My life skills in Daming Liver

The consequences of this epic defeat of the Korean Navy were naturally far-reaching.

North Korea lost its only force capable of going to sea to fight, and even Ming Dynasty's maritime force in the Japanese merchant house was sent away.

More importantly, the news of this defeat spread to the main island of North Korea, immediately letting everyone see the paper tiger of the North Korean court.

Inertia is a physical law invented by Newton, but this law also applies to politics.

Sometimes, what maintains the entire political system is not a powerful reactionary force, but a certain kind of political inertia.

Some incomprehensible policies continue because of the inertia of the bureaucracy.

A society that could explode at any time has not yet experienced turmoil because of inertia.

Such a defeat completely interrupted the inertia of the small North Korean court to maintain its rule, and also allowed all Koreans to see the weakness of this court.

After seeing the weakness of the Korean court, a lot of turmoil soon occurred in various places.

The first was Busan. The Progressive Association organized by Yi Sun-shin in Busan immediately led to a small-scale uprising. However, an army was stationed in Busan to maintain the Ming court's lease. After all, the backbone of Yi Sun-shin's Progressive Association was not really unable to fight. In the end Or because the intelligence during the uprising was not rigorous, it was preemptively defeated by the Ming court garrison.

Yi Sun-shin could only leave Busan with the members of the Progressive Association who failed in the uprising, and began to flee all the way to Jeju Island.

However, it was considered good that this Ming court garrison was able to defeat the uprising of the Progressive Association, and it had no ability to go out of the city to pursue Yi Sun-shin.

Yi Sun-shin ran out of Busan without spending much effort.

Yi Sun-shin, who fled from Busan, did not choose to return to Jeju Island. Instead, he continued to lead his men in North Korea's cities and countryside, disturbing the peace of the entire North Korean court.

After Kinoshita Tokichiro annihilated the North Korean troops who landed on the island, he also obtained North Korean naval ships and equipment.

At this time, naval officers and ships from the southeast supporting Jeju Island were also sent to Jeju Island.

The leading officer supporting Jeju Island is named Lin Yuanhua. He is a member of the Changningwei tribe who followed Su Ze during the preparation period of the navy. He is now a regimental-level main captain under the First Brigade.

Lin Yuanhua took the initiative to volunteer, but in order to aid North Korea, he also took off the military uniform of the Southeast New Army and joined Yi Sun-shin's rebel team as a special military adviser.

After Lin Yuanhua arrived at Jeju Island, it happened that Kinoshita Tokichiro had just defeated the North Korean navy and was worrying about being unable to launch these warships.

Lin Yuanhua immediately assigned the sailors on his ship to other ships, selected those who could go to sea as sailors from the refugees on Jeju Island, and took them for training on the ship.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Yuanhua began to use Jeju Island as a base to attack North Korean and Ming merchant ships around Busan.

Lin Yuanhua's intention is also very simple. Donghai Trading Company is a commercial organization. Since it is a commercial organization, it cannot fight with the thinking of the previous army.

Before going to North Korea, Governor Su Ze personally taught Lin Yuanhua how to "run" the East China Sea Trading Company.

Commercial organizations are different from regular armies. All operations must be cost-calculated.

All military goals must also be profitable.

These merchant ships laden with cargo are obviously the most profitable targets.

Before Lin Yuanhua could wait for the fleet to be reorganized, and even the crew and sailors had not been trained, he hurriedly left Jeju Island with the fleet and began to plunder the merchant ships in Busan.

Busan, which had lost the protection of the navy, directly became a target for wanton plunder on Jeju Island.

It has also become the target of Lin Yuanhua's training.

Since April, Lin Yuanhua has dispatched eight times in total, and each time he has captured at least one Ming court and North Korean merchant ship.

Lin Yuanhua once followed Lin Mojun in the East China Sea, pretending to be King Lu and plundering merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of thing is too familiar to him!

Even for Lin Yuanhua, the days he spent as a "pirate" when he was in the army were longer than the days he spent fighting as a serious naval officer!

Lin Yuanhua quickly adapted to his identity as the Pirate King and began to roam the Korean waters.

As a senior Pirate King, Lin Yuanhua knows the most important thing about being a pirate—that is, you must fish from the lake sustainably!

If fishing cannot be sustained, merchant ships will hide in the port, trade will be interrupted, and pirates will have no "business" after robbing them several times.

Lin Yuanhua knew that he needed a terrifying reputation, but he couldn't be too cruel and must have certain "rules."

So Lin Yuanhua established strict discipline. When doing pirate plunder, he would not kill sailors and merchants on the ship at will, nor would he deliberately damage merchant ships.

