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The two brothers jumped up with their knives and killed two of the king's attendants.

Li Jing was frightened and paralyzed on the spot. He ran away and called for help, but was quickly caught by his two sons.

Li Yan's eyes were red and he said: "Father, abdicate, the king of North Korea asked the second brother to do it! Only when the father abdicates, will the Celestial Dynasty forgive North Korea's sin of surrendering to the barbarians. If the father does not abdicate, North Korea will never have peace."

Li Hao also knelt down and kowtowed: "Please abdicate father!"

The father is kind and the son is filial, and North Korea changes.

Chapter 467 [Improved Textile Machine]

A letter of credence was placed in front of Zhao Han.

When the Datong Army sailed to North Korea, Man Dahai had already withdrawn.This guy looted all of Seoul, and many people in Seoul were arrested as civilian husbands to help transport the looted goods.

Li Zheng took thousands of people and landed near Pyongyang by boat, only biting off a part of Manqing's tail.

There are also gains, killing hundreds of soldiers, rescuing more than 4000 captured North Korean civilians, and the belongings transported by these civilians.

The leader of North Korea, Li Ji, was placed under house arrest, and his eldest son, Li Hao, became self-reliant in a coup, and quickly won the support of North Korean officials and people.It is really that Li Zhen's performance is so bad that North Korean officials and people complain about him. Maybe another king can live a better life.

After Li Hao succeeded to the throne, he was doing three things:

First, under the banner of "filling up ZTE", purge old officials who do not obey you.

Second, I asked Li Zheng's Datong Army not to leave, and to be stationed in Baozhou from now on.Anyway, there was no one inhabited there, and the Manchu Qing also robbed ten rooms and nine empties.After the Datong Army was stationed, North Korea provided food and grass in the first year, and the Datong Army recruited refugees to cultivate supplies in the second year.

Third, ask the Datong Emperor to confer the title and bestow the golden seal of the King of Korea.

Baozhou is on the south bank of the Yalu River. It was the bridgehead built by the Liao Kingdom to attack Koryo, and it was also the only place where the Manchu Qing invaded North Korea.

As long as the Datong Army is stationed in Baozhou, North Korea can sit back and relax, and Li Hao can manage internal affairs with peace of mind.

Looking at the letter of credence in his hand, Zhao Han couldn't help laughing: "The new leader of North Korea was full of wisdom when he usurped the throne, so why didn't he know how easy it is to invite the gods and send the gods away? Invite the Datong army to station, and allow the Datong army to recruit on their own." Aren’t you afraid of losing the whole Baozhou from now on if the refugees colonize?”

On the contrary, Li Banghua was surprised by Zhao Han's thoughts: "Your Majesty, the two countries have diplomatic relations, and we should treat great things as small things. North Korea has been bathed in enlightenment, and it has been China's fence for generations. At this time, North Korea is in trouble, and it trusts China. How can the great power of the Celestial Dynasty take advantage of the dangers of others?" ?Does Your Majesty still want to occupy Baozhou and not return it? Leaving aside the theory of big and small matters, North Korea has many mountains and little land, and has always been poor and remote, so it is useless to occupy it. North Korea uses troops, and the grain and taxes collected are not enough for the army’s expenses.”

"Haha, I was overthinking." Zhao Han immediately cleared up his confusion.

Neither King Li Hao of North Korea nor Li Banghua in front of him thinks that China should occupy North Korea's territory.

Moreover, Li Banghua has explained the reasons, which are divided into two aspects: political public opinion and actual advantages and disadvantages.

No matter how high-sounding the reason Zhao Han finds, as long as he invades the territory of North Korea in the future, it will cause the North Korean ruler and ministers to be alienated, and Chinese scholars will also think that Zhao Han is "immoral".

In that poor place in North Korea, not only is the weather cold, but there are many mountains and few lands.No food can be grown even if it is beaten down. In case of resistance from North Korean soldiers and civilians, it will probably become a loss-making business, and the maintenance cost of the rule will definitely remain high.

Jeju Island was an exception. At that time, Zhao Han needed land for raising horses.

Pang Chunlai didn't say much, he was too familiar with Zhao Han.Just listening to what Zhao Han said just now, he knows that he will definitely expand in North Korea in the future. After making a decision, it is useless for anyone to persuade him.

Zhao Han ordered: "Order the Ministry of Rites to arrange for the canonization of the King of Korea. Order the Ministry of War to recruit farmers and soldiers and train the No. 14 Division of the Datong Army. The soldiers of the No. 14 Division will be given priority in choosing those who have wives, have no children, and are not Farmers and soldiers with only one son. After training, after the harvest of summer grain, the No.14 Division soldiers, husband and wife will go to Baozhou to settle down together.”

