At the beginning of October, Seoul received its first snowfall, and the snowflakes fell from the sky, making Seoul a world of pink and jade.

Li Yuntian pushed open the window, and a cool breeze suddenly hit him, making him can't help but tighten the clothes on his body, and then snorted on his hands.

Although it was freezing outside, the room was still unusually warm because of the two charcoal basins burning in the house, and this was the first time Li Yuntian had spent the winter in North Korea, and the weather was much colder than Beijing.

Because the winter in Korea is windy and snowy, and the temperature is cold and not suitable for work, all parts of the country are quiet after the winter.

"Xianggong, it's a lot of snow." Hongluan walked to Li Yuntian's side, looked at the goose feather snow falling from the sky and sighed, in her impression, she had never seen such a big snow in Beijing for all these years.

"This kind of snow is very common here, and in the winter the roads of North Korea are often buried by snow." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, looked at the snowflakes in the sky and said, "Now that the relief food from all over the country has been put in place, the people will be able to survive this winter. ”

"Xianggong, when are you going to see Jin Zongrui, he has come to the door several times to ask to see him, and he has been closed." Hongluan couldn't help but playfully stick out her tongue when she heard this, and then smiled and asked in a coquettish voice.

Since Jin Zongrui came to Seoul, Li Yuntian has been hanging him, which makes Jin Zongrui feel uneasy, after all, now that Li Yuntian is in control of the political situation in North Korea, he has to deal with Li Yuntian even if he hates Li Yuntian in his heart.

What is particularly important is that the Korean soldiers in the six towns in the northeast are still waiting for food for the winter, so even if Jin Zongrui can drag it down, the Korean soldiers in the six towns in the northeast can't wait.

"Xianggong can't see him now." Li Yuntian knew that Jin Zongrui wanted to see him, and when he heard this, he smiled at Hongluan, "Since Xianggong did business with him under the pseudonym Mr. Li, Xianggong is not ready to see him before the situation in Seoul calms down. ”

"Xianggong, judging from Jin Zongrui's personality, he wants to see Xianggong for the sake of food for the soldiers in the six towns in the northeast." Hongluan knew that Li Yuntian was playing Jin Zongrui with "Mr. Li", and said after flashing his bright eyes.

"The reason why Kim Zongrui dared to reject the minister's order to return to Seoul in such a tone was not without reason." Hearing that Hongluan mentioned the six towns in the Northeast, Li Yuntian took Hongluan in his arms with a deep groan, and said with a smile, "Xianggong thought that he didn't have food in his hands at first, but according to the latest report, he hid enough food for the soldiers of the six towns in the Northeast to eat for half a year, so even if Xianggong didn't give him the food, the six towns in the Northeast could survive this winter." ”

"Xianggong, Jin Zongrui has grain in stock?" Hongluan couldn't help but feel quite surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Jin Zongrui to have this hand.

"Xianggong didn't know that Jin Zongrui was hiding it at first, thanks to the spies we planted in the six towns in the northeast, and they heard the news at a wine party with Jin Zongrui's henchmen."

Li Yuntian bowed slightly, looked at the heavy snow outside the window, and said in an orderly manner, "As early as when the king of Joseon was alive, Jin Zongrui secretly stored half a year's grain, and every year when the new grain arrived, he replaced the stored grain, so that he had half a year's more grain in his hand. ”

"I didn't expect him to be so scheming." Hongluan now understood, it turned out that Jin Zongrui had already started to store grain, and now he could deal with the food crisis in the six towns in the northeast.

"If I had known that this would have happened, Xianggong wouldn't have let them send the food!" Li Yuntian shook his head a little helplessly, he found that he had underestimated Jin Zongrui, Jin Zongrui had long known the importance of grain, so he stored grain in advance, and his strategic vision was outstanding among the generals of the Korean State.

If Jin Zongrui knew that he had sent the military rations from the six towns in the northeast, I am afraid that his heart would definitely bloom, and Li Yuntian could not imagine that he was "calculated" by Jin Zongrui invisibly.

"Xianggong, is that all it takes?" Hongluan saw that Li Yuntian's brows were slightly furrowed, so she asked with a smile, she knew that Li Yuntian was a little annoyed by Jin Zongrui's secret grain storage, which made Li Yuntian's matter of sending military rations to the six towns in the northeast a joke.

"Since he didn't tell the truth to Xianggong, then Xianggong can't suffer this loss." Hearing this, a sly smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, "The location of the grain has been found, and it is estimated that the local people will be able to add food within this month." ”

"Xianggong, are you going to distribute the grain that Jin Zongrui hid to the local people?" Hongluan laughed when he heard this, Li Yuntian's method of revenge would definitely make Jin Zongrui want to cry without tears, Li Yuntian not only gave Jin Zongrui a lesson but also bought the hearts of the local people.

