Chapter Seventy-Six: A Youthful Boy

bellflower yo, bellflower yo, bellflower yo, bellflower yo

White bellflower grows all over the mountains

Just dig out one or two

You can fill a large basket to the brim

Ai hi Ai hi yo, Ai hi Ai hi yo, Ai hi yo

How beautiful, how cute

White bellflower grows all over the mountains

Zhu Youzhen rode on a horse and hummed a tuneless tune, making the woman in Tsing Yi who was guarding next to him laugh.

It only takes one day to travel from Penglai in Dengju to Pyongyang Province in Anrakju on the Korean Peninsula. Zhu Youzhen did not mean to alarm the old general Zhao Shujiao in Dengzhou. According to Zhu Youzhen's understanding of these old generals, even if they died in front of the emperor's horse, they had to persuade their own emperor to go back.

When he came out of Jingshi, he went straight to Dagukou, boarded the Gu family merchant ship that had been waiting here, and twelve large ships sailed quietly along the Shandong Peninsula to the vicinity of Penglai. With the brand of delivering goods for the royal family, after replenishing Shimizu vegetables in Penglai, he turned around and sailed to North Korea, where he landed in Yongsan Mansion, which was almost a three-way street. The most famous thing about Yongsan Province is that it has two rivers that flow into the sea, one is called the Yalu River and the other is called the Mud River.

Under the leadership of Yuan Chonghuan, 500 black-clothed officers and soldiers played the sign of the Four Seas Dart Bureau, and the other 500 were mixed in the merchant ranks of the Lai and Gu families. Zhu Youzhen's team turned into a huge Nanyang trading caravan. Just swaggered into Pyongyang Province.

Since talking to Sun Chengzong, Zhu Youzhen has been thinking about how to take the first step in the first year of Chongzhen.

He rummaged through all the information about Houjin in the palace, and verified countless times with Man Gui, Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chengzong and others, and then relied on his own experience and memories of this period of history, Zhu Youzhen knew that his first year of Chongzhen was also an important year for Huang Taiji of Houjin.

Huang Taiji needs to quickly prove his ability to stabilize the internal rule of the Later Jin, so as to carry out an almost reckless conquest, in fact, the economic crisis of the Later Jin at this time is more severe than that of the Ming Dynasty.

A good ruler needs to be able to draw cakes, but not only cakes. Under the temptation of lofty ideals and interests, one victory after another is the magic weapon that can best prove yourself and the team.

Accumulate small victories into big victories, and turn space into time. At this point, Huang Taiji did almost not do a single thing. Zhu Youzhen knows that the time and trend are on Huang Taiji's side and not on his side. He knew that no matter how faithful his ministers and advisors were, they would not understand this. That's the difficulty of the Boss Empire.

But the boss empire is still the boss empire, and the Ming Dynasty is not what Huang Taiji can hope for this year.

His eyes were on Mongolia and North Korea.

In the winter of this year, Hwang Tae-gil will send Amin to North Korea for the first time, and the almost overwhelming offensive not only broke the courage of the North Koreans, but also further stimulated the pride and bloodiness of Hou Kim. It was also widely rumored that Man Wan was invincible in this year. That is, this year, North Korea began to pay tribute to Houjin with silver and grain, and became a continuous supply depot for Houjin. As a result, this war further established the momentum of the faction that supported Huang Taiji.

By next year and the year after, Duoyan, Taining and Fuyu, the three guards of Wuliangha, almost surrendered without a fight, and the arrogant Lin Danhan even lost the courage to meet Huang Taiji. Three years later, he fled westward without hesitation, and finally contracted smallpox and died in the Qinghai grassland. Then Chahar dedicated the heirloom jade seal to Dolgon, and since then, the golden family has completely withdrawn from the stage of history.

This set of combination punches is as continuous as a cloud of water in the same industry.

On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty, like a rigid giant, gathered enough strength, and finally lifted a punch but smashed it on the open ground, being teased by monkeys one by one, clumsily turning the seemingly huge, but in fact empty body inside, facing small insects flying from countless directions.

