Chapter 1103 Yiwu Celebration Banquet - North Korean Fusang
Early on the morning of the 21st, the place where the celebration banquet was held in Yiwu City was already bustling with people.
Although the celebration banquet will only begin at the beginning of the day, it is the exclusive treatment of the emperor to come at the beginning of the day. Most people get up at the beginning of the day, put on their neatest military uniforms or imperial uniforms, and wash themselves carefully under the service of the servants.
After trying his best to attract the emperor's attention, Chen Shizheng arrived at the banquet place. He first registered his name at the registration office, and was led by the waiter to sit down where his name was written on the table.
So I picked up the wine glass, drank some wine, and went around chatting with people.
However, there are also some people sitting in their seats who are a little gloomy, and Li Mingfang is one of them. It stands to reason that Li Mingfang has made great contributions in the battle between Yi and Wu, so he should be happy, but at this time, his face is full of gloom, and he is sitting
On a relatively remote table in the entire venue, I was drinking alone and thinking about something.
"Li Mingfang, what are you doing in such a big way? His Highness sent the two of us to fight in the Western Regions. Originally, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to disobey the imperial edict. The two of us can just hang out in the army. I will at least fight with you one after another.
I told you three times, why are you so disobedient!"
"You dare to refute! I am the commander of this expedition, and you are just the deputy commander. If His Highness hadn't done it for your grandfather's sake, you wouldn't even be the deputy commander! When I return to China, I will definitely participate in the meeting in front of His Highness.
Your copy!"
He remembered what Jin Hancheng said to him yesterday afternoon, and his face became even more ugly.
'You, a person who is afraid of death and dare not go into battle, still have the nerve to reprimand me! If you weren't Jin Hanlao's brother, I would punch your nose in half!' He thought bitterly, and at the same time he was a little sad. Jin Hancheng
It was not without merit. When Li Chenggui was still in power, he was in charge of the food and salary of tens of thousands of people in the army. His accounts were clear and orderly, which was highly praised by Li Chenggui. In addition, he was a close confidant of Zhu Fangyuan, so he was appointed as the commander this time.
But I didn’t expect that he would behave so badly while leading the troops in battle!
‘If you dare to impeach me, I will publicly impeach you for being greedy for life and fear of death, so that you can’t stand down in front of everyone.’ Li Mingfang thought this again.
But he just thought about it. Jin Hancheng was a close confidant of Zhu Fangyuan, and his grandfather was a close confidant of Li Chenggui, and he had passed away. Their family could not afford to offend the Jin family now. Moreover, Jin Hancheng was the commander personally appointed by Zhu Fangyuan, so Jin Hancheng
Zhu Fangyuan's face was dull even when he couldn't get off the platform.
'But in this case, if he wants a really evil person to complain first, how should I respond?'
Li Mingfang was thinking sadly, when suddenly the chair next to him moved, and then there was the sound of someone gasping. He couldn't help but look sideways, and saw a man wearing a very standard Ming Dynasty third-grade commander's uniform, but
The man with a Fuso-style katana on his waist was sitting next to him. While panting, the man picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup of tea. He drank it and sighed: "
That’s it!”
"I've met Commander Zhu," Li Mingfang said immediately.
"It turns out to be Commander Li, disrespectful." The man also turned sideways and saluted.
This person was Zhu Hengshi, the commander of Baiyi Guards. Because the people who were sent to Yiwu were from all provinces, Song Sheng was afraid of transferring other guards to take charge of the matter. He was so excited that he did irrational things, so he sent them to Baiyi Guards.
Wei had been stationed there since he broke through the Xilu camp in the early morning of the second day of August, protecting the rescued Ming people and guarding some of the prisoners.
In this battle between Yi and Wu, he has made two military exploits and made a lot of contributions. Today, he is naturally qualified to participate in the celebration banquet. But he drank with his soldiers last night. He didn't plan to drink more, but accidentally drank too much. Today
I got up a little late in the morning and rode over as fast as I could.
"Why is Commander Li drinking alone here?" Zhu Hengshi arrived at the entrance of the venue and came in first. Beibi Yuanxin and others went to store the horses, so he waited here for a while and started chatting with Li Mingfang.
"I am a Korean and I am not familiar with the generals in the Ming Dynasty. I have nothing to talk about." Li Mingfang said.
"Even so, there is still..." Zhu Hengshi originally wanted to say, 'There is also Kim Han-sung, the commander of your North Korean army. Why don't you speak with him?', but he suddenly stopped talking.
After completing the execution of the Xilu, most of them had nothing to do except for some people to camp around. They could only drink, gamble and brag. The story of the discord between the two commanders of the Korean army had long been spread, and they even quarreled.
