Chapter 1042: A New Situation

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Regarding the issue of territory, Li Xuanji quickly stopped talking and stopped talking, but the next situation he talked about attracted Su Tiancheng's attention, it turned out that recently, the Japanese in Pyongyang, North Korea have begun to increase, and this situation has aroused the attention of the Korean royal family, thinking that the Japanese are going to invade Korea. It is said that there are more Japanese, which is not a big deal, and there is nothing wrong with people doing business in North Korea, and there are many Japanese who go to Dengzhou to do business, and some even go to Shenyang, but Li Xuanji said that the Korean royal family has a very deep impression, and for them who have suffered Japanese aggression, the past is particularly easy to arouse conjecture.

The origin of the matter is still in the Wanli period, when Japan invaded Korea, the war of aggression led by the then general Toyotomi Hideyoshi, almost occupied the entire territory of Korea, at that time the eight provinces under the jurisdiction of Korea, fell to seven provinces, so the Wanli Emperor sent troops to reinforce Korea, after two expeditions, and finally drove the Japanese out of Korea.

More than 40 years have passed, and the situation has changed dramatically, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is long gone, and Japan has entered the era of shogunate rule, but the situation of that year, as well as some of the things encountered, are still passed down by word of mouth, including the sudden increase in the number of Japanese.

Under normal circumstances, the Japanese are not welcome in North Korea, and it is very difficult for Japanese people to enter North Korea, and if it were not for the invasion of the Later Kim Tatars, North Korea would not have allowed the Japanese to enter Pyongyang, Wangkyung (Seoul), Busan, and other places.

There are not many Japanese who come to Korea to do business. North Korea is not very welcoming to these Japanese, but in recent times, the number of Japanese people in Korea has suddenly increased, and every merchant entering Korea often brings dozens or even hundreds of people. After these people came to North Korea, they had no intention of leaving, and the situation was particularly similar to that in the Wanli period.

Li Xuanji said in detail, as if the Japanese were already preparing to invade Korea.

Su Tiancheng didn't care too much, after all, in his impression, after the defeat of Korea, the regime change in Japan passed through Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and so on. Slowly began to level off, and later some people even described it as Oda Nobunaga who grows wheat, Toyotomi Hideyoshi who makes cakes, and Tokugawa Ieyasu who eats cakes. Dare to do anything, full of pioneering and adventurous spirit. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was bent on expanding the influence of the Japanese nation, and even dreamed of subverting the Ming Dynasty, both of them had huge ambitions, and they were also prone to wage war abroad, hoping to rely on plunder to strengthen their strength, Tokugawa Ieyasu was relatively conservative. The focus is still on self-construction, thinking of making Japan strong in a down-to-earth manner.

It is the shogunate family founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu who now holds power in Japan, and it is supposed to be stable, and there is no initiative to attack Korea.

As for the Japanese businessmen in Korea, there are suddenly more and more Japanese businessmen. Maybe it's a coincidence, at the same time, the army led by Zhang Fengyi is still stationed in Pyongyang, with this army, are you still afraid of the Japanese invasion.

All these circumstances temporarily confused Su Tiancheng, and Su Tiancheng would not have thought that the envoy of North Korea would immediately come to the capital and ask the emperor to withdraw from North Korea, which also led to a series of things that followed.

The envoy didn't stay long, maybe he saw that Su Tiancheng didn't have much interest in all this, so he left very interestingly.

After the envoy left, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang and others all came in, and they had just received the holy decree together.

No matter what the emperor's will is, here, everything is Su Tiancheng's final say, whether to launch an attack, or a temporary defense, etc., so everyone came to hear what Su Tiancheng wanted.

Su Tiancheng looked at everyone and spoke slowly.

"The emperor has decreed, it is estimated that in the imperial court, some adults are anxious, and they don't want to think about it, I have already said that during the battle, I don't want anyone to intervene, so the discussion in the court, we don't have to manage money, I still have that opinion, we need to make it clear how to adjust the deployment of the Houjin Tartars, we need to grasp the accurate situation, we can't blindly attack, we can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, the preparation time is longer, our losses are much smaller, and the sailors have transported a lot of shells and bullets from Dengzhou, which is what we urgently needBut what we need more is to replenish the troops, the accurate figures of the last statistics came out, the Jiangning battalion killed more than 6,000 people, seriously injured more than 1,000 people, the loss is close to one-tenth, such a loss, we can not bear many times. ”

