Chapter 723: The sun and the moon are dim and bright again, but some fires have been extinguished
Shaamaimaiti wanted to go through the enrollment procedures for Akbar’s children. In the Ministry of Rites, he mocked the Ming Dynasty’s special envoy Legas, saying that Taixi Always so ungrateful, Ming had helped so much, but Portugal was so ungrateful that it actually ridiculed the Ming Emperor's frugality.
Frugality is a virtue, although Shah Maimaiti could not do it.
Shah Maimaiti also wrote about this matter in his memorial. Zhu Yijun had read the newspaper "Overseas Chat" and was very clear about what happened in Portugal. The writing of "Overseas Chat" did not deceive people. , This is indeed the case, but Zhu Yijun has no special feelings about this, because due to the long-standing prejudice education, Zhu Yijun does not really treat Fan Yi as a human being.
The exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and Portugal were mainly about profit. The war reparations loaned out were mainly for the interest extended for forty years.
If there is any love, the biggest love is that Antonio would search for crops and livestock that the emperor had never seen around the world and send them to the Ming Dynasty every year. This played a vital role in the breeding of Baoqisi, Zhu Yijun Some of the kindness shown to Antonio was mainly due to sweet potatoes, potatoes, sugar cane, rubber trees, grass seeds, palms, rex rabbits, turkeys, breeding pigs, breeding sheep and other crops and livestock.
In all interactions between countries, interests come first.
Shah Maimaiti recognized the advantages of high morality and mainly discussed anti-corruption, religious harmlessness, integrity and loyalty.
Heroes exist in every civilization, but these civilizations do not have the inheritance of heroes. For example, Legaz liked to call the elite soldiers of the Beijing camp Templars and Paladins. There were such heroes in the West. , but in the end they all turned into legends and became an inconspicuous wave in the vicissitudes of life.
Integrity is a very wonderful thing. For example, Ma Fang, the Bo of Yangcheng, Anda Khan was very kind to Ma Fang, but Ma Fang finally chose to run away and returned to the Ming Dynasty, starting from a small soldier. In the end, it became Ada Khan's nightmare and successfully saved the Ming Dynasty from declining on the northwest front.
Jin Aizong Wanyan Shouxu and Wanyan Chenglin who were abdicated were Jin people. They were very unpopular historical figures that almost no one knew. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, these Jin people went south and gradually became Chinese. At the last moment, they chose to die as kings in Sheji. , actually has integrity.
Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, colluded with the Japanese pirates after abdicating the throne. In the 24th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito invited Pu Yi to Shenluo, the capital of the Japanese country. Pu Yi knew very clearly that this meeting was an attempt by the Japanese pirates to deal with The manipulation of public opinion seeks legitimacy for its aggressive behavior.
Emperor Hirohito was waiting at the station, and Puyi walked out of the Phoenix Room of the train. At that time, Puyi had a knife in his hand. The scabbard and the knife were filled with lead. It was a bit heavy and the knife drew Without coming out, Puyi walked to the station to greet Emperor Hirohito.
When Puyi set out, he was very clear about the purpose of this trip. He followed Hirohito to visit the Jianguo Shrine of the Japanese Kingdom to worship Amaterasu, followed Hirohito to watch the military parade, and followed Hirohito to the Tama Mausoleum. I paid homage to Emperor Taisho, and finally went to the Toilet Shrine, which smelled like a toilet and enshrined the war criminals of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
So in the end, Puyi became a joke. The Aisin Gioro family had been the suzerain of the world for more than two hundred years. In the end, Puyi changed the Aisin Gioro family to the last generation of Genji in Tokyo, Japan. It is Aixinjueluo who is the child of the Japanese Emperor living in Northeast China.
I don’t know what Nurhaci, Huang Taiji, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong would think when they learned that their surname was Yuan.
At the moment of meeting, if Puyi chose to smash the lead-filled saber on Emperor Hirohito's forehead, how would history evaluate Puyi?
So, dying standing is indeed the last dignity.
“Akbar should have made a wise decision, but there is a question, how did he convince the nobles under him? North Korea, which is known for its filial son, never made a decision after Tianshun. No prince or prince has ever been sent to study in the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yijun was still a little confused.
