But is it too hasty to attack the dragon bone now? After all, once it is done, it will be equivalent to breaking up with the Qing court and officially starting a war. At this time, the Ming court troops have not yet arrived, and there has not been sufficient preparation here.
What's more, it's not that easy to move that powerful man with a big keel. Every time he comes to North Korea, he brings more than a hundred warriors. In addition to the original troops of the embassy, there are more than 500.
This matter must be carefully arranged and considered in the long term. It must be done, but definitely not now. Before touching him, you still have to clean up the cats and dogs around you.
However, the four cobblers couldn't stand up to Zhuge Liang. After all, the internal and external environment and political party disputes in North Korea were too complicated at this time, and they were plotting such a major event that could destroy the country if they were not careful. They had to be cautious and use many methods. Don't dare to use it.
When he was at a loss, a person next to Li Hao stood up. Since this kind of thing is obviously difficult to handle, it would be easier to do it secretly and kill him directly. If it is not convenient for you to take action, I will do it for you. I will do it for you. They are professional.
From this tone and wording, you can tell that he is definitely not an ordinary person, and he is definitely not an ordinary person.
Non-North Korean people.
The person who said this was a man named Zhang Ye.
Zhang Ye is a small general of the Jinyiwei, but he is the leader of the Jinyiwei who is responsible for escorting the Li Hao brothers back to North Korea. They and their 24 people worked hard to send the Li Hao brothers back. Li Hao was already close to the Ming court. Zhang Ye and others were very grateful for their care along the way, and they formed a deep friendship. Because of this trust, after returning to North Korea, King Li Zhu entrusted them with the responsibility of protecting Li Hao.
The Jin Yiwei who can be selected to join the court are not just ordinary people. After all, Chang Yu's purpose is not simply to let them escort the Li Hao brothers. They also have other tasks, such as collecting intelligence and being undercover.
After Zhang Ye arrived in Seoul, he met the undercover agents lurking in North Korea and learned that there were six spies from the Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty in Seoul. These people used various identities to cover up, and the longest one had been lurking for several years. He has gained some power and has many people under his command.
In order not to attract attention, Zhang Ye and his party were broken up into small groups and lurked in various places in the city. In order to keep it secret, Li Shu was afraid of leaking the news of Li Hao's return to China, so he did not dare to use the people around him to entrust Zhang Ye to provide protection. Zhang Ye did not refuse. Yes.
Li Hao was an extremely cautious person. He sometimes hid Li Hao inside the palace and sometimes outside the palace. He was afraid of attracting attention if he stayed in one place for too long. He even hid Li Hao in a place run by Ming court spies.
This is a grocery store outside the palace. The front store and the backyard specialize in mountain tea cloth. It has economic and trade contacts with the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Its scale and reputation are among the best in Seoul. The owner of the grocery store is apparently a Korean, but in fact he is a foreigner. Liu Shichang, a secret agent of the Ming Dynasty who has been in North Korea for ten years.
Do you think it is just an ordinary grocery store? No, it is an intelligence center. Its customers include people from the Qing Dynasty, Ming people and even Japanese people. While doing business, it can collect information from all parties, and because it is right outside the palace, it can be accessed at any time. Instead of communicating secretly.
Li Hao hid in the backyard of the grocery store and lived in seclusion. He didn't even go out of his two rooms during the day. He only went to the yard to get some air in the dead of night.
Night was the time for him and them to be active. Sometimes he would have secret discussions with Jin Liu and Li Jingshi here, and sometimes he would quietly enter the palace to see Li Zhu.
As for how he entered the palace quietly without being discovered, it was much simpler. For example, when Li Zhu summoned Jin Liu Li Jingshi to enter the palace, he transformed into an entourage and followed him. He could even climb over the wall and enter.
When it comes to this, some people will be surprised. You are talking about it. Can the wall of the palace be climbed over when it is so high?
As mentioned before, the buildings in North Korea were very low. At that time, it was not only them, but also Japan!
As for the reasons, I have said that first of all, it is the etiquette system. North Korea is a vassal state, and the palace regulations are equivalent to those of the princes of the Ming Dynasty. However, North Korea is poor, materials are expensive and scarce, and the island is too windy and wavey, so the buildings are particularly low and similar to those of the Ming Dynasty. The Prince's Mansion is incomparable at all, not even as good as some nobles' mansions, and even worse than some wealthy gentry's, such as the Wang Family Courtyard and the Qiao Family Courtyard.
This is really not nonsense. Interested book friends can look up some old photos of Seoul and find that they are really short. For example, Donuimun, the west gate of Seoul. Go and see if it is as tall as the gate of the temple next to your house. That's the city gate!
The city gates and walls are like this, not to mention that they are not much different from the courtyard walls of ordinary people. Some courtyard walls in the palace are even only half a person high. Perhaps it is because the islanders were relatively short at that time.
