Moving rapidly south from the east coast of North Korea was the fleet of Lin Wenbing, which was heading south from Kuyi Island.

In addition to hunting birds and animals on the snow and ice on Kuyi Island for a winter, the most important activity of the sailors who had been trapped in the snow for a winter was to travel hundreds of miles to uproot the temporary residence set up on Kuyi Island by the retainer Murakami Saemon, the head of the Matsumae Domain, and send all the dozens of samurai and ashigaru sent by the Matsumae Domain to the frozen sea.

It was easy to look forward to the thawing of the sea ice in the harbor, and the sailors cheered and inspected the ships, hoisted the sails, and headed south under Lin Wenbing's orders.

I don't want to meet my own family between Korea and Tsushima. For a moment, the cheers overwhelmed the sound of the wind and waves on the sea.

On Maro Island, across the sea from Seogwipo, two fleets are stationed here.

Lin Wenbing jumped onto the land and pounced towards Li Peiting, "The big shopkeeper!" I want to die! ”

"Uncle Lin!"

"Hello Uncle Lin!"

Hua Mei led her younger brother Hua Yu to salute the elder who had stayed in the bitter cold land of the extreme north for a whole winter.

"It's a little bitter, but it's worth it!"

On the small Maro Island, the narrow sea was blocked by three fleets, and the Great Sun and Moon Flags and Li Zishuai Flags fluttered on the masts and on the island. The exiled prisoners and natives on the island looked across the sea and wondered why this huge sailor had come. There were also some brave residents rowing small boats towards the flotilla, and saw the words of the Ming Southern Chinese Army on the bow of the ship and the armor and flags on the soldiers. All of them were tears raining down, turning the bow of the boat and cheering all the way away.

However, they did not care about these things for the time being, but set up a temporary place in a narrow temple on the island to be used as a unified command of the three fleets.

"Wen Bing, just tell me, how have you gained in the past six months?!"

Li Peiting wanted to know what his right-hand man had done and harvested in the north for a whole winter.

Lin Wenbing didn't answer, and ordered someone to go to his boat and get a huge cloth bag. Take out a handful of things from the bag and present them to everyone.

"Ginseng?!" Everyone looked at the ginseng that Lin Wenbing put in the bag at random like cleaning up weeds, and they all exclaimed.

"This thing. The barbarians in the Heilongjiang area are called Orhouda. It probably means the king of herbs. They use these things to exchange iron tools, weapons, and food with us. Cloth. Liquor. Salt. Lin Wenbing was very proud to show off his harvest to everyone.

Several members of Lin Wenbing's fleet successively brought in a lot of rough processed furs, sea dragon skins, and otter skins from the outside. Red foxes, green foxes, black foxes, black foxes, and so on.

Li Peiting was a knowledgeable person, he picked out a sea dragon skin from the pile of skins, and looked at it carefully for a while, "Ah Bing, how much silver did you spend on this skin?" ”

Everyone stared at Lin Wenbing in unison to see how he should answer. It was Li Huayu, and he only locked his swarthy eyes firmly on Lin Wenbing's face.

"Big shopkeeper, this leather in your hand, there are fifty more, and you can almost change it for an iron pot." Lin Wenbing thought about it for a while, and slowly said the price that made everyone vomit blood.

Li Huamei has heard and witnessed it over the years, and she also knows that most of her family's wealth comes from two aspects, one is manufacturing, and the other is trade. Back then, Daddy exchanged refined salt for the first pot of gold, and only then did the Li family flourish today. I only know that this trade is very profitable, but I don't want to have such a huge profit.

Lin Wenbing deliberately flirted, he looked around, took a glass bottle used by Li Huayu from the side, and gently stuffed the corner of the leather into it, the slippery fur did not block the mouth of the bottle at all, and it slid into the bottle extremely smoothly. The bottle, which was still empty just now, was suddenly stuffed with a whole sheet of wool. He tugged lightly with his hand, and in an instant, the skin slipped out of the bottle again.

He used such simple tools and methods to show everyone the quality of these furs.

"Good boy! This skin, in the north and south of the second capital, I'm afraid it will be sold for more than a thousand taels of silver?! Li Peiting gave a very conscientious price.

"Shopkeeper Lin, how many boats do you have?" Rao is Xu Huanshan is usually square and silent, and he can't help but ask at this time.

