Chapter 244: It Never Rains but It Pours
After sending Wang Fenghua and his subordinates to the dock to help carry their luggage, Sun Shaozong leaned on the Grand Master's chair and pondered Wang Fenghua's report just now.
After all, the local officials have somewhat of a shallow vision, and Wang Fenghua was only a fifth-grade official. He couldnt understand why the Korean delegation suddenly changed the waterway, which was also normal.
However, when Sun Shaozong was in the Capital, he faintly heard some rumors. It was said that after Heishui Mohe and Mongolia were secretly linked, although he didnt dare to raise the flag to revolt, he had a direct confrontation with the Great Zhou Dynasty.
However, secretly annexing other tribes or even posing as roving bandits to ransack border fortress people was a frequent occurrence.
The level of harassment experienced by the Cao family in Korea during this time was significantly greater than that of the Great Zhou border. The tributary has now been converted into a waterway, possibly as a result of concern over being pillaged by the Heishui Mohe halfway. It was estimated that there was also an intention to force the Great Zhou to use force against the Heishui Mohe.
After all, the proudest feat of the Supreme Emperor was to destroy Korea, which didnt obey the rule of the King and tried to re-establish foreign dependency on Korea.
However, after only a decade, the Great Zhou Dynasty unexpectedly declined to a point where even the Korean tribute missions couldnt be sheltered. How could the Emperor have accepted this? How would Emperor Guangde feel?
However, it was not so easy to use force against the Heishui Mohe.
Most of the Heishui Mohe tribes were mountain tribes. When soldiers pressed the border, they hid in the mountains. Once the soldiers retreated, they immediately relapsed. To eradicate them, they must be prepared to fight a protracted war.
However, at present, the Japanese invasion in the southeast has not been eliminated, the six countries in the southwest were ready to move, and there were gradually recovering Mongolian tribes in the north. In addition, with the domestic situation of having two days being opened, leading to a long war of encirclement and suppression, it might be wishful thinking to support a protracted war of encirclement and suppression.
It never rains, but it pours!
When thinking about it, he felt aggrieved for Emperor Guangde. The two generations of his father and grandfather have beaten all eight neighboring countries over and over again, and he could be as aggressive as he could be. However, when it came to him, they became wary of one thing and lost the other.
"Your Excellency."
Sun Shaozong was thinking of the Forbidden City when he heard a small official with a swollen face report from outside, Jia Shanyao, a hundred households from the Jinmen Mansion, heard that your excellency is here on business and is currently waiting outside."
This Hebei province was adjacent to the Capital city. If there was any accident, the Town Governor could directly send people to handle it. Therefore, there were no thousand households arranged to be stationed in the town, and there were only one hundred households in Jinmen Mansion.
This was also the reason why Wang Fenghua went to Jinmen Mansion and directly checked into the inn without contacting the local Dragon Guard.
Only Wang Fenghua held himself a higher rank as an official and didnt pay attention to the hundred households here. However, Jia Shanyao, the local hundred households didnt dare ignore him. When he heard the news, he rushed over with a roar.
Who knew that he hadnt gotten to see the official of a thousand households, and yet another inspector came out!
Faced with such a powerful figure, Jia Shanyao didnt dare to neglect him even more. He quickly begged the small official guarding the gate to come and report to him. He didnt dare say he was asking for a meeting, but only that he was waiting outside.
Since he didn't dare ask for a meeting, Sun Shaozong didn't bother to see him either. He ordered someone to inform Jia Shanyao that he was on a mission for the Central Judicial Office and didn't need to be served by people from a hundred households. He allowed him to leave and do his own work.
When Wang Fenghua was in full swing and brought a gift from the official ship, Sun Shaozong also ordered him to rest in the inn for a night because he was responsible for guarding the land and was not allowed to leave without permission. He then rushed back to Shandong with his men.
Although Sun Shaozong had already sent away the people of the Dragon Guard, the fact that he concurrently served as the Thousand Household of the Dragon Guard was also well-known in the official circles of Jinmen.
