Chapter 144: Descendants of Danluo

That afternoon, the return fleet arrived on Danluo Island. In addition to the Ming army, there were many indigenous people on Danluo Island. They were all subjects of the Danluo Kingdom and were later forced to become Koreans. They had about 10,000 people who made a living by fishing and planted a little bit of food. After Ouchi Yingyi occupied Danluo Island, they robbed all their food, took their wives and daughters hostages, and forced them to go into the sea to fish. It was not until the Ming army annihilated Ouchi Yingyi and occupied Danluo Island that the indigenous people were able to restore their freedom. With the help of the Ming army, they built houses, reclaimed land, and gradually restored their vitality.

Li Weizheng's treasure ship slowly landed. On the dock, Sima Tong, a thousand households stationed in Danluo Island and the representatives of the two indigenous peoples had been waiting for a long time. Li Weizheng got off the ship, and Sima Tong immediately stepped forward and half-kneeled to salute and said, "Sima Tong, please see the commander!"

"Thank you for your hard work, General Sima."

Li Weizheng quickly helped him up and asked with a smile: "Have Li Chenggui sent someone to cause trouble for you?"

"Of course they will come." Sima Tong said disdainfully: "They have been here three times in total. The first and second time they were civil servants on the island. The first time they said thank you for driving away the Japanese Japanese pirates, and were willing to give us five thousand taels of silver as a thank you, asking us to withdraw our troops and return the island to them."

"What do you say?" Li Weizheng asked.

"Of course I said I had no right to make the decision. I asked them to wait for the adults to come, but a few days later they came again. They were terrible and we were limited to leaving within three days. Otherwise, we would have been in war. I ordered people to drive them away. It was the third time ten days ago. There were about five warships, but before they could dock, I fired a cannon to scare them away."

Speaking of this, Sima Tong smiled proudly, "Sir, I have a new discovery, and I promise that Goryeo will never return to Danluo Island again."

"Tell me quickly, what new discovery." Li Weizheng's eyes fell on the two people next to him. He had already vaguely guessed that the new discovery must have something to do with them.

Sure enough, Sima Tong pointed to one of the white-bearded old men and said, "Sir, do you know who he is? He is the seventeenth-generation star master of the Danluo Kingdom, that is, the king of the Danluo Kingdom. Although the Goryeo people occupied Danluo Island, they did not abolish their king and made him famous."

Li Wei was ecstatic. The king of Danluo was still there. This was really a gift from the Ming Dynasty. He quickly bowed and smiled at the old man: "It turns out it is His Majesty the King, and Li Wei was rude."

The old man hurriedly bowed and said, "I dare not take it. The villain called Gao Pingjin. I am very grateful for driving away the Japanese Japanese pirates and protecting the land and people of Danluo."

Gao Pingjin had guessed the Ming Dynasty's attempt. Of course, he would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore the country, so he no longer had the word "Goryeo" in his mouth, but he kept mentioning the Danluo Kingdom, which had been destroyed for nearly a hundred years.

Seeing that he was very tactful, Li Wei couldn't help but smile and said, "The king speaks Chinese well."

"Report to my master, I often went to Shandong when I was young and lived in Jinan Prefecture for several years. I have not been there since the Ming Dynasty forbidden sea. It has been twenty years in a flash." Gao Pingjin hurriedly pulled the young man around him and introduced to Li Weizheng: "This is my son Gao Yan."

The young man stepped forward and gave a deep tribute. He couldn't speak Chinese, so he said a few words in Goryeo. His father next to him translated: "The dog son also longed to learn Chinese in the Ming Dynasty. I hope the adults can give him a chance."

"Okay! I will definitely report to the court to arrange for young people from Danluo to study in the Ming Dynasty."

Li Wei was pleased to agree, his biggest worry was solved by accident, and he felt extremely happy. He looked at the vast land of Danluo Kingdom and turned around and said, "Let your brothers get off the boat. Let everyone have a good rest today. I will go to the island tomorrow to have a good look at the Ancient Danluo Kingdom."

The Danluo Island began to become lively. The Ming army unloaded five thousand stones of rice and a large amount of supplies from the ship. The soldiers got off the ship one after another, set up tents on the island, and sailed on the sea for half a month. Everyone was eager to go ashore to rest and rest until dusk, and wisps of white smoke began to rise on Danluo Island.

