When I woke up, it was not dawn outside, only a chaotic pale white. There were no lights in the room, only a floating light that filtered in through the window lattices.

Li Xuan sat up, wearing only a moon-white dress, she held her knees with both hands, and rested her head on her arms.

"Princess, it's not dawn yet, you can sleep again!" When the maid saw the princess get up, she hurriedly brought a dress and put it on for her.

"Can't sleep." Li Xuan rested her head sideways on her knee-hugging hands, looking sideways at the bright window. After a while, she slowly chanted, "Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies"

The maid laughed, "Is the princess dreaming again?" Dreaming that you've become a butterfly again? ”

"Did I become a butterfly in my dream, or did I become a butterfly in my dream?"

"The princess is speaking more and more deeply."

Li Xuan smiled casually, "That's not what I said, it was said by a sage Zhuangzi in ancient Tang Dynasty." ”

"The princess knows so much about the culture of the kingdom, she will definitely be able to talk to the colt in the future."

It is no secret that the king wants to give the princess to the emperor of the kingdom, the righteous son of Chu Guogong, this matter has been very high-profile from the beginning, and even the king specially asked the princess to come out to pay a visit when he invited Chu Guogong in the palace.

When the princess came back, she told Jin'er that the Duke of Chu was very young and heroic, and he spoke politely. From the princess's words and subsequent expression, Jin'er could already see that the princess was very satisfied with this angel of the kingdom.

It is said that the Duke of Chu himself did not refuse the king's proposal to marry that day, but only said that he would invite the son of heaven to play. The king sent his envoys to the kingdom quickly, and now the matter has been restored. The Son of Heaven finally decided to settle down and agreed with this family affair between the two countries.

Princess Jingshu, the eldest son of the king of Joseon, will officially marry Zhu Ciye, the prince of Chu, the righteous son of the Ming Emperor, and this marriage between the two countries has also attracted the attention and support of the two countries at this time.

For North Korea, it has just experienced a civil unrest. Back to Daming, at this time they had deeply offended the Qing Dynasty, and there was no way back, so they could only stand on the side of Daming wholeheartedly. And with their own ability, they can't fight against the Qing army, and they can only rely on the Ming Dynasty to defend them from the north, a marriage. It can not only deepen the closeness between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, but also really and accurately hold the heavy troops, and now the front line of the Yalu River is pulling them closer to the Duke of Chu who is resisting the Qing army.

The only regret is that the Duke of Chu already has a wife, so Emperor Ming specially ordered Princess Jingshu to marry as a wife. This status is higher than a general side room, which is a special case, and this flat wife is actually the wife of a concubine. Because Liu Jun was originally the son of the Liu family, he is now the emperor's son and has changed his surname to the genealogy of the Zhu family.

The emperor gave Liu Jun a special favor. so that he can marry two wives, and the son born to Lu Xueqi is surnamed Zhu and naturalized. And marrying Princess Jingshu is also a wife, but the princess is the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, not the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family. The child born to Princess Jingshu in the future is surnamed Liu, in a way, Lu Xueqi and the princess are two families, but in fact. Lu's status is still higher than that of the princess, but the princess is also the wife of the main family.

In some families, a man has to inherit two houses. In the end, she married two wives and gave birth to a son, and the two wives were considered concubines.

Chongzhen's arrangement, firstly, also gave North Korea a great face, after all, it is unreasonable for a dignified princess to marry a Ming courtier as a concubine. North Korea needs the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty also needs the North Korea. This arrangement is nice on both sides.

On the other hand, doing so is also a reward for Liu Jun, so that Liu Jun retains the identity of the Liu family.

Chongzhen was very satisfied with Liu Jun's actions in Korea, and Korea changed its king and regained his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. This is quite a good result.

Liu Jun is also quite capable, sending troops to build a city and fort on the Yalu River, and defeating the thousands of soldiers and horses sent by the Qing captives to Korea. It was reported that this Qing army was the elite of the Eastern captives, but it was still defeated in front of Liu Jun's fortress.

At the beginning, when Liu Jun proposed to send troops to southern Liaoning to attack the coast, he was also worried, thinking that this might only be a small harassment and could not cause any real harm to the Qing captives, but now it seems that it is completely different.

Liu Junshang presented a fold, North Korea completely stood on the side of the imperial court, and in the future, the Chu army garrison in the Yalu River area did not need to transport grain from the imperial court, and could directly purchase it in North Korea.

As for Liu Jun's suggestion in the report that he leased two large islands from North Korea as a military port base for the naval division, Chongzhen didn't pay much attention to it, since there were only two thousand taels of silver a year, and North Korea was willing to borrow it, and this silver did not need to be paid by the imperial court, he had no opinion.

What's more, Liu Jun also said that he wanted to use these two islands as trading ports and trade with North Korea, and he could hand over a lot of silver to the imperial court in a year, so what else did he have to object.

North Korea wants to defend together, Chongzhen also agreed that Liu Jun agreed on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, originally, as the suzerain, the Ming Dynasty has the right and obligation to help the Tibetan vassal country defend against the enemy, when Japan invaded Korea, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to help them restore the country. In the same way, as a suzerain, he also has the right to ask his vassal states to send troops to assist in the war.

