"General Pang has let us in?" Li Zhu and his wife looked at each other, and a hint of joy flashed across their eyes. Their stupid son-in-law hadn't done everything too well yet, and it seemed that there was still a chance to recover.
Under the leadership of the sergeant, Li Zhu and others came to Pang Gang's big tent. At this time, Pang Gang looked very different from how he looked in the welcoming hall just now. Pang Gang was sitting on the commanding seat of the big tent, with his two sides
There were several officers standing, and on both sides of the tent were more than a dozen fully armored sergeants, standing upright with their right hands on the hilts of their knives at their waists, glaring at them with murderous eyes.
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Having experienced the bloody storm, their demeanor naturally had an intimidating temperament, which frightened Li Zhu and his wife and several officials behind them into trembling with fear.
Seeing Li Zhu and his wife coming in, Pang Gang nodded slightly and winked at a sergeant next to him. The latter quickly brought stools for everyone to sit on. Pang Gang then stood up and clasped his fists without being humble or overbearing and said: "
Your Highness, why do you have the time to come to my son-in-law's military camp?"
Li Zhu couldn't help but smile bitterly. His cheap son-in-law was really disrespectful when he got angry. It would be clean if you gave up and left, but what about the thousands of miles of North Korea and the Li dynasty? Now let him, this cheap father-in-law, come here
It's not kind of you to plead with your son-in-law.
Li Zhu forced a smile and said: "Xian son-in-law, you and I are our own family members. You can't see the country of Korea being invaded by those Qing troops."
Pang Gang snorted coldly and said: "This seems to be none of my business. I originally wanted to help, but some of you are unwilling. You always think that I have ideas about your territory. I can't afford to offend you.
Can’t you afford to hide?”
Li Jie couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The good son-in-law doesn't know that Li Panshu has passed away."
"What, dead?" Pang Gang couldn't help but be surprised. Could it be that he had perfected the skill of glaring at someone to death? Otherwise, it would have been too coincidental for the old man to die?
Seeing Pang Gang's shocked eyes, Li Zhu couldn't help but feel a little ashamed. The death of Li Cao Yanshu was too untimely.
Seeing that his cheap father-in-law's face was as red as a monkey's butt, Pang Gang was not surprised. He thought for a while and said: "Since Li Cao's judge has passed away...unfortunately, then forget about it.
However, the departure of our army tomorrow cannot be extended any longer. It has been more than a month since I left. If I don’t go back, I might not be able to explain to the emperor."
"Ah...then...what should we do?" Li Zhu became anxious upon hearing this.
Seeing Li Zhu's anxious look, Pang Gang felt relieved and said to himself: "If you were just watching the fun and not talking to me, you would be in trouble today."
Pang Gang pretended to be embarrassed and thought for a while before he said slowly: "I still said the same thing, rent Shenmi Island to us as a naval base. We in Qingzhou can station troops there. Firstly, we can deter the Qing troops. Secondly,
Once something happens, we can directly support you. If you have no objection, we can sign an agreement as proof. If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say anything."
Everyone in North Korea fell silent. After a long time, the military judge Jin Shiyan asked with a wry smile: "May I ask General Pang, how long do you want to rent Shenmi Island?"
Pang Gang gently stretched out a finger and said: "It must be leased for at least a hundred years!"
"What? One hundred years?" Everyone almost fainted after hearing this. This is still different from giving you the island.
"General Pang, what's the difference between this and an open robbery?" The angry Jin Shiyan could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and roared loudly.
Facing Jin Shiyan's roar, Pang Gang didn't show any uneasiness. He just said lightly: "Of course there is. The difference between it and Mingqiang is that I will not force you to sign this contract. If you don't want to, I will leave tomorrow.
We will never leave it for even a quarter of an hour longer. The most important thing is that you can take it back a hundred years later."
Jin Shiyan felt his vision go dark, and he swayed almost to the point of fainting. He wanted to curse the shameless general in front of him: "Can you be any more shameless?"
Pang Gang ignored the soldier whose expression changed a dozen times in an instant. He never believed that there was any sincere friendship between countries, only naked interests. You, a small foreign country, should have a small country.
If the boss needs your island, you should obediently offer it with both hands. If you dare to show off your personality, I will loosen your bones specially.
Concubine Xian, who had been silent at this time, also said to Pang Gang in a pleading voice: "Xian son-in-law, can't the lease term of Shenmi Island be reduced any further?"
Seeing Concubine Xian's pleading eyes and beautiful red and swollen eyes, Pang Gang shook his head and said: "It's not that my son-in-law is ruthless, it's that he has to be like this. Originally, my son-in-law only wanted to rent a house for three to five years."
, but he got into something like this. If my son-in-law doesn’t deal with it in this way, from now on, everyone can point at my son-in-law’s nose and yell at me. How can I, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, have any dignity at all?”
"Asshole, it's that damn Li Junjie who is causing trouble again!" All the North Korean officials present were eager to drag the already dead Li Junjie back and give him fifty whips.
In the end, everyone had no choice but to agree to Pang Gang's unreasonable request and jointly signed an agreement. The agreement stated that North Korea was willing to lease Shenmi Island to the Ming Dynasty for one hundred years at a price of one thousand taels of silver per year.
During this period, the Ming Dynasty had the right to dispose of anything on the island, and the ownership of the island was returned to North Korea a hundred years later.
With your consent and my will, the agreement quickly passed the review of both parties. After the signature and seal of the top leaders of both parties, the agreement was officially effective. Although the signer on the Ming side was Dingyuan from Shandong
General, but no one raised any doubts about this, as if it was a matter of course.
After signing the agreement, the sincere smile finally returned to Pang Gang's face. He smiled and said: "Your Highness, Princess, you can rest assured that we will dispatch the navy and garrison to Shenmi Island as soon as possible. We will also ensure the safety of North Korea."
I will definitely be responsible.”
Everyone laughed bitterly when they heard this. After this incident, everyone realized that the General Pang in front of them was definitely a different kind of general from the Ming Dynasty. The humility and so-called gentleness of the Ming Dynasty literati had absolutely nothing to do with him. In his
He only has naked interests in his eyes.
After seeing off Li Zhu and others, Pang Gang took a long breath and sat on a chair, his eyes showing a look of relief. Today's so-called statement that Dorgon stationed troops on the Yalu River and prepared to attack North Korea was a lie concocted by him.
, it is true that Dorgon arrived at the Yalu River, but he only stayed for less than two hours and then went back to meet Amin. How could he invade North Korea again?
As long as the North Koreans made a little careful investigation, they would know it. Fortunately, they were frightened by the Qing army, and they finally succeeded in getting Shemi Island.
"It's really not easy!" Pang Gang murmured as he thought...