Li Quan suddenly squatted down, picked up stones and drew a map.
He pointed to the simple map and said: "If there are maritime merchants going to America, merchants from Fujian and Zhejiang can start from Taipei and take the current waterway of the Spanish. Maritime merchants in Jiangsu can choose the north-south waterway according to the trade winds, or they can take risks
The road goes directly east to Japan. The two routes, the north and the south, actually merge into one after passing Japan. The Spanish call it the 'Westerly Current'."
"When the population in the north increases in the future, the northern route will play a greater role. Hebei, Shandong, and Liaoning can all use Japan to travel to the Americas."
"And here! This is the Tumen River (Tumen River) where our country and North Korea meet. Colleagues in the Hanlin Academy should know that it was an inland river in our country. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Li family expanded North Korea and occupied a large area of our country.
Territory, set up six towns south of the Tumen River."
"Today, Baozhou on the south bank of the Yalu River has been reoccupied by our Celestial Empire. The next step is to take back the south bank of the Tumen River. By then, the vast land east of the Great Wall of Liao can enter the sea through the Tumen River. Whether it is for sale
The transportation of goods, troops and food can all be closely connected with Shandong, Hebei, and Liaoning. If there is a rebellion there (Jilin), one can send troops from Liaoning, and the other can go from the sea to Tumen River to quell the rebellion. This way, it is better to secure
The Northeast is stable.”
"If you want to develop both sides of the Tumen River, the Northern Sea Route must be developed. The development of the Northern Sea Route can also deter Korea and Japan, so that these two vassal countries dare not have dissent."
"The first stop for opening up the Northern Sea Route is to explore Japan and get in touch with the lords in eastern Japan. The Tokugawa Shogunate does not allow the lords to open navigation with foreign merchants, so the supply port should be chosen as remote as possible. But it cannot be too remote, otherwise
There is not much food and drinking water available at all.”
"Therefore, my first step in opening up the Northern Sea Route is to open up the joints in the east of Japan. If Your Majesty can let the shogunate open Fu in the east, it would be best. If that doesn't work, then go fight a war and get the shogunate in Japan to open the port!"
"Japan opened its eastern ports, and the initial network of the northern route was formed. The mouth of the Tumun River, the eastern ports of Japan, Nagasaki, Japan, ports in North Korea, Tamna County (Jeju Island), Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning...
Everything can be connected by sea, and our Chinese army can go to any place by boat at any time."
"Please ask your Majesty to issue two decrees. One is to order Japan to open its eastern ports, and the other is to immigrate to the mouth of the Tumen River. The immigration does not need to be too many, the first batch of two thousand people is enough."
After Zhao Han thought carefully, he said with a smile: "You are not on a sailing expedition, you are planning the future strategic layout of Northeast China, North Korea and Japan. The Tumen River is not marked on private maps, so how did you know that?
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Li Quan replied: "I checked the northeast survey map of Qintianyuan. Both sides of the Tumen River were full of Jurchens in the early Ming Dynasty. After North Korea invaded the south bank, they drove the Jurchens to the north. The Tatars in Jianzhou rebelled, and the Tumen River was in Hebei.
Many of the Jurchens on the shore have been deployed to fight, and now they are sparsely populated. We just took the opportunity to immigrate, and first firmly occupied the mouth of the Tumen River."
"The idea is good, but the court's energy is limited," Zhao Han said.
The imperial court does have a lot of things to do. The newly enthroned Monan Grassland needs to be consolidated, and the three governorates are continuing to spend money and food. The cabinet and the Ministry of War are planning to conquer the Ruan clan in Burma and Vietnam. In this way, the military strength, money and food in the north and south,
They are all undergoing large-scale mobilization and recruitment.
It seems that there is no war, but in fact, I have never been idle.
Li Quan said: "To immigrate at the mouth of the Tumen River, we only need to move two thousand people and give them weapons to establish a foothold there. As for Japan, we need to issue an imperial edict first to test the reaction of the shogunate."
Zhao Han smiled and said: "I'm a little reluctant to let you go on a sailing adventure. Where have you been?"
Li Quan replied: "Jinling, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan, and went to Taiwan and Luzon Island."
"What a good man, with ambitions everywhere!" Zhao Han praised.
The emperor's favor for Li Quan was envied by everyone present. Even Feng Qizhi, a pretty boy, wanted to go to sea.
Li Quan's eloquent talk and the emperor's praise had already made the princess's eyes shine, and Zhao Furong became more and more enamored of this heroic young man.
Zhao Han said: "I agree to all your requests, including immigrating to the Tumen River and ordering the Japanese shogunate. I will give you five more boats and a quota of 1,000 soldiers. But you need to recruit 1,000 soldiers yourself. You can only
Recruit from veterans, peasants and soldiers. Whether you can persuade them to go to sea depends on your own ability. Well... I will give you one hundred thousand taels of silver as capital. If you feel that the money is not enough, you can do business along the way. Anyway, you have to first
Just open up Japan, transport the goods and sell them to the Japanese lords."
"Thank you for your grace!" Li Quan was overjoyed.
Zhao Han asked: "Does the mouth of the Tumen River have a name?"
Li Quan replied: "That large area, including the entire lower reaches of the Tumen River, is called Hunchun, Xunchun, etc., which are all transliterations of Jurchen dialect."
"Let's call him Hunchun from now on." Zhao Han finally understood where he was.
Hunchun here is next to the sea.
