him, so he didn't come forward to intercede for Chen Yu, of course, even if he came forward to intercede, it was useless, because in front of Xu Jin, he had no face at all.

Chen Yu followed the troops to quell the rebellion this time in order to get credit, but the credit was not earned, but he was demoted to a knighthood, and he hated Xu Jin very much while suffering from the pain, but he buried his hatred deep in his heart, and he was more respectful to Xu Jin on the surface.

Besides, as soon as Nizi Qingjiu was drunk by Chen Yu, he immediately fell to his knees and said in broken Chinese: "Qingjiu, to Your Excellency the Governor...... Please! ”

Xu Jin glanced at Nizi Qingjiu, and without saying a word, he let people drag him down and cut him down, which frightened the rest of the Nizi family, and a few young people jumped up to resist, but they were shot on the spot and fell in a pool of blood.

In this way, the rest of the Nizi family did not dare to act rashly, and their heads were lowered and trembling.

Xu Jin said lightly: "Your head Nizi Qingjiu has a secret hatred in his eyes, not sincerely asking for guilt, but killing him." ”

Taining Hou Chen Yu couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly lowered his gaze, probably worried that Xu Jin would see hatred in his eyes, and he would collapse him with a raised hand.

Xu Jin glanced at the members of the Nizi family who were kneeling on the ground, and finally pointed to the Nizi Forever in a light manner, and said lightly: "You, you will be the lord of Izumo Country in the future, and this official limits you to arrive in Kyoto before May 20 to attend the ceremony." ”

Nizi was both surprised and delighted, he was just a side branch of the Nizi family, and he didn't think that Xu Jin would become the lord of the country with a finger, it was like pie in the sky, and happiness came too quickly and suddenly.

"Yes, I will always obey the orders of the Governor!" Nizi Yong said excitedly, his Chinese was actually good, much stronger than the dead ghost Nizi Haruhisa.

Xu Jin nodded, and then dropped a sentence lightly: "The output of the Iwami silver mine will account for fifty percent of the Ming Dynasty in the future." ”

Niko's expression froze, and she suddenly felt like she was constipated. Xu Jinjian picked it up and said coldly: "Do you have an opinion?" ”

Nizi was taken aback forever, but he was afraid that Xu Jin would break out again, and hurriedly said, "No...... No opinion, fifty percent of the output of the Iwami silver mine will go to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Although the flesh hurts, fifty percent is acceptable, and now the entire silver mine is in the hands of others, and it is already very generous to take only fifty percent.

Qiu Luan and Chen Yu glanced at each other, both envious and admired, look, this is the advantage of a big fist, what you want to open your mouth directly, if you dare not give it, you will be beaten, and you will be convinced by virtue!

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Just as the governor of Xu was in the eight sides of Izumo Province, the Third Route Army led by Feng Guoqing also reached the farthest coast of Nagao Province.

Feng Guoqing was originally the commander of Shaoxingwei, and since he followed Xu Jin to participate in the war of extermination, his official fortunes began to prosper, and now he is a hereditary earl, and he has also been promoted to the command of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Command Department.

Now, after Feng Guoqing went north to King Qin, he once again followed Xu Jin to send troops to quell the rebellion of the Wa State, and it is estimated that it is also possible to accumulate merit and seal the marquis, and the key is that there is a high probability that he will be left in the Wa State as the capital protector of the capital, and the Tiangao Emperor is far away, and he serves as the capital protector in the Wa State, which is no different from a prince.

Therefore, at this time, Feng Guoqing's mood was beautiful, and he led the fleet to the sea of Longwei Country.

The current lord of the Nagao Kingdom is named Uesugi Kenshin, and the county seat is located in Gaotian County, Gaotian City is also not a coastal city, and it is necessary to land and fight to attack Gaotian City, which greatly weakens the maritime superiority of the Ming army, and Feng Guoqing is good at naval warfare, and siege warfare is not his strong point.

Feng Guoqing obviously understood this, so when he arrived at the sea near the Nagao Kingdom, he did not immediately launch it, but sent scouts ashore to explore the way, while asking the envoy to send a letter to Uesugi Ken, limiting him to come and ask for his guilt within two days.

However, Feng Guoqing obviously does not have as much face as Xu Jin, not to mention that there is no thunderbolt method, the ghost bird is you, so Uesugi Kenshin not only did not come to ask for guilt, but also killed the messenger and hung his head on the flagpole at the head of the city to demonstrate.

Feng Guoqing was furious, and immediately led his troops to land and attack Gaotian City, a hundred miles away, and only left a thousand people to guard the ship, but fortunately Feng Guoqing kept an eye and laid a mine array around the port, otherwise it would really capsize in the gutter.

Just when Feng Guoqing led his troops to storm Gaotian City, a Japanese army that had been lurking near the left took advantage of the port that was touched at night to try to sneak attack the Ming army left behind and seize the warships here.

As a result, this group of uninvited guests broke into the mine array, and the boats and wooden rafts they were riding in were blown to pieces, and the unknown Japanese soldiers were almost frightened, so they immediately gave up the sneak attack and hurriedly withdrew.

The Ming army in charge of staying behind did not find out that someone was sneak attacking until the mine exploded, and he was frightened into a cold sweat and hurriedly got up to fight, but the sneak attack of the Japanese army had already fled with his tail between his legs, and there was a false alarm.

The Qianhu who was in charge of staying behind secretly called it a fluke, and while re-laying the mines, he sent someone to inform Feng Guoqing on the front line, who was also shocked into a cold sweat after receiving the report, and hurriedly transferred another thousand people back to defense, and the rest continued to attack Gaotian City.

Among the three armies, the hardest one was Feng Guoqing's road, which fought bloodily for eight days and paid the price of thousands of dead and wounded to take Gaotian City.

The resentful Ming army rushed into Takada Castle, and killed the people of the Uesugi family with a single effort, and the corpses were all over the place, and the blood flowed like a river. Fortunately, Feng Guoqing still remembered Xu Jin's order, and was not carried away by anger, and under his restraint, there was no tragedy of slaughtering the city to vent his anger.

Moreover, the extermination of the Uesugi family also had an unexpected effect, the neighboring Kai country surrendered without a fight, and Takeda Genshin, known as the tiger of Kai, personally ran to Wang Lin'er to surrender and plead, but he was a guy who could bend and stretch.

It's no wonder that Kai is sandwiched between the country of Long Tail and the country of Sagami, and now both countries have been crippled by the Ming army, and the country of Kai has become a sandwich with the enemy on the back of the enemy, if you don't want to repeat the mistakes of the country of Long Tail, the wisest choice is to surrender.