Changdeokgung Palace, where the King of Joseon lives, is really an unlucky palace!
This was originally the palace of the King of Korea, also known as Dongque. During the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, it was burned down along with Gyeongbokgung Palace, the main palace of the Joseon king, and Changgyeonggung Palace, another outlying palace.
When the runaway king of North Korea, Seonzu Li Wan, came back, of course he would have no money to repair the house. So he saved money for more than ten years. Only after his son Guanghaijun Li Hui came to the throne in the 37th year of Wanli period did he have the strength to rebuild Changdeok Palace. But not two years after the completion of the construction, he met Injo. Anyway, it was actually a coup. As a result, Changdeokgung Palace was accidentally burned down during the coup.
It was not until the 25th year of King Injo's reign that the Joseon Kingdom saved money to rebuild Changdeokgung Palace.
However, when King Injo of Joseon Dynasty was building Changdeokgung Palace, the evil practice of burying the bones of young children under the foundation of Changdeokgung Palace occurred again... It sounds a bit like a ghost story, and the purpose is said to be to curse someone.
So the foundation of the house that had just been built had to be excavated and cleaned. This cleaning took several years and cost a lot of money. The project was not completed until Injo of Joseon moved to Changneung of Joseon.
However, Injo's son Hyojong Li Hao did not even live in the new house because of his psychological shadow.
Therefore, the first Joseon king to live in Changdeokgung Palace was the father of the current Joseon King Yi Yin, Chongzong Yi Bi... He became blind within a year of living there!
It’s probably because the money was not spent properly and the “dirty things” were not cleaned up!
Therefore, Li Di was very unlucky. After going blind, he developed a tumor, which was probably not malignant. He suffered from the disease for more than ten years and collapsed when he was thirty-four years old. .
Then Li Yan came to live in this unlucky house... It was pretty good. After living there for a few years, he didn't go blind or develop any tumors, and he was still alive for the time being.
It seems that his Korean kingdom may be over!
Kang Mazi of the Qing Dynasty in the north bullied him all day long, while Zhu Heji of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest had ulterior motives.
In addition, there are two foreign barbarians, the Netherlands and Spain, who are constantly asking him to agree to some kind of monopoly of free trade, and they also want him to convert to some kind of God-worshipping religion - can this be changed? Outside Changdeokgung Palace there are people who beat people with sticks and people who kill people with big swords everywhere!
Although Li Yan was only seventeen years old, he also knew that if he really wanted to worship God, he would either be beaten to death with a stick or beheaded with a big sword.
In short, you can see God right away!
There are no good people in North Korea. The ruling Southern People's Party is so domineering that they simply don't take the monarch seriously. His two cousins Boochang Gun and Bok Pyeong Gun once slept with two palace maids in Changdeokgung Palace, and even let his mother, Princess Kim, bump into them. Kim asked him to severely punish the two, while Yin Zhen of the Southern People's Party asked him to "take care of my mother"... don't let my mother interfere in politics!
Who is this!
Although Li Yan later used the power of the Qing Dynasty to oust Yin Jin, he immediately joined Confucianism. With the protection of the Ming Dynasty, neither the Westerners Party in Korea nor Xu Ji, who opposed the Qing Dynasty conservatives, dared to What to do with him.
So after being the king of Korea for several years, Li Yan discovered that the force most friendly to him was actually the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan...
It's a pity that the Tokugawa shogunate can't help him at all now. He has to rely on his own strength to deal with a group of wolves and tigers inside and outside.
Now the North Korean king is tremblingly receiving the visiting Qing Dynasty supervisor Deng Guangming and political supervisor Yu Chenglong in the Xizheng Hall.
Xu Ji, his council leader, stood beside him and acted as an interpreter. From time to time, he would speak a few words to the two visitors in Chinese that Li Yan couldn't quite understand.
"Your Highness...the two imperial envoys from the Imperial Kingdom said that there are currently 15,000 Ming army divisions on dozens of large ships, heading towards North Korea, and will soon land in Asan, and then pass through Chengdu. Huanyi and Suwon marched to Seoul. But please rest assured, Your Majesty, the training to guard Seoul has a total of five thousand gunners, killers, and archers, which is enough to defend Seoul. If that doesn't work, you can retreat to Namhansan Fortress or go to Pyongyang Take refuge.
