The Port of Busan has entered the early winter season.

As a result of years of meticulous renovation by the people of the East Coast, the number of households in Busan has increased dramatically -- by December 1650, the total number of residents in Busan had exceeded 50,000, of which about one-third were Han people and two-thirds were Xian people, and the economic power was also increasing day by day. Not to mention anything else, the farmland and water conservancy facilities that the people of the East Coast have forced the North Korean residents to build over the past few years have caused the grain output of Busan County to jump from thousands of tons of the East Coast system at the beginning to 36,000 tons last year, and it has become a grain supply base for the people of the East Coast (Ningbo Prefecture had not yet been cleaned up at that time, and the production order had not yet been fully restored).

It can be said that in the past few years, the people of the east coast have been fighting in the north and south, sweeping east and west, and behind them are the silent support of Jeju Island (supplying cold weapons and livestock) and Busan (supplying grain, grass and masters). Without this land of fish and rice, which has overhauled water conservancy facilities and popularized the three-crop rotation system, the people of the east coast would not be able to support tens of thousands of people in the long-term war. Of course, with Ningbo Prefecture, the food shortage of people on the east coast may be greatly alleviated, but Bushan County is the most developed grain producing area and one of the two major trade windows with North Korea (the other is Wonsanjin), which still plays an important role in the Far East's Heishui finance.

In recent years, with the planned migration of the Ming people from the east coast to the port of Busan, the demographic structure of this small fishing village and now a medium-sized port city has gradually undergone serious changes, and the population of the Ming people in Busan has gradually climbed to one-third. However, the proportion of North Koreans has irretrievably dropped to about two-thirds, although the influx of fresh residents from the surrounding provinces who cross the border to earn a living has been replenished from time to time.

However, even if it has dropped to two-thirds, there are still 35,000 fresh people in Busan (there are still more than 15,000 on Jeju Island). In addition, the storage of the Joseon county government (county order Kim Hongfan) who is still struggling to hold on to the local area. It's still quite troublesome to manage these North Koreans. The people on the east coast only had a garrison of 500 composed of Shandong bandits, Qing troops and Shandan people. In addition, they also have to be stationed at the border to guard against the North Korean army (the North Koreans have also deployed heavy troops around Busan), so Busan completely relies on the North Korean "Bangbang Army" (security regiments, which use sticks as weapons) to suppress Busan, which is also 500 in number, which is very unreliable.

In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, in the middle of this year, through the introduction of Matsumae Domain, the Blackwater Pioneer Team absorbed more than 1,600 Japanese ronins - and now there are more and more ronin samurai in Japan who have lost their main homes due to various factors, and it has almost become a serious social problem. Therefore, if the other party is a reliable object, then the Japanese do not mind exporting ronin, and the shogunate will even pretend not to see it at a certain time to provide convenience.

Some of the more than 1,600 ronins were transferred to make up for the battle damage of the standing team, and the remaining 1,000 people were transferred to Busan, and promised them that as long as they served in Busan for five years, they would get a share of five acres of arable land when they retired (and they could redeem up to 30 acres in the future). Naturally, this policy was welcomed by these once poor ronin samurai, who sincerely supported the rule of the Dong'an, and regarded the East Coast as their home and Korea as their enemy. Instead of the East Coasters, colonization began in this area.

They report directly to Kim U-gyu, the head of the East Coast Diaspora Association and a well-known "traitor" to the organization's policy of "economic control" in Busan. Going deep into the countryside and implementing a strict policy of "selling" grain, cattle and sheep for North Korean peasants -- with the in-depth promotion of the three-crop rotation system in Busan and the gradual improvement of farmland and water conservancy facilities, grain production in the fertile Busan area increased day by day, and grain prices gradually fell, which made local farmers (mainly Korean farmers with relatives in neighboring Korean provinces) more and more inclined to export grain to the territory of the Korean kingdom in order to make high profits.

And this is undoubtedly not allowed by the people on the east coast, and it is also what they vigorously prohibit -- at this time, relying solely on those North Korean "bang army" in their own country to go to the countryside to carry out the policy of compulsory acquisition, there are always unsatisfactory things of one kind or another. Therefore, these "police" composed of Japanese ronin samurai came into play at this time.

They had no relatives or reasons in the local area, and only carried out their work in accordance with the "Outline for the Economic Construction of the DPRK" issued by the government of the Heishui Pioneer Team (which clearly stated that the policy of "control" should be implemented for the grain, medicinal materials, livestock and other industries, that is, the compulsory purchase and sale of the output of these industries), that is, they forced the local North Korean farmers to sell grain and livestock to the people on the east coast, which is what the ronin called "grain and grain load". Every year, there is a fixed amount of grain to be distributed, which is distributed by the county to various villages, and then to the peasant households.

