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"But a country cannot be without a king for a day!" Song Shilie and the old man Song frowned, and said slowly, "Also, the close relatives who were looted by the Qing captives may also shave their heads and serve the Qing..." He paused, tentatively Said, "If they serve as Qing captives, they will definitely be deprived of their clan status."
"Of course!" Emperor Hu De nodded again and again, "Being an official of the Qing Yao means disloyalty, filial piety and unrighteousness. How can we be kings again? But... we can't treat them as officials just because they were taken away by the Qing Yao." They will definitely become officials to cleanse demons, right? And it is not appropriate to say that a country cannot be without a king for a day. In the history of North Korea, there was a period of time without a king?"
Song Shilie asked: "What do you mean by observing, first establish a person with authority to know state affairs?"
Emperor Hu De nodded and said: "That's right, let's first set up a person with authority to know the state affairs... After recovering the lost land and saving the close branches of the Li family in the future, I will choose a virtuous person to be the king of the country."
In fact, it is Zhu Heqi's intention to establish power and know state affairs.He can't be too ugly, so he found the precedent of Quan knowing North Korea's state affairs.
In history, Li Chenggui, the founding king of North Korea, never became a real king until his death.
Moreover, Li Chenggui's "power to know state affairs" is still his own... After the mutiny seized power, he dared not stand on his own, and he was unwilling to hand over the throne to the descendants of the Goryeo royal family.So he first claimed to know the state affairs, and then gave Zhu Yuanzhang a table, saying for a while that he wanted to establish a certain person, and for a while he said that a certain person was not good, and he wanted to change one, and then changed it after a while.This has been done several times, and the meaning is probably to let Zhu Yuanzhang say something, and let Li Chenggui take the king of North Korea as his own.
But Zhu Yuanzhang is not a good talker, so he just doesn't let go.As a result, Li Chenggui did not become the king until his death.If it hadn't been for the Ming Dynasty's battle of Jingnan, Li Chenggui's son Li Yuanfang stood in the right line and offered a horse to Zhu Dijin. It is estimated that the throne of Li's North Korea would not be "approved" until Chongzhen, and he would have "right to know" from generation to generation. .
Song Shilie thought for a while, "I don't know who can know the state affairs?"
Emperor Hu De smiled and said: "The old man is highly respected... why don't you just let you always be the one who knows the state affairs?"
As soon as this suggestion was put forward, there was an uproar in the Xuanzheng Palace.
Old man Song also shook his head quickly, "Observation Mo is making fun of this old man...how can this old man have the right to know state affairs?"
Emperor Hu De looked at old man Song, "If the old man doesn't know the state affairs, who can?"
"Yin Baihu, why don't you do it."
Where is Yin Kai willing to be?He also quickly waved his hands and said, "What is Yin's virtue? How dare he take on such a heavy responsibility? Only the surname Li can handle state affairs."
"Li's surname?" Emperor Hu De looked at Li Yongxi, the Chinese army in charge of the training capital, "Li Zhongjun, you should know the state affairs when you are in power!"
"No, no, no..." Li Yongxi shook his head like a rattle, "Although my surname is Li, I am not from the Li family of Quanzhou, and I don't have the blood of the previous kings."
"The Li family of Quanzhou, the blood of the previous king..." Emperor Hu De asked, "Which one of you has it?"
No one!
A group of ministers in the Xuanzheng Hall shook their heads.
Just when everyone thought this matter was going to fall apart, a girl's voice suddenly sounded: "I! I am originally from the Li family of Quanzhou, and my father was the king of Joseon!"
Chapter 526 If you want to recover Liaodong, you must first recover North Korea?
On August 17th of the [-]th year of Kangxi, the autumn wind was already bitter in Liaodong.
With the sound of clattering, hundreds of horseshoes stepped across the river, and the first one had already set foot on the south bank of Puhe River outside Shengjing City.Immediately afterwards, hundreds of knights rushed over... The man on the horse was wearing a melon-shaped Ruyi hat and a yellow silk and leather gown with dragon and phoenix patterns.With a pockmarked face, not angry but proud, he is the Emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Period of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Kang Mazi.
On both sides of the road on the south bank of the Puhe River, there are endless golden wheat fields. Now it is the season of spring wheat and autumn harvest on the Northeast Plain, so the wheat fields are full of farmers bending over to harvest wheat.Seeing Emperor Kangxi passing by, these Han tenants who ran from somewhere in the pass to this corner of the Northeast to make a living, all dared not speak out loudly.Wherever Kangxi rode his horse, no matter men, women or children, they all lay down in the middle of the wheat fields.
