When Jiang Yueguang was on a previous mission to Korea, he once passed through Pyongyang City on the road, and at that time he took the route from Phi Dao to the sea to Tiesan, and then all the way to the southeast, passing through Jeongju, Anju, and Sunan, and then entering Pyongyang City, and after meeting with the welcome officials sent by the DPRK, he crossed the Taedong River from Pyongyang, and continued to march southeast, passing through Hwangju, Pyongsan, and Kaesong, and finally entered Seoul, the capital of North Korea. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And this Seoul, according to the sticks' consistent arrogant statement, was called Hankyung at this time, and more than 300 years later, in order to remove the traces of the once surrendered to China, it was renamed Seoul.

Of course, at this time, Jiang Yueguang was not in a hurry to go to Seoul to announce the exchange of contracts, but first followed Liu Xingxian's fleet and went north along the Datong River, and came to Pyongyang City, which is dozens of miles away from the mouth of the Datong River, and docked at the Datong River wharf outside the east gate of Pyongyang City, that is, Suzaku Gate.

Liu Xingzuo, the uncle of Pyongyang, and Jiang Yueguang did not have any old feelings, so they did not arrange any drums to welcome the envoys of the imperial court, but in the face of the envoys sent by the imperial court, Liu Xingzuo did not dare to make any big moves, so he personally rushed to the dock outside the Suzaku Gate in the east of Pyongyang to greet him in person.

Although Liu Xingzuo is a prince of Pyongyang, he is only a road under the command of Dongjiang Town, so the imperial court's will conveyed by Jiang Yueguang in the Marshal Mansion of Dongjiang Town on Phi Island already includes the right general military office of Dongjiang Town, so there is no need to pass it on in public a second time at this time.

If it weren't for the insistent request of the Korean envoy, Jiang Yueguang would have gone directly to Seoul to meet the Korean lord Li Liang after conveying the will of the imperial court on Phi Dao.

However, the object that the North Koreans are really worried about now is the Right Route Army of Donggang Town under the command of Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo, so they have repeatedly persuaded and begged Jiang Yueguang to go to Pyongyang City in person to convey the will of the Ming Dynasty to the ears of Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo in front of the DPRK's right-hand government.

Considering that the next step is to go to Seoul, the capital of North Korea, and it will take the cooperation of Kim Sang-yong and Lee Ting-gui to smoothly exchange the contract, so Jiang Yueguang agreed to the request of the North Koreans and went to Pyongyang in person to meet Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo.

The Tianjin Navy ship led by Huang Long carried Jiang Yueguang and others and docked at the Zhuquemen Wharf, Liu Xingxian led the way, and invited Jiang Yueguang and other envoys, as well as Kim Sangrong, the right speaker of the DPRK, Li Tinggui and others to get off the ship, and met with Liu Xingzuo and Jin Yingkui, as well as Liu Xingzuo's other two brothers, Liu Xingji and Liu Xingpei, who came to greet them.

After some greetings, Liu Xingzuo arranged for his younger brother Liu Xingpei to go to receive the fleet of sailors under the command of Huang Long, while he accompanied Jiang Yueguang and others with Liu Xingxian, Jin Yingkui and other generals and colonels of the General Military Office on the right side to enter the city from the Suzaku Gate and go to Pyongyang's Bofu.

At this time, Pyongyang Fortress was not large, and it was divided into two parts, the inner city and the outer fortress, of which the three gates facing the Taedong River were the gates that led directly to the inner city, and the west gates were the gates of the outer fortress.

It can also be seen from this that the wariness of the North Koreans against the threat from the west and the so-called respect of the Korean people to the ministers of the Ming Dynasty contain a lot of water.

Wai Guo Castle was partially destroyed during the Houjin invasion in the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and in the treaty signed after the war, there was a clause for the demolition of Wai Guo Castle in the west, although the Koreans did not demolish all the walls of Wai Guo Castle in the west after the peace agreement was reached and the Later Jin withdrew their troops, but they did not repair it.

This is because of this, so that Liu Xingzuo and his brothers easily led the former Fuzhou sergeants who were reorganized into the Right Route Army of Dongjiang Town to rush into Pyongyang and became the masters of Pyongyang City.

Of course, the Liu Xingzuo brothers, who succeeded in seizing Pyongyang by surprise, had to beware of others doing so, so after seizing Pyongyang, one of the first major things they ordered to do was the most important task of rebuilding the city outside Pyongyang.

From October of the first year of Chongzhen to January of the second year of Chongzhen, until Jiang Yueguang and others arrived on Phi Island, the city wall of Waiguo City in the west had just been completed and opened.

The large amount of manpower to rebuild the outer city of Pyongyang naturally came from North Korea, and these people who had lost the protection of their country not only lost their land and relatives, but also became slave laborers under the command of the general army on the right side of Donggang Town, with only a small amount of food ration every day, but a lot of physical strength, and every day dozens of slave laborers with weak constitutions died of exhaustion, freezing or disease.

When the construction of the city was completed, there were more than 10,000 Korean slave laborers who were originally captured to build the city, and only more than 5,000 remained, and now they were driven to build all kinds of small border forts along the Datong Jiangnan River to the first line of Wonsan, 300 miles on average, and distributed in rows.

