"Your Highness, the Queen wants to see Your Highness." In the palace, a eunuch said to Zhu who was criticizing the memorial.
Hearing this, Zhu put down his pen and sighed, opening his mouth as if he wanted to let Jin Moyu in. But he paused, and finally said: "You told the queen that I am busy with things, so I won't see her now."
"Yes, Your Highness." The eunuch agreed and turned around to go out to deliver the order. But he had only taken two steps when the eunuch standing next to Zhu said, "Your Highness, I'd better go and talk to the Queen."
"Go ahead." Zhu Yixiang felt that the queen might not listen to what a young eunuch said, so he agreed with his personal eunuch to pass on the order. He agreed and walked out of the palace. After a while, the eunuch came back and said to Zhu: "Your Highness, the Queen
The queen has left."
"Hey." Zhu sighed again. Since Jin Hanji's death, Queen Jin Moyu has never cried to compensate the Jin family, nor has she asked to give birth to an official of the Jin family, but she has always wanted Zhu to give Jin Hanji a good posthumous title. But for Zhu Lai
Said, this is something more difficult to accomplish than benefiting the Jin family.
How did Kim Han Gil die? He couldn't bear it after being beaten by Zhu Bangyuan. If he was given a good posthumous title, wouldn't it mean that Zhu Bangyuan did something wrong? Although North Korea does not have the extreme of "thunder, rain and dew are all kings' favor" like the Central Plains.
Thoughts, but there is no reason for the king to admit that he has done something wrong. Even Zhu is not satisfied with Zhu Fangyuan in his heart. No, even if he is not Zhu Fangyuan's son, he must maintain Zhu Fangyuan's reputation and cannot do such a thing.
But Jin Moyu didn't know what to think. She didn't ask for anything but to give Jin Hanji a good posthumous title. Zhu was annoyed by what she said and could only refuse to see him.
However, "Your Highness, please forgive me for saying more, you are hiding from the Queen. It's not the best solution for you." The eunuch said. He was assigned to the palace fifteen years ago and has served Zhu for fifteen years. He has a close relationship with Zhu.
Others are different and dare to say a few words.
"Hey, how can I not know that you are right? But if I don't avoid him, what else can I do?" Zhu asked in return.
"Your Highness had better reason with the Queen and the Queen, and promised to give more to the Jin family, especially the son and grandson of Jin Zhan (Jin Hanji as he was called by his official title). This dispelled the Queen's idea," the eunuch said.
"Hey, let me go back and talk to the queen tonight." Zhu could only say this.
"There is also the Jin family. Your Highness, the Jin family also needs to be appeased. Most of the Jin family in Seoul are young and strong, and most of the young people are angry. Now this matter is making a fuss. If someone's anger rises, it will cause irreversible consequences.
Things are going to be bad." The eunuch said again.
"That's what you said, so I summoned everyone from the Jin family again to appease them." Zhu then ordered people to announce that several people from the Jin family who were more prestigious among their peers would enter the palace.
But at this moment, several guards ran into the palace in a panic. Zhu Zheng was about to reprimand them, but when he heard what they said, he stayed where he was. Because these guards said one after another: "Your Highness, from Ping An Dao Yizhou
News came that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Liaodong Dusi and the British vassal suddenly raised the banner of Jingnan and crossed the Yalu River to attack our soldiers. The soldiers stationed by the Yalu River were completely unprepared and were defeated by the Ming army. They only had time to spread the news.
Come out. Now the Ming army has probably captured Yizhou City."
"Your Highness, news came from the Mirror City Protectorate that the Ming army of Yongfan also crossed the Tumen River under the banner of Jingnan. The army of Tumen River was originally small and weak, far less powerful than the Ming army.
The army was prepared for the attack but not prepared, and the entire army was wiped out. Even the news did not have time to spread. It was the Ming army that besieged Luo Xian City, and the soldiers guarding Luo Xian City passed the news. But now most of Luo Xian City has been lost, and the Ming army may have already attacked
To Chongjin.”
"Your Highness, according to reports from the Jeolla Province, there have been many more Ming troops stationed on Jeju Island in recent days. Most of the Donghae Navy of the Ming Dynasty is stationed on the island. I don't know what their intentions are. Now the Jeolla Province has sent people to Jeju Island to inquire.
