Empress Changsun took Jinyang back, of course she took the Changle Princess. In fact, when they came, Li Shimin thought that he would come to the big man to take a look at it and see what the difference was from nine years ago, but he still had no chance.

The main reason is that Li Tai's movements were too fast, or they did not think about how this series of actions would strike Japan.

Donglin Island has a population of only 400,000, which is only about 100,000 young and middle-aged people. Half of the women have to be abandoned, leaving only 50,000 or 60,000. However, in just a few months, Li Tai organized and trained the Donglin local army of 15,000 people.

All of them are composed of Japanese people. Their training is not behind at all. They are all connected according to the model learned by Li Tai and the others in the Han Dynasty. The military training method of the Han Dynasty is completely different from that of the army of this era, but this training method, especially the training method in the internal affairs, has absolute advantages.

That is to enforce orders. More than a thousand years later, there are so many countries around the world. Any military power must always hold on to the internal affairs of the military. For example, domestic tofu pieces, including the US military, which everyone thinks are lazy, have their absolute requirements for the internal affairs.

In fact, the results of these measures are the same, that is, the training of soldiers.

It is not difficult for Li Tai and the others to analyze such results, so Li Tai naturally began to implement such a strategy directly on Donglin Island. Drawing so many young and strong people is a huge pressure for a country with a population of 400,000, but it doesn't matter to Donglin Island because they have logistical supplies.

The food from the Tang Dynasty, oh, no, to be precise, the food from the Han Dynasty allowed them to completely ignore the influence of the transfer of these people on land and other aspects, so the situation on Donglin Island improved at a rapid pace, and Li Tai's reputation on Donglin Island had reached its peak in more than half a year.

What Japan? All ordinary people on Donglin Island don’t care at all. As for those nobles... they want to return to their previous state, but they also know that it is impossible. Even though they know that it is impossible, no one likes to seek death, let alone Li Tai gave them enough profits.

For example, they were asked to operate the goods transported from the Tang Dynasty. Li Tai did not operate these goods themselves, but handed them over to some of these nobles because they knew the nobles better, while Li Tai had only one requirement to earn more gold.

Although Japan is a country that lacks resources, Japan has a lot of gold mines and silver, so the ratio of gold to silver in their country is actually very low, at least much lower than that of the Tang Dynasty. Similarly, silver and gold are naturally not much to buy in their country as currency.

In the words of later generations, this exchange rate alone would have several times the profit, not to mention the goods themselves, in just half a year, Li Tai gathered a huge amount of wealth, of which nearly fifty tons of gold alone made!

Just a few months have passed? Fifty tons of gold are already a huge number for Japan. Li Tai's trade has used his own efforts to increase the proportion of gold to silver in the remaining capital of Japan.

However, according to their statistics, it is estimated that the amount of gold in Japan has an estimated reserve of more than 1,000 tons.

According to more than a thousand years later, about 200,000 tons of gold have been mined worldwide, but this number is inaccurate because gold has been mined for too long in human history, and no one knows how long it has been mined. Moreover, the gold reserves of many countries have not been announced to the public.

Because of its unique characteristics, gold has always been used by humans. For example, gold mined from ancient Rome and even the ancient Egyptian period may have been used more than a thousand years later, but it is simply that its purity has become higher.

In fact, the amount of gold mined in ancient times was not small at all. It is estimated that there were at least tens of thousands of tons in the world. In fact, there were not many gold mines in Japan, and there were more silver. However, according to the teacher's words, these things were truly huge outputs and had not been discovered. Now, some small outputs were found.

So much small output? What about those huge outputs?

So Li Tai is naturally constantly using trade to start plundering Japanese gold. In fact, the total amount of Japanese gold is about 100 tons. This is the figure estimated by Li Tai, because they have been buying gold at present, and people on the islands need to use gold to pay the bills if they want to buy things.

So their domestic gold has been outflowing, and some things they could sell to Li Tai were of low value, but they were more willing to let Li Tai use the goods from the Tang Dynasty to pay the bill, thinking that the goods within them could bring them more profits.

Overall, gold and silver were naturally outflowing, but what made Li Tai even happier was that the base currency used by Japan was actually the copper coins of the Tang Dynasty... This was really great. Yes, Japan had no currency before, and it was bartered or replaced directly with grain and cloth.

Their gold and silver were actually used to offer sacrifices to the Tang Dynasty. Now when Li Tai's transactions with them, they naturally accepted barter or copper coins. This was simply so beautiful to the Tang Dynasty.

The copper coins of the Tang Dynasty were still worth as much as Li Tai? Copper mines were a problem for the Tang Dynasty, but not for the Han Dynasty. In fact, after the Tang Dynasty used the silver notes in the money house on a large scale instead of large-scale transactions, almost all the copper coins that were piled in major aristocratic families had flowed into the Tang Dynasty's money house.

These copper coins are almost useless because silver notes can be circulated directly, so Li Tai doesn't mind transporting these copper coins directly to Japan.

It is used to exchange for gold and silver. Anyway, the Tang Dynasty used gold to buy things from the Han Dynasty.

In addition to these most basic trades, Li Tai also carried out another trade, a trade that should not have appeared here, that is, the slave trade. Slaves should have been strictly prohibited by Li Tai, but this was also a time of trade. The person who replaced Li Tai and traded with the other party suddenly came back to report to Li Tai. That person didn't have that many things, and he couldn't use slaves to exchange their lines.

Japan had similar trade before, and they were used to it themselves, but when Li Tai first came into contact with it, Li Tai was naturally happy when he heard the news. Do you still have to think about it? Of course, it’s changed!

Li Tai now knows very well that population is the greatest wealth.