Li Banghua looked surprised, and he also understood that Zhao Han really wanted to invade Baozhou in North Korea.

Baozhou is on the border of North Korea, and it has long been empty.If the soldiers of the Datong Army go there as husband and wife, they will become the main population of Baozhou after all.

Zhao Han continued: "Order the Ministry of Officials to select officials and go to Baozhou with the army. After the officials go to Baozhou, they try to recruit Korean refugees as much as possible and give them land to settle down. By the way, they also need to give surnames to North Korean farmers. How can a person not have a surname?"

Li Banghua wanted to persuade him, but he didn't bother to say anything after hearing this.

There are officials, the army, and immigrants, and they can also recruit Korean refugees to organize households and sub-fields.In just three to five years, Baozhou will essentially become Chinese territory, and the king of North Korea will not be able to take it back even if he wants to - there is no cost of encroachment, so why not do it?

Li Banghua is not a pedantic scholar, he will support the beneficial and harmless business even if it violates Confucian morality.

Zhao Han said: "Baozhou is adjacent to the area under the jurisdiction of the Puppet Qing Dynasty. As long as the food there can be self-sufficient, our army can send troops from North Korea at any time. At that time, there will be three routes to attack the Puppet Qing Dynasty, one from Shanhaiguan, one from Gaizhou, and one from North Korea. !"

Tian Younian praised: "The puppet Qing Dynasty must pay attention to one thing and lose another."

Zhao Han also said: "The troops in the north are also insufficient. The Ministry of War was ordered to recruit farmers and soldiers, and a new No. 15 division was formed. Henan and Shandong were short of food. After the No. 15 division was organized and trained, it could be stationed in Xuzhou first. In case of war, immediately Send north."

In this way, there will be fifteen regular divisions.

Four divisions plus Xiao cavalry, 7000 troops were piled up in Liaodong and North Korea.

One division in Tianjin, one division in Dengzhou, and one division in Xuzhou.These 3 people can go to attack Liaodong, or they can be transferred to fight Li Zicheng at any time.

The four divisions were stationed in Henan, Hubei and the southwest of Beizhili, mainly to guard against Li Zicheng.

Two divisions were stationed in Sichuan, one to attack the chieftains in western Sichuan, and the other to attack the chieftains in eastern Sichuan and western Hunan.

The two divisions were stationed in Guangxi, and after occupying the entire territory of Guangxi, they had to cooperate with Sichuan friendly forces to attack Yunnan and Guizhou.

The rest of the troops were either the emperor's personal soldiers or the guards of important ports.

As for the city defense forces in various places, they all belong to the police establishment, and more veterans and farmers are recruited to serve.They are only stationed at the gate of the city, and the number is not very large. If bandits attack the city, the police in the whole city can be mobilized, and the peasants and soldiers in the suburbs can also quickly gather.

Zhao Han's large-scale expansion of the army, in addition to making strategic preparations, is also increasing promotion positions for soldiers, and assigning positions to those who have made meritorious deeds.

Li Zicheng nested in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, and has been quiet.

According to the news sent back from the front line, the weather in the Northwest is good this year. Li Zicheng seized the opportunity to register as a household of Qimin, and a large number of farmers settled down and divided their fields for reclamation.More than ten years of drought and war have led to conflicts in the Northwest where there are no people, but instead there are too many lands and too few people.

Li Zicheng didn't need to carry out land reform at all, he could easily distribute the land to the people.

The land in the northwest is actually thriving, and everything is getting better.However, the officials are still greedy. Only under Li Zicheng's coercion, the greed is not as strong as in the Chongzhen period, and the common people can finally breathe.

Li Zicheng's uprising troops, many generals became increasingly corrupt, often privately recruited refugees to farm and hide the civilian population.For this reason, Li Zicheng made repeated orders not to hide his population, and he had already killed several generals.

In addition to developing internal affairs, it is to eliminate warlords.

A large number of soldiers and generals were surrendered, which was reorganized by Li Zicheng.If you don't obey, you will fight, and more than a dozen surrendered generals rebelled, all of which were beheaded by Li Zicheng's troops.

In addition, Mongolia invaded Shanxi from the border last year, and more than 2 Mongolian cavalry went south.

During the Little Ice Age, the grasslands were not easy.The Mongols had a difficult life, so they could only come to Shanxi to plunder, and were defeated by Li Zicheng's Dashun Army.

Li Zicheng, who had so many things to do, naturally didn't have the time to fight Zhao Han.

The relationship between the two sides is not bad, and even resumed non-governmental trade exchanges.But everyone knows that other people are not allowed to sleep soundly on the side of the couch, and the war between the north and the south has only been a matter of one or two years.

