Xinshun 1730

Chapter 79 Using North Korea as a Springboard
All the ministers of state affairs of the Jiapingzhang Army in the Temple of God Blessed were born from a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses.

When it comes to ingenuity, he is far better than Liu Yu.

It's just that I don't know much about diplomacy and trade because of my knowledge, the political correctness of the Chinese dynasty, and the actual practice of the Chinese tributary system.

Some people even really thought that Russians would die of abdominal distension if they didn’t eat rhubarb.Therefore, they support the opening of ports and use trade as a threat in the future, similar to the previous trade policy towards Mongolia.

Li Gan hoped to hear another perspective from Liu Yu. After listening to Liu Yu's words, he couldn't help feeling quite radical.

He is impatient, and he wants to make a big career and make a name in history.

He looks fine on weekdays, but when he encounters a big event, his impatience is undoubtedly revealed, and it is inevitable that he has some radical ideas.

But after listening to Liu Yu's words, he knew that the aggressiveness he had warned before seemed extremely conservative in Liu Yu's words.

This matter still needs to be considered, so I asked instead: "You are talking about the western front. You said that the east and west are divided into ports, and the eastern front is related to the Nuergan land. What about the eastern front?"

"My minister heard some rumors, what happened to North Korea?"

"Well, it's either a rumor, or something went wrong."

It is very difficult for ordinary people to know this kind of thing.A Xunwei like Liu Yu, who was born as a son of nobles, has a close relationship with the old nobles, knowing that North Korea has changed, Li Gan doesn't feel any difference.

This time, some musketeers from North Korea were recruited. One is to show off the military power of North Korea, and the other is to test North Korea.

A lot has happened in North Korea in recent years.

The old king of Joseon had just died a few years ago, and he had had several unpleasant encounters with Dashun because of the matter of "North Korea's number one witch" Zhang Xipin.

The old king and concubine of Joseon could not have children, so he favored Zhang Xipin, who came from a humble background, and Zhang Xipin gave birth to two sons.

He just wanted to use the power of his relatives from relatively humble backgrounds to clean up the political situation in the court and send people to Dashun to request that Zhang Xipin be canonized as the concubine.

The people in the Dashun Li government are concerned with etiquette issues, and this kind of thing must not be allowed.The suzerain state of the tribute circle supports the vassal to abolish the concubine and set up a concubine?

But after all, it is a vassal, so it is not easy to refuse directly, just find fault.After looking through the memorabilia, I found that the words "Anding Harem" were used in it. Yuanwailang, a member of the Li government, asked: What is your identity?Can you use the word "harem"?Can these two characters be used by princes and kings?

The old king of Joseon also understood what Dashun meant, so he had to send someone to report the crime, and finally bribed some people from the Li government, quoted scriptures and found many excuses, and went back and forth several times.

As a result, just a few years after it was completed, the old king of North Korea abolished Zhang Xipin again.But there is still no official eldest son, so they can only request Zhang Xipin's eldest son to be the eldest son.

The government of Li refused again, thinking that if she had always been the concubine, it would be in accordance with the rules to make her son the eldest son.Then you abolish her now and make her son the crown prince?Her eldest son is no longer the eldest son, but a concubine. How could it be possible for the princes and kings to make the concubine their son?
Besides, the king of Joseon hasn't reached fifty yet, so he can obviously continue to try with the princess, you two will try again.There is no eldest son at fifty, let's talk.

The scholar-bureaucrats of North Korea also held up the "History of the Song Dynasty", saying that Song Shenzong did not establish Zhezong until the day of his death, so don't break the rules.

The two sides fought for three or four years, and finally the Dashunli government also canonized Zhang Xipin's eldest son as the eldest son.

Not long after, Zhang Xipin was involved in the "scourge of witchcraft".It is said that this Zhang Xipin was also a ruthless person. Before she died, she cursed her husband to kill off her son and grandson, stretched out her hand and crushed her own son's bottom, I don't know if it is true or not.

Her eldest son didn't know whether he was frightened or really crushed, but he was just a fool. He heard that he peed his pants in court.After succeeding to the throne, he has no children, only a younger brother.

The party struggle in North Korea was more fierce than that in Song and Tang Dynasties. After several party struggles, envoys were sent to the capital to ask for canonization as Wang Shidi and heir.

As the emperor of the suzerain country, Li Gan asked out of politeness, saying that he heard that the king of Joseon is not in good health, how is his health recently?

