A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

Seeing that these so-called "royal cities" are so useless.

Wei Lu directly divided his troops into ten routes.

He led 100 men to wait here, while his soldiers led their men to the surrounding "royal cities" to slaughter the kings and destroy the kingdoms.

He didn't care, but his generals did.

Even at his worst, he's still a king.

Even the King of Trash is still a king.

Even if its value were compared to that of the feudal lords of the Han Dynasty, it wouldn't even be worthy of carrying their shoes.

But as long as they have the word "king" in their name, their title has a chance to be promoted.

Especially with so many kings on this island, there might be a ten-king kill or even a dozens-king kill.

I'll have something to brag about when I get back.

When they return, they can still write in their family genealogy the date and year on which they slaughtered numerous foreign kings and nobles.

If they hadn't said anything, who would have known that the king here was so useless?

As a result, the kings on the island of Wa suffered.

They were treated as a scarce resource and seized.

The soldiers were terrified that if they were too slow, the remaining kings would be captured by others. They rushed on their way, killing one king and hurrying to the next "royal city".

For every one more person others kill, they kill one less.

They raced thousands of miles at breakneck speed.

In just half a month, they wiped out all the kings within a thousand miles.

The rest are too far away and are reserved for those aristocratic families.

After subjugating so many tribes, with the help of the local inhabitants, the Han army successively discovered dozens of gold and silver mines.

They even found the largest gold mine on the island of Wa.

During the Han Dynasty, silver was a precious metal, while gold was the true hard currency.

When they saw this entire mountain of gold, all the Han soldiers were shocked.

This place is really rich.

Fortunately, they were either the Wei family's personal guards or the emperor's imperial guards.

Otherwise, it would be really hard to control oneself.

When news of Jinshan reached Dahan, it caused another sensation.

Emperor Jing of Han personally named this mountain Fuhan Jinshan.

Such news could not be kept secret and quickly spread among the people.

A wave of enthusiasm swept through the people to travel to the island of Wa and search for other treasure islands at sea.

Suddenly, the Han army also realized that these natives could not be killed indiscriminately.

They are all very precious.

These are all precious mineral resources.

Without these natives, who will help them mine gold and silver?

Taking full account of the servility of these natives, the Han army chose the strategy of using natives to control natives.

They selected some lucky individuals from among the indigenous people who seemed somewhat pleasing to the eye to become overseers.

These overseers were made to wield small leather whips and whip the other laborers while they worked in the mine.

The Han soldiers were kind-hearted and could not bear to see human suffering, so they had no choice but to delegate all the power to these overseers.

They also provided these overseers with fine clothes and delicious food and wine, giving them great power and allowing them to live a life of luxury every day.

Compared to the Han army, they are definitely no match.

But compared to those miners, it's like heaven and earth.

The Han army demanded that these overseers provide enough gold and silver ore every day.

The quantity of this gold and silver mine was calculated precisely.

We guarantee that these people will not be able to complete their target even if they mine here for 14 hours a day.

However, they only supervise the workers, and if the task is not completed, only the supervisors are punished.

In order to complete the task, the overseers had no choice but to force these miners to work more than 15 hours a day.

They were not allowed to rest or eat until they delivered enough gold and silver ore.

The bad guys were all done by these overseers; the Han army was just a group of superiors who were being deceived.

When public resentment becomes too severe, blame everything on the overseers, kill a batch of overseers, replace them with a new batch, and repeat the same process.

They found this tactic very effective; the servility of these natives meant they only dared to vent their resentment on the overseers, and had no genuine dissatisfaction with the Han army.

The Han army was not afraid of these overseers lining their own pockets, because here, besides the Han army, there were only mine slaves.

They have no use for gold and silver; they can't spend them.

Is gold that you can't spend still gold? It's just a pile of broken stones!

Furthermore, they are allowed to report on each other.

If the report is successful, the miner who made the report will become the new overseer and live a life of luxury.

This policy has fully mobilized the enthusiasm of these supervisors.

Large quantities of gold and silver mines fell into the hands of the Han army like a flowing river.

Then they were transported back to the Han Dynasty by large ships.

Watching boatloads of gold and silver being sent to the Han Dynasty, and then turned into cartloads of gold and silver being sent into Chang'an City.

I wonder how many people are drooling.

If it weren't for the heavy guard, many of the tough and burly men would definitely have attacked the convoy.

Soon, the methods used by the Han army to deal with these natives were heard by other powerful families and clans, and then applied to the entire Japanese island.

And so began the happy life of the overseer on the island of Wa.

When had they ever seen such magnificent clothes? Even if these clothes were something that ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could afford, they were just native civilians from the Japanese islands. Not to mention them, even their former king could not afford such fine clothes.

With the arrival of the Han army, the Japanese pirates finally have a clear sky.

With the arrival of the Han army, the overseers' happiness was restored.

The Han Dynasty also used the gold and silver that were transported to start many infrastructure projects, so that ordinary people of the Han Dynasty could also enjoy the benefits of developing the Japanese islands.

(This part of the story will appear later; feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments.)

The 17th year of Emperor Jing of Han.

Marquis of Yan, Wei Qing, who was also the Grand Minister of Agriculture, fell seriously ill and died at the Marquis of Yan's residence.

Before his death, Wei Qing made three requests to Emperor Jing of Han.

First, he recommended his eldest son, Wei Fu, to serve as the new Grand Minister of Agriculture and inherit the title of Marquis of Yan. In order to show his support for the Edict of Grace and the promise he made to the King of Liang, he hoped to give a portion of the Marquis of Yan's fief to his second son, Marquis of Anguo, Wei Shou.

Second, they requested that he be buried in the Wei family's ancestral land, rather than in the imperial mausoleum;

Third, an imperial edict was issued, declaring that the people of Wanu Island would be slaves for life and would be forbidden from holding civilian status for generations.

The first two are understandable. The first one is a matter of course, and the second one is understandable, as Han Chinese people value returning to their roots.

The third one, what did the natives on the Japanese islands do to your Wei family?

Judging from what Wei Lu did after landing on the island, he truly didn't treat the natives as human beings!

Wei Qing even sought this imperial decree before his death; what deep-seated hatred could he possibly harbor!

Although Emperor Jing of Han didn't quite understand, it was a minor matter, so he agreed.

Wei Qing nodded in satisfaction, closed his eyes, and "suddenly passed away."

Biography of Prince Qing of Yan (from the Book of Han)

Marquis Wei Qing of Yan, successor of King Zhongwu, served twice as Grand Minister of Agriculture. During his decades-long tenure, he pacified the people and helped Emperor Jing expand the territory, ensuring the common people lived in peace and tranquility. When he received his mandate, the state granaries were barely enough to satisfy hunger; by the time of his death, the people were prosperous and the state was wealthy, with gold and jade piling up and grain and silk mountains stacked high, laying a solid foundation for Emperor Xiaowu's conquest of the Central and Western Regions.

On the day of his death, the people of Chang'an wore mourning clothes, and their cries of grief shook the heavens. Emperor Jing of Han posthumously conferred upon him the title of Prince of Yan and the posthumous name Wenzhong.