Akbar’s decision is a good one, and Zhu Yijun is also happy with it. After all, a 3% reduction in the cotton price of bulk commodities is a lot of money. Cotton spinning in Nanya of Ming Dynasty can make more money, but the problem is , Akbar was actually able to convince his nobles.
The princes and princes of North Korea all had to go to the Ming Dynasty to study, and this continued until the seventh king of North Korea, Li Yao. During the Tianshun period, Li Yao no longer sent the princes and princes to study in the Ming Dynasty. What Li Yao proposed was not to send the princes and princes to study in the Ming Dynasty anymore. It was not that Li Yao didn't want to, but that his subordinates refused to let him go, seeking greater independence.
Akbar did the opposite.
“I used money to persuade the nobles under me. Whoever disagreed would not be given the distribution rights and responsibilities for the sale of cotton cloth. At this time, Akbar’s nobles all agreed, and these nobles I also have this plan to send the child to the Ming Dynasty." Feng Bao explained the reason. This was asked by Chen Xue, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites. As the internal minister, Feng Bao had to ask for an answer.
Akbar was a Turkic Mongolian, and he was a ruler. He did not think that he was the excrement in the cesspit, and he did not want his descendants to become excrement in the cesspit.
"The next chapter of the Ministry of Rites, these noble children came to study in the Ming Dynasty. They can no longer engage in thick and thin. They have to collect money, and they have to collect a lot of money. At least they have to make this money. Business, Ming Dynasty's benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust are very expensive." Zhu Yijun explained the details.
You can come, but you have to pay extra.
Feng Bao bowed his head and said: "I obey the decree."
Zhu Yijun continued to process the memorial. Ma Lin, as the vanguard of the cavalry camp, had already rushed to Jiulian City, the estuary of the Yalu River. The border town opposite Yiju is becoming lively, and everything is going according to plan.
Liaodong shipped 120,000 shi of grain and grass to Jiulian City. This was the grain and grass raised by Liaodong. Not all of the grain and grass transported from the capital arrived in Liaodong. In order to prevent his eldest son from going hungry, Li Chengliang Liaodong grain and grass were mobilized to support the front line.
What interests Zhu Yijun is that Li Chengliang required all the slave chiefs of the Jianzhou Jurchens, Haixi Jurchens, Savage Jurchens, and Outer Khalkha tribes to arrive in Jilin before the second day of February in the fourteenth year, and He stayed in Jilin until the end of the war. During this period, Li Chengliang provided slave chieftains, food and water for his followers, and a bottle of fine wine every day.
The reason why these slave chiefs were grouped together was because they were afraid that they would cause trouble to the Ming Dynasty. If anyone did not come, the mutual trade would be permanently stopped. In addition, after the war, they would have to bear the wrath of the Ming Dynasty. If anyone wanted to come, they would be given Enough salt for the tribe to survive for a year.
This behavior is very overbearing, but it is not yet the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the Ming Dynasty Spring Festival has not yet passed, these slave chiefs have already reached seventy-seven or eighty-eight. The so-called offensive and defensive alliance has not taken effect at all, and North Korea is almost After being defeated by the Japanese pirates, these slave chiefs who had formed a blood alliance had no intention of sending troops.
"Do you still have Guojiao in your internal funds?" Zhu Yijun asked about the stock of Guojiao. Guojiao is actually roasted sweet potatoes, which actually tastes bad. After more than ten years of brewing improvement, for an alcoholic, it is barely enough. It's considered a fine wine.
"There are still 130,000 pieces." Feng Bao took out the memo from his sleeve, looked at it and answered His Majesty's inquiry.
"Send 30,000 pieces to the Marquis of Ningyuan. These slave chiefs are clamoring for wine. These 30,000 pieces are enough for the Marquis of Ningyuan for several years. Whatever is left will belong to the Marquis of Ningyuan. Liaodong is short of food and cannot take the food of the people of Liaodong. Make wine." Zhu Yijun wrote the imperial seal and sent it to Liaodong Guojiao.
One piece is six bottles, one bottle weighs one kilogram, and thirty thousand pieces is equivalent to one hundred and eighty thousand kilograms. One piece sells for twelve silver, and thirty thousand pieces is equivalent to three hundred and sixty thousand silver. This is enough for Li Chengliang to distribute wine to these slave chiefs. In Liaodong , spirits are hard currency, it’s freezing cold, having a mouthful of wine to warm your body is better than anything else.
