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Chapter four hundred and forty-eight calm prelude(2/2)

Wenlihan has a little relationship with Shengjing, so the job stationed in Seoul can be dominated by the errand in Seoul instead of rotating others. No one is willing to rotate such a comfortable life.

Back in the Qing Dynasty, a genital gang in the Zhenglan Banner received a bird. Everyone who met him would call himself a slave and kowtowed to greet him. But in this Seoul, he was a standard master. In April this year, Wen Lihan got drunk and ran on the streets of Seoul, colliding with Zuo Yizheng's carriage. Zuo Yizheng was the first-class official in Korea, and was generally the royal family, equivalent to the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty and the prince of the Qing Dynasty.

But the Left Zheng made way for Wenlihan in a gentle manner. The next day he also sent ginseng and some gold and silver as "sobering". Who would have wanted to leave in such a good life? And after hearing the news from Shengjing that the Ming Dynasty, who was always weak, actually won a battle in Hejian Prefecture, and even the generals Abatai and Yuetuo died in the pass. It was too dangerous, so it would be better to enjoy wealth and peace in this Seoul.

During the fifth year of Chongde (the thirteenth year of Chongzhen), life was just comfortable, but after the sixth year of Chongzhen, the income also became more abundant.

The reason was that merchants from the Ming Dynasty and Japan came from the sea and landed in Incheon Port at the Han River estuary to sell various goods.

At the beginning, Wen Lihan and others were quite nervous, thinking that this was a secret spy from the enemy country to inquire about the news. There were generally no foreign merchants coming to Seoul because North Korea and Ming Dynasty had a trade route. They had been on land route for more than two hundred years, and most of the goods were exported from there.

Even though this road is occupied by the Qing Dynasty, the merchants from the Ming Dynasty and North Korean merchants have not stopped trading and there is no need to do anything else on the sea route.

The suspicion did not last long, and the purchase from Shengjing said that it was all about the fine things that came from overseas and from Jiangnan. It is said that they were very fond of the noble families of Shengjing Banners, and these ships could also bring some news from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. There are many benefits.

The goods brought by these merchants are indeed better. They are more refined than the things traded in Liaodong, and they have more variety. Not only the people in Shengjing, but also the nobles of the royal family and civil and military ranks in Seoul, as well as the wealthy businessmen, were also purchased in large quantities, and gradually the business became bigger.

Several large merchants opened warehouses and shops in Incheon Port and Seoul, and started a long-term business. At first, there were several Japanese merchants, but later they were squeezed away by the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants. I heard that those Japanese merchants were not lucky, and they suffered storms on the sea, and their ships were sank.

These businessmen who do business in the city are the people of the Ming Dynasty, but North Korea is already a vassal state in the Qing Dynasty. The two sides have a relationship with the enemy country. Naturally, the enemy country has to be regarded as enemies. Although these shops have some relationships with Shengjing, the county magistrates are better to take charge of them now. These shops always give Wen Lihan and others some regular filial piety, and they will also give money whenever a large number of goods arrive.

Wen Lihan didn't expect that he would have made extra money in addition to a comfortable life. Moreover, the extra money was more than a month. The businessmen had better business, and the more filial piety he received.

Moreover, these Ming Dynasty merchants looked softer than the Koreans in Seoul. When they saw themselves and their flag managers, they nodded and greeted each other. Some greedy flag managers took some things in the store to make a profit, and those merchants and friends dared not stop them.

Even when I heard that I had won a battle in Hejian Prefecture, these Ming merchants from the south were very polite, and they were all soft cowards.

In October of the first year of Shunzhi, Wenlihan lived a more comfortable life than before, because he received news from those who came and went to Shengjing that after Prince Rui Dorgon became the regent, the originally broken Zhenglan Banner became the target of being won over. Wenlihan's master was said to have taken up another level and took the position of governor. In this way, Wenlihan's comfortable life in this Seoul would have more time.

According to previous rules, after October, the sea was frozen in the port, the wind and waves were too strong, and the ships in the south often could not pass. However, the North Korean and the Qing Dynasty also had to celebrate the Spring Festival. During this New Year holiday, all valuable goods were sold particularly well, so all major shops had to transport a batch of goods to store.

When a large number of goods were in and out, they were naturally indispensable to giving him the usual filial piety of Mr. Wenlihan. Wenlihan had calculated that he had a lot of money left in his hands in the past few years. The shop run by the Zheng family had always invited him to invest in individual stocks and promised him to share the dividends of 10% of the money with 30% of the money. Should he invest this money in it?

On October 12th, Wen Lihan, the leader of the Qing Dynasty who was stationed in Seoul, North Korea, saw that the weather was good and was about to go out for a walk. He brought two escorts with him.

The so-called shopping is to go to the street south of Seoul. Several Han and Korean shops are there. When you go there, you can eat and eat and take filial piety. Maybe you can even invite him to play with women, which is very comfortable.

Wen Lihan and his two subordinates were riding horses and swaggeringly walking on the street. Seeing the pedestrians along the way respectfully dodged, some ordinary people even saluted on the side of the road. Wen Lihan felt particularly comfortable in his heart. These Koreans and the Han people of the Ming Dynasty were all untouchables.

I have heard that the south of the Ming Dynasty is a flower world that is a hundred times more prosperous than Shengjing and Seoul. I don’t know how much I enjoy it when I follow my master to fight there. As for the great defeat in Hejian Mansion, it turns out that the country has used millions of troops and horses. There is still a thief in the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible for them to move so many soldiers this time, and they will not have such good luck next time.

The weather was clear and as the street was about to arrive, Wen Lihan was in a better mood. As soon as he entered this street, a North Korean businessman immediately ran out of the shop and greeted him in half-baked Chinese dialect. There were only a few people on the border in North Korea who could speak Jurchen, and those with a little status understood Chinese dialect. Of course, Wen Lihan could understand Chinese dialect.

What made Wen Lihan a little unhappy was that the Han merchants who were most attentive in their daily life did not come out. Didn’t they know that they were coming? Wen Lihan whipped off the horse in wonder. At this time, a sentence was clearly transmitted into his ears, and someone said disdainfully:
Chapter completed!
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