Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2251 New Era ([-])

"Needlework, candy, daily necessities..." At six o'clock in the morning, with the rhythmic shouting and selling of shopkeepers, Dandong County ushered in a new day.

The pace of life in an agricultural society is not fast, especially in county towns.Therefore, even in Dandong, an important city in southern Manchuria, people still don't get up too early.Jin Sanpao, who was staying in an inn, had just woken up. He was still wearing a nightgown and was sitting at the dining table, admiring the scenery outside the window with curious eyes.

As an officer of the Taoist Army in North Korea, because of his outstanding performance in the battle against Naowen City, Kim Sanpao was given special care by the people on the east coast, and he was able to study for two years in a crash course at the Vladivostok Army Academy.But the premise is that he has to pass the language barrier first.

Fortunately, Jin Sanpao's talent is not bad. After studying in Harbin for a period of time, his oral English has not been a big problem. Although his pronunciation is not standard, he should be able to understand it in class.The shortcoming is the written language. He has not been able to write a simple official document in Chinese even if it does not require any literary talent.But it doesn't matter, the crash course is not very particular about these.Going to school there, grades are not the most important thing, the most important thing is to listen to the words of the Dong'an people and obey the will of the Dong'an, this is the key.What's more, there are also instructors who can speak Korean, so bilingual teaching is no problem at all.

The inn where Jin Sanpao is currently staying is the designated inn of the Manchurian Pioneering Team.Naturally, this fee was also paid by the Manchurian Pioneering Team—according to the long-term agreement price.Because there is no direct liner to Vladivostok on the west coast of North Korea, Jin Sanpao had to go to Dandong first, and then take a passenger and cargo sailboat from Yantai to Vladivostok.

The liner is operated by the shipping department of the Bank of Taiwan. The starting port is Yantai Port. After going around Dandong, it will go directly to Busan, and then stop at Wonsanjin on the east coast of North Korea, and the destination is Vladivostok.This is one of the three regular liners opened after the integration of the shipping department of the Bank of Taiwan. The other two are Yantai-Dandong-Haizhou-Jeju Island and Jiaozhou-Dinghai-Zhelanzha-Qinzhou. There are not many ships running, and many It is an old ship eliminated locally, but it is very suitable for the coastal conditions in the Far East. If it is transported both passenger and cargo, it can still make some profits.

The ticket held by Jin Sanpao is two days later, and the passenger-cargo ship is still docked at the mouth of the Yalu River for loading and unloading, so Jin Sanpao can continue to rest for two days.

To be honest, studying at the Army Academy in Vladivostok was not an easy decision.Although North Korea has always respected the East Bank as the "Heavenly Motherland", because of their national character, they actually don't trust the East Bank very much in their hearts.In particular, the Dongan people also focused on supporting the Jeon family separatist regime with three counties in Xiangyang and [-] soldiers in Gangwon Province. The North Korean monarchs and ministers have very complicated perceptions of Dongan. On the one hand, they thank it for eliminating external threats to North Korea. , Bringing economic prosperity, on the one hand, he feels self-pity and self-pity for being reduced to a vassal status, and his schizophrenia is in a mess.

Therefore, under the leadership of such complex emotions, they did not trust the civil and military officials who went to study on the east coast—civilian officials generally went to Yantai College and Heishui Transportation College, and military officers went to Vladivostok Army Academy—and only used other Knowledge and talent serve the country, but it is impossible to be in a high position, and it is easy to encounter a ceiling in one's career.

As a newly rising military officer, Jin Sanpao was discriminated against because he was not from the second class. Now he is studying at the Vladivostok Army Academy.If the people on the east bank don't come forward to maintain it, they will probably be squeezed out to death.Fortunately, there are already a lot of academics like him in the North Korean army—well, Comrade Sanpao hasn’t enrolled yet—and there are already quite a few officers. If everyone hugs together to keep warm, life should not be too sad.

"It's so old, and you still play this way. Suppression, suspicion, non-two classes of children don't need it, it's really a dog passing by laughing." Jin Sanpao grabbed the herbal tea on the table and drank it, thinking a little depressed road.

His uncle, Jin Yueban, had quit his military service because of his injuries. He bought some land at the foot of Mount Baitou, and used a very low rent to attract some farmers to come and cultivate it for him.Originally, his behavior would cause dissatisfaction among the local clans, but Jin Yueban is not an easy person. He has a letter of commendation issued by the East Coast Army on his body. The cordial reception of the general” was like an iron bond of immortality in the North Korean countryside. No one dared to provoke him, even the local North Korean government did not want to offend him.

The rise of a family is like this!It's a pity that their Lao Jin's family background is too low, and they are discriminated against and suppressed everywhere.For the present plan, it seems that the only way to continue to hug the thighs of the Dongguo people is to rely on their influence to protect the escort. There is a way.The Gangwon Quan clan was born as a bandit, so they can steal the three counties and become kings and hegemons. Can't I, the Pyongyang Kim clan, follow suit?Mount Paektu will definitely become the place where our Kim family made their fortune!

There was a light rain falling outside the inn, Jin Sanpao touched the pockets of several big boys, sighed softly, then took out the leftover dry food from yesterday, and swallowed it in three mouthfuls with the free tea .After breakfast, he put on a half-new North Korean military uniform, asked the shopkeeper to borrow a broken umbrella, and went out for a stroll.

The inn was built near the pier and was relatively prosperous.Jin Sanpao walked and looked, and found that the people here should be relatively rich, but unlike those cities in northern North Korea that rose due to iron smelting, coal mining, and logging, the wealth here is very "clean", that is, they are clearly rich. Without any chimneys or furnaces, a lot of wealth has been created. This kind of supernatural ability is probably only available to people from the Eastern Kingdom?It is indeed the motherland of heaven!