When Kangxi saw this scene, he immediately felt a lot more relaxed. He even reined in the reins of his war horse, stopped on the official road, and said to the peasants who bowed to him: "Pingshen, Pingshen... go collect your wheat, how much is it?" Harvesting a little is better than anything else, if you wait for the autumn rains, the wheat will rot in the fields. Then you will starve this winter."
Kangxi was telling the truth... the black land south of the Puhe River was his Huangzhuang, [-]% of the harvested wheat belonged to him, and the remaining [-]% belonged to the tenants.
If [-]% of the rent is placed in Daming or Wu Zhou who have already equalized the land, it is a bit ridiculously high, but for these Han people who fled from Shandong, Henan, Zhili, and Shanxi, it is really a great grace of the emperor. up.
After all, the [-]% rent is capped, there is no apportionment, no miscellaneous items, no fire consumption, no pennies, and of course no interest.Seeds, agricultural tools and horses for plowing are also provided by Kang Mazi's House of Internal Affairs, and they only need to be borrowed and returned without paying additional fees.
Moreover, in order to ensure that the servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs do not come here randomly, Kangxi has spent the winter in Shengjing for two consecutive years... In order to collect more rent and promote the development of the Northeast by the way, Kang Mazi really worked hard.
And the land in the northeast is really fertile, and it's all been reclaimed, so it's easier to re-cultivate.Before these tenants in the customs took over, because there was not enough labor to cultivate, they all planted pastures. Planting pastures in cold but not short of water sources is a way to "raise land".And these lands near Shengjing are originally black lands, which have been raised after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and they are almost growing "oil".Therefore, the yield is extremely high. Although it can only be planted for one season, it can easily harvest five or six hundred catties of wheat!
Although 300% of the five to six hundred catties of wheat had to be handed over to the big landlord Kang Mazi, the remaining [-] catties still far exceeded the total output of one mu of thin fields on the yellow land in Guannei and two seasons of intensive cultivation.
Therefore, the income of being a tenant for the emperor's family for a year on the black land in the northeast is far higher than their income from farming their own land in the pass.
Moreover, the emperor’s family does not need anything other than renting a son, and those "village sages" in the pass are as fierce as tigers and as vicious as wolves. Living farmers are still very grateful to Kang Mazi.
Seeing the tenants leave with tears of gratitude, Emperor Kangxi let out a long sigh.
His former father-in-law, Kabula, the father of the late Empress Xiaochengren, saw him sigh, and immediately rode up and said: "Your Majesty, the rent of the Liaodong Huangzhuang this year should exceed 70 shiwheat... almost It has caught up with the income from farming in Liaodong Junzhen during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, most of the relatives of the Eight Banners have a good income in the Zhuangzi in Liaodong, and the total income should be more than one million shi.
If this trend continues, within ten years, the income of Liaodong Huangzhuang and Qizhuang will exceed 1000 million shi!This Liaodong is really the treasure land of my Qing Dynasty! "
In fact, this corner of Liaodong developed very well before the rise of Jin in the Ming Dynasty!
At that time, the population of Han Chinese in Liaodong was several million. If you count carefully, it may be tens of millions. Later, there were more than 200 million people who fled into the pass with Xiong Tingbi.
Although it was still in the Little Ice Age at that time, the spring wheat in the Northeast was still growing strong. The impact of the Little Ice Age on agriculture was mainly due to the drought in the Northwest and Central Plains rather than the cold.For the Northeast, where there is no shortage of water at all, it is nothing more than cooler winters and no winter wheat can be grown, but spring wheat is no problem.
Some people may not believe it when they say it, but at the same time, Lao Maozi even grew grain on the frozen soil in Yakutsk.It was Khabarov, whose surname was used to name Khabarovsk, who did this-this guy had someone dig up the permafrost in spring and grow food on the land under the permafrost!This is fine, and it is not a problem to grow wheat and soybeans in Liaodong, where the climate is much warmer.
"I used to know that Liaodong was good, but I never thought that the land in Liaodong was so fertile!" Kangxi looked at it and sighed, "But such a good place, why should it be surrounded by wicker walls? My Qing Dynasty developed land on the southeast coast. The borders along the coast were moved, and the fertile land twenty to fifty miles along the coast would be abandoned, and fish, salt, and the benefits of sea trade were all rejected, and the people along the coast were forced to have nowhere to go. Why are they not allowed to farm? This matter is handled..."
