Chapter 870: Samhan's New Change

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Li Yan thought about the warm farmhouse courtyard, with its red brazier, and felt that he was about to fall asleep.

Footsteps!

His heart pounded.

Li Yan opened his eyes and turned his head to listen, and those subtle sounds disappeared again, leaving only the sound of the wind blowing the fallen leaves on the ground in the courtyard outside. The moonlight was all over the ground, and the floor of the palace was glowing with cold raw blue. He felt a chill behind his back, remembering some bizarre legends in the palace. His body was numb, and he felt that someone was hurrying through the empty palace, but the footsteps were intermittent. There was another sound of breathing, as if it was right next to my ears. His heart was pounding, as if it was about to pop out of his mouth.

The footsteps were clear, just outside the walls of this palace. It wasn't one, it was a group of people, messy and hurried footsteps approaching extremely fast from a distance.

A series of palace lamps flickered in the darkness, and Li Yan saw a team of eunuchs walking in a hurry, and beside them was a team of ministers in robes.

What happened? Li Yan was shocked in his heart.

Li Yan looked along the route they were traveling, and saw that the place they were going led in the direction of the empress dowager's residence, "Daya Zhai", and suddenly understood.

There must be something big happening in the empire that will have the queen mother summon the ministers at night!

What could it be?

Li Yan's heart felt an inexplicable uneasiness, he jumped up and ran in the direction of his residence.

At this time, Li Yan would not have thought that the scene he saw just now would have a great relationship with his homeland.

North Korea, Seoul.

It's already November, and the weather in Seoul is starting to get colder. But when it's cold. Suddenly there was a feeling of warmth. That is the so-called "warm snow".

"Warm snow" is when the snow is about to fall.

In the middle of the night, Jin Yujun tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. He simply lit a candle and read the newspaper.

The newspaper that Kim Yujun read was Qianguo's "Dian Shi Jae Pictorial"; at present, the DPRK did not have its own newspaper, and there were very few foreign newspapers, and the "Dian Shi Jae Pictorial" was understood by the North Koreans because of its use of the Central Plains script and its exquisite pictures. As a result, once imported into North Korea, it became so popular that the newspaper simply opened a branch in Seoul and distributed pictorial magazines for North Koreans.

Most of what is now published in the "Dianshizhai Pictorial" is the commercial exchanges between Qianguo and the DPRK.

Since the opening of the DPRK with the assistance of the Qianguo, the trade volume between the DPRK and the Qianguo and Japan has increased rapidly. In addition to the cattle, horses, salt, and iron traded in the border cities of the Qian-dynasty, the most important thing was the ginseng trade in the Qian-country. The ginseng trade, also known as the eight-pack trade, costs 10 catties per pack, because the earliest Korean missions to the Qianguo -- the so-called "Yanxing" personnel -- carried eight packets per person. Later, the North Korean government stopped the export of ginseng because the North Korean border people crossed the border to collect ginseng and hurt local officials. The mission calculated 25 taels of silver per catty of ginseng, and could carry 2,000 taels of silver to Qianguo to buy goods. Later, in order to prevent excessive outflow of silver. It was converted into North Korean goods worth 2,000 taels of silver, such as furs, paper, dried seafood and other miscellaneous goods. High-ranking officials could carry one and a half eight bags (3,000 taels of silver) of goods. Due to the shortage of capital for low-level officials such as interpreters in the mission, private businessmen took advantage of the situation and either took loans to the interpreters, or directly provided the mission with ginseng and silver, and purchased goods from the Qianguo. They sold ginseng and other Korean products in exchange for Japanese silver, fabrics from the Qianguo, daily necessities, metal goods, books, medicinal herbs, dyes, as well as medicinal herbs, jewelry, Suzhou-Hangzhou silk and other luxury goods used by the Joseon royal family, and purchased a considerable amount. In order to pursue profits, some Korean tycoons even acted as grooms and slaves of the mission, and went to Qianguo with the mission.

