Chapter 58 Rich
My father-in-law can't delay in North Korea for too long. He must strive to resolve the North Korean issue within one month, and delay it for a few more days at the latest.
After all, with the soldiers and strength of the Ming Emperor's personal army brought to North Korea by his father-in-law, it is basically impossible to solve the North Korean issue by military means alone.
The longer the time goes, the greater the danger. Once you fall into the vast ocean of reactionary officials and civilians in North Korea, your father-in-law will probably have little hope of returning to the country.
As the saying goes, people cannot be too rude. If you die before you succeed, your father-in-law will never allow you to do so.
Therefore, my father-in-law was actually eager to send someone to see him as an angel as soon as possible, so that everyone could sit down and have tea and have a heart-to-heart talk.
In the final analysis, it is money. For the deep affection between the father and son of China and the friendship between the two countries, you can just give us some money to the emperor.
If you don’t have money to handle some money, will the emperor take the blame for the sacrificial work?
For the sake of the Ming Dynasty and for myself, my father-in-law was more determined to look forward to negotiations.
No matter what, with the title of the Celestial Envoy, North Korea did not dare to offend him too much. Even if there were some doubts, they could not go to Beijing to inquire about the situation.
The father-in-law with high political wisdom ordered Yizhou to cut off the land route between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, and also asked the left-behind officers and soldiers in Jinzhou to block the sea route.
The water and land are not connected, so where did the North Koreans go to confirm whether this envoy really represented the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to ask for money?
Judging from the time, Seoul has already received news of the entry of the heavenly soldiers, and maybe the special envoy of the government is on the way to come.
Therefore, after two or three days, the "peace talks" will definitely begin.
However, Park Jung-tae, who had thoroughly understood his father-in-law's thoughts, told his father-in-law very seriously that he and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty should not be delayed in Jingcheng and must immediately inspect the Pyeong Road.
There are three reasons.
First, Park Jung-tae told his father-in-law responsibly that the envoy from Seoul would never be able to negotiate with him about the losses of the Ming Dynasty in the "Ion-chen Japanese riot". Even if the envoy is willing to negotiate, the government and the king agreed. After a while, he would not have been able to sit at the negotiating table.
Second, if my father-in-law really wants to get compensation from Seoul, he must destroy the Peace Road imperial guards and then threaten the Hwanghai Road, so that Seoul can feel enough pressure from the Celestial Empire. Only in this way can the government and the king choose to spend money to eliminate disasters.
Third, Ping An Road is not a poor place that my father-in-law thinks, but a lot of money.
Nani?
My father-in-law was born with a soft ear and couldn't listen to others' blows, so he was moved at that time. After thinking about it over and over again, he felt that Park Sang's three statements were very reasonable, and waiting negatively is not the attitude to solve the problem.
Only by struggle can we seek unity.
He immediately agreed with Park Sang's friendly suggestions and asked why Ping An Daodi was rich.
Park Jun's eyes were very ambiguous. After taking a sip of tea, he told his father-in-law about his country's economic problems.
After Park Jun's introduction, his father-in-law discovered that he had made a dogmatic mistake, that is, he mistakenly regarded silver, which has now become the legal currency of the Ming Dynasty, as North Korea's currency.
In fact, North Korea now has no legal currency. They implemented the in-kind tax law in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. That is, the country's fiscal revenue mainly comes from land tax, and land tax is paid in rice, broth and other in-kind goods. This system is called the tribute system.
During the "Ionchen Japanese riot", North Korea's military ration supply became the primary issue, and it was impossible to collect tributes during the war era. Therefore, North Korea began to redeem rice in Chungcheong Dok and Jeolla Dok to replace all tributes.
Just four years ago, the Seoul government decided to pilot the "Datong Law" in Gyeonggi Province, abolishing all the long tributes (except for non-tribute tributes) offered to the central departments headed by the Gongshi and the local officials and replaced them with a system of expropriating rice on land. The expropriated rice was called "Datong rice". This made the value of metals such as gold and silver lower, and except for the use of the black market, ordinary people would basically not own them.
However, the Pyeong Dok and Hamkyung Protectorate did not implement the Datong Law, but implemented a system of physical system and silver and copper coins in parallel.
The reason is very simple, these two places need to trade with the Ming Dynasty.
With the implementation of the Datong Law in the southern sections, a large amount of gold and silver flowed to the north under the operation of profit-seeking merchants. Because Jingcheng was often invaded by Jurchens, merchants thought it was unsafe, so the main flow of gold and silver was the Pekan Road. In addition, the southernmost two paths, Jeolla and Gyeongshang, were also large areas of gold, silver and copper flowing in. The Japanese turmoil in the Iron-chen did not affect the trade between merchants and Japan.
There is a mutual market, gold and silver inflow, and the Datong method has not been implemented yet. This is why Ping An Road is rich.
But, besides these, there is one of the most important reasons, that is, it has mines!
Silver Mine!
This silver mine is the Duanchuan silver mine located in Ping'an Road.
According to Park Jung-tae, the person who developed this silver mine was the current King of Korea, Lee Hung, who was granted the title of Gwanghae-jun when he was the crown prince.
The father-in-law nodded slightly. This Guanghai Jun is a very interesting lord in the history of North Korea. His experience before being a king is very similar to his own country's struggle for the country's foundation. However, the role is contrary. Guanghai Jun is the role of King Fu. It is precisely because he is not the eldest son, so he could not get the title of Wanli after he ascended the throne. In the end, Guanghai Jun bribed the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and Wanli sent eunuch Liu Yong to appoint him as the King of Korea.
The specific location of the Duanchuan Silver Mine is in the mountains more than 50 miles southwest of Hongyuan Prefecture. The purpose of Kwang Haijun's development of the Duanchuan Silver Mine was to raise military expenses. At that time, because there were no technicians engaged in mineral development in North Korea, he specially hired technicians from the Ming Dynasty to join North Korea.
"If an angel can raise troops to inspect peace and capture Hongyuan, then Duanchuan silver mine will be in the angel's bag..." Park Jung-tae vividly showed the angel's good money prospects.
"Park Jun, I admire and touched your loyalty to the Ming Dynasty." My father-in-law habitually patted Park Jung-tae on the shoulder with his right hand, which was to show encouragement.
"Don't worry, as long as the Ming Dynasty is here, you will be fine." As he spoke, the father-in-law put the ginger half chewed in his left hand on the table, ordered his guard to take the map, and signaled Park Jung-tae to watch with him.
"Hongyuan?"
My father-in-law's eyes fell on the circle where Hongyuan was. It was a hard bone. Peace Road gathered no less than 10,000 troops here, and there were 2,000 Korean imperial guards, and the combat power should not be underestimated.
Seeing this, Park Jung-tae was afraid that the angel would give up the idea of entering Ping'an Road because he was afraid of the large number of Hongyuan's defenders. He hurriedly said that it was a pity that the soldiers and horses of Ping'an Road were all waste and it was impossible to be attacked by the Daming soldiers.
The father-in-law couldn't help but nodded, and immediately made a decision and ordered Park Jung-tae to lead the Korean troops in Jingcheng as a vanguard to attack Hongwon.
"this!..."
Park Jung-tae was panicked. How could the soldiers in Jingcheng beat Ping'an Road?
"Don't worry, the Imperial Army is behind you!"
Chapter completed!