Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

"It doesn't matter whether he admits it or not, as long as we think it's true. And, it is true. If he honestly hands him over, that's fine. If he denies, we can just go over and search for him."

Zhu Gaochi took a piece of paper with great interest. It was time to send a threatening letter to the Kingdom of Korea.

Among the important court affairs he needs to deal with every day.

This is the kind of thing he enjoys doing most.

"That's fine. It's not far from Qingzhou to Yizhou."

Zhang Xin had no objection and was happy to see it happen.

She thought there was an old saying that was very true.

When the granaries are full, one will know etiquette.

North Korea is too small, with not much arable land on the mainland, and the people's lives are miserable.

In order to survive, they will hug whoever has thicker thighs in the neighboring countries, and pounce on and bite whoever they can bully.

The most important thing is to embrace the Lord of the Central Plains.

They frequently paid tribute in exchange for food, money, and the culture of the Central Plains.

However, in terms of education in our country, there is quite a bit of imitation.

We used to study the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and now we study the Ming Dynasty.

He looks respectable on the outside, but as soon as you get in touch with him, you can feel his pettiness.

These Korean tribute women fought for everything in the palace, whether it was concubines or ordinary palace maids.

The main competition among concubines was for favor. They fought against each other and did some ridiculous things, but when asked, they would deny it.

The palace maids fawned on the female officials and the chief eunuchs.

The harem would be in chaos.

At that time, my father-in-law liked Concubine Zhang the most, who was Zhang Fu's sister and Zhang Yu's daughter.

The second was Concubine Quan from North Korea, who gave Zhang Xin some unimportant matters in the palace to manage.

Things became even more chaotic, with people forming cliques and scheming against each other, and even fighting in private over who should have the extra meat dish at dinner.

She was annoyed every day, and dealing with these concubines was even more difficult.

In this life, the whole family was busy. My mother-in-law was still alive. My father-in-law did not allow Korean women to come as tribute, nor did he pay much attention to Korea. When they came to pay tribute, my father-in-law did not have much in his hands, and he was not as generous as my great grandfather.

I guess my little thoughts have come out again.

Then just give it a good beating and kill it directly.

"Who should we send? Liu Jiang, the commander of the Central Army. Should we go by land or by sea?"

Zhu Gaochi wrote half of the warning letter and took out the map again.

Liaodong is now under the control of the imperial court. Further east from Liaodong is Korea.

This tiny place is not even as big as Shandong, but together with the most prominent Weihaiwei in Shandong, it covers the Bohai Sea and part of the East China Sea.

As long as the navy is stationed at the gap, the Bohai Bay will be a natural shipbuilding base. Fishermen along the coast can fish in this sea area, and the long coastline can be used to open a large number of salt fields.

The East China Sea outside would also be a good place for naval training.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhu Gaochi felt that he should take over Korea.

Moreover, Zhu Gaochi always felt that these villains in Korea were respectful to the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but in fact they were colluding with the Japanese.

During the Hongwu period, pirates would occasionally sneak into Liaodong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, burning, killing and looting in coastal areas, and after stealing supplies and property, they would even kill people and flee far out to sea.

My grandfather the Emperor couldn't do anything about them at that time, so he implemented a maritime ban.

At that time, most of the pirates in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were Ming people in disguise, and Xu Huizu discovered this when he led the navy to station there.

But those who landed in Liaodong were definitely genuine Japanese and Koreans.

He suspected that North Korea provided convenience for others to pass through.

After the Japanese arrived at the East China Sea coastline of Korea by ship, they directly reached Bohai Sea by land from Korea.

Otherwise, it cannot be explained how batches of Japanese pirates could enter the Bohai Sea without alerting the Shandong navy.

"Both land and sea routes are fine. Send the army directly from Liaodong. The navy should also not be idle. Should we pretend to be pirates?"

Zhang Xin felt that it could be even more hurtful.

She was not afraid of North Korea being tough, but she was afraid that it would be soft. When the time came, she would just capture a few civilians as pirates and be done with it.

It would be best if the Liaodong army could march forward in full force, while the East China Sea side could pretend to be invaded by Japanese pirates.

What's wrong with the suzerain state helping the vassal state fight pirates?

So righteous!

"Tsk tsk tsk, you are such a loser! You have inherited my mother's true teachings."

Zhu Gaochi gave a thumbs up and praised enthusiastically.

"It will be convenient for my cousin to bring the money back later, right?"

Zhang Xin did it mainly for money.

The Japanese Ashikaga Yoshimitsu died in the sixth year of Yongle due to a sudden illness. It was Li Jinglong who secretly joined forces with many people who were dissatisfied with Yoshimitsu's rule.

Before his death, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu wanted to support his youngest son, so he never told his successor Ashikaga Yoshimochi about the inheritance of the silver mine.

The entire Shimane Prefecture fell firmly and unknownly into the hands of Li Jinglong.

So Li Jinglong's stealing of minerals in Japan was in full swing.

In order to prevent the news from leaking out, the silver ship took a long detour from Ryukyu back home.

The risks at sea are great. In all these years, there have been no robberies, but there have been two shipwrecks.

If North Korea is captured, the silver-carrying ships can go directly from Japan to North Korea.

Time and distance can be shortened several times.

"Xia Yuanji said that many vassal states in the East China Sea and the South China Sea are using Ming Dynasty treasure notes, and the domestic treasure notes are no longer enough. The national treasury has the silver brought back from maritime trade in recent years and the silver that Li Jinglong got for nothing. Ming Dynasty treasure notes can continue to be printed, and there is no need to worry about depreciation."

Zhu Gaochi also told Zhang Xin a good news.

After all these years, the Ministry of Revenue has finally settled the account of the reserve silver used to issue treasure notes.

"No wonder Zhanji said he saw Lord Xia drinking alone in the restaurant last time, looking very happy. The treasury has money, so he dared to borrow money for the money affairs?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Xin thought of Xia Yuanji's memorial.

Xia Yuanji applied to set up convenient money services in prefectures, counties and towns across the country to be used for replacing old banknotes and small-denomination loans.

"It's not just for this. You'll understand once I explain it to you."

In Zhu Gaochi's view, Xia Yuanji's recommendation would benefit the present and future generations.

Although the country has generally been peaceful and prosperous in recent years, natural disasters still occur frequently.

In August of the eighth year of Yongle, the Yellow River flooded and Kaifeng was affected.

Nearly 200 meters of the city wall was destroyed, more than 7,500 hectares of farmland were flooded, and more than 14,000 households were affected.

The imperial court sent Zhang Xin, the assistant minister of works, to inspect the area, and in December, work began on repairing Kaifeng City.

[Small science: In the 10th year of Yongle, the Jianzhou Zuowei was established, with its seat in Huining (now in North Korea). Mengge Timur, the chief of the Odo tribe, was appointed as the commander. Gua thinks that in a sense, if Zhu Di was not so short of generals at that time, or lived a few more years and had more money, Korea would definitely be a target that the Ming Dynasty wanted to take into its pocket. ]