The envoy was also familiar with a subset of classics and history, so he replied, "The lower Qi is impotent and weak".Li Gan asked out of politeness that something had happened.

Anyone who has read the classics and history collections well, as long as he has the idea of ​​setting up a mosquito prison, he is a master.

When the envoy returned to North Korea, someone immediately reported to the king of North Korea: Looking at the 23 histories, the word "atrophy" was used only when Huan Wen, the power minister in the "Book of Jin", used this word when he abolished Sima Yi.This person said that the king was "impotent", because he wanted to learn from Huan Wen, and his desire to abolish and establish power was clearly revealed!
There was another party struggle and mosquito prison. After a bunch of heads fell to the ground, the king of Joseon was not in good health. Wang Shidi "brothers and friends respectful" and fed his brother a bowl of ginseng soup.

Just finished feeding, karma, my brother died at that time.

This is more yellow mud off the crotch than the sound of the candle shadow axe, and the sound of the candle shadow ax can also explain it.He died after drinking ginseng soup, how can this be explained?

When Wang Shidi succeeded to the throne, he said that I really did not poison the ginseng soup, believe it or not.

The offshoot with the right to inherit, the court party that ran the mosquito prison, of course didn't believe it. This spring, they went to Beijing to "cry at the Qin court" and asked the suzerain country to uphold justice; by the way, a rebellion was set off in North Korea. , The white helmet and white armor of the three armies are plain.

Because of these messy things, the canonization ceremony has never been carried out.

The Li government has not yet sent anyone to North Korea, but told North Korea to explain what happened.Is it Wang Shidi who conspired to rebel, poison and kill the king?Or did he just die just in time?

Before the state affairs, Zuo Pingzhang's army proposed to recruit North Korean musketeers for the Raksha War because of the turmoil in North Korea. His king must have made great efforts to please Shangguo.

Now that the rebellion is together, this move is considered to be one step ahead.

It is not good for the suzerain country to directly send troops to interfere in North Korea's internal affairs, but there are North Korean musketeers recruited for the Rakshasa War. Dashun was more submissive and more concessional.

After the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, the relationship between North Korea and Dashun was also delicate.

For one thing, Wanli's anti-Japanese and aid to the Korean Dynasty contributed to the rebuilding of the Korean Li Dynasty.Out of this kindness, North Korea has always secretly respected Ming as orthodox, and has also taken in many exiles from Nanming.

Dashun is out of etiquette, so it's hard to say anything, it's hard to say that it's right to be ungrateful, and it's wrong not to forget old kindness.

Second, after the great chaos at the end of Ming Dynasty, before Dashun counterattacked Liaodong, North Korean musketeers fought against Dashun army; after counterattacking Liaodong, the main force of Hou Jin was destroyed, and North Korea took the opportunity to jump back and send troops to Liaodong, robbing a lot of people, food and horses , wanting to take advantage of the chaos to move the border to the north, and had some conflicts with Dashun.

Dashun was frightened by the lessons of the previous dynasty, immigrated frantically to Liaodong, and North Korea often crossed the border to collect ginseng, which sometimes had conflicts with the Han people in the border areas; frontier soldiers like Du Feng often robbed North Korean smugglers Liaodong officials often lure North Korean poor people to flee to increase the population for political achievements.

Therefore, the two sides were very unhappy.On the surface, the father is kind and the son is filial, but in fact they have their own thoughts.

The North Korean musketeers recruited this time, after Liu Yu came to the western front, followed the Songhua River Navy up the Handuoli Acropolis, and are now besieging the old capital of the Sauron Khanate.

North Korea rebelled together, and both sides were frantically winking at Dashun.

The king of Joseon was afraid that Dashun believed that the ginseng soup was poisonous; the rebels hoped to use Dashun's power to stage a coup d'état to avenge the king's revenge. Even if the coup was successful, Dashun had to admit it.

In this way, Zuo Pingzhang's decision to recruit North Korean musketeers before the rebellion gave Dashun a great deal of initiative on the North Korean issue.

The issue of Nuer Gandusi is also closely related to North Korea.North Korea is like a knife, cutting off the connection between the hinterland of Dashun and Nuer Gandusi.

The existence of the Songliao watershed made it difficult to pass by land; the existence of North Korea made it difficult to pass by water.If there is no North Korea, the Central Plains Dynasty can easily control Heilongjiang, Jilin and even the outer Northeast.

