Chapter 268: Scenery
The dignified Pingshan Jiedu envoy, in North Korea, is also a famous military general, holding great power, can follow Zhang Ke to Daming, and the person who matches the bridge is Mao Wenlong.
Zhang Ke and Mao Wenlong have not been in contact for a long time, but they discovered that this Mao Dashuai has extraordinary skills, in short, he can collect intelligence.
Whether it is within the Ming court, or Jiannu, North Korea, or even Mongolia, he will come as soon as he opens his mouth, although due to his low status, he may not know accurately, but all kinds of insights make Zhang Ke dumbfounded.
It is no wonder that this man can maneuver around the complex Phi Dao and Jiannu in the lonely overseas, and the extra-long intelligence processing ability is Mao Wenlong's biggest advantage, and Zhang Ke has figured out the current situation in North Korea from his mouth.
If it is said that North Korea is probably the most like the subject country of the Ming Dynasty, it is also full of internal parties, internal fighting, and at the same time, internal and external troubles, and chaos.
At present, the king of Korea is Gwanghaejun Li Hui, frankly speaking, Li Hui is a monarch who has made a difference, especially after the Imjin War, Gwanghaejun ascended the throne, drastically reformed, and introduced the Datong Law, exempting the landless people from paying taxes, and only the landlords paid grain.
However, like a small country in later generations, North Korea does not have the strength to control its own destiny, and with the rise of wild boar skins, North Korea has to face difficult choices.
The measures taken by Li Hui are to curry favor with both sides, disobey Ming Chaoyang, and hook up with the old slave. In all fairness, there is nothing wrong with a tightrope strategy, on the contrary, it is more in line with North Korea's interests.
But don't forget, the Imchen Rebellion was the Ming Dynasty who helped North Korea, and there was the grace of reconstruction, and the moral quality of the North Koreans at this time was enough to make future generations embarrassed.
Civil officials and scholars generally believed that they should repay their kindness and not be a little disloyal to the Celestial Empire. Therefore, public opinion is very unfavorable to Li Hui.
Listen to Mao Wenlong's introduction. Zhang Ke couldn't help but be dumbfounded, he didn't expect North Korea to be so caring and loyal. Immediately Zhang Ke became interested.
"General Mao, North Korea is on the flank of Jiannu, if it can be pulled to the side of the Ming Dynasty, it will be a great help. Li Hui is so uninteresting. Can you kill him and support the royal family loyal to the Ming Dynasty to come to power?"
A coup d'état!
Mao Wenlong was also taken aback, and said in his heart that this Master Zhang is really bold, and he dares to fight any calculation. But if you think about it, North Korea is just a small state, and it's not a big deal.
"Master Zhang. He happened to know Li Gui, the envoy of the Pingshan Festival in North Korea, and when he heard that this person had long been dissatisfied with Li Hui, he was willing to win him over."
It was Mao Wenlong who made the match, and Li Gui met Zhang Ke, and at first Li Gui couldn't afford to write about this down-and-out general soldier. However, for the sake of the face of the Celestial Empire, he still helped arrange the ship and send Zhang Ke and them back to China.
But after three days, a scene that made Li Gui dumbfounded appeared.
Just off the coast of Phi Island, sixty or seventy huge ships sailed by, the black pressure covered the sky and the sun, and the huge fortune ships were like giants on the sea. North Korean boats are simply not much better than fishing boats.
The boatman who carried fresh food opened his mouth wide one by one, and even forgot to breathe!
It wasn't until this moment that Li Gui really understood what it meant to be a skinny camel bigger than a horse. The heritage of the Celestial Empire is not at all comparable to that of a small North Korea!
Looking at Li Gui's saliva flowing out of the three-foot soil bun, Zhang Ke was secretly proud. These ships are not the official ships of the Ming Dynasty, but the fleet left by Jin Wanguan. After Zhang Ke took over, he continued to expand, and even spent a lot of money to buy large ships from the southeast, which was specifically responsible for trade with Japan. That is, to take gold and silver!
