Chapter 695: Every inch of rivers and mountains is worth an inch of gold
Two days later, Zhao Xin, who had returned to Beihai Town, received the relevant telegram from the Western Front Command and learned about everything that happened in Hami. Although he wanted to see the majestic Tianshan Mountains with his own eyes, there were more important things at the moment.
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The envoys from the Li Dynasty have been in Beihai Town for a week. The purpose of their trip is to discuss with Beihai Town the ownership of the southern foot of the source of the Tumen River and the demarcation of the northeastern border. The chief and deputy envoy is Zuo Yizheng
In addition, there are five ministers including the Zuo Counselor of the Bibian Division, Hongbunkan Daixue, and the Li Cao Counselor, plus the entourage and attendants, there are more than a hundred people.
It’s the same as the Yanxing delegation going to Beijing.
The reason why Li Zuo sent such a high-level mission was mainly because the military operation of the Beihai Navy across the Tumen River really scared him and his subordinates Wenwu. He even felt that if he continued to play "always away" from Beihai Town,
To avoid talking about the territorial issue of North Hamgyong Province, King Zhao is likely to attack Hanyang City.
On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, the Northern Navy stationed in Hunchun, under the command of Pan Xiucheng, suddenly crossed the Tumen River with two regiments of troops and entrenched themselves on the long border line at Qingxing and Qingyuan.
, Wencheng, Zhongcheng, and Huining launched a full-line offensive. Frightened by the powerful offensive of the Northern Navy, the Qing generals in various places either committed suicide and were captured, their subordinates collapsed, and some surrendered; or they surrendered;
Qitai, like Qitai, led the defenders into an organized surrender.
At this point, since the 31st year of Hongwu in the pre-Ming Dynasty, the defense system of the six northern towns that the Li Dynasty had spent nearly fifty years building in order to implement the "Northward Strategy" had almost collapsed, leaving only an "assistive rear defense base"
"--Funing Mansion.
After Huining City was captured, Pan Xiucheng did not forget Zhao Xin's instructions. After only two days of rest, he sent a battalion south to attack Maoshan Fucheng, and finally fell in a single battle.
For this battle, Pan Xiucheng prepared for two years in Hunchun. During this period, in addition to sending people to inquire about the North Korean farmers who crossed the river to reclaim wasteland, and bribed officials of the Li Dynasty to obtain information about the defense system along the river, North Korean navy scouts also
I went to the south bank of the Tumen River in disguise many times for on-the-spot reconnaissance, and I was very familiar with the climate, mountains, rivers, villages and towns, pass roadblocks, beacon towers and troop deployment on the south bank of the Tumen River.
At the same time as the ground battle was launched, ten small motor-driven sailing ships transferred from Beihai Town and five motor-driven sailing ships and gunboats stationed in Mokowei were all dispatched. They gathered on the sea in the Xishuiluo area and patrolled day and night, forcing Li Chaoshui stationed in Xishuiluoqianpu.
The army was so frightened that they did not even dare to leave their nests, and could not issue a poster letter. In the end, they sent an emergency report to Jingcheng Mansion via land. It was already twenty days later when Hanyang received news confirming the large-scale "invasion" of Beihai Town.
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When Li Zhen learned that the Northern Navy had sent troops, he was anxious all night, and asked the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to quickly come up with countermeasures. Cai Jigong, who had been frustrated in front of Zhao Xin, had now become the leader of the political affairs and the chief of the border affairs department. He
Those who have seen the power of the Beihai Navy know that they will definitely not win in a fight; and the Shogunate Choshu Domain, which is separated from the Li Dynasty by a sea, has now become the dog leg of Beihai Town. If there is an attack from both sides, it may be the disaster of destroying the country.
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Everyone unanimously suggested that we still have to talk, but posture is very important. Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is unreliable, Beihai Town has become the new big thick leg, and we must hug it tightly. After some recommendations, Zuo Yizheng, Jin Lvsu and Li Cao Judge Yin Pedong became the inevitable candidate to lead the team.
Before the mission left, Li Zuo repeatedly warned that the five towns in the north must be brought back; that was the territory that was finally created during the Taizong era, and if he lost it, he would not be able to face his ancestors.
When the Li Chao envoy arrived at Whale Port, Zhao Xin had not returned yet. On the Beihai Town side, Yu Deli, Shen Jingdan, Wang Zhong, Zhao Yi and Liu Taigong came to receive them.
