Chapter 16: Coalition Assistance

Today, to officially meet with the monarchs and ministers of the Danluo Kingdom, Lin Tie put on a scarlet official robe outside his fur coat.

The style of the official robe was complicated, and Lin Jian tossed for a while, but he couldn't straighten out the sleeves. Song Jia couldn't look at it, squatted down, and helped him sort out the sleeves of his robe.

Lin Jian stood there, his hands crossed, and asked Song Jia to help him straighten his robe, and he could see her slender and white neck behind the green silk bun, and the snow white in the depths covered the collar.

Song Jia seemed to feel Lin Lian's gaze fall on her smooth neck, and she was a little hurried in her heart, so she forced herself to calm down and help Lin Tie the rhino horn belt. This action is like holding Lin Bin's waist with his backhand, his body is also closer, his head is almost attached to Lin Bin's chest, and he can also hear the sound of a beating and powerful heartbeat, Song Jia dizzy, reluctantly helped Lin Tie buckle his belt, took a half step back, and said: "The monarch and minister of Danluo Kingdom should be here......

"Without you, I wouldn't even have clothes!" Lin Jian said self-deprecatingly, to dispel the embarrassment between each other.

"What are you talking about, it's not the turn of the slave concubine to help the adults get dressed!" Song Jia said softly, and was afraid that Lin Jian would tease her words, so she walked out first.

In the Dayue Dynasty, there was no female official system except for the inner court, and Song Jia held the position of the canon, but it was only an expedient system within the Huaidong Military Division, and it could not be taken to the outside to say; The Li family of Danluo Kingdom regarded Song Jia as Lin Jiao's favorite concubine.

Song Jia doesn't care what outsiders think, but it is difficult for her to really take that step. She liked the position she was in at this time rather than the caged bird. Throughout the ages, how many women have had the opportunity to display their ambitions and talents? Do you want to give up the opportunity you are now for the sake of the emotions that are surging in your heart?

Outside it was reported that Li Jianjunchen, the lord of Danluo, was visiting, and Lin Jian put aside other thoughts, walked downstairs, and welcomed Li Jianjin into the main hall to discuss things.

Although the Danluo Kingdom was small, Li Jianchenjun took refuge in Jeju City, and Lin Jian also regarded Li Jian as a guest according to etiquette.

In the main hall, Lin Jian and Li Jian sat opposite each other, and Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Zhao Hu, Lin Jingzhong, Ge Changgen, Zhou Guitang and others all sat down from Lin Jian and sat in turn.

Li Jianxia sat his ministers in turn, who had fled from Seogwipo four days earlier, like lost dogs.

The hope of regaining the royal capital and restoring the country can only be pinned on the young man who is kneeling on the case.

Li Jianjun and his ministers are not people who sit in the well and watch the sky, and they know that the Danluo Kingdom is small and it is impossible for it to be completely independent and survive. Dan Guo's dependence on the strong, as a vassal, is an inevitable choice, and the only extravagant hope is that it can still have basic decency and not be completely annexed.

For this purpose, even if the lovely girls selected by the eunuchs were given to Lin Jian as maids, there was no pity, but I didn't expect that this side would take the initiative to promote a political marriage.

This was an unexpected joy for Li Jianjunchen. This means that they choose to rely on the Huaidong Military Division, and they can obtain a more independent status than expected.

"Dan Luo can marry the Qin and Jin Dynasty with the Celestial Empire, and he is alone," Li Jian gave Lin Jian a salute and said, "The two hundred-year-old goodness is really the fulfillment of the good intentions of the superiors, and the matter of regaining the royal capital has to be done by the envoys...... his official tone is a little weird, but it does not hinder communication.

"Dan Luo and I have been friends for a hundred years, and for a time he was taken advantage of by the traitor, so that Dan Luo was bullied by Goryeo for more than ten years, Si Cheng was in pain. This official was entrusted by the imperial court to lead his troops into Danluo to set things right, so that Danluo would return to the protection of our court, and his duty was ......," Lin Jian said.

After the loss of Liaodong, the imperial court hoped that the Goryeo people could contain the Donghu people in Haidong, so they agreed to the request of the Goryeo people and sold Danluo to Goryeo, which can be said to be the imperial court's initiative to give up the suzerainty status of Danluo.

At this time, Lin Jian emphasized the suzerainty status of the Dayue Dynasty to Danluo, emphasizing that he was ordered to send envoys and cross the sea to the east.

Li Jian, the lord of Danluo, and other monarchs and ministers also forgot about the previous unpleasant history, and no one questioned whether Lin Lian's name as an envoy was true.

After Goryeo surrendered to the Donghu people, the imperial court completely lost control of the Haidong region. It is not difficult for Lin Jian to ask for an order to go to sea, but it is too late, and he can only act in the name of being ordered to send an envoy at the moment.

