Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 745
Zhu Yihai knew about the Great Wall of Korea, also known as the Great Wall of Thousand Miles.

However, this thousand miles is Goryeo, which is actually about 740 miles. This Great Wall line of defense was first built in 1033 AD when Emperor Dezong of Goryeo reigned, 610 years ago.

At first, the Goryeo Dynasty temporarily decided to build a border stone wall fortress in order to recapture Baoju City on the east of the Yalu River.Later, in order to prevent the invasion of the Liao Kingdom to the south, the project continued to advance.

The Great Wall of Koryo soon extended from the mouth of the Yalu River in the west to the thirteen border towns of Weiyuan, Jinghai, Xinghai, and Ningde in the north, and ended on the coast near Hamhung in the East Korean Bay of the peninsula.

The Great Wall of Koryo was still the border between Korea and the Central Plains until the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty.During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Hui and Zhuo Qing from Goryeo jointly rebelled, killed the officials of Hezhou, and dedicated the land north of Hezhou to the Yuan Dynasty.

The Yuan Dynasty then set up the Shuangcheng General Administration Mansion in Hezhou, and appointed Zhao Hui as the general manager and Zhuo Qing as the head of the thousand households. After that, the eastern section of the Great Wall of Korea was no longer a national border. The border of the dynasty is the Shuangcheng Governor's Mansion, and the southernmost boundary of the Shuangcheng Governor's Mansion is Tielingwei.

"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Turban Army made a northern expedition, and most of Guan Duo's attack was not enough, so they marched into Liaodong, broke Liaoyang, and then invaded North Korea, and also broke the capital of North Korea. defeated." Wen Anzhi said.

Zhu Yihai knew about this. When Guan Duo and Pan Cheng led an army of [-] in the Northern Expedition, and finally fought all the way to North Korea, and broke through Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo, Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't captured Nanjing yet.

The 27-year-old Li Chengliang made his mark in this battle. With [-] elite soldiers, he first cut off the Red Turban Army's retreat, cut off their food and pay, and then lured the Red Turban Army out of the city to fight. Finally, the Koryo army came and the Red Turban Army was defeated.

Li Chenggui was born in a powerful family in Koryo in Tieling, the governor's office of Shuangcheng. Li Chenggui became famous by stepping on the red scarf army.

Even the Koryo dynasty took advantage of the red scarf army to defeat the Yuan army in Liaodong, and seized all the land in the lower reaches of the empty Yalu River. Later, Li Chenggui led his army back to Wangjing and overthrew the king of Koryo He usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

And took the opportunity to conquer the Jurchen in the upper reaches of the Yalu River and the Changbai Mountain Jurchen, and expanded the territory to Changbai Mountain.

The Central Plains was also unified by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Li Chenggui seized the northern border, he wrote to Daming asking for it to be repaired.

Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang discover that the territory directly under the Yuan Dynasty in northern North Korea, that is, the north of the original Great Wall of Koryo, and the Shuangcheng General Manager's Mansion in the southeast, were all taken by Li Chenggui.

Zhu Yuanzhang then planned to reset Tieling Guard.

Li Chenggui reacted tremendously to this incident, and immediately sent tens of thousands of troops to the north, preparing to fight against Ming Dynasty at all costs.

Later, in order to regain Yunnan with all his strength, Zhu Yuanzhang finally chose to keep Tieling Guard, but moved north to the north of the Yalu River and established it in Liaoning.

After Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he recruited the Jurchen ministries in the Northeast and established the Nuer Gandu Division. At this time, North Korea had crossed the border of the Great Wall and invaded the northern land outside the Great Wall to the Yalu River and Tumen River for a long time. They even attacked here. The strongholds of various Jurchen ministries.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Di did not send troops to the south again, but acknowledged the established facts, and agreed with the imperial court to use the Yalu River as the boundary, and the north belonged to Daming and the south belonged to Korea.

During this period of history, the Korean history records Taizong bestowing soil.

Taizong is naturally Ming Taizong Zhu Di, but later Jiajing changed Zhu Di's respect to Chengzu.For this period of history, the Koreans mean that Emperor Taizong was benevolent and rewarded us with this piece of land.

This is also the legal basis for their occupation. Emperor Taizong rewarded us, and you Ming have no reason to go back.

Later, during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, King Sejong of Korea launched the Battle of the Zhupo River, breaking all the Jurchen strongholds along the Tumen River, and formally ruled the river with the Ming Dynasty, and since then determined the border of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in order to monitor North Korea, Zhu Di specially set up Jianzhou Sanwei in the north of the Yalu River and Tumen River. The original intention was to prevent the imperial court from making progress, but he did not expect to plant hidden dangers for the Ming Dynasty. In the end, Jianzhou Jurchen became big and entered the customs. Central Plains.

It can be said that the Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army severely damaged the soldiers and horses of the Yuan Dynasty in Liaodong, especially the Yuan army in the northern border of Goryeo. The Shuangcheng has been pushed to the south bank of the Yalu River and the Tumen River.

This new border line has been maintained for more than 200 years.

After that, the Lee clan of North Korea often recruited the Jurchens from the north of the Yangtze River to go south. No matter whether they were Jurchens or other ethnic groups, as long as they came from the south, they were regarded as their subjects.

It's just that the Xianjing Road in the northeast of it is all plateaus and mountains, remote and poor. It happened that Li Chenggui doted on his youngest son in his later years, which led to a coup in the palace. The son killed several brothers and forced Li Chenggui to abdicate.Li Chenggui later found an opportunity and went to his hometown, Shuangcheng Tieling, to confront his son there.

