Zhu Yihai knew about the Great Wall of Korea, also known as the Great Wall of Thousand Miles.
However, this thousand miles is Goryeo, which is actually about 740 miles. This Great Wall defense line was first built in 1033 AD during the reign of King Dezong of Goryeo, which is 616 years ago.
Initially, the Goryeo Dynasty temporarily decided to build a border stone fortress in order to recapture Baozhou City east of the Yalu River. Later, in order to prevent the Liao Kingdom from invading southward, the project continued to advance.
The Great Wall of Korea soon extended to the estuary of the Yalu River in the west, and connected thirteen border towns in the north, including Weiyuan, Jinghai, Xinghai, and Ningde, until it ended on the peninsula's East Korean Bay near the coast of Hamhung.
This Goryeo Great Wall remained the border between Korea and the Central Plains until the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of the Yuan Dynasty, Koreans Zhao Hui and Zhuo Qing jointly rebelled, killed Hezhou officials, and moved Hezhou to Hezhou.
The land in the north was dedicated to the Yuan Dynasty.
The Yuan Dynasty then set up the Shuangcheng General Manager's Office in Hezhou, appointing Zhao Hui as the general manager and Zhuo Qing as the head of a thousand households. After that, the eastern section of the Goryeo Great Wall was no longer a national border. The Yuan Dynasty established the Shuangcheng General Manager's Office in the southeast of the Great Wall. In the Yuan Dynasty,
The border line of North Korea is the Shuangcheng General Manager's Mansion, and the southernmost boundary of the Shuangcheng General Manager's Mansion is Tielingwei.
"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Scarf Army went on the Northern Expedition. Among them, Guan Duo's army was unable to defeat most of the troops, so they marched into Liaodong and defeated Liaoyang. Then they invaded North Korea and even captured the capital of North Korea. However, in the end, due to the poor logistics of the expedition, Li Chenggui, the general of Goryeo,
Defeated." Wen Anzhi preached.
Zhu Yihai knew this. When Guan Duo and Pan Cheng led an army of 40,000 in the Northern Expedition, and finally fought all the way to North Korea and captured Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet captured Nanjing.
Twenty-seven-year-old Li Chengliang emerged in this battle. With two thousand elite soldiers, he first cut off the Red Scarf Army's retreat and cut off its food and salary, and then lured the Red Scarf Army out of the city to fight. Finally, the Goryeo army arrived and the Red Scarf Army was defeated.
Li Chenggui was born into a powerful family in Goryeo in Tieling, Shuangcheng Governor's Palace. Li Chenggui became famous by riding on the Red Scarf Army.
Even the Goryeo Dynasty took advantage of the Red Scarf Army to defeat the Yuan Dynasty in Liaodong and seized all the land in the empty lower reaches of the Yalu River. Later, Li Chenggui led his army back to Wangjing and overthrew the Goryeo King.
He usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
They took the opportunity to conquer the Jurchens in the upper reaches of the Yalu River and the Jurchens in Changbai Mountain, and expanded their territory to Changbai Mountain.
The Central Plains was also unified by Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Li Chenggui captured the northern territory, he wrote to the Ming Dynasty asking for repairs.
Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang discover that the Yuan Dynasty's directly-administered territory in northern Korea, that is, the north of the original Goryeo Great Wall and the Shuangcheng General Mansion in the southeast, had all been occupied by Li Chenggui.
Zhu Yuanzhang then planned to reset the Tieling Guard.
This incident aroused a huge reaction from Li Chenggui, who immediately sent tens of thousands of troops northward, preparing to fight the Ming Dynasty at all costs.
Later, in order to regain Yunnan with all his strength, Zhu Yuanzhang finally chose to retain the Tieling Guard, but moved it north to the north of the Yalu River and established it in Liaoning.
It was not until Zhu Di succeeded to the throne that he recruited various Jurchen tribes in the Northeast and established the Nu'er Gandu Division. At this time, North Korea had crossed the border of the Great Wall and occupied the area from the Great Wall to the north of the Yalu and Tumen Rivers for a long time. They even attacked and destroyed this area.
