The so-called Empress Myeongseong is also Concubine Min, Concubine Min is the concubine of Gojong, who is now ruling in Goryeo, she was born in two classes of nobles, and she is a member of the Sanhan Jia clan. However, his family was in the middle of the road, and he suffered a lot when he was young. Since he was a child, he had to ask for help among the nobles of all parties in order to make a living, and he was also quite coldly scolded.

After this Min concubine went through all kinds of hardships and became the official king and princess of Goryeo, she established the power of the Min family's relatives. The career of his cousin Min Qianho, who succeeded Concubine Min's father as a son, was very smooth, and he could also be described as extremely rich and poor. In 1865, Min Qianho entered the office with a shadow of the shadow. The following year, Min Qianho participated in the imperial examination and was awarded the first place in the Holy Liberal Arts. Since then, he has successively served as a teacher, a counselor of the secretary, a chief secretary of Sungkyunkwan, and a judge of the ceremonial court.

At this time, Min Qianho served as the judge of the soldier Cao and was in charge of the new army of Goryeo. Originally, this proposal was China's request for Goryeo to build a new army in case it was attacked by Japan. But China didn't want Goryeo to build any decent army, so it was just a proposal. As a result, this Goryeo soldier Cao Jushu Min Qianho actually did an extremely strange thing in order to get money. It was quite cheap to buy weapons from China, and the Chinese instructors did not want to really do such a lot of hard work, nor were they interested in staying in Goryeo for a long time. After the Chinese instructors were evacuated, the Goryeo soldier Cao Jushu Min Qianho received a lot of bribes, and actually invited Japanese instructors to be instructors of other technical troops.

With Weese's cunning and cunning, how could he object to such a thing. Weeser did not object, and the Chinese side turned a blind eye to this. Not long after the New Year, Yuan Weiting, deputy secretary of the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company, came to the door. Yuan Weiting looked young, but Min Qianhao didn't dare to offend. Yuan Weiting rearranged a document on the table in front of Min Qianhao, and then said angrily: "Min judgment! You have been in arrears for 14 months at the head office of the railways and telegraphs. What are you going to do with it? Will you continue to be in arrears? ”

Yuan Weiting was unhappy, and Min Qianhao was also unhappy in his heart. After a few years, the Korea Railway and Telegraph Company was now making money. At this time, not to mention that the money earned was not distributed to the Goryeo court, the Chinese side also forced Goryeo to pay wages. In fact, who doesn't know that the railway company has relied on the money it has earned to pay its employees for more than a year, and the railway company is still living very well without relying on the Goryeo court.

However, Min Qianhao didn't dare to say this, he pretended to be embarrassed, "Lord Yuan, Goryeo is really empty of the treasury, if we could come up with this money, we would have taken it a long time ago." Not to mention the railway company, even the military salaries of the Wuwei Battalion and the Zhuangyu Battalion have not been paid for too long. ”

The Wuwei Battalion and the Zhuang Imperial Battalion were downsized from the five battalions of the previous Beijing Army, that is, the training capital supervisor, the dragon and tiger battalion, the janissary battalion, the imperial camp hall, and the general Rong hall. The 5th Battalion Army of the Beijing Army was badly defeated in the face of the invasion of Goryeo by the Hunan army of the Zeng State Domain, and it was because of this that there was a call for the formation of a new army of Goryeo.

Yuan Weiting seemed to be temporarily persuaded by Min Qianhao, and he didn't ask other questions, but strongly asked Min Qianhao to give money quickly. Min Qianhao and other officialdom old fritters have a lot of ways to deal with hairy boys like Yuan Weiting, and just a procrastination trick made Yuan Weiting not enter the country for more than half an hour. Yuan Weiting's mouth was dry, and he calmed down for the time being and began to drink water. Looking at Yuan Weiting's disappointed expression, Min Qianhao was secretly happy in his heart, "You doll and Lao Tzu fight, you are still too tender!" ”

After moistening his throat, Yuan Weiting spoke again: "We still have to talk about this money, but there is one more thing, just during the Spring Festival, local thieves stole a lot of things from the station. We have signed a shipping contract with the local government, and we need to compensate the owner of the goods after the goods are lost. What do you think of this? ”

"We're going to send someone after those thieves." Min Qianho said sincerely.

"That's what you said last time, track and trace! Nothing was traced at all! Not this time! Yuan Weiting said loudly.

"And what are you going to do?" Being yelled at by such a young man for so long, Min Qianho was also a little impatient.

"Since you can't wait, then we'll find out for ourselves. And if we catch a thief, we will deal with it ourselves. If you can't deter the thieves, these people won't really be afraid! "What Yuan Weiting said was categorical.

Although Min Qianhao is greedy by nature and has done too many bastard things over the years, Min Qianhao is not confused. It would be bad if China had law enforcement powers. He hurriedly shook his head, "This matter needs to be considered in the long run, and in the long run." ”

Finally sent Yuan Weiting away, Min Qianhao let out a long sigh of relief. The Chinese-established Korea Railway and Telegraph Corporation is now increasingly influential in Goryeo, and too many businessmen and local tycoons have cooperative relations with Chinese companies. It's okay to make some trouble for China by procrastination. Let the Chinese know that on the ground of Goryeo, China can not do whatever it wants. However, this kind of thing needs to be measured, and if China is really forced to be anxious, many things will not be easy to mediate.

Min Qianho thought about it for a while, but felt that it was better to delay it for a while. Since China has turned a blind eye to the Japanese instructors of Goryeo's special military skills, it shows that China does not care much about Goryeo. That being the case, it is unlikely that the Chinese emperor will directly put pressure on Goryeo. If it really comes, let's talk about that day. Concubine Min and Concubine Min's foreign conglomerate do not have a good impression of China, first of all, China is too powerful, and Goryeo has all kinds of concerns in her heart. The second is that Goryeo is still willing to do business with Japan. Although the profit from doing business with China is not small, China exports too much to Goryeo, and in general, Goryeo makes very little profit. However, doing business in Japan, Goryeo exported a large amount of cheap grain and made a lot of money from Japan.

In addition, there is another strategic consideration for building good relations with Japan. If Japan started a war with Goryeo, China could send troops to help defend Goryeo through the Treaty of Seoul, and according to the treaty, the Goryeo army at that time was required to obey the Chinese command, and the Goryeo soldier Cho Jushu Min Qian-ho was extremely jealous of this.

Min Qianho doesn't really like the Japanese that much, but if he has good relations with Japan, Japan and Goryeo don't go to war, and China will have no excuse to intervene in Goryeo affairs. That's the best option.

Not to mention what Min Qianho's plans were, Yuan Weiting returned to the company's headquarters in Seoul, and the participants of the operation began to analyze the current situation. These things are all in Wang Shizhen's prediction, so everyone looked at this think-tank-like figure, Wang Shizhen didn't say much, he suggested: "Let's move on to the next step according to the plan." ”