"Are you Li Zhuo?"

Yang Feng sat on the back of the rhinoceros, backed by the blood-like brilliance of the sunset, and looked at Li Zhuo on the ground lightly with a gaze looking down on the ants and asked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The latter limped between a few bloody stumps and severed arms, and nodded tremblingly.

"I heard that you refused to surrender to Lone, Lone came to take a look, Lone thought you were strong, but unfortunately ......"

Yang Wang Ye sighed slightly, and raised his head as if he was infinitely emotional, looking at the beautiful scenery of the sunset.

Sitting down a huge rhinoceros more than two meters tall at the shoulder, wearing a titanium alloy visor, with sharp horns more than half a meter long, snorting heavily and staring at highly myopic eyes, leaning over Li Yan and sniffing. His Royal Highness the poor King of Goryeo was now paralyzed on the ground like a paralyzed patient, so pressed by the invisible pressure that he could not move, and at this time he had only fear in his heart, and he even thought about crying very uncontrollably.

Fortunately, Yang Wangye finally ended his pretense.

"Do you want to continue to fight Lonely?"

He asked, looking down.

"Don't dare, don't dare, Xiao Wang doesn't dare anymore, His Royal Highness is the Ming Dynasty, and he is the Ming Emperor Hongwu, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the lord of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Wang is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally he is also a vassal of His Royal Highness, how dare he be an enemy of His Royal Highness again."

Li Yan lay on the ground and said busily.

"It's best if you think like this, get up, it just so happens that Lone also wants to see the scenery you have here, and there are some things to discuss with you, do you want to receive Lone here?"

Yang Feng said.

"Xiao Wang immediately went back to arrange to greet His Highness."

Li Yan hurriedly said.

"Then go, Lone is waiting for you here!"

Yang Feng nodded and said.

Li Zhuo hurriedly got up as if he had been amnestied, hurriedly gathered the guards who were still alive, and crossed the Han River to return to Seoul as quickly as possible, and at the same time, Yang Feng also sent someone to inform Cui Miao, who had already entered the city, and the Ming army, which had reached the gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace, immediately stopped attacking. Immediately after Li Zhuo returned to the palace to quickly convene the ministers, and then commanded the people to clean up the battlefield, clean up, and prepare to welcome the Ming Supervisor, but because it was already dark and Yang Feng definitely could not enter the city in the dark night, he had to temporarily live on the battleship on the Han River, and the second brigade of the Ming army, which arrived later, drove directly into Hancheng and took over the control of the city.

Of course, if Lord Yang doesn't enter the city, he won't enter the city, and the hospitality he should enjoy is still indispensable, such as wine and delicacies, which are not worth mentioning, and a carriage sent six soft and tender little beauties after dark, which is also not worth mentioning.

The spring is cold, how can Yang Wang Ye not have a warm bed!

On the morning of the next day, according to the regular suburban greeting ceremony, the Yellow Tent Hall was erected at the Ying'en Gate in the west of the city, which was placed with various reliance and drum music, and then Li Yan wore a winged crown and wore a dragon robe to lead the clan of Seoul, and the civil and military officials walked to the Ying'en Gate together. Similarly, Yang Feng also changed into his own dress, and the accompanying generals also wore military uniforms and got off the boat and walked to Ying'en Gate, Li Zhuo led his people to formally meet Yang Feng with the etiquette of welcoming Prince Daming, and Yang Wang Ye said a few words of encouragement, and then the two of them could go through Ying'en Gate together to Seoul, where there was a formal welcome ceremony. In short, this set of things is also very troublesome, but the suburban welcome ceremony also represents Li Zhuo's official submission to the Ming Dynasty and the restoration of the identity of the Ming vassal state, and it also represents Goryeo's recognition of the identity of Yang Wangye and the Ming Dynasty as the Ming Orthodoxy of Nanjing.

Of course, this is all a fictitious thing, and after the welcoming ceremony, everyone should talk about serious things after everyone has eaten and drunk.

"First, Goryeo gave Jeju Island to the state of Wu."

Han Qi said.

Wu is the fief of Yang Wangye, he is the king of the Ming Dynasty, of course, there must be a vassal country, originally his fief was Zhejiang, after the defeat of Beijing, the Ming Taizu Hongwu Emperor was very happy, so he gave a dream to Yiyang King Zhu Qi Jiangxi, south, north Zhili and Shandong gave him as a fief, of course, except for Shuntianfu and Yingtianfu, the two capitals really cannot be sealed to others, and Goryeo gave Jeju Island to Wu, that is, Yang Feng's fief in the future.

"There's no precedent for this, isn't it?"

A Goryeo minister said weakly.

"His Royal Highness King Wu and His Royal Highness King Goryeo love each other like brothers, so why shouldn't the King of Goryeo give his own small piece of land to King Wu? After all, this is also a manifestation of the brotherhood between the two highnesses, do you think there is anything unreasonable about this lord? ”

Han Qipi said with a smile.

Well, this lord has no opinion, if he wants to have an opinion, he may be hit by a carriage when he goes out, or accidentally choke to death while drinking tea.

