New Shun 1730

This deformed import and export trade cannot be said to be one-way. If you want to be serious, then the people who grow rice in Jiangsu and other places are also affected by the impact of Korean rice.

But the question is not whether they are affected.

The question is whether these people who are affected can influence Dashun's trade policy.

Because North Korea's trade policy is not autonomous, especially after the border ginseng murder incident, the initiative to expand the opening of ports has been completely in the hands of Dashun.

Although some thoughts have emerged in North Korea, believing that Dashun has changed from "kingly way" to "hegemonic way" towards North Korea, in fact, Dashun has changed from Xia to Yi. Because only Yidi only use hegemony instead of kingly way.

However, Dashun's core strength is in the capital, and the garrison, officials, nobles, and ruling core group in the capital are supported by fiscal revenue.

After the deeper silver monetization reform, money is distributed.

When distributing food, the more expensive the food, the better.

When distributing money, naturally hope that the food is as cheap as possible.

The real political core group of people did not think that the price reduction of grain was a bad thing, so the matter was left as it was.

In short, the Kingdom of Korea actually accepted this result in the end, and because of the special taxation system and fiscal revenue source of the Kingdom of Korea, the royal family of the Kingdom of Korea finally recognized this deformed import and export trade, and even gained certain benefits from it.

The Kingdom of Korea called itself a small China.

Such as the two-class system, caste identity, slave system, and clan system, I can't see where it is Chinese and where it is Chinese.

But there is one thing that the Kingdom of Korea is very consistent with, that is, the taxation system of the Kingdom of Korea is really in line with the "Huang Zongxi Law" proposed by Huang Zongxi through summarizing the taxation reforms of the dynasties.

In short, the Huang Zongxi Law is that the more taxes are changed, the more the bottom suffers.

In theory, it is from tax A and tax B, merged into tax C. The reality is that after changing to tax C, tax A and tax B are retained - for example, the one-whip method complained by Wang Fuzhi, it was said that the previous several strands of rope were twisted into one whip, but it turned out to be several strands of rope and added another whip.

In theory, some special taxes should be levied under special circumstances, and should be abolished once the special circumstances are over. However, the reality is that, for example, after the classic Qing Dynasty seized the world, it continued to levy Liao taxes "in order to recover Liao territory and defeat the Eastern Tartars."

In theory, regardless of whether it is reasonable to levy taxes based on per capita, taxes based on per capita and labor can always guarantee the court's fiscal expenditure. However, the reality is that levying taxes based on per capita will inevitably lead to bureaucrats and nobles who own slaves concealing their population; if the court levies taxes based on per capita, some people will choose to serve the noble bureaucrats; in the end, all these taxes fall on the people at the bottom.

This Huang Zongxi law was fully played out in Korea.

Even this was not enough, and the "Qingmiao Law" with Korean characteristics was added, and the grain return system was also added.

In simple terms, the so-called grain return system is a variant of the Qingmiao Law, where the court gives rice to the people and then uses the interest income to support the consumption of bureaucrats and the royal family.

You have to lend even if you don't want to.

Increase income at the grassroots level.

Under such circumstances, the court of Korea also found that, hey, lending money at high interest rates to the people and collecting so little interest through the grain-returning system; why not sell rice to Dashun, import cotton cloth from Dashun and sell it internally, and make another profit?

In addition, Liu Yu has always been timid in foreign trade, especially foreign trade with neighboring countries. He has always taken the initiative to help the other side establish customs and allow the other side to collect certain tariffs.

This is the case with Japan and Korea.

Taking the initiative to let the other side collect tariffs, but the tax rate is not high, which can just crush its local industry to death, and also allow the court of the other side to maintain a certain fiscal revenue, thereby suppressing the internal and increasing their dependence on tariffs.

In Japan, the shogunate took the tariffs and was happy to help Dashun suppress various princes and serve as the chief of Dashun.

Because of the special situation of Korea, the grain-returning system and the tax system under Huang Zongxi's law made the court dynasty have the most rice.

And along with the internal changes in Korea, remote areas were allowed to use tribute instead of rice.

This made the Joseon Dynasty, in economic terms, transform into a Korean trading company controlled by the Dashun Capital Group.