Zhang Ke plans to return to China by sea, even if the time for the return voyage is accurate. A special notice was arranged for the clippers, and sure enough, the large fleet was welcomed. I heard that a ship was coming, and the dock was blocked in an instant.
"Daming's ship!"
"It's our caravan!"
The Yizhou soldiers cheered loudly and burst into tears with excitement. There's nothing more exciting than seeing your fleet.
Zhang Ke stepped on the springboard and got on the boat, and in front of him, a thin and tall figure suddenly appeared, with a pair of bright eyes full of tears, staring at Zhang Ke tightly, reluctant to blink.
Zhang Ke was suddenly a little stunned, and said in horror: "Why are you?"
Fang Yunqing held back her tears, threw herself into Zhang Ke's arms, and hugged her strong body hard. Tears fell on Zhang Ke's chest, and she whispered softly: "It's good that you're still alive!"
Raising his long neck, looking at Zhang Ke's weather-beaten face, Fang Yunqing stroked it with trembling fingertips.
"Do you know, when I heard about Liaodong and that you were trapped in a foreign country, people's hearts were broken!"
Some things always have to be lost to know how to cherish them, Fang Yunqing was always awkward to Zhang Ke in the past, separated by a membrane. In the past few days, she heard about the Liaodong fiasco, and her heart and liver were taken away in an instant, and the pain was piercing her heart. She may never see that annoying guy again, Fang Yunqing looked at the vast sea blankly for two days in a row.
The people around him were frightened, for fear that the female shopkeeper would not be able to think about it. Finally, the clipper who delivered the letter came, bringing Zhang Ke's news, and Fang Yunqing's tears could no longer be stopped......
At this time, there are still people who throw themselves into their arms, Lao Tzu is destined to be entangled with women in this life, Zhang Ke thought.
"Don't cry, the sea breeze is strong, if you blow your little face out, it won't look good!"
"If you have no conscience, you care so much about your skin?"
"I care more, but I have to dig deeper!" Zhang Ke said and picked up Fang Yunqing's long legs, and strode into the cabin with her in his arms......
The big ships are mainly loaded with gold and silver from Japan, as well as some special products such as sulfur swords, and each ship is still more than half empty, enough to load 5,000 men and horses, and the Ming army is happy to get on the ship. [,! Li Gui's eyes rolled back and forth.
"Lord Zhang, the foreign official wants to make a pilgrimage to the Celestial Empire to express my country's gratitude, and I also ask my lord to help!"
Twenty or thirty years have passed since the joint anti-Japanese war, and Li Gui's words are just an excuse. But Zhang Ke didn't break it, he just needed to win over North Korea. In this way, Li Gui followed Zhang Ke across the ocean and returned to Daming.
"General Li, the Holy Lord has made a decree to welcome this official into Beijing. However, there are some petty people who have ill intentions, and they always doubt the achievements of their own officials, and I don't know if General Li is willing to speak up?"
Li Gui blurted out without hesitation: "Of course I do. The elite soldiers and horses of the adults are unparalleled in the world, and in the future, our country will have to rely on the protection of the adults to compete with the old chief."
"Very good, General Li, you can rest assured. Since then, we have been our best allies, with our own officials, North Korea is as safe as Mount Tai! "
A month and a half has passed since the Liaodong fiasco, and the Ming Dynasty has been hit hard from top to bottom, scarred one by one. The young students put aside the eight strands of the current text and began to open their eyes to this flowery era.
What happened to the Ming Dynasty? I was bullied by a group of wild people. What is the face of the Celestial Empire!
The strong sense of humiliation made everyone almost crazy, and everyone kept scolding, from the border generals to the Zaifu of the dynasty. Everybody's got a head......
Nanzhili's literary style is at its peak, the most scholars, and their hall in Beijing is also the largest, and every year of Dabi, there are three or five hundred scholars to come. Add to that the number of people from other places who come to ask for advice, and the number is even more staggering.