Yao Ji got off the boat at the end. She looked at the castle on the mountainside and refused to move forward for a long time. Li Wei seemed to understand her mood. He ordered someone to set up a big tent for herself and let Yao Ji rest in the tent. In the tent, Yao Ji sat depressedly at the small table writing, and stopped writing from time to time to walk to the tent to look at the night sky. She seemed to be full of worries. In fact, since she left Japan, she was like this. She was full of confusion and worries about her future. Do you really want to go to a strange country? This is the question she has been thinking about over and over again. She thought that she had changed her husband's surname, and from then on she was the daughter-in-law of the Ming Dynasty. A woman married a chicken and a dog and a dog. This is her destined destination. She persuaded herself like this. But on the day she left Japan, she still couldn't suppress her inner loss and began to remain silent. At this moment, looking at the starry sky in her hometown, Yao Ji felt a little sad.

"Sir, I'm back!" The shouts of the personal soldiers in the night interrupted Yao Ji's sadness, and Li Wei's tall body appeared from the night and walked to her.

"Thank you for your hard work, my husband!" Yao Ji hurriedly knelt down to welcome Li Weizheng back. This has always been a tradition of Japanese women. In fact, it is not to kneel down, but to welcome her husband home. Although there is no tatami in the tent and only a thick carpet, Yao Ji still can't change this habit.

"Didn't I say don't kneel down?" Li Wei was helping her up quickly. He carefully found the tears on the corners of her eyes, and couldn't help but sigh secretly. He understood the homesickness in her heart.

Yao Ji forced herself to smile and took off her outer clothes for him, and explained embarrassedly: "I am used to it. Since my father came home from childhood, our whole family will kneel to the door to welcome his father. The same is true after getting married. I will slowly change it in the future. Can I?"

Seeing her look pitiful, Li Wei couldn't help but hold her in her arms, kiss her eyelids and comforted her: "I just think it's too tired to kneel down. If you want, you can keep your habits. I have no objection."

Yao Ji snuggled gently in her arms, pressed her face against his chest, feeling the sense of security in his arms, and gradually, a faint sadness filled her heart, and tears once again slid down from the corners of her eyes.

"Husband, hug me!" Her voice choked.

Li Weizheng said nothing, picked up her legs and picked her up horizontally, walked into the inner tent quickly, placed her gently on the soft bedding, and gently removed her clothes. Her plump and white jade-like body appeared in front of Li Weizheng. Yao Ji hugged his neck and deeply presented her fragrant lips, and she spoke a longing dream. She longed to be one with her man. Only at this time can she feel her destination.

Li Weizheng took off her clothes with one hand and hugged her into the bedding. He did not whisper and comfort her, but rushed into her body again and again with intense body language, as if it had caused a storm, allowing her to bite her shoulders in extreme pleasure, pinching her back with a fingernail, Yao Ji suddenly hugged Li Weizheng's waist desperately, and sobbed in a crying voice: "Please don't abandon me, I will serve you well for the rest of my life."

Li Wei didn't say anything, but just used her lips to kiss and comfort her face, neck, and chest.

Nearly half an hour later, the tent became quiet and they began to listen to the happy chirping of the insects outside the tent. Yao Ji lay on Li Weizheng's body, her face flushed, and her eyes were still tightly closed. She was still experiencing the beauty of the Pure Land. Neither of them spoke. I don't know how long it took, but Li Wei asked softly in her ear: "Do you still miss your hometown?"

Yao Ji shook her head gently, "Being with you is my greatest happiness."

After pondering for a moment, Li Weizheng asked again: "Are you worried that my family will not accept you?"

Yao Ji was shocked all over and she nodded silently. This was what she feared the most. She finally expressed her worries, "I heard from my father that men in the Ming Dynasty took concubines and went home. If their wife didn't like them, they could drive her out of the house."

Yao Ji suddenly hugged Li Weizheng's neck and said in horror: "Husband, I'm really scared, do you know? I suspect I can't have a child."

"Listen to me!"

