The life of Batur Hutaiji of the Jungar tribe has come to an end, and there is not much time left. However, at the last moment of his life, he did two major things that could change the final fate of the Jungar Mongols. .
First, it defeated the Kazakh Khanate, the old enemy of the Jungar tribe, and won a huge living space for the Jungar tribe.
The second is to lead the Zhungeer tribe to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and return to the embrace of the motherland! Well, this is a big deal, the significance is greater than defeating the Kazakhs!
Because he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, accepted the canonization of the Protector of Beiting, and obtained the position of Protector of the Great Protector for Sengge, it meant that he established an absolute authority in the Zhungeer tribe.
A few months later, when Lama Celing accompanied Galdan to Nanjing, he brought with him the agreement reached with the Ming Dynasty and half a year's military expenses (silk, cloth, iron, guns, and gunpowder worth 125,000 taels of silver) issued by the Ming court. ), passed through the grassland route of the Silk Road, and arrived at Dolben Erutsenmu Castle. Choros Sengge, who had just taken over the Jungar tribe from his late father Batur Hutaiji, He immediately won the support of the tribe... After all, no one would have trouble with property worth 125,000 taels of silver!
Since Seng Ge can defraud wealth from the Ming Dynasty court, then everyone should support him as the Protector-General!
Of course, Emperor Zhu's good things are not given in vain. After distributing the good things, the warriors of the Zhungeer tribe had to go to the Ming Dynasty to regain the sacred territory since ancient times...
After Sengge returned from the Anxi territory south of the Tianshan Mountains, his position in the Zhungeer tribe was further consolidated.
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While the Zhungeer tribe in the Western Regions was busy with the internal power transition and safeguarding the cause of reunification of the motherland, on the peninsula six to seven thousand miles away, they were also facing changes brought about by the Ming Emperor Zhu Cixiang.
Changdeokgung Palace in North Korea is a shabby palace that has been "renovated to look like the old one". The reason why it is said to be "renovated as before" is because the palace, which was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, was burned down twice during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion and Injo's incident. I spent half my life trying to restore Changdeokgung Palace, but I was unable to do so due to the invasion of the Qing Dynasty. In the end, I had to resort to the next best thing and use the demolished Ingyeonggung Palace to obtain materials to restore part of Changdeokgung Palace.
Since Changdeokgung Palace was restored using old materials, it naturally looks like it was before.
But even so, Li Ju was not able to see the completion of the Changdeokgung Palace restoration project during his lifetime... Because there was no funds, and the craftsmen and civilians could not get wages, they deliberately delayed the restoration of part of Changdeokgung Palace. It was not completed until the second year after Li Hao ascended the throne.
However, Li Hao was not satisfied with fulfilling the last wish of Injo Lee Jo. He still had his own ambitions!
In his view, the Kingdom of Korea, a country with a long history and a profound influence of Confucian culture, should not always be the target of bullying from neighboring countries. Korea should strengthen itself, rise up, and become a country comparable to the Ming Dynasty. Go to the country.
In Li Hao's view, helping Korea's past father-state, the Ming Dynasty, defeat the Qing invaders and restore the Central Plains was the shortcut to Korea's rise.
Therefore, after taking the throne, Li Hao changed his father Li Zhu's national policy of resting with the people and accelerated the implementation of the "Datong Law", which unified all kinds of messy tributes into a rice tax system. In addition, he also issued an edict requiring all Korean men, even monks, to pay taxes in order to be exempted from military service.
However, the foundation of this North Korean country is too weak, and most of the land and population in the country are in the hands of the two classes of wealthy families. No matter what methods Li Hao implements to increase income, it is impossible to tax the two classes of wealthy families.
Therefore, in the more than three years since Li Hao took the throne, various efforts to expand the army and prepare for war have not achieved much results. The total number of imperial camp troops and forbidden troops is only 22,000, and they are poorly equipped and poorly trained, and there is a special lack of cavalry. There was still an atmosphere of fear of the Qing Dynasty and fear of war in the army, so much so that Li Hao did not dare to publicly mention the Northern Expedition, and only dared to expand the army in the name of preparing for Japan.
But aren’t Japanese pirates scary? Are the Japanese pirates no longer cruel? Are the Japanese pirates easy to deal with?
Therefore, when the urgent report of Jin Guangxiao, the military governor of Gyeongsangzudo Province, was sent to the North Korean capital, the officials were immediately frightened. Everyone was at a loss, and no one dared to step forward to fight on the front line to fight against the Japanese. At the end of the discussion, the ministers reluctantly made a suggestion to seek help from the Qing Dynasty.
