On March 26, the third year of Jianwen, the city was opened, outside the Xuanyi Gate.

As soon as the sky was bright, Li Fangyuan led the civil and military officials to wait for the envoy, and everyone was silent, and they didn't dare to come out, because today's king Li Fangyuan's mood was not very good, and he killed two eunuchs with a cane in the morning because of a trivial matter.

Zhuo Jing and others camped outside the city yesterday, got up at midnight today, and after freshening up, they set off in the direction of Xuanyi Gate.

Around the hour, Zhuo Jing and others arrived outside the Xuanyi Gate, and Li Fangyuan led hundreds of officials to greet the mountain and call for long live, and performed three bows and nine bows to welcome the messenger of the Ming Dynasty. Zhuo Jing accepted the salute on behalf of Zhu Yunwen, and then took out the holy decree and read it, the holy decree was not long, but the meaning was very clear, and Li Fangyuan changed color in unison.

After Zhuo Jing finished reading, he said loudly: "Li Fangyuan, the governor of North Korea, has not stepped forward to accept the order!" ”

Li Fangyuan gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Minister Li Fangyuan accepts the order, thank the emperor for his grace!" Then he got up and took the holy decree, and after Zhuo Jing handed the holy decree to Li Fangyuan, he immediately stepped back and bowed to him: "Zhuo Jing, the servant of the lower official household department, has seen the state affairs of the governor of Korea. ”

Li Fangyuan smiled, helped Zhuo Jing up, and said in a loud voice: "Lord Zhuo, I haven't seen you for many years, and I am deeply pleased to see that you are still in style. ”

"Yes, it's better to be respectful than to obey your orders."

Zhuo Jing and others, surrounded by the Korean monarchs and ministers, entered Kaesong, followed by the deputy envoy Bai Wangru, as well as Zhang Fu and 500 elite soldiers who served as guards.

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Zhuo Jing has passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven this year, and he has no feeling for Li Fangyuan's cozy behavior, although he has a good conversation with him, but he does not forget to observe the situation in the city, and Bai Wangru next to him is even more dripping big eyes, looking east and west, startled, when he saw something strange, he grabbed the North Korean officials around him and asked, the North Korean officials were annoyed, but they did not dare to offend, so they had to explain one by one. And Zhang Fu observed the topography, architectural pattern, street width, etc. of Kaesong from the perspective of a soldier. And from his point of view, he very much wants to go to war with North Korea so that he can climb up, and from this point of view, he is no different from his father Zhang Yu.

Li Fangyuan set up a banquet in Rende Palace, doing his best to luxury, mountain delicacies, and seafood are everywhere, but it's a pity that the cooking skills are average, Zhuo Jing and Zhang Fu don't care, but Bai Wangru, the fat deputy envoy, doesn't care, pointing and pointing, not that this dish is salty, or that this dish is sour, and that this dish should add more meat, that dish should put less sugar and the like, not to mention Li Fangyuan, even if Zhuo Jing and Zhang Fu are a little embarrassed, the ministers are also angry. In the end, it was under Zhuo Jing's signal that Bai Wangru reined in slightly.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Li Fangyuan put down his chopsticks and asked, "Lord Zhuo was besieged by the Jurchens in the Qingchuan River, I don't know what the situation is?" ”

"Hehe, fortunately, this official is guarded by General Zhang, the commander of the Tieling Guard, and there is no danger along the way, and after the battle, some Jurchens were captured." Zhuo Jing also put down his chopsticks and arched his hand.

"Oh, this king...... Governor Ben also knows a little about it, and the imperial army is really powerful. It's just that Governor Ben is a little puzzled, the north of the Datong River and the east of the Yalu River have always been the territory of our country, why did the imperial court set up guards here? ”

"Your land? I'm afraid not really, since the Han Dynasty, this place is the four counties of Liaodong, how can it be the territory of your country? ”

"Lord Zhuo's words are wrong," Li Shu, the leader of the council, stood up and said: "The Han Dynasty is too long, since the Song Dynasty, this place is the land of Liao, Jin, and Yuan, and it took hundreds of years of conquest to finally have this land, and this land is not taken from the Central Plains, but from the barbarians, and now the court has come to ask for it, which seems not very good." ”

"What Lord Li said, this official does not dare to agree, this dynasty inherited the Han and Tang dynasties, and naturally wants to restore the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties, as for Liao, Jin, and Yuan, they are just barbarians who inherited the land of the Tang Dynasty.

