So Guo Zhiyuan summoned all the backbone of the team and issued a mobilization order for the whole army, requiring the new army to be ready to be ready to be pulled out at any time, the backbone of the team looked at each other, and they were very puzzled by Guo Zhiyuan's order, and now they already know that the preparations that Guo Zhiyuan has secretly made over the years are not aimed at the imperial court but the newly rising Houjin, but when did Guo Zhiyuan become so loyal to the imperial court? It's just a matter of taking the initiative to pay for it, and taking the initiative to ask for troops to participate in the war was rejected by the imperial court, but he still doesn't give up, and now he has issued a mobilization order for the whole army, what kind of trouble is this?

Guo Zhiyuan was still relatively democratic to his subordinates, so Shen Junrong immediately stood up and questioned: "My lord, my subordinates really don't understand, since the imperial court has rejected your lord's request to send troops, why do you want to mobilize the whole army?" And the subordinates read the Di newspaper, this time the imperial court dispatched nearly 200,000 troops, and the Houjin army only had more than 60,000 people, even if the imperial army was incompetent, it was impossible to lose this battle, right? Besides, Dongfan is thousands of miles away from Liaodong, and if Dongfan wants to send troops to Liaodong, it will cost a lot of military money, not to mention, his subordinates are afraid that when we travel thousands of miles to reach Liaodong, the battle in Liaodong has already been fought, wouldn't it be a waste of military strength? ……”

Zeng Qisheng on the side had deeper concerns, and also stood up and admonished: "Yes, my lord, the imperial court has rejected your lord's request to send troops, if your lord sends troops privately, it will be a rebellion, and those ministers in the court who are hostile to your lordship will definitely impeach your lord for plotting wrongdoing, why should your lord be so insistent on such a thankless matter?" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan didn't know how to explain to his subordinates, he knew the result before the battle started, he was thousands of miles away, which was too unreasonable, so he could only wave his hand and say: "You don't have to say it anymore, I have made up my mind, you just prepare according to my instructions, and when did I say that I was going to Liaodong?" I'm not going to Liaodong, I'm going here! ......" said Guo Zhiyuan walked to the huge map hanging in the conference hall and vigorously clicked on a mark on the map.

"North Korea?!" Shen Junrong and the others' eyes widened, and they felt more and more that Monk Erzhang was confused.

Guo Zhiyuan nodded, and smiled at Zeng Qisheng: "So I am not sending troops privately, but to strengthen the trade between Dongfan and Korea, I went to Korea for a friendly visit, Mr. Zeng can not worry about me being impeached by those ministers of the DPRK and China......"

Zeng Qisheng secretly said that if he really went to a friendly visit, would he need to mobilize the whole army? Besides, you are now only nominally the prefect of Dongfu, so what qualifications do you have to make a state visit on behalf of the imperial court? However, he also knew that Guo Zhiyuan was just looking for an excuse for himself to prevaricate the court in the future, anyway, this kind of thing of covering his ears and stealing the bell was not the first time Guo Zhiyuan had done it, as long as he didn't completely tear off the fig leaf between Dongfan and the imperial court, wouldn't it be okay to kill Qin Shou before? So Zeng Qisheng didn't continue to be serious, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the adults have already made up their minds, but their subordinates are talking a lot......"

Of course, Guo Zhiyuan also knew that he was covering his ears and stealing the bell, and said with a wry smile: "The imperial court does not allow me to lead troops to participate in the war, and I can only save the country......

Li Guozhu and Sun Zhiyong, the young Zhuang faction in the new army, were excited, and they took the initiative to ask for battle, Guo Zhiyuan patted his eyes and looked at Li Guozhu's shoulder, who was afraid that Guo Zhiyuan would not take him, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, no one will leave you behind this time, by the way, you take the way to inform your father, let him also rush to North Korea to join me, your father and son haven't seen each other for a few days, right?" ……”

In the end, Guo Zhiyuan asked Shen Junrong to stay behind to guard Dongfan, and he took Li Guozhu and Sun Zhiyong to lead 20,000 Zixin troops (including 5,000 newly trained cavalry) to North Korea. Guo Zhiyuan took the sea route, so that it could not alarm the imperial court, but also save the long journey by land, but in this way, there are more ships and materials that need to be used, after all, the land route can be supplied along the way, and it will take a month or two to go to North Korea by sea, and it is not easy to prepare the supplies of so many people and horses.

This time he went to North Korea, Guo Zhiyuan dispatched 20 thousand-stone class warships, 10 thousand-stone "big belly" transport ships, and 20 new-style warships, the lineup is very strong, such a powerful fleet suddenly sailed to North Korea, which really made the Korean monarchs and ministers frightened, I don't know where it is sacred? !

Fortunately, Guo Zhiyuan had already informed Li Dan to rush to Hanyang, the capital of North Korea (now Seoul), and wait for him to come and meet, after these years of operation, Li Dan is now a veritable maritime tyrant, almost monopolizing the maritime trade business with Japan and North Korea, and is also quite influential in North Korea.

The Korean monarchs and ministers didn't pay much attention to Guo Zhiyuan's arrival, isn't it just a small local prefect to visit, and when the time comes, just send a minister of the same grade to receive it, although North Korea is a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, it is a vassal state, and it is not guilty of whispering to a five-grade prefect in the Ming Dynasty.

It wasn't until he received an urgent report from the North Korean Navy Division that a powerful fleet flying the flag of "Guo" was heading for the waters of North Korea, and the Korean lord Li Hui (that is, the famous Gwanghaejun in Korean history) was shocked, and then he remembered that some time ago, his subordinates reported that there was a prefect surnamed Guo in the Ming Dynasty who was coming, and quickly asked the ministers to go down to check what the origin of the prefect surnamed Guo was. Even the Ming court was made lose his temper by him, and even the Japanese who made North Korea talk about it changed their color were wiped out by him, what is the purpose of such a demon king of the world suddenly running to North Korea?

This Li Hui was not an uninformed ruler, as evidenced by his 1592 Japanese War of Aggression against Korea (i.e., Wanli' The performance of the War to Resist Japanese Aid Korea in the Three Great Campaigns, known in Korean history as the Imjin War, can also be seen, when his father's predecessor Korean lord Seonjo was frightened by the menacing Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi army and left the people to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, but Li Hui stayed behind to supervise the country on behalf of his father, calling on the Korean army and people to rise up to resist the Japanese invaders, and finally successfully defeated the Japanese invading army with the help of the Ming Dynasty army and kept Lee's position in Korea.

So Li Hui immediately realized that this matter was not trivial, and hurriedly brought the ministers to discuss, but the ministers also had different opinions, some said that this Guo Zhiyuan was only a local prefect, and he was not qualified to visit the vassal country on behalf of the Ming court, and he should immediately protest to the Ming court and refuse Guo Zhiyuan's entry, and some old ministers said that Guo Zhiyuan was menacing, and it was better not to anger him easily, but should receive him with ultra-high standard etiquette to envelop him, so as to save the Korean country from bringing unwarranted disasters!