The ministers of military and state affairs in the Tianyou Palace, all of them broke out of the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops.

When it comes to intelligence, it is far better than Liu Yu.

It's just that I don't know much about the political correctness of the Celestial Empire, as well as the practical practice of the tributary system of the Celestial Empire, and I don't know much about diplomacy and trade.

There are even people who really think that Russians will die of bloating if they don't eat rhubarb. Therefore, he supported the opening of the port and used trade as a threat in the future, similar to the trade policy of the previous dynasty towards Mongolia.

Li Gan hoped to hear another perspective from Liu Yu, and after listening to Liu Yu's words, he couldn't help but feel quite radical.

He is an impatient man, and he is bent on doing a great career and leaving a name for himself in history.

It looks good on weekdays, but once something big happens, the impatient nature is undoubtedly revealed, and it is inevitable that he will have some radical ideas.

But after listening to Liu Yu's words, he knew that he was radical before, and he seemed extremely conservative in Liu Yu's words.

This matter still needs to be considered, and he asks instead: "You are talking about the Western Front." Since you said that the port was divided into east and west, and the eastern front was related to the Nu'er dry land, what did you say about the eastern front? ”

"Wechen heard some rumors, what's going on in North Korea?"

"Well, it's either a rumor, or it's a mess."

It's very difficult for ordinary people to know about this kind of thing. Liu Yu, a Xunwei who was born as a son of a nobleman, has a close relationship with the old nobles, and Li Gan didn't feel any different when he knew that there was a change in North Korea.

This time, some musketeers from North Korea were recruited, one was to show off its military might like North Korea, and the other was to test North Korea.

In the past few years, North Korea has really done a lot of things.

A few years after the death of the old king of North Korea, he had several unpleasant encounters with Dashun because of the matter of "North Korea's No. 1 Demon Girl" Zhang Xifei.

The old king of North Korea and the concubine couldn't have children, so they favored the low-born concubine Zhang, and Concubine Zhang gave birth to two sons.

I thought of using the power of my relatives from relatively humble backgrounds to clean up the political situation in the DPRK and China, and sent someone to Dashun to ask for the canonization of Concubine Zhang as a concubine.

The people of the Dashunli government are in charge of etiquette issues, and this kind of thing must not be agreed. The suzerainty of the ritual and tributary circle supported the vassal to abolish the concubine and set up a side room?

But after all, it is a vassal, and it is not good to refuse directly, so you can find fault. After looking through the song, I found that the words "stable harem" were used in it, and the foreign lang of the government asked: What is your identity? Can you use the word "harem"? Can these two words be used by princes and kings?

The old king of Joseon also understood the meaning of Dashun, so he had to send someone to confess his guilt, and finally bribed the people of the government to pay tribute, quoted scriptures and found many excuses, went back and forth several times, and finally canonized.

As a result, just a few years after it was completed, the old king of North Korea abolished this concubine Zhang Xi again. But there is still no official eldest son, and he can only ask for the eldest son of Concubine Zhang to be the son.

The government refused again, thinking that if she had always been a concubine, it would be in line with the rules to make her son the heir. And now you will abolish her, and make her son a son? Her eldest son is not the eldest son, but a concubine, how can she allow the princes to make the prince the heir?

Besides, the king of Joseon has not yet reached fifty, and it is obvious that he can continue to try with the princess, you two try again. When I reach fifty, I haven't had the eldest son, so let's talk about it.

The scholar doctor of the Joseon State also held up the "History of the Song Dynasty", saying that Song Shenzong did not establish Zhezong until the day of his death, and did not break the rules.

The two sides fought for three or four years, and finally the Dashunli government also canonized Zhang Xifei's eldest son as the son.

Soon after, Concubine Zhang was involved in the "Witch Curse". It is said that this concubine Zhang is also a ruthless person, before she died, she cursed her husband to cut off her children and grandchildren, and reached out to pinch her son's underneath, I don't know if it's true or not.

Her eldest son didn't know if he was frightened, or if he was really pinched, in short, he was stupid, and he heard that he was still peeing his pants in the court. After succeeding to the throne, he has never had any children, just a younger brother.

The party struggle in North Korea was more fierce than that of the Song and Tang dynasties, and after several party disputes, he sent envoys to the capital to ask for the canonization of Wang Shidi and his heir.

As the emperor of the suzerain, Li Gan asked out of politeness, saying that he heard that the king of Joseon is not in good health, how is his health recently?

