"Your Majesty, there is news!"
Li Ruolian responded in a low voice, his eyes scanning around.
Upon seeing this, Chongzhen nodded towards the Fang family behind him. The Fang family bowed slightly and waved to the surrounding area. All the sergeants within a radius of dozens of meters slowly retreated.
Only Chongzhen, Yuan Keli, and Li Ruolian were left on the city gate tower.
"Your Majesty, Prince Zhaoxian has been found!"
"But already dead!"
Li Ruolian responded in a low voice, which made Chongzhen sigh in relief, but what Li Ruolian said next made him a little stunned.
If it's dead, it's dead. Anyway, if you get it back, it will be handled secretly.
But Li Ruolian's expression showed that things went beyond expectations.
"Tell me about it in detail!"
"yes!"
Li Ruolian breathed out slowly: "Your Majesty, yesterday Chenshi went straight to Yizhou City with two of his most trusted confidants and found the restaurant that Mao Wenlong mentioned.
After taking out the vouchers and tokens, the shopkeeper took us to the backyard cellar without any nonsense.
The shopkeeper said that it was small downstairs, so he asked me to wait up there, and then went down with two royal guards.
After waiting for almost half a stick of incense, I felt something was wrong, so I went down to the cellar.
It turned out that Prince Sohyeon's head had been chopped off and placed in a box on the side. The blood on his neck was still flowing, and his body was still warm. It was obvious that he had just been chopped off! "
"Where are the restaurant owner and the Jin Yiwei who went down with us?"
"The shopkeeper drank poisoned wine and committed suicide, while the two Jin Yiwei passed out and fell to the ground."
Listening to Li Ruolian's response, the pupils of Chongzhen and Yuan Keli shrank sharply.
Only now did they understand the meaning of what Mao Wenlong said yesterday, "From today onwards, only the people in this room know about Prince Zhaoxian's affairs."
According to Li Ruolian's description, the sergeants who captured Prince Zhaoxian were probably killed, and the shopkeeper who was guarding him also committed suicide, and the two Jinyi guards who followed him may not have even seen Prince Zhaoxian's face.
The most critical box containing the human head was obviously arranged by Mao Wenlong.
In this case, only a few of them know it!
As expected of a hero, he is indeed ruthless, ruthless to others as well as to his own people.
On the other hand, Mao Wenlong also told Chongzhen that he could deal with Prince Zhaoxian in this way, or he could make second and third-hand preparations.
If I am safe, the secret will never be seen, but if I die, the truth will be revealed to the world.
This kind of thing reminded Chongzhen of a folk joke. It was said that after a corrupt official went to jail, his children's lives were very good, and those who were usually close to him took good care of his children.
The son didn't understand why, so he asked his father.
His father told him that he couldn't decide whether he could go out, but he could decide who to let in!
Mao Wenlong's handling of Prince Zhaoxian is similar to this.
"Where's the head?"
Li Ruolian turned around and left. After a few breaths, a very exquisite wooden box was brought over. The box was opened, and the head of Prince Zhaoxian appeared, bloody.
His face was very young, his eyes were closed tightly, as if he wanted to open them. From his face alone, he could tell he had a kind personality.
Looking at the head of Prince Zhaoxian, Chongzhen had a lot of thoughts and sighed in his heart: "What a pity, this is war, the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy!"
"You were just beheaded by me. If I hadn't traveled through time, my predecessor would have been hanged directly, and the end would be even worse than yours!"
After sighing, Chongzhen raised his head and looked at Li Ruolian: "Can you confirm that he is Prince Zhaoxian?"
"Back to Your Majesty, based on the information provided by Jin Yiwei, I checked all the features on the corpse and confirmed that the person who was chopped was Prince Zhaoxian!"
"Um!"
Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while, and continued: "Although Mao Wenlong has prepared for this matter, you are still responsible for dereliction of duty. You will be fined one year's salary and receive ten army sticks after you return to Beijing as a punishment!
In addition, the head and body of Crown Prince Sohyun were sewn together and sent back to Seoul. They were buried in the royal tomb of Lee Joon of Joseon at night so that their father and son could be reunited.
This matter is classified as confidential and will never be mentioned again! "
"I understand!"
Li Ruolian said that he was about to exit, but was stopped by Chongzhen.
"After finishing this matter, you arrange for people to go to western Liaoning to investigate the officials, merchants, and gentry who were married to the ancestral family. When Liaodong is completely settled, arrest a few key ones immediately!"
"I understand!"
After Li Ruolian responded, he slowly retreated down the city wall.
Although he was fined a year's salary and received ten military sticks for this incident, to be honest, he was still very grateful to Mao Wenlong.
If Prince Zhaoxian is captured alive, he will definitely be killed. In order to keep it secret, it is natural that he, the Ming Dynasty's intelligence chief, will do it.
As a minister and the emperor's confidant, it was his duty to do such dirty work.
But if one day he is found out, even if he is working for the court, he will definitely be scolded by scholars.
On the city wall, Chongzhen looked at the smoke and dust brought up by the army's departure, feeling a little agitated.
The death of Crown Prince Sohyun meant the complete destruction of the Lee Dynasty of North Korea.
Recovering the lost territory and expanding the territory were completed at the same time. In terms of achievements alone, he was already ranked among the top three emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
He has been away from Beijing for more than two months, and now he can't wait to go back and go to the Ancestral Temple to show off.
"Yuan Aiqing, how many more days will it take to get to the battlefield?"
"Your Majesty, it will take three days to clean up the body. The stones for building the tomb and monument are also being prepared at the same time. It will also take five days. We will be able to return to the court within ten days at the latest!"
After responding, Yuan Keli said softly: "Your Majesty, do you want the good news to be sent back first?"
"Wait a minute and take a look at the situation in North Korea. The results will be available in ten days. By then, the news of North Korea's inclusion in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the news of the victory will be combined into one edict and spread throughout the Ming Dynasty!"
"I understand!"
"Let's go back!"
The two of them descended the city wall one after another and headed towards the city lord's palace.
…
The facts turned out to be just as Chongzhen had guessed. North Korea's three-pronged army was vast and filled with war intent.
Every time they arrived at a city, they directly besieged the city. When the people in the city heard that the Ming army was coming, they directly gathered in crowds and besieged hundreds of troops stationed in the city by the three parties.
When the Ming army entered the city, hundreds of garrison troops were beaten to pulp.
Every time they arrived in a city, the Ming army posted a Ming edict stating that anyone who harbored the slave-building alliance would be killed without mercy.
Anyone who hides his slaves' war horses and fails to hand them over will be dealt with by sitting together and receiving a fifty-fifty stick;
In addition, if you kill a coalition sergeant, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver.
Supported by the anger of the Korean people, silver rewards, and high-pressure policies, the teams of Zuo Fu and Wang Wei encountered few effective resistances.
The city lords of each city and the heads of some famous wealthy businessmen, officials, and gentry families gathered towards Seoul under the notice of the two men.
PS: The official positions in the Joseon Dynasty are difficult to pronounce and there are many names, so I won’t write them in detail.
But compared to the two men, Mao Wenlong's army encountered resistance in Seoul.
Although there were only four to five thousand people defending the city, they relied on the solid walls of Seoul to block his first round of attacks. Of course, this had a lot to do with Mao Wenlong's military orders.
Two miles outside the city, the North Korean envoy from the left looked at the sergeants who were slacking off in their work, with doubts in their eyes: "Commander Mao Du, who are you?"
"wait!"
