148. North Korea

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At the end of April of the 38th year of Yongli, a Dongning merchant ship under the banner of the Ming Dynasty suddenly appeared off the coast of Jemulpo (note: Incheon) and sent people to land on the shore in a small boat, which immediately shocked the North Korean side. Since the Korean side has been declaring in the domestic Shilin that the former king Xiaozong Zhongxuan has always had the ambition to oppose the Qing Dynasty and help the Ming, and the news of Dongning's defeat of Shi Lang's army has already arrived, the weak Korean people do not dare to express hostility to these uninvited Dongning people.biquge.info Similarly, in view of the strong military pressure of the Qing court in the north, the North Korean side did not dare to openly contact the Ming and Zheng sides, who were thousands of miles away. Coupled with the fierce internal party strife in North Korea, any rash move would become the target of attack by the enemy side, and the Korean parliamentary government, which had been weighing it repeatedly, had no choice but to send a group of people to pretend to be a Jingshang (note: a merchant from Seoul) to spy on the reality of the visitor.

"Master Pan, I don't know the purpose of my lord's trip?" This Si Lu named Quan Shunen came to the boat, and when he saw Pan Baicai, who was dressed as a civil official of the Six Grades, he was three points shorter before he could speak, so that he begged the other party at the beginning. "The country is small and the people are weak, and it is very difficult to be sandwiched between the kingdom and the Qing country, and I ask the country to understand the difficulties of the other country and leave as soon as possible."

"I learned that your country still has the ambition to serve you, so I came from thousands of miles to contact, but I didn't expect you to have such an attitude." Pan Baicai suddenly unveiled the true face of North Korea's so-called anti-Qing restoration of sight. "It's not that the Songshang (note: ginseng exporters) and the bay merchants (note: Yizhou merchants, mainly engaged in the trade with the Qing Dynasty) are making a hindrance."

"What did Lord Shangguo say, a small country is governed by two classes, and ordinary people cannot influence the national policy of a small country."

"Since your country's Shilin is so short-sighted, the envoy has nothing to say." Quan Shunen just breathed a sigh of relief, and listened to Pan Baicai's request. "Please return the Han people who have been exiled in your country to this dynasty."

"This?" Kwon Soon-eun's face changed greatly, the number of Ming people in exile in North Korea is not much, but there are also few to say that there are thousands of households, so how can he be a mere Xiban Counselor Guan Zheng Bapintong Shilang can reply. "The matter is big, and the lower officials still have to ask the adults of the country"

"Then you can go yourself, and this official will wait for your country's reply at sea." Pan Baicai said in a decisive manner, and suddenly blocked the other party's possible excuses, and Quan Shunen, who looked helpless, had to say goodbye, and then Pan Baicai threw away a sentence that almost made him fall into the cross. "The sea route is far away, and the consumption on the road is quite large, and I also ask your country to replenish some water and food for the official, and the official can bring some goods, which may be used as compensation."

"What did he bring?" Hearing Kwon Soon-eun's report, several young magnates asked with great interest, in their opinion, perhaps what Pan Baicai said about asking for the Ming people was just an excuse, and wanting to stay in Korea and have direct trade with North Korea was the real purpose of the Ming Zheng pirate group.

"There are self-striking bells and globes produced in Taixi, snow sugar, rock sugar, lacquerware, paper, pen and ink, scriptures produced in Dongning, Western pewterware, sumac, rhino horn, ivory, tortoiseshell, sandalwood, pepper, cardamom, and other things such as bird guns and franc cannons and shark skin armor, and by the way, dragon incense, whale oil candles, and kun fish bone ware."

"What do they want?" There are not many types of goods, but they are not few, among which luxury goods account for the main part, which is the appetite of the magnates, of course, they do not come forward to buy and sell, and the merchants under their own doors appear as white gloves.

"Horses, gold, silver, copper, iron, cotton, all kinds of furs, ginseng, alum, dried ginger."

"Sure enough, I'm here for business." Several older people breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the sudden arrival of the Japanese invaders a few years ago had already involved too much energy on the North Korean side, and they were still arguing with the Japanese side, and they didn't want Ming Zheng to come out like this. "But it's also good, the Wakan in Caoliang (note: Busan) has been closed for more than half a year, and the business in Tsushimakou has also been interrupted, and the merchants have been complaining, if the trade with Ming Zheng can be restored, it will also be a way out."

"Go down." A judge (note: equivalent to the squire of each department) said lightly to Quan Shunen, the following content is not something that this little official can hear, and when Quan Shunen, who was prostrate on the ground, retreated as if he had been amnestied, so the judge surnamed Cao said lightly. "It's good news to do business, but you can't just market it in Jewupo."

"Master Cho is right, "Daesixian (note: equivalent to the imperial envoy of Zuodu) Kim Man-joong is the uncle of the first queen of the current dynasty, and he is also a well-known cyan novelist in Joseon, and his "Dream of Nine Clouds" in the future occupies a very important position in the history of Korean literature, but now he is still a bureaucrat who wants to assist the holy monarch. "It's better not to let Daqing grab the handle." Jin Wan rebuilt yƬ road. "Why don't you set up a Myeongjin Pavilion in Jeju and specialize in trade with Myeong-Jeong?"

