The "One Country, One City Order" covers all vassal states - even the Mito family, one of the "Three Imperial Clans".

Like other vassal states, the Mito family only has the city of the Vajra Hall.

Due to the restrictions of the "One Country, One City Order", the tactic of "relying on each city and resisting layer by layer" is destined to be unworkable.

Once the vassal hall falls, it will be completely finished.

Therefore, after the fall of Mito Castle, the remnants of Mito Basilica completely lost their ability to resist - without a city, where can I prepare materials? Where can I mobilize the army?

Even if you are determined to resist to the end, you will be eliminated sooner or later.

Even the majestic Mito Castle cannot stop the offensive of the new selection group, let alone the new selection group in the wild without any dangers?

After Tokugawa Kyotokashi surrendered, the four major branch vassals under his leadership—the Fuzhong vassal, the Koto vassal, the Shouyama vassal, and the Matsuoka vassal—were soon received the news.

Before Qingdeng could send someone to urge them, they all surrendered in a straightforward manner and were all respectful.

Faced with Qing Deng's overwhelming force, they did not dare to put forward any conditions, and only hoped to end the war as soon as possible and save their lives.

Qingdeng sent Nagakura Shinba to receive the land of these four branches of the vassal states.

If there is a resistance, there will be no mercy to kill him - he told Nagakura Shinhara this way.

The "Mito Conquest" is over... But, from another perspective, the war has just begun.

Why did Aoden destroy the Mito family?

On the one hand, it is naturally to take revenge, and to kill chickens to warn monkeys, shock the world, and reshape the prestige of the shogunate and the king.

On this basis, there may be other purposes.

Since the "Changzhou Conquest", both the shogunate and the Qinjin vassal have suffered considerable consumption.

War is very expensive.

Qingdeng led the Xinxuan team to fight from the west to the east, and all of them were seriously damaged.

Among them, shells are the most important.

The slammed Yizhoukou, the slammed Kashihara, and the slammed Mito Castle... Although the slammed the 11th team were so happy, the price they paid was high.

It is no exaggeration to say that the inventory of shells that Qin Jinfan had finally saved in recent years was basically empty in these three battles.

Not to mention the shogunate.

Two "Edo Cage Battles" have been fought one after another, and Edo is almost ruined. If you don't have ten years to recover your energy.

Since the damage is severe, we naturally have to try to recover our health.

Mito Band is one of the "Three Imperial Families". It has vast and fertile land, very developed agriculture and handicrafts, and has considerable fishery because it is close to the Pacific Ocean.

In this way, the wealth accumulated over the past 200 years is naturally very considerable.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse - although the Mito family has suffered many hardships in recent years and its national power has gradually declined, its "remain" is enough to feed the shogunate and Qinjin.

Aoden has set his sights on the wealth of Mito's vassal - although he has not stated it clearly, everyone knows it well.

Therefore, after breaking through Mito Castle, the most anticipated link of Aoden finally began - starting to capture the wealth of Mito Basilica!

The first thing he got was naturally the territory of the Mito family.

The territory of the Mito family and its branch vassal... Aoden recovered nearly 400,000 stones of land in one breath! And it is basically fertile land on the Kanto Plain! (The Masaya San is in Muro, not Kanto)

Of course, just having land cannot satisfy Qingdeng's appetite.

Regarding how to capture the wealth of the Mito family, in short, in one sentence, the Mito family's treasures must be obtained, and the families of Mito monarchs and ministers must also be copied!

Mido monarch and minister ignored his persuasion and insisted on his own initiative, resisting stubbornly - Qingdeng had very sufficient reasons to raid their homes.

Anyway, they won't be able to use these things anymore.

Aoden entrusted the task of "squeezing water purifier" to Kondo Yuki.

Kondo led hundreds of soldiers to the treasury of Mito Castle and the residences of Mito Ministers. No unrelated people were allowed to approach.

Mito family is worthy of being an old-fashioned power. After opening its treasury and witnessing the mountain of yellow and white things, Kondo's eyes suddenly turned straight - it was also because he was not responsible for the finances of the Qinjin family, so he rarely witnessed a lot of money.

Of course, compared with the "private inventory" of Mito Momon, the Fuzoda in Mito Castle is really not worth mentioning.

