The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 619 North Korea's Gap Between Rich and Poor

"Yes, Your Majesty, if the Ming court dares to intervene in the affairs of Hubei and Henan, then fight!"

"Your Majesty, if you fight against the Ming army, the last general will request to be the vanguard!"

"Your Majesty, the final general is asking for clarification!"

"..."

The generals of the Guanning Army expressed their views one after another.

The Guan Ning army, who had just finished the Battle of Guanzhong, was very swollen up and down, and he didn't take the Ming army seriously at all.

When they were still mixing with Ming Dynasty, Guan Ning's iron cavalry was already well-known, and its combat effectiveness was recognized as the best in the entire Ming army.

Now, under the banner of the Qing Dynasty, they even defeated the Eight Banners soldiers who claimed to be invincible. Naturally, they became arrogant, and they ignored the Ming army even more.

Wu Sangui was also convinced, and said with a slight nod.

"What you say makes sense!"

"Notify, let the whole army prepare for war!"

"Get ready to fight the Ming army!"

"..."

After giving these instructions, Wu Sangui seemed to remember something, and spoke.

"Notify Wuchang, let Ying Qi prepare to defend the city and resist every step of the way!"

"If the Ming court invades Wuchang, immediately send a letter asking for help, and I will send troops to reinforce it."

Wu Sangui almost forgot that he still has a son in Wuchang.

……

North Korea, Incheon Port!

As North Korea's largest port facing China, the Incheon Port at this time was prosperous, but not rich.

Throughout the port, there are low and dilapidated thatched houses or earth embryo houses everywhere.

The streets are narrow and crowded, and the sewage is very flowing, even converging into beaches.

The stench is overwhelming!

Most of the people who came and went were in ragged clothes, with disheveled faces, and their bodies were so thin that they would fall down if the wind blows.

These North Korean people are walking and wandering on the streets, their hungry feet are empty, they look like zombies looking for food.

To be honest, the people under the Joseon Dynasty actually had a worse life than the people under my Qing Dynasty.

Because North Korea is small and densely populated, plus its two classes of aristocrats, aristocratic families control the government and isolate the ascending channel.

The gap between rich and poor in North Korea has reached an extremely exaggerated level.

If it wasn't for the Japanese pirates' invasion of Korea before, and the Qing Dynasty's love for North Korea later, it cleared out a large number of remaining population for North Korea.

I am afraid that a large-scale uprising has already broken out in North Korea!

Incheon Port is one of the most important ports for North Korea's foreign trade.

Especially with the restoration of the Ming Dynasty in the past few years, the maritime trade that had been suspended due to the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties has resumed, even better than before.

At the beginning, more and more North Koreans spontaneously poured into Incheon Port to seek livelihood.

These large influx of foreign population has greatly reduced the labor cost of Incheon Port and increased the living cost of the people in Incheon Port.

Under the joint action of various factors, the port of Incheon has become the ghost in front of us.

Poverty and hardship everywhere, hunger and cold everywhere!
Cui Siqi is one of these migrants. He came to Incheon Port full of hope and wanted to make a living for himself.

I want to use my own labor to support him and his family.

However, what he didn't expect was that when he arrived at Incheon Port, what greeted him was not a well-paid job, nor a life of food and clothing.

It was unbearable hunger and poverty.

The trade between North Korea and Daming has indeed resumed, but when Daming comes to ship, he has to pay attention to a certain timetable.

Basically, every month, there will be a fleet of many ships arriving at the port of Incheon for trade.

At this time, Cui Siqi and others will have something to earn a living.

If there was no boat coming, people like Cui Siqi would not be able to find a job at all, so they could only rely on the money they saved before to survive.

Reluctantly buy some brown rice, cook porridge and hang your life!
Hope to delay until the next fleet arrives!
But if the fleet is slightly delayed due to some accidents, it is unknown how many people will starve to death.

Cui Siqi and the others are all like this!
This is the current situation of the people living in the port of Incheon, North Korea.

Almost everyone is struggling on the line of life and death. They don't know when they will be starved to death, and they will become starved people lying on both sides of the street.

Cui Siqi followed the flow of people and walked towards the port step by step.

Along the way, from time to time, someone was so hungry that he had no strength, fell to the ground, and was trampled into a pulp by countless big feet.

Can't even scream!
At this moment, someone shouted in the crowd.

"The ship is here! The ship is here!"

As soon as this remark came out, the flow of people, which was originally only slowly surging, accelerated in an instant.

Almost everyone is desperately rushing towards the port!
Want to compete for that rare job opportunity!

During this process, it is unknown how many people were trampled to death.

The child and mother were separated under the crowd, and the mother watched her child being swallowed up by the crowd and trampled into a pulp.

Near the port, countless North Koreans gathered on the pier like zombies, begging for food and jobs that could provide them with meager wages to the fleet floating on the sea.

Some businessmen with North Korea's two groups of dignitaries standing behind them came to the pier, ready to trade with the Deming fleet that came from afar.

Compared with those zombie-like low-level North Korean people, these wealthy businessmen seem to live in a different world from them.

These wealthy businessmen were well-dressed, well-fed, fat-headed, and red-faced. They traveled in sedan chairs carried by several people, and their every move revealed elegance.

Like a gentleman living in heaven.

Facing the turbulent crowd, the guards of these rich merchants drove them away brutally and brutally.

Someone even pulled out a stick and waved it at the crowd mercilessly, smashing many North Korean civilians to death.

A well-dressed, fat businessman sitting in an eight-carrying sedan chair spoke to the North Korean general who was in charge of security at the pier.

"Shangguo's fleet is about to call at the port!"

"I also hope that the general can disperse these rioters, and don't let them disturb the nobleman!"

Facing such an unofficial businessman, the North Korean general was quite obedient.

Said submissively.

"Mr. Zhao, don't worry, I'll let the boys disperse these rioters!"

"Surely let them disturb the nobleman!"

The fat businessman nodded, took out a money bag from his arms, threw it to the North Korean general, and said.

"Brothers, please drink tea!"

The North Korean general took the money bag, opened it and looked at the golden beans inside, his face was full of joy, he nodded and bowed, and said more humbly.

"Zhao Yuanwai's direction, the last general will order someone to do it!"

The reason why the North Korean general was so respectful to this unofficial businessman was not just because the businessman was rich.

The more important reason is because behind this businessman stands the behemoth Fengyang Zhao family!

He is a low-level Qiu Ba who carries a knife, but he can't afford to offend the big shots of the Zhao family in Fengyang.

(End of this chapter)