Chapter Ninety-Eight: Li Manzhu's Decision

"Master Li, you don't have a choice." A Han man said: "King Huai has decided to send troops to Haixi after the autumn, and it is only three months away. ”

"From now on, the tighter the post-autumn period becomes, the conditions offered to you by the imperial court can only be reduced, and when it is really time for the imperial court to send troops, it will not be possible to talk about your Lord Li's conditions."

"You've got to figure it out."

This person is Zhang Zongzhou, the messenger of the tile thorn.

Tile spurs, no, to be precise, Da Yuan, is a group of Han people. The court in his mouth is not the Ming court, but the Dayuan court.

Li sat at the table with a gloomy face.

The light here is very cold, and the sun is shining outside, but they dare not leak a trace of it in the secret room.

Li Manzhu had countless conflicting thoughts in his heart.

To be honest, Daming is still good to Jianzhou Jurchen. Without the support of the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens would not be where they are today, let alone not falling behind in the war with North Korea.

In fact, if there is no Ming behind the Jianzhou Jurchens, although the national strength of North Korea is not strong, but now under the leadership of the king of Joseon, it is not difficult to beat the Jianzhou Jurchens down.

After all, no matter how weak North Korea is, it can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops, and how many manpower the Jianzhou Jurchens have, Li Manzhu is not without a spectrum in his heart.

"Let's go." A fierce light flashed in Li Manzhu's eyes, and he secretly said in his heart: "You are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust." ”

"King Huai's conditions haven't changed." Li Manzhu said.

Zhang Zongzhou said: "King Huai's word, as long as the adults can take Haixi City, the adults will be my Great Yuan Expedition to the East Province Pingzhang and seal the King of Haixi." The affairs of the western part of the strait are in charge of the adults, and if the adults can take Liaodong Korea, these territories will be hereditary and vain for the adults. ”

Li Manzhu said: "That's all? ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "If the lord borrows troops from the imperial court, then the Pingzhang of the eastern province will remain unchanged, but the adult will have to pay taxes to the imperial court." ”

Li Manzhu said: "This is easy to say, as long as King Huai speaks, he will give what he wants to conquer the eastern province, but when will the imperial army come to Haixi?" ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "No, it's the three parts of Wuliangha. ”

Li Manzhu heard this and said, "King Huai still doesn't want to start a war with the Southern Dynasty? ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "The war between the two countries is not child's play, rest assured, there will be a war between the imperial court and the Southern Dynasty, and the imperial court will not sell you to the Southern Dynasty." It's just something on the face. ”

"Okay." Although Li Manzhu was a little dissatisfied, he had already made up his mind to turn his face with Da Ming. I didn't want to look back, and said, "When will it be launched?" ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "It's up to you." ”

Li Manzhu thought for a moment, slapped it on the table, and said, "There are some things that can't be hidden

Naturally, the sooner the better. ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "Okay, I'll report to King Huai." ”

After Li Manzhu made up his mind, he began to prepare secretly.

May of the eleventh year of Orthodoxy.

The Tohoku is also ushering in the hottest time of the year.

In the city of Hercynian City, Jurchen people from all over the country were bustling, and there were some Mongolian merchants who did not know where they came from. Compared to this surging population, Haixi City is a little smaller.

The sound of jingling camel bells, the stench of all kinds of livestock, and the shouting of Han people with Jurchen accents, and the stiff Liaodong dialect spoken by the Jurchens, reflect each other.

If you look a little farther, you can see more than a dozen ships, large and small, staying on the pier of Haixi Port.

The largest of them, in particular, looked like a mountain, with seven masts and artillery on it. This ship was officially under the supervision of Zhu Qizhen, and the newly built grain ship under the command of Wang Ying, the chief officer of the maritime army, could transport 5,000 stone of grain at a time.

This is the first time it has appeared in Hercy.

This is also because shipping has already borne a part of the share of water transportation, and most of the sea ships have to transport the course from Jiangnan to Tianjin first. It was also after Zhu Qizhen learned the news of the tile spur, and urgently deployed some ships to transport grain from Tianjin to Haixi.

Overall, this route is not easy to follow

The biggest reason is unfamiliarity with water conditions.

After all, from the Song and Yuan dynasties to the present, the best shipping route has been explored for hundreds of years, but from Tianjin to Haixi, the previous paragraph is good to say, this is a voyage from Shandong to North Korea, and this route is also very familiar.

