One of the things that Mao Weizhang explained to the new Dongjiang Town Supervisor Imperial Historian was the follow-up arrangements for continuing to support the siege of Tsushima.

As early as the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen made a decision to ask the Tsushima Domain for the crime on the occasion of receiving the envoys of the Korean Zhengdan Dynasty at that time.

After this meeting, the envoy from Korea, Ayahara Maharaja Li was ordered by Emperor Chongzhen to stay in the capital of the Ming Dynasty and entered the upper house of the Guozijian to study.

And the deputy envoy Yin Xuan, with other entourage, also temporarily stayed in the Korean Pavilion of the Li Fan Yuan, waiting for the various yamen of the Ming Dynasty Hall to open their offices after the New Year, so that in accordance with the will of Emperor Chongzhen's grace, he discussed with the officials of the Armament Institute of the Ming Military Department to purchase the large number of magic guns eliminated by the Shenji Battalion.

In this way, Ayahara Maharaja Li Li and the Korean State Department of the Imperial Court sentenced Yin Xuan to two people, and it was not until February that the Ming Dynasty's military department opened its office, and it was not until February that Sun Yuanhua, the squire in charge of military equipment, was able to get an opinion on the military department.

With Emperor Chongzhen's proposal before, Sun Yuanhua naturally would not hinder North Korea from purchasing the eliminated spears of the Shenji Battalion.

At the end of February, Sun Yuanhua and the officials of the Armament Institute selected the first batch of usable spears from the arsenal of the Shenji Battalion, a total of 8,000 guns, and after requesting the order, they were resold to North Korea according to the original cost, converted into 240,000 Chongyin Yuan.

Before the two people came, Li Li and Yin Xuan, the two of them, actually knew in their hearts that the standard musket that the Ming official army is now equipped with is the Chongzhen flintlock musket, which is not fully equipped with the border army in Dongjiang Town of the Ming Dynasty, and only a small number of elite battalion leaders are equipped with such sharp weapons, if you don't pay a huge price, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get.

Therefore, they also thought that it was worth the trip to get 8,000 magic guns that the Shenji Battalion had been equipped with at one time.

In any case, the spears of these Shenji battalions repelled the Mongol attack back then!

However, if you buy these spears of the Divine Machine Battalion, you have to buy gunpowder from the Ming Dynasty, as well as special arrows that are used with these spears.

Therefore, Yin Xuan led the officials from the Korean soldiers to purchase a batch of the best black powder of the Ming Dynasty from the gunpowder factory of the Arsenal and the gunpowder factory of the Portuguese Dias in Baliqiao.

It doesn't matter if the silver is not enough, Emperor Chongzhen allowed Joseon to buy it in an account and pay in installments later.

In this way, at the end of February, Yin Xuan led a group of Korean officials who followed him, hired a large number of chariots, horses, and men from the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty, and transported a large number of muskets, gunpowder, and arrows to Tianjin.

Then, with the consent of the Tianjin Navy Division and the Governor's Office of Zhili, a large number of civilian ships along the coast of Tianjin were hired, and they rushed all the way back to North Korea.

By the time Yin Xuan returned to North Korea with a large amount of armaments bought in the book, it was already late March.

It was also at this time that the imperial court ordered the Dongjiang Town Sailor Li Xingzhong to ask the Tsushima Domain's will, which could be regarded as officially entering the stage of implementation.

Ayahara Maharaja Li Li and the Joseon State Counselor Yuan sentenced Yin Xuan, although the two people said about the problem of Japanese suffering to Emperor Chongzhen, it was not groundless.

The southern coast of Korea is bordered by the Japanese island of Tsushima, which was a vassal state of the Japanese shogunate.

The territory of this Tsushima domain is not large, and it is mainly the two large islands of South Island and North Island, to which Tsushima Island belongs, as well as the surrounding small islands.

In addition, most of these islands are mountainous forests, and there is not much flat land to cultivate rice, and the annual rice production is only 20,000 koku out of the 300 feudal domains of the Japanese shogunate.

It is important to know that Japan calculates the status of feudal lords according to the size of a feudal country's territory, specifically, the total rice production on the territory it owns.

Therefore, according to the total rice production, the lord of the Tsushima domain, the clan, was actually a small feudal clan with a low status.

However, although the Tsushima Domain was small, its status was very important, and the trade between Japan and Korea in this era was basically through the Tsushima Domain.

Within a few years of Japan's failed invasion of Korea, the Tokugawa shogunate was established, and immediately ruled the whole of Japan.

