Pang Gang took the big seal and looked at it over and over for a while, and asked curiously: "Pu... Pu Shunyi... What rank is this imperial guard and what does he do?"
Pang Gang thought for a long time and didn't know how to call Park Shunyi's official name, so he finally had to call him by his first name.
When Park Shunyi heard this, he also said with an embarrassed look on his face: "To tell you what the general said, this villain is a member of the sixth rank. He serves my king and specializes in my king's security work."
"Damn, it turns out he is a security guard, and a low-level security guard at that." Pang Gang curled his lips, returned the big seal in his hand to him, and then asked: "Then this gentleman... Well, this
Where is the young lady? Who is she?"
When Pu Shunyi heard this, he immediately became energetic and said proudly: "This is the biological daughter of our Highness, Li Xuezhu, who is also the "Princess Jiayi" who has been canonized by our Lord."
"Oh, she's still a princess." Pang Gang asked calmly: "Then why are you still fighting with people on the street?"
When Pu Shunyi and Li Xuezhu heard this, their expressions changed several times in an instant, but Pang Gang's words slapped them in the face. This guy was obviously asking, one of you is a princess of North Korea, and the other is a princess of North Korea.
Why are North Korea's sixth-rank officials still fighting in public like thugs fighting for territory on the street?
"You..." "Princess Jiayi" Li Xuezhu's originally red face turned even redder, and her big eyes stared hard at Pang Gang, as if she wanted to stare this hateful guy to death.
After Pu Shunyi's expression changed, he bowed to the ground again and said in a trembling voice: "Your Excellency, General Dingyuan, please make the decision for your country!"
"Come on, get up, what are you doing?" The most annoying thing about Pang Gang was that he knelt down at him at every turn, "Don't do this all the time. If you have anything to say, just say it. I don't like this."
"Yes, I will obey the order of the general of our country!" Pu Shunyi stood up, took out a piece of silk with writing on it from his arms, and handed it to Pang Gang respectfully.
Pang Gang took it over curiously and took a look. It turned out to be a letter for help written by the current king of North Korea, Injo Li Zhu, to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
It was hard to understand the meaning just now.
It turns out that this is a letter asking for help from Li Zhu, the current sixteenth generation king of Korea. At this point, we have to talk about the Manchu Qing's attack on Korea in 1627. In the second year of Tiancong in the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji and Beile Amin
He personally led the troops to invade North Korea, which was known in history as the Dingmao Rebellion. The North Korean army was defeated by the Qing army. Injo Lee Jo and his ministers fled to Ganghwa Island. As a result, North Korea and the Qing Dynasty negotiated peace and became a brotherly state. North Korea paid annual tribute to the Qing Dynasty.
Here I have to talk about the attitude of North Korea towards China in ancient times. North Korea has been a vassal state of China since ancient times. Almost all of their etiquette, values, moral values and even writing originated from China. Therefore, most of their attitude towards China has been in part since ancient times.
They were always very respectful.
During the post-Jin Dynasty, in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, Nurhaci adopted a policy of co-opting North Korea and sent envoys to North Korea many times to write letters, hoping that North Korea would break away from the Ming Dynasty and form an alliance with the post-Jin Dynasty. However, North Korea remained unmoved and still supported the Ming Dynasty.
North Korea, opposed to Hou Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, although North Korea had no choice but to pay annual tribute to the Qing Dynasty, most North Korean officials, including Injo Li Jie, were still not able to buy into the Qing Dynasty. North Korea's attitude finally annoyed Huang Taiji. Just this year, the ninth year of Chongzhen Period
In June of that year, Huang Taiji finally lost his patience and sent envoys to Ganghwa Island in North Korea to order North Korea to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. North Korea was in an uproar after hearing the news, and the hatred and humiliation accumulated for nearly 10 years burst out. North Korean ministers made bitter speeches,
"Let the captives know what our country upholds and do not violate the laws and regulations. Even if the country is killed, it can be a tribute to the world and future generations." In an impassioned atmosphere, Injo refused
They did not meet the Qing envoys and did not accept their letters. The Qing envoys left Seoul angrily, and the people along the way "blocked the road with spectators, and urchins even threw rubbles to humiliate them."
The Qing envoy who was bullied reported all this to Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji naturally stopped working. Damn it, forget it, I suffered a loss in the Ming Dynasty this year, now even your little North Korea
Dare to humiliate me, my uncle and aunt couldn't bear it, so Huang Taiji sent Beile Amin to personally lead an army of 50,000 to conquer North Korea, and it only took twelve days to reach the gates of Wangjing City. In desperation, Li Zhu only had to send his family
He moved to Ganghwa Island, retreated to Namhansan Fortress, and sent envoys to ask for emergency help from the Ming Dynasty. Among these envoys was Li Xuezhu, the daughter of Li Jie, "Princess Jiayi".
Pang Gang couldn't help but fell silent after reading the letter. Although he had no good impression of the "biggest country in the universe" that the earth could no longer stop in future generations, in this era, North Korea did still care about China. It was strange.