The North Koreans were driven to build these small and medium-sized border forts, not only to reward their cronies and soldiers, but also to firmly control the land on both sides of the Daedong Jiangnan River on the line from Pyongyang to Wonsan.

For these actions and measures of the Liu brothers, of course Anton Hou Mao Wenlong saw it, but in addition to reporting it to Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Beijing, he did not prohibit it, after all, although Liu Xingzuo did this with the intention of taking the fief as his own forever, but it was also reasonable to build a fortress on the Korean side and rectify the border reserves!

Besides, after Mao Wenlong's confidant and righteous son Mao Chenglu served as the envoy of Andong Town, he overhauled Andong City, as well as the first-line castles of Changzhou, Manpu, Huishan, and Maoshan along the Yalu River, was it not out of the same mind?

Therefore, Anton Hou Mao Wenlong couldn't say anything against it, but just reported it to the emperor to know about it.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally can't object to such a situation, people don't want you to pay a penny, just build a castle along the border of the new border between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, and send troops to garrison the defense, what can you say?

Moreover, in the eyes of the current Emperor Chongzhen, there is no need to oppose such a thing, as long as the land is firmly in the hands of the Han people as soon as possible, as for which Han people are in the hands, it does not matter at present.

Jiang Yueguang looked at the city of Pyongyang in front of him, and felt infinite emotion in his heart for a while.

The streets and alleys of Pyongyang, as well as the palaces and pavilions distributed on the streets, are basically the same as they were, but there is no longer a single North Korean in the streets of the city, and there is no longer the bustling street market that filled the city the last time.

Li Xin and Zhang Pu, who entered the city with Jiang Yueguang, of course had no feelings about this, but just looked at this street market with great interest, which was not much different from the mainland city of Daming, while Jin Shangrong and Li Tinggui, who followed behind these people, had a completely different feeling.

This place is no longer owned by North Korea, and it is still lost in their hands, and for a while both of them are full of regret and sadness.

However, after entering the city from the Suzaku Gate, the "monk soldiers" on the right side of Dongjiang Town, who were standing with guns and knives on both sides of the road, the two of them could only accept the cold facts in front of them in addition to hanging their heads and sighing.

Liu Xingzuo's Pyongyang Bofu was the official office of the Anping Supervision Department in Pyongyang before.

Now it is not only Liu Xingzuo's Pyongyang Bofu, but also the General Military Mansion on the Right Road of Dongjiang Town, which is the same as the Andong Hou Mansion on Phi Island, which is a combination of public and private, or former public and private.

For such a combination of public and private or no distinction between public and private, Deputy Envoy Zhang Pu still can't see it, but what he said in Dongjiang Town, it is not very interesting to say it at this time, so he simply looks like a cold bystander and watches everything in front of him.

Jiang Yueguang and Li Xin certainly did not have the scholarly atmosphere of Zhang Pu or the "cleanliness of Shilin", and after arriving at Pyongyang's Bofu, everything was a matter of convenience, after eating the banquet, resting late, and then the next morning, in front of the Korean envoys, they personally conveyed to Liu Xingzuo the will of the imperial court to Dongjiang Town and the treaty between the Ming court and North Korea.

After these things that should be done or can be done, it is time to wait for Yin Xuan's news.

During this period, Jiang Yueguang asked his deputy envoy Zhang Pu to accompany Kim Sangrong, Li Tinggui and other Koreans to continue to wait for Yin Xuan's news in Pyongyang, while he took Li Xin and Liu Xingzuo personally accompanied him to inspect the military and civilian tun systems in Donggang Town in Shun'an, Pyongseong, and Hichang around Pyongyang City.

These areas were originally the granaries of the Korean plains, but at this time, there was naturally no shadow of the Koreans, and from time to time you could see the dark and dark Korean villages that had been burned to ruins on the fields, and in some places you could vaguely see piles of unburied and frozen corpses.

Liu Xingzuo turned a blind eye to all of this, and still talked and laughed, and when the news came from Pyongyang that the welcoming officials of the DPRK had arrived on the other side of the Taedong River, Jiang Yueguang and Li Xin were basically not surprised by the various corpses they saw again on the way back.

Correspondingly, there are brand new boundary monuments and newly engraved place names on boundary monuments, such as Xinfu Fort, Xin Gai Fort, Xin Hai Fort, Xin Kai Fort, Xin Tie Bao and so on.

These new place names that belong to Juntun or Mintun, at a glance, you can know where the Han people of Liaodong who came here, where their hometown is, the residents of Xinfubao come from Fuzhou, the former base of the Liu brothers, and the others are Gaizhou, Haizhou, Kaiyuan, and Tieling.

Such new place names also abound in the defense areas of the other four roads in Dongjiang Town.

On the one hand, there are the tragic relics of the Korean people being slaughtered and driven away, and on the other hand, there is Tunpu, the new homeland of the Han refugees in Liaodong, for Zhang Pu, who firmly believes that all brothers in the four seas, may be filled with righteous indignation and difficult to accept, but for Li Xin, who has been successfully instilled with the nationalist creed of Emperor Chongzhen, this new place name is the merit monument that the soldiers of Dongjiang Town are enough to shine for thousands of years!