Guangzong Yaoming

Chapter 367 The Emperor Meets the King

As summer turns to autumn, the Northeast enters a sunny and cool season earlier.

It was not until July 12 that Zhu Changluo arrived in Shenyang.

Wherever you go, you will see nature full of vitality and all things flourishing.

As we all know, the Chinese people love to farm. Nowadays, Ming Dynasty has a lot more land.

What is commendable is that the Khan's court submitted to the Khan, the Khorchin tribe begged for peace, the Tumed and Yehe tribes became foreign vassal states, the so-called capital of the Jianzhou Jurchens was conquered, and the Korean tyrant repented of his sins and abdicated.

It is obvious that the northern border of the Ming Dynasty will have stability for at least one or two generations - as long as the Holy Emperor is still in power.

Therefore, the five-year tax exemption is indeed a precious period of time to build a new fortune.

More than 1,900 years ago, the State of Yan stationed troops in Shenyang to guard the border. The city was named "Hou", which marked the beginning of Shenyang's existence as a city. When the Qin Dynasty unified the world, Shenyang belonged to Liaodong County. By the Han Dynasty, it had become a county. In the Tang Dynasty, this area was renamed Shenzhou. The name Shenyang was not confirmed until the Yuan Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty set up the Shenyang Central Guard here, and Shenyang became an extremely important military town in Liaodong. In Liaodong, Zhu Yuanzhang once appointed three sons to guard here, one was named the Liao King in Guangning, one was named the Shen King in Shenyang, and one was named the Han King in Kaiyuan.

These three areas were also the three most important places after the border wall of Liaodong was stabilized.

Now, Zhu Changluo brought his son to Shenyang City.

He chose to enter from the north gate because in the 24th year of Wanli, the north gate of Shenyang City was reinforced and the city gate was changed into an urn gate.

Yuan Keli and Xiong Tingbi have already arrived here.

"You have done a great job!"

Zhu Changluo was naturally very happy to see Yuan Keli and Xiong Tingbi.

Walking forward and helping them up, the emperor's such courtesy naturally showed the scene of a benevolent monarch and loyal subjects.

"Your Majesty has bestowed upon me this special favor. I only hope to live up to your grace and live up to the country!"

Yuan Keli was also very excited.

Because since the first year of Taichang, he has been doing so smoothly.

He first served as the Inspector General of Liaodong, then as the Governor-General of Liaodong, and later as the Right General-in-Chief of the Left Army Governor's Office, becoming the de facto commander of the Liaodong side in this unprecedented national war.

A gentleman will die for his friend. Zhu Changluo always trusted and valued him, which enabled him to achieve such extraordinary achievements and be remembered in history.

Everyone knows that after Tian Le, the next Privy Councilor will definitely be Yuan Keli.

Now that Zhu Changluo had come before him, he was first promoted to a higher position and given a higher rank. He was the Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince, the Pillar of the State... In terms of rank, he was already a first-rank official.

As for Xiong Tingbi, he became the first governor-general of Liaoning government affairs.

"Zhisheng, it's your turn to follow their path now." Zhu Changluo looked at Sun Chengzong, "The remnants of Jianzhou are still there, and Liaoning Province has just been established. Fei Bai cannot be distracted, so you should go to Jianzhou from Fushun."

Sun Chengzong responded respectfully: "I will do my best to pacify the border!"

He was not just accompanying the emperor on the tour, but had been selected as the new governor of Liaodong Town.

This Liaodong Town is not the Liaodong Town of the past. After that, Liaodong Town was all outside the border wall: Fuzhou Military and Civilian Prefecture, which extended from the former site of Yehe tribe to Changchun area, Liaoyuan Military and Civilian Prefecture, which was re-established based on the lands of Hada, Huifa and Ula tribes, Jianzhou Military and Civilian Prefecture with Jianzhou Jurchen tribe as its core, plus Tongliao and Kuandian Liubao.

The area within the border wall was Liaoning Province, plus the Liaohe River and Daling River valley east of Hazhou and south of Tongliao and Linhuang. Although it was not as steep as the Greater Khingan Range, it was actually a small mountain range that gave birth to many tributaries of the lower reaches of the Liaohe River, which was the provincial boundary of Liaoning Province in later generations.

Now Sun Chengzong also has to move from the position of advisor to the actual front line. It is his mission to build a new border for the Ming Dynasty. If he succeeds, his future will naturally be limitless.

Liu Jing couldn't rest, he and Gu Dali were still killing.

Whether or not he could cooperate harmoniously with them would also test Sun Chengzong's actual ability.

But Zhu Changluo was willing to believe him as he believed Yuan Keli and Xiong Tingbi: Was there no great talent in literature and martial arts in the late Ming Dynasty? It was just that there were too many regrets under the circumstances.

