So, what happened to the Korean merchants?

During the Southern Song Dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty, Liu Qian, the head of the treasure store who boycotted Japanese goods with the strength of one person, said seriously: "They are all golden!" ”

Depend on! Wan Shida and Wu Dapeng looked at each other, Lao Liu, we are businessmen, we believe in this pragmatism, making money is the first nature, what do you care about this spy, besides, now Jin has long been destroyed......

"They are all golden! I must not associate with them......"

Middle-aged and angry, Liu Qian, the head of Jumbo Bank, repeated it again to show his business attitude. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It seems that this really can't help them anymore.

Since the Song Dynasty, Goryeo has maintained a tributary relationship with the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, Goryeo also successively claimed to be subordinate to Liao and Jin, and paid tribute to them.

Due to the elbow of Liao and Jin, the tributary relationship between Goryeo and the Song Dynasty was not smooth.

From 994 A.D., Goryeo, which began to be subject to Liao, was canonized by Liao, and while serving its Zhengshuo, it still paid tribute to the Song Dynasty from time to time, which belonged to the behavior of "moving the Great Song Dynasty".

Song Zhenzong once "set up a pavilion in Haici in Zhaodeng Prefecture" to wait for the Goryeo envoy.

The king of Goryeo once sent a huge envoy of 293 people to pay tribute, and the tribute of gold vessels, silver swords, saddle horses, sesame oil, ginseng, fine cloth, bronze utensils, yellow, green rat skins, etc., resigned in February of the next year, and sent an envoy to escort him to Dengju, and then he would never communicate with China for forty-three years.

Of course, the Koreans like to come to pay tribute, because the products of the Great Song Dynasty are excellent, not to mention, the rewards are also high, and the benefits are in it.

Another point is that they can also bring some goods by themselves......

For the decision-makers of the Song Dynasty, Goryeo's frequent tribute was an economic act that could provide a golden opportunity to achieve the political goal of "conspiring with the Khitan", so they met the envoys and treated them the same as the envoys of the Xia Kingdom.

The pavilions where the Goryeo Gong made the journey were all renovated, and "all were named Goryeo Pavilion".

Emperor Shenzong also issued an edict to "establish the Goryeo Trade Law".

Previously, the imperial court gave back to the envoys, "must have a division to estimate the tribute is given", but the new "transaction law" believes that the accurate assessment of tribute "has a body of injury", so it is stipulated that "the king's tribute is not estimated and the reward is given directly, and the number of silk is ten thousand horses forever".

The non-economic nature of the tributary trade can be seen here.

In the Huizong Dynasty, in order to achieve the political goal of "Lianli to resist Liao", he gave more preferential treatment to the Goryeo envoys, "promoted his envoy to the national letter, and gave the rites to the Xia State, and the Liao people were all subordinate to the Privy Council, and the companion and escort official were changed to pick up and drop off the hall companion", and once again raised the reception specifications, while other tributary countries have never enjoyed such a privilege.

However, at this time, the Liao regime was on the eve of its fall, and the tributary diplomacy of the Northern Song Dynasty's painstaking management of "Lianli Anti-Liao" finally came to naught, and the attempt to politicize ordinary economic behavior was not realized.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty court, which was in a corner of the southern part of the Yangtze River, was threatened by the strong enemy Jin State, and therefore no longer had illusions about "forming a Goryeo to resist Jin", so the national pragmatism with the characteristics of the Great Song Dynasty rose, and during the Southern Song Dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty, they went to the other extreme as a whole: the tributary relationship between the two experienced a change from indifference to hostility.

The fundamental reason for this change was that the Southern Song Dynasty court became more and more wary and fearful of Goryeo, who paid tribute to Jin, and even regarded its envoys as spies of the Jin State.

In the sixth year of Shaoxing (1136), "Goryeo took the official Jin Zhigui to Mingzhou, gave him gold and silk, and feared that it would be Jinjian". It was the Goryeo envoys who were turned away.

Here, the political and military significance of tribute is expressed in the form of the other extreme.

Where are there so many spies, but this lack of confidence at the national level has also affected the people, if it weren't for the ginseng and pine nuts of Korean merchants, I'm afraid that the business exchanges of the people would have been suspended long ago!

If a country has real self-confidence, it will never be afraid of spies in its business dealings.

Maybe this kind of emotion has a deep impact, and it will still exist until the gold is extinguished, and it just so happens that it is reflected in Liu Qian, the head of the treasure store.

"Never associate with Goryeo merchants, they are all golden!"

Well, important things to say three times, his attitude is firm, his tone is blunt.

This is a successful businessman who has integrated family hatred and national hatred into the spirit of business......

Wu Dapeng could only smile bitterly, he didn't want to bother to persuade such a person.

The middle-aged man's worldview, he doesn't want to change, it's too difficult.

So, the third plan of their plan was not successful.

However, they are not in a hurry, the time is on their side, besides, it is good enough to have such a start.

Their third plan was to hire or buy from Japan and Goryeo, and they had to get a group of people, and they were going to Taiwan now, which is now called Ryukyu.

In fact, according to the cultural relics unearthed at the Pingpu ruins in northern Taiwan, at the latest in the Tang Dynasty, there were business travelers and Austronesian language tribes had trade relations, and even the Han Dynasty had business travelers arrived in Taiwan.

Among them, the ancient coins of the Han people include the five-baht coin of the Han Dynasty, the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty and the Taiping Tongbao of the Song Dynasty.

The Kaida Gran people, a branch of the Pingpu tribe, used the Tang Dynasty coin "Kaiyuan Tongbao" as the material for earrings and other ornaments.

The Tang and Song Dynasty merchants usually exchanged some exquisite products for some supplies or more expensive animal skins and animal products, and then returned immediately, and there was nothing else.