"Most of the boats I took were on this thing, and the other two boats had ginseng and gold. There are other properties. ”

"How many are there?!"

There are thousands of such skins, and those that are worse than these are several times that of him. The total number of the worst skins should be more than 100,000. ”

"Good boy! The grain, cloth, knives, guns, bows, arrows, oil, and salt you brought with you were exchanged for so many things, and when you came back, it was a money grab, and it was not so powerful! ”

Li Peiting let out a heartfelt exclamation.

"It's not robbery, it's that they cry and shout, and they call me benevolent and righteous, not greedy for money." Lin Wenbing replied seriously.

As it turned out later, the profits brought by trade to the Heilongjiang River valley could not be described as amazing.

Shouhan looked at the financial statements sent by Long Shengxing and shouted loudly, "Lao Tzu is rich!" ”

Lin Wenbing's three boatloads of furs, ginseng, raw gold and other things were quietly disposed of by Long Shengxing in the north and south of the two capitals, in exchange for a huge number for the Nanzhong Army and Li Shouhan.

What are the numbers? Others don't know, but there are many phenomena that can be inferred.

When Lim Van Binh's fleet returned to Hue, Li Shouhan personally went to the dock to pick it up. This is something that has never been done before.

Soon after his return, the construction of several huge ships began.

When the autumn wind blew, the size and number of ships trading to Kuyi Island, Miaojie, Heilongjiang and other places expanded several times.

Since then, the fur trade in Heilongjiang and even further north has become a pillar industry in Longlong. Shouhan specially ordered that thirty percent of this income would be used for the construction of warships by the sailors!

From this, we can speculate how lucrative this trade is.

"In a different era, such goods were exchanged for such precious furs. I'm afraid that I will be arrested immediately for fraud! When inspecting the goods that were prevalent in Long's trade to Heilongjiang, Shouhan held an iron pot from the bottom of his heart and sighed.

This is an afterword, press not table.

The group sighed and was about to discuss how to capture Tamna Island, when the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division came to report.

"Your Excellency, there is a Jeju priest on the island who has come with the prefectural orders of Dajing and Jeongui." A sentry officer in the Xuanwu battalion reported the latest situation to Xu Huanshan.

"What is he doing here?"

"He led the two county orders on the island, led pigs and sheep, carried wine and meat, and claimed that the labor army came!"

"Excuse me?" Several people in the room who originally had ghosts in their hearts looked at each other, and suddenly Li Peiting, Lin Wenbing and others smiled mysteriously on their faces.

"This group of North Korean officials. I'm afraid that we will be regarded as the mainland officials and soldiers who have come to help! ”

Really. When several local officials on Tamna Island landed on Maro Island with their subordinates, they couldn't help but have tears in their eyes when they saw the soldiers of the Nanzhong Army wearing red fat jackets and wearing swords and guns. He couldn't stop muttering.

"The officials of the small state of the lower country have seen the state of their parents!"

For a while, I forgot how to ask Xu Huanshan and others about their official titles. Jeju Mu had no choice but to call the Celestial Empire general in front of him and the subordinate officials around him.

"I don't know that the lord led the army of the tiger to come to the rescue of the small state of the lower country in danger. Welcome the late, hope to beg for atonement! ”

He has the experience of the Imjin War, not long ago when Huang Taiji organized 120,000 Jiannu to invade Korea. From the royal family to the people, the Joseon Dynasty has always had the belief that they are waiting for salvation for the Ming Dynasty, and even if they plan for the destruction of the country, they will not surrender to the Manchurians. "I only hope that my parents will come to my rescue." "The battle of Renchen, the Weitian Dynasty can not restore the country, so far the monarchs and ministers are up and down, and those who protect each other and are not fishes, who is the power? Although misfortune and great calamity are coming, there should still be a fall. Otherwise, how can there be resignation in the world and future generations? ”

would rather perish than turn away from China, and the important reason is that he cannot face the "world and future generations". Behind this qiē motivation is a huge ethical decision and value judgment. Joseon "would rather be too big than the Manchu Qing Dynasty and not bear to live up to the emperor" ("Injo Shilu", the first month of the fifteenth year of Xinhai). And after the defeat and forced surrender, even if he was "in the camp and in the Han", the Joseon king still carried a heavy sense of pressure on his own psychological sense of moral self-discipline. "The first lunar month is ugly, and the palace is set up to cry and worship in the Central Plains in the west, and it is the emperor."

