The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 632: The Explosion of Overseas Commercial Banks
Koryo learned Chinese very quickly.

The Jiedu vassal town of the Tang Dynasty and the guard system of the Ming Dynasty.

After Li Chenggui's successful rebellion, he was influenced by the mainstream pro-China thoughts in the country and soon began to imitate the Ming Dynasty and implemented profound reforms.

Its military system is mainly based on the five-guard system. The army is divided into five guards: Yixing Guard, Zhongwei, Longxiang Guard, Left Guard, Huben Guard, Right Guard, Zhongzuo Guard, Forward Guard and Zhongwu Guard, rearguard.

In the center, there are Bing Cao and the Five Guards General Office, which are in charge of military administration and military orders. The Bing Cao is similar to the Ministry of War among the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty. The chief officer is called Judgment, which is the second grade. The chief officer of the Five Guards General Office is called Du Zongguan, Du Zongguan and Deputy Chief Officer. There are ten people in total, specifically in charge of the five guards.

The military system of the country and dynasty is summarized in the Five Guards. The military cao is the main soldier and is led by the general government.

If there is a break, you will be a soldier of the guard; if something happens, you will be a soldier of the battle formation.In peacetime, the five guards take turns taking on the task of guarding the palace; in wartime, the five guards go to the front line to fight.

The Five Guards System is also a military system that combines soldiers and farmers. Its personnel are farmers in peacetime and soldiers in wartime. The soldiers are self-sufficient in food, clothing, weapons and other materials, and the country does not have the financial burden of raising soldiers.

It is similar to the guard system of the Ming Dynasty.

If history had not changed, until the Japanese invaded Lee's Korea and the Ming army entered the court to pacify the Japanese, they brought with them the military system left by Qi Jiguang. Subsequently, the stabilized Lee's Korea fully imitated Qi Jiguang's military system and conducted military training again. Military reform.

But what.

Lee's Goryeo had a shortcoming. Not only military officers were hereditary, but civil servants were also hereditary. The huge hereditary yangban class was destined to solidify the upper class and could not really play its role.

Born out of the Five Guards Army, Goryeo's army is now mainly divided into three.

The special envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and two spies from Jinyiwei stayed in Dengzhou across the sea.

The major case at the dock last month attracted their attention. If they didn't investigate, it wouldn't work. If they did, they would be shocked. The source pointed to Korea.

Ming Dynasty is huge.

Jin Yiwei's spies have been to the docks in Shanghai County. They originally thought that the docks in Shanghai County were already among the best in the world. Unexpectedly, the scale of Denglai docks in Shandong was not much worse than the Shanghai docks.

Isn’t the Tianjin pier bigger?

The ninth year of Yongle.

October.

The boats lay limply on the pier.

The waves brought cool breezes to the earth one after another, blowing away the anxiety and glitz. The coolness of autumn gradually became colder. After the joy of summer harvest, the people along the coast began to prepare for the winter.

People work hard and during the harvest season, they will prepare abundant New Year goods before the New Year. The whole family visits relatives, which is the most lively time for the whole family.

Beiping Province, Beiping Prefecture Tianjin Chemical Factory Zone provides a large amount of chemical fertilizers to the surrounding areas. In conjunction with the use of farmyard manure, the output has reached a new high.

"woooo~"

A steamship comes into port.

A shipyard was also established in Dengzhou, a large shipyard specializing in manufacturing steam engines. It formed a system with the shipbuilding industries of Tianjin and Jinzhou and became the core shipbuilding industry chain of the triangle. Together with the Longjiang Shipyard District in the south and Changle Shipyard in Fujian, it expanded into three of the Ming Dynasty. Shipbuilding base.

Each shipbuilding industrial zone, including the smallest one in Zhangzhou Shipyard in Fujian Province, has hundreds of thousands of workers and produces thousands of ships annually.

The development of the shipbuilding industry has driven thousands of industries.

The steam engine industry has also become more subdivided. The factory is operating at full capacity, producing various types of steam engines day and night, and continuously supplying them to the whole country.

"Can't go to Korea."

The Jinyiwei spies insisted.

The special envoy who was a censor was not afraid of encountering risks in Goryeo.

However, the spy said: "Goryeo is overseas, and the situation at home is different. If conflicts are triggered and a rebellion in Goryeo is triggered, I am afraid the court will be very dissatisfied."

The censor couldn't help being surprised when he heard what Jin Yiwei said, "They dare?"

"A dog jumps over a wall in a hurry, let alone a human being."

Jin Yiwei's spy said.

