Xinshun 1730

Chapter 383 The Best of Both Worlds
Liu Yu has spent time in Whale Sea, but he is stationed in Weihai. He has been collecting information on North Korea and Japan over the years, and of course he knows the details of what happened in North Korea.

To start a war against Japan is not the goal, but the new order and pattern of East Asia after the war is the goal.

The new order in East Asia will always involve North Korea.

In the introduction of today's topic, he didn't talk about "borrowing land" first, but first talked about "giving money".

North Korea has neither money nor money, and it is still tax in kind.Dashun has not moved to the forbidden sea, and has always dominated the trade with Japan, so North Korea has not accumulated enough precious metals to issue currency.

Small countries are not big.But as the saying goes, the little demon in the temple is strong, and the pool is shallow.

The clans of the two Jin Dynasties, the redundant officials of the Song Dynasty, the gentry of the Ming Dynasty recruited good people as slaves for tax exemption, and the party struggles of the Tang Dynasty, etc., are almost all of them.

Who can accurately "take the essence and take the dross" of the good and bad of Zhuxia's political system for more than a thousand years?

After the "chaotic party" incident, North Korea naturally wanted to reform the military service system, want to have a forbidden army capable of fighting, and want to change the military service system, which is understandable.

But, no money.

According to North Korea's own statement that they put gold on their faces, they are practicing the military system.

A military household joins the army, and [-] neighboring households serve as guarantees, helping this household to cultivate land, labor, pay property, etc.

In theory, only the division of labor is different.

In fact, the soldiers soon became serf owners with "twenty households of serfs".

In the end, it couldn't go on, so it had to be collected by the state, which gradually evolved into a poll tax.North Korea has no money, so naturally it does not collect money, but instead collects cloth. The cloth may carry the function of currency. It is also conceivable that North Korea's productivity level at this time is still able to maintain this state.

The problem is that slaves don't have to pay taxes, and the rich don't have to pay this tax either.Many good people took the initiative to be slaves and joined the big clan.

There are fewer and fewer people who can collect money. Three thousand miles of land and nearly ten million people translate into an annual income of 20.

After the uprising of the rebellious party, North Korea intends to reform, and the king of North Korea, Li Chang, wants to implement "gentleman and gentry paying food together", and wants to pay this tax regardless of high or low.

The Song Dynasty had its own "govern the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, not the common people"; North Korea also had the famous saying "the country would rather lose the hearts of the common people than the hearts of the scholars".

After learning the reforms of the Great Song Dynasty, he learned how to raise money from Chongzhen: Li Chong said, why don't you take the lead in paying the money for noble ministers and royal families?

The result goes without asking, what is the result of Chongzhen raising money, what is the result of Li Zheng raising money, everyone is as clean as water, and their clothes are patched.

The ministers are not done yet, don't you want to change?Okay, isn't it just asking for money?Then your "internal money" and "internal secretary" are all together. Isn't this rich?There are also redundant officials, merging states and counties, and abolishing redundant officials. Isn't this also rich?

As soon as the two methods were mentioned, Li Chang stopped immediately, and didn't dare to fart any more.Just after Li Linzuo's rebellion in the three armies, a redundant official came to be abolished. Even if he was given ten guts, he would not dare, because he was afraid that his position would be secured.

Liu Yu's "sending money" was precisely because of this incident, so he said: "I have a policy, which neither hurts the interests of the literati, nor increases the poverty of the common people. The country does not increase taxes and the military expenditure is sufficient. .”

The North Korean envoy was a little curious. Although he knew that Liu Yu was uneasy and kind, he couldn't help but asked curiously, "I don't know what good plan Eagle Sobo has?"

"Switch, trade. Tariffs are levied, and the value of the goods is one-in-twentieth. In this way, the country will not increase the tax and the military expenditure will be sufficient? The so-called taxation is like plucking the feathers of a goose. If you want to stop the goose from crowing, you have to pull out all the feathers. That is a good tax. Just like the salt tax of the Celestial Dynasty, this is to collect the goose without crowing."

"North Korean people also have to use ironware, agricultural tools, cloth, porcelain, etc. North Korea also produces paper, cattle and horses, grain, etc. Setting up customs and collecting tariffs is a good way to fill the treasury. Look, the people use it If the goods are all from Dashun, isn’t the annual tariff a huge sum of money?”