This is because for many years, the DPRK's concept of treating China as a parent has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, China also has a great benevolence for the survival of the DPRK, and the campaign to conquer the DPRK cost millions of military salaries and more than 100,000 soldiers, but it has no requirements for the DPRK. Therefore, for hundreds of years since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea has been using the Chongzhen era name in China, which should be the longest used, for hundreds of years.

It's a pity that time has changed, look at the Korean Peninsula today, a son said that this is mine, and that is mine. The other son said, "This is mine, and there is mine."

Let's go back to the current lens!

Chongzhen heard that the Qing army had invaded Korea and that the vassal states were in danger of overturning, so he urgently ordered Chen Hongfan, the general soldier of Shandong, to transfer the Zhenzhou divisions to help. Nowadays, among the various subject countries, Siam, Burma, Annam, Nanzhang and other countries have not paid tribute for a long time, and the outcome of the Manchu Dynasty is very clear to the civil and military, but it is difficult to poke it because of the face of those silver dollars and japonica rice. Once North Korea loses, the dignified Ming Dynasty will not have a vassal to handle.

However, when Chen Hongfan's officers and soldiers went to sea, the governor of Shandong, Yan Jizu, lost his country, Jianghua had been broken, and Korea had surrendered. For this reason, Chongzhen's step-ancestor could not cooperate to save him, and he issued an edict to take responsibility.

However, these domestic affairs of the Ming Dynasty are unknown to the officials on Tamna Island in the lonely sea in front of them.

It is precisely because of the lonely sea that compared to the land of 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains in Korea, Tamna Island did not suffer much damage from the war. After the army landed on Tamna Island at the kind invitation of the commanders of Jeju Mu, Daejeong, and Jeongui counties, they found that the scene here was still stable, and compared with the tragic situation of the Korean territory being sacked by Jiannu like a knife scraping water as Lin Wenbing claimed, it was simply a paradise on earth.

Li Huayu blinked his big black eyes and looked at the island in front of him curiously.

From the castle to the clothing and language of the officials and gentry, almost all of them make people think that they are in a certain city in the interior.

As the army marched towards Jeju, North Koreans on the island continued to kneel on the side of the road. He kept kowtowing to the marching procession, chanting words in his mouth. There are even some old people, Qiyue and other characters, who hurriedly set up incense tables, with incense burners on their heads, kneeling on the side of the road to greet the royal master from the Heavenly Empire.

Under the leadership of pro-Ming officials led by the Jeju Mu, Xu Huanshan soon completed the military occupation of all key points of the entire Tamna Island. Four brigs were dispatched to patrol the perimeter of the island, cutting off the connection between Tamna Island and North Korea, and prohibiting ships from going to sea.

Thousands of men and horses were stationed in the military camps and temples in the county towns of Jeju City, Dajing and Jeongyi, and Xu Huanshan ordered people to distribute food money to each battalion and each outpost, so that the camp secretary could take these white flowers and yellow things to buy fresh vegetables, meat, citrus and other fruits all over the island. Replenish the body of the soldiers who sailed long distances.

This action. Immediately, the county magistrates of Jeju Mu, Dajing County, and Jeongui County were greatly moved, this is the king from the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty! The public buys and sells, and does not take anything from the people.

As everyone knows, in the eyes of this group of soldiers. There really wasn't anything on this island that could be worth breaking military discipline to plunder. As long as you can buy it with money. There is no need to risk violating military discipline to rob it.

"Please ask the three adults to help our army requisition a batch of horses on the island, our army has sailed from a long distance, and the horses are not many."

Xu Huanshan ordered someone to take out a plate of silver dollars. Sent to three North Korean officials.

"A little courtesy, not respect. The right to reward the hard-earned money of the three of them. The price of the requisitioned horses will be paid separately by our army to the owner of the horse. ”

When did Jeju Muhe Dajing County and Jeongyi County see the Ming army so polite? Take out a whole plate of silver dollars and give it away? Hurriedly swallowing saliva, he kept saying things like "sincere fear", took the plate containing silver dollars, and led the officers of the Southern Chinese Army to various horse breeding homes to requisition horses.

On this Tamna Island, known as the mules and horses of every citrus household, seeing that the army of the Celestial Empire was willing to buy horses at the price of silver dollars, many horse breeders took out their own horses raised at home, trying to exchange them for the silver dollars in the hands of the Nanzhong army.

