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The Research on the Procurement of Military Materials and the Effects of Military logistics trade immediately after the Imjin Waeran

YunYeoseok 1

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Josun endeavored to procure the military materiel in many ways during the period of Imjin Waeran, but there was a limit to do so for itself, for the lack of financial resources, techniques, and raw materials. To find the solution, plenty of military supplies were imported to Josun from China, Ming, not simply in a way of support of stuffs, but in a way of funding in order to purchase the military materiel through trade. The rapidly changing Northeast Asian situation played a role as one of the factors rising necessity of the military materiel procurement after the Imjin Waeran. Josun tried to maintain the reward policy and to enforce the Wolgwagungibeop(月課軍器法) which the government assigned the production of arms to each local authorities in order to procure the military supplies not only from trade, but also through the production domestically. As a result, the arms came to be commodified and then the arms market was formed consequently. Most of all, the resumed trade with Japan made it easier to bring matchlocks and other law materials in Josun so that it led to the increase in the production of arms along with the growth of military markets. The procurement of these supplies which conducted by the Chosun dynasty in the Imjin Waeran had been developed in a large scale. Since then it had influenced the activities of private boats, the strengthened currency function of silver, and the expansion of private trades. Here were the very vigorous activities of private boats in the process of the transportation for provisions in the markets and shipping business which had been formed from the early Josun Dynasty. Especially, a great quantity of provisions were transported around the Han river, it influenced the activities of private boats that largely were owned by the merchants in Gyeong-gang(京江) area. Also, the currency of Silver as a payment method for the military trade was increased in value considerably as well. Silver was to be circulated, though so limited, among the common people. Finally the established market for military trade was the channel of foreign trade. What the Josun government had been promoting the military trade became a foundation for the active participation of merchants in the foreign trade.

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