Of course, other people have no opinion, everyone understands that Yang Feng has worked hard all the way to mobilize the people to come, how can he be sent away without some decent benefits, Jeju Island is Jeju Island, it was originally a poor place with not much oil and water, and now people even occupy Seoul, if you dare not give it, I am afraid that it will annoy Yang Wangye Everyone will not be able to see the sun the next day, and everyone still has this awareness, including Li Zhuo.

So in this way, Jeju Island was generously gifted by His Royal Highness the King of Goryeo to His Royal Highness King Wu, his good brother in the big family of Daming.

"Second, in order to protect Goryeo from the Tartars, the tragedy of the Bingzi Rebellion and the Dingmao Rebellion was repeated, and the Ming Dynasty was obliged to provide the necessary protection for Goryeo, and in the future a military base and garrison troops would be set up in Seoul, and the garrison would have the right to move freely throughout Goryeo, and an infantry brigade would initially be stationed. In addition, the Yamen of the Minister in Goryeo will be set up to be stationed in Seoul and Pyongyang to facilitate exchanges between the two sides in the future, and in addition, as a subject state of the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo has no diplomatic rights, and any foreign affairs must be handed over to the Ming Minister in Goryeo, and as for the internal affairs of Goryeo, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not interfere. ”

Han Qi continued.

The stimulus caused by these articles is not big, there is no diplomacy in Goryeo, that is, there are occasional contacts with the Japanese state, and the others are with the Ming Dynasty, and the minister in Goryeo does not matter, anyway, even if there is no minister, according to the previous practice, the Ming envoy will say whatever he wants, at most, this is to normalize the occasional temporary in the past, and there is no difference in essence, it is this garrison problem......

The Koreans don't care that the Ming army was stationed in Seoul, tens of thousands of troops were also stationed in the past, so what's the big deal if there is a brigade stationed now?

But how much does this garrison cost?

"It is said that the cost of this garrison should be borne by Goryeo, after all, the Ming army is here to protect you, but considering that your country is small and poor, and when the Renchen Rebellion occurred, a large part of the food and salary of the Ming army was also responsible for itself, so how about half of the stationing cost of this army? One brigade is only 5,000 people in total, and it doesn't cost much. ”

Han Qi said indifferently.

Also, how much can five thousand people spend? What's more, it's still half a family.

The Koreans will no longer care, it won't be long before they will know that there are 5,000 people, that is 5,000 masters, the military expenses of a brigade of the Ming army are not a small amount, and the expenses of those soldiers are not comparable to those of their soldiers.

"The third is in terms of trade, since Goryeo is a Ming vassal state, then it is natural to give certain preferential treatment to the merchants of the Celestial Empire, for example, in terms of taxation, there are often a lot of unreasonable taxes in various parts of your country, which should be exempted from all Ming merchants. In the future, the taxation of Ming merchants doing business in your country should be determined by both of us through consultation, and in addition to the taxes determined by us, any other taxes shall be exempted, and in addition, Ming merchants must be allowed to open shops in your country to develop minerals, and your country should also give preferential treatment in these aspects. In addition, if a Ming merchant commits a crime in your country, your country can arrest him, but after being arrested, he must hand it over to the minister stationed in Goryeo for the latter's disposal, and all the ports of your country must be open to Ming merchants. ”

Han Qi then said.

The ministers of Goryeo talked a lot, although they were all well-educated and Confucian, and they generally looked down on businessmen, but there were so many things, and Han Qi said it so solemnly, I am afraid that this is not a good thing, of course, they can't understand what economic colonization is at this time. If they agreed, then Goryeo would have completely become a dumping ground for Ming commodities and a supplier of raw materials, and the consular jurisdiction or the jurisdiction of the Ming minister in Goryeo also ensured that the Ming merchants would enjoy the treatment of people here, to put it bluntly, they would treat Goryeo as a colony.

Goryeo is a great place.

Iron, lead, copper, and coal are all available, although they are all in the northern mountains, and it may not be so easy to mine, but even the most direct use of all kinds of wild medicinal materials, as well as Yang Feng's current huge consumption of lead, can be provided immediately, and the Jiande lead-zinc mine has been mined since the fifteenth century.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what are our merchants doing here? Come and buy your ginseng, come and buy your herbs, and what do these bring to you? It's this. ”

Han Qi said as he put a silver coin still on the table.

"As the person who gave you money, shouldn't you greet you with a smile?"

He went on to say.

Those ministers immediately greeted each other with smiles, in the final analysis, it is really not a big deal, it is nothing more than to give preferential treatment to those Ming merchants, in fact, as long as they do not interfere in the internal affairs of Goryeo, these ministers will not care about other things.

Since everyone has no opinions, then sign and draw a pledge, and all the terms are written in black and white, and then Han Qi and Cui Xixian, the leader of the Goryeo Council, sign them respectively, and then hand them over to Yang Feng and Li Zhuo to each of them to stamp their own big seals, even if this treaty-like thing is completed, everyone will have to follow this content in the future. So far, the people of Goryeo have lived a good life colonized by the Ming Dynasty, as for whether they will be dissatisfied or resist in the future, that can be whipped directly, and it is reasonable and legal, why do you want to admit it when it is written in black and white?

"Come, come, raise your glasses and toast to the official return of the Kingdom of Goryeo to the embrace of the Ming motherland!"

Yang Wangye happily raised his wine glass and said. (To be continued.) )