Today, he was going to formally meet with the monarchs and ministers of the Danluo Kingdom. Lin Fu put on a crimson official robe over his fur coat.
The official robe was complicated in style, and Lin Fu struggled for a while, but couldn't straighten out the sleeves. Song Jia couldn't stand it, so she knelt down and helped him straighten the sleeves.
Lin Fu stood there, with his hands spread out, and asked Song Jia to help him adjust the skirt of her robe. He could see her slender and jade-like neck behind the black hair bun, and the snow-white color deeper in it was covered by the collar.
Song Jia seemed to feel Lin Fu's eyes falling on her bare neck. She felt a little flustered indescribably. She forced herself to calm down and help Lin Fu tie up her rhinoceros horn belt. This action was like holding Lin Fu with her backhand.
Song Jia's waist and body were also closer, her head was almost touching Lin Fu's chest, and she could hear the strong beating heartbeat. Song Jia was dizzy, and reluctantly helped Lin Fu buckle his belt, and took half a step back.
Said: "The monarchs and ministers of Danluo Kingdom should be here..."
"Without you, I wouldn't even be able to wear clothes!" Lin Fu said mockingly to resolve the embarrassment between us.
"What are you talking about? It's not my turn to help you get dressed!" Song Jia said softly, but she was afraid of Lin Fu's teasing words, so she walked out first.
In the Dayue Dynasty, there was no system for female officials except the inner court. Song Jia served as the official secretary, but it was only a temporary system within the Huaidong Army Department and could not be discussed outside. The Li family of Danluo Kingdom regarded Song Jia as Lin.
The bound concubine.
Song Jia doesn't care what outsiders think, but it's hard for her to really take that step. Compared to a caged bird, she likes the position she's in at this time. Throughout the ages, how many women have had the opportunity to display their ambitions and talents? Is it necessary for her to express her ambitions and talents?
Do you want to give up the opportunity at hand because of your passion/desire?
It was reported outside that Li Jian, the leader of the Danluo Kingdom, was visiting. Lin Fu put aside other thoughts, walked downstairs, and welcomed Li Jian into the main hall to discuss matters.
Although the Danluo Kingdom was small, Li Jianchen took refuge in Jeju City, and Lin Fu treated Li Jian as an honored guest based on etiquette.
In the main hall, Lin Fu and Li Jian were sitting across from each other. Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Zhao Hu, Lin Jingzhong, Ge Changgen, Zhou Guitang and others were all sitting under Lin Fu, one by one.
Next to Li Jian sat his ministers, who had fled from Seogwipo Cang four days ago in panic, like bereaved dogs.
The hope of retaking the royal capital and restoring the country can only be pinned on the young man who is kneeling in front of the case.
Li Jian and his ministers are not people who sit in a well and look at the sky. They know that the Danluo country is small and cannot survive completely independently. It is an inevitable choice for the Danluo country to rely on the strong and as a vassal. The only extravagant hope is that it can still have basic dignity and not be completely independent.
Annexed.
For this purpose, it would not be a pity even if the lovely girls selected from the officials' families were given to Lin Fu as maids. I did not expect that this party would actively promote a political marriage.
This was an unexpected surprise for Li Jianjun and his ministers. It meant that they chose to rely on the Huaidong Army Division and gained a more independent status than expected.
"Dan Luo can marry Qin and Jin with the Celestial Empire, which is what I wish for." Li Jian bowed his head to Lin Fu and said, "The two hundred-year-old friendship is actually to fulfill the good intentions of the emperor and regain the capital.
It takes a lot of effort..." His Mandarin accent was a little weird, but it didn't hinder communication.
"Danluo has been a good friend of our dynasty for hundreds of years, but a traitor took advantage of him and caused Danluo to be bullied by Goryeo for more than ten years. It is really painful. I was entrusted by the imperial court to lead troops into Danluo to bring order to the chaos, so that Danluo could return.
It is my duty under the protection of the court..." Lin Fu said.
After losing Liaodong, the imperial court hoped that the Koreans could contain the Donghu people in Haidong, so they agreed to the Koreans' request and sold Danluo to Korea. It can be said that the imperial court voluntarily gave up its suzerainty status over Danluo.
At this time, Lin Fu emphasized the status of the Dai Viet Dynasty as the suzerain of Dan Luo and emphasized that he was ordered to send an envoy to cross the sea and march eastward.
Li Jian, the leader of the Danluo Kingdom, and other monarchs and ministers also forgot about the unpleasant history, and no one questioned whether Lin Fu's identity as the envoy was authentic.
After Goryeo surrendered to the Donghu people, the imperial court completely lost control of the Haidong region. It was not difficult for Lin Fu to request an order to go to sea, but he did not have enough time, so he could only act under the pretense of being an envoy.
Compared with Gui Laozi's imperial edict, the thousands of elite soldiers and sturdy warships that came with Lin Fu are more solid and convincing capital. Li Jianchen wants to rely on Lin Fu to regain the royal capital and restore the country.
