Li Xuan, the prince of Linping, North Korea, was naturally very shocked, he didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty not only did not want to give Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei to his own Korean state, but also included Hamgyong Province in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty! Our Korean country has made great concessions to the Celestial Empire, and it stands to reason that the entire Liaodong is our land of Goryeo, and now we are just going back to Tieling Kangzhou, can't you even agree to this request? ”

Li Xuan, the prince of Linping, North Korea, shouted loudly, but Zhu Youzhen didn't bother to pay attention to him, and left the hall with his sleeves up.

The officials of the Ming Empire also left one after another, and they glanced at Li Xuan as if they wanted to see a joke.

And Li Xuan could only leave the hall angrily.

"Da Ming is really too domineering, not to mention the contempt, he is still unwilling to return the territory that belongs to us, and even occupy our territory! Why should such a suzerainty be honored! ”

A North Korean official who accompanied the envoy to Daming could not help but complain.

"Let's bear with it first, look at the tribute gifts, if the tribute gifts are rich, this will be put aside in advance, after all, the Ming Dynasty is not something we can provoke now."

North Korean envoy Li Xuan said.

Three days later, the Cabinet was ordered to give a banquet to the DPRK mission.

But the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen was absent.

Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet, was in charge of presiding over the banquet, but Ma Shiying only appeared in the middle of the banquet, and as soon as he appeared, he found the Korean envoy Li Xuan and said:

"Hamgyong Province is the Ming Dynasty's Hamxing Mansion, you go back and convey our Emperor's Majesty's decree to your Royal Highness, wait for the North Korean army and government to quickly evacuate Hamgyong Province, there must be no inhumane acts, the people can not move for the time being, the Ming Dynasty can unify them into Ming second-class citizens, the deadline is half a year to complete, if it is not done after half a year, the Ming Dynasty will use force! Do you remember clearly? This is an official letter from the Cabinet to your king, which is detailed. ”

The North Korean envoy Li Xuan was so angry that he could only suppress his anger at this time, gritted his teeth and asked Ma Shiying: "Elder Ma Ge, this gentleman wants to ask, is there any following about the gift?" ”

"Gifts? Do you want to give gifts? As soon as I came, I wanted to ask Your Majesty for land, which made Your Majesty feel very bad, where is Your Majesty still in the mood to give you gifts", Ma Shiying laughed.

"However, the tribute we pay is very valuable, you can't even give gifts, our trip itself is here to pay tribute!"

Li Xuan really couldn't help but roar, he didn't expect Daming to give Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei to him to North Korea now, but he had to guarantee that he could make more profits in the tribute, otherwise he really couldn't give an explanation to the king of North Korea.

"Watch your attitude! You, the prince of a vassal state, have the qualifications to talk like this to your own officials! If it weren't for the fact that your tribute was worth a lot of money, this official would have killed you right now! What is a tribute, that is, the vassal state presents a gift to the emperor of the suzerain, your tribute, our majesty can accept it is your glory, it is your great honor, what do you want, if you dare to be so rampant again, the next time you see you, it will not be this official, but the steel guns and cannons of my Ming army! ”

It was the first time for Ma Shiying to speak to someone in such an angry tone, and the North Korean envoy Li Xuan could only stare dryly at this time, and there was no way to fight back against Ma Shiying, so he could only leave with his sleeves up.

……

On the second day, the embarrassed and angry North Korean envoy Li Xuan was about to prepare to return to North Korea.

However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty still found him: "Other North Korean officials can leave the Ming Dynasty, but the Lord of Linping you can't leave, your mission still owes us 18,000 silver dollars, this is a good contract of arrears signed by yourself, you can send someone back to China to get money to redeem you, but you will no longer be a North Korean envoy during this time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not responsible for the expenses, you need to pay according to the price, of course, you can also choose to repay this debt by working in the Ming Dynasty." ”

"You, you", Li Xuan was very angry, but there was no way to take Daming, at this time, a North Korean official stood up and said: "I am willing to stay here instead of my lord." ”

"You're not qualified!" An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty said.

So, when the North Korean mission returned to North Korea, Li Xuan, the Grand Monarch of Linpyeong, did not go back.

……

After returning to Korea, the Korean officials who sent the Ming mission informed the Korean king Li Hao of what had happened in the Ming Dynasty.

When the king of Joseon heard this, Li Hao was furious: "Abominable Daming! It's just too deceitful! ”

"The territory of the Ming Dynasty is only the Guannei, Liaodong is our territory of North Korea, and now the Jianyu has just been jointly eliminated by us and the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is still unstable in Liaodong at this time, it is our best chance to recover Liaodong, the king, since the Ming Dynasty is unwilling to take the initiative to return, we might as well use force directly, in Liaodong, he Ming is only more than 100,000 troops, and they are scattered all over the place, and we have 300,000 troops in Hamgyong Province, why not take advantage of this to recapture Liaodong!"

At this time, a North Korean official suggested.

"But the Ming Dynasty is a strong country in the end, and I am afraid that he will use the strength of the whole country to conquer us," said the Korean king Yi Hao.

"Don't forget that the king has to deal with Mongolia and even the re-rising Jian, and then we can choose to negotiate with him, besides, is the king willing to be humiliated by the Jianyu and now humiliated by the Ming, as long as we raise the strength of the whole country to fight with the Ming, as long as we win, we can raise our heads."

As soon as the North Korean official said this, the North Korean official Li Hao couldn't help but make up his mind: "Okay, pass the order, immediately mobilize the army of Chen Bing Ping'an Road and Hamgyong Province, and prepare to conquer Liaodong!" ”

At this time, another North Korean official came over and said, "Your Majesty, the prince of Linping is still in Daming." ”

"Don't worry about him, whatever he does with Daming, Gu Zheng can't find a reason to oppose Daming, besides, the 18,000 silver dollars, Lone will not compensate him for Daming like this, it is Li Xuanhua's, let him Ming Emperor find Li Xuan to return it!"

After all, Li Xuan is Li Hao's brother and not son, so the Korean king doesn't care too much.

……

However, it is precisely because of this that Li Xuan stayed in Daming, and after Daming learned that the Joseon State had no intention of repaying the debt of 18,000 silver dollars, he let Li Xuan serve hard labor and repay the debt through labor.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also began to instruct the Generalissimo's Office to immediately prepare for the expansion of troops in the northeast to expand its interests in Korea, and at the same time prepare to extinguish the Japanese state.

But at this time, suddenly a rush from the South China Sea entered Beijing.

The express delivery was written by Gao Hongtu to Zhu Youzhen, and the content was: "As Your Majesty expected, there are quite a lot of Han people in Jinzhou, most of them are the people of Fujian since the Two Song Dynasty, but since March, instigated by the West, the aborigines of Jinzhou rioted and killed our Han people, and the Hongmao Fan in other regions directly slaughtered my Han people, villages and villages were slaughtered, and every family was burned. Especially Batavia! ”

(End of chapter)