Early August of the seventeenth year of Kangxi's reign, North Korea, Seoul.
The streets of Seoul, the capital of North Korea... are really too lively now!
It's not prosperity, but the excitement caused by all the forces coming together to make it so hot that it's almost burning and noisy that it's about to start a fight!
Since the fifteenth year of Kangxi's reign, when General Ba Hai personally led five thousand eight-banner heavenly troops into the Korean capital in the Qing Dynasty, the peaceful years of the Korean Kingdom were gone forever.
It is unbelievable to say that before Bahai's 5,080-banner new army entered North Korea, the ruling Southern People's Party in North Korea was divided into the Northern Expedition faction and the Moderate faction over whether to raise troops to respond to Zhu Heji. Party strife!
That’s right, it’s a partisan struggle!
We don’t really want the Northern Expedition. We will never dare to do so in this life, but we can still talk about the Northern Expedition.
So a group of Korean ministers started a political struggle on the theme of "Is it better to conduct the Northern Expedition immediately? Or to conduct a steady Northern Expedition?"
Among them, Yin Jin, a great scholar of the Southern People's Party, advocated immediately sending people to Nanjing to contact the Ming Dynasty's supervisor, King Ming, and at the same time build a large number of chariots to fight against the Qing's cavalry.
Xu Ji, another giant leader of the Southern People's Party, advocated a cautious wait-and-see approach.
But at the same time, he should also build cities in the border areas close to the Qing Dynasty to prevent the chaos in China from spreading to North Korea.
In addition, Xu Ji also proposed the establishment of a military command organization, the Tifu, and appointed himself as the military inspector of the five capitals of Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Chungcheong, Gyeonggi, and Gangwon to secretly rectify armaments.
But before the two factions could come to an agreement, Bahai's 5,000 Eight Banners soldiers came over aggressively.
This frightened Princess Kim and the North Korean King Li Yin, who was only fifteen years old at the time, and thought North Korea was going to be doomed. . The two women didn't listen to the quarrels between the Northern Expedition and the Moderate faction, so they quickly had people collect their gold and silver and wanted to escape - they didn't want North Korea anymore, so they should escape to Nanjing first!
If the southern factions Xu Ji and Yin Yin had not stopped their quarrel and stopped them together, the Lee Dynasty of North Korea would have been accidentally wiped out by Ba Hai more than two years ago...
And after learning that the Kingdom of Korea was almost destroyed by him, Bahai was also shocked and broke out in a sweat - Kangxi asked him to "protect" Korea from the invasion of the pseudo-Ming Dynasty. If he could destroy Korea with a shake of his hand, How to explain it later?
Because you are worried that North Korea will be destroyed by the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, so you decide to destroy it first?
Bahai, who almost destroyed North Korea, quickly sent Nalan Mingzhu, a Confucian leader, to have a good talk with the North Korean monarchs... He had to let them know that the Qing Dynasty was a good country, and it was not a hypocrite about those unkind and unjust people. evil country. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty will not destroy North Korea, and North Korea's monarchs and ministers can still be kings and engage in party disputes with peace of mind.
So Li Yan reluctantly returned to the palace and became king for more than two years, and the issue of the North Korean party struggle changed from whether to go for the Northern Expedition to whether to believe in Confucianism or join Confucianism, or whether to believe in neither and continue to play with Confucianism.
Of course, Yin Jin, who had previously advocated the Northern Expedition, would definitely lose power and step down. After he stepped down, because he was unwilling to fall, he contacted the "Zhanren Confucian" who came to North Korea to spread the true principles of Confucianism, and joined the Confucian sect.
Xu Ji, who continued to be in power, saw that his former political rival had entered the Confucian sect, so he immediately found Mingzhu and became a member of the Shenggong sect.
In addition, North Korea's great Neo-Confucian scholar and leader of the Western People's Party, Song Si-yeol, who has been in opposition for many years, continues to adhere to the traditional "Gentleman's Confucianism" - you can neither chop people with a sword nor hit them with a stick, so you can reason and convince people!
So now in North Korea, there are actually three cronies distinguished by Confucian factions.
It's just that Song Shilie has always been close to the Ming Dynasty, so he was more polite to the Confucian Confucians, so he was regarded as one of his own by those Confucian Confucians who came from the new Ming Dynasty and were not very good at Confucianism.
It doesn't matter if it's just these three factions engaging in party disputes. The Kingdom of Korea has been doing this for many years, and isn't it just surviving?
