In early October, the emperor's flagship, the Dragon God of the Sea, finally entered Tianjin Port.

After leaving Seoul, North Korea, Liu Jun did not directly cross the Yellow Sea to Dengzhou, but went north along the coast and inspected Pyongyang, Zhenjiang, Lushun, Yingkou, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan and other places.

Tianjin officials and people rushed to the port to welcome the emperor. After Liu Jun landed in Tianjin, he inspected Tianjin's military camps and several military academies, and visited several famous shipyards in Tianjin and other large chambers of commerce. He then took a canal boat to return to Beijing from Tianjin.

When I passed by Tianjin City, I stayed in the city for one night and summoned all the officials from the Tianjin Prefecture. The next day, the imperial guards went straight to the capital along the canal. Thanks to the completion of the reservoir built in Huailai, Xuanhua Prefecture in northwest of the capital, the water drawn from there was through the capital canal, so that the ships in the canal can no longer only reach Tongzhou, but can go directly to the capital wharf.

On the day of arriving in Beijing, hundreds of officials left behind in the court led countless people out of the capital to welcome him twenty miles.

The court was very happy about the emperor's triumphant success, and even ordinary people responded enthusiastically. Although the emperor left the capital, he was actually only inspecting Japan and Korea and did not really go to the front line. But in the eyes of the people, the Han annexation of Japan and Korea this time was undoubtedly the result of the wise and great Emperor's success in the personal expedition.

The credit for taking Japan and North Korea should be His Majesty the Emperor.

As the emperor arrived in Beijing, a large number of North Korean officials, two classes of nobles and Korean scholars. These people came to Beijing to study and study. The emperor brought many senior Korean civil and military officials back to Beijing, and publicly asked them to study. After the four-year study period expired, they could stay in the capital, or become officials in the Hanzhong. The two groups of children, and some ordinary scholars, would also study in the university in the capital. After four years, they would be able to take the imperial examination, or go directly to the local government to serve as official positions, starting from the top.

In short, this study sounds like a promising gilding journey. It takes four years to become a Han official. Of course, in fact, this study is a plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain. First, most of the North Korean officials were transferred and sent to the capital to study for four years. With these four years, the court can send officials to North Korea to take office. In the future, more North Korean officials will be sent out one after another through the name of studying in Beijing.

Liu Jun believes that in this way, the Han Dynasty's actual control over North Korea should be greatly enhanced. As for the four-year study period, Liu Jun believes that four years will be enough to change many of these North Korean officials' old ideas. If they can show their enthusiasm for serving the empire at that time, of course they can also be appointed.

The two groups of children, as well as some common people, are coming to study and study, and participate in the imperial examinations in the future. Or they directly sent local officials to serve as lower-level officials, and may return to North Korea to serve as officials in the future. Liu Jun is confident that these young people will definitely be reluctant to go back to the small place in North Korea after living here for a few years.

Following the emperor along the way, many North Korean officials and scholars had fully felt that North Korea was just a small country, and the Han Dynasty was the real country of ****. Many people originally thought that North Korea had developed very fast in recent years and was very prosperous and prosperous.

But after leaving Seoul, many villages were still the same as before. They were very backward, but when they arrived near the Yalu River, the former Han concessions immediately felt like another place. It was obviously more energetic. The Koreans there were cleaner clothes, and ordinary people were healthier. The towns and villages had to be cleaner and cleaner.

But when they crossed the Yalu River and arrived at Zhenjiang north of the river mouth, they suddenly discovered that it was only apart by a river, but the land of the Han people in the north of the Yangtze River was even more prosperous.

Just a few years ago, the north of the Yalu River was still the territory of the Jurchens. After the Han army arrived, it was also a place where many battles were fought, with troops and refugees everywhere.

But in just a few years, Zhenjiang has now become the most prosperous city in the Yalu River area. This place with heavy troops stationed in the Han Empire, the Han Dynasty, is the center of the entire Yalu River Basin.

Zhenjiang City has only the population of the city that has exceeded 100,000. The rapidly increasing population has even made Zhenjiang's city walls unable to keep up, which makes Zhenjiang City quite unique now. Zhenjiang's inner city has only a population of more than 10,000, while the outer city with a population of more than 100,000 is actually only built outside with an earth wall that is only two meters high.

Yes, the rapid development of the earth wall and the rapid development of the population has made the city wall construction unable to keep up, so we can only build a earth wall to replace it. It is said that this earth wall was just completed this year, and it turned out to be a wooden fence.

Fortunately, there are many fortresses around Zhenjiang, with many fortresses, and heavy troops stationed, so safety is not a problem. Although the outer city only has earthen walls, the city is well planned.

Commercial areas, residential areas, etc., official offices, schools, military camps, hospitals, etc. are fully functional.

On both sides of the straight and wide cross street in the city, there are shops, and the Zhenjiang Wharf beside the city is surrounded by sails and oars. Businesses and travelers are constantly traveling, fur goods from Jilin and Haixi, ginseng from North Korea, etc., here has become an important commodity distribution center. Many merchants and goods transported from the Central Plains arrive here from the sea, and then enter the inland through the Yalu River and its tributaries, and others enter by land.