Li Chao has gotten to know the important people in Beihai Town over the years. They all know that Shen Jingdan is Zhao Xin's father-in-law. Needless to say, his status is also in charge of the maritime trade affairs of Beihai Town; Wang Zhong is famous all over the world. A great scholar of Confucian classics, he and Zhao Xin were both teachers and friends; Liu Taigong was the person in charge of the civil affairs of the Hunchun area, and he handled the daily border affairs between the Li Dynasty and Beihai Town.
Well, Yu Deli... This old man is too mysterious, and his origins cannot be found out at all!
However, the appearance of Zhao Yi surprised everyone in the mission. Many of them had heard of him for a long time. You must know that Zhao Yi served in the Military Aircraft Department more than 30 years ago and also served as a retinue of Emperor Qianlong. Now; even such people have surrendered to King Zhao, which undoubtedly means that Beihai Town is no longer the "uneducated" separatist regime it used to be.
Zhao Yi was actually about to return to the south of the Yangtze River by boat with Yuan Mei. However, when he heard that people from the Li Dynasty were coming to negotiate, he found Yu Deli and said that he had been an official in Anfu and Yongchang, the border towns of Guangxi for many years, and he was not interested in handling the matter. I am very familiar with border affairs and can help with detailed planning.
Yu Deli thought that the frontier affairs in Guangxi were not the same as those in Northeast China! However, seeing that Zhao Yi was so enthusiastic, it was difficult to refute him, so he simply arranged a temporary position as a consultant for him. Zhao Yi was naturally happy, and he I'm just curious and want to see it, but I really want to be an official but I don't want to do it.
When Yuan Mei saw that Zhao Yi wouldn't leave, he had no choice but to take his son back by boat. Although he couldn't see enough of the novelties in Beihai Town and there were countless delicious foods, the climate after winter was too cold for his old bones to bear. Suiyuan in Xiaocangshan was the most comfortable place to live. However, his female disciple Xi Peilan and her husband Sun Yuanxiang stayed here. The couple both ranked among the best in the new imperial examination in August. One was ranked fifth in the Tongsheng examination, and the other was ranked fifth. He was third in the child examination. Sun Yuanxiang and others entered the administrative school in early October to continue studying for one year, while Xi Peilan went to a primary school and became a colleague with Wang Zhenyi.
In addition to the above five people, Yu Deli also selected a dozen people from the scholars and young students admitted to the new imperial examination this year, and put them into the negotiation team as assistants, which was nothing more than sorting out materials and meeting minutes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The negotiation started in a polite atmosphere. Everyone was a well-established and knowledgeable person. Even Shen Jingdan, who was a businessman, now secretly boasted He is a "quasi-governor" and cannot be the same as in the past. However, people like Li Chao are typical shameless people. The more you respect him, the more opportunities he feels he can take advantage of.
After being promoted by the Prefectural Secretary, Shen Huanyi, a scholar of the Hongbunkan University, came up to talk about the "Mukden Delimitation" in the 51st year of Kangxi's reign, and said that the birthplace of the Korean Kingdom was the Changbai Mountain at the source of the Tumen River. Now every year Sacrifice ceremonies will be held in the first month, February and August of each year. After Shen Huanzhi said this, he also took out the sacrificial inscriptions written by himself and his predecessor as proof.
On the Beihai Town side, Wang Zhong fired the first shot. He did not bother to argue about the boundary demarcation during the Kangxi era, but pointed directly at the source.
"It has only been twenty-five years since your country established sacrifices. Zongshan's theory is neither found in the scriptures nor in history. It is just a theory of one family in your country and may not be based on evidence. If we follow what Mr. Wanpu said , Kunlun is the ancestor of all mountains, is your country still moving its border to the Kunlun watershed?"
"Furthermore, when your country formulated the "Five Rites" at the beginning of the country, although the six towns, including Qingxing, were already within the boundary, they did not use Changbai Mountain but Bibai Mountain as the northern peak. Zi said to Ran Youyun: Rites, sacrifices by princes It is arrogant to enclose the mountains and rivers within the territory and offer sacrifices to them by the Ji family! What is your intention to sacrifice mountains outside the territory without authorization?"
Liu Taigong added: "Although there is a saying in your country's "Longxing Song" that 'the mountains come from Changbai Mountain, the water flows to the Longxing River, the mountains and the water are beautiful and auspicious, and the great king Taizu is born', but Long Xingjiang was formerly known as Hengjiang, and your Changbai Mountain is the "White Mountain" one hundred and ten miles west of Jingcheng, not our country's Changbai Mountain. Your country's "Shijong Shilu Geography" says that Bibai Mountain is one hundred miles northwest of Dingping Prefecture. Xu, Baishan is in the west of Jingcheng County."
