"Liu Fang, what do you want to do, this official is the deputy envoy of the emperor's imperial order, do you want to rebel?" When Chen Ming saw that Li Yuntian was aggressive, he was immediately annoyed and angry, turned around and pointed at Li Yuntian and shouted.

"Chief Chen, the emperor's purchase of military rations in Korea is not only for the war in Liaodong, but also to show grace to the people of Korea, so he specially issued an edict to buy grain at a very preferential price."

Li Yuntian saw that Chen Ming still had the face to use Emperor Xuande to pressure him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a sneer, and looked at him with a cold expression, "But this official has heard that those grains that are two or three times or even four or five times higher than the market price are actually forcibly levied from the people by the local officials of the Korean State in the name of raising grain for me Daming, do you know as the person in charge of the procurement of military rations?" ”

"The official is only responsible for buying grain, and it is not his concern where the grain comes from." Chen Ming was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and finally understood why Li Yuntian suddenly attacked him, it turned out that he knew the origin of the military rations purchased from the Korean state, and then looked at Li Yuntian coldly, and pushed the responsibility away.

"Do you know that if those military rations are really forcibly requisitioned by local officials of the Korean State, then you have committed the crime of defrauding the king, and then you don't need to go to the emperor to sue your own official, the emperor will naturally let the people from Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si come to you."

Li Yuntian had long expected that Chen Ming would shirk his responsibility, so he sneered, and his tone became stern, "Chief Chen, this official will ask you again, do you know that those military rations are coming from the wrong way?" ”

"This official is a legal business, and those military rations were bought from the Korean National Assembly and Government Office Hu Cao, how could it be that they came from the wrong way?"

Chen Ming didn't expect Li Yuntian's words to be so powerful, and he was charged with a crime of bullying the monarch in an instant, and he couldn't refute it, but he wouldn't be so stupid to admit that there was a problem with the source of those military rations, so he naturally carried it to the end, and asked Li Yuntian not to be outdone.

"Chief Chen, this official has already given you a chance." Seeing that Chen Ming was stubbornly resisting to the end, a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he looked up at Park Yongji who was kneeling in front of him, "This official asks you, is it true that the grain you said was forcibly expropriated by the local officials in the name of raising grain for Daming?" ”

"Your Excellency, the villain does not dare to deceive the adult, what he said is true, if you don't believe it, the adult can send someone to the nearest county around Seoul Prefecture to check, and he will definitely know that what the villain said is true, in order to raise military rations for the Ming Dynasty, the entire Gyeonggi Province where the Seoul Prefecture is located has almost been requisitioned."

After the guard's translation, Park Yongji hurriedly bowed to the ground and said solemnly to Li Yuntian, he didn't have much hope in his heart, thinking that Li Yuntian would definitely protect Chen Ming, but now it seems that Li Yuntian attaches great importance to this matter, otherwise Chen Ming would not have been poured cold water on his heart.

"Come on, go out of the city overnight to Incheon Port, and transfer two hundred soldiers to Seoul!" After listening to Park Yongji's words, Li Yuntian groaned for a moment and said to one of the guards in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Hearing this, the guard bowed to Li Yuntian and led the two synchronously to leave.

The Myeongyang has returned to Incheon Port, and since Li Yuntian wants to make a big deal about the military rations, he naturally needs to call in his trusted subordinates to investigate the case, and at the same time, this is also to deter the Korean officials in Seoul and deliberately create a tense atmosphere in the city.

"Lord Liu is angry, this matter is better to discuss in the long run, don't need to work your army, the Council will definitely find out this matter and give Lord Liu a satisfactory explanation." Li Yao saw that Li Yuntian was going to transfer troops into Seoul, although it was only a few 200 people, but Seoul was the capital of Korea after all, and if the Ming army entered, it would have a heavy impact, and I was afraid that it would cause panic in the city.

"Maharaja, this matter is related to the majesty of the Great Prince, and this official must investigate this case, otherwise not only will he not be able to report to the emperor, but it will also affect the matter of raising materials in Korea during the war in Liaodong."

Li Yuntian shook his head at Li Yao when he heard this, and politely rejected Li Yao's mention with a stern expression, he knew that Li Yao naturally wanted to turn a big thing into a small thing, and make a small matter, and let this matter go over perfunctorily, but Li Yuntian's intention was to make a big deal about it, so how could he hand the case over to the council hall for trial?

Li Yao's face suddenly showed a look of disappointment, Li Yuntian was an envoy sent by Emperor Xuande, representing the power of the Ming Dynasty, so if the Joseon State was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it would undoubtedly be an act of rebellion if it prevented the Ming army from entering Seoul, and even if it did not trigger the Ming army's conquest, it would cause civil strife in Korea.

It is worth mentioning that the Kingdom of Korea and the vassal states such as the Kingdom of Annam, the subject states such as the Kingdom of Annam are the subject states of the Ming Dynasty, and the Kingdom of Korea is actually a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty because of its special geographical location.

The so-called vassal state, refers to the Ming Taizu canonized the territory of the vassal king when the Ming Dynasty was founded, and the Korean Kingdom is similar to a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty and the Korean Kingdom have the closest exchanges, and the envoys sent are also the most frequent.

Therefore, those two classes of nobles in the Kingdom of Korea are the ministers of the Korean State, and they are also the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy for the King of Korea to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, and he must first pass the two classes of nobles in the country.

