This is really better to build than to buy, and to buy is worse than to rent!
Duduo also felt that something was wrong. Except for the flag of the Pacific Navy of the Qing Dynasty, nothing about it belonged to the Qing Dynasty.
The ship was rented, and the captain and sailors were rented along with the ship. Even the port that served as the naval base had to be rented from the Koreans!
Of course, the people and materials used to build port facilities and fortresses also had to be leased from North Korea - this was really a shame!
The mighty Qing Dynasty will become tenants to the Koreans...
Such a good thing is now in front of Song Shiyeol, the envoy of North Korea.
Song Shilie was dumbfounded now!
Although he himself proposed to let the warriors of the Qing Dynasty board the Japanese ships at the port of Korea to attack Tsushima Island, he never said that he would lease the port of Korea to the Qing Dynasty!
Renting... is it borrowed and repaid, or is it borrowed but not repaid?
In addition, leasing a port... is this a commercial activity? Or does it involve the transfer of national sovereignty?
If it is a commercial activity, North Korea will not agree. North Korea is closed to the outside world!
Previously, only merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty were allowed to enter and exit. Earlier, the Ming Dynasty was theoretically the father of North Korea. A son cannot shut his father out. That would be unfilial! Later, although the Kingdom of Korea recognized the Qing Dynasty as its new suzerainty, the pro-Ming atmosphere was still there, and Shen Tingyang's Beiyang Navy was more reasonable, so the Kingdom of Korea did not cancel the "trade privileges" of the Ming Dynasty.
When Sony and others brought back the "Japan-Mongolia Agreement", North Korea had to allow the merchant ships of Japan and Mongolia to enter the port to purchase supplies - now Japan and Mongolia are brotherly states! So the Kingdom of Korea has to call people "uncle", but how can they shut out uncles? Do you want to talk about family ties or something?
But the scholar-bureaucrat in Korea really disliked "Uncle Rizbania" from the bottom of his heart. This "uncle" liked to spread false doctrines too much. Whenever he had the opportunity, he would talk nonsense about "We are all children of God, and we are all brothers and sisters." Such nonsense.
In North Korea, they don’t talk about whether Yangban and the poor can be brothers. Even if they are brothers, it’s very different whether they are raised by the elder wife, the younger wife or the mistress...the younger wife raises them. He is a concubine, and the one he raises with his mistress outside is an evil son. If you were born as a concubine and couldn't even take the imperial examination, do you still want to be like a legitimate son?
In the Ming Dynasty, being born as a concubine means inheriting less inheritance, or being lower in the ranking of inheriting a title (the concubine in North Korea usually cannot inherit the title, even if there is no legitimate son, unless he is the son of the king), the exam It will not be affected if you become an official or if you kill someone to become an official. But not in North Korea! Although this country has instituted imperial examinations, the level of strict hierarchy has not changed at all.
Therefore, the two groups of scholar-officials in North Korea were far more disgusted with Catholicism and Western learning than those Ming Dynasty scholar-officials who "heart is reason and conscience".
Therefore, when Song Shiyeol heard that Dodo said that he wanted to "lease" a Korean port, the biggest trouble that came to his mind was not national sovereignty or anything like that, but that Catholicism would gain a stronghold on Korean soil.
"Your Royal Highness, how much land does the Qing Dynasty want to lease? Will any civilians live in the leased land?"
Duduo didn't seem to expect that Song Shilie would ask so many details. He was not that thoughtful about government affairs, so he gave Fengtian Magistrate Gang Lin a wink.
Although Duduo became the uncle of the Fujun Emperor and lived in the Shengjing Palace, he did not establish a set of state institutions in Shengjing similar to the Six Ministries and Nine Ministers. It was just that Guarga Ganglin, the prefect of Fengtian, was made the head of the civil service, that is, the de facto prime minister, and Nikan and Bolo were made the commanders of the armies. As for the local area, there is still one government in Siangbang Jiugu Mountain. Except for "one government", the rest are military and civilian.
