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Chapter 785 North Korean Envoy (Fifth Watch)
Even the overlord of the sea and the overlord of the world, the Netherlands, has surrendered to this ancient oriental empire?The news caused a sensation in the world.

It was not the era of information explosion, but even so, such explosive news would spread like wildfire.In addition, a large part of the factor is Zhu Yousong's deliberate propaganda. Don't look at the electronic network information systems such as mobile phones, televisions, and computers. The mainstream brothers only rely on official communication, which is a very powerful and fast communication channel.

At that time, China already had newspapers, and they used typesetting and printing technology. There were many Chinese people, a vast land and abundant resources, and news could be delivered very quickly.Coupled with the impact of the war in the late Ming Dynasty, political turmoil.Every country sent spies to infiltrate the information. The most obvious ones were barbarian border states like the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia, as well as the Korean Peninsula and Japan. It is an exaggeration to say that if the Ming Dynasty farts, they will know it immediately, not to mention Such an earth-shattering event?

Therefore, the unequal treaty between China and the Netherlands is no less than a blockbuster that exploded internationally.

Subsequently, many countries sent envoys to express their goodwill to Dalai.These countries include the followers of the maritime hegemony of the Netherlands, the former world hegemons who have begun to decline and have lost their glory, the island countries of Southeast Asia, and the landlocked countries of West Asia and Northern Europe.

Of course, Zhu Yousong would not refuse anyone who came, the more the better.

Because showing goodwill, of course, can't show goodwill in vain. A country, a family, and a person are all the same.If you want to make friends, find the boss, or be the younger brother, of course others will not just cover you up for nothing, treat guests, give gifts, eat, drink, have fun, and ask you to pay some protection fees, because there is no free lunch in the world.

Since these countries or allies have come to show their favor, they will pay more or less tribute, which is equivalent to showing weakness to Daming, or bowing their heads to surrender. Zhu Yousong is of course happy to have many friends, many paths, and many supporters.

As for the amount of tribute and how sincere it is, there is no need to be serious.Because Churchill said that there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.Being strong is the kingly way, and falling behind will be beaten.

In the current Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong has already started the road of kingship. Everything is difficult at the beginning. Of course, you can’t judge a hero based on the amount of tribute. That would be too powerful. As an emperor, Zhu Yousong still has this quality.

One after another, five or six countries came to express their friendship with Da Ming.Specifically, there are Moxi Mongolia, the Kingdom of Burma, and some island countries and peninsula countries in the Western and Southeast Asia. North Korea also secretly sent envoys behind the backs of the Qing Dynasty and Japan.

When other countries came to show their friendship, Zhu Yousong could completely let the cabinet and the senior officials of the six ministries meet and entertain him. The two countries that Zhu Yousong was most interested in making good friends were Moxi Mongolia and North Korea.

He had to meet in person, and he wanted to use the special relationship between the two states to isolate and disintegrate the Qing Dynasty.

In recent days, Zhu Yousong often took time to go to the training base of the Far East Army. The selection of more than 20 troops was drawing to a close. All military branches had arrived at the training base one after another and began to receive formal training from the expeditionary force.

The executive instructors who trained them were all generals, and the highest-ranking ones were of course the imperial concubine, Ma Jinhua, He Xuanjiao, Huimei, and Gao Guiying, Mrs. Hou Ye, etc., plus the emperor Zhu Yousong, who was present in person from time to time, hundreds of thousands of The general was greatly encouraged, and soon set off an upsurge of training.

Zhu Yousong sometimes went to Tianjin Weigang to watch the training work of the navy battalion.The navy battalion of the expeditionary force is mainly trained separately in Tianjin Weigang and the Yangtze River Basin.

On this day, when he was at the training base of the Tianjin Navy Battalion, he received a report saying that North Korea had secretly sent an envoy, and Zhu Yousong immediately flew to the capital.

In Xitai, Zhu Yousong personally met the ambassador from North Korea, and he was also responsible for North Korea. Of course, Zhu Yousong met in secret.

The envoy from North Korea was named Li Xingzuo, who was ordered by their king to disguise himself as a businessman and walk by water, avoiding the sight of Daqing.Because North Korea is now a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, this is because North Korea was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.After the rise of Jin, Huang Taiji continued to harass the border of Ming Dynasty, and even sent troops to North Korea, defeated North Korea, and made the king of North Korea surrender.

North Korea once asked for help from the Ming Dynasty, but Emperor Chongzhen, who had internal and external troubles, was too busy to take care of himself, and the war to aid North Korea also failed.Now that North Korea saw that Ming had risen again, and was unwilling to endure the enslavement of the Tartars, it sent another envoy to communicate with Daming.

The envoy from Li met Zhu Yousong.After giving the gift first, the gift list was presented.Zhu Yousong saw that there were Korean beauties, gold, silver and jewelry, and local specialties.Of course, Zhu Yousong accepted all the orders and gave him a seat.Zhu Yousong exchanged some polite words with the envoy Li before turning to the main topic.

"Your Majesty, your visit this time is for the sake of the Tartars. The Tartars are not just enslaving us. Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Pidao outside the pass are all your country's territory, and they are now occupied by the Tartars. Your Majesty will send troops to the Northern Expedition." Division, that is the time when we North Korea sent troops to respond internally. But I don’t know what His Majesty’s plan is, when will we send troops outside the pass?”

Of course Zhu Yousong knew what the envoy meant by saying this, that he wanted Daming to send out troops, and he took care of the Tartars to back them up and vent their anger.

Zhu Yousong's friendship between China and North Korea has been nurtured many times.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, North Korea was a vassal state of China, and the Ming and Qing governments would not stand idly by, whether it was Hou Jin's invasion of North Korea or Japan's invasion of North Korea.

Now he really wants to send troops outside the pass, but the time is not yet ripe.The training of the expeditionary force had just begun, and Tang Ruowang, an important person he wanted, was still in Shengjing.So he had to endure it for a while.

After listening to the envoy's words, Zhu Yousong smiled, "Your envoy, please rest assured and tell your majesty the king that I will definitely destroy the Qing Dynasty in the near future. When I send troops outside the pass, I will definitely send a note to your country."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The North Korean envoy was very satisfied with such a reply from the Ming emperor.After Zhu Yousong entertained him solemnly, the North Korean envoy left Zhu Yousong, secretly followed the same route, and returned to North Korea.

Zhu Yousong sent the North Korean envoy away, and thought of the envoy sent by Moxi Mongolia. Zhu Yousong also received him personally, although he also came to communicate with Daming just like North Korea.However, things in Moxi Mongolia are more complicated.

The reason is that Tsarist Russia is now expanding eastward, has crossed the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, and entered Siberia.Moxi Mongolia is powerless to resist and wants Daming to send troops.

Dealing with Tsarist Russia's Zhu Yousong has long been within the plan of strengthening the country, and it is definitely not now when sending troops, for the same reason as above.In addition, through the news from Jin Yiwei, Zhu Yousong also learned that Moxi Mongolia also sent envoys to the Qing Dynasty. Isn't this trying to step on two boats?
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