The two classes of nobles of the Korean Kingdom controlled the government of the Korean Kingdom and had the right to influence the political situation of the Korean Kingdom, and because many of the two classes of nobles had identified with the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty and formed a strong pro-Ming faction in the Korean Kingdom, the war between the King of Joseon and the Ming Dynasty was a rebellion from a legal point of view, and the two classes of nobles of the pro-Ming faction would definitely oppose it.

From the Goryeo period, the power struggle between the two classes of nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty was extremely fierce, and it reached its peak by the time of the Joseon Dynasty.

Li Yao is now not only worried that the military rations matter will be too big to deal with the aftermath, but also worried that the Joseon king will refuse the Ming army to enter Seoul, and then things will get worse.

"Liu Fang, now that the war situation in Liaodong is critical, what is your intention in causing so many incidents in North Korea?"

Chen Ming finally realized that things were not good at this time, but he didn't expect Li Yuntian to transfer troops, so the matter would be a big problem, if the batch of military rations was investigated, all the filth and greasy in it would be exposed, so he suppressed the shock in his heart, and pretended to question Li Yuntian calmly.

"Chief Chen, the emperor let you raise such a big thing for the military rations, you don't want to repent but want to frame the official, it's really hateful!" Hearing this, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth suddenly revealed a sneer of disdain, and he looked at Chen Ming expressionlessly, "Someone is coming, lock him up in the backyard of the Taiping Pavilion, and no one is allowed to contact him without the order of the official." ”

"Liu Fang, this official is the deputy envoy of the emperor's imperial order, you dare to imprison this official, aren't you afraid of committing the crime of bullying the king?" Chen Ming immediately panicked when he heard this, feeling that Li Yuntian didn't seem to be joking, so he hurriedly pointed at Li Yuntian and yelled.

Li Yuntian ignored him, waved his hand at the guards on the side, and Liu Fang, who was shouting, was dragged out by several guards, attracting the attention of geisha and prostitutes along the way.

Liu Fang has been in Seoul for a few months, and almost every night he has to drink flowers and wine in the Seoul Workshop, so the geisha and prostitutes in the Seoul Workshop almost all know that he is the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty to Korea.

"Dajun, the incident happened suddenly, the envoy has an important case to investigate, and next time I will talk to the Dajun." Waiting for Chen Ming to be dragged out of the door, Li Yuntian got up and bowed his hand to Li Ming, and said quietly.

"Lord Liu, if there is anything you need for the king's service, just ask, this king will do his best." Li Yao hurriedly stood up and said to Li Yuntian.

"The envoy has thanked the Maharaja, the military rations case is serious, and the envoy needs the help of a noble person like the Maharaja, so I ask the Maharaja to go and ask His Royal Highness the King, and the envoy wants the Council to assist the envoy in thoroughly investigating the military rations case." Hearing this, Li Yuntian arched his hand to Li Yao again, and dragged Li Yao into the water.

"This king will tell His Highness the past." Li Yao immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then bowed to Yuntian, the expression on his face softened, listening to the tone, Li Yuntian did not mean to ask the Korean king Xingshi for the crime, which made things easier to handle.

Li Yuntian keenly noticed the change in the expression on Li Yao's face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but flash a subtle smile, because the Ming army was at a disadvantage in Liaodong, so Li Yuntian would definitely not attack the king of Korea now, he needed to get materials and troops from the Korean state to fight the Mongols in Liaodong, so he planned to give the king of Korea a dismount first, so that the king of Korea would obediently do what he asked.

Gyeongbokgung Palace, Kangning Palace.

The king of Joseon, Li Tao, is reading the official documents, as the king of the Joseon Kingdom who is admired by all the people of later generations, he can be described as a daily manager and diligent in government affairs.

"Your Royal Highness, the Lord Shouyang and Zuo Yizheng have urgent official business to see." Suddenly, the door opened, and the main hall raised Shang Gong and walked in quickly, bowed to Li Qi and said.

"Oh! Pass them in. Li Yan couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard this, now that the night is dark, Li Yao and Huang Xi are still coming together, is there something big?

"Your Royal Highness, something is wrong, something happened to the batch of grain that Hu Cao raised for Daming, and the envoy Liu found that the military rations were not purchased with money, but forcibly collected from the people by local officials on the grounds of raising military rations for the Ming Dynasty, for this reason, the envoy Liu was already angry, not only sent people to transfer two hundred Ming troops from Incheon Port, but also imprisoned the envoy Chen in the backyard of the Taiping Pavilion."

Li Qi and Huang Xi were waiting outside the door, and then hurriedly came in, Huang Xi bowed to Li Qi and said with a solemn face.

"What?" Li Yan's eyes suddenly showed a stunned look.

If he remembered correctly, Hu Cao got 350,000 taels of silver to buy grain, of which 50,000 taels of silver Hu Cao gave to Gyeongbokgung Palace, and the rest of the silver was used to buy grain from the people, how could it become a grain requisition?

In addition, Chen Ming is the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Yuntian is also the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how different the official positions of the two are in the Ming Dynasty, their identities in North Korea are the same, and now Li Yuntian has imprisoned Chen Ming, which is too bold.

"His Royal Highness Father, Emperor Daming spent a lot of money this time to buy military rations for the Ming Army in Liaodong, and now the money has been withheld by local officials. Seeing the astonishment on Li Yan's face, Li Yao couldn't help but say worriedly.

"Those bastards dare to do such a daring thing." Li Qi came back to his senses when he heard this, stretched out his hand and slapped the table hard, and said angrily.

Although Li Qi knew that those officials who handled it would inevitably use their hands to make money out of it, he never expected that they would dare to change the purchase of grain to the collection of grain, which made him feel incredible.