The court collected taxes, loans, grain, and tribute; then the Joseon court sold these rice, ginseng, deer antlers, etc. to Dashun in exchange for Dashun's cotton cloth, silk, porcelain, ironware, and books; and then exchanged these Dashun's cotton cloth, ironware, and handicrafts for more rice internally.

The Joseon court did not consider resistance, such as issuing a ban on luxury, hoping to reverse the trend, thereby prohibiting the circulation of Dashun's cotton cloth and silk in Korea.

Liu Yu's counterattack was also very simple.

He collected many "Huang Ming Tong Ji" that were banned during the Longqing period of the previous dynasty, subsidized publication, and shipped them to Korea.

This involves a legitimacy issue.

According to the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the "Huang Ming Tong Ji", Lee Seong-gye was the son of the traitor Lee In-im, and the father and son killed four kings in a row, and they definitely got the country unjustly.

The succession of the Joseon king was problematic in itself. His brother drank his ginseng soup and died immediately. The brother succeeded the brother.

He was originally accused of "regicide".

Tracing back to the ancestors, it was said that Lee Seong-gye was the son of Lee In-im. The father and son were addicted to regicide. Naturally, the Joseon royal family could not stand it. Why, your brother died this time, is this a family feature?

Because Lee Seong's biological mother was of low birth, even the literati would be furious and engage in literary inquisition when reading "Records of the Grand Historian", let alone this matter.

In the end, Dashun strictly prohibited the export of some historical books that "surprised the vassal states" and the customs strictly checked them.

The Li government said that the history book was not written correctly. It was banned during the Longqing period of the previous dynasty. Li Renren was not actually Li Chenggui's father. The Ming History we edited did not adopt this statement.

The condition was that Korea would lift the ban on luxury, and Dashun's exports would no longer pay the remaining official silver tax after paying customs taxes, and they would be unimpeded in the country.

There are still benefits to being in the same cultural circle, and you can accurately find the starting point in the cultural circle.

If Western forces want to do it, it will be difficult to find this point, at least not in a short time.

This idea was certainly not thought up by Liu Yu, who was not a Dashun person, but by the real Dashun people around him.

The result was that Korea launched a wave of literary inquisition.

The scholar-officials of Korea were already fighting among themselves and had serious party struggles. They took the opportunity to deal with a wave of political enemies. After hundreds of heads fell, the reformists failed completely, and some were killed and some were exiled. The conservatives and reactionaries took full power.

And this mosquito prison in Korea also directly caused a series of serious problems in the subsequent Korea, and directly affected Dashun's final decision on the issue of "countyization" of vassal states.

Because... those who were dealt with and exiled in the mosquito prison all knew how to read and knew Chinese characters.

They couldn't be officials, and they were all literate and losers in the political struggle - losers in the political struggle just proved that they were qualified to participate in politics - so what would these literate people do?

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The hitchhikers who were going back to their hometown to find their families did not feel any discomfort during their two days in Incheon.

A group of people sold goods.

A group of people bought goods.

They spoke the official language of the court and used the issued paper money.

He was not a businessman, and could not personally experience why the high-profit "Three Treasures of Goryeo" were actually out of reach for ordinary businessmen. But a little thought would tell him that such good things, and those who could do such business, whether in Korea or Dashun, must have very wide connections.

After a look, he found that there was not much difference from places like Sanjiangkou, Tongjiangzi, and Yingkou. They were all buying and selling goods, and there was no exotic scenery at all, so he felt bored.

After waiting for two days, the passengers on this side boarded the ship and went to Songjiang Prefecture.

The peddler who was doing fish glue business on the hammock next to him had already disembarked, and no one in Incheon bought this hammock, but this hammock was not empty for long.

The passenger ship encountered some problems on the morning of the second day after sailing from Incheon.

As a result, when he went to the deck to take a breath, he happened to see several people floating on a small boat in the distance, and it was obvious that there was a shipwreck.

He helped to rescue a few people.

After asking, the people on the passenger ship confirmed that they could speak Chinese and were not Koreans, so they collected their money and arranged them on the ship.

The empty hammock next to the returnee was occupied by another person.

He was in his early twenties and spoke a slightly strange Jiaoliao Mandarin.

