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"The end will fight!"
With Zhu Neng taking the lead, other generals stood up and challenged Zhu Di.
"Okay, okay!" Zhu Di patted the dragon case, and said with a serious face: "This matter is not that simple. After all, the envoys of the Korean Kingdom are still in our Nanjing city, and Li Fangyuan is very concerned about his sister. , if it is said that Li Fangyuan gave up on his sister, I don't believe it."
"Could it be that Han Dongdao, who returned to North Korea early, is playing tricks?" Yang Shiqi asked.
"That's right, I remember you said before that Han Dongdao sent a letter back to the Kingdom of Korea immediately after he was beaten up by my younger brother more than a month ago."
Zhu Song clapped his hands suddenly, and said: "After he went back, the navy of the Joseon Kingdom was mobilized. If you calculate the time, Han Dongdao should have returned to North Korea. If it was Han Dongdao who mobilized the navy to attack our Daming, That makes sense."
"It doesn't make sense, Li Fangyuan has no reason not to stop Han Dongdao?" Xie Jin frowned.
"What if Li Fangyuan is under house arrest by Han Dongdao?" Zhu Song sneered.
"Usurp the throne!" Zhu Huan said coldly, "Li Fangyuan is really courageous!"
"Doesn't that mean that Li Fangyuan is far more vicious than good?" Zhu Wei was stunned, "Looking at Han Dongdao's character of vengeance, it is really possible to do this!"
"It shouldn't be possible." Zhu Song frowned, and said, "We have received a lot of news about North Korea these days. If Han Dongdao raised his troops to usurp the throne, we would have gotten the news a long time ago. At most, Li Fangyuan was Surround him in the royal city and restrict his freedom."
"Let's wait a little longer and make arrangements after more accurate news comes from North Korea." Zhu Di frowned and thought for a long while, and finally exhaled a breath of foul air, saying, "That's all for today, let's leave the court."
"Sir, please retire!"
The ministers saluted respectfully and withdrew from Fengtian Hall.
"My lord, my lords, Lord Long Live wants you to go to the Nuan Pavilion to have an audience."
Not long after walking out of the main hall, a little eunuch hurried over and bowed to Zhu Song and Xie Jin.
"Look, I said I can't leave!" Zhu Song, who was walking and chatting with Zhu Lu and Zhu Neng, immediately spread his hands helplessly when he saw the little eunuch blocking the way.
Zhu Sui rolled his eyes at Zhu Song angrily, and said, "Okay, what are you talking about? Don't make Brother Si Huang wait." (To be continued.)
Chapter 379 The Angry Daming
In the warm pavilion, although the windows were open and warm sunlight came in, the atmosphere was gloomy.
Zhu Di sat by the window, staring at the bare tree trunks in the yard in a daze.
Zhu Song, Zhu Huan, Zhu Neng, Xie Jin, Yao Guangxiao, Yang Shiqi, and Yang Rong appeared together in the warm pavilion.
"Four emperors, long live." Zhu Song and others saluted Zhu Di together.
"Oh, you are here." Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Song and the others, threw out a stack of secret letters from the table, and said, "These are just brought by Jin Yiwei and Dongchang, you can see for yourself."
There are about twenty secret letters in this small stack, and when you open any one, the densely packed small characters fill the envelope.
The ministers simply stopped being polite, and each picked up a letter to check on their own.
The warm pavilion became silent for a while.
After half an hour, all the ministers put down the letters in their hands with serious faces.
"It seems that His Royal Highness King Han guessed right before, then Li Fangyuan was really banned in the king's city by Han Dongdao." Yao Guangxiao touched his bald head and said: "Except for the capital of North Korea, this news has not yet spread. All over North Korea. That is to say, most of the officials in various places don’t know about it, so it’s going to be difficult.”
"No matter who gave the order to the North Korean Navy, in the final analysis, we still attacked our Daming. If we didn't express anything, how would the vassal congresses around our Daming think of our Daming?"
Zhu Neng doesn't have so many scruples, who cares who is in power in North Korea, as long as it provokes our Ming Dynasty.
"Brother Lu, what do you think?" Zhu Di asked Zhu Lu.
"Sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight."
Zhu Xi’s temperament is that the attacking city is not enough to defend the city, Zhu Di asked Zhu Huan, and he was not surprised to get this answer, “Before the North Korean navy suddenly attacked our small island of Ming Dynasty, and the North Korean navy was also captured by our Ming Dynasty. The ships of war were wiped out."
