Chapter 136: Dead Frog in Warm Water
Before the Heike trade affairs were settled, an official diplomatic document had been signed, and the contract with the seals of the two countries and the king's seals was placed in front of Hei's eyes. In order to avoid a two-front war, the Goryeo Kingdom was eager to sign this kind of 'equal treaty' with Japan to carry out trade, and the imperial court, which was forced under the pressure of the Jin State, had no choice but to send high-ranking officials to negotiate and sign the agreement with the greatest enthusiasm and efficiency.
After the two sides signed this treaty, which was praised by future generations, the permanent decline of Samhan in history became inevitable, and Goryeo, which had little strength to compete with Japan, was permanently reduced to a raw material source and dumping market that could only provide agricultural and sideline products in the tide of goods of the Heike family.
The treaty, which was decreed by the Crossing Nation, was literally full of equality and reciprocity, but since Goryeo did not have the ability to cross the Straits for cross-border trade, the terms were like the colonization clause of land reparations.
Similarly, this clause is also the next major landmark treaty in the tributary diplomacy system centered on China, and the two sides are hierarchical as vassal states of China, but the terms between them are not bound by feudal obligations and rights, and the goal of crossing the modern principle of equal diplomacy has been initially achieved.
The Heike were very happy after the signing of the treaty, and a grand ceremony was held inside, far exceeding the ceremony in which Masamori was made a minister by Emperor Shirakawa. Not only did everyone who participated in this signing event receive praise and in-kind rewards from Zhengsheng, but even the partners and workshops that will be related to Hidaka Trade in the future have received great gifts.
Orders and deposits were sent to the workshop owners, and they naturally had to return the gift when they received the big gifts, and for a while, the gift-giving procession in front of the Heike gate increased by a few streets. (In the past, it was crowded with people, but after expanding the business district and opening up the Korean market, it became more congested)
Similarly, the Goryeo court celebrated that Japan would not invade as brazenly as it did in the pre-Tang dynasty for at least a few decades, thus avoiding the risk of going to war with the tiger and wolf kingdom of Jin, and at the same time going to war with Japan.
After getting the terms of this article, which added a lot of private goods, the Heike held an internal meeting to convey Li Ji's arrangements for the later action. Although my Ping family is the largest retainer of the Li family, their own private property has also grown more and more with the prosperity of the main family's industry, and this time they have won the economic monopoly of Goryeo (all-round control of Goryeo's lifeline, not only monopolizing almost 90% of Goryeo's export commodity logistics, sales channels and import commodity quotas, but also obtaining a large number of worthless coastal wasteland saline-alkali land and low-yield fields through the signing of a series of subsidiary treaties).
It was only a matter of time before the whole of Goryeo was divided up by the Pyongjia and the Kim Kingdom, which controlled 80% of Goryeo's import and export channels and most of the manufacturing industry, and the Kim Kingdom monopolized most of Goryeo's raw material industry through the plundering and control of the northern forests, minerals, and agricultural and sideline products, that is, the upstream industries of the Pyongjia industry in Goryeo. All that remained of Goryeo was to retain diplomacy and worthless military sovereignty, and the poor weak country had no diplomatic law once again fulfilled in the tragic nation of the peninsula.
The strategy for Goryeo was only a small part of the strategy of crossing Northeast Asia, and a small Goryeo would certainly not be able to satisfy the appetites of the growing ruling families and emerging classes such as the Heike family and the Kim Kuni Wanyan family. Therefore, it is also appropriate to use the development of labor-intensive industries in Korea as a means to balance the power of Japan, South Korea, and Kim and attract the attention of the three parties.
After receiving the instructions, the subordinates who had been operating in Goryeo immediately unsealed the machinery that had been transported to the ports of Goryeo for a long time and began to build new textile factories and tanneries and furniture factories.
These industries were not only one of the steps to fool the Goryeo landlord class, but also one of the necessary means to drain the capital of the Goryeo nation through capital operation in the future. When these Korean traitors, who called national capitalists and were actually local agents and compradors, lost their usefulness and washed their hands, they would carry out a coup d'état, turning Wang's Goryeo into a standard semi-colonial and semi-feudal vassal state, thus putting an end to the situation in which the local government on the Korean Peninsula had been hovering between great national protection and arrogance for thousands of years.
This industrial and ideological penetration would be extremely powerful, far exceeding the efficiency of the British colonization of the Qing Empire by means of war, and the resistance from the upper and internal levels of the ruling class would be reduced through cooperation and the transfer of benefits.
When the nobles saw that the 3,000-mile rivers and mountains were full of foreign landlords and capitalists, Goryeo disappeared forever in the long river of history.
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