Xu Zhenming nodded: "I understand this truth, Wu Yixian in Busan in the past has told me this truth, you can rest assured." ”

"That's very good."

"Besides, I wonder if the kingdom is willing to look for more iron ore and coal mining in the hinterland of my kingdom?"

Shen Chengmin asked with a smile after speaking.

Xu Zhenming couldn't help asking, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Shen Chengmin said: "That's the case, my kingdom is mountainous, and now thanks to the virtue of the protection of the kingdom, our country has been able to bear peace for many years, and the teeth are becoming more and more numerous, so my country is willing to ask the kingdom to open mines in our territory to further bless the small people of our kingdom, and by the way, it can be regarded as a little filial piety expressed by the kingdom for the monarch of the kingdom; However, we must be allowed to participate in dividends, not because we are greedy for profit, but so that my kingdom can be more capable of ensuring the smooth development of mines and profits in the country, and suppressing the domestic tyrants. ”

Xu Zhenming smiled and bowed his head: "You are fighting for the good fortune of your own people, and the official himself naturally agrees!" ”

Then, Xu Zhenming said: "But since you want to win the grace of your small people so much, why don't you make more efforts?" ”

After hearing this, Shen Chengmin arched his hand and asked: "What more efforts do you have to make, please also ask the ministers to give advice!" ”

"You should not only allow the government mines of the Heavenly Kingdom to open mines, but also completely open the sea ban and border ban to the upper kingdom."

"Of course, both the government and the people in the kingdom can come to your country to invest money and start a business, and naturally they still have to pay you dividends and pay taxes."

"And in doing so, will not it further increase the tax revenues of your kingdom, and also solve the problem of your kingdom's growing teeth?"

"It can also check and balance your kingdom's powerful industry, because the officials and people of the kingdom come to your kingdom to set up industries, just to make money, not to fight for power, if you really want to rule your kingdom directly, why should you keep your royal court?"

"In addition, the skills of the Celestial Empire are far stronger than yours, and there are more talents of all kinds than you, if you come to the kingdom to do practical work, your country will only be richer than it is now, if you can only produce three pieces of cloth a month, you can increase it to four, then everyone can expect to be free from the harm of freezing!"

Xu Zhenming expounded his views at this time.

Shen Chengmin pondered for a while after hearing this, and then suddenly bowed his hand to Xu Zhenming: "Then please ask the kingdom to support the subordinate ministers to become the leaders of the kingdom, if they can, the subordinate ministers will urge this matter!" ”

The leader of the council is the equivalent of the prime minister in North Korea.

Xu Zhenming nodded after hearing this.

Shen Chengmin's face showed joy as a result.

There are many enlightened doctors in North Korea now, and they are indeed no longer disgusted with the Ming Dynasty coming to North Korea to station troops and do business, and even build roads and develop minerals.

Because they have to admit that the Ming Dynasty is indeed more advanced in technology and management, and it can indeed increase the income of many people in North Korea, and the increase in the income of the people can increase their tax revenue.

After the Joseon king Yi Hao and his ministers stationed troops in Busan and Tsushima Island, and even built military stations along the way, and opened many weaving mills and mines in these places, they tried to raise a large tax on their own people, but the result did not cause a large-scale popular uprising, and many people accepted it calmly.

The reason is naturally that many North Korean people earned a lot of money for Daming workers in places like Busan and Tsushima, mainly because Daming really paid for his cotton cloth sales.

Therefore, many people in North Korea also have money in their hands, and although a lot of income has been expropriated by the imperial court, it is still better than starving to death without land and without production before.

And because of this.

Li Hao and some of his ministers also found that it was beneficial for the Ming Dynasty to develop his own kingdom, which was beneficial to his own rulers, not only did the treasury income increase, but the internal peasant uprisings also decreased a lot, and they could also ask the Ming to help him teach him a lesson, and from time to time to harass his Hu and the Japanese invaders.

Shen Chengmin was this kind of scholar, so he was willing to further open up to the Ming Dynasty, and soon after, the Ming officials in Korea instructed the king of Korea to make him the leader of the council.

As soon as Shen Chengmin became the leader of the council, he began to ask the king of Joseon for permission to further open up the economic field to the Ming Dynasty.

"This country is the most loyal vassal state of the Celestial Empire, and it should use its material resources to achieve the great cause of the Celestial Empire, and to form the favor of the Son of Heaven."

"Therefore, Shen Qing's play."

"Welcome the officials and people of the Celestial Empire to come to the kingdom to do business and give lectures."

The Joseon king, Yi Hao, also agreed to Shen Sungmin's request after his next performance.