"
Zhu stayed for a while and then said: "What is going on? Why did the Ming Dynasty suddenly attack North Korea? They also raised the banner of appeasement? What does this mean?" There was a hint of panic in his tone.
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"Your Highness, according to the news from Jingcheng Protectorate, the Ming army soldiers claimed that they had, had, and used seal documents. They claimed that the current situation in North Korea was turbulent and requested the Ming Dynasty to send troops to North Korea to calm the situation. The Ming Dynasty responded to North Korea's request.
Invited to enter."
"The Ming army used documents with a large seal? Who sent the documents to the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu asked sharply.
Several guards looked at each other, no one answered Zhu's words, and there was no fear on their faces. Zhu was very angry and was about to reprimand them, but suddenly thought of something and sat down slumped.
The reason why these guards are not afraid is because they suspect that Zhu himself wrote this document and sent it to the Ming Dynasty. Of course Zhu knew that he did not write this document, but others did not see it that way. The situation in North Korea is indeed very chaotic now.
Because of the Jin family matter, there was a big conflict between the two nobles, Zhu Fangyuan and Zhu, and it was difficult to resolve. It was indeed a clever move to ask outside forces to intervene at this time. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty now has a high reputation in the East.
, even Majapahit was not destroyed, and the king of Korea did not have to worry about losing his throne when he invited the Ming army to station.
Naturally, most people believed that the document was not written by Zhu himself, but some of these people thought that it might be the document written by the queen. After all, women are more easily influenced by emotions than men, and writing this document in a moment of anger would be a mistake.
Possibly. And the big seal is placed in the palace. How can ordinary people have the ability to get the big seal? Apart from the king and the king, there is only the queen. Since they suspect that the queen did it, then this is the family matter of the royal family.
It's not their turn to comment, so I'm not worried.
'Queen, is she really the queen?' Even Zhu himself couldn't help but think of this. He was more suspicious of the queen than these guards, because the queen had a criminal record. When he first interrogated the two secret guards of the Ming Dynasty,
, Zhu Fangyuan followed the clues and found out that Jin Moyu played a role in it, and told Zhu.
"Quick, I'm going to the queen's bedroom." Zhu hurriedly stood up and hurried out. When he reached the palace door, he thought of the guards who had sent the message again, and told them: "Send the order to Ping'an Road and Jingcheng City.
Protect the Mansion, abandon all military camps outside the city, and hold on to the city. I will immediately send envoys to communicate with the Ming Dynasty. Let them remember that they must not take the initiative to provoke, and no counterattack is allowed in the lost areas without my order." After saying this.
In a word, Zhu hurried to the queen's bedroom.
On the way, Zhu was still thinking: 'I don't know if the document was written by the queen. If not, it must be that some other family wants to fish in troubled waters. After further investigation, the most important thing now is to get the Ming army to retreat. But Ming Ming The reaction of the state was also very strange. After receiving the document from an unknown person, they did not send people to Seoul to inquire, but directly sent troops. Zhu Yun, what was your plan?'
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Fifteen days ago, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the palace city Qianqing Palace.
"Your Majesty, this is something that has just been transmitted from North Korea." The new commander of the Jinyi Guards bent down, stood respectfully in front of Yun, and said softly.
Yun took an envelope from his hand, opened it and took a look and saw that it was what he wanted. He suppressed his excitement, stuffed the paper back into the envelope, and said to the commander of Jinyiwei: "Not bad, well done. ."
"Your Majesty is so complimentary." The commander of the Jinyi Guards said hurriedly: "This is all the responsibility of the Jinyi Guards and is not worthy of your Majesty's praise."
Yun smiled, praised him a few more words, and said: "I still have something to do, please step back." The commander of the Jinyi Guards agreed, turned around and left.
Yun took out a few more pages of paper from the envelope, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "I finally got this thing." He took out a few more pages of paper from the drawer and told Lu Yi: "You should put this in right away. Several pages of paper were put into wooden boxes respectively. Then the military post was ordered to be sent to Liujiagang, the home port of the Yingfan Royal Capital, the Yongfan Royal Capital, the Liaodong Capital Division and the Donghai Navy, and handed over to the King of England, King Yong, and the Liaodong Capital Commander. We will send you the commander of the Donghai Navy to you as soon as possible. Remember to send it over six hundred miles away as soon as possible."
Lu Yi's heart trembled. The six-hundred-mile express is the fastest way to transport letters. It cannot be used unless it is very urgent. What errand is your Majesty going to order them to do?
