In the dim light of Seonjeongjeon of Changdeokgung Palace, Princess Kim, who had just experienced the pain of losing her son, had put on mourning clothes and was sitting upright on the cushion. There was no expression on the originally pretty face, only numbness remained.
The owner of Ming'an Urn, Li Wenji, has now changed into mourning clothes and is sitting next to her mother, Princess Jin. This was originally a seat that was not in line with North Korea's national etiquette system, but now it is a helpless choice. Because the just-concluded Changdeokgung Palace Incident has dealt an unprecedented blow to the royal family of the Lee Dynasty of North Korea.
Not only was Li Zhen, the king of the Li Dynasty, killed by the Qing soldiers, but Princess Jin was kidnapped, as well as Chongshanjun, Leshanjun, Fuchangjun, Fupingjun and other members of the Korean royal family, as well as their descendants, were all killed. Confucian disciples armed with sticks and wearing black silk gowns robbed him.
The members of the Korean royal family in Seoul are almost all gone!
As the owner of the urn, Li Wenji became the only member of the Li dynasty in Seoul due to this unexpected coincidence. Although she is only a thirteen-year-old girl, it is better than nothing...
The number of senior officials in North Korea's parliamentary government has also decreased by more than half. Many officials who joined Confucianism, including Xu Ji, the leader of the parliament, have disappeared from the court. .
However, in North Korea, where the party and government are fierce and the two groups of nobles are rampant, the most indispensable thing is probably people who are qualified to serve as officials.
Song Siyeol, who is already in his early seventies this year and has been privately called "Song Zi" by the juniors of the Westerners Party, now leads a group of opposition Westerners Party and appears in Xuanzheng Palace with a sad look on his face - he is an old man. He is a well-known anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty activist in North Korea, although he does not know how to do anything other than talk and resign. But the integrity is still quite commendable!
Because King Injo of Joseon (the one in Namhan Mountain City) bowed three times and kowtowed to Huang Taiji, he attracted a group of people and refused to serve King Injo. They all lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, calling themselves the Mountain Party.
This group of people was not called into official service until the death of Renzu in the sixth year of Shunzhi, when the anti-Qing Emperor Fenglin Dajun (Hsiaojong of Joseon) came to the throne, and then proposed the strategy of "building the army to repel the barbarians" and preparing to cause trouble.
Later, Doama of Shunzhi heard that someone was causing trouble in North Korea, so he sent six Manchurian soldiers to North Korea to reprimand the emperor Xiaozong, which was known as the "Six Envoys to Reprimand" in history. Emperor Xiaozong of Joseon was naturally frightened when he saw the Manchurian heavenly soldiers coming. So Song Shilie and others resigned and went into seclusion... If they can't defeat the Manchurian Heavenly Soldiers, why don't I just stop serving them?
In the years that followed, the old man just didn't want to be an official. Although he was forced to become an official several times, he did not work for long before he resigned.
After leaving the field, of course it is "working". His "doing" method was to lead two debates over mourning clothes - a fight over how long Injo's wife, Concubine Ciyi, should stay in mourning for her son and daughter-in-law. Old Man Song won the first mourning dress dispute, and the power of the Western Party increased greatly. However, the second mourning dress dispute overturned Old Man Song, and he was exiled for the crime of "bad etiquette and chaos."
However, this "old man" had already marked himself as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty - his refusal to serve as an official because Renzu betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty showed that he was more loyal to the Ming Dynasty than to the Li Dynasty.
In the context of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, he was the greatest political correctness in North Korea, and the crime of "bad etiquette and disorderly rule" was not a problem at all.
And now that the Korean monarchy is almost gone, why is there still chaos?
In addition to the Westerners Party brought by the "old leader" Song Shilie, the Northern Expedition faction of Yin Jin's Southerners Party also has a place in today's Xuanzheng Hall.
Although their "Northern Expedition" was just empty talk, the "old leader" Zhong Daming resigned.
No one on either side can say who is just a big talker.
And the question now is, how can these two groups of people continue to maintain their rhetorical platform?
The closest descendants of the Li Dynasty were all in the Qing Dynasty, so there would definitely be no way for him to become the king. Most of the descendants of the Li Dynasty in the distant branch are "Xuanpai people", that is, idle clans without titles. If one of them is chosen to be the king, will there be any more disputes in the future after Ming Dynasty helps North Korea regain its lost territory and rescues the kidnapped descendants of the close relatives of the Li Dynasty?
In addition, what is the position of Ming Dynasty?
