Xiongchuan is located west of Jinzhou City, not on the connection between Jinzhou City and Busan.

Both sides also considerate their choice of this place, which is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's first-class thinking method that breaks the conventional. The main forces of the Ming army are all confronting the main forces of the Japanese army in Busan east of Jinzhou City.

But the place Xiongchuan is about the same distance from Wangjing and Jinzhou Castle. It can be regarded as a cross-strike between the two facing Jinzhou Castle, or as Toyotomi Hideyoshi bypassing Jinzhou Castle and directly attacking Wangjing.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi took a warship from Busanpu and circled around the west coast of North Korea to Kawapo. In fact, since the Korean naval army attacked Busanpu, the Korean naval army had not gained any advantage without fighting with the Japanese naval forces many times.

This time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi led a sea boat across the sea, and at the same time expressed his attitude of not taking the North Korean navy into consideration. This is also a method of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's usual bluff.

Outside Xiongchuan City, the Ming army and the Japanese army gathered, and everyone tacitly stationed ten miles away on both sides of a river.

On the day of negotiations, each side gave out 500 followers. Toyotomi Hideyoshi showed her demeanor, all of them were dressed in bright clothes and angry horses.

A floating bridge has been temporarily built on the small river where bilateral officials met.

As for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, she sat on a mountain one mile away from the pontoon bridge.

In order to show his skills, the Japanese army immediately set up a camp on the mountain. Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not use tent-like curtains like the original Japanese army, but used extremely luxurious golden screens decorated with gold foil and mud.

Fifty of his entourages held high a naginata, fifty of them held high a spear, fifty of them held high a cannon, and the rest of the waiters were wearing swords and stood on the ground several times outside the golden screen for alert.

After the camp, he followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi to fight south and north for many years and witnessed his great military achievements.

Misaki Ishida, Nagamori Maeda, and Gen Maeda followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi with civil servants from the three Toyotomi regimes.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked into the distance with a sword in his hand and slowly said, "I spread the name of Japan far beyond Korea and the Ming Dynasty. I did this thing that Nobunaga did not do. All of this is like a dream, as if I was afraid that I would still be a commoner in Ohara when I woke up from my dream."

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi pointed forward with a horse whip and asked, "What? The Ming Dynasty people have not come yet?"

While he was talking, he heard a few rumbling sounds of cannons. The horses of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's left and right entourage kept raising their heads and neighing. One of the horses was even frightened and bowed the rider off the horse.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a little angry, as if she was a little arrogant. In the distance, she saw smoke and dust rolling on the other side of the river, and a team of hundreds of elite riders appeared on the other side of the river.

These elite riders looked very fierce, each of them seemed to be very riding. The cavalry carried something like a three-eyed iron cannon on their backs, which looked particularly terrifying.

Then the cavalry quickly lined up by the river, then split the left and right, but saw a flag standing in front of the formation.

The scout returned the flag and wrote to the letter "The Minister of Rites and the Minister of Rites to guard against Japanese pirates." As for who is the other party under the specific flag, no one can see clearly.

The two sides confronted each other for a while. At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw the Ming army sending a cavalry to the bridge, and then ordered a follower on his side to ride onto the bridge.

After meeting the cavalry of both sides, they each handed a letter to each other, and then turned their horses back to the camp.

The follower opened the letter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but saw that it was written on it, "Your Excellency Toyotomi personally... The final signature was written by the Minister Lin Yanchao."

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was very satisfied with the other party's letter, and then immediately ordered Maeda Gen to write a letter of reply and send it to him.

Another cavalry was replaced by two sides and ran away in both directions.

After several trips, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave the order, then Mizuna Ishida, Nagamori Maeda, Gen Maeda, and Gen Maeda got on the horse with three people, and led a cavalry holding a 53-tung pattern, slowly walked towards the floating bridge.

The Ming army sent a cavalry holding the Xuanwu flag, and from the Ming Dynasty Eastern Expedition Army to paint Liu Huangshang, Yu Shilian, and the Korean Left Prime Minister Liu Chenglong rode his horse toward the floating bridge.

The men and horses on both sides arrived at the pontoon bridge at the same time, and then went up the bridge at the same time, and walked to the center of the bridge. Both sides moved out of the horse stool and sat opposite the bridge, and began the talks.

Soon, one person left the pontoon bridge with a record of the talks, and handed it to the cavalry next to the pontoon bridge, and then the cavalry returned to their respective formations with the record.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi picked up the record of the talks between the two sides and read it, frowning.

"I have a first-class feeling that the Ming Dynasty people across the country seem to know my reality very well." Toyotomi Hideyoshi has an extraordinary judgment.

As the talks were recorded one after another.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had a premonition that his judgment was correct: "The Ming Dynasty people knew Tokugawa and Maeda, who was too famous for being so famous, could not have known so much before the Ming Dynasty. They knew us Japan, and they knew them more than we did!"

"Fortunately they don't know the conflict between me and Xiuci! This is the most fortunate thing, but it's hard to guarantee whether they will know in the future."

Toyotomi Hideyoshi put down the talks record, and now both sides are in the stage of tempting and surveying.

The bottom line of negotiations proposed by Liu Chenglong on behalf of North Korea is that Japan must leave North Korea without leaving any trace.

The bottom line of negotiation proposed by the Ming Dynasty was that marriage is absolutely not allowed.