Getting hung up on details?
"It's not that I'm desperate, but it's actually because the royal capital has fallen, the subjects have been slaughtered, and the integrity has been lost, so I can't sleep at night and the food tastes bad," Li Jian said, "I dare to ask the envoy when to send troops to drive Zhen Feng out of the west.
Pu?"
"Zhen Feng is a veteran general of Goryeo. He still has more than 4,000 remnant soldiers. We cannot rush to recapture the royal city," Lin Fu said. "Although I led the army to march eastward across the sea, I still have to cross the sea and return westward after the event. Dare you ask your Majesty?
, after I led my army back to the west, the Koreans led their troops to invade again, how could Danluo stand on its own feet?"
"Gu Dang calls on the countrymen to defend the territory. Even if there is only one soldier left, the territory will not be trampled by the Koreans..." Li Jian said through gritted teeth.
Lin Fu still doubted Li Jian's determination to resist.
If he hadn't led his troops this time, it would have been strange for Li Jianchen not to surrender to the Koreans and beg for his life once the city of Jeju was destroyed.
However, Lin Fu just needed Li Jian to say these words, so he followed his words and said: "Your Majesty, this is very in line with my wishes. Please recruit your king's army. I will not stand by and watch, but will give my full support. When the time is right,
The two armies can join forces to recapture the royal city in one fell swoop and restore Danluo's dignity..."
Zhenfeng retreated to Seogwipo City and even withdrew the garrison at Seogwipo. After the remnants of the navy were defeated last night, Zhenfeng's troops were left alone on Danra Island and could only stand in Seogwipo waiting for reinforcements.
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Under the current situation, Zhen Feng will not surrender easily, and will be very determined to defend the city. Lin Fu also has no intention of attacking Seogwipo City regardless of casualties. Even if Seogwipo City is attacked by force, there will still be a series of troubles.
It had only been six or seven days since Zhenfeng led his army to Danluo Island from Xianlupo. Except for the fall of Seogwipo City and the siege of Jeju City, other parts of Danluo Island had not been seriously affected by the war. At this time,
Zhen Feng retreated to Seogwipo City, and Li Jianjun's rule over Danluo Island was still effective.
Lin Fu's intention was to ask Li Jian to gather the remaining soldiers first, recruit strong and brave soldiers, and form a larger king's army.
There are more than 30,000 people in Dingkou on Danluo Island. It is still possible to force the strong men to join the army and form a regular military force of about 3 to 5,000 people.
Li Jianjun and his ministers used military force on Danluo Island, which could reduce the pressure on the Huaidong Army Division to garrison troops on the island in the future.
In addition, Danra Island's own military and civilian system is too weak. After Seogwipo City was captured, Li Jian didn't even have an iron smelting workshop to make iron tools, and he couldn't even make the simplest soldiers and armors. Once a large number of men were recruited into the army,
, Danluo Island’s agricultural production will be greatly affected, and food will no longer be self-sufficient.
These will make Danluo Island more completely dependent on the Huaidong Military Division; and frequent wars will increase the consumption of men on Danluo Island, causing Lin Fu to immigrate from Huaidong to Danluo Island, greatly reducing the pressure.
For Li Jianjun and his ministers, surrendering to Goryeo was not an option. Expanding the army and reorganizing the royal army were inevitable choices. As for resorting to military force, it would cause a series of serious consequences, which they could not consider now.
On the same day, Lin Fu and the Danluo monarchs and ministers negotiated the conditions for joining forces to assist the expedition; Lin Fu signed a letter of credence with Li Jian, the leader of the Danluo Kingdom, in the name of the Huaidong system.
The Huaidong Army Division will assist Danluo in setting up five battalions of the royal army, provide the most basic armor and weapons, and assist in the training of the royal army. The Huaidong Army Division will set up a battle training school in Jeju City, and the Danluo Royal Army can select officers for each period.
Twenty children of the royal family and nobles entered the battle training school to learn tactics.
The Huaidong Military Division has the obligation and responsibility to protect the Danluo Kingdom and the Li family's succession to the Danluo Kingdom.
In return, Danluo Island expanded the size of the pasture in the eastern part of the island, continued to raise war horses, stopped paying tribute to the Koreans, and exchanged the war horses for the Huaidong Army Division's war preparation assistance in armor, grain and grass.
Danluo agreed to permanently cede Jeju City to the Huaidong Military Division, and agreed to the Huaidong Military Division to station troops in Jeju and build a military and commercial seaport.
Danluo agreed to lease about 20,000 acres of hills, fields, streams, and grasslands outside Jeju City to the Huaidong Military Division for management.
The Huaidong Military Division has jurisdiction over Jeju City and the surrounding leased areas.
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The day after the alliance agreement to assist the expedition was concluded, Lin Fu sent four battalions of soldiers out of Jeju City.
