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In April of the fifteenth year of Wucheng

It's a stormy day.

The rain actually started to fall yesterday evening, but fortunately, Master Tao and I noticed the gloomy sky, and when we passed through a village, we went to the two classes of families in the village to spend the night early. The owner of this house originally did not want to receive us merchants, but when he heard that it was a merchant from China, he finally gave us a firewood room because of the bright silver face. It's a bit cramped, but it's better than being in the middle of a heavy rain.

And the host family not only rented out the room to us, but also prepared rice porridge and pickles for us.

Speaking of which, there was really no good food or drink along the way. It is hard to believe that even the two classes of rural nobles only live on white porridge with pickles on weekdays, and only when guests come can they have salted fish and other entertainment, and only when they are festive or festive will they kill a few chickens and a mouthful of pigs, and the fault is not that they are sick, and they will never be able to eat eggs and fresh fish; Chinese families don't even have pickles, and it is already very grand to have white porridge and salt dishes; Most of the time, the commoners and the lower households can only have the so-called rice porridge, that is, thin rice porridge ground with shells and grains, and there is no guarantee that they can eat enough every day.

It is said that only the two classes of the prefecture and the county eat a little better, but how good it is, most North Koreans are just hearsay.

Due to the rain, Master Tao and I couldn't continue on the road, so we had to stay helplessly in the firewood room where there was some leaky rain, so I asked Master Tao to continue teaching me Korean conversation. To be honest, although my mother was born in the Korean royal family, she never taught me a word of Korean, and she didn't say a word in the palace, even if she knew that I might inherit the Korean throne, maybe she wanted me to forget my identity as half a Korean, but just a child of the Zheng family.

The morning passed, but in the afternoon, the rain had not stopped. At this time, a maidservant of the master's family came to fetch firewood for cooking, and I stumbled and chatted with her, and she kept laughing because the words did not make sense. So I simply stopped pretending and asked Mr. Tao to translate for me.

I learned from the translator of Tong Guò Tao that unlike those small landowners in China who had forty or fifty acres, the two classes never went to the land, which was determined by their "noble" status, and the only thing they had to do was to study, practice martial arts, and participate in the imperial examination. It's just that the number of officials is limited, and there are wealthy middle-aged and even commoners who spend money to buy official positions, so another important daily life of the two classes is to move around and marry families of equal status, so as to maintain their "noble" status.

After the maid walked away, I asked Director Tao about buying and selling officials.

Director Tao told me that in the past, when the North Korean government was financially tight, it would sell famous weapons in exchange for income, but with the (Huaxia) imperial court's demands for political reform on the Korean side, the actual positions at all levels in North Korea have been greatly reduced, so there is no longer a sufficient number of official positions to buy and sell, and the income of the North Korean government is greatly abundant because Chinese merchants operate mines, mountains and forests in the DPRK, so there is no longer a need to sell * officials.

Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, Director Tao told me again, because the number of officials has been greatly reduced, many of the two classes of directors have not been able to get official positions, and they have actually been reduced to the so-called township class, that is, the two classes in the countryside, and the house where I stayed was about to be such a township class with a bright surface and an abnormal embarrassment inside?????

Wu Cheng fifteen years of May Xin Wei

It was a light day, and the clouds were light and the wind was light.

Due to the illness of Director Tao on the way, our trip was greatly delayed, but fortunately, we survived all the time--after nearly three months of arduous travel, we have now entered the territory of Seoul Province, and will soon enter the Wangjing Hanyang of North Korea.

But I still have to complain, to be honest, the road conditions on this road are so bad, the stone paved post road can only be seen in a few places, and most of the dirt roads can only be walked opposite each other, no wonder there are almost no merchants on the road, even the merchants carrying them on their shoulders are rare for remote Korean villages.

Of course, for those who don't have to walk, it doesn't matter what the road is, for example, before entering Yeoju County today, I saw the honor guard of the county assassin history. Although it is only equivalent to the order of a county in Huaxia, the travel team of the county assassin is very large, clustered around the sedan chair, the subordinate officials riding donkeys and the two large local households have more than a dozen, and there are dozens of errands on foot who hug each other before and after, and everywhere they pass, the Chinese people have to kneel down and wait for him to go first, which can be described as impressive.

However, Director Tao and I, as the people of Huaxia, don't have to bow down like this shelf-rich old man of Thorn History, but because of the road closure, the itinerary was disrupted, and we had to stay in this county town without walls for one night.

After finding the only inn in the city that doubled as a liquor store, I consulted with the Korean government that Director Tao had been ignoring before.

According to Chief Tao, North Korea is currently copying the political structure of Huaxia, and under the parliamentary government equivalent to the Huaxia cabinet, there are Zhu Cao equivalent to the ministry and various departments equivalent to Zhu Yamen, but Cao Chang and the director of the department both call the judgment, and the deputy position is called the judge, and there are also senators and counselors similar to Lang Zhong and Yuan Wai Lang, and Zhenglang and Zuo Lang, which are equivalent to the chief and deputy directors; In addition, there are also the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces of China and Foreign Countries, which is equivalent to the Privy Council, the Sixian Yuan, which is equivalent to the Supervisory Yuan, the Si Yuan, which is not available in China, and the Chengzheng Yuan, which has similarities but differences with the Hanlin Yuan of China, and so on. The local government and the government observation envoy are set up as first-level administrative divisions, and under them are the county and the county thorn history, as well as the post station and Jindu directly under the government; There are no longer counties and supervisors under the county??????

