Chapter 1810 Commanding Asuka Kyo
When Wang Xuance's urgent report reached Fang Jun, the first batch of miners from the Jiangnan area had already arrived on the ship.
In fact, as long as the sea surface is not frozen, sailing is faster in winter. In addition, there is an ocean current flowing northeast along the northern part of Honshu Island in the Korean Strait, so the boat speed is faster!
The miners of the Tang Dynasty were naturally a hundred times smarter than the slaves plundered from the Japanese kingdom. They first dug and explored where the gold mines were found, and then found a large number of wild onions and hollies around them. Then they searched for these two plants all over the mountains and plains. A hole was drilled a short distance away for exploration, and within a few days the entire gold mine was explored.
This amazed Fang Jun. Can you find gold mines if you find wild onions and holly?
However, the facts convinced him that it was probably because the gold and silver veins would cause the soil to contain trace elements, which were beneficial to the growth of specific plants. This explanation was still very scientific.
Sure enough, the old miner with a gray beard and a strong body told him that under normal circumstances, there is a high probability of copper ore and tin ore under ginger plants, silver ore under wild onions, and gold ore under wild holly... Although it is not 100% accurate, where there are these plants does not necessarily mean there are mines, but as long as there are mines, these plants will definitely grow on them.
Fang Jun was amazed. The wisdom of his ancestors simply made him dumbfounded and amazed.
The old miner was even more excited. A gold mine of this size had never been found in Datang. Not only was the reserve large, but it was also of good quality. Mining was even easier. All you had to do was lift a layer of mountain skin and dig down. Cave is an ore rich in gold. With a little smelting, you can get gold of excellent quality.
There is even a silver vein that exists as an associated ore of the gold mine, and the reserves are several times that of the gold mine...
The old miner concluded that even if all miners from the Tang Dynasty were recruited to this gold mine, it would be enough to exploit it for decades or even hundreds of years!
Fang Jun frowned slightly. If it weren't for such a big mine, he might not be able to remember it. If he only had three melons and two dates, he wouldn't have the trouble to take advantage of it...
It's easy to find the veins. You don't have to stick to one mine to dig into the ground. As long as you dig a few mines along the veins, you can mine at the same time, speeding up several times.
This is a huge amount of wealth, and no one dares to take it away, otherwise even Fang Jun will be destroyed. Therefore, he had already sent people to Chang'an to write down the specific circumstances of the matter in the memorial and presented it to His Majesty Li Er for his inspection.
The Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty was established to serve the "East Datang Company". Now it is discovered that this gold mine naturally belongs to the name of the "East Datang Company". His Majesty Li Er holds the majority of the shares, and Fang Jun is the second The second largest shareholder, and other major families in Guanzhong also have shares to a greater or lesser extent. It is conceivable that when this news reached Chang'an, countless people were delighted and their dreams were filled with dazzling gold...
As for spreading such a distance, Fang Jun didn't feel bad at all.
The saying "If you want to take something, you must give it first", let those aristocratic families know that following the emperor's footsteps will bring countless benefits, which will be more and faster than the wealth they have accumulated for generations. In this way, even if the emperor's Governance affects their interests, and as long as the method of boiling a frog in warm water is not too violent, they can only endure it.
Otherwise, if the emperor gets angry and stops playing with you, how much loss will it cost?
The most important thing is that the emperor kicked you away, but other families still followed the emperor to grab huge profits. The gap soon became apparent. The families of aristocratic families are entangled with each other, but they also compete with each other. If your family is swimming against the current, it will retreat if it does not advance, but other families are making further progress. It will not take long for the so-called century-old family to inevitably decline in status, or even become a mere A second-rate family...
The brilliance of His Majesty Li Er is that he hates the family members, but he can control his emotions and methods very well. He never weakens the power of the family members in a drastic way, but adopts the method of "imperial examination and becoming an official". Ways to moderate.
At present, the aristocratic families are still the beneficiaries of education. The "imperial examination" seems to promote the children of poor families. In fact, the children of the aristocratic families have better knowledge and higher quality. Therefore, I am not opposed to His Majesty Li Er's method of promoting the imperial examination. At least the rejection is not strong.
Relaxation, advancement and retreat, coupled with huge commercial interests, forced the family members to follow His Majesty Li Er's steps obediently, neither daring nor willing to withdraw...