Li Weizheng stroked her smooth spine and said to her slowly: "I will tell you two things. First, I have the final say in my family, and no one dares to drive you out; second, as long as it is my Li Weizheng's woman, I will have her for the rest of my life. Perhaps other men in the Ming Dynasty are afraid of women who cannot give birth to children, but I am not. I am a very special person, and many of my thoughts do not belong to this world."

Yao Ji stared at Li Weizheng's eyes until she read a kind of sincerity and firmness from his eyes that her heart finally felt relieved. She sighed happily and murmured to herself: "Then from today on, I will be your concubine."

"No! It should be from the day you gave up on the big neighbour's family and returned to the boat, you will be my concubine."

The next morning, Li Wei was taking Yao Ji with him. Surrounded by Gao Pingjin, the king of Danluo Kingdom, and nearly a hundred soldiers, he rode a horse to inspect the terrain of Danluo Island. He thought Danluo Island was a volcano, but after crossing a ridge, Li Wei found that Danluo Island was much larger than he thought. The volcano was only a small part of it. To the east was an endless grassland. A river winding from the top of the mountain and disappeared in the distance. The end of the grassland was covered with large forests. On the grassland, you could see groups of horses gnawing on the grass leisurely.

Gao Pingjin pointed to the grassland in the distance and said with emotion: "The Mongols occupied our Danluo Kingdom to raise horses, so our Danluo people have made a living by raising horses and fishing for generations. I heard from my grandfather that at most, they raised 200,000 horses, which were improved breeds after mates between Mongolian horses and Goryeo horses. Now there are less than 2,000 left. They were originally taken away by Japanese pirates, and the Ming army returned them to us."

Li Weizheng nodded and asked again: "How many indigenous people are there on the island now?"

"Reporting to the Lord, there are about 9,000 people living in seven villages."

Li Weizheng suddenly felt a little regretful. He had known that the two thousand Japanese women and children would not have been sent back to the country and stayed on the island to breed the population. Wouldn't it be better? He smiled bitterly and said to Gaopingjin: "Take me to your village and have a look!"

"Sir, please follow me."

Everyone rode on their horses and followed Gaopingjin and his son along the river toward the forest in the distance.

The village is about ten miles away. Passing through a forest, everyone came to a small lake. The Danluo village is located by the lake, with hundreds of houses built of soil and wood.

"This is our largest village, with a population of about 3,000. It was originally called Beidou Village. The Goryeo people changed its name to Danluo County. There were originally county magistrates and tax officials, but they were both killed by the Japanese last year. Now, we are in charge of the elders."

Gao Pingjin took Li Weizheng and his party into the village. Many people ran out to watch the fun. A large group of children even jumped with the soldiers' horses. To be precise, it cannot be called the village. The Goryeo people built several wide roads and some houses made of bricks, which were the Goryeo people's tax offices.

Gao Pingjin led Li Wei into a large house built with huge trees, just like a sacrificial hall in an indigenous tribe. However, the house was very spacious and bright, and it was divided into two floors. There were grass and millet piled up in the corner of the first floor, and some women were busy in the house.

Li Weijing lowered her head and smiled at Yao Ji, "Have you been here before?"

Yao Ji blushed, shook her head gently, and whispered: "I used to live in the castle, and he never allowed me to go out, so I don't know these Danlu people."

At this time, five old men stepped forward to salute Li Weizheng, Gao Pingjin introduced: "These are the elders of our Danluo Kingdom. They are all big tribes on the island. In the past, the Goryeo people had to pass us to rule Danluo Island."

Li Weizheng hurriedly bowed to them and said, "In the future, the Ming army will not interfere in the affairs of the island, nor will it send officials. The Danluo Kingdom will be governed by several people. At that time, your king will accept the title of my Emperor Ming."

Gao Pingjin translated for them. Several old men were overjoyed and asked Li Wei to go up the second floor to sit. Li Wei was walking up the stairs to the second floor. The second floor seemed to be a place for meetings, covered with straw mats and seven or eight small tables. Everyone invited Li Wei to the chairman to sit down, and Yao Ji sat next to him, enjoying the glory of the distinguished guests together.

Several young girls came up with teacups to offer fragrant tea, and put on several plates of fruits. Several old men were still talking about Li Weizheng's words just now. Gao Pingjin waved his hand to stop them. He restrained his excitement and asked nervously: "Just just now, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would enthrone me. Is this really possible?"

