On June 12 of the first year of Hongxi, Xu Hao arrived at Jeju Island, which was renamed Yingju, in a fleet of five warships.

According to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty from Dongfang Shuo's "Ten Continents", there are ten continents overseas, such as Zuzhou, Xuanzhou, Yanzhou, Yuanzhou, and Yingzhou.

Among them, Yingzhou is in the East China Sea, with a place of 40,000 miles, and it will be 700,000 miles to the west coast. Based on this, Xu Hao ordered the Ministry of War and Rites to send a note to the Korean envoys, proposing that Yingzhou was China's inherent territory, and that the island was inhabited by Wu people who had moved here as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Because it comes from the description in the Ten Continents, "There are many immortal families on the continent, the customs are like the Wu people, and the mountains and rivers are like China!" ”

In addition, the poet immortal Li Bai once did "sleepwalking in the sky and leaving farewell", the poet Li Yi did "ascending the Temple of Heaven and seeing the sea at night", and the poet Kong Deshao's "Nanyin Wandering Quanshan Poem" and so on, all of which mentioned Yingzhou, all of which show that the relationship between Yingzhou and Middle-earth is a continuous relationship.

In addition to the seemingly strong rhetoric, officials of the Ministry of Rites also quoted scriptures to refute the views of the Korean envoys, pointing out that Yeongju has not been Korean territory since ancient times, but 300 years ago, Goryeo sent troops to destroy the Tamna Kingdom without consulting the suzerain, and set up Tamna County.

During the previous dynasty, King Chungyeol of Goryeo returned to the Yuan Dynasty, and the Tamna people rebelled and asked the Yuan Dynasty to send troops, and since then the Tamna State has been restored and the Mongolian Governor's Office has been established.

Most Korean monarchs and ministers did not think that Yingzhou was very important, and it was obviously not worth risking offending the Celestial Empire to occupy an island hanging overseas, just like Tsushima Island, even if the Yuan army had killed the Japanese people, the Koreans did not take the opportunity to take it for themselves. Even later, in order to exterminate the Japanese invaders, he did not think of ruling Tsushima Island when he had the advantage.

To put it bluntly, for thousands of years, North Korea was weak due to its small country, and when its neighbors were strong. There is no dare to expand externally.

Historically, Jeju as a place of exile and a horse breeding ground has indeed never been valued by the Koreans, and this time Xu Hao took the lead, although he did not admit or object, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence to the sovereignty of Yingzhou by the Ming Dynasty.

Since North Korea is interested, Xu Hao also strictly ordered the army not to harass the North Korean coast, after all, the suppression of the Japanese state must be greatly assisted by North Korea.

And this time, Mu Yi led more than a hundred warships. The 15,000 men were not going on an expedition, but an experimental voyage for a month and a half. No matter how you say it, you need to get the consent of the emperor and the military department.

If it was not possible to make the officials of the former dynasty surrender at that time, then in principle, it was necessary to return immediately, of course, Mu Yi ordered an artillery exercise at sea, facing the overwhelming superiority of the Da Ming Naval Division. Like a rootless islander, the officials asked for submission without thinking about it.

There are more than 98,000 military and civilian people in Yingzhou. Among them, there were hundreds of family members of Mongolian officials, a thousand-person team and more than 3,000 family members, responsible for maintaining law and order, because the Northern Yuan was torn apart, the sea route was cut off, only to know that the Yuan Emperor retreated to the grassland.

There were not many Han Chinese officials, soldiers and civilians on the island, about 2,000 people, who were mainly responsible for making the necessary production materials as craftsmen. There are more than 30,000 Koreans who work as farmers to cultivate farmland and grow crops.

The rest are indigenous. Most of them are descendants of the ancient Tamna kingdom and are scattered throughout the island. Since ancient times, Yingzhou has the characteristics of three more and three no three beauty, and three more refers to more stones, more winds, and more women.

The island is full of rocks and caves, and the houses are straw huts made of stones; Because it is located in the typhoon zone, it will be hit by strong winds at any time, which is also the main reason why the Yuan Dynasty failed to conquer the Japanese country twice, and set Korea as a front-line base, but every time it encountered a hurricane.

Xu Hao didn't want to bury the army because of this, and it was undoubtedly foolish to rashly send a large army to invade the Japanese state, so Mu Yi left 5,000 people and returned to Dalian with 20,000 Koreans, and the Goryeo people who did not know anything about it happily embarked on a death journey to the slave road.

Women are a major feature of Yingzhou, the aborigines go out to sea to fish and are often killed at every turn, so there are slightly more women than men, and because of the difficult life, women must go out to work, which makes women look more numerous, in addition to the sea women who can dive into the rough sea, picking pearls and seafood.

Three-nil refers to living on a barren island, where the harsh living conditions have allowed people to develop the virtue of helping each other, and almost no one lives by stealing and begging. This is also common in the Central Plains, where people in the countryside do not need to lock their doors when they go out to work, and neighborly mutual assistance has been one of the traditional virtues of the Han people since ancient times.

The aborigines did not consider themselves to be Koreans or Koreans since ancient times, and the Chinese ruled Yingzhou for more than 800 years from the Western Han Dynasty to the Cao Wei period of the Three Kingdoms.

The Goryeo people, who migrated one after another, were reluctant to submit to the Joseon Dynasty because the Korean Peninsula was also in turmoil between the Three Kingdoms and the rise and fall of dynasties since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Historically, because of Jeju Island's long-standing separatism, the Syngman Rhee government ordered the military and police to launch a white terror against Jeju, resulting in the killing of more than 40,000 innocent people, and the sharp drop of the islanders from 280,000 to only 30,000, and South Korea completely ruled Jeju Island from then on.

