Chapter 420 On the Importance of Undoubtedness Between Monarch and Subject
Xuansi three years
July 14
The news that Anton changed hands and was captured by Daliang spread back to Xijing and Pyongyang in Goryeo, and the court was shocked...
"Twenty thousand people!! Only seven came back!??"
"It is said that those seven will not live long! They are covered in ulcers and their lives will be short-lived!"
"What!?? What kind of cruel weapon did Liang Guo use to be so vicious!?"
"That's not the scariest thing! I heard from those seven soldiers that 20,000 of them were wiped out without even touching each other's hair! If this is really the case, how should we fight this battle!??"
"Your Majesty! Please surrender! Please surrender and wait for foreign aid!"
"You can't surrender! You should issue a letter of credence to Liang Guo to punish him! I, the great ancestor of Goryeo, am a bloodline of the Goguryeo royal family! The north of the Liaohe River is our land! We are just taking back our own land! What's wrong! Why did he raise it?
Fight me!"
"That's right! The law is on our side!"
"It makes sense...it makes sense..."
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The historian below spoke righteously, but the King of Korea on the stage was sitting on pins and needles...
The royal family of Goguryeo...? You believe this too!? That’s just what our ancestors said to deceive you in order to gain the throne. If you really want this king to write it into the credential and send it to the Liang Kingdom, it would be more than just making people laugh.
I was afraid that I would lose all my insurance...
But these words could only be thought about by the King of Goryeo, and it was impossible to express it to the civil and military officials. So Park Yong-ho, the King of Goryeo, said loudly to the officials: "There is no 'reason' before the national war."
Meaning, "reason" can only be explained by the strong. Now that we have lost the first battle, trying to reason with others will only add to the laughing stock. Everyone, please don't mention it again, and think of more practical ways to help.
Please share your worries with me..."
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"Then how about your Majesty just listen to the advice of the old minister and send an envoy to Daliang to make peace first and wait for reinforcements?"
"Let's go and make peace! But the war is imminent and we must take precautions. I ask your Majesty to quickly unite my 30,000 infantrymen. I will lead the troops to guard the boundary river to protect our country and our country from worries!"
As soon as these words came out, the Goryeo court, which had been arguing just now, fell silent for an instant... But soon, all the officials burst into laughter again...
"It's this reckless military attache again! He's asking for military power again and again, maybe he doesn't want to live anymore, right?"
"If it weren't for me, Wang Dadu, this kind of person would have died hundreds of times, how could he still have the life to scream here? Ridiculous!"
The person who spoke to lead the army on the expedition was none other than Cui Ying, the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army who had asked King Jianyan of Goryeo to send troops to aid Liaodong... www.81zw.????m
However, Cui Ying remained unmoved in the face of the sarcastic remarks from the court. She still stood in the middle of the hall with her hands folded, refusing to leave...
"If we lose the danger of the boundary river, when Liang Jun enters, even if reinforcements from the Japanese country arrive, our country, Korea, will lose the bargaining chip to negotiate with the other two countries and have no choice but to let the mermaids live. Your Majesty! Please, Your Majesty
Ming Cha!!"
The King of Korea silently looked at Cui Ying under the throne, lowered his head and fell into deep thought...
However, other civil servants in the court did not want to give him a chance to breathe. They came forward one after another to remonstrate with Cui Ying. They removed Cui Ying from her official position and put her in prison. Some even claimed that they had evidence that Cui Ying wanted to raise troops to rebel.
Over time, the ministers became angry and shouted for fights and killings, just to preserve the custom of emphasizing civility and restraining military force in the Goryeo court...
Only by stamping out all the military officers who come forward can they, the civil servants, keep their status in the court forever!
Since ancient times, human beings’ struggles for power have often been the most straightforward and ugliest.
There is no morality at all here.
There are only naked swords and hidden arrows, you die and I die.
Even if we die together!
It’s impossible for you to gain the upper hand for nothing!
And Pu Yonghao, who inherited the throne at the age of thirteen, also knows very well what these people are thinking and doing... but he will neither tell them nor stop them because he is also afraid...
He was also afraid that the other party would gain military power, turn around, and overthrow his own court! Trampling his own ancestral temple to pieces. After all, there are countless precedents of military generals treason in the long history of the Korean Peninsula...
Cui Ying, on the other hand, stood alone in the court, with the hesitant monarch in front of her and the harsh words of the civil servants in her ears. He stood there for a long time, but could not get any reply...
So, he smiled...
The smile was extremely sad and tragic...
I saw him slowly taking off the official hat on his head, gently placing it on the ground, and then he raised his hands to the King of Goryeo and said loudly: "Your Majesty! I... I can't stay any longer... I don't want to...
Seeing that the citizens of my country, Koryo, are being treated like mermaids... I... would like to resign and return to my hometown... to resign and go farming..."
After that, without waiting for the King of Goryeo to dissuade him, he turned around and walked away!
"Bold! How dare you resign privately and threaten the king! This person should be killed with a knife to make a warning to others!!"
"Your Majesty, this person has ulterior motives and disrupts the public hearing! He should be sentenced to death! Thank you to the world!"
"Your Majesty..."
"That's enough -!!!" Pu Yonghao finally couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and roared directly at the officials: "If there is no other good way, shut up Gu Tongtong!! Everyone is gone, why can't we leave him a way to survive!?
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In an instant, the group of civil servants who had been speaking righteously just now became speechless and slowly retreated into their queues, silently...
This Cui Ying is the favorite general promoted by Park Yonghao after he came to power...
It can be said that Park Yonghao himself also wants to believe him...
However, when he thought that his ancestor was once the favorite general of the previous king, he became afraid again. This was a common problem when the country was founded, and the consequences would be endless for hundreds of years...
and the other side
The Liang army, whose ruler and ministers had no doubts, was advancing in triumph!
Harry's troops arrived at Tongliao City!
Li Bing's troops have also arrived at Guangning Houtunwei (Zhangwu County), which was originally built by Liang Guo but was later abandoned by Beizhen, and their troops are directed at Shenyang!
As for Wu Qidao, who had conquered Andong, he only left a thousand-household camp to guard it. He then directed his troops to Ma'anshan and, together with Yan Bing's own town, formed an encirclement against the main force of the Goryeo army stationed in Shenyang!
The balance of war in Liaodong is rapidly tilting towards Liang Guo...
