As soon as Yang Zhen heard the questions raised by the two of them, he immediately knew that his idea of ​​using the island to raise horses was obviously easier to get their consent than cutting off the island.

As for why horses were raised on Jeju Island, Yang Zhen didn’t say, and neither did Goo In-hyun or Kim Sang-heon.

Because there is no need to ask about this matter.

Jeju Island was originally a maritime horse breeding place during the Yuan Dynasty. It was called the Tamna Military and Civilian General Administration at that time. It was a permanent institution when the Yuan Dynasty administered Jeju Island. Its purpose was to raise horses and provide horses for the then Eastern Expedition Province.

After the Yuan Dynasty fell, Goryeo took the opportunity to occupy the Tamna Military and Civilian Office, but from then on it still used it as a place to raise horses.

Later, Li Chenggui usurped the power of the Goryeo Dynasty, and the Tamna Military and Civilian Office became the horse breeding ground of the Li Dynasty.

The Korean Peninsula is mountainous, and the limited small plains are also cultivated land. Only Jeju Island has a sparse population and open land. Although the land on the island is barren, it is very suitable for grazing horses.

Although when Lee Joon ascended the throne, the horse-breeding institutions on the island had long been abandoned and good horses were rare, everyone in the Lee Dynasty knew that Jeju Island was suitable for horse-raising.

At the same time, in the view of Gu Renhe and Jin Shangrong, Yang Zhen's Jinhaizhen will certainly need a large number of war horses to fight against the Qing invaders.

The Ming Dynasty had lost Liaodong and beyond the Great Wall, and no longer had its own land to herd horses.

Therefore, they were not surprised when they heard that Yang Zhen had this idea. At the moment, they were only concerned about how to borrow and how to return.

"Ten years! If I cannot succeed in pacifying Liao within ten years, Jeju Island will be returned to your king!"

"ten years?!"

The ten-year period given by Yang Zhen obviously surprised Kim Sang-heon and Goo In-hye, but at the same time it also made them happy.

Yang Zhen planned to use the Pingliao period as a period, so no matter how you look at it, it seems that he has no intention of possessing Jeju Island, and no matter how you look at it, Jeju Island will still be the land of the court.

Because although Yang Zhen's Jinhaizhen won a victory, it is still a long way to go to pacify Liao and completely defeat the Qing Dynasty.

"Five years! If the Commander-in-Chief cannot pacify Liao within five years, then Ping-Liao will definitely have no chance of winning, so why bother making an appointment for ten years? The Commander-in-Chief only lends the island for five years. As for borrowing the island, Gu can be my king today.

Promise!"

Ju Renjie had personally witnessed the strength of the Qing soldiers, so he did not believe that Yang Zhen's troops could defeat the Qing soldiers within five years.

In his mind, it was hard to say whether to give Yang Zhen ten years, but within five years, it was absolutely impossible.

And according to his calculations, can Yang Zhen's Jinhai Town survive in Lushunkou for five years?

As the saying goes, how can others be allowed to snore on the side of the bed? How can the Qing soldiers who are good at recruiting and fighting tolerate Yang Zhen's Jinhai Town standing under their noses for five years?

Perhaps within a year or two, Yang Zhen's Jinhae Town will be wiped out like Dongjiang Town back then. By then, Jeju Island will naturally have to be returned.

"Yes, Governor, I heard that Yuan Chonghuan had a five-year agreement with the emperor back then. Now, the Governor might as well make a five-year agreement with me.

"Why not, for a period of five years, my country will lend Jeju Island to the governor to raise horses to pacify the captives within five years. After five years, if the governor cannot pacify the captives, what is the use of continuing to borrow land to raise horses?"

Yang Zhen saw that the two of them were suddenly so active. It was obvious that they believed that they had no chance of winning Ping Liao, so he didn't point it out at the moment. He pondered for a while with an expressionless face, nodded and said:

"That's right. If I cannot pacify Liao within five years, I am afraid that there will be no hope for the cause of pacifying Liao. By then, perhaps I will have no choice but to imitate the ruler of your country and become a vassal to the north."

Yang Zhen tried his best to look solemn and worried, finished the above words in a depressed tone, then looked at Ju Renhe and said:

"Forget it, it will be a period of five years. From now on, if this governor cannot annihilate the Qing captives within five years, Jeju Island will be returned to your lord as scheduled!"

"Okay! What Governor Yang said is exactly what you meant. But when Governor Yang said that the Qing captives should be annihilated, it should be based on occupying Shengjing and obtaining the Qing emperor's head!"

Seeing that Yang Zhen agreed to a five-year term, Gu Renge finally showed a smile on his tense face, and then added that he had very strict restrictions on Yang Zhenping's annihilation of the Qing people.

In his opinion, not to mention giving Yang Zhen five years, even if he was given ten years as he wished, he would not be able to do it.

However, Yang Zhen just smiled at the last restriction imposed by Gu Renhe and recognized his cleverness on the spot.

In this clause, Yang Zhen deliberately did not mention what to do with Jeju Island after Pinglu succeeded.

Gu In-ge and Kim Sang-heon were obviously convinced that Yang Zhen would not be able to defeat the enemy within five years, so they also avoided the question of what to do after the victory.

In this way, Goo In-hyuk and Yang Zhen reached the first clause of the Ganghwa Island secret agreement, that is, the agreement to borrow the island.

Once this is achieved, other problems will naturally be solved.

Gu Renge and Li Zhu, who he represented, neither wanted to bear the infamy of paying compensation, nor did they want to pay Yang Zhen with real money, so Yang Zhen took advantage of the situation and changed the compensation to compensation for mines.