"Of course the leased land cannot be too small," Gang Lin had already discussed the details of the "Mongolian lease" with Caballero, so he spoke now, "Our Qing Dynasty has a military-civilian unity. Since we want to garrison troops, we must It’s time to farm. There must be at least 5,000 acres (15,000 acres) of flat land... In addition, some land will be circled to build fortresses, military ports, shipyards and commercial markets."
"You want to open a commercial market?" Song Shilie already felt that something was wrong.
"Of course it will be opened," Ganglin said. "From now on, all the tribute rice exported by North Korea to Vladivostok will be sent from the Ulsan Concession... In addition, businessmen from the Qing Dynasty, North Korea, and Rizbania can also export from Ulsan Living and operating in the concession.”
It’s completely the Western idea of enclosing land and building concessions!
"This, this..." Song Shilie was completely confused.
The purpose of his coming to Shengjing was obviously to bring the four troubles (the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, Japan, and Japan) together so that they would lose all sides. How come the Qing Dynasty is now leasing the land of the Korean port? ? This is a loss of power and an insult to the country!
"What? You don't agree?" Duduo saw Song Shilie's hesitation and was about to fall out at that moment, "I, the great Qing Dynasty, renting land in North Korea is equivalent to becoming a tenant in North Korea. I have to pay rent every year... ...This is your blessing. Why do you, a North Korean official, still want to shirk it? What are you planning on doing?"
What's your idea?
Regret!
When big countries are fighting, small countries with normal minds have to hide, stay far away, and preferably become invisible. Those who think it is profitable to join in the fun may end up getting themselves involved.
"I don't dare, I don't dare..." Of course Song Shilie didn't dare to say "no" to Dodo, "It's just that the matter of renting the port is too big, I can't make the decision, I must ask the king of our country for instructions. And Ulsan is far away Busan is too close. If it becomes the naval base of the Kingdom of Shang, I am afraid that it will be attacked by the Japanese navy immediately. Therefore, I suggested that the emperor choose another good port."
Ganglin said: "Then build a port in the Guryongpo enclosure of Daegu Prefecture!"
Guryongpo is the area around Pohang City in later generations. There are many natural harbors in the south and west of the Korean Peninsula, but there are not many in the east. Apart from Ulsan and Guryongpo, if you want to find them, you have to go to the coastline of northeastern North Korea.
Therefore, the "Emperor Taishu Regime", which held the Eight Route Map of North Korea in hand, chose two targets from the beginning, one was Ulsan and the other was Guryongpo.
Therefore, the monarchs and ministers of North Korea still have a choice... The Qing Dynasty is still reasonable!
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In the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, a large island called Geoje Island was also invaded by "Japanese invaders" at this time!
Geoje Island has a large area and is surrounded by many harbors. There is an ideal natural shelter in the east of the island called Okpo. The port is wrapped in two protruding peninsulas, and the entrance is very narrow, less than four miles. As long as cannons are deployed on high ground on the two peninsulas and sealed with iron cable ships, the fleet in the bay can be guaranteed to be safe.
Moreover, the internal area of Yupu Bay is very large. It is nearly 6 miles inward from the entrance of the bay, and the width is about 4 miles. The area is about 24 square miles or 6 square kilometers, which is enough to accommodate hundreds of warships.
In addition, this port faces the wide sea, making it easier for the fleet to enter and exit, and it is not easy to be ambushed by the enemy. The bay is surrounded by mountains, so as long as more troops are invested, it will be very easy to defend.
Therefore, Zheng Jiangong, the admiral of the Dongyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty, chose this place from the beginning as the home port of the Dongyang Navy's camp in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
The fleet was previously sent to attack Jeolyeong Island in Busanpo just to attract the attention of the North Koreans and create political influence at the same time.
So after a lot of trouble on the Insulated Island and a guest appearance as a pirate at sea, Zheng Jiangong led 7 Western-style sailing ships, 20 sand ships, 1 bird ship (Pacific) and all the marine troops. Moved to Okpo Bay on Geoje Island.
After a frightening bombardment, this undefended bay successfully fell into the hands of the Japanese troops who landed - those were the real Japanese troops, hundreds of Japanese ronin mercenaries commanded by Zahe Pu. They were also the ones who violently beat up the North Korean navy on Jueying Island. The Japanese Combined Fleet must have a few Japanese, right?
