North Korean envoy Cui Chonghong was becoming more anxious and uneasy now. He didn't understand why the senior officials and emperors of the Ming Dynasty had refused to see him again.

Cui Chonghong originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to go on a mission to the Ming Dynasty and beg the Ming Dynasty to stop asking his North Korea to build a Confucius Temple and Confucius Institute, and to exempt the money he had loaned from the World Investment Bank.

Of course, Cui Chonghong also knew that it would be difficult to persuade the Emperor of Ming Dynasty in this matter.

Therefore, he thought of using the money to bribe the Ming officials and let the Ming officials help him realize this, but he did not expect that his bribery was rejected by Xi Shu, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, the Ming officials!

And now, I didn't even see a powerful Ming official.

Even the gifts and banquets that should have been given to the tribute did not appear, let alone the missions allowed to trade with the people in the capital.

After a long time, Xi Shu, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, came to meet Cui Chonghao.

As soon as he saw Cui Chonghao, Xi Shu handed over a newspaper about the Ming Dynasty's new foreign policy to Cui Chonghao: "Enter Cui, you will take this later. I will only ask you one question now, is your country a vassal of the Ming Dynasty?"

Cui Chonghao didn't know that Zhu Houzhao changed the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty. When Xi Shu took this newspaper and magazine in front of him, he also knew that this was a relatively circulating thing in Da Ming. He knew that this was called a newspaper, but now he only saw that the front page of the newspaper was "The Cabinet's resolution on reforming the tribute system and foreign policy", and he didn't know the specific content, so he heard Xi Shu ask this and replied subconsciously:

"The Ming Dynasty is naturally the sect leader of our country, and our North Korea is naturally the vassal of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Since that's the case, I will give you three tips:

First, you need to go back to North Korea now and give me a copy of your North Korean population booklet to the Ming Dynasty;

Second, you need to provide silver dollars of the same amount as the population as the tribute. Of course, you can use mining rights, territorial lease rights and customs rights with the same amount of silver dollars as collateral. You need to discuss it yourself;

Third, you can now rent a house in my Ming Dynasty as your embassy, ​​and let your king send an official to my Ming Dynasty!"

After Xi Shu finished speaking, he said goodbye to Cui Chonghong.

After hearing Xi Shu's three tips, Cui Chonghong was confused. He had to pick up the newspaper and read it seriously. But the more he looked at it, the more angry he became. In the end, he couldn't help but slap the newspaper on the table:

"It's really too much to deceive others! How can this be done by a sect leader country! North Korea will never accept such a sect leader country!"

Cui Chonghong was very angry. He did not expect the Ming Dynasty court to propose such a foreign policy.

Of course, Cui Chonghong now knows that it is impossible for him to ask the Ming Dynasty to cancel the construction of the Confucius Temple and Confucius Institute in North Korea, and it is even more impossible to exempt North Korea from the World Investment Bank.

but.

Cui Chonghong was still unwilling to accept that he would return to North Korea in vain.

Cui Chonghong now only hopes that the Ming Dynasty can give back gifts and give him the opportunity to trade in groups. After all, they need to sell so many goods.

At the same time, Cui Chonghong also hopes to get the opportunity to give a banquet so that he can personally lobby for Emperor Ming Zhu Houzhao, hoping that Emperor Ming Zhu Houzhao would give up this excessive demand and not lose his own chance to North Korea.

but.

Zhu Houzhao didn't want to give him a banquet, Cui Chonghong. As the head of the empire, he naturally wanted to give him a banquet to increase his emotions as the head of the empire.

But for an extra-spread official like Cui Chonghong, he has no such intention. After all, there are only eternal interests between countries and it is impossible to have so-called feelings.

Because once Zhu Houzhao wants to help a certain country because of his feelings for a certain country, it will only lose the interests of his own people.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao did not intend to return the tributes tributes from the North Korean mission.

Originally, North Korea is still a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, there is no need to return the tributes presented by the vassals.

besides.

Zhu Houzhao also issued an order to expel guests, directly requiring the cabinet to convey the Jun order to the Ministry of Rites, asking the Ministry of Rites to require Cui Chonghong to leave the Ming Dynasty within one month, and to inform the Ming Dynasty of his own North Korea before the Mid-Autumn Festival next year.

As a foreigner, you are not allowed to stay in the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

Cui Chonghong therefore had to leave the capital when the one-month period was about to arrive.

When Cui Chonghong left the Huitong Hall in the capital, he stomped the ground of Huitong Hall a few times, then he got on the carriage and rode back to North Korea.

After learning about the Ming Dynasty's new foreign policy, North Korea's King Lee Eun was furious and directly overturned the case table. He immediately stated that North Korea no longer regarded the Ming Dynasty as its sect leader.