In the battle of Sarhu that year, the Koreans sent 13,000 people to fight, although these Korean soldiers were not as good as the Ming army, but this was the right and obligation of both sides. Repeating it now will also help to strengthen the relationship between the two sides.

Liu Jun demanded four tributes a year in the future, and only a small amount of real Korean products would be tributed each time, and there would be no need for official tributary trade and official peace, because this kind of official tributary trade was too troublesome, and the same was true for buying. It is better to change to non-governmental free trade, so that if the imperial court needs North Korea's cattle, horses, ginseng and other things, it can be handed over to private businessmen to go to North Korea to buy trade, and this kind of non-governmental trade is more flexible and efficient, and both sides take what they need.

Liu Jun also submitted a trade contract, a number of trading contracts signed by a number of Ming merchants and Korean merchants, ranging from cattle and horses to grain to medicinal materials and cloth, and the transaction volume reached one million silver dollars.

Another important order is the DPRK government's order to purchase a batch of artillery, guns, and ammunition from the Hutoubao Firearms Workshop in Hubei in Daming, and a batch of ships from a shipyard in Fujian. The amount is not small, but after Chongzhen took a closer look, he also found that the models of these artillery and guns purchased by North Korea were all equipped by the imperial border army, and they were not the latest models.

The selling price of this batch of weapons is really cost-effective, and Liu Jun said that this batch of firearms is to strengthen the defense of North Korea in the north, improve their resistance to the Qing army, and prevent the Qing army from obtaining population and money from North Korea to replenish it. In addition, Liu Jun also said that half of the proceeds of this batch of firearms will be handed over to the imperial court. These conditions made him readily agreed.

Chongzhen smiled, wrote a secret letter to Liu Jun, praised Liu Jun in the letter, and then asked him to marry the princess of North Korea as soon as possible. The letter also asked Liu Jun to end the affairs of North Korea as soon as possible and return to southern Liaoning to preside over military affairs.

Chongzhen still remembered the frontal battlefield with the Qing army, Jinzhou, Hong Chengchou finally moved, no longer stationed in Ningyuan, but began to send Wu Sangui, Qin Liangyu, Liu Zhaoji, Sun Chuanting and other eastward station, stationed in Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan, Bijia Mountain.

When Chongzhen's secret decree was sent to Korea, Liu Jun had already taken a warship south to the Korean Strait. After taking a turn on Geoje Island, Liu Jun led the fleet directly to the border between Korea and Japan, and then, without saying a word, unceremoniously sent troops to seize Tsushima Island.

There were only a small number of Japanese on the island, and before they could react, they were directly captured by the Ming army when they landed on the island.

Liu Jun released a few captives back.

"Go back and tell Tokugawa Iemitsu that Tsushima Island, Laoqi Island, Hirado Island, and the Goto Islands were ceded to the Ming Dynasty as compensation for the invasion of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty's vassal state Korea and the killing of the Ming soldiers. Tell Tokugawa Iemitsu that if he disagrees, he will lead his troops to fight. ”

Liu Jun asked the interpreter to tell the captives what he had said.

As soon as the captives were released, Liu Jun immediately asked the fleet to drive directly to Hirado Island.

At this time, Japan was controlled by the third shogunate established by the Tokugawa family, because it was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general of the Seiyi more than 30 years ago, in Edo, Japan, so it is called the Edo shogunate. Although the emperor was nominally the supreme ruler, in reality it was the shogun and the shogunate who ruled the country.

At this time, the Edo shogunate had passed into the hands of the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was thirty-six years old and the eldest son of the second shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, who now pursued a policy of seclusion, only opening Nagasaki and Hirado as a foreign trade port, and prohibiting trade with merchants from Catholic countries such as Portugal and Spain, and only allowing Dutch and Chinese merchants who believed in Protestantism to come to trade, so as to prevent some feudal states from taking the opportunity to increase their strength and challenge the authority of the shogunate due to trade with foreign countries.

Japan still had the strength at this time, but after the failure of the invasion of Korea, the Tokukang family took the opportunity to seize power to unify Japan and establish a shogunate, seeking internal control.

Liu Jun came to Japan, and he didn't think about conquering Japan or anything, he just wanted to intimidate Tokugawa Iemitsu by force. Let the Japanese continue to open trade with the Ming East India Company, and he also wants to defraud the exclusive trade rights and let the Ming East India Company monopolize trade with Japan.

If he could, he would also like to occupy Hirado, an important port for Japan's foreign trade at this time.

Anyway, it's just a trap and a deception, and if you can deceive, it's just a way.

Among the islands requested by Liu Jun are all located near Nagasaki, and Tsushima Island is in the Korean Strait. Liu Jun's main target is still Hirado Island, Hirado Port is one of the two major ports of Japan's foreign trade at this time, and it is also the base of countless Chinese merchants in Japan in the past, there are a large number of Chinese businessmen and Chinese expatriates here, Zheng Zhilong also developed here, Yan Siqi and others even planned to launch a rebellion here, occupy here to establish a Chinese regime, and then went to Taiwan after defeat.

As for the other islands, they are all around Hirado, and if you can take Hirado, then it will be more stable to have a few more surrounding islands. (To be continued......)

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