Batur Huntaiji of the Dzungar tribe had come to an end of his life, and there was not much time left, but in the last moments of his life, he did two great things that were enough to change the final fate of the Dzungar Mongols.

First, it defeated the old enemy of the Dzungar tribe, the Kazakh Khanate, and won a huge living space for the Dzungar tribe.

The second is to lead the Jungar Department to join the Ming Dynasty and return to the embrace of the motherland! Well, this is a terrible thing, and the significance is even greater than defeating the Kazakhs!

Because he attached himself to the Ming Dynasty, accepted the canonization of the Beiting Daduhu, and also asked for the position of the Dadu protector for the monks, it meant that he established an absolute authority in the Junggar Ministry.

A few months later, when the Tseling Lama, who accompanied Galdan to Nanjing, took the agreement reached with the Ming Dynasty and the half-year military expenses issued by the Ming court (silk, cloth, ironware, guns, and gunpowder worth 125,000 taels of silver) through the steppe route of the Silk Road to the Dorben Errutsenmu Castle, he had just taken over the Zhuros of the Dzungar Department from his late father, Batur Huntaiji. The Sangha was immediately embraced by the subordinates...... After all, no one would have a hard time with goods worth 125,000 taels of silver!

Since the monk can deceive the wealth from the Ming court, then everyone supports him as the protector of the capital!

Of course, Emperor Zhu's good things were not given for nothing. After the good things were divided, the warriors of the Jungger Department had to fight for the Ming court to recover the sacred territory since ancient times......

When the monk returned from the Anxi territory south of the Tien Shan Mountains, his position in the Dzungar tribe was further consolidated.

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When the Junggar Department in the Western Regions was busy with the internal power transition and the cause of safeguarding the reunification of the motherland, on the peninsula six or seven thousand miles away, it was also facing the changes brought about by the Ming Emperor Zhu Cihong at this time.

North Korea's Changdeokgung Palace, which is a shabby palace that "repairs the old as the old". The reason why it is said to be "repairing the old as the old" is because this palace built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty was burned down twice in the Imjin Rebellion and Renjo Anyway, and Renjo Li Liang, who came to power in the Renjo Anyway Incident, saved half his life to restore Changdeok Palace, but failed to do so because of the invasion of the Qing Dynasty, and finally had to retreat to the next best thing and use the demolished Ingyeong Palace to obtain materials to repair part of Changdeok Palace.

Because it is the old material to restore Changdeokgung Palace, it is natural to repair the old as the old.

But even so, Li Liang did not see the completion of the restoration project of Changdeokgung Palace during his lifetime...... Due to the lack of funds and the deliberate delay caused by the lack of wages for the craftsmen and the people, the restoration of part of Changdeokgung Palace was delayed until the second year after Li Hao's accession to the throne.

However, Li Hao, who fulfilled the last wish of Renzu Li Liang, is not satisfied, he still has his own ambitions!

In his view, the Kingdom of Korea, a ceremonial country with a long history and deep influence of Confucian culture, should not always become the target of bullying by its neighbors, and Korea should be self-reliant, strong, and become a kingdom comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

And helping the Ming Dynasty, the former father of North Korea, defeat the Qing Dynasty and restore the Central Plains, in Li Hao's view, is a shortcut to North Korea's rise.

Therefore, after ascending the throne, Li Hao changed the national policy of his father Li Liang to rest with the people, and accelerated the implementation of the "Datong Law", that is, the tax system of unifying all kinds of messy tributes into rice grain. In addition, he issued a decree that all Korean men, even monks, must pay taxes in order to be exempt from military service.

However, the foundation of this Korean state is too thin, and most of the land and population in the country are in the hands of two classes of wealthy families, no matter what methods Li Hao implements to increase income, it is impossible to tax the two classes of wealthy families.

Therefore, in the more than three years since Li Hao ascended the throne, all kinds of efforts to expand armaments and warfare have not achieved much success, and the total number of troops in the imperial camp and the forbidden army is only 22,000, and the equipment is poor, the training is insufficient, and there is a special lack of cavalry. There was still an atmosphere of fear of war in the army, so much so that Li Hao did not dare to openly mention the Northern Expedition, and only dared to expand the army in the name of preparing for the war.

But aren't they terrible? Wouldn't the Japanese be cruel? Is it easy to deal with the Japanese cowards?

