Chapter 2302

After sailing eastward from Hong Kong and out of the Fotangmen Strait, the fleet entered the vast ocean again. In this environment, you may not be able to see a few ships within sight throughout the day, let alone from

No information has been obtained from the outside world.

Li Zhi didn't know whether the several Haihan warships escorted by him had radio stations that could transmit information across the air, but he felt that even if the Haihan people got new news on the way, they might not take the initiative to inform him. Listening

After reading Park Hongye's theory, Li Nai also vaguely felt that the Haihan people seemed to be deliberately blocking their own sources of information and concealing the current situation in North Korea, so that he could not make a correct judgment.

But in the current situation, besides relying on Haihan, Li Zhi has no other choice. If the domestic chaos still cannot be calmed, he may have to borrow troops from Haihan to quell the chaos. As for whether Haihan is willing to help

For this reason, he believed that his identity might not be the decisive factor, otherwise Haihan's attitude would not be as vague as it is now.

Based on his experience in dealing with Haihan's senior leaders in the past year or so, Li Zhi knows that the starting points of these leaders, including Haihan's executive committee, are very realistic when considering issues. They care more about Haihan's own interests rather than the interests of Haihan itself.

The Ming Dynasty cares so much about false reputations. Unless they are driven by sufficient interests, the Haihan people are likely to sit back and watch the civil strife in North Korea, waiting for the situation to become clear before choosing an attitude that is most beneficial to them to deal with subsequent diplomatic issues.

Haihan's current ambiguous attitude may cause Li Xie to miss the best opportunity to deal with the domestic chaos, so he must consider how to make Haihan clarify his position as soon as possible and help him quell the civil strife.

If you want Haihan to intervene in the domestic chaos as soon as possible, you must first promise sufficient benefits to the other party. Just like when it asked Haihan for help in fighting the Qing Dynasty last year, North Korea also first agreed to raise the military supplies needed for the war.

After the war, Haihan was allowed to garrison troops, trade, and jointly develop domestic resources, etc., in exchange for the support of the coalition forces led by Haihan to go north.

To put it bluntly, Haihan's support for North Korea was based on North Korea paying certain exchange conditions, and was not the result of Haihan's benevolence. Of course, if North Korea had not come up with these conditions in exchange for Haihan's military assistance,

Then perhaps there is no North Korea under the rule of the Lee family today. And this time civil strife breaks out in North Korea, if you want Haihan to take action again, you should only follow the previous practice and exchange practical benefits for military assistance.

So the question becomes, what kind of benefits can get Haihan to take action again?

Judging from what Li Zhi knows, there seem to be two resources that Haihan cares about most, one is minerals, and the other is population. North Korea can provide both of these resources, but the official control over them is extremely tight.

Big difference.

Since North Korea itself has very limited mineral exploration and mining technologies, it actually has little to lose by jointly developing domestic mineral resources with Haihan. For example, the iron ore development along the lower reaches of the Datong River was explored and mined by Haihan throughout the process.

Guide mine construction and mining.

North Korea is only responsible for providing labor force in this project, but it can harvest nearly half of the revenue from the iron ore, thus solving the employment problem of tens of thousands of laborers and the livelihood problem of several times that number of people. Instead of being said to suffer a loss, it can be said that North Korea is only responsible for providing labor force.

It's the party that takes advantage - at least that's how it is understood from King Li Zhu's perspective.

However, North Korea is relatively tight on population outflow. North Korea's monarchs and ministers all know that the living environment in Haihan Kingdom is better than that in their own country. Once this immigration window is opened, it will inevitably cause a massive outflow of people, and the domestic labor force will be insufficient.

Social production capacity will subsequently decline, and the taxes collected will inevitably be significantly reduced, which will even affect the country's security in the long run. Therefore, North Korea has always been tight on immigration, even if Haihan has repeatedly raised the issue

Li Jie never let go of his request.

But if this civil strife has affected the Lee royal family's rule over North Korea, and external intervention is necessary to quell the chaos, then Li Zhen believes that perhaps some concessions on the immigration issue can be exchanged for a change in Haihan's attitude.

In view of the fact that the domestic situation cannot be confirmed at present, Li Zhi believes that he must fight for it as soon as possible, because once someone becomes king in the country and is willing to compromise with Haihan in more areas, Haihan will most likely be affected by reality.

