Xiao Ming was ready to withdraw his troops and return to China, but Goryeo began to make trouble here, because Xiao Ming said that Jiang Handan, the great Dazai Prince of Goryeo, was old and confused! To establish a position of military supervisor to assist Yijong Yi Min-bak in governing Goryeo, Kang Hand-chan's position as the great dazai was stripped of it, but no further disciplinary measures were taken.

The reason why Jiang Handan was not punished was because Xiao Ming still valued Jiang Handzan's ability to handle political affairs, and he needed Jiang Handan to continue to exert influence, if his forces were completely dispersed now, the situation in Goryeo might be even more chaotic, and he needed to support a political force in Goryeo that could contain Dajin State.

After the news came out, the court of Goryeo was in chaos, and the position of the military superintendent was equivalent to a person who held military power, and the existence above the Privy Council, which was second only to Li Minbo in Goryeo, so there were those who waited and watched, those who were eager to try, those who secretly lamented that their strength was not good, and those who were determined to win, and many people were in tandem at the bottom, wanting to elect a person who could protect their vested interests to come to power.

For these people, Xiao Ming can't look down on anyone, he already has the most suitable candidate, this person is Taichang Temple Zhengqing Park Yongqing, Park Yongqing is the first person to take refuge in himself, and he is also the person who came up with his idea to raise money for Li Minbo to Xiao Ming, this person looks loyal and honest, but he has a very good eye, knows how to read words and feelings, Xiao Ming is very satisfied with him.

But this person couldn't get Han Shizhong's favor, he said to Xiao Ming: "The second son is loyal on the outside and treacherous on the inside, but he is actually a big traitor, and he is the same as the Liang master of the Great Song Dynasty, and the big commander should be killed!" Han Shizhong has always hated several eunuchs above the Great Song Dynasty, such as Liang Shicheng, Yang Jian, Li Yan, Tong Guan and others, believing that these people are the main culprits who caused the chaos of the Great Song Dynasty.

But Xiao Ming doesn't think so, the more treacherous Park Yongqing is, the easier it is to control, because his little heart is not enough for Xiao Ming to see, and with the help of this person, Jiang Handzan's power will be restricted, and he must support such a person in Goryeo, if no one restricts Jiang Handzan's power, then Goryeo Kingdom cannot become a pawn in Xiao Ming's hands involving Jin Guo!

As a result, Xiao Ming successively found Li Minbo and Park Yongqing, and after passing the nomination of the two old ministers of the Inner History Gate Province and the Shangshudu Province, Li Minbo officially issued a decree to appoint Park Yongqing as the military superintendent of the military state, with full responsibility for the military power of the Goryeo State, and Jiang Handan's Dazai authority was only left with domestic political affairs, and his power was greatly weakened.

In fact, there is also a very important force active in the political arena of Goryeo, that is, Buddhist monks, there are also a large number of monk activities in the court, Goryeo's Buddhism has been baptized by the Central Plains culture since the Tang Dynasty, but it was not until the Khitan Liao State began to preach Buddhism that the Goryeo Kingdom ushered in the rapid development of Buddhism.

Goryeo Buddhists were highly respected by the royal family and nobles, and the monasteries had monks and soldiers, and there were groups of slaves, and many good people became untouchables after being oppressed and bankrupted by the government, and most of them would go to the monasteries to become slaves, because in comparison, Buddhist monasteries treated them relatively humanely.

Even Yizong Li Minbo had a monk named Yuan Hui, which shows the influence of Buddhism on Goryeo at that time, and many of the monks' remarks and ideas affected the government of Goryeo, so these people should not be underestimated, so Xiao Ming adopted a method of wooing them.

The method is very simple, that is, he lent a set of extremely precious Buddhist treasures to the monks, speaking of this set of Buddhist treasures, it is still Xiao Ming in Shangjing to raid the palace of Bana Tie in Kailong Temple, the set of engraved Tripitaka that he found, he has already let people secretly send it to Tokyo, this set of things lent to the Goryeo monks to play a role, Xiao Ming did not expect.

Because they were only lent to them and asked them to make a copy of the original carving, the entire Goryeo Buddhist community was shaken, and the monks were honored to complete the engraving, which not only allowed a large amount of money from the various monasteries to flow into Xiao Ming's pockets, but also weakened their interest in court politics.

At that time, the craftsmen of the Goryeo handicraft industry were very famous, and the things they made were very exquisite, but they could not be popular among the people, but the craftsmen of various government offices, and then there were many craftsmen raised by the families of the royal family.

The huge project of imitating the Tripitaka directly caused the opening up between the craftsmen of various families, so that a large number of craftsmen flowed into the people, and promoted the development of the entire Goryeo handicraft industry, so that these craftsmen even turned the clay movable type in Bi Sheng's movable type printing into metal characters in advance, which is simply a pioneering feat.

After completely solving the Goryeo problem, Xiao Ming decided to return to China, Yelu Yungu and Han Shizhong led 20,000 cavalry north to Pyongyang, and then decided to garrison Sinuiju, and Xiao Ming took more than 1,000 Weihai Huwei to help the war to Haizhou in the northwest corner of Inju, which is the port on the west bank of Goryeo, from here he was ready to take a boat back to Weihai first.

