Chapter 835 Korean Envoy
Tribute was originally a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, but it didn't expect that troublesome things would come one after another.
Donghu is also Burma, full of Nanyang Xiaoba, once fought a war with the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan, and recovered the Salem region occupied by the Portuguese a few decades ago, the national strength is still quite strong, and it is one of the competitors of the Ming Dynasty to control the Nanyang.
Donghu made such a request, probably because he was worried that the Ming Dynasty's forces would penetrate deep into the South Seas, affect his position, and threaten his security.
Wang Yan listened to Qian Binglu's words, and tapped his fingers twice on the armrest of the chair, "Donghu's request, don't pay attention to it, Zhancheng is very important to my Ming Dynasty, the grain of Nanyang cannot all be in the hands of the vassals, there are already two or three hundred thousand refugees who have fled from the north this time, according to Zhang Mingzhen's report, this number may increase, may reach as many as one million." These refugees all need to be resettled, and the land price in Jiangnan is high, and the imperial court can hardly afford it, so Gu is ready to discuss with the household department and the military department to send these refugees to Qiongzhou, Zhancheng and other places to grow grain, so that it can not only resettle the refugees, but also build a direct granary for the imperial court. ”
"The lower official knows." Qian Bingrup bowed.
Chen Bangyan listened, then stood up and said: "Your Highness, there is a military report from Nanyang, although the Navy Division has captured the city, but among the four fields, the resistance of the people who occupy the city is still very fierce, and the Navy Division has not been able to encircle and suppress it several times. If the imperial court wants to send refugees to Champa, it must first clear the resistance of Champa, and then it needs to establish an official office, which may cost a lot of money, and in the end, it may be another Annam. ”
The Nanyang side is densely wooded, and it is indeed not easy to clear it, and the establishment of an official office without the participation of local forces may not be convenient to manage, and in the end it may really be like Annan.
During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty was strong, so it was suppressed in Annan, and after Yongle, only in the past three years, the Ming Dynasty had to withdraw troops from Annan, the reason was that the cost was too large, and it was not very cost-effective to throw money into it.
Wang Yan pondered for a while, "What did the Manchus do after entering the Central Plains?" Han systemaries! For the Cham people, we can't kill them all, and we can't kill them endlessly, but we think that we can make edicts on the Cham people, make them officials, give them certain rights, and let them help manage, so that we can save the imperial court's ruling capital, stabilize the city at a very small cost, and then change the population, implement indoctrination, and forty or fifty years later, with the same text and teaching, it is the land of China. ”
Chen Bangyan understood what Wang Yan meant, "After the officials returned to the ministry, they went to the ministry to discuss and formulate a plan for appeasement. ”
Wang Yan nodded, and suddenly asked, "What's the matter with the North Korean envoy?" ”
From the beginning of the founding of the country, North Korea pursued a highly pro-Ming policy of "big things" to the Ming Dynasty, and always used courtesy to make things clear, which was definitely ranked first among the many vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and North Korea was rewarded for this, and the Ming Dynasty fought for this pro-son and the rebel son next door to protect North Korea.
After the Renchen War, North Korea thanked the Ming Dynasty for its reconstruction, and the pro-Ming style was even worse, so when the East was rising, it also thought of contributing to the Ming Dynasty, but the country was small and the people were poor, and it was really not enough.
In the first battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty was good at making more than 100 catties of broadswords to resist the Japanese and aid the famous generals, Sichuan general Liu Wei and Liu Dadao were all killed, and the result of more than 13,000 troops in North Korea can be imagined, the army was defeated, Marshal Jiang Hongli was captured, and North Korea was shaken.
There were more than 20,000 troops in the whole of Korea, and half of them were wiped out in one battle, and their weak armaments were completely exposed.
Kwanghaejun of Korea was afraid of the old slave soldiers, so he wrote a letter to the old slave in private, expressing his willingness to repair, but the old slave was more insidious, so he immediately made it public to him.
When the news came to North Korea, the whole country was boiling, the state of the parents of the Ming Dynasty, the state of the parents was in trouble, not only did you not save it, but you also hooked up with the slave chief, how can such a person be the master of the eight realms? Before the Ming Dynasty could ask for the guilt, the pro-Ming ministers of North Korea directly overthrew Gwanghaejun, who was a good old slave, and blinded him, exiled him to Ganghwa Island, and then succeeded him by Li Liang, the king of Ayayang, who was known as "Renzu anyway" in history.
