The development of Anton was basically carried out along the Yaji River Basin, but it was mainly concentrated in the plain area in the west with Suihua City (Harbin) as the center. It was also the main gathering place for Han officials and private merchants who developed Anton.
To the southeast, a special Shubin Mansion was set up. However, due to the difficulty and complexity of land transportation, Han people and merchants mainly traveled by sea. Maritime merchants played a large role in the development of Shubin Mansion in recent years.
Of course, it was not because of the great economic benefits of the Shubin Mansion, but because of the expansion of trade routes and waterways between Goryeo and Japan. The Donghai Navy even sent a small fleet to be stationed at the Shubin Mansion.
Today's Northeast Asian waters are undoubtedly the back garden of the Han Dynasty, where naval forces, official, commercial and civilian ships can pass freely without fear.
Of course, no one or any force can express any objection to this. The only two independent countries on the route, Korea, have been frightened by "sanctions". Now they are extremely well-behaved and docile like a kitten, especially After Wang Min succeeded to the throne, his attitude towards Tokyo became even more submissive.
After the absurd prince in Tokyo became the king of Goryeo, his private life was still absurd, and he had a big picture of right and wrong, which was to blindly lick Han and follow Han.
During the years when Wang Min was king, in addition to building his "Korean Kaijing" in Kaizhou, his main focus was on maintaining the relationship between Han and Li. He paid almost a small tribute to Tokyo in March and a large tribute in half a year.
When the Han merchants came, they welcomed them with both hands and gave them preferential treatment. When the Han army came, they opened the port wide and provided food and drink. They also held some social activities and offered the beauties of Goryeo to accompany them to bed.
As for Japan, it has always been aware of current affairs. In this era, there is no concept of territorial waters. Of course, for the Han Dynasty, all places that officers and merchant ships can reach are within the Han Dynasty's sphere of influence.
The rise of maritime trade in Northeast Asia was not just the work of Han merchants. Merchants from Korea and Japan were also involved, but they were not as arrogant and arbitrary as Han merchants.
In recent years, the political and economic ties between the three countries have probably been the closest in history, and they may become even closer in the future. After all, in Northeast Asia, there are only three countries. The Han Dynasty is a giant. Even if it is dormant, it is still suppressing. Everything exists, and the two younger brothers, Korea and Japan, can only tremble and try to flatter themselves.
The rise of maritime trade inevitably gave rise to a new group and new maritime activities, commonly known as pirates. It has to be said that the initial piracy was a private operation by some Han Dynasty naval forces, who took advantage of the opportunity to perform missions or go to sea for training to rob passing merchant ships. Of course, at the beginning, they targeted foreign ships, especially during the period when Han and Li were at odds with each other. The wanton looting has no bottom line at all.
Seeing that it was profitable, he later even robbed Han merchant ships. After being brought to the court, Emperor Liu was "furious" and blamed the Privy Council and Guo Tingwei for lax military management. He ordered rectification and punished a group of naval officers. Only then did this plundering trend brought about by the naval forces be rectified.
In fact, the imperial court also got a share of the goods looted by the navy, but it was just not easy to put them on the table.
The reason why the court promptly stopped the rectification is because such behavior is really unethical and the impact is really bad. Of course, the most important thing is that it has caused serious curbs and harm to maritime trade, which is not in the interests of the court.
As a result, the official robbery ended, but private pirates became increasingly rampant. The Han Navy also changed from robbers to defenders, and began to focus on cracking down on pirates on the north-south routes.
Not only to protect the routes, ensure the safety of maritime trade, but also for training. At the same time, combating pirates is also an opportunity for the Han Navy to perform meritorious service and get promoted during peacetime. In addition, the navy has also come to understand that destroying pirates is also a way to make a profit. It can be obtained not only by military industry, but also by rich loot.
However, the thousands of miles of sea territory and the even longer and more complicated maritime trade routes are not something that the Han Dynasty's 70,000-strong navy can handle. The sea area is too vast, and there are too many places to hide. The pirates are simply inexhaustible. , will be destroyed as long as maritime trade is still going on, as long as the ships loaded with goods are still passing through.
There is no doubt that the pirates active in East Asian waters mainly come from three countries, Han Dynasty, Korea, and Japan. Sometimes you can't tell whether a merchant or a pirate is a merchant on the Han side. Some lost all their money in trade, so they simply took their own ships to engage in robbery.
