Chapter 640: Land Granted by the State
Zhao Yulin would be happy if he knew that Shi's son kept even the smallest things in mind. But he was afraid that this guy would say one thing and do another.
In the Kaesong Palace on the Korean Peninsula, people were also talking about Zhao Yulin.
Prince Wang Dian of the Peninsula was being summoned by his father. The young emperor angrily asked Prince Wang Dian to go to the New Song Dynasty to ask for an explanation from the New Song Dynasty.
Just this morning, the young emperor received an urgent military report that the restoration army he had put together was surrounded and disarmed by the Shenwei Army of the New Song Dynasty in Buyeo City and Zhengzhou and was taken prisoner. Not only that, the Shenwei Army also marched eastward in large numbers, and the vanguard had already reached the west bank of the Peishui River.
The Pae River is the Taedong River in later generations. It is only a little way into the peninsula, and the Shenwei Army will definitely not be limited there.
The young emperor urgently mobilized guerrillas from all over the country to defend the emperor, and ordered his attendants to be prepared, and to flee to the island immediately if they failed. After the arrangements were completed, he summoned the prince to the palace and sighed: This is like keeping away the tiger at the front door, and the wolf comes at the back door. The Shenwei Army is a tiger that is ten times stronger than the Mongolian Army. What should we do?
Only my son was sent as an envoy to New Song to argue with them.
Wang Dian said coldly that he would not go. He had told us not to cross the Peishui River at the beginning, but his father ignored the advice and insisted on heading west. Our people have only lived there for a few days? They were driven out by the Shenwei Army, and they were chased and beaten all the way. It is hard to say whether they will be driven into the sea.
The young emperor was furious. After a lot of cursing and yelling, he gradually calmed down and continued to ask Wang Dian to go on a diplomatic mission to New Song. He believed that Wang Dian was the most suitable person for this job at the moment.
The young emperor patiently said to Wang Dian: The 3,000-mile territory of Goryeo belongs to my son. If he doesn't go, who will? Wasn't Commander Zhao of the New Song Dynasty very good to him in the past? He sent him military equipment and craftsmen, and even dispatched a navy to the peninsula for emergency assistance.
All these show that the Celestial Empire is aware of the situation and that these are the courtesies they should follow.
Wang Dian was dissatisfied and told his father: The New Song Kingdom treats us as their own brothers. Now my father has sent my army deep into the heart of the New Song Kingdom to seize cities. Will others still see it this way?
The young emperor said that he had a letter from Hubili Khan, in which the Khan had clearly issued an edict that all these lands belonged to our Goryeo Kingdom. Why didn't the king take them back?
The army of the new Song Dynasty has not yet set foot on this land, and even the officials of the previous Song Dynasty have never been there. Anyway, it is not theirs. Since they have become our superior country, they can grant us land, which is the best of both worlds.
The young emperor stopped arguing and urged Wang Dian to set off quickly.
At present, the Shenwei Army has stopped at the Peishui line. It is estimated that their rapid advance has lengthened the front line and caused supply difficulties. Once the Shenwei Army solves the problem of logistics and baggage transportation, it will definitely continue to advance eastward and march forward in large numbers.
By then, the little emperor will flee to the island again.
He didn't want to do that. After the Mongolian army left, he finally got ashore to breathe fresh air and didn't want to go back to the island.
Prince Wang Dian of the Peninsula had no choice but to board a ship with his delegation and head south to the New Song Kingdom at the urging of his father.
In the Ryukyu Road in the south, the Ryukyu ruler encountered his first problem after he was transferred to the post of Pacifier of Ryukyu Road.
The coast guard of the navy captured a man named Shi Lang who was traveling to Song Dynasty. This guy was clamoring to meet Zhao Yulin and ask the new Song Dynasty to support him in fighting the small country in Southeast Asia.
Isn't this just going crazy and talking in your sleep?
Yi Shuigui, the commander of the navy garrison, reported to him that the imperial court had sent a document a few days ago, in which the ruler of Feiyan explicitly requested that he not take care of the affairs of the false emperor Zhao Bing. He could send some gunpowder and weapons to help in the war, but the Shenwei Army would never participate in the war.
He suggested that the envoy ask questions clearly before making a decision.
The pacification envoy immediately asked the garrison to bring the person up.
After Shi Lang was brought into the court, he asked his attendants to leave as he had important military intelligence to report.
The pacification envoy was timid. He was afraid that it would be tragic if he was taken hostage by this guy. He looked at Yi Shuigui and yelled at Shi Lang: "You bold thief, you still want to deceive me? If you have to, just say it here."
Yi Shuigui saw that Shi Lang looked tired and hesitant, and he did not look like a liar. He told the pacification envoy to go to the back hall, leaving him alone and he would not dare to do anything wrong.
The pacification envoy called up his personal guards, and the four of them went to the back hall and sat down.
Shi Lang took a sip of tea and said: He knew that appeasement made the adults timid, but this matter was absolutely confidential and could only be told to the adults.
The comforter felt unhappy and curious. How did he know that he was timid?
He asked Shilang how he knew him?
Shi Lang told them that he was forcibly dragged to the false emperor Zhao Bing by the Fuzhou rebel Zheng Qilang. Naturally, he met the adulterer when he followed Zheng Qilang. At that time, the adult was the king of Ryukyu and welcomed Zhao Bing's royal army.
The envoy blushed and said: When the monarch of Song and the army came to Ryukyu, I should do my duty. How could I know that Zhao Bing was a fake emperor?
What he meant was that as long as the emperor of Middle-earth went to Ryukyu, he would receive him without asking whether it was right or wrong, because Ryukyu was a vassal state of the Middle-earth.