In order to consolidate their rule, but also to resist the invasion of Japan by the Dutch and Spanish, Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successor, Tokugawa Hidetada, embarked on the path of seclusion, leaving only Nagasaki, the only port for foreign merchant ships to dock at, for foreigners to set up trading houses here, and only Chinese and Dutch merchants were allowed to stay in Nagasaki and engage in trade.

Even North Koreans, who are close at hand, are not allowed to open a merchant house in Nagasaki.

As for the trade between Japan and Korea, it was handed over to the clan of the lord of the Tsushima Domain, who had been instrumental in transporting grain and grass during the Japanese invasion of Korea.

In this way, the clan of the lord of the Tsushima Domain, with its special status, quickly became a transit point for Japan's foreign trade outside of Nagasaki.

Foreign merchants who could not make a stop in Nagasaki but wanted to trade with Japan began to trade through the horse domain.

Since then, the Tsushima Domain, which was between Korea and Japan, quickly developed with a favorable trading position.

In the original history, this small Tsushima clan relied on this special trading position to maintain its prosperity for the next two to three hundred years, and the clan also maintained its own rule over the Tsushima domain by virtue of this.

However, in this life, in the first year of Chongzhen, the army of the Ming Dynasty unexpectedly occupied Jeju Island, which was one or two hundred nautical miles south of the Tsushima Domain, and the situation of the Tsushima Domain began to undergo some subtle changes.

The establishment of the Yingzhou Town Shoufu initially made many maritime smugglers from the Ming Dynasty dare not take this channel again.

In the second year of Chongzhen, after the Ming Dynasty officially opened to the sea, the maritime merchants from the five ports of the Ming Dynasty chose Yingzhou Island as a stop on the way to or from Nagasaki.

Moreover, because of the changes in the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty, not only the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty, but also the Dutch and Portuguese merchants who went to Japan, also set up merchant houses in Seogwipo and Yingzhou Ao on Yingzhou Island to engage in trade with Korea and Dongjiang.

The Tsushima clan and its retainers, who had been living a very prosperous life on transit trade, soon felt the change.

Not only did the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands, the Portuguese, and the Spanish come to trade, but even the trade with Korea began to decrease.

Trade with Korea was the lifeblood of the Tsushima clan, and other entrepot trade could be omitted, but trade with Korea could not be interrupted.

Tsushima Island itself is located north of Nagasaki, and the people who can trade on Tsushima are smugglers who have not obtained a shogunate trade license.

Originally, this trade could not be explicitly stated to the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan, but the trade with Korea was authorized by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Tokugawa shogunate had to pay tribute every year.

Now, however, with the change of the Ming Dynasty, this influence has spread not only to Korea, but also to the Tsushima Domain.

Historically, after seven years of the Apocalypse, Korea was conquered by the Later Jin State, although after that North Korea had to pay tribute to the Later Jin State, but the northern land of North Korea still belonged to itself, and after submitting to the Later Jin State, North Korea no longer paid Dongjiang Town a large amount of food and salary that the Ming Dynasty required it to pay.

Therefore, at that time, Korea still had the ability to trade with the Tsushima clan and sell rice and other products in exchange for silver and copper from Japan.

However, in this life, Korea was conquered by the Houjin State for just one year, and the Houjin Kingdom was defeated and returned during the second expedition to Donggang Town, and since then Korea and the Houjin Kingdom have been isolated by Dongjiang Town.

North Korea took this opportunity to get rid of the Houjin State and return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty, but after returning to the Ming Dynasty, it not only lost a large area of land in the north, but also still needed to bear a large amount of grain and grass needed by Dongjiang Town.

Moreover, the current Dongjiang Town, compared with the previous Dongjiang Town, is stronger and stronger, and there are more people and horses.

In particular, in addition to the domineering and difficult commander of Dongjiang Town, the domineering and difficult commander of Dongjiang Town, the small Korean court is also facing a Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo who is closer to them and is no worse than Mao Dashuai.

With less land, less production, and at the same time more food and grass than before.

This situation made the Korean monarchs and ministers miserable, and the areas in the south of Korea, which had already borne the supply of rice, suddenly became even heavier, and there was not much left after handing over the rice produced.

The increasingly impoverished southern part of Korea was not only plagued by chaos, but was also unable to trade with the Wakan of the Tsushima clan in Pusan and other places.

In the autumn of the second year of Chongzhen, it was the time when several rice in southern Korea were ripe for harvest and trade, but this time of this year was also a critical period for the troops and horses of Donggang Town to prepare for the Jurchens, and the amount of grain and grass needed was gradually increasing.

In order to collect as much rice from the south as possible, the rice trade between Jeollanam-do, Gyeongsangnam, and the Tsushima domain in southern Korea was stopped by order of the Korean monarch.