Chapter 176: Double Happiness

The seventh year of Yonglu, the first month.

After half a month, the turmoil in the Jiangma family in Beihida was almost over.

With the help of Takeda's family, Jiangma Huisheng finally calmed down all opposition within the family and was imprisoned as the governor of Jiangma's family.

However, after the civil strife of the Jiangma family, their vitality was severely damaged. Recently, there have been rumors that the entire sister Xiaolu family had prepared for war. When the snow in Hida Country melted, they would use troops to attack the Jiangma family.

Faced with the threat from Sister Xiaolu's family, Jiangma Huisheng's current situation can be described by words such as panic all day long, so he counts all his hopes on Li Xiao and the conquest army he said that the Takeda family will take place this year.

In this way, Jiang Ma Huisheng could only stick to Li Xiao tightly and dare not even blow up his wings.

Hida Kingdom, Kamioka Castle.

After the Jiangma family soldiers successfully advised him and changed his position, Li Xiao had already returned to Shengang City. The first thing he did when he came back was to send someone to completely take over Shengang Yinshan. In addition to the miners still using the original Jiangma family, the garrison had been replaced by his own people.

Shengang Mine is only one mile away from Shengang City, and it can be said to be just under Li Xiao's nose, which adds convenience to him controlling the mine.

However, as Li Xiao, who only knows how to play in Xinye and Taige, he is not a graduate of the Mining University and is not familiar with the matter of mining, so he can only recruit talents everywhere and come to take charge of them.

After obtaining the Kamikaga Mine, Li Xiao asked the ninjas to spend some effort and invited mountain masters, surveyors and refiners who were responsible for mineral exploration to explore the entire Kamikaga Mine.

The general manager of mineral exploration is the Grand Zang Chang'an under Li Xiao.

Li Xiao expressed his confidence in the strength of Grand Tibet Chang'an.

In the Tokugawa shogunate, Ozang Chang'an was appointed as the Ishimi Ginyama and Sado Kinshan.

You should know that Ishimi Ginshan and Sado Ginshan are silver production and gold production respectively, and have both become the number one rich mine in Japan or the world's number one.

The reason why Dazang Chang'an was appointed to follow Ishimi Yinshan and Sado Kinshan was largely because he was extremely proficient in mining.

On that day, Dazang Chang'an led the mountain master, surveyor and refiner to explore the entire Shengang Mine for a whole day.

After that, Dazang Chang'an's face did not wash, and he hurried into the Tianshou Pavilion of Shengang City with dirty clothes. When he saw Li Xiao, he looked excited and overjoyed.

Excited, Dazang Chang'an was not speaking smoothly, and he said almost intermittently: "Congratulations to lord, congratulations to lord, great joy, great joy."

When Li Xiao saw Dazang Chang'an like this, he said in surprise: "Chang'an is just asking you to go to the Ginshan of the Kanoka. Don't be so excited about me. I have always told you that as a samurai, you must have the demeanor of a samurai."

Dazang Chang'an was stunned for a moment and said, "It's because the ministers are out of their composure, but the lord is really happy."

"Oh? Did you find anything about Ginyama Kamioka?"

Grand Zang Chang'an pointed out twice and said, "Lord, it's not just a discovery, it's really a joy to discover it!"

“To be specific.”

Dazang Chang'an calmed down for a while, organized a few words, saying: "Lord, today's subordinates led their men to explore the entire Shengang Yinshan, sorted out the ore into samples to analyze, and used a detailed estimate of the amount of mineral deposits in this mine."

After a pause, Dazang Chang'an's eyes flashed and said in a serious tone: "I found that the length of the Shengang Yinshan ore veins is unparalleled, and it is quite easy to dig new mineral veins. I made a rough estimate that even if the mineral reserves of the Shengang Mineral are not as good as Shi Jian Yinshan, the gap will not be too far away."

Nani?

Although Li Xiao knew that the Shengang Mine had an astonishing amount of mineral reserves, he did not expect that it would be so much.

Li Xiao said hmm and asked, "To be specific, how much can the Shengang Mine be mined in a year?"

Dazang Chang'an's eyes flashed and then said, "If lord, you ask your subordinates to be responsible for the mining of Shengang mines, and deduct the part of the Jiangma family, your subordinates are sure to expand the standing of 500 people for our family within one year."

"The standing of five hundred people?" Li Xiao was very surprised and said, "This is not the annual output of a Shengang Yinshan Mountain, which is equivalent to the knowledge and practice of more than 20,000 stones."

Li Xiao first formed a regular basis for a group of 100 people, using a direct salary of 1,000 stakes. The same salary in the Takeda family's military service account was only 100, but most of them were just temporary peasant soldiers.

Only Li Xiaoyoumingguo Ramen Restaurant, as his income and salary are not his only source, can he dare to do this.

