After the end of the Great Dynasty Meeting on New Year's Day of the second year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen once again met with three envoys from North Korea in the Wuying Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

While giving them some insignificant rewards and giving them a few more words, together with Sun Chengzong, who was still sticking to his post, he finalized the envoy to Dongjiang Town and North Korea to deliver the message.

Now that a new border treaty has been made with North Korea, the promises contained in it still need to be done.

This required someone to lead the Korean envoy to Donggang Town to deliver the decree, and at the same time go to Hanjing, North Korea, to exchange contracts with the small court of Korea.

Such a candidate can no longer send eunuchs, after all, the identity of the eunuch is the emperor's domestic slave, and in such exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the vassal state, it should still be handled by civil officials who can represent the Ming court.

This is also a method by which the Chongzhen Emperor is now interested in training diplomats.

If these civil officials are not allowed to go out and open their eyes, they will always focus on the internal struggle of the court.

As for the candidate to go to the DPRK, Jiang Yueguang, the deputy envoy of the Li Fan Yuan who participated in the negotiations and signed the agreement, must of course be counted as one, after all, this person has been to the DPRK and is also familiar with the road.

In addition to Jiang Yueguang's need to go, Emperor Chongzhen also appointed Li Xin, a military aircraft housekeeper, and Zhang Pu, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, to go with him, with Jiang Yueguang, who had been an envoy to Korea, as the main envoy, and Li Xin and Zhang Pu as the deputy envoys.

Li Xin has been busy in the position of a member of the military aircraft department since he was admitted to the Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, although he is not as brilliant as Niu Juming, but he is also decent and conscientious, which makes Emperor Chongzhen feel very relieved.

The purpose of using Li Xin as his deputy envoy this time is to give Li Xin a little more experience in overseas missions, so that he can become familiar with the complicated situation around the Liaodong Peninsula, Dongjiang Town, and the Korean Peninsula, so that he can be reused in the future.

As for asking Zhang Pu, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, to follow, it is hoped that this young leader of the new generation of the Donglin Party, who likes to talk and talk exaggeratedly, will be sent as far away as possible.

At this moment, after hearing these arrangements of the emperor, Li Xin, who had always hoped to get a chance to send an envoy, was excited in his heart while recording the words and deeds of the emperor and everyone in the palace with a pen in the Wuying Palace.

Niu Jinxing, a friend in this life, has a legendary experience on the grassland in Saibei, which makes Shen Tingyang and him envious.

When Emperor Chongzhen mentioned that one or two deputy envoys should go out to familiarize themselves with Korean affairs, Li Xin thought that Shen Tingyang's opportunity had come, after all, Shen Tingyang, who was born in a commercial family, was more familiar with the sea and related affairs at sea than him, but he didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, this opportunity fell on his head.

Every year at this time of the New Year, the various yamen of the Ming Dynasty are sealed and no longer work, but now, the important central departments such as the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department still need to leave some people on duty.

After the end of the first year of Chongzhen, these new scholars who were elected to the cabinet and the military aircraft department to serve as Zhongshu Sheren have not returned home.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen gave them all a holiday, so now they should go, and they have all gone home for the New Year.

Because Li Xin's biological father has passed away, and he himself has a bad relationship with the eldest brother who is now in charge, especially since he himself was passed on to his heir father Li Chunyu's family, so when it comes to the New Year, he can't celebrate the New Year in Hanoi.

And because, after Li Xin's heir Li Chunyu had his own son Li Yu in his family, Li Xin's status has always been very embarrassing, and he didn't want to go back to Hanoi or Qi County, so this time for the New Year, he simply chose to stay on duty at the Military Aircraft Department, and let Shen Tingyang, who was born in a big family and is the eldest son of the clan, go home for the New Year.

Unexpectedly, by doing so, he won himself a chance.

Of course, this is Li Xin's own idea, in fact, no matter whether Shen Tingyang is there or not, follow Jiang Yueguang to the Dongjiang River, and then go to North Korea on an errand, Emperor Chongzhen wants him to go.

