Jin Hanlao said to Li Fangyuan: "Your Majesty, I have repeatedly talked with the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, but he only said that there are no other rewards except the customary rewards. ≈"
Li Fangyuan said: "In that case, forget it. We can't show that North Korea is too greedy. Moreover, we have already agreed to officially accept the surname. It is lucky to have other rewards. If not, there is no need to be demanding."
"Have you asked, did the Ming Dynasty give the surname Zhu to me alone, or to my entire Li family?"
Jin Hanlao said: "Yang Ben said that he gave the surname to the king."
Li Fangyuan frowned. He was probably thinking something, but he didn't say it out loud. Instead, he said: "Then you go to the post house where the Ming envoys are housed again in the afternoon and tell them that I accepted the surname grant and will let them know tomorrow.
He must declare the emperor's will."
"After you inform the envoys of the Ming Dynasty about this matter, go to the Li Cao Banshu Yamen and tell them about the preparations for receiving the order."
Jin Hanlao agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Li Fangyuan then stayed with Mr. Jin Han for lunch, and then asked Mr. Jin Han to leave.
Li Bangyuan stayed alone for a while, and then returned to the harem of Gyeongbokgung Palace. Tomorrow, he will be given a surname and officially canonized as the King of Joseon. His wife, Princess Jeongning Min, will also attend, and he will tell her to be prepared tomorrow and ask her to
Issues.
Li Fangyuan also plans to take a look at his son. Li Fangyuan's first three sons all died shortly after birth, which left a very terrible impression on Li Fangyuan, so he is also very concerned about his son. These days, even if he
I am so anxious that I go to see my sons every day.
However, Li Fangyuan did not find Min immediately after returning to the harem today. The palace maid said: "Your Majesty, Master Min Wuji just came to see the princess, and the princess is meeting with him."
Min Wuji was Min's younger brother, so it was normal for them to meet. Li Fangyuan didn't pay attention to it. He just asked the palace maid to tell Min about the matter when he came back, and then he went to the former court to handle political affairs. He has been in no mood to take care of it these days.
These things are nothing major.
In the evening, Li Fangyuan went to see Min. After finishing her business, she had dinner with her. Min held her eldest son, Li Bao, and fed Li Bao with a smile.
Li Fangyuan had something on her mind and was always absent-minded, but Mrs. Min has always been very happy, which made Li Fangyuan very strange: Mrs. Min has been very happy ever since he asked her to do something. Mrs. Min is also a person who has experienced many things.
You can just laugh at the smallest things, so why are you so happy all the time?
He couldn't help but ask: "What makes you happy? You have been so happy since I saw you tonight."
Min couldn't help but smile and said: "Your Highness, today's envoy from the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Guan, the director of the Ministry of Rites, who came here last time, brought a letter to my second brother Wuji. It is a letter from Min from Shandong."
"Min Linjun, the contemporary head of the Shandong Min family, wrote in a letter that he admitted that our Lixing Min family is a branch of the Shandong Min family!"
"This is really great. So many families in our North Korea claim to be descendants of those prominent figures from the Ming Dynasty. Only our Lixing Min family has been recognized by our family. It's really great."
It turns out that the Koreans at this time, like later generations, always wanted to have relationships with Chinese celebrities; but at this time they did not dare to claim that Confucius was a Korean.
So they use another method to establish a relationship with Chinese celebrities, that is, claiming that they are the descendants of a certain Chinese celebrity. Of course, maybe they are not lying.
The Min family of Lixing has always claimed to be the descendant of Min Sun. Min Sun, whose courtesy name was Ziqian, was one of the seventy-two sages under Confucius. He was famous for his filial piety, and his deeds were included in the Twenty-four Filial Piety.
Now Min Sun's direct descendants have recognized that the Lixing Min family is also a descendant of Min Sun, which makes Concubine Min, who is the Lixing Min family, very happy. As she said, only the Lixing Min family has been recognized by the Chinese family. This is equivalent to raising the Lixing Min family's family status, how could she not be happy!
This was of course the method that Yunxi came up with. Yunxi didn't want to spend too much on wooing the wealthy Korean families, but he also wanted to win over them, so he thought of a way to admit that they were the descendants of Chinese celebrities as he claimed.
This kind of thing is free of charge, which not only makes them grateful, but also allows these North Korean wealthy families to have a relationship with the Ming Dynasty.
And it was very simple for Yunxi. He only needed to send people to Shandong to find the current head of the Min family, and then said that he could let Min Sun accompany the Confucius Temple and give the Min family a hereditary official position in the Hanlin Academy. That would be it. Just like the Yan family.