"Look, it's like the glass of the celestial dynasty. When this thing enters the dynasty, the two classes of scholars and rich families will use it more. In this way, the second class of scholars will get the glass and feel happy; the treasury of North Korea will get twenty. The tax of one is more and more abundant."

"Hey, if it weren't for the abundant products of the Chinese Empire and the difficulty of selling goods from Western countries, I really wish that the Chinese Empire would adopt such a policy! It's a pity, a pity..."

After finishing speaking, he shook his head with regret on his face, and couldn't help but sigh from time to time.

"This……"

The North Korean envoy really didn't expect Liu Yu to come up with such a bastard idea.

Switch, trade?
What about the tribute trade?Every time there is a tribute trade, the great Korean clans have participated in it, buying goods in the capital in the name of tribute, and then selling them back home.

But gentlemen don't talk about benefits, and the North Korean envoys can't directly say that this may cause great opposition, because it will damage the interests of the two classes of nobles.

When envoys entrusted by the Celestial Dynasty go to North Korea, it is a rule to pick up tens of thousands of taels of silver; when North Korean tribute envoys come to the capital, they come to engage in monopoly trade, and the benefits in this are huge.

However, before he could say anything, Liu Yu first said: "I know that North Korea is poor, so I said to Your Majesty, if it is like Chugong Baomao, Baomao is not expensive, and the most important thing is etiquette. Therefore, in the future, North Korea's tribute trade will stop."

"For one thing, some officials in the Celestial Dynasty have bad practices of extorting bribes. This is detrimental to the face of the emperor, and it also causes troubles for the country. The emperor is kind, so putting an end to it is a fundamental move."

"The second son of heaven considers that North Korea is poor, and there is no money for conscription, and the treasury is empty, so why not give the benefit of the tariff to the king of Joseon."

"Three North Korean officials carried silver trade with them, and the people in the capital mistakenly thought that there were no gentlemen in North Korea, and officials were like merchants. The difference between officials and businessmen."

"Finally..."

Speaking of this, Liu Yu's tone suddenly became gloomy.

"I heard that North Korea actually sold ginseng to Japan for silver in exchange for the tribute trade. Some people say: first-class ginseng is sold to Japan, and second-class ginseng is a tribute to the emperor; or some people say: Japan is not Ginseng is produced, but Liaodong in China produces ginseng, so the money you get from selling ginseng to Japan is several times that of selling to China?"

In a word, the Korean envoy was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground and cried in the direction of the Forbidden City: "I am wronged! I am wronged! May the Holy Son of Heaven see clearly that this is never the case! There is absolutely no such thing! North Korea is obedient, how can it be Can you sell it to the Wa Kingdom and then pay tribute to the emperor? Please don’t listen to such rumors! I swear to the sky that there will never be such a thing, there will be no such thing!"

Liu Yu snorted, and asked in a cold voice: "Absolutely nothing like this? I went to the Wa country a few years ago, and I saw the temple of the Wa country, and there were many Korean correspondents who wrote poems. When the Wa country shogunate Tokugawa Yoshimune came to power, Called the 'Maharaja of Japan', this matter is also false?"

"I don't read much, but no matter how little I read, I have read "Yi"."

"[Master's hexagram: Shangliu. The majesty has a life, the founding of the country and the inheritance of the family], but I don't know who is qualified to divide the founding of the country and inherit the family except the emperor? The majesty is the emperor, and the emperor is the maharaja. Have you never read "Yi" "?"

The North Korean envoy's face turned pale, his back was already wet with sweat, and he hurriedly said: "Ying Suobo, if the Central Plains is called a tiger, and Chu is called a tu. This majesty, in the Japanese language, is not...not...not this." Meaning. This country also calls it 'His Royal Highness'. It is Your Highness, Your Highness!"

"Besides, the name of the majesty has a different meaning in the North Korean country. It is a kind of feudal monarch in its own country. In fact, it is also regarded as a barbarian in its own country. The Maharaja of Cheng Family."

Your Highness is not His Majesty, this Majesty is not that Majesty, Liu Yu said with a smile: "Then don't you use Chinese characters for communication?"

"Uh……"

Fortunately, he didn't want to get entangled in this matter, he just wanted to scare the North Korean envoys, so he smiled and said, "Forget it, I heard that when Jizi built North Korea, he thought that North Korea would be able to understand "Yi", but he didn't expect that even the 'Majesty' You dare to take such a title.”

