These five hundred Korean people were carefully selected by Jiang Wei, and they were not ordinary Korean people at all. After all, ordinary Goryeo people are simply a group of illiterate people who have no knowledge. They may have heard of the Ming Dynasty, but they simply cannot understand what kind of country the Ming Dynasty is.
After all, it is extremely difficult to exchange information these days. People who are not the middle and upper class of Goryeo society do not even have channels to learn about the Ming Dynasty.
They didn't know anything about the Ming Dynasty and what the household registration of the Ming Dynasty meant. It was impossible for them to be bewitched by Han Du.
And only those who know something about the Ming Dynasty know the weight of the Ming Dynasty household registration. It can be said that this is a good thing that they cannot exchange for gold. As long as they have a Ming household registration and become true Ming people, their family members and descendants will be able to live a dignified life in the future, even if they are completely out of the misery of Goryeo.
Handu sent Tan Qing to use warships to secretly send these people to the north and south of Japan in the dark. These people have only one mission, and that is to send back the information they have found no matter what method they use. The more important the information sent back, the higher the reward they can get.
Before leaving, Han Du also distributed ten taels of gold and fifty taels of silver to each person. First of all, it is naturally because wealth can communicate with gods. Han Du really hopes that these people can find out valuable information, and usually such information can only be obtained from people with status in the Japanese country. A penniless beggar has no chance of getting close to such a person.
Secondly, it is also to make these Koreans work for themselves wholeheartedly. After all, he is willing to give them such gold and silver now, which means that his promise to them is absolutely true. In this way, these Koreans can work for themselves without any worries.
Since then, Han Du has lived deeply in the Governor's Mansion, while Tan Qing has led his warships to travel north and south on the sea of Japan, constantly sending back various news from the north and south of Japan.
From these news, it is not difficult for Han Du to see that the Japanese Southern Dynasty really acted vigorously and resolutely this time. According to the news from a Korean, it was probably after Komatsu Lingzi bought the grain that the largest conscription in history began in the south. The ronin who had nowhere to go before having a chance to eat for three days were all attracted by the huge amount of food provided by the Southern Dynasty. Even the Japanese who farmed the land were forcibly recruited in large numbers.
At the same time, news from the Muromachi shogunate in the north also came back. The Muromachi shogunate was doing the same thing as the south. They also knew about the movements of the Southern Dynasty, and they were also recruiting ronin and Japanese people. After all, they were not blind. The Southern Dynasty recruited rogues and peasants on such a large scale, so it was obvious what they wanted to do.
Perhaps outsiders will wonder how effective these newly recruited peasants from the Japanese country will be when they go to the battlefield. In terms of combat effectiveness, Ronin is better. After all, Ronin is running around, and their survival depends on their ability to fight bravely. A ronin without such ability would either have been beaten to death midway, or would have been fed to wild beasts in the wilderness. And those farmers have no fighting power at all. They spend their whole lives digging in the soil, so what fighting power can they have?
But for both the north and the south of Japan, even farmers were enough.
The north and south of Japan have been fighting for decades, and the truly rigorously trained elites have long been exhausted. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had been painstakingly preparing for several years, and the 80,000 elites he had finally trained to unify Japan were wiped out by Handu's fierce artillery fire.
Nowadays, whether it is the south or the north, the Japanese state is in a uniform state of ruin. We all don’t have decent elites, so let’s recruit the peasants to fight.
Anyway, a war is a fight, and a fight is a fight, as long as these farmers can go into battle to make up the numbers. If you can kill one of the opponents, that's a profit. Even if they fail to perform any meritorious deeds, the greatest use of these farmers is to resist the sword coming from the opposite side.
Therefore, the news Han Du received later made him extremely speechless. The battles between the two sides were more continuous on the northern and southern borders of the Japanese country, and several battles often broke out in one day. None\./Error\./Update\./New`.w`.a`.p`.`.c`.o`.m
But if you think that the battle in Japan was really fierce and the sky was dark and the earth was dark, then you are completely wrong.
Judging from the information Han Du himself received, the two sides were fighting together without any structure. (The next page is more exciting!)
, which is similar to fighting with street gangsters, or even worse. For example, one of the battles was like this. This time the Muromachi shogunate was on the offensive side, while the Nanchao side was defending the city.
Although the Japanese country did not have a decent city at all, it was said to be a defensive city, but in fact it was just a circle of low walls. But no matter how bad the city wall is, it is still a city wall. If people are sent to occupy the city wall, they can cause a lot of casualties to the Muromachi Shogunate's troops from a high position.
