The first to send an envoy to Quancheng to congratulate King Qi on his accession to the throne was the king of Goryeo.

In fact, it is not without two classes of nobles that in the name of the king of Qi but the rebellion of the Great Zhou, the king of Goryeo asked not to send envoys to Quancheng.

But that night, a military adviser from Qi broke into the homes of these Goryeo nobles who could not see the situation clearly and wanted to be useful, and raided their homes.

Subsequently, the Qi people forced the Goryeo government to quickly try and convict the nobles - the nobles themselves were beheaded and shown to the public, and all their families were sold into slavery and their property confiscated.

The thunderous means shocked all the Goryeo people, and no one in the kingdom dared to persuade the king to oppose the brave man of the king of Qi.

In return for the congratulatory letter to the vassal state of Goryeo, the king of Qi gave the "King of Goryeo" a seal letter and forced the king of Goryeo not to use any other seal letter on any official occasion thereafter.

Of course, the king of Qi also gave some very practical benefits - the state of Qi will help Goryeo to mine various mineral resources, and the king of Goryeo will have a 10% stake in these Goryeo mines, and the other two classes of Goryeo nobles will share 39%.

In addition, there is also the Goryeo Customs under the direct control of the Qi State, which can also bring more wealth to the Goryeo Kingdom.

With the oppression of force and economic buy-off, the Goryeo nobles will gradually realize that they are inseparable from the control of the Qi State.

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The second force to send envoys to congratulate was the pirates of Shuangyu Port.

The Li family, the original king of the East China Sea, is now completely divided.

In addition to Luo Haitao, who is the commander of the fleet of the Qi Dynasty's regime, the two small groups headed by Li Feihu and Li Feihuang and Li Feilong, Li Feifeng, and other five big cabinets, are still quite inseparable, at least on the surface, they are still in the same boat.

However, the other five large cabinets, headed by a large cabinet with a renamed luxury seven, have been completely independent, occupying several ports in Penghu and Taiwan Island off the coast of Fujian Province, and competing with Li Feihu and Li Feilong Group.

The divided pirate army had already fought several battles in a row, each with considerable losses, so the Li family now needed the military and political support of the King of Qi.

In particular, if they were able to consolidate their relationship with the Xu family, they would naturally send someone to congratulate King Qi as early as possible.

The Li family's mind is purer than that of the Koreans, and their posture is also very low.

Li Feilong and Li Feihu have several daughters who have agreed in advance to marry the Xu family's side generation as their wives, or their descendants as concubines.

The Li pirates can now share in the Jiangbei, Liao, and Goryeo sources, and the specialties and markets of these places bring them millions of dollars in direct revenue every year, and they are still growing rapidly.

This is undoubtedly a great help for pirates in a state of war.

In addition, there is a more direct trade in arms and ships:

Now the Qi State sells a large number of bird guns, lifting guns, divine machine cannons and gunpowder to the Li family every year, which puts them in a state of firepower superiority over their enemies and makes a lot of money.

In addition, the large timber of Liaodong and Goryeo was also very important to replenish the Li family's fleet.

In the future, the relationship between the Xu and Li families is expected to become even closer.

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The third envoy was the Mughal Gulhan Zamuhe.

The leader of the Mughal people, who unified the steppes, still sought a formal alliance with the King of Qi—not only to lay siege to the common enemy Jurchen, but also to formally divide the sphere of influence in the Central Plains and Liaodong with the King of Qi.

Zamuhe's envoy proposed that in eastern Liaodong, the two families would take the Liao River as the western boundary and the Hunhe River as the northern boundary, and the two would not interfere with each other.

In the Central Plains, the Mughurs occupied the three provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and parts of northern Sichuan Province, and the rest were owned by the King of Qi.

This condition was too rampant in the eyes of King Qi.

With the Qi army winning one brilliant victory after another against the Jurchens, Xu Muhe, the king of Qi, himself had established a slightly blind confidence in the Qi army: the Qi army was invincible in the world, at least much stronger than the Mughurs who were beaten by the Jin army.

Why, then, did he accept the request of the weaker man to divide the territory equally?

Since he is going to become the Son of Heaven sooner or later, it is normal for the whole world to be the king's land, and how can a small barbarian chief be qualified to negotiate conditions with the Son of Heaven?

Therefore, the king of Qi personally ordered that the envoys of Zamuhe be beaten out of the sticks, and in front of the people of Quancheng, ordered the soldiers to tie the envoys of Zamuhe to donkeys and expel them.

In fact, the king of Qi did not want to do it so absolutely, because the textile industry in Qi Province needed Menggu wool, and also needed Menggu markets to dump goods such as salt, wine, and woolen cloth.

However, Xu Shiyang believes that compared to the need for the Mugyu in the Qi State, in fact, the Muguls need the Qi State more.

Salt, wine, woolen cloth, and tea re-exported by Qi are all necessities for the Mengwu herdsmen, and if they do not buy them from Qi now, it will be difficult for them to buy cheap and useful goods.

What's more, except for the Qi Kingdom, no one would buy the wool of the Mughus.

Therefore, even if Zamuhe was humiliated, the trade between Qi and the Mengwu would not be severed, not even the most sensitive tea and horse trade.

This is just to tell everyone clearly: the destruction of the Jurchen is not the end, but a beginning, and there will be many Tartars who need to be cleaned up one by one in the future, as well as party items.

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The next envoy group actually came from Fuso.

It was an envoy representing the Oda clan of the Daimyo of Fuso, and the people of the Ministry of Rites carefully questioned the members of the envoy and the representatives of the Li pirates who had business relations with the Oda family, and only then did they learn about the situation in Fuso in recent years.

After Li Feihu got in touch with the Oda family, the strength of the Oda family increased rapidly, especially last year, after the Fuso daimyo Oda/Tokugawa coalition army defeated the main force of another daimyo Takeda army in a decisive battle using the bird guns exported by Qi and their own imitation firearms, the Oda family's strength developed very rapidly, and even had a tendency to unify Fuso.

In other words, Oda is a bit like the Fuso version of the pocket-sized Xu family.

The delegation sent to the state of Qi to congratulate the king of Qi on his accession to the throne came from a place called Sakai, a small but wealthy city in Fuso that was once a free trade city ruled by a coalition of merchants.

After the Oda family occupied the area, they regarded Sakai City as their direct domain, and drew a lot of wealth from it for war, and the development of Sakai City accelerated, and the Li family pirates basically traded with the Oda family here.

The goal of the Fusang people is to expand the trade quota with the Qi State: in today's Fusang, the army is completely inseparable from gunpowder weapons, and the Fusang people can still imitate some of them with their own strength, but the demand for gunpowder cannot be met at all.

The representative of Fuso was reluctant to disclose information such as the Oda family's own gunpowder production, but the representative of the Li family revealed to Xu Shiyang that before the decisive battle with the Takeda army last year, Oda Nobunaga, the head of the Oda family, had been in a hurry to transfer 200,000 catties of rice and a large amount of silver to the Li family's merchants in Sakai City in exchange for saltpeter and lead.

After that, Oda Nobunaga repeatedly asked the Li merchants to buy saltpeter and lead.

Especially saltpeter, five or six hundred catties is not too little, and five or six thousand catties are not too much.