Hundreds of years later, Hunchun was bordered by Russia to the east and North Korea to the west, and its seaport was divided between North Korea and Russia. This resulted in Hunchun's border being only 30 miles away from the sea, but it had to borrow ports from other countries to access the sea.
Jilin Province will forever lose its outlet to the sea.
Cheng Qi, the Manchu Imperial Envoy at that time, was completely ignorant of the importance of the seaport and handed over all the border demarcation work to the representatives of Tsarist Russia. The Russians could draw the border however they wanted, and finally the Chinese border was drawn 20 miles away from the sea.
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Even so, Tsarist Russia was still greedy and kept secretly moving boundary markers.
When Wu Dacheng from the Inspectorate came to inspect the border, the boundary marker was already 88 miles away from the coast. Wu Dacheng argued hard and finally re-established the boundary marker 30 miles away from the coast, thus regaining 10 square kilometers of land.
The two sides almost used force in the end because Wu Dacheng was still not satisfied. The Russians transferred warships from Vladivostok and turned on their xenon headlights to show off their force. Wu Dacheng transferred the Beiyang Fleet and invited the Russians to board the Dingyuan ship for a visit and responded by turning on all their headlights.
Finally, the Heidingzi Mountain area was taken back, which later became Jingxin Town, Hunchun City.
At this moment, the south bank of the Tumen River is North Korean territory, but the entire north bank belongs to China and must be firmly occupied.
By occupying that place, Jilin will have an outlet to the sea.
Zhao Han pointed at Li Quan and asked Li Zicheng: "What does King Chuang think of this son?"
Li Zicheng praised: "He is a rare talent."
Zhao Han asked again: "Can you ride a horse?"
Li Quan replied: "The war horses that rode through the Yunnan Datong Army are much shorter than your Majesty's BMW."
"Pick up your bow and arrow and follow me to hunt. Drive!" Zhao Han galloped on.
Li Quan became so proud that he asked for a bow and arrow from the sergeant, picked a good horse, and followed the emperor towards the Purple Mountain hunting ground.
Seeing her daughter looking at Li Quan crazily, Fei Rulan sighed and said, "You know, once you go to sea, you may not return for three to five years, and you may even hide in the belly of a fish at any time."
Zhao Rongfu was silent after hearing this.
Fei Rulan said: "My daughter has good eyesight and can spot heroes at a glance. But such a young hero has a lot of ambition in his heart and cannot take care of his family. If you recruit him as your consort, you will be a widow.
It's even rarer to meet than the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl."
Zhao Rongfu still didn't speak.
Fei Rulan continued to advise: "If you don't like others, then wait and see if there is a good match among the civil and military families of the Manchu Dynasty."
"Um."
Zhao Rongfu agreed softly. She knew how dangerous it was to go to sea, but she still felt quite uncomfortable.
But that's all. After all, we met for the first time today and there is no deep emotional foundation.
Fei Rulan already had an idea. The selection range of Hanlin Academy and Qintian Academy was too narrow. She had to expand it. She searched at the officials' homes and selected at Jinling University at the same time. Especially those who had just entered university, many of whom were not engaged yet, they would definitely be able to
Find someone with both ability and political integrity.
"call out!"
Li Zicheng shot an arrow, hitting the wild boar right in the face.
The wild boars continued to run wild. Compared to previous years, the guards were much more professional. They beat gongs and drums to scare away the injured wild boar and prevent it from flying towards the emperor. The hounds had already been released to round up the unlucky beast.
wild boar.
Li Zicheng rode in pursuit, holding back his old pain, and shot the wild boar in the butt with another arrow.
Zhao Han praised: "King Chuang is good at archery!"
The wild boar lost too much blood, ran for a while, and finally stopped, grunting and facing the human. Li Zicheng fired a series of arrows, hitting several of them. The wild boar ran away again, and gradually fell down.
The hound chased another elk out, and Zhao Han said, "Try it!"
Li Quan bent his bow and set an arrow, but the arrow missed him.
"You're not good at archery. You'll have to practice more in the future." Zhao Han joked and raised his flintlock gun.
"boom!"
The running elk fell down at the sound, stood up again, walked a few steps forward and then lay down again.
It was not dead. The hounds swarmed up and bit the elk until it died.
Li Zicheng turned his horse's head when he heard the sound of gunshots and saw the emperor hitting the elk with a blunderbuss. He suddenly felt helpless and complained: "What the hell is this called hunting?"
Zhao Han threw the flintlock gun to the guard. The guard next to him immediately handed over another loaded gun.
Zhao Han shouted to Li Zicheng: "The king of Chuang is competing, who can kill more prey today?"
Li Zicheng said: "Your Majesty uses a blunderbuss and I use a bow and arrow. It is a bit unfair."
Zhao Han said: "My ability to hunt with a gun is also a manifestation of my strength. Fighting for supremacy in the world is similar to this."
Li Zicheng seemed to have thought of something, and actually nodded and said, "That's true."
Emperor Zhao's shooting skills became increasingly better, and he could be called a marksman even on the battlefield. When he went hunting, he rarely missed a hit, which impressed Li Zicheng quite a bit.
After returning from the hunting, Fei Rulan personally led the horse for him and said as he walked: "My daughter has fallen in love with Li Quan, and the rest are not hers. I have already persuaded him, and I have to choose again. It is better to stay at the civil and military home of the Manchu Dynasty.
Or Jinling University to choose a son-in-law."
"Anything is fine, you can arrange it," Zhao Han said and added, "After you select it, bring it to me for a look."