Chapter 420: Demonstrations
In the end, Li Hui adopted the latter's opinion, and he also knew that most of Guo Zhiyuan's visit was not from the instructions of the Ming court, and from the past deeds of Guo Zhiyuan, this Guo Zhiyuan was a bold lord, and he tried not to offend him before he figured out his intentions, and now that the Ming Dynasty and Houjin are preparing to fight, even if they protest to the Ming court, most of the Ming court will not have time to pay attention to it, it is better to lower their profile, First eat and drink well, greet this bold Guo prefect, and then find a way to send him away after figuring out his intentions.
After setting the tone, Li Hui hurriedly asked his ministers to contact Li Dan, saying that the lord of the country was very pleased to hear that the Chinese and Korean ministers were coming to visit, and he was ready to receive him as a state guest, and he wanted to send diplomatic officials to contact Guo Zhiyuan first to discuss the landing and docking of the fleet and the greeting of the fleet, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.
Li Dan was a little inexplicable about Guo Zhiyuan's sudden notification that he rushed to North Korea to meet, and now he is also a hegemon, and he is somewhat uncomfortable with Guo Zhiyuan calling him like this, but Guo Zhiyuan has a great favor to him after all, and his son Li Guozhu is working under Guo Zhiyuan, so he still came over, but he didn't plan to take the initiative to meet Guo Zhiyuan, and was ready to wait for Guo Zhiyuan to come to meet in Hanyang City.
Now North Korea suddenly attaches so much importance to Guo Zhiyuan's visit also makes Li Dan very surprised, although he is now also known as the hegemon of one side, but it is impossible to enjoy the reception of state guests when he comes to North Korea, so Li Dan's mind has also changed, and he took the diplomatic officials sent by North Korea to take the initiative to go to sea to meet Guo Zhiyuan.
Seeing Guo Zhiyuan's huge fleet, Li Dan and the North Korean diplomats who came with him were stunned, Li Dan originally thought that he had mixed well over the years, but when he saw Guo Zhiyuan's huge fleet, he knew that the gap between himself and Guo Zhiyuan was really far away, and he couldn't help but feel afraid of Guo Zhiyuan's sluggishness in calling himself, and he had no distractions in his heart, and he made up his mind to follow Guo Zhiyuan closely.
As for those North Korean diplomats, they are even more shocked, they have never seen such a huge warship, even if the Ming Dynasty came to Korea to canonize the "sealed boat" is not as powerful as the warship in front of them, the key is that such a giant ship is not one or two, but dozens of them! Such a huge fleet is the strength of the whole country of North Korea, but it is difficult to resist, fortunately, the lord of the country is wise and did not snub the menacing Governor Guo, otherwise North Korea will really be in trouble!
Boarding Guo Zhiyuan's flagship, Li Dan saw Guo Zhiyuan and his son standing behind him, he hadn't seen him for more than ten years, his son had grown up, and he had a little more calm general spirit, it seems that he has really grown a lot with Guo Zhiyuan over the years, but at this time, Li Dan did not reunite with his son, knelt in front of Guo Zhiyuan, and said excitedly: "I haven't seen him for so many years, Li Dan doesn't miss adults for a day, and today can be regarded as getting what he wants!" ……”
Guo Zhiyuan was also quite emotional, he hadn't seen Li Dan for so many years, and the big man back then had a weathered look on his temples, so he hurriedly helped Li Dan up, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Uncle Li, please hurry up, you have worked hard all these years, Dongfan can have today's achievements, Uncle Li is indispensable!" ......" Saying that, he glanced at Li Guozhu, who was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and said with a smile: "Uncle Li may not have seen Guozhu for a long time, I won't disturb your father and son reunion, and I'll talk to you later, Guozhu, why don't you take your father to rest soon......"
The excited Li Dan father and son went to the cabin to say goodbye, Guo Zhiyuan turned his head to look at several North Korean officials who were worried on the side, and said with a slight smile: "This mansion is uninvited, a little abrupt, I hope that the lord of your country will not treat Guo as an uninvited guest, right?" ……”
Several North Korean officials hurriedly said in fear: "How dare you, how dare you, our lord heard that Lord Guo was visiting, and it was too late to be happy, so he specially ordered his ministers and others to come and discuss the matter of greeting......
After a seemingly amicable greeting, several people discussed with Guo Zhiyuan about the entry of Guo Zhiyuan's fleet, Guo Zhiyuan with such a huge fleet and so many troops, the North Koreans were naturally restless, euphemistically said that they welcomed Guo Zhiyuan's visit incomparably, but they could not receive Guo Zhiyuan's such a large fleet, and could only allow Guo Zhiyuan to bring a warship and hundreds of guards to land in Hanyang.
Guo Zhiyuan's face turned cold, and he said coldly: "It seems that your country still doesn't welcome this government, this government has come from far away with some subordinates, how can it be reasonable to leave them?" ……”
The North Korean officials broke down in a cold sweat, and said in their hearts, "Who are you a little subordinate to?" That's tens of thousands! Hurriedly and cautiously said: "Lord Guo is angry, he really despises the country... Too small, expensive... Your family... The number of people is real... It's a bit much, I'm afraid... I'm afraid the reception is not good......"
Guo Zhiyuan also knew that it was impossible for anyone to agree to others to bring such a huge fleet and army to his capital, and finally bluffed and intimidated the Koreans to agree to take two Qianshi-class warships and 2,000 soldiers to land in Hanyang, and the rest of the warships and soldiers docked at the Deokhe Islands off the coast of Korea, and the Koreans were responsible for providing supplies.
After discussing Guo Zhiyuan's landing and greeting plan, several North Korean officials hurried back to report to Guang Haijun, who listened to the reports of these North Korean officials and felt more and more that the situation was serious, what did Guo Zhiyuan want to do when he came to North Korea with such a huge fleet and so many soldiers? So he raised the specifications to welcome Guo Zhiyuan again, originally thought that he would send a minister of sufficient weight to greet him, and he would be able to give Guo Zhiyuan enough face to meet him in the palace, but now Guang Haijun feels that he should simply make the formation bigger, and personally bring all the civil and military ministers to greet him, as the so-called etiquette is not strange, no matter what the purpose of Guo Zhiyuan's visit to North Korea this time, he gave him such a super-standard courtesy, he can't do too much, right? !
In order not to lose face too much in front of Guo Zhiyuan and fall into the national prestige of North Korea, Guanghaijun also pulled out all the 5,000 royal guards, and set up a neat square array at the dock to greet him, but when he saw Guo Zhiyuan's two thousand-stone-class warships slowly sailing into the port, Guanghaijun's originally calm face completely changed, he had participated in the naval battle of the Renchen War, and he had a better understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty army. He also drove to North Korea with a swagger, where is this to visit, it is clearly to demonstrate!
Guo Zhiyuan stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the Korean royal guards lined up in a neat phalanx on the pier, knowing Gwanghaejun's thoughts, he turned his head to Li Guozhu on the side and smiled slightly: "Guozhu, you take someone down first in a while, let everyone start with the spirit, don't let friends underestimate our new army!" ……”