If the risk for merchants every time they go to sea is too great, then they will definitely not go to sea. This is to let everyone know that Lin Yuanhua, a pirate, only robs wealth but not lives.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Yuanhua would not empty out all the goods and gold, silver and jewelry.

The first is those ships that resolutely resist. Lin Yuanhua will rob more to warn those ship owners not to resist in the future.

For those merchant ships that voluntarily gave up resistance and surrender, Lin Yuanhua only robbed some of the goods and escorted them for a certain distance.

In this way, after seeing Lin Yuanhua's flag, some small merchant ships will simply give up resistance, and then send people to pay for the passage, and both parties can save time.

There are also many Japanese pirates in Busan. These are real Japanese pirates from the Japanese country, and they often harass North Korean caravans.

Lin Yuanhua also led people to take the initiative to sweep away these Japanese pirates and eliminate pirates on this trade route, which actually made this trade route safer.

Lin Yuanhua also established an effective system for selling stolen goods with the help of Kinoshita Tokichiro.

Relying on his connections in Japan, Kinoshita Tokichiro contacted some merchants at the port of Kobe, Japan, and sold these robbed goods to them.

Kinoshita even found out about the current situation of his lord Oda Nobunaga through these businessmen.

Through his series of military and diplomatic operations, Oda Nobunaga completely controlled the Mino region of Japan and became one of the powerful daimyo of Japan.

After Oda Nobunaga acquired Mino, he changed the name of Inoguchi, the stronghold of the Toki clan Saito clan, the former owner of Mino country, to Gifu based on the story of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty who established in Qishan and overthrew the Yin Dynasty to unify the world.

Oda Nobunaga also began to use the "Tenka Bubu" seal at this time, and officially aimed to unify all Japan.

Seeing how powerful his lord was, Kinoshita Tokichiro quickly sent someone to contact Oda Nobunaga and wrote a letter about his current situation to Oda Nobunaga.

Just when the huge changes in North Korea made Ming Ting anxious.

Datong.

A historian once said that war is a catalyst for the development of science and technology.

Although this sentence exaggerates the role of war, the spread of technology during wars is indeed faster.

Even in more ancient times, war was one of the means of spreading technology and culture.

It is precisely for this reason that Ming's technology also made some progress during the war with the Southeast.

Of course, this is not just about military technology. Progress has occurred in all fields of science and technology. This is the technological spillover effect of the first-mover civilization.

Late-developing countries often require very little investment to catch up with the technology of early-developing countries.

One of them is agricultural technology.

Crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes were also brought to the north by some fleeing farmers.

The high-quality agricultural products that have been bred in the southeast have also spread to the north.

There is almost no way to suppress the spread of this kind of technology. You must know that the border between the Ming Dynasty and the southeast stretches for such a long time, and there are always people and businessmen coming and going. They may have completed the spread of this kind of technology unconsciously.

Waterwheels, new agricultural machinery, and the development of agricultural tools due to the development of steel also increased agricultural output under the Ming Dynasty.

Last year's agriculture in central Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gyeonggi Province all achieved bumper harvests. This is why the Ming Dynasty was still able to sustain itself even after losing Huguang.

Coupled with the food exploited from North Korea, the departure of a large number of southern populations also reduced the burden, which actually made the Ming court more abundant in food.

The food crisis that once occurred during Gao Gong's administration has disappeared.

Things in the world are so magical, which is also an important reason why Zhang Juzheng can still maintain his political power after experiencing so many turmoils.

After all, most people will never cause trouble as long as they have enough to eat.

And soon, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty discovered another way to make money.

liquor.

In fact, wine has been a luxury product and drink since ancient times, both in the East and the West, and is not an addictive product.

Because the alcohol content of ancient Eastern and Western wines was very low. Low-alcohol rice wine and rice wine were popular in the East, while beer and wine were popular in the West. They drank freely only on festivals. On weekdays, few lords were willing to give away their precious wine. Grain is used to make wine.

As for high-strength liquor, they only appeared after the great development of modern agriculture.

Only when grain production is high can there be excess grain for wine making, and brewing high-quality wine requires a large amount of grain. In times of famine, if a landowner uses a large amount of grain to make wine, he will definitely be killed by angry farmers. of.

Moreover, in the era of small-scale peasant economy in the East, the value of money was actually not that high. Just like the families in "Dream of Red Mansions", their entire big family was a self-sufficient feudal manor, and they had no motivation to create new products to sell.

But the rise of the Southeast also brought a new business culture.

Under commodity dumping, Ming's small-scale peasant economy gradually disintegrated, and a commercial culture was created.

And the merchants in the north are also very keen.

They soon discovered that the harvested grain could not be sold at a high price, and grain transportation was a very costly industry that ordinary landowners simply could not afford to participate in.

The brewing technology introduced from the southeast allowed them to see another commodity, high-quality spirits.