The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 375 The Best Ranch in the World
In March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Ming court summoned the Korean envoy.

In mid-March, when Ding Yi held the Dongjiang Zhenying Meeting in Pidao, he happened to receive the envoy from North Korea. The North Korean said with a little humility that because of the order of the Ming Dynasty, we will not give food in the future.

It turns out that the Ming Dynasty gave North Korea [-] catties of sulfur and nitrate every year. Recently, the Ming court summoned the court envoys and said that they would not give them.

All the generals in Pidao yelled at the scene.

Ding Yi waved his hand, motioning everyone to be silent, and said, this is the intention of the court officials, we should obey the court's order.

Ding Yi's face darkened when the North Korean envoy came and left.

Someone yelled at the side, if the North Koreans don't give it, we will get it ourselves.

Beat his mother, beat North Korea, many people are calling for beat North Korea.

The generals tasted the sweetness in the fight against Japan, and they got millions of taels of silver alone. The Pandora's box of war has been completely opened.

Soon the audience was scolding North Korea and wanted to fight North Korea.

Ding Yi just shook his head and kept sighing, looking at Zhao Dashan from the corner of his eye.

Zhao Dashan in the crowd suddenly shouted angrily: "The imperial court is immoral, cross the river and demolish the bridge."

"At the beginning, when the adults were stationed in Lushun, they could hoard land and build castles. Now we have just planted some fruits. First, we collected wages, and now we are cutting off North Korea's food. What is this for? Are you trying to drive us to a dead end?"

Shen Shikui rolled his eyes, and immediately yelled: "It's urgent, let's send troops to Denglai."

The scene was silent for a moment, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

This teleportation is too fast, we were scolding North Korea just now, why did we suddenly scold the court?
Ding Yi paid attention to the expressions of the generals, turned his head and yelled at Zhao Dashan: "You bastard, what do you want to do, do you want to learn from Liu Xuezhi? No matter how unfair the court is, we can't talk about it, the sage is wise--" Ding Yi Yi clasped his fists towards the direction of the capital: "Right now we are just being suffocated by villains, and we will surely understand our loyalty in the future."

Zhao Dashan quickly glanced at Zhang Jing, I was talking about the imperial court, not the Holy Majesty, Lao Zhang, do you understand?
Zhang Jing looked around, and said in a low voice: "Here are all my brothers. I am humble and bold. I heard that the Holy Master called Zu Dashou several times, but Zu Dashou refused to accept it. The majesty of the court and the Holy Majesty has disappeared. Now As long as the generals below have soldiers in their hands, the imperial court will be very afraid, no matter how well we do, the Holy Majesty will also hold grudges."

"That's right, now the imperial court doesn't pay, North Korea doesn't give food, we can only rely on Mr. Ding." Xiang Huailai murmured.

"The court is immoral, the Holy One is unfair." Shen Shikui gritted his teeth.

In the crowd, some people's faces were flushed, some were thoughtful, and some were deeply convinced, with various expressions.

"That's enough, anyone who dares to talk nonsense, shut up." Ding Yi walked away angrily.

As soon as Ding Yi left, someone in the crowd yelled: "The court is immoral, the Holy One is unfair."

"Chongzhen children are nothing." Zhao Dashan scolded directly.

"He can't even call for the ancestor's birthday. Only we adults do our best to serve the court, but instead target us." Zhang Jing mentioned this matter again.

"Dalinghe Wu Xiang ran away a few times, and Chongzhen couldn't do anything about him. If he was in our army, he would have been cut down a long time ago."

Zhao Dashan, Zhang Jing and Shen Shikui tried their best to belittle Chongzhen, which greatly damaged Chongzhen's impression in the hearts of the generals.

Everyone didn't pay attention to these things before, but when they heard them suddenly, it seemed that the Chongzhen Emperor was quite useless.

Most people in ancient times had an inexplicable sense of admiration and fear for the kings, but once the fig leaf of the kings was pierced and their image belittled, then these people may become the most contemptuous and respectful towards the people who used to respect and admire them. ignore.

