Chapter 397: Embassy

"Hahahaha......"

After laughing happily for a long time, Zhu Di finally stopped and said, "Zheng He, pass the decree: let Xie Jin, King Zhou, Yang Shiqi, Yao Guangxiao, and Ji Gang enter the palace with the decree." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Yes!" Zheng He responded respectfully, and did not mention the decree from below.

However, in just two quarters of an hour, Xie Jin and others came to the palace one after another.

"Brother Huang, I don't know why you asked us to come to the palace?" Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, who was still standing with a little raindrop on his head, stood in the corridor and asked.

Zhu Di has been standing on the corridor in front of the warm pavilion and looking at the rain outside, but there is an extra big pang on his body, an extra rocking chair under his buttocks, and two more carbon braziers beside him.

"Oh, you're all here." Zhu Di raised his eyelids and said, "Zheng He, go get a few chairs, and make a pot of good tea, I want to have a good chat with them here."

"Yes." Zheng He nodded, waved his hand and beckoned a few little eunuchs to bring out a few chairs, and at the same time, the tea was also brewed and delivered.

"Sit down." With a faint smile on his face, Zhu Di ordered a few chairs and continued: "I have just received the news that the matter in North Korea has been almost resolved, and only the final finishing touches are left."

"Oh, it turned out to be a matter of North Korea...... Well? Fourth Emperor Brothers, but Shihong and they succeeded?" Zhu Hu subconsciously repeated Zhu Di's words, but in the middle of the words, he suddenly came to his senses, and asked with joy on his face: "When will they be able to leave and come back?"

Yao Guangxiao and the others all looked at Zhu Di expectantly.

"Yes, five days ago, our Ming army had already captured Seoul, the royal capital of North Korea. Han Dongdao, the former general of the Korean Kingdom, was cut off by Huang Sanyi's knife, and Yi Jiandao also became a rat crossing the street in North Korea, and was chased and killed by Li Fangyuan's subordinates. ”

Zhu Di held a small purple clay pot in his hand, shook the rocking chair under his buttocks slightly, and continued:

"And you know what? Our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty only sacrificed dozens of soldiers, and the rest were not even seriously injured. ”

"What? It can't be, right?"

"Yes, it's normal to shed blood and sacrifice in battle, Shihong won't be exaggerating his military exploits and deceiving us, right?"

"What do you say, when the army returns to the camp, it will have to use the roster, and if there is one more person and one less person, can it be deceived to the ground?"

As soon as Zhu Di's words fell, Xie Jin and Yao Guangxiao immediately began to argue, but Zhu Di's words were too deceptive.

Among these people present, except for Yang Shiqi, all of them had been on the battlefield, and if there were all 50,000 people on both sides on the battlefield, at least 18,000 casualties would be considered normal.

In this Korean battle, the opponent's soldiers will not only have 50,000, right? If you don't say anything, you have to have 80,000 or 90,000 people, even if 50,000 against 80,000, it is impossible to sacrifice dozens of soldiers, right?

"Okay, Shihong has been by my side for so many years, and I still believe in his character. As strange as it sounded, I was confident that Shihiro wouldn't lie to me. ”

Zhu Di took a sip of the hot tea in the pot, and suddenly the corners of his mouth turned into a grin, and said: "What's more, there is Brother Song supervising the army, with Brother Song's temperament, he will never allow Shihong to lie about the military situation."

"Hooray." Ji Gang said: "Long live, the lethality of our firearms battalion's weapons is extremely strong, and if it is used properly, it is really possible to win the victory on the battlefield at a very small cost."

Everyone naturally understands the principle of sharpening knives and cutting wood, but before they completely fell into the misunderstanding of cold weapons, and completely ignored the consideration of hot weapons such as artillery, firecrackers, and grenades.

"yes, how did you forget about them." Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "The firearms camp has spent so much material, financial and time, and it is indeed time to see the power." It's just that what I didn't expect was that such firearms could be so powerful! It seems that when the army returns, I will increase the supply of the firearms battalion. ”

"Long live, I don't know when the army of Han will return?" The old monk Yao Guangxiao asked, touching his bare head.

"I called you here today, in addition to telling you about this good news, just to hear your opinions." Zhu Di turned his head to look at everyone and said, "Brother Song has sent back the news that he wants to establish an 'embassy' in the royal capital of the Korean Kingdom, and wants the imperial court to select another person to go to the Korean Kingdom as a 'Ming Ambassador' and stay there for a long time!"

