Lu Xiaofeng and his group arrived in Vladivostok in early December 1678 on a dog sled, a small coastal village located at the bottom of later Golden Horn Bay. Currently, there are less than a thousand pioneering residents from Shandong who have struggled to pioneer here.

There is no doubt that these people alone will definitely not be able to transfer Vladivostok, a port city that the Blackwater Development Team, attaches great importance to from top to bottom, even plans to move the ruling center from Heishui Port to here in the future and build it in the shortest possible time. Therefore, the two companies of the Third Infantry Regiment, which had been stationed here in advance, have forced the relocation of many natives from the surrounding areas over the past few days to participate in the construction of fortresses and cities.

Of course, because the natives had a low level of civilization and relatively sparse population, the East Coast people after "searching" the Jurchen tribes near the city, took into account many factors and did not send far away. They collected more Jurchens to build and build villages. They seemed to be afraid that doing so would make their reputation too bad, so that they could not win over, buy and naturalize the Jurchen tribes in the future.

However, people who build fortresses and cities are always indispensable. Now, with the increasing depletion of the source of immigration from the East Coast, the current immigrants persist until the end of the next immigration transportation season, and the number is largely insufficient in Shandong. Ningbo and other places do not have much surplus population to come to build villages. Therefore, after considering it, the East Coast people finally set their sights on their "ATMs" North Koreans, asking them to send people, food and even supplies to help build Vladivostok.

The Koreans are naturally extremely reluctant to do this, because for an ancient dynasty, the so-called "strike battle" has always been an extremely terrifying thing, not to mention that when you go to a remote Hamkyung Road, which is more than two or three hundred miles northeast, a bitter cold place where birds do not shit? Although the people of the East seem to be more kind, they have asked North Korea to send people and soldiers to give them good treatment in all the past, and they did not cause any large-scale deaths among these North Koreans, but this kind of thing is a chore after all, with heavy work and harsh environments, and great damage to their bodies. Although the North Korean migrant workers returning from Shandong and Liaodong had more or less loads of money in their pockets, there were many people who had collapsed. It is not an exaggeration to say that this was a life-long money, so North Korea has always resisted such migrant workers.

However, as a de facto servant country on the east coast, the Koreans had very little choice. Even though they were very reluctant and even full of anger, North Korean Emperor Lee Khan even openly shouted "Ah Qi" in the court, becoming the second "Ah Qi" to openly speak swearing after Mingzong Li Yi. This shows that the Koreans' anger was difficult to disobey the demands of Shangguo on the east coast. Therefore, in the end, they basically sent people to work outside to seek peace.

For example, this time, the East Coast asked North Korea to transport "at least 20,000 people" to the Vladivostok area to build cities, forts, and forts, and also to bring its own food and labor tools to manage itself, and complete the task with quality and quantity according to the construction nodes formulated by the East Coast. Hanyang City did not dare to resist this and expressed its agreement to send people to build Vladivostok City, but the number of migrant workers who need to be dispatched reduced to 12,000 after bargaining.

Of course, the people of the East Coast are not the Tartar court, nor are they the Spanish colonial governors. They will not just seek the North Koreans without giving any benefits. As the saying goes, they have to throw some bones when they bark. If you have been harshly urging North Koreans for a long time, you will definitely resist. There is no doubt that the Koreans have not resisted too much at the moment, on the one hand, in addition to the strong military strength of the East Coast people (the Battle of Joeon County initiated by Shao Shude in the Battle of Joeon County, and the collapse of the entire Korean army was too deep...), and in addition, the economy of the North Korean kingdom is becoming more and more closely tied to the East Coast.

In recent years, the Koreans have earned a lot of "foreign exchange" (gold and silver coins minted by Dabo coins) by exporting grain, medicinal materials, leather, iron, paper, honey, wood, building materials, and even daily necessities and handmade products to the east coast. Various domestic industries have developed greatly due to these profits, which has made North Korea's economy increasingly active, productivity has increased, and people's living standards have naturally been more or less improved.

