On behalf of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Kongzhao peddled his Ming sail warships to Li Shi, the defense envoy of the Korean naval army, not only to make North Korea an arms purchaser of his Ming Empire, but also to promote the Ming silver dollar as the basic transaction currency in Korea through trade.

In this way, the Ming could control the economy of North Korea and thus the politics of North Korea through the control of the silver dollar.

The future is not just for North Korea, but also for other countries.

And North Korea is just the beginning.

Therefore, Liu Kongzhao demanded that North Korea could only buy its own Ming sail warships with silver dollars.

Even if you don't have so many silver dollars, you can buy sail warships in advance with loans, but North Korea can't buy them with silver instead of silver dollars.

Liu Kongzhao just did not recognize the monetary value of silver, and wanted to make the silver dollar of the Ming Dynasty become the world's currency.

The defense of the Korean naval army made Li Shi naturally not understand why the sincerity of the Ming Dynasty was so stubborn, why he only recognized the silver dollar as money, and he could not see the mystery in this.

However, Li Shi still chose to accept Liu Kongzhao's request, signed a loan agreement with the people of the Daming Central Bank, and purchased a sail warship from Liu Kongzhao through the silver dollars obtained from the loan at the Daming Central Bank.

In Li Shi's view, the interest rate on the loan provided by the Daming Central Bank is not high, and he can accept it, and Liu Kongzhao said that the Daming Central Bank will not easily lend so many loans to foreign countries, and now he is willing to give Li Shi a loan is already a value and help to North Korea.

Li Shi thought about it and felt that it was, and he was more and more grateful that Daming really had the demeanor of a great power, although he was sorry for North Korea, he still helped North Korea.

In fact, Daming was happy to lend money to North Korea.

Because the Ming Dynasty's lending to North Korea is equivalent to betting a large amount of silver dollars into the North Korean economic market, which is more conducive to the Ming Dynasty's new silver dollar becoming the world's currency.

In this way, before North Korea realized the importance of financial money to the country, the Ming Dynasty could achieve economic control over North Korea in this way.

In the end, Li Shi, the defense envoy of the Korean naval army, borrowed a sum of money from the Daming Central Bank in the name of the Korean naval army, and obtained an order for a sail warship from Liu Kongzhao.

Liu Kongzhao was very satisfied with this, he had already received the guidance of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen before he came, and knew what he should do when he came to North Korea.

Now that the first trade was made with the Korean naval defense envoy Li Shi, Liu Kongzhao began to taste the sweetness, and was eager to wait for the appearance of the Joseon king Yi Hao to give more trade to Korea.

Not long after, the Joseon king Yi Hao met Liu Kongzhao and Xu Xianqing.

First of all, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, expressed to Liu Kongzhao that North Korea had no choice but to serve the Manchu Qing as the lord, and also said that it was for this reason that he came to see the angel in person with the dignity of the king in order to ask His Majesty the Ming Emperor to forgive the sins of Joseon, and the DPRK was also willing to re-serve the Ming as the lord.

"My Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has said before the arrival of this envoy that if North Korea is willing to re-serve the Ming Dynasty as the master, it is acceptable, but it can no longer recognize the Jianlu as the master, and must declare war on the Jianguo like the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will not agree to the ownership of North Korea and will investigate the crime of betraying the Ming Dynasty, and the DPRK should immediately send troops and grain to conquer the Jianguo!"

After Xu Xianqing expressed the will of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, showed a difficult face, and asked him to serve the Ming Dynasty as the lord again, he was willing, but if he was allowed to be an enemy of Jianguo and took the initiative to declare war on Jianguo, he was a little afraid, after all, Jianguo's strong military strength also left a deep impression on North Korea.

"North Korea is very grateful to His Majesty the Ming Emperor for being willing to forgive North Korea, and North Korea is also very willing to re-respect the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, but the North Korean country is small and weak, and the Jianyu is the jackal of the north, and the DPRK does not dare to provoke and cannot afford to provoke, so I hope that His Majesty the Ming Emperor will cherish the difficulty of survival in the cracks of North Korea, and avoid the purpose of the Northern Expedition of North Korea, and North Korea should be grateful!"

For this, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, even saluted Xu Xianqing.

But at this time, Liu Kongzhao slapped the table directly:

"What, do you think that my Ming Dynasty can't succeed in the Northern Expedition?

Think that we can't destroy Jianyu, and one by one wants to be a turtle with a shrunken head, but it can't be done by just standing on the dry shore to watch the show?

This is not something you are willing or unwilling to do, you either become an enemy of my Ming Dynasty, or now follow the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to gather troops and horses to assist the Ming Dynasty in the expedition of Jianlu, there is no other choice! ”

"The meaning of the Marquis of Sincerity is actually the meaning of our Majesty, and His Highness's concerns can be understood, but the truth is like this.

But please rest assured, my Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition is a sure victory, and Jianyu will never have the opportunity to bully you again.

I have a total of one million troops in the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, and now there are 150,000 troops who have landed from Lushunkou and are now in the Liaodong area not far from the north of your Korea.

Your country's dispatch of troops is just to express your sincerity to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xu Xianqing also persuaded at this time.

The way he and Liu Kongzhao sang red face and white face made the Korean king Li Hao have to agree to obey the will of His Majesty Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty to send troops to North Korea.

But the king of North Korea, Li Hao, still continued to make excuses and said: "I can't hide the angel and sincerity, in recent years, there have been frequent disasters in North Korea, and the treasury surplus is not much. ”

Xu Xianqing understood that the Korean king Li Hao could not mean that he had no money and no good weapons.

And this is exactly what Xu Xianqing and Liu Kongzhao wanted, Xu Xianqing couldn't help but smile at Liu Kongzhao, and said:

"This, my Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has considered this for Your Highness;

Money is not a big problem, I can give you a low-interest loan, is one million silver dollars enough?

If it's not enough, you can add another two million.

For the question of weapons.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has asked the Marquis of Sincerity to bring a batch of muskets and cannons, as well as ammunition, which are the best firearms in the world today.

Your Highness can observe it first, if you think it is good, you can use the loan proceeds to buy these weapons, my Daming does not restrict you from buying my Daming's firearms, after all, you have taken my Daming as the suzerain, if you feel that this batch of firearms is not enough, you can also add orders, how much you want, I Daming can provide you with as much as you want. ”

As soon as Xu Xianqing said this, the king of North Korea, Li Hao, was also quite surprised, he didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would even think of this for himself, ask for money, and even sell firearms to himself, and couldn't help but say excitedly for a while: "In this case, I want to see this batch of firearms first." ”

(End of chapter)