Chapter 20 Military Power

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Suddenly, Pu Bancheng felt a chill all over his body.

A group of noble warriors, for the sake of their own wealth and military exploits, actually incited the King of Wu to conquer Goryeo!

In Goryeo, he can be regarded as someone who is familiar with the inside story of the Ming Dynasty. The founding warriors and nobles of the Ming Dynasty were all relatives with broken bones and connected tendons, and most of them were fellow villagers with the Ming emperor. I think of the thousand-year-old King of Wu, his maternal family

That is why King Kaiping always encounters spring.

The King of Wu was young and vigorous, and the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were all warriors who killed people in exchange for wealth!

Thinking of this, Pu Bancheng cursed those short-term fools in Goryeo who advocated that Goryeo should catch up.

But those lands have already entered the mouth of Goryeo, and now they are spit out to Ming Dynasty. It is hard to even think about what to do.

"My lord, does King Wu really have this intention?" Pu Bancheng asked anxiously.

Li Jinglong saw that the heat was almost done and said with a smile, "It depends on your sincerity!"

"Sincerity?" Pu Bucheng didn't understand.

"The young prince loves face, right!" Li Jinglong said, "It's not that you really care about those wild lands, but that you took them but didn't bring any benefits to Ming Dynasty. Even Chitose can't swallow this!"

"I understand!" Pu Bancheng cupped his hands and said, "I will thank you on behalf of the Lord of Goryeo, and I will repay you for your kindness!"

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After saying that, he hurried away.

After he left, Li Jinglong smiled and picked up the golden tickets on the table, including four leading tickets worth five hundred taels each, feeling very happy.

"If you are lucky, you don't have to be busy, but if you are not lucky, you will have your heart broken!" Li Jinglong flicked the golden ticket and said with a proud smile, "My salary has not been so much in ten years." After saying that, he stood up happily.

But as soon as I stood up, I felt sad.

This money cannot be taken, and it is the King of Wu who should take it.

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On the second day, just after Zhu Yunxu and Fang Xiaoru had finished reading, they met Li Jinglong who had returned to life in Jingren Palace.

Immediately, I also saw the two thousand taels of gold tickets on the desk that were redeemable on sight.

"I asked you to appease him, not to accept bribes!" Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi was furious.

One of his own princes beat up the Goryeo envoy, which frightened people, and then the Duke of Ming Dynasty extorted two thousand taels of gold from them. The old man set a tribute list for Goryeo, which was how much gold was given in a year.

"I didn't want it, he forced it on me!" Li Jinglong bowed and explained, "I can't accept it. I don't dare to accept this money. I can only ask His Highness to decide." After saying that, he raised his head again, "

Don't worry, Your Highness, I have appeased the envoy from Goryeo."

"What did you say?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a frown. Li Jinglong's work was really unreliable, at least he couldn't handle big things.

At that moment, Li Jinglong recounted what he said to Pu Bancheng last night.

After Zhu Yunxi heard this, he felt that he had been wronged by his unreliable comments about Li Jinglong. Didn't he pick it off very cleanly? He had no intention of doing it, but he was just whispering in his ears. Then the Korean envoy came to express his filial piety, and he realized that

Thanks to Gao Li's sincerity, this matter is over.

However, the more Zhu Yunxi thought about it, the more wrong he became.

"What do you mean by looking at Goryeo's sincerity?" Zhu Yunxi said angrily, "Are you just like yourself and want to get benefits from Goryeo?"

"If you don't want it, you have to let him give it away!" Li Jinglong said, "If you don't want it, he will be even more scared!"

Zhu Yunxi thought about it, "God knows this and the earth knows it, you know it and I know it!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, no third person will know!" Li Jinglong promised.

If those old masters found out about this, they would have to give some lectures. This morning, because they beat up the Korean envoy yesterday, they were bombarded by Liu Sanwu and Fang Xiaoru and other Hanlin scholars in turn.

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty today are not the greedy official group a hundred years later, nor are they weaklings who claim to be slaves. Let alone the King of Wu, even if he is the emperor, they will behead him.

Afterwards, Zhu Yunxi took the golden ticket and went directly to Fengtian Hall.

In the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang was still reviewing memorials. The old emperor had no money to study when he was a boy, but he became emperor in the second half of his life and made up for it. He was tired from writing documents every day, and he got up early and went to bed late.

"Grandpa Huang!" Zhu Yunxi greeted him.

"Have you finished studying?" Zhu Yuanzhang said without raising his head, "There are tangerines on the table as tribute from Jiangxi. Eat some!"

"I have something to tell you!" Zhu Yunxi stepped forward, put down the golden ticket, and told Li Jinglong's story.

"An ineffective thing, he looks smart but is actually a fool!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, scolding Li Jinglong, "You are too short-sighted!"

However, when his eyes fell on the gold ticket, he sneered again, "This envoy from Goryeo is quite generous. He can get two thousand taels of gold in one move!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly laughed again, "It seems that the Goryeo envoy was really frightened. The people from the Ministry of Rites said that he stamped the tribute book in the morning and kept saying that the Celestial Empire is tolerant!

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The tribute list was a treaty that was humiliating and humiliating the country. Unexpectedly, after being intimidated by Li Jinglong, the Goryeo envoy actually signed it by mistake.

"Does his signature count?" Zhu Yunxi asked.

"He is here on behalf of Li Chenggui of Goryeo, so it certainly counts!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, pulling out a list, "Look at it!"

Goryeo's tribute bill for King Wu's thousand years old?

Zhu Yunxi opened it and took a look. He was grateful for the kindness of the heaven. In addition to the annual tribute gift, he specially presented the thousand-year-old King of Wu, ten horses, ten beauties, five acrobats, thirty Eastern pearls, twenty mink skins, and sea Dongqing.

Two, ten pairs of Korean bows...

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed on the side and said, "They know how to work hard to please you, and they also do their best to please you!"

Zhu Yunxi said disdainfully, "My grandson is your grandson. If the Prince of Ming Dynasty doesn't want anything, what's the use of these things?"

"Silly boy!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile, "Don't give it for free!" He said with a smile, "You can't use it, but you can reward others for it in the future. It's better than taking money from the treasury."

"Even if he gives his grandson a golden mountain, sooner or later he will have to spit out the land he eats, including the capital and profits!" Zhu Yunxi said.

"That's a matter for people of your generation, we're old!" Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his arms and said, "Pinch your neck, it hurts!"

Zhu Yunxi walked behind the dragon chair and began to pinch Zhu Yuanzhang's neck.

"Grandpa Huang, tomorrow is your birthday, take a rest!"

"I'm looking for excuses to take a break today, and I will look for excuses in the future. We can't slack off in state affairs!" Zhu Yuanzhang said while looking at the memorial.

"My grandson thinks you are too tired!"

"You won't have any leisure time in the future!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "After your birthday, there is one more thing you have to do!"

"Grandpa Huang, please tell me!"

"Lanyu has returned to the court. After our birthday, we will reward the three armies. You will go on our behalf when the time comes!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "As the emperor's grandson, I will let you know what you should know!"

"Grandpa Huang, is there anything else in the Ming Dynasty that your grandson doesn't know about?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "How much do you know about military power?"

Zhu Yunxi stopped his hand and saw the old man turning around and smiling, "Do you know how many garrisons there are in the capital and how many garrisons there are in the world? Do you know how they pay their food and wages? Do you know who of them can fight and who is obedient?"

"Do you know all the governors of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion? How many horses are there? How many artillery pieces are there? How much iron does the Ordnance Department produce per year? How many armors are there in the warehouse?"

After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "You must know these things and must hold them in your hands!"

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