Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 223 Sending out troops and encountering Japanese pirates
"My minister will see His Royal Highness King Yan of Ming Dynasty!"

All the dignitaries of Goryeo saluted respectfully.

Zhu Di had a gentle face.

"Get up, everyone."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

When all the dignitaries of Korea got up, Zhu Di asked, "I don't know if all of you are in such a hurry to see the king, but what's the important thing?"

A Goryeo dignitary said respectfully: "Reporting to Your Highness King Yan, the Japanese pirates are looting the people of the three kingdoms of Goryeo. I am here to beg Your Highness to send troops to destroy those Japanese pirates and save our Goryeo people!"

"Do you want me to send troops to rescue you and other Korean people?"

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, as if he had heard something absurd, and said with a strange face: "They are your people, not my king's people, why did my king send troops to rescue them?"

All the dignitaries in Korea were also taken aback. They never expected that the king of Yan would speak so bluntly?

Don't the Confucian classics of the Ming Dynasty all teach restraint and benevolence?

The Goryeo dignitaries whose family roots are in the lower three realms suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly saluted again, "His Royal Highness Yan Wang clearly learned, and now His Royal Highness Yan Wang is the King of Koryo recognized by all the nobles in Korea, Gyeongsang-do, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do The people of Goryeo in the three ways are also the subjects of His Royal Highness King Yan!"

"joke!"

Hearing these shameless words, Guo An on the side directly sneered.

"You say that the people of Qingshang Dao, Zhongqing Dao, and Quanluo Dao are the people of His Royal Highness Yan Wang?

Did they pay taxes to His Royal Highness King Yan?
Are there any subjects who claim to be His Royal Highness King Yan?

Does His Royal Highness King Yan admit to them...

Also, you still call yourself a courtier of Goryeo, and the King of Goryeo is still in power?Do you want His Royal Highness King Yan to be a thief?

Your Highness has good intentions to do business with you all, but now you want to trap His Highness King Yan into injustice, what kind of heart do you have? "

All the dignitaries couldn't help being dumbfounded.

"Also, His Highness King Yan, His Highness King Yan... Do you know what this means?
Only the people of Yan Kingdom can be the subjects of His Royal Highness King Yan?And now, apart from Wangjing Kaicheng, Yan'an County, and Ganghwa Island, where else can be regarded as the city of Yan Kingdom in the whole of Koryo? "

All the dignitaries in Korea subconsciously shook their heads again.

These state cities are all Goryeo cities.

Even Wangjing Kaicheng, Yan'an County, and Ganghwa Island, in their hearts, are also the cities of Goryeo.

As for this Daming King Yan, he is only the Prince of Daming temporarily occupying their capital.

Let him occupy it for a few years, or decades.

When the king of Yan builds the capital more prosperously, and after the Ming Dynasty decays, these cities will naturally return to Korea.

These are the cognitions of all Goryeo dignitaries.

It's just that those pirates...

Thinking about it, the Goryeo dignitaries who spoke first, stood up again.

"His Royal Highness, as long as those Japanese pirates can be driven away, I am willing to provide tens of thousands of young and strong laborers to His Royal Highness to pave cement roads, build docks, build cement workshops, or build a palace for His Highness." ..."

"Tens of thousands of young and strong laborers?"

Zhu Di took a weird look at the Goryeo dignitaries, and said in a low voice, "There are tens of thousands of young and strong laborers. You only need to train a little, and you can become a strong army and defeat three thousand Japanese pirates. Isn't it easy?"

"This……"

The Goryeo dignitary couldn't help hesitating a little, his face full of embarrassment.

The Koryo people in their prefectures have long been afraid of being killed by Japanese pirates. They regard Japanese pirates as demons and run away when they see Japanese pirates. Let alone [-] soldiers, even [-], they dare not confront those Japanese pirates head-on!
Thinking about it, the Goryeo dignitary's expression became ruthless, and he said directly: "I am willing to pay taxes to His Royal Highness King Yan?"

"Ok?"

Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "Can you represent the entire Korean people?"

The Goryeo dignitary smiled sarcastically, "I beg your Highness to forgive me, I can only represent the people of Jeolla Province!"

Immediately, two more Goryeo dignitaries stood up.

"His Royal Highness King Yan, this minister represents the people of Gyeongsang-do!"

"His Royal Highness King Yan, this humble minister represents the people of Zhongqing Dao!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, then looked at the nobles in Korea.

On the side, the expressions of the remaining Korean dignitaries changed slightly, and they lowered their heads not to look at Zhu Di.

At the same time, he cursed in his heart, these bastards, they kindly came with them to beg His Highness King Yan, but they actually betrayed them like this!

Seeing this, the three Goryeo dignitaries felt very bad, and hurriedly begged: "Please also ask His Royal Highness King Yan to save me and the Goryeo people!"

"Yes, please also ask His Royal Highness King Yan to save me and wait for the next three Koryo citizens..."

Zhu Di pondered for a moment, then looked at Guo An who was beside him.

Guo An nodded slightly, "Your Highness, if all the people of these three realms can pay taxes to His Highness, they can be regarded as His Highness's subjects for the time being.

However, they have been robbed several times by Japanese pirates. I wonder if they can pay all the taxes? "

The three Goryeo dignitaries hurriedly said: "Please rest assured His Royal Highness King Yan and Guo Changshi, I will wait for the people of the next three kingdoms to pay all the taxes."

"Wait for the three of you to be sureties?"

Guo An asked.

The three Korean dignitaries couldn't help being taken aback.

Zhu Di waved his hand directly, and said indifferently: "It's okay, I remember that you and others also have a large amount of goods shipped to Beiping Mansion. If you dare to lie to me, those goods can be used to deduct taxes!"

The faces of the three Korean dignitaries couldn't help but change slightly.

On the side, Guo An directly followed Zhu Di's words and said respectfully, "Your Highness is wise!"

Next, when it came to fighting, Zhu Di talked a lot more.

"This king remembers that Li Chenggui, who was hacked into pieces by this king, was abandoned and betrayed by three other Korean soldiers when he led troops to help you and other Korean people attack the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates were wiped out?"

The three Goryeo dignitaries were embarrassed immediately, and quickly explained: "His Royal Highness Yan Wang misunderstood. Back then, the Japanese pirates were arrogant and the bandits were powerful. Pu Linzong, Hong Rengui, Lin Chengwei and other generals were just avoiding the edge temporarily. I didn't expect Li Chenggui to be alone. Straight into……"

Zhu Di waved his hand directly, "I don't want to hear your explanation about the battle of the army."

"I just told you that I can send [-] soldiers to help you attack the pirates, but you need to provide at least [-] horses and [-] carriages.

Food and grass supplies along the way must be fully prepared! "

The three Korean dignitaries quickly responded, "His Royal Highness, please rest assured, I will be fully prepared."

Zhu Di said again: "In addition, each of you must lead at least a thousand generals to fight with the generals of the Yan Palace."

The faces of the three Korean dignitaries changed drastically, and they were just about to speak.

Zhu Di quickly said: "I don't expect you to fight those Japanese pirates, but you need your life to guarantee. At the critical moment, you and the generals of Qingsangdo, Chungcheongdo, and Jeollado will not fight against the Japanese pirates." Will get cold feet..."

"His Royal Highness, I will never do such a thing..."

"If you agree to these conditions, this king will send troops. If you don't agree, this king will never risk the lives of the soldiers under my command!"

Zhu Di's tone was firm, and the three Korean dignitaries looked at each other, and could only nod helplessly.

"Wei Chen obeys!"

"Very good!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Wait and go back first, the king chooses soldiers, and the troops will be dispatched in two days!"

"Thank you, Your Highness King Yan!"

The three Korean dignitaries were overjoyed.

The rest of the Goryeo dignitaries also looked forward to it.

They haven't seen how the Ming soldiers fought against the Japanese pirates.

