Chapter 134: The Japanese Merchants Who Plundered Goryeo (Part I)
"The handicrafts ordered by the Koreans are not of high value, but they have great symbolic significance, which means that our Heike family opened the door to Goryeo and sold all kinds of goods from the western country overseas. The seagoing ships made by our Heike can also sail to the open sea without sinking like the ships of the upper country, which will greatly stimulate the development of coastal ports and promote the prosperity of industry and agriculture in the western country. It will add enough financial resources to the great cause of our Hei family to create an unprecedented achievement. ”
"お父さん (Father),The silver mines in my territory are entering a bumper season,The output is growing steadily month by month,Thanks to the guidance of the master craftsman sent by the angel of the kingdom, there were not too many casualties,A very perfect tunnel system has been established,The minerals of several brothers' territories have also been gradually developed。 We have accumulated a total of 200,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold, should we take them all with us on this trip to Goryeo? Was it too little to procure goods and pay tribute to the Song emperor and magnates? Ping Zhongsheng (the son of Ping Zhengsheng, who crossed the key training objects of the public, was once a registered disciple who was personally taught by Li Ji the development strategy of the Western Kingdom, and after Yuan Fu, he got the position of Fengzen Guoshou of the Western Kingdom, vigorously developed the local handicraft industry, and became a senior director of the Heijia financial management business) asked tentatively.
"This time, we also brought enough handicrafts such as copper ingots and lacquerware, and went to Goryeo just to exchange for some food and textiles, and to Mizhou in the Song Kingdom was the main purpose, as long as the goods of the full fleet could be exchanged for ten places in Chenji Academy, it would be enough, and if we could get the appreciation of the people of Shangguo, it would be enough to get a few more places, even if it was enough to die. Zhao Shouzhong Zhao once said before leaving the adult, as long as we go, no matter how much the goods are worth, we will never suffer losses, doing business is secondary, and making it extremely happy is the goal. Ping Zhengsheng said to his henchmen.
"I see, Father, Lord Li specially mentioned the matter of Goryeo before leaving, should we follow their wishes and go to Goryeo to collect some information, and by the way, find some 'Silla maids' as gifts to give to Lord Jishangguo?" Ping Zhongzheng (Taira Masahiro's own brother) suggested.
"Very good, it's good that you can think of this, I think you can go to Shandong Province to serve as the liaison officer for Ezo Island, this is a good opportunity to exercise." The liaison officer is a new position within the family, which is the person in charge of the family and the various personnel and industries that cross the fiefdoms, this kind of position is specially held by the cronies and capable generals of the head of the family, and the oil and water are abundant and can learn a lot from the person in charge who travels through the various places, and after the expiration of the term, he must go to the Qianhui Yuan to serve as a book writer for a year, and write down what he has learned in the book for the teaching reference of the Qianhui Yuan into the teaching materials, which can be described as the beauty of fame and fortune.
"ありがとうございます父大人 (Thank you, father), I will do my best to do this job." Ping Zhongzheng has become an adult, in order to realize his small wish and help his father share his worries, he has been working hard to learn the knowledge of management and management in Qianhui Academy, and he admires the great theory and practice of Guan Zhong very much, and always hopes that his father can give him a chance to manage the industry. This time, he got the opportunity to develop industries in the distant eastern region and strengthen the relationship with the merchants of the upper country, which was more in line with his heart. You must know that the remote Michinoku region is extremely poor and backward, and the land is sparsely populated, but in the hands of the subordinates sent by the participants, a fishing port of 5,000 people was built in just one year, and the prosperity made the Mutsu Kunimoro who had carved out the land regret and jealousy. If you make a name for yourself in the eastern country, where the Heike clan is beyond the reach of the whip, you will be able to prove your ability and hard work.
After Li Ji and others opened the door of their country, a large number of displaced people and tenant farmers living in poverty continued to migrate to various ports that passed through the subordinate colonization and industrial development because of the heavy pressure of the proportion of the distributed output of the 6 Gong and 4 people, and this migration was endorsed and agreed by the Emperor Baihe, oh, the Emperor Bai He and many powerful people. In addition, because of the rise of many towns, handicrafts and commerce provided a large amount of wealth and consumer goods, and a large number of local specialties were constantly supplied, which made the Heian Dynasty, which originally advocated luxury, even more luxurious, and Heiankyo had a tendency to transform into a consumption-oriented city like Bianjing, which was purely financially supported.
