Chapter 301: All the way north

Although the Li family of North Korea is a humble vassal in the face of various dynasties in China, it still has enough of a small court internally, and it has always been claimed to have 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains. However, most of the population and economic well-being of the entire Korean Peninsula are concentrated on both sides of the Han River, which is its capital, Seoul.

The land here is still fertile, but the degree of fertility can only be evaluated by 'really', the place is equivalent to a province of Daming, but the output is only more than 200,000 quintals, you can imagine how barren it is. At that time, there were seven or eight thousand soldiers in Korea, and most of them were stationed in Seoul.

Agriculture is so barren, but North Korea also has a rather oily entry, that is, the business called 'tribute', the officials and merchants of North Korea always have to obtain the qualification to participate in the Korean tribute mission to the Ming Dynasty every year, and then bring a large number of special products into the Ming Dynasty, after trading with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

Trafficking a large number of Ming Dynasty goods back to China, this kind of import and export foreign trade business that was officially allowed by the Ming Dynasty is itself a huge profit, to the current Jiajing forbidden sea, it is even more remarkable, Incheon Port is now also a gathering of maritime merchants from all walks of life, waiting to traffic cheap Ming Dynasty goods, but it is also a thriving scene.

Kim Sung is an old wharf that has been working in the port for more than ten years, according to his own words, he was also a famous family in Pyongyang back then, and then his family road fell to work here to survive, of course, no one will take this seriously, the North Korean surname Kim and the surname Li all say that they are from a famous family, God knows who is true and who is false.

On weekdays, everyone is called Lao Jin, Lao Jin, this Jin Cheng has been on the dock for a long time, but he is also a small leader, the more important thing is that he can speak fluent Ming Mandarin and understand a foreign language, which is a great thing, no matter where there is a good treatment.

Now it seems that it is about to enter the windy season, and the work of the port is also getting lighter day by day, and the coolies who have nothing to do are in the sheltered place on the dock and listen to the old gold spitting blowing the experience of going to Daming, this kind of scene is similar to the mentality that we like to watch now such as 'life experience in the United States, Tokyo Chronicle'.

"Daming's meals are all meaty, tsk, you don't know, I followed Master Park into a restaurant once, and all six dishes on the table had meat, as well as pork ribs!"

After Lao Jin said this, there was an exclamation below, everyone is very good to have a fish in the New Year, and pork ribs are a mythical thing, I didn't expect Daming to be so rich, and when there are more boats next year, I must follow the boat to Daming to see.

"The people walking on the street are wearing silk and satin, yes, not only the rich, but also the common people ......"

It is when it comes to hanging people's appetites, the old rules Lao Jin is going to say something about the romance in Daming, these rather vulgar and yellow jokes always make these young people with strong experience quite excited, but they didn't expect Lao Jin to suddenly stop talking, and the audience below thought that this old man Jin was hanging his appetite again.

The young man, who was familiar with this path, shouted below:

"Uncle Jin, tonight, let's pool money to invite you to drink soju, and tell everyone a paragraph."

Jin Cheng didn't open his mouth with a smile as usual, and everyone found that the old man sitting on a high place opened his mouth wide, looking horrified, and everyone who felt that something was wrong looked back at the direction of Jin Cheng's gaze, and then they stood there in surprise like Jin Cheng.

There were a large number of ships on the horizon, although there were still some black spots, but people who had been working on the docks for so long could still see that they were ships, and their minds automatically converted the proportions, and in terms of their knowledge on the docks, they were all big ships!

But the most amazing thing is that among these ships, there is a ship that can even be said to be a giant ship, the treasure ship of Zheng He's voyage to the West has long disappeared in history, and such a large sea ship has never been seen on the sea surface of East Asia for so many years. In the off-season at the port of Incheon, North Korea, why do so many ships come.

The dock workers had even forgotten to think about it, they were just there staring at the sea.

Jiang Feng ended the business of his fleet at sea half a month ahead of schedule, and about fifteen armed merchant ships and thirty merchant ships participated in this operation, and nearly forty merchant ships of Monk Li also followed, in addition to the patchwork ships of the Jingshi merchant group, about fifty or sixty.

This time, Jiang Feng opened his eyes and understood what the forbidden sea of the Ming Dynasty was, and behind the Jingshi merchant group were all the nobles, and he also had a rough idea in his heart, but he didn't expect that everyone had their own fleet and trafficking at sea.

At all, they didn't take the laws and regulations of the imperial court into account, and at the beginning, everyone was still cautious, but later it was found that the so-called management of the imperial court, that is, prohibiting fishermen from going to the sea to fish, no one seriously implemented it, and looked at the bold ones who made a fortune, who could bear it.

