Chapter 142: Opening Trade Routes
By daylight, everything in Hirado had settled, and the craftsmen and their families were invited to the ship as future technicians, and food and lodging were arranged, and they were sent to the various industrial bases. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The soldiers and samurai stationed in the area were taken prisoner and pressed onto other transport ships, where they were to be sent to the newly captured Moshan Iron Mine to be absenteeism.
The local peasants were also taken away, and they were sent to the newly cultivated land in the south of Korea to cultivate the land and enrich the population.
These peasants are now very frightened, but when they arrive in North Korea, they will know the benefits, North Korea has already seen a large amount of barren land after the war in the last six months, and when the time comes, as long as they are given land, they can be stabilized.
It was also an experiment to rule Korea for a long time.
Chen Xin hoped that through the relocation of people from the two countries, the proportion of the population in the occupied areas would be disrupted, so that the two sides would temporarily have antagonistic feelings, so that it would be convenient for them to mediate and control in the middle, so as to achieve long-term peace and stability in the areas under their jurisdiction.
The Banders smashed the lock on the door of the Dutch Merchant House and entered it with torches held high.
There are a lot of things here, and the most conspicuous place is a large number of arquebuses, which I suspect are old goods that cannot be sold.
After the shogunate unified the Wa Kingdom, all the foreign treaty ports were controlled by it, and although Hirado was still the fief of the Matsuura family, the sea trade was already under the control of Hirado, which was directly under the shogunate, and the arquebus, a weapon of killing, was definitely on the list of prohibited sales.
Look closely, I found that some places of the arquebuses here are stuck with spider webs, I am afraid that the time to transport is not short, but Kanshu still ordered the laborers to carry all these arquebuses onto the ship, although the caliber and butt are different from their own standard equipment, and the seaside maintenance is not easy, some rust, but it is better than the shoddy bird guns made in North Korea, and the basic loading action used to train the militia is not bad, and some of the fine products can even be used to top the gap of the shortage of weapons.
Watching the laborers move the arquebuses away one by one, Kanshu continued to count, and there was nothing new about the rest, that is, some Japanese knives, lacquerware, sulfur, fans, etc., although I knew that these things were not easy to sell, but so many large ships were captured, these things were regarded as filling the warehouse.
Next, Kan Shu continued to search and count, dozens of large wooden boxes stacked in the corner of the wall, attracted Kan Shu's attention, carefully pried open a box, the sunlight from the gap in the window sealed by the iron railing reflected in the box, and the golden piece almost blinded Kan Shu's eyes.
Quickly closed, Kan Shu ordered a group of soldiers to personally carry more than a dozen large boxes to Chen Xin's ship.
There was another warehouse to inspect, and there were no surprises this time, all of which were medicinal herbs, spices, cotton, tin, lead, Ming silk, porcelain, and a few pieces of armor with strange styles.
After completing the relocation of the granules, Chen Xin's side sailed out with a full 50 sea ships, and the Dutch ships used soft sails, and no one on Chen Xin's side could handle them, so they could only temporarily pick out a few red hairs from the captives and let them guide the sailors transferred from other ships.
The maneuverability of the soft sails was so poor that the 20 captured Dutch sailing boats exhausted everyone.
Thankfully, a logistics base was established on Tsushima Island, and he finally returned here a few days later.
After that, things were simple, the fleet was scattered, each to everyone, with so many transport ships, Chen Xin's shipping capacity was greatly enhanced.
This made Chen Xin decide to pay off all kinds of pirates at sea in the future, because it was too profitable.
After resting for a few days and finishing all the things, Chen Xin was relieved to learn through the Eagle Falcon that the bases were operating normally recently, and all the work was progressing steadily.
The falcon was able to track Lao Bai's location through the device in his body, so Chen Xin gave an order to report once a month and contact him separately in case of emergency, and then prepared to go out of the house.
After opening up the trading channel of the Japanese Kingdom, Chen Xin also needs to find a way to open up the trading channel with Daming.
You must know that there are many people in the country and Korea, and most of the country's land is used to grow food, and the planting area of various cash crops is very small, especially now that Korea is in turmoil, and Japan has just ended the Warring States period, if you want to develop industry and commerce, these two places cannot provide enough raw materials.
Therefore, the next step is to find a way to get in touch with Daming.
"The raids on the coastal areas of the Wa Kingdom cannot be stopped, on the one hand, we must capture the craftsmen and young people, on the other hand, train the naval team, and recruit the samurai and outlaws of the Wa Kingdom in various places, these people are the main force of our next expansion and conquest."
"Rest assured, general, your subordinates will not let you down."
"Okay, now I appoint you as the head of the Wa State Detachment, and leave 50 Tiger Ben to assist you, and the people of Tsushima should pay attention to the gradual control and replacement, do a good job."
On the dock, after Chen Xin had a conversation with the person in charge of the Wa Kingdom, he left the 50 heavily armed tigers saved by the Wa State during this time, and then boarded the ship and set off.
On June 21, Chen Xin set off from Jinshi City on Tsushima Island and sailed in the direction of Daming with two fast crabs-5 equipped with 10 deck guns, loaded with two ships full of silver.
"General, what are we going to do next? Is it going to Daming Capital? ”
Chen Xin shook his head, "We don't go there, that's the key point of the Ming Dynasty, there are hundreds of warships guarding the Bohai Sea on the sea, and we don't have customs clearance documents, so it's impossible to pass there." ”
"So where are you going? Where else could there be a better place for us to open up trade routes than the capital? ”
Chen Xin only said one place: "Nanzhili." ”
There are only two fast crabs, 5, and the sailing speed is very fast, each ship hangs up the hard sails, and then the people in the bottom compartment take turns to drive the propellers, and the tigers of the whole ship take turns to drive, as if they are flying.
Coupled with the fact that there are a large number of falcons as reconnaissance units, a map that has been formulated long ago, and Lao Bai's strong ability to identify directions, Chen Xin does not need to grope along the coastline at all, and directly follows a straight line, from Tsushima Island to the mouth of the Yangtze River.
In this dangerous and abnormal situation, no one dares to adjust the course at will, Chen Xin relied on black technology to shorten the voyage that others need to take more than 1 month to 3 days, and when some navigation equipment is successfully developed in the future, then Chen Xin's fleet will be the team with the least detours in this era.
The closer you get to the Ming Dynasty, the more boats you will encounter, and when you reach the coastal area less than 100 kilometers from the coastline, there are groups of fishing boats organized by the government.
Chen Xin's two strange and extremely fast sea boats also received great attention, not only the fishermen kept wanting to watch, but also the Ming warship asked Chen Xin to stop the ship for inspection.
The officer on duty would stop to be inspected by these men, and blew a whistle at the mouth of the brass pipe leading to the bottom warehouse, and the tiger ben, who was already a little tired in the bottom warehouse, stopped, and immediately replaced himself with a group of fresh troops, and the speed of the ship immediately soared, leaving the official ship far behind.
However, the turbulence of the sea, coupled with the huge error in the chambers and ammunition of the artillery of this era, made it impossible for the guns to hit the enemy ships by more than 100 meters, let alone the improved Crab-5.
In this way, day and night, the two boats bypassed countless fishing boats, and in the evening of the third day, unknowingly, under the cover of the dark night, they quietly entered the Yangtze River channel along the Yangtze River estuary, which was built in the Yongle period, with a radius of 100 zhang and a height of more than 30 zhang.
When he arrived here, Chen Xin ordered to slow down and start camouflaging the ship, trying not to make himself and the others look too abnormal. Then I found a random port to dock, ready to find someone who knows the local area as a guide, and then move on.