Gabra said in a low voice: "This is not to guard against the Han people..."
Kangxi sighed again: "It's a pity that we can guard against the Han people who obey the people, but we can't guard against the real rebels... Gabula, you heard that "If you want to destroy the Qing Dynasty, you must first recover Liaodong; if you want to recover Liaodong, you must first recover Liaodong." North Korea's statement? The rebels have already set their sights on Liaodong!"
The passage that Kangxi said was obviously copied from "Tianzhong Memorial", but he has not read the original version, but only learned this passage from the Confucian General Hall and the sticky pole of the House of Internal Affairs.It is said that it came from Zhuge Sanhe's "Fat Qing Chu Shi Biao"!
This "Fighting the Qing and the Master's Table" talks about a line to unify China... According to Zhuge Sanhe, "If you want to rule the world, you must first swallow the Qing demon; if you want to destroy the Qing demon, you must first recover Liaodong; if you want to recover Liaodong , North Korea must first be recovered."
That is to say, the route of the Northern Expedition of the Great Ming Dynasty did not start from crossing Huaibei, but first crossing the sea to recover North Korea, and then using North Korea as a base to cross the Yalu River to fight for Liaodong. !
As for the reason, Zhuge Sanhe also said it.That is, Liaodong and Liaoxi are the roots of the Qingyao. If they lose Liaodong and Liaoxi, the Qingyao will become a tree without roots, and they will surely die!
However, Henan and Shandong were not the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.Losing Henan and Shandong, the Qing Dynasty still had Zhili and Shanxi, and they could even withdraw from the customs and lie dormant in Liaodong for the future.
In addition, North Korea, Liaodong, and Liaoxi are all along the sea. If Ming Dynasty did not have maritime advantages, it would naturally be impossible to cross Henan, Shandong, and Zhili and directly attack North Korea, Liaodong, and Liaoxi.
But now the Ming Dynasty has a powerful navy, and conquering the court across the sea is not a problem.
As for the reason for starting the attack from North Korea, Zhuge Sanhe also said in "Falling the Qing Dynasty to the Teacher's Table", it is because North Korea has always been close to the Ming Dynasty and considers itself part of the Great Tomorrow, and the population of the North Korean Kingdom is large, and the registered population is four 500 million, counting hermits and slaves, there are at least 900 million.
Considering that the current population of the land under the jurisdiction of Ming Dynasty is less than 3000 million, the value of these 900 million Koreans is self-evident.
With these eighty-nine million, Ming Dynasty can deploy at least one hundred thousand troops in North Korea!
The logistics transfer of the [-] troops, and even a considerable part of the military supplies, can be borne by North Korea.
However, the population of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong and Liaoxi is currently only about 100 million...the population is too small, and naturally it cannot support the logistics of the army.
So once North Korea is captured by Ming Dynasty, Liaodong and Liaoxi will be in danger!
It was also because of seeing this copy of "Falling the Master's List" that Kangxi was extremely worried, so he ordered Deng Guangming and Yu Chenglong to be careful.
But after the decree was sent out, Kangxi was still restless!
Chapter 527 One hundred thousand fights ten thousand, the advantage lies in the Qing Dynasty!
When Emperor Kangxi was restless, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes in a hurry. He looked up and saw more than a dozen knights galloping towards him.Look at the clothes they are wearing, they are all yellow jackets!
Kang Mazi felt something was wrong, so he quickly took out the binoculars to take a closer look, and when he saw it, he was suddenly astonished.
Suo'etu, Mingzhu, Wang Fuchen, the Minister of Internal Guards and the Minister of the South Study Room, who accompanied him out of Shengjing City to inspect the four directions, and Zhang Ying, who was transferred back to the South Study Room for his meritorious service in the rebellion in Tongcheng, were together at the moment. The flying horse is coming...
This time he just walked around Shengjing casually, inspecting the surrounding Huangzhuang and Qizhuang to show his importance to the reclamation outside the pass.So he took Suo'etu, Mingzhu, Wang Fuchen and other three ministers of the Southern Study, Zhang Ying, Zhao Shenqiao and others on a walk, and at the same time placed all the imperial team who came to Shengjing in Shengjing.
Now Suo'etu, Mingzhu, Wang Fuchen, and Zhang Ying are here together... Needless to say, something big must have happened!
