Aztec Immortal Chapter One Thousand and Forty: After five years of longevity, North Korea's rich and reactionary people, and the Republic of China's ruthless plunderers, great mercy comes!
Chapter One Thousand and Forty: After five years of longevity, North Korea's rich and reactionary people, and the Republic of China's ruthless plunderers, great mercy comes!
"Oh! Buddha bless you! Go and rob Korea, which is rich and can eat rice! ... However, Mr. Watanabe, since the Ming Dynasty has such a powerful force, it can kill the evil ghost king of Yuan Kou. Then the warriors of Kyushu plundered Korea.
Will the country not be attacked by the Ming army?..."
"Yes! Witness Maitreya Buddha! North Korea is so rich, it must be a behemoth! Their Korean warriors can eat rice every time, so they must be very difficult to deal with... They will risk their lives for rice, right?..."
"Haha! Murakami-kun, you don't understand the mystery of this. The shogun of Muromachi is afraid of the Ming Dynasty, but the various martial arts families under the shogun are not so afraid. Especially the smaller the martial arts family, the less afraid they are! Just like the young masters of Kyushu
The Er clan and the Ouchi clan can't take action openly, but our Ryuzoji family... Ahem, but Tsushima's clan and Hirato's Matsuura family often go to the coast of Korea... The reason for this is like a giant beast can crush a crab.
, but you can’t crush the ants under your feet!…”
The ice wind freezes the white Sea of Okhotsk, connecting it to the vast East China Sea through the narrow Sea of Japan. And the stories of fighting on the sea are like the mottled weapons buried on the beach, silently engraved with death.
The historical "Japanese pirates", or East China Sea pirate groups, can be roughly divided into three stages. The pirate groups, pirate scale and ship technology level are also obviously different, which are closely related to the level of sea trade.
The first stage is the early Ming Dynasty from the 14th to the 15th century, or the Japanese pirate period. Due to the fighting between the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Japan and the final failure of the Southern Dynasties, a large number of Japanese ronin appeared who lost their masters. These ronin traveled around in small boats.
They rob and fight without any trade. Their most obvious signs are their crude boats, poor equipment, and backward navigation technology.
The Japanese pirates of this era were generally very small in scale, consisting mainly of dozens or hundreds of people, and were not difficult to deal with. And with Japan’s backward shipbuilding technology, the small early boats produced were no match for the Ming Dynasty Navy. Therefore, these Japanese pirates were born
The ronin of the Southern Dynasty were both hostile to the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Dynasty shogunate, and they were quickly wiped out. After that, the composition of the pirates in the East China Sea changed significantly and entered the second stage.
The second stage is the mid-Ming Dynasty from the 15th to the early 16th century. In this era when the world is about to be connected, it can also be called the Chinese pirate/maritime merchant period. The situation in the Japanese shogunate is stable, and the number of landless ronin has greatly decreased. However, the coastal gentry of the Ming Dynasty
, but cultivated local pirates to control the lucrative private maritime trade.
Because the Ming Dynasty implemented a maritime ban, private trade was extremely profitable, but it had to be disguised on the surface. The appearance of Japanese pirates could not only reduce the risks of the gentry during private trade, but also do some things that were difficult to do officially.
The black work of the gentry on the southeast coast was accompanied by the land annexation and wealth accumulation, which was accompanied by the activity of "Japanese pirates", which developed rapidly during this period! And because the pirates in the East China Sea needed to fight against the Ming Navy and carry cargo, the speed of the ships must be very high.
It is fast and much larger than the Japanese Xiaozao. These Chinese pirates and merchants have good ships, but Japan, which lacks shipbuilding technology at this time, cannot build them at all!
The third stage that is about to emerge is the great merger of Chinese and Japanese pirates in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, led by Chinese pirates/maritime merchants with more advanced technology and stronger force. When global trade was opened up, a new era
The sea routes are connected, and trade between Asia and Europe takes place directly, which also means that the profits of sea trade are incredibly high!
The Chinese pirates and merchants who were originally subordinate to the mighty Ming Dynasty quickly grew from sea trade, broke away from the shackles of the gentry, and completely controlled the China Sea and the Sea of Japan for the first time. In fact, the impact of maritime trade was astonishing.
The profits are far higher than the inefficiency and high cost of plundering. And the pirates' desire for sea trade is even greater than that of the wealthy gentry on the coast.
Half a century later, Wang Zhi, the captain of Wufeng, became the first pirate king in the East China Sea. He packed up the advanced shipbuilding technology, advanced navigation technology and artillery use technology of Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty and brought them to Japan, which was in chaos and fighting in the early Warring States Period.