If these slave chiefs are not for drinking, they are for taking it back. In Liaodong, this thing is a life-saving thing. If you are injured and spray it, the pain will make you want to die, but after the pain is over, you can survive.
Feng Bao obeyed his leader's orders and sold them expensively, but the cost was actually not high. Counting all the costs for one piece, it could be brewed for at most two silver.
Feng Bao didn't dare to fool the emperor. He paid one tael of silver for each egg. If he played like this, his majesty would probably find and chop up all his nine tribes tomorrow.
Feng Bao himself didn’t even know where his nine tribes were.
"Annanguo is really a longevity star who hangs himself because he thinks he has a long life. He actually doesn't allow Laos to agree to the Ming Dynasty to build an official road to Laos. It's simply unreasonable!" Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial in his hand, slapped the table, and twitched the corner of his mouth.
The memorial was written by Wang Jiaping. Wang Jiaping sent people to Laos. He originally planned to discuss the matter of officialdom with Laos. After all, the production of potassium salt increased. Only with potassium salt could the Ming Dynasty have smooth weather and peace for the country and the people.
The salt marsh in the Western Regions has not yet been found. The potash salt fields in Laos are open-air and easy to mine. With the official road to Laos, Daming has water and potash fertilizers, with an output of 1,800 per mu. It's not a dream, this is a plan for people's livelihood. Wang Jiaping really wants to make progress. While making progress, he can do something practical for the people, which is the best of both worlds.
But this plan was blocked by the Annan Kingdom. In the memorial, Wang Jiaping scolded all the eighteen generations of King Annan's ancestors.
The Ming Dynasty did not plan to become fat in one go and build Chidao directly to Laos. Instead, he planned to build a Guandao Post Road to reach Vientiane for trade. He would first turn the sparsely populated route into a place where people gathered, and then discuss Chidao. It's never too late.
The official post road, which was beneficial to both the Ming Dynasty and Laos, could not be built because Annanguo, the little overlord of Indochina, did not agree.
Laos is one of the Ming Dynasty’s Xuanwei Department. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, a new Xuanwei Envoy Paya Lanzhang was conferred, and every three years Paya Lanzhang had to go to Yunnan to pay tribute, such as Tribute elephants, silverware, mats, rare treasures, etc.
Laos is the Xuanwei Division of the Ming Dynasty. With this affiliation, is it Annanguo’s turn to fart?
"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty is too far away, and Annan is too close." Feng Bao was also a little helpless. If he dares to agree today, the little bully will kill him tomorrow.
"Let Annan, the clown, fool around for a few more days. I can't spare any time to deal with him now." Zhu Yijunjun Zhu approved Wang Jiaping's memorial and approved Wang Jiaping's suggestion to increase support for Annan. The more imported food is imported, the less food there will be in Annan. There are already many conflicts, and the civil strife continues, and it is even more impossible to stop.
The Ming Dynasty is a behemoth. As long as it rolls over, it can make Annan's chickens and dogs restless. The main reason is that the battle against Taungoo has not yet ended, and the Ming Dynasty cannot free up its hands at the moment.
“However, Paya Lanzhang had a merciless request, which was not written down because he was too embarrassed to say it. He hoped that the Ming Dynasty would give him his ancestral surname. His ancestor’s original surname was Dao, and his real name was Dao Ransheng. , I hope the court can give him this name. The current name Paya Lanzhang was given to him by Annan Kingdom." Feng Bao mentioned a detail. Paya Lanzhang asked the Ming Dynasty to give him a name.
"Your Majesty, this is very important to him. He must have an explanation to make the Laotians believe that Ming Dynasty has really set its sights on Laos." Feng Bao added that he thought it was possible Given the name Knife Range Rover.
How did Annan and Taungoo become the little overlords of Indochina, and even pay tribute that only the Ming Dynasty could do? It was because the Ming Dynasty ignored the Indochina Peninsula and had no desire to expand in the Indochina Peninsula. These Xuanweisi and tribes could only swallow their anger and let Annan and Taungu bully them.