But Kangxi had other demands for North Korea!
Shortly after King Li Yan of North Korea and Princess Jin returned to the palace, Bahai and Nalan Mingzhu read the imperial edict of Emperor Kangxi to them.
In his edict, Kangxi requested North Korea to "lease" Haizhou Port to the Qing Dynasty for military training and transportation to the West. He also announced that a supervising government office would be established in North Korea and permanent soldiers would be stationed there.
Moreover, Kangxi also asked North Korea to join the Sixteen-Nation Anti-Ming Alliance!
This is really the end!
Because joining the Anti-Ming Alliance not only means becoming an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the former "father country", but also becoming allies with Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain...
This is simply to recognize the enemy as a friend and the thief as the father, and to work with the thief country and the enemy country to deal with the father country!
But the Qing Dynasty’s five thousand heavenly soldiers are just outside Seoul, and the Ming Dynasty’s army is still unknown?
Therefore, the North Korean monarchs and ministers whose lives were at stake had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, join the Sixteen-Nation Anti-Ming Alliance, and hand over Haizhou to the Qing army.
And joining the alliance and renting out Haizhou is not the end...the "beater Confucian" carrying a stick, the ferocious-looking Bai Yi wearing strange clothes, and the arrogant Shangguo with long braided arrow sleeves The nobles are pouring into North Korea's gate like water, and there is no way to stop them!
In addition, Emperor Kangxi kept asking for money, food and equipment from North Korea, and even sent "musketeers" to North Korea, asking North Korea to donate 10,000 musket barrels to the Qing Dynasty every year... and It also requires high quality and not easy to explode!
And they didn’t even give me a penny…it was all for nothing!
Under this kind of oppression, North Korea's knowledgeable people certainly have a feeling that North Korea is about to end. However, they had no ability to rise up to resist the Qing Dynasty, so they had to wear "Confucius clothes" and hang a "Confucius sword" on their waists to protest.
Although the King of North Korea had long followed the will of the Qing Emperor and issued an edict (the King of North Korea's will) in May of the 16th year of Kangxi's reign, prohibiting all Confucian activities in North Korea.
But the two groups of officials below ignored this religious order... and turned a blind eye to the "killing Confucians" who were clothed in commoner clothes and had long swords hanging from their waists.
Moreover, under the pretext of "needing to import good iron from the Ming Dynasty to make gun barrels", they opened trade privately, allowed Ming Dynasty merchant ships to enter the port, and allowed Ming Dynasty merchants to disembark. Not only did they not stop the activities of Confucian disciples in various parts of Korea, , and actively participated in it.
The power of Confucianism in North Korea is like a wildfire that can't be contained.
A group of Qing knights from Haizhou entered the city gate of Seoul like flying, and rushed through the bustling streets of the city. The bells tied to the horses' hooves rang, and the Korean people stumbled around. He ran away and looked extremely embarrassed.
These were the messengers of the Qing Dynasty’s imperial yamen who traveled between the Qing Concession in Haizhou and Seoul... They were probably here to convey Kangxi’s edict!
Where can the Korean people mess with this? So of course the knight who was leading the horse was very proud. Looking at the embarrassed appearance of the Korean people and the breast-revealing clothes of the Korean women, he couldn't even close his mouth with laughter.
While he was looking left and right, he suddenly focused his eyes and saw a group of guys wearing "Confucius uniforms" coming out of an academy next to the street. They were putting their hands in their wide sleeves and looking at them fiercely with their heads raised. Watching them.
The Chuanqi passed by at high speed, and there was no conflict. However, the Qing army Chuanqi on the horse also gave the most vicious look in his eyes, and cursed in his heart: "A traitor who kills a thousand swords..."
And one of the leading Confucian Confucians below also yelled in Chinese: "Slave with pigtails, you will not die well!"
This kind of scene happens every day on the streets of Seoul. Although the Ming Dynasty's army has not yet set foot on the land of North Korea, the Confucian disciples have already arrived here first!
And now the Qing Empire is not so easy to deal with. The Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the point where it is rotten to the core. This country has restored a certain degree of vitality through the New Deal reforms in the past two years... Between the Ming and Qing Dynasties The struggle between them may break out at any time!
One thing is probably certain. If the dispute between the Ming and Qing Dynasties occurred on the Korean Peninsula on a large scale, the Korean Kingdom would be over!
The Ming and Qing Dynasties were fighting each other, and Korea was about to end!
