The Plan to Conquer Yanbian and Hunchun (1)

If someone asks why people call celadon Goryeo’s semiconductor, I think I can simply open this ledger and show them.

“Is this the power of just ‘clicking’?”

Considering the toil and effort Kim Dong-gae put into creating celadon, calling this enormous income money earned by simply ‘clicking’ feels terribly disrespectful.

But when I think that I earned such an enormous sum solely from selling pottery, I cannot help using the word ‘click.’

“If we sell all these silks worth 54,000 seom of polished rice—including saraneungdan and other silks—along with Ming paintings and calligraphy, various crafts, jewelry, and more in Joseon and Wa, just how much revenue will come back to us?”

I am not a merchant, so I cannot calculate exactly how much revenue it will generate, but would it not be worth at least 80,000 seom of polished rice?

Considering that in Joseon, a person who harvested 10,000 seom of rice each year was called a manseokkun, which would be equivalent to a ‘walking chaebol’ in Korea...

It would not be unreasonable to say that this single trade deal generated enough net profit to create eight chaebol groups.

The funds spent on building the celadon industrial complex in Gangjin amounted to roughly 20,000 seom of polished rice, and even after adding all the various expenses, the total would be around 28,000 seom...

That means we earned more than triple the profit compared to the capital invested, including raw materials, labor costs, and construction expenses...