The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Li Chenggui surrendered.

When he got the news that the Japanese country was destroyed, even Qicheng Island was right in front of him.

"It's useless. Let's surrender."

Li Chenggui is 66 years old this year. He was originally in high spirits, but the moment he received the news, it seemed as if all his energy had been drained away.

In his plan, even if Japan failed, he could still take a boat to Nanyang to escape.

But it was too fast, so fast that he couldn't accept the news.

In his opinion, the failure of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was at most just Kyushu Island falling into the hands of the Ming Dynasty again, rather than even him being captured alive.

Almost most of the Japanese military strength was lost on Kyushu Island, which meant that the entire Japanese country was suddenly merged into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

He couldn't accept this fact.

The most important thing is that in this way, he has no way to escape. The Ming Dynasty Navy can completely use its hands to directly block the entire sea area.

Besides, at this age, he has nothing to escape from.

"Father, we still have a chance. We can still go to the sea. In such a big sea, it is impossible for the navy of the Ming Dynasty to catch us all."

"We have people, money, and ships. We can go to Nanyang. If we can't stay in Nanyang, we can go further."

"There will eventually be a way to survive."

"Father, don't give up on yourself."

The one who is the most unwilling is actually Li Chenggui’s second son, Li Fanguo.

He finally endured his brother's death, and saw his father proclaimed himself the King of Korea and he could inherit the throne, and now it suddenly became like this.

He doesn't want to die, he still wants to live well.

My father is already 66 years old, but he is only 42 years old, so he can still live for a long time.

"Guo'er, it's useless."

Li Chenggui walked to a big rock and leaned on it gently.

With white hair and cloudy eyes, he looks like an old man in his twilight years.

"Even if you want to leave, can you really leave? Look at the ministers in the distance. Maybe you should listen to what they are saying."

"They are discussing how to save their lives and how to dedicate us to the Ming army."

"You can also go and listen to the soldiers and listen to what they are discussing. They are discussing how to surrender to the Ming army in order to get a chance to survive. Maybe they can also make some merits or something."

"If Japan had not been defeated so completely, and if Japan could have persisted for a while, we would still have a chance."

"But now, the situation is over, the people's moral support has been lost, and no one is willing to follow you through the days of escape."

Li Chenggui said while looking at the sea in the distance.

The waves kept crashing on the coast, one wave just flattened, another wave rose again.

"No, Father, I don't believe it."

Li Fangguo went crazy and ran to far places to question others.

Li Chenggui just watched quietly. Not long after, he saw his son being knocked to the ground.

But the crowd from afar did not come.

Because beside Li Chenggui, there was Wang Hu, the commander of the Imperial Guard.

"Wang Hu, I have caused trouble for you. I originally wanted to give you glory and wealth, but I didn't expect that it would end up like this."

"When the Ming army comes over later, you can use my head in exchange for some credit. At least you can save your family."

"This may be the last thing I can give you."

"I will always remember your life-saving grace back then. It's a pity that I can't thank you properly anymore."

Even when a person is about to die, his words are good. Li Chenggui looked at Wang Hu who was still sticking to his side at this time and said softly.

Wang Hu's eyes were a little complicated.

After hesitating for a moment, he said: "Actually, the king shouldn't thank me. I was following the order of my boss, so I was by the king's side."

After saying these words, Wang Hu also breathed a sigh of relief.

I have to say that after following Li Chenggui all these years, he has never treated me badly.

Li Chenggui was a little surprised, and then laughed.

"Wang Hu, the boss you are talking about is the grandson of the current Ming Dynasty."

Wang Hu replied: "Yes."

Li Chenggui didn't mean to be angry, but instead sighed: "It seems that I did not lose unjustly. Back then, the Qunying Chamber of Commerce was popular in Korea, and I guessed that there was a conspiracy."

"When Dao Yan came to Goryeo, I thought I underestimated the Qunying Chamber of Commerce. Unexpectedly, I underestimated it again now."