In other words, the Li Dynasty's abandoned iron mines on both sides of the Cheongcheon River and Daedong River were used to compensate for the compensation Yang Zhen demanded, that is, to compensate Yang Zhen for the cost of withdrawing from Ganghwa Island and ensuring the integrity of Gangdu Palace.

Regarding Yang Zhen's unexpected suggestion, Gu Renhe was even a little overjoyed.

As long as Yang Zhen doesn't need money or land, as long as it can be done by investing manpower, as for properties, minerals, etc., it's not a big deal to him.

Isn't it just some so-called iron ore that cannot be eaten or worn and needs someone to dig it?

Since Yang Zhen is willing to take it, then let others dig it up and give it to him.

As long as Ganghwa Island can be successfully retrieved, Yang Zhen can give him as many stones as he wants from the Akutagawa Mine!

So soon, they reached the second clause of the secret agreement between Yang Zhen and Li Chao's Ganghwa Island, using all the iron mines along the coast of Li Chao's Ping'an Road to offset Yang Zhen's compensation for returning Ganghwa Island.

Of course, the period for Yang Zhen's loan to Jeju Island is the same, which is also a five-year period.

The other clauses that follow will be much easier to handle.

Regarding the issue of food supply, after realizing the importance of deadlines, Gu In-ge and Kim Sang-heon quickly agreed with Yang Zhen that within five years, Li Chaonian would give Jinhae Town 20,000 dan of rice, for a total of 100,000 dan in five years.

And Yang Zhen made a covenant to ensure that no more soldiers from Jinhae Town would invade Ganghwa Island, and no more soldiers would plunder and harass the coast of Ping'an Road.

Obviously, the news that Yu Liangtai led his army to harass the coast of Anzhou had already reached the ears of the emperor and ministers of Hanyang City.

Now that this hidden danger in the future has been eliminated through negotiation with Yang Zhen, Gu Renhe is also very satisfied.

Among the five demands made by Yang Zhen, only the first three required Li Chao to bleed, and they were also the most important to Yang Zhen.

As for the remaining two items, Yang Zhen only proposed them in order to divide the internal ministers of the Li Dynasty and prevent them from uniting against him.

Therefore, when Ju Renge bargained with Yang Zhen over the removal of the surrender leader and the dispatch of ministers, Yang Zhen generously told them to decide on their own.

But for the last one, Yang Zhen put forward his own request, specifying that Li Chao should reuse the pro-Ming officials such as Kim Sang-heon, Kim Ji, Song Si-yeol and Song Jun-gil who had resigned to return to office.

At the same time, Yang Zhen also followed the conditions that Shen Qiyuan asked Yang Zhen to put forward to Li Zhu in his letter, and explicitly asked the Li Dynasty to re-appoint Lin Qingye, the only effective resister during the Bingzi Rebellion, to replace Li Minqiu, the younger brother of the left prime minister Li Shengqiu, as the third officer. The commander-in-chief of the Daoshui Army.

The navy of the Lee Dynasty's Joseon Dynasty was once powerful during the Wanli War against the Japanese. However, with the death of Yi Sun-shin in the battle, the navy of the Lee Dynasty declined.

After the rise of Dongjiang Town, the Li Dynasty's naval forces in Ping'an Road, Hwanghae Road and other places were even expelled from Heishuiyang. There were only three roads in the south, the so-called lower three roads of Jeolla Province, Gyeongsang Province, and Chungcheong Province. , out of the need to fight against Japan, the navy was still retained.

This is the navy commanded by the so-called Three-way Navy Commander, and it is also the only navy in Lee's Korea.

In the chaos of Bingzi, although Li Dynasty's three naval forces did not play a big role, Lin Qingye, the general who originally commanded the navy, suffered heavy casualties in the process of marching north to King Qin, but he still fought well.

After the war, Lin Qingye was reused for a time and served as the military envoy of Ping'an Road, the so-called Ping'an military envoy.

However, because of his firm determination to resist the invaders, Li Zhu was afraid that he would cause trouble for him, so with the advice of the ministers of the Zhuhe faction, he simply dismissed him and left him idle.

The brother of Li Shengqiu, who was then the Bingcao Banshu and now the left prime minister, was appointed as the commander of the three-way navy, and Liu Lin, the in-law of the hero Shen Qiyuan, was appointed as the military envoy of Ping'an Road.

After Yang Zhen received two letters from Shang Shen Qiyuan, he first asked Shen Qicheng and then An Yingchang, and finally understood the whole story.

He also knew that Shen Qiyuan had been planning for a long time in order to conspire against him, and was trying to take this opportunity to arrange for his close friend Lin Qingye to be the commander-in-chief of the three navy forces.

So this time, Yang Zhen simply brought out the hidden pro-Ming faction Lin Qingye, and the open pro-Ming faction Kim Sang-heon, Kim Ji, Song Si-yeol and Song Jun-gil.

Yang Zhen did not have clear requirements for any positions that Kim Sang-hun, Kim Ji, Song Si-yeol and Song Joon-gil would take in the future, but he had very clear requirements for Lin Qingye's position.

Although Gu Renhe didn't know the reason for this, they also knew Lin Qingye's daily words and deeds. They understood that he was indeed a person who advocated resisting the invaders, and they had no objection at the moment.

In this way, Yang Zhen reached a secret agreement with Gu Renge and Jin Sangxian outside Jiachuedun, and asked them to go back and report to Li Zhu.

This time, Yang Zhen carefully counted the days and generously gave them three days, telling them to reply to him before noon on June 18.
Chapter completed!