Anyway, in one sentence, North Korea's city walls, palace walls, and courtyard walls are all very low. It's no wonder that Huang Taiji's army is invincible. It is not difficult to attack with conventional cold weapons, not to mention cannons and other firearms. It is easy to defeat them. Can break the city.
So sometimes Li Hao would climb over the wall when entering the palace. Of course, someone would set up a ladder to help him, but no matter how he entered, Zhang Ye and other royal guards would accompany him every time he entered the palace. This shows how close Li Hao and his son were to the Ming court. and trust.
At first, Zhang Ye didn't know that Li Zhu and his son were discussing something. He only followed up and protected Li Hao as requested. However, after a while, when he saw Li Hao's sad face, he knew what kind of problem he had encountered. I asked casually.
Li Hao's special trust in him is what Zhang Ye said above.
This seemingly ordinary sentence made Li Hao's heart move. Then he said this to Li Zhu and others. To put it bluntly, he was carrying out assassinations and killed all the ministers who were close to the Qing Dynasty!
How can this be done? Li Zhu was so angry that he jumped to his feet. Jin Liu also said that throughout the ages, ministers were killed if they had different political opinions. If this was the case, what would the court be like? Even when the Ming Dynasty was in power with the Donglin Party, I have never done this before, I just used Dongchang officials to suppress...
Hey, in the process of instructing Li Hao, several people suddenly had an idea.
I was too anxious before, always thinking about knocking down those friendly cats and dogs immediately, but I didn't want to go to extremes or scare the snake, so my methods were limited.
But Zhang Ye's words extended to the partisanship in the Ming court, which gave them inspiration. The Ming court could use Dongchang's ministers to suppress it. We don't have Dongchang but there are other parties. Why not fight fire with fire and let them fight.
But now the pro-Qing Luo Party is huge, and other parties are obviously not opponents, so they must first re-appoint people from a certain party and give them a certain position to have the ability to arm-wrestle, and secondly, help him find a reason!
What's a good reason? If assassination wasn't possible at the time, then...
Li Zhu smiled. Over the years he has been in office, from time to time one person conspired and another person rebelled, and the consequences of these rebellions were the same, that is, execution!
Why not concoct a plot to frame the situation and frame it? If you have a reason, you don't even need to fan the flames yourself, so that other parties can rush forward with their knives!
This is the fastest and most effective way to clear the emperor's side. It is justifiable and does not need to go to extremes and will not alarm the snake.
Just which party should be used to charge into the battle? The four of them fell into deep thought again.
As mentioned earlier, there were too many cronies in the Joseon Dynasty. They used to be divided into the East-West Party, Injo's Party, and the Western Party, which had meritorious service and was promoted to the party leader. The Xunxi faction, the latter is called Qingxi, Jinliu and Jinzidian both belong to Gongxi. Yes, Jinzidian at that time was still Mingfen, helping Injo anyway.
Later, the Gongxi sect was divided into Laoxi and Shaoxi. The reason was that Jin Liu thought of using Nan Yigong as the chief minister (the left censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the Ming Dynasty). Those who supported Jin Liu were called Laoxi, and those who opposed it were called Laoxi. The young sect is called Shaoxi.
But no matter Old Seo or Soseo, they were all Westerners’ Party. They were dominated by the Westerners’ Party throughout the period of King Injo. In the last years of King Injo’s reign, the Westerners’ Party split again, with Song Si-yeol and others representing the “mountain and forest” Confucian scholars as the center. , and formed the "Mountain Party". The people in power who lived north of the Han River, formed ties with the central political circles, and were married to the royal family formed the "Han Party". The leaders of this party were Jin Yu and Jin Xiwei. In addition, there are Yuan Doupiao's "Yuan Party" and Jin Zidian's "Luo Party". In this way, the Westerners were divided into four parties: Shan, Han, Luo, and Yuan.
Seeing this, you all understand that most of the people in North Korea who are close to the Qing Dynasty are the Lao Dongren Party and the Luo Party headed by Jin Zidian. These people are the targets that Li Jie and his son want to attack now.
To start a war, you need guns.
Who will be the gun?
There is no doubt that the Shan Party will be used. Its leader Song Shilie was Li Hao's master. Historically, Li Hao also used him to bring down Jin Zidian when he came to power. This man was loyal and knowledgeable. Although he lived in seclusion and refused to serve at this time, his party It can still be used, and Li Zhu decided to reveal the secret to Song Siyeol in exchange for his coming out.
To be on the safe side, the Han Party was assisting, and it was the party of Jin Yu who was being imprisoned in Shenyang at this time!
Funny to say, one of the leaders of these two parties lives in seclusion, and the other is under house arrest in Shenyang by the Qing government.
One thought leads to the other, one thought leads to the other.
The four cobblers finally came up with a plan. While promoting Shan Party and Han Party ministers, they concocted conspiracy and rebellion.
