The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 370 The Lion's Big Opening

Tang Yin is quite calm-headed, knowing that these are sugar-coated shells from the North Koreans, once he accepts them, he will be easily controlled by others, and he will also be impeached by Daming's officials after he returns.

The main reason is...he didn't think he was attracted by this woman.

Early the next morning when the North Korean ministers were meeting, Tang Yin, Pu Yuanzong, and Liu Ziguang entered Jingfu Palace to go to Qinzheng Hall together. On the way, he asked directly: "Bo Yin, you are doing this, it makes me very embarrassed."

Park Yuanzong said: "Forgive me, sir. I'm just doing a little bit of landlord friendship to make your life more stable in North Korea. In addition, I know that envoy Xu is sick, so I sent some medicines and supplements. They should be there?"

Pu Yuanzong was afraid that the people below did not handle the matter well, or that Tang Yin and Xu Jing returned the gift, and someone would miss it in the end, so he still asked for confirmation seriously.

"Healing medicinal materials can be kept. As for women, they don't have to think about sending them to the Huitong Hall in the future." Tang Yin said, "If you really have the heart, you shouldn't come to take care of me. Don't you know that now the Ming Dynasty , regarding the succession of the North Korean leader, who speaks more weight?"

Park Yuanzong was startled.

Immediately he realized that the person Tang Yin was talking about was, without accident, Zhang Zhou.

You can't be talking about Daming's first assistant, Liu Jian, right?

Pu Yuanzong said in a low voice: "I just heard a news from Daming, saying that there is a baby in the mansion of Duke Lai, but I don't know if it was born by Yuan's wife."

"No." Tang Yin replied straightforwardly, "I haven't heard that Duke Lai's first wife is pregnant. If it is really a child, it should be the young wife of Wei Ning Hou Wang's family, but you know that Wei Ning Hou is also in Daming. He is very favored by Long, and his status is not too low."

Park Yuanzong smiled and said: "So we have prepared congratulatory gifts here, and it will inevitably be a little late to send them from Gyeonggi Province, so we specially asked Ping'an Road and other places to choose gifts, and it is estimated that they can be sent to Liaodong within two days."

Tang Yin said: "You finally know how to handle things."

"Sir, it's absurd." Park Yuanzong said.

Tang Yinxin said, how did you hear that I was praising you?

"After finishing the matter, I can go back to Daming. Please don't cause me some trouble. As a civil servant of Daming, I will face interrogation by court officials after I return to the capital. If they know that I am here to accept A generous gift, even if it is a woman, is not good for my reputation." Tang Yin said.

Pu Yuanzong said in a daze, "The gift will be sent to your hometown later."

It is inconvenient for you to receive the gift, then we will send the gift to a "convenient" place.

Is it thoughtful?Are you considerate?
Tang Yin said: "Forget it, how much you give to the Duke of Lai, he will be worthy of it, and the people in the court can't criticize him, and his contributions are worthy of your tribute and filial piety. But I , the time of entering the court is still short, and he has not made any meritorious service, how can he be worthy of these?"

Pu Yuanzong thought about it again, his head seemed to be very flexible, and said: "Then in the tribute to the Duke of Lai, I specially set aside your share, and let the Duke of Lai hand it over later..."

"Bo Yin, I think you should be able to handle affairs. Why are you paying so much attention to the matter of giving gifts now? Shouldn't your current thoughts be on how to stabilize the situation in North Korea?" Tang Yin lectured with a straight face.

Pu Yuanzong scolded his mother in his heart.

I respect you like an ancestor, and you still pick and choose?
Tang Yin sighed: "What do you want, don't come and tell me, even if you give the whole of North Korea to that Duke of Lai, that's a matter for you North Koreans, you don't need to discuss it with me. Of course, I will help you fight for it." Go to the official position of Daming, let you get the care of Daming, this is what I can do."

"Then your title in North Korea..." Pu Yuanzong was still thinking about making Tang Yin the emperor of the court.

"As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, there can be no second degree of loyalty." Tang Yin said.

Pu Yuanzong thought to himself, if you don't want to be a second minister, I want to be, right?You give me an official position in Ming Dynasty, and North Korea still treats me as a traitor?