The stronghold of various Jurchen tribes.
Faced with this situation, Zhu Di did not send troops to the south. Instead, he recognized the established facts and agreed with the court to use the Yalu River as the boundary, and the north belonged to the Ming Dynasty and the south belonged to Korea.
During this period of history, Korean history records that Taizong granted the land.
Taizong was naturally Zhu Di, Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, but later Jiajing revered Zhu Di as Chengzu. The Koreans regarded this period of history as a sign that Taizong was kind and rewarded us with this land.
This is also the legal basis for their occupation. Emperor Taizong rewarded us, and you, the Ming Dynasty, have no reason to take it back.
Later, during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Shizong of North Korea launched the Battle of Zhupo River, defeating all the Jurchen strongholds along the Tumen River, and officially divided the river into rule with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty's boundary line was also determined.
However, in order to monitor North Korea, Zhu Di deliberately set up the Jianzhou Sanwei in the north of the Yalu River and the Tumen River. The original intention was to prevent the court people from taking advantage of the situation, but he did not expect that it would lay hidden dangers for the Ming Dynasty. In the end, the Jianzhou Jurchens became powerful and entered the customs.
Central Plains.
It can be said that the Red Scarf Army's Northern Expedition severely damaged the Yuan Dynasty's troops in Liaodong, especially the Yuan army in the northern border of Goryeo. This allowed Goryeo to later take advantage of the situation and take the opportunity to push the border line northward and not only regain the
The twin cities also extend to the south banks of the Yalu and Tumen rivers.
This new border line has been maintained for more than 200 years.
After that, the Li family of Korea often recruited Jurchens from the north of the Yangtze River to go south. Regardless of whether they were Jurchens or other ethnic groups, as long as they came south, they were regarded as subjects.
It's just that Hamgyeong Province in the northeast is a plateau and mountainous area, remote and poor. However, Li Chenggui doted on his youngest son in his later years, which led to a palace coup. The crown prince killed several brothers and forced Li Chenggui to abdicate. Li Chenggui later found out.
When he got the chance, he ran to his hometown, Shuangcheng Tieling, to confront his son there.
In the end, Li Chenggui was forced to return to Wangjing, but from then on, he was not welcomed in Xianjing Road. Even if the people of Longxing, North Korea, passed the imperial examination, they would not be considered important officials and were discriminated against everywhere. As for Xianjing Road,
The Jurchens in Jingdao are even more discriminated against.
Therefore, the residents there, whether Koreans or Jurchens, had no loyalty to the Korean king and court.
When Japan invaded and later the Manchu Qing Dynasty conquered Korea, the people of Hamgyong Province actually actively led the way and even raised troops to respond.
Of course, it was also liquidated afterwards.
Now the Ming Dynasty has recruited the Jurchens in the north of the Yangtze River, conferring officials and titles, and conducting mutual trade. The Jurchens in the south of the Yangtze River are envious, as are many Koreans who have been discriminated against.
Now one by one they are writing letters, saying that the land north of the Great Wall of Korea has always been the territory directly under the Central Plains, and requesting to return to the Ming Dynasty.
Even some powerful Koreans who lived in the former Shuangcheng Governor's Mansion actually wrote to the court asking the court to take back the Shuangcheng and also requested the court to move the Tieling Guards back again.
If the imperial court really moves the Tieling Guards back, it will be about 200 miles southeast of Pyongyang, located in the upper reaches of the Yongheung River, on the border between Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province, which means that the East Korea Bay is basically under the control of the Ming Dynasty
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This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The western section is bounded by the Great Wall of Korea, which means that from the mouth of the Yalu River to the mouth of the Longxing River in Yongjiang Bay in the east, the north of this line occupies approximately the entire territory of North Korea.
One-fifth, nothing.
Zhu Yihai looked at the map.
Well, it is indeed a large territory.
The border of the Ming Dynasty at this time was actually the later border line, except that the Changbai Mountain in the middle was not bounded by Tianchi. The entire Tianchi was owned by the Ming Dynasty, and this section of the border was farther south.
The two sides are basically bounded by the Yalu River and the Tumen River, but there are some differences in the source, and later generations will suffer more.
