Chapter 132: The Trap of the High Gold Alliance
"Uncle, with this batch of ginseng and medicinal herbs, we can exchange more swords and armor with our friends in the Great Song Dynasty, and the matter of raising troops against Liao can no longer be delayed." At the internal meeting of the Wanyan Ministry, Wanyan Min suggested that a large number of special products and local goods that had just arrived be sold to Song merchants in Goryeo and at the mouth of the Yalu River in exchange for the arms urgently needed by the tribe.
"We can't be impatient, although there are many goods in this batch, but the other party may not be able to eat them all for a while, and we can't sell them at a good price if we are too anxious. You see, although this garden ginseng is very large, it is still much worse than the medicinal power of mountain ginseng. There are only 200 ginseng plants in the past few months, and there are only 200 ginseng plants in this batch of ginseng that are more than four years old, and we can't change much for that kind of iron knife, so it is better to change some axes and saws, cut down more pine logs, and sell them to the warehouse in Jiangkou. You must know that a log with a length of three zhang and a diameter of two feet can be sold for 100 wen (the absolute black heart price, the normal market price is at least 2 guan), a pair of chain mail is only 5 guan, and the most expensive set of half-body armor is only 20 guan, which is better than what I have seen in Shangjing, and the asking price is only 10% there. "Although Brother Wanyan Ying (Aguta's uncle) inherited the position of the chief of the Wanyan Department from his brother Libo and Po Rashu, he was always timid about the growth of the Wanyan Department, and did not dare to blatantly recruit troops to expand his strength.
"Don't be afraid, nephew, I can buy another 100 fine steel knives and 100 strong bows from the merchants of the Song Kingdom, and these local goods are not needed. The merchants of the Song Kingdom said that as long as we concentrate our forces and force Goryeo to agree to open the northern border trade road, and agree that the merchants of Goryeo can freely trade in the border warehouses, they can send us a batch of weapons! Akuta's elder brother Wu Yashu immediately spoke, hoping to take troops to Goryeo and threaten Goryeo to open bilateral trade with the Jurchens by force.
Brother Ying, who is in charge of the house, remembered the words of his brothers, and couldn't help but sigh that he was old, when his brother said before he died, the Jurchens would one day embark on the road of independent statehood and rebellion against the rule of the Khitans in Liao, and he didn't have much time to waste, and his years of hard work had exhausted his energy.
It's time for the nephews to go out and practice, "Wu Yashu, you go to the Tieli King to ventilate, borrow a few hundred warriors, bring five hundred stone of grain, we can join forces together, and when we have gathered 2,000 people, we can go to Goryeo to do serious business." Otherwise, it will not be good for them to see the benefits we have gained from expanding our trade and run into the mountains to make trouble. Akuta's mission was to build an inn by the sea for Goryeo merchants, on the hill northwest of the temporary dock built by the Song Kingdom. Be sure to invite more craftsmen from the Song Kingdom, don't be afraid to spend money, although we have not accumulated much Song money, but basically don't use much, spend on key things is used on the tip of the knife. In fact, Song money was in high demand throughout Northeast Asia, and any tribe could exchange Song money for supplies from Liao or Goryeo. However, due to the isolation and poverty and backwardness, it is basically impossible for the various ethnic minorities in the primitive tribal era to see Song Qian. The high-level officials of the Wanyan Department, who knew the benefits of Song Qian, naturally knew that these money were not easy to come by, and it was a very rare hero to be willing to spend it on key things.
Three months later, a magnificent inn was established in Xuanzhou City between the Datong River and the Yalu River, and this inn was named Youjian Inn by the crossing people, in order to commemorate their own memories. Although it is very puzzling to the locals, the power of this inn is undeniable, similar to the rules and strong armed strength of the Fakor Peace Hotel, and the Jurchen or Goryeo traders who come and go here are honest. The Sinuiju wharf in the north and the Taedong River wharf in the south are constantly filling up Jurchen and Goryeo souvenirs and imported goods, and although the scale is not comparable to that of Miju at all, the growth rate is really amazing. The advantages of water transportation made all those involved taste the sweetness, so Wanyan and Goryeo Sujong Myeonghyo King Wang Xi gave up the previous grudge in the battle of the Qingchuan River, signed a new alliance, agreed to take the Qingchuan River as the boundary, jointly open bilateral trade, the two countries are in alliance and become a brotherly country (previously, Wanyan has been founded, calling itself the Jin State, Wanyan Yingge claims to be the lord of the country, and has become a vassal satellite state of the Liao State by default, so diplomatically the Jurchens have the initiative power, and the Jin State is due to the victory over Goryeo, forced Goryeo to cede the land between the Yalu River and the Cheongcheon River, hence the elder brother).
Therefore, under the guidance of the Crossing Public, the Jin State was born in the world ahead of schedule, and at the same time, Goryeo was also forced to become a semi-colony that opened the door to the country, and the land disputes and grievances in the northern part of the peninsula were basically resolved, and the Jin Kingdom became a chess piece and an important force in Northeast Asia that was indirectly controlled by the Crossing People.
Although Goryeo lost a large part of its territory, its borders were greatly shortened, and at the same time, it joined the East Asian trade circle, which was dominated by the public, and the upper elite received a large number of high-end imports and practical benefits. The people at the bottom also got a lot of new jobs as a result of becoming part of the industrial structure of the semi-colonial economy. In addition to the large number of agricultural and sideline products, timber and minerals from the peninsula, there is also a large number of laborers to undertake orders for labor-intensive industries such as the cultivation and processing of cash crops.
The Kingdom of Jin has also become a victorious country with huge benefits. The victory in Goryeo not only established the prestige of Northeast Asia and prevented the Liao State from attacking and plundering, but also became a sovereign country qualified to sit on an equal footing with many old powers. The Jurchens under the leadership of the Wanyan Ministry have risen from being fish and meat that do not have the dominance of fate to becoming a regional power. This qualitative change also shows that the strength of the traversal people and the foundation of the Jin Kingdom are too shallow. In order to appease the anger of the new emperor at the loss of a large part of the eastern territory, the traversers took the initiative to increase the annual gifts in the Liao trade, increasing the annual coins to silver (4 million yuan of Chenji money) and 3 million copper coins. This means of economic colonization and capital import with the help of the hands of the Great Song Empire made the upper echelons of the Liao State very satisfied. The Liao magnates, who had been kept in the dark, were puzzled by the unexpected income (the increase in the annual coins of the Great Song Empire) to compensate for the decline in income caused by the independence of the Jin State, but they did not object. After resolving the crisis of Liao's attack on Jin, he increased his control and investment in the peninsula, opened a large number of joint ventures and mines, and constantly supported agents and compradors.
When the news of the signing of the contract between Kim and Goryeo reached Lee Ki, the colonial strategy formulated by the Crossing Crowd was basically half realized. Japan, Jin, Goryeo, and Liao, these four countries slipped into the abyss of colonies step by step without realizing it. The method of boiling frogs in warm water is more efficient than opening the country by direct force and signing colonial terms. The biggest beneficiary was obviously not the Jurchens, but the traversal people who had successfully infiltrated the peninsula and the Liaodong region.