That afternoon, Ding Yi summoned Shen Shikui to ask about the military horses. Where did Pi Dao buy horses from before?Ask again, if we want to raise horses, which one do you think is suitable?

Under Mao Wenlong, Shen Shikui had helped Dongjiang Town prepare horse weapons and equipment, so he was naturally experienced.

Shen Shikui thought for a while: "It is impossible to raise horses. There is no place in Pidao and Lushun, so a huge grassland is needed."

"But there's a place to keep horses."

Shen Shikui mentioned a place, Jeju Island in North Korea.

Jeju Island?Ding Yi was thoughtful, because he didn't know much about Jeju Island. He only knew that later generations are a tourist area, and many Chinese people like to go there: "Where can horses be raised in that place?"

"I'll let Zhixiang talk about it." Shen Shikui has a nephew, Shen Zhixiang, who used to buy horses for Dongjiang Town when Mao Wenlong was in Mao Wenlong, and went to Jeju Island.

Soon, Shen Zhixiang was recruited. He had been to Jeju Island many times before and was familiar with it.

Shen Zhixiang is really like a treasure.

Jeju Island, located in the southwestern waters of North Korea, covers an area of ​​1845 square kilometers. It is the largest island in the Kingdom of Korea. The island has beautiful scenery and rich resources around it.

The strategic location of Jeju Island is very important. To the east, it faces Japan’s Tsushima Island and Nagasaki County across the sea. During the Yuan Dynasty, it was not only a military base for attacking Japan, but also an important place for Mongolian naval exercises and naval battles.

At that time, Jeju was still called Tamna, and it was one of the most suitable places (in Asia) to raise horses. It was known as the best pasture in the world. The island was full of water and grass and had a suitable climate. When the Yuan Dynasty perished, there were still two horses on this island. Thirty thousand horses.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the officials and troops of the Yuan Dynasty in Jeju Island still did not surrender and continued to rule Jeju Island.At this time, Goryeo at that time revisited the idea of ​​Jeju Island.

However, although Korea has the heart to annex Jeju Island, it does not have the guts.Because at this time the ownership of Jeju Island has been transferred from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.In order to take back Jeju Island, Goryeo wrote a letter to the Ming Dynasty in 1374, "Tamna Governance Form", requesting that Tamna be handed over to Goryeo, so that the survivors of the Yuan Dynasty on the island belonged to Goryeo, and promised to still follow the management model of Yuan Dynasty horse herding. The Ming Dynasty paid tribute to horses.

It was not until April 1388 that Goryeo took back Jeju Island.After that, the Ming Dynasty followed the old system of the Yuan Dynasty and still used Jeju Island as a place for prisoners to be exiled.For example, Chen Li, the son of Chen Youliang, Ming Sheng, the son of Ming Yuzhen, and the royal family of the Yuan Dynasty were exiled here.

During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take back Jeju Island again.However, after the establishment of the Lee Dynasty in 1392, they were very submissive to the Ming Dynasty.In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang completely abandoned Jeju Island.Since then, China has officially lost Jeju Island.

Hearing what Shen Zhixiang said, as a modern person, Ding Yi immediately knew the importance of Jeju.

Occupying Jeju will pose a greater threat to Japan. If you want to conquer Japan again in the future, you can send troops directly from Jeju.

Moreover, his navy has traveled to Japan all the year round, and Jeju Island can be used as a transfer station, which is very convenient for supplies, loading and unloading.

According to Shen Zhixiang: Jeju Island has an area of ​​about 270 million mu, of which there are 120 million mu of pastures in the east (it can be called the largest and best pasture in Asia, because the climate here is better than that of the grassland.) In addition, there are the least More than 50 mu of arable land.

It can be said that Jeju Island is not only suitable for breeding war horses in large quantities, but also hoarding a large amount of land. It is definitely one of the best places in the world to hoard land and raise horses.

Shen Shikui finally said: "This place is a waste in the hands of North Korea. If we take it, it will not only become an intermediate supply station for the navy to and from Japan, but also can raise horses and farmland, and train sailors."

"Hit the fuck." Ding Yi said excitedly, patting his thigh.

(End of this chapter)