Ming Dynasty China And North Korea's Trade Research

The Ming Dynasty , Korea Wang and Korea Li kept the compact connection at all times. The two countries had diverse forms and substantial contents. According to the form and quality, it included pays tribute trade, official trade, ambassador trade and folk trade.The pays tribute trade was the goods communion including the pay in tribute of Korea and favor of Ming. The Ming Dynasty government always insisted the rule of giving more and taking less. At the same time, because the straight status of Korea, Ming Dynasty dealt Korea different from other countries. Korea was treated better in the waiting time and quantity or quality of goods. Compared with the other form of communion, the pays tribute trade contained more factors of politics. The value of the trade was not judged by the economic interests. The politics relations of two countries was strengthened by this kind of trade.The trade of horses was the most important form in official trade. The trade mainly happened from Hongwu to Xuande. It was an official trade in name of country. The trade that changing cloth goods to horses was forced because political reasons, so it could not be insisted for a long time . But it still had the profit and promoted the communication between Ming and Korea. It was good to the agriculture in Liaodong and the economic of Korea.Ambassador trade was the most part in the trade between China and Korea, which completed by the ambassadors. The trade in this article was happened in the name of personal. We can divided it into two parts. The Chinese ambassador often asked many goods, and took many goods to communicate .Some head in the Ambassador formed a large caravansary. They bought and sold by using compulsion, and followed on somebody's heels. This kind of trade gave Korea a ponderous burden. The eunuchs of China were hated by Korea people .But the amount of this kind of commerce was not very much. The Korean ambassador trade was the most part. There were three kinds of it, including official, personal and violate trade. The king asked the ambassador to buy some necessary goods that not existed in Korea ,as books, medicine ,and so on. It was the official kind. The ambassador was also allowed to take the personal goods to...