They established real pirate lairs, built large ships at sea, gathered Chinese and Japanese pirates, and in the "Yimao and Japanese Rebellion" broke through the Korean coast, captured prefectures and counties, and completely established coastal hegemony.
Subsequently, Wang Zhi took control of "Thirty-Six Islands and Tens of Thousands of Pirates", and even founded a country named "Song" and called himself "King Hui", monopolizing the entire maritime trade in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan! And then, Wang Zhi was
Hu Zongxian was trapped and killed, and the Ming Dynasty completely cut off maritime trade. Tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese pirates and merchants lost order and livelihood, thus unveiling the long and cruel Jiajing Japanese Rebellion...
"Witness the Buddha! The navy of the Ming Dynasty will not patrol the coast of Korea. And among the pirates of the Ming Dynasty, there are many heroes, and they will definitely not be willing to be the dogs of powerful people! There will always be
Forces like the Murakami Navy appeared..."
Watanabe Masumi, a monk soldier, had eyes shining brightly. He thought of the Ming Dynasty sea pirate whom he had met once on the sea, and shook his head slightly. The maritime strength of that sea pirate was far stronger than that of the Ryuzoji family who had a territory of tens of thousands of stones. And
With the dense population along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, thousands or even thousands of people can easily gather here! Fortunately, these powerful pirates from the Ming Dynasty not only looked down on the Kyushu coast, but also did not move to the coast of Korea, and had nothing to do with the Kyushu Coast.
The thieves are fighting over each other...
"As for the Kingdom of Korea... Suichiro, there are no brave warriors in Korea, nor are there any difficult ashigaru! They have so many prosperous towns and villages, but they don't have enough troops to guard them. A village with thousands of people is often
There are only dozens of peasants and soldiers, and there are many North Koreans willing to lead the way everywhere... Those North Korean gentlemen are more wary of the untouchables under their rule than they are of us!..."
"Ah? How is it possible! Such a prosperous country, Korea, does not have strong warriors to guard it?!...Jin Shipbuilder, is this like this?..."
Upon hearing Murakami Jitong's question, shipwright Jin Shanshu was silent for a moment, did not speak, and just nodded slightly.
At the end of the 15th century, there were about 8 million people in Lee's Joseon, but only a few hundred thousand troops. Most of them were military households with low maintenance costs. The ratio of soldiers to civilians was almost 1:50. Compared with
In comparison, the stone height of the country at this time was about 13 million. According to the standard of the country of 1.4 stone per person, it is estimated that there are about 9 million people, which is similar to the scale of Lee's Joseon. According to the average daimyo of 250 people in 10,000 stones
In terms of military service, Quanhe State has an army of at least 300,000, with a soldier-to-civilian ratio of almost 1:30!
The ratio of soldiers to civilians in Heguo is almost the same as that of Central American tribes that have been war-torn for thousands of years! But Heguo does not have high-yielding corn, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, potatoes and cassava, nor does it have complete water conservancy facilities. The agricultural output per mu
, in fact, it is far inferior to the Mexican Federation.
In the He Kingdom, even the life of the daimyo was very poor, almost in the poorest depression among East Asian countries, even worse than the nomadic Mongolian chiefs...
"Witness Maitreya Buddha! Mr. Watanabe, are there inhuman beings in North Korea? Do they also slaughter and kill animals? Gods and Buddhas! Are there so many filthy beings everywhere?..."
"Well. The dirty people in North Korea are not just butchers, but also slaves working in the fields! To be honest, their number is probably more than that of civilians!..."
Hearing Masumi Watanabe's guess, the boatman Kim Sun-soo hunched over and lowered his head unconsciously. He sighed and sang softly, but it was a dialect in the countryside of Gyeongsang-do.
"What a tortoise, what a tortoise! The first one has appeared! The emperor has appointed the king to come here to be the king. You dig the earth, pile the earth and sing loudly. You dance to welcome the king!... When the king arrives, a gold box comes out of the Han River. The gold box
Six eggs are opened, and the six eggs turn into a boy, and the boy becomes a king!…The king leaps into the air, connects with the sun, and remains the king for generations to come!…”
"Under the King of the Sun, a thousand stars in the sky are born, and they are the masters in the sky! The masters are arranged on both sides. They descend from the sky when they are born, and rise back to the sky after death. The stars in the blue sky are in two shifts! ... The stars in the sky are immortal.
, the two groups in the world are eternal!"
