Shi Jianguo.
After Li Jin completed negotiations with the envoys from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the entire county began unprecedented large-scale infrastructure construction.
The first thing to start construction is the city wall of Iwami Prefecture.
In Xu Da's view, the city wall in Shijian County is not worthy of being called a city wall at all. It is simply lower than the wall of a village in the Ming Dynasty and has no defense.
Originally, Li Jin did not plan to build the city wall. After all, Shanghu County was in the lead, and the real defense was to attack.
Li Jin is confident that the Ming Dynasty's navy is now invincible and there is no need to build city walls. City walls are just a self-comfort for the weak.
But both Tang He, Xu Da, and even Liu Bowen suggested building the city wall first.
The importance of Shijian Kingdom is self-evident. If you don't expect victory, you should expect defeat. In addition, Zhu Biao was also in Shijian Kingdom at this time, so there was no room for failure.
Helpless, Li Jin could only plan the city wall first.
Li Jin is professional when it comes to urban planning, as can be seen from the layout of Shanghu County.
In just half a day, Li Jin had drawn up the entire blueprint of Shi Jianguo.
Zhu Biao was shocked when he saw the plan drawn by Li Jin.
Looking at the large piece of paper in his hand, and the dense markings on it, various areas of the city, even each house was carefully marked on the white paper.
You know, Zhu Biao has never seen this kind of drawings for designing cities since he was a child.
In the past, when building a city, at most the core area was roughly marked out. If the city was found to be too small, it could be expanded again.
But Li Jin's big move seemed to be to rebuild a Shanghu County, which made Zhu Biao feel extremely shocked.
"Master Li, isn't this a bit too aggressive?"
"Ishijian Country is just a city on the island of Japan. No matter how well we build it, it will only serve as a wedding dress for the island in the end."
"The envoy is wrong."
Li Jin was very satisfied with his blueprint.
"Since this city has been occupied by our Ming Dynasty, it will become the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the future."
"Not only Ishijian Kingdom, but also Japan Island, they are all indivisible territories of the Ming Dynasty. How can you say that you are making wedding clothes for others?"
"Today, the reserves of Iwami Silver Mountain have been proven to be 843.5 million taels of silver. This means that Iwami Country will become an important gold mining city in the future."
"There will be countless gold diggers from the Ming Dynasty coming to Shijian Kingdom, which is destined to the prosperity of Shijian City."
"Furthermore, Iwami City will also become the most important export city for immigrants in the future, so Iwami City is definitely more important than we imagined."
Zhu Biao nodded. Just a few days ago, after more than ten days of hard work by 300 miners, the reserves of Shijian City were finally fully ascertained.
Indeed, as reported by Li Jin, the reserves were more than 800 million taels, which made Zhu Biao extremely excited.
Immediately wrote a letter to Zhu Yuanzhang, asking Zhu Yuanzhang to continue sending reinforcements to reinforce Shijian City, because the current situation in Ming Dynasty has meant that Ming Dynasty must not give up Shijian City.
This mountain of stone will become the most important cornerstone for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to usher in the prosperous age of the Ming Dynasty in the future. He can greatly accelerate the arrival of the prosperous age of the Ming Dynasty.
Now that Zhu Biao heard Li Jin's suggestion, he did not object anymore and immediately asked Li Jin to start the infrastructure construction of Shijian City.
After receiving the order, Li Jin immediately began to force corvee labor in the city. Those who dared not to obey the corvee were directly demoted to slaves and continued to contribute to the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure operations.
In the end, Li Jin recruited more than 30,000 Japanese people in Shijian City. Basically, all men over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixty were recruited.
More than 2,000 of them tried to escape from the corvee and were directly demoted as slaves by their families, working as cattle and horses for the Ming Dynasty.
Li Jin initially wanted the Japanese to bring their own dry food, but Zhu Biao was benevolent and opened the granary in Shijian City to provide these Japanese with rice porridge subsidies for two meals a day.
In the end, Li Jin did not stop him. After all, if so many Japanese people really starved to death, Li Jin's next infrastructure plan would also be affected.
But what Li Jin didn't expect was that after hearing that Daming would take care of the food every day, the Japanese who were still a little angry and aggrieved suddenly became grateful.
