Chapter 654: Risking Death to Sue (Three Watches)

Li Jiamei saw that someone actually came to Li Yuntian to avenge her grievances, and her brows immediately wrinkled, this is simply a loss of face for the Korean country, isn't it to make Li Yuntian see a joke?

"Put this person in jail!" Soon, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the door, as if a group of people had subdued the man who had avenged his grievances, and then a man shouted loudly in Korean dialect that the people guarding the door were all soldiers of the Korean state, and they must stop the man who avenged his grievances so as not to collide with Li Yuntian.

"Maharaja, what's wrong?" Li Yuntian glanced at Li Yu and asked quietly.

"Someone got drunk and talked nonsense, which shocked Lord Liu's drinking, I'm really sorry." The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, Li Yao naturally won't tell the truth, wouldn't that be asking for trouble? Therefore, after bowing his hand to Li Yuntian, he said casually.

"A little wine is pleasant, but a big wine hurts the body, it's better to order it until now." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, pretended not to know, and raised the wine glass in front of Li Yu as he spoke.

"Your Excellency, someone embezzled the money used by the Ming Dynasty to buy military rations, and levied it violently among the people, saying that it was the grain tax forcibly collected by the Ming Dynasty, how could the envoy turn a blind eye?" Seeing this, Li Yao hurriedly picked up the wine glass and touched it with Li Yuntian's void, and before he could drink the wine, the shouts of the man who had avenged his grievances came from outside the door again.

Hearing this voice, Li Yao's face suddenly changed, and the hand holding the wine glass couldn't help shaking, and some wine spilled out, he never thought that the other party was actually coming for the military rations purchased by the Ming army in Korea.

Li Yuntian was naturally not disturbed by the shouts outside because he pretended not to understand Korean, and drank the white water in the wine glass by himself, and when he put the wine glass on the table, a guard standing behind him stepped forward and leaned over to whisper a few words in his ear.

Seeing this, Li Yao's heart couldn't help but sink, he knew that the guard was Li Yuntian's translator, and it was obvious that he was telling Li Yuntian about the military rations.

"Bring him up!" Sure enough, after listening to the guard's words, Li Yuntian was slightly stunned at first, and then the expression on his face gradually became stern, and he commanded in a deep voice.

"Dajun, Daming's batch of military rations was bought, right?" Hearing this, the guard bowed to Li Yuntian and walked out quickly, Li Yuntian groaned for a while and then turned his head to ask Li Jin.

"Lord Liu, this king is not involved in this matter, so I don't know the details." Li Yao originally wanted to admit that the military rations were bought, but after thinking about it, he decided to protect himself, and it was obvious that Li Yuntian was very concerned about the source of the military rations, so he bowed to Li Yuntian and replied, choosing himself from them cleanly.

Li Yao is the sister-in-law of the king of Joseon, and according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, he is the identity of the county king, so he calls himself "this king" in front of Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian frowned when he heard this, and looked up at the door, his expression was a little solemn, which made the atmosphere at the scene suddenly cold.

The female musicians subconsciously stopped playing when they sensed that something was wrong, and the geisha dancing in the audience also stopped, and stood in the middle of the room looking at each other, looking a little overwhelmed.

A moment later, the guards who had gone out earlier led a tall and thin middle-aged man wearing a large Korean-style hat on his head walked in, and the eyes of everyone at the scene suddenly fell on the body of the tall and thin middle-aged man, judging from his dress, he should be a businessman.

"Park Yong-gil knocks to see the envoy and His Royal Highness the Maharaja." The tall and thin middle-aged man walked quickly in front of Li Yuntian and knelt down respectfully to salute him and Li Jin.

"Ask him about the rations." Since Park Yong-gil spoke Korean, the guards standing aside whispered to Li Yuntian to translate, and Li Yuntian ordered in a deep voice after hearing this.