"The King of the Sun opens his golden mouth, and a thousand stars shine on the earth. Inside the filthy excrement are filthy insects! The filthy insects turn into non-human beings: witches slaughter prostitutes, concubines give birth to children, male temple gangs, pansori, pottery craftsmen, sinners
Later, evil Buddhists... one generation will fall like filthy insects, and they will never be replaced from generation to generation!..."
"Hiss!... Jin Shipiang, what are you talking about! Are you practicing some Korean witchcraft?..."
"...Mr. Watanabe, this is a country ballad...it talks about the Great Sun King, the yangban masters, and the inhuman untouchables..."
Shipwright Jin Shanshu rubbed his face, put on a respectful smile, and explained in a low voice.
"In the myths passed down from generation to generation, the king is the dragon egg in the golden box of the Han River, which turned into the great sun. The two classes are the stars in the sky, coming from the sky and returning to the sky... As for the lowest untouchables, they are in the dung.
A filthy insect who is born is still a pariah and will never be able to turn over..."
"The origins of the untouchables include wizards, butchers, prostitutes, children of prostitutes, children of concubines, as well as dancing temple entertainers, wandering entertainers who sing songs, stone carving craftsmen, and the descendants of all sinners.
There are Buddhists who have been declared evil by the government..."
"And as long as one generation becomes a pariah, their descendants will be pariahs for generations to come! ... Eternity and eternity, nothing can change it! ..."
"Ah! Maitreya Buddha! Even wizards, artists, craftsmen and Buddhists are all untouchables?..."
"What! One generation is a slave, and every generation is a slave? This is too terrible!..."
Hearing the explanation of the gold boatman, the Japanese warriors in front of the bonfire looked at each other in disbelief. Of course, there are untouchables in the Japanese country, mainly the lower-class people who are engaged in butchers, tanneries, skin sellers, cleaning, performers, and sellers of bamboo and grass utensils. But
After all, in a country with frequent wars, wars between the Wu family and low productivity, the proportion of untouchables is not high, and it is completely incomparable to North Korea.
For the Qianliangban nobles in North Korea, they can reduce the army as much as possible and lower the treatment of the army. Because the army cannot fight, it doesn’t matter. They have a powerful Ming clan master to ensure external security! They can also establish a practical
A slavery system that enslaves the untouchables who account for nearly half of the population. It doesn’t matter if there is an uprising in the country. You can use the Great Tomorrow Soldiers to enter the country and quell the rioting untouchables!…
In other words, the rule of the two classes of nobles in North Korea does not depend on the ruled ordinary people, white people and untouchables, but only depends on the suzerain country, Ming Dynasty, so it can be as reactionary as possible to the extreme! This kind of greatism is maintained by the suzerain.
Characteristics have continued to later generations and into the 21st century...
The Korean Yangbans wantonly expanded their base status and completely solidified class circulation. It went through the Ming and Qing Dynasties without any changes. In 1908, in the first census of the Korean Empire, the number of fourth-class people was less than 6 million. Not
The number of human slaves and hermits reached an astonishing 13 million, even accounting for 70% of the population!
"Blessed by Hachiman Bodhisattva! The samurai of Korea rarely have the will to fight to the end. And their military households have simpler weapons and equipment than the ashigaru at the head of the village... The only thing that gives the warriors of Kyushu a headache is that of Korea.
The navy! Those patrol boats are much more powerful than our Xiaozao and Guan boats. They recruit labor and build ships very quickly! Even if we spend all the money and burn a few boats of the navy,
Ship, North Korea will soon build a new one..."
The shipbuilding level of the Japanese countries has also been at the bottom of the East Asian countries for a long time, only better than Mongolia. Before the Wufeng ship owner Wang Zili settled in Ashirado and brought the advanced shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty with him, the shipbuilding level of the Japanese country was far behind.
The Ming Dynasty was two eras behind and one era behind North Korea!
The marauding warriors from the Kyushu clans of Japan were never afraid of fighting with the North Korean army on land. They often even had dozens of warriors chasing hundreds of North Korean troops to kill them, achieving a record of one against ten. But once they encountered North Korea at sea,
The navy and the small morning boats of Heguo were like floating coffins. They could only flee in different directions, and they could only escape as many as they could. The loss of ships like this was also the biggest obstacle to the Kyushu clans from plundering North Korea...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "However, the Korean navy always relaxes! The warriors grab a handful and leave. As long as they don't go too deep, they will always gain something.
More than the loss... As long as a few samurai and ashigaru die, you can get back a bunch of wealth that cannot be grown in the ground. It is always a good deal!..."
