Seeing Zhu Fangyuan sitting down, Yun Xi was about to talk to him, but he coughed again, took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth, and after a long while, he stopped, and smiled at Yun Xi reluctantly: "The minister is not in good health, please forgive Your Majesty." ”

"The minister should not have come to see His Majesty if he is not in good health, and it is not a sin to damage His Majesty's golden body. However, the matter of the minister's visit to His Majesty has been arranged, and the minister also admires Tianyan very much, so he thought about it and did not take leave but came to see His Majesty. ”

"It's just that it's difficult for the courtiers to attend tonight's banquet, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me."

"You are not in good health, so why should you ask me for sin. I promise you don't have to go to dinner. Yun Xi then asked with concern: "Is the illness serious?" Do you need to let the doctor from the Tai Hospital diagnose and treat it? ”

"No need. The minister also brought a doctor from North Korea, and he had already diagnosed and treated the minister, and this was not a serious illness, so there was no need to bother the imperial doctor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Fangyuan said immediately.

"How can this work?" Yun Xi said: "You are sick in the realm of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't feel at ease if I don't send a doctor to treat you. Then he raised his voice: "Come on, go to the Tai Hospital to pass on Doctor Zhang." ”

After a while, Imperial Physician Zhang came over and took Zhu Fangyuan's pulse. After a while, he let go of his hand and said, "Your Highness just caught a cold at night and occasionally contracted a cold, which is not a serious illness or a major event. I'll just prescribe medicine for Your Highness. As he spoke, he took out the paper he carried with him and wrote down the prescription, saluted Yun Xi and went out to grab the medicine.

'Is he really sick?' Yun Xi was a little surprised. He thought that Zhu Fangyuan was pretending to be sick, but it turned out to be a real illness. The one he chose immediately when he asked Imperial Doctor Zhang to come over could not have been bought before; As for the people in the Jantai Hospital, they are bribed and cast a wide net, and the DPRK's finances must go bankrupt.

Yun Xi hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Since we are unwell, we don't have to speak like this." Someone came to bring an Arhat bed for His Royal Highness King Zhu. ”

Zhu Fangyuan's eyelids jumped when he heard this, and he got up to refuse, but Yunxi ignored it and asked seven or eight eunuchs to move a boxy Arhat bed for him to lean on it. Zhu Fangyuan had no choice but to accept it.

Yun Xi talked a few words with him, discussed the pros and cons of the figures of the previous dynasties, Yun Xi led the topic to the expansion in the northwest in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and then said: "Speaking of the establishment of the capital protection mansion in the northwest by Hei Zhi Changzhi and others, Brother Fang Yuan, in the past few days in the capital, you should have also heard that Samarkand has the intention of sending troops to the east next year. ”

Before Yun Xi's words were finished, Zhu Fangyuan lamented in his heart: "I still can't hide!" ”

He knew that Yun Xi specially announced that he must have something to order in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the matter was not trivial, so he naturally did not want to come; But he didn't dare not come, so he deliberately blew the wind last night, so that he could catch the wind and cold and not let Yun Xi give orders in person. Of course, he knew that the conscription sent to send him to avoid it, but as long as he didn't give orders in person, there was always room for shirk.

But who knew that Yun Xi didn't give up, even if he was sure that he had contracted the wind cold, he still talked to him, as if he was not afraid of being infected at all, and also said to him: "You are infected with the wind cold now, and it is even worse to blow the wind outside, I ordered the Tai Hospital to decoct you with medicine, and after taking the medicine and eating in the palace, I ordered someone to send you back in the most cold-proof carriage." ”

Zhu Fangyuan had no choice. What else could he say? Say you can't stand such preferential treatment? Yun Xi continued to insist that he couldn't do anything, saying that his illness was not so serious, let alone that he could only talk to Yun Xi.

"Your Majesty, the minister should not be called 'brother', and please don't call the minister like this. The minister also heard about it. This Samarkand country does not submit to the king, and His Majesty will definitely teach them a good lesson. Zhu Fangyuan said.

"Since you know, then I won't go around in circles. In this expedition, I asked Korea to send 10,000 troops to fight with the army. ”

"Samarkand bullied the king, disobeyed the king, offended the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty wants to send troops to conscript our North Korea to send troops, but our North Korea is small and poor, and the number of soldiers is not large, if 10,000 soldiers are recruited to fight, I am afraid that the soldiers left in our country are not enough to guard against foreign enemies." Zhu Fang walked from afar.

"What other foreign enemies does North Korea have to guard against?" Yun Xi immediately asked: "North Korea is surrounded by the sea on three sides, Liaodong in the northwest, and Yongfan in the northeast, what other foreign enemies are there?" ”

"Your Majesty, there is also the Changbai Mountain that stretches for thousands of miles between Liaodong, the fief of His Royal Highness King Ying and the fief of His Royal Highness Yongwang, and the terrain around Changbai Mountain is complex, and there are countless Jurchen barbarians hiding in it, often going down the mountain to harass our Korean people. had to be left on guard. And to the east of the sea, there are still pirates who often infest. Our Korean national strength is weak, and the naval division is not strong, and in order to guard against the Japanese invaders, the coast needs to be defended everywhere. ”

"The current population of my North Korea is only more than 3 million, and the national strength is weak compared with the Ming Dynasty, which is no less than the difference between cloud and mud, and it is simply unable to maintain a large army, and the soldiers are already stretched, if it is really insufficient to reduce the number of soldiers by 10,000 soldiers, please do not recruit so many soldiers from North Korea." Zhu Fangyuan said in a pleading voice, coupled with the coughing sound from time to time, if it was a soft-hearted person, it was estimated that he would have agreed to his request.

