Chapter 1451, offended the second most powerful country in the world
Yanshan City, Benin Bay, Gold Coast, West Africa.
Yanshan Fortress is one of the five major colonial strongholds of North Korea in West Africa, and it is also the northernmost colonial stronghold. It mainly relies on colonial trade to plunder gold, silver and ivory from the indigenous people.
But at the same time, it also has one of the characteristics of Eastern colonization, which is the massive land expansion, land reclamation, and immigrant population. Here, there are more than 30,000 Korean immigrants.
At this moment, in the City Lord's Mansion of Yanshan City, Li Yi looked at the dilapidated City Lord's Mansion, and then looked at the entire Yanshan City. After being bombarded by pirate artillery fire, Yanshan City was full of ruins, and corpses could be seen everywhere, as well as women and children.
The sound of crying, a desolate scene.
"Damn pirate!"
"Damnable European barbarians, white-skinned pigs~"
Li Yi almost shouted out through gritted teeth.
He is the younger brother of Yeonsangun. He is only in his early twenties. He is considered a Korean of the new era. He grew up in an era of rapid navigation, colonial era and the early stage of rapid development of capitalism.
Although the country of Korea is small, because it is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it clings to the big and thick legs of the Ming Dynasty, and the country of Korea has also achieved great development.
Korea has several islands in the Southeast Asia granted by the Ming Empire, and has many colonies in Tianzhu, East Africa, and West Africa. It can obtain a large amount of wealth from the colonies every year, and its overseas trade development is also extremely rapid.
At the same time, following the emergence and development of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty, the development of capitalism in North Korea was also very rapid, and it was inextricably linked with the capitalism of the Ming Empire from the beginning.
Stimulated by many favorable conditions, originally in history, in the 18th year of Hongzhi, Lord Yanshan was ousted due to a domestic coup, and Li Yi was sent to power by powerful ministers.
But until now, Yeonsangun's rule in Korea is still very stable, and the sharp domestic conflicts have been greatly alleviated by maritime colonization and overseas trade, as well as the rapid development of capitalism.
And Li Yi, the younger brother of Lord Yanshan, was naturally driven out of North Korea by Lord Yanshan.
Well, this is also learned from the Ming Empire. The children of the royal family, princes and the like must learn from the princes of the Ming Dynasty. If they have the ability, they can go overseas to establish a colony.
Then Li Yi came to West Africa and established the colony of Yanshan City here.
After finally working hard to build Yanshan City, Li Yi also imitated the princes of the Ming Dynasty and planned to build this place into a vassal state of Korea. In the future, he would build it as his own one-third of an acre of land.
Now we are almost back to before the liberation, and the pirates have devastated everything. You can imagine the anger in your heart.
For Li Yi, growing up in the new era, he has the pride of an Oriental!
Although the Ming Empire is powerful, for North Korea, if the Ming Dynasty is strong, the North Korea is strong. Anyway, they Koreans can become Ming people if they go to the Ming Dynasty.
North Korea has always regarded itself as the most loyal younger brother of the Ming Empire, and at the same time it also feels that it is the second most powerful country in the world after the Ming Empire.
This is not just random sloganeering by North Korea.
North Korea really has some strength.
The first is the population of Korea. Yanshanjun followed the example of the Ming Empire and conducted a census in Korea. The final census result was that Korea had a huge population of more than 10 million.
A population of 10 million would be nothing in future generations, but in this era, it is definitely a populous country. You must know that the general population of these countries in Europe is only a few million, like Portugal, which only has more than 100 people.
With a population of 10,000, Spain only has less than 5 million, and even France has a population similar to that of North Korea.
With a population of tens of millions, North Korea is undoubtedly a country with a large population. This is also an important reason for the acute internal contradiction between man and land. There are many people but little land, and land annexation is serious.
Next is the economy of North Korea. Following the Ming Dynasty's development of overseas trade, overseas colonization and capitalism, North Korea's economy also developed extremely rapidly.
In terms of tax revenue received, the Ming Dynasty can receive more than 500 million taels of silver a year, and North Korea can also receive more than 20 million taels of silver in tax revenue a year.
The tax revenue of 20 million taels of silver seems to be surpassed by only the Ming Empire among other countries in the world in this era. As for the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire, it may not be able to compare.
It has a huge population, a strong economy, and North Korea's Yeonsangun learned from the Ming Dynasty and pursued reforms, including military reform, the establishment of a compulsory military service system, the establishment of a military academy, the creation of a navy, etc.
North Korea has a standing army of 100,000, almost all of which are set up and trained according to the Ming Empire. The equipment is almost all weapons and equipment purchased from the Ming Empire.
