Liu Fangliang intended to lead an expedition to Liaodong, or to lead an army directly by sea to aid North Korea. However, Li Laiheng himself had other ideas. He was not eager to send troops to aid North Korea immediately, but intended to sit back and watch the Donglu occupy North Korea.
This strange idea was not noticed by many ministers who attended the political hall meeting at the beginning. But soon, at the meeting the next day, the keen Fang Yiren had clearly seen Li Laiheng's thoughts.
Originally, the political affairs hall meeting invited military commanders Liu Fangliang, Liu Tichun, Chen Yongfu and others who were in Beijing. They also invited important officials from the military government, the household government, and the Military Academy to discuss the specific matters of sending troops to conquer Liao.
But after the Emperor of Heaven arrived, the topic at the meeting immediately changed subtly.
The person who controlled the direction of the topic was Pingzhang Zhengshi Fang Yiren. Suddenly, he started to mention the Ming-Vietnam War during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty...
"In the first year of Jianwen, Li Jiyao, the Prime Minister of Annan, killed his master and claimed to be the Supreme Emperor. He established Zicang as the emperor and changed his name to Hu Yiyuan. After the Jing Dynasty, Li Jiya's son Hu Hancang presented himself to the Ming Dynasty Emperor Chengzu with the title of being responsible for the affairs of Annan. He falsely claimed that the descendants of the Chen Dynasty were extinct and claimed to be the nephew of the emperor of the Chen Dynasty. He was favored by the officials and requested to be granted the title of King Annan.
Unexpectedly, Emperor Yongle actually consecrated Hu Hancang as the king of Annan Kingdom. It was not until later when the descendants of the Chen Dynasty entered the Ming Dynasty that they informed the Ming Emperor Chengzu about Hu Jiya's usurpation of the throne.
In the Ming Dynasty, Huang Zhong, the governor of Guangxi, led 5,000 soldiers to escort Chen Tianping back to Annan. The Annan army also sent troops to intercept, but the Ming army was defeated. When Chengzu heard the news, he was furious and launched an army to march south.
At that time, the Ming army advanced by land and water, with hundreds of companies vying for the flow, with flags covering the sky, drums and horns blaring, and their might and majesty were unprecedented since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The Ming army marched south and captured Thang Long. After the Qing Dynasty, they changed the previous rhetoric of attacking the people and succumbing to prosperity and destruction. They established officials to govern, taught Chinese etiquette and law, and all the descendants of the Chen family were killed by the Hu family. On the grounds of inheritability, the Cochin Command and Envoy Department was established in Annan and incorporated into the Chinese territory..."
What Fang Yiren said about the past events in the early Ming Dynasty quickly shocked the courtiers. After all, the current situation in Korea is quite similar to Annan in the Yongle Dynasty.
It is also the original orthodox king who has been overthrown, and it is also the heaven that wants to send troops to attack and punish the people, and the rise and fall continue...
It is not difficult to win this battle; but the bigger question is, what is the emperor's intention?
All the ministers knew that Zhu Di later broke his promise of reviving the country in Annan and determined to annex it by force. However, the Ming army used troops against Annan several times and spent a lot of money. The result was that the people were not attached to Annan, and they were deeply trapped in it, and they were eventually defeated. They were expelled from Lili and met with a disastrous defeat.
After Emperor Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, in view of the excessive consumption of the Annan War on the national power of the Ming Dynasty, he had to withdraw his troops, completely giving up the achievements of the previous years.
Li Laiheng nodded in agreement with Fang Taishi's words and smiled:
"If one side is in disarray and the king's army keeps fighting, even if the Shun army is strong, North Korea is thousands of miles away. If the king's army of Dashun keeps falling into it in order to restore the Korean royal family, there is no guarantee that it will not happen again in the peaceful south of the Ming Dynasty. ’s mistakes.”
Bai Wang is currently serving as the Secretary of the Household Government and the President of Yingtianyuan. He was also invited by Banzai to attend the political affairs hall meeting. Bai Wang was confused by Li Laiheng's words and asked directly:
"Your Majesty, don't you want to send troops to save North Korea?"