The local products from all over the country gather here bit by bit and finally transported back to the Central Plains.

A large number of immigrants who went to Jilin, Haixi, North Korea and northeastern Liaoning also landed here.

The huge transaction volume has made Zhenjiang City a new city, and many North Koreans were stunned, just like rural people entering the city.

They even couldn't understand it. They found that although Zhenjiang had heavy troops stationed, they did not seem to be very defensive. A large number of vendors came in and out, and it looked more like a big market. The biggest impression here gave them was the prosperity of industry and commerce.

Not only are there vendors who keep coming and going, but there are also many factories and workshops built here. A large number of North Koreans work in these workshops, but they are not forced, but attracted by extremely generous salaries. In those workshops in Zhenjiang, North Korean workers can get at least four silver dollars. Although this salary is much lower than that in the Central Plains, for North Koreans, working in Zhenjiang earns four silver dollars a month is much better than in the past. Especially when the workmanship is also suitable for food and accommodation, you can save money. When you go home, you bring your home to your hometown, and the price consumption level in your hometown is much lower than that in Zhenjiang.

Many North Korean officials and scholars who went to the capital to study brought a lot of North Korean native products when they left North Korea, mainly ginseng and Dongzhu. When they were in Zhenjiang, they saw that the ginseng transactions here were very prosperous, and many people couldn't help but take advantage of ginseng and Dongzhu, and then bought some pocket watches, telescopes, silk and other big Han products. The same products were much higher than those in Zhenjiang when they were in Seoul.

However, when they followed the emperor to Lushun, Liaodong Peninsula, they immediately regretted it.

Compared with Zhenjiang, Lushun, a port city that is across the sea from the Shandong Peninsula, is much more prosperous than Zhenjiang. This was once the base of the Han emperors to conquer the Jurchens, and the emperor stayed here for more than a year. After several years of development, the two ports of Nanjian, Lushun and Dalian of the Liaodong Peninsula have become two extremely prosperous twin cities.

Each port has a population of more than 200,000, and its shipbuilding industry is also quite developed. There are many large shipyards standing by the sea, making its trade even more prosperous.

There was also the fortress in the port, with huge cannons standing up, making the port as imperfect as a soup, making the Koreans even more amazed.

After that, when passing Yingkou Port City, which was at the mouth of the Liao River, the busy and prosperous port city could no longer arouse their excitement. It seemed that if this was not the case, it would be strange.

Later, the cities such as Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan, and Qinhuangdao were smaller than those of Zhenjiang, Lushun, and Dalian, but they were still extremely lively.

When we arrived in Tianjin, these talents were really stunned.

Compared with the Dongdamen of the imperial capital, Tianjin's prosperity is no less than that of the capital, far from comparable to Zhenjiang and Lushun. Because of the prosperity of the Han Dynasty's shipping, as the capital's port, there are countless sailing ships, countless supplies and commodities, which are continuously transported from all over the empire to the place by sea, and then transferred to Beijing.

The business atmosphere here is also stronger.

"Why did the great man value industry and commerce so much? Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"

Some North Korean officials were a little confused. They used to claim that they were Little China and copied the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and they also closed down, emphasized scholars and farmers to suppress industry and commerce, and even party struggles. But now, looking at the Han Dynasty, all regions attach so much importance to industry and commerce, and did not discriminate against workers and businessmen at all. They even saw that in some large factories, some experienced craftsmen were not only highly valued, but also received higher salaries than those of a county magistrate who came from the imperial examination.

Those businessmen, even guests of honor from government officials everywhere, have some identities in various places.

I heard that the Han Dynasty has now abolished the household registration division, no distinction between private households and military households, no craftsmen, and no cheap households. This is simply a mess in the eyes of North Korean officials who attach great importance to class.

Many North Korean officials also discovered a fact, that is, the Han Dynasty was too relaxed about industry and commerce, but on the other hand, the taxes levied on industry and commerce were numerous and extremely numerous. Various taxes were simply like being stripped down. But they did not see the craftsmen and merchants being dissatisfied with it, nor did they see the market chaos. This is another thing they couldn't understand.

Such heavy taxes are more powerful than tigers. Shouldn’t the people’s businessmen be resentful? Why, but are the industry and commerce so prosperous? Can the people of the Han Dynasty be more tolerant?

When these Koreans saw the more prosperous capital of the Han Dynasty and heard that the annual fiscal revenue of the Han Dynasty exceeded one billion silver dollars, these people were shocked. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty was indeed a powerful lord. He heard that Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty could only collect more than two million taels of silver a year, but it had already caused resentment from the people. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty plundered 1 billion silver dollars a year, and the Central Plains was still so prosperous. It was really a skill to make money, no, it was a skill to plunder!

One billion silver dollars is simply a heavy tax collection! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!