In early October, the Emperor's flagship, the Sea Ryushen, finally entered the port of Tianjin.

After leaving Seoul, Liu Jun did not directly cross the Yellow Sea to Dengzhou, but traveled north along the coast, inspecting Pyongyang, Zhenjiang, Lushun, Yingkou, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan and other places.

Tianjin officials and ordinary people rushed to the port to greet the holy driver. After Liu Jun landed in Tianjin, he inspected the military barracks and several military academies in Tianjin, as well as several well-known shipyards and other large chambers of commerce in Tianjin, and then returned to Beijing from Tianjin by canal boat.

When passing through the city of Tianjin, he stayed in the city for one night, summoned the officials of the Tianjin Prefecture, and the next day, he drove along the canal to Beijing. Thanks to the completion of the reservoir built by Huailai in Xuanhua Prefecture in the northwest of Beijing, the water drawn from there flows into the Jingshi Canal, so that the boats in the canal can no longer only travel to Tongzhou, but can go directly to the Jingshi Wharf.

On the day of arrival in Beijing, hundreds of officials left behind by the imperial court led hundreds of people out of Beijing for 20 miles to greet them.

For the emperor's triumph, the whole court was very happy, and even the ordinary people reacted enthusiastically, although the emperor went out of Beijing, in fact, he only visited Japan and Korea, and did not really come to the front line. But in the eyes of the people, this annexation of Japan and Korea by the Han Dynasty was undoubtedly the contribution of His Majesty the wise and great Emperor.

The credit for taking Japan and Korea should all belong to His Majesty the Emperor.

The emperor arrived in Beijing with a large number of Korean officials, two classes of nobles, and Korean scholars. These people came to Beijing to study and study. The emperor brought many high-ranking civil and military officials back to Beijing, and openly let them study in Beijing, and when the four-year study period expired, they could stay in Beijing as a teacher, or become an official in the Han Dynasty. Those two groups of disciples, as well as some ordinary scholars, will also study at the university in Beijing, and after four years, they will be able to take the imperial examination. Or go directly to the local government to take up an official position, starting from the eighth or ninth grade.

In short, this study sounds like a gilded journey full of promise, and it will take four years to become a Han official. Of course, in fact, this study is a strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain. First of all, most of the North Korean officials were transferred and sent to Beijing to study for four years, and during these four years, the imperial court could send officials to North Korea to take up their posts, and in the future, they would have to use this kind of study in Beijing in the name of going to Beijing to study. More North Korean officials have been sent out of North Korea.

Liu Jun believes that in this way, the actual control of the Han Dynasty over North Korea should be greatly enhanced. As for the completion of the four-year study period, Liu Jun believes that four years will be enough to change many of the old ideas of these North Korean officials, and if they can show their willingness to actively serve the empire, they can of course be appointed.

Those two team members, as well as some civilian children. It is to come to study and study, participate in the imperial examination in the future, or directly start as a low-level official sent by the empire, or return to Korea as an official in the future. Liu Jun is confident. After living here for a few years, these young people will definitely be reluctant to go back to that small part of North Korea.

Along the way, following the emperor's royal car, many Korean officials and scholars have fully felt that Korea is just a small country. And the Han is the real **** Shangguo. Many people originally thought that North Korea had developed rapidly in recent years and was very prosperous and prosperous.

But after leaving Seoul, I went all the way north. Many villages are still the same and very backward, but when you get to the vicinity of the Yalu River, those concessions of the former Han Dynasty immediately feel like a different place. There is noticeably more vibrant, the North Koreans there are cleaner in their clothes, they are generally healthier, and the towns and villages are much cleaner and tidier.

But when they crossed the Yalu River and arrived at Zhenjiang in the north of the estuary, they suddenly found that there was only a river apart, but the mainland of the Han Dynasty in the north of the river was even more prosperous.

Just a few years ago, the north of the Yalu River was still the territory of the Jurchens, and after the Han army came, it was also a place of repeated battles, full of troops and displaced people.

But just a few years later, Zhenjiang has now become the most prosperous city in the Yalu River area, this place where the Han Empire's heavy troops were stationed on land and sea, and is the center of the entire Yalu River basin.

Zhenjiang City, only the population of the city has exceeded 100,000. The rapidly increasing population has made even the city walls of Zhenjiang unable to keep up, which also makes the current Zhenjiang City quite peculiar. The inner city of Zhenjiang has a population of no more than 10,000, and the outer city with a population of more than 100,000 is actually only built on the outside with an earthen wall that is no more than two zhang high.

Yes, the earthen wall, the rapid development of the population, so that the construction of the city wall can not keep up at all, so the earth wall can only be built first. It is said that this earthen wall was just completed this year, and it turned out to be a wooden fence.

But fortunately, around Zhenjiang, there are many forts, forts, and heavy troops, so safety is not a problem. Although the outer city has only earthen walls, the city is well planned.

Commercial areas, residential areas, etc., government offices, schools, military camps, hospitals, etc. are fully functional.