Tang Yin also seemed to have considered this point, and reminded: "North Korea is just a vassal state of Ming Dynasty. It is kindness and courtesy for you to be canonized by the upper state. Don't the courtiers of North Korea dare to make irresponsible remarks about this? ?"

"Don't dare." Park Yuanzong said.

"Then hurry up and discuss the matter. Today we have to discuss the matter of military expenditure clearly."

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Tang Yin people are not in North Korea just to eat and wait to die.

He has an important task, which is to help Daming continue to raise food and funds in Pingding Jurchen in Liaodong, especially when it comes to Wang Shouren's governance of the Nuer Gandu Division, which requires a large amount of food and materials. If the food and materials are supplied from the Central Plains or Jiangnan, The shipping cost is far greater than the value of the grain itself, so it is better to send it from North Korea.

In the past, this kind of thing was unimaginable. Even if North Korea would give it, it would not give much.

but now……

If I ask you for it, it means that the heavens and the state think highly of you and ask you to contribute to Daming's pacification of barbarians.

Inside the Qinzheng Hall.

In the past, court officials did not communicate in Chinese, but now that Tang Yin is here, all conversations must be in Chinese, and those courtiers who do not understand Chinese have suddenly become marginal figures.

In addition to the absence of a ruler in North Korea, there is a king and a concubine, and they are not qualified to listen to the government behind the curtain. The seat of the head is vacant. The most important seat below is seated by Tang Yin, and the old Xun faction and the Shilin faction are sitting on the left and right. The leaders Li Kedun and Yin Bishang, and the former heroes Park Yuanzong and Cheng Xiyan who have brought order to order can only sit back.

At this time, Pu Yuanzong was still in the court as a military officer, while Cheng Xiyan was a leftist politician, and his official position was even higher than that of Park Yuanzong.

"...The suzerain country wants to pacify the Jurchens and send troops to the north of Liaobei. The mountains are long and the rivers are far away. It is also quite difficult for North Korea to allocate food to the north. Moreover, North Korea has experienced drought and floods, and the people are too busy to take care of themselves. Now at this time, they should ask Ming to come to help. Given the disaster situation, if food is allocated at this time, or even taxes are raised, I am afraid that the Korean people will suffer untold hardships and starve to death..."

Yin Bishang, as the leader of civil servants, is telling about the difficulties of North Korea in adjusting grain for Ming Dynasty.

Liu Ziguang said: "The Ming Dynasty wants to pacify Liaodong, and it is also to protect the stable life of the Korean people. Now they don't need the Korean country to garrison troops, but only send out some food, grass and supplies. If this has to be pushed back and forth, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will not be happy. of."

"Are you on the Korean side or on the Ming side?" Someone immediately asked Liu Ziguang in Korean.

Tang Yin raised his hand and said, "What's going on?"

Li Kedun also said: "Speak in the language of Shangbang, don't play tricks here, listen to what you mean, are you asking why Daming wants to adjust grain from North Korea?"

Soon someone translated that sentence into Korean for Tang Yin.

Tang Yin was also very angry and said: "I don't care what your attitude is, but if you are so uncooperative with regard to the matter of Daming and Liaobei, then I don't think there is any need to talk about it."

As he spoke, Tang Yin stood up suddenly, and touched the saber at his waist.

A literati with a sword is still very stylish. He also seems to be clearly putting pressure on the North Koreans present. I fucking defeated you North Korea with weapons. It is only natural to ask you for food. Push three obstacles and four obstacles here, believe it or not, whoever opposes who will be wiped out?
"Stop your anger." Liu Ziguang said.

Tang Yin strode out of the Hall of Qinzheng, and said coldly: "One million shi of grain must be transported to Liaodong within half a month. This is also to show your sincerity to Daming. If you can't do it, Do so at your own peril.”

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Tang Yin left with Daming's guards.

There are a bunch of North Korean courtiers left in the Hall of Qinzheng, and those who sit there are filled with righteous indignation, especially those from the Shilin sect, who are most distressed by this.

"The country will not be the country..." Some people even almost cried.

Pu Yuanzong got up, but he didn't sit in the front seat. When he got up to talk at this time, he seemed to be the second only to Tang Yin's prime minister, and said loudly: "Compared to the tyranny of Lord Yanshan, now it's just to help Daming To quell the border troubles in the north of Liao, besides the three hundred soldiers who followed the envoy, did Ming send another soldier?"

