After all, the young Yoshitoshi has not experienced much. Although he knows that his father's words are right, he does not feel deeply about them after all.
But another Eastern monarch in his thirties felt this very deeply now.
"Brother Yi De, from now on, our two countries will live in harmony and will never station troops on the border. If any North Korean prisoner escapes to me, I will definitely send him back for punishment; if any prisoner of my permanent domain escapes to North Korea," a
The young man in dark Ming Dynasty Prince's clothing said this and deliberately paused.
"I will definitely be sent back for punishment." Another middle-aged man, also wearing a costume similar to the Prince of Ming Dynasty, said hurriedly, although his expression remained unchanged.
"Haha, brother Yide, in that case, let's drink this cup." The young man from before said while raising the glass and drank it all in one gulp. The middle-aged man could only drink it all in one gulp.
The young man in front is naturally King Yongzhu Yunzhen, and the middle-aged man in his thirties behind him is King Zhu Fangyuan of North Korea. Zhu Fangyuan took the courtesy name Yide, so Zhu Yunzhen called him Brother Yide; Zhu Yunzhen took the courtesy name Liqun, so Zhu Fangyuan also called him
To establish brother Que.
After Zhu Fangyuan learned that a village belonging to Yongfan appeared on the north bank of the Tumen River, he was very surprised. He immediately sent people to set up a village on the south bank of the Tumen River, and immediately sent envoys to Yongfan again to discuss the border demarcation with Zhu Yunxu.
Zhu Yunxuan tried to shirk the situation three times and four times. It was not until recently that Zhu Fangyuan came to the south bank of the Tumen River in person that he finally could no longer shirk it. He came from Vladivostok to the place he named Beichuan on the north bank of the Tumen River to negotiate with Zhu Fangyuan.
Regarding the border issue, because people are more important than land, the two parties in the negotiation easily reached an agreement: using the Tumen River as the boundary to divide the two countries. But other things are not so easy to solve.
Zhu Fangyuan asked Zhu Yunxian to repatriate all Koreans in the territory to North Korea, but how could Zhu Yunxian agree? How many people are there in Yongfan now? How could he have the manpower to start construction if they were all sent back to North Korea? So he said: "These Korean people naturally
They all belong to Korea, but they voluntarily came to work in Yongfan, and Yongfan did not mistreat them at all. They can come and go freely, and it is not convenient for Gu to interfere." Zhu Yunxuan used the word "Gu" in his words,
This is just making official talk.
Of course Zhu Fangyuan would not accept it: "Brother Li Chu, since you have recognized them as our Korean people, it is only natural and right for me to let them return to the country. How can they be free to come and go?" He wanted to say: Your country in the Ming Dynasty allows people to come and go freely.
Really! But after the words rolled around his mouth, he swallowed them back.
Zhu Yunzhen naturally had another way of saying: "..."
The two argued for a long time, and finally Zhu Yunzhen agreed to repatriate some Koreans in the country, but North Korea had to provide some Jurchen slaves, which he purchased at a high price.
Although Zhu Fangyuan was not willing to sell the Jurchens he had captured, he finally had to agree. He was planning to sell those who had just been captured but were still wild to Zhu Yunzhen.
Things were relatively easy to resolve after that. The two sides agreed not to take in each other's fugitives, and would repatriate them if the other party pursues them. Yongfan also took advantage of this matter. The main population centers of North Korea are in the central and southern parts of the peninsula.
, almost no fugitives can escape across the Tumen River all the way, and there are quite a few who escape across the Yalu River; and the core area of Yongfan is nearby, there will definitely be people running this way.
The two sides also agreed to jointly march to wipe out the Jurchen tribes on both sides of the Tumen River. They discussed seriously the size of their respective troops, the selection of commanders, the time of troops, the distribution of spoils, and the distribution of slaves, and reluctantly reached an agreement.
But no matter what, the negotiation process between the two parties was always relatively elegant. Zhu Yunzhen and Zhu Fangyuan always smiled at each other when they occasionally appeared in person, without any disrespect to each other.
Today is the second day after the negotiation was completed. Zhu Fangyuan invited Zhu Yunzhen to a banquet the day before, so Zhu Yunzhen naturally wanted to invite him in return today.
But today, from the beginning of the banquet, Zhu Fangyuan's expression was very unswerving. Although Zhu Yunzhen managed to squeeze out a smile when he spoke to him, it was still very ugly.
Zhu Yunzhen thought in his mind: 'Could it be that he has some opinions on the results of the negotiations in the past few days? No, even if he really doesn't want to, he won't show me a bad face.'
After all, he is still young and is only sixteen years old this year. After drinking for three rounds, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Yi De, what's wrong with you? You look so ugly?"
Zhu Fangyuan thought that you would know about this in a few days, so he said frankly: "To be honest with brother Li Chu, I sent a fleet to explore northward at the beginning of this year, but I only found out recently that they first encountered a large group of pirates and suffered heavy losses.
, and later encountered a storm on the Yongming Sea, and the entire fleet was wiped out. It was only after the passing Daming Navy rescued a few people and sent them to Busan that I found out about it."
"These fleets account for half of our North Korean navy. It will be difficult for our North Korean navy to replace all the lost navy in a while, so I feel worried."
