Chapter 1038 Five Years of Longevity, the Memories of the Goldsmith, the Old Treasure Ship and the Heavenly Soldiers of the Kingdom!

"Uh, what to grow, what to eat?...My lord! I am in Gyeongsangnam-do, and my family has been working as a ship repairer for generations! I have never farmed, and the masters don't let us have land...As for the surrounding villages, That kind of rice is mostly rice, and millet is also available... As long as there is no typhoon, flood or drought, the villagers can still barely make a living, and they can eat rice several times a month..."

The sky is gradually getting darker, and the sunset glow is golden red all over the sky, echoing the gray and white snow field. Thousands of miles away from home, shipwright Kim Sun-shu touched his nose and recalled life in his hometown in North Korea.

The villagers he talks about are actually the last two classes of ordinary people, Bai Ding. As for the untouchables who are not considered human beings, they cannot be contacted. He didn't understand, and he didn't want to understand. And in the North Korean village he saw, although the fourth-class people were completely solidified, and the contradictions between the various classes were extremely sharp, there was not so much famine, and it was far from the hellish poverty in Heguo Village!

"Ah? Witnessed by the Buddha! The villagers in North Korea can eat rice every month?!"

Hearing this, Murakami Jitong and Suichiro who were born in Ezo looked at each other in disbelief. Seeing the excited reactions of the two, boatman Jin Shanshu shrank his neck in fear, nodded in affirmation in a low voice,

"Yes, my lord! There are many mountains in the north, and there are probably less rice plantations. I don't know the details... But all over Gyeongsang-do, outside the villages I saw with my own eyes, there are generally canals built to irrigate the fields! Of course , the village also grows millet, but the area where rice is planted is much larger...The villagers are all busy working in the paddy fields, because if they can be reclaimed into paddy fields, the masters let us reclaim them into paddy fields!..."

"Hey! It's unbelievable, it's unbelievable! The hometown of the gold shipbuilder is so rich!..."

"Isn't that right! Ordinary villagers can eat rice several times a month! Then how prosperous their Wu family must be!"

At the end of the 15th century, Lee Joseon was in a period of great prosperity, with a population of about 8 million. Of course, economic prosperity and ruling reaction are not contradictory. Among the 8 million people in the Li Dynasty, half were fourth-class people, and the remaining half were inhuman untouchables and hermits, that is, actual slaves! This ratio of nearly half of the slaves is even higher than that of the Kingdom of the Lake in the classical military system...

As the most favored and loyal vassal of Ming Dynasty, Lee's North Korea obtained almost all of Ming's farming and handicraft technologies. In the technological level of the entire Asia, North Korea is second only to Ming Dynasty, far surpassing the He Kingdom of this era. Whether it is Korean white porcelain, Korean silk, mining, iron and steel smelting, intercropping, construction and canal repair, and even the sea-going ship construction technology obtained from the Ming Dynasty, they are all jealous and envious of He Guo. of!

Historically, the ash blowing method of silver mining was invented by the Chinese Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, and it was introduced to North Korea in the Song Dynasty. However, the ash blowing method was introduced to the country, and it had to wait until 1530, and it was introduced from North Korea. As for the sea-going shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty, it was strictly sealed to the He Kingdom, but it was lenient to North Korea, and even allowed the North Korean royal family to obtain Guangzhou Ships and small Fuchuan. For example, Gyeongsangnam-do’s ocean-shading ship-building technology is at least an era better than Heguo’s Guan ship, and it is also learned from Daming...

"Haha! Murakami-kun, Suichiro, you haven't been to North Korea, don't know... North Korea has no samurai, and there are no decent samurai! They have military households, that is, families that have been in the army for generations..."

"Huh?! Master Watanabe, a family that has been in the army for generations? Isn't that the samurai family?"

"Ha! How can the military households of North Korea compare with the samurai of their own country? The samurai of their own country can decide everything in the territory! And the military households of North Korea are poor peasants carrying spearheads, similar to the ashigaru in the countryside. Not even as good as…”

"Ah! Can such a military household fight? Are the guards all over North Korea not afraid of being attacked by other guards? I heard that North Korea is still surrounded by the evil Yuan Bandits!..."

"Uh...North Korea doesn't have guardian generations of other countries, only one king of the Li Dynasty. As for the evil ghost Yuan Kou..."

