Chapter 436 Splitting the Silver Mountain, Hibiscus Branches
It took only three months to pacify Liao and Goryeo, but it took almost a year to restore production in Liaodong.
In order to stabilize Liaodong, Guo Rong moved 100,000 people from Shandong to Liaodong. Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, with large tracts of land and fertile soil. Although the climate is cold, it can survive in winter with kangs and coal balls.
At this time, Li Chongjin had also found cotton from the Western Regions. With cotton, the problem of keeping warm was easier to solve.
In order to attract the people, Guo Rong gave a lot of policies. A family of soldiers in Liaodong could be allocated 500 acres of land, and ordinary immigrants could also be allocated 200 acres of land.
Although the land here can only be planted once a year, 200 acres is enough for a family of five to live a good life. For those soldiers, in addition to 500 acres of land, they were also allocated forest farms and pastures, and all soldiers would raise horses.
As long as there is no problem with the 16,000 soldiers, there will be no problem with the land in Liaodong.
In addition to the Khitans, there are also Bohai people and Goryeo people in Liaodong. The number of Han people is not dominant, but the Han people occupy the best land. As long as ten or twenty years pass, the number of Han people will increase rapidly.
At that time, this place will completely become the land of the Han people.
After stabilizing Liaodong, Guo Rong sent people to sail to Dongying. The distance from Goryeo to Dongying is very close, and there is no problem with the current navigation technology.
Guo Rong did not send a large army directly, but went there in the form of a caravan. Let them collect information about Dongying while recording the hydrological conditions along the way.
Guo Rong did not intend to use too many troops to conquer Dongying this time. About 50,000 people will be enough.
At this time, Dongying was in a state of fragmentation and limited strength. Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Dongying people at this time were not as good as those of Dazhou, let alone Goryeo.
Richard discovered when he was in Dongying that except for those warriors who had armor, ordinary soldiers were all wearing a piece of clothing and a spear cut from bamboo.
Even the armors of the warriors were mostly made of bamboo and leather, with only one iron plate on the chest. This kind of weapons and equipment was no match for the Zhou army.
Guo Rong had the army stationed in Liaodong for a year to sort out the situation here, while on the other side, Zhao Kuangyin also began to lead the army to cross the sea to attack Japan.
The Central Plains army's cross-sea attack shocked Japan, especially after seeing the Central Plains army's overwhelming attack, Japan was no match at all.
The emperor and ministers of Heian-kyō formed an army in a hurry. At this time, the Japanese were short, and 1.5 meters was tall. The soldiers in front of the Zhou army were generally over 1.7 meters tall, just like a father beating his son.
The bows and arrows in the hands of the Japanese were mostly made of bamboo, and they shot bamboo arrows. Facing the armor of the Zhou country, this kind of arrows could not even be considered an itch.
A battle ended in just an hour. The 30,000 Japanese troops fled in dismay, and the battlefield was full of Japanese corpses. The remaining Japanese were frightened and fled in all directions.
Zhao Kuangyin did not give them any chance at all and sent out cavalry to pursue them. The cavalry here in Japan are short and have poor load-bearing capacity. They are called war horses, but they are not as tall as donkeys.
It is good to be able to run 300 steps in a charge, and the tall horses of the Central Plains Dynasty rushing out are totally unimaginable for them.
The army rushed forward and broke through Heianjing in one battle. The Japanese king did not even have a chance to escape and was captured directly. Zhao Kuangyin sent the captured king back and began to eliminate the resistance forces in Japan everywhere.
Even for convenience, Richard made a plan to directly pull tens of thousands of Koreans from Goryeo, give them simple weapons, and then let these Koreans fight with the Japanese.
These Koreans lived worse than slaves when they were in Korea. The noble families of Goryeo oppressed the lower classes more harshly than the Central Plains. Now Richard sent these Koreans to Japan and directly allocated land to them. As long as they could kill those Japanese, they would get land rewards.
This order was like a chicken blood shot for those Koreans. In order to obtain land, these Koreans fought very bravely and were very suitable as vassal troops.
The Japanese court was prepared to spend 20 years to migrate 100,000 to 200,000 people here. It would also migrate 100,000 Koreans, 100,000 Khitans and 100,000 Bohai people.
