Han Juyuan, a member of the Lifan Academy, was a Jinshi in the 12th year of Chongzhen. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, he secretly went on a mission to Korea. Later, Beijing was broken, and he first surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Because of his experience of serving in North Korea, he had been working in the Lifan Academy. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, Suksaha sent Han Juyuan to North Korea to dispatch troops to deal with Rakshasa. After returning, South Korea was responsible for Korean affairs in the Lifan Academy, which was considered a few "Korean Communication" in the Qing court.

When Han Juyuan learned that he was appointed by the emperor to go to North Korea immediately, and after he came back, he was promoted and raised his flag. Han Juyuan was very surprised. He prepared for a day in the Lifan Courtyard, and the next day he took a entourage to Tianjin Wei, and then took a sea boat from Tianjin to North Korea. This road was much faster than from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou and then to Datong River to Seoul. The only thing that endured was that the sea boat was very bumpy.

Han Juyuan arrived in North Korea on March 21. As soon as he entered the port, local North Korean officials were treated as guests of honor. At the same time, the news of the arrival of the Celestial Empire was quickly sent to Seoul. When he heard that a special envoy from the Qing Dynasty came, the North Korean king Li Qi was very nervous, nervous but also a little scared. Li Qi's nervousness and fear lies in his father Li Xiao.

Because the Ming Dynasty sent troops to help North Korea expel Japanese invasion during the Wanli period, the whole country was grateful to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, when the Qing Dynasty rose, North Korea sent troops to help the Ming Dynasty fight many times. Later, Hong Tai of the Qing Dynasty personally led the army to attack North Korea. The capital of Seoul in the North was instantly down. King Li Jue of Korea received a letter and requested surrender. The two sides established an altar and swear that North Korea became a vassal of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army generals Li Jue, Li Jun and Li Yu, took Li Jue, the sons of Li Jue of Li Jue to Shenyang as hostages. After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, in the second year of Shunzhi, Li Jue, who had been hostages in the Qing Dynasty for a long time, returned to Seoul and inherited the throne four years later, with the temple name Xiaozong.

After Li Xiu became the king of Korea, the enthusiasm of the whole country to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty was still high, and Li Xiu himself was no exception. As soon as he came to power, he took it as his mission to restore the world of Ming Dynasty and believed that the Hu people had no fortune for a hundred years. He regarded natural disasters such as earthquakes and comets as signs of the demise of the Qing Dynasty. He had high hopes for anti-Qing forces such as the Southern Ming regime, and even reconciled with Japan's feud, and was willing to lend it to the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate army in order to attack the Qing Dynasty together with the Southern Ming regime.

In order to cultivate North Korea's strength, Li Jing actively expanded his army to prepare for war. The Imperial Camp Army stationed in Seoul increased from 7,000 to 21,000, and the Imperial Camp Army increased from 600 to 1,000, and all were reorganized into cavalry. In addition, the Imperial Camp Office also added artillery attack troops, and equipped the Imperial Camp Army with a large number of bird guns, ready to advance west at any time. However, North Korea's finances were very difficult and its military was weak, so it could not support Li Jing's ambition to "attack the Qing Dynasty". In addition, the Qing army made rapid progress in the south, and the Qing Dynasty effectively controlled most of the provinces in the country. Although the Ming army in the south had a fierce resistance, the possibility of the Ming Dynasty resurrection was not high.

In the sixth year of Shunzhi, Li Yu reported to the Qing court that Japan might launch an army in the west and requested training and repairing the city. As a result, the Qing Dynasty sent a secret envoy to check on the spot and found that North Korea was trying to renovate its war preparations in the name of preventing Japan, and had a bad intention. So the regent Dorgon issued an edict to reprimand Li Yu and warned North Korea to keep a good idea of ​​observing the way of his ministers.

Seeing that the anti-Qing forces in China disappeared one by one, the Qing court actually occupied most of China, and the Qing Dynasty was prepared for it, Li Jing had to change his mind and no longer have the idea of ​​restoring the Ming Dynasty. Instead, he wanted to improve his relationship with the Qing Dynasty and find all opportunities to serve the Qing Dynasty in order to reasonably explain his previous intention to expand his military and prepare for war. Unfortunately, he died of illness before he could take effective actions.

After Li Xiu's death, Li Fu, the eldest son of 18 years old, succeeded to the throne as king. Like his father Li Xiu, Li Fu was also hostage in Shenyang when he was young, so he was very afraid of the Qing Dynasty. In addition, his father Li Xiu had been planning to launch troops to attack the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty when he was alive, so Li Fu was very afraid that the Qing Dynasty would settle accounts with him, and even refused to recognize his king and interfere with the change of the throne of the Korean king.

Fortunately, in more than a year after Li Qi succeeded to the throne, the Qing Dynasty did not accuse him of North Korea, and also recognized him as the King of Korea, which made Li Qi feel at ease and began to reform North Korea's internal affairs. Not long ago, Li Qi had just ordered his ministers to formulate the "Avoidance Law" to prohibit marriages of the same clan and surname, and invented the copper movable type printing technology. However, just when these two major things he had always wanted to do before he ascended the throne, the angels of the Qing Dynasty suddenly arrived, and there was no news in advance. Then, they thought about the groups of "investigation envoys" sent by the Qing Dynasty to North Korea in the past, which made Li Qi feel nervous and scared, because he was afraid that the Qing envoys would be "wrong".

During the days when he was waiting for the Qing envoys in Seoul, Li Fen was always worried, afraid that the Qing Dynasty would send envoys to question his deceased father's secret rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and pursue the crime of "illegal behavior". The day after Han Juyuan arrived in Seoul, Li Fen met Han Juyuan nervously accompanied by the left and right ministers to discuss the affairs of the State Council.

The two sides first carried out some etiquette symbolically and said a lot of polite words to each other. Li Fen felt glad to find that the words of the Qing envoy were not threatening, but he still couldn't figure out what the purpose of the Qing Dynasty was. So after some temptation, he finally plucked up the courage to ask the Qing envoy for the purpose of the visit. When he learned that the Qing Dynasty wanted the North Korean country to send 5,000 troops to help suppress the thieves, Li Fen and the ministers were stunned.

Li Fen asked the Qing envoy Han Juyuan with a suspicious face and said, "Young Wang dares to ask the angel, the Qing Dynasty has occupied China, why do we still need our country to send troops to fight?"

Han Juyuan knew the young king in front of him. When he came to Korea seven years ago, Li Jun was still the prince. He was only eleven years old at that time. He was considered a naughty boy. After seven years, the naughty boy who was back then became the king of North Korea, which made him feel a little sad.

Han Juyuan knew the domestic situation and the crisis faced by the Qing court, but he knew that he could not reveal any of it in front of the Koreans, so he said quietly: "Although my Qing Dynasty occupied China, there were still former Ming soldiers and horses in the southern Lingnan area. They colluded with the Folang Ji people and bought a large number of muskets, which caused our Qing army to suffer a lot. My Emperor heard that you, the North Korean country's firearms were strong, so he specially ordered my official to come to your country and ask your country to send troops to help. After the matter was completed, my emperor would have a good reward."

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