For example, when the East Coast built Vladivostok this time, people ordered a large amount of bluestone, strip stone, brick, wood, stone, yellow sand and other building materials from North Korea. This is not because the quality of the North Koreans' products is good, but it is cheap enough, at least much cheaper than those produced in Heishui Prefecture. They are also responsible for transportation themselves, and for this purpose, they ordered several 150-ton cargo ships from Kushiro Shipyard and Heishui Shipyard.

Heishui County has not been criticized for this. In fact, the Sanfan Industrial Base in the Far East has been responsible for providing machinery, building materials and many other commodities to various places for many years. For this reason, the population of Heishui County, a bitter and cold place, has now climbed to 35,000 people, and the port throughput is also very large. Almost every month (except for the winter freezing period), a large amount of goods are transported from here, and a large amount of grain, salted fish, livestock, fruits and other commodities are imported from the outside world to complete an industrial city.

But now the Heishui Development Team has actually calculated the economic account and has begun to purchase some relatively cheap goods from North Korea to save expenses. How can the people in Heishui County feel? For this reason, Liu Jianguo, the captain of the Development Team who was still in Heishui County at that time, moved to Miaojie County for a time because he was afraid of seeing leaders of state-owned machinery factories, construction factories, wood processing factories and other companies coming to the door to make him upset.

This time, when Chen Kexin took office, he placed an order for wood boards worth 30,000 yuan at the beginning of the timber processing plant in Heishui County. Later, it was found that due to the backward technology, there were only some locally eliminated hydraulic machinery, which had low production efficiency and high cost. Therefore, the price was higher than that of the North Koreans who were purely primitive manual work, so they could not bear it. All subsequent orders were ordered from Hamkyung Road, Gangwon Road and other places in North Korea. At least their supply capacity was not weak, the price was low, and it could be transported throughout the year (the ports had no freezing period). Although the types were somewhat different, they could barely tolerate it. Therefore, the number of wood boards exported from North Korea has increased day by day in the past year.

Wooden board exports are just a microcosm of North Korea's economic development in recent decades. In fact, its fast-growing industries include iron smelting (Heishui County imports a large amount of pig iron from North Korea every year for secondary processing), coal mining (similar to wooden boards, North Korea's coal is cheap), medicinal materials planting, livestock feeding, grain planting, etc. The largest of them is undoubtedly the grain planting industry.

Shandong's years of floods, droughts, locust plagues and earthquakes have created a huge number of refugees. In order to feed these victims who should have died in history, the East Coast government had to spend huge amounts of money to purchase food from outside. The largest grain supplier is undoubtedly the North Koreans. Conservatively, they have obtained millions of silver dollars in such trade for more than ten years. Due to the terrible labor costs of North Koreans, most of them are profits. Therefore, North Korea has now risen many wealthy merchants and big merchants. Of course, they all rely on the political clans in North Korea.

Such a huge influx of silver naturally cannot have any positive impact in North Korea. So we see that North Korea's commerce is becoming more and more active, the scale of industry has also expanded, and agriculture has also developed greatly due to the expansion of wasteland reclamation area (the abandoned land during the Japanese turmoil has been largely reclaimed in recent decades, and the population has also increased rapidly). The economy of the entire North Korean country is under the control of many trade agreements signed with the East Coast (at that time, the North Koreans could think this was an unequal treaty, and of course many people still think so). In time, when this scale expands to a certain level, it will have a profound impact on social order. After all, the new level of productivity also needs new productivity relations to adapt, especially when the East Dynasties are under pressure, and the Korean monarchs and ministers cannot "reversal in history."

