Chapter 1767 The Situation of North Korea

Sending military advisers to other countries is not a new operation for Haihan. As early as the Annan Civil War, Haihan sent military advisers to North Vietnam, which he supported, and assisted North Vietnam in establishing a training camp on the Do Son Peninsula.

It trained the new army to use muskets and artillery. Later, it reached a cooperative relationship with Fujian Xu Xinsu. As part of the arms trade agreement between the two parties, Haihan also dispatched military advisers to the local area to conduct similar operations.

To this day, military advisers are still an indispensable part of the diplomatic personnel sent by Haihan to allies. The arms produced by Haihan can become best-sellers in the South China Sea region, and these military advisers stationed overseas also play an important role. North Korea

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations last year, we have purchased a small amount of new weapons provided by Haihan, and were invited to send military observers to Liaodong to observe the battle between Haihan and Hou Jin. We intuitively felt Haihan's strength in the military field.

Originally, Haihan was supposed to send military advisers to North Korea in accordance with the arms sales agreement. However, because the wars in the Liaodong and South China Sea battlefields were too closely connected at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Haihan's military personnel arrangement was very tight, and it has been delayed.

No way, if Li Xi hadn't taken the initiative to make the request this time, I'm afraid this matter might have been delayed for another year and a half.

Of course, stationing military advisers and stationing troops are still two completely different concepts. Even if North Korea is willing to subsidize military expenses out of its own pocket and ask Haihan to send troops to station, Haihan indeed cannot spare enough troops to serve as a protective umbrella in North Korea. Therefore.

Even though Yan Chujie was greatly moved by Li Xi's proposal, he still had to act calm, wear down the other party's patience bit by bit, and try his best to obtain better conditions for Haihan to station troops in North Korea in the future.

"North Koreans are so active?" Tao Donglai heard the news later and couldn't help but feel a little surprised. In the executive committee's plan, although North Korea was one of the targets that had to be won over, he did not expect that the progress would be slow.

It became so fast because of the other party's initiative.

"I suspect that the military pressure North Korea is currently facing may not only come from Hou Jin." Yan Chujie had already thought about it a little and put forward an idea of ​​his own: "Maybe Japan is starting to take advantage of North Korea again."

"Little Japan should be in the stage of seclusion at this time. Logically speaking, it will not come out to cause trouble." Among the people present, Ning Qi was the most knowledgeable about history. He then briefly explained the situation of Japan at this historical stage to everyone.

In the Battle of Korea forty years ago, Japan, which mobilized its troops to fight across the sea, was also seriously injured. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi passed away in 1598, Tokugawa Ieyasu recalled the troops to conquer Korea. In the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Tokugawa

Ieyasu conquered the world in one battle and established the Edo shogunate three years later, which actually took control of Japan. Diplomacy between North Korea and Japan was actually restored with the dispatch of messengers from North Korea to Japan in 1607.

Two years later, the Keichang Treaty, which focused on trade, was signed, stipulating that Japan could set up a Japanese pavilion in Busan and send twenty merchant ships to North Korea for trade every year.

Ning Qi added here: "Of course, the actual number must be more than twenty. After all, this kind of profitable business will make many people jealous. I think whether it is Japan or North Korea, there must be someone secretly operating smuggling

trading."

Tao Donglai said: "Aren't the two places Hirado and Nagasaki the base camps of smugglers? Presumably they will not miss the fat meat of North Korea."

Ning Qi nodded and said: "You are right, and the people involved may be far more than just maritime merchants from Northeast Asia."

Zheng Zhilong, the leader of Shibazhi who was opposed to Haihan at the beginning, had his adoptive father Li Dan who was a pirate merchant living in Hirado, Japan. Zheng Zhilong later married the daughter of the Hirado clan's Matsuura clan retainer Yuhuang Tagawa. However, later ten

Bazhi was wiped out by the combined forces of Haihan and Ming armies in Fujian, and the armed merchants in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, were all surrendered to death. They were included under the rule of Haihan, which almost cut off the ties between Japan and Ming Dynasty.

Maritime trade. Only a very small number of Zhusin ships chartered by the Edo shogunate will continue to run the trade routes of the Ming Dynasty.

However, before Haihan monopolized several major foreign trade ports in the Ming Dynasty, there were actually merchant ships from Western countries running the route between the Ming Dynasty and Japan. The Portuguese arrived in Japan as early as the 16th century and imported matchlock guns to the locals through trade.

