Dragon Sea Empire

When Yan Siqi basically quelled the rebellion in northern North Korea, the formal peace negotiations between the Ming court and the Chinese army finally started. Xu Guangqi waited patiently for three days. Finally, Zeng Yue and others also felt that it was boring, so they asked people to inform the Anhai Pavilion The members of the mission said that the king of China granted the angels permission to go to the streets without a pass.

This was a signal. On the same day, Xu Guangqi took a full negotiating team to the headquarters of the Chinese company.

On the other hand, Zhang Ye, Zhou Xiang, and Yin Feng's guard captain Hong Xu are very familiar with each other. After all, they are all warriors, and most of the negotiating matters have nothing to do with them. Zhang Ye and others also intend to make friends with a few grassroots officers of the Chinese Army. , so the few of them had no scruples, and soon called each other brothers and sisters. The Nancheng District where Hong Xu took Zhang Ye and others that day was actually expanded after the formation of a large-scale urban district in Taiwan Harbor. This side is on the south side of the harbor. , thus becoming Nancheng.

Beicheng District was developed on the basis of the former Pirate's Nest Fanhan Village in the south of Yaogang. The construction was presided over by Yin Feng. It has a checkerboard-shaped street and a complete ceramic sewer system. It was built on the basis of a well-planned plan in advance. .

Nancheng District was spontaneously built up by swarms of immigrants of all kinds from all over the mainland after the start of the Great Immigration Plan. Basically, there was no urban planning, although the urban sewer system was built later, and an urban management and security team was formed. , but it has always been the most dynamic and dangerous place on Taiwan Island. Due to the mixed life of fish and dragons and the mixed residence of various ethnic groups, the public security is extremely poor. There is one industry that is the most distinctive in Nancheng District: the sex industry. There are also restaurants, theaters and romantic places in Beicheng. , but it is a high-end entertainment center, and the singers and actresses in it are all performers but not their bodies.

In Nancheng District, prostitutes are everywhere, and they are from all countries and nationalities. Fanhan beauties, Arab, Persian, black, Malay, Indian and mixed-race beauties can be found here. , can also be regarded as a red light district with international characteristics.

When Hong Xu brought Qianhu, Zhang Ye, and Baihu of Jinyiwei here, the first event was to watch a belly dance performance. A Persian dancer from the founding country of belly dance appeared half-naked, and immediately attracted the attention of the two Jinyiwei officers. Holding firmly, the brunette Persian dancer is full of charm when she dances. It is said that the most brilliant dancer can exercise every tiny muscle of the body through dancing, and can only perform sensory movements that cannot be touched , can become a source of joy and pleasure for men, the Persian beauty's swaying hip line, along with her twisting waist, her chest began to shake violently... Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang almost got nosebleeds on the spot.

Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang walked around the Nancheng District, seeing them dazzled and dizzying, which really opened their eyes, so they got along very happily with Hong Xu who was leading the way.

However, after all, Zhang Ye and the others had some secret missions. When getting along with Hong Xu and the others, they inquired about the inside story of the Chinese army. , What should be said is said, what should not be said is not said, when the two sides chat, Hong Xu is often comparing the difference between the Ming army and the Chinese army.

Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang were envious when they heard that low-ranking officers at Hong Xu’s level were paid 50 Chinese yuan a month, which is 100 taels of silver. Even if they were thousands of households, they were only 300 taels of silver per month. Shi Dami's salary is sometimes less than 100 taels of silver when converted, and he has to rely on extortion and bribery to get rich.

When they heard that the infantry soldiers of the Chinese Army could also earn 15 taels of silver per month, they were even more shocked: the two-month salary of a soldier stationed in the Ming Dynasty was one shiliang, even if one shiliang could be converted into one tael of silver at most, In the capital at that time, it was equivalent to one month's salary of a civil servant working in a sixth-rank government.

Where did the pirates get so much money to raise soldiers.

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At the beginning of the official peace talks between the missions, Xu Guangqi was the main negotiator on one side, and Yin Feng was the main one on the other side.

At the beginning, the two sides still had disputes over details such as the order of seating arrangements and the correspondence of their respective official titles.

When Li Lihua appeared at the meeting, Sheng Yihong and others, together with Yuan Chonghuan, expressed their unwillingness to have women present. Zeng Yue hurriedly smoothed things over, saying that Li Lihua was Yin Feng's wife, in charge of the company's daily affairs, and an indispensable figure in the negotiations.

However, both parties are Chinese after all, and the conflicts that traditionally quarrel in formal occasions are often resolved in private at the wine table. Therefore, this peace talk is alternately carried out between eating, drinking, chatting and verbal swords.

On the side of the Chinese Army, Yin Feng, Zeng Yue, Xu Hongji, An Heping, and Li Lihua, who returned from Nanyang later, were united in the negotiations and maintained a united attitude during the negotiations.

However, the Daming Mission was in chaos, with Honghe Libu and Kedao Yushi as one group, Xu Guangqi, Yuan Chonghuan and Xu Guangqi's disciples as one group, the drafting of the peace agreement, the specific negotiation content, etc. There were endless quarrels, and no consensus could be reached in any case. Sheng Yihong and others held a firm stance and demanded the maintenance of court dignity and ancestral rituals everywhere, while Xu Guangqi and others insisted that in order to ease the situation, they must make concessions and reach a peace agreement at all costs.