Therefore, in order to build Vladivostok, the Kingdom of Korea sent more than 10,000 migrant workers to work, and also bear the food, accommodation, tools and management costs by themselves. Although the whole country of North Korea was very uncomfortable, it finally sent people on schedule. At present, more than 2,000 migrant workers are divided into three parts, 2,000 people built lighthouses and forts on the East Coast Island (that is, the Russian Island in later generations), 6,000 people were at the bottom of Golden Horn Bay, and later Vladivostok Lenin District built docks, warehouses, official offices, military camps, markets, forts and other facilities. Most of the fields that more than 1,000 east coast pioneers were going to cultivate were also located here.

The remaining 4,000 migrant workers were sent to the later Soviet area, which was a little northerly, about ten kilometers away from the planned military port and main urban area (the place with the most crowded population at present). Their job was to build a small fortress, which could house hundreds of soldiers, and the purpose was to prevent the enemy from sneaking across the blockade from the north, and the enemy heading south from the border line was a barrier to the rear of the city. After all, there are loopholes everywhere in the East Coast ruling area. Even the Jurchen tribes on this land named Golden Horn Peninsula (that is, the later Muraviev Amur Peninsula) have not been completely subdued, and the safety risks are extremely high.

It can be seen that the people on the east coast are still very concerned about the construction of Vladivostok City, and they are indeed building it as the future ruling center, because the conditions here are really good. The port is wide and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, rich fishery production, and there is also a hinterland that can produce production in the rear. The front is not far from Japan, North Korea, and Shandong. After losing the large area of ​​excellent coastline of South Manchuria, the Blackwater Development Team made the idea of ​​leaving the sea here, which makes sense, although this port is not the so-called unfreezing port they have always dreamed of.

"We have not even carefully investigated the area more than ten kilometers away from the base. We don't know what the attitude, the number of people, and the level of civilization in the local area are. How can this be done? Although Vladivostok is in the period of major construction, this kind of work that does not require much manpower and material resources can be carried out now. Especially in the harsh winter, most construction activities have stopped, and we have no reason to continue waiting." After settling in a relatively spacious wooden house by the sea, Lu Xiaofeng rubbed his hands straight towards the warm fireplace and ordered the officials around him: "For the natives living in the surrounding areas, Is it better to save and naturalize them? Only those who are stubborn can dispatch troops to eliminate them. In other words, we must try to change these people to the east coast as we did in the Heilongjiang River Basin in the north."

"Teacher Lu, in fact, we have already made the attempt to naturalize the natives. Throughout the autumn, the army brothers were dispatched quite frequently. A total of 2,240 Jurchen tribes migrated to settle around the city, but it seems that the effect is not good at present. According to our understanding, these Jurchens are not very attached to their birthplaces and any other fixed living areas. They often abandon their felt tents or birch bark houses to fish and hunt, and carry their families and dogs on the peninsula and even the vast coastal areas in the north.

Their habits are very different from those of the Qing Jurchens in Liaodong, and this difference is so big, how to explain it, it is so big that the difference is even bigger than the Creoles and the Spaniards. I think it takes a lot of energy to naturalize them. I also ask Chief Lu to consider it carefully. I always think it is really difficult to recruit immigrants from Shandong and Ningbo to settle in Vladivostok? "A cadre who looks very young and suspected to be from the Corps Fort replied.

Lu Xiaofeng glanced at the young cadre who openly questioned his policies and said slowly: "Ningbo is now a little surplus, but there are still a large wasteland waiting for people to develop. These people are going to fill the pit here. With a good place like Denglai, why should the young people in Ningbo be willing to reclaim wasteland in Manchuria and even the bitter and cold places in the northeast? I believe that without policy factors, this is impossible. Unfortunately, Denglai is now building railways, and a large population needs to develop in the future, so there is no unnecessary people to support us. In this case, if you don't naturalize the Jurchens, do you tell me what to do? Will you let more than 10,000 Korean migrant workers stay and settle after finishing their work? Or are you planning to recruit people in the Japanese archipelago where the population explodes. Can you get in?"
Chapter completed!