Therefore, the people who subsequently arrived in various prefectures were all courteous to him, but they kept him at a respectful distance.
After all, there was a group of martial arts men in the Dragon Guard who could supervise civilian officials everywhere. This reputation, naturally, wouldnt be much better.
Although Sun Shaozong didn't care much and had been isolated by his colleagues during these short days, he couldn't help feeling uncomfortable in the face of their vigilant attitude. Therefore, he spent several days wandering around the city, rarely communicating with his colleagues.
Upon seeing the fifth day of the lunar month, the Governor's Office finally sent someone to gather all the colleagues from all over the country to the Governor's Office Yamen and briefly announce the so-called new regulations.
According to Sun Shaozong's homework done in advance, the new regulations were just new bottles of old wine. Apart from some changes in wording and sentence construction, the substance has not changed much.
It seemed that the Governor's Office just wanted to be lively. It was just a listing ceremony on the ninth day of March.
This vanity was boring!
He didnt know how the fight between Wei Ruolan and Qiu Yunfei was going
Although there was nothing serious about it, he still lingered until noon, when seven or eight fifth-grade officials left the gate of the Governor's Mansion.
Sun Shaozong didn't care what others thought of him, so he directly grabbed his official robe and threw it to the accompanying subordinate officials. He took two of his entourage and rushed towards the Sancha River estuary wharf.
Yesterday, while eating crab at the banquet at Wangjiang Tower, he ordered some fresh lobster from the shop owner and prepared to have a good lunch today. This was also the only advantage of coming to Jinmen Mansion. Currently, in the Capital, there was no such thing as fresh seafood to eat.
By the time they arrived at the Wangjiang Tower, the owner of the store had been waiting at the door for a long time and was able to operate the largest restaurant in the region. This owner naturally had connections. Therefore, he had long known the identity of Sun Shaozong, so he was treated with all kinds of hospitality.
Even the lobster, which was heavily invested yesterday afternoon by fishermen who went out to the sea overnight to catch it, only a dozen one-foot-long lobsters were gathered from three boats. The chef personally fried the lobster for half a day, piling in ingredients, and the taste was naturally excellent.
After catching up with Sun Shaozong's "broad-minded" attitude, he spent about half an hour eating a messy and enjoyable meal.
After a full meal, Sun Shaozong rinsed his mouth with the finest Tieguanyin. Holding his slightly protruding stomach, he was wondering what seafood would be suitable for tomorrow's meal. He heard a commotion on the dock outside.
Sun Shaozong curiously opened the window and looked out. He saw hundreds of government officials driving away the people on the dock, while at the center of the dock, three strange-looking ships were berthing.
The people on board dressed strangely and tightly, but the big flag set up at the bow of the ship was in authentic Chinese characters.
Korean tribute ship?
Tch!
The envoy group from North Korea paid tribute and indeed changed the water route. Next, it would be up to the Zhou Dynasty court to decide whether to save face or save money.
However, in accordance with the behavior of Emperor Guangde in recent years, he would likely choose to endure temporarily. After all, he was not as young as Wei Ruolan to act when his brain was hot.
Watching the guard of honor at the Governor's Mansion approach and welcome the Korean delegation into the city, Sun Shaozong estimated that this week the Governor should have wanted to stabilize the delegation first and then sent someone to report to the capital.
After all, the path of paying tribute to foreign countries and small countries has always been determined by the Imperial Court. It was better not to be at sea before. Anyway, in recent years, there has been no "territorial sea power" to speak of. Since they had set foot on the land of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was naturally up to the Imperial Court to decide how to go, how it would go, and how it could go.
As for the reasons for stabilizing the mission
In all likelihood, Governor Zhou would invite North Korean envoys to attend the listing ceremony on the ninth day of March.
In the future, Lord Zhou would also boast that the King of Korea's "close confidant" congratulated him on his promotion. Wasnt it enough for him to be proud for a lifetime?
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