Chapter 264: The Messenger Comes

Mao Wenlong also read and studied before joining the army, and he belongs to the type of military general who abandons writing and following the military, so he also has his own understanding of how to occupy and destroy a country. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Mao Wenlong recruited a large number of Han people in Liaodong in Dongjiang Town, the number of people once reached more than 400,000, during the Apocalypse, the imperial court repeatedly asked him to transfer the Liao people to Denglai, but Mao Wenlong has always dragged on and did not transfer too much.

The reason why he did this was to strengthen his own power, after all, if there were ordinary people, there would be soldiers, and there would be food income, and secondly, because he always had the idea of destroying Korea and replacing it.

If he didn't have a large number of Han people, he would have destroyed Korea, and how could he stand on his own and be the king of whom?

Only by greatly increasing the number of Han people and greatly reducing the number of Koreans at the same time can he gain a foothold in Haidong after destroying the court of the Koreans, and even if he cannot claim the title of king and hegemon and establish himself as a country, he can also control Korea like the Mu family who has guarded Yunnan for generations.

Since Mao Wenlong thought so in his heart, he naturally turned a blind eye to the wanton massacre of the Koreans on the east bank of the Yalu River and on both sides of the Datong River in Dongjiang Town.

From the end of September to the end of November, in a period of nearly two months, the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Route in Donggang Town not only transferred all the Han people in Liaodong scattered on the islands to land and completed the distribution of land suitable for cultivation and plowing in Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province in Korea, but also succeeded in arming tens of thousands of Han people who had been given land by using the eliminated weapons, and almost completely killed all the surviving Korean men, women, and children east of the Yalu River and west of the Datong River from west to east and from south to north. Only hundreds of young women were kept as slaves or concubines because they were married to Han people.

After staying for a while in a small town south of Pyongyang called Chunghe, Yin Xuan witnessed several massacres with his own eyes, and finally gave up his practice of contacting Mao Wenlong privately and ran back to Hanjing to report to King Li Cong.

The king of Joseon, Li Cong, listened to the report of Yin Xuan, the supervisor of Anping, and was of course shocked, and soon in the name of the king of Joseon, he sent several groups of envoys to Phi Dao one after another, asking to see the marquis of Andong of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Wenlong, and Mao Dashuai. The first person sent was Yin Xuan, the director of Anping Supervision, who was familiar with the situation.

Yin Xuan followed the subordinate officials who had come before, took the edict of the Korean king Li Cong, and very officially took a boat to the shore of Phi Island in the name of the Korean envoy.

Since the people of Jinyi Wei Dongjiang Town knew about it, the news quickly spread to Chu Xianxian.

Prior to this, Chu Xianxian, who had walked a long circle in Andong Zhenshoufu, Changzhou, Dingzhou, Anzhou and other places, was originally going to take a boat from Phi Dao to Dengzhou and return to Beijing by land, but on the evening of his arrival at Phi Dao, he heard a report from Yuan Shu that North Korea had sent a national envoy to the island.

Of course, Chu Xianzhang saw what the soldiers and horses of the Five Roads in Dongjiang Town did in the place under the jurisdiction of the current Andong Town Shoufu, but the people of the dynasty are not of my race, and Dongjiang Town is also carrying out the will of Emperor Chongzhen, after all, the will of the people of Dongjiang Town to be distributed to the land east of the Yalu River and west of the Datong River to the soldiers and people of Dongjiang Town was made by the emperor himself. So, he simply opened his eyes and closed his eyes.

But now that the lord of Korea has sent an envoy to him, as a minister sent by the emperor to supervise the war, it would be a dereliction of duty not to understand the situation.

In this way, Chu Xianzhang went straight to the Marshal Mansion of Anton Hou Mao Wenlong and met Yin Xuan.

Mao Wenlong wanted to drive Yin Xuan away again, but this Yin Xuan carried the letter of the Korean lord this time, so he couldn't go too far.

In addition, he also knew that the North Koreans came with great fanfare this time, and I was afraid that he would not be able to hide Chu Charter, so Chu Charter asked to meet, and he did not hide it, and directly introduced Chu Charter to Yin Xuan.

Yin Xuan knew how much about the situation of the Ming Dynasty, and when he heard that there was still such a great god in Dongjiang Town, he secretly hated that he had not figured out the situation before, but he also immediately stared at Chu Charter, and talked about the traditional friendship between the two countries in front of Chu Charter, especially North Korea's various acts of deference and filial piety to the Ming Dynasty.

To explain that at the end of the time, North Korea was indeed respectful to the Ming Dynasty, even after offering to the Houjin ministers, they still secretly respected the Ming Dynasty, and still used the Chongzhen Chronicle.

But it's a pity that although North Korea is respectful to Daming, he is just another pig teammate.

Moreover, it involves the fundamental attitude of the emperor towards North Korea, so it is impossible for Chu Xianzhang to uphold any justice for Yin Xuan and even North Korea.

