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Chapter 17 Uiju

Yizhou Wei was first built in the 20th year of Hongwu. There were 5,000 households at the beginning, but now there are only 2,000 households. Aichen is located on the Thirteen Mountains by the Yalu River, facing Yizhou in North Ping'an Road, North Korea across the river.

During the Japanese turmoil in the Renchen period, the Korean army was defeated step by step. The king Li Bing wanted to retreat to the Yizhou Guard on the other side of the river to take refuge, but was blocked by Yang Hao. Fortunately, this was the case, otherwise the battle to aid Korea would have become much more difficult.

Since Li Chengliang withdrew the Kuandian military and civilians, Liubao fell into the hands of Jianzhou. Yizhou was the only land channel between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the forefront of the Ming army in Liaodong. When Liubao was still in the hands of the Ming army, the forefront of the Ming army in Liaodong was pushed forward three hundred miles.

The most direct consequence of abandoning the Six Forts is to face Jianzhou directly with the two guards of Yizhou. Once something happens, the existing garrisons of Dingliaon alone will not be able to stop the Jurchen troops, especially Yizhou.

If Yizhou is captured, the Dingliaon guards will definitely fall one after another. Then the Jianzhou army will attack Chenyang, Liaoyang and Guangning, and the traffic between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea will be cut off.

The subsequent history was basically the same. After the fall of Yizhou, the Ming Dynasty and North Korea were mainly connected by sea channels.

Eunuch Wei and his party entered Yizhou City at Antai Gate. It took less than an hour to get off the shore to enter the city and control Yizhou Acropolis.

In addition to being uneasy about the arrival of the maritime eunuch Wei, the entire Yizhou Wei, was extremely respectful.

Because the eunuch Wei came with the order, and there were bright men and strong men following him.

"Your Majesty is very angry about the matter of the Six Forts. The previous Liao Dynasty posted several questions to Your Majesty. Your Majesty read them... This time, Your Majesty asked us to come over, so we wanted to walk on the land of Six Forts, and see what happened to these Six Forts... Also, check out how many of you Liaodong officials were following Li Chengliang to deceive the court..."

In the speech of Yizhou Wei, Eunuch Wei directly pointed out Li Chengliang's name, and the wording sounded quite serious, which made the officials of Yizhou Wei feel cold and vaguely wonder if something happened to Ning Yuanbo in Beijing.

Eunuch Wei either doesn't do it, or does it all the time. After making this thing for a long time, habits become natural, and his words and deeds are invisibly called the emperor's signature to add supreme style.

There is no need to be too deliberate, and a few words are made to completely surrender the people in Yizhou.

Therefore, at the subsequent dinner, Yizhou Governor He Shiyi Lian and his two thousand households presented a fee of 3,000 taels of silver to Eunuch Wei.

Thanks to He and others' loyalty to defend the border for the country, Eunuch Wei couldn't bear to let them guess, so he reluctantly couldn't accept it.

I come to Liaodong for thousands of miles, but I am so kind.

He felt that He was familiar with his name, so he asked, "We heard that there is a guerrilla in Chenyang called He Shixian. Does this person have anything to do with you?"

After hearing his father-in-law's question, Yizhou Governor He Shiyi hurriedly said, "Reply to my father-in-law, He Shixian is the last brother."

Eunuch Wei suddenly realized: "No wonder I heard you speak Shaanxi dialect," and then looked gloomy, "Mizhi's aunt, Suide's Han, Yuci's hero comes from this place." (Yuci is under the jurisdiction of Suide's Mansion)

This made He Shiyi excited. Unexpectedly, Eunuch Wei knew his hometown.

Of course, Eunuch Wei knew that not only because his brother He Shixian, He Shen, was a famous general, but also because his hometown Yuci, was really a place where elite soldiers were produced.

When his nature came up, he saw the other side of the river from afar. He couldn't help but get up, put his hands on his back and asked He Shiyi: "Is the Chaofan opposite?"

"Yes, my father-in-law, the other side of the shore is the North Pole of Fanping An, and there is also Yizhou City." He Shiyi said.

Eunuch Wei nodded and ordered his left and right: "Get our Qianli Mile Mile."

Since I came to the Yalu River, I must see North Korea across the river. This is a tourism tradition.

After picking up the Qianli Mirror, my father-in-law concentrated on his mind. After staring at him, his eyes immediately rounded. Then he put down the Qianli Mirror with a look of shame and anger and cursed: "Why is this Chaofan so unruly? How can a woman reveal her breasts in broad daylight? What kind of morality is this!"

It turned out that there were more than a dozen women from the vassal states on the other side of the river who were washing clothes, but their clothes were too "vanguard" and their father-in-law could not accept it.

"My father-in-law doesn't know anything, this is a Korean folk custom..."

He Shiyi hurriedly explained a few words. This is generally a unique custom of the North Korean country. Women in their country, regardless of age, are like this. Only aristocratic women do not do this because they are bound by etiquette and law.

"Oh, since it is a custom of the vassal state, we should respect it..."

Eunuch Wei respects different cultural customs the most, and doesn't care about it now. He just wants to spend some time to experience the traditional culture in Chaofan.

After drinking and eating, my father-in-law came to Yizhou to have fun, so he asked someone to withdraw the banquet and then ordered someone to hang a map on the wall.

Everyone in Yizhou Guard looked at the map and found it very familiar, but when they looked closely, they were very different. They were all surprised and didn't know what Eunuch Wei's move meant.

Looking at the Northeast situation map drawn by the Liaodong map I got from Jinzhou, Eunuch Wei was also very moved. He stepped forward a few steps to the map, looked around everyone, pressed his palm in the Kuandian area, and asked: "You can tell that the Six Forts are like the Sixteen Prefectures of the Song Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. Now that we have lost Six Forts, our family is really sad."

It is not an exaggeration to compare the Six Forts of Kuandian into the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the Song Dynasty.

Because it was after obtaining the Liubao territory and receiving a large number of Han people, Nurhaci's Jianzhou regime began to be truly built. After a few years, Nurhaci openly raised the flag of anti-bank.

Geographically, Kuandian Liubao, which is hundreds of square kilometers, is a natural barrier to the Liaodong Plain and a large depth buffer for the Liaodong Ming army to face Jianzhou.

Now this important area was directly given to Nurhaci by Li Chengliang, which is extremely heartbreaking no matter how you look at it.

"We heard before we came that Liubao is actually controlled by Jianzhou. Although Jianzhou is under the jurisdiction of the court, the Jurchens have never been to accept Wang Hua. The tribes have many rebellions and the leaders are often ambitious. Therefore, Chenghua was once a major disaster in Liaodong. Later, Wang Zhi in the palace led his troops out of the pass and thunder to sweep the holes, and the situation today was only here... But I am not afraid of ten thousand, but I am afraid that if I am afraid, although the left and right guards of Jianzhou obey the court, they are alien races after all. The so-called non-my race, their hearts must be different, and I have to be careful..."

Speaking of this, Eunuch Wei was deeply saddened and had a heavy expression. "The Six Forts fell into Jianzhou's hands, which undoubtedly increased Jianzhou's strength and made it like a tiger's wing. If something really happens, Yizhou will be the first to be the first to be affected. Therefore, this time we come, not only will we go to Liubao to take a look, but we will report to Your Majesty what we see and hear so that the court can re-determine the ownership of the Six Forts. We must also focus on what we see and act expediently."

After saying that, his eyes fell on the faces of the generals in Yizhou: "When you left the capital, what did Your Majesty say to us?"

Where did the generals in Yizhou know? They were all curious.
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