It turned out that Hashimoto, Yamashita, Yamamoto and Inoue, the four masters selected by the Japanese Mission, were covered by others and rushed out of the Sifang Pavilion and took advantage of the chaotic situation to run out of Tongjibo and to the neighboring Huairenbo.

They carried not only the confidential information of Da Zheng that they had stolen, but also some information obtained from contact with the North Korean mission.

When the domestic army gathers in Sasebo, it is about to conquer Korea again. This intelligence support is urgently needed.

Although the plan to use the tribute to damage the relationship between Dazheng and North Korea and prevent the Dazheng Navy from aiding North Korea was unsuccessful, it also lost a senior intelligence officer who had been lurking in Dazheng for more than ten years. But Inoue, the real head of the mission, felt that it was all worth it to be able to get this precious information.

Originally, they planned to steal some clothes and food from Huairenfang and sneak out of Shenjing. However, the swiftness of the Da Zheng government's response was beyond their expectations, and shortly after arriving at Huairenfang, Huairenfang was completely closed.

There was no way, so Inoue led the four of them to break into a house in Huairenfang.

But even an ordinary Zheng person would not be afraid of the Japanese people. There was only one young couple living in that house.

The young man did not hesitate to take up arms to resist, but how could an ordinary person be an opponent of four high-ranking samurai. Even if that man is more than a head taller than the four widows.

Looking at the man lying in a pool of blood, the four widows completely broke out and ruined the young daughter-in-law again.

By the time they had calmed down completely, both of them were dead.

It went completely out. Inoue, who had been to Da Zheng three times, knew. The Zheng people are a very strange people, especially their nobility.

Maybe those nobles themselves don't take their commoners seriously from the bottom of their hearts, but if they are killed by their so-called vassals like themselves, the Zheng people will definitely not die.

This place cannot be stayed for long, this is Inoue's first judgment. That's why he sent the three of Hashimoto out to find out if there was a passage to leave Huairenfang, but unfortunately, they couldn't find it.

However, Inoue was disappointed and inadvertently turned his head, but it made him excited.

On the other side, after Jia Lian successively met with the envoys of England, France and Portugal, he finally found a clue of their true purpose from the words of the three envoys.

Except for the vassal states around Dazheng and the surrounding vassal states protected by Dazheng, the known areas of the world have basically been divided up by the five countries.

According to the conversations with the envoys of the Three Kingdoms, Jia Lian can already determine that although Chinese history has changed, world history is still advancing tenaciously according to the inherent laws.

For example, this year is the seventh year of Longzheng, and Liaodong at this time is the eighteenth year of Kangxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, 1679 AD.

It has been nearly 200 years since Columbus discovered America, and it has been almost 60 years since the Mayflower arrived in North America.

North and South America and southern Africa are already littered with colonizers' footprints. The Middle East and North Africa became a paradise for Arabs.

With the exception of Australia, which has not yet been discovered, only the Far East is left in the world that is still under the rule of Westerners.

So, now, the Western colonizers are looking to the Far East. They felt that it should be better to engage with civilized Chinese than crazy Arabs.

So these countries are here to try to reach out to China this time to see if Da Zheng can make them gain something in the business field.

If not, then we have to see if we can get something from Da Zheng by force.

For example, more open trade, lower tax rates, more trade opportunities.

Western businessmen always hated the business that monopolized Dazheng's foreign trade. Although they were able to trade in the twelve port cities along the coast of Dazheng through this association, the profits plummeted after the Zheng people took over.

Of course, the Westerners also wanted to send envoys to Shenjing in Dazheng, and at the same time asked Dazheng Tianzi to allow them to live, live, and preach in Dazheng.

After the Portuguese envoy Markov left, Jia Lian did not continue to meet with the envoys of Spain and the Netherlands, but asked Wei Xu to tell the envoys of various countries to rest patiently, and the problem of the Sifang Pavilion would be resolved as soon as possible.

After all, the plans of Westerners are basically clear, similar to what Magorny said, and of course there are indeed plans to go further. It doesn't matter, Jia Lian feels that with Da Zheng's strength now, he can handle it.

The next step is to meet the North Koreans.

"Li Ning, the minister of the DPRK, has seen the Lord of the Celestial Empire."

Jia Lian raised his head and looked at the North Korean in front of him. It turned out to be a prime minister, such a figure easily left the country, and it seems that the situation in North Korea is indeed very dangerous.

The Japanese slave state planned to make a move against North Korea, which Jia Lian had known for a long time. As he had experienced in his previous life, the Unu had always dreamed of "going ashore" by conquering Korea, and then conquering Liaodong and even the whole of Dazheng.

Although it does not have the same complete thinking as the late Qing Dynasty in the previous life, its ambitions for North Korea have swelled.

During the reign of Xiaozong of the previous dynasty, the Unu people had crossed the Unu Sea into Korea, but they were defeated by Jiang Feng, the Liaodong economic envoy of the former dynasty at that time.

During the Shunde period of this dynasty, the Japanese slave state also planned to attack Korea again. However, he encountered strong sniping from the Dazheng Donghai Fleet in the Unou Sea.

Not only was the sea-crossing force almost completely annihilated, but Emperor Taizu also sent envoys to personally enter Edo to hold the Japanese shogun accountable.

Since then, the Japanese have not dared to act without permission for decades. But now, it seems that the Japanese people can't help it again.

However, what worries Jia Lian is that the DPRK and China seem to have some objections to aiding the DPRK.

Two years ago, Northern Xinjiang won a great victory, and the prestige of the nobles soared. The ministers were very worried that if the aid to Korea was won again, the goal of restricting the martial arts that had been diligently pursued by generations of scholars for decades would fail.

So this time, even Lin Ruhai and Chen Menglei are on Wenchen's side, but Jia Lian must be on Wuxun's side.

And obviously, this time, Emperor Longzheng seems to want Jia Lian to pierce this layer of window paper.

"The prime minister came all the way to Shenjing, but what happened in China?"

Li Ning was the uncle of Li Xi, the king of the Li Dynasty of Korea, and was considered the regent of Joseon. This time, the Japanese slaves were fierce and wanted to invade Korea.

Li Ning knew very well that North Korea's own national strength would never be able to resist the Japanese slaves.

Fortunately, this year is the year of the tributary Zheng Tianzi, and the great Zheng has an agreement with the vassal state, and the year of the tribute is over. Whoever dares to use troops in the year of the tributary Son of Heaven is an offense to the Celestial Empire.

Therefore, Li Ning arranged domestic affairs and rushed to Shenjing City non-stop.

If the suzerains cannot be persuaded to mediate or support, North Korea will be in danger.

So as soon as he heard Jia Lian's question, Li Ning knelt in front of Jia Lian with a plop.

"Your Excellency, North Korea has done its best to serve the kingdom and does not dare to ignore it at any time. Now, in disregard of the majesty of the kingdom, the Japanese slaves have brazenly gathered heavy troops to invade our territory.

Our king is worried, once Korea is lost, how can the face of the kingdom be saved.

The old minister implored the kingdom to send troops to aid Korea as it did during the Shunde period, and once the Japanese slaves were repulsed, our country would be preserved. Korea is willing to be the eastern barrier of the kingdom forever. ”

Jia Lian looked at the old man in front of him with a faint gaze, and asked lightly: "Before the prime minister came to Shenjing, had he been to Shenyang?" ”