Compared with the Devil's Divine Decree, the thousands of elite soldiers and sturdy warships that came with Lin Tie were more solid and convincing capital. Li Jianchenjun wants to rely on Lin Jian to regain the royal capital and restore the country, where will he be entangled in the details?

"It's not a lonely heart, but in fact, the royal capital has fallen, the subjects have been killed, and the system does not exist, so that the lonely night cannot sleep and the food does not know the taste," Li Jian said, "Dare to ask the envoy, when will the army be sent out of Seogwipo?" ”

"Zhen Feng is a general of Goryeo, and there are more than 4,000 remnants of the army under his command, and he can't rush to recapture the royal city," Lin Jian said, "Although I led the heroic army to cross the sea and go east, I still have to cross the sea and return to the west when the matter is over." Dare to ask the king, after I led the army to the west, the Goryeo led the army to invade again, why did Danluo stand on his own? ”

"Lone Dang calls on the people of the country to defend the territory, even if there is only one soldier left, he will no longer allow the territory to be trampled by the Koreans......" Li Jian said through gritted teeth.

Lin Jian still doubted Li Jian's determination to resist.

If he hadn't led his troops to come this time, once Jeju City was broken, it would be strange that Li Jianchenjun did not surrender to the Goryeo people and beg for his life.

However, Lin Jian only needed Li Jian to say this, and followed the meaning of his words, and said: "The king's intention is very much in line with my wishes, please ask the king to recruit Wang Jun, I will not stand idly by, I will do my best to help." When the time is ripe, the two families will join forces to recapture the royal city in one fell swoop and restore the Danluo system......"

Zhen Feng retreated to Seogwipo City, and even withdrew the garrison of Xianlupu. After the remnants of the navy were defeated last night, Zhen Feng's troops became alone on Danluo Island, and could only stand firm in Seogwipo to wait for reinforcements.

In the current situation, Zhen Feng will not surrender easily, and his will to defend the city will be very resolute. Lin Jian has no intention of storming Seogwipo City regardless of casualties, even if Seogwipo is stormed, there will be a series of troubles.

Zhen Feng led the army from Xianlupu to Danluo Island, and it was only six or seven days. With the exception of the fall of Seogwipo Fortress and the siege of Jeju Fortress, the rest of Danna Island was not affected by the war. At this time, Zhen Feng retreated to Seogwipo City, and Li Jianjunchen's rule over Danluo Island was still effective.

Lin Jian meant that Li Jian first gathered the remnants, recruited the brave, and formed a larger Wang army.

There are more than 30,000 people in Dingkou on Danluo Island, and it is still possible to forcibly recruit Ding Zhuang into the army, and to organize a regular armament of about 35,000 people.

Li Jianjun's reckless military presence on Danluo Island could reduce the pressure on the Huaidong Military Division's garrison on the island in the future.

In addition, Danluo Island's own civil-military system is too weak. After the fall of Seogwipo City, Li Jian did not even have an iron-smelting workshop to make iron, and he could not even make the most rudimentary armor. Once a large number of men are recruited into the army, agricultural production on Danluo Island will be greatly affected, and food self-sufficiency will not be achieved.

All these will make Danluo Island more completely dependent on the Huaidong Military Division; The frequent wars will increase the consumption of men on Danluo Island, making Lin Jian migrate from Huaidong to Danluo Island, and the pressure will be greatly reduced.

For Li Jianjun's ministers, it was an inevitable choice not to choose to surrender to Goryeo, expand the army, and reorganize the royal army. As for the recklessness of military force, it will cause a series of serious consequences, and it is not something that they can consider now.

On the same day, Lin Jian and Danluo Junchen negotiated the conditions for joining forces to assist in the war; In the name of the Huaidong envoy, Lin Jian signed a letter of state with Li Jian, the lord of Danluo.

The Huaidong Military Division assisted Dan Luo to form five battalions of the Wang Army, provided the most basic armor and ordnance, and assisted in the training of the Wang Army. The Huaidong Military Division will set up a war training school in Jeju City, and the Danluo royal army can select 20 officers, royal family and noble children to enter the war training school for tactical learning.

The Huaidong Military Division has the obligation and duty to protect the Danluo Kingdom and the Li family's inheritance of the Danluo monarchy.

In return, Danluo Island expanded the scale of pastures in the eastern part of the island, continued to raise war horses, cut off tribute to the Goryeo, and exchanged war horses for war preparation materials from the Huaidong Military Division in terms of armor, grain and grass.

Dan Luo agreed to cede Jeju City to the Huaidong Military Division forever, agreed to the Huaidong Military Division's garrison in Jeju, and built a military commercial harbor.

Dan Luo agreed to lease about 20,000 acres of hills, fields, streams, rivers, and grasslands on the outskirts of Jeju City, about seven or eight miles deep, to the Huaidong Military Division.

The Huaidong Military Division had jurisdiction over Jeju Fortress and the outlying leased lands.

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The day after the agreement was signed, Lin Jian sent four battalions of soldiers out of Jeju City.

