Dusk slowly fell, and the afterglow on the horizon gradually dissipated, replaced by a deep dark blue.
Night is coming, and the whole world seems silent and solemn.
The distant mountains and trees gradually disappeared into the darkness, leaving only slight outlines.
Occasionally, a few night birds fly over and make a shrill cry.
Between the mountains and forests, twilight came like a tide, quickly covering the entire Iwami Silver Mountain, causing everything in the Silver Mountain to slowly fall into darkness.
Under the leadership of the Japanese traitor, Li Jin finally approached the outside of the Japanese camp before nightfall.
Since we were not clear about the situation inside the camp and it was getting late, we decided to start the attack half an hour later.
When the sun completely set, darkness enveloped everything, and fire began to rise in the camp, Li Jincai had people slowly surround the camp, and then attacked in groups.
"kill!!"
The battle broke out very hastily, but it ended very suddenly, in just a cup of tea.
The navy of the Ming Dynasty relied on its superb skills to rush into the Japanese camp and captured all the Japanese in the camp.
Of course, friendly exchanges with these Japanese people are indispensable. The Japanese people who dared to resist are all lying on the ground stiffly, their bodies are still warm, but their heartbeats have been lost forever.
After killing hundreds of Japanese, the remaining Japanese put down their weapons very wisely.
Just like the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain, these Japanese soldiers on the mountainside were even more miserable.
Because he is Mihao Changqing's confidant, he is naturally domineering in Shijian City, and there is an endless stream of people eating, drinking and having fun every day.
But since arriving in this barren and remote place, these Japanese soldiers have lost the fun they used to have, and they can't bring outsiders here, so they can only get together to drink and gamble.
In this large camp, there are only miners and slaves. There is no threat to them and the defenders, so they naturally indulge themselves more and more.
It can be said that Li Jin completely occupied the entire Iwami Silver Mountain without any effort.
After Li Jin confirmed that no one had escaped, he directly stationed at the camp halfway up the mountain and began to count the harvest.
As Li Jin had speculated before, this camp was specially built by Miyoshi Changqing for the purpose of digging the Iwami Silver Mine.
However, Li Jin discovered that the scale of mining here is not very large. At most, it can only be excavated on a scale of less than 30,000 taels of silver a month.
It can be seen that Mihao Changqing has only just discovered this silver mine, and it has not been excavated for long. Otherwise, the amount of silver mined every month would definitely be more than this.
However, Li Jin also had some surprises.
There was still 100,000 taels of silver that had just been smelted in the camp and had not had time to be transported away, all of which was at a disadvantage to Li Jin.
Later, Li Jin asked the professional miners who came with him to start evaluating the reserves of the entire Iwami Silver Mountain.
In order to protect the safety of these professionals, Li Jin directly sent 2,000 people to protect the safety of more than 100 people, leaving them at their disposal.
The miners and slaves in the camp were kept separately by Li Jin. After the reserves had not been fully evaluated, Li Jin decided to temporarily stop digging at Ishimi Silver Mountain.
As for the captured Japanese soldiers, Li Jin directly demoted all of them to miners with a wave of his hand, and from now on they would be responsible for the mining of Iwami Ginzan.
In addition to the Japanese troops on the mountainside, there were also hundreds of people at the foot of the mountain. The two teams together made up exactly one thousand Japanese miners.
The original identity of the miner remained unchanged, and Li Jin turned the slaves who were originally exploited by the Japanese army into the caretakers.
These people were originally slaves captured from various places by Miyoshi Changqing. Not only did they work hard to mine silver ore every day, but they were also squeezed by these Japanese soldiers. Their lives were miserable and life was worse than death.
Now the serfs stand up and sing, and the Japanese soldiers who originally oppressed them are demoted to slaves, and they become the guards of these people. Naturally, they have revenge and grievances.
The next day, before Li Jin got up, he heard cries of ghosts and wolves howling outside the tent.