The envoy was also familiar with the subset of scriptures and histories, so he replied with "I am weak and weak". Li Gan asked out of politeness, and asked what happened.

Those who are familiar with the subset of scriptures and histories, as long as they have the idea of engaging in mosquito prison, are masters.

When the envoy returned to Korea, someone immediately denounced the king of Joseon: Looking at the twenty-three histories, the word "impotence" is the only one who used the word "impotence" in the "Book of Jin". This person said that the king is "impotent", this is to learn from Huan Wen, and to abolish the heart of usurping power, which is obvious!

After a bunch of heads fell to the ground, the king of Joseon's health has not been very good, and Wang Shidi, "brother and brother", fed his brother a bowl of ginseng soup.

As soon as I finished feeding, my brother died.

This is more yellow mud than the sound of the candle shadow axe, and the sound of the candle shadow axe can also explain the explanation. How to explain that he died after drinking ginseng soup?

When Wang Shidi succeeded to the throne, he said that I really didn't poison the ginseng soup, believe it or not.

Of course, the side branch with the right of inheritance and the party that engaged in mosquito prison at the beginning, of course, did not believe it, and went to Beijing in the spring of this year to "cry Qin Ting" and ask the suzerainty to uphold justice; By the way, a rebellion was set off in Korea, plotting rebellion, rebel soldiers, and white armor and white armor.

Because of these messy things, the canonization ceremony never took place.

The government has not sent anyone to North Korea so far, but has asked North Korea to explain what is going on. In the end, is Wang Shidi plotting to poison and kill the king? Or did he just die in a hurry?

Zuo Pingzhang proposed to recruit Korean musketeers for the Battle of Rakshasa due to the chaos in Korea.

Now that the rebellion is together, this move can be considered an early move.

It is not good for the suzerainty to directly send troops to interfere in the internal affairs of North Korea, but there are Korean musketeers who have been recruited for the Battle of Rakshasa, and this is a force that can influence the situation in North Korea: whether the ginseng soup is poisonous or not does not depend on the facts, but on who comes to power in North Korea who can be more deferential and more concessional to Daeshun.

After the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the relationship between Joseon and Dashun was also very delicate.

First, Wanli resisted the Japanese and aided the DPRK, and had a reinvention of the Li Dynasty of Korea. Out of kindness in this regard, North Korea has always secretly respected Ming as orthodoxy, and has also taken in many Southern Ming exiles.

It's hard to say that it's right to be ungrateful, and it's wrong not to forget the old kindness.

Second, after the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, before Dashun counterattacked Liaodong, Korean musketeers fought with the Dashun army; After counterattacking Liaodong, the main force of Houjin was destroyed, and North Korea took the opportunity to jump back and send troops to Liaodong, snatching a lot of people's food and horses, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to move the border to the north, and there were some conflicts with Dashun.

Dashun was frightened by the lessons of the previous dynasty, and frantically immigrated to Liaodong, and North Korea often crossed the border to collect ginseng, and there were conflicts with the Han people in the border areas; Border soldiers like Du Feng often robbed North Korea's smuggling caravans; For the sake of political achievements, Liaodong officials often tempted the poor people of North Korea to flee to increase the population for political achievements.

It was very unpleasant on both sides. On the surface, the father is kind and filial to the son, but in fact, he has his own thoughts.

After Liu Yu came to the Western Front, the Korean musketeers recruited this time followed the Songhua River Naval Division along the Acropolis of Handori, and are now besieging the old capital of the Sauron Khanate.

The North Korean rebellion was together, and both sides were frantically flattering Dashun.

The king of Joseon was afraid that Dashun would think that the ginseng soup was poisonous; The rebels hope to use the power of Dashun to carry out a coup d'état to avenge the king's ancestors, and even if the coup is successful, it must be recognized by Dashun.

In this way, the decision made by Zuo Pingzhang to recruit Korean musketeers before the rebellion gave Dashun a great initiative on the Korean issue.

The issue of Nuer Gandusi is also closely related to North Korea. North Korea is like a knife, cutting off the connection between the hinterland of Dashun and the Nuer Gandusi.

The existence of the Songliao watershed is difficult to pass by land; The existence of the DPRK has made it difficult to access waterways. If there was no Joseon, the Central Plains Dynasty would still have easily controlled Heilongjiang, Jilin and even the Outer Northeast.

