What does Lee's New Goryeo have?

Hu Hui and Gao Gu's overnight malignant remedies for Bai Minghe are not a waste of time. Bai Minghe's knowledge of New Goryeo was originally based on the history of later generations, as well as some information from Dongchang. Coupled with the documents of the Ministry of Rites on these small surrounding states, and then in the eyes of Bai Minghe, New Goryeo is a big cake.

In addition to the founding monarch of the new Goryeo, the rest are all waste, there are many factions, and the powerful are strife, and the new Goryeo from the founding of the country to the present can be described as never having peace, and there are two rebellious princes alone, and the new Goryeo kings who have been overthrown one after another.

However, the white crane doesn't care about any of that.

According to the records of the Ministry of Rites and Dongchang, New Goryeo had 50,000 troops in Beijing and 100,000 standing troops in the country. There are also 50,000 sailors and 500 ships, and forty years ago, they once killed the pirates on Tsushima Island in the Japanese Kingdom, which can be regarded as some combat power.

The calculation of land in New Goryeo is interesting, not by acres, but by knots.

One knot is the yield of twenty stone of grain. New Goryeo now has about 1.7 million knots of arable land. In other words, there is a total annual grain output of 34 million stones, and for a small state with a population of 700,000 households, the per capita grain output is 10 stones, which is quite a good figure.

The Ming Dynasty now has a population of about 85 million. There are 12.2 million hectares of land, and in addition to horses, sheep, pigs, etc., in the absence of major natural disasters, the per capita grain for human consumption is about 900 catties. (This number is well documented).

In a sense, the per capita grain output of the Ming Dynasty was lower than that of New Goryeo.

However, New Goryeo had almost no currency, and there were not enough food and various daily necessities.

The means of exchange are mainly in the form of physical goods such as rice, cotton or linen. Foreign trade is monopolized by the state, and the main trade objects are the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom, which export silk, cotton cloth, summer cloth, grain, etc., and import silk and other high-grade textiles, various luxury goods and medicinal materials.

According to the situation of the East Plant. With the coming to power of King Wenzong in recent years, a large number of cotton and other crops have been planted, and the grain has dropped by about 30%, but this amount is also higher than the per capita output of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is that there are few people in New Korea. But the ratio of soldiers to civilians. But it is very scary, only counting the Beijing army and the naval army, it is thirty-five to one, if you count the farmers as soldiers, it is thirteen to one. The ratio of people to soldiers in the Ming Dynasty has not even reached forty to one, and the soldiers on the register of the Ming Dynasty do not exceed two million.

New Goryeo, in fact, is in the mind of the Ming Taizu. A smallholder economy in the truest sense of the word.

Bai Minghe sat in the carriage, not saying a word all the way, his head was thinking about how to drag the new Goryeo into the water, such a closed and closed New Goryeo, it is indeed difficult to make them his prey.

The cannonist Bai Minghe doesn't mind, and the Daming Sailor doesn't mind either. But Yu Qian will be angry, and the entire Ming Dynasty will oppose it, and provoke a war against a small state for no reason. Victory or defeat aside, morally the white crane has no way to deal with those people in the court. So, what about temptation?

What can you use to tempt a stick?

Gao Gu and Hu Hui, who were sitting in another carriage, were talking, and Hu Hu said to Gao Gu: "The two generals, Fan and Chen, know Bai Minghe better, judging from their conversations. The white crane must have some plans for the new Goryeo, and even a big conspiracy. I once compared the white name crane with the example of the seven sons of the pre-Qin period, and none of his studies were close to the seven sons of the pre-Qin period! ”

"The white name of the crane is surnamed Bai!" Takatani responded.

Hu Hu didn't understand much. Gao Gu said: "Wu Anjun is known as a human slaughter and a god in the world. But without Wu Anjun, it would be at least a few decades later for Great Qin to dominate the world. On the monument of Qiang Qin's domination of the world, if Shang Jun remembers the first merit, then Wu Anjun is at least second. It can even be juxtaposed. ”

"The white name of the crane is surnamed Bai!" Hu Hu repeated this sentence.

The white crane didn't know that the two old guys were talking about themselves, but their thoughts were drilled into the tip of a bull's horn. The population base of the stick is too small, and there are too many soldiers, and there is enough food to eat. They will be able to live on their own, how can they pull the stick into the water, apart from threats, temptation is a good way, what can be used to tempt?

While thinking about it, the white crane had already entered the palace of the new Goryeo king.

King Wenzong is really sick, and the illness is not light, it seems that he will not live long, and he may die at any time.

Bai Minghe asked the medical officer with great concern, and the medical officer's estimate was as long as half a year or as short as three months, and they were powerless.

Bai Minghe came to Wenzong's bedroom and took out not medicinal herbs, but a Buddhist scripture. The real Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures, blood is ink, and the signature on it is enough to see that it is precious. It is not a secret that Wenzong Xing Buddha is a Buddhist scripture as a gift from the white crane, not a scripture, especially if it is inked with blood.