Ambassador? Embassy?

Hearing Zhu Di's words, everyone first glanced at each other, and then Xie Jin stepped forward and asked, "Long live, what is the purpose of this embassy?" But it's the same as the 'Tang envoy' sent to Chang'an by the Wa State in the Tang Dynasty?"

Sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty was from the 7th to the 9th centuries, and it was said that this was to learn from my great heaven. The vast culture of the DPRK China has sent more than a dozen Tang missions to the Tang Dynasty.

"It's different!" Zhu Di shook his head and continued: "According to Brother Song's statement in the Eight Hundred Miles Urgent Secret Letter, the 'Embassy' he proposed is a permanent diplomatic representative office that our Ming Dynasty sent to the royal city of the Korean Kingdom. In other words, as long as our Ming Dynasty is still there, this 'embassy' built in North Korea will always exist. ”

When he said this, Zhu Di carefully recalled the content of the secret letter, and then continued:

"As for the duties of the 'embassy', it is mainly to promote the political relations between the proprietor of our Ming Dynasty and the vassal state of Korea. Secondly, the rescue is to promote cooperation in all aspects, such as culture, economy, and food...... and other aspects of the relationship. ”

"Wouldn't that be a loss for our Daming?" Zhu Hu said with some puzzlement: "Our Ming Dynasty is far superior to North Korea in terms of culture, military and economy, and building an 'embassy' in North Korea costs manpower and material resources secondary.

"You can't say that." Zhu Di obviously disagreed with Zhu Hu's words, "This 'embassy' represents the interests of our entire Ming Dynasty, and is fully responsible for the relationship between our Ming Dynasty and the Korean Kingdom." In this case, if there is any disturbance in North Korea, it can send news back to Daming at any time. At the same time, our Ming Dynasty has the right to set up a 'control area' belonging to the Ming Dynasty in the place under its jurisdiction, and our Ming Dynasty will send a garrison of 5,000 people to fully protect the 'embassy'. In addition, in addition to the official face, there is also the advantage of the military, and it is also beneficial to the people of my Ming Dynasty! ”

"Benefits?" Ji Gang, the spy leader of the Ming Dynasty, is full of 'little things about spies', where can he think about other problems.

"Yes!" Zhu Di nodded and said, "If my Ming businessmen and people in Korea encounter difficulties in the Korean Kingdom, they can be solved through the 'embassy' set up by my Ming Ming in Seoul."

"Oh, if that's the case, it's hard to say the pros and cons. However, in this way, the power of the ambassador of the 'embassy' is not small, and even those feudal officials cannot be compared with it. Yao Guangxiao touched his head, his face was calm, "If you want to choose someone to go to the 'embassy' of the Korean Kingdom as an ambassador, I'm afraid it will be a bad choice." ”

"Well, you don't have to think about the candidate for the time being, since you have no opinions, then this matter will be decided."

Zhu Di stood up and said, "Xie Qing, you will go to draw up the purpose in a while, bring up the matter of the 'embassy', and let Li Fang go to talk to Brother Song." By the way, don't forget to draw up another will, if Brother Songdi can't use our army, let Shihong leave a thousand soldiers to protect Brother Song, and the rest will come back. ”

"Yes!" Xie Jin respectfully should be.

"Okay, now it's raining non-stop, don't leave at noon tonight, I have already prepared the stove in the imperial dining room, let's eat Bazhen hot pot today!"

While speaking, Zhu Di stood up from the rocking chair and stretched, and said with a smile: "You guys have a good day today, this Bazhen hot pot is the specialty dish that I finally invited a chef from Feixue Pavilion, turn around, don't you eat all your tongues?"

"Yes!"

The group looked at each other, and all of them had smiles on their faces.

……

No matter how the Tang side celebrated the victory of the Ming army, Zhu Song was very busy.

Naturally, it is not a war in the Korean Kingdom, although there are still some remnants under Han Dongdao, but it is a matter of the Korean royal court, and it has nothing to do with them.

Zhu Song was busy, but he dealt with the nobles and high-ranking officials of the Korean Kingdom.

Since the king of Joseon, Li Fangyuan, took care of the officials who dared to write a letter to impeach the Ming army, Zhu Song and other high-ranking officials of the Ming army were all glued to the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Korean kingdom.

