The Kingdom of Koryo is now being attacked by Mongolia. Basically, all the cities on the land are occupied by Mongolia. Only coastal islands and some mountain cities are still resisting the Mongolian invasion.
Facing the powerful Mongolia, the Koryo people had little strength to drive them away, so the Koryo royal family used Ganghwa Island as their temporary capital.
Because the Goryeo royal family is here, Ganghwa Island is heavily defended.
As soon as the Qi army's ships approached Ganghwa Island, they were discovered by the Goryeo Navy and more than ten small boats came to intercept them.
At this time, on the Goryeo Navy warship, General Jin Baoding looked at the fleet coming through the waves with some fear.
Although the navy of the Qi Army had just been established, Haizhou's shipbuilding industry was not developed, and the ships it built were not as good as the warships of the Southern Song Dynasty. However, in front of the Goryeo and Japanese countries, they could be called giant ships.
At this time, ten warships of the Polang Army were approaching Ganghwa Island. They did not know their arrival and frightened the Koreans on the island.
"General! Are they Mongolians?" The eyes of the Korean soldiers on the deck showed fear.
The Koreans were at war with Mongolia, so they naturally gathered information from Mongolia and knew that Mongolia was attacking the Song Dynasty in the past two years.
From the perspective of the Koryo people, the Jin Kingdom, Xixia, and Dongxia were all destroyed by Mongolia, and Mongolia forced the Koryo people to do this. It is likely that the Southern Song Dynasty could not resist the Mongols, and was probably about to be destroyed.
However, the Koreans obviously overestimated their own level and felt that the Southern Song Dynasty was not as good as themselves. Moreover, their intelligence was obviously lagging behind, and they did not know about the peace negotiations between Mongolia and Song Dynasty.
At this time, the Goryeo navy saw a large ship coming from the sea, and thought it was the Mongols who conquered the Southern Song Dynasty and brought the Song Dynasty navy to conquer Goryeo.
On the deck, Jin Baoding, the Korean general, had his Adam's apple squirming and swallowed his saliva, "Don't panic, everyone! Take a closer look!"
At this time, facing the fleet that appeared on the sea, the King of Korea and a group of ministers on Ganghwa Island were already in chaos.
They were able to fight against Mongolia not because the Goryeo warriors were so brave, but entirely because Mongolia had no navy and could not attack Ganghwa Island.
The Goryeo troops on the island hurriedly picked up their weapons and hurriedly climbed onto the earthen wall to guard. In the palace, the Goryeo king and the ministers were as if they were mourning for their heirs. Their minds were filled with the horrific scene of the Mongols killing the island and massacring Goryeo soldiers and civilians.
The King of Goryeo knelt on the ground and kowtowed in prayer, hoping that the Buddha would bless him. But at this moment, a man stumbled in and reported urgently, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, they are not Mongols, they are the fleet of the Song Dynasty."
King Wang Hao of Goryeo stopped moving and wanted to stand up, but found that his legs were numb.
The ministers on the side saw him and quickly stepped forward to lift him up and help him sit down again.
At this time, Wang Hao regained his dignity and said, "What are the people from Song doing here?"
"It is said that he is here to do business!" the visitor replied.
Nowadays, the country of Korea is extremely poor. Almost everyone in the country is eating glutinous rice. They barely have enough to eat, so how can they do any business?
However, since the people have arrived, let's call them over to see them and understand the situation of the Song people. Maybe they want to get the support of Goryeo.
The ship of the Breaking Waves Army approached Ganghwa Island, and the ship docked on the shore. Liu Jiyuan asked people to move the goods off the ship. The Korean soldiers and civilians on the island immediately gathered around and stood watching from a distance.
At this time, the King of Koryo sent someone to invite him, and Lu Wende took Liu Jiyuan, who knew a little bit of Koryo dialect, to the palace.
When the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, the Tang army once occupied the Korean Peninsula and brought the Tang Dynasty's cultural system here.
Therefore, the Goryeo regime was deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty in its system. However, after the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains declined and the Liao and Jin Dynasties rose successively, which made Goryeo gradually move away from the Central Plains culturally.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there were many people on the Korean Peninsula who could speak Chinese, but now there are almost no people who can.
