King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 573 The Envoy to Seoul

"In three months, my thirteenth daughter-in-law will also give birth. When his affairs in Liaodong are finished, you can let him come back!"

"Over at Jinling, it won't delay things if we go a little later!"

The queen said these words simply because she missed her son, because strictly speaking she only had this one son, and of course the same was true for the emperor.

"It's up to you!" the emperor replied.

While the emperor and empress were enjoying their leisure time in the village, the prince, who had just returned to the East Palace, received the eunuch sent by the emperor.

Zhu Jingyuan knew that he had lost when he learned that Lao Shisan had intervened in North Korea's affairs, and his methods were more domineering and arrogant, but the emperor had agreed to it.

But he knew that in the face of such a situation, he could only lose this way unless he completely abandoned the opinions of the civil servants.

He can suppress the Bachelor of the East Palace, but he must give appropriate respect to the opinions put forward by the Six Ministries and Nine Ministers. He really does not want to offend these people.

After the eunuch who delivered the message left, Zhu Jingyuan threw the chapter memorial to the ground and said angrily: "Improvement...how else can I improve!"

In the inner house of Xue Mansion, Zhu Jinghong was sitting under the shade of the trees in the courtyard, listening to Zhang Xiaoyue singing softly.

After a few breaths of silence, Yuanchun said: "Since His Majesty asked you to reconsider the countermeasures, why don't you just go up to the table and praise the thirteenth brother? Firstly, you will show that you love your brother, secondly, you will also let the thirteenth brother accept your affection, and thirdly, you will return the favor." You can take the opportunity to escape!”

"My father had already agreed to my proposal regarding the North Korean matter, but my thirteenth brother also came up with the proposal, and my father agreed to his method, and also asked me to improve the plan!"

"I know this!"

July 15th is the Hungry Ghost Festival.

After Yuanchun retired, Zhu Jingyuan started writing. This time he didn't plan to discuss it with anyone.

"Brother-in-law...do you have something to tell me?"

Yuanchun's words made Zhu Jingyuan feel suddenly enlightened, so much so that he stood up with excitement and hugged his wife directly into his arms.

That girl was extremely beautiful and was very pleasing to the eye when she was around. Now that she is gone, Zhu Jinghong naturally misses her.

"They all say that the Ghost Festival is the Ghost Festival. Are there really ghosts in this world?" Bao Qin looked curious.

At this time, Zhu Jinghong made several moves, and Bao Qin left Zhen Qin to greet him.

Zhen Qin also has the word "qin" in her name, so Nuo Min looked at Zhen Qin with a joking look on her face.

After he finished writing, he immediately ordered someone to deliver the letter to the palace. The emperor received the memorial during dinner.

To her left and right, Zhen Qin and Nuo Min took their seats respectively, listening and serving Zhu Jinghong to eat and drink.

The prince sighed. He was grateful for Yuanchun's encouragement, but understood that these words were meaningless.

Zhen Qin knew that the other party wanted to anger her and make her lose points in front of Zhu Jinghong, so she would never be fooled.

"Today is the Ghost Festival, and the family has to worship the ancestors, so the time was delayed. Sister, please don't blame me!" Bao Qin replied straightforwardly.

Zhu Jingyuan also smiled and said, "I'll talk to you later!"

Yiyan came to Zhu Jinghong and Baoqin said; "Brother-in-law... you know everything, I have something to ask you!!"

He has been in Jinzhou for a long time and has basically learned about Jinling Navy. He can leave at any time. Now he is waiting for news.

"I know it must have been my mother's plea that my father saved my face and didn't reject my plan directly!"

Zhu Jinghong wanted to answer directly, but when he thought about his time travel, he swallowed the answer that came to his mouth.

The prince praised Zhu Jinghong and gave up his errands. This made Zhu Xianming think more highly of him and he was in a better mood.

"you say!"

Seeing the prince's extreme disappointment, Yuan Chun leaned close to him, and then said: "Don't worry... you are still the prince. Although Old Thirteen has some abilities, he can't threaten you yet!"

"My good sister, you are here. The king is busy with official duties, and I don't even have anyone to talk to when you are away!" Zhen Qin actually stood up to greet her.

"I don't know!" Zhu Jinghong replied frankly.

For the first time, Zhu Jingyuan felt resentful towards Zhu Jinghong.

"Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing...Brother-in-law, you can say you don't know so calmly. This is the virtue of a saint!" Baoqin couldn't help but praise.

During this more than half a month of getting along, Zhu Jinghong's profound and extensive knowledge really left a deep impression on Baoqin.

"I can't ask you to come over if it's okay?" Zhu Jinghong said with a smile.

Although the beauty was by his side, Zhu Jinghong was not very happy because Baoqin didn't come today.

