Li Hao's wisdom is still limited after all......

Besides, he had no other choice.

And at this time, his father was already seriously ill, and Li Liang originally died next year in history, but this protracted war accelerated the decline of his body, so it means that soon Li Hao will succeed to the throne and face the erosion of the country himself.

He's under a lot of pressure!

Of course, he knew that the Imperial Bank was opened by Yang Qing, the prison and the empress dowager, and Yang Qing was just pretending to be a public servant, but this had nothing to do with him, all he needed was silver, and the loan was not just to obtain silver, but also to surrender his sincerity to the actual ruling group of the Ming Dynasty......

Since Yang Qing said it, he couldn't refuse.

If he refused, Yang Qing would definitely not support North Korea anymore, and in the final analysis, supporting North Korea would not have much practical benefit to the Ming Dynasty.

He betrayed the country very happily.

On behalf of his father, as the heir to the Kingdom of Joseon, he signed an agreement with the Imperial Bank, taking out a loan of two million taels of silver over thirty years with customs duties and salt taxes as collateral, and it was estimated that he would have to repay at least five million taels of silver with interest. Moreover, except for a small part of the silver that he brought back to pay for military salaries and the like, the rest was used in Daming to purchase grain and arms, but the customs and salt administration set up by Joseon in Inchon in the future were taken over by the Imperial Bank until the silver was withheld. In addition, the 50-year lease of Busan Port was leased to the Beiyang Company, a partnership between Yang Qing and Zheng Zhilong, but the latter paid 20 years of rent in advance, 100,000 taels of silver. The Imperial Bank was allowed to open a bank in Korea, and the Beiyang Company obtained the right to prospect and mine in Korea, which was also 100,000 yuan, and the mining proceeds were 64 percent, 40% of which went to the king of Korea, and the employees of the two companies and other Ming merchants who entered Korea enjoyed extraterritoriality in Korea......

"What is this?"

Zheng Zhilong looked at the new term suspiciously.

"It's that the Li family has no right to deal with our people, even if our people break the law in North Korea, they have no right to punish them, and they must hand them over to us."

Yang Qing said.

"Uh, that's called extraterritoriality?"

Zheng Zhilong was stunned and said, "Then we have always been like this!" ”

In fact, it's not that simple.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea was trembling against the Ming Dynasty, just like serving a Tyrannosaurus rex, and even Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately found fault, and the suspect's family did not write well on the table, forcing North Korea to send the prince to personally escort the minister who drafted the table to Nanjing to apologize, and then exiled this unlucky guy to Yunnan. In Li Chenggui's own words: The emperor has many soldiers and armor, and the political punishment is severe, so there is a world. However, the killing was excessive, and the father and master were not preserved. And he repeatedly reprimanded my small state, and he was insatiable. Now they accuse me of not sinning, and threaten me to use troops, how is it different to intimidate children?

Under such circumstances, how dare North Korea provoke Zhu Yuanzhang for such a trivial matter?

But it's hard to say later.

At least they themselves have a provision in the law that they have changed according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty that if they commit crimes, they will also be dealt with according to the law.

However, in addition to the tribute, the exchange between the two sides is a mutual market on land, and this mutual market is presided over by eunuchs, even if there is a crime, the Ming Dynasty itself disposes of it, and smuggling on the sea islands is strictly prohibited. During this period, it was mainly the fishing boats of the Ming Dynasty that were blown by the wind, and in this case, North Korea treated each other with courtesy, and even the king of Korea explicitly ordered that even a dog should be fed, but after the smugglers and the Japanese cowards partnered, they were not treated with courtesy. Not to mention those fake fishermen who really landed to kill people and set fires, even the fishermen who really drifted over were also killed by the local officials in favor of the Japanese invaders, and the Ming Dynasty did not care much about this kind of thing, after all, the coastal fishermen's smugglers and the Japanese Kou partnership was also a headache for the Ming Dynasty.

After the opening of Longqing, there was still no fixed maritime trade between the two sides, but in practice, it was very common for North Korean ships to trade with Denglai Taicang.

But the Ming merchant ships were all coastal islands.

Especially the most famous is Phi Island, Mao Wenlong can mix in Phi Island, because it is the maritime trade center between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, the merchant ships transferred by Denglai to transport goods to Phi Island, and the North Korean merchants also transported the goods to Phi Island, where the two sides trade with each other, but it is almost useless for Ming merchants to enter North Korea to trade, and there is no such thing as Ming merchants committing crimes in North Korea and then being disposed of.

And Yang Qing wants business immigrants to infiltrate.

Then this problem must be put on the surface, and he must first establish the status of the Ming people in North Korea.

This is the most important point.

There are a large number of Han descendants in North Korea, such as the descendants of Ming Yuzhen, and it seems that the descendants of Chen Youliang were also thrown away by Zhu Yuanzhang. In this way, the commercial employees of the Ming Dynasty were counted as colonists, and the descendants of the Korean Han were counted as banana people, and by the way, some Korean eunuchs were absorbed to act as traitors, and a perfect colonial system was established.

"It's just this whaling ......"

Zheng Zhilong wanted to speak and stopped.

"Nan Anhou thinks it's not easy?"