At this time, seeing Liu Yu mentioning the opening of ports on the Eastern Front and North Korea, Li Gan asked thoughtfully, "What does Nuer Gandusi have to do with North Korea?"

"Your Majesty, please open a port in Shandong to trade with North Korea; Vladivostok, where the Suifen River empties into the sea, is a port that can also trade with North Korea. Coinciding with changes in North Korea, the country should tighten its control over North Korea. One The lack of copper in North Korea and the abundance of copper in North Korea can be alleviated; the second is to open up trade, so that we can penetrate into North Korea, exert influence, and control more."

"Furthermore, since Japan's Guanbai rebellion, Japan has locked the country, and it is still difficult to get through. How do you know that it is not recuperating? How do you know that there is no other Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the country? Once Japan rebels, it must first go to Korea to see the Central Plains. Open Hong Kong trade with North Korea, forcing North Korea to allow Chinese and North Korean businessmen to stop at its port, it can be like the Western Front, know North Korea’s roots, and guard against Japan.”

"As for the governor of Nuer Gandu, who opened a port in Heilongjiang or Jingqili River, it is difficult to trade with Luocha by land, so he has to go by water. Shandong ships goods to North Korea, and the caravan crosses North Korea. Entering the Mudanjiang River and entering the Songhua River, the waterway in summer and the sledge on the ice in winter can compete with Xiport."

"As soon as the merchants pass by, there will be more inns, car shops, restaurants, and restaurants along the way. If there are more of these, towns will gather along the way, and people will gradually cultivate the surrounding area, and the population will increase."

"Once there is a disaster in Shandong and Henan; the Yellow River is in trouble, merchant ships can be recruited to transport the victims directly to Nuergandusi or Liaodong. Moreover, people from North Korea have been fleeing northward in recent years, and the Chinese language in the border areas has gradually decreased and the Korean language has gradually increased. , must be investigated, especially in Vladivostok and other places, there are many North Korean refugees, if they do not operate, they will suffer in the future."

"In addition, the frontier army is bitterly cold, you can raise its gold and silver, and become a shareholder of the chamber of commerce..."

He heard Li Gan nodding his head again and again, but when he heard the last matter of "the frontier army becoming a shareholder of the chamber of commerce", Li Gan immediately vetoed it: "No! The government soldiers are in business, and they will fall after a long time! If you don't build yourself on farming and warfare, where can you find such a thing in the future?" Qingqi of the government soldiers?"

"Your Majesty, looking at the Sui and Tang Dynasties, how can there be soldiers who have been good at fighting for a hundred years? It is amazing that the soldiers can fight for 80 years. Now that the slaves are restored to the capital and the land, is it true that your majesty wants to transfer the soldiers along the Songhua River to the north? Make them give up farming After decades of land, go to the bitter cold land to cultivate and fight? Even if you don’t fight back, the resentment will flourish, so how can you be willing to fight? After 80 years of defense for the country, you finally have to continue northward, abandon your wife and children, and go to the more bitter cold If the land is reclaimed, then why do we have to contribute to fighting in the future?"

Li Gan has also considered this issue, but someone has to guard the conquered territory.

Once the government soldiers have money, according to the emperor's idea, they will degenerate and cannot fight.

Only by farming and fighting for a living can one be brave.

But the problem Liu Yu mentioned does exist. Those people have been cultivating in northern Xinjiang for decades, and they live a prosperous life, and the court pays the "blood tax" on time when they fight.

At this time, it is really easy for them to move north again.

Liu Yu said again: "Your Majesty, slaves are in charge of the capital, not in military affairs, but in food and population. The country set up a Zhechong mansion on the Songhua River. One is to defend the border, the other is to provide soldiers for the government, and the third is not to collect taxes. Accumulate food, and once the war starts, spend money to buy it here."

"As long as the food problem is solved, if the northeast can become a grain-producing area like Shandong and Henan, and the population will grow, there will be no problems in the frontier. After all, there are still few people."

"Your Majesty is worried about the soldiers of the government, so you can recruit the strong and poor from Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places, and then set up the Zhechong Mansion on both sides of the Heilongjiang River to continue to support the soldiers."

"As for the old soldiers on the Songhua River, after the battle against Junggar, they can abolish Chongfu and set up prefectures and counties. If they are asked to participate in trade, after the war, they will be rewarded and rich, so they don't want to be soldiers. Instead, I want to transform into a landlord.”