They gave up Li Jie and his son and established a new king for their own interests. If changing someone to rule could allow Haihan to get more benefits from North Korea, then why wouldn't they do it?

Therefore, not long after leaving Hong Kong, Li Zhi decided to try to further communicate with the Haihan people the next time he docked at Haihan port for supplies.

But the next stop, Magong Port in Penghu, is more than a thousand miles away from Hong Kong, so it won't arrive in a short while. Even if Li Xie is anxious, he can only wait patiently on the ship. If everything goes well, it will only take three days to arrive.

The local governor currently in charge of local military and political affairs in Penghu is Yu Yao, who is affiliated with the Ministry of National Defense. He is also responsible for the security and defense of the entire Fujian Strait and the Haihan colonial areas on the west coast of Taiwan Island, and his authority can be said to be quite broad.

In the past few years, the Haihan Army had joined forces with the Xu Jiajun of Fujian to wipe out the Shibazhi forces in this area, and the Dutch, who had suffered so much, could only retreat to Damuan Port, accept the supervision of Haihan, and were no longer allowed to go anywhere in the area.

Develop military facilities. In such a general environment, Yu Yao's jurisdiction is actually relatively peaceful, and very few combat operations have been carried out in the past two or three years.

Of course, Yu Yao also enjoyed his leisure time. He married two Fujian women and gave birth to a son and a daughter. He built vacation estates in Kaohsiung and Taipei, and occasionally visited Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. His life could be described as relaxed and comfortable.

Yu Yao relied on his wife's natal family connections to run a boat shop and a chain of shops. With the power he had, it was easy to make money. Therefore, even without his personal involvement, these businesses were run vigorously and he made a lot of money every year.

.And the income from this plus his dividends as a member of the Time Travel Group are enough for him to live the life of a top rich man here.

Yu Yao is quite satisfied with this kind of life, at least now it is much higher than what he expected when he participated in the time traveling operation. He has money, soldiers and connections, and he can be regarded as a local emperor.

However, Yu Yao also knew very well where his power and wealth came from. He would try his best to cooperate with the instructions issued by the Executive Committee. Otherwise, if the Executive Committee replaced him with someone else, where would he go?

Find a job that is so ideal.

Therefore, when the fleet escorting the Crown Prince of Joseon arrived in Penghu, Yu Yao also followed the instructions of the Executive Committee and took extremely thorough security measures, dispatching two companies of garrison troops, plus his own personal guards, to move the ship

The pier where the team docked was tightly surrounded. If people who didn’t know saw such a formation, they would definitely think that this was some high-ranking official from China coming to inspect Penghu.

The reception process that Li Zhi received here was almost exactly the same as that in Hong Kong. From the moment he disembarked from the ship, he could only have contact with Haihan soldiers and officials, and the security level was very high. But now, in his opinion, this strict security measure is somewhat

It has changed, as if it were under house arrest, with almost no access to information from the outside world.

The only thing that makes Li Zhi feel lucky is that as the local governor, Yu Yao is from the military. This may be an opportunity for him to obtain more domestic information. He believes that even if Haihan's troops stationed in North Korea will not intervene in the civil strife, they will at least

They will also keep monitoring the situation, and information about the situation will definitely be transmitted back to Sanya through here, and perhaps a breakthrough can be opened from Yu Yao.

"I can only say that I am very sorry to the crown prince. Regarding the current situation in your country, I have not received any further news yet."

At the reception banquet later, Li Zhi was greatly disappointed by Yu Yao's answer. He wanted to point out that the other party's answer was too perfunctory. Haihan's intelligence system could not be so slow. It had been so many days and he still hadn't figured out what happened in North Korea.

What kind of civil unrest?

But this kind of condemnation can only be thought about in my heart. If I say it out loud and break my face, it will be difficult to lower my voice and ask Haihan for help later.

Li Zhi could only respond with a wry smile and said tactfully: "I hope your country's garrison on the Datong River can take action as soon as possible. Otherwise, if bad guys take advantage of this opportunity to seize power, it will not only cause great harm to our country, but may also cause destruction."

Diplomatic relations between our two countries.”

Yu Yao responded: "Your Majesty is right, but there is no need to be too nervous. The news I know does not include the movements of the garrison at Datong River, so I think the situation has not yet reached a stage where it is completely uncontrollable."