In addition, the imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty has reported to the country for help. We only need to hold on to Seoul, Namhansanseong or Pyongyang for a month, which is enough to wait for reinforcements from the Qing Dynasty.
In short, everything is foolproof, please rest assured, Your Majesty! "
The one who was beating his chest and talking nonsense was none other than Xu Ji, the political leader... Although he was talking nonsense, Li Yan didn't know what to do? If 15,000 Ming troops really came to North Korea, the 5,000 "third-hand troops" trained by the North Korean state would definitely not be able to defeat them.
If the Qing army in Haizhou is unreliable and reinforcements from the Qing Dynasty fail to arrive for a while, then Korea will fall under the control of the Ming Dynasty!
Thinking of this, he glanced at Xu Ji and found that the leader seemed to be confident... Could it be that he had secretly defected to the Ming Dynasty?
And the Ming Dynasty should be better to Korea than the Qing Dynasty, right?
At this time, Yu Chenglong spoke again: "Your Majesty, although the rumors may not be true, if the false traitors really come, please follow the official and the imperial envoy to evacuate to Haizhou! Haizhou has five Thousands of heavenly soldiers and a bastion are enough to ensure your safety, my king."
Xu Ji did not translate these words, but directly patted his chest and promised: "Definitely, definitely, please rest assured, the king will definitely evacuate to Haizhou when the time comes."
"Okay, that's good!" Deng Guangming said with a smile, "Let's make an agreement!"
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On the yellow sea west of the Korean Peninsula, the color of dusk has enveloped the entire sea. A troop transport fleet composed of hundreds of "Great Eastern" sailboats with almost identical appearances is plowing white waves on the ocean.
Behind these large sailing ships, without exception, there is a "mounted shooting boat" towed by ropes.
Pieces of white sails were swollen by the west wind. The setting sun came from the west and reflected on the ocean. It was sparkling. Between the sea and the sky, it seemed that there were only these strong ships like city walls approaching the land of the Korean Peninsula. .
Every ship in the fleet is flying the flag of the sun and the moon, symbolizing the Great Ming Dynasty, and the flag of "Practice for Heaven", symbolizing the Nanyang Trading Company!
After the great sea battle off the coast of Zhejiang, the entire Chinese coast, including the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, was dominated by the Ming Navy and the Nanyang Trading Company. These two integrated maritime forces had absolute dominance on the East Asian seas. Control!
However, neither the Nanyang Company nor the Ming Dynasty Navy went to Nanyang to challenge the maritime power of the Westerners in the past two or three years, nor did they try to regain the Ming Dynasty's dependent states, including the Ryukyu Kingdom.
They seem content with control of the East Asian seas - which means protection fees!
It was also committed to using its ever-expanding fleet for maritime trade—mainly peaceful trade—in the South and East Seas. This kind of trade is conducive to the establishment of contacts between Nanyang Trading Company and overseas Chinese merchants in Nanyang... Due to the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's maritime ban policy, Chaozhou people, Cantonese people, Hokkien people and Fuzhou Shiyi people were keen to make a living. The ethnic groups in Nanyang have all suffered a heavy blow, and internal and external communication has been almost interrupted. It will take some time to restore such contact.
Once this kind of contact is basically restored, the time will be ripe for the Ming Dynasty to go south...because there is a leading party!
Before that, Ming Dynasty must at least bring down the great tomorrow of North Korea!
"North Korea! North Korea Yaju has arrived!"
Navy Admiral Liu Guoxuan, who was walking on the deck of the flagship Chengtianfu, suddenly heard the lookout soldiers on the lookout post shouting. He hurriedly walked to the bow of the ship, then leaned against the fender, took out a telescope and put it on his eyeballs, looking forward.
Soon, Liu Guoxuan discovered a cluster of swaying firelight on the coastline that appeared in the distance at an unknown time!
This should be the insider who had entered North Korea long ago and lit a lot of bonfires to navigate the Ming Dynasty warships from afar.
As long as the fleet led by Liu Guoxuan continues sailing towards the fire, they should be able to start landing early tomorrow morning. If nothing else happens, thousands of people will be able to board the coast of Asan by tomorrow night. The day after tomorrow, the landed army will begin to march towards Seoul.
