The Royal Trading Company of Seoul, North Korea has established a branch here, and the efficiency is still very high.△￠small,...o At this time, the situation in North Korea was obviously not very peaceful.&1t;/p>

Under various reforms, the original vested interest groups in the Kingdom of Korea suffered a great blow, so that rebellious powerful people were everywhere.&1t;/p>

But all these powerful people who made trouble were suppressed by Xun.&1t;/p>

The Korean people sang hymns to the current reform.&1t;/p>

"The Supreme Kingdom is really good to our Korean people! Not only has it reduced tenant rent, it has also reduced taxes and labor service. It has also provided relief to our poor people."&1t;/p>

"Yes! I don't know how long will Shangguo take care of our North Korea?"&1t;/p>

Under such reforms, the people's hearts were successfully bribed by the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhao Yan did not stop, but then made a major change in the North Korean officialdom.&1t;/p>

Previously, the North Korean party struggled severely, and the Eastern People's Party was extremely powerful. After Zhao Yan took over the military and political power of North Korea, the Eastern People's Party jumped out one after another, trying to hold the Ming Dynasty's thigh and suppress the Western People's Party again.&1t;/p>

Unfortunately, Zhao Yan was very disgusted with such party struggles. At this time, Zhao Yan was a governor of North Korea, and he was a magistrate. Moreover, in this North Korea, he was like the emperor, and had a great say. Therefore, Zhao Yan was confident and said nothing about party struggles.&1t;/p>

Whether it is the Eastern Party or the Western Party, Zhao Yan does not need it. Instead, he opens a vocational school in North Korea and selects officials with good reputation at the bottom, and then promotes these people and appoints officials from all over North Korea.&1t;/p>

After a few months, most of the North Korean officialdom was replaced by Zhao Yan.&1t;/p>

Such blood exchange made the North Korean administrative system clear, and the local government's plunder and exploitation of the North Korean people was also banned.&1t;/p>

At the same time, Zhao Yan also ordered the investigation and handling of cases in various parts of North Korea. A large number of unjust and wrong cases were redressed and a large number of officials were held accountable.&1t;/p>

After such measures, the public grievances of the North Korean people were greatly calmed down and social conflicts were effectively alleviated.&1t;/p>

Of course, the problem arose, reducing agricultural taxes and reducing corvee labor. After all the miscellaneous taxes were already available, North Korea's fiscal revenue decreased a lot.&1t;/p>

Although the investigation and taxation of the powerful and the increase of taxes on the powerful and the North Korean kingdom has temporarily soared the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Korea. But it is not a long-term way after all.&1t;/p>

Obviously, this problem was solved by the royal trading company.&1t;/p>

As a middle-level relationship, the Royal Bank contacted the political loan from North Korea. The first loan signed by the two parties was as high as 50,000 yuan, and nearly half of it was used to purchase food from the Royal Bank.&1t;/p>

The business of the Royal Trading Bank in North Korea is also expanding rapidly. In addition to the official order procurement of North Korea, the most important thing is bilateral trade.&1t;/p>

Because Liaodong was captured by wild boar skins, the trade routes on the land of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea were cut off, so many maritime merchants smuggled food, gunpowder and other goods to North Korea. In the past two years, many private merchants have been sent back by North Korea every year.&1t;/p>

This time, Zhao Yan Governor North Korea established import and export tariffs. In order to target these private maritime merchants' intervention in North Korea, the Royal Trading Company's business establishment in North Korea can monopolize trade.&1t;/p>

In the past, trade with North Korea was mainly divided into three types: gift trade, envoy trade, and private trade. Now the King of Korea has been deprived of its management power over North Korea. The gift trade does not need to continue. The envoy trade, also called "angel trade". The envoys sent to North Korea were often mixed with some commercial businesses. These envoys often asked for trade goods from North Korea, which caused quite a lot of disgust. However, it was not too much to ask for goods, and the North Koreans could barely accept it.&1t;/p>

The envoys sent by North Korea to the Ming Dynasty will also purchase books, medicinal materials and other goods in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

This kind of envoy trade no longer exists at this time.&1t;/p>

The rest is private trade. Because of the establishment of tariffs, merchants from the Ming Dynasty or North Korea can conduct bilateral trade. As long as they have a ship in their hands or find a ship to transport it.&1t;/p>

The Royal Trading Company ships North Korean goods back to the Ming Dynasty and then ships the Ming Dynasty goods to North Korea. The process also pays tariffs, but the price is unreasonable. Many private merchants lose money when doing business according to the price of the Royal Trading Company's goods, but the Royal Trading Company can continue the business.&1t;/p>