At this time, seeing Liu Yu mentioning the opening of the port on the eastern front and mentioning North Korea, Li Gan thought for a moment and asked: "What does Nu'er Gandu Division have to do with North Korea?" ”

"The minister thinks that His Majesty should open a port in Shandong and trade with Korea; Vladivostok, at the mouth of the Suifen River, is a port, and can also trade with North Korea. At a time when there is a change in North Korea, the DPRK should tighten its control over North Korea. One is that the country lacks copper, and North Korea has more copper, which can be alleviated; Second, only by opening up trade can we penetrate deep into North Korea, exert influence, and exercise more control. ”

"Moreover, since the rebellion in Japan, Japan has been closed to the rest of the country, and it is still difficult to get through. Do you know if it's not recuperation? Do you know that there is no other Toyotomi Hideyoshi in his country? Once Japan is in turmoil, it must first conquer Korea and peep into the Central Plains. By opening a port to trade with Korea and forcing Korea to allow Korean merchants to call at its ports, it would be possible to know the roots of Korea and guard against Japan, just as the Western Front affair would be known. ”

"As for the slave Gandu, opening a port in Heilongjiang or Jingqili River, it is difficult to travel by land for Rakshasa trade, so you have to take the water route. Shandong ships transport goods to North Korea, caravans cross North Korea, take a boat to Vladivostok, jump into the Mudanjiang River and enter the Songhua River, summer waterway, winter sleigh on the ice, then can compete with Xibu. ”

"As soon as the merchants are passed, there are many inns, car shops, wine shops, and restaurants along the way. As soon as there are many of these, they will gather into towns along the way, and the surrounding areas will gradually be cultivated by people, and the population will gradually increase. ”

"Once there is a disaster in Shandong and Henan; If the Yellow River is in trouble, merchant ships can be requisitioned to transport the victims directly to Nuergandusi or Liaodong. Moreover, in recent years, people in the DPRK have continued to flee north, and the Chinese pronunciation in the border areas has gradually decreased and the Korean dialect has become more and more numerous, and it must be noted, especially in Vladivostok and other places, there are many Korean fugitives. ”

"In addition, the border army is bitter and cold, you can raise its gold and silver, and invest in the chamber of commerce......"

Li Gan nodded again and again, but when he heard the last "border army shareholding chamber of commerce", Li Gan immediately vetoed: "No!" The government soldiers are engaged in business, and they will fall over time! If you don't stand up for farming and warfare, where will you find such a government soldier in the future? ”

"Your Majesty, looking at the Sui and Tang Dynasties, how can there be a hundred years of good fighting soldiers? The soldiers of the government can fight for 80 years, which is already amazing. Now that Funuer is in charge of the capital, does Your Majesty really want to transfer the troops along the Songhua River to the north? Let them give up the land they have cultivated for decades and go to the bitter cold land to cultivate and fight? Even if you don't rebel, your resentment will be strong, how can you be willing to fight? After 80 years of fighting for the country, he finally ended up continuing to go north, giving up his wife and children to reclaim the hot kang, and going to a more bitter and cold place to reclaim, so why should he contribute to the war in the future? ”

Li Gan has also considered this problem, but the territory that has been beaten down must be guarded by someone.

Once the soldiers have money, according to the emperor's ideas, they will fall and they will not be able to fight.

Only by living by farming and fighting can we maintain bravery.

But the problem that Liu Yu said does exist, those people have been cultivating in northern Xinjiang for decades, and their small lives are prosperous, and the imperial court also pays the "blood tax" on time when they fight.

At this time, it is really easy for them to move north again.

Liu Yu said again: "Your Majesty, the slaves are in charge of everything, not in the army, but in the food and population. The dynasty set up a folded mansion in the Songhua River, one was to garrison the border, the second was to provide government soldiers, and the third was to accumulate food without taxes, and once the war started, it was directly spent here to buy. ”

"As long as the grain problem is solved, if the northeast can become a grain-producing area like Shandong and Henan, and the population breeds, there will be no problem in the frontier. Speaking of which, there are still few people. ”

"Your Majesty is worried about the soldiers of the government, so you can recruit the strong and poor from Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places, and then set up the Zhichong Mansion on both sides of the Heilongjiang River to continue to raise the government soldiers."