500,000 people coming here would be enough to suppress the Japanese.
After defeating the Japanese, Japan could no longer organize tens of thousands of troops to attack. Richard also began to send people to Iwami to look for silver mines at this time.
There are many silver mines in the island country, but the largest silver mine is the Iwami Silver Mine, which is also one of the purposes of Zhou's attack on Japan.
The court sent a large number of prospecting craftsmen to Iwami to explore the location given by Richard, and soon discovered the silver mine vein. Mining silver mines requires a lot of manpower, and the simplest way is to capture Japanese people to come and mine.
So Zhao Kuangyin changed the purpose of the war, began to capture a large number of Japanese people, and then sent these Japanese people to Iwami Silver Mine for mining.
Originally, the officials sent by Zhou State to mine silver mines thought that the Japanese people would be difficult to manage, but after using them, they found that these Japanese people were actually very happy to mine.
This surprised the officials, but Zhao Kuangyin knew the reason very well. Because these poor people at the bottom of the Japanese were not regarded as human beings at all.
Even when they were cannon fodder in the war, they could not eat enough. But after they came to the mine, they could actually eat enough. It has to be said that the powerful nobles in various places are surprisingly consistent in not being human.
These poor people at the bottom are cannon fodder in the eyes of those people. Since they are cannon fodder, they will naturally not be allowed to eat enough, not to mention that they are worried that these cannon fodder will run away after eating enough.
When they arrived at the mine, because mining is heavy physical labor, they can't dig much if they don't eat enough. Therefore, the officials here let these miners eat enough. At the same time, in order to encourage them to mine actively, the officials also gave some meager rewards, such as more silver mines, they can have fish and meat to eat, and even captured a lot of women from Japan and sent them here.
This made the Japanese miners feel that this place was simply too good. Although the work was hard, they could eat enough, have meat to eat, and work more, and have women to sleep with.
They actually felt happy on such days.
As expected, happiness is all about comparison.
Guo Rong didn't care about these. He was more concerned about the output of the silver mine. After using the latest silver smelting technology, the silver mine quickly became regular. After a large amount of silver was smelted, it was transported back to the country by ship.
Then the silver would be sent to the Baoquan Bureau to be pressed into silver coins. These silver coins will eventually be circulated by the court in various ways.
In the end, there was a steady stream of silver coins on the market, and the court's money shortage was temporarily solved.
When Guo Rong's army conquered Japan, Richard also went to Japan. At this time, there were still a large number of monsters, onmyojis, etc. in Japan. Richard directly attacked these monsters and onmyojis.
He captured a large number of onmyojis and monsters, and then let these onmyojis and monsters withdraw from the secular world. Richard's strength made those Japanese monsters and onmyojis very dissatisfied. So a large number of monsters and onmyojis joined forces to deal with Richard.
The result is naturally needless to say, these monsters and onmyojis were directly crushed to death by Richard.
Even the Buddhist sect in Japan wanted to intervene. The monks in Japan were more extreme than those in the Central Plains. The monks here not only had a lot of land, but they could also get married and have children. Richard would not tolerate these monks.
The red lotus fire fell from the sky, and thousands of monsters, Yin Yang masters, and monks were burned to ashes by the red lotus flames. The whole of Japan was in panic. It was at this time that these Japanese monsters and Yin Yang masters knew how powerful Richard was.
Therefore, a large number of monsters began to stop and hide in the mountains, while those Yin Yang masters wanted to pretend to be compliant and wanted to lie dormant temporarily, and then come back after Richard left. But Richard didn't give them a chance at all.
Richard directly released the constructed golem to attack and wiped out those Yin Yang master families. At the same time, he began to clean up those evil monsters in Japan.
This time, Richard forcibly divided Yin and Yang to cut off the connection between humans and monsters.
After he came to Japan to clean up the Yin-Yang Masters and monsters, the fox demon sent him a message asking for help. After hearing the fox demon's call for help, Richard was surprised to find that the fox demon had actually fought with Yamata no Orochi.
What surprised Richard even more was that the Fuso branch was actually in the hands of Yamata no Orochi.