After the humiliation, Liu Yu remained silent, only making the North Korean envoy unable to answer.

Say no, say no and no, just cold sweat.

Liu Yu just wanted to frighten them, it depends on how to say it.Then if you insist that the majesty is a Korean dialect, the emperor can choose to believe it and tell him to change his name; or he can choose not to believe it, and ask you a king of Joseon, the legal level of a county king, and dare to make the emperor a subordinate. ?
Anyway, if you really want to find fault, calling Japan a "Maharaja" is much more serious.

Considering that North Korea is too poor and the cost of occupation is too high, North Korea and China have no idea of ​​war.Gold, silver and copper can be squeezed out by beating Japan. What does North Korea have?

He also made the North Korean envoys nervous for a while, before Liu Yu helped him up with a smile and said, "Is this really the difference between tiger and Yutu?"

"But let's not mention this for the time being. It's not fake to trade ginseng with the Japanese country, right? Why do you want to trade with the Japanese country?"

The North Korean envoy thought to himself, didn't you enjoy trading in Nagasaki?oppressive rule?

"Ying Suobo was joking. The Celestial Dynasty has traded with the Wa Kingdom, and our country is only following in the footsteps of the Celestial Dynasty. If the Celestial Dynasty prohibits trade with the Wa Kingdom, this state naturally prohibits it. The goods traded between our state and the Wa Kingdom are all in compliance with the Celestial Dynasty's prohibition, and there is absolutely nothing prohibited. "

Liu Yu was furious, and said angrily, "How can you say such bastard words? Even though there was a Japanese pirate rebellion, the Japanese didn't say they burned the ancestral temple of the Celestial Dynasty, did they? The Jongmyo of the Joseon Dynasty. As the saying goes, the hatred of killing one’s father cannot be shared with the heavens. The ancestral temple was killed, how is the hatred the same as killing one’s father? The Celestial Dynasty can go to Nagasaki for trade, how can you do business?”

"Don't talk about gold and silver, even if you can get the elixir of life, then you can't go. It's revenge for destroying the ancestral temple!"

"It is said that North Korea has always kept the etiquette. I think this is bullshit. Not to mention that you don't know the "Yi" and use words indiscriminately. Even the enmity of the ninth generation can be wiped out with a smile? Since the 20th year of Wanli to the present, can there be nine generations? "

The North Korean envoy suddenly had nothing to say. Although Liu Yu insulted him extremely seriously, what could he say?
It is said that North Korea understands "Yi" very well, so you understand "Yi" very well, and you can call Japan a maharaja with equanimity?

It is said that North Korea understands etiquette very well, so you understand etiquette very well, and you went to do business with people before you even reached the ninth generation after burning down your ancestral temple?

For a long time, the North Korean envoy cried out: "Ying Sabo, North Korea is a small country and its people are poor. It only produces ginseng special products, and it does not produce gold and silver. The tribute emperor, there must be money..."

Liu Yu cursed: "Fart! Does the Son of Heaven not know what North Korea produces? The tribute to Korea is nothing more than mink fur, ginseng, and paper. Could it be that the Son of Heaven calls North Korea to pay tribute to gold and silver? Have you ever heard that the Son of Heaven ordered the Kingdom of Chu to pay tribute to Sushen Mink? Are you talking nonsense? If you say this, you should cut your tongue. When will the Son of Heaven ask North Korea to pay tribute to the unproduced gold and silver?"

The envoy hurriedly said: "The Holy Son of Heaven is naturally wise. But the travel, food and clothing expenses, and there are always petty officials asking for bribes, how can you be without money?"

Liu Yu, who was still filled with righteous indignation just now, suddenly turned into a smile, and praised: "Oh! So the Holy Son of Heaven is kind, knowing that North Korea does not produce gold and silver, and also knows that petty officials ask for bribes and spend money along the way. If you don't show compassion to the vassals, I'm afraid it will make people chew their tongues. Isn't this going back to what I said just now?"

"In the future, pay tribute, everything will be simplified. The eight-package trade will be completely banned. In this way, in North Korea, there is no need to trade with Japan, who is the enemy of the Burning Temple;

"The best of both worlds, the best of both worlds!"

(End of this chapter)