Li Yifang can be sure that after he leaves, the Ming Dynasty will definitely return to the state it was in before Goryeo.
Everything they did would become meaningless. Goryeo's civil servants were still showing off their power, and their generals were still humble to the ground.
Civil servants enjoy all the glory, while military generals can only humble themselves as their thugs, without any dignity at all.
Is this appropriate?
Li Yifang felt it was inappropriate.
Had he seen fit, he would not have initiated this mutiny.
He hated civil servants, hated the system of Goryeo, hated the [Lord of Taiping and Good Literature], hated the hateful Ming Dynasty, hated everything, and hated this unfair world.
Why did no one stand up to complain for him when he was suffering, but when he decided to resist, so many people stood up and told him that this was wrong?
What's wrong? What's wrong with me fighting for my dignity?
Li Yifang didn't understand, so his heart became even more twisted.
If this all makes no sense, then let me make it make sense.
I want the world to feel pain.
On the night before departure, Li Yifang stared with bloodshot eyes, holding a knife, and entered the palace where Wang Sui was under house arrest. He looked at the fearless guy who was still playing with women, and stabbed him with the knife while he watched in horror. Cut into his belly, finish him off.
Then he killed all the screaming women and eunuchs.
He came to Wang Hao's palace again, lifted Wang Hao from the bed who was having an affair with a woman, and cut his throat with a knife, leaving him to bleed all over the ground and die in pain.
Then he also chopped up the stupid woman.
After killing the two people he hated most, Li Yifang's anger calmed down a little, but he felt it was not enough, so he ordered his most trusted private soldiers to split up and purge the high-ranking civil servants who were still alive.
I am not living a good life, and you cannot hope to live a good life either.
Die to me!
The result of this was that more than thirty high-ranking civil servants who survived the first wave of purges were killed with their entire families.
In this way, Li Yi just felt a little relieved, but soon felt that it was not enough, so he kept doing it and ordered the Goryeo Palace to be destroyed.
Only the blazing fire can destroy everything and cleanse everything. Let this dirty place return to dust and disappear for me!
On this night, Li Yifang led his people to escape, leaving behind a burning city.
The people in the city discovered that the palace was on fire and screamed in horror. Some people ran away, some rushed to put out the fire, and some took advantage of the fire. From dark to dawn, the entire Kaicheng City was in chaos. No one stepped forward to stabilize the situation, because there were people who could stabilize the situation. Either dead or running away.
Kaesong fell into pure chaos. Even the news that the former king and the current king were dead could not spread. The palace was burned to a pile of ashes by the fire. How many people were burned to death and killed by the fire? No one knows.
The chaos continued until Su Jue led the Ming army to arrive.
The Ming army quickly entered the city and occupied key areas, and launched operations to deal with the knife-wielding people in the city. It took them a morning to calm down the chaos in the city, and posted notices to calm the people. Then they conducted a thorough investigation of the specific situation in the city, summoned many officials to ask for various information, and so on.
This action lasted until dusk, when the Ming army began to eat dinner, Su Jue almost knew what happened here.
Wang Sui and Wang Hao were both dead.
It was Li Yifang who killed them. After Li Yifang killed them, he decided to set fire to the palace. They acted secretly and looked like they wanted the entire palace to die together.
Fortunately, the two young eunuchs hid aside and saw everything happening. After Li Yifang and others left, they quickly dragged out the bodies of Wang Sui and Wang Hao.
Thanks to these two little eunuchs, half of the members of the Goryeo royal family were burned to death, and the other half escaped and hid in the basement until the Ming army arrived.
Other officials and civilians in Kaicheng were not so lucky.
More than 30 high-ranking officials were killed by Li Yifang. When the fire broke out, the order in the city was chaotic. No one stepped forward to stabilize the order. Whoever had a knife was the boss. One or two were unmatched. They killed people, stole goods, and set fires. They were worse than bandits. bandit.
Li Yifang and other leaders of the military general regime had already fled, and some had fled a few days earlier. According to some people's accounts, they wanted Japan to flee, believing that Japan was alone overseas and the Ming Dynasty would not be able to pursue it.
Su Jue was very angry and ordered a round of screening of the killers in the city, and also singled out all the officials for separate treatment. Wen Tianrui, the secretary of the Corps, was left to temporarily stabilize the order in Kaicheng and led the elite cavalry south to pursue Li Yifang and others. .
After Kaesong was occupied by the Ming army, the entire Goryeo regime actually collapsed. The military generals who were originally in charge were killed and fled, and the civilian officials were killed and killed. The rest were low-level officials who could not provoke Beam.
What's even more terrible is that both the original king Wang Sui and the current king Wang Hao are dead. Half of the Goryeo royal family is dead, and the remaining half are frightened and terrified, relying entirely on the protection of the Ming army to survive.
The central government of Goryeo could no longer sustain itself.
After Wen Tianrui, secretary of the Sixth Corps, learned about the whole situation, he felt it was interesting.
Originally, the central strategic consideration of the entire Ming Dynasty was that this situation was the best. The central government of Goryeo was unsustainable and needed various help from the Ming Dynasty to maintain it. After it had been running for a period of time and the Ming Dynasty had controlled all the real power of Goryeo, the King of Goryeo could The application is attached and the annexation is completed as a matter of course.
But the current situation is deeper than the most suitable situation that Mingguo expected.
That guy Li Yifang actually massacred all the reputable civil servants in Goryeo, including their families, and even killed Wang Sui and Wang Hao. He created an antisocial personality that you can't even think about if I can't live well. model.
This makes the existence of the Goryeo Kingdom inseparable from the support of the Ming Dynasty, both subjectively and objectively.
Of course, this also brought a series of troubles to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty needed to spend a lot of energy and expenditure to reorganize the central power of Goryeo, and then crack down on and eliminate some powerful groups with serious independent tendencies that may have emerged in the local areas, and then establish a unified rural system to consolidate the grassroots power of the Ming Dynasty. The system construction was completely copied to Korea.
Then a new King of Korea must be re-registered to help them complete this set of changes. This will minimize the resistance among the people of Korea and give the Ming Dynasty enough time to accumulate strength and launch land reform.
Wen Tianrui wrote a report on the series of situations he had learned so far and his analysis, and sent someone 600 miles away to Zhongdu to inform Su Yonglin. He asked for further instructions. He stayed in Kaicheng to stabilize order, and from Kaicheng's Some of the Goryeo officials were selected for cooperation and appointment to make a transition.
At least Kaicheng must be stabilized first. After Kaicheng is stabilized, we can then move on to other things.
On February 23rd of the 10th year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin received an urgent report from Goryeo and learned about a series of events that had occurred in Goryeo, and then quickly convened a military affairs meeting.
"Both Wang Sui and Wang Hao died. This situation was something we did not expect. The Goryeo military generals were indeed very brave. Seeing that the regime could no longer be maintained, they did not make it easy for the original dignitaries. They killed two kings and returned More than thirty of Goryeo's dignitaries were massacred.
At present, the central power of Goryeo has basically collapsed. If the Ming Dynasty does not intervene in time to fill the power vacuum, Goryeo will soon enter a state of disintegration. No matter from any angle, we must immediately send someone to take over the central power of Goryeo. . "
Su Yonglin made an accurate judgment on the current situation, and then asked everyone to discuss who should be selected as the actual leader of Goryeo.
