Chapter 302: Three Major Problems
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
In the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, thousands of ministers danced and bowed to the throne in the center of the main hall.
On the throne, Chu Fan subconsciously reached out to help the armrest, but he didn't touch anything-the throne was notoriously not leaning on all sides, and the armrests were so far away that people were desperate - so he had to retract his hand and put it on his thigh.
After taking a deep breath, Chu Fan nodded to the eunuch next to him, who shouted at the throat of the male duck, "Zhongqing is flat...... If you have something to do with the class, you will play early, and you will retreat from the curtain without anything! ”
As soon as his words fell, a minister stood up and bowed down with a wat board, "The minister and the military department are still in the army, and the military department is ...... Please, Holy Judge! ”
After he finished speaking, another minister came out and said, "Your Majesty...... Please, Holy Judge! ”
"The left waiter of the Ministry of Rites and Rites...... Please, Holy Judge! ”
"Minister...... Please, Holy Judge! ”
“…… Please, Holy Judge! ”
The ministers jumped out one by one, and Chu Fan was drowsy when he heard it.
Suddenly, a short figure jumped out from the crowd, dressed in a Taoist robe, fairy wind and bones, with a mysterious smile on his face, slowly walked up to the Danqi step by step, walked to Chu Fan and stood still, and slowly opened his mouth and said, "You! Not the people of this world! ”
Suddenly, Chu Fan woke up, and the thick silk quilt was wet, and it was all cold sweat coming out of his body!
Turning his head to look at the idle tea beside him, Chu Fan carefully stretched his arm out of the quilt, and the coolness of late autumn immediately spread to his body through his bare skin, making his mushy brain wake up at once.
Damn Song Xiance!
I don't have to say "The lord is only afraid of being a wise person", which makes me have this kind of nightmare.
After thinking about it, Chu Fan felt funny again, he was actually the emperor in his dream, and he seemed to be quite happy!
After smiling secretly, Chu Fan thought about these two things together.
Song Xiance is by no means just a fortune teller who can meet face-to-face. He can calculate that Niu Venus is his guide, maybe he is blind, but he can see that he is not from this era, which is too creepy!
Of course, Chu Fan is not afraid of his divine calculations, first of all, from the future, not to mention that he Song Xiance is not famous now, even if he is the old immortal of Longhu Mountain, I am afraid that few people will believe it when he says it; Besides. There are so many people who are now tied up with interests, will they leave because of a few words of nonsense?
Even from Song Xiance's point of view, he himself probably wouldn't believe that Chu Fan came from the future, but would even more go in the direction of the immortals - he came to Niudao thousands of miles away, didn't he just want to be the "No. 1 Strategist from the Dragon"? How could you smash your boss's signboard?
Moreover, this person has an extremely keen eye, and after only a few days of walking around the island, he can see several major hurdles that the Fuliao army is currently going to pass.
First up is Japan. On the matter of Xiancao cigarettes absorbing gold from Japan, Song Xiance's opinion is similar to Chu Fan's, that is, the shogunate will never stand idly by. Let the Fuliao Army comfortably take away such a large amount of benefits.
If you don't have money, you can't support the army, so his suggestion is exactly the same as Chu Fan's thoughts: "The Fuliao army and the shogunate, sooner or later there will be a battle, and it is better to prepare as soon as possible" - of course, Chu Fan has not yet told Song Xiance about his layout in Japan.
The second is North Korea. In Song Xiance's view, North Korea is "the heaven and the earth pay the lord, and the foundation of the emperor is also the king", he hopes that Chu Fan will replace Li Liang!
This is something that Chu Fan didn't think about seriously - he occupied Niu Island before. Just to find a place outside the Ming Dynasty to make added cigarettes, and then capture the territory of the Liu family. It was to make Niudao safer, and as for what would happen in the future, Chu Fan didn't bother to think about it.
But after Song Xiance proposed it now, Chu Fan had to think seriously - it was not impossible to replace Li Kui and become the king of Joseon, but it didn't seem necessary.
Since ancient times, the destruction of the country has been a major event. It is absolutely impossible to do without sufficient time and sufficient manpower; What he wants is nothing more than North Korea's resources and markets, so why not prop up a puppet regime - historical experience has proved that the "Imperial Army" is much easier to accept than the "Imperial Army".
