Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Ming Dynasty - The Treaty of Gengjin of Korea
Since discovering such a talent as Mo Cheng, Zhu Yunwen has been running more diligently to Tanglin.
As long as they are no longer conservative in their thinking, this group of people can really find a certain resonance with Zhu Yunwen, a traverser, in their ideas.
If it weren't for the North Korean military intelligence report, Zhu Yunwen would not even want to stay in Tanglin every day and not return to the palace.
"On the North Korean side, how is the war?"
Zhu Yunwen didn't go to see the military intelligence report in person, but couldn't wait to give himself a whole bowl of cold mung bean soup.
"Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of Your Majesty, our army won a great victory in Fuzhou, and Li Fangyuan was awarded the head."
Zhu Yunwen's hand holding the tea bowl paused, frowning slightly.
"Oh? Yes, I didn't let me lose it, but how did I get to Fuzhou on the battlefield? ”
Shuangxi came to Zhu Yunwen and muttered a few words.
Zhu Yunwen laughed heartily at this time.
"Good, good! Peace is beautiful, very much in line with my heart, and it should be rewarded! It's time for a reward! ”
At the end, smacking his lips, Zhu Yunwen sighed again.
"Forget it, once Seoul is defeated, he is safe and at fault, and the merits and demerits are offset, and when he goes back to the imperial front secretary, he writes a letter and sends it over, and the reward will be waived."
"Huh."
Shuangxi hurriedly responded, following behind Zhu Yunwen, "In the first battle of Fuzhou, more than 70,000 prisoners were captured, and now they are all pressed in the Liaoyang camp, General Ping asks for advice, how to deal with it, in addition, my Ming army has entered Korea, Li Fangguo's throne is retained, how to deal with North Korea next, is it to withdraw troops or?" ”
Zhu Yunwen paused slightly.
North Korea's national conditions are different from Annan's.
Politically speaking, North Korea has been a vassal state for thousands of years, but the amazing thing is that they are happy to be a vassal country, but they will never allow it to be destroyed.
And the indigenous people of North Korea are very funny, they seem to have a natural feeling of arrogance, the North Koreans' self-made Kanyu map, and the territory of North Korea even includes Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty!
The Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty can be much larger than the northeast of the later generations, and the Outer Khing'an Mountains all the way to Sakhalin Island can now be all the territory of the Ming Dynasty, although thousands of miles of no man's land, but the belonging is the Ming Dynasty.
The North Koreans took a pen and drew it to them, and at first glance, they thought that North Korea was half a big one.
In the twenty-first year of Hongwu, after Lan Yu eliminated Nakchu, the soldiers marched west to Mobei, pursued and killed the Northern Yuan royal family all the way, fought across the Troubled River, and defeated the Northern Yuan Great Khan Tugusi Timur in the fishing sea, that is, the area of Lake Baikal in later generations, and beheaded 100,000 prisoners.
At that time, the Northern Yuan had not yet split into the Tatars and Warats, and the entire Northern Yuan fled westward, and did not return to Mobei until Lanyu withdrew his troops, but after this battle, the once prominent Mongol Empire completely collapsed. If it weren't for the fact that Mobei was too far away from the Ming Dynasty, the territory of the Ming Dynasty could even reach as far north as the Lena River Basin in present-day Russia!
The territory of the Ming Dynasty is not 8.5 million, but at least 15 million!
The Ming Dynasty created by Taizu was so strong that the king of North Korea, Li Chenggui, did not get the title of Taizu because he did not even dare to sit on the throne in North Korea. But the natives at the bottom of the Korean dynasty were still immersed in the Goguryeo Dynasty and thought that they could break their wrists with the Ming Dynasty.
Such a nation, if you want to destroy their country, their people will fight to the end with you, the pay and the benefit are completely disproportionate, there is no need to kill them, besides, more than fifty percent of the Koreans have Han blood traced back to their roots, until now, it has been two years since Jianwen, and the princes and ministers of North Korea don't all speak Chinese?
Annan is in Zhu Yunwen's heart, that is to abolish the country and become a province, which involves his great maritime industry in Southeast Asia, South Asian Laos, Siam, and Annan The three countries must be eaten in the stomach, as for how to deal with that Ah San, John Bull is a good example.
Shuangxi saw that Zhu Yunwen was stunned, and said, "Do you want the slave maid to go to the Wenhua Hall and summon the three pavilion elders and Yang Xie and the two bachelors?" ”
"No!"
Zhu Yunwen waved his hand very stiffly.
"I will first level the southwest and then the north, how to deal with this subject country, there is no need for them to teach me."
It is now August of the second year of Jianwen, not August of the thirty-first year of Hongwu!
The throne under Zhu Yunwen's ass is now as stable as Mount Tai, and in major national affairs, he will begin to exercise the exclusive right of an emperor: Qiangang is dictatorial!
"If the prisoners of war are to be brought back, they will be handed over to the Ministry of Industry to build roads and canals."
Zhu Yunwen sat behind the imperial case, picked up the pen and wrote.
"Tell Li Fangguo that these captured North Korean soldiers are war criminals, and I will take them away as laborers first, and then send them back after 20 years."
Double happiness is cheeky, war criminal?
When is there still a war crime charge?
As for what to do with North Korea, Zhu Yunwen certainly has a plan.
It was easy to destroy Li Fangyuan's thorn, and Li Fangguo also continued to be his grass king as he wished, and that's it? Think beautifully!