If it were other retainers, they would have to be equipped with a direct salary of nearly 2,000 chunks. After all, they would have to leave some of their salary for themselves, otherwise they would be really two young people, and all their income would be used for Daming to raise soldiers.

According to Li Xiao's later estimates, the territory was about fifty stones per person to form his own permanent reserves, that is, a territory of ten thousand stones, with a permanent reserve of about 180 to 200 to 200.

And Shenkaoka Yinshan actually provided him with five hundred people, which is equivalent to a 25,000-stone knowledge and action.

After hearing Li Xiao’s question, Dazang Chang'an nodded with confidence and said, “My lord is sure, and this is the first year. Everything is not mature. As for the confidence of the ministers next year, they will be able to form a 1,000-person team for the lord. As for more in the following year.”

"There is a constant supply of a thousand people."

That is not the land of knowledge and action that is equivalent to 50,000 or 60,000 shi high. Li Xiao felt that he almost fainted happily.

"No," Li Xiao thought about it again and asked, "According to what you said, Kanoka Ginshan has always been in the hands of the Jiangma family before. Why didn't the Jiangma family have so many equipment?"

Dazang Chang'an smiled and said, "This lord doesn't know. The Jiangma family has always used the method of collecting silver by native alchemy, so the amount of mining has always been low. However, the mining method used in the following is much higher than that of the Jiangma family."

"Oh, what mining method?" Li Xiao immediately became interested.

Dazang Chang'an immediately acted like a brick-drawer, and said in a very professional tone: "In addition to vertical hole digging and tunnel digging, the mining method I used also has a special refining technique, which adds lead to high-temperature melting to refine it. This is a characteristic that makes metal and metal easy to combine. The silver and lead are first combined, and in the next stage, use ash to absorb lead, and finally only silver is left."

"Oh, it turns out it's the ashes blowing method." Li Xiao suddenly realized.

Dazang Chang'an looked surprised and asked with a look of what you know, "It turns out that the lord also knows this method of alchemy."

Li Xiaoha smiled and felt very ashamed in secret. To be honest, if he hadn't played with Nobuye, there was a science and technology tree in the internal affairs that was a method of blowing up the law, otherwise how could he know this knowledge?

Dazang Chang'an suddenly realized his mind and said, "I forgot that my lord is from the Ming Dynasty. This method of slaughtering came from the Ming Dynasty. However, when my subordinates Kyushu Hakata Town learned the mining method, it was taught by the Southern Barbarians. However, this method of slaughtering was really used in Japan, but Danai used this method to mine quarry and divine silver mountain decades ago."

So that's it, Li Xiao nodded. At that time, the Okui family had the most silver mining capacity in Japan, and the other hand, the power to trade with the Ming Dynasty, so they exported a large amount of silver to the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that Dazang Chang'an was very talkative, Li Xiao thought that he had dug up Dazang Chang'an from Takeda Katsurai, but now it finally came in handy.

Although Dazang's father, Yuemon Nobuan, was born as a musician of the Great Spiritual, he was skilled in alchemy and was hired as a refiner by Takeda Shingen, who served as a former member of the Tsangma in Kurokawa Kansama of Takeda's family.

In addition to teaching the mining techniques of Dazang Chang'an, he also went to Hakata, Kyushu to learn about the Southern Barbarians. In the future, the Tokugawa Shogunate ordered him to follow Sado Kinshan and Ishimi Yinshan to show his ability.

So Li Xiao said to Dazang Chang'an: "Chang'an, I will now appoint you as the practice of Shengang Yinshan, with an annual salary of 150 knots."

After hearing Li Xiao's words, Dazang Chang'an was shocked by the annual salary of 150 knots. This was already the level of a general. Even the number one general under Li Xiao's command did not have that much annual salary.

Dazang Chang'an immediately surrendered and said with gratitude: "Thank you for your kind gift, I will definitely repay you with all my life."

Li Xiaoyan said: "I don't want you to repay the consequences of your life. You only need to do two things. First, the mining volume of Shengang Yinshan must reach the number you mentioned just now. Second, there is no need to embezzle, do you understand?"

"Oh! I will follow the lord's instructions."

After Dazang Chang'an raised his head, his eyes were slightly red, and he looked unhappy. At this moment, Dazang Chang'an finally regarded himself as a firm member of Li Xiao's retainer group.

Dazang Chang'an showed a look of putting himself in his shoes for Li Xiao's shoes and said, "Lord, I heard that Shengang Yinshan was borrowed from the Jiangma family. It only has a three-year period. If it is completed every three years, if Shengang Yinshan is returned to the Jiangma family, all our efforts will be in vain."

Li Xiaoha smiled and said, "Don't worry, three years later, even if I give this Shengang Yinshan to Jiangma Huisheng, he would not dare to ask for it."

Li Xiao did this without saying anything casually. He had already calculated that he would restrain Jiang Ma Huisheng's chess pieces.