Li Wei was just thinking about it and said, "Since the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty once enthroned you, then I, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, should also enthroned you. At that time, I will take the prince to the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know if the evidence to prove the king's identity is still there?"

"Ye! Yes! Sir." Gao Pingjin immediately got up and went out. Soon after, he took in a leather bag and placed it carefully on the table. He patted the dust on it and took out several items from the leather bag: a slightly yellow booklet, which is the list of the star masters of the Danluo Kingdom, which is the king's genealogy; he also took out a gilded official seal, which was given by the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and then there was the official uniform and imperial edict of the Yuan Dynasty. Finally, he took out a crystal sword, which was the star sword that symbolized the power of the Danluo king.

Li Wei saw that the crystal sword was crystal clear without any impurities, and seemed to be a little more transparent than glass. He moved his heart and picked up the sword and looked at it carefully. He had severe myopia in later generations. He once bought a pair of natural crystals and made glasses, but he didn't believe it was real crystals. He always felt that there was no such transparent crystal in the world. The crystal sword in front of him seemed to be more pure and transparent than the crystal lenses of his later generations. So can this crystal be used as a glasses?

Seeing that Li Wei was tranced, Gao Pingjin thought he was interested in the crystal. He glanced at Li Yaoji and whispered to his son. Gao Yan went out. After a moment, he brought in a plate and placed it in front of Yaoji. Inside it was a necklace made of the same crystal, a hairpin and a pair of bracelets. Gao Pingjin smiled and said to Li Weiji, "This is a crystal jewelry made by famous craftsmen in Goryeo. Even if it is our little intention, please accept it."

Seeing that the crystal material was the same, Li Wei asked quickly: "Is there any such crystal?"

Gao Pingjin smiled and said, "There are so many crystals on Danluo Island, and they are all kinds of colors. They have always been tributes from the Goryeo royal family. But we don't know how to process them, so it looks precious after making jewelry."

Li Weizheng was overjoyed. He was so excited that he had no choice but to find it without any effort. He took off his dagger from his waist and handed it to Gao Pingjin's son Gao Yan, saying: "I have accepted the crystal jewelry. This dagger is also made by famous artists in the capital. I'll give it to you."

Gao Yan took the dagger that was as sharp as iron, and he loved it so much that he couldn't put it down. He even claimed thanks. Li Weizheng also smiled and handed the crystal jewelry to Yao Ji, "This is their wish, you can accept it!"

After Yao Ji took over the accessories, Li Weizheng said to Gao Pingjin: "I am very interested in this kind of crystal. Can you take me to take a look?"

"No problem, please follow me."

The group left the village and rushed towards the crystal-rich mineral deposit. The crystal veins were located in the southeast of Danluo Island. They were actually the veins of the volcano. They were buried very lightly. When they broke away the thorns on it, the crystal ore was exposed. Some were red and some were purple, but most were pure and colorless, but most of them had impurities. Li Wei was searching for a long time but couldn't find the kind that was completely pure and transparent.

At this time, Gao Yan came from behind, and he turned over and dismounted, took out a piece of crystal from his bag, handed it to Li Weizheng, and said in awkward Chinese: "Give it to you!"

This is a top-quality crystal with a long column, about half a foot long and about three inches thick. It is extremely pure and transparent. If you don’t pay attention to it, you will not be able to find it. If you put it in water, it will dissolve into water, just like a liquid crystal from later generations.

Gao Pingjin came over and said with a smile: "Sir, don't underestimate this crystal. It was discovered by chance two hundred years ago. Part of it was made into that crystal sword. This is the last bit left. I can't find the second one yet, and it is unique."

Li Weizheng knew its preciousness, and he waved his hands repeatedly, not daring to accept it. Seeing that he didn't want it, Gao Yan couldn't help but put it in a angrily way and turned around and left. Li Weizheng had to accept it. He walked to Gao Pingjin and said solemnly: "There are also some skilled craftsmen in our army. I will leave a few people to teach the Danlu people how to make crystal crafts, and sell these crafts to the Ming Dynasty in the future to exchange for food and daily necessities, so that the Danlu people can have another way to survive in addition to raising horses and fishing."
Chapter completed!