Chapter 151: Armed Secession and Maritime Trade
The guerrilla detachment is a sharp weapon used by Chen Xin to split Korea and reduce the remaining population of North Korea, and under the fighting style of the rogue gangsters, the guerrilla detachment already has 100,000 "old thieves" who kill people without blinking. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
These people are not very good at fighting, and can only rely on the natural dangers of the Taedong River to stop the South Korean army in the north, but they are definitely good at bullying their own compatriots, and in the past six months or so, they have continuously plagued the remaining territory of North Korea south of the Han River, making the Korean people miserable, thousands of miles of bare land, and the population and productive forces have been greatly damaged.
In order to split Korea, the guerrilla detachment supported the Joseon king Shizi Jian Guo as early as May, before the king of Joseon had abdicated the throne or even issued an edict, which directly caused the division of Korea.
The biggest force in North Korea today is, of course, the side of the Korean prison represented by the guerrilla detachment, and King Yi Ju's surrender to Amin and the cession of territory made him lose the support of the people, and the "spontaneous" action of the prison country to resist foreign enemies has catered to the approval of many people in North Korea.
This was followed by the court forces that supported the former Joseon king, Yi Jung, who remained loyal to the former king on the grounds that the king was in power and had not issued an edict to the prince to supervise the country.
Then there was a restored Korean king who also joined the chaos, the original king Li Liang came to the throne by a coup d'état, the previous Korean king was his own uncle Li Hui, and now Li Hui took advantage of the Korean turmoil, escaped from Ganghwa Island, where he was imprisoned, and re-established a small regime.
After that, it was the regime established in remote areas by the Korean officials who had originally supported the Sezijian state, but were later dissatisfied with the guerrilla detachment's mode of rogue warfare, and they were traitors in the eyes of King Yi and his faction, and they could not go back, but they were not willing to follow the restored puppet regime.
There are also rebel armies formed by people in the countryside in various places, most of these people obey the orders of the imperial court, but now that the imperial court is divided, they can only swing between several major forces who cannot see the situation clearly, and there are also some careerists who take advantage of the chaos to divide the localities and do not listen to anyone's orders.
In addition, some of the original North Korean real power factions were also unwilling to take sides so quickly because they could not see the situation clearly, and temporarily formed independent forces.
Now the DPRK has fallen into a state of absolute division and separation, and the remaining half of the DPRK's territory has become a pot of porridge.
Under the instigation of the guerrilla detachments and the means of war, the forces of all sides in the DPRK are constantly squeezing the people, not only squeezing their money and food, but also constantly arresting people to open mines and smelt iron.
Some people of insight in the DPRK are saddened by the current situation and are constantly running and shouting in an attempt to reach a consensus among the separatist forces and jointly oppose the ROK, which is invading Korea from the north.
As the largest force in North Korea, the guerrilla detachment has been the most lobbied, and more than a dozen ministers have already been killed in front of the prison in the hall of the government decree of the prison state, hoping to change the attitude of the prison state by death.
However, the power of the prison side was in the hands of the guerrilla detachments, who followed Chen Xin's orders, ignored all suggestions favorable to the status quo in Korea, resolutely refused to merge, and constantly created friction and provoked war with various forces.
North Korea is already a peach in Chen Xin's hands, and when it is ripe, it can be easily picked.
In terms of industry and commerce, after several months of running-in, Chen Xin's trade routes were basically unblocked.
The route starts from the Jiangnan area, and after loading the goods, the fleet departs from the mouth of the Yangtze River and heads north. (According to the plan, where to buy all kinds of daily necessities now, and when various factories are established in the future, they will no longer import finished products, but raw materials such as cotton, linen, and silk.) )
The fleet would then dock at the port of Weisu, which was under the full control of the Dengzhou Sea, load a large quantity of low-priced grain bought from the ships carrying grain from the Daming Canal, and continue to sail north.
A portion of the supplies were unloaded at the port of Uiju.
Among them, luxury goods are sold to Houjin, which consumes the will of the upper echelons,
Grain for self-use, stable jurisdictional stability.
Military supplies and daily necessities were sold to Korea.
There were also some military supplies that were sold to the Korean separatist forces, allowing them to increase the rate of killing.
After reloading the fleet with iron tools and other products produced by its own workshops in northern Korea, it took the remaining Ming goods south to Yeosu, where they loaded the sea salt made from the south-facing salt drying field and headed south.
Eventually, the fleet arrived at the Wa Kingdom and unloaded the cargo in a small territory of the Tsushima Domain in Kyushu, and it took a certain amount of time to transport, sell, and collect the goods, so the fleet would not stay for long after unloading.
Carrying the silver from the last sale and the copper and sulfur purchased in the Japanese country for the last time, he set out for Yeosu and unloaded most of the copper at the shipyard there, and then carried out the maintenance and maintenance of the ships at the shipyard.
Another revised fleet carrying south-bound salt arrived in Hanbei and loaded locally produced goods on its way to Daming.
The whole route is 3,000 kilometers long one way, because Chen Xin has a detailed chart, you can take a lot of detours, so it is much faster than other fleets, plus the time of loading and unloading, you can go once a month.
Chen Xin divided his large seagoing ships into two fleets, one fleet for long-distance trade, and the other fleet stayed behind for maintenance and maintenance, personnel for repair, and then gathered for training for a few days, waiting for the other fleet, and the two fleets took turns to carry out ocean-going sea trade to train sailors and officers.
In this era, the maritime trade is full of dangers, not only from nature, but also from other peers, and normal maritime merchants will immediately turn into pirates when they see ships of similar strength as themselves, and even if they suffer heavy casualties, they will take down the fat sheep they like.
For the sake of safety, all the merchant ships were replaced with wrought-iron cast 10-pound guns used by the navy, and the huge fleet of more than a dozen large sea ships could ensure that ordinary people did not dare to come to the fleet.
However, this is not enough, there are now many pirates with one or two ships in Asian waters, and there are dozens of pirates with hundreds of ships.
For example, Zheng Zhilong, according to records, had more than 30,000 men in 700 ships in 1627.
Therefore, every time the fleet sails, there are at least 5 fast crabs-5 escorts, and after all the artillery is equipped, the 5 fast crabs are 100 10-kilogram guns and 5 huge 30-kilogram short-barreled heavy guns.
Any pirate who wants to pay attention to the fleet, under such firepower, will know the huge force behind the fleet, after all, every large artillery in this era is the product of technology plus experience and luck, more than 200 cannons appear together, this is a powerful deterrent.
Moreover, there will be more and more warships cruising on this waterway, and 3-5 fast crab-5 are produced every month in the south-facing administrative region, and there are also larger and deeper sea ships under development.