Zhao Zhiqian, the deputy of the same administration, is one of the Shaolun faction, and he never gives a good face to relatives like Jin Wanzhong, but today he wants to agree with Jin Wanzhong's construction: "Ming Zheng's old foundation is also a pirate, and I haven't heard of his explanation of the famous religion over the years, so naturally we must be careful of its possible backlash, so it is very good to put it in Jeju, which is a little more remote, but the imperial court also needs to send additional soldiers and warships to Jeju and build a city to guard against possible accidents." ā€

"After all, the other side still has descendants of the Ming family, and I am afraid that it will be bad for the face of the court to pass it out."

Looking at the worried Licao Judgment (note: equivalent to Shangshu), and Zhao Zhiqian's party of the Imperial Court (note: equivalent to the Tang and Song dynasties) Zhengyan Han Taidong smiled coldly: "Lord Cui probably hasn't read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Dongning is now Cao Cao, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and dealing with this kind of dealing, the officials are cold." ā€

"Regardless of whether Dongning is holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes, but he has the edict of the Ming Prison State in his hand, and it is justifiable for them to return to the Ming people," Song Shilie, who spoke Zuo Yizheng, was the most famous scholar of sexual theory (Cheng Zhu Lixue) in North Korea in this era, and the thinker who advocated opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty was known as one of the eighteen sages of the Eastern Kingdom, in addition to being the leader of the Westerner Party and the first party leader of the Lao Non Party, and later generations of Koreans called him Song Zi (??). Or Song Fuzi (), I saw him squint his eyes and said softly. "If this matter is not handled well, it will become an excuse for the Ming Zheng and Qing courts to send troops to North Korea in the future."

"Ming Zheng sent troops? Is the old man kidding? "Zuo Yuan (note: equivalent to the deputy prime minister) Nan Jiuwan is full of jealousy and hatred for this prime minister of the mountains and forests who has recovered from the wilderness, and thinks that he is in the way of himself, so he seizes the opportunity to secretly damage the other party." Ming Zhengyuan is thousands of miles away, they have the strength to deal with North Korea? ā€

"Where did the pirates who plundered between Korea and Japan come from?" Song Shilie still responded softly, but his words were like a bombshell. "Who can cross the seas? In addition to Taixi's Hongyi, only Qing Guo and Ming Zheng have this power. Song Shilie paused. If the Qing State wants to conquer North Korea, naturally there is no need to do this, only Ming Zheng is the most suspicious. ā€

"The old man is really old, and he is talking nonsense." Li Ruiyu, a cadre of the Nanren Party, was different from the relatively serious Nan Jiuwan, he went into battle shirtless. "Ming Zheng was under threat from the Qing army at that time, and it was not enough for them to gather all their forces, so how could they cross the sea to expedition to Japan and Korea, this was absolutely impossible."

"There are too many impossible things in the world, but it is actually possible." Song Shilie said a very tongue-twisting sentence. "It may have been impossible for Ming Zheng at the beginning, but think about it, when did the Japanese disappear? Wasn't it on the eve of Ming Zheng's invasion by the Qing army? is still under the banner of the remnants of the Toyotomi clan, who is this deceiving? ā€

"Maybe it's just a coincidence?" There are still some people who can't believe Song Shilie's speculation. "Maybe the remnants of the Toyotomi clan were hiding on an island somewhere, and they saw that the imperial court and the Japanese side were paying attention to it, so they retracted it."

"On which island?" Song Shilie seems to have the momentum of a tongue war. "Isn't Dongning just a big island?"

"My lord's words are off topic." Zhao Chiqian's teeth were sore when he saw Song Shilie's style, so he specially reminded him. "We have no evidence whether Ming Zheng was a pirate who swept the border years ago, and now the key is, how to reply to the other party's request for dignitaries, as the boss himself said, Ming Zheng is as difficult to deal with as the Qing army, what should I do to ensure that it does not leak?"

Several ministers looked at each other, and after a long time, Jin Wanzhong held back an idea: "It's still the old way, drag it out, Ming Zheng is mainly here to trade, and when what should be sold is sold, and what should be bought is bought, the servant doesn't believe that he will stay in Jemulpo and not leave, and when they leave, tell them to please go to Jeju next time, otherwise they will be killed by a thief ship, as long as they don't come to Jemulpo and don't threaten the capital, maybe they won't mention it themselves after one or two times, so (Qing court) North Korean senators are also easy to explain." ā€

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Song Shilie still looked uneasy. "This can only postpone the matter, and it cannot be completely resolved, it is better to return a few of them more or less, I think everyone has a purpose of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty."

"It's not proper, it's not proper, doesn't it mean that North Korea is going to add a emperor to its head again." Li Ruiyu jumped out again. "Even if this dynasty has the intention of opposing the Qing Dynasty and helping the Ming, but secretly supporting it is one thing, and openly colluding is another, so don't mix it up, and the anti-Qing Zhuming is just a personal opinion of Hyomiao, not a public opinion in North Korea."

Hearing this, Song Shilie, who was promoted by the king of North Korea's filial piety and Zhongxuan because of his opposition to the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, was angry, and it was not enough for the occasion, he flicked his sleeves, turned around and left, looking at his back, Nan Jiuwan smiled yin: "Jiang Gui is old and misin, the old man is already in the age of ear shun, and the anger is still so big"

"Forget it, forget it," the people on the side hurriedly interrupted Nan Jiuwan's possible sarcasm. "It's still important to get down to business, whether the delay can be effective, no one can say, it's better to ask those who entered the Ming Dynasty, if they would like to go to Dongning"

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