"And the soldiers of the old government of Songhua River, after the battle of Dzungaria, can be abolished and the prefecture and county can be abolished. If they are asked to participate in trade, after the war in the future, they will have rewards and money, and they will not want to be government soldiers, but want to transform into local lords. ”

"Let them have money, abandon their prefectural privileges, and turn them into state and county citizens. Allowing them to pay to recruit people to cultivate and work for themselves is naturally full of energy. The imperial court does not need to pay money, they will reclaim all the land suitable for cultivation, as long as they are exempted from taxes for five years, they will definitely be able to reclaim as much as they want. There is a shortage of manpower, so naturally there will be people who will hire people in the Kannai...... After several decades, the banks of the Songhua River can also be used as granaries, and if there is a war in northern Xinjiang, you can buy grain directly on the Songhua River. ”

"The imperial court moved the victims, and it cost the treasury silver. And the immigration officers are not doing it for themselves, or withholding, or disregarding life or death. It was allowed to recruit immigrants as tenants and long-term workers, and the imperial court did not need to spend money on the treasury silver, and everyone could actually sell it for money when they got there...... The population sells money, although it is not good, but it is the truth. The Northeast is not as large as Guannai, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and if you work for a few years, even if you flee, you can reclaim a piece of land that you can rely on for survival. With a large population, they are all immigrants from the Guannai, so how is it different from the Central Plains? It must be the most stable place. ”

"The larger the population and the more food, the lower the cost of re-immigration to the imperial court in the future. With ready-made villages and the ability to buy food, the efficiency of immigration is far from comparable to that of the current wilderness. ”

"Besides, the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, so there is no need to worry about mergers. If they are allowed to merge, they can follow the example of the main households of Western countries who paid for cattle and horses, worked long and short-term to earn wages, built large tracts of land for water conservancy, and introduced tools such as chariots and heavy plows. A hundred years from now, it will be a granary. Since it is a granary and has a large population, the Rakshasa can be trouble-free. When the time comes, 20,000 troops can be raised to the north to attack the Rakshasa again, with Lake Baikal as the Rakshasa boundary, enveloping Mongolia, and more stable. ”

"It is not overnight to abandon the Songhua River and settle the state and county. Five or ten years later, the soldiers of Songhuajiang Prefecture were transferred to civilian nationality and Zhizhou County, and the Zhechong Prefecture along the Heilongjiang River was also established, and the combat effectiveness was also the strongest. ”

"Trade with North Korea can also be used as a springboard...... So that the victims of Henan and Shandong do not have to take the difficult land route, but go directly north along the sea route to Nuergandusidi. Gather at Vladivostok at the mouth of the Suifen River and slowly move north to enrich the population. In the future, there will be more cultivation along the Suifen River and the Heilongjiang River, and there will be enough grain, and grain can also be directly purchased at the mouth of the Vladivostok and Nuergan rivers to facilitate the resettlement of migrants. ”

said that the slaves were doing the things of Dusi, but in their hearts, North Korea was used as a springboard, and there were many places to jump, not just the Northeast.

With North Korea as a springboard, you can jump to Japan.

As long as the opening is opened, as long as the ports are opened in Lydon and Vladivostok, and when the time comes, smuggling in Japan, who cares? As long as the imperial court opens an opening, the businessmen who dare to break through dare to tear this opening into a skylight or even a gate.

Trade with Russia, the opening of ports in the west, and the participation of the royal family in eating meat. The port is open in the east, and the distance is far away, so you can drink soup. But if you drink soup with Russia, you can eat meat from North Korea and even Japan. Nowadays, copper is so expensive, and the imperial court is short of copper, so it even ordered that copper utensils are not allowed to be used to trade with the DPRK. How can you not make money from smuggling to Japan?

Liu Yu was not interested in eating the meat in the west, and he couldn't go to grab food from the emperor. The meat on the east side can be eaten in two bites, and as long as you get the inside information in advance, you can be one step ahead.

In the south, the trade with Japan could only take Taiwan, Diaoyu Island, Ryukyu, Nagasaki to Tanegashima, and little by little by relying on the needle road to sing and jump on the island.

If you can participate in the north, although the current navigation technology cannot sail directly to Japan, it is still no problem to stick to the Korean coastline to Tsushima.

Now the opportunity is rare, if the imperial court does not take this opportunity to make the suzerainty status of Korea one step closer to opening up the port trade, I am afraid that in the future, I will have to wait until a hundred years later, the Westerners will be forced to open the port.

But this kind of thing Liu Yu is not easy to say on the surface, thinking that the northeast issue that the emperor is most concerned about now is actually a real problem of immigration, so he tried to persuade Li Gan with this matter.