They were all translated by Yongming Zuowei, who was stationed next to the Korean army. Therefore, Zhu Hengshi also knew what was going on and realized that he should not say such things and kept silent.
"Commander Zhu, there is no need to be like this. This matter about our Korean army has been known to everyone for a long time. The face that deserves to be shamed has been lost long ago, and we are not afraid of others saying it again." Li Mingfang said with a smile.
Zhu Hengshi chatted with him for a few words and couldn't help but said: "Commander Li, no matter what, Commander Jin is your boss, it's better to save some face for your boss. Going tit-for-tat with your boss will not do you any good." Li Mingfang said.
You have to be energetic to make people feel good, so Zhu Hengshi also gave some words of advice.
"I know this, but, hey, it's hard to talk about our domestic affairs. Forget it, brother Zhu, let's drink." Li Mingfang raised his glass to signal him, and Zhu Hengshi also raised his glass to clink with him.
However, after a few glasses of wine, Li Mingfang took the initiative to complain to Zhu Hengshi. He had been at odds with Kim Han-sung during this period, and had no one to complain to. He happened to meet Zhu Hengshi, who had nothing to do with North Korea's internal affairs. Under the influence of alcohol,
I couldn't help but speak.
"This Jin Hancheng, relying on being His Highness's confidant, has acted unscrupulously..."
"The same goes for his brother Jin Hanlao. Since His Highness succeeded to the throne, he has become more and more lawless. Although he rarely does evil, he indulges his family..."
"..., but our Qinghai Li family is not vegetarian. Although I can't offend him, he doesn't dare to deal with me easily. But now I'm worried that he has a grudge against this, and together with his brother Jin Hanlao, he secretly speaks to His Highness
I'm slandering you in front of you. My future doesn't matter, but I'm worried that my family will be 'looked at differently' by His Highness because of this."
Seeing that he was drunk, Zhu Hengshi couldn't help but feel joking and said with a smile: "Does your own future really not matter?"
"It's not as important as home, but it's still important." Li Mingfang said smoothly. He then chattered a lot about his future.
At this moment, Kitabi Genshin and others had already entered the venue. After bowing to Zhu Heng, he explained: "There are too many people here today and they have been queuing for a long time, so I just came here now."
"You guys sit down and have a rest. We will go find Kusunoki Fangze in a while." Zhu Hengshi said to them. Beibi Yuanxin and others agreed and then sat down to rest.
After a while, Zhu Hengshi stood up and finally said to Li Mingfang: "Brother Li, in my opinion, if you want your own future, you might as well think about the story of the Zhuge family during the Three Kingdoms. I think General Xu thinks highly of you.
, His Highness King Gaoping and His Highness King Yongxing also look at you differently."
After saying this, he left the table with Kitabi Genshin and others.
"The story of the Zhuge family? Is that what he meant? Who is he?" Li Mingfang opened her eyes and looked at Zhu Hengshi's back.
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"Sir, that person is Li Mingfang, the deputy commander of the North Korean army? What are you talking about, sir?" Kitabi Yuanxin asked.
"It's nothing, we just met and chatted for a few words." When Zhu Hengshi said this, he had already arrived at a table in the middle of the venue and said to one of the two people who were talking: "Fangze."
Hearing this, the man turned his head and glanced with an expression of surprise on his face. Then he turned his head and said a few words to the person who was speaking. After he left, he turned around and saluted Li Mingfang.
Li Mingfang quickly stopped him: "Be careful, this is in public, be careful not to arouse suspicion."
"Yes, my lord, my lord, I'm rude." Kusunoki Yoshize said in a low voice.
"Sit down and talk." Li Mingfang said again.
After several people sat down, Nanmu Fangyuan pretended to be curious and looked around. Li Mingfang said to Nanmu Fangze: "How many of the warriors you brought this time can you control?"
"Sir, of the tens of thousands of samurai brought by my subordinates this time, about 4,000 are under my control, and more than 3,000 are also former samurai from the Southern Dynasties, and are dissatisfied with Hino Nobushige; only 2,000 are Minamoto no Yoshi.
A man full of people is loyal to the imperial court." Kusunoki Yoshize said.
This Kusunoki Yoshizawa was the deputy commander of the Fuso Army sent by Minamoto Yoshimitsu to participate in the Western Expedition. He had the same status and status as Li Mingfang.
Minamoto Yoshimitsu hesitated for a long time after meeting with Zhu Mengjiong and receiving permission from him to send troops to participate in the Western Expedition. He finally decided that in order to weaken the former Southern Dynasty forces in the country, Yoshizawa Kusunoki, the most prestigious Nanmu family in the Southern Dynasties, would be the general to command the eight thousand Southern Dynasties.
Samurai join the Western Expedition.
