Shen Zhou led the fleet into Edo Bay, then swept the coastal cities around Edo Bay with thunder, and then defeated the Chiba clan, who had sneaked into attacking him, and finally had to choose to surrender, other nearby forces

Seeing the strength of the Ming army, everyone was so scared that they dared not move, and even gave the women money to seek peace.

Shen Zhou also refused all those who gave gifts to him. He took all the gifts and handed them over to the military supervisor in the fleet, and then distributed them to the military supervisor in the name of the court.

They are also selling their subordinates' hearts, but they can only be done by the supervisors representing the court. If Shen Zhou rewards his subordinates without authorization, it would be suspected of being ill-behaved.

After accepting these gifts, the fleet under Kanzhou was indeed quiet for a while, but after Kanzhou and Lee Anliang settled down Edo Castle, they immediately began to expand. First, the Ota clan, closest to Edo, suffered a catastrophe.

It is said that the cause of the disaster was that Shen Zhou wanted to take Ota's daughter as a concubine, but the other party was unwilling to do so, so Shen Zhou used the excuse that his dignity was insulted, so he angrily launched an army to destroy Ota's family. As for the daughter of Ota, he was also

I became a maid when I received it.

After destroying the Ota clan, the Ming army began to border the emerging Hojo clan. At this time, the Hojo clan had just been founded by the head of the family Hojo Saiyun, occupying Izu and Sagami. Moreover, the family's power was in an upward period. If it were not

With the arrival of the Ming army, the Hojo clan would annex Musashi and the Sekisuo countries in more than ten years, and become the overlord of the Kanto region. Although the Hojo clan does not have the power in the future, among the several clans near Edo, it is

It is also a first-class force.

However, it is a pity that although the Hojo clan has great prospects, the development process was interrupted by the arrival of the Ming army. After the Kage Zhou destroyed the Ota clan, he immediately sent troops to a slight and slight dilemma.

The Hojo clan was defeated within a few days, and the Sagami Kingdom also fell into the hands of the Ming army.

However, after controlling most of the areas of Sagami and Musashi, Kanju did not send troops on a large scale. Instead, he slowly invaded the Shimoto-ku region bordering Edo by eroding. This was the one that was defeated by Kanju before.

The territory of the Qianye clan. They dared not speak out for the invasion of the Ming army, and could only give in.

It was also during this period that Li Anliang finally came forward. He began to recruit Japanese people in the name of the Ming Dynasty to form a vassal army. After all, as they occupied the territory in Japan expanded, the army they brought soon became a little stretched, and even

In addition, the same is true for those 10,000 Korean troops, so it is imperative to recruit local Japanese people.

Speaking of Japan after years of war, the people in China were also living in poverty. Although Edo is not the political center of Japan, it is often threatened by war, such as the Hojo clan and the Uebin clan. They also fought endlessly.

Countless Japanese people were displaced because of this, and Japanese people who died of hunger could often be seen on both sides of the fields and on both sides of the road.

It was also the case in Japan that when Li Anliang released the news that he wanted to recruit soldiers, the army could not only have enough food, but also had military pay. Although the military pay of the minion army could not be compared with the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, it was even more important to have a lot of money.

It cannot be compared with the Korean army, but it also supports the family. The other Japanese clans cannot be compared with the Ming army at all, because their army is only responsible for providing food to the soldiers and has no military pay at all.

The generous reward plus three meals a day is much better than the Japanese soldiers who only eat two meals a day. In addition, the Japanese in this era do not have any concept of family and country, so when Lee Anliang released the news of recruiting servants

Afterwards, countless Japanese people flocked to Edo City, hoping to join the Ming Dynasty's servant army as soon as possible, so that they would not have to starve themselves, but also had a full meal at home.

However, although there are many people who sign up, the conditions for Li Anliang's recruitment are also very harsh. First of all, the Japanese minions only recruit people over 16 years old and under 40 years old. Of course, those who have martial arts or have been on the battlefield are preferred. However, this

Everything has a prerequisite, that is, those who sign up must have a family, and after entering the minion army, they must move their family to Edo and live together. This is mainly to ensure the loyalty of the Japanese people, after all, Shen Zhou

They were far away from the Ming Dynasty and they did not want to recruit Japanese troops to fight back, so when those Japanese were fighting outside, their families were hostages.

Those Japanese thought it was normal for the harsh conditions that required family members to be the quality. After all, the Ming army provided such generous conditions, of course it was impossible for everyone to accept them. In order to ensure the loyalty of the soldiers, the family moved to the vicinity of Edo.

It is also the most effective method, so even if the conditions are harsh, it cannot stop the Japanese people from having enough food. This makes Li Anliang's recruitment work very smoothly. In just three months, he has recruited 50,000 Japanese people.