"Lord Envoy, the villain is a businessman in Songdu, who operates grain trading on weekdays, and the business is doing okay, but not long ago, the government issued an official document, on the grounds that the Ming army needs military food, not only forcibly asked the people's families to pay for food, but also requisitioned the grain in the hands of the villain, and did not pay a penny."

Pu Yongji hurriedly touched the ground with his head, and said helplessly, "Lord Envoy, the villain's grain is owed on credit from the farmers, and now the grain is taken away, and the villain can't give them an explanation, I wanted to die, but I heard that Daming paid for the grain this time, because it involved the lives of many farmers, so the villain risked his life to ask to see the envoy, and wanted to know whether Daming was requisitioning grain or buying grain!" ”

"Sue him, my great son is sympathetic to the people of Korea, and specially allocated 350,000 taels of silver to buy grain in Korea. After Li Yuntian learned from the guards about Park Yongji's words, he said quietly.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand taels!" Park Yongji was taken aback when he heard this, this money had exceeded the national tax revenue of the Korean State for a year, and he never imagined that Daming would spend a huge amount of money to buy food, and then he couldn't help but look at Li Jin and wanted to ask him for verification.

"What Lord Liu said is very true, this time the Ming Dynasty spent 350,000 taels of silver to buy military rations in our country, and the relevant matters are recorded by Cao." Seeing this, Li Ji looked at Park Yongji with a straight face, and couldn't help but feel a trace of anger in his heart, thinking that Park Yongji should not have come to cause trouble at this time.

But then again, Park Yong-gil is about to be forced to death by the grain forcibly expropriated by the government, where can he still take care of the face of North Korea?

"Your Excellency, the notice posted by the government is that in order to fight with the Mongols in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty collected grain in our country, and we didn't get a penny of money." Park Yongji was stunned for a moment, and then understood what was going on, the money was really divided privately by those officials of the government, so he kowtowed to Li Yuntian and said loudly, "Please ask the envoy and His Royal Highness the Lord to make the decision for the little ones and others!" ”

"Come, tell Chief Sù Chen, this official has military rations to ask him, let him come immediately." Li Yuntian frowned when he heard this, and then ordered a guard on the side in a deep voice.

Chen Ming was the person in charge of purchasing military rations in North Korea, and now that there was a problem with military rations, Li Yuntian naturally wanted to come to him to inquire about related matters.

"Remember, be sure to invite Director Chen!" When the guard walked to the door, Li Yuntian thought of something and ordered with an expressionless face.

When the guards heard this, they beckoned, and several guards in the room left with him quickly, and the meaning of Li Yuntian's words was already obvious, that is, if Chen Ming did not come, he could use coercive means.

Although Chen Ming was also an envoy sent by Emperor Xuande, Li Yuntian's visit to Korea this time was to supervise the relevant affairs of the Ming army in Korea, and his authority was greater than that of Chen Ming, so there was nothing wrong with forcibly letting Chen Ming come.

Besides, Li Yuntian is the official of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not a piece of cake to summon a small household official Si Zheng Liupin to come over for questioning.

Liu Zhen and Li Jin's faces suddenly showed a look of surprise, and the two of them naturally heard the meaning of Li Yuntian's last instruction, no one thought that he would dare to force Chen Ming, who was also the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, to come here, which seemed a little incredible.

Li Yuntian picked up the wine glass in front of him and tasted the white water in the wine glass with a gloomy face, which made the atmosphere on the scene quickly drop to the freezing point.

Realizing that things were not going well, Li Yao waved his hand to the geisha in the audience, and the geisha and the female musicians bowed down one after another.

"You are so bold, I am the envoy of the Korean State who was enshrined by the emperor, you are disrespectful to the emperor if you are disrespectful to me, do you want to behead all over the house?" Soon after, in a depressing atmosphere, there was a commotion outside the door, and a man shouted loudly.

