Ming politicians

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Regarding the issue of territory, Li Xuanji quickly shut up and stopped talking, but the next situation he mentioned caught Su Tiancheng's attention. It turns out that recently, in Pyongyang, North Korea, there have been more Japanese people. This situation , It aroused the attention of the Korean royal family, thinking that the Japanese were going to invade North Korea.It is said that the number of Japanese people has increased, it is not a big deal, there is nothing wrong with people going to North Korea to do business, and there are quite a few Japanese doing business in Dengzhou, some even went to Shenyang, but Li Xuanji said , The Korean royal family has a very deep impression. For them who have encountered Japanese aggression, the past is particularly easy to arouse speculation.

The origin of the matter was still in the Wanli period, when Japan invaded North Korea. The aggressive war led by the then general Toyotomi Hideyoshi almost occupied the entire territory of North Korea. Sending troops to reinforce North Korea, after two conquests, the Japanese were finally driven out of North Korea.

More than 40 years have passed, and the current situation has undergone tremendous changes. Toyotomi Hideyoshi has long passed away, and Japan has entered the era of shogunate rule, but the situation back then and some things encountered are still Word of mouth has passed down, including the sudden increase in Japanese people.

This has become a benchmark for North Koreans to pay attention to Japanese movements. Under normal circumstances, North Korea does not welcome Japanese. Even for Japanese businessmen, it is difficult to enter North Korea. If it is not because of the invasion of the Jin Tartars, Until now, North Korea will not allow Japanese to enter Pyongyang, Wangjing (Seoul), Busan and other places.

Not many Japanese come to North Korea to do business.North Korea doesn't welcome these Japanese very much, but recently, the number of Japanese coming to North Korea has suddenly increased. Every merchant who enters North Korea often brings dozens or even hundreds of people.After these people came to North Korea, they had no intention of leaving. This situation was very similar to that of the Wanli period.

Li Xuanji spoke in great detail, as if the Japanese were already preparing to invade North Korea.

Su Tiancheng didn't pay much attention to it. After all, in his impression, after the defeat in the Korean War, the regime change in Japan went through Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and so on.Slowly began to level off, and later someone even described that Oda Nobunaga grows wheat, Toyotomi Hideyoshi makes cakes, and Tokugawa Ieyasu eats cakes. The reason for this description has a profound meaning , Oda Nobunaga is the founder.Dare to do things, full of pioneering and adventurous spirit.Toyotomi Hideyoshi was focused on expanding the influence of the Japanese nation, and even dreamed of subverting the Ming Dynasty. Both of them had huge ambitions and were prone to wage wars abroad. They hoped to rely on plunder to strengthen their strength. Tokugawa Ieyasu was relatively conservative.The focus is still on self-construction, thinking about making Japan stronger in a down-to-earth manner.

It is the shogunate family founded by Ieyasu Tokugawa who is in control of the Japanese regime today. It should be tending to be stable, and there is no active attack on North Korea.

As for the sudden increase in Japanese merchants in North Korea.Perhaps it was a coincidence. At the same time, the army led by Zhang Fengyi was still stationed in Pyongyang. With this army, wouldn't they still be afraid of the Japanese invasion?

All these situations temporarily confused Su Tiancheng. Su Tiancheng would never have imagined that the envoys from North Korea would come to the capital soon to make a request to the emperor, imploring the Ming army to withdraw from North Korea. This also led to the following series of events. occur.

The messenger didn't stay for long, perhaps because he saw that Su Tiancheng didn't have much interest in all of this, so he left very consciously.

After the envoy left, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang and others all came in. They had just received the imperial edict together.

No matter what the emperor's will is, Su Tiancheng has the final say here, whether to launch an attack, or a temporary defense, etc., so everyone came here because they wanted to hear what Su Tiancheng wanted.

Su Tiancheng looked at the crowd and spoke slowly.

"The emperor issued a decree. It is estimated that some adults in the court are anxious, and they don't think about it. I have already said that during the battle, we don't want anyone to intervene. Therefore, we don't have to manage money when discussing in the court. I still In that opinion, we need to clarify how to adjust the deployment of the Houjin Tartars, and we need to grasp the accurate situation. We can't attack blindly, and we can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. If the preparation time is longer, our losses will be much smaller. The navy is from Dengzhou A lot of shells and bullets have been delivered. This is what we need urgently, but what we need more is to replenish our troops. The exact figures from the last statistics came out. The Jiangning Battalion killed more than [-] people and seriously injured more than [-] people. The loss was close to One-tenth, such a loss, we cannot bear it many times.”

