Ming Dynasty: Huddled in Beiping County as Magistrate Text Volume Chapter 151 Planning GoryeoLatest website: Zhu Di was full of doubts, "The Goryeo envoy couldn't even pay a thousand taels of silver, Guo Qing also knew it
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Guo An chuckled and said: "Your Highness, what I want is that my envoy from Korea cannot get enough money.
"Huh?"
Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, "The envoy from Korea is an envoy of a country. No matter how annoying he is, you can't harm him!"
Guo An looked depressed, "Your Highness, Wei Chen is such a good person!"
"Hmm!"
Zhu Di nodded nonchalantly and asked directly: "How exactly does Guo Qing want to sell it to the Goryeo envoy?"
Guo An said helplessly: "Loan!"
"Loan?"
Zhu Di was stunned.
Zhu Fu's eyes on the side were also filled with strange expressions.
"Exactly!"
Guo An said with a smile on his face: "Since the Goryeo envoy wants to get the secret technique of growing vegetables in winter in Prince Yan's palace so much, and His Highness is a wise king with a heart like a Bodhisattva, then sell it to him!"
Zhu Di nodded with satisfaction. He was very satisfied with the Bodhisattva's heart in Guo An's words.
As for Zhu Fu, his eyelids twitched most because Guo Thief actually bewitched His Highness King Yan like this. How could His Highness King Yan be a Bodhisattva...
Huh? Guo Thief's heart is getting darker and darker. Your Highness, King Yan, has the heart of a Bodhisattva!
Guo An continued: "However, ten thousand taels of silver is not small money after all, and His Highness is just a prince of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the Goryeo envoy from taking away the secrets of growing vegetables in the cold winter, there is no trust.
Therefore, the loan contract needs to be stamped with the seal of his Korean envoy.
Of course, it would be great if the seal of the King of Goryeo could be stamped on the loan contract!"
"The seal of the King of Goryeo?"
At this moment, Zhu Di couldn't help but yearn for it, "Is this really true?"
"Of course you can!"
Guo An nodded with certainty and said: "If the King of Goryeo doesn't stamp it, then he won't lend them any silver or sell them the secrets of growing vegetables in the cold winter."
“Very good!”
Zhu Di looked happy.
Zhu Fu asked, "What if the Goryeo envoy wants to borrow more money to buy the secret recipe for transparent glass and cement?"
"The secret of transparent glass can be sold."
Guo An replied: "But the secret technique of cement, they are just wishful thinking!"
"That's two hundred thousand taels of silver. How can the King of Korea pay it back?"
Suddenly remembering something, Zhu Di couldn't help but look at Guo An with confusion.
Guo An grinned and said: "Your Highness, it's only two hundred thousand taels of silver. Wouldn't it be better if the Goryeo Kingdom couldn't afford it?"
Zhu Di was furious, "That's 210,000 taels of silver!"
Guo Andao: "Your Highness, you didn't really lend them two hundred thousand taels of silver, you just gave them a loan contract and two secret techniques."
Zhu Di calmed down and looked at Guo An with strange eyes.
"It's true, Guo Qing's heart is getting darker and darker!"
Guo An: "..."
Zhu Di asked again: "But what do I think? This is all my kindness and good deeds for the Goryeo barbarians. What does it have to do with opening up the territory for the Ming Dynasty?"
Guo An asked: "Your Highness, what if the Koryo Kingdom cannot afford to repay the two hundred and one thousand taels of silver? Or, the King of Koryo violated the contract and revealed the secret of transparent glass and the secret of growing vegetables in winter to others.
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Zhu Di was furious: "Then Goryeo Guoan dared to bully me, so I led my troops to destroy them!"
Guo An smiled and said: "Your Highness is mighty!"
Zhu Di was startled, then suddenly reacted, laughed loudly, and looked at Guo An with admiration on his face.
"Guo Qing is indeed a great talent for the country!"
"Your Highness is so complimentary!"
Guo An said modestly.
Zhu Fu's face was full of worry, "Your Highness, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty declared that all countries should live in peace and harmony and share the blessings of peace."
"We know."
Zhu Di smiled faintly and said, "Father, I think these vassal states are very poor. If we attack these vassal states, we will resort to militancy, exhaust our troops and the people, and even enact a maritime ban.
But now that Korea dares to bully me, how can we endure it?
And..."
As I said, Zhu Di's eyes were full of coldness.
"Nowadays, the sea is full of delicious fish. Sooner or later, our Ming Dynasty will have conflicts with these vassal states!"
Zhu Fu's expression was a little solemn, and his thoughts were relatively stable, and he did not want to conquer those foreign countries.
However, what Zhu Di said is not unreasonable.
Even the capricious Goryeo Kingdom might really violate the contract.
As for whether the Goryeo envoy and the King of Goryeo will sign a contract?
Neither Zhu Di nor Zhu Fu had any doubts. According to the tendency of everyone in Korea to take advantage, how could they miss such a good thing?
Sure enough.
When Li Shihou, the envoy of Goryeo, heard the request of King Yan Zhu Di, he agreed without even thinking about it.
"His Royal Highness King Yan is kind!"
After bowing respectfully, Li Shihou looked at Zhu Di again and said expectantly: "The foreign minister kindly asks His Highness King Yan to lend the secret technique of cement to the foreign minister."
Zhu Di smiled coldly and asked: "Master Li, do you know the price of that secret cement technique?"
Li Shihou quickly replied: "I would like to inform His Highness King Yan that the secret price of cement is one million taels of silver."
Zhu Di looked at Li Shihou quietly and asked, "Can your country of Korea afford one million taels of silver?"
"Reporting to His Highness King Yan, the foreign minister of the Kingdom of Korea..."
Li Shihou hesitated for a moment, but still did not dare to deceive Zhu Di.
"The foreign ministers dare not deceive His Highness King Yan, and the foreign ministers don't know!"
"Okay, please quickly take the deed paper back to your Kingdom of Korea and ask the King of Korea to put his seal on it. Then, I will give you the transparent glass and the secret technique of growing vegetables in cold winter."