Among the ministers, few had as close a relationship with the emperor as Bai Wang. After all, it was Li Shuangxi and Bai Wang who introduced the emperor to the camp at night in Zhuxi County.
Li Shuangxi died on the battlefield after the Tianniu Incident. His son Zhang Xuanlang inherited the title of Marquis of Yi, and was stipulated by the Li government that he would no longer be demoted to a higher rank for generations to come. His reputation reached a very high level.
As for Bai Wang, in the past few years, he has been stationed in the rear of Hu Guangda for a long time, and he has become somewhat inconspicuous among the Shun army.
However, he almost single-handedly led the reform of the field system and the ban of Qingtian in Dashun. He had so much power that most of the time he was completely ignored.
Bai Wang abandoned military service and became a civil servant, and is now regarded as a civil official. He holds the posts of Shangshu of the Household Government and President of the Yingtian Yuan. His status is equivalent to that of Gu Junen, Shangshu of the Military Government and President of the Military Yuan.
But Li Laiheng obviously respects Bai Wang more. The relationship between the two is not only a monarch and a minister, but also a teacher and friend like Liu Fangliang.
Therefore, among the officials, only Bai Wang dared to ask such a direct question.
He simply asked: "Does Your Majesty want to imitate Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty and take advantage of the opportunity of conquering Liao Cunxian to annex North Korea?"
Bai Wang's words were too direct. After all, for scholarly public opinion, it was politically correct to punish the people and save the country. However, to suddenly raise troops to annex the other country before it invaded China was actually a tyrant who promoted an unknown army.
Made a move.
In the future, it would not be surprising to have a reputation in the history books as a person who resorts to military violence and destroys the people.
Li Laiheng laughed twice, grabbed Bai Wang's arm and shook it: "Old Bai is still so upright."
As soon as the emperor said this, everyone finally understood the reason why Grand Master Fang raised the issue of Annan...
It seems that His Majesty does not want to conquer Liao and save the Koreans, but wants to conquer the Liao and swallow the Koreans...
"I have some ideas that I would like to discuss with the ministers... Yanjing is the leader of the world, and Liaodong is on its side. In the past Ming Dynasty, even though the world was strong, it could not conquer Liaodong in decades.
This all shows that if our dynasty cannot manage it properly in the future, Liaodong will become the source of national subjugation.
The left and right wings of Liaodong are Mongolia and North Korea. Last year, Mongolian Master Liu went to the fortress to search for traps and carry out attacks. However, this was only a temporary solution and not a permanent cure.
If it's a problem, I have another plan.
Only this Korean wing, now Donglu has once again raised troops to occupy its territory, has shown its key point.
North Korea is a small country. I have heard that the country is mountainous, the people are poor, and the soldiers are not good at fighting, but it occupies the key points in the heart of Liaodong. If there are captives in the future, and thieves take over Liaodong and cause chaos, then North Korea's meager national power will not be enough for us.
If a vassal is a vassal, it will definitely not be able to raise troops to attack its belly.
In this way, only our country can personally occupy North Korea, bring its counties and counties into our territory, work hard to govern it, and educate it with etiquette and justice, so that we can control Liaodong."
Li Laiheng's words are very clear, and the picture shows that although North Korea has unfortunately encountered a huge disaster, Li Laiheng has no plans to raise troops to restore the country. Instead, he has made up his mind to follow Zhu Di's example of destroying Annan.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, whether it is to destroy Guo in a false way, or to promote it internally or externally, we must completely integrate North Korea into the Chinese territory and restore the four counties of Han Dynasty.
That's why he was not in a hurry to send troops to rescue North Korea, but wanted to sit back and watch the Manchus massacre Liangban in North Korea.
"I heard that after Daishan captured the Korean monarch in Seoul, he moved the capital of the Qing Dynasty from Shenyang to Seoul and changed Seoul to Nanjing.
After hearing the news, the nobles of the Eighth Route Army in Korea rebelled and attacked the Qing army from all sides. They also repeatedly sent envoys to China to ask for help.
Just before the Chinese New Year, some Chinese businessmen traveling in Korea returned to China and reported to the Longyi Guards that the Qing army had killed thousands of North Koreans in two groups in Pyongyang. All the well-dressed men in North Korea were being wiped out by the Manchurians."