In a newly built restaurant in Seoul, North Korea.
This restaurant named Hanjiang Tower was built by a North Korean businessman after he went to the Ming Dynasty and experienced the Wangyue Tower in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Tianjin Wanghai Tower later spent huge sums of money to build it here in Seoul.
Everything is based on the Wanghai Tower of the Ming Dynasty, built with reinforced concrete, and equipped with glass windows, glass lamps, etc. At night, it is the brightest building in the entire Seoul.
As night fell, at the huge cement parking lot built at the entrance of the Hanjiang Tower, luxury four-wheeled carriages imported from the Ming Dynasty arrived one after another, and dignitaries in plain clothes walked into the building surrounded by cheers.
Pinjin Cave.
It is not just a restaurant, it also has many other functions, such as a gambling house and a brothel.
The consumption inside is also extremely expensive, often costing dozens or hundreds of taels of silver, which is simply not something that ordinary people can afford.
In a large private room on the top floor of the Hanjiang Tower, there are singing and dancing, fine wine, delicious food, beauties, and the beautiful scenery overlooking the entire city of Seoul at night. It can be said to be one of the great enjoyments of life.
"The Seoul of North Korea is still far inferior to the Tianjin of the Ming Dynasty~"
"At night in Tianjin during the Ming Dynasty, the lights were brightly lit everywhere, and the streets were like bright dragons. In comparison, our Seoul seems very dim, and there is nothing to see."
Li Chengzong looked down at Seoul below and looked very disappointed.
The location of Hanjiang Tower is very good. It is built next to the Hanjiang River. However, at night in Seoul, just like most cities on earth in this era, it is dark. Only the palace and other places can still see some lights.
"Of course Seoul cannot be compared with Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty. I heard that Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty was very prosperous, with a population of six million and many factories. There are hundreds or thousands of ships in the Tianjin port alone."
Lin Haoxi next to him also nodded and said.
He has never been to the Ming Dynasty, but he has heard many legends about the Ming Dynasty. He has also been in contact with businessmen of the Ming Dynasty and heard them boast about the prosperity of Ming Dynasty.
"You should go to the Ming Dynasty in person when you have time. Now that Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, we can freely travel between the Ming Dynasty, Japan, and Luzon. This is a great opportunity for us Korean businessmen."
Li Chengzong nodded, sat down slowly and said.
"Li Chengzong, when you called us big guys here this time, didn't you just want us to go to Daming?"
Lin Haoxi also walked down, drank the daughter's red imported from Daming and asked.
"At the end of last year, North Korea signed an agreement and officially became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone must know this, right?"
Li Chengzong looked at the people present and waved his hands. The companions around them all left very wisely, knowing that they had important matters to discuss.
"Know, who doesn't know~"
"But what's the impact?"
"Aren't we always a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty?"
Someone nodded and said.
"The impact is huge~"
"Once the vassal state agreement is signed, merchants from the Ming Dynasty can freely travel to and from Korea. We are all merchants. If the merchants from the Ming Dynasty come in to compete with us, it means that our business will be difficult in the future.
Done."
"Don't talk about anything else, just talking about this piece of cloth. The weaving factories here in Ming Dynasty use new looms and spinning machines, which are very efficient. The price of a piece of the cheapest cloth here in Ming Dynasty is now
The price has been reduced to less than 100 cents. If it is sold to us in North Korea, even if it is sold for 200 cents, they will still make a huge profit."
"But what about us?"
"The worst cloth in Korea is now almost 200 yuan a piece, but the quality and pattern cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty's cloth."
"So since last year, our local cloth in North Korea has been unable to be sold."
Li Chengzong looked at the crowd. Everyone was doing business. Cloth business has always been a big deal. He was in the cloth business, so his business was greatly affected.
When everyone heard this, they all nodded. The large-scale entry of Ming merchants into North Korea had indeed had a huge impact on their business.
Goods from the Ming Dynasty quickly impacted North Korea's own goods. Smart businessmen turned to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty merchants and became their agents in North Korea.
You can make a lot of money by reselling Ming Dynasty's goods.
As for the merchants who still insist on North Korea's own products, their business is gradually declining, and they have even declined.
Especially this year, after North Korea signed an agreement to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, businessmen from the Ming Dynasty flocked to North Korea. Relying on its developed maritime transportation capabilities, they moved almost all kinds of Ming Dynasty commodities to North Korea.
From cloth, salt, cane sugar to cement, steel bars, glass products, there are even people bringing boatloads of sea fish to North Korea for sale.
Products from the Ming Dynasty were very cheap and seemed to be of very good quality, quickly impacting the market of North Korean merchants.