However, Minamoto Yoshimitsu was worried that they would cause trouble with him after returning home after receiving a large amount of rewards from this battle, so he sent his close confidant Hino Nobushige to lead two thousand Northern Dynasty samurai to participate in the war, and appointed Hino Nobushige as the supreme commander. He did not accept personal rewards.
If you dare to confiscate it, you will be chopped with a knife; but the reward for the entire Fuso army will fall into the hands of Hino Nobushige.
"You have been walking around among the former Southern Dynasty warriors in the past few days, trying to get them to obey your orders; I will also send Kusunoki Fangyuan and Kitabi Genshin to assist you. As for why they appeared in Yiwu, I will tell you why they appeared in Yiwu.
Timur's Eastern Expedition was to destroy the civilizations of the Eastern countries, and he came here to volunteer to fight in order to defend the civilization." Zhu Hengshi said. He then gave a few more instructions.
Nanmu Yoshize agreed one by one, but after Zhu Hengshi finished his instructions, he asked in a low voice: "Sir, these things are easy to do, but why are they so?"
Zhu Hengshi hesitated for a moment, then said to him in Fusang dialect: "I overheard something. Your Majesty intends to send King Qin to lead the army to conquer Samarkand westward."
Because of his unusual status, Zhu Hengshi was often summoned by Yunxi, and the frequency of seeing Yunxi was almost the same as that of ordinary generals. Once when he met Yunxi, Yunxi was going to the toilet. He was waiting in the tent and accidentally saw Xu Huizu.
A plan for the Western Expedition submitted to Yunxi.
At that time, the document was mostly obscured by other documents. He only saw about twenty words, but these twenty words allowed him to know the main content of the document. Later, after he returned, he secretly inquired about Xu Huizu's information.
From the schedule, we learned that he was very busy every day, so he was definitely planning a war. After further derivation, he was definitely planning a western expedition.
"Because this battle in Yiwu was a defensive counterattack, most of the various armors and horses were confiscated by the court, so there were not many trophies captured. If we could attack Samarkand and occupy this wealthy city, it would be completely different.
"In the expedition against Annan from the end of the year before last to the beginning of last year, countless properties were seized from the capital of such a small country, and the city of Samarkand, which is a hundred times more powerful than Thang Long Palace, will naturally have much more. Every warrior can make a fortune," Zhu Hengshi said.
"Is that so?" Kusunoki Yoshize couldn't help but picture the wealth of Suzhou Prefecture that he saw when passing the Yangtze River Estuary. He felt that even if the wealth of the entire Fusang was piled together, it would not be as good as Suzhou Prefecture. And Samarkand is the same country as Suzhou Prefecture.
Even if the Ming Dynasty is a big country, their capital is no worse than Suzhou. Even if it is not as good as Yingtian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty, it is no worse than Suzhou. The thought of being able to plunder a city comparable to Suzhou Mansion makes my eyes dazzle immediately.
But then he thought of something else and asked: "Sir, the capital of Xilu must be very difficult to fight. If we attack by force, the warriors will suffer many casualties."
"It's probably not easy to fight." He didn't see the full text of Xu Huizu's plan, so he said based on his own speculation: "The emperor of Ming Dynasty and the king of Qin probably didn't plan to besiege for a long time, and they would definitely attack by force. But you don't have to do this.
Too worried. Our army will not be the only one to attack the city of Samarkand."
"In this case, I will bring over eight thousand warriors from the Southern Dynasties to attack the city of Samarkand." Kusunoki Yoshize clenched his fist.
Zhu Hengshi was a little worried: "Minamoto Yoshimitsu has always been unwilling to allow domestic samurai to emigrate. He is unwilling. After all, the samurai's families are all in the country, so they will probably have scruples."
"Sir, there is no need to worry about this." Kusunoki Yoshizawa smiled and said: "Minamoto Yoshimitsu is eager to let these eight thousand warriors stay abroad."
"The rewards from the emperor of the Ming Dynasty have always been generous. When the warriors returned to the country with the rewards from the Ming Dynasty, they became wealthy people. Most of the warriors sent this time were former southern warriors. If they opposed the imperial court, Minamoto Yoshimitsu would sleep.
It doesn't matter. They don't have to worry if they stay abroad."
"It's just that Minamoto Yoshimitsu has always been interested in face. It doesn't sound good to say such things, so it has been strictly prohibited. As long as Hino can nod his head and agree, Minamoto Yoshimitsu will have an excuse and will not punish the samurai to stay in the country.
Of family members.”
"In that case, why doesn't he send out all his warriors?"
"Although Minamoto Yoshimitsu is envious of Ming Dynasty's generous rewards, he is also worried that the samurai sent will suffer too much loss."
"That's it." Zhu Hengshi sighed and told Kusunoki Yoshizawa: "I leave it to you to persuade Hino Nobushige. You must make him nod in agreement."