"The sinner has seen my lord."

Dozens of officials on the island bowed and saluted, led by a Han man in his fifties named Zuo Hengsu, the most important official of the Governor's Office.

Xu Hao nodded slightly, walked towards the governor's mansion, the biggest windfall in Yingzhou is to have tens of thousands of horses for free, there have been wild horses breeding near Halla Mountain since ancient times, the Yuan Dynasty has always wanted to take revenge on the Wa Kingdom, and attaches great importance to the horse farm here, which is based on the hybridization of a hundred years, both Mongolian horses and Korean bantams.

The fleet was busy transporting horses to Liaodong, bringing craftsmen to build military docks and various facilities, and Xu Hao was preparing to fully implement Han language education in the coming year, forcing the islanders to become Han Chinese.

Looking at the yellow rape flowers on the slopes of the fields, the orange groves on the mountains and the Halla Peak at the end of the line, Xu Hao was quite satisfied with this place.

Even though Yingzhou is very poor, it can live on its own 100,000 people, rape flowers provide sufficient edible oil and fertilizer, specialty oranges are rich in vitamins, honey provides essential sugar, inexhaustible seafood, the island is planted with corn and wheat and other food crops, woods, stones and war horses, unite the people outside, so that every time the Japanese come to rob, they will return with a feather, and for thousands of years, the Japanese have never been able to occupy this place.

Striding into the governor's mansion, the five hundred personal guards stood solemnly with muskets in hand, Xu Hao asked Zuo Hengsu, who was trembling: "You have lived here for a long time, tell me about the advantages and disadvantages of the previous dynasty and the Japanese army, because I want to prepare to attack Tsushima Island and eliminate the Japanese on the island." ”

"Yes!" Zuo Hengsu's spirit perked up, and he muttered: "The army of the previous dynasty has always been strictly disciplined, and every ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand people are led by a commander. The Wa State is the military attache Zhuang head system, officials from all over the country keep private soldiers, the guards go out to the army by the retainers and samurai to lead their clansmen to accompany them, in addition to being loyal to each other, they are not subordinate to each other, the retainers are proud of dying for the head of the family, and the samurai are not afraid of death for the sake of glory, and it is not easy to break up when fighting, and they can be reunited quickly when they are scattered. ”

"Oh." Xu Hao understood a little and said: "You mean that the army of the previous dynasty was good at large-scale coordinated operations, and with strict organization and training, as long as the generals were not incompetent, they should be able to defeat the same number of Japanese troops on the battlefield?" ”

Zuo Hengsu said: "What my lord sees is that the two armies are facing each other head-on, and the Japanese kingdom will lose almost every battle, they don't know what battle formation tactics are, and they are accustomed to sending brave men to challenge alone, and they like to fight in vain with their personal bravery, and when they fight, they often charge with one person and one horse on the narrow terrain, and the army is good at fighting on their own, so that even if they are defeated, they will not be scattered, and they will quickly regroup and fight again."

My father said that when the war was fought, there were groups of samurai everywhere, taking turns to enter the palace and the front of the army, although the number was at a disadvantage and suffered heavy casualties, but it was difficult to estimate the number of enemy troops at that time, and everyone was not afraid of death, so that the main general was afraid, but he did not expect that when the class master retreated to the ship, he encountered a strong wind. ”

Xu Hao recently read the relevant official books, combined with the observation data collected in recent years, as well as the intelligence secretly collected in the Wa Kingdom, and speculated that between August and October every year, typhoons often hit the western and southern parts of the Wa Kingdom, which means that the Yuan Dynasty army was very unlucky to catch up.

In fact, it was also because the Yuan army with the Mongols as the main force was afraid of water, when the fleet docked on the shore, the Mongolian generals were frightened into a mess, and they were forced to drive the boats to dodge.

The Mongolian generals ignored the soldiers who fell into the sea, fearing that the Japanese army would take the opportunity to sneak attack, and ordered the withdrawal of the troops back to China in the rain, so more than 10,000 people were drowned, so the Japanese people worshiped the so-called kamikaze for 670 years.

However, when the Second Eastern Crusade encountered a hurricane again, Zhang Xi's troops of the Jiangnan Army ordered the warships to anchor at a distance of 50 paces, which was to save the traitor Fan Wenhu with very little loss, which shows that large sea ships can withstand ordinary wind and waves.

At this time, there were 3,000 Jurchen soldiers recruited on the island, and Xu Hao ordered that in the name of "crusading against the Japanese invaders", he ordered the Korean state to gather ships and provide all the food and grass materials needed.

Unexpectedly, the Korean state made a small calculation on this matter, for fear that the Ming Dynasty would take the opportunity to occupy Tsushima Island and block the trade route between it and the Japanese State, so he took the lead and ordered Li Congmao to be the commander of the three armies, and mobilized 114 warships from Gyeongsang-do, Jeolla-do, and Chungcheong-do, and 8,000 soldiers to Tsushima.

The hastily organized Korean convoy set off on Geoje Island, but was forced to retreat due to headwinds, set off again on 10 July, and landed the next day at Asamo Bend on Tsushima Island.

Li Congmao sent Japanese prisoners to persuade the island lord Zong Zhensheng, and after being refused, he sent 3,000 people from the left army to set off, but encountered hundreds of Japanese invaders on the way and was defeated! (To be continued......)