Chapter 397: It's Not What It Used To Be

Phi Dao is still the Phi Island located on the sea, and it is still the important place in Haidong that dominates the entire Dongjiang Town. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

However, the situation on the island is not what it used to be, the refugees who used to stay on the island and have nowhere to settle have now disappeared, and the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, who were originally ragged and disgraced, and could not distinguish whether they were island soldiers or refugees, are now brightly dressed and energetic.

What made these Dongjiang town soldiers energetic and morale-boosting was not the ordnance and armor supplied by the imperial court, not the abundant grain, grass and ammunition, or even the victory over Jianlu last September, but their expectations for a better life in the future.

In the past, he served as a soldier under Mao Dashuai in Dongjiang Town, in order to save a life in the troubled times, and to fight for a ration for himself or his family to survive, because for all the Liaodong Han refugees who fled to Dongjiang and North Korea during the Apocalypse, they had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground.

And now, they are still serving as soldiers under the command of Mao Dashuai in Dongjiang Town, not just to survive, but to defend their homeland, their land, and the bright future that they and their families can expect in the gap between the Jianyu and the Koreans.

The spirit of the soldiers is full of vitality, and the expectations of the soldiers for a better life in the future are far more able to stimulate the morale of the soldiers in Dongjiang Town than some money and food supplies given by the imperial court.

And all of this comes from the distribution and private ownership of the land under the jurisdiction of the Andong Town Garrison by the corporal of the Fifth Route General Soldier of Dongjiang Town.

It is not in vain to be a soldier under the command of the General Soldier of the Fifth Road in Dongjiang Town, and under the handsome banner of Anton Hou Mao Wenlong Mao Marshal, it is not in vain to fight with Jianlu, but all those who have been a soldier for many years, or who have won the first rank of Jianlu in battle, have now become honest landlords with more than 100 acres of fertile land.

Even if they were not old soldiers under Mao Dashuai, nor all the ordinary soldiers who were not able to kill in last year's war, now they all have at least ten acres of land as private property, which can support their wives and children, and can be passed on to their descendants, so what is there to dissatisfaction with?

Now it's different from the past, and naturally everyone is in good spirits.

Jiang Yueguang is not the first time to come to Phi Island, and he is also an old acquaintance with Mao Wenlong, so as soon as his boat, that is, the 2,000 fortune boats specially selected from the Tianjin Navy fleet as "sealing boats", docked, he heard the sound of gongs and drums on the shore.

Li Xin and Zhang Pu, who came to Phi Island for the first time, naturally felt very novel, and along the way, they constantly asked Jiang Yueguang and Huang Long and others about the various situations in Dongjiang, Denglai, North Korea and other places.

As soon as the ship docked, the drums sounded in unison, and in the midst of this drum music, there was a hearty laughter on the shore, which was Mao Wenlong and Huang Long, the generals of the Tianjin Navy who got off the ship first, meeting and greeting.

Soon the gangway has been erected, Huanglong's personal soldiers came to ask several court envoys to disembark, Li Xin and Zhang Pu immediately followed Jiang Yueguang to arrange their clothes, and then went out of the cabin, boarded the deck, first stood at the bow of the ship and greeted the people waiting on the pier of Phi Island, and then walked down the gangway and boarded the land of Phi Island.

Jiang Yueguang's feet walked down the gangway, and as soon as he stood still on the pier of Phi Island, the original drum music of gongs and drums stopped immediately, and he saw a burly and beautiful middle-aged man in front of him kneeling on the ground, and then said: "Mao Wenlong, the general of the Hou Zhengdong of Andong, greets the holy decree, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

After Mao Wenlong said this, several other Dongjiang Town generals who were on Phi Island also knelt on the ground at this time, and reported their names and titles, expressing their congratulations to one of the holy decrees.

In addition to Mao Wenlong, the general of Anton Hou Zhengdong, Li Xin also knew who was Li Xingzhong, who was Shen Shikui, who was Geng Zhongming, and Yuan Shu, the boss of the Qianhu Office in Dongjiang Town, Jinyi Wei, took advantage of the opportunity for them to kneel and salute and looked carefully.

These characters were mentioned many times by Emperor Chongzhen in the military aircraft, and it can be said that Jian was a figure in Dongjiang Town in the heart of the emperor, so he couldn't ignore it.