Because the Royal Trading Company did not consider the tariffs at all, these tariffs were collected by the North Koreans, but they eventually had to be returned by repaying the principal and interest of the loan. Therefore, the Royal Trading Company became the dominant trade in North Korea. However, the Ming Dynasty Maritime Merchants were also allowed to go to North Korea to conduct free trade, as long as they paid the tax.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the Ming merchants also, because North Korea does not include the supervision of the Ming Dynasty, they can easily obtain customs clearance documents and then take a boat to North Korea to make various commercial investments.&1t;/p>

The Red Ding merchants under the Royal Consortium also sent personnel to North Korea to make various investments.&1t;/p>

At this time, Daming Capital had financial advantages in North Korea and also technological advantages. It also had political advantages. The business model of collusion between officials and businessmen was also developed in North Korea. However, the businessman colluded with the North Korean government was the merchant of the Ming Dynasty. Zhao Yan, the governor of North Korea, also received dividends from the royal consortium.&1t;/p>

It is obvious that Zhao Yan was the political thug of the Royal Consortium first. However, Zhao Yan really wanted to do something practical for the Korean people.&1t;/p>

At this time, North Korea had actually become a colony of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty's colonial plundering at this time was not as levied as Westerners.&1t;/p>

This colonial method is more similar to the colonial method after World War II.&1t;/p>

The Ming Dynasty colonized North Korea without slaughtering or plundering without brains. However, the efficiency of plundering was actually not low. It was just that the Korean people could not starve to death and work hard to squeeze them on the level of money left.&1t;/p>

The pressing force can be gradually increased, but the number of jobs will also gradually increase.&1t;/p>

It's like holding a whip and driving the North Koreans to work hard behind them. Wealth is created by Gonggu labor. In the traditional social structure of North Korea, labor value cannot be fully released, and many labor forces are wasted. If North Koreans can do twice as much, then the more wealth they can create is considerable. Then after commercial and tax exploitation and exploitation, the North Korean people can still eat enough.&1t;/p>

To achieve this goal, it will take at least several years. The first thing to do is to annex the land, bring the land to the royal consortium, and then release the North Korean farmers from the land. Let these North Korean farmers become workers and also have jobs for them.&1t;/p>

Therefore, a large amount of land annexation has not been carried out immediately. When Zhao Yangang became the governor of North Korea, he first suppressed North Korea's social contradictions with the goal of stabilizing North Korea, and then carried out a large amount of annexation of North Korea's land, and used loans to build infrastructure and a large amount of commercial investment to provide jobs to North Korean farmers who lost their land.&1t;/p>

For the time being, the North Korean people will live a good life in the past two years, but as the Royal Consortium's layout in North Korea is almost completed, the North Korean people's lives will not be as leisurely as they are now. At that time, you must work hard, otherwise you will not be able to eat enough.&1t;/p>

At this time, the trade between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty mainly included the export of grain, gunpowder, medicinal materials and other materials to North Korea. North Korea exported horses and wood to the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

However, North Korea soon became the dumping place for goods from Northern Zhili. Cotton, steel, porcelain and other products from Northern Zhili were exported to North Korea. It had a great impact on North Korea's economy, especially North Korea's traditional small peasant economy, which was even more severely affected.&1t;/p>

Such asymmetric trade will naturally not last long. The North Koreans cannot have infinite precious metals to buy Ming Dynasty goods, because the investment of the royal consortium in North Korea has become the main way to make North Korea have purchasing power again.&1t;/p>

The Royal Consortium can use money to invest in North Korea's land, roads, and various businesses, thus creating various jobs, allowing North Korean workers to get wages and regain purchasing power. The Royal Consortium has obtained a large amount of assets through investment.&1t;/p>

The money invested will eventually return to Northern Zhili through commodity trade, just a round. In addition, the small court of North Korea can also borrow money from the Ming Bank, which is actually usury. If these loans are invested, they can also provide jobs. At the same time, the taxes of the small court of North Korea can also bring back the wealth invested by the Ming Dynasty in North Korea.&1t;/p>

This game will be revealed at the end of the game. Most of North Korea's excellent assets will be controlled by the Ming Dynasty's Royal Consortium. The entire North Korea will completely become an economic colony of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

This intervention in the Kingdom of Korea was extremely perfect. Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang army was also transferred back to Pi Island in the summer, while Zhu Youxiao formed a garrison division in North Korea to balance North Korea's military strength and escort the expansion of the royal consortium in North Korea.&1t;/p>

North Korean General Lee Shi was very obedient, and he was pulled into the North Korean interest group, and the possibility of rebellion was relatively low. With such a North Korean garrison division, the interests of the Ming Dynasty in North Korea were basically as stable as Mount Tai.&1t;/p>

While North Korea achieved great success in interests, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty also gained an advantage in the confrontation with the Dutch at sea.&1t;/p>