In addition to the citrus and horses, there are three other islands, that is, there are many stones, many winds, and many women, and the first two are talking about the natural environment on this Tamna Island, because it is an island formed by volcanic eruptions, and it is naturally more rocky and windy. The reason for the large number of women is that in addition to raising horses, the island's residents mainly go to sea to fish as their business, and with the shipbuilding technology and fishing methods of North Korea at that time, men went out to sea to fish, and the proportion of deaths was very high, so naturally there were more women than men on the island. But the main reason is that life is difficult, and women also have to work with men, so it makes women look more numerous.

Watching the women who went to the sea to catch abalone, shellfish, seaweed, etc. without the help of tools, the delicate sight on their bodies could not help but move their fingers when they were at sea, and even the sailors and soldiers who had not known the smell of meat for more than ten days. Under the intention of Lang Youqing's sister, many people have formed a short-term dewy marriage to solve their own physiological problems.

Such a big movement naturally tossed the whole Tamna Island with chickens, flying dogs and jumping, oh no, it was very lively. Naturally, one of the characters on the island was alarmed.

In a somewhat dilapidated courtyard on the island, a middle-aged man who was blind sat on the steps of the courtyard, basking in the sun, smelling the fragrance of rape flowers wafting in from outside the courtyard, and singing in a low voice.

"The fragrance of this flower is lighter than a few days ago, but I'm afraid it will soon fail,"

The servant next to him replied a little sadly: "King, April is about to pass, and the rape flowers on this island are naturally grateful." ”

"Don't call me the king, I'm no longer the king of Korea, I'm just the blind Gwanghae-kun."

Guanghaijun Li Hui's dry eyes struggled to feel the brightness of the sun.

At this moment, a man hurriedly ran in from outside the door.

"King! King! Great joy! ”

"I said, I'm no longer the king of Joseon, I'm just the blind Gwanghae-kun. What's the joy?! ”

"King Qiqi!" That man was Gwanghae-kun's confidant, and he still insisted on calling him the king. "Da Ming, Da Ming's army has already landed on the island! At present, there is a marshal's palace in Jeju City, and the army is stationed in various temples and barracks inside and outside the city! ”

"The king is the king of North Korea personally set by the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and the one who is in the royal capital right now is just a usurper and a thief! And what virtue can be king? Another servant also shouted with joy on his face.

"Excuse me?"

A line of tears flowed from Guanghaijun Li Hui's eyes.

Finally, when this day came, Emperor Ming administered justice for me!

However, what he didn't know was that at this time, in the Marshal's Mansion, which was temporarily converted from the Jeju Pastoral Office, his status was actually like this among the five leading figures of the South Central Army who arrived on Tamna Island this time.

"Guanghaijun is this person, from the point of view of a certain family, this strange commodity can live!"

Li Peiting first made an opening chapter for his words.

His words immediately attracted Li Huayu, who was out of such a far door for the first time.

"Uncle, isn't this what Lu Buwei said about winning the alien? Why is it also used on this Gwanghae-kun?! ”

And Xu Huanshan on the side put down the ruler and charcoal in his hand, "The shopkeeper Li, the eldest miss, the eldest young master, the shopkeeper Lin." Now that we have been on the island, we have actually taken control of the island, but what should we do now? In order to justifiably occupy this island?! ”

Li Peiting, who has been up and down in the business sea for many years, has completely turned into an old fritter who has insight into human nature, crossed Erlang's legs and asked Xu Huanshan with a smile, "When will the fleet sent to Hong Kong Island in Bao'an County be able to leave?" ”

"It's only more than 2,000 miles away from Hong Kong Island, and the day after tomorrow, more than 20 lucky ships will go to sea. Even if the south wind prevails now, it will only take five or six days to arrive on Hong Kong Island, load the supplies you mentioned, and return in at most half a month. ”

"Tiger." Li Peiting called Xu Huanshan's nickname, "I bet with you on this shop, I bet that as long as I do it according to my method, at most a month later, the king of Korea will definitely give this Tamna Island with both hands!" ”

"Uncle, why do you say that?"

"My eldest and youngest, you just have to watch the play. Let's have dinner first, and after the meal, let's go visit that Guanghai-kun together! (To be continued......)