However, despite the language barrier, Chinese characters are indeed common writing within the Chinese civilization circle, so communication can still be done in writing.
At this time, Lu Wende and his party came to the palace of the King of Korea. It was said to be a royal palace, but in fact it was only at the level of a wealthy family in Shandong.
Seeing Lu Wende's arrival, the King of Korea asked Lu Wende to sit across from him and placed a sand table between them. The King of Korea picked up the wooden pole and first wrote: "Why are you here?"
The internal officials who were waiting on the side smoothed the sand table, and Lu Wende picked up the wooden pole and wrote: "Come from Shandong and follow the order of King Linyi to make good friends with your country, form an alliance, buy stallions, and fight against Mongolia together!"
The King of Korea was quite surprised, "Shandong belongs to the Song Dynasty?"
Not long ago, the Koryo Kingdom learned that the Jin Kingdom was destroyed and the Mongolian army attacked the Song Dynasty. In their opinion, under the Mongolian attack, the Southern Song Dynasty would definitely retreat like Koryo, losing most of its land and cities.
Shandong was originally the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and in the eyes of the Koreans, it definitely belonged to Mongolia, so they were quite shocked to hear that Lu Wende came from Shandong.
Lu Wende could only explain, "Shandong is owned by King Linyi, the king of Song Dynasty!"
The King of Goryeo couldn't help but sigh, and then wrote: "I didn't expect that the Song Dynasty could defeat the Mongols and seize the land of Shandong, which makes everyone admire me!"
Lu Wende picked it up and wrote, "It's admirable that your country has been able to resist Mongolia for several years!"
The King of Koryo read the words on the sand table and couldn't help but blush. Goryeo had been at war with Mongolia for many years. It was not that Goryeo was determined or that the Goryeo people wanted to fight. The real reason was that Mongolia had misunderstandings about Goryeo.
In fact, in the face of the Mongolian attack, Goryeo had always hoped to surrender to Mongolia, and it did surrender to Mongolia a few years in the middle. The reason why it surrendered and rebelled again was because Mongolia did not understand Goryeo's situation and set demands for Goryeo that were simply impossible to fulfill.
Most of the countries that the Mongols conquered were very wealthy, so they thought that Goryeo was also very rich, but in fact Goryeo was so poor that it was difficult to support oneself, and it was impossible to get the money the Mongols wanted.
This time Mongolia attacked Goryeo because Goryeo failed to pay tribute to Mongolia on time and in quantity, which made Ogedai furious and ordered the Mongolian generals to go and conquer.
After the Mongolian army invaded Goryeo, the King of Goryeo sent an envoy to Mongolia to explain and sue for peace to Mongolia. However, Wo Kuotai did not believe the Goryeo people at all and insisted that the King of Goryeo go to the grasslands and ask Goryeo to hand over tributes, which led to the failure of Goryeo's peace bid.
On the whole, this is a story about the Mongolians feeling that the Koreans would not give them money, but the Koreans wanted to give them but really had no money, so they were beaten by the Mongols all the time.
The King of Goryeo was a little embarrassed and hurriedly wrote on the sand table, "Goryeo has no horses, but there may be Jurchens in Liaodong. You can go to Liaodong to buy horses! If Song can support Goryeo, I am willing to form an alliance with Song to fight against Mongolia!"
Lu Wende talked with the King of Korea for a long time through written conversations and Liu Jiyuan acted as a translator, and got a general understanding of the situation in Korea.
After finding out the situation of the Goryeo Kingdom and seeing that he could not obtain horses from Goryeo, Lu Wende agreed to take the Goryeo envoy back to Shandong, and then left the Goryeo Palace.
At this time, the group returned to the dock and found that the goods they brought were basically not sold.
It's not that the Koreans don't want it, they really have no money to buy it and nothing to exchange for it.
Seeing this, Lu Wende could only load the goods onto the ship, and then sailed to Liaodong with the fleet to find the remnants of the Dongxia Kingdom for trade.
