Chapter 940 Beiming is developing hard

Author: Chongqing Lao Q

Chapter 940 Beiming is developing hard

September 25, 1677, Kuye Island, Guanglingwei (now Starodubskoye, a coastal town in the southwest of Sakhalin Island, Russia).

Three armed merchant ships from the Qiming family sailed into Guanglingwei Pier in a rather embarrassed manner and docked at the slightly crude wooden trestle. Several local Ainu people took the cables thrown by the sailors and tied them to

Standing on the pier piles, and looking expectantly at the ship.

"Mom, we are not a transport ship that delivers supplies to you. How can we have extra drinks for you!" After a few sailors got off the ship, they waved their hands to drive away the Ainu people. Then they looked around, preparing to find the person in charge of the dock.

, get some wood and sails, and make some repairs to the ship that was hit by another storm.

The aboriginal people on Bitterleaf Island are mainly Feyaka people (Nivkh people), Hezhe people, Ainu people, etc. They are ugly in appearance, stout in body, and have long and thick hair, and some people even have braids.

by many local

The immigrants jokingly call it "the country of hairy people, whose people are hairy", and the indigenous people in Zhenzhou to the west, who are called "fish-skin Tatars", are both considered barbarians and need to be tamed for a long time.

, only then can we turn barbarians into summer.

Of course, the reason why these aborigines have thick and thick hair is due to human evolution and the need to adapt to the environment. The weather on the island is extremely cold, so with hair covering them, they can protect themselves from the cold to some extent, right?

The former Yunzhou Town, now Beiming, has colonized this large island for nearly twenty years. The population has grown to more than 70,000, and more than ten towns with more than 500 people have been established, and health stations and villages have been established.

Nearly a hundred places. However, due to climate and environment, most of the population and settlements are located in the warmer southern half of the island.

In the Korean War that just ended, the Northern Ming army not only captured a large number of Koreans, but also captured more than 20,000 Qin troops. All of these people were dispatched by the Northern Ming government to Zhenzhou, Xianning North Road in North Korea, Kuye Island and other sparsely populated places.

territory to enrich local human resources and open up more immigrant settlements.

Guanglingwei, where the three merchant ships docked, was established three years ago and has a population of only more than 80 people. The residents mainly rely on growing potatoes, wheat, millet, and soybeans, supplemented by fishing on the seaside, but they can only barely satisfy their needs.

The local basic food needs, as well as other daily supplies, all rely on Yunzhou's input.

Last year, the North Ming Dynasty launched the Korean War. After acquiring a large number of people, the local government of Kuye Island set up Suning Guard (now Dolinsk, a city in the south of Sakhalin Island) more than ten kilometers south of Guangling Guard.

) and Qingyangwei (today's Sokol, a town in the south of Sakhalin Island) two immigration points will soon be connected with Anyang City in the south (today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City on Sakhalin Island).

Three armed merchant ships stayed here for four days, replacing and repairing damaged ship planks and sails. During this period, they also purchased furs obtained by local immigrants, and even a few rare bear skins.

The local Ainu people have a tradition of slaughtering bears for spiritual sacrifices. They believe that killing bears is to allow them to get closer to the gods and to prove their bravery and strength. After killing the bears, they will

The head is cut off and worshiped, the body of the bear is eaten, and the fur is sold.

These poor Ainu people exchanged a bearskin for only two knives, a can of sugar, a pot of soju and half a bag of rice from the shrewd local immigrants.

As for the skins and meat of other hunted animals, the exchange for them was even cheaper, which really allowed some economically savvy immigrants to make a small fortune.

Like all other new settlements on the island, the houses in Guanglingwei are all built of thick and strong wood. The newly built wooden houses are spacious and bright, and almost all are covered and decorated with thin boards provided by the government. Many of the new houses are surrounded by

A side house was built for household use.

There are neat piles of firewood piled in the courtyard of each small house, which are prepared as fuel for the cold winter season that lasts for several months. The vegetable gardens surrounding the wooden houses are fenced to prevent the poultry from pecking.

Although there are still many houses for new immigrants that have not yet been completed, this small village shows that people are carefully developing their families and welcoming their new lives.

On September 30, three armed merchant ships left Guanglingwei and continued southward, preparing to return to Yunzhou before winter.

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October 12, Yunzhou, Zhongxing (today's Ishikari City, Hokkaido, Japan).

At this time, most of the agricultural production in the Yunzhou area has stopped. The hard-working farmers began to collect the straw in the fields into bundles and carry them back home as the necessary fuel for heating in the winter.