He was thinking in his mind, but without stopping at all, he quickly put the four documents into wooden boxes and nailed them with wooden deeds. He held the four wooden boxes in his hand and bowed to Yun before turning around and leaving. Go to Qianqing Palace.
After he left, facing the empty palace except for himself, Yun couldn't help but said: "The plan that has been planned for many years is finally coming true."
Yun has always wanted to control North Korea, at least to make North Korea equal to the inner vassal, but Zhu Fangyuan has always resisted this, and Yun cannot violate the rules he has set, and has his hands tied in doing things. Although he helped North Korea reform the imperial examination by sending great scholars to North Korea to teach princes, There has been some progress in encouraging domestic businessmen to do business with North Koreans, but the results have not been great.
After hearing that Zhu Fangyuan wanted to change his son, Yun realized that the opportunity had come. Needless to say about the eldest son inheritance system, Zhu Fangyuan wanted to violate this system, which was recognized as wrong, and could be used as a reason to deal with North Korea.
Yun originally wanted to achieve his goal in one fell swoop, but then he thought about it. Although it was a huge mistake to violate the eldest son inheritance system, it was unreasonable to use this as an excuse to continue to interfere in Korean affairs after helping Zhu restore his position as crown prince. It would arouse the fear of other surrounding countries, which was not cost-effective. So Yun suppressed his thoughts and issued several decrees successively for Zhu to succeed to the throne. But at the same time, he also ordered the Liaodong Dusi and the two princes in the northeast to Ask them not to launch attacks against the barbarians in the near future, nor to participate in the suppression of the Mongols on the grasslands, but to be considerate of the military and wait for his will.
After that, he ordered the Jinyi Guards to deliberately let Zhu Fangyuan know the news about the person who had lied about Zhu's illness in the Ming Dynasty, so that he would hate the Jin family; he also used people who had been placed in the Jin family a few years ago to serve as guests, slaves, and even sons-in-law. , instigated the confrontation between the Jin family and Zhu Fangyuan, and finally made Jin Chengfu recklessly forge the seal of the king of Korea and send such a document to the Ming Dynasty. Of course, Zhu Fangyuan beat Jin Hanji to death with a whip, which was an unexpected surprise. If not for Jin With the death of Hanji, things would not have escalated so quickly.
After receiving this document, Yun could justly send troops into North Korea to "pacify the disaster". Now that the troops have been sent in, wouldn't it be easy for him to control North Korea to achieve his goal? As for the doubts of other countries.
, Yun has his own way to resolve it.
Yun couldn't be said to be very excited at the thought of being able to control North Korea immediately, but he also felt like he had fulfilled his wish.
Yun stood up and walked to the huge map hanging in the hall. This map was very large, covering the Hanzhou continent to the east and all the way to Fu in the west. Yun first pointed at the three large islands east of North Korea.
country, and whispered: "In the future, just follow the example of North Korea and deal with Japan. I have heard that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu prefers his youngest son to his eldest son. Besides, I have kept Zhu Hengshi for so many years, so I should
Let him play a second role besides recruiting warriors. There is no need to worry about it."
"I'm just worried about these three things," Yun pointed to the east of Hanzhou continent, Egypt and the capital. "If these three things are successfully realized, even if I abdicate immediately, there is no need to worry."
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Of course, Zhu could not guess that Yun had already thought of controlling North Korea. He came to the queen's palace and asked the queen if she had sent a letter to the Ming Dynasty, requesting the Ming Dynasty to send troops to restore order. Of course, Jin Moyu would not admit it. She saw that Zhu Yong was full of
He looked at himself with suspicious eyes and swore: "If I did this, I will be struck by lightning!" He then took out the scissors to seek death.
"It doesn't have to be like this." Zhu quickly stopped her and dispelled his doubts about her. When Zhu Fangyuan learned about this, he also said: "This must not have been done by the queen."
Since it was not the queen who did it, who did it? Zhu Fangyuan and his father and son both arranged for people to investigate the matter and wanted to find this person. But this is not the most important thing right now; it is the most important thing right now.
It is to persuade the Ming army to retreat. Everyone in North Korea who has heard of the Ming Dynasty knows that it is absolutely impossible to stop the Ming army with the North Korean army, and can only persuade them to retreat. On the one hand, Zhu continued to send people to Ping'an Road and Jingcheng Capital
Protecting the government, he advised the Ming generals to slow down their advance, and on the one hand sent people to the capital to ask for an audience with the Ming Emperor.
