Chapter 550: Tartar (Second Watch)
The king of North Korea, his uncle, Xingyinjun Li Zhiying, is really not a hard bone, Chen Weinian's voice really scared him to his knees. After kneeling, Li Shiying regretted it a little, but peeked at the more than 2,000 Manchurian troops that had landed, he still gritted his teeth and bowed, and gave Guoxing a two bows and six bows in a proper manner.
Chen Weinian was very dissatisfied, because he felt that Guo Xing'a should receive the same three bows and nine bows as the emperor, how could it be the six bows at the level of the vassal king. But Li Zhiying had just bowed twice and knocked four times, and Guo Xing'a had already helped him up, and Chen Weinian could only give up. And Li's most aggrieved expression made Chen Weinian even more unhappy, the North Koreans are not convinced! Chen Weinian was churning with all kinds of thoughts in his heart, ready to prepare some fierce medicine at any time to clean up these unruly guys.
"General, ...... this army?" After a few polite words between Guo Xing'a and Li Zhiying, he prepared to leave for Seoul, but Li Zhiying found that Guo Xing'a's accompanying guard brigade had exceeded 3,000 people, and he was immediately embarrassed.
For the time being, North Korea does not have the experience of receiving the heads of state of other countries, and they do not recognize Guo Xing'a as the head of a country, but only regard him as a vassal of the Qing court, so North Korea's reception of Guo Xing'a is in accordance with the previous regulations for receiving Qing envoys. It is not common for envoys to come and go, and it is not common to bring an escort of more than 100 people around them, and it is impossible to bring an army of thousands of people at once. Thousands of troops crossed the border, but it was not clear what would happen, and Li didn't want Guo Xing'a to take so many people to Seoul.
"This is the guard next to the general, is there any problem?" Chen Weinian seized a good opportunity, and Li should be uncomfortable.
"Our people are simple and simple, there are very few murderers who disturb the place, and the army will protect the safety of the general along the way, so this guard doesn't have to bring so much!" Li Shiying didn't have anything to say about it for a while, and the Qing army had the right to enter the territory of Korea, so it was even more inconvenient for him to say it.
Chen Weinian was not in a hurry to speak this time, but looked at Guo Xing'a, waiting for the general to show off. Guo Xing'a is too easy to talk, and Guo Xing'a didn't care much about things such as greeting regulations and kneeling before, and it was better for Guo Xing'a to decide how many guards he brought this time.
"Well, Xingyin-jun doesn't have to worry, I will strictly control the deployment, and there will be no behavior that disturbs your people." Guo Xing'a hesitated, but still insisted on taking the Guards Brigade with him.
If it is normal diplomatic relations in modern society, it is true that Goxinga should not go to other people's capitals with 3,000 troops, but the era in which Goxinga lives has not yet reached the standards of modern society, and it is even more unreliable to expect North Korea. The North Korean army and royal palace guards struggled to clean up the peasant uprising in Korea, and Goheunga did not dare to put his own safety in their hands. Moreover, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, it was the time when assassination was popular, and Alexander III's visit to Japan as the crown prince of Tsarist Russia could be cut down by the mob. Britain, Russia, and even the Qing Dynasty may arrange an assassin on the side of the street, and give Goxinga a black gun when they find a vacancy.
"The general has his own rules for traveling, and there is no need to discuss this matter!" Li was at a loss, and just as he didn't know what to do, Chen Weinian sealed his mouth with a word.
Regardless of whether Li should agree or not, Guo Xing'a still took his guard brigade and drove towards Seoul. Li should be dumb and can't say what is bitter about eating Coptis chinensis, but the officials and people along the way are very happy. In order to allow the four-wheeled carriages and baggage vehicles of Goxinga to pass comfortably, the engineers of the Guards Brigade who opened the road leveled all the dirt roads that were originally potholed in North Korea. Officials can put some money in their pockets to build roads, and it is convenient for the people and businessmen to appear, which can be said to be very happy. But Li Zhiying was almost scared to death, although he didn't know much about military affairs, but the Manchurian Army only used four or five hundred people, and he could easily level out the official road for fifty miles, which was enough for him to understand how powerful the Manchurian Army was.
Outside the city of Seoul, Li Yuying, the king of the Xingxuan Courtyard, finally came out to greet him, and he didn't have any grand ceremonies, but he brought out dozens of officials from the current dynasty. Seeing this scene, Chen Weinian began to persuade Guo Xing'a to go back, and then raised troops to crusade against North Korea. According to Chen Weinian's idea, the king of Joseon did not go to Incheon, so he had to show his face outside Seoul. Even if Li Xi is young and sends a father to replace him, it should be ten or five miles out of the city to greet him, and Li Xi should go fifteen meters out of the city, but it is a bit of a lack of beating. Looking at Seoul, a somewhat shabby city, most of Goxinga's energy was focused on guessing how poor North Korea really was, and he didn't criticize people for how far away from the city they were to take over their affairs.
Li Yu should have a few polite words with Guo Xing'a at the city gate, let Guo Xing'a go to the guest house in the city to rest, and then go to prepare for the dinner party in the evening. The short contact made Li Yu extremely disgusted with Guo Xing'a, and gave Guo Xing'a the nickname "Taryi". The relationship between the suzerains and vassals of North Korea and the Qing Dynasty is completely maintained by interests, and North Korea does not have any feelings for the stepfather of the Qing Dynasty, and they miss their father Daming all the time, so although they have been a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty for almost 200 years, North Korea still regards the Qing Dynasty as a Tartar Hukou. Li Yuying is also a staunch xenophobia, rejecting everything in the West, and disgusted Guo Xing'a when he saw that his clothes were not Chinese, and then listened to Guo Xing's mouth full of new words, and immediately judged Guo Xing'a to be a guy who admired foreign people. Guo Xing'a is a banner man, so he is a Tartar, and at the same time he was assimilated by Yangyi, so Guoxing'a is both a Tartar and a Yangyi, referred to as "Tatar". Guo Xing'a didn't have any feelings for Li Yuying, he was just curious about why North Koreans like to tie their belts around their chests.
The welcome dinner was a traditional Korean dish, with ten plates and nine bowls, and it still looked very rich. But when I really want to put down the chopsticks, it's either kimchi or a kimchi platter, and then there are bowls of miso soup, which makes Guo Xinga have no appetite at all. The entertainment program performed during the banquet is good, and the North Koreans are really good at singing and dancing, although Guo Xing'a can't understand what they sing, but looking at a group of beautiful girls singing and dancing, it feels good.
Li Yuying has been lucky to calm the anger in his chest, and some old ministers have secretly started crying, which is a great shame! At the banquet where the civil and military forces of the Korean Manchu Dynasty were present, Guo Xing'a actually brought professionals to test drugs, which made it clear that he was not at ease with North Korea. And after trying the poison, Guo Xing'a didn't touch a bite of the food on the table, and after eating a mouthful of cold noodles, he actually vomited it out immediately after eating it. If it weren't for being a little brother for hundreds of years, he really couldn't afford to provoke the people of Shangguo, and the North Koreans wanted to flip the table and drive out Goxinga, a villain who didn't give face.
"Shouldn't cold noodles be sweet and sour? How salty they are, it's so delicious! After the dinner, Guo Xing'a was on the way back, and Guo Xing'a was still complaining to Fuquan about the unpalatable North Korean state banquet.