"Let the prince laugh!"

Yang Qing wore his court robe with a blood-stained git on his shoulder, revealing his intact but blood-soaked skin, and welcomed the prince of Goryeo who had entered the court.

"The Loyal and Brave Marquis is really a god!"

Li Hao said unnaturally.

He has yet to fully sober up from the visual impact of this drama.

In fact, his status is higher than Yang Qing, he is the heir to the prince who enjoys the treatment of the prince, theoretically the heir of the county king is called the eldest son, but their family treatment is special and can be called the son, which is much higher than a marquis who is not hereditary yet. Similarly, the level of the crown dress of the two is not the same, Li Hao is a red dress with seven seams of leather bands, this kind of thing that modern people are not familiar with represents the highest level in this era, except for the royal family and the vassal king, no one is qualified to wear it, but the emperor is twelve seams, and the lowest Wang Shizi is seven seams.

Of course, if he is treated according to the real eldest son of the king, then he will have to wear the same Qiliang crown as Yang Qingshou, and now the difference between the two crowns and uniforms suddenly opens up the difference in rank.

This level is still insurmountable.

Crown, Tongtian Crown, Wing Good Crown, Pi Ben Crown, Liang Crown, these are all strictly distinguished by rank and occasion, the Daming crown system does not mean that it is the same as those TV dramas, it is just a kind of regular hat.

Of course, Li Hao didn't dare to think that he was higher than Yang Qing, in fact, he kept his head down.

"It's not worth mentioning, I'm fighting to defend the Chinese faith, and naturally I am protected by the gods, but I'm just a barbarian bewitched by a few heresies, how can I be hurt!"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

Then the two walked side by side to the carriage.

When they arrived at the palace, Princess Kunxing had already arrived early, and quickly changed into her court clothes and ascended to the Heavenly Palace, where she would receive the prince of Joseon on behalf of her brother. This hall has been repaired after a large number of cement raids, although it does not reach the original glory, but the degree of strength is better than before, as for the other halls are still under repair, according to the plan to this time next year, the repair of the important palace of the entire palace will be basically completed.

As for some inconsequential things in Hougong, there is no need to repair them, in fact, Yang Qing is demolishing a large number of such buildings in the palace.

After all, there aren't many people in the palace now.

Even the eunuchs and palace maids add up to less than a thousand permanent residents, rather than keeping the rumors of those abandoned houses and abandoned houses creating haunts, it is better to simply tear down and plant flowers and trees to raise small animals! Yang Qing planned that this palace would maintain a permanent population of one or two thousand in the future, and how could there be too many people to serve just a few women, of course, these were definitely not his orders, but the orders of the actual palace master, Empress Dowager Yi'an. It is said that he is a minister who is qualified to manage the palace, but the Queen Mother's words must be listened to, even if it is an order given by the Queen Mother because of the large number of people and the difficulty of control, which hinders her tryst with her husband.

The entry of the prince of Goryeo into the dynasty has its own set of cumbersome ceremonial procedures, which is needless to say.

After entering the court, it was the sacrifice of prisoners.

He also took dozens of Jiannu prisoners, among which there was really an important person, the Korean governor of Dolgon stationed in Seoul, the president of our Qingming History Museum in the original history, Qi Chongge, and the rest of the officials and generals who were also sent by Dolgon to North Korea, all of them were genuine Eight Banners, and since this was the case, they had to be sent to Xiaoling.

It is said that at this time, the ground in front of the Xiaoling Xiangdian was completely stained red by the blood of our Qing Dynasty.

After these procedures are completed, it is the actual thing.

Li Hao's purpose here is very simple, one is to hope that Daming will continue to send reinforcements, the second is to provide food support, and the third is to aid a batch of arms, not to procure, but to ask for assistance, they really have no money to purchase now. Before, Li Liang still had a large amount of accumulated gold, silver and jewelry, but now it has been spent, and North Korea is exposed to the wild, so naturally he can't collect much tax, especially the internal famine caused by the war damage, Li Liang continues to increase taxes and force the people to rise up, after all, he is so much territory now.

"Aid is definitely not going to work."

Yang Qing said.

"Marquis Zhongyong, in the next generation of my father and the people of Korea, I implore the imperial court for mercy."

Li Hao hurriedly stood up and bowed.

"Shizi, please take a seat!"

Yang Qing then pressed him back to his seat.

"I will definitely help you, but it is impossible to provide free assistance, because the imperial court finance does not have this budget at all, and our current financial expenditures are budgeted at the beginning of the year, and how much we need to give to the army and various ministries and other expenditures every year is calculated in advance and approved by the prison state. According to the tax so far, it is impossible to achieve a balance of payments, if you want to increase the expenditure to aid North Korea, then you can only increase taxes for the people, but now the Ming Dynasty is also very difficult, after all, we also have to face the southern invasion of Jiannu and the Gui rebellion, as well as the division of feudal towns, and the common people can no longer raise taxes.