This new weapon. While resuming trade with Korea in 1609, Japan opened trade with the Netherlands. In 1613, British merchants were allowed to open commercial offices in Hirado and sent envoys to Europe to visit various countries. In 1618, the shogunate announced the opening of Hirado.

, Nagasaki and Nagasaki are treaty ports.

Among the Western countries that entered Japan, the vast majority were recognized by the shogunate and obtained trade opportunities, but Spain was undoubtedly one of the unlucky ones. In 1596, the Spanish merchant ship San Felipe entered Japan due to damage to its hull.

Tosa Domain's Urato Port was being repaired because the crew's careless words aroused Toyotomi Hideyoshi's dissatisfaction. Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi died two years later, Spain's trade status in Japan was not improved. By 1624,

The shogunate simply banned Spanish ships from entering Japan.

The so-called seclusion order comes from the five prohibitions issued by the Tokugawa shogunate from 1633 to 1639 in order to maintain its dominance. The contents mainly prohibited the spread of Catholicism in Japan, and prohibited Japanese from going abroad and Japanese overseas.

Returned to the country, and limited international trade to Nagasaki, allowing only the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands as trading partners. Of course, in fact, local feudal lords would not fully abide by the shogunate's isolation order, and would still trade with specific countries privately.

For example, the Tsushima clan and North Korea, and the Satsuma clan and the Ryukyu Kingdom all continued to maintain trade relations after the lockdown order was issued.

"Although it has become much more difficult for Western merchant ships to go to Japan after we occupied several important ports in Taiwan, I believe there will still be some Western merchant ships taking the Pacific direction to bypass Taiwan and go to Japan." Ning Qi began to summarize his conclusion: "

Historically, the Japanese shogunate has not launched a large-scale war against Korea at this stage, and a war will also cause great damage to the interests of some local lords and foreign businessmen. It will definitely face huge pressure from domestic and foreign countries, so I don’t think

The reason why the North Koreans are so eager to have our country station troops is because they are facing threats from Japan."

Different from Yan Chujie's unilateral speculation, Ning Qi's views on the current North Korea-Japan relations are well-founded and sound reasonable. After the failure of two nationwide conquests against North Korea in the last century, will the Tokugawa shogunate still have the power to conquer North Korea?

It is difficult to say whether there will be enough courage and motivation to launch a new round of war against North Korea, and indeed this situation did not occur in the original history.

"Then what do you think of the attitude of the Koreans?" Tao Donglai asked with interest after listening to Ning Qi's science popularization.

"The pressure on North Korea... should mainly come from the north!" Ning Qi analyzed: "If we hadn't entered Liaodong to disrupt the situation, then last year Huang Taiji would have led an army of 100,000 to conquer North Korea, and the North Koreans would have changed their masters.

Although Hou Jin was eventually dragged down by us in Jinzhou, if we just wanted to put pressure on North Korea, we actually didn't need to send a hundred thousand troops... With North Korea's military strength, I think seven or eight thousand cavalry would be enough to march all the way from the Yalu River

We have reached Seoul."

Although Ning Qi's words were a bit contemptuous of North Korea's military strength, no one of the senior Haihan officials present questioned this. Last year, Wang Tom led the fleet all the way to Seoul, and encountered almost no decent resistance during the process, which shows the defense strength of North Korea.

The degree of weakness. If Hou Jin's maritime armed forces had not been wiped out by Haihan in the past two years, they would have already crossed the sea and headed south, directly to the capital of North Korea to show off their power.

Can the North Koreans themselves realize this weakness? The answer should be yes. Ever since the North Korean envoy Luo Dexian went to Liaodong to see the local war situation with his own eyes, his attitude towards Haihan has been very warm. From building transportation and business to sending civilians there

Liaodong basically encountered no obstacles when assisting in the war, and its cooperative attitude was impeccable. Because of this, Haihan immediately sold a batch of arms to North Korea after the establishment of diplomatic relations to fulfill his promise of military assistance.

However, judging from the performance of the North Korean envoy this time, just selling arms to him is far from helping the North Koreans build the confidence to fight against Hou Jin. This country seems to be more accustomed to relying on the asylum provided by the strong - provided that this

The strong one must be the Han regime. Although Haihan is located in a corner of the South China Sea, it is a real Han regime, so it has gained a lot of trust in North Korea. Even on such a sensitive matter as garrisoning troops, it did not ask the Ming Dynasty for instructions.