But now it was different. The styles of the ministers under Zhu Changluo were particularly different. Sun Chengzong and Xiong Tingbi exchanged their official seals and immediately rushed to Fushun Pass.

Shenyang City now has a simple layout, with four square gates in the east, west, south and north forming a cross-shaped street, and the South Street in the north-south street is where various government offices and government treasuries in Shenyang City are located.

But in the original Liaodong Town, Shenyang was not the location of the Liaodong Town General’s Headquarters. The core of Liaodong Town was in Liaoyang in the south.

For the new Liaoning Province, the provincial capital had to be located in Shenyang. Firstly, it was convenient for communicating with the new Liaodong Town and transporting military supplies, and secondly, it was closer to the Liaohe Basin, which was about to be reclaimed on a large scale.

On South Street, the former office of the Censorate in Shenyang served as Zhu Changluo's residence.

The original Liaodong Town did not have a prefecture or county to directly manage civil affairs, so the local military and civilian affairs were all managed by the Dusi. At the beginning, only the inspection and censorial offices were set up in a total of 14 cities to supervise. Later, the Liaodong Governor was established. The governor's office was first set up in Liaoyang and later moved to Guangning.

At present, the largest city in the new Liaoning Province is still Liaoyang, with nine city gates. When the Korean envoys passed through Liaoyang in the second year of the Wanli reign, there was a record that "Liaoyang City is very large, the population is very dense, and looking north, one can see a thousand miles of wilderness." "The town is extremely prosperous, and the people are well-known. It is actually a large town in the east."

At this moment, Jiang Hongli, the Korean envoy who had arrived in the much "simple" city of Shenyang, could only feel the majesty of the superior country.

Although the Chayuan Xingtai Yamen in Shenyang City was not magnificent at the moment, there was pride on the faces of the guards and civil and military officials.

"Your Majesty, the heads of Nurhaci and other Jianzhou chieftains are all here."

Yuan Keli ordered someone to bring the boxes. This was exactly why Jiang Hongli was trembling with fear.

Zhu Changluo looked at the boxes, then looked into the distance: "Li Hui, I heard that Nurhaci and you once negotiated peace face to face? Come and identify him, is it him?"

Li Hui, dressed in plain clothes, knelt in the yard, looking into the darker room.

After a long silence, he stood up and walked into the room, looking at the box in the middle.

Because of the need to "transmit heads to the nine borders", the Ming Dynasty naturally had rich experience in processing heads so that these heads would not rot so quickly. To put it simply, it was made with lime saltpeter.

At this moment, the Nurhaci that Li Hui saw was actually "completely unrecognizable", after all, it had been so long.

But you can still see the outline of his eyebrows and eyes, so it is definitely him.

Recalling the time when he and Nurhaci were negotiating peace on the shores of Changjin Lake in Hamgyong Province last autumn, Nurhaci was still arrogant and had the bearing of a king. He had more than 100,000 elite soldiers under his command and had captured Hamgyong Province of Korea with great momentum. But now he has been quietly nestling in this small box.

It has been more than four months.

"It's him."

After Li Hui finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Changluo. In fact, his own eyes had become lifeless, filled with indifference and emptiness.

It's nothing more than continuing to tease him and hurt his heart.

"Put it away first, we still need to take it to Tongliao." Zhu Changluo ordered, "You guys go and have a rest, we'll talk about the affairs of the prefectures, counties and cities in Liaoning Province tomorrow. The affairs of Korea will also be discussed mainly in Tongliao. I'll catch up with Li Hui first."

Then he pointed to the front and said, "Please take a seat."

Of course, the emperor and the former ruler of Korea had something to talk about. And as the emperor said, the official treatment of Korea would be announced in Tongliao. Although it was just a reminiscence at the moment, it might also determine Li Hui's fate.

It depends on his attitude.

The emperor told the king that Li Hui was a foreign minister who had "rebelled against the Ming Dynasty" and was guilty. He had knelt before when he was asked to kneel. Now he sat down without any hesitation.

His eyes were level, still indifferent.

"Have you become indifferent to life and death?" Zhu Changluo spoke first. "You did not fight to the death despite your subordinate's military advice. If you want to survive, you don't have to act like this in front of me."

Li Hui's eyes changed slightly.

"Although the edict of self-criticism was not written by you, the edict of abdication was." Zhu Changluo continued, "With your behavior, do you think that I will be afraid of exterminating your Li family and causing fear to the foreign vassals of the Ming Dynasty? Or do you think that I must perform a drama of three refusal and three concessions for the world to see? You pretend that the Ming Dynasty has let you down, and I have let you down, Li Hui, so that you can live a peaceful life for the rest of your life?"

Li Hui immediately became visibly angry.

(End of this chapter)