For thousands of years, China has been too lenient to these subject countries, in a word, it is to die to save face and suffer crimes.
When Taizu was alive, North Korea prevaricated on the grounds of poverty, and the annual tribute was dozens of Korean ginseng, which was worth a lot of money after you threw it away for 600 years, and now it is not worth a hundred taels of silver.
Taizu also returned a lot of things every year as a reward from the Celestial Empire.
Zhu Yunwen doesn't care about face, and Daming doesn't need this kind of face.
Face is not exchanged for money and materials, face is made of knives and guns, iron and blood!
This Li Fangyuan is a ruthless man, he dares to burn Hancheng with a fire, if this thing wins the battle and really eats Liaodong in one bite, even if he Zhu Yunwen exchanges the silk of the entire south of the Yangtze River, he Li Fangyuan can still kneel on the ground and be grateful to let Liaodong out?
Don't even think about it!
He, Zhu Yunwen, is going to create the first unequal treaty with his own hands!
This time, the Ming army was invited by the king of Joseon Li Fangguo to rebel against Li Fangyuan and won a complete victory. In order to prevent such incidents from happening again in the future, Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty personally made the treaty
1. North Korea should pay 5 million taels of silver as the silver for the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty.
Second, Li Fangguo's throne, is the Ming Dynasty Taizu Emperor Gao, the name is justified, the Ming Dynasty recognizes and protects Li Fangguo's legitimacy of the king, in order to prevent rebels from rebels in the future, in addition to the provincial security army, the Korean State will no longer increase the standing army, the Ming Dynasty garrison in Hamxing 10,000, North Korea needs to pay 1 million taels of garrison military expenses every year.
3. The Ming Dynasty leased Jeju Island in Korea for a period of 99 years.
Fourth, the DPRK opened Pyongyang, Kaijing, and Seoul as trade cities between the Ming Dynasty and the DPRK, so that the Korean people could also use the fine silk, porcelain, tea and other goods in the Ming Dynasty, and the DPRK was not allowed to levy commercial taxes.
5. At the same time, in view of the fact that Korea is in a period of transition between Buddhist civilization and Confucian civilization, the Ming Dynasty is willing to send Confucianism to set up teachings in various provinces in Korea to help the Korean state popularize Confucianism. In this way, there will no longer be any uncivilized people in Korea, and there will be much fewer rebellious ministers and thieves who rebel against the monarch. ”
Zhu Yunwen wrote the entire manuscript freely, and after reading it, he confirmed that this was the first time he had written this kind of unequal treaty, he had only seen it in history books before, and now he made one himself, although it was a lot scribbled, but it looked really good.
Double Happiness looked straight in the eyes.
"Your Majesty, does this need to be so complicated?"
In the past, either the country was destroyed by winning the war, or the country was defeated and retreating.
"Don't you hear that there are clouds in the art of war, and you will be surrounded by three and one?"
Zhu Yunwen smiled.
"If we don't sign this treaty with North Korea, the war can't be fought in vain, but once our army enters, it will be rushing to destroy the country, protracted and wasted national strength, it is better to sign a treaty, so as not to crush the bottom line in their hearts, with the possibility of survival, who is willing to work hard?"
Are North Koreans afraid of the Ming Dynasty?
Of course you are afraid if you don't fight, if you start a war, you will die on the left and right, who is afraid of whom?
What if the broken ground in North Korea is occupied by the Ming Dynasty?
The current industrial base is here, and North Korea's resources cannot be exploited on a large scale, just like a piece of chicken ribs, and it is a pity to discard it if it is tasteless.
Instead of sending hundreds of thousands of troops to kill them, it is better to let their people farm and pay taxes with peace of mind, anyway, the money ended up in Daming's pocket.
Open to trade, do not let North Korea collect business taxes, Ming merchants poured into North Korea trade, the wealth seized will eventually feed back into the Ming society, in this way, the money of the Korean people has entered the Ming treasury, what is the difference between the Korean people and the Ming people?
It's just a nominally independent country.
Garrison, culture, trade, plus a Jeju Island used to build a naval port, to put it mildly, it sounds like the Li dynasty of North Korea, in his bones, it is the Korean political envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Li Fangguo, is the political envoy.
But precisely because of the existence of this name, that group of North Koreans will carry out self-hypnosis, saying that they are not slaves of the country, and they will not play with the Ming Dynasty.
In the future, after a large-scale uprising broke out in North Korea like Wanqing, Daming would have to help Li Fangguo quell the rebellion.
Only the day when North Korea is fully sinicized is the time for the Ming Dynasty to pick fruits!
The manuscript of the treaty made by Zhu Yunwen was soon sent to the hands of Joseon Ping'an in an expedited manner of 800 li, and the latter personally led his troops into the palace of Kaijing and handed it to Li Fangguo's desk.
"My Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty personally wrote the imperial system, and the king will seal it on behalf of the Korean State."
Li Fangguo looked at the fierce and vicious face of the Ming general in front of him, looked at the half-sheathed bladed steel knife in the hands of more than a dozen athletes behind Ping'an, swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely, and didn't dare to look at it carefully, and hurriedly picked up his seal with his hands, and pressed it under Zhu Yunwen's jade seal.
Ping An took it and confirmed it, and then smiled.
"Don't delay the government of His Royal Highness the King, I will retire, with this contract, I will protect the orthodox position of His Royal Highness the King."
In August of the second year of Jianwen, the Ming Dynasty signed a friendship treaty with North Korea, known as the Gengchen Treaty!