Originally, because of the lack of goods, the city guards of various ports could not be self-sufficient in food, and the average annual income was less than 100 chen base money (1 catty of silver) all year round. However, with the arrival of the subordinates, there was a boom in the establishment of workshops in various cities, especially the ports with lower infrastructure costs (because they did not need to spend a lot of money to build infrastructure such as inland roads and post stations), and the development became more rapid. The city ruling families of each port quickly raised their living standards to the level of the big city tycoons in the inland land of fish and rice, and then surpassed these inland tycoons within three years, and many of the wealthy clans and ministers in the region began to marry the wealthy lords of the many port areas along the coast for the sake of wealth. In the construction and expansion of power, the Hei family quickly rose from low-level officials such as samurai in the north to high-ranking officials of the three national guards and masa, and became the best object for many ministers and wealthy families to marry. Ping Zhengsheng did not have many sons, but many wealthy princes who hoped that he had many children hoped that his two teenage sons would not object to their daughters becoming the concubines of his two fathers, as long as Ping Zhengsheng was related to each other, and the Ping family would casually leak a little from the income and expenditure, it would be enough for them to make a fortune. The Heike slowly transitioned from a samurai loyal to the royal family to a warlord chaebol and the most important agent in East Asia in the construction of the World Market (just as the process of becoming a royal cow after the Thirteen Lines of Guangdong, which monopolized the import and export trade, became a royal cow after relying on the privileges granted by the Manchu imperial family, or similar to the process of the British setting up Jardine Matheson in China, the domestic market of the Hei family was obviously not comparable to that of China, and naturally in order to achieve accelerated development, it became inevitable to send the Heike to Goryeo).
Crossing the public is limited by the lack of human resources, a large number of students in the Great Song Empire industry can not be satisfied, not to mention the four northern countries, Goryeo is the last on the list, from the value of the crossing, the resource-rich Jin country (occupies the vast majority of the three northeastern provinces, including the entire Liao country, Tokyo Province area and the original northern mountainous area of Goryeo, Basically with 39.5 degrees north latitude as the national boundary, it basically occupied most of the mineral producing areas of the later Korean Peninsula), the Liao State with strong national strength (including the entire Mongolian Plateau and the Nanjing Province with a high population density Xijing Province, with a high level of feudalism and a relatively large market), and the internal contradictions and easy to control the Zoben (the Fujiwara clan, the royal family, the representatives of the samurai family, the Taira clan, Buddhism, and the relatively backward level of centralization made it easier for all forces to check and balance control) are all more meaningful than Goryeo.
Although Goryeo had a very early contact with Chinese civilization and a high level of feudalism, the Korean Peninsula has been in turmoil and chaos since the Silla period, when the Tang Dynasty sent the most foreign students, and after Wang Jian established Wang's Goryeo, the wars between the Balhae Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom were basically not interrupted for a long time. The wars between the ethnic minority regimes in Goryeo and the northeastern region were won and lost by each other, and the borders of the country were repeatedly changed. Due to the scarcity of plains, mostly located in the finite coastal fjords and southern regions, Goryeo's grain yields were sometimes lower than those of the more backward provinces. The barren and scattered arable land could hardly support more than 3 million people, and the total population of the book had reached 6 million through a re-examination and census after the crossing was stationed, and according to various collected statistics, the land had shrunk further after the war with the Jin State, and the population was only 2.7 million. Its consumption and production capacity is at most equivalent to that of a county town with a population of 100,000 in the 21st century. Goryeo, which had a very low strategic value, simply did not have the time to be paid attention to by the time-travelers, so after Lee Gi's hint, the Heike became the first batch of foreign investors to officially enter Goryeo on a large scale (given the total population of 150,000 and the poor savings capital of the Kim Kingdom, it was simply not able to undertake the task of capital export).
In order to further improve his influence and status in the hearts of the traversers, the Heike family can be described as a hollow expansion force, precisely because this kind of hard work expansion is unlikely to pose a threat to Li Ji and others, but is conducive to balancing the economic development pattern of Northeast Asia and conducive to the promotion plan of the traverser, so Li Ji is very partial to the Heike family. Supporting the Heike as the first non-Chinese-funded force to enter Goryeo was also one of the plans that was very much in line with the interests of the Crossing Public.
Ping Zhongsheng, as the leader of the merchant group that entered Goryeo this time, is also the result of Ping Zhengsheng's consideration of training his eldest son, anyway, with the assistance of the elders and many elders, he will not do bad errands if he wants to come to Zhongsheng.
The fleet that went to Goryeo this time was all domestic products produced in the country, from the crew to everything on the ship. (Except for the skills and knowledge of the crew and the design drawings of the ship, which were imported goods, everything in the hardware was produced in-house under the full demands of Ping Zhengsheng.) is to prove his ability to show Li Ji and others. )