However, the merchants of North Korea were helpless about this, because according to the agreement, the people of Ming Dynasty were free to do business, trade, and travel in North Korea. Not only could North Korea not obstruct it, but they even had to protect the safety of people of Ming Dynasty.
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"There is also table salt. The salt produced by North Korea has no market at all."
"Now it has been completely occupied by the salt from the Daming Changlu Salt Factory~"
"In addition, in terms of ironware, the ironware and agricultural tools produced by the Ming Dynasty Miyun Iron Factory are also sold well throughout North Korea. We have no way to compete with them."
"Everyone, haven't you felt the end is coming?"
Li Chengzong's voice seemed colder.
The large-scale influx of merchants from the Ming Dynasty, and the products of the Ming Dynasty continued to impact the original market of North Korea. This had a huge impact on North Korea. The businessmen of North Korea felt the deepest impact. As for the ordinary people of North Korea, they felt that the products of the Ming Dynasty were not only cheap, but also of good quality.
, is very good.
"Li Chengzong, what do you think we should do?"
Lin Haoxi pondered for a moment, then thought about it and asked.
"what to do?"
"Of course it's time to embrace the new era."
Li Chengzong smiled and said.
"Businessmen from the Ming Dynasty can come to our North Korea, and businessmen from our North Korea can also go to the Ming Dynasty. Products from the Ming Dynasty can come to our North Korea, and our products from North Korea can also go to the Ming Dynasty."
"The Ming Dynasty is very good to us, North Korea, and gives us equal treatment. We can also freely go to the Ming Dynasty to do business."
"The Ming Dynasty is different from our North Korea~"
"The Ming Dynasty is a vast land with abundant resources, extending from the grasslands to the north, the Western Regions to the west, and Nanyang to the south. To the east, they have expanded to the Golden Continent. The population of the Ming Dynasty is dozens or hundreds of times that of our North Korea."
"Such a huge market and population, and such a vast territory, we will be able to roam freely from now on."
"This is not only a crisis for us, but also an opportunity for our North Korean businessmen."
Li Chengzong became more and more excited as he talked, and he looked very excited.
"In the past, our most successful businessman in North Korea was only limited to the small country of North Korea. But from this year onwards, we no longer need to be limited to North Korea."
"We in North Korea can closely follow the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty. Wherever the Ming Dynasty expands, we can follow it. How big the territory of the Ming Dynasty is, how big our territory is. How big the population of the Ming Dynasty is, how big our market is."
"We are no longer just Koreans, we are also Ming Dynasty people now. Our eyes cannot be limited to the small country of North Korea, but should be like the businessmen of Ming Dynasty and look to the whole world."
"We can also be like the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, purchase goods here in Tianjin and bring them to North Korea and sell them here in Japan. Then we can also go to Nanyang and traffic back Nanyang's pearls, corals, jade, agate, agarwood, ivory, whatever.
Going back and forth, I can easily earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."
"We can also go to the Nanyang Province of the Ming Dynasty like the people of the Ming Dynasty, and establish plantations there to grow rice and sugar cane. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty also rewarded us with two Nanyang islands in Korea."
"I have heard the news. The superiors will soon send people to Nanyang to take over these two islands. In the future, they will establish government offices and plantations on them."
"Businessmen of the Ming Dynasty continued to go west, to the South Asian subcontinent, to the Middle East. They also went east to the Golden Continent. I heard that the Golden Continent is full of gold."
"In the past, we had no chance to make a fortune overseas, but it is different now. As long as we unite as one and stick together, we will have the same opportunities as the merchants of Ming Dynasty."
"We can still organize fleets to go to the Golden Continent, and we can also go to various places in Southeast Asia to do business. This is an era of great wealth explosion and an unprecedented opportunity."
When Li Chengzong thought of this, he was extremely excited.
Hearing Li Chengzong's words, everyone couldn't help but open their mouths.
This Li Chengzong is too crazy.
But after thinking about it carefully, I felt that what he said was right.
North Korea is no longer just North Korea, it is also North Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
If it had been limited to North Korea's own domestic market, it would have been quickly hit to pieces by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.
But when North Korea joined the Ming Dynasty's vassal state camp, the Ming Dynasty's huge market was opened to them, and their opportunities came again.
They all had contact with Ming merchants and knew how wealthy they were.
Especially the trading houses here in Tianjin. Any trading company that comes out is very rich. It must have several large ships under its control, constantly traveling between the Ming Dynasty, North Korea, Japan and Nanyang.
In these places, even the simplest triangular trade can make a lot of money, which is far beyond what North Korean businessmen like them can compare with.