The attitude of the Korean New Left Army's temperance envoy has changed. From tentatively proposing to annex, to now keeping silent, the Jinyiwei sent spies to inquire about the situation and learned about some more obscure matters.

Even the most powerful coal merchants in the country can only obey the policies of His Highness the Crown Prince.

But it’s different abroad.

The power of the merchants is so rampant that even the spies are a little scared.

Farming is hard.

I didn’t expect that working for businessmen would be harder.

That's not how people live.

Thinking of those Korean workers, the spy couldn't help but shudder. They were really inferior to animals.

No matter how backward the Yangban system of Goryeo is, Goryeo is indeed a kingdom, not a tribe. Regardless of the back and forth between tribes and kingdoms, there is an essential difference between the two.

What's more, Goryeo is stable and there has been no civil war in these years.

The basic prerequisite for a country's development includes stability.

The first jute plantation, the first mining factory, the first iron smelting plant
Ming merchants brought a lot of technology with them.

Although it is not comprehensive, it has been upgraded and optimized in Goryeo's own industry.

The first batch of blunderbuss was produced.

Because of flint and the lack of more industrial chains, the manufacturing cost of self-generated fire guns was too high and the price/performance ratio was low, so the King of the North of Goryeo could only choose the relatively backward bird gun.

Even the blunderbuss is the most advanced firearm in the world after the Ming Dynasty. Central and West Asia still use fire gate guns and have not evolved into matchlock guns.

Goryeo was the third country after Japan that could make its own muskets.

Li Mengzong held a brand new gun and stroked it lovingly.

"It's a pity that the cost is too high."

The craftsmen of Goryeo relied on their traditional workshop skills. It took each old craftsman a month to build a shotgun. With gunpowder and lead bullets, no matter how much Li Mengzong liked it, he could only set the goal of a thousand shots.

"Yes." The Ming businessman was very honest. Standing in front of the North King of Goryeo, he stood straight and said proudly: "Compared to the domestic ones, the gap is too big."

Li Mengzong was not ashamed or angry.

Isn't this just and natural? There is nothing to be ashamed of. It's just that people are slower to get angry than the Japanese.

They, Goryeo, were much more civilized than the Japanese.

How can it be slower than Japan?

"The bayonet looks very simple, but it turns out to be very complicated when it is made. Especially domestic bayonets are produced by forging machines and are of the same size. Korean craftsmen cannot make them."

Ming businessmen pointed out many shortcomings.

"Have you solved it? Let's take it slow in the future."

Li Mengzong disagreed.

With these thousand cannons used as elite soldiers, he is no longer afraid of King Nan. King Nan heard that the army has been expanded to 12.

Li Mengzong didn't understand.

Why did he support the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, but his own army could not support it and was reduced to 12, while Uncle Wu could still support an army of [-]? How did he do it?

Did I make a mistake by studying to go to China to develop industry?
But the books from Shangguo clearly stated that there is a qualitative gap between industrial society and agricultural society, so why is our Northern King not as good as the Southern King?There are too many questions. The more he studies in the country, the more troubles Li Mengzong has.

The public opinion of the people in the three provinces was boiling. Not only were the people dissatisfied, but the local gentry were also dissatisfied. There were so many contradictions that the young Li Mengzong was at a loss and did not know where he had gone wrong.

Li Mengzong, who couldn't find the reason, could only regard the gun as a treasure and relied even more on the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming merchants found a "paradise".

There is no better place than Goryeo Bukji.

There is civilization here, not the barbaric world in the indigenous society. Their status and wealth are guaranteed and they can use it freely, and they are not afraid of half of their wealth being taken away. No matter how rich the inheritance is, they cannot withstand half of it being taken away from generation to generation. Government decree.

A smuggling ship transporting grain departed from China privately and arrived in Haizhou.

The weather is weird this year.

With the same climate, the Jinzhou side has high yields, while the Goryeo side has reduced yields.

Businessmen know that there are chemical fertilizers in Jinzhou, but not in Korea. It is not an easy task to produce chemical fertilizers. Businessmen cannot do it, and they have no intention to do low-profit things.

In the second half of the ninth year of Yongle, there was a food shortage in Goryeo.

The people are in dire straits, a large number of refugees cannot have enough to eat, and the people in small households cannot survive.

This is the best time for businessmen.

The Japanese country had no food, and they were in short supply. The South China Sea was too far away, and only Jiaozhi had a lot of food, and it was in good order. But precisely because of the order, merchants were unable to obtain food from Jiaozhi, and the transportation cost was also high.

Then smuggling food from the country has become a must choice for businessmen.

However, due to strict food control in the country, they could only smuggle out a very small amount, but it was enough for them, and they did not really want to help the people of Goryeo.