After that, he directly threw out a copy of the materials and sneered: "How far is Qingxing from Changbai Mountain? It is obviously our country's territory, when did it become your country?!"
Shen Huanzhi was shocked when he took the material and read it. There was a passage written on it: "Let the Confucian officials read the first chapter of "The Song of Long Fei Yu Tian", 'Today, my ancestor, Qingxing is a house.' It is particularly clear that Mount Baektu is a mountain of our country. Although it is not in the territory of our country, in the way of pursuing retribution, it is still necessary to pray for sacrifices. How about it in our country? During the festival of worship, the ceremony is held. And the altar can be set up. At this place, I asked the Taoist officials to tell me about the detailed situation."
"This..." The other members of Li Chao's delegation were all dumbfounded after seeing this, looking at each other, wondering why Beihai Town even got this thing. It seems that there is a treacherous minister in the court!
You must know that what Liu Taigong took out was none other than the Li Dynasty's secret archive "Diary of the Seungjeongwon". This passage came from the mouth of Li Zang's grandfather, King Yeongjo, and it is irrefutable.
It is said that there are two mountains north of Yongxing in the Li Dynasty called Changbai Mountain. One is called Changbai Mountain in China and Baektou Mountain in North Korea; the other is "White Mountain" 110 miles west of Jingcheng, which the locals call "Changbai Mountain". From Judging from the official geographical annals from the early to late Joseon Dynasty, the latter was listed in the Kyongseong Mountains and Rivers. Among these two mountains, Kyungseong Changbaeksan Mountain was included in the three famous mountains of Hamgil Province (later Hamgyong Province). Its status is much higher than that of Mount Baitou (today's Changbai Mountain). Not only was Mount Baitou not included in the list of famous mountains, but because it was still in the "savage (Jurchen) land", it was even removed from the list of mountains and rivers set up by local officials for sacrifice.
In addition to these two Changbai Mountains, there is Zhenshan Zubai Mountain five miles west of Jingcheng; there is Bibai Mountain in Dingping Prefecture, which is designated as Beiyue and is included in the Central Sacrifice. As the Zhenshan Mountain north of Yongxing, the birthplace of Joseon Taizu, Bibai Mountain The status of Baishan Mountain is even higher than that of Baektu Mountain and Jingcheng Changbai Mountain.
Therefore, the so-called "mountains come from Changbai Mountain" actually refers to the "Changbai Mountain" or Bibai Mountain to the west of Jingcheng, and is definitely not the Changbai Mountain in China with Tianchi.
Yin Pedong, the Li Cao judge opposite, secretly scolded Shen Huanzhi for being an idiot. He was talking about Changbai Mountain! It is true that he took back the five northern towns and Maoshan Mansion. So he said: "Let's put it aside for now. I'll wait until this time." I came here on the order of my king. I would like to ask Mr. Shen, now that the barbarians have surrendered on the south bank of the Tumen River, should the land occupied by the superior country be returned to us?"
Shen Jingdan twirled his beard and shook his head slightly: "The land on the south bank of the Tumen River and Maoshan are the land of the Jurchens. Your country took advantage of the chaos at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to occupy it for nearly three hundred years. It's time to It’s back.”
Yin Pedong became anxious when he heard this and said hurriedly: "That was a land gift from Emperor Taizong. How can it be said that it was stolen?"
In fact, the northern border line of the Li Dynasty at the beginning of its founding was not the Tumen River, but Jingcheng.
The reason why Li Fangyuan, the third generation king of the Li Dynasty, wanted to expand the border to the north was not only to seek land during the transition of dynasties in the Central Plains, but also because when the North Korean Taizu Li Chenggui first came to the throne, he respected his father for four generations as the king. , and Qingyuan Mansion is the burial place of his great ancestors, Li Andu and his wife. In the Yuan Dynasty, it belonged to the "Odong Qianhu Institute", and Li Andu was the "First Thousand Household and Daru" of the Qianhu Institute. Flowers are red".
According to the explanation, after replacing the Yuan Dynasty, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty should be taken over by the Ming Dynasty. The Li Dynasty's private occupation was stealing. But when Zhu Di sent envoys to appease the ten virgin tribes around the Tumen River, the Li Dynasty wanted to ensure its "northern expansion." In order to achieve the purpose of permanent "legal" occupation, he sent envoys to Nanjing to argue sophistry, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would "take over the Jurchen people in the northeastern part of the country and ask for the jurisdiction of the country to remain as before."
