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Although He Yong is no longer in the prime of life, his body is still quite tough when he is in his fifties, so he can still shuttle on the sea until now.

Previously, his partner Sun Juyong, for the sake of the future, gave up the gift of the ocean-going trade fleet without hesitation, and lived a more comfortable life as a deputy, plunged into the vast sea, and made great contributions to Hongmen's opening up of the American route.

By the time of the reward for meritorious deeds, Sun Juyong, who was only He Yong's deputy, unknowingly surpassed his former boss He Yong in the Hongmen.

Encouraged by Sun Juyong, He Yong also wanted to take advantage of the fact that his body and bones could still move, and he would also fight hard again to consolidate his current position.

Shang Kexi was a matchmaker for Hongmen in the North Korean officialdom, and many people only saw North Korean specialties and trade interests, but He Yong, who was familiar with what Hongmen urgently needed for foreign trade channels, found that he had a great merit in front of him.

The more people recruited by the Hongmen, the greater the gap in the livestock labor under their command, and each household had at least 15 acres of land per capita, plus the installment loans they had to repay for cultivating the Hongmen land, the price they had to pay on the land was really high just by relying on the few strong laborers in each household.

Da'an Town has an early layout for the cultivation of cattle, horses and livestock, but Da'an Port is not a real grassland after all, and the focus of the pasture is more inclined to war horse breeding, even with the assistance of alfalfa grass, which is an excellent pasture, the cattle and mules and other livestock that can be produced every year are also in short supply.

And since Governor Mao Wenlong was beheaded, it didn't take long for Dongjiang Town to fall into the hands of the Jurchens, and they were not stupid, how could they exchange the only wealth and advantage on the prairie for Hongmen so easily.

Therefore, until now, Hongmen is also trying to bypass the encirclement of the Jurchens, trade with other ethnic groups on the grassland, and find a reliable channel to come out again.

Only in this way can the people at the bottom of Dayuan Island have sufficient labor to cultivate, and can they provide a steady stream of various resources and materials to Hongmen and deepen the strength of Hongmen.

The Korean Peninsula does not seem to be very large, but it is in a good location, hundreds of miles west of the Yalu River is a vast grassland, and from time to time there are nomads in the grassland who drive cattle and sheep to the Korean border to trade in exchange for the materials needed by the tribe.

Because of the war with the Jurchens, the Ming Dynasty has gradually closed the trade channels of the border passes to the grassland peoples, and the grassland peoples want to obtain important resources such as tea and silk from the Ming Dynasty, so they can only smuggle through those Jin merchants and Hui merchants who have eyes and hands.

Since it is a smuggling channel, its price is often unacceptable to the grassland peoples, but for the necessary materials of the grassland peoples such as tea, if the grassland people do not look for these unscrupulous traders, they can only bypass the defense line of the Jurchens and quietly go to the east to trade with the Joseon Dynasty.

In addition to this, North Korea also has a natural pasture, an isolated island with a pleasant climate - Jeju Island.

Most of Jeju Island is plain, and because it is close to the sea, it is often swept by the sea breeze, so large trees do not grow easily, but it has become a paradise of wild grassland.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Jeju Island originally belonged to the fourth ethnic group of China, but after the Daeyuan Dynasty was overthrown by the Ming Dynasty, the Daewon officers and soldiers on Jeju Island finally surrendered to the recent Joseon Dynasty after holding out for decades, and since then it has become the land of the Joseon Kingdom.

North Korea's most famous Koryoma is the largest breeding base on Jeju Island.

Therefore, when He Yong watched the gate of North Korea slowly open to him, he immediately discovered the biggest opportunity.

After a long period of drilling camp, it was not until July of the ninth year of Chongzhen that He Yong was introduced layer by layer and got in touch with Jin Shizheng, the pastoral supervisor of Jeju Muzhong Horse Administration, and after paying tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy these horses from Jin Shizheng's hands.

The first transaction is always the most difficult, this is He Yong's biggest emotion and experience since he started business, as long as this first transaction is carried out safely, then He Yong will have to purchase the second and third batches of livestock from the herding supervisor, it is just a matter of price.

Corruption in officialdom has never been limited by geography, don't look at the Joseon Lee Dynasty seems to have only been established for 300 years, but in fact, the high-level nobles of the Korean Kingdom have long been eroded in recent years, and there are few people who can really do things.

If the top beam is not right and the bottom beam is crooked, and the chief officials of the central government are still so corrupt and corrupt, then these middle and low-level officials below are also doing the same, and they are already rotten.

The same is true of the Jeju pastoral officials, and they have a more unique terrain, surrounded by the sea and far away from the Korean Peninsula, so it can be said that the emperor is far away, and no matter what the officials in Jeju do, the leaders in the center of the kingdom can only hear all kinds of lies from the mouths of the local officials.

For example, now that he was given 3,000 fine war horses at a time, the shepherd of Jeju was not panicked and worried at all, as if it was just an ordinary thing.

What He Yong never expected was that he was not the first person to come to pay attention to the livestock in the Jeju Horse Ranch, he really thought that the large number of horses purchased from Donggang Town were snatched from the Jurchens by Mao Wenlong and others, in fact, a lot of Korean horses were sold from the Jeju Horse Farm.

Anyway, as long as Kim Shi-jung and the others collude up and down, or modify the account books, or lie about a tsunami and hurricane, etc., the livestock they sold will be able to hang in the loss for a long time and no longer belong to their Korean kingdom.

However, for He Yong, who was anxious to rush back to Hongmen immediately, even if he really told him now, he was afraid that he would not care.

What Hongmen cares about is just a channel that can allow Hongmen to harvest livestock, cattle and horses again, as for who the pioneer of this channel is, not to mention that He Yong will not care, and Li Tianyang will not care either.

As He Yong expected, when he returned with 3,000 sturdy two-year-old ponies, this good news even moved Li Tianyang, so that he took time out of his busy schedule to come over to visit before He Yong transported it to the Da'an Port Ranch.

"Well done!"

Li Tianyang looked at Uncle He Yong affectionately and couldn't help but praise.

At the beginning, He Yong was also one of the few adults who came to Dayuan Island to work hard with Li Tianyang, who was still a teenager, and he may have been only the principal of the Qixintang Ocean Fleet until now because of his personality and ability, and Li Tianyang originally planned to let him retire in this position, but who would have thought that now He Yong gave him such a big surprise.

"This is what subordinates should do!"

He Yong now seems to be affectionately Li Tianyang, but he is prone to respect and admiration.

(End of chapter)

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