Actually, Zhao Bing was a fake emperor. Zhao Yulin and Zhao Bing had been arguing for years, and he had known this for a long time. But Zhao Yulin's new Song was in Western Shu, and the fake emperor's huge navy was right in front of him. This guy was very timid, and he was definitely going to serve the fake emperor Zhao Bing to his heart's content.
The pacification envoy learned from Shi Lang's conversation that Madam Fire Phoenix had met this man, and that she had also taken away a shipload of much-needed military medicines from the Shenwei Army in Fuzhou. Believing what he said, he pointed at Yi Shuigui and said: General Yi is the great hero who climbed over the wall of Xiangyang together with Commander Zhao and captured Xiangyang out of strategy. If you have anything to say, you must say it in front of General Yi.
Shilang then told the story of his journey to Ryukyu.
He told everyone that Zhao Bing was dead, along with Zhao Bing's wife and children. Shi Lang grabbed his hair and howled as he recounted the story.
The small countries in Southeast Asia formed an alliance to attack the New Song Dynasty. The two sides were evenly matched. Zheng Qilang arranged for two confidants to send him on board a ship to the New Song Dynasty to get reinforcements. In fact, it was an excuse to kill him at sea so that Zheng Qilang could control the Shenwei Army soldiers who were persuaded by him to rebel.
After two days of tossing and turning on the sea, Shi Lang discovered that the direction of the ship was wrong, so he immediately became alert. At night, he seized the opportunity to kill one of Zheng Qilang's confidants and threw him overboard. The next day, he challenged another one and became the winner.
But he didn't dare to go back alone. First, Zheng Qilang had ordered him to bring reinforcements. If he went back without reinforcements, Zheng Qilang would definitely catch him and kill him. Second, there were three of them when they set out, and now he was the only one going back without anything. How could Zheng Qilang believe that the other two confidants had escaped, or had been found and killed by Shilang?
So, this guy risked his life to sail to Ryukyu to find some help to report back, but he didn't expect that the king's flag on the city wall had changed, and Ryukyu had been merged into the New Song Kingdom. The coast guard ship was flying the flag of the New Song Navy, and this guy was happy when he saw it, and willingly became a prisoner.
Shi Lang finished the story, and the rest was for the pacification envoy to decide how to help. He spread his hands and said: The court has issued an order, and if no soldiers are sent, he can do nothing to help.
Shi Lang was anxious. He could choose not to go back, but he still had twenty brothers on the Lusong Island. Over the years, he had also won over many righteous officers and soldiers who could not stand Zheng Qilang's burning, killing and looting. He wanted to go back with these brothers to take back the Lusong Island and hand it over to the Third Young Master and the New Song Dynasty.
Yi Shuigui listened to his serious and impassioned speech, and asked the personal guards of the pacification envoy to take him down to get a good meal to fill his stomach first. He would discuss it with the pacification envoy before making a decision.
Yi Shuigui is a well-known water ghost in the navy. He became famous after he followed Zhao Yulin in the surprise attack on Xiangyang City. He was soon promoted to the chief commander of the navy of Ryukyu Road.
He analyzed to the pacification envoy that although the imperial court did not allow the dispatch of a single soldier, it left a loophole for the provision of military supplies. He guessed that the third young master wanted to let the remaining Song troops in Song Dynasty hold back the military strength of the small country in Southeast Asia so that we can stabilize the north with peace of mind.
The water ghost pointed to the north and continued: The navy that Zhao Bing led to attack Song has been at sea for many years, and all kinds of military supplies are in short supply, but there is no shortage of catapults and bows and arrows on the ship, and the rest are elite soldiers who have experienced many battles.
We can prepare some standard weapons used by the Song army in the past for Shi Lang, and arm them with gunpowder and the like, and they will be able to defeat the small countries in Southeast Asia.
After the two men had discussed it, Shi Lang was full. The water ghost told him that the court had ordered that no soldiers were allowed to be sent . They could only send some military equipment as aid, and he could ask for whatever he needed.
Shi Lang thought about it while eating. The Third Young Master hated the false emperor Zhao Bing and would definitely not be willing to lend a helping hand. Hearing the water ghost say that he could give him weapons, he was very happy.
The guy burped twice in succession and said: Dashan, the Song army had run out of gunpowder a long time ago, and now they are using low-quality gunpowder homemade on the island. The arrows have also been used up. They want whatever they have. They lack everything.
Holy shit, are you going to empty out the armory on Liuqiu Road?
The water ghost glared at him and said: The New Song Dynasty is not yet so rich and generous. How about this, there are a batch of old goose-feather swords and bows and arrows in the armory that the garrison has replaced, all of which are given to Lusong Island, and a ship of gunpowder, a hundred crossbows and some medicine?
Shi Lang was overjoyed, but then said with a sad face that although he had the things, he had to ask General Yi to dispatch the brothers to escort them over. Otherwise, if they encountered pirates or were intercepted by the Nanyang Allied Forces, it would not be helping them, but a stab to the heads of their brothers in Song Dynasty.
The water ghost spit out two words with disdain: "Nonsense."
The appeasement envoy immediately asked nervously: General Yi is going to escort him to Southeast Asia personally?
The water ghost nodded and said: Of course, the third young master asked us to wait here to prepare for his conquest of Southeast Asia. He will definitely not allow these weapons to fall into the hands of the Southeast Asian coalition forces.
At dawn the next day, a fleet of ten ships set off with full sails.
In the northwest, at the mouth of the Gold Rush Valley on the southern foot of the Altai Mountains, Hubili was discussing military affairs with his generals.
Hubli's Western Expedition Army was unstoppable. After leaving the Gold Rush, heading south was a vast grassland, and they could quickly enter the fertile Yile River Valley. The situation was very good, but urgent military intelligence reports from the east of the Grassland Empire came in like snowflakes.