In the first month of the third year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch attacked several Ming merchant ships to Taiwan, causing some trouble for the Ming Dynasty to open Taiwan. However, on the fifth day of the second month, the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty and the Dutch East India Company sent a fleet to the Taiwan Strait to plunder the Ming merchant ships, and the two sides broke out an artillery battle at sea.&1t;/p>

The Royal Navy has four gunboats, while the Dutch fleet has five gunboats.&1t;/p>

After the Dutch discovered their four captured warships, five gunboats rushed over as if they had seen their father-killing enemies.&1t;/p>

Song Ke, the commander of the Dutch fleet, commanded five gunboats to besiege four Ming Dynasty Royal Navy gunboats, and the two sides kept getting closer.&1t;/p>

Six hundred meters, neither side fired.&1t;/p>

Five hundred meters, the Dutch fired the gunfire first, hundreds of 18-pound cannons roared, and the shells hit the Royal Fleet gunboats, achieving some results. However, the lethality of the shells these days is not too strong, and a round of artillery fire is obviously impossible to sink the Royal Navy's gunboats.&1t;/p>

The distance between the two sides continued to be closer to 400 meters.&1t;/p>

"Don't these Ming people want to engage in a battle on the shore! Haha!" Seeing that the Royal Navy gunboat did not launch a shelling, Song Ke couldn't help laughing arrogantly: "It seems that they don't know how to use our Dutch 18-pound cannon."&1t;/p>

However, just as the words were finished, the cannons on the four gunboats of the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty suddenly roared like thunder.&1t;/p>

The shells were like a shattering blow on the Dutch warship.&1t;/p>

Bang bang bang…&1t;/p>

A shell hits a big hole. The wooden shell armor of the Dutch warship is like paper in front of these shells.&1t;/p>

"Sir, it's not good. The enemy's artillery is likely to have exceeded 35 pounds, and our warships have begun to enter the water." The adjutant ran over to report in a panic.&1t;/p>

"Oh my God! This is impossible, this is impossible." Song Ke was stunned on the spot, looking at the muzzles on the warships in the distance that were still the Dutch last year.&1t;/p>

In his impression, the Ming people didn't even have gunboats, so how could they have a 35-pound cannon?&1t;/p>

The Royal Fleet's artillery used 30 kilograms, which is about 36 pounds. In terms of shell weight, it is definitely the ding-class naval gun of this era. Even the British, who are good at naval gun technology, do not have such excellent naval guns. Although the British have larger caliber naval guns, they are not equipped widely, and the weight of shells is increased obviously not to bring strong naval combat capabilities.&1t;/p>

However, the Ming Dynasty's 3O jin class naval guns were mass-equipped with gunboats.&1t;/p>

After the six Dutch gunboats were captured, all the Dutch 18-pound guns on it were dismantled, and all the main guns were equipped with 30 kilogram guns.&1t;/p>

As soon as the 3ojin cannon appeared, the Dutch almost collapsed.&1t;/p>

The lethality of these shells is far from comparable to the Dutch's 18-pound gun. The Dutch's two or three shells are far less lethal than the 3o gun shells. The gunboats of both sides are basically not much different. Whether it is tonnage or protection design.&1t;/p>

Similarly, neither side has a watertight compartment.&1t;/p>

As a result, after one round of artillery was shot, three Dutch gunboats entered the cabin on the spot. At the same time, the decks and hulls of these Dutch warships were also bombarded with holes everywhere.&1t;/p>

Although the leaky part was quickly blocked, most of the Dutch were actually in a state of collapse at this time. But like gambling, they still shot a second round of shelling at the four gunboats of the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

In the second round of artillery attack, a Royal Fleet gunboat waterline was hit by two shells to introduce water, but it was quickly blocked.&1t;/p>

The second round of artillery bombardment of the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty also poured out the Dutch people in more than twenty seconds. Four gunboats aimed at a Dutch warship and launched a concentrated fire. Dozens of shells blasted over, and the Dutch warship was sieved on the spot. After the shelling, the Dutch warship began to slowly sink.&1t;/p>

This time the Dutch were completely shocked, and his soul was almost scared, let alone fighting will. Song Ke made a quick decision and ordered his withdrawal from the battlefield.&1t;/p>

The remaining four Dutch warships began to flee, and four Royal Navy warships chased after them.&1t;/p>

During the pursuit, the Dutch shot a chain list, successfully destroying part of the sails of the two Ming Dynasty Royal Fleet warships and reducing the sailing. This led to the four Dutch Fleet warships successfully escaped three, only one of which was forcibly stayed by the Royal Fleet and ruthlessly sunk.&1t;/p>

After all, the Dutch are rising maritime hooligans, and their naval combat quality is obviously a little higher than that of the Ming Dynasty Royal Fleet. Because the Ming Dynasty Royal Fleet has no equipment chain list, it cannot break the Dutch sails, so the Dutch ran away three warships. (To be continued...)&1t;/>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!