In the entire Goryeo, only Ming merchants sold grain.

Even Heng Yun Lai Trading Company, who is engaged in the jute cultivation industry, holds a sum of grain in his hands.

Every family of Korean people sold their land.

An acre of land can only sell one bucket of grain.

No ordinary people are willing to do this kind of business, but they are starving to death and have no other choice to survive. Selling land is the only way to survive.

After one winter, the land in Korea in the hands of the Ming Dynasty merchants increased several times, and many even ten times.

Windfall profits.

Too profitable.

The owners of overseas trading houses laughed like crazy.

The jute planting area of ​​Hengyun Lai Trading Company has increased fivefold, and the jute output has also increased fivefold. Over time, the capital has increased tenfold.

Domestic market demand is like a bottomless pit.

In an industrially developed society with a population of over [-] million, the resources and area per capita are luxurious, and the people are highly affluent. Not only did the products of Hengyun Lai Trading Company not become unsaleable, but they were sold out, and the price was only reduced a little.

The spring of the tenth year of Yongle.

After spring.

Hengyun Lai Trading Company canceled the already low wages, and those who wanted to work in Hengyun Lai were only given food.

Thousands of refugees stretched out their hands to beg, and they cried out to become Heng Yun Lai's companions. Bones could be seen everywhere on the road. Seeing the skinny refugees, Heng Yun Lai recruited new ones in one breath. Thousands of people.

Heng Yunlai also established a factory protection team, which he learned from the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau.

However.

The factory protection team of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau was to protect the factory and workers, while the factory protection team of Heng Yunlai only protected Heng Yunlai.

The lowest-cost labor, ridiculously cheap land, originally low-profit jute, has been turned into a huge profit industry. What's even more terrifying is that jute belongs to the people's livelihood necessities, and the bulk commodity catalog means that the sales of jute The quantity is very high.

Rhus, ginseng, chrysanthemum.
The business that was originally inconspicuous in Ming Dynasty shocked domestic businessmen overnight.

Can business still be done this way?

Don’t treat people as people.

The profits brought by just one labor cost stunned the businessmen in the Ming Dynasty. They learned and learned.

But they can't do it at home.

The Workers' and People's United Ministry is the first hurdle, not to mention the large-scale well system, the studio system and so on.

Can be seen but not touched.

New Year's Eve.

Gao Fugui returned to his hometown.

He was illiterate. When he was young, he was a lazy man, an old bachelor whom everyone despised, and a man who didn't even want a dog. Now that he is old, he went to Korea for four or five years and brought back not only a beautiful and young wife, but also two children. .

The people in the village opened their mouths.

When Gao Fugui meets people, he gives them specialties bought in Tianjin.

"Our employer is great. As long as one of our people is willing to follow us, not only will the salary be high, but the most important thing is that the status will be high. Everyone will call us "Sir" here."

When people at the bottom feel uneasy, people at the top have already taken action.

So is Korea.

The people are in dire straits. How can the businessmen turn a blind eye to such a dangerous environment? They are not afraid of the common people, only the squires without force are afraid.

Commercial banks have set up factory protection teams, which are inseparable from their confidants.

Is there anything more reassuring than people at home?

People who go to China, if they really dare to harm others, can run away and the monks can't escape from the temple, they are a hundred times more trustworthy than the Korean refugees who have nothing, and they have good food and drink, and a high-quality life. Who wouldn't support their own business.

Gao Fugui was very proud.

Looking at the daughter-in-law who is old enough to be the granddaughter of Gao Fugui, Gao Fugui still beats others and does nothing at home. The little daughter-in-law of Gao Li has to work, take care of the children, and serve Gao Fugui at night.

"Pooh."

The young people in the village gritted their teeth in envy from behind.

This is caused by the gap between rich and poor.

He was just an ordinary driver who could pass the customs, but he bought several houses in the customs and raised several unregistered wives, each of whom gave birth to children for him. 20 years later, with the development of the economy in the customs, this has never happened again. The phenomenon.

I wonder if these women ever regretted it.

A highly educated young woman marries an unemployed poor old man in a foreign country. What kind of love and spiritual care can such a low-quality population bring to her?

It is just a phenomenon of economic problems, and it is the same in China and the West.

The younger generations can't understand it, but they can't stop their envy.

Overseas commercial banks found that the manpower they had been difficult to recruit at home was suddenly welcomed, so that young people began to participate in their recruitment, and there were even young people who had graduated from social studies or county schools.

The upgrade of talent quality has provided more strength to overseas commercial banks.

(End of this chapter)