The new army followed Han Shizhong and Yelu Yungu to the north, escorting the gold that Xiao Ming plundered from Goryeo, as well as all kinds of treasures and good things, these things were not so much robbed by Xiao Ming, but rather given to him by others, the most of which turned out to be ginseng, there were several large boxes, these are precious medicinal materials, and they are also precious raw materials for Xiao Ming to build a pharmaceutical factory!

The guards mercenaries also followed Xiao Ming to conquer Goryeo this time, but they basically had nothing to do, they were all soy sauce characters from beginning to end, except for being the instructors of the new army, they even had very little training, they were eating Haisai every day, and their bodies were fat, Alima had a big headache, and some of them had diarrhea after eating cold noodles! Since following Xiao Ming, he has only fought a few battles when he put down the rebellion in Nanjing and conquered the Western Xia Kingdom in the west, and now there is basically no war to fight.

But to say a word of conscience, these people are all full of money, and after a long time, some people are inevitably a little homesick, so Alima found Xiao Ming several times and wanted to terminate the employment agreement, but Xiao Ming refused, and he reassured everyone: "I will be able to let them return to the Western Regions soon!" ”

No one knows when Xiao Ming will fulfill his promise, he has too many things to do now, but how can he let go of this pro-army team, especially that Ashley River, this is an important clue in the "Golden City"!

After Xiao Ming arrived in Haizhou with everyone, they were greeted by merchant ships from the Weihai base, because the traces of pirates were recently found in Shandong coastal areas and other places, Zhang Shuye left Gu's treasure ship in Weihai, and cooperated with several warships of the Great Song Dynasty Navy Division to prepare to suppress bandits, so Xiao Ming could only take a merchant ship.

Three merchant ships carrying more than 1,000 soldiers sailed east, and arrived at Bailing Island half a day later! Because it was still early, Xiao Ming ordered the merchant ships to continue sailing westward, and when they didn't travel long, the sky was overcast, the north wind was howling, and the sudden north wind blew very violently, and the boat boss had to report to Xiao Ming that he couldn't sail now, and he needed to avoid the wind for a while, should he turn around and go back to Bailing Island?

At this time, the wind has become more and more fierce, the ship's route can no longer be found, Xiao Ming has no choice, so he has to order to return, the boatman on the dark sea is laboriously adjusting the sails, these three ships are sail-powered ships, and now they are almost blown by the wind on the sea!

After a long day of busy work, the appearance of a land island finally appeared on the sea in front of him, and the boat boss hurriedly sailed the boat over, but when he got closer, he realized that this was not Bailing Island, but a relatively small island, but he didn't know what it was called, and at this time the wind stopped, and snowflakes the size of rice grains began to float in the sky.

The boss of the boat complained bitterly, if the temperature drops sharply at this time, I don't know if the sea will be frozen, and the ship will not be able to move at all at that time, Xiao Ming knows that the sea here is basically not very frozen, after all, it is still above the Yellow Sea, but the temperature has dropped very much, and he muttered.

Just when everyone was at a loss, suddenly the person in charge of the lookout shouted: "There are ships ahead, and many ships are frozen!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and if they were trapped on the sea now, they could only land on foot first, but at this time, the person who shouted just now said: "No, what are they fighting ...... naval battle!" ”

When Xiao Ming heard this, he hurriedly took out his binoculars and looked in the direction of the naval battle, only to see that there was really a naval battle on the sea in the distance, where were more than a dozen ships, and one of them was very familiar with a big ship, wasn't that the Gu family's treasure ship? Xiao Ming rubbed his eyes, and looked at it again, yes, it was indeed the Gu family's treasure ship! As soon as I saw the appearance of the ship clearly, I only heard "Bang bang!" There was a loud bang, and the fire in the distance flashed, and the Gu family's treasure ship fired!

And the battle with the Gu family's treasure ship is almost all smaller fishing boats, the steering is very flexible, but it was still hit by artillery, in the explosion, fragments flew in all directions, and then a raging fire ignited, these boats originally wanted to rush over to stick to the boat to help the white-knuckle fight, but they were very smart, and they turned the fishing boat on fire and collided with the Gu treasure boat.

Gu's treasure boat is a steam-powered fast boat, which could have been easily dodged, but it didn't dodge at all, but hit it straight over, Xiao Ming knew that the hull of Gu's treasure boat was very high, although it was a wooden hull, but it was covered with a layer of iron outside, and there were collision angles below the waterline, so he was not afraid of such a fishing boat collision at all.

Sure enough, after the two boats collided, the fishing boat on fire fell apart, Gu Shibao's boat was a dent and abrasion on the side edge of the bow of the boat, and the black smoke of the hull gently swung under the gun, and aimed the muzzle at other fishing boats, after firing again, it did not hit, but the splash set off by the cannonball was very huge, and the waves more than three meters high slapped over, and the people on the fishing boat suddenly panicked.

Seeing that it was not an opponent, the remaining fishing boats all turned around and rushed towards the island, and soon stopped their boats in a place where there were rocky reefs, and more than 2,000 people ran out of the boats one after another, all of whom were short-dressed, some wrapped in animal skins, some wrapped their heads, and looked fierce!

When Xiao Ming and the others saw people, these people had all gone ashore, and the Gu family's treasure ship chased after them with three smaller warships, but they didn't dare to enter the rocky reef, so they stopped, as if to discuss countermeasures, Gu Xiaoliu beside Xiao Ming asked, "What are they doing here?" Who are the people who are fighting with our ships? ”

Xiao Ming said: "Who else can it be?" Pirates! ”

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