Among them, there is also a navy of 30,000, with more than 100 large and small warships. The main warships are all manufactured by the Tianjin Shipyard. They have reliable quality, excellent performance, and are equipped with powerful Miyun cannons.
With such great strength, North Korea has always considered itself the second most powerful country in the world.
In addition, Korea was deeply influenced by Ming culture.
The Ming Dynasty has always called the unexpected places of the Ming Dynasty a barbarian land.
Over the years of overseas trade and colonization, it has been proven that there is nothing wrong with this statement.
Most places in the world are still very backward. The barbarians in many places are even in the tribal stage, primitive and backward. Only a few places have strong civilizations and countries.
This also made the people of Ming Dynasty more proud and confident. When dealing with the outside world, they almost always behaved in a superior manner, feeling that they were superior to others and that others were barbarians.
This kind of custom and trend of thought naturally spread to Korea and Japan, so there has always been a saying in Korea and Japan.
They feel that they and the people of the Ming Dynasty are of the same origin, not only in appearance, but also in culture and thought. Therefore, they are as noble as the people of the Ming Dynasty. As for the others, they are all barbarians.
Such thoughts and views are very popular in the East.
Of course, this has been true since ancient times. The strength of a country will inevitably make its citizens more confident and proud.
Nowadays, people in the Ming Dynasty look down on people from other parts of the world and despise Europeans. They think Europeans are smelly, dirty, barbaric, ignorant of education and etiquette.
Later generations of Europeans also despised the Orientals, thinking that the Orientals were short, backward, ignorant, and most importantly, not gentlemen at all.
Li Yi, who grew up under this trend of thought, has always labeled Europeans as barbarians who do not understand etiquette and education.
I simply look down on these Europeans.
Now that the pirates composed of Europeans have destroyed Yanshan City to the devastation, one can imagine the anger in his heart.
"Your Highness~ We must find these pirates and send them all to the sea to feed the fish."
Next to Li Yi, his uncle Yin Ren said.
The Yin family where Yin Ren belongs is a prominent family in Korea and an important supporter of Li Yi's establishment of a vassal state here.
Looking at the destroyed Yanshan City in front of him, Yin Ren's heart was bleeding.
A large number of children of the Yin family immigrated here. They originally wanted to make a fortune and settle down here, but now they were attacked by pirates and suffered heavy losses. Many children of the Yin family were killed. The merchant ships of the Yin family and a large amount of wealth were destroyed.
How can you not hate it if you take it away?
"I will let these European barbarians know the consequences of offending the second most powerful country in the world!"
Li Yi nodded solemnly, then thought about it and asked, "Do you have any good ideas?"
"Your Highness, it's definitely not possible to rely solely on His Highness's vassal kingdom~"
"First of all, we don't have enough troops or warships to pursue these pirates. Secondly, the cost of pursuing and suppressing pirates is also very huge and it will take a long time."
"So this matter must be reported back to the country, and let the king make the decision for us. When the time comes, we will send our Korean navy to hunt down these pirates."
"Of course it would be best to report to the King and ask the King for support from the Ming Empire."
"The Ming Empire has fleets in the Mediterranean, Western Europe and the Golden Continent. In addition, even in West Africa, there are many colonies and vassal states."
"Pirates attacked our Yanshan City today, and they may attack Ming's colonies and vassal states tomorrow. The Ming Empire will not let it go."
"As long as the Ming Empire takes action, these pirates will be unable to fly!"
Yin Ren thought for a while and suggested: "In addition, we can also unite with Spain and Japan. Their colonies in West Africa were also attacked by pirates and suffered heavy losses. It is said that Japan's Sunset City was almost destroyed.
Beat it to rubble."
"In contrast, they must be gnashing their teeth in hatred of these pirates, and they will definitely send troops to wipe out these pirates."
"Hmm~"
"That's it. You go handle this matter, contact the Japanese and Spanish in Sunset City, and jointly eliminate the pirates. It's best to bring some Ming vassals and colonies."
"It would be best to unite with the vassals and colonies of the Ming Dynasty. These vassals and colonies are all wealthy and possess a large number of ships and powerful colonial armies. It would be best if they are willing to join in the suppression of pirates."
Li Yi thought for a while and nodded in agreement.
Then he looked at the devastated Yanshan City and said: "It seems that we need to continue to buy more artillery from the Ming Dynasty and build more forts. In this way, even if pirates come again in the future, we can use the forts to protect us."
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"It's just that the quality of Ming Dynasty's artillery is good, but it's too expensive. A cannon costs tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is really expensive!"