Although this is not direct evidence, and it is even difficult to judge whether it is true or false, it is a long-lost good news for Li Zhi. Since the garrison at Datong River has not moved, maybe the situation is not as bad as he thought.

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Of course, this may just be Yu Yao's way of comforting him. He may not know whether the garrison at the Datong River base has moved or not, even though he is far away in Penghu.

Since the Haihan people were secretive about this, Li Xie could only resort to his ultimate move and take the initiative to express his attitude to Yu Yao.

"General Yu, in fact, regardless of whether the domestic chaos has been calmed down, I hope that your country can send troops to help our country tide over this difficulty. If the Haihan Army needs us to provide certain conditions, then I can make the decision at this moment and cooperate with you.

The country signs relevant agreements!”

When Yu Yao heard this, he could feel Li Xie's determination and expectations, but the confidentiality measures were required by the executive committee, and he did not want his judgment and future to be affected by Li Xie's words.

But Li Zhi took the initiative to make it clear, and he was obviously panicked about the direction of the domestic situation. If Haihan did not take the opportunity to gain some benefits, he would have missed the opportunity to make the other party take the initiative to compromise. But Yu Yao certainly would not

To take the bait so quickly, he had to test Li Xie's trump card first.

"Sending troops to intervene... Then it is up to the Executive Committee to decide. We who lead the troops are only responsible for fighting, and we can only send troops after receiving orders. Otherwise, it will be a violation of military law." Yu Yao said with a look of helplessness on his face: "This

I believe that the Crown Prince can understand the truth, and maybe if we wait a little longer, the executive committee will make a decision."

Of course Li Zhi understood the problem. Haihan's sending troops to intervene in the situation in North Korea was first a diplomatic issue, and then a military issue. If it was not recognized by the Haihan Executive Committee at the diplomatic level, then sending troops would be just an empty promise that was difficult to fulfill.

Check. Although senior generals like Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun have great authority to operate overseas, this matter may have exceeded their ability to make decisions.

But Li Zhi didn't dare to wait, because the decision made by the executive committee might not be beneficial to him. The longer he delayed, the more detrimental it would be to him.

So he changed to a more direct way of expression: "I would like to ask General Yu to tell the Executive Committee on your behalf that if your country can assist our country in resolving the civil strife, then some of the issues that have been temporarily shelved before can also be brought up for discussion again.

.For example, we can talk about your country’s participation in industrial operations in our country, opening up immigration channels, etc.!”

Yu Yao paid attention to Li Xie's expression and saw that he didn't look like he was talking nonsense, so he concluded that Li Xie was really anxious. He could understand Li Xie's mentality and knew what Li Xie was afraid of. Since

Li Zhi began to take the initiative to reveal his trump card, and Yu Yao felt that it might be time for the executive committee to make a weigh-in.

"Since the Crown Prince is so eager, let me see it this way. I will inform the Executive Committee of the Crown Prince's intention first, and the Executive Committee will make a judgment on whether to send troops to your country." Yu Yao did not say too harshly.

This is to leave some room for maneuver in subsequent negotiations.

Seeing that Yu Yao finally relented, Li Zhi quickly thanked him. What he needed now was such an information channel to communicate with the executive committee again and buy himself as much time as possible.

We have just reached Penghu at this time, and are not even halfway back. If we can operate well and make Haihan clear his attitude before arriving in North Korea, then even if there is chaos in the country, there is still the possibility of calming down the situation and taking power back into his own hands.

However, although telegrams are a fast method of transmitting information, they cannot receive immediate replies after sending them. Yu Yao told Li Zhi that not one executive committee member can make such a major decision as sending troops alone.

Yes, it is necessary to hold a meeting to discuss, weigh the pros and cons, prepare all the required materials, and discuss these issues clearly. It may take as fast as one or two days, or as slow as three to five days, before there may be a reply from Sanya.

Li Zhi was eager to return home. He couldn't bear to wait a few more days in Penghu. He immediately said that he had to go north as soon as possible, so he could only entrust the matter to Yu Yao. When he stopped at Zhoushan at the next stop, he might be able to collect it.

Got the reply from the Executive Committee.

Just like in Hong Kong, the fleet only rested in Magong Port for one night, and then set off again the next day, hurriedly heading north. However, this exchange with Yu Yao in Penghu seemed to have seen a glimmer of hope.

My mood also relaxed a little.
Chapter completed!