On December 24, the fifteenth year of Yongle, the second day after the New Year, Yang Shaofeng took the dog and Wu Ming to the residence of the North Korean mission in Shuntianfu, and invited Li to visit Shuntianfu together.

Lee was also glad to be invited.

Although Li knew that Yang Shaofeng had no good intentions, but Li really refused all of Yang Shaofeng's proposals, Li didn't have the courage Yang Shaofeng stood behind the Ming Empire and a generation of male lord Zhu Laosi, and behind him was only North Korea and his father Li Fangyuan, the difference in strength between the two was really different, and it was not on the same level at all.

To put it bluntly, this world still depends on strength after all, and it is hard to speak with a big fist.

And Li also pondered carefully after going back, and found that Yang Shaofeng's proposal may not all be harmful to North Korea.

For example, interest-free loans.

North Korea just depends on it, what can it do? Could it be that the Ming Dynasty could still send troops to attack North Korea because of this?

It doesn't exist, North Korea is a country that is not conquered, and it doesn't plan to completely repay its debts, at most, it is just crying and crying poor, and then slowly paying it back, and it will only be a hundred and ten years.

Now that he had made up his mind in his heart, Li Pour no longer thought about what he had or didn't, but instead concentrated on following Yang Shaofeng around in Shuntian Mansion, and was slowly brought to the construction site by Yang Shaofeng.

It's different from the city I just turned around.

In the city just now, it is most appropriate to describe it as shoulder to shoulder, but a large number of people are crowded on the street, stunned by the white fog squeezed out in this cold winter weather.

The construction site is much more deserted, except for the 20,000 laborers transferred from the city and 3,000 prisoners, the rest of the people who were conscripted and sent to their respective homes have already gone back to their respective homes to find their own mothers, and the whole construction site seems to be a little depressed, which makes Yang Shaofeng very dissatisfied.

It's just that this construction site, which was extremely depressed in Yang Shaofeng's opinion, was already extremely terrifying in Li's opinion, and immediately pointed to the three thousand prisoners and said: "Such an elite soldier, Da Ming is willing to use it to build a city?" ”

Yang Shaofeng glanced at the three thousand prisoners, and then said with a smile: "What kind of elite are they?" If they can also be regarded as elite, then what do you think of the millions of standing guards of the Ming Dynasty? What do the elite players in Jinyiwei think? ”

Li shook his head and said: "Don't try to trick me, although Zhongning is not a soldier, he can also see that these people are quite orderly in their actions, and their cooperation with each other is also extremely exquisite, they are already a first-class strong army, but Zhuangyuan Gong said that they are not elite?" ”

After finishing speaking, Li stretched out his hand and pointed to the more than 20,000 laborers transferred from the border city and said: "Although the clothes worn by those people are the same, the cooperation between them is too far from these elites. ”

Yang Shaofeng laughed and said, "More than 20,000? The more than 20,000 were laborers sent by the Tatars and Warats, who were originally herdsmen, so what rules could they have? ”

"Tatar? Warat? ”

Li said suspiciously: "Could it be that the strength of the two is stronger than Duoyan Sanwei?" ”

Yang Shaofeng smiled: "Well, it's them." These laborers are some tribes in Mobei who are unwilling to submit to the Ming Dynasty, after being exterminated by the Tatars and Warats, Qingzhuang was captured as slaves, and now they are sent by the Tatars and Warat to work as laborers to make money. ”

Li was shocked in his heart and doubted: "If you say so, wouldn't it be that the Tatars and Warat have completely surrendered to the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"That's right," Yang Shaofeng said as a matter of course: "If the Maharaja has heard of the border city and has enough time, he can go to the border city to take a look, the Tatar Department and the Ning King Arutai, the Warat Department Shunning King Mahamu, the Xianyi King Taiping, and the Anle King Bald Polo often live in the palace of the border city." ”

After finishing speaking, Yang Shaofeng said with a smile: "In fact, it is just an expedient measure for a few of them to live in the border city now, and after the palace of Shuntian Mansion is repaired, a few of them will definitely move over." ”

Li suspiciously said: "They are going to move to Shuntian Mansion?" Do they not care about the tribe? ”

Yang Shaofeng spread his hands and said, "What's the matter?" The tribes that did not want to submit have disappeared, and the remaining herdsmen of the Tatar and Warat tribes lived around the border cities, and they were happy to be idle except for grazing cattle and sheep and running to work in the border cities, and they did not fight. ”

Li was shocked again.

Because Korea is located in Liaodong, it is not particularly clear about the situation on the grassland, except for knowing that the cavalry of the Duoyan Sanwei is extremely strong, and the Tatars and Warat are stronger than the Duoyan Sanwei, the rest of the things are not known.

Now that Yang Shaofeng heard from Yang Shaofeng that the Tatars and Warats, who were stronger than Duoyan Sanwei, had completely surrendered, and even faintly had a hint of attachment, how could Li not be surprised?

Li did not doubt the truth of Yang Shaofeng's words at all, even if the 20,000 laborers in front of him were fake herdsmen of the Ming people, whether the Tatars and Warat had completely surrendered, it was extremely easy to inquire, and Yang Shaofeng could not speak on this.

Seeing Li Yi's shocked and shocked appearance, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but laugh again: "Speaking of which, what Dajun sees now is just the tip of the iceberg.