Suggestions were made directly to Haihan.

"The Ministry of National Defense should implement the situation in Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible!" After hearing Ning Qi's views, Tao Donglai turned to Yan Chujie and made a request.

Yan Chujie nodded and responded: "I will arrange to send a telegram later, but the troops stationed in Liaodong rarely go out for activities now. It may take some time to find out the situation in North Korea."

After the winter of last year, most of the elite troops of the navy and army originally deployed in Liaodong were transferred back to the south to participate in the Battle of Manila. Objectively speaking, the combat strength of the Haihan Army in Liaodong has declined. However, the Houjin Army increased in winter.

The troops stationed in the area north of the Jinzhou Defense Line exerted greater defensive pressure on Haihan. The troops currently stationed in Jinzhou had to shrink their scope of activities and concentrate their forces near the Jinzhou Isthmus to prevent Hou Jin from attacking again.

Launch a counterattack.

After such active contraction, the military intelligence that Haihan can control will naturally be greatly reduced. For the situation on the Korean Peninsula, he basically relies on Koreans taking the initiative to inform him, or from the uncle and nephew of the Shen family in Pidao. However, the soldiers and civilians of Pidao

Before winter, most of them had already moved into the Dongjiang Town resettlement area designated here in Jinzhou, and had almost given up on Pi Island, so the information they could provide was extremely limited.

In addition to issuing emergency messages every three days, North Korea rarely seems to provide truly valuable military intelligence. However, this kind of vague and lack of detailed information on the movements of the Jin army is just because North Korea is too nervous, Haihan thinks.

, they thought that Hou Jin was going to invade on a large scale at the slightest sign of trouble. In fact, it might just be that Hou Jin sent 1,800 people to conduct daily harassment in the border areas of North Korea.

Haihan initially sent a ship to the Yalu River estuary to confirm the situation, but North Korea repeatedly had military emergencies. In fact, the Jin army did not invade North Korea on a large scale. The more times it happened, the more it became a wolf.

When the story came, the Haihan Army did not take it seriously after receiving the warning from North Korea.

According to the reports received by Yan Chujie, North Korea has asked the Liaodong garrison for help more than ten times this winter, but so far there has been no real sign that Hou Jin intends to take action against North Korea. Therefore, it is necessary to confirm the military pressure on North Korea.

Then the Liaodong garrison would have to go to the border between North Korea and Hou Jin again to find out what happened and find out whether the North Koreans were unfounded or whether Hou Jin was really quietly gathering troops on the North Korean border and preparing to take action.

Regarding this possible situation, it is difficult for Haihan senior officials to judge based on the original historical trend, because Haihan's actions in the Liaodong region have completely changed history, and what will happen next in the region has nothing to do with them.

The historical records known in the past are completely different, so we can only take them one step at a time.

"If Hou Jin really wants to suppress the enemy first, then should we send more troops to Liaodong again?" Ning Qi asked a hypothetical question.

Yan Chujie thought for a while and said: "Our military strength probably cannot take care of the two battlefields in Liaodong and North Korea. We can only ensure that Jinzhou is not lost first. But having said that, if Hou Jin really raises troops to attack North Korea, it will not be bad for us.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing.”

Yan Chujie's meaning was understood by all the senior officials of Haihan present. Among the population structure of Haihan, the proportion of war refugees cannot be ignored. From Annan to Daming, war refugees have always been one of the main sources of immigrants recruited by Haihan. If

If North Korea is invaded by Hou Jin, it will inevitably produce tens of thousands of war refugees. Haihan will then be able to accept these homeless refugees as a good person, and the cost will be far greater than in peacetime.

Regions recruit far fewer immigrants.

Moreover, the more the national power of a country like North Korea is weakened, the less difficult it will be for Haihan to control it in the future. Even if North Korea is destroyed, Haihan can still support a puppet regime to continue in the future.

domination of the Korean peninsula.

"I understand, it's time to watch the excitement." Ning Qi nodded, expressing his understanding of the military's attitude. Although the Koreans may fall into the suffering of the war, but weighing the pros and cons, of course they must choose to fight against Haihan

The most advantageous way to deal with it. In the face of national interests, Ning Qi will no longer have any benevolence as a woman.
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