Watanabe Masumi, a monk soldier, touched his chin and looked at the frozen ocean-covering ship in the distance. The greed and desire in his heart were like the tide. Under the perseverance of the Kyushu warriors, various craftsmen from Korea also brought
Advanced technologies originating from the Celestial Dynasty gradually flowed into the He Kingdom, bringing about the development of craftsmanship in all walks of life.
"Huh, Hachiman the Great Bodhisattva testifies! As long as there is enough reward, as long as there is enough reward!... The various martial arts families in Kitakyushu, whether it is the Zong family, the Matsuura family, the Otomo family, the Ryuzouji family, or even the powerful Shaoer family behind the scenes, Da
No one in the house cares about the loss of human life! And among the plump and juicy clams of Korea, the real shining pearls are those outstanding craftsmen!!..."
"If we can break through Guangzhou and Goryeong in Gyeonggi Province, North Korea, and capture the top porcelain craftsmen who make white porcelain... Or break through Nampo in Pyongan South Road, North Korea, and capture the master blacksmiths who make fine iron... Or break through
On Ganghwa Island in Gyeonggi Province, those experienced boatmen who can build large ships were captured... Even around Wangjing, who was plundering North Korea, those excellent lacquer craftsmen who made lacquerware were captured... Those are all gold that can grow golden leaves far and wide.
Bodhi tree!…”
Under the favor of the suzerain Ming Dynasty, the Lee Dynasty's Korea blossomed into a splendid flower of science and technology in East Asia, only half a step behind the towering Ming Dynasty. The most outstanding things in Korea were silk weaving, porcelain manufacturing, lacquerware manufacturing, iron and steel smelting, and
Repairing docks and building ships…
Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea was defeated by the Ming army, the captured craftsmen helped the country's agriculture, construction, steelmaking, shipbuilding, porcelain firing... and other technologies to achieve comprehensive progress.
Leap! Japanese-style celadon first appeared in Kinki, Japan, during the firing of Korean porcelain craftsmen. When Date Masamune was building ships, in addition to the guidance of Spanish missionaries, there was also a man who was good at woodworking.
The Korean shipwrights were all plundered from the Imjin Japanese Rebellion!
And when the Jurchen tribes emerged in Liaodong, Korean iron craftsmen and firearms craftsmen were busy day and night for the Jurchen tribes, providing weapons and armor that were not inferior to those of the Liaodong frontier army... It can be said that the flower of science and technology in Li's Korea was
The delicious fruits it produces can always help its "friendly" neighbors and achieve inter-era progress for the entire tribe!
"Bless me, Hachiman Bodhisattva! If I can return to Ryuuzouji's house, if there is a fast ship, I must... stop! Stop!... Haha! Knowing that ice and snow are water, how can there be a single step between the Buddha's life? Knowledge and understanding
If you don’t see anything, you don’t know how to stand. It only increases the truth and delusion.”
"Huh! The snow and ice is falling all over the sky, and the weather is getting colder and colder... It is the right thing to let everyone survive this long winter now!
The ice and snow fell, and his thoughts drifted away and then flew back. Watanabe Masumi, the monk soldier, took a long breath and stood up. He wiped the snowflakes on his bald head, patted the anxious gold boatman, and ended this increasingly tense situation.
The more talk that arouses greed.
However, with his Buddhist practice, his greed, desire for fame, wealth and power were only temporarily suppressed, waiting for the day when it would come back like a summer tide! I just don’t know what he looked like at that time.
…
"Murakami-kun, the snow is falling more and more frequently, and the snow is getting thicker and thicker... We still have twenty people left. Although the food prepared on the ship is very rich, I heard that the winter here is longer, and I am afraid it can last for half a year...
Therefore, before the snow covers the horses’ hooves, we should exchange some food with the surrounding Luyi tribe!…”
"Okay! Buddha bless you! I will send three warriors to exchange for the last wine in the boat and the iron pots that the tribe is willing to accept!..."
"Okay! All three of us go on horseback. It will be safer and we can carry more goods! ... Well, be careful and avoid those big tribes ... May the Bodhisattva be merciful and the Buddha bless you!"
"Yes! May the Bodhisattva be merciful and the Buddha bless you!"
The pious sound of praising the Buddha is floating in the vast snowfield. In this world of ice and snow, far away from the Buddhist country and shrouded in Tengger, can the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas hear their prayers? Maybe the Buddhas have no protection, or maybe,
The great compassion of Bodhisattva has already come to the world from the distant horizon...