Although, our Ming Dynasty court successively discovered several coal mines with rich reserves in Yunzhou's Hechuan (today's Sunagawa City, Hokkaido), Jiangning (today's Asahikawa City, Hokkaido), Maoshan (today's Hahoro Town, Hokkaido) and other places, and the Daming Sea (today's Honkai

) In Zhenzhou on the west coast, there are also several coal kilns that have been put into production one after another, which can fully meet the winter heating needs of more than 800,000 people in the country.

However, this coal is good, it burns with enough heat, and the heating lasts for a long time, but after all, it costs money to buy it! Except for the wealthy businessmen in the city and the officials and officials with some assets, as well as those

For the officers and soldiers who made a fortune from fighting, ordinary people would never be willing to spend this wasted money.

The winter is cold, so at worst, the doors and windows should be sealed tightly. Put more straw cotton batting on the bed, wear a few more clothes, stuff the straw collected from the fields and the firewood cut in the forest into the stove, and you can barely hold the kang head.

Keep it warm for most of the night, and you can have a full night's sleep.

During the day, everyone put on their fur coats and cotton-padded clothes, visited each other's houses, visited neighbors, bragged and gossiped about each other, and passed the day.

In the middle of winter, when we are already idle in the house and have no work, why don’t we spend some money to buy coal and heat up the house just to live a more comfortable life? For us ordinary people, this is

It’s just a waste of money and materials, and a waste of my meager family resources!

In this Yunzhou, you can have your own fields and houses, and you can still have enough to eat every day. Occasionally, you can spend a few big bucks to buy all kinds of fish that the fishermen handle, and you can also get some.

Hunxing, this life is also delicious. What's not satisfying? It's just to fight against the cold, but it is much better than the refugee life of sleeping on the street without three meals a day!

I heard from the officials in the government that the current Great Qin Dynasty, since Sun Kewang usurped the throne and established himself, has been frantically plundering the people of the country, directly levying more than 60% to 70% of the land tax, plus various exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes, which has made the people miserable and full of complaints.

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This caused countless people from the Qin State to sail across the sea in boats and live in other places to find food and clothing. There were even many people from Liaodong who could not survive and risked their lives to cross the vast jungle and sneak into our territory of Daming Zhenzhou.

Last year, in order to satisfy Sun Kewang's extravagant greed, Qin invaded North Korea brazenly and prepared to plunder those poor North Koreans. If I, the Ming Dynasty, had not stepped forward and sent troops into North Korea, I would have beaten up the Qin army who entered North Korea.

, and finally forced the other party to ask for peace from the Ming Dynasty. Maybe all the millions of Koreans would be plundered as slaves by the Qin army.

Of course, the Qin State had a vast territory, abundant resources, a large population, and hundreds of thousands of troops. Our Ming Dynasty was indeed unable to maintain a stalemate with it for a long time. In the end, we followed the mediation suggestions of the Qi State and ended the war that lasted for one year. However, our Ming Dynasty relied on its strength

With their combat power, they rescued millions of Koreans in the three southeastern corridors of North Korea and brought them under the protection of our Ming Dynasty.

As for whether you are worried that the Qin State will continue to be unfavorable to our Ming Dynasty in the future, and even launch a war against our Ming Dynasty, there is nothing to worry about.

Not to mention that our Ming Dynasty has the most powerful maritime fleet in this region, which is enough to block the Qin army at sea and not invade Yunzhou. Moreover, Qi State made a decision on the territory under the jurisdiction of our Ming Dynasty more than ten years ago.

We have received security guarantees. Last year, we even signed a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with our country, the Ming Dynasty, promising to provide full assistance and protection if the Ming Dynasty is invaded by foreign enemies.

In this way, with the security promise given by the powerful Qi State, we, the Ming Dynasty, are not worried about Qin's invasion and can live our own small life peacefully.

Zhongxing is less than 20 kilometers away from Changning, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Before the annual port freeze, it was Changning's most important foreign trade channel. There were large warehouses and warehouses built around the port.

In addition, Zhongxing City is also an important fishing port and "industrial" town.

The surrounding waters of Yunzhou are extremely rich in fishery resources (Hokkaido fisheries), including salmon, pollock, herring, sardines, saury, etc., all of which are fat and large, rich in protein and fat, and the meat is extremely delicious.

.Therefore, there are more than a dozen fish product processing plants near the dock and in the city, which turn the catch from boat to boat into cans of canned fish or barrels of salted dried fish.

And in this off-season after autumn, a large number of farmers are pouring into the city, taking advantage of the time before the port freezes to work for a short period of "odd work", engaged in port handling, fish product processing, packaging and other tasks.

Earn extra pocket money.