"Let them have money, abandon their military privileges, and transfer to state and county citizenship. Allowing them to pay for recruiting people to cultivate and do it for themselves, it is naturally full of motivation. The court does not need to pay, they will take All the land suitable for farming has been reclaimed. As long as they are exempted from taxes for five years, they will definitely be able to reclaim as much as possible. If there is a shortage of manpower, people will naturally go to the customs to hire... After decades of this, the banks of the Songhua River can also be used as granaries. If there is a war in northern Xinjiang, just buy grain directly from the Songhua River."

"The imperial court spent money from the treasury to move the disaster victims. And the immigration officials did not do it for themselves, or withheld, or desperately. Allowing immigrants to be hired as long-term labor for tenants, the imperial court does not need to spend money from the treasury, and everyone is actually there. It can be sold for money... Population for money, although it doesn't sound good, is the truth. The Northeast is not like the Guan, with a vast land and few people. If you work for a few years, even if you flee, you can cultivate a piece of land that you can rely on for survival. With a large population, the They are all immigrants from the customs, how is that different from the Central Plains? It must be the most stable place."

"With more people and more food, the cost of re-immigration by the imperial court will be lower in the future. If there are ready-made villages and food can be bought, the efficiency of immigration will be far from being comparable to going to the wilderness now."

"Besides, the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, so there is no need to worry about mergers. Allowing them to merge can just emulate the ways in which the main households in Western countries pay for cattle and horses, long-term and short-term workers earn wages, develop large tracts of land for water conservancy, and introduce equipment such as columbine carts and heavy plows. A hundred years later, it will be a granary. Since it is a granary and has a large population, there is no need to worry about Rakshasa. When the time comes, we can raise [-] soldiers and go north to attack Rakshasa. With Lake Baikal as the boundary of Rakshasa, including Jia Mongolia is more stable."

"Abolishing the Zhechong Mansion on the Songhua River and setting up prefectures and counties did not happen overnight. Five or ten years later, the soldiers of the Songhua River Mansion were converted to civilian registration and set up prefectures and counties. There is no such thing as green and yellow.”

"Trade leads to North Korea, and North Korea can be used as a springboard... so that the victims in Henan and Shandong do not have to take the difficult land route, but go directly northward to Nuergandusi along the sea route. Gather at Vladivostok at the mouth of the Suifen River, and slowly move northward to enrich their lives. Population. In the future, there will be more cultivation along the Suifenhe River and the Heilongjiang River, and there will be sufficient food. You can also buy food directly at the mouth of Vladivostok and Nuergan River, which will facilitate the resettlement of immigrants.”

He talked about the slave's work in the capital, but he thought in his heart that North Korea is a springboard, and there are many places to jump, not just the Northeast.

Using North Korea as a springboard, you can jump to Japan.

As long as you open your mouth, as long as you open ports in Leiden and Vladivostok, and then go to Japan for smuggling, who cares?As long as the imperial court opened an opening, businessmen who dared to break through would dare to tear this opening into a skylight or even a gate.

Trade with Russia, the opening of ports in the west, and the royal family participating in eating meat.Open a port in the east, and the distance is far away, so you can drink soup.But if you drink soup for Russia, you can eat meat for North Korea and even Japan.Nowadays, copper is so expensive, and the imperial court is short of copper, so much so that it is forbidden to use copper utensils for trade with the DPRK.How can you not make money by smuggling to Japan?

Liu Yu had no interest in eating the meat from the west, so he couldn't compete with the emperor for it.You can eat two bites of meat from the east, as long as you get inside information in advance, you can be one step ahead.

For trade with Japan in the south, you can only go to Taiwan, Diaoyu Islands, Ryukyu, and Nagasaki to Tanegashima, and you can jump islands little by little.

If the north can also participate, although the current navigation technology cannot go directly to Japan, it is still no problem to stick to the coastline of North Korea to Tsushima.

Opportunities are rare now, if the imperial court does not take advantage of this opportunity to make North Korea's suzerain status a step closer to open ports for trade, I am afraid that in the future it will have to wait until the Westerners force open ports in a hundred years.

But it was not easy for Liu Yu to say this kind of thing in the open. Thinking that the Northeast issue that the emperor was most concerned about now was actually the issue of immigration, he tried to persuade Li Gan with this matter.

