Smuggling Daming

"North Korea is in chaos!" Zhou Zhong's expression was very strange when he received the news, as if he was a little surprised, but also as if he expected it, so that Bai Junwan, who came to report the news, couldn't understand it.

In fact, the current chaos in North Korea was caused by Zhou Zhong. At the beginning, he knew that Li Long was a rare tyrant in North Korean history, but he secretly reported the letter through Kim Moon-hyun, which led to the failure of the coup d'état launched by Liu Shunting and others, and also attracted Li Long. Frantic retaliation, as a result, this also made North Korea lose its last chance to set things right.

When Zhou Zhong told Jin Wenxian the names of the North Korean ministers who participated in the coup, he had already foreseen the future of North Korea. After all, there was such a brutal monarch as Li Long, and North Korea was facing internal and external difficulties just like Ming Dynasty. Meeting a stable king may last for a few more years, but if you meet a king like Li Long, it will only speed up the country's demise, so it does not surprise Zhou Zhong that Korean wars are raging now.

It's just that what Zhou Zhong didn't expect was that the war in North Korea came so quickly, and it was first caused by the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce. If they want to suddenly attack their own fleet, even if the other party wants to rebel, there is no need to offend himself, a Ming official, not to mention that they can get the master's money from the transaction with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce?

Zhou Zhong couldn't understand the above matter, and Bai Junwan couldn't understand the same, and now the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce has rebelled, and now it has captured Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province, becoming the most powerful of the North Korean rebels.Zhou Zhong wanted to ask for a certificate, but he couldn't see anyone at all, so this matter temporarily became a mystery in the hearts of Zhou Zhong and Bai Junwan.

Zhou Zhong speculated wildly in Shuangyu Port, but the situation in North Korea was getting more and more chaotic. Except for the two provinces of Gyeonggi, the other [-] provinces in the fifteen provinces in the country all had rebellions, although only the government of North Chungcheong Province was captured by the rebels. , The scale of the rebellion in other provinces has not yet reached an uncontrollable place, but this has caused chaos in the North Korean court, and it is impossible to come up with a good counter-insurgency plan.Li Long was also furious because of this, and killed more than a dozen court ladies around him in a row, but his anger could not be calmed down.

No matter how angry Li Long was, there was no way to solve the current predicament in North Korea, and this time it was much more critical than the previous Jurchens and Japanese invasions. After all, the Jurchens and Japanese were foreign enemies.Moreover, they don't have the strength to destroy North Korea. In the end, they will withdraw at most if they extort some property and food. But now North Korea is in civil strife, and if something goes wrong, it will change the dynasty. At the beginning, their Li family obtained the throne of North Korea by force.

Unable to solve the domestic rebellion by their own strength, Li Long and the North Korean ministers quickly thought of Daming.Last time they relied on Daming's help to make the Jurchens retreat, and even wiped out the Japanese.So now when encountering a domestic rebellion, they once again ask Daming for help through envoys.

However, regarding North Korea's request for help this time, Zhengde and the ministers in the cabinet were surprisingly unanimous, that is, Ming would not interfere in the internal affairs of the subordinate country, so Ming would not send troops to help North Korea's civil strife.

In fact, the North Korean envoy also expected this result, after all, this time is different from the last time.The last time it was foreign enemies such as Jurchens and Japanese who invaded, as the suzerain country.Daming had a reason to protect the vassal state, so it was normal to send troops, but this time it was a civil strife in North Korea. According to Da Ming's attitude towards the vassal state, he would never intervene in this kind of civil strife. At most, when the civil strife ended and the new ruler returned Proclaiming a vassal to Daming, and then Daming gave him a title, the vassal country is still that vassal country, and has no influence on Daming, so there is no need for Daming to send troops.

However, before the envoy came to Daming this time, he was threatened by Li Long, telling him to persuade Daming to send troops, otherwise he would not have to come back!As a result, the envoy was more thoughtful, and he simply brought his family members out when he came to Daming. This time he came to Daming and had no intention of going back, so after he saw that Daming was unwilling to send troops, he simply relied on Daming and did not leave. It seems that he intends to live in Daming for a long time.

Daming's reinforcements were hopeless, Li Long could only desperately organize the army to fight off the rebels, but now North Korea is like a piece of rag full of loopholes, if one side is blocked, the other side will be broken again. It is unstoppable, and there is even a trend that the more the loopholes are blocked, the bigger the loopholes are. For example, North Korean officers and soldiers have been defeated by the rebels several times, which makes the rebels in the Thirteen Ways more and more powerful, and they can already compete with the North Korean government head-on. up.