Yang Qing said.

"It's really not easy! If we shoot those whales in Zhoushan, we will pay the price of a ship destruction, and the whales in Zhoushan are not big, but I have seen whales off the coast of the Japanese country, and they are really giant whales like mountains, even if a cruiser is on the opposite side, it will be sunk. ”

Zheng Zhilong said with a solemn face.

Whaling is indeed profitable, those dozen whales made the Beiyang Company reap a lot of money, no one thought that this thing was still a treasure, but the problem is that the fishing of this thing is too dangerous, it is completely fighting for life, even the old pirates under his command shouted to kill after completing the whaling. If you go whaling along the coast of the Japanese country and catch those terrifyingly big whales, then no one really dares to go, it is nothing more than a candle lighting, and there is no need for whale oil or other oil.

"But what if there's ambergris?"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"What does ambergris have to do with giant whales?"

Zheng Zhilong was stunned.

"It's very simple, it's not ambergris, it's in the belly of the giant whale, but it is only possible in the sperm whale's body, and the bigger the sperm whale, the more likely it is!"

Yang Qing said and quickly hand-painted a picture of a sperm whale and handed it to Zheng Zhilong.

"Really?"

The latter said with wide eyes.

"Really."

Yang Qing replied in the affirmative.

Zheng Zhilong did not hesitate to take the portrait of the sperm whale and left.

"Profit makes people crazy!"

Yang Qing said with emotion.

yes, it's not crazy! 1,200 taels of silver a pound! The gold is less than two hundred taels, what is the destruction of a few ships? A pound of ambergris can build one, this thing is dozens of hundreds of pounds, and a complete piece of ambergris from the stomach of the sperm whale is enough to change a fleet, and no one will not be crazy in the face of such interests.

The same is true of Zheng Zhilong's old pirates.

As for the difficulty of catching......

That's not a big deal, it's just a big deal to replace the bed crossbow with a gunpowder whaling cannon.

Yang Qing actually didn't have much good intentions, everyone understands that the casualty rate of whaling is very high, but whaling in this era is also the business with the highest rate of return, and the United States relied on this to start. As long as Zheng Zhilong catches the first piece of ambergris, he will fall into this industry like xi, and then keep his old pirate into this industry, even if it is necessary to extract these backbones of his men from the navy. After all, whether it is maritime trade or others, it cannot be compared with the rate of return of this industry, so Yang Qing can continue to send his cronies into the navy, and finally complete the complete mastery of the navy.

As for these old pirates......

Let them slowly wither away in the fight against the giant whale!

Anyway, the Beiyang Company has half of the dry shares of him and Princess Kunxing combined, and he also has a share in the money that Zheng Zhilong earns, and he uses the Zheng family to quickly build a navy, and at the same time carry out maritime trade, and then use gentle means to soak in brocade clothes and jade food.

Time will settle the rest.

Yang Qing sat at his desk, looking at Zheng Zhilong's back with some embarrassment, and suddenly with a sense of pain, a knife poked into his arm.

He immediately lowered his head.

"Eldest princess, you want to be a lady!"

Then he looked helplessly, pulled out the knife, and looked curiously at Princess Akihito, who had healed from the wound.

The latter then poked again.

"It hurts."

Yang Qing said.

He could heal quickly, but the pain wouldn't change.

The seven-year-old eldest princess of Daming Zhaoren, like a little witch, held a bloody knife, with the enthusiasm of a scientist, poked her fingernails into the bloody wound, watched it heal with irresistible force, and then squeezed out her nails, she was very unwilling to poke the knife for the third time.

"If you mess around again, you'll hit pi stocks!"

Yang Qing said.

"Humph!"

Tsundere's little Lori snorted.

"My mother asked me to tell you quietly, yesterday Qian Shangshu's concubine room of the Criminal Department entrusted a chamberlain and gave my mother a box of big pearls."

She said.

"Concubine, isn't it a lady?"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"My mother said that she was a lowly person, and she still wanted to make friends with the palace, but she didn't know how high or low!"

Little Lori said in her mother's tone.

Yang Qing smiled and then opened the drawer, and took out a Rubik's cube from inside, this thing is a brass core cast by the lost wax method inside, and the outside is carved from yellow rosewood, although it is only a third-order Rubik's cube, but it is enough to fool the little girl, he quickly demonstrated the gameplay, Zhaoren's eyes widened instantly, and he threw the knife and snatched it directly.

Yang Qing watched her play with the Rubik's Cube there, with a deep smile on his face.

The water is so cold that it lives up to expectations!

As soon as he came to power, he engaged in behind-the-scenes actions, he was very good at choosing targets, knowing that Hougong was Yang Qing's rear, and Zhang Yan and Princess Kunxing were hopeless, so he turned the target to the palace and left a special person in the palace, and laid out it by marrying Concubine Yuan. It's a pity that he chose the wrong person, Concubine Yuan did have to succumb to Zhang Yan in Hougong, but this woman who had experienced a series of bloody scenes with Chongzhen had long since lost the courage to participate in the political struggle, not to mention that she was a seven-year-old daughter, what did she ask for when she was involved in the political struggle?

The water is too cold, and this investment is in vain.