In May of the fifteenth year of Wucheng

It's a sunny day.

As the name says, this city is north of the Han River, all must be ferried, the ferry fee is as high as 200 Wen, obviously not ordinary Korean people can pass Guò, but later someone told me that this is the official ferry port, the price is inflated, in fact, the people who come and go are either rich or expensive, do not need to spend money at all, as for the common people there is a wild ferry not far away, where the price is only five Wen. I was very depressed by the news, but anyway, I entered Hanyang.

From the outside, this is the highest city wall I have seen in North Korea, but the overall area is not large, only one-third of Wuchang Province is less, it is hard to imagine that this is the capital of a country. However, the city is not very good, but the cost of entering the city is not cheap, and it costs 300 yuan per person, and if a donkey enters the city, it will have to pay another 300. Compared with Wuchang Mansion, where ordinary pedestrians do not need any cost to enter the city, it can be called extortion.

After entering the city, I found an inn run by a Chinese merchant and stayed there, and I took the Tao chief around the city, even the palace rooms were very low, not to mention the mansions of other ministers, and even the Chinese embassy in Korea did not look as good as the mansion of an ordinary merchant in China. On the bright side, this is the DPRK's top-down advocacy of simplicity, and on the bad side, it is that the DPRK's national strength is extremely limited, and even the country's façade is not well decorated.

After turning around, there were very few shops in the city, so I asked Tao the reason.

If you want to see the rows of shops, you have to go to Jemulpo, where there are countless Chinese merchants who can buy almost anything, but it is almost a day or two away from Hanyang; As for the needs of North Korea's high gates, as long as they send someone to find the principals of these firms in Hanyang, they can order directly, and once fresh goods arrive in North Korea, these principals will also come to the door to introduce, and after the North Korean magnates see the samples, they will buy them according to their preferences and deliver them directly to the door.

It dawned on me that this was actually exactly the same as in China, except that there was a lack of necessary retail links, but judging from the purchasing power of the Korean people, only two classes and some wealthy Chinese and civilians could enjoy the high-quality goods of China??????

In May of the fifteenth year of Wucheng

It's a sunny day, a breeze and a cloudy day.

Since Hanyang was a cage, I didn't stay long and left the city for Gimpo the next day. This time, I crossed the river from Yedu, and it was really much lower than the fee of Guandu, but there were often patrols to fight the autumn wind, so the price would increase temporarily, but it was only five to ten.

There was nothing to say along the way, and before evening, Tao and I arrived at Jewupu, which was also thanks to the cement road donated by Chinese merchants, if it was according to the previous dirt roads and stone roads, I was afraid that I would have to rest for a night on the way.

I didn't know when I arrived in Jewupo, but when I arrived in Jewupo, I realized how much I missed the scene in China. However, it was getting late at this time, so Master Tao and I hurriedly found an inn to stay, and we didn't wait to visit Jemulpo at night??????

Wucheng fifteenth year of May Yihai

It was a sunny and windy day.

After waking up early in the morning, I left Mr. Tao, who was still asleep, and walked around Jemulpo alone. Of course, this is not because my Korean is already perfect, but because I can hear the Chinese accent everywhere in Jemulpo, and I can speak the official dialect of Nanzhili, so I can go all the way unimpeded.

Jewupo's daytime is not quiet, early in the morning, the harbour dockside is already noisy, hundreds of dock workers, busy loading and unloading all kinds of goods. It was only in the process that I discovered an intriguing fact, that is, hundreds of Korean women and an equal number of men climbed onto a Chinese merchant ship.

Could it be that Chinese businessmen are still doing short-distance passenger transportation in North Korea? But it's not like ah, those North Koreans who get on the ship are all dish-faced, can they afford the cheapest ferry tickets? For this reason, I inquired about the reason with a Chinese merchant on the side of the wharf, and only then did I know that these were laborers who had signed a deed of sale and were about to be sent to China and a Korean woman who had married into China.

Isn't this a slave? I continued to ask the man in confusion. Perhaps for the sake of the Huaxia lineage, the merchant patiently explained it to me. It turned out that this was really a slave trade, and in addition to Korea, there were Japan, Vietnam, and Annam. Siamese States. However, all human trafficking was exclusively carried out by specialized firms selected by the Governor's Yamen, and secondly, the bulk of the exports from these countries were women. Most of these uprooted women will be selected by the (Chinese) court to marry those Chinese people who cannot afford to marry. As for the men, only North Korea and Japan are currently allowed to export, among which the Korean men will work as coolies in the mines for five years, as long as they can survive, they will be eligible for naturalization in China, and then placed by the Chinese court to the border areas for reclamation; Men exported from Japan needed to join the Shence Army and fight for China for five to eight years before they could be admitted to China, and the Chinese court also allocated land in the border areas for resettlement.

What shocked me was that, according to this person, the North Koreans who were trafficked were all voluntary, what is going on? Could it be that the Koreans would rather be slaves of a big country than a small country? There are still other reasons, and thinking about the suffering scenes I saw along the way, I have a glimmer of enlightenment in my heart??????