During this critical period, Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui, who first provoked the rebellion, finally finished their rest and showed their fangs to North Korea again. In just a few days, they completely wiped out the North Korean officers and soldiers from North Chungcheong Province , and even captured a part of Chungcheongnam-do, and based on this, began to recruit the rebels in Chungcheongnam-do. As a result, there were countless responders in a short time, and countless rebels marched to Chungcheongbuk-do every day, which made Qi Yanming and the others became more and more powerful like a snowball, especially after repelling North Korean officers and soldiers head-on several times later, the momentum of the Zhongqing Army was greatly boosted, and it became recognized as the strongest among the North Korean rebels.

As for the civil strife in North Korea, since the Ming officials made up their mind not to intervene, Zhou Zhong, as the governor of the world, naturally did not dare to violate North Korea's ban by sending troops to North Korea. Besides, he was the one who provoked the chaos in North Korea, so now he is even more happy to see him Well, anyway, the North Koreans are not a good thing, it is best to die, and then occupy North Korea by myself, and it will be a good place to immigrate in the future.

However, although the power of the Governor's Mansion cannot be used, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is his personal power, and this power can be used without any taboos. Don't look at the current war in North Korea, which has greatly affected the maritime trade in the past, but the more this At this time, the better the opportunity to make a fortune, after all, war fortune is the best money in the world, and the United States in later generations will become the world's boss by making a lot of war fortune, so he will not let go of such a good opportunity.

Food, weapons, cloth, etc. are all the most urgently needed goods in North Korea, and they don’t even bargain. No matter how many goods are shipped to North Korea, they will all be swallowed by them. The money and property robbed may also be special products such as ginseng, and may even be exchanged directly with young North Korean women. Anyway, as long as it is something that the North Koreans can produce, they can all be exchanged for goods from Ming Dynasty.

For distributing war money to the Koreans, Zhou Zhong has no psychological burden at all. The food must be controlled, and it must not be sold too much. Firstly, the food in Ming Dynasty is not enough, and secondly, if the Koreans are full, then What are you fighting for?

As for weapons, there are also restrictions. Taking advantage of being the governor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Zhong bought many old and worn-out weapons from Zhengde at a low price. Although these weapons are already dilapidated, they only need to be repaired. It’s fine, anyway, North Korea’s rebel army is extremely short of weapons, and a broken knife is better than a wooden stick, but Zhou Zhong will not sell the real sharp weapon to North Korea, after all, he doesn’t want to cultivate a batch of weapons for himself. Tough enemies.

Food and weapons need to be controlled, but other materials are not needed. As long as the North Koreans pay the starting price, Zhou Zhong will bring the things over.Originally, Zhou Zhong wanted to use the strength of the Chamber of Commerce to destroy the fleet of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, but the people of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce were very clever. After the rebellion, they immediately abandoned their sea power. Now the coast of North Korea is controlled by the merchants of Ming Dynasty Yes, countless supplies are shipped to North Korea every day, and then they bring back boatloads of North Korean property and women.

In addition to business, Zhou Zhong’s Governor’s Mansion of the Four Seas is not without some actions. For example, Chang Xiao occupies Seongsanpo on Jeju Island. This time, the Korean civil strife also involved Jeju Island. The North Korean officers and soldiers stationed on the island were quickly defeated, and the people on the island were also severely harmed by the rebels. In the end, it was Chang Xiao who led the sailors under his command to fight in person, thus defeating the rebels and taking over The whole of Jeju Island.In addition, some islands on the west coast of North Korea were also taken over by Chang Xiao's navy.

Of course, these actions are very covert, and Zhengde was informed in advance, otherwise, if the automatic soldiers arouse Zhengde's suspicion, even if they are brothers, they will probably bring big troubles to Zhou Zhong, so let me know in advance , with Zhengde's temper, naturally he would not hinder him, and even found it very interesting.

However, when Zhou made great fortune in North Korea's national crisis, he did not forget to inquire about the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce. After all, the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce attacked the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce's fleet for no reason before, and this incident has already spread, which has caused some damage to the reputation of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. Attack, so in order to avenge the dead, but also to find out the reason of the whole incident, so Zhou Zhong has been paying attention to the Zhongqing Army that evolved from the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce.

During this period of time, under the leadership of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the merchants of Ming Dynasty have been dealing with various forces in North Korea, but there is only one force that no one dares to trade with them. This force is the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce. After all, whether it is public or private , Zhou Zhong is the overlord of the Daming coast, and the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce offended him, so naturally no one dared to take the risk of offending Zhou Zhong to do business with them.

However, on the surface, although no one has traded with the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce, under the temptation of interests, there are still many people who dare to secretly trade with the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce. Zhou Zhong knows this very well, and he is not angry at all, because these traders In fact, it was he who instigated it, and the purpose was to find out the true identities of the two leaders of the Zhongqing Army through transactions.After a period of trading, those people finally gained the trust of the Zhongqing Army. A few days later, there will be a very large amount of grain to be traded. At that time, at least one of the two leaders of the other party will go, and this is exactly Zhou Zhong's arrangement. trap. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)