"The person who saved my life is the person I have always trusted the most. I don't even trust my son that much, but I didn't expect that he was someone else's."

"But having said that, I still have to thank you for your life-saving grace, otherwise it would be meaningless."

Wang Hu hesitated, but did not say anything.

What he wanted to say was that the person who attacked Li Chenggui back then was completely arranged by his employer in order to gain Li Chenggui's trust.

From beginning to end, this is a game.

A game specially set for Li Chenggui.

Wang Hu felt that telling the truth at this time would be a huge blow to Li Chenggui.

Non-vegetation, ruthless Practice makes perfect.

For more than ten years, Wang Hu has been by Li Chenggui's side, and Li Chenggui has always treated him like a brother.

"Your Majesty, maybe this is not necessary. Now that the Goryeo royal family is extinct, the King is the King of Goryeo. According to the policies currently implemented by the Ming Dynasty, as long as the King sincerely submits, his life will be preserved and he will be able to live a life of retirement."

Wang Hu persuaded.

What he said is correct.

No matter which country the Ming Dynasty dealt with, even if it subverted the social structure, it never killed the royal family.

Even if Benya is lost now, there is a high probability that he will be kept in captivity in the capital rather than executed directly.

Including the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of Japan, the Japanese royal family, the Annan royal family, and the Champa royal family.

"It's not necessary. I'm already at this age and most of my body has already been buried in the soil. I might as well die a generous death."

"You'd better take my head in exchange for credit."

"That's fine. Since you are a grandson of the Ming Dynasty, you will be rich and wealthy even if you want to come back to the capital. I don't have to worry about you."

"I would like to ask you to take care of my descendants in the future."

Li Chenggui requested.

But Wang Hu refused.

"No need to be so great, just live a good life."

Li Chenggui could only smile bitterly.

At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and the Ming army had arrived.

Li Chenggui naturally had no intention of resisting, and neither did his soldiers. When they saw the Ming army, they surrendered directly.
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Hongwu 34 years, October [-]th.Goryeo and the Japanese countries all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

After the original four provinces of the Japanese state were established, the Goryeo Chengxuan Administrative Envoy Department was established.

The territory of Goryeo was not very large, and it would be enough to just set up one province. There was no need to create several provinces.

Due to the sudden increase in the vast territory, Ming Dynasty now feels quite indigestive.

The main reason is that new territories require more officials to be dispatched for jurisdiction, governance, and education.

The number of official positions that had been continuously added was now only increased by the imperial court.

Especially in the original Japanese area, the number of officials needed was even greater.

There are also Champa, Chenla and Siam.

Ming Dynasty now has almost no alternate officials, and all alternate officials have been arranged directly.

The education aspect is directly open to the public. Anyone who has achieved scholar status in the Ming Dynasty and is willing to work as a school teacher in any country can travel free of charge, and there are also a large number of welfare subsidy policies.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little lucky. When Sun Da launched school education, the number of scholars continued to increase. Otherwise, how could the imperial court have so many officials to fill these areas now.

Although the war continued, the Ming Dynasty's military strength did not actually suffer much loss.

In terms of food, in Nanyang, where rice can be grown in winter, this is not a big problem.

Nowadays, with the great development of Nanyang, a large number of water conservancy facilities and rice fields have been developed. With three or four crops a year, a steady stream of food is continuously transported to Nanjing.

In Nanjing, a lot of grain was transported to the west and even the grasslands by train.

It can be said that the current grassland is completely maintained by the Ming Dynasty.

Those tribes that once had no choice but to surrender to the Ming Dynasty now only have two words left: really fragrant.

They no longer need to worry about how this winter will pass, or think about how many people will die this winter.

Except for some former prairie nobles who were a little angry, the overall situation was very stable.

In this era, whoever can give you a bite of food is your father, your biological father.

Back then, Zhu Ying was so successful in establishing the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, but it was not because of high-yielding crops. Otherwise, no matter how much money could not buy food, it would be of no use.

The Ming Dynasty has now formally legislated that anyone who hoards a series of materials such as food and military supplies will be punished as a crime.

