In the blink of an eye, three days passed.
It was rare for Li Jin to have a good rest for three days in Shijian Yinshan. During these three days, apart from checking the progress of the exploration team every day, Li Jin was just resting.
Since the beginning of the plan to conquer Japan, Li Jin has been like a spinning machine, never stopping for a moment.
Until now, I finally have time to take a short break.
The slaves in the camp slowly accepted the status quo.
If you are obedient, you will have a full meal. If you are not obedient, you will be hung on the camp and burned to death by the sun, or even die of thirst and starvation.
For three whole days, the slaves heard the sounds of those hanging people, the pitiful cries and howls coming from their mouths, and the miserable sight of being fucked in the sun.
All this greatly shocked these Japanese soldiers who were previously aloof. Only now did they finally realize that times have changed.
Therefore, all these slaves became obedient one by one and no longer dared to resist the pressure of the watchers. They could only silently bear the whip in the hands of the watchers.
Li Jin never imagined what the future would be like for him to leave this camp.
In the future, with the expansion of the Ming Dynasty's navy, more and more defeated people on the island were sent here to do labor camps, and these people became third-class slaves, which were the lowest slaves.
Not only were they oppressed by their caretakers, but they were also oppressed by the first-class slaves, their predecessors.
When later generations discovered the ruins of Iwami Yinshan, 100,000 skeletons were dug out from underneath, so the camp was called the Japanese Concentration Camp.
It is filled with bloody violence, killings and inhumane torture.
But now Li Jin has no interest in these. He is just thinking about when he can fully estimate the reserves of Yinshan.
Two days later, just when Li Jin was about to run out of patience, the good news finally came.
"Sir, we've found out!!"
An experienced professional miner came to Li Jin panting.
Looking at the excited and high-spirited look on his face, Li Jin knew that what he was going to hear next would definitely be good news.
"The silver stored under this silver mine can reach at least 800 million taels of silver."
"Well, we've made a fortune this time!!"
"What?"
Li Jin's eyes suddenly widened, with some disbelief in his eyes.
Although he knew that the silver reserves in this silver mountain would be very rich, in his estimation, it was only 500 million taels of silver at most.
But the current investigation results were far beyond his imagination.
Eight hundred million taels! ! It is so huge that even if one million silver is dug out every year, this silver mine will take eight hundred years to be dug out.
One million taels of silver was already a quarter of the Ming Dynasty's treasury.
The Ming Dynasty now has tens of millions of people and billions of land, but the tax collected is only four times that of this small silver mine.
Later, Li Jin remembered that he had 30% of the shares in this silver mine, which meant that he was now considered a wealthy businessman with a net worth of 240 million.
Two hundred and forty million taels, even if He Shen was worth the most at that time, it was nothing more than this.
Li Jin was elated, but then he remembered something and asked anxiously:
“Can the silver mine’s production increase again?”
"Of course, we have found several places that are conducive to mining."
The miner replied confidently:
"If your Excellency agrees, we can increase the mining output tenfold, and the monthly silver mining output can reach 300,000 taels."
"As long as there are enough manpower, the output will never disappoint adults."
Li Jin was pleasantly surprised. The monthly output was 300,000 taels, which means that the annual output was nearly 4 million taels, which was equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's annual treasury tax revenue.
With such a terrifying amount of mining, Li Jin hesitated.
After all, things are rare and valuable. It would not be a good thing if a large amount of gold and silver suddenly flowed into the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty is still short of supplies. If a huge amount of gold and silver flows into the Ming Dynasty market, it will only cause inflation.
After lowering his head and thinking for a moment, Li Jin still did not mine the silver mine without limit, but chose a conservative method and said:
"First increase the production three times to reach 100,000 taels of silver per month."
"There is no need to open mining holes on a large scale, and there are not enough manpower now."
"Here."
The miners quickly accepted their orders.
Even if mining cannot be carried out unscrupulously, the silver mine will not escape. Sooner or later, the silver will become Li Jin's possession, it just depends on the length of time.
Thinking of this, Li Jin immediately said loudly and proudly:
"Okay, brothers, you have worked hard this time."
"Each person will be rewarded fifty taels of silver. I hope that brothers will continue to work hard. There will be countless silver mines waiting for you to mine."
The miner's originally excited face suddenly turned extremely red, and he was obviously too excited to control himself.
He knelt on his knees, not knowing what to say, but kept kowtowing to Li Jin to express his inner excitement.
Li Jin stretched out his hand to help the miner up, and then said:
"In the future, you will be the leaders of these miners and will be responsible for managing your team."
"Don't let them suffer injustice, nor let them be proud and complacent. Work well for me, and I will not treat you badly."
After the miner leader left with tears of gratitude, Li Jin immediately wrote two secret letters and asked the messenger to quickly send the secret letters to Xu Da and the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang who was far away in Yingtian.
Next, Li Jin began to arrange manpower to go down to the mine to collect silver ore.
As the reserves are proven, this mine will inevitably become a man-eating cave, because a large number of laborers are needed to work day and night for Li Jin.
Although there are currently only about a thousand slaves, Li Jin believes that sooner or later this place will become a new city.
Throughout history, cities built on mines abound.
San Francisco is a classic example.
To this end, Li Jin arranged for people to explore the surrounding terrain, planning to build a city based on the mountain and build a highway.
So that the excavated silver ore can be transported to the port in time and then transported back to Daming.
These things are relatively cumbersome and destined to be impossible to complete at once and can only be advanced step by step.
Just as Li Jin was preparing to build the city, envoys from the Ashikaga family of the Northern Dynasty had already arrived at Iwami Castle and wanted to see the generals of the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Da did not come forward, but asked these people to rest temporarily at the residence in Shijian City, and then sent people to Shijian Yinshan to call Li Jin back and start negotiations with these people.
Xu Da understood the purpose of these people coming, but Xu Da did not want to participate in diplomatic matters.
Professional matters should be left to professional people, and Li Jin was naturally familiar with this, so Xu Da directly called Li Jin back and took full responsibility for solving the matter.
Li Jin was a little stunned after receiving the news.
He didn't expect the Ashikaga family to arrive so quickly. In his expectation, he would have to wait until the Northern Dynasty was overwhelmed by the Southern Dynasty to be able to wait for the Ashikaga family members.
Looking at it now, there is no shortage of talented people in the Ashikaga family, and even this person's vision is very far-reaching and superb.
Li Jin immediately arranged the things at hand and asked Uesugi Kenshin to take good care of the slaves and not to slack off.
At the same time, he also asked the staff of the Operation Department to arrange nearby guards to ensure that no mistakes were made and people with knowledge of the situation could escape.
Finally, the deputy was asked to explore the surrounding terrain as soon as possible and prepare to build the city and build roads.
After everything was arranged, Li Jin finally went down the mountain and prepared to have a good talk with the Ashikaga family's envoy.
Now that the Ming army has occupied Shijianguo as a foothold, it has already wedged a nail in. Next, it only needs to tear through the defense of the Japanese island step by step.
Just sow discord between the two dynasties, intensify the war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and reap the benefits.
Regarding this negotiation, Li Jin had a bold idea in his mind. As long as it is completed, Japan will be completely open to the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, the ownership of the Japanese island will truly be in the hands of Ming Dynasty.
As the saying goes, the world of Japan depends on the Ming Dynasty. Ashikaga Takauji and Emperor Daigo can only do nothing when the time comes. Who dares not to obey?