Moreover, North Korea King Lee Ei also ordered the suspension of the construction of the existing Confucius Temple and Confucius Institute, and no longer repay the loans from the North Korean country to the World Investment Bank of the Ming Dynasty, and he was not even willing to send so-called ambassadors to the Ming Dynasty Capital City. In their eyes, the number of ambassadors to send ambassadors is no different from sending hostages.

Therefore, the officials of North Korea also blamed each other so much that no one was willing to come to the Ming Dynasty to be ambassadors.

Zhu Houzhao guessed that the North Korean parliament refused to do this, but he was not angry. He originally wanted to force these so-called vassal states to avoid the Ming Dynasty's future expansion of capitalism without pressure.

Now, these vassal states, such as North Korea betrayed the Ming Dynasty and no longer recognized the Ming Dynasty as their sect leader, which also made the Ming Dynasty feel pressureless when it eliminated these countries in the future.

However, Zhu Houzhao still asked the spokesperson of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Jie, a Jinshi of the Ministry of Rites, to make an official remark on the fact that North Korea no longer recognizes the Ming Dynasty as its sect leader.

"I and the Ming court expressed great regret for the fact that the North Korean country no longer recognizes the Ming Dynasty as the sovereign state. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was extremely angry about the North Korean country's betrayal of the sovereign state!

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty hopes that North Korea can correct its current mistakes as soon as possible, ask the King of Korea to apologize for his reckless behavior, and pay the Ming Dynasty some compensation. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty will attack the whole country!”

After Xu Jie's words were reported in the newspaper, they caused great responses among the people of the Ming Dynasty, and therefore brought great shock to the conservative Confucian ministers.

but.

Zhu Houzhao also made the General Staff of the Border Army begin to establish the main strategies for future operations, especially for North Korea.

However, Zhu Houzhao also knew that if he wanted the Ming Empire to continue to control North Korea and gain more benefits from the Korean Empire, the Ming Dynasty needed to control Liaodong first and manage Liaodong well.

Because of this, the development of Liaodong is still the most important thing.

But there is still an unstable force on the flank of Liaodong, that is, Yan Wei's Flower Dang.

Zhu Houzhao has received many requests from Huadang to increase the tribute envoy, but he did not agree because he knew that increasing the number of tribute envoys of Duoyanwei would increase the number of rewards, and the Ming Dynasty would suffer greater losses.

Today, the southern part of the Ming Dynasty has begun steam industrial production. The industrial revolution brought by steam power has allowed Ming Dynasty goods to quickly seize the global trade market.

The treasury income of the Ming Empire also increased sharply.

However, the disadvantages brought by the steam industry have also begun to appear, especially after Zhu Houzhao approved the Royal Industrial Company to sell steam spinning machines and looms to the market, major traditional textile workshops have been renewed or gone bankrupt, and the original textile workers have been laid off and unemployed.

Zhu Houzhao has to solve the problem of increasing unemployment rate, after all, the people have to make money to support their families.

Zhu Houzhao's solution is also very simple, increasing military strength, expanding military preparations, and sucking a large number of unemployed people into the army.

"When the people cannot become producers, they can only turn them into fighters of the imperial foreign war and allow them to gain wealth in foreign wars!"

This is how Zhu Houzhao told Gui E of the Minister of War.

Now he finds that he has no other way to solve the problem of the unemployed population in China except to launch a war.

But what is the purpose of launching a war? It is to take other people's property and enjoy it yourself? This can only be a primitive way of plundering, an animal's way of survival, and inherit everything you have by depriving your life.

The reason why humans are more wiser than animals is that humans have civilization and more reasonable ways of exploitation.

Zhu Houzhao wants to start a war now not to deprive someone of his life, but to let more people pay protection fees through war. It is better to rule a person than to kill a person and ask him to pay a certain amount of protection fee. This protection fee can ensure that he does not kill him. In this way, he can rule this person for a long time by collecting protection fees and gain benefits for a long time.

If the unemployed people in the south do not transfer to the north to compete for interests by launching wars, they will only launch rebellions in the south to compete for the interests of people of all classes in the south. When transferring to the north, they can avoid unrest in the south, and at the same time, they can also realize immigration through wars and transfer a large amount of excess labor in the south to the north to develop resources.

But all this is easy to say and not easy to do. It takes time and needs to be done in all aspects.

The situation in the outside world has not been constant, and even the inconvenience of transportation and the lag of news, it is difficult for the emperor Zhu Houzhao to do something directly in a short period of time.

Now, the only thing he can do is to let the Ministry of Rites declare the world that North Korea betrayed the Ming Dynasty and express that the Ming Dynasty court is very angry and give North Korea a final warning so that all the officials, gentry and people of the Ming Dynasty know about this, thus gaining the foundation for the people's hearts for the next military action.

But sometimes, the reactions of the officials, gentry and people of the empire to the court's behavior were not highly consistent. For example, this time, Zhu Houzhao asked the Ministry of Rites to speak, denounced North Korea's betrayal of the Ming Dynasty and warned North Korea. Some Confucian scholars and mainstream arguments were opposed, saying that the Ming Dynasty was unjust, and the Ming Dynasty should forgive North Korea's reckless actions, favor North Korea, and take the initiative to exempt North Korea from the loan owed.