Previously in Jingyi County. When Chu Fan accepted Ling Ming's suggestion to get those sub-officials out, he actually already had some ideas in this regard.
As for the third aspect that Song Xiance said, it was exactly what Chu Fan had a headache for: what should be the relationship between the Fuliao Army and the Zhu Ming court?
According to Song Xiance's plan, Chu Fan should find a way to get a name from Chongzhen, so as to "fake Zhu Ming's power and deter the Japanese state of Korea".
Even what name should be made, Song Xiance helped Chu Fan think about it: envoy!
Whether it is an envoy to the Japanese country or to the DPRK, with the status of an envoy, many things can be done openly.
More importantly, only in this way can Chu Fan let the Fuliao Army get rid of the current dilemma of "if the name is not right, the word is not good".
In this regard, Chu Fan is indispensable, of course he knows that the "reputation" of this era is indeed indispensable, but he is really not interested in getting involved with the extremely corrupt officialdom of the Ming Dynasty - not to mention that if he really wants to make an envoy for Chongzhen, he will have to go around Beijing City, and only God knows if he can come back when he goes!
Therefore, Chu Fan actually had reservations about Song Xiance's last two suggestions, but this did not prevent him from deciding to keep Song Xiance by his side - the Fuliao Army and the East India Company's stalls are getting bigger and bigger, and he really needs someone to give advice.
Thinking of this, Chu Fan felt that his eyelids became heavy, and after muttering "Emperor" softly, he fell asleep.
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Even when Chu Fan fell asleep again, in Jeju City, a hundred miles away from him, the shepherd of Jeju was not sleepy at all.
This pastoral envoy, surnamed Choi, is fifty-three this year, and is considered young and promising among the feudal officials of North Korea.
At this moment, Cui Mu made a face to this empty twist and turn, carefully studying the report handed in by Kim Yongtai more than a month ago about the attack on Jeongui County and the death of Park Jung-hang.
In the report, Park Zhengxiang was described as extraordinarily tall, but Cui Mu can be sure that things are not like this at all!
Since the accident in Jingyi County, Cui Mu has learned about the origin of the incident through different channels and different people, and the fragmentary information has been pieced together, so that Cui Mu Envoy affirmed one point: Jingyi County was attacked by the Ming pirates on Niu Dao and killed Park Zhengxiang.
But since Jingyi County is still there, and Kim Yongtai is still in front of his magistrate, then it is best to deal with this matter according to Kim Yongtai's report - North Korean officialdom and Ming officialdom are generally the same, and when encountering such a thing, they will choose to make a big deal small.
But the collapse of the Liu family a few days ago made Cui Mu have to re-examine this matter - that group of Ming pirates was so bold that they dared to kill Jeju Island with open fire and slaughter a century-old giant clan, which has never happened since the founding of Korea!
Judging from the fact that these Ziming people were able to take out the private army of the Liu family, which was second to none on Jeju Island and even in North Korea, their strength was quite strong, and at the beginning, Jingyi County was afraid that it had been broken as those small people said.
But in this case, the behavior of the Ming people can't be said - Jingyi County has been defeated, how can there be any reason to withdraw?
It's greasy! This Kim Yongtai is definitely tired!
It is certain to ask Seoul to send troops to extinguish this group of Ming pirates, and now what makes Cui Mu hesitate is whether he should write about Jingyi County in this fold?
If you want to write it, you have to figure out what kind of tricks are between this Kim Yongtai and the Ming pirates; If you don't write it, when the royal court arrives and destroys these pirates, if you find out that Jin Yongtai is tired, won't you have to bear the crime of "negligence" again?
After hesitating, Cui Mu decided to choose the lesser of two evils and not mention the matter of Jingyi County for the time being.
After thinking about it, he finally mentioned the Zihao pen that had been full of ink for a long time, and wrote respectfully.
"The minister of Jeju Mu Cui Shiming, the flesh bears the thorn, and the head of the hundred bows in front of the Holy Monarch's Hall and says: There is a no-man's island named Niudao, since last year, the Ming people have stolen it...... A century-old family was destroyed in one fell swoop...... I hope that the Holy Emperor will have mercy and raise a large army to beg for it, so that the people of Jeju will not be poisoned ...... again" (To be continued. )