"Hong Chengchou put forward his opinion on how to deal with the [-] Han troops who surrendered. The intention of the court is to let us handle it by ourselves. This meaning is very clear. The court will not accept this burden, so we have to digest it ourselves. After thinking about it, Hong Chengchou's opinion is justified. These Han troops, anyway, have been in the army for a long time, and they still have basic qualities, at least better than ordinary people, so we can select some sergeants from them and strengthen them. Hong Chengchou has always been in charge of training and recruiting troops, and this time you will be in charge."

"However, the training of these Han troops must be strict, even harsh. The habits of these Han troops are very bad, and there are many shortcomings. It takes a lot of effort to correct their shortcomings. The training must be strict. Those who violate military laws will be punished. Beheading, I believe it won't take long to correct the ruffianism of these soldiers."

"As for the matter of conquest, my opinion is, don't worry for now. Now the Houjin Tatars are more anxious than us. After suffering such a heavy loss, Huang Taiji will definitely adjust the deployment of the campaign. At that time, we will launch an attack from the direction of Haizhou , or launch an attack from the direction of Liaodong, we need to think about it, we just want to find the weak point of the Houjin Tartars. Dajiang."

Two days later, Su Tiancheng's thoughts changed, and he began to attach great importance to some things.

After Li Xuanji was drunk by Qu Qingze, he finally said one thing, that is to implore the Ming army to withdraw from Pyongyang. The army was about to withdraw from North Korea, so Li Xuanji expressed his concern that the sudden increase in the number of Japanese in North Korea might be because the Ming army was about to withdraw.

When he just heard about this, Su Tiancheng was very angry. He worked hard to lead the army, occupied Xuanzhou and other places, and then stationed in North Korea. He wanted to control North Korea and gain benefits from it. There has never been a free lunch in this world North Korea, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, was protected, so it had to pay tribute and make contributions. Otherwise, why would the court cover North Korea? A fool would do such a thing. If Zhang Fengyi stationed troops in Pyongyang, he would also plunder North Korea. With so little wealth, even Su Tiancheng felt that it was too much, but this was the original purpose of the colonists, and it was not a big deal.

The emperor agreed to withdraw troops from North Korea, which made Su Tiancheng not understand, and he also saw more clearly that Zhu Youjian's fatal flaw was that he replaced the country's development and long-term stability with personal feelings, and withdrew troops from North Korea, accepting the cheers of everyone, Zhu Youjian's face has gained face, and he has shown a great and noble side, and the North Korean envoys who come to worship always give back a lot of things, far exceeding what others send, showing the image of a so-called great country. Bullshit, profit is the most important thing.

Not only on North Korean affairs, but also on the matter of exterminating the rogues, Zhu Youjian was also indecisive and even sympathized with the rogues, which led to the arrogance of the rogues and almost overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

Anger is anger. From this incident, Su Tiancheng smelled something unusual. If Japan really attacked North Korea and provoked troubles in North Korea, who would be most affected, and that would be Jiang Ning, who attacked the post-Golden Tartars. Camp, who will benefit, that is Hou Jin who is in crisis.

Nothing happened for no reason in this world. Everything is connected. More than 40 years ago, the Japanese attacked North Korea with the main purpose of challenging the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, Emperor Wanli would not have sent troops to teach the Japanese a lesson. Now Li Xuanji thinks that the possibility of the Japanese attacking North Korea again is probably not groundless.

Of course, this is just Su Tiancheng's analysis, everything needs to be supported by intelligence.

The information Su Tiancheng was looking forward to finally arrived.

Huang Taiji made a new deployment, Dorgon came to Haizhou, and Jierhalang was transferred to Liaodong. These are not big things, but Daishan led the army into Mongolia, which is not a small thing.

After getting the information, Su Tiancheng locked himself in the room, and no one was allowed to disturb him for a whole day.

After dark, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang, Qu Qingze and others entered the house.

There was a map on the table, densely drawn, with many marks on it, and everyone was already familiar with these marks, which showed that after careful thinking, Su Tiancheng might have discovered something.

After everyone entered the room, they saw Su Tiancheng folded his arms and was looking at the map on the wall. He didn't turn around to greet everyone, and everyone didn't bother Su Tiancheng. They walked to the table silently and looked at the map.

To everyone's surprise, on the map, Su Tiancheng was actually connected by a line between Japan and North Korea, which had never happened before.

Qu Qingze looked up at Su Tiancheng who hadn't turned around, he hesitated to speak, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang and others didn't quite understand what Su Tiancheng was thinking. (To be continued..)