My life skills in Daming Liver

"General, Pyongyang has been captured!"

Yi Sun-shin's subordinates rushed into the tent and reported the news to him.

Pyongyang was the last big city in the hands of Lee's North Korea. Now, except for a few small towns on the banks of the Ya River, the entire North Korea has fallen into the hands of Yi Sun-shin's Progressive Society.

Yi Sun-shin didn't have much expression, because he received a personal letter from the Grand Governor Su Ze.

The content of Su Ze's letter is very frank, which is to invite North Korea to become a southeastern province like Annan.

North Korea, like Annan, organized a popular vote ten years later to decide whether to merge with the Southeast.

If it is not merged into the southeast, it will become a tributary country like China and continue to maintain the East Asian tribute system that has existed for thousands of years.

Su Ze's letter also made it very clear that this is North Korea's own choice.

Now that Pyongyang has been conquered, it's time to make a decision.

Yi Sun-shin immediately called a meeting with his generals and civil servants.

What surprised Yi Sun-shin was that everyone accepted the plan from other provinces.

The most positive ones are the backbones of the Progress Association.

Yi Sun-shin was a little surprised. After the meeting, he called a young man, who was the backbone of the Progressive Association and a relative of his, named Li Chengxu.

"Uncle Clan, don't you want North Korea to be annexed to the Central Plains?"

Yi Sun-shin was a little surprised. This nephew's thoughts were usually very radical, and he was very active in overthrowing the Lee Joseon Dynasty and establishing a country where sovereignty rested with the people.

But now he strongly supports becoming a province in the Central Plains.

Li Chengxu's answer surprised Yi Sunchen.

"Uncle Clan, as long as we can become a province in the Central Plains, wouldn't it mean that our Korean scholars can also serve as officials in the Central Plains?"

Yi Sun-shin now understood why the scholars of the Progress Association were so actively demanding the merger with Southeast Asia.

North Korea is such a small place, with many mountains and little land, and no special resources.

Compared to working as an official in a small place like North Korea, it is obviously more attractive for North Korean young people to go to the wider Central Plains.

Not to mention that Songjiang, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou are now famous international cities in East Asia.

After understanding this, Yi Sun-shin no longer hesitated and decided to write a letter back to Suze, saying that North Korea would officially become a southeastern province.

On the edge of the Yajiang River, Li Xun, the commander-in-chief of the Nine-Border New Army, was sighing in the tent.

The Korean leader's army has been completely defeated, and Li Xun's operation has failed.

Now the Ming court wants to interrogate Li Xun and require him to return to the capital to state the reasons for his defeat.

Li Xun's men all advised Li Xun not to return to the capital, as Li Chengliang would definitely annex the army in his hands.

But Li Xun camped on the edge of the Yajiang River. If he didn't return to the capital, where could he go?

The supplies along the way have long been cut off. The Jurchen "rebels" in Liaodong have completely cut off the supplies of the Nine-Border New Army. Even the basic military rations need to be raised by Li Xun in North Korea.

"General! Our camp north of the Yajiang River was intercepted by the Jurchens again!"

"What kind of Jurchen gangsters are those! They are obviously the Jurchen cavalry under Li Rusong!"

Of course Li Xun knew that these Jurchen rebels did not make trouble before, but they appeared after Li Rusong took office as deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

Moreover, they did not rob anything else, and they did not commit any crime in the urban and rural areas of Liaodong, but they specialized in robbing their own supplies.

But Li Xun had no choice. His supply line was too long and he had no troops to protect it.

On the edge of the Yajiang River, in Li Rushe's camp, the Jurchens with wild boar braids cheered. They had just robbed Li Xun's supplies and grabbed more than a hundred muskets.

"Qianhu! Li Xun's camp is right by the Yajiang River. The brothers rushed over and snatched him away. It must be a great achievement to give him to the old general!"

Li Ruzhen had just received the position of Qianhu. Li Rusong applied for the title to the Ming Dynasty court based on his contribution to "suppressing bandits".

Looking at his excited men, Li Ruzhen waved his hand and said:

"The order given to us by the Major General is to rob Li Xun's supplies. Without Li Xun, where will the supplies come from?"

Li Ruzhen's men suddenly realized and couldn't help but said:

"It's still Qianhu Yingming! These supplies are enough for our tribe to survive the winter!"

Li Ruzhen dismissed his personal guards and looked at the Yajiang River with a thought in his heart.

Compared with Li Chengliang's political tactics, Li Rusong is much easier to fool.

Li Ruzhen took his order to capture the Jurchens from the north to join the army, and then took these Jurchens to rob Li Xun's supplies.

If it were Li Chengliang, he would definitely not let Li Rushe become powerful and would ask him to hand over the weapons used for robbery.

But Li Rusong had no such idea. Li Rusong just brought some broken weapons to explain to Li Rusong, and gave Li Rusong several captured Korean noblewomen, so Li Rusong stopped pursuing the loot from him.

Relying on these weapons, Li Rushe's tribe grew rapidly and began to annex other Jurchen tribes.

As his strength improved, Li Ruzhen also became more ambitious.

He never attacked Li Xun's army, but only robbed Li Xun's supplies, hoping that Li Xun could stay on the other side of the Yajiang River for a while longer.

In this way, his Jurchen brothers can rob more weapons and ammunition and arm more tribesmen.

From the ice-covered Northeast to Yunnan, which is like spring all year round.

The current Duke of Guizhou also faces a choice.

Yu Zigao of Guangxi issued an ultimatum to the Duke of Guizhou, requiring him to surrender to the southeast within a time limit.

The current Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo, is not a very independent person. There is no unified opinion in the Duke of Guizhou's palace as to whether to surrender to the southeast.

However, Yunnan cannot be defended solely by the troops controlled by the Duke of Guizhou.

During the Annan War, the Duke of Guizhou sent someone to contact Bei Mo.

But Beimo was defeated too quickly, and even now the entire Annan has become a province in the southeast.

Annan is the overlord of Indochina, and even Northern Mozambique can suppress neighboring countries such as Myanmar.

Now that Annan has surrendered, the countries in Indochina no longer dare to act rashly, and they have cut off from the Duke of Guizhou.

The Luchuan regime, which had been causing trouble at the border, was so frightened that it hid in the mountains of Myanmar.

Yunnan's local soldiers are also unable to fight.

After quarreling and quarreling, Mu Changzuo understood that what these retainers were arguing about was the treatment after surrender.

According to the conditions set out in the southeast, the Duke of Guizhou guarded the southwest of the country and made great contributions to the nation and the people.

But there are no nobles in the southeast, so the Duke of Guizhou cannot be saved.

According to the plan put forward by Southeast, the entire Duke of Guizhou's government was moved to Nanjing. The Southeast Cabinet converted the properties of the Duke of Guizhou's government in Yunnan and gave them additional silver coins.

The land and farms legally acquired by the Duke of Guizhou can be retained, and the Mu family can be entrusted with management, or handed over to the southeastern government to share the profits.

To be honest, this condition has already tempted Mu Changzuo.