However, the Nanchao side did not defend the city. Instead, they directly opened the city gate and took the initiative to engage in a melee with the Muromachi shogunate at the city gate.
What's even more bizarre is that the Muromachi shogunate clearly came to attack. It was obvious that their numbers had the advantage, and it was obvious that the Nanchao side lost the only geographical advantage in vain, but the final result was that the Muromachi shogunate lost. \./hand\./machine\./version\./first\./issue\./update\./new~~
The defeat was complete, and the army of thousands of wanderers and peasants dispersed in a rush.
Such incredible battles are happening almost every moment on the border between the two sides.
These news made Han Du dumbfounded and shook his head helplessly. But from these messages, Han Du could also see that things were indeed going according to his plan, and the Japanese country's vitality was being rapidly consumed.
Take the battle just now, although the one who should win lost, the one who should lose won instead. The whole battle was inexplicable. However, in this battle, both sides lost at least nearly a thousand people, and there were three to four thousand wounded.
With the current medical level of this Japanese country, it cannot even do disinfection and sterilization. Although these wounded are still alive now, at least half, or even 70%, will die in the near future due to lack of timely treatment, wound infection and other factors.
In this way, it is equivalent to the Japanese losing 2,500 to 3,000 young men in this battle.
This number seems a bit incredible. Two to three thousand people were lost in one battle. There were no less than ten such battles every day. Wouldn't it mean that two to three thousand people were lost?
But what has to be said is that at this time, the speed of fighting with cold weapons was even faster than that of hot weapons. After all, although the thermal weapons are powerful, everyone knows each other and will choose to hide first, and then find the right opportunity to launch cold shots. And everyone will not be gathered together, but will be scattered around in units of several people. Even if a bomb falls, it will only kill a few people.
But fighting with cold weapons was different. Thousands of people were gathered in a small place, and everyone was slashing face to face with knives. If one party is defeated, it will be difficult for others to escape the battlefield without losing half of the lives.
After all, everyone runs on two legs, and the winning side is at a time when their morale is high. Why do you think others can't outrun you? Only if the opponent is delayed by being hacked, the people on the losing side will have a chance to escape.
Such battles were staged every day in Japan, and the strength of Japan was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye with the war between the north and the south.
But as the fighting continued, the anger of both the North and the South was aroused, and both sides became red-eyed. Now both of them want to completely eliminate each other, and they can no longer tolerate other people and things in their eyes.
The army suffered heavy casualties, what should we do? Then continue recruiting! The recruitment of young men is over, what should we do? Then call both young and old to the battlefield! What should we do if the young and old are no longer enough? Then recruit women to continue the fight.
The food is almost gone, what should I do? In one word, buy! The armor is almost gone, what should I do? Just one word, buy!
At the beginning, Han Du was still leisurely watching the news of various battles coming from the Japanese country. However, as both the north and the south were clamoring to buy food and iron knives, Han Du no longer had time to care about the chaos in the Japanese country. . Immediately report to Lao Zhu and ask him to transport all the swords and guns eliminated by the Ming army here.
Since Han Du mass-produced steel knives, the Ming army began to gradually replace the original iron knives. After using sharp steel knives, no soldiers were willing to use these things.
Although the iron knives he had replaced were not valuable, given the character of an old farmer, Lao Zhu was reluctant to throw them away.
In the Ming Dynasty, only ordinary people were willing to pay tens of cents to buy an iron knife that was half-used. But shipped. (The next page is more exciting!)
Here in Handu, you can easily buy ten strings. And it was still traded in real gold and silver, so Han Du, an iron sword, could almost buy it at a price a hundred times higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.
With a profit of a hundred times, the ordnance business is indeed the most profitable.
Under the fire of Han Du, the war between the north and the south of the Japanese country started quickly, and then quickly heated up to a large-scale melee, and both sides were completely red-blooded. From the autumn of the 29th year of Hongwu to April of the 30th year of Hongwu, there was still no trend of cooling down. Even in order to resist the other side's offensive and defeat the other side, both sides stopped spring plowing without hesitation, and directly used large amounts of gold and silver to purchase grain from the Jeolla Province Governor's Mansion.
Han Du had already planned this step and dispatched the navy in advance to send a large amount of food and old ordnance. These things were prepared for both sides of the Japanese country, and they would be sold to them as soon as they came with real money and silver. .