This is to remind the ministers present.

Hurry up and ask Daming to appoint our leader, and then send Tang Yin and envoy Xu Jing away, and our North Korea will return to its previous state.

If you insist on obsessing over the dignity of your actions, the result will be that Daming sends troops directly from Liaodong to North Korea. At that time, it will not be a matter of discussing grain adjustment with you, and you can directly grab it.

Liu Ziguang also quickly defended his actions, saying: "I heard that after the Jurchens surrendered, even those who surrendered voluntarily would migrate to southern Liaoning and other places for resettlement. If the suzerain and vassals are appointed by the Ming Dynasty to govern, it should not be what we want."

"At worst..."

Immediately, people from the Shilin faction rose up, probably to fight Daming Yu to the death.

This time, Yin Bi said, "Da Ming was originally the suzerain state. The sending of troops to establish slaves this time was also requested by the previous king of Korea and His Majesty the Emperor of Ming. He had agreed to send [-] troops before, but in the end he only sent less than [-] troops. There is no supply, and in the current situation, the conditions for allocating grain to Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty are not too much. Only in terms of quantity, it is still debatable."

Li Kedun stood up and said, "You were spoiled by the atmosphere of Taiwan's remonstrance, no wonder you would..."

"Guangyuan-jun, what do you mean? Did you forget the previous disasters when you persecuted Zhongliang? Taiwan remonstrance is a rule set by the former emperors to ensure that there are no deviations in the implementation of government affairs in North Korea!"

The Jiuxun faction and the Shilin faction were originally at odds with each other, but suddenly they were at war over a matter of grain adjustment.

Pu Yuanzong said: "That's enough! Now that the ruler of the country has not been decided, Xiao Xiaoxiao everywhere is ready to move, and you still have the mind to fight among yourself? Each family will see if they can raise more food. This time, if the food is to be adjusted, the clan and honorable ministers will be punished." To try to stay out of the way and treat everyone equally on issues like this."

"Why?" Immediately, another admonishing official asked.

Park Yuanzong also patted his sword hilt.

Like Tang Yin before, he was threatening the ministers present.

Don't give you shame.

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Ding Liao Youwei.

The gifts sent by North Korea to Zhang Zhou were presented in front of Zhang Zhou after several days of delivery.

The quantity is quite large, but the unit price is not high, and the total is not enough to see. Zhang Zhou saw the "stinginess" of North Korea.

"These are probably worth thousands of taels of silver. How can they be so shabby?" Zhu Feng, like a procurator, personally inspected each gift and even calculated it.

He was also pondering in his heart, the gift that my old Zhu family thanked Brother Zhang for was more than that.

The North Koreans are counting on these three melons and jujubes to let Brother Zhang help them establish the country and stop putting pressure on them?
Holding the gift list in his hand, Zhang Zhou smiled, and said to the North Korean envoy who came to give the gift: "Are you from Hanyang City?"

"No." The messenger said, "The villain was sent by the Jiedu envoy of Huang Haidao. The Patriarch has a lifelong friendship with General Pu Yuanzong Pu."

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "Is it the newly-appointed envoy of the Huanghai Dao Bing Ma Jiedu? Park Yuanzong is very good at controlling military power. He keeps a low profile in Hanyang City, but secretly replaces the people in charge of the soldiers in other places with his cronies. To avoid hidden dangers in various places, but doesn’t he know that doing so will cause resistance from the county guards and soldiers in charge of various places?”

"..."

Facing Zhang Zhou's questioning, the envoy didn't dare to breathe.

Zhang Zhoudao: "I heard that you also gave Tang Yin a gift?"

The messenger shook his head: "The villain doesn't know."

"Then where are you going after you go back?" Tang Yin asked.

The messenger said: "I will go to Gyeonggi-do to return to my command with a fast horse, or I will enter Hanyang City."

"Okay then, you just mention me to pass on a message and tell them what I need. Everything must be clearly priced, and I don't engage in hidden things. Who let them lose their good luck? Originally, I could help Daming with peace of mind. To put down the Jurchen, I can't say a word, and now they have overthrown the king by themselves, do you still want Daming to appoint a new one for them?"

"Don't be a traitor and traitor, and let Da Ming take the blame for them! The whole court of the Ming Dynasty will not do things in vain, and will not receive benefits. Do you understand such plain words?"