So during this period, Li Tai has been buying a large number of slaves. After these people bought them, Li Tai was naturally directly removed from their slave status, so they naturally couldn't bear to Li Tai. Moreover, because Li Tai, no matter how big or small, both men and women, in more than half a year, Li Tai bought nearly 100,000 slaves.

He was a little suspicious that if he continued to buy it, could he buy all the Japanese country?

But in fact, the number I bought is basically the same as the limit. The nobles next door are not fools, and no one will work for them if they sell them.

In fact, Hakata Nagawa actually had an idea, which was to provoke the nobles to fight each other. As long as they fight each other, the plundered slaves would naturally be sold if they could not be solved.

However, this policy was directly rejected by Li Tai for no reason, because Li Tai did not want to continue to implement his previous policy.

Mainly, Li Tai thought too much before, and he thought that more than 10,000 soldiers in his hands could not rule Japan, but in the past six months, Li Tai had found his next direction, that is, Japan was too weak.

The entire Japanese country had only 10,000 warable soldiers, and there were 4,000 of these 10,000 soldiers scattered in the hands of different nobles across the country, and only 6,000 belonged to the Emperor.

Secondly, as the people under Li Tai continued to trade with Japan, Li Tai did not prohibit others from entering Donglin Island, because Li Tai always followed a policy that his life was good enough, so some people took the initiative to surrender. As long as there were more people here, fewer people on the other side.

Just like what his teacher did in the early stage, he refused everyone and even came to him, making sure that his conditions were very good, and then ran back to ask for someone, he also gave him the travel expenses.

Japan itself is not big, which has led to Li Tai's reputation resounding throughout Japan. This is also the reason why he trained Japanese soldiers, because he was ready to do it directly. Since it could be solved in a devastating way, he was also playing with a nonsense farming policy.

So, because Li Tai's progress was too fast, Li Shimin was so busy that he had no time to come to the big man. He had been paying attention to this matter, not just him, but Li Ke and Li Chengqian actually ran to Donglin Island. When they came, they were just for the sake of the side and helping to solve some troubles.

Japan is so weak, like the real wax and Mule Kingdom, a large number of places are not much better than Japan, such as Li Ke, who was preparing to go to, that is, the Philippines, Indonesia and other islands in later generations were mainly indigenous, and they were basically primitive society.

So they have to learn some experience, but in fact, they mainly learn Li Chengqian. Li Ke doesn't have to learn much. Most of the people there are natives. Li Ke's main goal in the future is to immigrate to the Tang Dynasty.

Less than a week after Empress Changsun returned to the Tang Dynasty, Li Tai, who was located in Donglin Island, finally made a decision to march!

Of course, this time Li Tai also looked for a good excuse. Anyway, there are so many people trading with him every day, so it is very simple for whoever messed with him. This is just an excuse. More importantly, there are many slaves here who sneaked over from the opposite side every day. These people sneaked over and thought that after they got better, they wanted to sneak back and bring their relatives and friends, or their family.

Because many people come here alone when they come here, the old and the weak will definitely not be able to come here, so when they go back, there are naturally risks. In fact, when they go back, they just say that they are Li Tai's people, and no one can stop them, but there are always people who are so blind.

Li Tai naturally had an excuse.

However, before entering the army, Li Tai announced the news to all the people in his entire territory, and went with the slogan of saving slaves. It is conceivable that everyone in Li Tai's entire territory was in full bloom, and they all fanatically supported Li Tai.

These were only the results that Li Tai achieved in more than half a year. This time, only about 3,000 Tang soldiers were sent, plus 12,000 Japanese soldiers trained by Li Tai. All of these Japanese soldiers wore cotton coats, armor, and related weapons given to them by Li Tai.

The Tang Dynasty fleet did only one thing in the strait in the northeast corner of Botao City, transporting soldiers over.

The reason why there were 3,000 soldiers in the Tang Dynasty was because Li Tai wanted to follow them. Similarly, the generals of the Tang Dynasty were also commanded by these generals.

The emperor of Japan unexpectedly began a war. Although Li Tai reported to Li Shimin, Li Shimin did not give him any advice, but let him decide for himself. The reason why Li Tai chose to attack in winter was very simple. The Japanese lacked cotton coats and their combat effectiveness in winter was far inferior to theirs.

Li Shimin also sent a copy of related news to Huo Gang. In fact, Li Tai's progress was faster than everyone imagined.

In the eleventh year of the Han Dynasty and the eleventh year of Zhenguan, not long after spring, Li Tai had already advanced and was almost approaching Namba Kyoto in Japan.

He had almost no decent resistance. There were not many soldiers close to him. More importantly, these soldiers did not have much motivation to resist. Li Tai's reputation was too high. These Japanese slaves all knew Li Tai's reputation.

Especially when Li Tai built a place, he liberated all the slaves and distributed them food that originally belonged to the nobles, and distributed them houses and fields. Almost all the slaves went crazy.

Such news almost swept across Japan under the intentional instructing Li Tai. So in just over two months, Li Tai had pushed it outside the Namba Capital of Japan. Before this, he had not encountered any resistance, and almost directly surrendered in many places.

Some nobles who did not want to surrender surrendered without hesitation after seeing a 10,000 fully armed army, and had no way to fight.

When it came to this point, the population under Li Tai had reached nearly one million, almost half of Japan's population.

Because the colder the winter in Japan the north, the less population is.

To be honest, even Li Tai did not expect that he would advance so quickly. What’s important is that because of his reputation, the land he captured did not require too many people to manage! Just after dividing the land, let them wait in place. These Japanese people are extremely well-behaved!
Chapter completed!