It seems that the Northern Expedition to the Qing Dynasty is impossible. The only business is to ask the Qing Dynasty for help!
In addition to saving lives, of course, I would ask King Li Hao to go to the north to fight against the Japanese...
Just when Li Hao was thinking about going north to fight against the Japanese, his teacher, Song Siyeol, the current Li Cao judge, finally returned from the Ming Dynasty, and he also brought back a confidential message!
Outside the Xuanzheng Hall, Li Hao's personal servants guarded all the passages, and no other people were allowed to approach!
In Niri, Xuanzheng Hall, Song Shilie, who had just returned, was kneeling and sitting opposite Li Hao, talking with sorrow and anger about what he had seen and heard during his visit to the Ming Dynasty.
"Your Highness... North Korea must be strong and self-reliant, and can no longer count on the Ming Dynasty! They are now blindly pursuing wealth and power, and have abandoned benevolence, justice and morality. Now in order to attack the Qing Dynasty, they even want to sacrifice our country's interests and use our country as a temptation They are the bait for the Tartar cavalry and the Japanese pirates who now occupy Jueying Island in Busan. In addition, the so-called "Zi Lun Ge Wu Chapter", according to what I have seen with my own eyes, is simply something forged by later generations, although some suggestions have been made. It is a method of studying things and reasoning, but it lacks the sincerity and sincerity of learning, and many of the principles in it are easy to disturb people's hearts and are not worth learning!"
Li Hao listened carefully, but the expression on his face became increasingly gloomy. He originally thought that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would very enthusiastically accept North Korea's return to the country, immediately give a generous reward and send a large number of muskets and artillery. Although he, the King of North Korea, did not see the world, he always looked at the Ming Dynasty. Of course he knew what Nanjing is now. There are workshops producing guns and cannons everywhere in Shanghai and Shanghai. The guns produced are large in quantity and of high quality, and some can be sent to North Korea...
However, the Ming Emperor did not want North Korea to return at all, and he also wanted to send people pretending to be Japanese pirates to invade North Korea in order to create an excuse for the Qing Dynasty to garrison North Korea.
This is simply an attempt to introduce disaster into North Korea!
"Mr. Song," Li Hao asked, "without our consent, the Ming Dynasty sent a fleet to pretend to be Japanese pirates, occupied Jueying Island, and killed and wounded our soldiers! How should we respond?"
This matter was actually Song Shiyeol's fault... He was too procrastinating. Instead of taking a boat back immediately after returning to Shanghai, he took the land route north to Shandong and took a boat back to North Korea from there. Along the way, he did not forget to examine the people's sentiments and understand the situation of the Ming Dynasty's reforms.
So we wasted time, and the Japanese pirates who invaded North Korea arrived first!
Because North Korea was not prepared, the falsehood came true, and many North Korean navy officers and soldiers were killed.
"Your Highness," Song Shilie said, "Although the Ming Dynasty has lost its benevolence and righteousness, it has become a country of tigers and wolves that only care about profit. If we expose their behavior of pretending to be Japanese pirates, I am afraid that they will become angry and invade on a large scale!"
Li Hao frowned: "What should we do?"
"Your Majesty, why don't you come up with a trick?"
"Use the trick? How to do it?"
"Let's just assume that those who invaded Jueying Island are real Japanese pirates... Aren't the Japanese pirates now at war with the Qing Dynasty on Sakhalin Island? The Japanese pirates were in a bad situation on Sakhalin Island, so they sent troops to North Korea by sea, hoping to use North Korea's The coastal islands serve as springboards to attack Vladivostok.”
Li Hao frowned even more tightly, "Isn't this playing into the Ming Dynasty's hands?"
"Your Majesty, we can still drag the Zhbanians into the water!"
"How?" Li Hao asked quickly.
This country of Rizbania is also a very troublesome existence for Li Hao!
Because this country always likes to send missionaries (Dominican priests) to North Korea to spread some evil theories that oppose Confucianism.
In the past, North Korea was closed to the outside world and it was okay to directly expel or even kill missionaries.
But now that the Japanese missionaries are supported by the Qing Dynasty, North Korea does not dare to do anything to them, so a bunch of North Korean scholar-officials have a headache.
Song Yingshi whispered: "Your Majesty, you can let the warships of the Republic of Japan come to our port to transport the Qing troops and send them to Tsushima Island for landing!"
