"Da, da, da......"

The crisp sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the field path, because it had just rained, and the distant mountains were foggy, like a fairyland. A team of horses walked on this field path. A total of ten people and ten passengers, riding in this field are all a dusty appearance, looking like a color of Qing merchants dressed up, but several of them seem to have "guys" pinned to their waists. Under their crotch were chestnut horses, which were far less tall than those of the oceans, but they were able to gallop on the field paths.

Led by a young man in his twenties, the mountain breeze gently brushed the hem of his clothes, but as far as his eye could see, there was a paddy field at the foot of the mountain, in which North Korean farmers could be seen busy in the scorching sun, and occasionally he would cast his eyes on the dilapidated villages on the roadside.

"Sir, I really don't know the barren ...... of North Korea."

Although he is well aware of the poverty of the people in the country, Han Che is still surprised by the poverty of the North Korean people, although Mr. Sui has been in charge of North Korea for several months, this is the first time he has gone deep into the hinterland of North Korea.

"The cities along the way are extremely desolate, the people's suffering can be known, and the people's feelings are too lazy, and they only seek to feed the land, not to save money. In case of trouble, he is especially muddy and ancient, and he does not dare to be flexible, and his reading is almost a waste. ”

Sighing at the poverty of the Korean people, Li Han looked towards the mountains in the distance, and on the way to Hwayangdong Academy, he observed that the agricultural level of North Korea was very backward at this time, and the river embankments in the prefectures and counties along the way were generally in disrepair, and floods would inevitably break out when the rain continued. As people cut down trees for fuel, almost all the hills along the route have become bare, floods and droughts are frequent, and most of the fields have no irrigation projects. Farmers are helpless in the face of drought. In the face of heavy rain. They can only let the rain soak up the fields.

"North Korea is so barren, but the officials of the two classes are still doing their best to plunder and exploit it, and for a long time, adults ......"

Li Han pointed to the Korean people in the field and said in a solemn tone.

"It is necessary to provoke a popular uprising, my lord, in the opinion of students, if you want to stabilize North Korea. We have to implement a new policy, otherwise we will ......"

The construction of the two made Tang Haoran just nod slightly, the current Korean Peninsula can almost be described as abject poverty, if you want to use North Korea as a base for the restoration of China, and do not implement the new policy to implement internal reforms, North Korea's affairs will be difficult, but ...... Thinking of the Dongxue Party uprising that broke out four years later in the First Sino-Japanese War, Tang Haoran's mind sank.

"The situation in North Korea cannot be changed in a few words. If the New Deal is to be implemented, it is necessary to carry out internal reforms. However, how can this stratum of vested interests in the DPRK allow us to carry out any form of internal affairs reform in the DPRK, and if we take the liberty of carrying out the reform in an all-round way in the DPRK, it is bound to turn the opposition of the two classes of the DPRK and the government bureaucracy, and then the overall situation of the DPRK will collapse......

It is precisely this contradiction that makes Tang Haoran have no intention of interfering too much in the internal affairs of the DPRK except to ensure that the DPRK is "pro-China"; on the one hand, if the reform is not carried out, there will inevitably be civil unrest in the DPRK, and on the other hand, if the new policy is implemented, it will also trigger a backlash from the DPRK government, and it is impossible for the unified prison office, which has only a few thousand policemen, to suppress its dissatisfaction.

At present, Tang Haoran can only pin his hopes on the development of the SAR and expand his own strength as much as possible, and only his strength can ensure that when the "Donghak Party uprising" occurs four years later, he will be able to quickly suppress the uprising, and take the opportunity of the uprising to completely control the state affairs of the DPRK and carry out comprehensive internal and external reforms.

"So the time is not yet ripe, at least before we have the strength to change the pressure of the bullet, we need to wait!"

And so on, although there is some helplessness, but this is the only option.

Mr.'s words made Han Che nod in agreement, and towards the Korean people in the field, Han Che said again.

"My lord, given the abject poverty of North Korea, the police and schools now need local assistance to maintain, and the North Korean local government office is taking advantage of this to increase the number of "government points", which will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of the Korean people in the long run. Moreover, the monthly distribution of the Fuzhong Mansion is not worth thousands of taels of silver, so there is no suspicion of losing a big one because of a small one......"

Tang Haoran frowned slightly when he heard this, and his face was cloudy and sunny, indeed just as he said, if the North Korean government oppressed the people and pushed it to the Unified Supervision Mansion, what kind of transcendent status would the Unified Supervision Mansion talk about in the future?

The reason why he is unwilling to squeeze the Korean people too much, in addition to the fact that the people are indeed extremely poor, more importantly, Tang Haoran hopes that in the uprising four years later, the unified supervision office can take a detached position to quell the uprising, and then take advantage of the civil unrest to carry out reforms, and the people are the objects that the government must strive for, but on the other hand, with the increase in the number of personnel in the special zone, the grain can still be solved, North Korean rice is cheap, but not as cheap as Vietnamese rice and Siamese rice, and after the population increases in the future, it can also import cheaper Vietnamese rice and Siamese rice. Moreover, it can also promote the development of the shipping industry by the way, which is the inevitable development.