The rain stopped after a while.The dock laborers who had just run away to take shelter from the rain rushed out again and began to unload the cargo hard.Jin Sanpao is a soldier, so it is natural to see that the gunpowder that was unloaded is barrels of gunpowder. This kind of military supplies is very easy to get wet, no wonder it didn't start work when it rained just now.

Many guests also came down from the unloading ship.Jin Sanpao swept over, but found a few Japanese with hair buns, but they didn't bring samurai swords. They were also wearing the khaki uniforms common to the Eastern Army, but they didn't have red epaulets on their shoulders. Very intriguing.

Jin Sanpao guessed that these people might be overseas students from Japan.When he was in Harbin, he heard the officer of the police headquarters tell him that there was a platoon of Japanese interns in South Manchuria, who all graduated from Japan to Vladivostok Army Academy for a crash course, and then went to the east coast army for a year as an intern. , I didn't expect to run into it here.

Japanese military students!Jin Sanpao instinctively disliked these people.Due to the invasion behavior more than a hundred years ago, the image of the Japanese in North Korea is not very good, and even Jin Sanpao doesn't like them very much.In particular, these people can also study in the Vladivostok Military Academy, which is simply unreasonable!What do they study military for?I heard that Japan is now unified and stable, and it is impossible to kill each other, so could it be that they came to fight North Korea?No, it's impossible!The motherland of heaven will call the shots for us!As soon as the Japanese navy left the port, it was sunk by the powerful Heavenly Fatherland Fleet!

It's just that it's annoying after all!Jin Sanpao didn't say hello to those Japanese "seniors" who had noticed him, but said goodbye and left on his own.These Japanese poor ghosts, let's play by ourselves!I don’t know if they have been to Haizhou Port. Look at the piles of coal, iron and wood on the pier. Our North Korea is stronger than you now!The iron material we produce in one month can support you for a year—no, it can last for three years—you probably don’t know other uses of coal, do you?Haha, poor ghost, Japan is so far behind now, you will never catch up with North Korea!All of this is the kindness of the motherland, you may not be able to enjoy this kind of glory, you will always be poor on the island, don't bother us.

It is true that, as Jin Sanpao thought at this time, the "benevolence" of the East Bank to Japan is indeed almost zero, but this is due to the fact that the Edo Shogunate has ignored the East Bank for a long time and pursued a non-contact policy.But after the merchants on the east coast had profoundly influenced the northeast of Japan, the shogunate could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.Therefore, they sent several groups of people to Denglai and Ningshao to start a series of negotiations with the people on the east coast.

As a result of the negotiations, the shogunate government decided to grant some Zhuyin certificates to people from the east coast, so that some merchants from the east coast who had obtained the Zhuyin certificates could also legally go to Japan to conduct transactions, which was regarded as a partial opening.In addition, the special commercial interests of the East Coasters in Matsumae, Sendai and its branches, and Kagoshima were also guaranteed, that is, they could continue to do business with the Matsumae, Date, and Shimadzu families. Business conditions can be said to be very favorable.

And such conditions were actually obtained through the joint efforts of the East Coast Japan Company and the Osaka Merchant Group.The shogunate government realized the rapid growth of the strength of the Shimadzu family and the Date family, and at the same time realized the strong strength of the people on the east coast—the navy fleet of the east coast had conducted exercises in the sea outside Edo, which greatly shocked the Japanese—so Decided to open part of the country and make contact with the east coast.

Of course, East Coast Japan Company is also very satisfied with this.It was quite uncomfortable to do business secretly before, but now you can justifiably enter Japan, a rich "gold and silver country", not to mention how comfortable it is.This year, the performance of Japanese companies on the east coast has grown explosively. A large number of metal products, silk, tea, porcelain, Nanyang specialties, medicinal materials, leather, printed matter, handicrafts, whale products, livestock (mainly horses), and weapons and equipment have been sold by them. Hands flowed into Japan, in exchange for a large amount of gold and silver, grain, sulfur, copper, lead, tin, knives, folding fans, screens and other commodities-of course, there is a special commodity that is not included in the statistics, and the quantity is still Quite a lot, that is the specialty of ronin warriors.

In short, East Coast Japanese companies have made a lot of money in Japan, and the trade surplus is very high.The Japanese have also greatly broadened their horizons through this kind of trade, and their understanding of the outside world has deepened.Therefore, it is normal to send some Chinese children to study in the east coast. Anyway, this has been a tradition in Japan since ancient times.

So, Japan is now slowly making changes.But unlike North Korea, their changes are more passive, which is not the same as North Korea's military defeat by the people on the east bank and then forced reforms.The people on the east coast are temporarily unable to conquer Japan by military means, so it is not bad to induce it to change step by step through commercial and cultural invasion.The big deal is that the time will be longer and the efficiency will be lower. Anyway, sooner or later they will gradually integrate into the business circle dominated by the people on the east coast, and eventually become an important part of this hierarchical trade chain, providing people on the east coast with a steady stream of profits. .

Although Kim San Pao and the North Koreans don't like to see this situation, they cannot change these things.After seeing the great success of the East Bank North Korea Company in North Korea (which means that its management has outstanding performance and there is little suspense to return to China), it is no wonder that the head of the East Bank Japan Company can sit still every year, let alone Deng Lai Merchants in Ningshao, Ningshao and other places also have a strong urge to do business with Japan.In the face of this general trend, personal likes and dislikes are too insignificant!

(End of this chapter)