The monk Watanabe Masumi touched his bald head and looked at the shipwright Jin Shanshu.

"Gold Shipsmith, what will happen if the evil Yuan Bandits invade North Korea?"

"Ah? The terrible invasion of the man-eating Yuan bandits? What should I do?... How can a young boatman know about the matter of the lords. However, I think of an unforgettable old event..."

"Huh? What's the old thing?..."

"More than 20 years ago, the Dafengzhou of Shangguo Daming came across the sea twice, canonized as King Zhaoxiao (Ruizong) and King Gongxiao (Chengzong), and even docked at the port of Gyeongsangdo. Simple repairs... Hey! That Fengzhou is a real big ship, as big as 20 ocean-going boats, estimated to be four to five thousand pieces, just like floating islands on the sea! It is said that this kind of boat is called a "Dafu boat", and It's called a 'treasure ship'!...It's really an eye-opening ship, a huge ship!..."

"What? Twenty treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty that are as big as Zha Yang Chuan? Buddha blesses! Will there really be such a big ship?!"

"Yes! Yes! Avalokitesvara in white is the witness!...I saw that boat with my own eyes, and I will never forget it in my life!..."

Shipwright Jin Shanshu talked about the past, recalling the treasure ship he saw twenty years ago, with unforgettable memories and longings on his face. As a shipbuilder, he knows what a good ship is, and how difficult it is to build a good ship, and how difficult it is to build a huge good ship! And the treasure ship he saw when he was young is almost the culmination of the ship he imagined, and it haunts his dreams repeatedly. And the awe of the Great Ming Dynasty of Shangguo was also deeply engraved in his memory along with the treasure ship that covered the sky and the sun!

However, he did not know that the conferment of the King of Korea more than 20 years ago was the last glory of this Zheng He treasure ship. More than ten years ago, during the Chenghua period, in order to prevent Ming Xianzong from returning to Nanyang, and to prevent the restart of official Nanyang trade, the civil servants of the central and southeastern provinces joined hands in a rare way.

Liu Daxia, the chariot driver of the Ministry of War, burned the archives of Zheng He's voyages to the West, destroyed the treasure ship atlas, and some said it was hidden, but all the records were erased anyway. The Nanjing Longjiang Treasure Shipyard, which was affiliated to the Ministry of War and built treasure ships, was also ordered to be abandoned by Xiang Zhong, Minister of the Ministry of War at the time, and thousands of shipbuilders of various types were dispersed immediately. At this time, outside the city of Nanjing, only the Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard, which belongs to the Ministry of Industry and is only responsible for the construction of ordinary ships below 400 materials...

"Treasure ship... a great fortune ship!... forty-four feet four feet long, eighteen feet wide, five thousand materials, and can carry a thousand people. There are nine masts at the front and back...a nine-masted ship! And such a huge ship, there is one Shichen can travel thirty miles!...The treasure ship of Shangguo Ming Dynasty is a real, never-before-seen good ship!..."

Shipwright Jin Shanshu raised his head, puffed out his chest, and excitedly talked about the treasure ship for a while. Afterwards, he looked at the shocked, suspicious and unbelievable expressions of the three people around him, and couldn't help lowering his head slowly, and whispered back.

"Oh! When maintaining the treasure ship, the two classes of elders said, 'You must serve the envoys of Shangguo Daming well! No matter what the envoys order, you must do it at any cost!'...When they said this , the two classes of elders who have always been high in the sky have never been more cautious, even more careful than King Zhaoxiao..."

"The lords also said that as long as the emissary of Shangguo Daming is satisfied, no matter what they like, even the daughters of middle-aged lords' families, they will be sent there!...'Shangguo Daming is the heaven and king of North Korea! As long as Make Shangguo Daming satisfied, even if the sky of North Korea falls, Shangguo will support it! Even if the Yuan invaders invade again, Shangguo's heavenly soldiers will help us fight back!'…”

"So, Avalokitesvara in white clothes testifies! Master Watanabe, you asked what to do when Yuan Kou invaded? Uh, I think, maybe, probably, what you said is correct... The Heavenly Soldiers of Shangguo Ming Dynasty have such a big ship, He will definitely help us and beat Yuan Kou back!..."