Li Yuntian heard that it was Chen Ming who spoke, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, at this time, he remembered that Emperor Xuande was coming, why didn't he take Emperor Xuande to heart when he was greedy for the money to buy grain?

There is a reason why Chen Ming came so quickly, he drank with the officials of the Korean state in the Seoul workshop, because he had the money for the purchase of grain in his hands, so the officials of the Korean state all regarded him as the god of wealth, and served him with good wine and meat.

Hearing that Li Yuntian had rumored that he had gone to ask about military rations, Chen Ming ignored it at all, and continued to drink and laugh with the Korean officials present, both of whom were not only deputy envoys but also Li Yuntian was also a military attaché, and there was no need for him to sell Li Yuntian's account at all.

Seeing that Chen Ming was sitting there and didn't move, the guards stepped forward to take him away, and Chen Ming's entourage wanted to stop him, but they were soon guarded by the tall and sturdy prefect, and they could only watch Chen Ming being taken away scolding.

Seeing this situation, the officials of the Korean state at the scene looked at each other, and never expected that the deputy envoys of the two Ming missions would break out into conflicts, although there were soldiers of the Korean state guarding outside the door, but they were full of food and support to manage the internal affairs of the Ming envoys.

Chen Ming was already a little drunk at this time, and saw that those guards were rude to him, the dignified deputy envoy, which made him lose face in front of those Korean officials, so he scolded the guards along the way, and his words were full of threats.

Under the gaze of Li Yao, Liu Zhen and others, Chen Ming, who was full of wine and flushed, was brought to Li Yuntian, and after the guards holding Chen Ming let go, Chen Ming's feet stumbled and almost didn't fall, and he looked at Li Yuntian with a pair of drunken eyes and staggered, looking quite annoyed.

"Chief Chen, this official asked you, did all those military rations be bought?" Li Yuntian looked at him expressionlessly and asked in a deep voice.

"What are you, you dare to judge this official, but this official is the deputy envoy of the emperor's imperial order." Chen Ming sneered, stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Yuntian and said viciously, "You wait, your humiliation of the official today will definitely get justice after the official returns to Beijing." ”

"Come on, Director Chen is drunk, sober up Director Chen!" Seeing that Chen Ming was still showing off his martial arts when he was dying, Li Yuntian's eyes were cold, and he shouted coldly.

Hearing this, one of the guards immediately walked out of the room quickly, and when he came back, he was carrying a bucket full of cold water in his hand, and came straight to Chen Ming's side under the surprised gaze of everyone, and poured the cold water in the bucket from Chen Ming's head with a raised hand.

"It's cold!" Chen Ming's mind was groggy now, and his attention was on Li Yuntian's body, so he didn't notice the guard's actions at all, and only after the cold water was poured on him did he react, and couldn't help jumping up and shouting in his mouth.

Seeing this situation, Li Yao, Liu Zhen and the others looked at Chen Ming who was jumping there in amazement, with an unbelievable look on their faces, in their eyes Chen Ming was a high-ranking being, even if the king of Joseon saw it, he had to give three points of courtesy, but he was so wolf by Li Yuntian.

"Liu Fang, you actually humiliated this official in public, this official will definitely go to the emperor to sue you after returning to Beijing, you will wait to be punished." Being stimulated by the cold water like this, Chen Ming, who was originally a little confused, was suddenly completely drunk, stared at Li Yuntian with a wet face, and said with an annoyed face, he never imagined that Li Yuntian would dare to treat him like this.

With that, Chen Ming turned around and walked out the door, he was now wet and frozen to death, ready to find a place to change into clean clothes.

"Did the official let you go?" Seeing this, Li Yuntian frowned slightly, and said indifferently in his voice.

Hearing this, the guards standing at the door stepped forward and blocked Chen Ming's way, which made the atmosphere at the scene freeze in an instant, and at this time, everyone could see that Li Yuntian had made it clear that he wanted to check the military rations from Chen Ming.