In addition, it is a set of four pearls, the most fine, than a set of four Bodhisattva pearls of second-rate quality sold to Wajima.

King Wenzong couldn't speak anymore, but he still had some consciousness. He knew what kind of character was coming, and he also knew that he had given a precious gift, holding Bai Minghe's hand and looking at his son, the meaning was obvious, this was to let Daming keep his son, he knew his brother's ambitions.

Bai Minghe slapped him twice on the hand, which was a response.

The form that should go is finished.

"King Wenzong is really uncomfortable like this, if there is any need, Da Ming will try his best to help." The white crane said something official.

Li Yao came to the front of the white crane: "Please move the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, Changyang Garden has been cleaned for the nobles to rest." ”

"I have a heart." Bai Minghe nodded slightly.

When I came to the garden prepared for myself, I already had several prayer notes on my desk.

Since Bai Minghe said that the banquet was postponed, and said that because King Wenzong was seriously ill, the banquet was disrespectful, so the banquet was naturally canceled, but the necessary etiquette was indispensable. Hu Hui and Takaya's representative, Bai Minghe, met with the magnates of New Goryeo, while Bai Minghe sat in his study, waiting for the secret agents sent by Dongchang to report the latest situation.

"Brother-in-law, the people here are having such a hard time."

Huaiyu came back, and a word aroused Bai Minghe's interest, and Bai Minghe stretched out his hand to pull Huaiyu into his arms: "Girl, what do you see in the palace of New Goryeo?" ”

"They invited me to the stage and then lined up to kowtow. I will follow what your brother-in-law said, everyone who comes to kowtow will be rewarded according to their clothing level, and each gift is different. Later, I heard from the palace maid who followed me that these women were all poor people with discordant faces, and they kept talking strange things to each other in front of me. ”

"Strange words?" Shira-naka doesn't quite understand the word.

"They are secretly belittling others, and secretly comparing whose reward is precious."

"Women, circling around a man, are naturally going to fight. This is how women in the palace have lived since ancient times. "Bai Minghe originally thought that he could hear some interesting news, but it turned out to be just an old-fashioned palace fight. I don't have much interest in Gongdou Bai Minghe, and I don't even have an interest in listening to stories.

Huaiyu sniffed at Bai Minghe's body: "I heard that they are going to send you a few women!" ”

"I haven't heard!" Bai Minghe's words were not fake, Huaiyu could hear it.

Huaiyu talked about what he had seen in the palace for a while, and the only thing Bai Minghe could think of was that it would be easier to earn money for women in New Goryeo. All kinds of daily necessities may be able to earn money here, but this is not enough to affect the change of the pattern of New Goryeo, and it is necessary to find another way.

After Gao Gu and Hu Hu returned, Huaiyu went to the backroom to rest.

Sitting in the study, Takaya asked Shira-na-sui, "Shira-na-he, what do you want?" ”

"I need New Goryeo for two reasons. One is that they have some minerals that we don't have a lot of, like thrushes. "It's impossible for Shira-naka to talk about nothing anymore, there must always be a plan.

Hu Hu and Gao Gu couldn't help but laugh: "Although the thrush stone is not much in the Ming Dynasty, even if that thing is more expensive, it will not affect the safety of the imperial court, is it worth it for you to be like this?" Unless, there is some other use! "Hu Hui also understands Bai Minghe, Bai Minghe doesn't even care about jewelry, he cares about what women use.

"Thrush stone also has a name called graphite, which can be used to make zuò pencils. But this is also a very small use, the pencil lead can also be replaced by other things, graphite has a total of seven uses, at the moment we can use only two, one is that graphite can withstand high temperatures, molten iron is already very hot, and even if the temperature is twice as high graphite can also bear. Another use is for steelmaking, which can be used as a protective agent after the steel is melted, so that impurities do not penetrate into the steel. ”

"Go on!" Hu Hu knows how much steel means to the Ming Dynasty.

"Graphite is also a high-temperature lubricant that works much better than oil injection. If I want to pull steel wire, copper wire, etc. directly. Graphite is a must. Another use is to make zuò crucibles, and Taoist priests can use this to refine more things, many of which are needed by the Ming Dynasty. For example, glass silver plating, once this technology is successful, the benefits are endless! ”

The white crane impressed the two old men.

Daming is not without graphite, in fact, there are huge reserves, the three eastern provinces, Shandong, Shanxi. But Shanxi now belongs to the war zone, Shandong is the steel industry base of Bai Minghe, the three eastern provinces, or the province, whether it is the road or the climate, it is not what Bai Minghe wants to go over.

However, this is different here on the peninsula, and the only shortcoming may be the availability of labor.

"I've even considered bringing Ujima to invade New Goryeo."

"Nonsense!" Hu Hu scolded with a smile.

"A place the size of Wajima now has a population of about 16 or 7 million. They simply don't have enough food to eat, and they have to experience earthquakes, tsunamis, and hunger every year. Why is there a constant civil war, just to fight for a chance to live, a person with a brain will try his best to expand externally, so I just need to guide it gently! Shirakawaru gestured with his little thumb. (To be continued......)