Fortunately today, Bao Qin did not disappoint him. After Zhang Xiaoyue finished singing, she jumped into the inner house.

"Thirteenth brother, you are really embarrassing me..."

Feeling the prince's love, Yuanchun felt that this life was enough, so he continued: "The most important things for Your Highness are, first, to guard against Lao Liu, and second, to stabilize Chao Gang!"

"Ugh……"

"Since Your Highness knows, I will not disturb you anymore!" Yuanchun responded with a smile.

"What's wrong?" Yuanchun walked in.

Agreeing with Zhu Jinghong's imperial edict to deal with Korean affairs, he ran for twelve days to Jinzhou.

Nuo Min snorted coldly, and instead of getting up to greet him like Zhen Qin, he took the initiative to hand Zhu Jinghong an orange.

Before Zhu Jinghong greeted him, he heard Nuo Min calling: "Sister Qin, you are late today!"

Therefore, in her heart, Zhu Jinghong was not only handsome and brave, but also had first-class broad knowledge.

To be honest, in the little girl's heart, she already admires her brother-in-law.

"Girl... How can I be a saint if I am an ignorant person?"

At this time Zhen Qin also interjected: "My lord, you are of noble character and you are a saint-like figure!"

Seeing that both men were complimenting him, Zhu Jinghong immediately asked: "Who is more beautiful, me or Duke Xu from the north of the city?"

Both Zhen Qin and Bao Qin, as well as Nuo Min, who came from the grassland, all know the story of "Xugong in the North of the City".

In this situation, Zhu Jinghong asked such a sentence, which made several people present smile knowingly. Only Zhang Xiaoyue did not understand the meaning for a moment.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoyue has found her position correctly and has been serving Zhu Jinghong well. She has received full recognition, so she does not panic.

While Zhu Jinghong was chatting with a few girls, the emperor's order arrived, so Zhu Jinghong and others had to greet him immediately.

After the eunuch read out the decree, although Zhu Jinghong looked calm on the outside, he was actually happy in his heart.

He finally had a legitimate reason to continue to work in Liaodong without becoming a pawn in the struggle between the fourth and the sixth.

After receiving the order, Zhu Jinghong immediately ordered Zhang Lin to go to the capital of Liaodong to recruit the elite guards.

He planned to invite the King of North Korea to a banquet, so he naturally had to make preparations before he could continue to do his own thing.

"You guys are just having fun, I have something else to do... I'll take my leave now!"

Zhu Jinghong left, and the remaining women had nothing to say in common. After being polite to each other, they left separately.

Bao Qin was different. She was bolder and actually entered Zhu Jinghong's study.

Then she saw Zhu Jinghong frowning and thinking hard.

"Brother-in-law...what are you thinking about?" Baoqin asked proactively. Zhu Jinghong was originally scratching his head and scratching his head in discomfort, but Baoqin's arrival relieved his symptoms. After all, beautiful women are always pleasing to the eye.

"I want to write a letter, but I just haven't figured out how!"

"What letter should I write?"

"Invitation to the banquet!"

Baoqin was already thinking hard, and asked, "Who do you want to invite?"

Zhu Jinghong replied: "King of North Korea, Li Shuo!"

"Ah..." Baoqin was shocked.

She didn't expect that Zhu Jinghong would invite such a big shot. After all, North Korea has such a large area, and Li Shuo is the owner of that land.

But Baoqin then thought about it, her brother-in-law was the Prince of Ming Dynasty, and inviting a North Korean king to the banquet was definitely not an insult.

Getting up from the chair, Zhu Jinghong walked to Baoqin and said, "Since you are here, write a letter for me. Just say that I have a national treasure of the Ming Dynasty, and I want to invite the leader of North Korea to see it!"

"National treasure? What national treasure is it?" Baoqin's attention is here.

After straightening the hairpin in Baoqin's hair, Zhu Jinghong said with a smile: "You will know when the time comes. Hurry up and write a letter for me!"

The close contact between the two really made Bao Qin's heart beat fast, so she immediately replied: "I'll write a letter right now!"

Then with a twist of her slender waist, she walked away from Zhu Jinghong, bringing a scent of fragrance to the desk, and then dipped her pen in ink and started writing.

The letter was written quickly, and Zhu Jinghong appointed Yu Hai to deliver the letter, and Chen Yuntai led the team to escort him to North Korea.

Two days later, Zhu Jinghong was sitting in his study early in the morning, drinking tea and reading the latest newspaper.

Only then did he realize that the fourth child recommended him to deal with North Korea, that the situation in the northwest was getting more and more anxious, and that the sixth child had already made so much money in Jinling...

The Di Bao is rich in content, allowing readers to quickly understand the major affairs of the court, and is basically available to scholar-bureaucrats and officials.

