Chapter 56: Who in the world can know you (Part 1)

The body is as good as a dead tree, and the heart is not as dead ashes. This is a portrayal of Su Shi's exile life.

"Written well", the Prince of Goryeo sighed while wiping his tears: "The poem is good, and the words are good."

Whether the poem is well written is evaluated by future generations. As for the writing of this copybook, it reminds Zhao Xing of a famous modern self-worthy saying: It is average, the third in the world.

This copybook is known as the "third running script in the world", and its value is equivalent to "half Japan".

In this era, the commodities exported by Goryeo to Song include: gold, silver, copper, ginseng, poria, pine nuts, fur, yellow lacquer, sulfur, silk, ramie, linen, horses, saddles, robes, mattresses, sesame oil, mattresses, fans, white paper, brushes, ink, etc.

In addition to horses, the Song Dynasty did not have much advantage in exporting goods to Goryeo, such as porcelain. In the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Yue Kiln celadon craftsmen were escorted to the Korean Peninsula as gifts. At this point, Yue Kiln's porcelain making technology was also transmitted to the Korean Peninsula, allowing it to complete the conversion from pottery to porcelain in a short period of time and began the history of producing celadon.

Goryeo celadon was named because of its blue-green glaze color. Goryeo celadon and Song porcelain from the Song Dynasty of my country shine brightly. The Song people regarded Goryeo celadon as "jade color" and called Goryeo celadon "Goryeo Jade Porcelain". Its biggest feature is that its glaze color is green and bright, its craftsmanship is exquisite, and its shape is rich and colorful. "Goryeo Jade Porcelain" is called "five famous porcelains" together with the four major official kilns of the Northern Song Dynasty, becoming the flagship product for Goryeo's export exchange.

Another technical output work had just been completed in the Song Dynasty. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between Song and Goryeo, King Goryeo asked the Song Dynasty for a large number of doctors on the pretext that he was sick. Song Shenzong was very generous and tied up three thousand famous doctors in China to Goryeo. These people quickly established the medical system of Goryeo, and they were the ancestors of the famous doctors in the Korean drama "Dae Jang Geum".

In ancient China, the flagship products of foreign trade were silk, tea, and porcelain. In the Han Dynasty, we had already transferred silk technology to South Korea, and in the Tang Dynasty, we completed the output of porcelain technology... The Koreans did not like to drink tea, so the Song people now have no advantageous technology to output. On the contrary, Korean porcelain became the strongest competitor of Song porcelain in the international market, and even imported it to China in reverse.

Because the Song people lost all their trade advantages against Goryeo, they caused a huge trade deficit later, and horses were strategic materials. Even Goryeo was restricting their exports to China, so what should Zhao Xing do?

Only by exporting culture to Goryeo... and exporting copper coins.

Exporting culture was also banned in the Song Dynasty. The Goryeo admired the Central Plains culture and asked to buy books every time they came to China. However, the Confucian scholars refused. They only allowed the Goryeo to buy national defense science and technology books like the Seven Books of Wujing - because in their opinion, such books are evil "ingenious and lewd skills", while those Confucian classics are not allowed to be purchased by Koreans.

This is the current trade situation between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo: Goryeo encourages the delivery of any products to the Central Plains, but Confucian scholars in the Central Plains did not want to sell what Goryeo wanted to buy, so a large amount of Song money was outflowed, causing Goryeo to gain a huge trade deficit.

In this case, Zhao Xing had to find another way and turn culture into a true product - he began to print cloth, and found a stereotype master of Su Shi's copybook, carved it into a printed version, but printed it on the cloth. The only thing he needed to purchase was copper.

Goryeo also has no awareness of the right to mint coins. If we use our cultural advantages to exchange for Goryeo copper, we will lose to the Goryeo people and lose to the Japanese, and they will bully them without the right to mint coins. These two countries should happily thank this bully...

This is a joy, extraordinary.

Koreans have always admired the culture of the Celestial Empire. Zhao Xing's "cultural silk" was about to his preferences and immediately won the fanatical pursuit - the ordinary plain silk in the Central Plains has no advantage in South Korea, and the "Kory silk" produced in South Korea is colorful, and only 170 cents of each piece is sold. Zhao Xing's "cultural silk" can be sold for five cents of money.

Huge profits - Zhao Xing lives a day of "counting coins until his hands cramps" every day. A container-like wooden box can be shipped 60 horses of cloth, and this box is 300 guan. Goryeo copper ingots are cheap, and 300 guan can be exchanged for thick copper worth 1,000 guan in China. Go back and add some lead to cast it into copper coins, and then use them to purchase them in Goryeo...

Haha, there is no "Anti-Profit Law" these days, so it will make the huge profits more violent!

Good Su Shi, this is a talented master who floods the Pacific Ocean. He has been preserved. There are more than 2,700 poems, more than 340 poems and some beautiful prose. Goryeo, you can take over Su Shi's heavy rain, and I will let Su Shi's gorgeous chapters drown you!

Now Zhao Xing’s batch of silk cloth is made of four meters in one printing unit, two meters in portraits, and two meters in poems. The two ends of the poems have a large number of fish and water patterns printed. When cutting, two meters in one unit can be made and then sewed into clothes.

The clothes are made as Zhao Xing showed, with portraits on one side, poetry on the other side, or only two meters long, and a pair of plain white silk on the other side, and paint the patterns or poems you want.

In the days that followed, Park Ing-kwang seemed to understand Zhao Xing's lack of etiquette. One day, he whispered to Zhao Xing with the help of music to cover up some etiquette details: "You should salute the prince - I, Goryeo, submitted a letter of nationality to the Celestial Empire. In the letter of nationality replied to His Majesty Shenzong, we were not treated as vassal states - the letter of nationality treated us as equal diplomatic countries.

The emperor of your country is still like this, why is the nephew so ignorant?...Don't insult the face of the Celestial Empire."

Zhao Xing was stunned for a moment - is this true? Didn't it mean that there was never a real diplomacy in ancient my country. No matter what kind of envoys of the country came to "pray", would we treat him as a vassal?

Could it be that ancient China still had a true diplomacy and was willing to regard foreign countries as equal countries for exchanges?

This is Song’s uniqueness!

Zhao Xing thought it well. This is also the reason why people often regard Song as "weakness".

Perhaps, in another sense, this is indeed a manifestation of "weakness". Song now not only recognizes that Xixia and Liao are equal countries, but also gives certain tribute coins (year-old monies) every year, but also recognizes that Goryeo is an equal country. The only two true vassal states, besides the "subject" of the Japanese Emperor, are the only Vietnamese Li Dynasty, who was conquered by the south.
Chapter completed!