Although Taiwan is close to the mainland, it was not in the main route of the Maritime Silk Road in the Middle Ages.

In addition, for the maritime merchants of this time and space, a voyage to Taiwan is too dangerous, not to mention, and the materials that can be traded with the aborigines of Taiwan are also limited.

Because crossing Xiamen and Penghu must first cross a red water ditch, this is the Chinese coastal flow from the north, the sea water is slightly red and get the name, not long after passing Kinmen can be seen, and then there is a black water ditch, a tributary of the Black Tide, located in the west of Penghu, and then from Penghu to Taiwan have to cross another black water ditch, a smaller tributary of the Black Tide, in the east of Penghu.

The two black water ditches are eighty miles each, and the water is deep and black, so it is named.

The ocean current near Heishuigou is strong and fixed to the north, 365 days a year. In addition, the topography of the seabed changes from deep to shallow, which is prone to large whirlpools, and the rheological rate of nearby water is difficult to predict.

This is a big challenge for the fleet, because although Taiwan is close, it is relatively easy to ship and trade in the direction of Korea or Japan in the northeast, or in the direction of the South Seas.

There were many shipwrecks near Heishuigou, and until 1765, more than 30 merchant ships sank Xiyu. Even in 1886, a French iron ship ran aground.

In 1893, a British ship sank on Gupo Island.

Therefore, even in the twentieth century, when Western countries have already advanced into mechanical ships, the sea area is still prone to shipwreckage.

Underwater archaeology has attempted to salvage these shipwrecks, but until recent years scientists have observed that seabed turbulence is not conducive to salvage operations.

Therefore, it was not the navigation technology of the Song Dynasty that was problematic, but the danger of the environment.

However, Wanshida has his own opinion on the situation, saying:

"Sailing is not a problem, the ships that can reach the coast of East Africa are not too afraid of these, they are afraid of these small sailing boats!

Primarily commercial interests. If a needle or a knife can change the fur of their natives, then who will go a second time? In this time and space, the barren fields in Lingnan still abound, who still goes there to open fields?

So, the flat, wide Tainan Plain can only be idle in vain......"

Of course, they did some preparatory work for the development of the Tainan Plain.

They first brought with them a large number of seeds of quinic trees and Artemisia annua.

The quinic tree, which they were going to plant in Tainan, may have helped it grow in the warm and humid climate of this space-time.

The quinine tree, also known as the cinchona tree, has relatively high requirements for the growth environment, which is suitable for growing in an environment of more than 13 degrees all year round, and has an appropriate amount of rain.

However, the good hydrothermal conditions of this time and space are just right for it!

For quinine products, they will only use low-pressure distillation technology, and of course there are some auxiliary methods of purification, they can learn and practice while reading the materials, and the time and technology are on their side.

In fact, you don't need to bring the seeds of Artemisia annua, there was also this plant in this time and space, but they brought a medicinal plant specially used for low-temperature purification, and its seeds were very light and did not take up space.

Malaria is the number one killer of this time and space, and the ancients were basically helpless about it.

However, they will have a way.

In this way, they began to be confident that if there was a solution to the first major plague, then the possibility of developing the Tainan Plain in Taiwan would be greatly increased.

There is another disease they fear, schistosomiasis.

This epidemic may have accompanied the development of humans in the south......

They not only brought Chinese herbal prescriptions that were proven to be effective in treating this disease in that time and space, but also brought related Western medicines, praziquantel tablets.

But it is relatively easy to prevent this disease, and it is not as scary as malaria.

First of all, they asked those Song technician students not to drink any raw water, which was a prevention and control method.

Many of the students were kicked in the ass for violating this requirement.

In addition, they are prepared to use large-scale burning methods to deal with mosquitoes, wild grasses and other things that hinder their farming.

They will use oil to fuel the combustion.

As for the various farm tools needed, this is too simple, let's talk about it later.

The key problem is that they need manpower, a large number of people, who are not only industrious, but also familiar with farm work, or at least able to grow rice......

So, they took a fancy to the Japanese and Goryeo farmers.

They thought that the peasants of these two countries were more suitable to be the first pioneers, because they were cheaper than the Song peasants, and the cost performance of this cost was there.

However, they met Liu Qian, the head of the treasure bank, who was too emotional to be an unqualified regional agent, so they had to find another way and find it themselves.

In the final stages of communication with Liu Qian, the head of Jumbo Bank, Wan Shida asked him if he was familiar with maritime merchants in other regions.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty had business contacts with more than 50 countries and regions, and if he was a completely xenophobic businessman, then they were ready to find a way to change the regional agent, and this person was completely contrary to the commercial spirit of the Great Song Dynasty.

Even the Emperor Merchants of the Great Song Dynasty encouraged officials to go overseas to attract investment, and there were rewards for those who made remarkable achievements.

Also during the Shaoxing period, an Arab merchant named Pu Yali married a Chinese lady and settled in Guangzhou, and Emperor Gaozong asked the local government to "persuade Yali to return to China".

Is it that the Great Song Dynasty did not welcome Arab merchants? No, because after Pu Yali settled in the Great Song Dynasty, he was no longer engaged in foreign trade, and the Great Song Dynasty government hoped that he would return to China to recruit other merchants and "transport incense goods back and forth".

Therefore, if this regional agent is like this, it will affect everyone's future plans.

Liu Qian, the head of the treasure shop, stroked his beard and said, "There are many people." That Cochin, Champong, Srivijaya and so on all have certain friends. ”

Wanshida thought for a moment and said, "Can you buy it...... Kunlun Nu ......"

"Easy! I don't know if you want a big Kunlun or a small Kunlun? ”

"Big and small should be ......"

Well, after discussing it for a long time, we had to find a way to recruit Japanese and Korean peasants on our own.