When all the dignitaries in Korea left, Zhu Di ordered a group of commanders and thousands of households to be summoned.

"This king wants to send troops to kill those Japanese pirates who looted Goryeo's lower three provinces, who is willing to go there!"

"The end will be willing to go!"

"Your Highness, the last general invites you to fight..."

In an instant, in the main hall, dozens of generals were all excited to fight.

On the side, Guo An said leisurely: "Generals, those Japanese pirates have been invading Korea for many days. There is a great possibility that by the time you lead your troops to the three provinces of Gyeongsang-do, Chungcheong-do, and Jeolla-do, those Japanese pirates have already run away. Already!"

Hearing this, all the generals couldn't help but hesitate.

Zhu Di was not polite, and called the names directly.

"Chen Shou is the main general, leading Tan Tong, Meng Shan, and Wu Libu, three thousand households, to exterminate those Japanese pirates!

You can't divide your troops to fight. When encountering Japanese pirates, Tan Tong and Meng Shan's two thousand households cooperated with grenade and fire to kill Japanese pirates on a large scale... Wu Libu waited for a thousand Mongolian soldiers to ride horses and intercept and kill Japanese pirates everywhere. Damn, it doesn't matter even if you run a few times, you must not risk your life indiscriminately..."

"The end will obey orders!"

Chen Shou, Tan Tong, Meng Shan, and Wu Libu hurriedly bowed their hands in salute.

Two days later.

Yan Wangfu sent troops.

Five days later, they came to Zhongqing Road.

At the same time, the soldiers and generals of the three Goryeo dignitaries were also waiting in Chungju.

After the army converged, they went to Qingsang Road to kill.

The Japanese mainland is close to Gyeongsang-do, so Japanese pirates generally like to plunder Jeolla-do first, and then go up to plunder Gyeongsang-do.

If satisfied, retreat by boat.

If not satisfied, continue north to Chungcheongdo.

However, after these Japanese pirates plundered Jeolla-do and Gyeongsang-do smoothly this time, all the ships had already been filled with grain.

Moreover, there were relatively few casualties.

This battle should be their most fruitful robbery in recent years.

But, just when they were planning to go back.

However, they heard that the fact that they had plundered for so long and that the Goryeo army hadn't come to encircle and suppress it was because King Yan of the Ming Dynasty actually broke through King Goryeo's capital and captured King Goryeo.

As for the Koryo general Li Chenggui who made them afraid, he was also killed by Daming King Yan.

At this moment, all the Japanese pirates were overjoyed and killed hundreds of Koreans in celebration.

Li Chenggui is dead, who else in Korea can stop them?
Celebrated for two days.

A group of Japanese pirates headed towards Chungcheong Road.

Chungcheong-do is relatively close to the Goryeo capital, so it is naturally very rich.

However, because the Goryeo soldiers will arrive soon, although the Japanese pirates wanted to plunder in the past, they dare not go because of the threat of Li Chenggui.

Now, once Li Chenggui died, they had nothing to fear, and even some Japanese pirates were still thinking that if the plunder of Chungcheongdo went well, they could also go to the capital of Goryeo to have a look.

That is the most affluent place in Korea!
However, when they came to the border between Chungcheong-do and Gyeongsang-do, the Japanese pirates were surprised to find that an elite army was coming in front of them.

Among them were 1000 generals, all of whom were wearing fine armor, and [-] of them were riding war horses.

Immediately, the eyes of all the Japanese pirates turned red!
And Chen Shou and the three Goryeo dignitaries naturally also received reports that there was an army of Japanese pirates not far ahead!

Chen Shou's face was overjoyed, but the three nobles from Korea suddenly became panicked.

"I'm waiting for 3000 soldiers, and the Japanese pirates are only [-] at most. Why are you so afraid?"

Noticing the faces of the nobles in Korea, Chen Shou looked contemptuous.

For their own safety, they have added [-] Koryo soldiers to [-].

Unexpectedly, before the war, I started to be afraid!

No wonder Japanese pirates like to rob Koreans so much!
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(End of this chapter)