Hong Jinglai, who looked like a handsome nobleman, waved his folding fan, wore silk shoes, and walked into Kuizhang Pavilion lightly.

The scribes guarding the door mistakenly thought he was the eldest young master of a certain family, and nodded and bowed to Hong Jinglai. The person who called Hong Jinglai used the student ID card of a Confucian scholar in Sungkyunkwan Hall, a long ox-horn plaque, and did not use his own official report or official certificate.

household registration number.

Kuijang Pavilion is the palace where the late King Jeongjong preserved the laws and regulations and wrote edicts. Of course, a large number of royal classics and important archive records are also there.

As long as you are willing to look it up, it will eventually come out, and the Li Dynasty will definitely send a communication mission to Japan.

Usually dispatched when a general succeeds to the throne or dies, the standards are much lower than those of Qing missions.

However, the Li Dynasty did have a dedicated diplomatic official for Japan-the Donglai Prefecture Envoy.

If you don’t know Dongnae, he now has a small port, which is not very famous. It is just an inconspicuous small place in Gyeongsang Province. The name is Busanpo. Maybe everyone still doesn’t recognize this name. It’s okay. Later it was renamed Busan.

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Therefore, during the previous Japanese Rebellion, Torai was the first place where Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army landed and attacked.

Because Dongnae is the most important port for North Korea's trade with Japan, or one of the only ports that can still operate normally even when relations between North Korea and Japan collapse.

As the number of Japanese people who stayed in Korea increased, the number reached almost 3,000, and eventually a Japanese museum was opened.

Even now, there are hundreds or even thousands of people living in Japanese temples in Torai. They are under the dual jurisdiction of the Tsushima Fuchu Domain of the Edo Shogunate and the local Ri Dynasty government in Torai.

The government of the Li Dynasty had the power of taxation and adjudication (judicial power) over the Japanese embassy, ​​and its management of the Japanese living in the local area was relatively mature and gentle.

The current Japanese temple in Dongnaebu was built in 1678 (it is located in the Yongdusan Park area of ​​Nampodong, Jung-gu, Busan, South Korea, covering an area of ​​about 100,000 square meters.) Compared with the former Domopo Japanese temple, Choryang

The Japanese Museum is called the New Japanese Museum.

The entire Japanese museum is built on the vast land of Yongtoushan Mountain, including the main building, the market opening hall (trading hall), the judge's hall, Hama Bansho, Benten Shrine and other shrines, as well as Tokoji Temple, Japanese residences and other buildings.

The Japanese who were allowed to live in the Wakan were, under the master sent by the Tsushima Domain, to have trade officials, yokomen, secretaries, general servants and their subordinate officials, as well as small houses and official offices.

House, wine shop merchant.

There are also several medical students and Korean language learners staying in the museum. In this day and age, the medicine of the Li Dynasty is more advanced than that of Japan. Many Japanese feudal doctors and town doctors came to the Wakan to study internal medicine, surgery, and acupuncture.

and other medical knowledge.

In 1727, the Japanese Confucian scholar Yoshio Umori established a Korean language school in Tsushima Fuzhong Domain, and the outstanding students among them would be eligible to study at the Japanese Kankan.

Last year, Li Xi wrote that he was going to Dongnai to find a large house of Liu Chengyong, a merchant from Lai, to do business with the Japanese. He meant doing business with the merchants of Tsushima Fuzhong Domain in the Japanese Pavilion.

Basically, they were second-tier dealers who sent Chinese silk and satin to Torai, where they were collected by Japanese merchants and then transported to Osaka and Edo, forming a complete trade route.

Of course, Raishang himself also smuggled goods and sailed to Japan for trade. After all, the Edo shogunate allowed North Korean merchant ships holding books to dock at Tsushima and Nagasaki.

There are many entries on this point in the records of Dutch merchants. Especially around 1700, there were so many Korean and Qing ships in Nagasaki that at most there were hundreds of merchant ships of hundreds of tons gathering in the port.

Thinking about it this way, if trade with the Qing Dynasty cannot be done, trade with Japan should be good, and Japan produces sulfur, and Japan also produces gold and silver, which are not in short supply in North Korea.

If he went to Donglai to serve as an official, Hong Jinglai felt that it would be okay. Although it was not as good as the training envoy of the Zhamen regiment, it was not much different.

But the level of the Donglai Prefecture envoy is too high. The prefecture level in the Li Dynasty was originally higher than the county level. Just like in the Song Dynasty, the political level of the state was lower than that of the prefecture.

A county governor is already in the fourth rank, let alone a higher-ranking envoy. For example, the governor of Hanyang is even more superior, and is an important position held concurrently by a first- or second-rank court official.

It was impossible for Hong Jinglai to rise up and become a high-ranking official like the Shangfu Envoy. King Sunjong also looked at officials below the fifth rank, but what officials below the fifth rank could negotiate with Japan?

After leaving Kuizhang Pavilion and just arriving home, Zhao Wanyong came to the door.

The young man was very tired and had obviously just arrived home. When Zhao Yinyong said that Hong Jing was looking for him, he came over without stopping.

As soon as the two sat down, the servant brought hot tea, and Zhao Wanyong drank the cup without caring about his appearance.

"Brother Xian, are you hungry or thirsty?" Hong Jinglai didn't mind making a joke.

The two of them are close friends who have cheated together, and they have some similar aspirations. They have similar political ideals, and they are friends who can brag and criticize each other better.

"It's okay if you have some snacks!" Zhao Wanyong put down the tea cup and laughed.

There is no shortage of things to entertain guests at home, and they are always prepared. Han Sanshi excused himself and brought in two plates of snacks.

"Brother, please do as you please!" Since they were looking for snacks, Hong Jinglai stopped greeting him.

Lin Shangwo wrote a letter from Tieshan. Previously, Hong Jinglai had people imitate industrial machines such as looms, carding machines, and spinning machines. There are drawings, but it is a pity that the actual objects were not stolen from the Old Summer Palace last time.

It's really not as simple as building a steam engine using those images of clouds, mountains, and mist that only have shapes.

If you ask the blacksmiths to copy a steam engine according to the instructions and drawings plus a full-scale model, it will only take a few months. But if you let them use their own initiative to imagine and imitate, it is a bit unreliable.

Anyway, Lin Shangwo said that it was still a bit far from perfect, with only an iron frame in shape.

There is still a long way to go before success!

"Brother Shi, it makes me laugh. It's just like a country manor who only eats rough food and doesn't know how to taste it."

"Stay here for dinner. We have some good fish whites, just grill them."

"Then I'm sorry!" Zhao Wanyong leaned over and smiled.

"Brother Xian, you definitely didn't come here just for a meal, right?" Hong Jinglai put the letter away.

"Of course it's more than that. If you come to announce the good news to Brother Shi, you also want to send me wedding money."

"Don't tell me yet and let me guess!"

"Appreciate further details!"

“Gyeongsang Right Road!”

"yes!"

"Right Road Navy Army Wanhu Mansion, Donglai!"

"Since Brother Shi has known this for a long time, I won't be so anxious."

"It's just a brief inquiry, please come and come." In fact, Hong Jinglai couldn't guess what was going on. He could only find out that Donglai was the front line in negotiations with Japan.

Zhao Wanyong thought that Hong Jinglai had already mastered the wisdom and knew clearly about every place and official position, so he became less eager and spoke slowly.
Chapter completed!