On the Yongming Sea, several large ships are drifting, heading to a place in the west. Looking west from the deck, the land in the distance is getting closer and closer, and the dock is getting clearer and clearer.
After a while, the leading ship had docked at the dock, and the coolies at the dock immediately came over to prepare for unloading.
However, the ship immediately signaled: This ship is not carrying cargo. The coolies cursed secretly and walked towards other ships carrying cargo.
After a while, several men in rich clothes stepped off the ship. A young man in a python robe asked: "Who are these coolies? They don't look like Jurchens."
Several people looked at each other. Like Zhu Yunxuan, they had just arrived in Vladivostok, and they had no idea what was going on here. How could they know? Xu Zengshou, the left prime minister, said: "Your Highness, we have just arrived here, should we wait for the next one?"
After getting off the ship, I will see the right minister Li Qing and ask him."
Zhu Yunzhen laughed and said: "I forgot, you guys just came here, how could you know."
After several people got off the boat, Zhu Yunxuan ordered his guards to call Li Qing over, while he left the dock and walked around nearby.
Vladivostok was the Yongming City during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. During the Kublai Khan era, a city was built here as an important fulcrum for ruling the Northeast.
However, with the war in the Central Plains, the Mongols no longer cared about this place. From the 13th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty (1353 AD), the Mongols did not renovate the city. After that, they were completely defeated, and this place became the home of various Jurchens again.
The land and bricks used to build the city were also used by the Jurchens to build houses, and the city became dilapidated.
But after all, there once was a city here. Looking from a short distance away, Zhu Yunzhen could still see the towering city walls.
At the same time, Zhu Yunzhen was also observing the people here. Those who were only wrapped in a leather coat and looked fierce were definitely not Han people. They were mostly Jurchens from various walks of life. They might also be Koreans or others. But those wearing Han clothes were not necessarily Han Chinese.
They are Han people.
But no matter who they were, they were all working seriously at this time. Several people wearing the uniforms of Ming Dynasty generals were watching them with waist knives.
While Zhu Yunxuan was watching, a middle-aged man wearing a second-grade official uniform ran over, saluted him and said, "I have met His Royal Highness King Yong."
"Li Aiqing, please excuse me and get up." Zhu Yunxuan said. "I have a few things to ask you."
"Your Highness, let's talk after we enter the city. It's not a good place to talk here." Li Qing said after standing up.
Zhu Yunxuan took a look and saw that Li Qing's words of greeting had been heard by them. Several guards and some coolies knelt down. It was indeed not suitable for conversation.
Zhu Yunxu asked the kneeling people to stand up, said a few words to appease them, and then led the people to follow Li Qing to Vladivostok.
At this time, 90% of the land in the city was open space. There were only official offices, buildings and palaces built for the officials, criminals and Zhu Yunzhen who were sent here. However, when Zhu Yunzhen walked into the palace built for him, he could tell at a glance
The main body of this palace has only been built, not to mention painting. Even the weeds in the courtyard have not been pulled out.
Of course Zhu Yunzhen would not blame him. He was now in the entrepreneurial stage. If Li Qing only renovated the palace for him, he should file a memorial and ask for a new right minister.
After a few people sat down in the palace, Yunxi took a sip of tea and said to Li Qing: "When Gu Gang got off the boat, he saw a lot of dock coolies. Who are they? Looking at Gu, they don't look like that.
Jurchen."
"Your Highness, they are indeed not Jurchens. These people are mainly Koreans, including some Fusang and prisoners exiled from the country." Li Qing said.
"North Koreans? How come there are so many Koreans?" Zhu Yunzhen asked in surprise.
"Your Highness, there are actually not many North Koreans, just over two thousand. As for why there are North Koreans, it's because His Majesty gave us a lot of money." Li Qing said with a smile.
"North Korea is a small country that has always been poor. It would be good if a wealthy middle peasant family could save a few taels of silver. But after His Majesty allocated us a lot of money and food, we can earn a hundred dollars a day by working as coolies at our dock.
It’s three guan of money a month, and although you’ll have enough to eat as a coolie, the money you have left is much better than being a farmer in North Korea.”
"So in the past few months, so many Koreans have crossed the sea to come to us. The prefect of Northeast Korea has already protested to me, asking us to send all the Koreans back. The Fuso people also crossed the sea for the same reason.
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Hearing Li Qing's words, Zhu Yunzhen also laughed. After a while, he said: "Don't pay attention to it, unless Zhu Fangyuan comes to tell us in person."
"There is also the matter of demarcating the border with North Korea. Is there any confirmation?"
"Your Highness, I have previously settled more than 2,000 people at the mouth of the north bank of the Tumen River. There are no Korean villages between the Tumen River and Vladivostok, so there is no problem in using the Tumen River as the boundary." Li Qing said.
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"So are there any Korean villages on the south bank of the Tumen River?" Zhu Yunxu asked again.
"Your Highness, no." Li Qing replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Yunxuan thought for a while and said: "In that case, there is no need to draw a border with the Koreans for the time being. We will wait until they have villages on the south bank of the Tumen River. By then, I will establish a border with the Koreans on the south bank of the Tumen River."
Make an appointment to meet Zhu Fangyuan."
"Yes, Your Highness." Li Qing replied.
After saying this, Zhu Yunxi turned around and said to Chen Gui, who had been in charge of military affairs during this period: "General Chen, thank you for your hard work."
Chen Gui bowed and said: "It is a blessing that the guilty minister can return to serve the Ming Dynasty. There is no hard work." He was a former member of the Yan army and was sent here, so he spoke like this.
Zhu Yunxuan smiled and said: "No matter what, General Chen has made great contributions to our Yongfan Kingdom, and I will never treat you badly."
Chen Gui thanked him again, and then said: "Your Highness, since Mr. Zuo Xiang has arrived, I will immediately hand over the army affairs to Mr. Zuo."
Yunxun was about to say this when he saw that Chen Gui was quite sensible and brought it up himself. He smiled and said: "In that case, I will let Xu Zengshou take over from tomorrow. However, I will appoint you as the servant of the military hall to assist Xu Zengshou in taking charge of the army."
Chen Gui was determined. The reason why he was willing to go out and do things before was because he didn't want to never get ahead in his life. Besides, even if he didn't care, the future of future generations must be taken into consideration. So he actively helped Li Qing manage the criminal army, and also
He commanded the criminal army to defeat the invading Jurchens and made great achievements.
Chen Gui knelt down to thank him. But Li Qing suddenly said: "Your Highness, this servant of the military hall should be a civil servant, appointing a general...?"
"Now that we have only a few people in Yongfan Kingdom, we still have no distinction between civil and military affairs." Zhu Yunxuan interrupted.
What he said made sense, so Li Qing thought about it and still did not use the king's power to refute Zhu Yunzhen's order.
Afterwards, several people discussed for a while. When Li Qing saw that Zhu Yunxu and the others had just arrived by boat from Liaodong and were tired from the journey, he withdrew; Zhu Yunxu did not persuade him to stay.