After seeing the Fuso branch, Richard immediately decided to snatch it back. How could such a divine object fall into the hands of a foreign monster. From the fox demon, Richard also learned that Yamata no Orochi was able to revive because of the power of the Fuso branch.
The Fuso branch means that dead wood will come back to life. Although the sun's true fire on it is extremely powerful, it is also the source of power for all things to grow. Yamata no Orochi was successfully resurrected by relying on the Fuso branch.
Richard originally thought that the Fuso branch was just fake news from the fox demon, but he didn't expect that the news was actually true.
So Yamata no Orochi was in trouble. He thought he was very powerful, but when facing Richard, all eight of his heads were smashed to pieces by Richard, and he was dead. As soon as he took out the Fusang branch, it was snatched away by the phoenix next to him.
The sun's true fire on the Fusang branch was very strong. Even Yamata no Orochi had not refined the Fusang branch for hundreds or thousands of years, and it was very inconvenient to use it. As a result, it was directly grabbed by the phoenix with its claws.
Richard directly killed Yamata no Orochi's body, and then grabbed its corpse hard.
——【Soul Extraction! 】
——【Soul Binding! 】
A golden light appeared, and the next second, Yamata no Orochi's ferocious soul was forcibly extracted by Richard. Then another golden light flashed, and golden chains bound Yamata no Orochi's soul.
The next second, a golden light flashed, and Yamata no Orochi's soul was instantly shattered, and then a powerful force extracted all the fragments of Yamata no Orochi's soul into a gem.
A soul crystal gleaming with golden light fell into Richard's hands.
[The violent soul of Yamata no Orochi! ]
"A high-level legendary soul crystal, a good harvest, and this Yamata no Orochi has five points of divinity!" Richard put the soul crystal into his pocket with satisfaction.
After killing Yamata no Orochi, Richard directly used the gourd to put the body of Yamata no Orochi into it.
After dealing with Yamata no Orochi, Richard picked up the Fusang branch to check. It was not as big as the Fusang branch, and the thickest part was only 30 centimeters. The branch looked like a mulberry tree, but there was a burning flame on it.
After getting close, Richard could clearly feel the amazing heat on the branch and the powerful power contained in it.
"Sun True Fire!" Richard carefully picked up the Fusang branch. The flame on it made him feel pain.
These sun true fires were not ignited. If they were ignited, the surrounding ten miles would probably be reduced to ashes.
Richard kept exploring the hibiscus tree and soon found that the hibiscus tree was not dead. No, it should be said that it was not completely dead.
There is a dormant vitality hidden deep in the hibiscus branch.
After the hibiscus branch was broken, the vitality on its branch was hidden, so the hibiscus tree looked like it was dry.
After noticing the hidden vitality, Richard showed a touch of joy on his face. Although a hibiscus tree is precious, it is not irreplaceable, but if this hibiscus tree still has vitality, it will be different.
Having vitality means that this hibiscus tree can continue to be planted. If the hibiscus tree is successfully revived and begins to take root and sprout, then this hibiscus tree is likely to grow into a new hibiscus tree.
Richard is going to plant this hibiscus branch in his sub-plane world. Fusang wood represents the power of the sun. With Fusang wood replacing the sun, the sun and moon in the sub-plane world will be complete.
At that time, the growth of the sub-plane will become faster.
After collecting the Fusang wood, Richard left Mount Fuji. Yamata no Orochi was hiding in Mount Fuji. After dealing with Yamata no Orochi and those Yin-Yang masters, no one and monster dared to violate his orders.
Richard wiped out all the ghosts and monsters in Japan alone. The next step depends on the power of the people ruled by the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Guo Rong adopted the same method and set up a Fubing system in Japan. Moreover, the Fubing here is like a group of manor nobles.
There is no way. Relying on this technology, if you want to firmly control Japan, you must leave a strong enough army here.
And Japan is far away from the Central Plains. If you want those people to immigrate, you must give them enough benefits. So Guo Rong took out a lot of land as a reward to attract those soldiers to stay here as Fubing.
At the same time, the court also formed a powerful navy. With the support of this navy, the Central Plains can completely control Japan. Such a fleet will land anywhere near the sea, and the Japanese will never have a chance to turn things around.