Chapter 54: Intimacy
There is time to squeeze it.
There is also silver, squeezing it.
Although Korea is a small vassal country, its savings over the past 200 years are still considerable, and even though the Imjin Japanese Rebellion lost a lot of national strength and was robbed of a lot of wealth by the Japanese people, Wei Gonggong firmly believes that as long as the North Korean officials are as active in Sino-Korean friendship as the good man Park Zhengtai and strive to contribute their own strength, then no difficulty will be a difficulty!
No, the two counties of Huining and Qingxing have paid 50,000 taels, Qingyuan County has paid 40,000 taels, Funing County has paid 70,000 taels, Wencheng County has paid 30,000 taels, plus Zhongcheng County has 30,000 taels.
Of course, the compensation of only 220,000 taels of silver obviously cannot be compared with the nearly 10 million taels of military expenditure invested by the Ming Dynasty in the Renchen War.
But my father-in-law was still very pleased and recognized this number. As for how much compensation can be implemented, the father-in-law is actually not unkind, and he emphasized the difficulties of the Ming Dynasty and hoped that the North Korean side could take more responsibility.
After all, as the superior state of the Celestial Empire, the Ming Dynasty must not be too harsh on its vassals, so it still has to take the initiative to bear some of the responsibilities and obligations of the suzerain, how can it ask people to compensate for all the tens of millions of taels.
Even if Daming has this heart, North Korea doesn't have this money.
Although 220,000 taels are less, a drop of water can become a stream, and a stream can become a river, and Gonggong Wei believes that with the continuous progress of the Ming Imperial Army, the future of money is bright and brilliant!
Moreover, as the situation continues to become clearer, local officials in North Korea have also shown their willingness to share hardships with the Ming Dynasty, such as Park Jung-tae, the county guard of Zhongcheng, who openly declared at a banquet that if the Celestial Empire is in trouble in the future, Zhongcheng will definitely defend the Ming Dynasty with arms!
After the banquet, on behalf of all classes in Zhongcheng, Pu Junshou thanked Gonggong Wei for his contribution to the relations between China and North Korea, and specially presented 13,000 taels of silver to the public and private people. Converted, that is, each person in the county is divided into ten cents.
Although the ten cents are small, it is the hearts of the people.
How can my father-in-law not accept it?
But he still reprimanded Park Junshou and others, saying that the people were poor after all, how could they let them pay. Park Junshou and others are self-reliant, reflecting on their work mistakes from the bottom of their hearts and hearts, and ensuring that they will never make them again.
"Don't take it as an example."
My father-in-law burped and said casually, "I really feel sorry for our family, send some Korean ginseng to make up for us, why bother the people." ”
After the banquet, the Zhongcheng County Office mobilized, and a large number of officials rushed into the major pharmacies in the city, and loaded hundreds of catties of Korean ginseng for Duke Wei overnight.
Early the next morning, seeing more than a dozen carts of Korean ginseng delivered, Gonggong Wei couldn't help but shed tears of excitement for the innocence of the officials in Zhongcheng.
The situation is not a small good, but a big good.
In order to repay the grace of the Ming Dynasty's reconstruction, the officials of Huining, Qingxing, Wencheng and other counties actively mobilized to help the Ming Imperial Army raise grain and grass, so as not to make the heavenly soldiers feel hungry and tired in the vassal country, and completely relieved the fatigue and inconvenience of the imperial officers and soldiers from long-distance travel.
Gonggong Wei sent a special envoy to the three counties for this reason, saying that after he returned to China in the future, he would write to the Son of Heaven and issue a decree to Hancheng to register these three counties as "model counties of Sino-Korean friendship".
At the same time, nearly 3,000 young Korean soldiers "took the initiative" to respond to the call of the Ming Imperial Army and joined the Imperial Guard to serve the Celestial Empire, in order to repay the great kindness of the Ming soldiers for saving them from the hands of the Japanese Emperor.
But it is undeniable that the good news is continuous, the situation is also open, and the money scene is also bright, but an undercurrent is also surging.