Now the Ming Dynasty is looking at the Indo-China Peninsula. It wants wood, jade, and potassium salt. It’s not impossible to trade. Dao Lanrong knows that the Ming Dynasty wants something and wants to strengthen the bond, but he doesn’t even know what his name is. Under his own control, Daolan Rover had no way to convince the Laotians.
Strengthening the restraints is also done bit by bit. Giving a name means recognition and treating him as one of his own. It means that Dao Lansheng has restored his ancestral surname with the support of Ming Dynasty, and it means that he has truly become the southern leader of Laos.
Nanzhang is the honorific title of the Lao Xuanzhang envoy in Laos, which means the palm of the Ming Dynasty in the south.
"Exactly." Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said: "I will send some more bows and crossbows to the soldiers. I have simplified this matter and focused on fighting the Japanese pirates. I forgot to fight Annan. I will not fight for three days. Fight, go up to the house and lay the tiles. "In addition to giving names, we also need to give Laos some strength to resist. If the meat-eaters in Annan really want to deal with Laos, they will not be able to fight back before the Ming army arrives. The force was defeated by Annan.
Zhu Yijun did not give armor, which Ming Dynasty himself did not have enough, so he asked Laos to maintain a certain amount of force, but not too strong.
"Has the Yu Gong Temple been repaired?" Zhu Yijun suddenly stopped writing and asked Feng Bao that he was on the bank of the West Lake and wanted to repair the Yu Gong Temple. He was just expanding it and didn't intend to disturb Yu Qian. Pure.
"It has been renovated and expanded. When it was completed a few days ago, Yan Shixuan even sent a special congratulatory note." Feng Bao quickly bowed his head and replied.
"Well, okay." Zhu Yijun lowered his head and continued to review the memorial.
Loyalty and integrity are not endless. The Han Dynasty has loyalty and virtue in every generation, and it must be cultivated deliberately to achieve fruitful results.
Zhu Zaiyu, the dean of the Royal Institute of Ancient Art, published a memorial, revising a common understanding. In the Ming Dynasty's widespread understanding, distilled liquor and stills appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, such as Li Shizhen It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: Soju is not an ancient method, and was first created in the Yuan Dynasty.
Gewuyuan got a still from the Western Han Dynasty out of nowhere, and it was confirmed that distilled liquor has been around since the Western Han Dynasty, and the inheritance has never been cut off.
Antiques were called the study of epigraphy in the Ming Dynasty. Because the era is so long ago and washed away by the long river of history, some antiques only have physical objects and it is unclear what they are used for. Some antiques only have records and cannot be restored, such as Zhang Heng's seismograph. .
There are two Doctors of Jinshi and Gewu from the Royal Academy of Geology, who specialize in this research, and finally discovered the actual object. The entire distiller is divided into three parts, the sky pot, the cylinder, and the kettle. The distillation efficiency is not low, of course. Compared with the current distillers of Ming Dynasty, it is a bit behind.
The Southern Song Dynasty surrendered to Kublai Khan, and the Han Dynasty perished, cutting off some inheritance. These epigraphic studies are continuing the inheritance.
"Very good, I will send you a newspaper to correct this misunderstanding. The emperor's uncle said it very well. The sun and moon are dim and bright again, but some fires have been extinguished." This research by Zhu Yijun Institute of Gewu Research is very good. It is necessary. For example, official factories are a new thing for the Ming Dynasty, but there were iron officials as early as the pre-Qin Dynasty. By the Han Dynasty, there were even iron officials everywhere. By the Ming Dynasty, there were no official factories in the court.
This is an important component of fiscal revenue. If you have a government factory, you won't die of poverty.
The humiliating demise of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties caused many things that should be like this to disappear without a trace. For example, the "Zhu Shu" that Zhu Yijun had been looking for before was lost. It was China's loss and the pain of civilization.
Thankfully, the Ming Dynasty really came back to light, and Rome never returned like lightning.
"I obey the order." Feng Bao accepted the order, and Zhu Zaiyu was not making a fuss. The determination of the time when the still appeared was conducive to shaping cohesion. Whether it is a glorious narrative or a tragic narrative, it can increase the power of the dynasty. Cohesion.
Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites, presented a new overseas chronicle. This volume is about the Rumi Kingdom, which is also the Ottoman Kingdom.
