Xu Shi had always been conceited that their country was small and barren, and Ming's attack on them was a waste of national power.
Therefore, the Goryeo Kingdom has always been extremely flattering to the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but secretly it has always been trying to win over the Ming Dynasty.
Carry out the rogue country mode to the end.
However, this time, they found that they seemed to have found a poison.
210,000 taels of silver, just the annual interest is 10,000 taels of silver.
Even if they, the King of Korea, lived frugally and spent half a year together, even trying to increase taxes on the people, they only managed to collect ten thousand taels.
However, this can only be repaid with interest, and they are unwilling to do so.
The first two times they came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, no one reported this matter.
Therefore, everyone in the Goryeo Kingdom thought that His Highness King Yan would not ask them for a mere tens of thousands of taels of silver because of the face of the great country.
So, when I came this time, I didn’t bring any money.
Cui Chun never expected that his first mission to the Ming Dynasty would be scolded by the Ming Emperor.
Even the entire Ming Dynasty looked angrily at the Korean envoys like him. This was completely different from what the traitor Li Shihou said!
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty and all the courtiers treated him like that. When they see King Yan of Ming Dynasty, I wonder how they will scold him!
Thinking about it, Cui Chun had a sad face.
"Master, we have arrived at King Yan's city."
As the mission ship docked at a port, an official walked into the cabin and reported to the envoy Cui Chun.
"It's not still an hour away, why are we here so quickly?"
Hearing this, Cui Chun's eyes flashed with surprise, but he also had some doubts. Instead, he straightened his clothes and walked out of the cabin.
As soon as he reached the bow of the ship, Cui Chun couldn't help but widen his eyes with shock on his face.
"How could King Yan's city be so prosperous? With so many cargo ships, I'm afraid the docks of the capital of the Ming Dynasty can only have so many ships, right?"
On the side, all the Korean envoys were also shocked.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Cui Chun discovered something again and couldn't help but look weird.
"The city in front is King Yan's city? Why is it so small?"
At this time, an official from Honglu Temple came over. Hearing Cui Chun's words, his face was filled with pride.
"This is just a dock in Tongzhou City, not the Beiping Mansion where His Highness Prince Yan is!"
"Tongzhou City?"
Cui Chun's face was full of doubts.
The official of Honglu Temple was not prepared to explain too much. If it weren't for what the soldiers below said, he would not have known that this place was just a dock outside Beiping Mansion.
"Mr. Cui, please don't delay, and please get off the ship quickly. We are still fifty miles away from Beiping City. We need to get on the carriage and go to the post station!"
"Fifty miles?"
Cui Chun was shocked again.
"I dare to ask Zheng Sicheng, how can this place be so prosperous and far away from the city of His Highness King Yan?"
Zheng Sicheng smiled faintly and said, "His Royal Highness King Yan has his own intention in this matter. If Chief Cui is curious, he can just ask his own questions when he meets His Highness King Yan!"
After saying that, he got off the boat with a straight face.
According to the way these Goryeo envoys searched, they had to pay for the carriage and horse transportation at Honglu Temple. Why didn't they notice in the past that Goryeo was so shameless?
Behind him, Cui Chun and other Korean envoys had stiff expressions, but they did not dare to complain.
There was no need to wait for Zheng Sicheng to send someone to look for the carriage. When so many of them came down, several carriage drivers had already come over.
As soon as Zheng Sicheng and others wanted to use a carriage, more than ten carriages came over.
Afterwards, Zheng Sicheng took the Korean envoys into the carriage and headed directly to Beiping City.
at the same time.
A small boat also sailed out from the pier and headed towards Beiping Mansion via the waterway.
Before the Goryeo envoy entered Wanping County, Zhu Di had already received the news.
"snort!"
Zhu Di snorted coldly and ignored it.
As for the Korean delegation, since they left Zhangjiawan Pier in a carriage, the group was like country people entering the city, and they were amazed again and again.
"Such a wide and smooth road, but it's all paved with cement?"
"How can this avenue be so clean?"
"There are so many carriages and trucks..."
"The city of King Yan is so prosperous?"
"How can King Yan's city be so clean?"
"The King of Yan actually recruited so many people to build cement houses..."
"With King Yan's behavior, why are there so many smiles on the faces of the people in the city?"
"Come here, go check it out quickly!"
"..."
However, when the officials of Honglu Temple and the Korean delegation entered the inn and received reports from their respective subordinates, they all couldn't help but look at each other.
The King of Yan spent so much money and the system was so strict that even if he threw a fruit peel at any time and was discovered by the street patrol officer, he would be slapped with two big boards? …
No one in the entire Beiping Prefecture dared to disobey, even the thousands of Mongolians living in the north of the city. After being hung up and whipped dozens of times, they all became obedient!
So violent?
"Do you want to report this matter to the Young Minister?"
Thinking about this, a certain Yousi Cheng shrank his neck. Beiping Mansion has a Chief Envoy, an Inspection Envoy, an Inspection Censor, and a Jinyiwei. No matter what, it is not his turn to worry about it, as a small Si Cheng of Honglu Temple. .
However, it is still okay to use this as a talking point.
As for the Korean envoys, after being shocked for a long time, all of them looked horrified.
King Yan is so cruel, they will definitely not be able to please him this time!
However, he, Cui Chun, was innocent and could never take the blame for Li Shihou.
Thinking about it, Cui Chun had a hard look on his face, and he already had a plan in mind!
Early the next morning.
Cui Chun asked Honglu Temple to help them deliver a greeting card to Prince Yan's Mansion.
In the afternoon, Zheng Sicheng took Cui Chun and other Korean envoys and walked into Prince Yan's palace fearfully.
Inside the Chengyun Hall.