Fortunately, the people of the Ming Dynasty were not all such holy mothers, at least most of them were not, and some people also mocked these Confucian scholars for not knowing that they could live in this peaceful and prosperous era and were able to criticize the court because the court avoided the chaos of the people through the wealth plundered from the outside, so that the world would remain peaceful, and even scholars could receive education subsidies from the court.

Because of this, Zhu Houzhao's subsequent edict to the Ministry of War to recruit troops and expand the army did not attract opposition from most people in the world.

In addition to expanding the army and increasing military expenditure to solve the unemployment problem in the south and enhancing its deterrent effect on Duoyanwei, Zhu Houzhao also asked the cabinet to issue another order to encourage the people in the pass to go out of the pass to settle down and live in Liaodong. Not only did they sell the land in Liaodong at a low price, but they also allowed the people to reclaim their own land, and they also said that the land they reclaimed belongs directly to themselves and is exempt from taxes for the first three years.

After all, it is not possible to truly control Liaodong alone. A large number of people must move here to provide sufficient logistical support, especially in this case where there are no convenient transportation and transportation conditions. If Liaodong is truly a place where the Ming Dynasty rule is stable, it must have enough Han people as the basis.

Moreover, allowing enough people in Liaodong to move here will also be more beneficial for the future operation of the Nuergandusi area beyond the pass and north of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in this aspect outside the immigration clearance, private immigration has never stopped, especially after the road induced system was abolished.

A large number of Han people moved to Hetao and Liaodong areas to settle down, either reclaiming land and farming locally, or doing business with Mongolians and Jurchens.

At this time, Kaiping City was already an important trade distribution center north of the Luan River outside the pass.

Some tribes of the Yongxibu tribe, Ordos tribe, Tumote tribe, as well as the Mongolian people from the three guards of the Duoyan tribe and some Jurchens gather here to trade with the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Kaiping City was the Kaiping Guard of the Ming Dynasty before Xuande, and it was the gateway to Xuanfu and a military center!

However, since the Yongle period, the climate began to cool down, and the Ming Dynasty's military farming in Kaipingwei became increasingly difficult, and grain transportation became increasingly difficult. Zhu Zhanji, the Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the Kaipingwei to be moved to Dushi Fort.

Now, Kaiping City has been re-acquired into the Ming Dynasty territory because the little prince was destroyed and the border troops regained the city.

Of course, because the climate has become colder, the climate phenomenon of the small glacier is gradually increasing. Kaiping City is still not suitable for farming. Fortunately, it has maintained commerce and increased financial resources of the empire, which can maintain the food supply in this area. In addition, Kaiping City has convenient transportation to directly connect to Xuanfu and Datong, and can also directly connect to the capital through Datong Cement Road.

Therefore, Kaiping City has not declined due to the colder weather, but has become more and more prosperous.

The weather is getting warmer now, and the Mongolians who are attached to Kaiping City are also starting to grazle. Of course, they will come to Kaiping City to trade with the Han people at this time, and sell the beef and mutton accumulated in winter to the Han people, and make them into canned food to sell to the mainland. The Mongolians will also buy tea and salt from the Han people.

Kaiping is now a county in the Ming Dynasty, but it is under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu. Although Xuanfu is already under the jurisdiction of the prefecture, it is still one of the nine major military towns in the Ming Dynasty. Kaiping City is still stationed in the Ming Dynasty.

Currently, there is a regiment of the border army stationed in Kaiping, with a total of more than 2,000 people.

However, the more than 2,000 people from the border army did not manage the government affairs of Kaiping City, while the government affairs of Kaiping City were managed by the county magistrate Zhang Cong. At the same time, Zhang Cong also served as the deputy commander of the border army's regiment, responsible for the logistics and political work of the border army's regiment.

Moreover, the magistrate Zhang Cong himself was from the army, but because he was mainly engaged in civilian work, he was arranged by Wang Shouren, the general secretary, to be the magistrate of Kaiping County.

Of course, Zhang Cong did not manage the military tasks of the border army. The guerrilla general Gui Yong, who managed the military tasks of the border army.

But there is no war at the moment. In addition, the border army's regiment stationed in Kaiping was only because of the recent major blood change in Xuanfu that it changed from a guard to a border army, and was then arranged to Kaiping to strengthen its defense.

Therefore, in addition to the suspicious signs of sending reconnaissance every day without taking charge overnight, Gui Yong still thought about when to get the superiors to transfer him back to the Guards so as to open up the territory with the original brothers of the Guards.

However, there are also people who are not Gui Yong's idea. Tian Deng now only wants to settle down in Kaiping City and be a border officer who is honestly maintaining Kaiping's security.
To be continued...