Li Xin is certainly a rare talent, but such a talent cannot be easily used in the northwest or the hinterland of the Central Plains.

This, of course, no one knows the mind of the emperor himself.

After all, in the original history, Li Xin and Niu Jinxing were both cattle people who followed Li Zicheng to destroy the world of the Ming Dynasty, and such people either always used them by their side, or they gave him a place away from thieves, and tried not to give him the opportunity to repeat the mistakes of history.

Perhaps, this is just Emperor Chongzhen's worry, but who can guarantee that the inertia of history will not play a role?

If Li Xin returned to the Central Plains, or went to the northwest, and met the chivalrous red lady who led him on the road of killing officials and rebelling, what should he do?

Now although the Central Plains is safe and sound for the time being, but the northwest, as in history, has been in chaos, who knows which mountain the red lady who brought Li Xin to the anti-thief road in history is now hiding as the king of the mountain?

Since you are not sure that you can achieve complete control, it is better to send Li Xin in another direction.

And it just so happens that the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula and Dongjiang Town needs a handsome talent like him who can take charge alone.

The situation on the Liaodong Peninsula was complicated, with the Ming army still occupying the area south of Jinzhou as far as Lushun and Shuangdao, the southernmost point of the Liaodong Peninsula.

The wider area north of Jinzhou, that is, the famous Jin, Fu, Gai, and Haizhou prefectures of the Liaodong Peninsula at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was still all in the hands of the Later Jin army.

Liu Xingzuo and Liu Xingzhi's brothers returned to Ming anyway, but they only took away their family children, as well as the families and people of the Fuzhou Army who had followed their brothers for many years.

After they withdrew, under the support of the Dongjiang Town Water Division, the Houjin army soon made a comeback and reoccupied the Fuzhou area, which was far away from Jinzhou.

The situation on the Liaodong Peninsula in which the enemy is strong and we are weak has not changed significantly, and the main garrison of the General Military Office on the left side of Dongjiang Town is still the islands along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.

Although the two sides are at peace, this state is not what Emperor Chongzhen wants.

In this regard, if Li Xin, a general of the Dashun military system who has historically excelled at guerrilla warfare, go, there may be a big change.

And this is exactly another plan of Emperor Chongzhen to let Li Xin follow him to the Dongjiang River and to Korea.

After receiving the three envoys from Korea in the Wuying Palace, and setting the date for Jiang Yueguang, Li Xin and others to leave Beijing to go to Dongjiang to deliver the edict and other related follow-up matters, Emperor Chongzhen sent away the Korean envoys, and then met with the envoys of the Karaqin Department, the Duolun Department, and the Kulun Department, such as the wine glasses, wine jugs, horse whips, and Dongzhu that was not small in size, and so on.

Emperor Chongzhen also gave them long-handled knives and compound bows refined by Baiyecheng, as well as some Chongzhen silver dollars and silk cloth as a return gift.

These tribal envoys from the Mongolian steppe, after meeting the Ming Emperor, immediately left the palace and left Beijing to return.

The Korean envoys, who were anxious to return to China, had to continue to wait, because the emperor set the day of departure for them was the sixth day of the first lunar month.

The emperor's decision was not to give Liu Xingzuo and others a little more time, nor did he say that the sixth day of the first lunar month was an auspicious day for the zodiac, but simply to let Jiang Yueguang, Li Xin and the Jinyi guards who followed them on the envoy be able to use these few days to spend the New Year in Beijing.

The same is true of Emperor Chongzhen himself, it has been more than a year since he came to this time and space, but it is only now that he finally feels that he can breathe a sigh of relief.

Although the various undertakings he hopes for are just beginning, after all, it is a good start, as long as this momentum is not interrupted by external forces, or not changed by internal forces, then the world of the Ming Dynasty will get better day by day.

After the end of the court, it was already less than three o'clock, and after summoning the Korean envoys and the envoys of the Mongol tribes in northern Saibei again, it was already past noon, and the hungry Emperor Chongzhen sent away all the foreign ministers, and then went to Kunning Palace.

It's time for a comfortable New Year!