Soldier.

However, compared with those Japanese who entered the Servant Army, there were more Japanese people eliminated. For these eliminated Japanese people, Li Anliang discussed with Shen Zhou for a while and established them outside the Servant Army in accordance with the principle of not being wasted.

There is a public security army. These public security army have no regulations on the number of personnel and do not require many personnel, but their treatment is very different from that of the minion army.

For example, the minion army uses three meals a day, using standard equipment provided by the Ming Dynasty, and there is still military pay per month, but the security army can only eat two meals a day and there is no military pay. As for weapons and equipment, it can only be used.

Some of the weapons that were about to be scrapped were eliminated by the Ming army, but they didn't even have military uniforms. They stood together in colorful colors and looked pitiful.

However, even so, the Japanese who were able to enter the Public Security Army were still very excited. After all, the Public Security Army is also a place to eat. Compared with other clan troops, the food in the Public Security Army is much stronger.

You can also eat enough, unlike other clan troops, who might have a few meals one day.

What makes the security army even more happy is that their name is the security army. Generally speaking, they don’t need to go to the battlefield. They are usually only responsible for the security situation in various places. At most, they will be dispatched to deal with robbers such as robbers.

It can be said that it is very safe to wipe out the army. Unlike other clan armies, God knows when they will lose their lives on the battlefield?

Li Anliang recruited so many Japanese troops at once, and the food and money they spent was not a small amount, and the logistics pressure was also great. However, Shen Zhou and others were the navy and had a special grain transport fleet. As long as there was not enough food, the ship would be

The team would transport food from the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the regular army of the Ming Dynasty ate rice and flour, while the Japanese army ate dried sweet potatoes and corn flour.

With the promotion of sweet potatoes and corn in the Ming Dynasty, these two grains have now become flooded. However, the more this happens, the stricter the control of these two crops will be made. All sweet potatoes and corn shipped outside the Ming Dynasty will pass through.

Processing ensures that a seed cannot be allowed to fall on foreign land.

Of course, it is unlikely that the Ming Dynasty would completely eliminate the outflow of corn and sweet potatoes. After all, this thing has been promoted nationwide, and the Ming Dynasty’s control over the border is not so strict, so it will be a matter of time before it is spread, but the Ming Dynasty has already

Warnings are issued to neighboring countries that anyone who planted these two crops without the Ming Dynasty's consent will inevitably arouse the anger of the Ming Dynasty, and then wait for the Ming army to attack.

The dried sweet potatoes and corn flour shipped by Shenzhou and others were produced in the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula. The land of these two places is fertile, and the yield of sweet potatoes and corn is very large. I want to process them into derivative products such as vermicelli, but this

The market for product-like products has long been seized by Taiwan and other places where sweet potatoes and corn were first grown, so some places later were worried about so many sweet potatoes and corn. Fortunately, Zhou Chong needed a lot of food to immigrate overseas, so he gave it to Shandong.

Find a good sales channel with Liaodong and other places.

It is precisely because of the support of two high-yield crops, sweet potatoes and corn, that Li Anliang dared to recruit soldiers unscrupulously in Japan, and he didn't have to worry about how to feed these Japanese people. This is the benefit of too much food in the Ming Dynasty, but too much food.

Sometimes it is not necessarily all good things. For example, the Ming Dynasty is now facing some problems with too much food. The most significant impact is that it becomes a bit difficult for Zhou Chong to migrate the people of the Ming Dynasty from the country.

With too much food, a large amount of food was stored in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, even if there is a famine, there is no need to worry about food. As long as the local officials have a little conscience and open the granary during famine, the victims can

Through the famine safely, and for the traditional Ming people, as long as they can have food at home, they will stay at home with peace of mind, even if they are poor at home, they are unwilling to risk going overseas such as wild and wild

land.

Therefore, under this circumstance, the number of disaster victims moved from the Ming Dynasty every year was decreasing. According to the estimates of officials of the Governor's Office, no more disaster victims would be moved out in the Ming Dynasty within three years at most.

Zhou Chong was very helpless about this result. Sometimes he even wondered if he had known that the people in the Ming Dynasty would no longer move out due to the effects of corn and sweet potatoes, would he still offer sweet potatoes and corn?

Give it to Zhengde? However, Zhou Chong's final conclusion has not changed. Even if he had known this, he would have offered corn and sweet potatoes. After all, he would not have watched so many people in the Ming Dynasty every year due to hunger.

die.

There is still a large amount of land waiting for the Ming people to develop overseas, but Zhou Chong's immigration work is now facing the above major problem, which has forced Zhou Chong to change his original immigration strategy and use another method to immigrate.
Chapter completed!