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Lin Chong had weighed the pros and cons carefully. With only 3,000 soldiers, if he relied solely on military oppression and intimidation, he would not be able to effectively occupy the entire territory of Japan. However, with the help of those Japanese warriors who surrendered and pledged allegiance, he could effectively occupy local areas, seize the mining and refining of gold and silver minerals, and make up for the needs of Liangshan's development and growth. This clever layout would not be difficult to achieve.

Thus, under Lin Chong's deliberate arrangement and layout, Kameyama Kokuro and others gradually stood out and became emerging "daimyo" and lords, and their territories happened to occupy the concentrated areas of Japan's gold and silver mines.

The distribution characteristics of gold and silver mines in Japan are relatively balanced, mainly concentrated in the following areas: 1. Kitakuroku region: Kitakuroku region is one of the largest gold mining areas in Japan, mainly distributed in Otaru, Date and Ebetsu near Sakō City. Tohoku region: Tohoku region is one of the earliest gold mining areas in Japan, mainly distributed in Aomori, Iwate and Akita. Central region: Central region is the silver mining area in Japan, mainly distributed in Yamanashi and Niigata. Kanto region: Kanto region is one of the earliest silver mining areas in Japan, mainly distributed in Kanagawa, Tochigi and Ibaraki.

After the main producing areas of Japan's gold and silver mines were controlled by several emerging puppet "daimyo" and lords, and seeing that the situation had stabilized, Lin Chong left Wu Song and Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoliu, and Ruan Xiaoqi to coordinate the occupied areas, and he returned directly to Liangshan through the transmission function of the space-time router system.

Afterwards, Lin Chong arranged for the military strategist Zhu Wu to recruit some professionals who were skilled in mining and refining gold and silver from the few gold and silver mining sites in Song at high prices. He also trained more technical personnel through mentoring and secretly transferred them to Japan, where they gradually guided and carried out the mining and refining of gold and silver in Japan.

Wu Song and others also recruited miners in the territories of the puppet "daimyo" and lords who surrendered and pledged allegiance. They mainly engaged in the rough work of mining ore. The core gold and silver refining technology and channels were kept secret. Only the core staff of Liangshan could enter the gold and silver refining sites to ensure the confidentiality of the technology, so that the Japanese personnel had no idea what they were doing specifically, just like "the people can be made to do it, but not to know it."

Soon, large quantities of gold and silver were produced and refined, and the output became larger and larger. Every few days, Lin Chong had to travel back and forth from Liangshan to Japan to store the newly produced gold and silver into the storage space of the space-time router system.

Lin Chong also used more and more gold and silver to introduce special talents to Liangshan and develop and strengthen Liangshan's armed forces. The unlimited growth of Liangshan's economic strength also enabled it to recruit and absorb more professionals and craftsmen of various kinds to join. As the feudal landlords of the Northern Song Dynasty became more and more exploitative, the land was further concentrated in the landlords' homes. More and more landless and propertyless refugees became the largest source of Liangshan's new forces.

Lin Chong knew that the sprouts of capitalism had already appeared in the Jiangnan area at this time, and in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the political corruption, the eunuchs' monopoly of power, and the people's livelihood were in dire straits. The rulers strengthened their control internally and sought to make peace externally, which led to the intensification of social contradictions. In a few years, a large-scale peasant uprising led by Fang La would break out. Liangshan happened to have too much surplus money at this time and urgently needed manpower to strengthen its strength. Therefore, Lin Chong arranged for Shi Qian and Bai Sheng to lead the expanded special forces battalion to Jiangnan to absorb and recruit more poor refugees to join the Liangshan Industrial Group and the Liangshan Army.