At this time, Shen Chengmin said again: "Your Highness, the minister believes that although our country has this intention, the officials and people of the Shangguo are afraid that they are not willing to come to our North Korea, because Dongying is a land directly under the jurisdiction of the Celestial Empire, there is not much tax, and the benefits of the population are more and cheaper, so we can't just agree, but also have a policy that can attract the officials and people of the Shangguo to come to our country to do practical things." ”

Li Hao nodded: "Qing is a person who understands, since he should be like this, spread the will of the orphan, the government should formulate a series of policies to attract the officials and people as soon as possible, and treat the officials and people of the country who come to the country with courtesy, and they must be cautious in their affairs, not sloppy!" ”

"If the officials and people of the higher kingdom have illegal things in the court, they will not ask if they can not ask, they will not be arrested if they can be arrested, and they will not be imprisoned if they can not be imprisoned! It is really because of the great crime that we want to ask for the explanation, and it is appropriate to first report to the Busan Celestial Dynasty for the consent of the Celestial Dynasty, so as to show our courtesy heart, so that the officials and people of the kingdom will know our good courtesy, and they are more willing to come to our DPRK to help our kingdom be more peaceful and peaceful! ”

After Li Hao said this, all the ministers gave up their hands and said yes.

Zhu Yijun also learned about this from Xu Zhenming's chapter music soon after, and also received a letter from the king of North Korea asking the Ming government and private funds to come to Korea further to bring blessings.

"Do it as it is!"

"The Li dynasty respects the emperor and follows the etiquette and customs of China, and its people should also be my son and be a favor."

"Therefore, I not only allowed him to do so, but also intended to regard him as the most favored country, that is, the most favored country, so I decreed that the cabinet should agree on an appropriate reduction of taxes on goods from Korea, and in the future, if the minimum tax on goods brought to China by other vassals would be the same as the import tax of North Korea! But he has to do the same with North Korea, but they have to settle the goods with our silver dollars. ”

Zhu Yijun is no stranger to this set, so he is happy to influence North Korea in the economic field first.

The reason why Zhu Yijun demanded that the DPRK must use silver dollar coupons to settle goods in order to obtain the most favored nation treatment was to avoid the outflow of silver dollars, and to be able to control the DPRK's economy in the future by using silver dollar coupons.

The king of North Korea, Li Hao, did not refuse, because the most commercial goods controlled by the country in North Korea were actually his royal family and scholars, and most of the goods exported by North Korea to Daming every year were their goods, so Zhu Yijun promised to give the most favored nation treatment if he used silver dollar coupons, and they naturally agreed.

As a result, more and more government-run industries and private industries in the Ming Dynasty have made a lot of money because of the low import tax collected by the Ming Dynasty, and North Korea has given special treatment to the Han people in the past of the Ming Dynasty.

In particular, industries with relatively low technical thresholds and higher requirements for labor costs, such as mineral development and spinning, as well as equipment assembly.

Wuxi.

"They're all going to North Korea?"

After Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng asked for the will to establish the crown prince in Shen Shixing, they returned home from Beijing in a disappointed mood, and as soon as Gu Xiancheng returned home, he heard Gu Xuancheng, who was running the family business at home, talk about the fact that many of his old tenants were going to North Korea and no longer rented their fields.

Gu Xuancheng replied: "Yes, there are more and more people going to sea in the Jiangnan area, and they are all going to Dongying, North Korea to make more money, and they are more comfortable than living in Jiangnan, even if the local officials are polite to themselves as Han people, they all want to go over and make a lot of money and come back, and they don't want to rent our land anymore." ”

"Going out of the countryside for personal gain is unfilial piety and disrespect for ancestors!"

Gu Xiancheng scolded and said: "So Taizu also opposes the people going out of the county and setting up a road guidance system, but unfortunately this system has been abolished now." ”

"It's useless to be reasonable, not only to North Korea, but also to Dongying, and even to Myanmar."

Gu Xuancheng replied.

"This is the inevitable thing that will happen to govern the country with Zhang Taiyue's learning!"

Gu Yuncheng said a word on the side at this time, and said: "Taking advantage of the outside means that people will also run outside, then filial piety and loyalty will be annihilated, and the world will be corrupted!" Everyone will be even more disgusted with farming, so that the villagers will be full of profitees, and even the whole country will be profiteering! ”

"That's right!"

Gu Xiancheng bowed his head, and asked Gu Xuancheng again: "Is it useless to reduce rent and interest?" ”

"It's useless!"

"They just don't want to be sharecroppers! Even if we reduce the rent to a minimum and the interest rate is lower than that of the government-run banks, they would rather go to the government-run banks to borrow special funds with higher interest rates to go to sea. ”

Gu Xuancheng replied.

(End of chapter)