First of all, the military and political forces of the Jingcheng Metropolitan Protectorate led by Yuan Ye, the envoy of the Grand Metropolitan Protectorate under the Mirror City Shosanpintang, refused to accept the edict of the Great Tomorrow Envoy, and gathered and reorganized the scattered soldiers and horses in the counties and towns on the left side of the Mirror City, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the entry of the Great Tomorrow soldiers, and at the same time sent people to the neighboring Ping'an Road for help, and rushed to Seoul for help for 800 miles.
In his distress letter to Seoul, Yuan Ye, the envoy of the Dadu Protectorate, openly declared that the Ming army was invading the dynasty, not entering the dynasty, and that it was the so-called "ugly and Ming chaos", and hoped that the Seoul government would immediately mobilize the forbidden army to the north to resist the invasion of the Ming army.
This news made Gonggong Wei very angry, and summoned Park Zhengtai to ask who this Yuan Ye was, and An dared to reverse black and white so much, slandering the Great Envoy and the Heavenly Soldiers.
According to Park Zhengtai, this Yuan Ye was the younger brother of Yuan Jun, a general of the year.
Won Jun had served as an envoy to the Funing government, and two months before the Japanese invaded Korea, he was appointed as the right water envoy of Gyeongsang Province and became the commander of the Korean naval army. However, when the Japanese army invaded on a large scale, Won Gyun was in a hurry to flee, and later fought against the Japanese naval forces together with Yi Sunsin, the Jeolla Provincial Left Water Envoy.
In the war that followed, Yi Sunsin was favored by Yoo Sung-chan, the right-wing government, and vigorously promoted him with less merit, which made Won Gyun very dissatisfied. When Ding You was in turmoil again, Yuan Gyun attacked the Yi government, which led to Yi Sunsin's dismissal. Won Jun became the commander of the three naval forces, and took over the command of the Korean naval army. Subsequently, in the Battle of Qichuan Liang, Yuan Jun was attacked by the Japanese Fujido High Tiger Division and was defeated and killed.
However, after his death, he was not held accountable for the defeat, but was posthumously named the original Lingjun from the left of the first product. His younger brother Yuan Ye was valued by Xuanzong and was appointed as the protector of the capital of Jingcheng. The reason for this is that King Xuanzong liked Yuan Jun during his lifetime, and on the other hand, the Yuan family has been Korean military generals and Western nobles for generations, and their power is extremely powerful, so even if there is a disgraceful eldest brother, Yuan Ye's powerful position will not be affected at all.
"According to the information obtained by the lower officials, it is very likely that the Yuan Mansion envoy will be promoted to the general of the internal guard from the second rank after stepping down next year, and he will be in the upper rank."
As one of Wei's closest comrades-in-arms in North Korea at the moment, Park Zhengtai has his own judgment on the situation, and he believes that what Yuan Ye has done is extremely unfavorable to him.
Therefore, it is necessary for him to advise the angels, so he said: "Don't hide it from the angels, Yuan Ye and his people are the most hostile to the Celestial Empire, and when the heavenly soldiers entered our country to fight against the Japanese in the early years, they often spread rumors that were unfavorable to the heavenly soldiers......"
Under Park Jung-tae's depiction, Yuan Ye's image jumped on the paper, and he was a reactionary handful of extremely arrogant and stubborn people who regarded the Celestial Empire as nothing. For this kind of person, it must not be tolerated, otherwise it will inevitably destroy the atmosphere of friendship and unity that has been formed with great difficulty in the counties of the Mirror City Protectorate.
"Pu San..."
Xu is realized that this title is not quite right, Father-in-law Wei coughed lightly, patted Park Zhengtai's shoulder with a little meaning, and said in a harmonious voice: "Yuan Yedi is not good, his position is yours, we can rest assured." ”
Park Jung-tae was overjoyed, he said so much, isn't it just for the angel. As long as the Celestial Empire speaks, no matter how dissatisfied the Seoul side is, can it still not give the Celestial Empire face?
It's just that Gonggong Wei obviously still has something to say, he nodded slightly, and then looked at Park Zhengtai affectionately: "You go to Jingcheng Di to work, and take that Yuan Ye Di..."
My father-in-law made a motion to wipe his neck.
Park Jung-tae suddenly gasped, this job is a bit difficult.