In the end, Li Chenggui was forced to return to Wangjing, but since then Hamgyongdo was not welcomed. People in Longxing, North Korea, even if they passed the imperial examination, were not considered high officials and were discriminated against everywhere.As for the Jurchens who talk about Hamgyong Tao, they are even more discriminated against.

Therefore, the residents there, whether they are Koreans or Jurchens, have little loyalty to the Korean king and court.

When the Japanese invaded and the Manchu Qing conquest of Korea, the people of Hamgyong Province actually actively acted as the leading party and even raised troops to respond.

Of course, it was also liquidated afterwards.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has recruited the Jurchens in Jiangbei, and it has also conferred officials and titles and traded with each other. The Jurchens in Jiangnan are envious, and many Koreans who have been discriminated against are also envious.

Now one after another wrote a letter, saying that the land north of the Great Wall of Korea has always been the territory directly under the central plains, requesting to return to Ming Dynasty.

Even some North Korean tyrants on the grounds of the former Shuangcheng General Manager's Mansion actually wrote a letter asking the court to take back Shuangcheng, and also asked the court to relocate Tielingwei back.

If the imperial court really moved Tielingwei back, it would be about [-] miles southeast of Pyongyang, on the upper reaches of the Yongxing River, on the border between Hamgyong-do and Gangwon-do, which means that the East Korean Gulf is basically controlled by the Ming Dynasty. .

The western section is bounded by the Great Wall of Korea, which means that from the mouth of the Yalu River to the mouth of the Longxing River in Yongjiang Bay in the east, the north of this line occupies about one-fifth of North Korea's land, and it is gone.

Zhu Yihai looked at the map.

Well, it is indeed a large territory.

At this time, the border of the Ming Dynasty is actually the later border line, but the Changbai Mountain in the middle is not bounded by Tianchi Lake, the entire Tianchi Lake is owned by the Ming Dynasty, and this section of the border line is further south.

The two sides are basically bounded by the Yalu River and the Tumen River, but there are some differences in the source, and later generations will suffer even more.

"What do you think?"

Zhu Yihai asked.

Wen Anzhi thought for a while, "Back then, Taizu moved Tieling Guards to the north, and later Chengzu bestowed land. For more than 200 years, the border line has been basically stable. Now even if the Jurchen north of the Great Wall of Koryo wants to enclose it, the imperial court is not easy to do it. .”

Shoufu was somewhat reluctant to part with such a large piece of territory.

But now Daming has a good relationship with North Korea, so it is not easy to make a move.

There are certain historical reasons for the current border line. In the early Ming Dynasty, the main energy was to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty and recover Yunnan, and had no intention of going to war with North Korea.

Later, Zhu Di admitted the established fact that the border with North Korea has been stable for more than 200 years. Even the suzerain-vassal relationship between Daming and North Korea is very good.

It has been more than 200 years, and the relationship is so good, it is really hard to say it again.

"Then ignore it for now."

Zhu Yihai's answer is also interesting. If he does not respond to the North Koreans' request, it means not responding but not refusing. After all, there is still a little room here.

If they want to make trouble, let them make trouble, and the court neither encourages nor opposes it.

"Open more border markets on the north bank of the Yalu River and Tumen River, and allow these North Koreans on the south bank of the river to come and trade with each other."

Just for business, nothing else.

We don't give them officials or titles, and we don't accept attachments, but we should do business first, strengthen ties, and build a good relationship.

······
Vladivostok.

This natural harbor, like Mokuowai, is also a small fishing village at this time.

Because of the good contacts they had before, Chao Chao and the others became popular in Mokuowei, where they had a hot deal with the leaders of various ministries. Zhao Shijun and Wu Qi came to Vladivostok with two boats.

The nearby savage Jurchens rushed over one after another.

Wang Qi tapped the big log table with his iron hook with his left hand, picking and choosing the various furs brought by various parts on the table.

Ginseng, deer antler, mink, and Dongzhu, all kinds of fur, can be transported back to the Central Plains casually. In Tokyo, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, they are all treasures and can be sold at extremely high prices.

But here, it is very cheap.

A blunderbuss costs less than two silver dollars in Ningbo, but here, it can be exchanged for high-quality ginseng. This ginseng is worth at least a hundred silver dollars when shipped back to Tokyo, which is fifty times the price difference.

Tea and shredded tobacco can be sold at extremely high prices.

There are also iron pots, especially the Foshan iron pots produced in Guangzhou, which are of excellent quality, and the eyes of those Jurchens are shining.Whether it is Mongolian nomads or northeast fishermen and hunters, iron pots are actually extremely scarce.

Being able to own an iron pot made in Daming is even more rare than owning a small car when it was first rebuilt in later generations.Even when they marry their daughters, the first thing they often ask is whether there is an iron pot at home, how many iron pots are there, and whether they are iron pots imported from the Ming Dynasty. It is the same whether the house is in the county or in the city.

All kinds of goods on the three large sailing ships were snapped up in Mokuowei and Vladivostok, and they were exchanged for piles of high-quality furs of various colors, as well as many precious ginseng, deer, mink, pearls, gold, etc.

They were eager to buy more, but when they ran out of stock, they simply threw the furs they brought to the camp, paying first and then getting a loan, and booked the next batch in advance.

Wang Qi proposed to the leaders to ask people to repair camps, docks, shops, warehouses, etc., and the leaders of the various ministries readily responded with patted chests.

The wages are paid with iron pots, etc. The tribal leaders are willing to undertake various projects and directly act as contractors. How many iron pots are repaired at the pier, how many iron pots are repaired at the camp gate, and how many iron pots are repaired at the house. As long as the iron pots are in place, the others are not It needs the envoys to worry about it, and they will directly recruit people to work until the angels are satisfied.

(End of this chapter)