Please ask me to be the emperor

"You are an angel?"

King Li Zhu of Korea didn't know yet that Zhang Shun was plotting against his Pidao. It was just the first time he saw such a young "angel" and he couldn't believe it.

Are you sure you're not kidding?

How old are you? I’m afraid your hair has not even grown yet!

Of course Li Dingguo understood the thoughts of the North Korean monarchs and ministers, and couldn't help but laugh: "Gan Luo is the prime minister at the age of 20, and Taigong is the king at the age of 80. If you have ambitions, you will not be old or young, and if you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred springs in vain!"

"Master, please don't laugh at my young age. I was able to go into battle and kill the enemy at the age of ten. Now I am fifteen and have reached the rank of commander-in-chief."

"Oh? What are you capable of, capable of being an officer to the rank of commander-in-chief?" No one believed it when they heard this. They only thought that Zhang Shun randomly sealed a young man and deliberately insulted his own people.

"Do you have any other abilities?" Li Dingguo frowned when he heard this and thought about it, then smiled, "It's just that in the previous battle, the puppet king of Donglu was killed by Kong Youde!"

"Ah!" As soon as Li Dingguo said these words, the North Korean monarchs and ministers were shocked and changed their expressions.

Why?

It turned out that Kong Youde was originally a military officer named Mao Wenlong, and he, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and others adopted him as his adopted grandson, so he became known to North Korea.

Later, after the Denglai Rebellion, he took refuge in Houjin and was named the King of Obedience.

Later, he served as the vanguard in attacking Dongjiang and North Korea. The North Korean government and the public suffered a lot from him.

The King of Korea, Li Ju, never expected that the famous "evil thief" Kong Youde would die at the hands of this young man, and he couldn't help but stand in awe.

He hurriedly said: "Earlier, I was so blind that I underestimated a true hero. Please forgive me, General!"

"Those who don't know are not guilty!" Li Dingguo waved his hand and said with a smile like a young adult, "I am here today to help your country select and train soldiers and horses for future conquests. I wonder what your country's lord thinks?"

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, that's what it should be!" When Li Zhu heard that the Heavenly Kingdom actually wanted to help him choose and train soldiers and horses, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

It turns out that there are not a few Korean soldiers. However, due to the strong hierarchy between the upper and lower levels and backward tactical thinking, except for the elite soldiers of Hamgyong Province, there are almost no soldiers to fight.

This was also the fundamental reason why the Korean soldiers collapsed at the first touch during the Imjin Rebellion.

Now that they heard such a good thing, the entire North Korean nation no longer cared about where to send troops.

The dispute between the two sides was settled. Li Dingguo struck while the iron was hot and said quickly: "When I was going to Korea as an envoy, there was an old friend accompanying me."

"This man has no other good interests but to be a good trader. I would like to ask Your Highness to be especially gracious and allow him to lead ships to trade in various ports."

"This" Li Zhuo heard this and looked at Sun Kewang, who was about the same age next to Li Dingguo. He hesitated for a while and then agreed readily.

"Well, our country doesn't allow merchants to come and go casually, but since the angel has invited us, don't dare to disobey!"

It turns out that at this time, the trade exchanges between the two sides of the Ming Dynasty were accompanied by envoys from each other.

Among them, there are public and private ones, and the market is usually opened locally.

Both parties have great restrictions on the materials and quantities that can be bought and sold.

For example, today's tribute trade between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty generally adopts the "eight packages system" and the "silver search method."

Since North Korea lacks silver and does not use silver for internal transactions, silver can only be used for foreign trade.

However, the people in North Korea were poor and weak, and they often could not make ends meet in transactions. Therefore, when the Angel of Korea was sent to the Ming Dynasty as an envoy, the "eight packages system" was adopted.

The so-called "eight bags system" allows "officials" on missions to carry "eight bags".

Among them, the so-called official officials include translators, military officers and assistant generals, and "eight packets" generally refers to carrying eight packets of ginseng as hard currency.