But Yun Xi won't. After being in the position of the emperor for a long time, no matter how soft-hearted a person is, he will harden, not to mention that he knows that what Zhu Fangyuan said is true or false.

It is true that the Korean national strength is weak, especially in the second year of Jianye, he sent a sailor to search for gold mines in the north but encountered a storm and almost wiped out the army, and has not yet completed the reconstruction, so that the fishermen or maritime merchants of Fuso often come to the Korean coast to make temporary cameos as pirates.

But the Jurchens are not as harmful as he says. The Jurchens were very capable of fighting alone, and they lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, crossing mountains and mountains, and walking on flat ground, and the Korean peasants were indeed harassed by them from time to time.

But they were not soldiers under the rule of the Jin State back then, but fishermen or hunters similar to barbarians, with no organizational discipline at all, and people of the same tribe could still form cooperation with each other, and people from different tribes would get together and produce the effect of Zhu Fangyuan + Zhu Fangyuan < Zhu Fangyuan.

What's more, at this time, the Korean soldiers were not even the later ones who even looked down on the title of the five scumbags of war, but they were still quite combative, and they had conquered Tsushima Island to eliminate the pirates entrenched on the island, and forced the Tsushima domain to submit to Korea. So North Korea doesn't need to make much effort to guard against the Jurchens.

"If the strength of the Korean sailors is insufficient, I can order the Daming sailors to patrol the coast of Korea, as long as Brother Fang Yuan opens a few Korean ports to allow the Daming sailors to stay. In this way, North Korea will be able to save a lot of soldiers once and for all. Yun Xi said.

Of course Zhu Fangyuan didn't want to. He has always insisted on the independence of North Korea, and if he can prevent the Ming army from landing on the land of Korea, he will not let the Ming army land on the land of Korea, even the sailors are unwilling.

But the current situation does not allow him to shirk. Zhu Fangyuan understood very well that Yun Xi had been very polite to him when he personally discussed this matter, and he could only follow his direct and stern next order.

So Zhu Fangyuan asked for a few more words, but seeing that Yun Xi didn't allow it, he could only agree: "The minister obeys the order." It's just that the minister asked His Majesty that the sailors and soldiers staying in the ports of North Korea need vegetables, vegetables, grain, etc., to be purchased by the sailors, not to repay our country. ”

"Well," the soldiers spent on other expenses, and Yun Xi really wanted him to pay for the meal. "Brother Fang Yuan, the sailors patrol the North Korean coast to protect the people of North Korea."

'The reason why we need the Ming sailors to protect our Korean coast is not because you have recruited my Korean soldiers and made the Korean soldiers insufficient? Zhu Fangyuan complained in his heart. But of course this can't be said, Zhu Fangyuan still pretended to be pitiful and tried to get rid of the money.

Yun Xi was concerned about the emperor's decency and did not say much; But there was also Zheng Yi at the scene, although Zheng Yi was full of reluctance, he could only step forward and fight with Zhu Fangyuan about it. In the end, it was agreed that the DPRK would provide a certain amount of grain free of charge, and the rest would be paid for by the sailors.

After discussing this matter, the atmosphere at the scene was much more relaxed, Yun Xi looked at the leak, and asked people to ask the Tai Hospital, and said to Zhu Fangyuan: "The Tai Doctor of the Tai Hospital said that your medicine will take half an hour to be decocted, and it just so happens that I am tired after talking for half a day, let's sit down and drink a bowl of tea." ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty treats the ministers so kindly, and the ministers feel guilty, but the ministers never dare to delay the emperor's efforts. There are also several envoys from other countries waiting to be received by His Majesty. Zhu Fang said from afar.

"That's what you said, come here, send Brother Fang Yuan to the side hall to rest for a while, and only talk to Brother Fang Yuan when I have met the envoys of other countries." Yun Xi instructed Wang Xi.

"Your Majesty, although the minister is infected with the cold, it is not a serious illness, and it should not be like this for Your Majesty." Zhu Fangyuan was actually a little moved by Yun Xi's illness all the time thinking about him, and he couldn't do this with the minister himself, but he still said.

"The medicine has already been decocted, won't you waste it when you go back now? Besides, when you go back to the Qin Palace, you are only accompanied by servants, but you have made an appointment? If you make an appointment, I won't keep you. Yun Xi said.

"Only His Royal Highness King Yong is slightly familiar with the capital, and the rest don't know a few people, and His Royal Highness King Yongwang has already drunk wine together at noon yesterday, how can there be an appointment?" After listening to Yun Xi's words, Zhu Fangyuan couldn't say anything, so he could only agree to stay.