They all started with at least three years of hard labor.

Nowadays, there are many ways to make money in Ming Dynasty. These are taboos in Ming Dynasty, and most businessmen will basically not touch them.

If you risk your life to make money, you have to spend your life.

Now there is no such thing as a border claim. The entire grassland has been counted as the territory of the Ming Dynasty. All herdsmen will be included in the Ming Dynasty household registration and enjoy the same treatment as the common people of the Ming Dynasty.

Within the Ming Dynasty, the most prosperous industries now are train tracks and coal mining.

With the continuous output of steam engines, the demand for coal became greater and greater, thus spawning many professional explorers.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, whoever can discover unrecorded coal will be rewarded according to the size of the reserves.

The lowest one starts from 20 banknotes.

The influx of large amounts of treasure directly created a boom for prospectors.

From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, 20 treasure notes or even hundreds of thousands of treasure notes are nothing, but a coal mine is something extraordinary.

In fact, many coal mines have been discovered in the current grassland.

Because of the shortage of manpower in the imperial court, many coal mining tasks are now outsourced to businessmen.

By bidding, it is equivalent to bidding for future generations.

For businessmen, mining coal mines is definitely a profitable business. Even if it costs a lot of money, they will only earn more.

For the imperial court, it reduced labor costs and controlled economic costs.

If all mineral deposits were left to the government, it would be even more troublesome and messy.

With the arrival of November, the northern part of the grassland has begun to be covered with ice and snow.

Whether they are Oara or Tatar, they hid in the big forest, but it is foreseeable that many people have no way to survive this winter.

Being chased everywhere, they were originally short of supplies, not to mention there were so many people, there was simply not enough food in the big forest.

The Ming army no longer hunted them, but occupied the periphery of the large forest and began to use psychological tactics.

Many herdsmen know very well that when there is insufficient food this winter, they are likely to be used as rations by the nobles.

The only way to avoid death is to escape to Ming Dynasty.

Many tribesmen have secretly come back to spread the news. Not only will those who submit to the Ming Dynasty not be beheaded, but they will also have two meals a day as long as they work normally.

The grain of the Ming Dynasty in Guihua City and Aershan City has been piled up as high as a hill.

No matter how many people come, it’s impossible to finish the meal.

And the iron cars will continuously deliver food.

They can even have a meal of meat every three days.

If you get sick on Ming Dynasty's territory, someone will treat you for free.

For the lower-class herdsmen, what is the difference between this kind of life and the country of their dreams?

One after another, herdsmen continued to escape from the forest and fell into the arms of Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, the upper-class nobles of Oara and Tatar sent a large number of troops to patrol in order to prevent the herdsmen from escaping.

After learning the news, Ming Dynasty directly arranged troops to launch a surprise attack on these patrolling Mongolian soldiers.

There are so many herdsmen who have come out that they are willing to serve as guides, so it is not difficult to find them.

Moreover, in the forest, the role of war horses is greatly weakened.

Every time the Ming army entered the forest, they would bring out a large number of grassland people.

And this is only in November.

It is conceivable that when the weather becomes colder and more grassland people cannot survive, the destruction of Oara and Tatar is not far away.

During this period, both Mahamu and Arutai sent envoys many times to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

But all were rejected.

Their surrender was conditional, which was to maintain their identity and status as nobles.

However, what Ming wanted was unconditional surrender, and the only thing he could agree to was to save their lives.

The situation is now very clear. Zhu Ying has issued an order and will not agree to any additional conditions for the Wala Tatars.

What Zhu Ying wants is for all Mongolian tribes to be completely destroyed. From then on, there will only be Ming people on the grasslands, and there will be no Mongolian herdsmen.

Oara and Tatar had no choice.

Either hide in the forest and slowly accept death, or completely surrender.

Of course, Mahamu and Arutai could not accept such a result.

Oara, in particular, are already preparing to migrate further north.

Over there, there is a growing country called the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Wala's target is them.