Obviously, Li Yuntian would not say that the grain that was found was Jin Zongrui's, and he would definitely distribute the grain in the name of Daming.

When that time comes, the last reliance in Jin Zongrui's hands will disappear, and he will have to look at Li Yuntian's face to act.

"Jin Zongrui wants to fight with Xiang Gong, and Xiang Gong will play with him." Li Yuntian leaned over and kissed Hongluan's forehead, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

At the same time, Kim Jong-seo's home in Seoul.

Jin Zongrui, like Li Yuntian, stood at the window and looked at the heavy snow falling from the sky in the courtyard, his brows furrowed tightly, he had been in Seoul for so long, but Li Yuntian had always avoided him, obviously deliberately leaving him aside, wanting to use food to force him to comply.

Perhaps, Li Yuntian delayed sending food to the six towns in the northeast because he wanted to use grain to destroy the Korean soldiers in the six towns in the northeast, so that the soldiers who had no food to eat went to the Ming army on the opposite side.

As soon as he thought of the Ming soldiers who confronted the North Korean soldiers in the six towns in the northeast, Jin Zongrui's heart rose in anger for no reason, and the Ming army relied on the money to vigorously win over the soldiers in the six towns in the northeast, which made him quite a headache.

The food treatment of the Ming army in Liaodong is compared with that of the Xiaowu army, and the soldiers of the soldiers in the six towns of the northeast are even better than those of the Korean soldiers and officers in the six towns of the northeast.

What made Jin Zongrui feel particularly hateful was that the soldiers of the Ming army welcomed the Korean soldiers to the camp as guests, and every time they went to those Korean soldiers, they could feast on them, and they would never forget the food of the Ming army.

Therefore, the Korean soldiers patrolling the six towns in the northeast often went to the camp of the Ming army on the opposite side to eat, and the relationship between the two sides gradually became intimate, which Jin Zongrui did not want to see, he knew very well that the Ming army was slowly infiltrating the Korean soldiers in the six towns in the northeast, and those Korean soldiers were likely to defect once the war broke out in the future.

Although Jin Zongrui also tried a lot of ways to prevent the North Korean soldiers patrolling the border from coming into contact with the Ming soldiers, it had no effect, who made the Ming army's food good?

As for the military attache in charge of patrolling matters on the border line, he turned a blind eye to the fact that his soldiers went to the Ming army camp to eat, and no one was willing to do such an offending thing.

What is particularly important is that many military attaches also went to the camp of the Ming army to eat, and received the warm hospitality of the military attaché of the Ming army.

Jin Zongrui knows what is happening on the border, but he is powerless to attack the Ming army's sugar-coated shells, who makes the Ming army rich and willing to spend money.

"Dad, it's snowing, what about the food of the sergeant of the Six Towns?" Just as Jin Zongrui was deep in thought, a young man walked into the room and said in an eager voice.

This young man was Kim Jong-seo's eldest son, Kim Seung-gyu, who was an official in Licho, and knew that the Korean soldiers in the six towns in the northeast were experiencing a food crisis, but Kim Jong-seo could not see Li Yuntian's face, so he could not get food aid.

"You don't need to worry about this, you just need to do your own thing." Hearing this, Jin Zongrui turned his head and glanced at Jin Chenggui, and said quietly.

"Dad, if you really can't do it, you can apologize to the loyal prince, now that everyone up and down in Seoul is looking forward to the loyal prince, why do you bother to go against the loyal prince." Hearing this, a wry smile appeared on the corner of Kim Seung-gyu's mouth, and after hesitating for a moment, he opened his mouth to persuade.

Now even the people of Seoul know that the Korean state is ruled by Li Yuntian, and they all accept this reality, so there is no need for Jin Zongrui to face Li Yuntian again, in the end, it is he who suffers.

Kim Seung-gyu had already heard that since Kim Jong-seo refused Li Yuntian's order last time and did not come to Seoul, the people of the Shouyang Maharaja family began to prepare to seize Kim Jong-seo's military power.

To Kim Seung-gyu's surprise, Li Yuntian didn't seem to agree to move Kim Zongrui, otherwise Jin Zongrui's military power and official position would not be able to be kept at all.

Although Jin Chenggui didn't know what Li Yuntian was paying attention to, since Li Yuntian did not agree with the Shouyang Dajun and his family to deal with Jin Zongrui, he was still very grateful for this in his heart.

