Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1450 Offended the second most powerful country in the world
Yanshan City, Benin Bay, Gold Coast, West Africa.

Yanshan City is one of the five major colonial strongholds of North Korea in West Africa, and it is also the northernmost colonial stronghold. It mainly relies on colonial trade to plunder gold, silver and ivory from the natives.

But at the same time, it also has one of the characteristics of oriental colonization, wantonly expanding land, reclaiming land, and immigrant population. Here, there are more than [-] Korean immigrants.

At this moment, in the city lord's mansion of Yanshan City, Li Yi looked at the dilapidated city lord's mansion, and then looked at the entire Yanshan City. After being bombarded by pirate artillery, Yanshan City was full of ruins, corpses everywhere, and women and children The sound of crying, a bleak scene.

"Damn pirate!"

"Damn European savage, white pig~"

Li Yi almost yelled out through gnashing of teeth.

He is the younger brother of Mr. Yanshan, and he is only in his early twenties. He is a Korean in the new era. He grew up in the age of great navigation, the era of colonialism, and the era of rapid development of capitalism.

Although the country of Korea is small, but because it is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, and hugging Ming's big thick legs tightly, the country of Korea has also achieved great development along with it.

North Korea has several islands bestowed by the Ming Empire in Nanyang, and has many colonies in Tianzhu, East Africa, and West Africa. It can obtain a lot of wealth from the colonies every year, and its overseas trade is developing extremely rapidly.

At the same time, following the germination and development of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty, the development of capitalism in North Korea was also very rapid, and it was inextricably linked with the capitalism of the Ming Empire from the very beginning.

Stimulated by many favorable conditions, in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi in history, Yan Shanjun was kicked out of power because of a domestic coup, and this Li Yi was sent to power by a powerful minister.

But until now, Mr. Yanshan's rule in North Korea is still very stable, and the sharp domestic conflicts have been greatly eased due to maritime colonization, overseas trade and the rapid development of capitalism.

And Li Yi, Yan Shanjun's younger brother, was also naturally driven out of North Korea by Yan Shanjun.

Well, this is also learned from the Ming Empire. The children of the royal family, princes and the like have to learn from the princes of the Ming Dynasty, and if they have the ability, they will go overseas to build a colony.

That's why Li Yi came to West Africa and established the colony of Yanshan City here.

After a lot of hard work, Yanshan City was built. Li Yi also learned from the princes of Daming, and planned to build this place into a vassal state of North Korea. In the future, he will build it as his own three-acre land.

Now it is almost back to before liberation all of a sudden, and these pirates are devastated, and the anger in my heart can be imagined.

For Li Yi, growing up in the new era, he has the pride of an oriental!

Even though it was the Ming Empire that was powerful, for North Korea, a strong Ming meant that North Korea was strong. Anyway, the North Koreans could become Ming people if they went to Daming.

North Korea has always regarded itself as the most loyal younger brother of the Ming Empire, and at the same time, it also considers itself to be the second most powerful country in the world besides the Ming Empire.

This is not random slogans shouted by North Korea.

North Korea is truly powerful.

The first is the population of North Korea. Lord Yanshan followed the example of the Ming Empire and conducted a census in North Korea. The final result of the census was that North Korea had a population of more than [-] million.

A population of [-] million is naturally nothing in future generations, but in this era, it is absolutely a country with a large population. You must know that these countries in Europe have a population of several million, such as Portugal, which only has a little over [-]. The population of Spain is less than [-] million, and even France has a population similar to that of North Korea.

With a population of tens of millions, North Korea is undoubtedly a country with a large population. This is also an important reason for the sharp internal contradictions between people and land. There are more people and less land, and land mergers are serious.

The second is the economy of North Korea, because following the development of overseas trade, overseas colonization and capitalism in Ming Dynasty, the economy of North Korea is also developing extremely rapidly.

In terms of taxes received, Ming can receive more than [-] million taels of silver a year, and North Korea can also receive more than [-] million taels of tax money a year.

The tax revenue of [-] million taels of silver, in this era of the world, seems to be surpassed only by the Ming Empire. As for the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire, it may not be comparable.

It has a huge population, a strong economy, and North Korea’s Yanshan Lord learned from Ming Dynasty and was determined to reform, including military system reform, the establishment of a compulsory military service system, the establishment of a military academy, and the establishment of a navy.

The North Korean side has a standing army of [-], almost all of which are set up and trained with reference to the Ming Empire, and the equipment is almost all weapons and equipment purchased from the Ming Empire.