The Ottoman Kingdom sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty many times in the 22nd, 27th, 33rd, 38th, and 43rd years of Jiajing. After that, until the 22nd year of Wanli, the Ottomans once again sent their envoy Dosima to the Ming Dynasty.
From the Ming's perspective, the Ottoman Kingdom was not a country that paid constant tribute and did not require close friendship. The Ming Dynasty did not know the location of the Rumi Kingdom, nor did it know who the king of the Rumi Kingdom was, nor did it know its geometry or strength, and it never took it seriously. Since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites has spent a lot of time to figure out some things about the Rumi Kingdom, and thought it was necessary to make friends with them, and transliterated the Rumi Kingdom into the Ottoman Kingdom.
After research by Ming Gong, the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, it was determined that Pothos is not Luo.
The Ottoman Kingdom is undoubtedly a powerful country and is Felipe's biggest concern. However, most of the information collected by the Ming Dynasty comes from the Taishi people and is biased. Therefore, this volume needs to be revised and will not be updated. Publicly published.
"Blood tax." Zhu Yijun opened it and read it for a long time, and noticed a keyword. Because the information source mainly comes from the oral narrations of the Thai people, there are more about the military level. Most of this volume has Writing about Ottoman military affairs.
The word "blood tax" is a concise and concise summary of the Ministry of Rites. The taxes of the Ottomans are all bloody.
The military of the Ottoman Kingdom can be summarized as a thin world and a fat imperial army. The Janissary Legion is the imperial guard of the Ottomans.
This legion has about 200,000 people. The food and accommodation conditions for these 200,000 people are very good on weekdays. They have an unlimited supply of white bread. White bread is also very expensive in Western Europe. Only Only nobles can enjoy it, while commoners can only use hard toothsome black bread. Fortunately, when the Yenicherry Legion went on an expedition, they had to take a hot bath every three days.
With good weapons, extensive training, high status, and a Praetorian Guard Academy, the Ottoman Kingdom was in armed conflict with Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Rus at the same time, and there was almost no day without fighting.
Twenty million people support an army of 200,000. The Yenicherry Army fights on three fronts and can still fight back and forth. This shows that the fighting power is strong and everything has a cause. Support the Yenicherry Army. The huge expenses and the cruel tax collection methods can be said to be that every penny of money is the flesh and blood of the Ottomans.
Everything has two sides, and there are advantages and disadvantages. This rule of thinning the world and fattening the Imperial Guard also has some minor problems, such as the inheritance law of the Imperial Guard.
This legion is often an extremely important participant in palace coups, and is even the leader of palace coups. They have the final say in the succession of the throne.
The strong combat power of the Yeniceri Legion made them the largest violent organization in the Ottomans. This violent organization would ask their Sultan (King) to hand over the Grand Vizier if there was even the slightest problem. If the Sultan refused to hand over the head of the Grand Vizier, the soldiers would chop off the Sultan's head.
The influence of the Jenicheri Legion is by no means limited to political activities. According to Venetian merchants, the entire Ottoman grain trade is controlled by the 56th Legion, and the entire Legion also controls 90% of casinos, 100% of cafes, 80% of salt fields, 70% of silver mines, etc. It can be said that it is pervasive.
The Venetian merchant once said painfully: In the Ottomans, if you take a sip of water, you have to pay taxes to the legions.
Because of controlling these businesses, the Legion has its own financial resources, allowing the Legion to completely escape the control of the Sultan and do whatever he wants.
The violence has gotten completely out of control.
This has extremely important reference significance for the Ming Dynasty. For example, the Ming Dynasty had 130 million people. In the past, taxes, let alone the military, could not even pay the salaries of the bureaucrats. The Ming Dynasty should reflect on why it collected taxes. No taxes are raised; for example, if no business is allowed, the Jingying camp should ensure its purity and must not allow the army to have its own financial resources, otherwise the violence will get out of control sooner or later; for example, the Ming Dynasty, with a population of 130 million, raised 100,000 Jingying camp , 200,000 naval troops, and 2 million half-peasant, half-military garrison troops are more than enough.
Two million soldiers who are half peasants and half soldiers can only get eight million silver a year, because most of the rewards for these soldiers are the output of the land.