Both of Zhu's attempts failed. Whether it was King Zhu Song of England, King Zhu Yun of Yong Dynasty, or the Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong City, they all received strict orders from His Majesty. They must not listen to the Koreans and slow down their advance. Violators would be severely punished. Of course they would not
Dare to listen to the envoy's advice; Yun did meet the envoy in the capital, but it was immediately said in the capital that Zhu Xianxia was still Zhu Fangyuan's puppet and had no power. When Yun summoned the North Korean envoy, he made it clear that he wanted Zhu to come to the capital. The envoy could only rush
Return to Seoul to convey the Ming Emperor's request to Zhu.
But by the time he rushed back to North Korea, the Ming army coming from the Yalu River had already captured or bypassed Pyongyang and Huangzhou, approaching Kaesong and not far from Seoul. The navy on Jeju Island covered the land division in Busan and headed north.
It has reached Sangzhou; Yongfan's army crossed the sea and landed at Jiangling Dadufu, and entered Gyeonggi Province to the west. Zhu Fangyuan and Zhu have been surrounded by the Ming army on three sides.
Seeing this situation, Zhu said: "When we rush to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, see the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty again, and persuade him to agree to withdraw the troops, and wait until his order to withdraw the troops is passed to North Korea, Seoul has probably been captured by the Ming army, even if it has not been captured by the Ming Dynasty."
We have already been surrounded. So what is the use of rushing to the Ming Dynasty? Send an order and order the soldiers in various places to give up resistance and let the Ming army come over. I am waiting for them in Seoul and want to see with my own eyes how they will treat me."
Zhu Fangyuan also said: "Since the Ming Dynasty treats North Korea in this way, then let all the foreign countries see the true face of the Ming Dynasty."
The news spread to various places, and the soldiers who had not resisted fiercely immediately gave up their resistance and allowed the Ming army to take over. The defenders of some cities sent people to discuss with the Ming generals, providing them with food and grass, and even offering to reward the army with money, begging them not to enter.
City, go straight to Seoul. The generals of the Ming army were also reasonable and went straight to Seoul after accepting the money and food. It didn't take long for the army to arrive near Seoul.
As Zhu Fangyuan and Zhu expected, the Ming army did not march into Seoul, but stationed around Seoul. King Zhu Song and King Yong Zhu Yun entered the city with only a few hundred guards and came to the palace to face the palace guards.
He also said politely: "Please report to the King of Korea that King Ying and King Yong have come to pay homage to him."
The guard hurriedly went to pass the message. When he heard the message, Zhu Fangyuan sneered and said: "The Ming Dynasty has really become a bitch and wants to build an arch. Do they think that this way they can hide it from other countries? Let them in, I have to ask myself.
They." Zhu had no objection to his father's words.
Soon, King Zhu Song and King Yong Zhu Yun came in. Zhu Yun first saluted Zhu Fangyuan, then saluted Zhu, and then said: "His Royal Highness the King of North Korea, His Highness the King of North Korea, you should salute His Highness the King of England. After all,
The King and His Majesty are equals, and the King and the Crown Prince are equals. His Royal Highness is His Majesty’s elder, and you should bow to your elders.”
"Stop doing these empty things and tell us how you want to treat North Korea. Do you want to make North Korea a province of North Korea, or add a vassal king to North Korea as the king? Then we, father and son, and all the people of the Li clan will be
Are you going to be sent to the capital to live in your old age? If you obey, maybe you can still serve as an official in the court, just like Li Cheng?" Zhu Fangyuan, or returned to his surname Li Fangyuan, said coldly.
"Why do you think so?" Zhu Yun seemed to be surprised and said: "The army is here to calm down the disaster and restore order in North Korea. Does it mean to destroy North Korea?"
"And the situation in North Korea is completely different from that in Annan. The last prince in Annan was killed by Li Ji, and the princess married His Highness the King of Yue. It is very legitimate for His Highness the King of Yue to inherit the throne; and now that the North Korean royal family is complete, how can Your Majesty do this?"
Zhu Fangyuan's expression didn't look like he was being fake, but he was also a little confused, and asked: "In that case, what does the Ming Emperor want to do? Besides calming down the disaster and restoring order."