Thinking about it, Li Yuntian is not only the prince of Daming, but also a jinshi from the Daming Imperial Examination, and he definitely disdains to use intrigues and tricks to deal with Jin Zongrui.

In addition, since Li Yuntian came to Seoul, Seoul has gradually regained its former prosperity, and the people have lived a comfortable life, and laughter and laughter have resounded in the market.

Although Kim Seung-gyu was reluctant to admit it, Li Yuntian's ability to govern the local area did make him admire, and under Li Yuntian's governance, Seoul showed vigorous vitality in a short period of time, which made him have an inexplicable good impression of Li Yuntian.

"Don't you see that he's buying people's hearts!" After listening to Jin Chenggui's words, Jin Zongrui's brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at the heavy snow outside the window and said in a deep voice, "You don't feel strange, the Ming Dynasty has never sent important ministers to our North Korea, why did a prince come this time?" ”

"Dad, do you mean that Daming wants to annex our North Korea?" Jin Chenggui was taken aback when he heard this, and looked at Jin Zongrui with a surprised expression, in his opinion, the Korean State was of no value to the Ming Dynasty, but if it wasn't for that, why would Li Yuntian come here?

"It's good that you know this matter yourself, and you must not spread it to the outside, otherwise a catastrophe will come." Jin Zongrui did not answer Jin Chenggui's question, and warned with a serious expression that once such words were spread, it would be self-defeating, and the crime of slandering the Prince of Daming was not something that Jin Zongrui and others could bear.

"Dad, the military rations of the six towns in the northeast can't be delayed any longer, otherwise it will inspire a mutiny." Kim Seung-gyu naturally knew that this kind of thing could not be said nonsense, and if it was passed on, it would be a dead end, so he said worriedly after a while.

"Dad has his own measure in the matter of military rations, you don't need to worry about it." Jin Zongrui frowned when he heard this, and told Jin Chenggui in a deep voice that he couldn't tell Jin Chenggui that he had secretly hidden military rations for half a year.

At this moment, Jin Zongrui couldn't help but congratulate himself on the wisdom of his choice back then, originally he hid those military rations to deal with the Ming army, but he didn't think that now it came in handy, otherwise the soldiers of the six towns in the northeast would collapse in the winter because of the lack of food, Li Yuntian's move can be described as extremely vicious, and the soldiers used the grain soldiers to destroy the troops of the six towns in the northeast without blood

"The child is gone." Seeing that Jin Zongrui didn't want to talk to him about the affairs of the six towns in the northeast, the corners of his mouth squirmed a few times and he didn't speak, it was obvious that he couldn't interfere with Jin Zongrui once he decided, so he bowed to Jin Zongrui and retreated.

"King Chung, if your treacherous plan succeeds, he will not watch you make waves in Seoul!" After Kim Seung-gyu left, Kim Zongrui slammed his fist on the window and whispered expressionlessly, even if he fought with his life, he would not want to stop Li Yuntian from annexing North Korea.

This heavy snow fell for a day and a night, and after the snow stopped, Li Yuntian led Liu Zhen, Hongluan and others to build snowmen in the yard.

"Lord Wang, just now there was news from the Yi Forbidden Mansion that two people involved in Li Jue's case were frozen to death last night!" Just when Li Yuntian was having fun with Liu Zhen and Hongluan, Yun Na walked quickly to his side and said.

"Frozen to death?" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly furrowed slightly when he heard this, although the temperature dropped to below zero due to this heavy snowfall, but the prison of the Righteous Forbidden Mansion was full of hay, and the family members of the people involved in the case had already taken enough clothes and bedding to keep out the cold, so how could they freeze to death?

"Lord Wang, as far as my subordinates know, those two people were too seriously injured after being tortured, and they couldn't hold on to death last night." Yun Na reported to Li Yuntian in a low voice.

"It's been so long and I haven't investigated the case clearly, and I only know that it's really disappointing to be angry with those little pawns." Li Yuntian immediately sneered when he heard this, but he knew that the people involved in Li Jue's case had suffered a lot, and Li Ji and Huang Xi's people had tortured them a lot in order to get favorable evidence, so that now two people have died.

"Lord Wang, since they can't judge clearly, do you want us to take over?" Hearing this, Yun Na asked tentatively, she didn't expect Liu Shangmin and others to find out Li Jue's case clearly.

"You go and find out the cause of death of those two people." Li Yuntian pondered for a while and then said to Yun Na, ready to salute first and then soldier, so that the people of the Korean country have nothing to say.

"My subordinates will go." Yun Na knew that Li Yuntian was going to intervene in Li Jue's case, so she bowed and left quickly, looking for someone to go to the Yiban Mansion for an autopsy.