Fang Jun couldn't do things like mining, so he gave instructions on how to build a blast furnace to smelt gold faster. However, this kind of thing naturally has to be done by the craftsmen of Fang's Iron Works. His status means that Open your mouth without using your hands.
Upon receiving Wang Xuance's report, Fang Jun almost jumped for joy!
This guy is indeed a good at sowing discord and demagogueing people. Although he has probably lost his outstanding performance of destroying an entire country with one man, he split the Suga family and caused chaos in the Japanese country with just one mouth. This achievement is greater than the disaster of Asan. Much more!
However, although the situation in Asuka Beijing is tense and Suga's family is in danger when faced with several feudal armies under the banner of "King Fengtian Qin", with the help of Wang Xuance's more than a thousand elite navy soldiers, we are still very confident about defending Asukajing and Suga's family. of.
Don't look at what Prince Shotoku wrote in the official document for Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: "The emperor respects the emperor where the sun rises and the emperor pays respect to the emperor when it sets." It seems that he was completely arrogant, putting himself in the same position as Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and putting the Japanese country and the Great Sui Dynasty in the same position. At the same level, in fact, the comparison of combat power between the Tang army and the Japanese soldiers is probably a thirty-year-old strong man facing an underage waste...
Just beat him up.
He unhurriedly arranged for the miners to mine everywhere and divided the navy into two. One part was led by Su Dingfang and stationed on Sado Island to guard against the sneak attack of Abe Hirafu of Houyue Kingdom on the other side. He led the main force southward and bypassed Honshu Island. The waterway between Chikushi Island and Chikushi Island goes straight to Nambazu.
By the time he arrives, the Ezo people in the north must have been attacking the city and plundering the territory, and they should also be attacking the vicinity of Asukakyo. Then he can appear as the savior, save the Japanese country, and become the great hero and the most respected hero of the Japanese people. International friends, and then kill them severely...
Su Dingfang had no doubts about this arrangement. What was so good about Japan? There's nothing exciting about beating a dog's head out of a man's head. Now he only has Sado Island in his eyes, only gold mines!
What does the army rely on to support itself?
What are weapons made of?
What kind of luck does the baggage depend on?
money!
Everything is piled up with money. The quality of soldiers is certainly important, but sufficient national strength is even more important! Back then, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were conquering the Central Plains in battles in the north and south. Was their fighting power weak? Definitely not weak! But in the face of Jieli Khan leading the Turkic wolf cavalry to drive straight to the bank of the Wei River, why could they not stop him, and even had to humiliate themselves and sign an alliance under the city?
The national strength is not good enough!
Years of wars have already depleted the treasury. The army has no money and equipment, and its morale is low. What can it do to confront the Turkic wolf cavalry head-on?
After a few years, the Tang Dynasty recovered, and then it chased the Turks into the grassland, defeated the Turks in one fell swoop, and captured the Khan alive...
So Su Dingfang said to Fang Jun: Go to hell, go wherever you like. Anyway, I'm not going anywhere. I'm just guarding Sado Island. As long as I don't die, Sado Island will never be lost!
After everything was agreed upon, Fang Jun led the fleet all the way south along the west coast of Honshu Island. He went slowly and ordered the fleet to catch more sharks and boil cod liver oil for the soldiers to eat. Even in the Tang Dynasty, due to low productivity, people's daily nutritional intake was far from enough. Night blindness was a common phenomenon, and cod liver oil was a good medicine for treating night blindness.
Fang Jun once watched a large-scale documentary about Japanese whaling, which introduced in detail the hydrological conditions of the Whale Sea. In the western sea, there is a cold current from the Tatar Strait of Sakhalin Island moving south along the north coast, and in the eastern sea, there is a cold current. The warm current from the Korea Strait moves north along the west coast of Honshu Island and Hokkaido, forming significant convection.
The sea water usually flows in a counter-clockwise direction. The northern part of the Whale Sea is affected by the cold current and freezes in winter, while the southern part of the sea is much warmer. This also causes the climate of Japan to be warmer and wetter than that of mainland China at the same latitude. From the end of each year to the beginning of the next spring, the monsoon from northwest Siberia will blow the cold current from the north to the south, causing continuous snowfall on the mountainous western coast of the Japanese islands...
This season is the best time for hunting whales and sharks. (End of chapter)