What Zhu Youzhen had to do now was to put the giant's colic on hold, and then sit upright in Liaodong, staring at Houjin with huge eyes. Then the soul went out of body to operate the steppe and North Korea, and let the monkeys lie on Hou Jin's back.

As long as he can survive his life, then it will be the time to transform this giant.

While thinking, Zhu Youzhen, who was chewing on the sweet grass root, staggered on his horse and marched among the mountains of April in North Korea.

The carriage of the brigade behind walked very slowly, and Zhu Youzhen, who was riding lightly and in simple clothes, did not dare to run too far. Turning a mountain road, he saw a mountain spring flowing down from the high place on the side of the cliff, splashing down in a small pool of water, and he couldn't help jumping off his horse, ready to rest here for a while.

Accompanying Zhu Youzhen was Dong Chaopu, who was blind in one eye, dressed as a groom next to the young shopkeeper. Ever since he learned that His Majesty the Emperor was going to take him with him, Dong Chaopu had almost received a lot of chatter and all-encompassing support from Jinyiwei, Dongchang and the military. Now, in addition to Lai Shunzhi and Chen Zilong around him, there are more than a dozen good players and eight women in Tsing Yi who Dong Chaopu specially asked from Jinyiwei. At the same time, Dong Chaopu also believed that General Yuan Chonghuan behind him would never just let his Emperor Majesty act casually. That's why I asked easily:

"The owner is going to rest?"

"Let's camp here today." Although Zhu Youzhen's trip to North Korea seems to be out of the ordinary, in fact, he knows that he has piled up almost all the resources he can use around him. Even so, he pursued only a little space for free movement within the maximum permissible limits of his entourage.

After all, if you get away with it, it's not a good thing for anyone.

"Go and help Master Yue." For the sake of North Korea's affairs, Zhu Youzhen also transferred Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui, to his side. Poor Governor Yue was ready to return to Beijing to report on his work, thinking that he would be able to go to the next level, but who would have thought that as soon as he arrived in Beijing, he was pulled onto the boat by His Majesty the Emperor and ran to this remote place in one breath.

Fortunately, along the way, Zhu Youzhen chatted with Yue Hesheng a few times about the grassland and Mongolia, but it also made the governor who handled the Mongolian border trade for the Ming Dynasty a little bit familiar with the style of His Majesty today, and slowly adapted and warmed up.

"Zhu Gongzi, looking at this green pine and mountain spring, there is a little bit of a hybrid style of Saibei and Jiangnan." This Jinshi from the south of the Yangtze River has eaten the wind and sand in Yansui for ten years, and his dreams are all the scenery of his hometown.

Just when the two of them were enjoying the scenery, several women in Tsing Yi quickly unloaded their equipment from their horses, and after a while, a few seats covered with felt blankets were set up, and Zhu Youzhen beckoned Yue Hesheng and a few people to sit down. Watch a woman in Tsing Yi pick up a pine tower that fell on the ground and make a fire to cook tea.

"This is also a frontier place, if this scenery is in the Central Plains, I don't know how many masterpieces there are." Yue Hesheng squinted his eyes and took a sip of hot tea, and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhu Youzhen said with a smile:

"If everyone has this thought, and everything good wants to be branded with the name of the Ming Dynasty, I will be relieved." There are no outsiders in this place, and Zhu Youzhen even saw that a few young men under Dong Chaopu had climbed to the top of the cliff, so he said casually.

"I sometimes don't understand, what does it mean to keep my eyes on the three walnuts and two melon seeds in my hands? Come to the shopkeeper, do you say that's the truth? ”

Bow to Shun:

"The proprietor has a point. The grass people ............" looked at Zhu Youzhen and glared at him, and quickly changed his words and said:

"I also stayed in Nanyang, where the green sandalwood, red sandalwood, and red sandalwood were like miscellaneous trees in the Central Plains, building houses, rough and unable to enter the eyes of people, but there was nothing to be done. Sometimes when I travel on the ocean by boat, I can feel the vastness of the world, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, the ancients have never deceived me. ”

Zhu Youzhen put down the teacup and nodded on the folded square table. That's what he said:

"One day, the army of the Ming Dynasty will also go over to have a look, and I will also go over to have a look."