"If Your Majesty can allow the opening of the port in the east, the formation of a chamber of commerce, and the use of North Korea as a springboard. Zechen can come forward to handle this matter, and ensure that the immigration of 1,000 in the first year, and the increase in the future every year, and the annual immigration of 10,000 in the land of Nuergandu after ten years. If it is less than that, the minister is willing to be punished. ”

"The imperial court, you don't have to pay a penny. With 10,000 immigrants every year, coupled with the population breeding, in less than a hundred years, Nuer Gandusi can have a population of one million, all of whom are Han people from Shandong and Henan, just like the Central Plains, and there is no dissent. ”

"The imperial court here does not need to pay a penny, and in a few decades, it will be able to produce an extra million people, tens of millions of acres of land, and an extra million taels of taxes every year; The frontier is solid. ”

The last reason finally made Li Gan a little moved, and asked: "Ten thousand a year?" Are you serious? ”

Li Gan's way of thinking is the way of thinking of the official, the imperial court pays for official immigration, and 10,000 people spend hundreds of thousands, which is less.

Liu Yu understands how great the population pressure in Shandong and Henan is, as long as the emperor acquiesces in trade with Korea, Japan, and Russia, gathers share capital, operates from it, and replaces the monopoly privilege tax with the number of immigrants, let alone 10,000 a year, and 20,000 a year is estimated to be taken away after ten years.

The Xiaoice Age has passed, and in addition to the swamps like the Sanjiang Plain, there is still a lot of land in the northeast that can be cultivated now.

The estuary of the Suifen River, the plains around Xingkai Lake, the plains of the upper reaches of the Ussuri River, the valley of the Songhua River, and the plains of the Jingqili River can now be cultivated with rye, potatoes, sorghum, and soybeans.

Although it is worse than wheat, it is still better than starving in Henan and Shandong. The cost of immigration gradually decreases as the population of the place of migration increases. Moreover, there are many disasters in Henan, and the bureaucrats of the imperial court are doing things, pointing out that the immigrants are starving to death, and there will be no shortage of immigrants.

Weighing this small goal of 1,000 per year at the beginning, and convinced that as long as trade with the DPRK and Russia is allowed, there will be no problem, Liu Yu nodded and accepted.

"Hmm...... That being the case, the matter will be discussed again. You should leave the affairs of the DPRK alone, and the ministers of the DPRK and China will understand that this is an opportunity for the DPRK to be the DPRK. ”

"Whether we can do it in the future will be discussed when we return to Beijing after talking with Rakshasa will also depend on the situation on the North Korean side. But it's always right to prepare in advance. The bottom line of the DPRK and the Central Committee will be given to you in a while, and now that there is a trade matter, it is also allowed to open a port in the east and west during negotiations. ”

"The bottom line is there, cross the bottom line, cut! Outside the bottom line, how much land you get, how much credit you have. ”

"It's not early, autumn is approaching, you should also set off as soon as possible to assist Qi Guogong. You don't need to bring more people, just bring 300 people. I must also return to the court as soon as possible, and this place is over, and I must not stay for long. That one named Shu Tu, who has been with you for so long, I am ready to guard the town with the Marquis of Zichuan as the main general, and that Shu Tu works for the vanguard and continues to capture several castles of the Rakshasas, what do you think? ”

After thinking about the personality of Jiao Lao Butu, the level is still there, and it is no problem to guide yourself and slowly besiege the city.

Wechen thought that there should be no problem. It is better to use troops here with 3,000 people, and it should not be too much. The Rakshasa people also have no field soldiers here, so they divide their troops and hold on, and if they go to the next city, they should shrink and retreat. ”

The emperor nodded in agreement, and asked his entourage to hand over the bottom line of the negotiation with the Rakshasa to Liu Yu, and wrote an edict asking Liu Yu to assist the Duke of Qi, which was regarded as a name.

In the end, Liu Yu was asked to sort out the things he said before and submit them before leaving.

After opening the bottom line of the Rakshasa negotiation and glancing at it twice, Liu Yu thought to himself that this was not difficult. The bottom line of the imperial court is the Heilongjiang River, and the Shilka River and the Difficult River are to the west.

Now, except for a castle on the Shilka River, the fortresses of the Rakshasas within the bottom line have basically been uprooted, and it should be easy to talk about.

Now it depends on how the imperial court deals with North Korea's affairs, he doesn't care about this matter, and he is not qualified to care.

If the DPRK side does not understand the idea of seizing the opportunity and opening a port to the east to immigrate, it will be no play.