"Your Majesty, there are guests visiting outside, and they are all Jurchens!"

"Jurchens?" Zhu Jinghong asked more and more.

"Who are they?"

"Ye He Ming'en from Ye He's tribe, and those from Huanxi's tribe..."

After listening to the eunuch's introduction, Zhu Jinghong realized that these were old acquaintances, so he ordered: "Let them wait outside in the study!"

"Yes!"

After Zhu Jinghong read the newspaper, he got up and walked to the study room.

People like Ye Hemingen grew up on horses, and they all have a tough temperament.

The girls serving in the room all hid far away, for fear of being stained by these people's spit.

In this way, Ye Hemingen and others shouted loudly for more than ten minutes before Zhu Jinghong appeared outside the door of the outer study room.

At this time, Zhu Jinghong was at the door with his hands behind his back and his eyes were deep and serious.

As the first person in the house discovered him, the noise at the scene suddenly stopped.

If the Jurchens are ferocious beasts, then Zhu Jinghong is the Arhat who subdues the dragon and subdues the tiger. He only needs to sacrifice himself to make him run away in his youth.

"My lord... I have finally met you!"

At this step, Ye Hemingen took the lead, and then the others came over to greet him.

"Kowtow to the prince!"

"Your Majesty, we finally found you!"

Ye Hemingen is from the Jurchen Yehe tribe, and the others are from the Haixi tribe, the Hada tribe, and the Suksuhu tribe...

In the previous northwest battle, all these tribes sent troops and made a lot of money from the battle, so they were all grateful to Zhu Jinghong.

So when they learned that Zhu Jinghong was coming to Liaodong, these people got together in order to make a special trip to see him.

Signaling everyone to get up, Zhu Jinghong walked to the room and said, "Why are you here? Are you not planning to go to the northwest this year? It seems that you have earned enough money!"

"Your Majesty, we have made enough money there, but the situation in the northwest is unfavorable, so I haven't sent out troops yet!"

Just kidding, everyone is here to win the war and make money, not to shed blood. Ye Hemingen answered directly.

Zhu Jinghong did not delve into this because he already had his own ideas and needed to take advantage of the people in front of him.

"Everyone...since you are here, why not play for a few more days. There will be distinguished guests coming by then, and I will have some good things for you to see!"

"That distinguished guest?" Ye Hemingen couldn't help but ask.

"You will know then!"

Before Ye Hemingen could ask any more questions, Zhu Jinghong spoke first: "How many troops can your various ministries bring out now?"

"Right now, do your ministries have any shortage of food this winter?"

Although they didn't know what Zhu Jinghong was doing, everyone felt his concern, so they all patted their chests to express their loyalty and were willing to follow Zhu Jinghong to the northwest again.

So at the end of the chat, it became a moment of remembrance for this group of people. Everyone was talking about last year's Northwest War and how tragic their own participation in the war was.

Of course, in the process of bragging and spanking, everyone couldn't help but praise Zhu Jinghong and bluntly said that with him, victory is guaranteed.

Sure enough, people's hearts can be manipulated, and even the foreign vassals think so. This shows how wise and powerful I must be among the Beijing camp and the bodyguards...

Thinking of this, Zhu Jinghong felt more comfortable and more confident about the future.

As for Yu Hai, after seven days of traveling, they finally arrived in Seoul, which is the capital of North Korea.

"This country is really too poor, even in the capital... The people are just afraid..."

Hearing Yu Hai's complaints, Chen Yuntai, who was sitting opposite him, said: "North Korea is a small country and cannot compare to our Ming Dynasty, which is vast and rich in resources. That's why the national power is so weak!"

"Am I going to go directly to the palace soon?" Yu Hai asked.

Chen Yuntai replied: "Show us your cards and identity, and they won't embarrass us!"

Despite his serious answer, he has actually never tried it, and he doesn’t even know if the North Koreans recognize it.

Soon, they stopped at the entrance of the palace, and then they were driven away by the guards who came.

"We are the envoys of the Ming Dynasty!" Chen Yuntai angrily yelled, and showed his cards.

Koreans may not be able to speak Chinese, but men can basically understand it, so they recognized the words "Jinyiwei" and "Beizhen Fusi".

Even abroad, these guards know what Jinyiwei North Town Fusi means.

But first, they had to confirm the authenticity of the waistband, so they collected the waistband and let their superiors decide.

As a result, Chen Yuntai, Yu Hai and a group of more than 20 people waited at the entrance of the palace for a quarter of an hour before seeing a North Korean official appear.

"It is a sin for us to neglect the envoys of the Celestial Dynasty when they arrive..." North Korean officials were extremely humble.

(End of this chapter)