Li Chen's browsing speed was very fast, which he had practiced day and night among the piles of memorials.
Without the ability to read ten lines at a time, Li Chen would never have been able to finish all the memorials every day.
Now he is in Yueyangguan, and it would take a few days to send the news from the capital at the earliest, so all the news is delayed. Therefore, unless it is something more important, there is no need to report to him.
Even if there are matters that need to be reviewed by him, Li Chen will probably not deal with them.
Unless there was something wrong with the way Xu Changqing and others handled it, Li Chen would add instructions and then send it back to the capital through Jinyiwei.
Scanning the government affairs in recent days, Li Chen only paused for a long time on one of them.
"The leader of Joseon is dead?"
Li Chen raised his head and looked at Chen Tong, frowning and asked: "When did it happen?"
Chen Tong replied: "Judging from the time, it was about a month ago."
This is the disadvantage of being behind the times.
When things happened in distant places reached his ears, no matter how perfect the intelligence organization was, the news was still transmitted by manpower or horses. Li Chen did not have the energy and resources to set up another Qinggong route from Crescent Pass to the capital.
Expert information transmission chain.
Speaking of which, this barbaric method was copied from the Jin Kingdom.
But for North Korea, it was obviously impossible for Li Chen to spend such a high price to establish such a channel. You must know that this current channel has almost exhausted the talent reserves of Qinggong masters in Dongchang.
"There seems to be no male in this generation of the Joseon royal family?" Li Chen asked again.
Chen Tong hurriedly replied: "His Highness, there are actually some, there are two, but one was captured by the Japanese. Later, the Japanese were defeated, so they killed him to vent their anger, and the other died of illness in the war...
Among the current Joseon royal family, only Princess Jin Xueyuan of Joseon Dynasty who came to the capital that day is left."
Li Chen frowned slightly, remembering the news about the chaos in North Korea from Zhao Tailai, and asked: "What is the situation in North Korea now?"
Chen Tong replied: "It's not good."
"Although with the help of our great Qin Dynasty, North Korea successfully regained its territory, after our army retreated, North Korea was left with a devastated country. In addition, in the war with Japan, the performance of the North Korean royal family disappointed the people.
After all, the combination of various factors can be said to be a difficult situation in North Korea."
"The most important thing is poverty. The second reason is that the royal family is weak and unable to rebuild the country. As a result, the people have no way to survive. Some starve to death and some die of illness. But more and more people start to fall into bandits. As a result, the society becomes more turbulent."
"Coupled with the stubborn evil intentions of some local powerful people, the situation of warlord separatism began to emerge. Today's royal family has become a decoration, and no one takes them seriously."
Li Chen said lightly: "This is what it should be... The royal family is incompetent, the family thieves insult the master, and they have no money or soldiers. Who will take them seriously? Now that the old king is dead and the royal family has no successor, then
Even more trapped.”
Chen Tong did not dare to say anything further.
What he should do is to provide all the information he knows when Li Chen asks questions, instead of adding subjective opinions.
"How is Jin Xueyuan doing now?" Li Chen asked again.
Chen Tong paused for a while before carefully answering: "It's not good."
He was one of the few people who knew that His Highness was having an affair with a North Korean princess...so he was naturally cautious when answering this question.
"The royal family is weak. As the only princess of the royal family, she is naturally not good. She has almost become a puppet, and is fought over by many warlords and local powerful people in North Korea..."