These four battalions of soldiers set up camp in the south of Seogwipo Fortress and in the hilly land at the northern foot of Sunrise Mountain, and peeked into Seogwipo Fortress on the north shore of the island in a condescending manner.

The Governor of Haiyang County, Goryeo, was completely suppressed and could not get out of Seogwipo City; Lin Jian can calmly integrate the resources of Danluo Island and help the Danluo people rebuild the royal army in Jeju City.

Danluo collected the remnants, and there were more than 600 generals who could use them, and recruited Ding Zhuang from the civilians to make up for the five battalions of 3,000 soldiers.

Lin Jian selected twenty military attaches from the personal guard battalion as military commanders, and temporarily incorporated them into the Danluo Wang Army, responsible for daily training; In wartime, it assumes the duties of a tactical staff officer.

At the same time, Lin Jian officially established the Jeju Inspection Department in Jeju and appointed Lim Jingzhong as the inspector to oversee Jeju's civil affairs, commerce and trade and tax affairs.

At the beginning of the year, it only leased nearly 500 acres of land from Danluo to build the plug, and the scale was very limited. In addition to the garrison, the relocation of 400 households almost filled the Jeju Fortress, leaving no room for development.

After signing the agreement to assist the coalition forces, not only did Jeju be permanently placed under the rule of the Huaidong Military Division, but also leased nearly 20,000 acres of land on the periphery of Jeju City. These lands occupy almost one-twentieth of the area of Danluo Island, and there are not many fertile fields suitable for farming, but if Lin Jian wants to develop Jeju into a transit port in the Haedong region, 20,000 acres of land will provide quite sufficient space for development.

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From Chongju to Jeju, a round trip, but only ten days.

On the 6th day of the first month of the 12th year of Chongguan, the second fleet sent by Chongzhou arrived at Jeju Port, carrying a large number of strategic materials such as armor and grain and grass.

After the production of the ordnance factory in Chongzhou was on a large scale, the old armor captured in the previous battles was no longer incorporated into the army; The old armor that existed in the army should also be gradually phased out.

The captured old armor was transported to Danluo Island this time and used by the Danluo people to form five battalions of the royal army.

In addition, Chongzhou has become an important rice market town second only to Jiangning. The temporary transfer of tens of thousands of stone rice grain to Danluo is a profitable thing for maritime merchants, and it will not affect the overall situation of the Jinhai grain road.

The defense line of Gyeonggi and Yanbei only needs 3 million stone rice grains a year; In Chongzhou County alone, the increase in grain and grass production last year reached a scale of one million stones.

Although the increased production of these grains will not be collected as taxes, if they are guided, they will provide a sufficient supply of rice in Chongzhou, and will also help to curb the price of grain in Chongzhou.

Coming with the ship, there is also a special purpose to officially order Lin Tie to deal with Haidong affairs. After Goryeo surrendered to the Donghu people, there were even Goryeo soldiers on the Yanbei defensive line. Although Danluo's national strength is small, the Huaidong Military Division can use Danluo to contain Goryeo, which is better than nothing.

Besides, Zhang Xie, Yue Lengqiu and others also hoped that the attention of the Huaidong Military Division would be restrained by the outside, but they did not realize that Danluo Island was of great significance to the Huaidong Military Division.

I can't complain about Zhang Xie and Yue Lengqiu, they are high above the temple, they only know that the sea storm is raging, and their understanding of maritime trade routes is not even as good as that of an ordinary maritime merchant.

With the special purpose of the imperial court, the cooperation between Lin Jian and Li Jianjunchen was even more pleasant.

In the early days, Li Jian allocated 800 military horses to the Huaidong Military Division as an exchange for war readiness materials in the early stage.

Zhou Pu led a soldier of the cavalry battalion of the horse army to cross the sea with Lin Tie into Danluo Island, with all the armor and ordnance, but he did not carry a war horse, just from the current supplement of Danluo Island.

After spending a few days and getting acquainted with the nature of horses, the cavalry of the Huaidong Military Division began to carry out scout and blockade missions on Danluo Island.

Danluo Island maintains more than 3,000 military horses all year round, and in the past, it was a free tribute to Goryeo, and at this time, it exchanged with the Huaidong Military Division for soldiers' armor, rice and other things.

Both the Danluo monarchs and the Danluo commoners were willing to accept such conditions, and they were also willing to expand the scale of horse breeding in the pastures of half of the island.

Due to land limitations, the scale of horse breeding on Danluo Island can expand to about five or six thousand at most, and it can provide Chongzhou with about 2,000 military horses every year. Compared with the Huaidong Military Division, which has no source of military horses, it can be supplemented by 2,000 military horses every year, which is very precious.

Of course, if you can get excellent horse breeds from Danluo Island, the Huaidong Military Division can also build pastures in Hecheng, Daheng Island, and Changshan Island to increase the source of military horses.