Zhu Di sat on the throne.
Below, Zhu Fu, Guo An and other civil servants of Prince Yan's palace are sitting on the left side. As for Yanshan Guard commander Tang Yun, Zhang Xing, Chen Tao and other commanders and thousands of households are sitting on the right side.
As the Goryeo delegation approached, the faces of Zhu Fu, Guo An, Tang Yun and others suddenly darkened, and they all stared at Cui Chun expressionlessly.
As a result, Cui Chun and other Goryeo envoys could not hold on before they reached Zhu Di. Their legs weakened and they knelt down towards Zhu Di with fear on their faces.
"Foreign Minister Cui Chun, bring the envoy to pay homage to His Highness King Yan!"
"Zheng Mi, the Prime Minister of Yousi of Honglu Temple, meets His Highness King Yan!"
"Get up!"
Zhu Di waved his hand lightly, and after Cui Chun and others stood up, he asked directly: "You and the Korean envoy are here to fulfill the contract and pay back the money to this king?"
"this……"
Cui Chun's face suddenly changed slightly. Why was King Yan of the Ming Dynasty so straightforward?
"Um?"
Zhu Di looked cold and said in a cold voice: "Why are you so hesitant? Didn't you bring any money to me?"
"Please please calm down, His Highness King Yan!"
With a pop, Cui Chun knelt on the ground again, his face full of misery.
"Returning to Your Highness King Yan, the little country of Goryeo is so miserable! ... Your Highness's city is so close to my country of Goryeo. You must have heard that our country of Goryeo is narrow, sparsely populated, and extremely barren, and in some places, there are Covered in snow half the time…
What makes foreign ministers most distressed is that our country, Goryeo, has been in turmoil in recent years due to the invasion of the Northern Yuan Dynasty...
Moreover, the Japanese pirates across the sea in the south often send out tens of thousands of people to plunder our country of Korea, causing the people of Korea to live in dire straits...
Once they come, the kings and ministers of our country of Korea will have to scrimp on food and clothing, and they will not even have enough to eat..."
"What does the poverty of the Goryeo Kingdom have to do with me?"
Zhu Di said in a calm tone, "We only know that the King of Goryeo was very happy when he borrowed money from me and signed the contract.
As the king of a country, he can be so cheerful, which is enough to show that you, the Goryeo Kingdom, can afford to pay back the money! "
Cui Chun's expression changed again and again.
Zhu Di continued: "You are a country with millions of people. If you tell me that your country of Korea cannot afford to repay a mere 210,000 taels of silver, you will definitely be making fun of me!"
"Although I, His Majesty the Ming Emperor, do not like invasion, I am willing to accept tribute from your country of Korea.
However, if your country of Korea dares to play tricks on me, even if you have to be punished by your father, I will lead a group of soldiers from the Beiping Mansion to defeat the King of Korea and personally take back my king's two hundred and one thousand taels of silver. ! "
"Your Highness, there is still interest!"
Below, Guo An raised his hand and reminded: "When the contract was signed, the interest was five percent per year until the day the money was repaid."
Zhu Di couldn't help but look at Cui Chun coldly again.
Cui Chun said hurriedly: "Please forgive me, the King of Goryeo, His Highness King Yan. This is all the fault of Li Shihou. He deceived His Highness the King of Yan and also deceived me, the King of Goryeo!"
"What does this have to do with this king?"
Zhu Di smiled coldly, then became furious, "The one who signed the contract with me is you, the King of Goryeo, and the one who owes me money is also the King of Goryeo!"
"Damn it, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty dares to refuse to repay the money they owe me. How dare you, the small country of Goryeo, to act rogue against us!"
Cui Chun's face turned red and he wanted to raise his head to argue with Zhu Di, but when he saw Zhu Di's murderous eyes, he quickly lowered his head.
"His Royal Highness King Yan, we in the Kingdom of Goryeo will never dare to play rogue to His Highness..."
"Then why doesn't King Koryo return the money from Prince Yan's palace?"
Below, Guo An couldn't bear that these Goryeo envoys continued to be intimidated and insulted by Zhu Di, so he asked.
Cui Chun glanced at Guo An gratefully and quickly replied: "This Shangguan, and His Royal Highness King Yan, the foreign minister really did not lie. Is it true that our country, Goryeo, can't raise so much money?"
Guo An asked again: "Can you use the transparent glass technology and the technology for growing vegetables in winter?"
Cui Chun replied: "Back to Shangguan, after bringing these two technologies back to Goryeo, I, the King of Goryeo, used them immediately."
"snort!"
Guo An snorted, "In that case, with just the transparent glass and the vegetables grown in winter, the King of Goryeo will definitely earn more than 100,000 taels of silver. Why doesn't he have any money?"
"More than one hundred thousand taels of silver?"
Cui Chun shook his head repeatedly, "This Shangguan misunderstood, the maximum is tens of thousands of taels of silver, definitely not hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"
Now, don't wait for Guo An to speak.
The generals such as Tang Yun and Chen Shou on the opposite side were furious.
"Damn it, you are a Goryeo thief official who has earned tens of thousands of taels of silver, yet you are still crying for poverty to His Highness, King Yan. You are obviously acting like a rogue and not paying back the money to His Highness!"
"Your Highness, for a thief country like Goryeo, I am willing to lead troops to attack the Goryeo Palace and capture the bird king to see if he dares not to return His Highness's money!"
"Your Highness, if the general is willing to fight, I will sacrifice this thief's head to the flag!"
"Your Highness, the last general..."
Suddenly, the generals with big muscles and round waists and fierce faces stared directly at them with red eyes, menacingly.
Cui Chun was frightened until his legs went weak.
…
(End of chapter)