The opposition from both sides now rejected Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan to choose one of the two marriages and cede.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said: "Ishida is still vowing to Japan in North Korea to send a Korean prince to Japan to be a qualitative matter. If it is not a good friend to cede land, then there is no way to talk about everything."

"Tell Sancheng that attitude must be tough!"

The negotiations were in a stalemate, and soon after, Ishida Mizunari proposed new conditions for the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty proposed that peace talks could be reached to release Hoyakawa Hidebu and return Otani Yoshiji's corpse, but Japan must promise not to advance to North Korea or Ryukyu in the future and not to force the two countries to pay tribute to them.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw this, he was a little furious. The Ming Dynasty actually made a big fuss. He not only wanted to protect North Korea, but also Ryukyu?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi thought to himself that as far as he knew, the Shimazu family had been involuntarily involved in Ryukyu for a long time, but lacked a suitable excuse. However, this time, the imperial court asked him to send troops to Ryukyu, but Ryukyu only agreed to lend some of the food, but refused to send troops, which made him very dissatisfied.

Once Ryukyu is like this, the Tsuma, the Sect family of Wudao and Wudao will probably have a strange intention!

But Tokugawa and Hideji are indeed my confidant. If Ming Dynasty contacts the two of them, then...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi kept pace and said, "Tell Ishida that retreating from the four routes of North Korea is allowed, but Busan Ura was originally a former land of Miura, and North Korea must be ceded. In addition, Kazuo and Yanpu are also old lands that must be allowed to live!"

The two sides had fierce negotiations and discussed this.

Mitsunari Ishida sent an envoy to report: "North Korea has agreed to reopen Miura, but the land of Miura is limited to 500 domestic merchants and is not allowed to carry weapons."

"Yes, but Busanpu must be at least one thousand people! As for weapons, you must carry!"

The negotiating messengers of both sides continued to travel back and forth.

Finally, the two sides reached a consensus that North Korea opened Miura, which means that it would restore the situation before the Miura Rebellion.

However, there are strict restrictions on the Japanese stationing in Miura. Except for Busan, the number of residents must not exceed 500, and warships carrying artillery cannot arrive.

At the same time, the Ming army will also station troops in Yizhou, North Korea.

"Yiju!" Toyotomi Hideyoshi couldn't help but sigh, "The Ming Dynasty borrowed our threat and took the Koreans' necks!"

The retainer on the side said, "No matter what, this is an acceptable result."

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said: "It's still early? Will the Ming Dynasty reopen Ningbo and Taizhou Gongdao reopen?"

Sure enough, Mizunashi Ishida's reply told Toyotomi Hideyoshi that Ming Dynasty officials were determined to reopen the tribute road in Ningbo and Taizhou.

However, the Ming Dynasty proposed conditions that the two countries could be allowed to borrow North Korea for transit trade, which was the solution of the tribute to North Korea.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said when he heard this: "This is a very favorable condition for all three countries!"

[Zeroling Books.com.] "But the Ming Dynasty means that His Highness must accept the title of the Ming Dynasty and make a written promise that Ryukyu will not infringe on Korea and will not allow him to surrender." The retainer said to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

"The Ming Dynasty is still so arrogant! I am a man who unified the 66 countries with martial arts, rather than waiting for the king to be enthroned by the Ming Dynasty. Since the Ming Dynasty did not take me seriously, I will continue to mobilize the army to cross the sea and fight to the death with the Ming army! Tell Ishida and they don't want to talk."

At the instruction of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the horse bench that was negotiated on the pontoon bridge was withdrawn, and Mizunashi Ishida and others returned under the banner of Wusan Tongwen.

As for the envoys of the Ming Kingdom, they also left the pontoon bridge.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw a man in a scorching robe under the other party's "Strategy" flag from afar, covering the sunlight in the west with a fan, looking here from afar.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi also looked at the man and asked, "Is this the Minister of Rites in the Ming Dynasty?"

"It should be true. I heard from Shen Weijing that this person has a deep trust from the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of War was in charge of the conquest, while the Minister of Rites was in charge of tribute and etiquette! With this person's power, he could fully represent the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" Mitsunari Ishida reported.

"Oh? Is he more amazing than Ieyasu?" asked Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Toyotomi Ieyasu was his most powerful opponent before unifying the world. Although he surrendered to him now, Toyotomi Hideyoshi still highly recognizes Toyotomi Ieyasu.

Mizuna Ishida didn't know how to answer for a moment, but just said, "Maybe!"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi nodded with a serious expression and said, "Let's go! Tell the Ming people that I will give them a final answer soon!"

After saying that, Toyotomi Hideyoshi slowly retreated.

At this moment, Lin Yanchao on the other side of the river looked at Toyotomi Hideyoshi's flag and smiled.

He had already figured out the bottom line of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After the Battle of Jinzhou Castle, he wanted to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty more than ever. During the negotiations, he made people intentionally or unintentionally provoke his relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and even if it did not work, it would make him suspicious.

At this moment, North Korea's Guanghaijun and Liu Chenglong walked towards Lin Yanchao together.

The two of them suddenly bowed to Lin Yanchao and said, "Thank you, my envoy for your support, and I am grateful to you!"

Lin Yanchao smiled when he heard this, picked up the folding fan and shook it a few times and said, "The words are so serious."

After saying that, Lin Yanchao looked at Toyotomi Hideyoshi Banner Seal who was leaving in the distance and thoughtful.

ps: There will be updates tomorrow!
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