This change of scene made both Li Jin and Zhu Biao a little dumbfounded.
What they didn't know was that the daimyo of the Mihaoshi family who had recruited these Japanese people before was not as kind as Zhu Biao and provided each of them with two meals a day.
It was natural for the daimyo to recruit Japanese people, but they were all subordinates under his rule. Why should they provide food and grass to these subordinates?
Now, Ming Dynasty's actions have unexpectedly won the hearts of the people in Shijian City, making the corvee workers in Shijian City more diligent and active in their work.
Most of the Ishimi City wall with a circumference of more than 30 miles has been completed in less than ten days. Only the towers and arrow towers on the wall have not been repaired, but the entire wall has been erected. stand up.
Even Li Jin was shocked by the progress. It was really unbelievable. The slaves of Japan Island were so easy to use. No wonder the beautiful congresses in later generations would find Japan Island as their lackey.
Just when Li Jin started building Iwami Castle in full swing, the entire northern part of the island was in turmoil.
The Ashikaga family summoned all their daimyo and immediately led all their troops to Luoyang, Kyoto.
For a time, the wind in Luoyang, Kyoto, was trembling, and everything was covered with soldiers. In just ten days, 150,000 soldiers and horses had been recruited, which was almost all the soldiers and horses under the Ashikaga family.
Some daimyo even summoned children and elderly people in the city just to respond to the Ashikaga family's call.
Xu Da and others had naturally received the news, but they believed that this would only be a sign that the Ashikaga family would fight against the Southern Dynasty.
Because just a few days ago, the Southern Dynasty also began to gather large armies and assemble in Yamato. The Southern Dynasty even sent envoys to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the Ming Dynasty could attack the Ashikaga family's Sanin Province and contain the Ashikaga family.
This made Li Jin think that this was the eve of the decisive battle between the Northern and Southern Dynasties on the Japanese island. After casually sending away the envoys of the Southern Dynasties, Li Jin continued to concentrate on his own infrastructure project.
In the decisive battle between the two countries on the Japanese island, it is naturally difficult to determine the winner in a short time.
They, Ming Dynasty, only need to wait quietly, silently accumulate strength, wait until Zhu Yuanzhang's next batch of reinforcements arrive, and then wait for the opportunity to move.
Both the Southern and Northern Dynasties were just people waiting to die in Li Jin's eyes, and there was no need to save them at all.
But what he didn't know was that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had already been honored as an honored guest in Yamato Yoshino in the Southern Dynasty at this time.
Emperor Daigo personally summoned Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and had a secret meeting with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in Amaterasu Palace. Even Tajiro knew nothing about it.
"Ashikaga-kun, you said that your Ashikaga family is willing to dissolve the shogunate and recognize my legitimacy as emperor. Is this true?"
Emperor Daigo sat high on the throne and asked condescendingly to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was kneeling below.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu bowed respectfully to Emperor Daigo and said:
"Absolutely true."
"My grandfather has been filled with guilt since the emperor left Kyoto."
"Now that the Ming Dynasty is coming fiercely, my Japanese island is in danger of overturning. My grandfather regrets it even more when he sees this."
"It was precisely because of my grandfather that the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the situation and occupied Iwami Castle on our Japanese island."
"Our Japanese island has reached the point of survival. My grandfather realized that only our two families can defeat the Ming Dynasty and protect our Japanese island from being destroyed."
"Therefore, my grandfather sent me here to express my regret to His Majesty the Emperor, hoping to obtain His Majesty's forgiveness, and then the two families would join hands to fight against the Ming Dynasty."
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's words made Emperor Daigo feel extremely happy.
Why did Emperor Daigo work hard and work hard for so many years? Just to fight back to Kyoto.
He had been waiting for ten years just for an opportunity. He wanted to make a living, not to prove that he was great.
He wants to tell everyone that he must get back what he lost!
He wanted to hear Ashikaga Takauji's repentance face to face.
Although I have not heard Ashikaga Takauji personally admit his mistakes, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is Ashikaga Takauji's grandson, and there is not much difference between the two.
And if Ashikaga Takauji really dissolves the shogunate, then sooner or later he will kneel before him again.
Emperor Daigo smiled proudly.
