Chapter 135: The Japanese Merchants Who Plundered Goryeo (Part II)

Although Goryeo is a peninsular country, backwardness and isolation can always be used to describe the country established by this ethnic minority who "does great things to protect the country". The original intention of the Heike family to go to Goryeo was to buy and sell some goods and to find out information about the Samhan region. However, having received a secret letter from Lee Ki and receiving specific instructions, he was asked to establish a basic base in the ten larger cities of Goryeo, and the personnel and facilities basically only needed to be kept to a minimum level, and that they would be expanded as the technical and managerial personnel at all levels dispatched by Lee Ki were improved, and the work of this front station was handed over to the Heike as an opportunity to examine their influence on the situation and Goryeo.

Everything is difficult at first, and doing business is nothing for the Heike family, but it is difficult to establish a network with the functions of information collection, cargo logistics, and personnel exchange center in many Korean cities. Among the talents cultivated by Cheonhuiwon, there are very few who can speak fluent Goryeo, and many of them can speak Chinese. Therefore, the Heike were very embarrassed, and there were many Goryeo refugees and smugglers who settled in the western country, but it was basically impossible for them to enter the vision of the Heike family. Is it possible that there are people who cannot survive in their home countries who have the talent to take on such important positions? The vast majority of Koreans are illiterate and servant families who farm the land, and there are almost no more than 100 people with writing and arithmetic skills. There are only about 30 'talents' who can work directly under the Heike and indirectly through partners, which is simply not enough to meet the needs of the people who travel through the Goryeo Raiders in terms of quantity and quality.

Although Goryeo is not valued by the cross-border public, Goryeo, which is comparable to the western region, is still a treasure that the Heike family cherishes. As long as this land is digested, the Heike can become the most powerful force in the entire Northeast Asian region, and the population under direct rule (within the sphere of influence, not in the fiefdom) can directly exceed 5 million.

The poor native population of the Jin State has survived 200,000, and the Khitans have a whopping 2 million, and such a small population of the ruling race can only be regarded as a precarious regime in which the minority dominates the majority ethnic group. You must know that the total population of the Liao State before the appearance of the Jin State was more than 20 million people directly under the central government (the tribes on the Mongolian Plateau and many marginal tribes under the jurisdiction of the Tieli Wangdu, Dongdan Wangfu and Murowei Wangfu in the northeast are not counted, and only the rural population of the four cities of the Eastern, Southern, Western and Zhongjing Provinces and their suburbs are counted) Although the land directly under the jurisdiction of the Pingjia family only accounts for one-twentieth of the entire area of the Western Kingdom, the population fully occupies more than 1/5 of the Western Region. If we take a few ports in Goryeo, it is not a dream to reach a population of 1 million. A dominant power is conducive to stimulating the surrounding forces to try to enter a state of arms race, and to provide more political axes for the cross-cutting public, and to purchase high-end products of the arms and manufactured goods produced by the cross-cutting public (stationery, books, fertilizers and agricultural machinery necessary for competitiveness, etc., which are used to provide a source of bulk commodities to balance the trade deficit).

You and I would like to replace the vague feeling of the Heike family, and Taira Masamori, who originally just felt that he had to get the trade routes and trade routes to the west, saw a ray of light, and the possibility of becoming the existence of the emperor beyond the emperor. As long as they get everything in Goryeo, the land directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Hei family can not only justifiably surpass the emperor, but also surpass the population, resources, market, tax base, war potential, and so on in all aspects. He is the Emperor Taishang who is above the emperor, and the family is the strongest branch of the distant clan that surpasses all the royal families.

How can this kind of fame and fortune not be done as the top priority of the family? The adults in the family are busy collecting taxes and running industries in their respective fiefdoms, and they really can't find suitable cronies to preside over this important development task, otherwise it will definitely not be the turn of the eldest son Ping Zhongsheng to be the director. Although this was only a trial voyage and an attempt to open trade, it was an opportunity to show the family's power and the great expectations of the Hei family, and the crossing people were also very concerned about this voyage, which was an opportunity to prove their loyalty and ability.

The result was obvious, and the trial voyage with the participation of all the subordinates of the crossing would not fail, and it took two days from Hakata to the port of Busan. Ping Chungsheng happily stepped on this land, and excitedly announced to his fellow family elders and subordinates that Goryeo would become the bag of the Ping family in the near future.

Seeing the distant Yuben fleet entering the port, the officials of the city of Goryeo also came to Ping Zhongsheng, hoping to see the son of the largest prince of the Western Kingdom, according to the canonization of the Great Song Empire to the Emperor and his aristocratic system, Emperor Baihe enjoyed the treatment of the vassal king, Goryeo as a new vassal state that had just defected to the Great Song Empire, and the level of the king Suzong Wang Hao was only equivalent to the king of the county. The corresponding rank is the son of the left minister Taira Masamori, who is the second rank of the main position, and in fact, Taira Tadasheng, who also holds the positions of Shikoku Island, Higo Kunemun and Dazai Shaoji, is equivalent to the high-ranking official of the fourth rank of Goryeo Guozheng, and is like a senior official compared to the Yamen of the sixth rank of the Ichibo Division. Although according to China's feudal ethics and institutional framework, the exchanges between vassal states should be equivalent to those between the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty in China. Ping Zhongsheng went to Goryeo to pay a diplomatic visit to Goryeo, which is equivalent to the son of Xiangguo of Qi and a high-ranking official at the level of secretary, and the host country, as the landlord, should also send a secretary of the corresponding level to greet him, but the Kingdom of Goryeo is a level lower than this kingdom, so it is naturally not rude to send a high-ranking official of at least three grades to greet him. If Ben used this faux pas as an excuse to invade Goryeo, it would be difficult for Goryeo to ask for assistance from the Great Song Empire. The anxious officials of the Busan Prefecture and various yamen felt like a mountain in their hearts. Ping Zhongsheng's eloquent appearance temporarily gave a sigh of relief to many Goryeo officials present.

In the following days, under the power of Pyong's carrot and stick, Pyong's tentative cooperation agreement was signed, stipulating that a formal bilateral treaty would be signed in Busan within the next three months, and that the kings of the two sides would send official envoys to Pusan to discuss the signing of the treaty.

After returning to the court, he naturally did not dare to hide it after returning to the court, and honestly told the upper echelons of Goryeo that there had been a huge change, and the young Junjie Ping Zhongsheng came with the prestige of hundreds of big ships, and asked to sign a treaty, which made the Goryeo royal court, which had been defeated and signed a treaty of cession of land and the signing of a treaty of loss of power and humiliation of the country, very disgusted, but after understanding the content of the specific cooperation agreement, Goryeo also had to be moved.