Before the war between Dashun and Datong, there is also a possibility that the two parties will join forces to defeat Gushi Khan!

Gushri Khan unified Qinghai and Tibet last year. These are places of bitter cold and must be developed outward.The army under this guy harassed Li Zicheng's Gansu, while encroaching on Zhao Han's western Sichuan, and at the same time provoked Dashun and Datong.

Among the piles of war information, Zhao Han finally received good news from industry and commerce.

"Your Majesty, grass... I have improved the scripture bed." Xu Zhengming, who devoted himself to building a helicopter, produced results in less than half a year.

Zhao Han happily said: "Bring it in!"

Xu Zhengming's family has moved to Nanjing. The eldest son is his work assistant, and he carried the bed with the guards.

The weaving process is complicated. Take cotton weaving as an example, there are many procedures to be done: cotton ginning (removing seeds and making cotton soft), spinning, warping, sizing, and weft insertion (spinning).

Warping is the first process of spinning cotton yarn into cotton cloth.

Xu Zhengming pointed to the warp wheel in front of him and said: "Improving this is much easier than making a flying chair. Today's warp wheel is only eight (screw collectors), and the spinning wheel that I have improved is a full twenty!"

"How many people are needed to operate?" Zhao Han asked.

Xu Zhengming said, "Two people."

The Baxian classic car is also operated by two people, and the production efficiency has increased by 2.5 times.

The textile industry in Ming Dynasty was very different from the north to the south.

The north is still using the rake type warping, and the south is using the axle frame type warping in the Song Dynasty.

Cred warping for better quality and greater output when weaving cotton.

In the southern creel warping technology, the dial car was used at the beginning, and there was only one yarn taker (Yi 繀).By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the bed was invented, with four wire collectors.

The birth of the water conservancy spinning machine in Jiangxi stimulated the development of the spinning machine in the south of the Yangtze River.

So two years ago, craftsmen in Jiading County invented a warp bed with eight silk collectors.Now, Xu Zhengming improved the sutra bed again and expanded the number of thread collectors to twenty.

Zhao Han just stimulated and encouraged, advancing the invention of the menstrual bed.

In the original history, in the middle and late Kangxi period, Chinese craftsmen produced thirty sutra beds for silk collectors.Compared with a thread collector in the early Ming Dynasty, how huge the development is can be intuitively understood from the numbers.

Zhao Han asked: "Can you continue to improve?"

Xu Zhengming scratched his head and smiled innocently: "Yes! Give me another one or two years, and I will definitely be able to turn the sutra bed into thirty or fifty!"

"His ambition is commendable!" Zhao Han praised.

In the development of textile machines, every process needs to be improved. Xu Zhengming only improved the warping link, and there is still a long way to go.

Once the steam engine comes out, the existing technical inventions can be installed on the steam engine.

Zhao Han asked, "How did you improve it?"

Xu Zhengming asked doubtfully: "Is it difficult? It was changed just like that. You can understand how to change the previous menstrual bed at a glance."

Zhao Han was speechless for a moment.

Chapter 468 [Commercial Market Growth]

Nanjing, Baoxinglong cloth line.

As soon as the store clerk Yu Zudeng took off the door panel, he saw several cloth merchants standing outside, nodded and bowed his head with a smile and said, "Gentlemen, please come inside!"

"It's easy to say, easy to say!" Cloth Shangmen clapped his hands and smiled.

Yu Zudeng was at a loss for a moment, not sure why these living ancestors were polite to him.

In the cloth sales link, the early stage is mainly divided into cloth dealers and cloth merchants.

The cloth line is the purchaser of the cloth, which can be divided into the establishment and the exit.

Zuozhuang chose to open a shop in a town, and the women wove cotton yarn and cotton cloth to sell, and generally seldom paid in cash.The woman sells cotton yarn, and the cloth dealer gives cotton; the woman sells cotton cloth, and the cloth dealer gives cotton yarn.In this way, the cloth line can reduce the pressure on funds, and women do not need to go elsewhere to buy raw materials.

When they go out of the village, they will send their buddies to the villages and towns to buy them, and farmers can sell yarn and cloth without going to the city.However, the price of this kind of transaction is very low, and the unscrupulous dental firm can even lower the price by [-] to [-]%.

As for the cloth merchants, they come to the cloth shop to purchase goods wholesale, and then ship them to other places for retail.

There is a saying: Yaxing serves cloth merchants like a prince, but fighting for cloth merchants is like a confrontation.

Even in front of cloth dealers, cloth merchants are like living ancestors.In order to compete for a cloth merchant, several cloth shops are fighting like a war.