"The surrender of the six thousand Han army, how to deal with the problem, Hong Chengchou put forward an opinion, the meaning of the imperial court, is to let us deal with it ourselves, this meaning is very clear, the imperial court will not accept this burden, then we have to digest it ourselves, I have thought about it, Hong Chengchou's opinion is reasonable, these Han troops, no matter what, have been in the army for a long time, and the basic literacy is still there, at least stronger than ordinary people, so we can select some sergeants from them, carry out intensive training, and recruit troops, Hong Chengchou has always been in charge, and this time it is you who is responsible. ”

"However, the training of these Han troops must be strict, even harsh, the habits of these Han soldiers are very bad, there are many shortcomings, it is necessary to spend great efforts to correct their defects, the training must be harsh, and those who violate military law will be beheaded, I believe that it will not take long to correct the ruffians of these soldiers."

"Regarding the conquest, my opinion is, don't worry for the time being, now the Houjin Tartars are more anxious than us, they have suffered such heavy losses, Huang Taiji will definitely adjust the deployment of the campaign, when the time comes, whether it is to attack from the direction of Haizhou, or from the direction of Liaodong, we need to think, we just want to find the weak point of the Houjin Tartars, there is a good saying, he is strong, he is strong, the breeze blows the hills, he is crossed, and the bright moon shines on the river."

Two days later, Su Tiancheng's mind changed, and he began to attach great importance to some things.

After Li Xuanji was drunk by Qu Qingze, he finally said one thing, that is, he implored the Ming army to withdraw from Pyongyang, it is said that the emperor approved this matter, thinking that it did not make much sense to garrison troops in Pyongyang, and I am afraid that it was also because the Ming army was about to withdraw from Korea, so Li Xuanji said that he was worried that the number of Japanese in Korea suddenly increased, could it be because the Ming army was going to withdraw.

When he first heard about this, Su Tiancheng was very angry, he worked hard to lead the army, occupied Xuanzhou and other places, and then stationed in North Korea, that is, to control North Korea and get benefits from it, there has never been a free lunch in this world, North Korea, as a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, is protected, it is to pay tribute, and it must be made to contribute, otherwise why should the court cover North Korea, such a thing, a fool will do it, to say that Zhang Fengyi garrisoned Pyongyang, but also plundered a lot of North Korea's wealth, even Su Tiancheng felt that he had done too much, but this was the original purpose of the colonizers, and it was not a big deal.

The emperor agreed to withdraw troops from North Korea, which made Su Tiancheng not understand, and he also saw more clearly that Zhu Youzhen's fatal flaw was that he replaced the country's development and long-term peace and stability with his personal feelings, withdrew troops from North Korea, and accepted the cheers of everyone.

Not only in the affairs of North Korea, but also in the matter of exterminating the Liukou, Zhu Youzhen was indecisive and even sympathetic to the Liukou, which led to the arrogance of the Liukou and almost overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

Anger is anger, from this matter, Su Tiancheng smelled an unusual breath, if Japan really attacked North Korea and provoked something in Korea, who would be affected the most, that is, the Jiangning camp of Houjin Tartar, who would get the benefits, that is, Houjin who was in danger.

More than 40 years ago, the Japanese attacked Korea, the main purpose was to challenge the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Wanli Emperor would not have stupidly sent troops to teach the Japanese, and now Li Xuanji believes that the Japanese may attack Korea again, I am afraid it is not groundless.

Of course, this is just Su Tiancheng's analysis, and everything needs to be supported by intelligence.

The information that Su Tiancheng was looking forward to finally arrived.

Huang Taiji made a redeployment, Dolgon came to Haizhou, and Zierharang was transferred to Liaodong, which is not a big deal, but Dai Shan led the army into Mongolia, which is not a trivial matter.

After getting this information, Su Tiancheng locked himself in the house and was not allowed to be disturbed by anyone for a whole day.

After dark, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang, Qu Qingze and others entered the house.

There was a map on the table, densely drawn, with many marks on it, and everyone had long been familiar with these marks, which showed that Su Tiancheng had probably found something after careful thinking.

After everyone entered the house, they saw Su Tiancheng holding his arms and looking at the map on the wall, without turning around to greet everyone, and everyone did not bother Su Tiancheng, silently walked to the table and looked at the map.

To everyone's surprise, on the map, Su Tiancheng actually drew a line between Japan and North Korea, which had never happened before.

Qu Qingze looked up at Su Tiancheng, who had not yet turned around, and stopped talking, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang and others didn't understand very much, and they didn't know what Su Tiancheng was thinking. (To be continued......)