If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 152 "King Sejong"

Off the coast of Incheon Port, the Ming Dynasty fleet lined up did not dock at the shore, but anchored in shallow water, allowing the fleet to anchor at sea.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhu Zhanquan and King Ning should maintain any etiquette towards North Korea. The army will not go ashore. In fact, the army carried on the ship has already been transferred to two thousand households in small boats and landed on the shore, and established camps on the shore. .

The reason why the big ship did not dock was simply because the pier of Incheon Port was so narrow that it could not accommodate the twelve thousand-material sea-going ships in the fleet.

"It is indeed a small country. Even ships with thousands of materials cannot dock at the shore. I am a little worried about whether they can afford to transport the army's food and grass." Standing on the bow of the ship, Prince Ning curled his lips slightly worriedly: "Don't When the time comes, the army’s rations are shipped over, but they are eaten by this group of aliens first! Look at the soldiers at their port, as if they haven’t had enough to eat in their entire lives!”

Regarding King Ning's evaluation of the North Korean army at Incheon Port, Zhu Zhanquan just smiled and said nothing.

Although North Korea was founded later than the Ming Dynasty, and it has only now passed to the third generation of monarchs, this so-called "Taizong" compares himself to Li Shimin and feels that he has received the same Taizong script.

In the early years, he did fight against powerful ministers and govern the country, and he did a good job in all aspects. But unfortunately, it was Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor, who got the same script as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and not Li Fangyuan, the Taizong of the Li Dynasty of North Korea.

After all, the Lee family came to power through a mutiny, and before that, the King of Goryeo had passed down the law for "600 years." You can basically imagine how corrupt the country has become.

In addition, it is a peninsula country and has always been in a relatively closed state. The development of civilization can be said to be quite slow.

We must know that according to the official history of North Korea in later generations, its national history did not really have characters that could correspond to its own language until decades later, during the period of the fourth generation monarch of North Korea, that is, the period of "King Sejong the Great" who was praised by the North Koreans. He made a copy of "Hunmin Zhengeum" and mixed the Chinese pinyin characters with the Japanese pseudonyms to create a specious proverb, which was later called the Korean character.

The original intention of this thing was to teach ordinary people in North Korea to learn writing, to be able to understand the decrees of the North Korean court, and to mark the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

That's why it's called "Hunmin Zhengyin", which means to teach people the correct pronunciation of Chinese characters.

Although "King Sejong the Great" promoted this writing many times after he came up with it, and encouraged people and officials to use writing, for hundreds of years, this thing was still only an auxiliary writing in North Korea.

The real elite class in North Korea, as long as they can get some education, learn and use Chinese characters.

After all, Hangul itself is just something similar to phonetic writing. It has a very simple structure and very few letters. Unlike English words, even homophones can be distinguished well through the combination of different letters.

The proverb itself is just pinyin, and all I learned before were Chinese characters. It is very normal for there to be a large number of homophones. Once there are no Chinese characters as a distinction, there is no way to distinguish homophones by itself.

This is the first time that the Korean Peninsula has its own national written language.It is conceivable how poor the culture of this poor place is. Even the Japanese country next door came up with their pseudonyms and officially used them in the ninth century AD, that is, during the Tang Dynasty. North Korea was at least 500 years behind.

As for the nonsense about 5000 years of civilization that they brag about in later generations, the whole world will not recognize it.

After all, all the written history of this country before the Ming Dynasty was written in Chinese characters, and the historical records of China are much more than their own.

Recalling the origin of proverbs, Zhu Zhanquan suddenly remembered that this so-called "King Sejong" was the third son of Li Bangyuan, the current leader of North Korea. Should he find an excuse to kill him now?

While thinking about this question, Zhu Zhanjun also answered the question that King Ning asked him just now: "The army's food and grass were transported here through Zheng He's fleet, and they just used their place for transit. As long as the King of Joseon still has any brains, he will not do it." It’s time to get these grains. Whenever a grain of rice is lost, Ming Dynasty will open every granary in North Korea to find that grain of rice.

Moreover, uncle Ning Wang, didn’t you leave a soldier from Qianhusuo here just like me?With these 2000 people here, there is no need to worry about the safety of the army's food and fodder. Unless Li Fangyuan attacks with all his strength, there is nothing he can do about these two thousand soldiers. "

"I do believe that. Do those Korean soldiers want to defeat our Ming Dynasty elites? They can't even think about it without more than ten times the strength." King Ning was also very confident about this. This is what the Ming Dynasty vassal king should know. , which is also the pride he should have as the son of Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Report! Reporting to the two princes, the King of Joseon sent his third son Li Bin to pay homage to the two princes. He has arrived at the port of Incheon. I wonder if the two princes want to see him?" A eunuch bowed and stood in front of King Ning and Zhu. Zhan Yun stood behind him and reported to the two of them.

Zhu Zhanju looked at King Ning and said playfully: "This King of North Korea is really interesting. According to my Ming Dynasty etiquette, he is just a county prince, which is lower than you and me, the uncle of King Ning. As the princes of the upper country, we Come here, it’s okay if he doesn’t come to greet you personally, at least he should send the crown prince or an important minister of the country to show your courtesy, what is the point of sending a third son?”

"The name is unjust and the words are unjust, no see! Let the King of Korea do it himself!" King Ning felt a little dissatisfied when Zhu Zhanquan said this, and said to the eunuch.

When Zhu Zhanjun saw the eunuch looking at him, he nodded immediately and motioned for him to reply.

Although Zhu Zhanjun had realized that the third legitimate son Li Chen was the "King Sejong" who would be praised to heaven in later generations, he really had no interest in dealing with such a little person.

"Uncle King Ning, let's say hello to King Ning, and then go south. It's almost the end of the month, and the army must arrive at Jeju Island before the storm comes." Zhu Zhanquan turned around and started talking to King Ning. .

Prince Ning also nodded affirmatively, but then showed concern: "We should be able to reach the Jeju Island you mentioned before the storm arrives, but the subsequent supply of food and grass for the army may not be so smooth. What if Zheng He The fleet encountered a storm and was delayed. I am afraid that the entire plan to conquer Japan will be affected. We should make first-hand preparations."

Zhu Zhanjuan looked at Prince Ning and seemed to understand what he was thinking, so he nodded indifferently and said: "It is indeed necessary to add an insurance policy. Since Uncle Ning has an idea, just follow your wishes, Uncle Ning." Let’s do it.”

(End of this chapter)