Since Zhu Qiyu left, Zhu Qizhen has been very upset.

He didn't want to review memorials every day except eating and sleeping, but he couldn't find anyone to replace him.

He even tried to discuss matters like Cao Nai and Zhang Yi, and just hand it over to the cabinet for reviewing memorials.

As a result, Cao Nai said, if you don’t approve, we will not do it anymore!

What a joke? As an emperor and the king of a country, you don’t read the memorials. You can still govern the country and be lonely!

When conquering the north of Mo, I left the King of Songs and the Kingdom of Zhuang, and it was reasonable to do this job.

Even if you run to Nanjing, even if you sneak out, it is reasonable to put down the Japanese pirates and destroy Bailian after all.

As a result, King Hui is leading troops to fight, do you still want to give up?

Faced with the threat of the cabinet's strike, Zhu Qizhen had no choice but to temporarily put away his small calculations.

On this day, Huai'en sent a message and Shi Heng asked for a meeting.

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Xuan!"

Since quelling the Japanese trespass, Shi Heng went to Japan. Last time he sent a memorial to Beijing, saying that he had discovered a large silver mine in southern Japan, near Ryukyu, which made Zhu Qizhen so excited.

When the Japanese envoy Toyama Yuki came to the Ming Dynasty for help, he agreed that Japan would provide military expenditures of 300,000 taels per month.

However, after all, it was a small country and could not afford so much money, so it reached an agreement to exchange it for Hong Kong.

In recent years, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has expanded rapidly, and there are shortages of people everywhere. Although they have obtained several ports, there is no manpower to carry out construction, so this matter has been temporarily put on hold.

Now that silver mines are discovered, it is different.

Even if the manpower is scarce, you have to draw some of it and then hire workers from Japan, Ryukyu and other places. In any case, dig the mine first!

Shi Heng went to the hall and bowed: "My minister Shi Heng, ask the saints for your good fortune!"

"Well, I!"

Zhu Qizhen threw away the pen in his hand and said, "Your family comes up and give him a seat!"

Huai'en had a good eye for seeing it, so he brought a Jindun in early, and Shi Heng stood up and said, "I obey the order!"

"I have read the memorial sent by your family and I'm doing a good job!"

Shi Heng bowed and said, "It's all arranged by the emperor. The emperor is in charge of the capital, and plans to make a decision, win, win...what is it?"

Wyen whispered, "Win a thousand miles away!"

"Oh, yes, the victory is a thousand miles away, the emperor..."

"Okay, okay!"

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not your strength to slogans, so let's talk about Japan. I have decided to recruit 10,000 households immediately. You can go to Japan and dig silver mines!"

Shi Heng asked in confusion: "As far as I know, construction is being carried out everywhere, where is the emperor going to transfer people?"

"This is easy to deal with. I have issued an order to abolish my household registration and change the original military household farm to recruit soldiers. In the past, a large number of military households were free. I am preparing to arrange these people to go to Mobei, Annan and other places to carry out construction. I will first draw 10,000 households for you. Go back and find Yu Qian and ask him to arrange it for you."

"yes!"

Shi Heng agreed, and then said weakly: "Your Majesty, actually... that..."

"If you have something to say, why are you still hesitating?"

"What I mean, those silver mines... are in Japan after all..."

"Yes, I didn't say it was someone else's."

"Then we..."

"We are going to help them start mining. Besides, I promised to provide 300,000 military expenses every month. Now it's been half a year. They only paid 600,000 yuan, and they just used a few harbors where birds don't shit to fool me. Is this appropriate for them to do this?"

"No, it's not suitable!"

"And, do they have the ability to develop such a large silver mine? I am helping them start mining now. As for the issue of income distribution... just look at it and talk about it. I will leave the matter there to you. I believe you!"

Shi Heng was immediately flattered and hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "I will definitely not let down the holy grace!"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "Get up and reply!"

"yes!"

At this time, Shi Heng was shocked. Japan was isolated overseas and he had a black history of rebellion. Logically, the emperor should limit himself as much as possible and send some people to keep an eye on him every day.

However, the power given to him by the emperor is almost as good as a vassal king!

The king of Japan is the king of a country. Whenever he sees himself, he must be careful and timid. Even the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty is nothing more than that!

He considered himself a martial artist, but now he can only do his best to repay the kindness of the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I have one more thing."

"What's the matter?"

"This time I will bring someone to the capital."

"Oh, who?"

"Hayi King Ainu!"

"Hayi Country..."

Zhu Qizhen frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly realized that it was Hokkaido!

It seems that in this era, the Hokkien Kingdom had not been annexed by Japan and was an independent island country.

In fact, Japan originally had only three islands, the northern Hokkien Kingdom, and the southern Ryukyu Kingdom, and Japan had coexisting relationships.

Even if there are only three islands, they are not united. The situation is similar to the vassal states in the Eastern Han Dynasty. They called them the ruling states, with more than 60. The large ruling states can catch up with the prefectures and counties in the Central Plains, and the smaller ones are just like villages and towns.

These orders and countries are superficially obeying the orders of the Japanese monarchs, but in fact they fight on their own and even fight against each other.

The so-called Warring States Period in later generations was a village-level battle between these sixty ruled countries.

However, it is not clear what the situation in this Ekima country is currently.

"What happened to the country of Ekima?"

Shi Heng replied: "Your Majesty, there is a Daming of the Ushi in the north of Japan. Recently, he has frequently sent troops to attack the Hokkien Kingdom. After the empress came to Japan, the king of the Hokkien Kingdom, Ainu, sent an envoy to submit a letter of state, claiming that he was willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty and hoped to receive the protection of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, it turned out that it was a little brother looking for his thighs.

"Well!"

Huaien hurried forward: "Prince, please give me instructions."

"Go to the Hanlin Academy to ask, who knows the Hokkien Kingdom, let him come over quickly, I have something to ask!"

"yes!"

Soon, an old Hanlin came and started talking.

According to historical records, the area of ​​Essay Island is very large, but most areas on the island are in extremely cold places, and only the narrow areas in the south are inhabited.

The residents on the island were still in the tribal alliance era. They had their own language and religious beliefs. Various living customs were obviously different from those of Japan, and even Japan called it barbarians.

So far, the Emirates have never been to the Central Plains to pay tribute, and the Ming Dynasty has no time to contact them in detail because they are not favored.

That old Hanlin knew only so much, because there were too few records about the Ekima Kingdom.
Chapter completed!