Min Linjun, the current head of the Min family, immediately agreed, and then wrote this letter for the people sent by Yunxi to take it back.
Yunxi then asked Yang Ben to come to North Korea with the letter, and asked Zhu Guan to hand it over to the Lixing Min family. The next thing Li Fangyuan saw was what happened.
Although Li Fangyuan was still far behind Li Chenggui, yesterday Li Chenggui had just reminded him to be on guard against the Ming Dynasty wooing North Korea's wealthy families, so he immediately suspected that this was a wooing strategy by the Ming Dynasty.
But after Li Fangyuan thought about how to avoid this kind of solicitation, he found that he had no choice.
If people are willing to recognize their ancestors, can he stop them? In the future, in order to show that they are indeed the descendants of a certain celebrity, they will go to the Ming Dynasty to worship their ancestors, can he stop them?
So Li Fangyuan was very irritable, stopped eating half of the meal, threw down the bowl and chopsticks and strode out, which surprised Mr. Min.
Li Fangyuan didn't want to ask his father for help when encountering any problem, so he thought about how to prevent the Ming Dynasty from trying to win over the wealthy Korean families. Although he still didn't find a way to deal with Yunxi's move, he still gained something.
Li Fangyuan woke up very early the next day. He looked at the time and saw that it was not long before it was time to get up and get ready, so he got up and practiced martial arts first. He has also been practicing martial arts since he was a child.
When the time came, he changed his clothes and performed the ceremony before receiving the order.
When it was almost noon, Yang Ben came to the gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace with the imperial edict in hand.
Yang Ben stood at the prescribed position, and then said: "I know that the Minister of State of North Korea, Li Bangyuan, has received the order."
Li Fangyuan clenched his fists, then knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor."
Li Fangyuan was very reluctant to kneel down. He had knelt down once before, when Zhu Yuanzhang chose North Korea as the name of the new country. Since then, he had wanted to stop kneeling under the imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty. But today he still had to kneel down. This made him very angry, but he had no way to resolve it.
Behind Li Fangyuan, all the North Korean ministers present also knelt down.
Yang Ben opened the imperial edict and said: "According to the imperial edict of Heaven, the King of Korea Wang Chang (the last King of Goryeo) is deposed because of his stupidity and immorality. He has been given the power to inform the Minister of State of Korea, Li Fangyuan, to be named Zhu, and he has been granted the title of King of Korea. this."
Li Fangyuan said expressionlessly, "Your Majesty, Zhu Fangyuan, accepts the order." Then he stood up.
Unexpectedly, Yang Ben seemed to be doing magic and took out another imperial edict from his arms and said: "The emperor's edict is carried out by heaven. I have heard that the wife of Li Fangyuan, the Minister of State of North Korea, is Min Sun, one of the seventy-two sages of the sage Kong.
After that. Since she is a virtuous queen, she must be gentle and knowledgeable about etiquette. Now I will confer the title of Min, the wife of Li Bangyuan, the powerful minister of state of Korea, the queen of Jingning, as the queen of Joseon."
Li Fangyuan, no, it should be called Zhu Fangyuan now. He immediately stayed where he was.
Mrs. Min was stunned for a moment and immediately said happily: "I accept the order."
Zhu Fangyuan also calmed down now. He looked at the ministers in front of him with a fierce look in his eyes, but it immediately turned into a look of helplessness. Because the Ming Dynasty had not been established for a long time, and North Korea was newly established, there were no regulations yet.
Moreover, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty directly canonized the queen, which was actually an honor for North Korea and him, so the ministers behind him did not have much reaction.
Logically speaking, he shouldn't be unhappy unless Zhu Fangyuan wants to depose the queen; but Zhu Fangyuan has no intention of deposing the queen now.
However, Zhu Fangyuan felt that this was a move by the Ming Dynasty to further control North Korea, although he had no evidence.
He really wanted to refuse to accept the imperial edict, but he didn't dare. First, if he didn't accept this imperial edict, then the previous imperial edict might not be acceptable, and he would be doomed. Second, if he refused to accept this imperial edict, Li Xing would definitely be offended.
The Min family is not happy. Now the Min family of Lixing is Zhu Fangyuan's most important supporter, and Zhu Fangyuan dare not offend them.
Zhu Fangyuan stood up and took the imperial edict from Yang Ben, and Mrs. Min took the edict from Yang Ben.
Yang Ben bent down and saluted and said: "I have met the King of North Korea, His Royal Highness the Queen."