Every year in May and June of the lunar calendar, these Japanese policemen carry samurai swords and swagger into various villages in small groups, pulling the village chief to go door to door to formulate the amount of grain "loaded" and make a list of grain "loads". After the autumn harvest, these Japanese policemen came to the villages again and issued tickets for daily necessities such as salt, cloth, and oil to each village according to the amount of grain "loaded" (North Korean farmers could only buy these daily necessities in the shops opened by the chief and the Rizheng with the tickets).

It is worth mentioning that the main reason why the North Korean farmers are reluctant to sell their grain to the people of the East Coast is that the unified purchase price of grain given by the colonial government of the East Bank is only 3.5 silver dollars per stone, which is only about half of the market price. They want to redeem more arable land, repay the loans owed to the Northwest Reclamation Bank on the East Coast, pay the apportionment of water conservancy construction, buy more livestock, and in short, they have to use more money.

But disobedience is not good. Not to mention the fact that the colonial officials, who were played by the Korean scum, were not at all merciful -- the "control" of grain was the focus of their work -- just to say that the Japanese policemen wearing "black skins" frequently came to their homes to urge them, and it could be said that the slightest disobedience would result in a severe beating. In the end, the North Korean peasants had to endure the pain of selling most of the grain they produced at a low price, while their whole family could only survive in half a year of rice and flour and half a year in the bran and vegetable fields -- but the miraculous thing is that the life of these Korean peasants was not lower than that of their compatriots under the rule of the surrounding Korean kingdoms, and they even had a stable standard of living because they could buy cheap daily necessities and non-staple foods on the east coast, which is amazing.

Of course, the Japanese policemen only dared to be so fierce in front of the Koreans, and they were quite polite in front of those Ming immigrants. The Gainming people were still under the direct jurisdiction of the East Coast Overseas Chinese Association, and the price of grain was set relatively high, and the Japanese police did not receive orders to target them in particular, so the relationship between the two sides was not bad.

In this way, the government of the Heishui Pioneer Corps relied on this policy of "economic control" to desperately squeeze the Koreans in the port of Pusan, Wonsanjin, and raised a large amount of grain, so that tens of thousands of horses and horses fighting in Shandong on the east bank survived the two years of 1648 and 1649, when food was extremely scarce. After entering 1650, with the naval commander Liu Haiyang conquering many places in Ningbo Province in the south, the food shortage on the east coast was greatly improved, so the pressure on the Koreans was gradually relaxed, so that they could breathe a sigh of relief - the direct expression is to reduce the amount of grain "loaded" by the Korean farmers in Busan and Wonsan, and at the same time slightly increase the grain purchase price (the latest price is 3.9 yuan/stone), As a result, the local market gradually recovered from a pool of stagnant water: the peasants had more surplus food at their disposal, which meant that commerce began to have the soil to survive and thrive.

After several years of colonial rule in Busan and Wonsanjin, the people of the East Coast also learned more about Korea. For example: "The Koreans are cowardly, docile, poor in combat effectiveness, and not strong enough in the spirit of resistance, and are really an extremely good target of colonial rule" This is the conclusion reached by the gendarmerie under the command of Wei Boqiu after many years of research, and they even solemnly wrote to Shao Shude in Yantai, asking the top brass of the Heishui Pioneer Team to pay enough attention to the Korean Kingdom, appropriately allocate some troops to Pusan, and then find an excuse to start a war with the Korean Kingdom in order to seize a broader colony. At worst, it is necessary to obtain economic privileges in these areas.

To be honest, Shao Shude himself is still a little tempted by this kind of argument. Especially under the influence of Wei Boqiu, who was extremely enthusiastic about colonizing Korea, Shao Shude really seriously considered whether to expand the scope of colonial rule in Korea, but he also understood that it was easy to start a war and it was difficult to stop fighting, and if he angered the Koreans and made them fight with the east coast, then it might be troublesome. After all, the current North Korea has a population of three or four million, and it would be a big trouble to really fight against the east coast, and it would inevitably cause a large number of servant troops to fall into this quagmire all year round, and the guide zhì was not enterprising enough in other aspects, so he never really made up his mind.

But at this critical time, in late December, a news from the lower reaches of the Amur River arrived at Yantai Port after many rounds and was finally presented to Shao Shude's desk. After reading this, Shao Shude was furious, because the information from the gendarmerie claimed that more than 1,000 Korean soldiers had appeared in the Amur River valley, and it seemed that they had come here to fight against the "Luo Chan people" (Russians) at the invitation of the Qing court. However, according to the information circulating among the local natives, these Korean soldiers not only did not come to deal with the "Luo Chan people", but on the contrary, they would join forces with the "Luo Chan people" and cooperate with the Qing general Sha Erhuda to attack the walled cities of the Yellow Clothes Army in the area of the Amur River in order to pull out those nails that were in the way!

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

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