"I can see that Wan Shi and this guy have been talking around for a long time in order to convince me that the navy will expand by 100,000 troops to a terrifying scale of 200,000." Zhu Yijun looked at it for a long time and then Suddenly I realized that Wan Shi and this ultra-conservative royalist were lobbying the emperor in a roundabout way to expand the navy by 100,000 troops.
Radicals think 50,000, conservatives think 30,000, and ultra-conservatives think 100,000.
The Ottomans, who had less than 20 million children, could afford to support the 200,000 pampered Yenicherry Army. The Ming Dynasty, with 130 million people, could only support 100,000 imperial troops and 200,000 naval troops. How could it not be able to support them? Expand!
Let the Ottomans know that they thought our Ming Dynasty could not afford to expand!
If you can't afford it, just learn the Ottoman blood tax law. Whoever has the money will ask whoever collects it. That is, Zhang Juzheng completed the Qingzhang and Census of Dingkou, so the ultra-conservatives have this confidence.
The implicit meaning of Wan Shihe's words is that sometimes the imperial court is too shameless. When it comes to financial taxes, it should show the ugly face of businessmen, and it should be as much as it should be. , If you want to spend money, you must compare it with money, and you can't make peace with each other. When you are a master of Duan Shui, the Ming court must learn a thing or two from the barbarians on the issue of tax collection.
"Your Majesty, one hundred thousand is not impossible. If you expand it to one hundred thousand, it will be almost the same as during the Yongle period." Feng Bao cautiously put forward his opinion.
"One hundred thousand is not enough." Zhu Yijun said to Feng Bao while writing the memorial: "The expansion of fifty thousand is enough for the time being. If the expansion is one hundred thousand, the good and the bad will vary. The Ming Dynasty Navy is an elite, but it cannot be used to make up for it. What Qi Shuai means is For the sake of caution, it is advisable to expand by 30,000. The imperial court needs to use troops to build the Chidao Canal and does not have that much money. "
Qi Jiguang was mainly afraid that the imperial court would not be able to make ends meet and the finances would not be able to support it.
Zhu Yijun has been very radical. The navy has expanded by 50,000 troops. The court has to increase its expenditure by nearly one million silver every year. Zhu Yijun is willing to pay for the money, and the Ming court also has it. However, the expansion of the navy is not only a matter of money. There are also issues of troop sources, ships, and generals. The training of grassroots officers in the Navy also takes time to accumulate.
Blindly expanding the army, just like blindly expanding the scale of production, will cause trouble because the step is too big. Not only will it fail to form combat effectiveness, but it will drag down the development of the navy.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the fourteenth year, the Ming Emperor received a report from Chen Tiande who inspected the coastal defense area. The Japanese pirates continued to march towards Pyongyang from Seoul.
Oda Nobunaga promised to rule by dividing the river, and the Han River in Seoul was the boundary. There was even a formal reply from the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese pirates started moving again. These were the Japanese. It was not Oda Nobunaga who was deceiving the emperor, but him. In the Japanese mainland, Mouri Terumoto, Konishi Yukinaga and others were unable to effectively command frontline operations.
"The Koreans are going to suffer again." Wan Shihe sighed during the court discussion. When people get older, they will have some compassion. Even if he keeps saying that the barbarians are not good, the Koreans are also people.
In less than a month, the Japanese pirates turned the bustling Seoul into an empty city.
"Your Majesty, I have ordered Ning Yuanhou to mobilize the Jiuliancheng troops into Yizhou. The Japanese pirates have behaved like this, and both humans and gods have been abandoned!" Zeng Shengwu made a suggestion. If the Korean king cannot defend it, he will hand it over to the Ming Dynasty.
The cruel behavior of the Japanese pirates awakened the painful memories of the Ming Dynasty. The tragic situation during the Japanese invasion in the southeast seemed to have reappeared in North Korea.
Zeng Shengwu said with a serious face: "We cannot let the Japanese pirates gain a foothold. Kaesong is in danger. Pyongyang will be defeated in more than a month or in ten days. If the Ming Dynasty army enters the country, there will be no way to open up the situation without Yiju."< br>
Zeng Shengwu believed that he should march immediately, not only out of emotion and sympathy, but also out of strategic considerations of the Ming Dynasty. The army was defeated like a mountain and no one could say how many days Pyongyang could hold. It was too late for the Ming Dynasty. There is no fulcrum in North Korea.
(End of this chapter)