Chapter 2653

Why did the capital of another country resemble the city of Haihan? The young officials didn't quite understand what Fuli meant. But later they entered the city in a carriage, and what they saw on the way verified Fuli's assessment.

Whether inside or outside the city, you can often see Haihan style buildings on both sides of the avenue, or shops with Chinese character signs. It can be seen that there are quite a lot of Haihan people living in Seoul. However, because the king's honor guard entered the city at this time, all the convoys were

The streets they passed were closed under martial law, and they could only take a rough look in the car.

Fu Li, Shi Chengwu, and Wang Anguo were riding in the same car and asked them: "Let me test you. In what year did our country and North Korea sign the agreement to establish diplomatic relations?"

Wang Anguo responded confidently: "In the year 1636 of the Haihan calendar, that is, nineteen years ago, my father was one of the people who promoted this matter."

When the Haihan Army launched a spring offensive in Jinzhou, Liaodong, and defeated the Manchu Qing forces, Wang Tom took advantage of the situation and led the armed fleet directly to Seoul, forcing King Li Jie to sign an alliance with Haihan and establish formal diplomatic relations. At that time, the relevant agreement was signed.

, North Korea was still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty in theory, and it was from this moment that the relationship between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty began to undergo subtle changes.

Although Haihan, Ming Dynasty, and North Korea later signed the Three Kingdoms Covenant, its purpose was mainly to jointly deal with the Manchu and Qing forces in the north, and Haihan did not stop trying to control North Korea.

The following year, the Manchu and Qing dynasties went south to attack North Korea, and Haihan took the opportunity to send troops to North Korea. After the war, Haihan legitimately stationed troops in North Korea for a long time, achieving indirect control of North Korea through military means. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had been conquered.

After being kicked out, the so-called vassal relationship basically came to an end.

When this period of history took place, Shi Chengwu and Wang Anguo were still young children, but like all the new generations of Haihan born during this period, they had studied relevant history in school. And their parents were the ones who created this period.

Participants in history have privately told them many inside stories that outsiders don't know, so the information they have is more detailed.

Fu Li nodded and said: "The agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations signed between our country and North Korea included provisions on trade and commerce, so from that time on, merchants and various commercial institutions from Haihan entered North Korea to engage in trade activities, and Seoul was of course

A must-visit place.”

"Over the past ten years, according to the data we have, there have been more than 500 commercial institutions belonging to our country in Seoul and the nearby Gyeonggi-do area alone. There are also nearly 10,000 Chinese nationals who have lived in this area for a long time. Every year

The various commodities and materials imported to North Korea through Seoul are worth millions of dollars, which is a scale of trade that cannot be ignored even for our country."

The two Stone Kings were secretly surprised when they heard that the number Fu Li mentioned was much more than they expected.

Then Fu Li continued to say: "Seoul has no natural harbor. From our perspective, it is not a suitable place for sea trade. However, the North Koreans set up their capital here, and at least half of the country's wealth is gathered here, so

A regional trade center will naturally form. All the multinational business groups and shipping companies that you can name basically have offices and operating agencies in Seoul."

When Shi Chengwu heard this, he was secretly thinking about another thing. In terms of geographical environment, Seoul and Hangzhou are similar to a certain extent. They are both located in the lower reaches of the river and close to the coast, and they both lack natural harbors.

Make full use of maritime transport capacity.

However, Haihan has the ability to build a land and sea transshipment center in Ningbo, not far from Hangzhou. There are comprehensive ports with mature conditions such as Zhoushan Dinghai Port that can be used. In the future, there will be freight railways to solve the logistics problems in Hangzhou. The development prospects are bound to be

Far better than the traditional city in front of you.

Wang Anguo asked: "Since our country has so many local industries, there must be a lot of local people who rely on these industries to make a living, right?"

Fu Li nodded and said: "There are at least 70,000 to 80,000 local people who are employed and working in these industries. The number of people who directly and indirectly benefit from these industries is much larger than this. Of course, these are just the private sector.

From this situation, the groups that really benefit the most are the princes, nobles and important court officials who hold all kinds of power in their hands."

There is no need for Fu Li to explain the situation in detail. Of course, Shi Wang and the other two can understand its meaning, because they themselves belong to such vested interests.

Those industries with the highest profits and the easiest to be monopolized must be in the hands of powerful people. This situation is actually not much different whether it is in North Korea or elsewhere.

The convoy headed north from the banks of the Han River, passed through the urban area of ​​Seoul, and finally arrived at the royal palace at the southern foot of Bukhan Mountain.

Most of the current royal palace complex was rebuilt after the Imjin Japanese Rebellion in 1592. At that time, the Japanese invaders captured Seoul in only nineteen days, and the main palace complexes such as Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, and Changgyeonggung Palace were

They were all burned down in the war.

However, just a few years after the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, Hou Jin began to invade North Korea. Under the pressure of the war, the North Korean royal family could not spend much money to rebuild the royal palace, so Li Jie basically did not enjoy it during his reign.

What a blessing, the living environment is not even comparable to the palace on Ganghwa Island.

After Li Zhen ascended the throne, North Korea's economic situation improved year by year due to its trade relationship with Haihan, and it was finally able to free up its hands to slowly rebuild the palace. Over the past ten years, the original appearance of the palace complex in the royal city has been basically restored. And

Because North Korea was no longer under the control of the Ming Dynasty, it no longer had to abide by the previous rules of monarchs and ministers. Under Li Xie's instructions, the scale of the newly built palace was larger than before, and it did not look as shabby as the Ganghwa Island Palace.

At present, Li Zhen's main palace is located in Gyeongbokgung Palace. There are Qinzheng Hall, Ideological Hall, Kangning Hall, Jiaotai Hall, Ciqing Hall and other palace buildings in the palace. The banquet prepared by Li Zhen for the Haihan envoy,

It is located in the Gyeonghui Building next to an artificial lake in Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Although Qinghui Building has the word "building", it actually only has two floors, upper and lower. This place is specially used for the king to hold banquets to entertain ministers or foreign envoys, which is equivalent to a royal banquet hall.

Because this kind of diplomatic banquet involves relations between the two countries, the ceremony is complicated and lengthy, and with the large number of attendees, it is inconvenient to exchange some sensitive topics. Therefore, for the young officials of the Haihan Mission, this is not a pleasant event.

occasion.
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