"This," after listening to Zhuo Jing's undoubted words, Li Shu did not panic, but groaned slightly, and continued: "The Ming Emperor is the Son of Heaven, as the saying goes, within the four seas, it is not the king's land, the coast of the land, it is not the king's minister, my North Korea is also the courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and our land is also the land of the Ming Dynasty, in addition, this place is mostly Jurchen barbarians, the Jurchens are unruly, dirty and despicable, if the Emperor of Heaven personally manages, wouldn't it be a humiliation for His Majesty to clear his name?" Moreover, once something happens, it will even insult His Majesty's wisdom. Therefore, the governor of our country is willing to work for His Majesty, and I hope that Lord Zhuo will go to the emperor and agree to my country's request. ”

"Besides, the Jurchens here have been educated by our country for many years, and once the governance is not good, I am afraid that there will be unpredictable disasters. Once this comes true, I'm afraid Lord Zhuo won't be able to exonerate himself. ”

"This," Zhuo Jing found that Li Shu had been encircled in, within the four seas, it was not wrong to be the king's land, but it seemed a little wrong to use this? But how to refute the other party? Zhuo Jing advocated for a while, he couldn't say that the emperor was not the Son of Heaven, and everyone said that these were all dirty and tiring work, and they were done for the great emperor.

Zhuo Jing was a little at a loss, only after he came, he found that there was only one person in charge of North Korea, and everyone else had been deposed or exiled by Li Fangyuan, and there was no challenger who could match it, and the strategy that the emperor had said before would not work.

At this moment, the deputy envoy Bai Wangru laughed: "Yes, what this white-bearded Lord Li said is very right, but the emperor is a benevolent and righteous son of heaven, and he will not blame his subordinates, nor will he give his subordinates problems, since the Jurchens are unruly, then they can't embarrass you loyal courtiers." ”

"Before leaving Beijing, the emperor told me that although North Korea had made mistakes when it was against the Yuan, it has now reformed itself. It's just that the bitter cold of North Korea has suffered these loyal courtiers. ”

"I said at the time, since this is the case, then let the governor of North Korea enter the DPRK, build them a big house in Beijing, match them with some beautiful girls, and let them live for a long time, wouldn't it be good?"

"The emperor praised my brain at that time, and I was very happy. So, this governor, this white-bearded adult, you are all blessed, after I return to the court, I will definitely report to the emperor, and his old man will definitely order you to go to Beijing, I am okay, hahaha! As he spoke, Bai Wangru raised his wine glass, drank it all, and said in a loud voice: "Good wine!" Wine! Joyfully! Joyfully! ”

Bai Wangru jumped out and said a lot of nonsense, like a toad jumping into the swans, many swans covered their nostrils and ran away, lest they be splashed with mud. For a while, no one answered his words, and everyone muttered secretly, why did the court send such a person, what he said was too ugly, but he couldn't refute it, because this person was a master with no lower limit at first glance, and he couldn't scold him, and he was an envoy of the court, so he didn't dare to scold.

Zhuo Jing is also a member of the White Swan, but he is not angry. Only now did he understand the emperor's intention of sending Bai Wangru, after all, it was difficult to explain the territory clearly, and no one had indisputable sovereignty. In addition, Bai Wangru said these words, he understood in his stomach, but he couldn't say it, especially Bai Wangru's tone that he was a buddy with the emperor, and he couldn't say it when he was killed.

Zhang Fu couldn't help but smile, along the way, he felt that this deputy envoy was purely an ornament, but he didn't expect to say such a thing on such an occasion, and he couldn't help but cry out in his heart.

Li Shu was given a talk by Bai Wangru, he didn't know how to answer, he wanted to put a high hat on the big tomorrow, but he didn't expect this fat man to feel that the hat was not high enough, and he wanted to be high to the sky. If you want us to be governor, what are you going to do? Is this still the envoy of the Celestial Empire? What about your demeanor, your demeanor of a great country?

Li Fangyuan was also stunned, he didn't know how to answer for a long time, he suddenly found that if the Ming Dynasty was unreasonable, then it would be impossible to mix, what should I do? What to do? Li Fangyuan felt that the sweat on his face was about to flow down.

Just when the hundred officials were at a loss, a guard rushed in from outside and said loudly: "King, it's not good, it's not good, our sailor and Daming sailor are fighting." ”

Yes? Fighting? Everyone stood up and was shocked!