Commodities brought from Korea to Qianguo included horses; fur of mink, otter, green mouse, leopard, etc.; dried seafood such as sea cucumber, abalone, shrimp, fish, kelp, etc.; gold, silver, copper, bean tin, pig iron, steel and other metals; white paper, strong paper, mulberry paper and other papers; ginseng, pepper, alum, dried ginger and other medicinal herbs; dyes such as danmu and locust flowers; Pears, apples, persimmons, chestnuts and other dried and fresh fruits. Cattle, sheep, mules, donkeys and other livestock were imported into Korea from Qianguo; scissors, tweezers, needles, bed stoves, kettles, suitcases, saddles, umbrellas, wooden chopsticks, abacus, combs, buttons, cigarette pouches, glasses, porcelain, wool paper, bucket paper, flint, fire sickle, pens, inkstones, inkstones, copper kettles, tin kettles, compasses and other daily groceries; various metal products such as shovels, plows, ploughshares, saws and other tools; gold, silver, copper money and other currencies; cotton, cotton yarn, raw silk and other textile raw materials; all kinds of cotton cloth; various brocade silk silks; All kinds of men's and women's ready-to-wear clothes, hats, shoes and socks; various dyes; all kinds of food; various medicinal herbs; various books; Even imported jewelry, jade, lacquerware, ivory carving, furniture and antiques, hairpin ring jewelry, chiming bells, chiming pianos and other Western plays, cats, dogs, parrots and other rare birds and animals. In addition, there are astronomy, calendar, geography, and history books of the Qianguo, as well as military supplies such as horn, gunpowder, saltpeter, and sulfur, grains such as rice, beans, and wheat, as well as raw silk, copper, and iron.

In addition to the trade between the Qian-Koreans, Korean merchants also acted as entrepots in Sino-Japanese trade, using the silver obtained from the Japanese trade to buy silk and other goods from the Qianguo, and then exporting the silk of the Qianguo to Japan in exchange for silver. North Korea's "trade white silk in the dry country, all into the Japanese pavilion, then get a lot of profits." 100 catties of white silk, trade with 60 gold, and to the city of the museum, the price is 160 gold, this big profit. Therefore, although the white silk is tired of 10,000 catties, it can be sold." The merchants of Kaesong (Songshang) competed fiercely with their counterparts in Seoul and Uiju (Gyeongssho and Wanshang) in the wholesale and export trade of ginseng, and engaged in tripartite international trade between Japan and Qianguo. They bought large quantities of paper (Goryeo paper) from producers in Korean temples, dried goods such as kelp and sea cucumbers from the eastern coast, furs of wild animals such as otters, leopards, and tigers from hunters in the central and northern mountains, white silk and tin from Qianguo, and red copper and iron tools from Japan. In addition, North Korea's entrepot trade to the South Seas through the Ryukyus also developed, importing medicines, spices, and luxury goods such as pearls, hawksbill turtles, and corals from the South Seas.

North Korea's commercial activities have created a greater demand for silver and copper, which has boosted the mining industry. After the Imwu Rebellion, the mines, which were under the strict control of the North Korean government, were handed over to private operators. At present, there are 98 silver mines in the whole of North Korea, but the copper mining is not very developed. Because North Korea mainly relies on Japan for copper supply. However, after the Renwu Rebellion. Due to the cessation of copper exports by the Meiji government of Japan. Trade with the Qianguo also required a large supply of copper from North Korea, so North Korea's copper mines also developed. At Yuan's suggestion, the North Korean government encouraged the circulation of money by increasing the minting of coins, so prices continued to rise, and the lives of the citizens of Seoul would be threatened if they were not involved in commerce in one way or another. The conservative North Korean people were originally dissatisfied with being forced to engage in business, but with the continuous development of business activities, the perception of business in North Korea has turned positive. Many of the two squads and civilians also rose up to engage in various commercial activities despite their status. As a result, Seoul has made great strides as an industrial and commercial city, trade is now better than in previous years, and the "Emperor of Korea" Yuan Weiting has become more famous.

But Jin Yujun has always had no good impression of Yuan Weiting.

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