Among them, there are 100 navies with more than [-] large and small warships. The main warships are all manufactured by Daming Tianjin Shipyard. They are reliable in quality, excellent in performance, and equipped with powerful Miyun cannons.

With such a powerful strength, North Korea has always considered itself the second most powerful country in the world.

In addition, North Korea was deeply influenced by Ming culture.

On the other hand, Daming has always referred to the place where Daming did not expect to be a land of barbarians.

After years of overseas trade and colonization, it has actually been proved that there is nothing wrong with this statement.

Most places in the world are still very backward. The barbarians in many places are even at the tribal stage, primitive and backward, and only a few places have strong civilizations and countries.

This also led to more pride and self-confidence in the people of Ming Dynasty. When facing the outside world, they almost always assume a superior attitude, thinking that they are superior to others, and others are barbarians.

This kind of atmosphere and trend of thought naturally spread to North Korea and Japan, so there has always been a saying in North Korea and Japan.

They feel that they are in the same line as the Ming people, not only in appearance, but also in culture and ideology, so they are as noble as the Ming people, as for the others, they are all barbarians.

Such trends of thought and viewpoints are very prevalent in the East.

Of course, this has been the case since ancient times. A strong country will inevitably make its citizens more confident and proud.

Now Ming people look down on people from other parts of the world, despise Europeans, think Europeans are smelly, dirty, or barbarians, ignorant of education and etiquette.

Later generations of Europeans also despise Orientals, thinking that Orientals are short, backward, and ignorant, and the key is that they are not gentlemen at all.

Li Yi, who grew up under such a trend of thought, has always been labeled as a barbarian, ignorant of etiquette, and civilized to Europeans.

Don't look down on these Europeans at all.

Now that the pirates composed of Europeans have destroyed Yanshan City in devastation, one can imagine the anger in his heart.

"Your Highness~ We must find these pirates and send them all to the sea to feed the fish."

Next to Li Yi, his uncle Yin Ren said.

The Yin family where Yin Ren lives is a prominent Korean family, and they are also important supporters who fully support Li Yi's establishment of a vassal state here.

Looking at the destroyed Yanshan City in front of him, Yin Ren's heart was bleeding.

A large number of Yin family children immigrated here. They originally wanted to make a fortune and settle down here, but now they were attacked by pirates and suffered heavy losses. Many Yin family children were killed. How can you not hate it if you take it away?

"I will let these European savages know what will happen if they offend the second most powerful country in the world!"

Li Yi nodded solemnly, then thought for a while and asked, "Do you have any good ideas?"

"Your Highness, relying on His Highness's vassal state alone is definitely not enough~"

"Firstly, we don't have enough troops, nor do we have enough warships to hunt down these pirates. Secondly, the cost of chasing down pirates is also very huge, and it will take a long time."

"So this matter must be reported back to the country, let the king decide for us, and when the time comes, we will send our North Korean navy to hunt down these pirates."

"Of course it's best to go to the king's side and let the king ask for the support of the Ming Empire."

"The Ming Empire has fleets in the Mediterranean Sea, Western Europe, and the Golden Continent. In addition, even in West Africa, there are many colonies and vassal states."

"The pirates attacked our Yanshan City today, and they may attack Ming's colonies and vassal states tomorrow. The Ming Empire will not let it go."

"As long as the Ming Empire takes action, these pirates will be hard to fly!"

Yin Ren thought for a while and suggested: "In addition, we can also unite with Spain and Japan. The colonies of these two countries in West Africa were also attacked by pirates and suffered heavy losses. It is said that the Sunset City of Japan was almost destroyed. In ruins."

"Compared to them, they must also grit their teeth with hatred for these pirates, and they will definitely send troops to wipe out these pirates."

"Hmm~"

"That's it, you go to deal with this matter, contact the Wa people and the Spaniards in Sunset City, and work together to eliminate the pirates. It's best to bring some Ming Dynasty's vassal states and colonies."

"It's best to unite with Ming's vassal states and colonies. These vassal states and colonies are all rich and powerful, with a large number of ships and a powerful colonial army. It is naturally the best if they are willing to join in the suppression of pirates."

Li Yi thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Then he looked at the devastated Yanshan City and said: "It seems that we will continue to buy more artillery from Daming and build more forts. In this way, even if pirates come again in the future, we can use the forts to protect us." .”

"It's just that the quality of Ming's artillery is good, but it's too expensive. A artillery can cost tens of thousands of taels, which is really expensive!"

(End of this chapter)