It is a pity that "We, the Ming Dynasty" have a weak territorial awareness and lack of understanding of the area south of the Tumen River, so it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong in the sophistry of the North Korean envoys. In addition, North Korea has always been "sincere and serious"; so in this case, The suzerain country's "Rouyuan Tolerance" heart broke out, and it easily agreed to North Korea's request and granted the above-mentioned ten virgin tribe areas. In the end, the Joseon Dynasty got what it wanted, and the fact that the lower reaches of the Tumen River was bounded by the river was formed.
This is the origin of "Taizong's gift of soil".
Wang Zhong continued: "Even if this is the case, it is still a problem in the lower reaches of the Tumen River. What about Maoshan in the middle reaches? Which emperor in the previous Ming Dynasty gave the decree to give Maoshan to you? Let's take a look at the imperial decree! Who allowed you to give Maoshan to you? The Maoshan Administrative Office moved from Shibali north of Funing Town to Sanfengping?"
"This, this, this is not when the Jurchens left..."
Yin Pedong made a mistake after saying a few words and couldn't speak any more. Zuo Yizheng and Jin Lusu were so angry that their beards trembled, thinking, "What an idiot!"
It is said that in the early days, Maoshan Town was also called Maoshan Wanhu Fort, which was originally a key fort under the jurisdiction of Huining Town; and as Wang Zhong said, at that time, Maoshan Wanhu Fort was not located on the Tumen River, but in Funing. North of the town. Throughout the second half of the 15th century, the fort remained in place without any changes. However, with the rise of Nurhaci, all the Jurchen tribes in the Tumen River Basin, including the Laotu tribe, were recruited there. North of the Tumen River, after evacuating the place where they lived, the south bank of the middle reaches of the Tumen River remained deserted for more than half a century.
Li Chao felt that his opportunity had come, so he declared, "This is my land. If the enemy comes, you will avoid it, and if the enemy goes, you will live there. It is a solid land. Since it is limited by the river, even though it is outside the Great Wall and is full of beans within the river, it is
I also know that it is not its own land." So in the thirteenth year of Kangxi, Maoshan Fort was first moved to the "Sanfengping" area on the riverside, and ten years later it was upgraded to the Protectorate, thus completing the construction of Maoshan Fort.
Final setting.
The problem is that in the thirteenth year of Kangxi's reign, the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Yongli, had been dead for twelve years. Where could the Li Dynasty go to seek imperial edicts?
The attitude of these people from Beihai Town as soon as they came up shocked the Li Dynasty envoys. Each of them looked livid, knowing that they had encountered a tough opponent. However, what surprised Jin Lvsu and others was that both Wang Zhong and Liu Taigong were well-educated people.
Why did the scholars become so domineering and squandering every inch of land after joining Beihai Town? Could it be that they were infected by King Zhao?
The same goes for King Zhao. As the inheritor of the Central Plains Dynasty, it is only right not to compete with small states for size!
In fact, what he doesn't know is that Zhao Xin and other time-travelling warriors have led the Beihai Navy in expeditions over the years, often to protect territorial sovereignty. Therefore, whether it is the various departments of Beihai Town, the army, industries and mines, schools, or even
In rural areas, in recent years, propaganda has been repeatedly carried out through radio, opera and other popular forms. The purpose is to instill a sense of territorial sovereignty in the people under the rule, and then form a modern national concept.
The reason why Yu Deli allowed the scholars who were training in the administrative school to join the negotiation team was to make these scholars who were deeply educated in Confucian tradition understand and accept the border consciousness of Beihai Town-that is, territorial sovereignty, and to influence and promote more changes through them.
Many readers.
The first class that those scholars who entered the administrative school took was about sovereignty and territory, and it was Yu Deli who taught it himself. He started from the "Book of Songs" "There is nothing under the world but the king's land", and then went on to "
"Benevolent government begins from the realm of economics" in "Mencius", and then to "The Theory of Frontier Territory" in "Hanshu"... Basically, he has sifted through the positive and negative examples of border territories in all dynasties.
You must know that one of the biggest flaws in China's traditional border consciousness is the so-called concept of "family world" or "court world". After all, maintaining the stability of one's own rule is more important than anything else. This is why Shi Jingtang can cede "Yanyun Sixteen" at will
"State", why can the fortitude of another time and space say "I would rather be a friend than a domestic slave".
The words of Wang Zhong and others are actually expressing an attitude to the surrounding neighboring countries, that is, the vassal era of "with virtue and softness" has passed, and the nonsense like Yongzheng's "the heaven will not compete with small states for size" can be washed away.
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Not to mention giving up three feet, not even an inch!