After a brief exchange, the man said that his surname was Zhao and he was from Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. He followed a merchant ship to do business in Korea. As a result, he encountered a shipwreck and was fortunately rescued by this ship.

After chatting for a while, the man who claimed to be surnamed Zhao stopped talking. It seemed that he didn't want to talk much, so the returnee didn't ask any more questions.

Only when he heard that this person was also surnamed Zhao, he thought it was fate, because his surname was also Zhao, and his name was Liben, a very common name for a salt worker.

Thinking that this person was obviously a businessman and from Dengzhou Prefecture.

Although meeting by chance is fate, and having the same surname is also fate, there are so many people with the surname Zhao, and the two people will not have the opportunity to meet in the future. The other person was a taciturn person who couldn't say a word. He didn't seem to want to talk to anyone, and there was nothing to talk about.

He just thought it was a small matter on his way home, and he would go his own way in the future, and no one would recognize each other.

He didn't expect that he would meet this person again when he returned to his hometown to find his brother's wife and children, and even travel together for a long time.

It was not until then that he knew that this person was not named Zhao, or even Dashun.

He was from Korea, with a surname of Quan, and his name was Quan Zheshen.

In the original history, this person was also a figure who connected the past and the future in the history of the Korean nation. It can even be said that the subsequent spread of Christianity in Korea, the rejection of Western learning by the scholar-official class, and the full development of Christianity at the bottom of the peninsula were all related to him.

This is not to say that he was a devout Christian. On the contrary, he was a disciple of authentic Confucianism, a noble of the Yangban class, and the last disciple of Lee Seong-ho, who pioneered practical learning in Korea.

The core figures of the Xinghu School of the Left - the Xinghu Left focused on the rural areas of North Korea where the old system had collapsed due to the development of the commodity economy, land annexation had caused people to live in poverty, but they really couldn't find a way out, so they finally turned to "using Christianity to supplement Confucianism" in the hope of rebuilding morality and building a moral kingdom for three generations.

They tried to reform and save the nation, and tried to break Zhu Xi and establish new learning, but in the end they really couldn't find the way, and finally they were assimilated in the process of supplementing Confucianism with Christianity - there is a way, to break and then establish, smash everything old, and establish new universal things, so that the national things can become the world; then package the world as traditional; finally, the world will be the national - for example, universally applicable scientific principles, precisely because they are global, they will be stamped with ideological steel for a long time and be considered to be Western national.

But obviously, as the motherland of culture and civilization, Dashun has this opportunity, such as leading the new culture of the universally applicable industrial material foundation, and then the national can be the world, because it is the world itself but it is led by the nation.

For example, Liu Yu held the Rugao meeting for salt policy reform, the reason was that Liu Yu felt that the material foundation had begun to be laid, and the superstructure should follow up. Because the economic foundation of Jiangsu after the reform will soon involve the whole world in this new system, everything will be based on Jiangsu's growing industrialization as a template, and the superstructure built on this template can be national and global.

However, North Korea obviously does not have this opportunity.

And it is precisely because of the radical group of Xinghu, Quan Zheshen, who has a good foundation in Confucianism and is Li Xinghu's last disciple, who is extremely intelligent, but the economic foundation cannot allow him to escape the limitations of the times.

So he used Christianity to supplement Confucianism, opposed Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, and his high reputation and spread widely.

This directly gave political opponents with serious party disputes an excuse to attack for free.

Political struggle, do they really care about the spread of faith? In the eyes of political opponents, Christianity is not terrible, but what is terrible is to use this loophole to carry out Confucian reforms, and finally gain the right to speak and take power, that is terrible. Quan Zheshen and others jumped so high, it was simply a free opportunity, which directly led to the interruption of practical learning reform in North Korea and the destruction of Western learning.

This is also why although Catholicism was banned, Christianity was not banned and spread wildly in the end; but practical science was completely destroyed - political enemies really didn't care about God, the Lord of Heaven, Confucius and Mencius, but party struggles. In order to avoid getting into trouble, the literati would definitely not touch Western practical science.

And who cares about the grassroots dissemination?

It's just party struggles.

The ban on religion didn't ban religion, but practical science was banned instead. This can also be said to be a feature of the literati party struggles.