sjar Chapter 861: Should Goryeo be allowed to offer more Silla maids as tribute?
Chapter 861: Should Goryeo be allowed to offer more Silla maids as tribute?
Li Shanchang almost had a psychological aversion to the word "countryside".
Who would understand? The Grand Secretary of the current dynasty, Duke of Han, Grand Master of the Silver Seal, Pillar of the State, Grand Master of the Palace, and Grand Tutor proposed to Emperor Zhu the salt monopoly of Lianghuai, the establishment of tea laws, the restoration of the currency system, the opening of mines and iron smelting, and the formulation of fish taxes. It can be said that half of the Ming Dynasty's policies were made by me.
The results of it?
I somehow managed to become an official from the countryside in the south!
Right now, I really want to kill a few short, ugly guys to vent my anger!
Li Shanchang was filled with rage and malice. He was thinking about whether to send someone to bring back a few short, ugly men to vent his anger when he heard Yang Shaofeng say, "Koreans, that's just how they are."
"Believe it or not, even though these Koreans look like they're starving when they eat, once they're done, they'll probably wipe their mouths and say that the food in the Ming Dynasty is not as good as their kimchi."
"Even the matter of our Great Ming driving out the Hu Yuan, who knows what the Koreans will say about it."
Zhu Laowu was slightly taken aback and asked, "What do you mean by 'maybe'?"
Yang Shaofeng rolled his eyes and sneered, "You say that the Korean army is so powerful, and that Hu Yuan's cavalry is so afraid of their army."
"Or how many battles their army has won abroad."
"Perhaps that idiot Wang Zhuan would even dare to shout in front of the Korean court officials that the Ming Dynasty envoys should kneel down and admit their mistakes at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Gaegyeong."
As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Zhu Biao, Zhu Laowu, and Li Shanchang, along with all the other officials, were stunned.
After a long while, Zhu Biao suddenly burst out laughing and said, "Brother-in-law, you're really hilarious."
"Korean, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it is already a great disrespect that Wang Zhuan did not kneel to greet the Ming envoy. How dare he make the Ming envoy kneel down and admit his mistake in Gyeongbokgung Palace?"
"Are you deliberately teasing your little brother?"
Yang Shaofeng rolled his eyes again and snorted coldly, saying, "I dare say that in the entire Ming Dynasty, no one understands the Koreans better than I do."
"Don't be fooled by how well-behaved the Koreans seem right now."
"But that's all an illusion."
"Because to study Koreans, you have to carefully study the character of the entire Korean nation."
"For example, a short person."
"Because the entire 'Short and Dwarf Kingdom' is isolated overseas, it has had the experience of provoking the Tang Dynasty without being destroyed, and it has also had the experience of provoking the Hu Yuan without being destroyed. Therefore, the 'Short and Dwarf Kingdom' has developed an opportunistic mentality."
"In the eyes of the short and ugly, they can provoke anyone, and even if they can't win, they can retreat back to the Japanese islands."
"If anyone attacks the Japanese islands, they will naturally be protected by divine winds."
"The reason why the short and ugly people quickly knelt down when Your Highness and I led the Dengzhou fleet to the Japanese islands is because the divine wind that used to protect them did not protect them this time. The short and ugly people must face the danger of national subjugation and extinction."
"They chickened out."
"However, the short ones need to be knocked down from time to time."
"Because the Japanese islands are always hit by tsunamis and earthquakes, the short and weak people on the islands feel insecure and they desperately want to have a stable land."
"Similarly, it is precisely because the Japanese islands are always hit by tsunamis and earthquakes that most of the short and ugly people have to live in constant fear, living for the unknown. They know they cannot cope with tsunamis and earthquakes, but they still hope to overcome them. Therefore, the genes of the short and ugly are filled with the idea of the underdog overthrowing the superior."
Zhu Biao had never heard of the word "gene" before, but he understood its meaning in an instant.
Basic factors.
Zhu Biao stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "According to my brother-in-law's theory, then because Koreans are always getting beaten up, they are inherently filled with genes that admire the strong and serve the powerful."
"Because I always get beaten up, I feel inferior."
"Excessive inferiority complex leads to their tendency to become arrogant."
"Is that why they indulged in lavish feasts in the Ming Dynasty, and then, after returning to Korea, claimed that the many delicacies of the Ming Dynasty were inferior to their kimchi?"
"If that's the case, the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, or rather, the strength and wealth of the Central Plains dynasties from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, including the Yuan Dynasty, might lead to extreme envy among the Koreans, and in the future, it might even develop into a mentality of taking advantage of others?"
Yang Shaofeng clapped his hands and laughed, "Your Highness is right."
"The present-day Goryeo was originally founded by Wang Geon, a general under the Taebong monarch Gungye, who launched a coup, overthrew Gungye's rule, abolished the Taebong kingdom, and established the Goryeo Dynasty."
When the king established the kingdom, he specifically emphasized that "Goryeo" was more legitimate than "Taebung".
To put it bluntly, they want to benefit from the fame of Goguryeo, but they don't want to acknowledge Goguryeo as their father.
Zhu Biao said with a dark face, "What does Goryeo have to do with Goguryeo? You really have no shame at all."
Goryeo was established by Wang Geon, a general under the Tae-bong monarch Gung Ye, who was the illegitimate son of King Heon-an, the 47th king of Silla.
Silla's origins lie in Jinhan, one of the Three Han (Mahan, Jinhan, and Byeonhan). While it's not entirely unrelated to Goguryeo, Silla was always outmatched by Goguryeo.
Gung Ye established a regime in the name of reviving Goguryeo, which can only be described as a typical example of betraying one's ancestors.
Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that Queen Seondeok, the first female monarch of Silla, once offered herself to King Gojong, but he refused because he thought she was ugly.
However, Queen Seondeok was no pushover either.
Li Erfeng, didn't you think I was ugly?
No problem, I'll specially select young and beautiful women from Silla to be Silla maids in your Tang Dynasty and sleep with many men in your Tang Dynasty!
Zhu Biao suddenly chuckled and said, "Goryeo originated from Silla. Speaking of which, shouldn't we ask Goryeo to pay tribute with more Silla maids?"
Yang Shaofeng curled his lip: "The Koreans are such a tiny place, how many people can they support?"
“From the time of Emperor Taizong of Tang, young and beautiful Silla maids were continuously exported to the Central Plains, and what was left were all old and ugly women.”
"Passed down from generation to generation, where is the beauty left?"
"If we ask them to offer some more Silla maids as tribute, who does Your Highness intend to distribute them to?"
At this point, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but feel a little worried again.
Whether they are Silla maids or not is another matter; the key point is that the three thousand Japanese women sent by those short and ugly men are about to arrive in Dengzhou.
According to Yang Shaofeng's own ideas, the best place for these three thousand Japanese women was a brothel.
However, according to the rules of the martial arts world, these three thousand Japanese women had to be sent to the capital first, so that an old man could pick out a few good-looking ones to keep.
Then the problem is coming.
Sending Japanese women to the capital is easy, but the problem is how to explain it to the mother-in-law afterward.
And this black sesame glutinous rice ball—this guy is really audacious, actually suggesting that Goryeo (Korea) pay tribute to Silla maids.
So, my mother-in-law hasn't hit you for three days now?
Yang Shaofeng's head was getting more and more throbbing, while Zhu Xiaowu rolled his eyes in dissatisfaction and snorted, "Brother-in-law and elder brother want to study Silla maids? Why don't you go to the Korean envoys and ask for a few to study slowly? Now, please don't delay my surgery, okay?"