My father-in-law can't delay too long in North Korea, and he must try to resolve the North Korean issue within a month, and delay it for a few days at the latest.

After all, in terms of the strength and strength of the Ming Emperor's personal army brought into Korea by his father-in-law, it is basically impossible to solve the Korean problem by military means alone.

The longer the time drags on, the greater the danger, and if he falls into the sea of reactionary officials and people in North Korea, my father-in-law will have little hope of returning home.

As the saying goes, people can't be too profligate, and the father-in-law will never allow this kind of thing to happen before he gets out of school.

Therefore, my father-in-law actually desperately hoped that the Seoul side would send someone to meet him as an angel as soon as possible, so that everyone could sit down and drink tea and talk about their hearts.

In the final analysis, it is a matter of money, for the sake of the affection between China and North Korea, and for the friendship between the two countries for generations, you can give us a little bit and let us send the emperor who wants money to die.

If you don't have the money to deal with it, the emperor is willing to take the blame!

For the sake of Daming and for himself, his father-in-law is more determined to look forward to negotiations.

In any case, with the title of the pro-envoy of the Celestial Empire, the North Korean side did not dare to offend him too much. Even if they have doubts, they can't go to Beijing to inquire about the situation.

The father-in-law, who had a high degree of political wisdom, ordered Yiju to cut off the land passage between Korea and Daming long before entering the dynasty, and at the same time asked the officers and soldiers left behind in Jinju to block the sea route.

There is no access to land and water, so where can the North Koreans confirm whether this personal envoy is really asking for money on behalf of the Son of Tomorrow?

Judging by the time, the Seoul side will have already received the news of the entry of the Heavenly Soldiers, and maybe the special envoy of the government is already on the way.

Therefore, in the next two or three days, the "peace talks" will definitely begin.

However, Park Zhengtai, a close comrade-in-arms who had thoroughly understood his father-in-law's thoughts, told his father-in-law very seriously that he and the soldiers of the Ming Imperial Army must not be sluggish in Jingcheng, and must immediately inspect Ping'an Road.

There are three reasons for this.

First, Park Zhengtai responsibly told his father-in-law that it was impossible for the envoy from Hancheng to negotiate with him on the loss of the Ming Dynasty in the "Imjin War", even if the envoy was willing to talk, he had to agree with the government and the king.

Second, if the father-in-law really wants to get compensation from Seoul, he must defeat the Pyongan Province Forbidden Army, and then threaten Hwanghae-do, so that Seoul will feel enough Celestial Empire coercion, so that the government and the king may choose to spend money to eliminate the disaster.

The third is that Ping'an Dao is not a poor place as it is generally recognized, but a lot of money.

Nani?

My father-in-law was born with soft ears and couldn't hear the wind blowing from others, so he was moved at that time. After thinking about it repeatedly, I feel that Pu Sang's three statements are very reasonable, and passive waiting is not the attitude that should be taken to solve things.

Only through struggle can we seek unity.

He immediately agreed with Pu Sang's friendly suggestion and genuinely asked Ping An Daodi why he was rich.

Pu Jun's eyes were very ambiguous, and after taking a sip of tea, he told his father-in-law about his country's economic problems.

After Park Jun's introduction, his father-in-law realized that he had made a dogmatic mistake, that is, he mistakenly took silver, which had now become the legal tender of the Ming Dynasty, as the currency of North Korea.

In fact, North Korea does not have any legal tender at all, and they implemented the tax law in kind in the early days of the Ming Dynasty. That is, the country's financial revenue mainly comes from the field endowment, which is paid in rice, cloth and other kinds of goods, and this system is called the tribute system.

During the Imjin War, the supply of military rations became the primary issue in Korea, and it was impossible to collect tribute in times of war, so Korea began to levy rice in Chungcheong-do and Jeolla-do provinces in place of all tribute.

Just four years ago, the government in Seoul decided to implement the "Taedong Law" in Gyeonggi Province on a trial basis, abolishing all the usual tributes (except Begong) and rice and other miscellaneous goods that had been paid to the central government offices headed by the palace secretary and replacing it with a system of expropriating rice on all land, and the expropriated rice was called "Daedong rice." This makes the value of metals such as gold and silver even lower, and ordinary people basically do not own them, except for black market use.

However, the Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Metropolitan Protectorate did not implement the Taedong Law, but instead implemented a system of physical goods and silver and copper coins.

The reason is very simple, these two places need to be intertwined with Daming.

With the implementation of the Datong Law in the southern provinces, large quantities of gold and silver flowed to the north under the operation of profit-seeking merchants. Because Jingcheng was often invaded by the Jurchens, the merchants thought it was unsafe, so the main inflow of gold and silver was Ping'an Dao. In addition, the southernmost provinces of Jeolla and Gyeongsang were also large areas for the inflow of gold, silver and copper, and the Imjin Wars did not affect the trade between merchants and Japan.

There is a mutual market, there is an inflow of gold and silver, and the Datong Law has not yet been implemented, which is why Ping An Dao has money.

But, in addition to these, there is one most important reason, and that is that it has mines!

Silver!

This silver mine is the Duancheon Silver Mine located in Pyongan Province.

According to Park Jung-tae, the silver mine was developed by the current Joseon king, Yi Hun, who was given the title of Gwanghae-jun when he was the son.

The father-in-law nodded slightly, this Gwanghae-jun is a very interesting lord in the history of Joseon, and his experience before becoming a king is very similar to the country's struggle for the country. However, the role is reversed, and Gwanghae-kun is the role of King Fu. It is precisely because he is not the eldest son that he could not get Wanli's canonization after succeeding to the throne, and in the end, it was Guanghaijun who bribed the Ming Dynasty envoys, and Wanli sent the eunuch Liu Yong to canonize him as the king of Korea.

The specific location of the Duanchuan silver mine is in the mountains more than 50 miles southwest of Hongyuan Province. The purpose of Gwanghae-kun's development of the Duancheon Silver Mine was to raise military expenses, and because there were no technical personnel engaged in mineral development in North Korea at that time, he specially hired technical personnel from Daming to join the DPRK.

"If the angel can raise troops to inspect the peace and threaten Hongyuan, then the Duanchuan silver mine will go into the angel's pocket..."

"Pu Jun, my admiration and touching for your loyalty to Daming." The father-in-law habitually patted Park Jung-tae's shoulder with his right hand, which was meant to show encouragement.

"Don't worry, as long as Da Ming is here, you will be fine." While speaking, the father-in-law put the Korean ginseng that had been chewed half in his left hand on the table, ordered the guards to take the map, and motioned for Park Jung-tae to watch it with him.

"Hongyuan?"

The father-in-law's eyes fell on the circle where Hongyuan was, it was a hard bone, there were no less than 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered here in Ping'an Dao, including 2,000 Korean forbidden troops, and the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Seeing this, Park Zhengtai was afraid that the angel would give up the idea of entering Ping'an Road because he was afraid of the large number of Hongyuan defenders, so he hurriedly said to the side, and the soldiers and horses of Ping'an Road were all waste, and it was impossible to be a blow to the soldiers of Ping'an.

The father-in-law couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and then immediately made a decision and ordered Park Jung-tae to lead the Korean soldiers and horses in Gyeongseong as the vanguard to attack Hongwon.

"This ..."

Park Zhengtai panicked, where can the soldiers and horses of Jingcheng beat the soldiers of Ping'an Dao.

"Don't worry, the Imperial Army is right behind you!"

The father-in-law looked at Pu Jun deeply: Young man, where is your consciousness?