The division and discord within the Ming Mission can sometimes be detected in public, and even the two factions will have disputes at the negotiation scene.

The Ming court required the Chinese army to claim vassals and pay tribute, and Yin Feng asked to follow the old rules of Korea and Ryukyu: foreign vassals claimed vassals and paid tributes, and they obeyed the seal but not the announcement.

The Ming court asked the Chinese military forces to withdraw from the south of the Yangtze River, and Yin Feng proposed to lease Jiangnan, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places. The rent can be calculated at half of the original tax paid by the local area, and part of the customs tax can be paid to the Ming court.

The Ming court asked the Chinese army to withdraw from Liaodong, but Yin Feng firmly refused. He only agreed to sell the land outside the four prefectures of Jinfuhaigai. Liaoyang can give up, but Shenyang firmly refuses.

The Ming court requested the Chinese army to restore the tribute roads of North Korea, Ryukyu and other countries. The Chinese army believed that the original royal family of the Ryukyu kingdom had been slaughtered by the Japanese kingdom. A town guard and three counties have nothing to do with the original Ryukyu Kingdom. As for North Korea, it was because North Korea took the lead in taking refuge in the Eight Banners of Jurchen. mean.

"For the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty," Sheng Yihong almost felt like throwing up after listening to Yin Feng's eloquent talk about the North Korean issue: The Haikou Army almost wanted to break into the capital, yet they are still talking about fighting for the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty, but, Daming The army is currently out of reach of North Korea, Ryukyu and other places, and can only turn a blind eye to the behavior of the Chinese army.

The Chinese Army proposed that the imperial court must completely open the sea ban and allow Chinese companies to enter any place in the mainland to start business offices. Moreover, Chinese company merchants must have extraterritoriality, that is to say, people from Chinese companies commit crimes in the mainland and cannot be tried by the local government agencies that committed crimes , must be sent by the Chinese company's circuit judges in conjunction with local officials.

"Is it the king's land in the whole world? Is it the king's subjects on the shore of the land? Since you obey the king, you must naturally abide by the court's laws. How can you find ways for your people?" This time, even the negotiating position has always been relatively moderate. Xu Guangqi and others were also not satisfied.

Yin Feng said: We do not believe that officials of the imperial court can enforce the law impartially.

As soon as this remark came out, Sheng Yihong and more than a dozen officials immediately stood up and left the venue angrily.

When the two sides disagreed too much, Xu Hongji and Zeng Yue began to come forward, playing the role of the red faces of the Chinese army. They invited Xu Guangqi and others to drink at night, and proposed at the banquet whether all the merchants of Chinese companies could become imperial merchants. The Ministry came forward to issue special road guide passports.

Simultaneously with the peace talks, Yin Feng continued to mobilize troops from Taiwan Island and Nanyang to gather in Taipei, preparing to go north to North Korea. The Chinese troops stationed in the south of the Yangtze River could not be mobilized because hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty troops were still watching around.

Yan Siqi gradually began to feel troubles in North Korea. The northern part of North Korea was the last area conquered and occupied by the Joseon Kingdom of the Lee family. It was a territory stolen from the Ming Dynasty. The population was small and the economy was underdeveloped. Controlling these areas is not difficult.

From the Taedong River in Pyongyang to the south, it began to enter the economically developed areas of the Kingdom of Korea, with a large population and a single ethnic group. Therefore, when Yan Siqi began to march southward, he encountered more and more North Korean "righteous soldiers."

On another front, when the Chinese cavalry brigade went south to Liaohe, it encountered the Mongolian tribes of the Chahar and Horqin tribes, and fought in the border area between grasslands and dense forests, as well as in Tieyuan. 2200 Chinese troops from Xiningbao on the west bank of the Liaohe River faced With the attack of [-] Ming troops, they kept sending distress pigeons to Zhao Tie in Jinzhou.

In order to support the lone army in Xiningbao, the Beiyang Fleet of the Chinese Navy dispatched ten gunboats. Their main force went to North Korea. The team landed in the Liaoxi Corridor, using ships as vehicles, and successively attacked Xixingbao, Jinzhou, Tiechang, Dalinghe, Tuanshan, Zhenning, Zhenyuan, Zhenwubao, Shisanshanyi, Xiaolinghe, Songshan, Xingshan Shan, Daning, Daping, Da'an, Dading, Damao, Dasheng, Dazhen, Dafu, Daxing, Tashan Fort, Zhong'an Fort, Shuangtai Fort, etc. There are more than 1000 Ming army castles, all of which were built by Xiong Tingbi in western Liaoning Defense stronghold.

At this time, in the Ming court, Wei Zhongxian began to gradually control the cabinet, and Ye Xianggao was attacked by many officials, because the peace talks with the Chinese army had been delayed for too long, and they all forgot that it was only thanks to the efforts of Xu Guangqi and others that the Ming army To be able to go south to Sichuan and Guizhou to suppress the southern barbarian rebellion,