Zhang Zhou smiled and looked at the messenger.

The messenger said: "Yes, the villain understands."

The good diplomatic relations between the two countries, and even political meetings and negotiations, have directly turned into a market. What is there not to understand?

You Daming just want to exploit North Korea?

"Smart people know how to do things, so I'll list what I can for you. You won't be allowed to take these crap back. If you're troublesome, it's directly worth the military rations. I'll give you these things at the lowest price of food. Consider it the highest price, at worst, you will lose a few shi when you receive your military rations."

"Yes Yes."

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Zhang Zhou made a detailed list long ago, covering everything.

For example, if Ming no longer sends troops to the North Korean border, how much food, grass and supplies will be needed.

For another example, how much "thank you gift" should be given to appoint a king; how much should be given to Tang Yin and Xu Jing after completing the task and returning to the court...even the price of killing Li and exiling Li is different.

The position of king is not given to Li's son, nor is it given to Li's concubine younger brothers, but it is directly explained that it can be given to Li Yi, but the price is the highest... It needs to be given by the two queen mothers of North Korea See the price for details.

Don't the ministers also hope that after the destruction of a foolish king in North Korea, everything will be on the right track?
Wouldn't it be nice to give you an option?
Of course, if you think it is very expensive, you can also send manpower to fill the vacancy. How much food can be offset by one soldier, 1000 people will pay.

For example, how much food can be paid for by a labor force? If you don’t even want to provide labor, if you insist on sending some women and children, then the price is also negotiable... After all, after the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were resettled in Liaobei, they also needed someone to help with laundry To cook, you also need to settle down and start a business, and the population also needs to migrate... The Han people in Liaodong don't want to go north, so let the Koreans go!

Promoting national integration and granting the identity of the people of Ming Dynasty does not involve any oppression, and even provides necessary resettlement rations.

Why not?

After reading the list, Zhu Feng said in shock, "Brother Zhang, you are better at negotiating business."

Zhang Zhoubai glanced at him and said, "What kind of business? Are you talking about family and country affairs as business? Even if it is really an exchange, you can't call it a business. It should be said that this is an exchange of interests between the suzerain state and the vassal state. If the suzerain country will help you guard the border, give you a stable environment, and even come to protect you, then you should also provide the necessary taxation and human support. This is the most basic Confucian ritual and music education."

Zhu Feng was confused.

Zhang Zhou looked up at the North Korean envoy and asked, "I think it's not good for you to send women to Tang Yin. Women can be sent to Liaodong. Regardless of their origin, Daming needs it. You know, this is in The grasslands are resources, which can bring about the development of ethnic groups."

The envoy asked, "How many women?"

"The more the better." Zhang Zhou smiled, "And the woman you gave to Tang Yin, I heard her name is Zhang Lushui, I like this person very much, since Tang Yin won't accept her, send her to me."

"what?"

The envoy was also surprised.

It is said that you Lai Guogong is greedy for money and lustful, and some people say that this is a rumor, it seems that the rumor is true.

Zhu Feng also looked at Zhang Zhou, frowning slightly, meaning that you are so good at it?Then why don't you accept when someone gives you a woman?Or do you just like the exotic?
Zhang Zhoudao: "Don't get me wrong, I just appreciate this girl's musical talent. It is said that this girl is very good at singing, and listening to music is not a must. In addition, I would like to ask you from North Korea, Find some younger girls and let their families move to Daming, I plan to open a 'singing and dancing hall', so that they can show their strengths."

The envoy and Zhu Feng were dumbfounded.

They have never seen anyone who talks about political conditions like Zhang Zhou.

Want to find a singing and dancing girl from North Korea?Want to go to Daming to open a restaurant dedicated to giving performances?Then wouldn't it be good for you to open a brothel directly?
"People, it's not just for you to choose. I have to designate myself. Try it. Maybe I can find it, or maybe I can't find it. In order to avoid separating the family members, I also agreed to let them move their families and give them a big Knowing Liangren's identity, such an opportunity is considered a kindness to ordinary North Korean market people."

"Don't look at it, go back earlier, and get things done quickly according to what I said. Recently, I'm not feeling well in Liaodong, and I want to go back to the capital early to live a more stable life. When do you finish it, I'll be fine." When are you going to return to Beijing?"

(End of this chapter)