Severe land annexation - this is a common problem of feudal regimes.

The land is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the landlords.

In order to own more land, the landlords used various means to plunder the land and let the farmers who owned the land sell their land and real estate into tenant farmers, and gradually evolved into a situation where "the rich are connected to the fields, and the poor are without a place to stand."

The superior samurai led by the Mito vassal lord is the largest landlord class in the Mito vassal borough.

There are fewer and fewer free people, and the country cannot collect money. Instead, these "loyal ministers and good generals" are richer than the other.

In contrast, the lord of the Mito vassal was considered poor, and all the important officials under his command were richer than him.

With such a huge amount of wealth, Kondo Yuki had to mobilize a large number of trolleys and after counting, he transported them to Edo one by one.

It is worth mentioning that in order to please Aoden and to show his sincerity of "never be enemies of the shogunate", many Mito merchants have come to offer gifts and donate money and grain recently.

If you add a sum of income, Qingdeng will naturally be happy to see it.

While transporting the "private collection" of Mito monarch and ministers, Aiden specially asked Tokugawa Kyoto and others to come and watch.

On the one hand, we must punish their hearts and punish Mito in all aspects.

On the other hand, it is necessary to let Tokugawa Kyoto see with his own eyes how his ministers "reward" Mito after they have a transcendent status.

Sure enough, after witnessing the amazing wealth of his ministers, Tokugawa Keitsu's face became particularly ugly, sometimes blue and sometimes white.

"You...you...you..."

He said "you" three times in a row, and his voice gradually trembled.

However, at the end, he said nothing... silently shut his mouth and held back all the words he was about to say.

He probably realized that he was now a prisoner and had no position to refute the ministers.

Even so, his resentment would not be eliminated.

Until he was taken back to the prison, he didn't even look at the ministers beside him.

Faced with the silent reprimand of the lord, all the ministers lowered their heads, and they didn't even dare to show off their anger. They looked at their noses and their hearts, and were full of guilt...

This "economic work" that is both mentally and physically exhausted lasted for 7 days and 7 nights.

After completing the statistics, Kondo registered the specific numbers and submitted them to Aoden.

"Qingdeng, please be mentally prepared."

When presenting the "statistic table", Kondo said meaningfully.

Qingdeng reached out to take it without hesitation, thinking to himself:

——Fust a big fuss, how rich can Mito vassal be?

He opened the "statistic table" and glanced quickly - and then, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, his expression dominated by a strong shock.

The Mito Castle storage, the private storage of Mito monarch and ministers, and the contribution of Mito merchants... He received 50,000 stones of grain and grass in one go! 500,000 taels of gold!

This only counts gold coins, not silver coins or copper coins.

If all the coins are counted and converted into gold coins, Qingdeng won 700,000 taels of gold in one breath!

As for weapons, equipment, rare antiques and other things, there are countless!

After witnessing this series of numbers, Qingdeng almost couldn't believe his eyes.

It’s not because of the lot of money – but this huge sum was found in Mito Castle, which is amazing!

He knew that Mito's background would not be shallow, but he didn't expect to be so rich!

Who said that Mito's vassal has declined?

Qingdeng suddenly recalled the famous allusion that "Chongzhen was so poor that he was so poor that Li Zicheng found 70 million taels of silver in Beijing."

If you look at the battles he had fought before, except for the "Changzhou Conquest", they were all inside battles.

Defend, and then fight back the enemy - even if you defeat it, you won't have a huge income.

Even the only "Changzhou Conquest" that was considered an outside battle ended with a slash of losses and failed to get enough benefits.

With just one battle, he received 700,000 taels of gold in one go... This is much more than Qingdeng's advance expectation.

He has personally experienced why humans are keen on war.

The consequences of defeat are certainly terrifying.

But relative, the huge bonus after the victory is indeed extremely tempting!

Such a generous income is enough to fill the recent war consumption of the Qinjin vassal state, and it is more than enough!

Qingdeng has already planned how to use this fortune.

First, we divided a small part to rebuild Edo, and most of the remaining money was sent to Otsu!

This is not his personal pocket, it is the result of his careful consideration.

Qing Deng’s judgment on the situation in the world remains unchanged: the vassals of the Western Kingdom are the real threats!
To be continued...