But after bypassing the Korean Peninsula, it does not belong to the sea area familiar to the Ming sailors.

Haixi Port has only been open for a few years, and these years are not enough for people to understand the temper of the sea.

Therefore, this time only a ship came, with an experimental nature, and if it got through, then the next time it came will be a large-scale transportation.

The grain transported over is not only 100,000 stones.

Jiao Li was on top of a restaurant on the dock at the moment, washing the dust for Wang Ying.

Wang Ying, as the chief officer of the maritime transport, naturally knows whose thighs he is hugging. What the emperor explained, he could do it himself, so he did it himself.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Wang Ying sighed and said: "The prosperity of Haixi is not lower than that of the mainland. General Jiao is a capable minister who governs the country. Wang Ying's words were half sycophant, half true.

The prosperity of Haixi is far inferior to that of the south, and it is even worse than that of Liaodong. But in just a few years, Haixi has such a look, which is already extremely valuable.

Jiao Li said: "It's all the credit of my husband, it's just -----, hey-----"

Wang Ying also knows this old husband, that is, he is also lost. It was also lost in the western part of the Hercy

The status is extremely long, and the generals below all call the old man.

Wang Ying said: "My husband's body is ---- bones."

Jiao Li said: "I have been lingering on the sickbed, and I have written to the court several times to ask for cultivation, but the movement of the tile spurs makes Your Majesty not at ease, so I can only let my husband recuperate in Haixi." Physician. ”

"It's just the situation in Haixi, where can it compare to Beijing?"

As soon as he thought of Yisha's body, Jiao Li was worried.

Wang Ying also sighed, diverted the topic, and said: "This time, I came here to transfer 200,000 stone grain to Haixi at the behest of His Majesty, this time there are only 5,000 stones, but it is used to explore the way, and the next time I transfer 200,000 stone grain in one go, I am afraid that the port of Haixi will not be able to carry it." ”

Jiao Li said: "Please rest assured, General Bing, I will send someone to build it immediately." Wait for the next time of the general army, and the plan will not be like this. ”

Wang Ying said: "Please also rest assured General Jiao, I have already negotiated with the DPRK this time, and I have established a station in the port of Busan, North Korea." That is to say, no matter what your Haixi War looks like, as long as the three-mile road between your Haixi Port and Haixi City is not taken by the enemy, all kinds of materials, grain and grass in Haixi City will not be cut off. ”

"Lord Xu is already based in North Korea." Wang Ying said: "The king of the DPRK has determined that between the emergency and the emergency, the DPRK is also willing to open a treasury to support Haixi, even if it is transshipped from the mainland, it is too late for a while, and it will never cut off the grain route of Haixi." ”

After Xu Youzhen went to Japan for the imperial court, he returned to China to resume his life. It's just that the current Japan is on the eve of Japan's Warring States Period, all kinds of chaos, even if Xu Youzhen gets the promise of the Japanese Ashikaga family to restrain the pirates, this commitment has little effect.

However, after he returned, he wrote a detailed letter explaining the situation in Korea and Japan.

Zhu Qizhen has seen a lot, has a lot of understanding of the king of Korea and the Japanese Ashikaga family, and at the same time branded Xu Youzhen with the title of an expert on Japanese and Korean relations.

This time, in response to the attack of the tile spur on Haixi.

North Korea is an unavoidable link, Xu Youzhen was simply sent by Zhu Qizhen to be stationed in North Korea, and asked North Korea to provide supplies for Haixi, of course, the imperial court will not take advantage of the vassal country, and the imperial court will add one percent to North Korea for what he provides.

It is nothing more than the geographical advantage of North Korea, which can provide timely feedback to the needs of Haixi, and when the news is obtained from the mainland, and then transported to Haixi, the daylily will be cold.

Jiao Li said: "With the words of the general soldier, I am much more relieved, as long as the grain and grass are endless, this Haixi City, even if there are 100,000 horses to attack, it is impregnable." ”

Jiao Li was just like Wang Ying's words, someone suddenly came over and whispered a few words in Jiao Li's ear, Jiao Li's pupils shrank, and then returned to normal, and said: "Mr. Wang, I have something urgent, go first, Mr. Wang and wait to see a big show." ”