That is Jiangma Huisheng's brother Jiangma Shin-ho, who was formerly named Master Danli, and became a monk at the Yama Gate of Honan Temple in Shirakawa Township. Later, because Jiangma Shisheng did not like Jiangma Huisheng, he planned to make him the candidate for the Jiangma family's supervision, and officially named the samurai Mingma Shin-ho.

In history, when Ema Shimoto surrendered to Takeda's family, he sent him to Takeda Shingen as a hostage. Takeda Shingen liked him very much, so he asked him to serve as a general in the family's flag. Later, the Takeda family always wanted Ema Shingen to let Takeda's Nobumo to take the family's chief heir.

Later, after Huisheng of Jiangma heard about this, in the sixth year of Tianzheng (1578), he sent assassin to murder Shisheng of Jiangma, usurped the position of governor of the Jiangma family, and then cut off relations with the Takeda family, and snakes and rats on both sides of Uesugi and Oda.

However, under the influence of Li Xiao, the time traveler, Jiangma Shisheng died more than ten years earlier, and now Jiangma Huisheng is firmly standing under the banner of Takeda Ryu.

And during this civil strife in the Jiangma family, Jiangma Nobumo had no time to be sent to the Takeda family as a hostage in history, and he himself became a monk in Zhaolian Temple.

As Li Xiao expected, the ambitious monks of Honan Temple would be uneasy if they didn't mess with anything.

After learning about the civil turmoil in the Jiangma family, Honanji showed that he had made a moral condemnation to Jiangma Huisheng, who killed his father and became a leader, and then said that Jiangma Huisheng was not qualified to inherit the Jiangma family. And his brother Jiangma Xinsheng, who became a monk in Niren Temple, was the candidate for the Jiangma family.

So in Li Xiao's view, the ambition of Honan Temple was very clear. They just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the change of ownership of the Jiangma family and take a handful of Jima Shin-ho, who was inclined to the stage, and then let the Jiangma family be completely included in the Hongan Temple's sphere of influence.

Although the power of Honanji in Hida Kingdom is not as powerful as that of the Yokochi Kaga, under the shaking of the monks, the men of Ama Nobumoto gathered a group of former Ama family retainers who opposed Ama Fraud, which is indeed a bit threat to the weakest Ama Fraud.

Therefore, Jiangma Huisheng is respectful to the Takeda family now, and Li Xiao's attitude is crucial. If he turns to Honan Temple, then the position of governor of Jiangma's family will change hands again.

As for three years later, after the massive mining of the Yinshan Mountain of Shengang, Li Xiao's power was even worse than before. Even if Jiang Ma Xinsheng was not there at that time, would Jiang Ma Huisheng dare to ask Li Xiao for it? Even if Li Xiao was willing to give it to him, he would not dare to accept it.

Seeing that Li Xiao was so confident, Dazang Chang'an immediately relaxed most of his heart. With Li Xiao's guarantee, he could focus all his energy on mining the Yinshan Mountain of Shengang.

When Dazang retreated from Chang'an, a subordinate came to the Tianshou Pavilion to hand over a secret letter from Takeda Shingen to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao quickly opened the letter and looked carefully. He knew that the Takeda family was finally going to send troops to Hida.

As in history, Takeda Shingen launched an expedition against Hida in the seventh year of Echonro, and Yama Prefecture Masake was led by Yama Prefecture as the general.

Of course, Yama County Changjing has not yet changed his name, and he is still called Fuyuan Goro.

In Takeda Shingen's letter, the Hida Conquest Army was organized, including the general Imoto Goro, the general Izumi Goro, the supervisor Sone Masashi, the military rations were carried out, and the other generals in the reserve team were Yi Nobulong, Kiso Yoshikazu, Masaya Masaya, and Qingyanu Kiyoshi.

Including Li Xiao's standing and the Jiangma family's troops, the Takeda family dispatched a total of more than 3,500 troops.

In the letter, Takeda Shingen issued an order that the primary goal of the Hida expedition army this time was to let the sister Xiaoji family and the Uchishima family subdue the Takeda family. If they did not follow, they would completely eliminate them.

Among them, Li Xiao’s mission is to ensure the smooth flow of military food channels and hoard enough food and grass in Shengang City for more than two months.

It is expected that the army will take place in May, so Li Xiao must start preparations after the heavy snow melts in Hida in April and the road is unblocked, giving him about a month of time.

Just as Li Xiao was considering how to raise military rations, his intelligence leader, Ninja Yokotani Yukiki, sent another letter to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

Yokotani Yukiki looked serious and silently refused to answer. Li Xiao was slightly surprised. He took the letter and looked carefully. He suddenly felt a sense of joy that came out of his heart, which was beyond words.

At this time, Yokotani Yukiya fell down and said, "Congratulations to lord, congratulations to lord."

Li Xiao smiled happily like a child, and read the letter again and again.

Finally, Li Xiao confirmed the good news and I am a father.
Chapter completed!