"What do you think?"
Zhu Yihai asked.
Wen Anzhi thought for a while, "Back then, Taizu moved the Tieling Guards north, and later Emperor Cheng granted the land. For more than two hundred years, the border has been basically stable. Now even if the Jurchens north of the Goryeo Great Wall want to annex it, the court will not
Great move."
The chief minister was also somewhat reluctant to part with such a large piece of territory.
But now that Ming Dynasty has a good relationship with North Korea, it is difficult to take action.
The current border line has certain historical reasons. In the early Ming Dynasty, the main focus was on conquering the Northern Yuan Dynasty and recovering Yunnan, and had no intention of starting a war with North Korea.
Later, Zhu Di admitted the established facts, which also opened the border stability with North Korea for more than 200 years. The Ming Dynasty and North Korea even had an excellent suzerain-vassal relationship, and the Ming Dynasty even supported North Korea and aided North Korea in fighting the Japanese.
It's been more than two hundred years, and the relationship is so good. It's really hard to say it out loud if we fight again.
"Then let's ignore this matter for now."
Zhu Yihai's answer is also interesting. Not responding to the request of the Koreans in the north means not responding, not rejecting. After all, there is still some leeway here.
If they want to make trouble, they can make trouble, and the court neither encourages nor opposes it.
"Open more border markets on the north banks of the Yalu and Tumen rivers to allow North Koreans from the south of the rivers to come and trade with each other."
Just do business, nothing else.
We don't give them official titles or titles, nor do we accept attachments, but we do business first, strengthen contacts, and build good relationships.
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Vladivostok.
This natural harbor, like Mokuowei, was also a small fishing village at this time.
Because of their good contacts in the past, Wang Chaoxiang and the others became famous in Mokowei, where they had a booming business with the leaders of various ministries. Zhao Shijun and Wu Qi took two ships to Vladivostok.
The nearby savage Jurchens came one after another.
Wang Qi used his iron hook with his left hand to knock on the big table made of logs, and he picked at the various furs brought by various ministries on the table.
Ginseng, deer antlers, mink skins, Dongzhu, and furs of various colors are all transported back to the Central Plains. In places such as Tokyo, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, they are all treasures and can be sold at extremely high prices.
But here, it's very cheap.
A blunderbuss costs less than two silver dollars when it leaves the factory in Ningbo, but here it can be replaced with high-quality ginseng. This ginseng is worth at least a hundred silver dollars when shipped back to Tokyo, which is a fifty-fold price difference.
Tea and tobacco can be sold at extremely high prices.
There are also iron pots, especially the Foshan iron pots produced in Guangzhou, which are of excellent quality. The eyes of the Jurchens shine when they see them. Iron pots are actually extremely scarce among Mongolian nomads and Northeastern fishing and hunting tribes.
Being able to own an iron pot made in the Ming Dynasty is even rarer than owning a car in the early days of the Ming Dynasty. Even when they marry their daughter, the first thing they often ask is whether there is an iron pot at home and how many iron pots there are.
It's not the iron pot imported from the Ming Dynasty. When you ask your mother's descendants on a blind date, they ask if they have a house or a car, and whether the house is in the county or the city.
The three large sailing ships were full of all kinds of goods. They were sold out in Mokowei and Vladivostok, and in exchange for mountains of high-quality furs of various colors, there were also many precious ginseng, deer skins, mink skins, pearls, gold, etc.
They desperately wanted to buy more, but when they ran out of goods, they just threw the furs they brought with them at the camp. They paid first and then took out a loan to reserve the next batch in advance.
Wang Qi asked the leaders to hire people to build camps, docks, shops, warehouses, etc., and the leaders of each department readily agreed with their chests patted.
The labor is paid in iron pots, etc. The tribal leaders are willing to undertake various projects and directly act as contractors. How many iron pots are needed to repair the wharf, how many iron pots are used to repair the camp fence, and how many iron pots are used to repair the house. As long as the iron pots are in place, the rest does not matter.
The envoys need to worry about it, they will directly recruit people to do the work until the angels are satisfied.
