The county magistrate Jin Zhongshuo entertained Du Mingen and his party from the Ming Dynasty with good wine and good food. Although Du Mingen had stated that he was not the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, he was still working for the current emperor and the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. This Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Jin Jongshuo
He first followed the rules for receiving the Great Angel of Heaven and did not dare to neglect.
At the wine table, there is naturally a lot of drinking and drinking. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, and after getting to know each other better, the conversation will naturally become more in-depth.
"Mr. Du, please forgive me for being rude, but why have your hair and beards been cut off? How can your body, hair and skin be damaged by your parents?"
Kim Jong-suk actually wanted to ask this question from the beginning. These Ming people are really a little abnormal. They all wear uniform clothes, tight-fitting clothes without wide cuffs, not robes and Confucian shirts. This is very inconsistent with the dressing habits of the Ming Dynasty.
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In addition, Du Mingen and others all have blunt-cut hair and shaved beards, which is even more unusual. I don’t know, I thought they were monks in the temple.
"It's a long story."
Du Mingen smiled, then pondered for a while and then began to slowly talk about it. He mainly talked about some of the things Liu Jin said on the top of Wangyue Tower.
"Because there are three high-yield crops here in Huangjin Continent, my great emperor loves the people like his own son and knows that food is the most important thing for the people, so I ordered Mr. Liu Jin and Liu to form a fleet to go to Huangjin Continent to transport these three crops.
Plant high-yielding crops and introduce them back to the Ming Dynasty, so that there will be no famine in the Ming Dynasty from now on."
"Young master Liu is a son of a master. He said that ocean navigation is extremely difficult, and you may die at sea if you are not careful. In addition, because you live on a small ship for a long time, personal hygiene is extremely important."
"If you keep your hair and beard long, it will be extremely inconvenient to take care of it. You don't have to be on land when sailing in the ocean. This fresh water is an extremely precious resource, so keeping your hair short and cutting off your beard is more convenient for navigation and less likely to breed.
Dirty stuff."
"In the end, all this is to reach the Golden Continent smoothly and introduce high-yielding crops back. A few hairs and beards here don't matter."
Du Mingen smiled and explained that in fact, after having short hair for a long time, he also discovered the benefits of having short hair. It is very refreshing and does not require any effort to take care of it.
Cutting off one's hair and interacting with each other have many benefits for the workers at the bottom. The workers at the bottom are no better than those above who have nothing to wear but food to eat, and everything is taken care of.
Keeping long hair has no use at all. It will greatly hinder your life and work, and it will easily breed all kinds of unclean things if it is not taken care of.
"His Majesty the Emperor is truly a sage through the ages. He loves his people like his own son. It really makes people cry with gratitude."
After listening to Du Mingen's words, Kim Jong Suk also spoke from the bottom of his heart and saluted westward in the direction of Ming Dynasty to show respect for His Majesty the Ming Emperor.
Of course, he was inspired by this. The current king of North Korea, Yeonsangun, was a famous tyrant in history. During the reign of King Yeonsang, the Wuwu Disaster and the Jiazi Disaster occurred in North Korea, and a large number of intellectuals were massacred.
After Yeonsangun learned that his biological mother was not Queen Jeonghyun but the deposed concubine Yin, she began to behave abnormally. Yin was accused of poisoning Chengzong's concubine out of jealousy and was given poisoned wine by Chengzong and died.
After learning about this, Lord Yanshan killed the two nobles Yan and Zheng who had accused the Yin family, as well as the officials and their families who supported the death of the Yin family. Scholars from the Shilin sect who had biased opinions on Shizu's usurpation of the throne were also killed by Lord Yanshan.
Yeonsangun also plundered thousands of beauties for his entertainment and used Sungkyunkwan as a place for debauchery. Because some people wrote flyers using Hangul (the Korean script invented by King Sejong of Joseon) to criticize Yeonsangun, Yeonsangun also ordered a ban on Hangeul.
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The monarch of Korea was cruel and massacred the scholars, but the Ming emperor of the previous country had always been close to the civil servants, treated the gentry favorably, and loved the people like his own son. Naturally, this had spread to Korea long ago, and was known and missed by the scholars of Korea.
Now I hear that just because of Liu Jin's words, Emperor Hongzhi will organize a fleet to go to Golden Continent to introduce three high-yielding crops to solve the famine problem of the Ming people. This shows that Emperor Hongzhi's reputation of loving the people like a son is by no means
It was just a random boast by the people below.
"Does this Golden Continent really have food crops that can produce tens of dan per mu?"
Then Kim Jong Suk asked again in disbelief.
"This... I don't know, but Mr. Liu is a disciple of a master, so naturally he won't lie to others."
Du Mingen smiled and said.
"Mr. Du, when you return triumphantly from Golden Continent in the future, I wonder if you can introduce some high-yielding varieties to our country, North Korea?"
Kim Jong Suk nodded noncommittally, thought for a while and asked again.
"Of course this is possible. The Ming Dynasty and North Korea have been friendly for generations, and it is not difficult to communicate with each other. In the future, when we introduce fine seeds back to the Ming Dynasty, it will naturally be introduced to North Korea, and it will naturally benefit the people of North Korea."
Du Mingen naturally agreed. In this era, the relationship between Ming Dynasty and North Korea was too strong. It was just a good seed, which was nothing at all.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Du."
"Come and toast Mr. Du."
Kim Jong Suk is also a good parent official. When he heard that there was a high-quality seed with a yield of dozens of kilograms per acre, he even thought about introducing it to his own country.
"If you want to thank me, you should also thank me, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It is the Holy Mother who is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so I have the opportunity to go to Huanghuangzhou to bring back good seeds."
Du Mingen picked up his wine glass and raised it high in the direction of Daming in the west. The people who came with Du Mingen also imitated it in a decent way. As for Kim Jong Suk and other Koreans, they naturally hurriedly raised their wine glasses and raised their glasses to the direction of Da Ming.
Salute in the direction where the emperor of tomorrow is.
After this conversation, the relationship between the two parties became much closer, and they started to talk about everything.
Du Mingen also took out some glass products made in the glass factory and gave them to Kim Jong Suk. These things are not valuable at all. As long as there is a glass factory, you can burn as many as you want.
But here in North Korea, it is a rare thing, especially this mirror. When Kim Jong Suk saw the mirror, he couldn't help being shocked by its clarity, and he immediately regarded it as a treasure.
He also became more attentive to Du Ming'en and others. The politics of the Lee Dynasty during this period was extremely corrupt, with constant party strife. Although Kim Jong Suk was a good parent official, he was not an upright official.