"If Your Majesty can allow the opening of ports in the east, the establishment of chambers of commerce, and the use of North Korea as a springboard, then the minister can come forward to handle this matter and ensure that [-] immigrants will be immigrated in the first year, and will increase every year in the future. After ten years, they will emigrate to Nuergandusi every year Ten thousand. If it is less than this number, I am willing to be punished."

"The imperial court doesn't need to pay a penny. Ten thousand people immigrate every year, and with the population breeding, in less than a hundred years, Nuergandusi can have a population of one million, all of whom are Han people from Shandong and Henan. Just like the Central Plains, there is no difference."

"The imperial court doesn't need to pay a penny here. After decades, there will be an additional million people, tens of millions of acres of land, and an additional million taels of taxation every year; the frontier is stable."

The last reason finally moved Li Gan a little, and he asked, "Ten thousand a year? Are you serious?"

Li Gan's way of thinking is an official way of thinking. The imperial court pays for official immigration, and hundreds of thousands for 1 people is not much.

However, Liu Yu understands the population pressure in Shandong and Henan. As long as the emperor acquiesces in trade with North Korea, Japan, and Russia, gathers equity, operates from it, and replaces the monopoly privilege tax with the number of immigrants, let alone [-] a year. It is estimated that [-] a year can be taken away.

The Little Ice Age has passed, and in addition to swamps like the Sanjiang Plain in the Northeast, there is still a lot of land that can be cultivated now.

The estuary of the Suifen River, the plains around Xingkai Lake, the upper plains of the Wusuli River, the valley of the Songhua River, and the plains of the Jingqili River can now be cultivated for rye, potatoes, sorghum, and soybeans.

Although it is more unpalatable than wheat, it is still better than starving in Henan and Shandong.The cost of immigration gradually decreases with the increase of the population of the immigrant place.Moreover, there are many disasters in Henan, and the bureaucrats of the court are handling affairs. They point out that the immigrants have starved to death, and there will be no shortage of immigrants.

Weighing this small goal of [-] a year at the beginning, and convinced that as long as trade with North Korea and Russia is allowed, there will be no problem, so Liu Yu nodded in recognition.

"Well... Now that's the case, let's discuss this matter again. Don't worry about North Korea's affairs. The ministers of the DPRK and China understand that this is our opportunity to go to court."

"Whether it can be done in the future depends on the situation in North Korea after talking with Luo Sha and returning to Beijing. However, it is always right to prepare in advance. The bottom line between North Korea and China will be given to you later, and now there is a trade agreement." As for the matter, it is also allowed to open ports in the east and west during the negotiation."

"The bottom line is there, cross the bottom line, cut! Any more land beyond the bottom line will be counted as your credit."

"It's getting late, autumn is approaching, and you should leave as soon as possible to assist the Duke of Qi. You don't need to bring too many people, just bring 300 people. I also want to return to the court as soon as possible. The business here is over, so don't stay for long. The man named Shutu has been with you for so long, and I plan to take the Marquis of Zichuan as the main guard, and that Shutu will serve as the vanguard, and continue to attack several castles of the Raksha people, what do you think?"

After thinking about Jiaolao Butu's character, he still has a certain level. If I give some pointers, there is no problem in besieging the city slowly.

"My minister thinks that there should be no problem. It is better to use 3000 troops here, not too many. The Raksha people have no field soldiers here, so they divide their troops and stick to them. If they go to a city, they should shrink and retreat."

The emperor nodded in agreement, and asked the accompanying attendants to hand over the bottom line of the negotiation with Luocha to Liu Yu, and wrote an edict to ask Liu Yu to assist Qi Guogong, which was regarded as a title.

In the end, Liu Yu was asked to organize the things he said before into a document and submit it before leaving.

Opening the bottom line of Luosha negotiations and glanced twice, Liu Yu thought it would not be difficult.The bottom line of the imperial court is Heilongjiang, and the Shileka River and Onan River are to the west.

Now except for a castle on the Shilka River, the Raksha people's fortresses in the bottom line have basically been pulled out, which should be easy to talk about.

Now it depends on how the court handles North Korea's affairs. He doesn't care about this matter, and he has no right to manage it.

If the North Korean court doesn't know how to seize the opportunity, the idea of ​​opening a port to the east and immigrating to the east is useless.

(End of this chapter)