"What Jiannu can't do with hundreds of thousands of taels, the North Koreans' appetite is very good. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zhu Cihong pondered for a while and said, "However, after all, it is a vassal country. For vassal states, the way to deal with them is still different. There is also the DPRK-Japan relationship, which is also a complex issue. It's right not to say no and leave a room for nothing. Zhu Cihong's words made everyone feel at ease.

Li Banghua understands more. Zhu Cihong is planning to pay a state visit to the DPRK.

His Majesty the Emperor went abroad, and if he really wanted to go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers, it would be too much to underestimate this hero. Obviously, both Korea and Japan are being targeted by His Majesty the Emperor.

What such an eye means, Li Banghua, as the prime minister of the empire, certainly knows.

Obviously, His Majesty the Emperor is not satisfied with the current situation in East Asia.

Let's start with North Korea.

Korea was originally a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the relationship has always been good, but later Korea was attacked by Japan, and a war to aid Korea broke out. For this reason, Zhang Juzheng's family funds accumulated through reform consumed a lot in this battle. But in the same way, it also proves the relationship between the Ming and North Korea.

For the Ming Dynasty, North Korea was not only an important part of the tributary diplomatic pattern, but also a member of the Chinese civilization circle where Confucian culture spread all over the world. The relationship between the two countries is very important.

However, the smooth relations between China and North Korea faced major challenges in the last years of Wanli. The rise of the border troubles in Liaodong Jiannu not only suffered greatly from the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, but also suffered the disaster of annihilation.

As a result, under the strong iron hooves of Jiannu, North Korea had to change its sect and recognize the Qing State as the suzerain.

Of course, the North Koreans are unswerving, and they are still eager to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty. Instead of being enslaved under the iron hooves of the barbarian tribe of Jiannu.

Therefore, regarding the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, Zhu Cihong initially viewed it for military purposes.

Zhu Cihong crossed the sea to the east, raised troops to teach North Korea a lesson, defeated the ruling faction in Korea that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and returned Korea to the Ming side.

But only that, the follow-up Ming Dynasty seemed to have forgotten, except for the Red Lady Department of Liaodong Town, which was stationed in Phoenix, there was no other attention to North Korea.

Later, there was still a discussion in North Korea about whether to send troops to assist the Ming Dynasty in attacking the Qing Dynasty, but for Zhu Cihong, he didn't care.

In Zhu Cihong's view, it is indeed a good thing that the North Koreans came to the rescue. But the North Koreans just didn't come to the rescue, and Zhu Cihong also felt that it was dispensable. Moreover, apart from a few generals in the North Korean army who are still eye-catching, there are few who can be seen. Maybe even come to help.

Now, with the advent of peace and the imminent unfolding of overseas strategies, Zhu Cihong can't help but begin to think about North Korea from another angle.

When it comes to this, Japan inevitably mentions it again.

Leveling East Asia and then going to the world is the first step to conquering the world.

It is a long story to explain Japan's status clearly, but it is obviously arrogant and foolish to talk about East Asian strategy in the light of Japan's important position in East Asian history.

Historically, Japan has been the center of East Asia alongside China. Especially because of the long-term closure of China in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Japanese wrote more in the history of maritime trade.

The 60 years from 1570 to 1630 were a period of great upheaval in Japan.

During this time, the divided kingdom of Japan gradually became unified, and throughout the early 17th century, Japan's population during the Tokugawa shogunate grew rapidly, reaching 15 million to 20 million people, almost as many as the population of all of Europe. The city began to grow and expand, the wealth of the people increased, the purchasing power increased rapidly, and everything began to show a state of prosperity.

But it is clear that the level of productivity of the Japanese in this era is low. Not only is the handicraft industry less developed than China's, but many daily necessities need to be supplied by China.

Candy, Tsing Yi, linen and Ge cloth from Fujian and Guangdong, silk and satin silk from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, medicinal materials from Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and even copper pots and iron pots cannot be produced by Japan and must be imported from China.

Diametrically opposed to later generations, the Ming Dynasty in this era was extremely proud of foreign countries. In contrast, the Japanese are like the Chinese of later generations, with a great admiration for the West.

This foreign cargo obviously refers to the foreign goods imported from China across the East China Sea.

In particular, silk fabrics are particularly fond of Chinese products. You know, the Japanese themselves are a producer of raw silk.

But the Japanese don't want their own country, and they want Chinese silk goods, not only raw silk but also spinning silk. This is certainly not because the Japanese are psychopathic and have money to spend. Rather, China's silk goods are of high quality and famous all over the world.

Although Japan already has a good level of silk weaving industry at this time, for example, Kyoto's silk fabrics are quite good. However, if you look closely, you will find that even the silk fabrics from Kyoto are imported from China.

Even if the Japanese are bursting with national self-esteem at the moment, and suddenly support their own domestic production, they will suddenly find that in the face of strong demand, Japan's domestic high-quality silk is far from meeting the needs of their own country.

According to historical records, the Japanese consume 220,500 kilograms of raw silk every year. However, in Japan's best years, the production was only between 94,500 and 126,000 kilograms.

In other words, in order to meet the production needs of the country, Japan must import half of the raw silk.

Such a huge gap that if there was no overseas trade to transport raw silk from China, Japan's domestic textile industry would simply be shut down and production would be impossible.

On the other hand, such a huge gap and grim form also mean that there is a huge profit hidden in the raw silk trade.

Such huge profits made the Japanese very supportive of overseas trade in the early days. This is not only because of the development of the domestic industry, but also because of the profitability.

From the very beginning of Oda Nobunaga's time, it was clear that overseas trade could bring great profits to Japan.

The development of such a key industry is, of course, the dedication of all people in Japan.

It's a pity that there is a problem with the import of raw silk on top of the key link.

This question...... It's the sea ban!

After the end of the last ship in 1547, the Sino-Japanese exploration trade was terminated. For this reason, a large number of businessmen who relied on the tributary relationship between China and Japan to eat were cut off.

At this time, because of the sea ban, a large number of people in coastal areas also had a bleak livelihood, and they were hungry and cold.

Under this background, the Haikou and the Japanese merchants and the original Japanese invaders created the Jiajing Japanese Plague that shocked the whole country. More than ten years of Jiajing and Japanese disasters have left the southeast coast very dilapidated. "The people of Wu Yue have no time to cook, they can't sleep on their pillows, the farmers abandon farming, and the red women sleep on the machine."

Because of the previous national shock of the Japanese invasion, the Ming Dynasty remembered the Japanese very well, although the imperial court had realized the importance of overseas trade. But for Japan, it is still heavily guarded. As a result, it has become a national problem for Japanese people to buy raw silk directly in China.