As soon as he thought that something serious was going to happen, the worry that had just surfaced on Kangxi's pockmarked face was swept away, and all that was left was his confidence.
Mingjun... no matter what, he has to maintain the demeanor that the mountain collapsed and his face remained unchanged.
Kang Mazi put away the binoculars, immediately on the official road, waited quietly for a while, and the four good servants had already arrived on galloping horses.He didn't dare to gallop his horse to Kangxi, he reined in the horse after twenty or thirty steps, then got off the horse, ran to Kang Mazi in three steps and two steps, and then knelt down to salute.
"Why are you here?" Kangxi looked at them and asked calmly, "Is it because of the hypocrisy?"
Zhu Heqi had announced long ago that he would not fight for three years, and he kept his promise... Now that the three-year period has expired, the Qing court naturally expected that he would go to war.
"The emperor is holy!" Suo'etu said, "The South Study Room has just received a joint performance by the imperial envoy Deng Guangming, the imperial envoy to the North Korean supervisor, Yu Chenglong, and Shi Lang, the imperial envoy to the Beiyang navy. There was a sudden change in North Korea, and the king of North Korea, Li Xuan, rebelled. Throw false claims..."
"Hmph!" Kangxi said angrily, "Bold Li Xuan, I will kill him!"
As soon as he heard that Kangxi was going to kill Li Wei, Suo Etu immediately followed his words and said, "My Majesty, Li Wei has already been killed!"
Ah, so fast?
Kangxi was taken aback for a moment, and Ma's face showed joy... This is good news!
"So, Li Xuan's treason has come and gone?" Kangxi asked with a smile, "Then who is in charge of the Li family in North Korea now?"
"Reporting to the emperor, the one in power in the North Korean Li Dynasty is Li Wenji, who knows the state affairs of North Korea."
"Li Wenji?" Kangxi was taken aback, "Why does this name sound so strange? He is..."
"What Long Live Lord said is very true," Suo'etu said, "The name of Lord Ming'an of North Korea is a little bit difficult to be elegant."
"Master Ming'an?" Kangxi was stunned, "Why did you get a girl? What did Deng Guangming and Yu Chenglong do? Is there no one left in Li Chao?"
"Your Majesty," Suo'etu said, "this Li Wenji was not established by Deng Guangming, Yu Chenglong and the others..."
"What's going on?" Kangxi had already realized something was wrong, "Who owns Seoul now?"
"Yes, in the hands of the puppet Ming army!" Suo'etu said.
"What? What's going on?"
"Your Majesty, this is how it happened." Suo'etu said, "On the eighth day of the eighth month, more than a hundred false warships suddenly appeared on the sea of Asan Bay in Chungcheong Province, North Korea... The news spread to Seoul. , the king of North Korea, Li Xuan, was about to rebel, and he gave the training capital supervisor in Seoul an order to attack the Imperial Envoy Supervisor State Yamen. Deng Guangming and Yu Chenglong got the news, and immediately called more than 200 cavalry under them to raid North Korea Chang Degong also shot Li Xuan to death with a musket, and also captured Li Xuan's concubine Jin."
"Good job!" Kangxi nodded heavily, and then he thought something was wrong, "Then why did you lose Seoul?"
That's right, the king was beaten to death, and the princess was captured alive. Why is Seoul still lost?
This is unreasonable!
Capture the thief first and capture the king. Once the king of Joseon died, the followers who followed him must have panicked to death.Although Deng Guangming and Yu Chenglong had few soldiers, the Qing Dynasty also had many pawns in Seoul. If they were mobilized, they could carry them for a while, right?As long as the reinforcements brought to Haizhou arrive, they can rely on Seoul to hold on for a period of time.
After all, the number of Ming troops coming across the sea will not be too many, and if they are exhausted, there will be tens of thousands.
Moreover, there is no port on Asan, and more than ten thousand troops rely on a fishing port to land, and they can't finish it without a three-five-day trip!
"Your Majesty, Deng Guangming, and Yu Chenglong's inscriptions said that they could have stabilized the situation. But I didn't expect Li Wenji, the 13-year-old younger sister of Ming'an, to be a character. She took Li Xuan's seal and The decree of the pseudo-Ming Jian Guo Zhu Heyi highlighted Changdeok Palace and rushed to the training Dujian army... Then he falsely spread the order of Li Xuan and instigated the third-hand army of the training Dujian to storm Changdeok Palace. Deng Guangming, Yu Jackie Chan was outnumbered, so he had no choice but to break out and leave. In his haste, he didn't even have time to take away Li Xuan's body, only Princess Jin's."