When talking about this, Zhu Wei looked at Zhu Di and said, "If this is the case, we and North Korea are on equal terms. When the civil strife in North Korea is over, let's decide according to the situation."
"My brother thinks otherwise." Zhu Song's words fell to the ground, and Zhu Song said: "Since Han Dongdao banned the North Korean king Li Fangyuan, then my brother thinks that we can send troops to North Korea in the name of the host country as the subordinate state of Qing Dynasty. Help Li Fangyuan destroy Han Dongdao and his forces!"
"Isn't this thankless work?" Zhu Wei was a little puzzled, "Why don't they kill North Korea? When the rebellion in North Korea comes to fruition, we can save a lot of effort by attacking North Korea again? "
"No!" Xie Jin frowned and shook his head, "If we wait until the civil strife in North Korea is over, we should attack North Korea in what name? At that time, those foreign countries will only say that our Ming Dynasty is an aggressor, and our Ming Dynasty has always been an aggressor." The etiquette and humility that has been maintained for a long time will surely disappear!"
"But, there is no reason for us to help North Korea?" Zhu Wei admitted that Xie Jin's words were right, but he also had his own point of view, "Once we send troops to North Korea, it will not only waste people and money, but also take a long time. Maybe when will it end? War, if that's the case..."
"Brother Sui, if you had to choose between a North Korea that is completely loyal to Ming Dynasty and a North Korea that does not regard our Ming Dynasty as the host country at all, which one would you choose?" Zhu Song directly asked a key question.
Hearing Zhu Song's words, Zhu Wei was taken aback for a moment. He suddenly understood that he had just entered into a misunderstanding. He only thought that the Ming Dynasty would suffer casualties and losses of gold, silver, grain and grass because of the war, but he forgot about a subordinate country. How much is the annual payment for the Ming Dynasty!
With the Korean Kingdom's continuous annual donations to the Ming Dynasty, the losses of the war seem to be worth it.
Furthermore, in terms of the current military power of the Ming Dynasty, it is not guaranteed that there will not be many casualties during the war. At best, it will only be the loss of some food, gold and silver.
"Long live, I think what His Royal Highness King Han said is very true." Yang Shiqi stood on Zhu Song's side this time, "With Han Dongdao's despicable temperament, once he succeeds in usurping the throne, I am afraid that the land and sea bordering the Ming and North Korea , it’s hard to be peaceful anymore. Instead of saying this, it’s better to help North Korea quell the rebellion.”
"Long live, I also agree with King Han's suggestion." Yang Rong and Xie Jin also nodded.
"Okay, let's do it according to Brother Song's wishes. Specifically, we will discuss it slowly later." Zhu Di nodded silently with a gloomy face.
……
A group of people discussed in the warm pavilion until midnight before it was considered over.
Zhu Song, who dragged his tired body back to the mansion, was stopped by Liu Changsheng before he could order his servants to prepare hot water for washing.
"What's the matter, Lord Liu?" Zhu Song looked at Liu Changsheng strangely and said.
Liu Changsheng said: "My lord, that guy is here again, and this time he's crying, even with several guards."
"Oh? You mean Zhenxi?" Zhu Song was not surprised by Li Zhenxi's arrival. It seemed that the little girl already knew that his brother was imprisoned in the royal city by Li Fangyuan.
"My lord, did something happen to the Joseon Kingdom?" Seeing the unsurprised expression on Zhu Song's face, Liu Changsheng seemed to have guessed something.
"Well, the king will tell you about this tomorrow." Zhu Song nodded, "Where did you arrange Zhenxi?"
"The concubine arranged the princess in the Jinhua Garden in the middle courtyard, and there are four maids waiting on her." Liu Changsheng thought for a while, and said: "According to Princess Zhenxi, the envoys of the post office will be here at noon today. By that time, half of the people left."
"Hehe, it seems that those people who didn't go back to North Korea with Han Dongdao are now starting to make up for their original behavior." Zhu Song laughed, "Okay, let's do this first."
……
The next day, the sun had just revealed a ray of light in the sky, and the palace had already become noisy.
It turned out to be the little girl Li Zhenxi who ran to the small building where Zhu Song lived early in the morning to wait.
"Woooooooo..."
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