These four battalions of armored soldiers were camped south of Seogwipo Castle and in the hills at the northern foot of Ilchu Mountain. From a commanding position, they could peek at Seogwipo Castle on the north shore of the island.
Zhen Feng, the governor of Haiyang County in Goryeo, completely suppressed his troops and could not get out of Seogwipo City. Lin Fu could calmly integrate the resources of Danluo Island and help the Danluo people rebuild the royal army in Jeju City.
Danluo recruited the disabled soldiers, and there were still more than 600 generals who could be used. He also recruited young men from the common people to make up the five battalions of 3,000 regular soldiers.
Lin Fu selected 20 military attachés from the guard camp to serve as military commanders and temporarily join the Danluo King's army to be responsible for daily training; during wartime, they would assume the responsibilities of tactical staff.
At the same time, Lin Fu formally established the Jeju Inspection Department in Jeju and appointed Lin Jingzhong as the inspector to take charge of Jeju's civil affairs, commerce, and taxation affairs, with Zhou Guitang assisting him.
At the beginning of the year, only nearly 500 acres of land was leased from Danluo to build a fortification, which was very limited in scale. In addition to garrisoning the army, 400 households were moved in, which almost filled the Jeju fortification, leaving no room for development.
After entering into an agreement to assist the coalition forces in the expedition, they not only placed Jeju permanently under the control of the Huaidong Army, but also leased nearly 20,000 acres of land outside Jeju City. These lands accounted for almost one-twentieth of Danluo Island.
There is not much fertile land suitable for farming, but Lin Fu wants to develop Jeju into a major transit port in the Haidong region. The 20,000 acres of land provide quite sufficient space for development.
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A round trip from Chongju to Jeju only takes ten days.
On the sixth day of the first month of the twelfth year of Chongguan, the second fleet from Chongzhou arrived at Jeju Port, transporting a large amount of strategic materials such as soldiers, grain and grass.
After the ordnance factory in Chongzhou increased its production scale, the old armor captured in previous wars was no longer incorporated into the army; the original old armor in the army will also be gradually phased out.
The captured old soldiers and armor were brought to Danluo Island this time to be used by the Danluo people to form the fifth battalion of the royal army.
In addition, Chongzhou has become an important rice market town after Jiangning. The temporary transfer of tens of thousands of stones of rice grain to Danluolai is profitable for maritime merchants, and it will not affect the overall situation of the Tianjin-Hai grain road.
The Gyeonggi and Yanbei defense lines only need three million stone grains a year. However, in Chongzhou County alone, the increase in grain and grass production last year reached a scale of one million stone.
Although the increased grain production will not be levied as taxes, if directed, it will provide sufficient supply for the Chongzhou rice market and help curb grain prices in Chongzhou.
When they came with the ship, they also had a special order to formally entrust Lin Fu with authority to handle Haidong affairs. After Goryeo surrendered to the Donghu people, Goryeo soldiers even appeared on the Yanbei defense line. Although Danluo's national power was weak, the Huaidong Army Division could use Danluo
Containing Goryeo is better than nothing.
Besides, Zhang Xie, Yue Lengqiu and others also hoped that the attention of the Huaidong Military Division would be controlled externally, but they failed to realize that Danluo Island was of great significance to the Huaidong Military Division.
I can't blame Zhang Xie and Yue Lengqiu. They are high above the temple. They only know the violent storms on the sea, and their understanding of maritime trade routes is not even as good as that of an ordinary maritime merchant.
With the imperial court's special order, the cooperation between Lin Fu and Li Jian became more pleasant.
In the early days of Li Jian's reign, Li Jian allocated 800 military horses to the Huaidong Army Division as an exchange for early war preparation materials.
Zhou Pu led a group of soldiers from the cavalry battalion of the cavalry army to follow Lin Fu across the sea and entered Danluo Island. They had all the soldiers, armor and weapons, but they did not bring any horses. They just replenished them from Danluo Island.
After spending a few days getting familiar with the nature of the horses, the cavalry from the Huaidong Army Division began to perform scouting and blockade missions on Danluo Island.
Danluo Island maintains a herding scale of more than 3,000 military horses all year round. In the past, it paid tribute to Goryeo for free. At this time, it exchanged soldiers, armor, rice and grain with the Huaidong Military Division.
Both the monarchs and ministers of Danluo and the common people of Danluo were happy to accept such conditions and were willing to expand the scale of horse breeding in the pastures on the half of the island.
Due to land restrictions, Danluo Island's horse breeding scale can only be expanded to about five or six thousand horses at most, which can provide Chongzhou with about two thousand military horses every year. Compared with Huaidong Military Division, which has no source of military horses, it can get two thousand military horses every year.
The addition of a military horse is extremely precious.
Of course, as high-quality horse breeds can be obtained from Danluo Island, the Huaidong Military Division can also build ranches in Hecheng, Daheng Island, and Changshan Island to increase the source of military horses.