I have to say that this Xiaoyu Jackie Chan is still a good storyteller, and he actually wrote the chaos in Seoul so wonderfully!
And it's quite reasonable... Otherwise, why didn't the Korean army disband after Li Xuan's death?How could Li Wenji, a little girl, become the power to know state affairs?
The only reasonable explanation is that this little girl played a big role in the Seoul Rebellion!
"What? There is such a thing?" Emperor Kangxi couldn't believe his ears, but he finally believed it and sighed, "I didn't expect Li Wenji to be a hero among women? But how can such a woman Are you willing to sacrifice your life for Zhu Hechi?"
However, Kang Mazi's sigh was only for a while, and he immediately cheered up again, and continued to ask: "How is the situation in Haizhou now? Who owns Jianghua Island? Who owns Pyongyang?"
Suo'etu said: "Reporting to the emperor, Haizhou, Jianghua Island, and Pyongyang are all in our hands... After Shi Lang learned of the changes in Seoul, he immediately dispatched a warship to Jianghua Island and sent all the Li clan members on the island Haizhou was captured. Deng Guangming and Yu Chenglong took the North Korean princess Kim and borrowed [-] infantry from Haizhou and went straight to Pyongyang. They sent the inscriptions of Pyongyang control and Shi Lang's control of Ganghwa Island. arrive."
"Okay!" Kang Mazi called out, his pockmarked face full of confidence, "Send me back to the palace... I want to call a group of ministers to discuss sending troops to North Korea!"
As he spoke, a smile appeared on Kangxi's pockmarked face again, "Pseudo-Ming's expedition across the sea is a solitary army going deep...the maximum number of troops is more than [-]. And I have [-] troops on hand, which is enough to crush North Korea!"
In fact, the Qing army originally had only 30 troops in Liaodong, and this was only a number on paper-now Kangxi can't afford [-] standing troops, and Zhu and Qi don't have that many standing troops.
Kangxi's 30 army, in fact, only 24 green battalion soldiers stationed in various places are the standing army, and the 8 New Eight Banners are all awarded to Zhuangzi and then take turns to serve, and only [-] can be used at any time.
Among the 2 Banner soldiers stationed in Liaodong, only [-] can be used at any time.But because Kangxi wandered from Beijing to Shengjing himself, he transferred [-] people from outside the mouth and the Beijing-Tianjin area, and also ordered the four Mongolian alliances to send [-] cavalry to accompany them.
So after the general mobilization of the Qing army in Liaodong, Kangxi could really pull out a hundred thousand troops!
One hundred thousand against ten thousand, the advantage is not small!
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"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am overjoyed...we have taken Seoul!"
Just when Kang Mazi returned to Shengjing in a hurry and began to dispatch troops and generals to send troops to North Korea, Zhu Heqi also got the news.
It was Yan Yuan, the Minister of Attendance who brought him the news. Before Yan Yuan entered the conference hall in the Wenhua Palace, his voice full of surprises had already come in from outside.
At this time, in the conference hall, a loan meeting was being held... the Ming court led by Zhu Heqi had no money to fight, and had to borrow money!
Chapter 528 Borrow money from a thief to beg the thief!
In the meeting hall of Wenhua Palace, a financial meeting is in progress.
Before Yan Yuan brought the good news of recovering Seoul, Zhu Heqi, the king of the Ming Dynasty, Zhuge Sanhe, the left prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Zhongxian, the right prime minister, and Ma Chenglong, the minister of the household department, were heading to Jiangbei together. Governor Yang Qilong, Governor of Guangdong Qiu Hui, Governor of Fujian Zheng Jing, Governor of Zhejiang Chen Yonghua, Governor of Jiangnan Wan Sida, Governor of Jiangxi Zuo Chunqiu, Governor Pang Yongzhong of Dongyin Money Factory, and Zhu Cijiong, the king of Zhuhe, etc. !
This is not Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe, Yu Zhongxian and others pretending to be poor, but really poor!
Of course, it's not that they are personally poor, but that the Ming court under their leadership is poor...too poor!
If you don’t compare income, but talk about the country’s silver and savings, Zhu Hechi’s Ming Dynasty is actually the poorest among the Yuan, Ming, Qing and Zhou dynasties, even poorer than the little girl next door who has the power to know the state affairs of North Korea.