So Yu Zudeng was very puzzled today, why are the ancestors of cloth merchants so polite?

"Xiao Yu, hurry up and make some bowls of tea!"

Zhou Ruodou, the shopkeeper of the cloth shop, came to the lobby with a smile, and gave Yu Zudeng some instructions.

Then the shopkeeper said: "Several please sit down."

A cloth merchant just sat down, and before the tea was served, he said directly: "Don't talk about gossip, I will raise the price by [-]% to get the cloth. It does not matter whether it is plain or twill, or summer cloth or starch cloth, and all prices are raised by [-]%. Take as much as you want."

"You want to get the cloth even after raising the price by [-]%? I'll raise the price by [-]%!" Another cloth merchant sneered.

The shopkeeper Zhou Ruodou was proud of himself, and then complained: "There is a shortage of fabrics recently, and we really can't get enough. Why don't we follow the example of the Ministry of War in purchasing fabrics and make a hidden bid? The Ministry of War wins the bid with the lowest price, and we win the bid with the highest price."

"Yes, let's do it quickly. You can't do it here, so I will go to Jiangxi and Hunan to see." A cloth merchant said impatiently.

The small cloth shop also invited bids to sell cloth.

When the business was over, the store clerk Yu Zudeng asked curiously: "Shopkeeper, why are the cloths selling so well this year?"

Zhou Ruodou explained with a smile: "This year Japan opened a port, and I heard that two more ports will be added. In the past, the business in Japan was dominated by Fujian maritime merchants. Now that more ports have been opened, the maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are asking merchants to help them get goods. Not only cotton cloth, but also tea, silk, porcelain, tobacco, candles, etc. You can get everything, anyway, you have to rely on large quantities and low prices, so you can grab business in Shijian and Shimonoseki. The cotton cloth in the south of the Yangtze River has been wiped out by cloth merchants. It’s too late, and I went to Nanjing to buy goods.”

Yu Zudeng asked suspiciously: "There are so many in Japan, can you eat so much?"

"In addition to Japan, there are North Korea and Liaodong," Zhou Ruodou said. "Your Majesty canonized the king of North Korea, and all ports in North Korea are open. No matter how small or poor North Korea is, it is still a country, and it is very cold. Cotton cloth must be easy to sell. This There is also Liaodong. The population of Liaodong is not large, but there are many garrisons. The military uniforms of the soldiers are issued by the Ministry of War, but the daily clothes of the soldiers and their families have to be bought with their own money. There are also Henan, Shandong, Bei In Zhili, the business is also recovering this year, and even cloth merchants under Li Zicheng’s rule come to purchase. Now that there is a shortage of goods everywhere, what are the worries of those cloth merchants? In the past, cloth merchants lowered prices and made us grandchildren. Now cloth merchants Raise the price, and we all become grandpas."

Yu Zudeng suddenly realized: "It's still the shopkeeper's broad vision, we never thought there would be such a reason."

Zhou Ruodou stroked his beard and smiled: "It's all thanks to His Majesty. Back in the past few years, there were many wars in various places, and countless casualties in the north. The business of selling cloth in the south is not good. Let alone Nanjing, there are also Susongchang Lakes. Some weaving workshops closed down. After His Majesty took the throne, the business is getting better and better. The population in the south is increasing, and the north is about to be stable. Many immigrants move to the north. Where do you need to wear clothes? And Japan, North Korea, Liaodong, It’s a big business again. You are so good at doing things, I will give my boss a few good words, and I will let you be the fourth shopkeeper of the cloth shop in two years.”

"Thank you, shopkeeper!" Yu Zudeng was overjoyed.

Zhou Ruodou said with a smile: "Your father saved my life, you are also smart, you can write and calculate, follow me and work hard, in short, you will not suffer."

Yu Zudeng bent down and served tea: "Uncle Zhou, please drink tea!"

Zhou Ruodou used a bowl lid to skim the tea dust, and said with emotion: "We are lucky to meet a wise and wise sage. What kind of life did you live in the past few years? Ordinary people can't afford to eat, how dare they wear new clothes? Even the wealthy family , there are also people who are sewing and mending, and can’t sell much fabric throughout the year. Today’s business is getting better day by day. If His Majesty is asked to occupy the north, it will be really easy.”

"That's right, Your Majesty is really a good emperor." Yu Zudeng said with a smile.

Zhou Ruodou thought to himself: Your Majesty is good in everything, but he doesn't know that men are superior to women and makes women behave perversely.In the past two years, the business has been done well, and the money is abundant. I wanted to take in a concubine, but I couldn't find a suitable one!

The north suffered from frequent wars, natural disasters and plagues, and the population was scarce, especially women.