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"My goodness, sir, I never imagined these Japanese were so rich. We only plundered one city, and that's already worth almost a million taels of silver. If we were to circle around Japan, wouldn't we make tens of millions?"

Looking at the statistics book in her hand, Madam Lin was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth. There were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver alone, as well as various valuable gold and silver jewelry. The preliminary estimate was that it was definitely worth over a million taels.

Although what Madam Lin said was not wrong, in reality, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly afterward.

First of all, not every city is so wealthy; at most, it is the capital city where the great nobles reside that has so much wealth.

Secondly, this surprise attack on Daban City was entirely due to the fact that the enemy was completely unprepared, allowing Zhou Wu to take advantage of the situation.

These cities will certainly not be so easily emptied by Zhou Wu's mere thousand men.

The news about Big Ban City will eventually spread, and other cities will definitely be prepared. I only brought a thousand marines with me. If the other side is really prepared, then these thousand marines will probably not even be enough to fill their teeth.

Therefore, Zhou Wu predicted that the cities attacked later would not yield much, and he would try to fish in troubled waters.

Following the map, Zhou Wu quickly arrived at the next city. This city was not the capital, so its size looked more like a backward county town.

As far as the eye could see, there were only slums. The fleet couldn't even find any landmarks to destroy. To conserve ammunition, they fired only a few symbolic shots and then left.

Along the way, Zhou Wu fired a few shots at every city he encountered. He would just give ordinary, impoverished cities a go, but if he came across a capital city inhabited by a noble family, then sorry, the fleet would have to unleash its full power.

Just as Zhou Wu had expected, even after the city had been bombarded, he could still see clearly through his binoculars that many soldiers were hiding in various corners of the city.

If Zhou Wu's marines dare to go ashore, they will definitely not return alive.

Although all the cities that encountered Zhou Wu's fleet along the way could only passively take the beatings, apart from the first city which yielded a large amount of money, the subsequent cities yielded nothing, which disappointed Lin Niangzi.

"Sir, what are you looking at?"

Lin Niangzi pointed to the distant shore and then handed the binoculars in her hand to Zhou Wu.

Zhou Wu raised his binoculars and looked in the direction Lin Niangzi was pointing. On a mountainside by the coast, there was a cave where many laborers were working back and forth. There were also many armed overseers around, and if they were not careful, their whips would be lashed at the laborers.

"It looks like some kind of mine, but it's too far away for us to see clearly."

Zhou Wu was now pondering whether he should try to take advantage of the situation, since there were many silver mines in Japan, and this might be one of them. However, it was also possible that this was not a silver mine, or even if it was, the silver that had been mined might have already been transferred.

"Sir, the map shows that there are no towns nearby, so we have plenty of time to rob a bunch of people."

These past few days, Lin Niangzi has completely let loose, as if she has returned to her days as a pirate.

"Okay, same old rules, fire the cannon first, then go up."

"Yes."

"Boom boom boom~~"

In this small mine, a single volley of fire would wipe out everyone, leaving no one standing.

Only two hundred Marines went up; there's no way the cave could accommodate more.

Madam Lin had been on the boat for several days, so when she finally had the chance to go ashore, she personally led her people ashore.

When she led two hundred men to the vicinity of the mine, the sight of severed limbs and broken bodies scattered all over the ground made even this veteran of the battlefield feel a lump in her throat.

Suppressing his nausea, he ordered his men to search everywhere.

"Deputy Commander, please take a look at this."

Soon, exclamations of surprise came from inside the cave. Madam Lin rushed over and discovered that the cave was much larger than she had imagined, with many side caves inside.

His men made a discovery inside one of the side caves.

The room was filled with countless boxes. One of the boxes had already been opened by his men, and the dazzling white light inside was something Lin Niangzi recognized all too well: silver.

"This really is a silver mine! My goodness, so many boxes, how much silver is in here?"

The silver in the boxes had been melted down into silver bricks and neatly arranged inside. Li Niangzi estimated that the total value of these boxes was many times that of Daban City.

"Hurry up and move."

There were just too many boxes, so Madam Lin even sent someone to the boat to find Zhou Wu and ask him to send more people to help.

These boxes took up half of the entire fleet's ship compartments.

"Sir, this is all silver."

After the last box was loaded onto the ship, Lin Niangzi boarded the ship herself, and it was not hard to hear the excitement in her voice.

However, after she boarded the deck, she saw that several boxes had been opened in front of Zhou Wu. These boxes were the ones that had just been moved from the mine onto the ship.

"This is!! This is impossible, I checked, it's clearly silver."

The open boxes in front of Zhou Wu were not all gleaming silver, which indicated that not all of them contained silver.

"It's nothing, it's normal. Silver mines often contain copper, lead-zinc, tin, and even gold."

Compared to Lin Niangzi's shock, Zhou Wu was quite calm.

After the final count, the silver amounted to approximately 600,000 taels, most of which were from copper, lead-zinc, and tin mines, and there were even two chests of gold.

. . . . . . . . . . .

Zhou Wu's fleet's indiscriminate attacks did indeed cause considerable trouble for the allied forces.

Taking advantage of the Allied forces' distraction, Kenshiro seized the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

Finally, a huge disagreement arose within the alliance regarding the next steps: whether to continue pursuing Kenshiro or return to their respective territories to deal with the sudden fleet attack.

Ultimately, the coalition dissolved after only three months due to internal conflicts.

Just then, Zhou Wu also fulfilled the wish he had made when he first arrived: to circle around the Kingdom of Fusang.

To this day, none of these people know who suddenly appeared in the mysterious fleet; they only speculate that it must be related to Kenshiro.

After the allied forces disbanded, Kenjiro's pressure lessened considerably, and he went on to wipe out two neighboring noble families in one fell swoop, so his strength has not only not decreased but has increased.

After a brief farewell, Zhou Wu returned to the South China Sea, fearing that Kenjiro would find out about his great success.

However, no one expected that Zhou Wu's fleet raid on the coast would directly make the major lords of Fusang take notice of the shipping industry, which they had never looked down upon before.