When three armed merchant ships from the Sai Ming family sailed into the port, there were already more than 20 large and small ships docked here. There were fishing boats entering the port to unload, and some were loading various goods for trade in Japan, North Korea, Ryukyu and other places.

Merchant ships, as well as several immigrant ships that brought many refugees from unknown places... made the entire port seem extremely noisy and prosperous.

"Entering the port to unload, or temporarily docking?" A customs officer from the Ming Dynasty asked carefully after looking at the three large ships parked at the berth, one of which was flying the national flag.

In Beiming, not only was its army built and established by the Qi State, but many civil affairs aspects such as local management, tax collection, import and export control, etc. were also copied from the Qi State model. There were even many Qi people working in the customs agencies at various ports.

Specific guidance and management.

Although this Yunzhou trading company is just a private joint-stock trading company in Qi State without any official background, as long as it involves people from Qi State, the local governments in Beiming, including the port customs, have to treat it with caution.

To unload the goods at the port, you must pay the necessary entry duties in accordance with the provisions of the customs commodity management catalog. If the ship docks temporarily, you only need to pay a small port berthing fee. The difference in fees can be hundreds or even thousands.

Ming Dynasty silver dollar.

Well, that’s right, the daily transaction currency of the Ming Dynasty. After Emperor Yanguang ascended the throne last year, he commissioned the state of Qi to imitate the Hanzhou silver dollar model and began to mint the Ming Dynasty silver dollars. Except for the different patterns and seals, the weight, size, and silver content of the silver coins were almost the same.

Second, the exchange ratio with Hanzhou silver dollars is also 1:1.

Of course, as the closest strategic partner, Qi's Hanzhou silver coins can still be widely circulated and used in Beiming without any restrictions.

Except for two merchant ships belonging to the Ming Dynasty Royal Trading Company, which needed to unload some of their cargo because they had to present hundreds of precious furs to the royal family, the three merchant ships that entered the port only stopped here briefly before heading south to Qingyuan.

City (today's Hakodate City, Hokkaido), and traded with many fur buyers from the Han continent, selling their furs in exchange for large amounts of gold and silver or Qi's industrial products.

To say that the city with the largest population and urban area in Yunzhou is none other than Changning (today's Sapporo City), the capital of the Northern Ming Dynasty. A census conducted two years ago showed that this city has a population of more than 70,000, accounting for almost

Nine percent of the total population of the Northern Ming Dynasty. But when it comes to which city has the most prosperous commerce and the most active economy, Qingyuan City under the control of Qi State is the first choice.

Qingyuan City is the largest material distribution center and the largest fur trading center in the entire Yunzhou region. As the only ice-free port in Yunzhou, it is also the core shipping center in the region.

Although Hokkaido acquired a large territory in the northern Mutsu region of Japan two years ago, and Shoka (today's Hachinohe City, Japan) located in the northeast of Japan's Oshima Island is a very good ice-free port, most of the Hokkaido ships

Ships still like to dock at Qingyuan Port.

Without him, Qingyuan can not only provide more port services and ship repair and maintenance services, but also bring together a large number of Qi merchants and a large number of industrial products, providing unlimited business opportunities for everyone.

"Are these people all immigrants?" After paying the port usage fee for two days, the sailors on the Qi merchant ship headed for the city together. They saw hundreds of unkempt refugees sitting in a corner of the pier. They couldn't help but wonder.

He asked.

"Those are all Koreans." A dock clerk curled his lips and said disdainfully: "The local officials of the three southeastern provinces of North Korea were ordered by our Ming Dynasty to recruit 5,000 young men to serve in our Yunzhou. The time limit is three

Years, after the expiration of the term, I will reward you with some money and materials, and then I will send you back."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

The Ming court had just put the three southeastern and southeastern areas of Korea under protection, and it couldn't wait to squeeze and enslave the Koreans.

Nima, it is said that they serve for three years, but most of these Koreans will invest in several mines in Yunzhou, or engage in arduous road construction, and other large-scale infrastructure construction, and in the end half of them will be killed.

After returning to North Korea, it can be said that those ruthless overseers showed mercy.

You see, the earliest aboriginal people in Yunzhou once numbered tens of thousands before the arrival of the Ming Dynasty. But so far, there are not many left. Cannon fodder on the battlefield, coolies in the mines, road construction, deforestation, and

After more than 20 years of wasteland development, there are probably less than 5,000 survivors.

Now, the North Ming Dynasty, which is in urgent need of development, has set its sights on North Korea, which has a more abundant population, and is preparing to use their numerous corpses to gradually develop several core territories under its jurisdiction, and first lay its own foundation.

Imprisoned. If China falls into turmoil again in the future, maybe we can take advantage of the situation to intervene and restore the great Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!