It is strange that the Ming Dynasty was so unsatisfactory at this time that it pushed the vassal states that were originally loyal to itself to oppose itself.
After returning the letter asking for help to Pu Shunyi, Pang Gang asked again: "Since you have arrived in Ming Dynasty, why don't you ask the government for help, but instead fight with those local gangsters on the street?"
After Pang Gang asked this question, the "Princess Jiayi" Li Xuezhu, who was disguised as a man, immediately said angrily: "What are you saying? As soon as we arrived in Dengzhou, we asked to see your Dengzhou prefect and asked him to ask your question.
The court reported this matter, but who knew that Magistrate Lu just arranged for us to stay at the inn, and then kept asking for our property. But he didn't think about it, we were not a tribute mission, how could we bring so much money?
Silver and jewelry, we stayed for nearly a month and gave him almost all the property we brought, but he was still not satisfied, and tried to fool us with lies like the court was still negotiating. We just couldn't bear it these days.
We were planning to go to Jinan, but he wanted to detain us forcefully. Fortunately, we ran out of the inn smartly. You have seen what happened next."
Pang Gang understood as soon as he heard it. It turned out that the prefect Lu also knew that the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to help North Korea, so he came up with the idea of plucking the feathers of wild geese and defrauded them of all their belongings. When he saw that people thought
When I went to Jinan, I was afraid that my defrauding of money would be exposed, so I thought I would arrest these people without stopping. However, it was difficult for the government to personally intervene in this kind of thing, so I sent some gangsters to take the lead. Today
The deputy inspector Shen he met was probably his backup plan, but he was just unlucky enough to run into Cheng Yaojin, who had come up halfway.
"Do you want to help them?" Pang Gang pondered in his heart. Normally, North Korea is very important to China. If Huang Taiji gets North Korea, his strength will greatly increase. Huang Taiji will have no worries.
They will definitely attack the Ming Dynasty more boldly. For this reason, North Korea should be helped at this time.
But Pang Gang also knew very well that even if this letter for help was sent to Chongzhen, it would be in vain. The Ming Dynasty now simply has no energy to aid North Korea.
"Are we just going to watch North Korea being annexed by the Qing Dynasty?" Pang Gang couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
Seeing the thoughtful look on Pang Gang's face, Li Xuezhu and Pu Shunyi standing aside were also very nervous and did not even dare to take a breath.
Liang Jiupang said slowly just now: "In my opinion, it is useless even if you send this letter to the capital now, because Ming Dynasty has no way to support you in North Korea."
The faces of the two people who stared at Pang Gang eagerly suddenly darkened. Li Xuezhu was a woman after all. The tears she had been holding back finally couldn't help but flow out. She cried and said: "Why, North Korea has always treated the country like a father?"
Rumu, why don’t you lend a hand when North Korea is in trouble now? Why on earth is this?”
"this......"
Hearing this, Pang Gang couldn't help but feel a little hot on his face. He couldn't say, "Now that the Ming Dynasty is being suppressed by the Qing Dynasty, how can I have the leisure to take care of you? Even if I have this ability, I am afraid that including the emperor
Even the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will not agree."
Suddenly, as if Li Xuezhu remembered something, she stepped forward and said to Pang Gang: "General, what about you? Aren't you the general guarding the three states of Shandong? You also have soldiers in your hands, so please help us.
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"Me?" Pang Gang laughed bitterly when he heard this. Although he now has thousands of soldiers and horses, Shandong and North Korea are separated by a sea. Even if he wants to rescue, he can't swim across, right? There is no boat...
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"By the way, I now have tungsten mines, which I can exchange for sea ships!"
When he thought of ships, Pang Gang's eyes couldn't help but light up. Yes, now that he has discovered tungsten ore, it is time to develop his own navy. He only needs to give himself a few months to dig out enough tungsten ore.
Enough ships can be cashed in at that time.
Li Xuezhu, who was carefully observing Pang Gang, felt happy when she saw Pang Gang's face. Could General Pang really have a way to save his motherland? Although she grew up in an imperial family, she was familiar with some common people.
Things may not be clear, but the ability to observe words and emotions has been cultivated since she was a child. Overjoyed, she couldn't help but stepped forward and knelt in front of Pang Gang and choked up: "General Pang, I know you will definitely find a way.
Yes, you are the general of the Ming Dynasty, you can definitely save us, right?"
"General!" Pang Gang couldn't help wiping cold sweat when he heard this title. He was still far from the position of general. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court established the national policy of using civil society to dominate military affairs. There has been no great general in the Ming Dynasty.
The title of general is a title that can only be enjoyed by a few people such as Chang Yuchun, Xu Da, and Lan Yu during the founding period of the People's Republic of China.
"I don't know if I can save you now, but even if I want to rescue you, it will have to wait until a few months later. Now I have some things to deal with. I will discuss these things with you after I finish handling some things in the past two days.
Let's do it!" Pang Gang said, with a sharp look in his eyes...