After meeting the envoy of North Korea and knowing what he meant, Chu Xianzhang asked Yin Xuan to be taken away, and then discussed with Mao Wenlong how to deal with it.

Mao Wenlong's meaning is very clear, that is, not to let the North Korean envoy go from Liaohai to Denglai and enter Beijing.

The reason is that Korea has been conquered by Jianyu, and it has been changed to Houjin to pay tribute to the ministers, and there is no longer a suzerain-vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty. In the words of the emperor, Korea is now an enemy country.

Although Chu Xianzhang felt that it was a little inappropriate, he did not explicitly oppose Mao Wenlong, but took the reason that North Korea had changed to Houjin as a minister, and asked Yin Xuan to return to the lord of North Korea.

Here is a good way to send Yin Xuan away, and once again packed up the Chu Charter for departure, and was delayed for a few days because the wind season did not arrive, and as a result, another wave of North Korean envoys was ushered in.

This time, the North Korean officials who led the team were at a higher level, and they were Kim Sang-yong, the right-wing politician, and Lee Ting-gu, the judge of Licho. Of course, Yin Xuan, the younger brother of Yin Fang, the leader of the DPRK and the director of Anping, is also listed.

In addition to these high-ranking officials and eunuchs of North Korea, there are also four daughters of the clan, all of whom are the sisters of the Korean lord Li Cong.

This time, the reason was completely impossible to refuse, the first was to reclaim the title of tribute to the Ming Emperor on behalf of the Korean lord Li Cong.

The second is that the New Year's Day of the second year of Chongzhen is coming, and the Korean lord sent a special envoy to the Ming Emperor to celebrate the New Year's Day.

The third is a belated congratulations, congratulating Emperor Chongzhen on inheriting the throne and changing the throne, and in order to make up for the sin of congratulating the lateness, four daughters of the clan are specially presented to His Majesty Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to show congratulations and celebrations.

As soon as these reasons were said, Mao Wenlong and Chu Xianxian couldn't refuse at all.

Although both of them knew that the purpose of the Koreans was only to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the court to intercede with the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty or the courtiers to return the land of Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province.

But people's reasons are so high-sounding, and they can't object, especially when they also bring four daughters of the clan to be dedicated to His Majesty, how can this be stopped?

It is said that the little-known Cao Wenzhao and Niu Juming snatched a stunning beauty from the Horqin grassland and dedicated it to the emperor, and as a result, they all became celebrities in front of the emperor.

What does this mean?

In the eyes of the two of them and a considerable number of courtiers, this shows that His Majesty is very similar to his ancestors, although he has some eloquence, but at least in terms of greed for money and lust, there is not much difference from his grandfather Emperor Wanli and his father Emperor Taichang.

Considering all these factors, in the end, Mao Wenlong, in desperation, could only agree to the passage of the Korean envoys through the Liaohai Sea controlled by Dongjiang Town, take the sea route to pay tribute, and meet His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

Before the fall of Liaodong, the tributary envoys of North Korea were all taken by land to Beijing, initially once a year, and then once every two years, during which there was also a stage of once every three years, but since the fall of Liaodong, the land road of the Korean tributary Ming was broken, and after the defeat of the Ming in the battle of Salhu, it began to detour to the sea, from Denglai or from Tianjin to the shore, and then entered the Beijing Division.

Of course, in the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after Korea was conquered by the Later Jin, it was changed to the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty at that time was turbulent and turbulent, and there was no time to take care of the Korean problem.

In August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse died, Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, and North Korea had nothing to say.

Therefore, now that the Ming court treats North Korea like this, the small court of North Korea, from the king Li Cong to the ministers and hundreds of bureaucrats, feels angry on the one hand, and uneasy on the other hand.

But even if they were uneasy, the monarchs and ministers of Korea still thought that at best, this was just the Ming Emperor venting his dissatisfaction with Korea's defection to the Ming Dynasty and punishing the sins of not sending tribute to Korea for several years.

Therefore, the king Li Cong accepted the suggestion of Yin Fang and others, thinking that sending ministers and heavy gifts to the Ming Dynasty to meet the Ming Emperor kowtow, beg for mercy, and cry and complain, and the matter of Dongjiang Town going ashore to attack the city and seize the land and slaughter the dynasty can be successfully resolved, and even if the DPRK is not guaranteed to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Emperor will be happy to give back a heavier reward to the DPRK.

In this way, the Korean tributary mission headed by Kim Sangrong, the right ruler of North Korea, Li Tinggui of the judgment of Licho, and Yin Xuan, the director of Anpyeong, took four daughters of the Korean clan who were selected to be dedicated to the emperor, and arrived at Phi Dao at the end of November, and then followed the helpless Chu Xianzhang and others, and traveled to Dengzhou together, and transferred to the chariots and horses prepared for them by Xu Guozhen, the governor of Denglai, and Zhang Keda, the chief soldier of Denglai, and finally came to the capital division of the Ming Dynasty.