As for Korea and Japan, there are even more poor people in their countries, and there is no psychological burden when doing business without capital. However, pirates from various countries seem to have reached a certain tacit understanding, and each has its own "sphere of influence."
Most of the pirates of the Han Dynasty were active in the southeast and Southeast Asia, while the pirates of Korea and Japan were active in the waters of Northeast Asia. However, in the past two years, some Japanese pirates have also begun to expand to Southeast Asia, even causing conflicts and fights among pirates.
Most of the pirates who were born in the Han Dynasty maintained a certain degree of restraint, called themselves righteous thieves, and adhered to the principle of rob but not kill. In most cases, when carrying out robbery activities, they rob but not kill.
Smart thieves will never kill them all. The pirates from the Han Dynasty also have the most basic and simple understanding of the four words of fishing in the lake. If it is not necessary or if you are provoked, try to avoid killing people. After all, hijacking ships and killing people are enough to cause the Han navy to pursue and fight fiercely.
In many cases, the target merchant ship must pay sufficient tolls before it can be released smoothly. After all, for pirates, snatching goods requires a process of selling and realizing cash, so it is better to collect cash.
Of course, in some ports in Dahan, especially some commercial ports in Liuqiu and Annan, there are also active merchants who are responsible for handling some goods of unknown origin.
Industrial chains and benefit chains are naturally formed. Even for the Han navy, the rise of pirates cannot be considered a bad thing, otherwise how can they reflect the value of their existence.
In the past, there were always people within the imperial court who proposed reducing the naval force. After all, the Han Dynasty was a continental empire. In the eyes of many courtiers, it was really unnecessary to maintain 70,000 naval forces and hundreds of warships. There were still so many people every year. , training, and ships are much more expensive than raising a horse infantry.
It was with the rise of maritime trade and the support of Emperor Liu that the Han Dynasty Navy was able to maintain its current scale. During the reform of the military system, its military strength was not reduced much.
But even so, compared to the eldest brother of the army, the navy is still the younger brother, not taken seriously, and even a little bit miserable. Previously, why Navy General Guo Tingweineng acquiesced in the plundering under his command, was it not to make up for the shortage of Navy military expenses and provide some benefits to the Navy officers and soldiers.
Therefore, even if there is a taboo of raising pirates to respect themselves, the Han Navy does need the existence of pirates for military training, meritorious service and profit. The main targets of the Han Navy were those pirates who committed murder and swindled goods.
Compared with the "Confucian pirates" of the Han Dynasty, the pirates from Goryeo and Japan were much more wanton and violent. They were more cruel and easier to kill, and they caused a lot of tragedies on the vast ocean.
This is completely intolerable for the Han Navy. In recent years, the targets of attacks have basically been on these "beautiful thieves" and "Japanese slaves".
The pirates of the Han Dynasty also looked down upon their counterparts in Goryeo and Japan. They believed that these people had no foresight and only sought temporary gains. Therefore, when the Japanese pirates expanded their activities southward, they were severely punished by the government. Double whammy containment with peers.
Because piracy activities were rampant in the waters of Northeast Asia, at the instruction of Emperor Liu, the Han Dynasty also issued an instruction to the two countries on "eliminating pirates and clearing the sea areas," urging both countries to eliminate pirates in their countries.
It is obviously unrealistic for the two countries to send their navies to sea to fight against pirates. Let’s not mention Goryeo’s navy. During the Han-Li conflict, it was destroyed long ago and has not recovered its vitality. It even gave up its recovery. So far, it only has big ships. There are three or two small boats, which is about the same as the naval force deployed by the Binfu Mansion.
As for the Japanese navy, their boats are poorly trained and lack the ability to sail long distances. When they go to exterminate pirates, not to mention whether they can find the whereabouts of the pirates and eliminate them, if they encounter a large and ruthless pirate group, they may be killed. The end of annihilation.
Therefore, even under the instructions of the Han Dynasty, the so-called pirate invasion plans of the two countries remained on paper. However, in order to give the Han an explanation, the two countries expelled and exterminated some pirates who backed their ports, driving them away from the mainland and leaving them to fend for themselves.
Obviously, in the past, the pirates of Goryeo and Japan also had certain official backgrounds...