On both sides of the straight and wide cross street in the city, there are many shops, and the Zhenjiang Wharf on the edge of the city is lined with sails. Trade and travel continued, and the leather goods from Jilin and Haixi, the ginseng of North Korea, etc., became an important commodity distribution center, and many commercial goods from the Central Plains arrived here by sea, and then entered the inland by smaller ships through the Yalu River and its tributaries, and some by land.

Local products from all over the world gathered here little by little, and finally transported back to the Central Plains.

A large number of immigrants to Jilin, Haixi and North Korea, as well as northeastern Liaoning, also landed here.

The huge volume of transactions has made Zhenjiang City a new city, and many North Koreans are stunned to see it, like a country man entering the city.

They were even a little confused, and they found that although Zhenjiang was heavily garrisoned, it didn't look very well defended, and a large number of vendors came in and out, and it looked more like a big bazaar. The biggest impression on them here is the prosperity of industry and commerce.

Not only were there constant traders, but there were also numerous factories and workshops where a large number of North Koreans worked, but were not forced, but attracted by very good wages. In those workshops in Zhenjiang, North Korean workers can also get a minimum of four silver dollars, although this salary is much lower than that of the Central Plains, but for North Koreans, working in Zhenjiang earns four silver dollars a month, which is far better than in the past. In particular, the work is also covered with food and accommodation, and the money can be saved. When I go home, I bring my home to my hometown, and the price consumption level in my hometown is much lower than that in Zhenjiang.

Many Korean officials and scholars who went to Beijing to study left North Korea with a lot of Korean products, mainly ginseng and Dongzhu. When they were in Zhenjiang, they saw that the ginseng trade here was very prosperous, and many people couldn't help but sell the ginseng and Dongzhu, and then bought some pocket watches, binoculars, silk and other Han goods here. The price of the same product in Seoul was much higher than that in Zhenjiang.

However, when they followed the emperor to Lushun on the Liaodong Peninsula, they immediately regretted it.

Compared with Zhenjiang, Lushun, a port city across the sea from the Shandong Peninsula, is much more prosperous than Zhenjiang. It was once the base of the Han Emperor's crusade against the Jurchens, and the emperor stayed here for more than a year. After several years of development, the two ports of Lushun and Dalian on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula have become two prosperous twin cities.

Each port has a population of more than 200,000 people, and its shipbuilding industry is quite developed, with several large shipyards standing on the seashore, and its trade is more prosperous.

There is also the fortress battery of the port, with huge artillery towering, guarding the port as impregnable, and the Koreans who see it are even more amazed.

Later, when they passed through the Yingkou port city at the mouth of the Liao River, the busy prosperity of this port city could not arouse their excitement, and it seemed that if it was not, it would be strange.

After that, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao and other cities were smaller in scale than Zhenjiang, Lushun, Dalian and other cities, but they were still very lively.

When they arrived in Tianjin, these people were really dumbfounded.

Compared with the east gate of the imperial capital, the prosperity of Tianjin is not much worse than that of Jingshi, far from Zhenjiang and Lushun, because of the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, as the port of Jingshi, there are countless sailing ships, countless materials and commodities, which are continuously transported here from all over the empire by sea, and then transferred to Beijing.

The business atmosphere here is also stronger.

"Why does the Han attach so much importance to industry and commerce, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"

Some North Korean officials are a little confused, they used to call themselves Little China, and they copied the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and even the closure, the emphasis on agriculture and industry, and even the party strife have been copied in the past. But now looking at the Han Dynasty, all localities actually attach so much importance to industry and commerce, and there is no discrimination against workers and businessmen, and they even see that in some large factories, some experienced craftsmen are not only very valuable, but also get salaries that are even higher than that of a county official who was born in the imperial examination.

Those merchants, and even the guests of the local government, have some status in various places.

I heard that now the Han Dynasty has abolished the classification of household registration, and there is no distinction between civilian and military households, no artisan households, and no lowly registration, which is simply a mess in the eyes of North Korean officials who attach great importance to class.

Many DPRK officials have also discovered the fact that the Han Dynasty is too lenient on industry and commerce, but on the other hand, the taxes levied on industry and commerce are numerous and extremely large. All kinds of taxes are like peeling the skin. But they didn't see that those artisan merchants were dissatisfied because of this, let alone the chaos in the market, which was what they couldn't understand.

With such harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes being fiercer than tigers, shouldn't the people and businessmen be resentful and the people's grievances are boiling? Why, on the contrary, is it still so prosperous? Could it be that the people of the Han Dynasty are more tolerant?

When these Koreans saw the more prosperous Han Jingshi, and heard that the financial income of the Han court exceeded one billion silver dollars a year, these people were shocked beyond measure, the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty was really a generation of heroes, and I heard that Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty could only collect more than two million taels of silver a year, but he had already engaged in the anger of the people and the people, and the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty looted one billion silver dollars a year, and the Central Plains was still so prosperous.

One billion silver dollars, it's just a rampant expropriation! (To be continued.) )