Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 856 Colonial rule and Koreans

Busan Port has entered the early winter season.

After many years of careful management by the people on the east coast, the current Busan area not only has a large number of household registrations - as of December 1650, the total number of residents in Busan County has exceeded 12, of which Han people accounted for about one-third and fresh people accounted for one-third Two—this economic strength is also increasing day by day.Apart from other things, the farmland water conservancy facilities built by the people on the east bank have forced the North Korean residents to build in the past few years, which has caused the grain production in Busan County to jump from thousands of tons produced by the east bank at the beginning to [-] tons last year. , and became one of the few food supply bases under the rule of the people on the east bank (Ningbo Mansion had not been cleaned up at that time, and the production order had not been fully restored).

It can be said that in the past few years, the people on the east coast have fought south and north and swept east and west, with the silent support of Jeju Island (supply of cold weapons and livestock) and Busan (supply of grain, grass and teachers).Without this land of fish and rice, which has overhauled water conservancy facilities and promoted the three-crop rotation system, the people on the east bank may not be able to support the long-term expedition of tens of thousands of people.Of course, now that there is Ningbo Mansion, perhaps the food shortage problem of the people on the east bank has been greatly alleviated, but Busan County is the most mature grain production area, and it is also one of the two major trade windows to North Korea (the other is Wonsanjin), It is still playing an important role in the finance of the Far East Blackwater.

Over the past few years, as people from the east coast have migrated to Busan Port in a planned manner, the population structure of this small fishing village and now a medium-sized port city has gradually undergone major changes. The population of Ming people in Busan has gradually increased. It's one third.Although the proportion of North Koreans is sometimes supplemented by the influx of fresh people from surrounding Dao counties who cross the border from time to time to make a living, it still irretrievably drops to about two-thirds.

But even if it has dropped to two-thirds, there are still 5000 fresh people in Busan (there are still more than [-] on Jeju Island), plus the Korean county government that is still struggling there ( With the existence of the county magistrate Jin Hongfan), it is quite troublesome to manage these North Koreans.The people on the east bank here only have [-] garrison teams composed of Shandong bandits, Qing soldiers, and Shandan people, and they also have to be stationed at the border to guard against the Korean army (the Koreans also deployed heavy troops around Busan), so the interior of Busan It is completely unreliable to rely entirely on the North Korean "stick stick army" (security regiment, using sticks as weapons) with the same number of [-].

In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, in the middle of this year, through the introduction of Matsumae, the Blackwater Pioneering Team absorbed as many as [-] Japanese ronin—now Japan has lost its main family due to various factors. There are more and more ronin samurai in Japan, and it has almost become a serious social problem. Therefore, if the other party is a reliable target, then the Japanese do not mind exporting ronin, and the shogunate will even pretend not to see it to a certain extent to provide convenience .

Some of the more than 600 ronin were transferred to make up for the battle losses of the standing team, and the remaining [-] people were transferred to Busan, and they were promised that as long as they served in Busan for five years, they would retire. At that time, you can get a share of five acres of cultivated land (you can buy up to thirty acres in the future).This policy was naturally welcomed by these ronin warriors who used to live in a relatively poor life. They sincerely supported the rule of the East Coast people, regarded the East Coast as their home, and regarded North Korea as their enemy, and started colonization here instead of the East Coast people. rule.

They are directly responsible to the head of the East Coast Overseas Chinese Association, the famous "challenger" Jin Wugui, and cooperate with the organization's "economic control" policy in Busan, go deep into the countryside, and implement strict "exportation" of grain, cattle and sheep to North Korean farmers ( Japanese word, meaning listing, selling) policy——With the in-depth promotion of the three-crop crop rotation system and the gradual improvement of farmland water conservancy facilities in Busan, the food production in the fertile Busan area is increasing day by day, and the price of food is falling day by day, which makes the local Farmers (mainly North Korean farmers who have relatives in the surrounding North Korean Dao County) are more and more inclined to export grain to the territory of the Korean Kingdom in order to reap high profits.

And this is undoubtedly not allowed by the people on the east coast, and it is also strongly prohibited by them-at this time, relying solely on those native North Korean "stick stick soldiers" to go to the countryside to implement the compulsory acquisition policy, there are always some unsatisfactory things .Therefore, these "policemen" composed of Japanese ronin samurai came into play at this time.

They have no relatives in the local area, and they only follow the "North Korean Economic Construction Outline" announced by the Heishui pioneering team government (which clearly states that the "control" policy is implemented on industries such as grain, medicinal materials, and livestock, that is, the output of these industries is compulsorily purchased and sold. ) to carry out the work, that is, they forced the local North Korean farmers to sell grain and livestock to the people on the east bank, which is what the wanderers called "grain and grain distribution".There is a fixed amount of grain and grain output each year, which is apportioned by the county to each village, and then apportioned by the village to the farmers.