If the Maharaja was not in a hurry to return to Korea, he could have waited until after the beginning of spring to come to the construction site to see, and the scene of two or three hundred thousand laborers working together was countless times more spectacular than now. ”

Li Zai's two or three hundred thousand laborers?

Tan Jun is above, and the more than 20,000 people working together on the construction site in front of him are already an extremely grand scene, if twenty or thirty people are working together, what kind of scene should it be?

Li accidentally muttered the word Tanjun, but Yang Shaofeng heard it in his ears, and after his face turned gloomy, he smiled as if nothing happened: "Dajun doesn't believe it?" ”

Li couldn't help but nod and said, "The country of Korea is small and the people are widowed, and Zhongning has no knowledge, so it is really hard to imagine the scene of two or three hundred thousand people working together.

It's just that Zhongning has also read some books and knows some history, if it weren't for Sui Yang using two million people to dig a canal, why would the fortunes of the Great Sui decline so quickly?

Of course, the three expeditions to Goguryeo caused a great loss of national strength and the loss of people's hearts, which is also an extremely important reason, after all, Goguryeo is not a small state and a weak country, even if Tang Taizong's eloquence and strategy are only stopped outside the city of Anshi. ”

If Li doesn't mention that Li Er stopped at Anshi City, then just on the surface, the upright Li is saying that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty recruited two million people to build the canal is a curse for the Sui Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty should also learn a lesson and cherish the people's power.

However, Li Bi also mentioned the old incident of Tang Taizong's three expeditions to Goguryeo but stopped at Anshi City, so that Li's meaning suddenly became an allusion to Yang Shaofeng's recruitment of two or three hundred thousand people to build the city, which was the way to take trouble, and even hinted that now that North Korea is strong, you Yang Shaofeng may not be able to scare me Li!

It's a pity, in Yang Shaofeng's view, no matter how awesome Goguryeo is, it's not your North Korea, no matter how awesome you are in North Korea, do you dare to learn from Annan? The real reason why Yang Er hung up has a hammer relationship with those two million people?

Yang Shaofeng sneered and said: "Goguryeo is not a minister, Emperor Yang has three expeditions, Emperor Yang has not succeeded, Tang Taizong has three more expeditions, Taizong has three more expeditions, Taizong has failed to succeed in three expeditions, and Gaozong will follow him and destroy Goguryeo!"

Another example is Jiaozhi, which has been the land of China since the Qin period, and is called Jiaozhi County. As for Ding Buling and Li Huan, I didn't notice it for a while, but I also let Jiaozhi stand on its own.

When Hu Ji gained power, so as to anger my Imperial Majesty, the heavenly soldiers were fired, the Hu clan was wiped out, and Jiaozhi was restored to my Chinese land, what does the monarch think? ”

Hemp sells batches, you little stick really dare to say anything? How many more words do you try? It's really for nothing that Lao Tzu, the champion of the six heads, came for nothing!

And after Li was scolded by Yang Shaofeng for a few words, his face changed blue and white for a while, and he finally put out the thought of wanting to try, let alone mention the three expeditions of Goguryeo and Emperor Yang and the canal.

I thought that this Yang Zhuangyuan was a scholar, even if he was a little damaged, and he tried to squeeze him a few words in words, he would not shout and kill like a martial artist, who would have thought that this Yang Zhuangyuan was such a personality!

Yang Shaofeng saw that Li Xiao stopped, and he didn't care much about it at the moment, but pointed at the three thousand prisoners with a smile, and said with a smile: "The Great Monarch said that these three thousand people are elites, so why don't we go to the barracks and see what the real elites look like?" ”

Li shook his head and said, "That's not very good, right?" Zhongning has always been a foreign minister, without the permission of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, how dare he enter and leave the military camp? ”

Yang Shaofeng said with a smile: "It's not a military camp. The responsibility of Jin Wuwei, the Maharaja must also know, is nothing more than the responsibility of the pioneer apse when His Majesty travels, patrolling day and night, guarding when staying overnight, and patrolling the palace and the capital day and night. Speaking of which, in my Ming Dynasty, it is only a second-level army, and it is still much worse than a first-level army.

It just so happened that the Jinwu avant-garde was now sent by His Majesty to listen to Yang's errand, and Yang took the monarch to the Jinwu avant-garde together, but it was not a big deal, and he just had to report it when he turned around. ”

When Li heard this, he was immediately moved, and immediately arched his hand towards Yang Shaofeng, and said, "Then Zhongning is better to be respectful than to obey his fate?" ”

Yang Shaofeng smiled, stretched out his hand again, and said, "Please!" ”

After following Yang Shaofeng to drive the horse for a few steps, Li asked again: "Fang Cai Zhuangyuan Gong talked about the first-level army and the second-level army, but I don't know how to divide it?" If it's convenient, Zhongning would like to hear it? ”

Yang Shaofeng said in his heart, what's inconvenient about this? It's just Lao Tzu's nonsense.

Smiling, Yang Shaofeng opened his mouth and said: "The so-called second-level army is an army like Jin Wuwei that is responsible for vigilance, and its combat readiness is much looser in peacetime, and it is still in charge of reclamation, and its combat power is not very good.

As for the first-class troops, there is not a day throughout the year that they are not prepared for war, and there is not a day when they are not drilled, and they can only wait for the order of our emperor to start the army.

Of course, with this kind of first-level army, Yang can't take Dajun to see and understand, but a second-level army like Jin Wuwei is still no problem. ”