Li Jin thought there was a mutiny and hurriedly got up, intending to go to suppress the turmoil.
As a result, before leaving the tent, a staff officer from the Operations Department came directly in and reported:
"Sir, the slaves were whipped crazily. Some people couldn't bear it anymore and chose to fight back. Now the two parties are fighting each other."
"Excuse me, sir, how should we deal with it?"
Li Jin was stunned, and then realized that the so-called slaves were the Japanese soldiers who were still arrogant yesterday, and the people who whipped them were the previous slaves.
Now that he has the power, he naturally wants to retaliate with public opinion and angrily vent his previous dissatisfaction.
But this was exactly what Li Jin wanted to see. His face lit up and he immediately ordered:
"Slaves are slaves, and these people don't seem to recognize their identities yet."
"Send out the army immediately, arrest these rioting slaves immediately, and hang them on the wall of the camp."
"I want these slaves to see who is the boss in this camp!!"
The staff officer quickly took the order and left. Then Li Jin heard constant shouting and cursing, followed by shrill screams. Until the sound completely disappeared, Li Jin walked out of the camp calmly.
After Li entered and exited the camp, he saw more than a hundred slaves from the Ming Dynasty being pushed to the ground. The anger at the beginning could no longer be seen in his eyes, but instead turned into boundless fear.
Li Jin waved his hand and asked people to hang all these people up and let them dry in the sun for three days.
Then he slowly walked up to a group of slaves and said in a deep voice:
"You have been defeated. Being a slave is the best destination for you."
"If you don't cherish this opportunity, I will make it impossible for you to survive or die!"
"As long as you serve me obediently for ten years, I will definitely let you go free after ten years."
Li Jin's words were quickly translated into Japanese by the translator next to him and said to the slave in front of him.
When these slaves saw Li Jin's cruel methods, they all remained silent and did not dare to say anything or resist.
Li Jin then looked at the former slave who was now the master's caretaker. He nodded to these with a smile and said warmly:
"You are completely liberated. Your next task is to make these slaves work hard for me."
"As long as I dig out enough ore, I will never be stingy in rewarding you."
"But if all these people die in the pit, then I will fill it in for you and let me continue to mine. Do you understand?"
Showing kindness and power at the same time, Li Jin's words caused the expressions of the guards whose identities had suddenly changed to change drastically.
However, seeing that Li Jin didn't seem to want to punish them, they gradually became bolder.
One of the young men was pushed closer by the guards and said flatteringly to Li Jin:
"Sir, after receiving your rescue, we regained our freedom. From now on, we are willing to follow you and will never betray you."
"If you are of any use to us, we will never refuse. We will definitely go to great lengths to repay you."
After the translator's translation, Li Jin showed a half-smiling look on his face and asked:
"Interesting, what's your name?"
"The villain's name is Uesugi Kenshin."
The guard's face was extremely respectful and he didn't dare to slack off at all.
Li Jin saw that this man was quite knowledgeable, so he immediately said:
"From now on, you will be the leader of these people. If you have anything, you can report to me at any time."
"Remember, I don't want these people to become a bunch of waste under your hands. I want you to drive these slaves and create value for me. This is your role."
"If one day you disappoint me and cannot produce value, then your fate will be no different from that of these slaves, do you understand?"
Uesugi Kenshin was overjoyed when he heard that he had become the leader.
Although Li Jin's words made him a little worried, he still knelt down without hesitation and expressed his loyalty:
"The villain will be your master's retainer from now on and will never betray you."
"Retainer?"
Li Jin was dismissive and said:
"I don't need retainers. You want to be Ming's retainer, not mine."
"From now on, you only need to be loyal to Ming Dynasty."
"Ming dynasty?"
Uesugi Kenshin learned about countries other than Japan for the first time, but this also made him yearn for the Ming Dynasty.
Li Jin stayed at Iwami Yinshan for the next few days. After informing Xu Da of their respective situations, Li Jin quietly waited for the results of the reserve detection at Iwami Yinshan.