But we can do it another way. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Loyal and brave marquis, please make it clear."

Li Hao said.

"You can borrow money from the bank, and then use the gold and silver to buy food and munitions."

Yang Qing said.

"Banks? Loan? ”

Li Hao said with a blank expression.

"Yes, our own financial gap is also made up in this way, and the Imperial Bank can lend to anyone who can afford to repay the loan, which of course must be collateralized. For example, if the Korean kingdom uses the salt tax as collateral, it will not be a problem to borrow 1 million taels from the Imperial Bank, and then the Imperial Bank will send someone to take over your salt business, and deduct the loan and interest from the annual salt tax until the loan and interest are paid off.

You can also use customs duties.

Commercial tax can also be used.

In short, your taxes can be used as collateral, as a subject state of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Korean Kingdom still exists, these taxes will not be canceled, this is the best collateral, and the Imperial Bank will definitely not refuse.

Of course, this is just one scenario.

There is another option.

You can lease land, for example, to a port on the coast to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and let them build a business there, for example, the port of Pusan, which is suitable, and then you can ask the tenant to pay ten years of rent in advance, so that this rent can also be used to maintain your finances. You see, it's not that you don't have money, it's just that you don't understand the economy, and as long as you understand the economy, you will find that you are actually sitting on the treasure mountain. ”

Yang Qing said.

This can be regarded as using North Korea as a guinea pig to train the first generation of colonists of the Ming Dynasty.

Colonists!

Lease land, loan control, control of customs and taxes, these are essential, no matter how small North Korea is, it is also a piece of meat, the annual salt tax, the customs duty is also a lot, one year is not enough to repay the loan, ten or twenty years is always enough, anyway, if they can't pay off the loan, their tax revenue is under the control of the Imperial Bank. Even the Imperial Bank could take the opportunity to set up branches in North Korea to absorb deposits from wealthy North Koreans, so that in the end the economy would be completely controlled by the Imperial Bank. In addition, port leasing is also essential, although it is still early to grab the gold mountain of Sado Island, but don't forget that Yang Qing has already started whaling, Zhoushan fishing ground is not the main whaling ground in East Asia, the main whaling ground in the northern part of the Sea of Japan!

Establish a base in the port of Busan, then the whaling fleet travels north on the Kuroshio current to catch whales in the northern Sea of Japan and even establish a base in Hokkaido altogether.

At this time, Hokkaido had not yet fallen into Japanese hands, and the Matsumae Domain had established a few small cities in the south, and the vast majority of the land was still under the control of the Ainu. It's entirely possible to build a small base there, and then provide the Ainu with some weapons while whaling, so that they can expel the Wakoku people in Hokkaido, and by the way, come and make a tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

And it is possible to train sailors on this line.

If you catch a whale for three or five years, it is estimated that the whaling fleet alone will be able to take Sado Island.

And Busan is the main rear base.

In fact, the original Anti-Japanese War had already reduced them by a war in which there were only 40,000 households left in Seoul, and the first two invasions of Jiannu were experienced, and the Korean Peninsula was suitable for population infiltration. The influx of employees that inevitably arose through these leased land and loan control happened to be commercial immigrants to North Korea, and these employees bought some concubines to have a child, and made the descendants of those Han people in North Korea such as Ming Yuzhen and others clear, and it is estimated that within 50 years, North Korea will be completely one with the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, it didn't matter whether the Lee family was still the king of Joseon.

It's a puppet anyway.

For the DPRK in this era, it is still necessary to maintain a little tolerance, after all, they have not yet mutated into a stick, first gradually control the economy and military, and then order them to enter the DPRK with an edict, or transfer the feud from the outer domain to the internal domain, and divide 100,000 mu of fief land for them in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Li Hao won't know this.

He wouldn't know that this was just the beginning of the plan to destroy the Korean Kingdom, he only knew that the Marquis Chungyong did provide him with a solution to the problem, and what kind of food and ammunition was silver in the final analysis, and if he could get the silver in this way, even if he needed to pay some tax collateral, it would be acceptable. For the Li family, they don't care about this, North Korea is theirs, everything in North Korea is theirs, and they can do whatever they want. On the contrary, if they did not obtain this vital silver, they could not continue the war, and not only could they not regain most of the Korean land, but they also faced the danger of a resurgence of the rebels in the north.

Even if the latter didn't get Dolgon's help.

But those warlords who have become the climate with the support of Dolgon, whether they are self-preservation or driven by ambition, have the possibility of changing the dynasty!

How did their Li family get started?

Isn't this how Goryeo was destroyed and replaced?

Now the only question is......

"Marquis Zhongyong, how many taels of silver can the bank provide us?"

Li Hao asked cautiously.

"It depends on how much you can take out to mortgage, if you can take out enough collateral, even if it's 10 million."

Yang Qing said with a smile.