But on the other hand, how is meat guaranteed? According to the standard set by the Ministry of Police, the "police" need to ensure 2 taels of meat every day, and the school, thinking of those thin children in the "Zhonghua School", if the "government share" is canceled, how to ensure the supply of meat, buy it with silver? You can afford it now, but if you wait until the police and police force grow to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, and the number of students grows to tens of thousands...... At that time, how can North Korea afford to raise these people?

Thinking of the current situation of abject poverty in North Korea, Tang Haoran's hatred for the old lady in his heart has increased a little, if it is in Taiwan, Taiwan is called "the cow of the empire" by Japan, and North Korea, on the other hand...... It's simply the embellishment of the empire.

"Rice is easy to solve, but it's a big deal to import it from the South Seas, but it's just a non-staple food such as meat......

The adult's self-talk was heard in Li Han's ears, but it made his eyes light up, and he hurriedly rode to the adult's side and said softly.

"My lord, actually, this meat is easy to solve!"

"Huh? Yilin, do you have a way? ”

Tang Haoran looked at Li Han in surprise and asked.

"Tell me about it!"

"My lord, Inchon is close to the sea, why don't you think of something from the sea?"

Li Han, who was born by the sea, naturally thinks of the sea, after all, there has been a saying for thousands of years that the mountains eat the mountains and the sea eats the sea.

"You mean fishing?"

Catch fish!

Li Han's words made Tang Haoran's eyes light up, isn't it, fishing, getting meat from the sea, it's like ...... Just when Tang Haoran was thinking about it, he heard Li Han continue.

"My lord, this fishing is different from fishing, and the students are thinking, since the adults want to train the new navy, but now they are stuck in funding and other problems, and they can't do it, then why can't they build a fleet to raise the army by fishing?"

Raising an army by fishing?

What does he mean to raise a group of fishermen?

"Go on!"

"My lord, the fishing that the students are talking about is not the fishermen who operate small wooden boats in Shandong, Incheon and other places, but the crew of the ocean-going boats, and this fishing is not catching small fish, but whales!"

"You mean whaling!"

Looking at Li Han in surprise, Tang Haoran didn't expect him to propose such a proposal.

"It was whaling, before kerosene, whale oil was used in Europe and the United States, and it was also used as a mechanical lubricant, but twenty years ago, the whaling industry in the United States and other countries quickly began to decline, and the discovery of oil wells provided a new cheap fuel, and the new kerosene was cheaper, and the kerosene lamps were brighter."

The reason why whaling is mentioned is because Li Han was influenced by his instructors when he was in the sailor school, and he learned some knowledge of European and American whaling, and in his opinion, there is no better way to train sailors than whaling, and more importantly, Li Han hopes to be able to gallop across the ocean instead of being trapped on land all day long.

"Before the decline of the whaling industry in various countries due to the exploitation of oil such as kerosene, whaling ships in the United States and other countries sailed in the deep seas such as the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean for many years, and each voyage was less than one year, and more than two or three years, compared with the fixed routes of ordinary merchant ships, whaling ships often sailed in unfamiliar sea areas, such as the navy, and its sailors sailed at sea for many years, and its discipline was close to that of the navy, which was not comparable with ordinary crews. However, if a whale is light, thousands of catties and tens of thousands of catties, if its meat is taken, it can not only be supplied to the military and police schools for food, but also can be used to train the navy, will it not be used for fishing and raising the army? ”

Although he had studied the "Theory of Sea Power", it did not mean that Han Che understood the sea, and when he heard Li Han talk about whaling, he asked in a low voice without doubt:

"Yilin, this oil refining is okay, but if you take whale meat, how can it be stored on the ship? Could it be that only ships go to sea in winter? If it's the height of summer, how can the fish and meat on this ship be preserved, you can't use all the salted meat! ”

"We can first fish in the coastal waters around Tsushima, and then go to the deep sea in the winter!"

Slaughtering on the spot, selling and eating fresh meat on the same day, this is the form of meat consumption for thousands of years, and long-term preservation is limited to cured meat, how could Tang Haoran not know this, when Li Han explained to Han Che, Tang Haoran thought of the fishing boat in later generations - ice!

In this era, the scale of industrial ice production may be far from comparable to that of later generations, but after all, it has been developed for more than ten years, and if a modern ice factory is established, and then the whaling ship is modified, there is no need to worry about the problem of meat preservation.

"No, you can go whaling in the summer, ice! You can build a thermal insulation room on the ship to store ice, there is ice to keep it low, whale meat can naturally stay fresh, even if the ice is melted, there are also a large number of ice in the northern hemisphere and the South Pole where whales are infested, and there is no need to worry about keeping it fresh with ice. ”

After saying that, Tang Haoran glanced at Li Han, looked at the young man with a dark face, and asked with a smile.

"What, Yilin, enough on land?"

Although he only mentioned a Jianyi, how could Tang Haoran not be able to perceive the meaning of his words.

"Don't you want to build a modern navy?"

Li Han's rhetorical question made Tang Haoran laugh, and when the laughter fell, he whipped the horse with his horsewhip, and said loudly when the horse was speeding up.

"Okay, let's go back to Incheon now, Illim, since you want to go to the sea, then let's go back to Incheon and do this."

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