Zhu Yunzhen's first reaction was to gloat over his misfortune: You and I have been spending money at each other these days. I didn't expect to lose so much all at once. No matter how much you win from me, it won't be able to make up for it. And you sent out the navy to see it.
If you want to get gold from Jinning, you deserve to be greedy for something that does not belong to you!
Of course, he couldn't say that on the surface, so he tried to persuade Zhu Fangyuan with a few words.
While he was persuading, he suddenly had an idea and said to Zhu Fangyuan: "It will be difficult for North Korea to build so many ships to fill the vacancies for a while, but the Ming Dynasty has ships! With North Korea's respect for the court, I will buy some warships from the Ming Dynasty, brother."
It must be allowed."
Zhu Fangyuan said with a wry smile: "Brother Li Chu, if you buy a ship from Daming, even if His Majesty is willing to take care of North Korea, even if the ship is cheaper, it will still cost money. I, North Korea, can't afford that much money now." In fact, although North Korea is poor, he
If he empties all his family assets, he can also get a navy's money. But then the North Korean treasury will have no money at all. How will he deal with it if something happens again?
Zhu Yunzhen tried to persuade Zhu Fangyuan a few more words, but unexpectedly, Zhu Fangyuan began to borrow money in a low voice.
Zhu Yunzhen suddenly understood why he put on such an expression at today's banquet. Zhu Fangyuan is thirty-four years old this year. He has personally gone to the battlefield and experienced the prince's rebellion to seize the throne. How can he even do this?
No self-restraint?
Obviously, he deliberately put on this expression, causing Zhu Yunxu to ask, and then he took the opportunity to tell what happened in North Korea and borrow money from Zhu Yunxu.
Zhu Yunzhen secretly cursed the old fox in his heart, and then thought about how to evade it. He did not dare to give Yongfan's money to North Korea in vain, and he was afraid that Zhu Fangyuan would use it to negotiate terms for repaying the money, so he did not want to lend it to North Korea.
money.
But now that the conversation has reached this point, it is a bit inappropriate to hold on to nothing, especially since Yongfan took advantage of the negotiations in the past few days.
Zhu Yunzhen cursed the old fox in his heart again, and began to think about how much money to give to Zhu Fangyuan so that he would stop crying about his poverty. He thought of an amount and was about to speak, when suddenly Li Qing, the right minister of Yongfan who was also attending the banquet today, came over to propose a toast.
Zhu Fangyuan hurriedly picked up the wine glass and had a drink with Li Qing.
Afterwards, Li Qing said to Zhu Fangyuan: "His Royal Highness the King of Korea, I just heard His Highness say that your country's navy has been damaged in half but there is not enough money to rebuild the navy for the time being?"
"That's true." Zhu Fangyuan said. Although it is a bit embarrassing to admit this fact, North Korea is a small country and does not have that much dignity. As long as it can borrow money from Zhu Fangyuan, it does not matter whether it is embarrassing or not.
Li Qing said: "Your Highness, even if I, Yongfan, lend your Highness a sum of money, it is just dead money with no follow-up. I have thought of a new way for Your Highness to have a steady stream of living money in your account."
"What method?" Zhu Fangyuan was a little confused. Could it be that they want to purchase a lot of things from North Korea? But this is not a new method.
"Your Highness, there should be people in your country who have been sentenced to exile for various reasons. Your country can make use of these people."
"Our Yongfan is very short of labor now. Your Highness can escort these people under the supervision of your country's officers and send them to work in our Yongfan. According to how much work they have done, our country will pay the due remuneration to your court.
Because our country has a sparse population, we pay a high price for these laborers, so wouldn’t your country make use of them to make money?”
The method Li Qing mentioned was told to him by Yunxi, but it was not Yunxi's initiative. Historically, after 2000, the Chinese people had some money in their hands, and the cost of hiring workers in factories rose sharply. Some entrepreneurs in the Northeast
That's when the idea of the Koreans came up.
The North Koreans organized their own people and sent them to factories in China to work. Although the factories provided accommodation and three meals a day, the Chinese people had no contact with these North Korean workers at all. Everything was communicated to the leaders. The final decision
Remuneration is also paid to representatives of the North Korean government. According to what Yunxi learned in his previous life, the monthly salary paid to each worker by China around 2012 was 1,000 to 1,500 yuan, but the actual salary received by North Korean workers
The salary is much less than this amount.
Zhu Fangyuan was confused by the method Li Qing said for a while: Is this possible?
But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that although it was a bit embarrassing, it didn't matter as long as the people sent to work were under the control of the country.
The wages given to labor by Yongfan were too high. As long as they worked hard for a month, they could get as much as three pounds a month. People who did the most dangerous work could get as much as three pounds a month! Even in the busy farming season in North Korea, the wages of a laborer were not much.
It will be more than three hundred dollars.
Zhu Fangyuan did not express his position on the spot, but the next day he asked the officials he brought to have a detailed discussion with Li Qing, and after several days of negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement.
Zhu Fangyuan breathed a sigh of relief: he finally had money; Zhu Yunzhen also breathed a sigh of relief: he had enough labor to work again.