This incident undoubtedly showed the closeness of Korea to the Ming Dynasty, but after all, the strength of North Korea was limited, and it immediately attracted the attack of the Qing army.
Shortly thereafter, Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor in Shenyang, and many Mongolian historians of the Western Domain knelt, but the Korean historian did not kneel, saying that "the emperor is in Beijing", and as a result, all the missions were killed, and Huang Taiji rashly recruited 100,000 strong troops to conquer Korea again, and the king of Korea once again avoided Ganghwa Island, which was known as "Bingzi Rebellion" in history.
This time, Korea was not so lucky, the sea of Ganghwa Island froze, the king was taken captive, and he had to submit to the Manchus, and the emperor Taiji returned victorious.
As soon as the Qing army left, Joseon Renzu wrote a letter to the Ming Dynasty, asking for the understanding of the Celestial Empire. When Emperor Chongzhen saw the letter, he was also sad, and replied that he could understand and did not blame, and said that Daming did not protect you.
North Korea, who got the reply, was moved by the mess "The Celestial Empire did not forget the people of Sanhan in the midst of danger", but the people of Sanhan did not do anything for the state of their parents, and the monarchs and ministers cried in an uproar.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, in the year of Jiashen in the lunar calendar, the news of Emperor Chongzhen's hanging came to North Korea, and the king of North Korea said that "the heavens and the earth collapsed", and the whole country wore filial piety for 100 days, and issued a decree, the first is to train people and horses to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and the second is to make the Ming Dynasty die in the Middle Earth and survive in North Korea.
Before, the anti-Qing situation was bad, and King Lu was said to have contacted North Korea and even Japan, and North Korea also expressed its willingness to help the Ming Dynasty, saying that as long as the Ming Dynasty hit Shandong, North Korea would immediately send troops to cooperate.
It's just that the anti-Qing situation improved later, and the Ming Dynasty forgot about this stubble, and Wang Yan didn't pay much attention to it after he took power, after all, the strength of North Korea really didn't dare to compliment, and it was described as a country in another period of history, like Italy.
Qian Bingrup heard Wang Yan ask North Korea, so he hurriedly said: "The king of North Korea, Li Hao, died of illness last year, and the new lord Li Hao is on the throne, I hope the imperial court can give Li Liang a gift and canonize Li Hao." In addition, North Korea also hopes to buy a batch of grain from Daming so that North Korea can tide over the food shortage. ”
There is no problem with the previous nickname and canonization, the location of North Korea may be of great use to the Ming Dynasty in the future, but this grain, Wang Yan has to think about it.
"Although North Korea is poor, it has always been barely self-sufficient in food, so how can there be a food shortage this time?"
"According to the envoy, it was Daishan who led the troops into Korea and took their winter rations."
Saying this, Wang Yan's brows immediately furrowed, "The imperial court doesn't have too much food now, and it has to provide disaster relief, if it sells grain to North Korea, and the Qing army grabs it again, wouldn't it be cheaper for the Manchu Dynasty?" ”
"The lower officials are also concerned about this, but after all, North Korea was the first domain of the Ming Dynasty, and now since it wants to return to the Ming Dynasty, it is not easy for the imperial court to refuse." Qian Bingrup is difficult.
Wang Yan straightened up and muttered for a moment, "Where is the North Korean envoy?" If it is near, summon to see Lonely. ”
"Because after all, North Korea is now a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, and once it is discovered by the Qing Dynasty's secret agents, I am afraid that they will suffer again, so the lower officials hid them in the Li Fan Yuan, and His Royal Highness wanted to see them, and the lower officials immediately summoned them."
After Qian Bingrup finished speaking, he glanced at the outer hall, and an official of the Li Fan Yuan immediately got up and saluted, and hurriedly retreated.
Not long after, the official came to the outside of the hall with an official in a Korean official uniform, and before he crossed the threshold, he howled and knelt outside the hall, "Lin Qingye, the judge of the Imperial Ming Korean National Military Department, meets His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu of the Heavenly Dynasty." ”
(Lin Qingye died in the first year of Longwu because of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty in history, and I opened the golden finger to renew his life for a few years.) Thanks to the five hundred years of the year, the end of the world is on the way
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