And in his heart, he actually did not resist staying in the palace. As Yun Xi said, when he returned to the Qin Palace, he was only accompanied by his subordinates, and several ministers were also assigned by him, and they came over every night; Besides, when it comes to the ability to serve people, the slaves of North Korea are not as good as the servants of the Ming Palace. So he also had a heart: 'I also enjoy the servant service of the Ming Palace.' So he followed Wang Xi to the side hall.

Yun Xi then met with the envoys of several other countries as quickly as possible. There are not many countries in the north of the Ming Dynasty now, mainly concentrated in the south, and they can't use the southern countries to fight Samarkand this time, so they just accepted the courtesy and let them retire after saying a few words casually.

There is still a plan for Fusang Yunxi, but since Yuan Yoshiman and Yuan Yoshiji did not come, the messenger who came obviously couldn't be the master, so he decided to hand over his plan to Zhu Mengjiong, who was the chief soldier in Yokohama, to discuss with the Yuan family, and he wouldn't talk nonsense about this envoy.

Finally, there was the messenger sent by Yili to ask for help. Now Mahama, the younger brother of the Great Khan Shami Chagan of the Yili Khanate, immediately knelt down when he saw Yunxi, crying and begging: "Your Majesty, please save me Yili Li." ”

After confirming the Eastern Crusade of Samarkand, Sha Micha panicked, immediately told Zhu Shangbing about it, and sent his younger brother Ma Ma to the capital of Daming to ask for help. He wasn't sure whether Timur's expedition was going to fight him or the Qin domain, but even if the ultimate goal was the Ming Dynasty, he would easily destroy him first, so he couldn't care about anything at the moment, even if Shang Bing wanted to repair the city in his place, he made concessions, and only asked the Ming court to send troops.

Ma Hama also knew that the matter was urgent, so he hurried to the capital, and spent more than ten days rushing to enter the city on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and then reported to the Ministry of Rites to ask to see Yunxi.

Yun Xi originally had the intention of taking Qiao and asking Yili to make greater concessions to the country, but when he thought about it, Ma Hama was not stupid, and he also knew Chinese, and there were many officials in the various yamen who knew that he would definitely send troops, and he would definitely be able to find out the real situation. So just to maintain his majesty and wait for a while, then he said to him: "Since Yili Jiangli is the Fan Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, it has been considered deferential and not rude to the Ming Dynasty in the past few years, how can I allow Samarkand to attack the Fan Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

He first put on a high hat, and then said: "Besides, Samarkand rebels against human morality, does not abide by the rules of the vassal king, disrespects the Ming Dynasty, and disrespects me, and I will be destroyed sooner or later!" As he spoke, Yun Xi gritted his teeth.

Ma Hama heard this passage without a clue, but Zheng Yi and the eunuchs who served were all heartbroken: This is the witch Gu case that he is talking about.

The witch Gu case was the closest Yun Xi was to death, although Yun Xi suppressed the matter at that time, he hated Samarkand to the core, and he hated the Heavenly Sect even more. If it was said that the suppression of the Heavenly Fang Sect before was out of consideration for the future, but after that, it became even more of a personal vendetta. He was able to make up his mind to use the most brutal way to get rid of all the Semu soldiers in Annan, and the witch case was 'indispensable'.

Yun Xi came to his senses after saying a lot of words, felt a little out of shape, looked down at Ma Hama and saw that he was ignorant, so he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said to him again: "Don't worry, I will definitely send troops to the northwest next year." ”

"It's just that Shaanxi and other places in the Ming Dynasty have always been barren, and it is difficult to support the grain and grass of hundreds of thousands of troops, so we must also work hard to get the grain out."

"Your Majesty, although I also try my best to put the grain in the country, there are many cattle and sheep, and I am willing to supply millions of cattle and sheep to the Ming soldiers!" Before leaving, Sha Michagan had already said to him: As long as Daming is willing to send troops, as many cattle and sheep are willing. What's more, he came all the way and did see that the land was barren.

"Millions of cattle and sheep!" Yun Xi was taken aback by this number, and thought to himself that he deserved to occupy the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and he was so rich even if he didn't grow grain and raise livestock. There are only so many cattle and sheep that are willing to be supplied, and I don't know how many cattle and sheep are actually raised.

Yun Xi praised him a few words and let him go down. Then the messengers of Warat did the same.

The messengers who have seen Warat have seen all the messengers of the foreign fan. Yun Xi stretched his waist and said to Zheng Yi: "You and Chen Di will bring all the envoys back to Fanguan, and they will be allowed to wander around the capital of Daming in the next few days, but you should also keep an eye on it and don't have an accident." I asked Ying Tianfu and Jinyiwei to pay more attention. ”

"Yes." Zheng Yi agreed, and then asked, "Your Majesty, how does the monarch of the DPRK make arrangements?" ”

"I'll arrange for him, and you won't have to worry about it. And remember in the future, whether it is the title of the ordinary person or the will of the imperial court, he will always be called His Royal Highness the King of Joseon, or simply His Royal Highness the King of Korea, and can no longer be called the monarch of the Korean State. Yun Xi said.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zheng Yi agreed again and bowed down.