As a result, on this trip, Jiang Feng saw the sea ships of various wealthy families under the Ming Dynasty's sea ban order, these ships were basically going north in the south, after Wang Yuqi returned to Beijing from Dengzhou, Shandong, the Jingshi business group and those behind the business group were shocked by Jiang Feng's bold plan.

However, the reclamation manors outside the customs are indeed short of manpower, and if there is no manpower to replenish the past next year, some of the manors will be abolished, which is equivalent to sending the silver of the white flowers to the outside, and the Jurchen slaves who began to be taken captive have died and injured many because of the excessive labor.

Then the rest of the men either fled into the mountains or gathered to resist, which delayed the men of the colony as laborers, and these people had to defend the manor with weapons.

is similar to the statement of a certain marquis, "Give him the silver if he wants, no matter what he does, as long as he collects all the people for us, don't delay next year, if something happens to him, we are also protecting him in the court!" ”

Of course, they were still shocked when they saw the giant ship that Jiang Feng brought out from Dengzhou and the remaining dozen or so big ships. Wang Yuqi also has more than a dozen sea vessels in his house, and the veteran who runs this fleet is a thousand households on the ship of the Tianjin Weishui Division, and he said to his brothers in private:

"These ships in Dengzhou can already crisscross the sea, and the sailors of the Ming Dynasty are afraid that there is no way to take him."

Jiang Feng's nearly 100 boats were loaded with soldiers brought out by Dengzhou, and when Wang Yuqi returned to Beijing to bring a message, Tengzhou, Shijiu and Laiwu dismissed half of the soldiers on the grounds that the imperial court did not pay military salaries and had no money to raise soldiers, and said that they would dismiss a batch in the future.

Jiang Jiajun's actions finally made the forbearance of the imperial court, which was staring at Jiang Feng at some moments, relax, and his own dismissal of soldiers and horses was a gesture of showing weakness and showing loyalty. Although the big thing in Shandong now is the rebels who don't know where they disappeared, not Jiang Feng, who is faintly wrong.

The soldiers who have been training for so long and spent so much silver will naturally not be sent in vain, these are the people in the southern Lunan area who are now embarking on the road to Dengzhou in the name of returning to their hometowns, and then boarding the ship in the private port of Yantai Mountain under the leadership of the generals.

Now Jiang Feng's ships have nearly 4,000 soldiers...... well, and more than 200 horses.

This time, the merchant group of the Beijing division paid a deposit of 20,000 taels of silver, but with so many manpower, the manpower needed to mobilize and transport it is not a matter of this money, Jiang Feng did not hesitate to invest 50,000 taels, of course, if the sea ships do not do business to transport or escort, the amount of cost is even greater.

Su Guanyue, who was in charge of the financial expenditure of the accounts, and Zhao Xiucai, the housekeeper outside, were quite incomprehensible, and the Jiang Jiajun in Dengzhou Daying had always had to get it back after the expenditure, so how to do such a wasted thing.

Jiang Feng, Zhang Liang and Yang Shishi were all on the 'Shunfeng', Jason Hogan and Ajaya had been standing at the bow of the ship, nervously looking at the increasingly clear port of Incheon, and Wu Shen was also acting as a guide on this ship. Although Ajaya is a veteran sailor who has worked hard at sea for many years, he has been chattering with excitement since he got on board.

Jiang Feng and the others were quite confused, and when they asked Jason Hogan, they found out that what he was talking about was 'I didn't expect me to command such a big ship'.

On the pier in Incheon, the people who stood there and watched in a daze finally reacted and ran towards the land at lightning speed.

The distance on the sea does not mean that the distance is very close, it will take a long time to get close, this time Jiang Feng and they came in a hurry, and Wu Shen, who led the way, has come, but after all, he is here to do business and not to observe this port from military purposes.

Jason Hogan had been in the Spanish army anyway, and he was also a carrier-based infantryman, so he had a certain understanding of the defense of the port, and he asked Wu Shen next to him worriedly:

"Mr. Wu, isn't there a fort in this port? Are there no warships? ”

If there were, it would be a nightmare for a landing ship, and Ajaya turned his head and answered the question for him:

"Jason, you have asked this question more than 8,000 times, Mr. Wu said that there is no battery, there is no battery, don't be nervous, the firepower of our ship, even in front of the Spanish fortress of Seville, don't be afraid."

Wu Shen then patted his head, as if he remembered something, and hurriedly said:

"It's not defenseless!"

As soon as these words came out, the officers around him were all wide-eyed, why didn't they say it earlier, Zhang Liang pulled out the knife, but Wu Shen didn't notice it, closed his eyes and said slowly:

"There were about 400 soldiers......

The crowd on the side immediately relaxed.