Thinking of this, neither the Westerners nor the Southerners dared to speak first... Everyone turned their attention to Emperor Hu De, the Ming Dynasty's Korean observer.
Ming Dynasty's 3,000 heavenly soldiers marched into Seoul yesterday afternoon. They were all fusiliers and horse-drawn cannons. The fusiliers were equipped with shining bayonets. They looked scary.
With the backing of these three thousand elite soldiers, the weight of Emperor Hu De's words will certainly be heavier!
"There are still many relatives and eldest sons of the Joseon royal family still alive. Although they are temporarily detained by Qingyao, they are still there after all."
Emperor Hu De frowned and seemed to be weighing the situation again and again, "In this case, it is really inappropriate to welcome the distant sect who is no longer a member of the clan. If those close relatives return in the future, how should the new king deal with himself? "
"But a country cannot live without a king for a day!" Old Man Song Shilie frowned and said slowly, "And the close relatives who were plundered by the Qing Dynasty may also have their heads shaved and serve the Qing Dynasty..." He paused. After a pause, he said tentatively, "If they become officials of the Qing Dynasty, they will definitely be deprived of their clan status."
"Of course!" Emperor Hu De nodded repeatedly, "Being an official of the Qing Yao is unfaithful, unfilial, and unrighteous. How can I become a king again? But... we can't be robbed by the Qing Yao because of them. Go, just assume that they will become officials and clear up demons, right? And it is inappropriate to say that a country cannot be without a king for a day. In the history of Korea, wasn't there a period of time when there was no king? "
Song Shiyeol asked: "Observation means to establish a person with authority to know the affairs of the country first?"
Emperor Hu De nodded and said: "That's right, first establish a person with the power to know the affairs of the country... After the lost territory is recovered in the future and the Li family's immediate family is rescued, a virtuous person will be selected as the king."
In fact, it was Zhu Heji's intention to establish authority and know the state affairs. He couldn't look too ugly, so he found the precedent of having the right to know the state affairs of North Korea.
Historically, the founding king of North Korea, Ri Sung-gye, actually never became a real king until his death. He only had "the right to know the state affairs". At first, he was "the right to know the state affairs of Goryeo", and later he became "the right to know the state affairs of North Korea".
Moreover, Li Chenggui's "power to know the state affairs" is still his own responsibility... This man did not dare to stand on his own after seizing power through mutiny, and was unwilling to hand over the throne to the descendants of the Goryeo royal family. So he first informed Zhu Yuanzhang about state affairs, and then kept reporting to Zhu Yuanzhang. He said that he wanted to appoint someone, and then said that someone was not good and needed to be changed. After a while, he changed it again. This was done several times, probably because he wanted Zhu Yuanzhang to say something and give Li Chenggui the king of Korea.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was not an easy person to talk to, he just wouldn't let go. As a result, Li Chenggui did not become king until his death. If it hadn't been for the Jingnan Campaign that took place in the Ming Dynasty later, and Li Chenggui's son Li Yuanfang stood up correctly and presented war horses to Zhu Dijin, it is estimated that the Li family's throne in Korea would have been "unapproved" by Chongzhen, and would have to be "authorized" from generation to generation. .
Song Shilie thought for a while, "I wonder who has the right to know state affairs?"
Emperor Hu De smiled and said: "The old gentleman is highly respected... Why don't you always be the one who knows the state affairs?"
As soon as this suggestion was made, there was an uproar in the Xuanzheng Hall.
Old Man Song also quickly shook his head, "Observe, don't make fun of me... How can I know the state affairs?"
Emperor Hu De looked at Old Man Song, "If the old man doesn't have the power to know state affairs, then who can?"
"Yin Baihu, why don't you take it?"
How can Yin Yin be willing to do that? He also quickly waved his hand and said: "How can Yin be so virtuous? How dare you take on such an important task? Quan Zhi knows that only the surname Li can be responsible for state affairs."
"Li's surname?" Emperor Hu De looked at the training commander Li Yongxi again, "Li Zhongjun, you have the right to know the state affairs!"
"No, no, no..." Li Yongxi shook his head like a rattle, "Although my surname is Li, I am not the Li family of Quanzhou, and I do not have the blood of the previous king."
"Quanzhou Li family, the blood of the previous king..." Emperor Hu De asked, "Which of you has it?"
No one!
The ministers in the Xuanzheng Hall all shook their heads.
Just when everyone thought this matter was about to go to waste, a girl's voice suddenly sounded: "Me! I am the Li family from Quanzhou, and my father was the king of Korea!"