Every year during the fifth and sixth months of the lunar calendar, these Japanese policemen, armed with samurai swords, swaggered into various villages in groups, and asked the village chiefs to go door-to-door to determine the amount of grain "delivery" and list the grain "delivery".After the autumn harvest, these Japanese policemen came to the villages again, and issued tickets for daily necessities such as salt tickets, cloth tickets, and oil tickets to each village according to the amount of grain "delivered" (North Korean farmers can only go to Baochang and Lizhengmen with tickets) Purchase these necessities in the stores opened).

It is worth mentioning that the main reason why the North Korean farmers resisted selling their grain to the people on the east bank was that the unified purchase price of grain given by the colonial government on the east bank was only 3.5 silver dollars/stone on the east bank, which was almost half of the market price. So, how would this make them willing?They have to buy more arable land, repay the loan owed to the Northwest Reclamation Bank on the East Bank, pay the apportionment fees for water conservancy construction, and buy more livestock. In short, there are many places where money is needed. "Regulation", this income immediately shrank by half, and life suddenly became tighter, which made people extremely frustrated.

But disobedience is not acceptable.Leaving aside the fact that the colonial officials who were scumbags from North Korea were ruthless—the “control” of food and grain was the focus of their work—just say that the Japanese policemen in “black leather” frequently came to their door to urge them. Who can stand the matter, it can be said that the slightest disobedience will be beaten severely.In the end, the North Korean farmers had no choice but to sell most of the grain they produced at a low price, and their whole family could only spend half a year on rice, noodles and half a year of bran and vegetables-but the miracle is that the East Bank squeezed them so hard to survive. Subsidizing the war, the living standards of these North Korean farmers are not lower than those of their compatriots under the rule of the surrounding North Korean Kingdom. They even have a stable living standard because they can buy cheap daily necessities and non-staple food on the east coast. Be amazed.

Of course, the Japanese police only dared to be so fierce in front of the Koreans, and they were quite polite in front of the Ming immigrants.The Geiming people are still under the direct jurisdiction of the East Coast Diaspora Association, and the purchase price of grain is set relatively high. The Japanese police have not received orders to specifically target them, so the relationship between the two parties is not bad.

In this way, the government of the Blackwater Pioneering Team relied on this "economic control" policy to squeeze the North Koreans desperately in Busan Port and Wonsanjin, and raised a large amount of grain, so that tens of thousands of people on the east bank who fought in Shandong survived. The extremely tense two years of 1648 and 1649.After the time entered 1650, as the navy commander Liu Haiyang captured many places in Ningbo Prefecture in the south, the food shortage on the east coast was greatly improved, so the squeeze on the Koreans was gradually relaxed, so that they could Take a breath - the direct performance is that the amount of grain "delivered" by North Korean farmers in Busan and Wonsan has been reduced, and at the same time, the purchase price of grain has been slightly increased (the latest price is 3.9 yuan/shi), making the local market from A pool of stagnant water has gradually recovered: farmers have more surplus grain at their disposal, which means that businesses have begun to have soil for survival and development.

And after several years of colonial rule in Busan and Wonsanjin, the people on the east bank also have a better understanding of North Korea.For example: "North Koreans are cowardly, docile, weak in combat effectiveness, and not strong enough in resistance. They are really a very good object of colonial rule." Solemnly wrote a letter to Shao Shude in Yantai, requesting the top management of the Blackwater Pioneering Team to pay enough attention to the Kingdom of Korea, appropriately deploy some troops to land in Pusan, and then find an excuse to go to war with the Kingdom of Korea in order to seize a wider colony—even if it is not good To obtain economic privileges in these areas.

But to be honest, Shao Shude himself was a little tempted by this argument.Especially under the instigation of Wei Boqiu, who was extremely enthusiastic about colonizing North Korea, Shao Shude really considered whether to expand the scope of colonial rule in North Korea. If you die on the shore, then it may be troublesome.After all, North Korea now has a population of three to four million. If you really want to fight against the East Bank, it will be a big trouble. He never really made up his mind.

However, at this critical time, in late December, a piece of news from the lower reaches of the Amur River arrived at Yantai Port after many twists and turns, and was finally delivered to Shao Shude's desk.After reading it, Shao Shude was furious, because the information from the gendarmerie claimed that more than a thousand soldiers of Korean nationality appeared in the Amur River Basin, and they seemed to be invited by the Qing court to fight against the "Luo Chan people" people).However, according to the news circulated among the local natives, these North Korean soldiers are not here to deal with the "Luo Chan people", on the contrary, they will join hands with the "Luo Chan people" and cooperate with the Qing general Sarhuda to attack the Yellow Clothes Army In the walled cities along the Amur River, to pull out those unsightly nails!

As soon as this kind of thing happened, Shao Shude suddenly felt that the North Korean was really brainless, so stupid!It seems that it is time for them to have a long memory!

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