Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 523 Loans and Sale of Arms

On behalf of Daming, Liu Kongzhao defended against the Korean naval forces, and Li Shi sold his own sailing warship of Ming, not only to make North Korea an arms purchaser for the Ming Empire, but also to promote the Ming silver dollar as the basic transaction currency in North Korea through trade. .

In this way, Ming can control North Korea's economy through its control of silver dollars, thereby controlling North Korea's politics.

The future is not only North Korea, but also other countries.

And North Korea is just the beginning.

Therefore, Liu Kongzhao asked North Korea to only use silver dollars to buy his Ming Dynasty's sailing warships.

Even if there are not so many silver dollars, you can use loans to buy sailing warships in advance, but North Korea cannot buy them with silver instead of silver dollars.

Liu Kongzhao just doesn't recognize the monetary value of silver, and wants to make Ming's silver dollar a world currency.

North Korea's naval defense made Li Shi naturally not understand why the sincerity of the Ming Dynasty was so stubborn, why he only recognized silver dollars as money, and he couldn't see the mystery in it.

But Li Shi still chose to accept Liu Kongzhao's request, signed a loan agreement with the people of the Daming Central Bank, and purchased sailing warships from Liu Kongzhao with the silver dollars obtained from the loan at the Daming Central Bank.

In Li Shi's view, the loan interest provided by the Daming Central Bank is not high, and he can accept it. In addition, Liu Kongzhao said that the Daming Central Bank will not easily lend so many loans to foreign countries. attention and help.

Li Shi thought about it and thought so, and became more grateful that Daming really had the demeanor of a great country. Although he had done something wrong to North Korea, he still helped North Korea.

In fact, Ming Dynasty was very happy to lend money to North Korea.

Because the Ming Dynasty's lending to North Korea is equivalent to betting a large amount of silver dollars on the North Korean economic market, which is more conducive to the new silver dollars made by the Ming Dynasty becoming the world currency.

In this way, before North Korea realized the importance of financial currency to the country, Ming could achieve economic control over North Korea in this way.

In the end, Li Shi, the defense officer of the Korean Navy, borrowed a sum of money from the Daming Central Bank in the name of the Korean Navy, and obtained an order for a sailing warship from Liu Kongzhao.

Liu Kongzhao was very satisfied with this. Before he came, he had received advice from Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, and he knew what to do when he came to North Korea.

After making the first trade with the North Korean naval defense envoy Li Shi, Liu Kongzhao began to taste the sweetness, and eagerly hoped to conduct more trade with North Korea after the appearance of King Li Hao of North Korea.

Not long after, King Lee Ho of Joseon met Liu Kongzhao and Xu Xianqing.

First of all, King Li Hao of North Korea expressed to Liu Kongzhao the apology that North Korea had no choice but to serve the Manchu Qing as the master, and also said that it was because of this that he came to see the angel in person as a king in order to ask His Majesty the Emperor Ming to forgive North Korea's crimes, and North Korea also Willing to serve Daming again.

"My Emperor Daming has said before this envoy came that if North Korea is willing to regard Daming as the master again, it is acceptable, but it can no longer recognize Jianlu as the master, and must declare war on Jianlu like Daming, otherwise Daming will not agree. North Korea belongs to North Korea and will be investigated for the crime of betraying Ming Dynasty, North Korea should immediately send troops and food to conquer Jianlu!"

After Xu Xianqing expressed the will of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, King Li Hao of North Korea showed embarrassment. He was willing to ask him to serve Daming again, but if he was made to be an enemy of Jianlu and also took the initiative to declare war on Jianlu , he was a little afraid, after all, Jianlu's strong military strength also left a deep impression on North Korea.

"North Korea is very grateful for His Majesty Emperor Ming's willingness to forgive North Korea, and North Korea is also very willing to respect Ming as the suzerain again, but North Korea is small and weak, Jianlu is the jackal of the north, and North Korea dare not provoke it, so it still looks forward to Emperor Ming Your Majesty regrets the hardships of living in the narrow gap between North Korea and spared North Korea the purpose of the Northern Expedition to build captives, North Korea should be extremely grateful!"

King Lee Ho of Joseon even saluted Xu Xianqing for this.

But at this time, Liu Kongzhao directly patted the table:
"Why, do you think that my Great Ming cannot succeed in the Northern Expedition?
Do you think we can't wipe out the Jianlu, and each of us wants to be a turtle with a shrinking head, and can't just stand on the dry bank and watch the show?
This is not a matter of whether you want to or not, you can either become an enemy of my Ming Dynasty, or follow the orders of His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to gather troops and horses to assist the Ming Dynasty in conquering and building captives, there is no other choice! "

"The meaning of Hou Chengyi is actually the meaning of our Majesty. His Highness's worry is understandable, but the truth is the same.

But please rest assured, my Great Ming will surely win this Northern Expedition, and Jianlu will never have another chance to bully you.

Our Great Ming’s Northern Expedition had a total of one million troops, and now 15 troops have landed from Lushun Port and are now in the Liaodong area not far from your northern part of North Korea. I am afraid that Shenyang and Liaoyang will be recovered in a few days. At that time, Jianlu could only hide in the pass and become a trapped beast.

Sending troops from your country is just to express your sincerity to His Majesty, Emperor Ming. "

Xu Xianqing also persuaded at this time.

The way he and Liu Kongzhao both sang red faces and the other sang bad faces made the King of Korea Li Hao also have to agree to obey the will of His Majesty Zhu Youjian, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, to send troops to build captives in North Korea.

But North Korean King Li Hao continued to make excuses and said: "To be honest, Angel and Sincerity, in recent years, domestic disasters have occurred frequently in North Korea, and the national treasury has not much surplus. Now it is suddenly necessary to organize troops to go north to assist the Ming Dynasty. It is huge, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to raise money for a while, and North Korea’s military equipment is also in ruins, and it is difficult to get enough weapons for a while.”

Xu Xianqing understood that the meaning of the North Korean king Li Hao was that he had no money and no good weapons.

And this was exactly what Xu Xianqing and Liu Kongzhao wanted, Xu Xianqing couldn't help but smiled at Liu Kongzhao, and said:

"This, His Majesty the Emperor Ming has already considered this for Your Highness;

Money is not a big problem. I, Daming, can give you low-interest loans. Is 100 million silver dollars enough?
If it is not enough, you can add another 200 million.

Regarding weapons.

His Majesty the Ming Emperor has asked Cheng Zhihou to bring a batch of muskets, cannons and ammunition, all of which are the best firearms in the world today.

Your Highness can observe it first, and if you think it is good, you can use the proceeds from the loan to buy these weapons. My Ming Dynasty does not restrict you to buy my Ming Dynasty's firearms. After all, you have regarded my Ming Dynasty as the suzerain country. If you think this batch of firearms is not enough, you can place additional orders. , as much as you want, I, Daming, can provide you with as much as you want. "

When Xu Xianqing said this, King Li Hao of North Korea was also quite surprised. He didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would even think of this for him. He would even sell himself firearms if he asked for money. He couldn't help but excitedly said: "Since So, I would like to have a look at this batch of firearms first."

(End of this chapter)