Zhu Fangyuan immediately helped him up and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, why do you need to be so polite?" But there was no smile in his heart.
However, Mrs. Min on the side was so happy, including Min Wuji who was kneeling far away, and Min Wuxie's brothers were also very happy: the imperial edict said that 'a virtuous woman must be gentle and know etiquette', then who would dare to look down on Li in the future?
Xing Min clan? I’m afraid all the girls from Li Xing Min clan will be rushed to marry them home.
Zhu Fangyuan had a few false words with Yang Ben, and then invited him to attend the palace dinner.
It was customary to invite envoys from the Ming Dynasty to a dinner, and Yang Ben agreed with a smile. Zhu Fangyuan arranged a few more things, and then returned to Gyeongbokgung Palace on the pretext that he was unwell.
But he did not return to his dormitory, but came to the palace where Li Chenggui was imprisoned.
Coincidentally, Li Chenggui did not rest at this time. He looked at Zhu Fangyuan who could no longer suppress his anger and said, "What happened today? You are so angry. What does Ming Dynasty want?"
Zhu Fangyuan said: "Father, the Ming Dynasty, they have done other things." Then Zhu Fangyuan told the story of the Min clan of Shandong yesterday recognizing the Min clan of Lixing as the descendant of Min Sun, and the fact that Min clan was named queen today.
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Li Chenggui thought for a while and said: "It seems that Ming Dynasty really wants to intervene in North Korea's affairs this time, just like Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang did."
"And this time they took a completely different approach, not using the military to do it all."
"It's hard to say whether this is good or bad for our Li family, no, our Zhu family. I think you must be planning to turn the entire clan into Zhu family, right?"
Zhu Fangyuan nodded. He could still think of this. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Jin changed the Xun clan into Zhonghang clan, Zhi clan, and Cheng clan, and he still knew the history of splitting the powerful Xun clan into pieces. The Li family must ensure that
A surname.
Li Chenggui continued: "I don't have much to say right now. You just have to remember not to let all the wealthy families be lured away. I haven't thought of anything else now."
"You should go as soon as possible and test it out as I said yesterday. We know too little now to guess what the Ming Emperor wants to do."
Zhu Fangyuan didn't know how to deal with Li Chenggui now, and felt that he knew too little now. He said goodbye to Li Chenggui, then returned to his study and wrote down the request that Li Chenggui asked him to write yesterday to donate his sister to the emperor.
Concubine's affairs.
Then he called over a confidant named Park Chung-hee who was very good at collecting intelligence, and said to him: "When the envoys from the Ming Dynasty return to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, as a representative of the Ming Dynasty, you will thank the envoys of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty."
Pu Zhengxi said happily: "Yes, Your Highness." This is a good job.
Zhu Fangyuan stared at him again and said: "You remember, everything that happened in the Ming Dynasty since the death of the late emperor must be recorded in detail. It is best to bring back a copy of all the newspapers."
This time Pu Zhengxi knew that Zhu Fangyuan had a task entrusted to him, and it was not to reward him for his hard work during this period. He felt a little disappointed.
However, he immediately cheered up and said: "This is Your Highness, I will honor your orders."
Zhu Fangyuan smiled and said, "Okay, you can go." Pu Zhengxi stepped back.
Of course, Zhu Fangyuan personally attended the dinner for the Ming envoys in the evening. Zhu Fangyuan tried his best to make the atmosphere lively, and Yang Ben and others also responded. The Korean ministers in Seoul knew that the crisis was over, and they all relaxed, so the scene was
Very lively.
In the next few days, Zhu Fangyuan summoned the envoys of the Ming Dynasty many times and rewarded them with many things, which made all the envoys happy, including Yang Ben, although he was also wary.
After that, it was time for the envoys of the Ming Dynasty to return home. They had to go back and report back to Yunxi. It couldn't be too late.
On the day they returned, Zhu Fangyuan personally sent the Ming envoys to the gate of Seoul and asked his uncle, who had changed his name to Zhu He, to take them to the port of Inchon. The Ming envoys were flattered.
However, after Zhu Fangyuan sent them out of Seoul, he cursed and said, "What a bunch of bastards!" Jin Hanlao and others were nearby and heard it, but they pretended not to hear it.
Zhu Fangyuan immediately left them behind and said to Jin Hanlao and others: "Immediately send envoys to all the counties. After so long, they should already know about Gu Shou being crowned king, and they should also recruit them.
Already."
"And secretly preparing to stock up on food and grass in Yongxing County. At the beginning of next year, I will personally conquer the Tumen River!"