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Chapter 1001 This official personally went to pay a visit to your country's ruler.
Park Sung-sung glanced at Wang Zhuan discreetly.
What audacity! How dare you ask when the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will give you an answer?
That means there was no one else around.
Otherwise, just because of your question, "When will the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty give you an answer?", the entire Goryeo Kingdom will suffer because of you!
No.
Wang Zhuan's brain is completely broken.
If we let him continue to be the king of Goryeo, he will surely cause a great disaster.
But if the king of Goryeo is to be replaced, who should be the new king?
How should we explain this to the Ming Dynasty?
Annam almost incurred the Ming Dynasty's punishment of cutting off tribute by changing its ruler without prior notification. Goryeo must not make the same mistake.
But how can the change of ruler be reported in advance?
Park Sung-sung's mind raced, but he showed no sign of it on his face. Instead, he bowed to Wang Zhuan and said, "Your Majesty, the most important matters at the moment are the Mid-Autumn Festival and the wedding of His Highness the Crown Prince of the Great Ming Dynasty. Other matters should be put aside for the time being."
Wang Zhuan, with a dark, round face, said, "Slow down?"
"Not to mention Chen Li and Ming Sheng, even in Liaodong, if things were delayed for just one day, who knows how many Korean women would run to the Ming Dynasty."
"Let me be frank with you, everything else can be postponed or endured, even if not a single one of the 100,000 warhorses is left."
"But people, Koreans, can't just run off to Ming China without any explanation."
Park Sung-sung said with a bitter face, "Your Majesty, I understand this principle, but the soldiers at the border cannot stop them, nor do they dare to."
"Moreover, this matter was not spearheaded by Hu Weiyong of Liaodong. More importantly, it was led by Grand Secretary Li of the Ming Dynasty and Prince Consort Yang, and behind Prince Consort Yang were the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty."
"With Grand Secretary Li and Imperial Son-in-Law Yang at the forefront, this matter is practically equivalent to the will of the Ming Emperor."
Wang Zhuan sighed heavily, rubbed his face, and looked at Park Sung-sung, saying, "A Goryeo with people is called Goryeo, but what is a Goryeo without people called?"
Park Sung-sung remained silent.
A Korea without people?
A Goryeo without people is no Goryeo at all.
Wang Zhuan glanced at Park Sung-sung again.
Park Sung-sung is considered quite capable in Korea.
But that only applies to having some skills.
When it comes to strategy and courage... he doesn't have much strategy and courage in governing a country, but he does have, and has a great deal of strategy and courage in making money by reselling warhorses.
Yes, Goryeo now has approximately two million households, with a total population of around ten million.
The problem is that there are too few children of childbearing age.
The Ming people in Liaodong were not known for their martial virtue. They would carry a bag of rice to Goryeo and then abduct a young Goryeo woman when they left.
They abduct one today, another tomorrow. How many young women in Korea can withstand this kind of abduction?
What will happen to the remaining Goryeo men once all the young Goryeo women have been abducted?
If Korean men cannot find wives, should the Korean ethnic group continue to exist and reproduce?
I can play dumb.
But you can't really treat me like a fool!
After a long silence, Wang Zhuan sighed again and instructed Park Sung-sung, "Have someone prepare a generous gift and send a visiting card to Prince Consort Yang's residence."
Park Sung-sung thought about Yang Shaofeng's usual behavior and the nonsense Wang Zhuan had just uttered, and couldn't help but probe, "What does Your Majesty mean?"
Wang Zhuan stroked his beard and said in a deep voice, "Let's talk."
"What the Ming Dynasty needs now is laborers."
"Goryeo has no shortage of laborers."
"Let alone 100,000 or 200,000, even a million laborers might not be able to raise enough."
"As long as we can stop the bad practice of Ming people exchanging rice for Korean women, I can talk to Yang the Madman about labor issues."
We also need to send those two bastards, Chen Li and Ming Sheng, back to the Ming Dynasty.
If those two bastards really don't want to leave... I'll just pick two "concubines" from the palace and give them to them!
As long as the Ming Dynasty is willing to send those two bastards, Chen Li and Ming Sheng, to Japan, I would gladly provide the Ming Dynasty with an extra 100,000 laborers, let alone just let me wear a hat!
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Yang Shaofeng spent half a day in the palace meeting with Lao Deng, Xiao Deng, Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other bigwigs. When he finally got home, Bo Wu came to his door with Park Sung-sung.
"What the hell?"
"Has the King of Goryeo come to pay me a visit?"
Yang Shaofeng looked at Park Sung-sung with considerable curiosity and asked, "Did your king say what it was about?"
Before Park Sung-sung could answer, Yang Shaofeng pressed on, "By the way, is your king settling in comfortably at the reception hall?"
"The Ministry of Rites has been quite busy lately and is short-staffed, so the banquet may have to be postponed a little."
"Vice Envoy Park must convey my apologies to Your Majesty on my behalf."
Park Sung-sung quickly bowed to Yang Shaofeng and said, "Your Highness, rest assured, I will definitely explain to our King."
"As for why our king wants to visit the Prince Consort, it is because our king has heard that the country is short of laborers and wants to share the burden for the emperor. However, he does not know where to start. He happened to hear that his foreign minister had the honor of visiting the Prince Consort. Therefore, our king thought of visiting the Prince Consort."
Yang Shaofeng's eyes lit up immediately, and he asked, "How many?", but then he sighed sadly and said, "Forget it, what the Ming Dynasty lacks right now is not laborers, but an empty treasury. We can't afford to hire too many laborers."
Park Sung-sung was completely stunned.
In the past, a laborer could at least earn ten coins a day.
You don't want to spend a single penny now?
Humans cannot, at the very least, be so shameless!
Park Sung-sung tentatively said, "Your Highness, our king only asks to share the burden of the Holy One. As for the laborers, Goryeo will levy corvée labor, and no wages are required."
After a slight pause, Park Sung-sung continued, "Besides that, there are also matters concerning Marquis Guide and Marquis Guiyi."
Yang Shaofeng raised his head slightly and said, "Oh? Marquis Guide? Marquis Guiyi? What happened to them?"
Park Sung-sung forced a smile and said in a low voice, "A few days ago, after getting drunk, the Marquis of Guide broke into the palace and not only harassed the palace maids, but also... well, he was also... well, slightly disrespectful to the King's concubines. Before leaving, he even killed a palace guard."
Yang Shaofeng picked up the teacup and took a sip.
Understood.
Chen Li and Ming Sheng have caused too much trouble over there in South Korea.
Wang Zhuan, that fool, probably wanted to buy peace with money, exchanging laborers for the Ming Dynasty to get rid of Chen Li and Ming Sheng.
Yang Shaofeng pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "Well then, I have to go to the palace to meet the Emperor tomorrow, so let's wait until the day after tomorrow. When I have some free time the day after tomorrow, I will personally pay my respects to your King, and the visiting card will be sent later."