On this day, the scholars from the southeastern provinces gathered again in the Nanzhili Hall, and there was a thin Confucian standing in the middle of everyone. Speaking with a Fujian accent and speaking generously.
"All of you present have been studying hard for ten years and have passed the test at every level. Became a lifting man. I will try it next year, and I don't know how many virtuous heroes will jump into the dragon gate and become the pillars of the Ming Dynasty! There is a way that the monarch is honored, the monarch is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the monarch is humiliated and the minister dies! At present, the Ming Dynasty has defeated the old chieftain, and the mountains and rivers are broken. Li Min is miserable, as a scholar. Can you just sit idly by?"
"Of course not, but what can we do?"
"That's a good question! I build yì everyone co-signed a book of 10,000 words. Ask the Holy Lord to severely punish the guilty ministers, select and train elite soldiers, rectify the nine sides, and use the Ming billion trillion Li Shu, can't you still pacify the old chief! "
"Well said, I don't know who the criminal is?"
"Of course, it is Zhang Ke, the chief soldier who fears the enemy and avoids the war, He Shixian and others, as a military attache who guards the country, he can't die in a martyrdom, but he steals his life, the law of the country can tolerate it, and the sky of the sky can tolerate it!"
Huang Daozhou roared hoarsely, and suddenly ushered in a cheer, many scholars present were enthusiastic, and they all picked up their pens and signed the book of ten thousand words, and some even broke their fingers and became famous with blood letters.
For a while, the crowd was excited, but there were people who were out of place.
In the corner, a big stout man suddenly stood up and sneered.
"Saying that he is a scholar, is he so indistinguishable from wrong, and does not know right and wrong, it really makes people laugh!"
"Lu Xiangsheng, what's funny about you?" Someone shouted a rebuke.
Lu Xiangsheng was not afraid at all, and laughed loudly: "Haven't you heard that Lord Zhang Ke and Zhang fought in a bloody battle in the Hunhe River and killed more than 10,000 Jiannu, and the Holy Lord has made a decree to let Lord Shoufu personally go out of the city to greet him. Wouldn't you laugh at the tens of thousands of words you have written here! "
"What?"
All the scholars present looked at each other, not believing their ears at all.
Huang Daozhou even stood up and rebuked loudly: "Nonsense, if Zhang Ke really killed so many Jiannu, how could he be defeated?"
"I don't want to fight with you, Lord Zhang will enter Beijing tomorrow, you can go and see it!"
After Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, he turned around and left, and the scholars present looked at each other, not daring to believe it, but they didn't dare to deny it...... As a result, the Book of Ten Thousand Words was no longer signed.
The next day, ten miles away from the Anding Gate, Ye Xianggao led the Manchu Dynasty civil and military lords and waited here, three steps and a post along the way, five steps and a sentry, on both sides of the color shed, flowers and branches, red and green, through the incomparable festivity.
But if you look at all the adults, no one has a good face, and a few of them are even more like eating people.
It was almost noon that the Yizhou soldiers from afar came slowly.
Ye Xianggao spit out a few words from between his teeth: "Go, greet the old man."
When the two sides met, they stared at each other, without the slightest joy of returning to the dynasty in victory. After half a minute on the street, Ye Xiang Gaocai said: "Mr. Zhang, the old man of the Holy Order will welcome you into Beijing and lead the horse for you!"
The last four words bit extra hard, Zhang Ke suddenly didn't feel the anger in the old man's eyes, accepted it calmly, and said with a smile: "Yuan Weng, Zhang has an injury, please help me get on the horse!"
Immediately, the civil officials present were furious, but He Shixian and the others were so beautiful that they had snot bubbles, and Zhang Ke could say it.
"You!" Ye Xianggao's nose is crooked, what a rampant boy, the old man won't let you be complacent for too long! (To be continued)