Therefore, when the Gyeongsang Left Provincial Water Army sent Kim Kwang-hyo's emergency report to the Korean capital, the ministers were immediately frightened, everyone was at a loss, and no one dared to stand up and go to the front line to fight against the Japanese. In the end, the ministers only reluctantly put forward a proposal to ask for help from the Qing Dynasty.

It seems that the Northern Expedition to the Qing Dynasty is impossible, and it is the right thing to ask the Qing Kingdom to save his life!

In addition to saving his life, of course, he asked King Li Hao to drive the expedition in person and go north to fight against the Japanese......

Just when Li Hao was thinking about going north to fight against the Japanese, his teacher, Song Shilie, the current Licao judge, finally returned from Daming, and brought back a confidential message!

Outside the Xuanzheng Palace, Li Hao's personal attendants guard the passages everywhere, and idle people are not allowed to approach!

In the Xuanzheng Palace, Song Shilie, who had just returned, was kneeling opposite Li Hao, talking about what he had seen and heard during his visit to the Ming Dynasty with a sad face.

"His Royal Highness...... The DPRK wants to be self-reliant and self-reliant, and it can no longer count on the Ming Dynasty! They are now blindly pursuing prosperity and strength, and have abandoned benevolence, righteousness and morality. Now, in order to fight against the Qing Dynasty, they even want to sacrifice the interests of our country, and use our country as a bait to lure the Tartar iron horsemen. In addition, the so-called "Zi On Gewu Chapter", according to the minister's own eyes, is simply a forgery of later generations, although some methods of Gewu are put forward, but there is no sincerity to do learning, and many of the truths are easy to disturb people's hearts, is not worth learning! ”

Li Hao listened carefully, but the expression on his face became more and more gloomy. He originally thought that the Ming Emperor would be very enthusiastic to accept the reattachment of Korea, and immediately gave a generous reward and sent a large number of muskets and artillery - although he, the king of Korea, did not see the world, but he was always looking at the Ming Dynasty, of course, he knew that Nanjing and Shanghai were full of workshops producing guns and cannons. The amount of guns produced is large and of high quality, and it is completely possible to give a little to North Korea......

However, the Ming Emperor did not want Korea to return at all, and also wanted to send people to invade Korea by pretending to be Japanese invaders, so as to create an excuse for the Qing army to garrison Korea.

This is simply an attempt to bring disaster water into the Korean country!

"Mr. Song," Li Hao asked, "without waiting for our consent, the Ming sent a fleet to pretend to be a Japanese Bandit, occupied the Shadow Island, and killed and wounded our soldiers!" How should we respond? ”

This matter is actually not good for Song Shilie...... He was too abrasive, and instead of returning to Shanghai by boat, he took the overland route north to Shandong, and from there took a boat back to North Korea. Along the way, I did not forget to investigate the people's situation and understand the situation of the Ming reform.

So it was delayed, and as a result, the Japanese invaders who invaded Korea arrived first!

Because the North Korean side was not prepared, it turned out to be a fake, and many officers and soldiers of the North Korean Navy Division were killed.

"Your Royal Highness," Song Shilie said, "although the Ming Dynasty has lost its benevolence and righteousness, it has become a country of tigers and wolves who only care about interests, and if we expose their behavior of pretending to be Japanese robbers, I am afraid that they will be annoyed and angry, and they will commit crimes in a big way!" ”

Li Hao frowned: "How is this good?" ”

"King, it's better to have a plan!"

"Will it be calculated? How? ”

"Let's assume that the one who invaded Shadow Island is the real Wokou...... Aren't the Japanese at war with the Great Qing State on Sakhalin now? The situation of the Japanese in Sakhalin was unfavorable, so they sent troops to Korea by sea, hoping to use the coastal islands of Korea as a springboard to attack Vladivostok. ”

Li Hao's brows furrowed even tighter, "Isn't this falling into the hands of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Your Highness, we can also drag the Zhisi Banians into the water!"

"How?" Li Hao hurriedly asked.

This Japanese Bania Country is also an existence that gives Li Hao a lot of headaches!

Because this country always likes to send missionaries (Dominican priests) to the land of Korea to spread some evil doctrines against Confucianism.

In the past, the Korean state closed itself off from the country, and it was nothing to expel or even kill the missionaries directly.

But now that the missionaries of the country of Sibania have the support of the Qing Dynasty, the Korean state does not dare to do anything to them, so a group of Korean priests and doctors have a headache.

Song Yingshi said in a low voice: "King, you can let the warships of the Japanese Bania Kingdom come to our port to load the Qing army and send them to Tsushima Island for landing!" “