Generally, a pack of ten kilograms of ginseng is equivalent to eighty kilograms of ginseng, which is worth about two thousand taels of silver.

This ensures that North Korea's only silver will not flow out casually.

What, you mean free trade?

Sorry, we are a feudal society and we don’t need that!

Seeing that Sun Kewang was young and didn't carry much cargo, and that Li Dingguo had just benefited from selecting and training elite soldiers, Li Zhu agreed to his request.

Not to mention how Li Dingguo selected and trained his soldiers, Sun Kewang, who had obtained Li Ding's royal order, was worried about the ice at the port, so he quickly said goodbye to Li Dingguo and left Seoul.

It turns out that this time Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were different from Huang Sunmao. This time they went one step further.

From the original rocky mountain port near Pyongyang, sail south to the Seoul area.

So Sun Kewang took two small boats with 200 materials, departed from Seoul, went south to the Daheishan Islands, turned east, crossed the Jeju Strait, and then arrived in Busan.

As soon as Sun Kewang arrived near Busan, he saw seagulls in the sky and ships on the sea. It was a prosperous scene that was different from other places.

He couldn't help but exclaimed: "I didn't expect that Korea has such a good place!"

After he checked the voucher, paid the fee, and entered Hong Kong, he saw Japanese samurai with shaved Tsukiyo heads, Japanese geishas with pale faces, and Korean women in immodest clothes everywhere. It was such an exotic place. Quite different from China.

Sun Kewang was young and energetic. He had never seen this before. He didn't know where to look and his whole little face turned red.

"This young master has invited me!" At this moment, a man came forward and paid homage.

"Oh? Who are you?" Sun Kewang couldn't help but look at him in surprise. If he hadn't had a high nose, deep eyes, and curly hair, he would have thought that this person was from the mainland.

"My surname is Pu, and my name is Changluo. I am from the Far West. I didn't expect to see the young master of the Ming Dynasty here!" The man replied in a strange accent.

It turned out that this man was a merchant from Europe. Seeing that Sun Kewang was young and had an entourage of thirty or twenty, he thought he was the son of a nobleman from the Ming Dynasty.

"Oh, hello, hello!" Sun Kewang responded awkwardly, not knowing what to say for a moment.

However, this Pu Changluo was familiar with him and gave him guidance: "Are you a little shy about this?"

"Oh, it's okay, just feel free to look at it, they are all like this!"

"However, you must not treat them as prostitutes, or you will be beaten!"

Speaking of this, Park Changra looked frightened, as if he had experienced it himself.

"Oh? Where are you from? What kind of business do you do?" Sun Kewang remembered Zhang Shun's explanation of his business, and didn't want to continue talking nonsense with him on this topic.

"Oh, I told you that I came from the Far West and traveled across the ocean. I first went to Macau, then Taiwan and Japan. I took a boat from Hakata a few days ago and sold some Western gadgets!" At this point, Pu Changluo looked Sun Kewang up and down and couldn't help but make a sales pitch.

"I wonder if this young master is interested. I have a treasure here. If you take out five thousand taels, oh, no three thousand taels, I will give this treasure to you!"

"What treasure?" Sun Kewang couldn't help but be surprised after hearing Pu Changluo's words, "It actually costs three thousand taels?"

"Dang, Dang, Dang!" Pu Changluo saw that Sun Kewang had taken the bait, and quickly took him to a few companions not far away, and then opened a package triumphantly.

"Self-ringing bell?" Sun Kewang took a closer look and couldn't help but smile.

It turns out that this self-ringing bell is a rare thing in Shaanxi, and Sun Kewang has never seen it.

However, when he arrived in the capital, he found that there were many for sale, and the price of each sample was only fifty taels of silver. This guy really took him for granted.

He couldn't help but smile and said: "I've seen this thing before, and I don't want to buy it. However, if you can tell me the route you took when you came here in detail, I wouldn't mind paying a little money!"