Jiang Yue Guang saw that Mao Wenlong led the generals of Dongjiang Town on Phi Island to perform the ritual of welcoming the holy decree, and also saw that the three envoys of the DPRK, Kim Sangrong, the right councillor, Li Tinggui of the judgment of Licao, and Yin Xuan, the younger brother of Yin Fang, the leader of the DPRK, also got off the sea boat and stood beside him.

There are several general points: first, the Korean lord Li Liang knew that he was wrong, and sent tribute, willing to cede the land of the former Korean Xianjing Road and Ping'an Road to the Ming Dynasty, in order to become a Ming feudal state again, and the court remembered that his ancestors had been obedient to the Emperor Ming for more than 200 years, and the special favor allowed the Korean State to be a foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the son of Li Liang was the son of Sun Shizhen.

Second, now that the covenant between the Ming Dynasty and the Korean clan has been completed, the special envoy informed Dongjiang and North Korea that on the day of the arrival, the commander of the Fifth Route Army of Dongjiang Town immediately handled the settlement with North Korea and erected a monument to make a contract.

Third, as for the generals and soldiers who have crossed the border to occupy the land, the land they have occupied can be redeemed by the DPRK with gold and silver, and those who are unwilling to give up the land that has already been enclosed can temporarily enter the household registration of the DPRK.

Fourth, those who survived to the west and north of the Namjiang River in Datong could be enslaved, and those who did not want to be enslaved were all allowed to go east or south, and returned to the protection of the Korean lord Yi Liang.

When Jiang Yue loudly read out the imperial court's will to Dongjiang Town, Kim Sangrong, who was standing not far away and listening quietly, stared intently at the face of Mao Wenlong, the Marquis of Andong, and his heart was extremely nervous.

This is the condition that he, the right-hand politician, brought Li Tinggui to the judgment of Joseon Licao, and Yin Xuan, the former supervisor of Anping, who had been soaking in the Daming Jingshi Li Fan Yuan for a long time, before he negotiated with Wu Weiying, Jiang Yueguang and others, who presided over the Li Fan Yuan.

Li Tinggui, the judge of the North Korean courtesy, and Yin Xuan, the former director of Anping, also stared at Mao Wenlong nervously, paying attention to Mao Wenlong's every move.

However, to their great reassurance, Mao Wenlong and other generals from Dongjiang Town, after listening to the imperial decree read by Jiang Yueguang, immediately kowtowed to receive the decree and shouted, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Hearing the voice of chanting long live not far away, Jin Shangrong, Li Tinggui, and Yin Xuan all breathed a sigh of relief, looked at each other, and nodded endlessly.

As for Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo, they are not very worried, although he is as difficult to get along with, but compared to Mao Wenlong, Liu Xingzuo is the chief soldier on the right side of Dongjiang Town after all, and it is under Mao Wenlong's control, Mao Wenlong nodded, and Liu Xingzuo will not resist and disobey the order.

Jiang Yue Guang finished spreading the holy decree, and his task of coming to Dongjiang Town was basically completed, but he finally came to Dongjiang Town again, of course he would not just leave after passing on this will.

Jiang Yueguang and Mao Wenlong had known each other before, and the reason for their acquaintance was, of course, because Jiang Yueguang had made an envoy to North Korea on behalf of the imperial court.

Jiang Yueguang is a newcomer in Jiangxi, although he was born in Hanlin and is a traditional scholar, but he does not have the stinking problem of discriminating against martial artists in the children of Donglin who was born in Jiangnan or ordinary literati Jinshi, on the contrary, he is very appreciative of Mao Wenlong, the "island marshal" who opened the town of Dongjiang and shocked behind the enemy.

After returning to Beijing during the Apocalypse period, because of its passage through the Dongjiang River, and familiar with North Korea, and at that time the situation in Dongjiang Town was unclear in the DPRK and China, and there were many discussions, so the Emperor of the Apocalypse simply asked Jiang Yueguang to specially inspect the various departments of Dongjiang Town, and after returning to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, when he talked about Mao Wenlong, Jiang Yueguang called him "the hero of the world", and the Emperor of the Apocalypse also greatly promoted and rewarded Mao Wenlong.

It is precisely because of such a fate or affection that Mao Wenlong naturally does not treat Jiang Yueguang like other civil officials in the court, and there are twelve more cordials and enthusiasm in the courtesy.