Although these guys did not jump out to speak for Li Fangyuan when Han Dongdao banned Li Fangyuan, they also did not participate in the rebellion.

Therefore, in the face of these clingy guys, Zhu Song is not beating, nor is he pushing out, after all, the people of the Korean Kingdom can't say that they are arrogant and ruthless?

Those who go abroad, they represent the Ming Dynasty, and they can't let such rumors spread!

In this way, Zhu Song and a few other high-ranking members of the Ming army who didn't want to deal with these Koreans dodged with a 'busy word decision', but in fact, these guys were with a group of guards in disguise, wandering around all over Korea.

Kingdom of Korea, Gyeongju City's most prosperous Gyeonghwa Street.

Zhu Song, Zhu Youjiao, Zhu Mengcan, and Zhang Fu, the four high-ranking officials of the Ming army, who were obviously dressed as Ming people, swayed forward slowly, followed by ten people dressed as domestic servants.

In addition, there are no less than thirty soldiers in disguise hidden in the noisy crowd, you know, Zhu Song is already a noble person, if something goes wrong in the Korean Kingdom, the ghost knows what the general will do!

"Pine Emperor...... Uncle Song, this Gyeongju City is also quite prosperous, but compared with our Nanjing City, even compared with Suzhou, it is far behind! ”

Zhu Youyi looked around, and his mouth didn't stop, and he was always commenting: "Look at those restaurants and shops, they are obviously imitating our Ming Dynasty architecture, and they have no characteristics at all!"

"Brother You, you're okay, your eyes are almost blind, and you still have the face to say that people are not good here, not good there, give it to you, gag your mouth this time, right?"

Zhu Mengcan couldn't see it, and directly stuffed a piece of rice cake into Zhu Youxuan's mouth.

Take a closer look, it's the little guys, all of them carrying a few small bags in their hands, and the bags are full of some local snacks.

"Hmm...... Meng Can, your kid's skin is itchy again, right?" Zhu Youyi was attacked by Zhu Mengcan, and anger immediately appeared on his face.

"Hehe, are you sure you can beat your little brother?" Zhu Mengcan looked at Zhu Youcan, hehe, cheap. laughed.

"Can't you give me a halt?" Zhu Song glanced at the two little guys helplessly, and said, "Every day, a few of you have to quarrel a few words, and if you don't quarrel, you will feel uncomfortable, right?"

"Master, two sons, there are quite a lot of people in front, there must be something lively, why don't we go over and take a look?" Just when the two little guys wanted to theorize a few more sentences, Zhang Fu directly diverted the topic.

Sure enough, the attention of the two little ones was drawn to the excitement ahead.

The front was crowded with people in three circles and three circles outside, Zhu Song followed the two little guys and walked over, only to find that Zhu Youjiao and the two of them were standing outside, tiptoeing to see the 'liveliness' surrounded by people in the inner circle.

"Liu Ming, open a way out." Zhu Song directly ordered the young man who followed him to be extremely tall and strong.

"Sir, please!" Liu Ming squeezed his hands, smirked and walked slowly towards the crowd.

"Let Jean, please let Jean, don't get in the way!" Liu Ming pulled a colleague, stretched out his hand forward, and forcibly separated the onlookers who were blocking in front.

"Oh, who's this?"

"What are you squeezing, do you have a sense of public morality?"

"Hey, I'll let it, I'll let it, don't you do it?"

To do this by himself, Zhu Song felt that it was quite a loss, so he sent his soldiers to do it.

"What? Do you want to fight?"

Liu Ming was tall and strong, and he deliberately put on a hideous expression on his face, so after Liu Ming's words landed, those discussions stopped, and no one dared to speak again.

", all of them are cowards!" Liu Ming muttered softly, turned to Zhu Song and said, "Master, son, the road has been opened, please come forward."

"Oh, it's quick to have someone to help!" Zhu Song didn't care about the slightly resentful eyes of the onlookers, and walked over while swaying, "Oh, what are these bald people doing?"

Walking to the front, what appeared in front of Zhu Song was an open space about ten zhang in radius, and on the east side of the open space were placed dry firewood, charcoal, rakes, and hammers......

This kind of miscellaneous things were placed in the open space in different categories, and Zhu Song was stunned for a while.

On the west side of the clearing, a middle-aged monk sat cross-legged on a futon, chanting words in his mouth.

Beside him, a few delicate little novices were busy with their hands and feet, as if they were preparing something.