In that year, when the Kingdom of Goryeo learned that the pirates had forcibly occupied Jeju Island, they immediately dispatched the main force of their most powerful naval army to eliminate the arrogant pirates and recapture the island, but the result was that not a single oar floated back, and the entire fleet was never heard from again, and disappeared inexplicably.

At that time, when the civil and military forces of the Goryeo Manchu Dynasty learned the news, they were not shocked at first but surprised and conspiratorial theories.

This is due to the reversal of the political reality of the kingdom.

During this period, the lord of Goryeo, Wang Mata, was a child emperor.

He is the grandson and son-in-law of Li Ziqian, the largest relative of Goryeo today, and he was able to ascend the throne under the protection and support of Li Ziqian, who was a child at the time, so many years have passed, even if Wang Mata has grown up and has the ability to govern the country, but the power of the court has long been firmly grasped by the Li family.

Li Ziqian's official position in Goryeo is equivalent to the first assistant prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, the master who disciplines and restricts the king, and his identity is not only the king's maternal grandfather, father-in-law but also equivalent to the emperor.

Li Ziqian's younger brother Li Ziliang also holds important positions and is also responsible for managing the family's affairs, of course, mainly in terms of money.

Li Ziqian's cousin Li Zide Tongwu had some military talents, and he was also a powerful minister of Goryeo, serving as the Privy Council of Shangzhu State and Tongzhi, that is, the commander-in-chief of the entire army of Goryeo, controlling the military power of Goryeo.

Other sons and daughters of the Lee family and party members have also been placed in important positions inside and outside the DPRK and China to help them control power.

At the same time, the Li family also colluded with famous Goryeo generals who controlled heavy troops, and the soldiers and horses of Pyongyang Fortress and Incheon brought in Ta Junjing as foreign aid.

The military and political power of Goryeo is in the hands of the Li family, and the lord of the country, Wang Mata, grew up in Li Ziqian's reprimands, weak-willed, timid and supple, how can such a lord straighten up in front of the Li family? How can he have the ambition, scheming, and ability to secretly accumulate strength against the Li family and wait for an opportunity to regain the ruling power like the Kang Mazi Emperor of the Braided Dynasty?

He can only continue to be the lord of the empty country, and he is still very peaceful and comfortable.

The result of the fall of power will inevitably be a usurpation of the throne.

The ambition of the Li family belongs to Sima Zhao's heart in Goryeo, and everyone knows it. But Li Ziqian does not have Sima Zhao's ruthlessness, decisiveness and ability, and has always been hesitant to seize the throne.

The Goryeo ministers have been secretly speculating about when the Li family will carry out a coup d'état. At this time, Jeju Island was suddenly lost. It was precisely the son of one of the main military generals of the Li family who led the navy to conquer the pirates, and the main naval forces that led the kingdom never returned.

Is it because the pirates are powerful and cunning, and the naval army has been wiped out, or is this a trap designed by the Li family, and the Li family has occupied Jeju Island as a place to raise troops and accumulate power, so that it will be better to fight more forcefully to seize the throne or have a way out in case of defeat?

Goryeo officials secretly speculated and discussed.

When the Li family heard this, they were very disdainful at that time.

My family wants a coup d'état to seize power, and use the extra money to occupy a desert island to raise power or retreat? Goryeo has long been my family's final say, the king is just a puppet, isn't it my family when he wants to let him give way and get out, when will he have to get out of the way?

The lord of the country, Wang Mata, also heard the rumors, and was afraid of being killed by the Li family's envoys, so he consciously prepared to take the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian.

I don't know what the Li family thought at the time, they actually didn't take advantage of the situation, in order to prove their innocence, or they were also curious and jealous of the unknown sea force that suddenly attacked, and actively responded to the suggestions of some courtiers who did not deal with the Li family to find out the truth about the disappearance of the navy.

The results of the investigation did not reveal any real situation. The speculation about the Li family's conspiracy could not be eliminated, and it even became the object of suspicion. Because the Goryeo ministers and the powerful people from all over the country really can't think of any other strength that can kill the powerful Goryeo naval army and not return, and can still defend the island so tightly.

The sworn enemy in the south, the Japanese state, is ambitious, and has always wanted to encroach on Jeju Island to expand the living space, but after robbing a few times, the Japanese soldiers are brave and fierce, but the warship is too unbearable, and there is a lack of large ships to transport troops and naval battles, not the opponent of Goryeo.

The only one who has the strength to defeat the Goryeo naval army is the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that it will never be the Great Song Dynasty who grabs the island. Then it can only be a conspiracy played by the Li family.

However, Jeju Island fell into the hands of powerful foreign forces, and the Lee family themselves can be sure, but they can't explain it to the outside world.

The yellow mud falls on the crotch of the pants, and it's not.

Everyone knows that the Li family has a bad plot to seize the throne, and the Li family is speechless about this matter and feels very aggrieved.

wants to transfer troops to attack Jeju Island again, one is to clear the hidden dangers on the side of the kingdom as soon as possible, and the other is to prove the innocence of the Li family, but the country is powerless.

The loss of the strength of the naval army is easy to say.

In the countries of the peninsula, there are many fishermen, and there is no shortage of people who can be sailors and fight naval battles, but warships are a big problem.

In the previous battle, almost all the best and most powerful ships in the kingdom were sent, but the roots did not return, and there were no more ships available.

Then, like the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, the sickle of death was aimed at the neck, but he was still keen to concentrate on internal fighting.

The treasury of Goryeo was in the hands of the Lee family, and it was emptied every year and heavily indebted, and there was no money to build warships.

Large warships, Goryeo was limited to technology, and they couldn't build themselves if they wanted to, so they could only buy from the Great Song Dynasty, which had the most powerful and advanced navigation technology at this time. It takes more money.

What the Li family has is money.

The treasury was full of money, which came in and out, and so little did it go out, and it did not move for a long time, and the silver grew hairy, and the jewels were covered with dust and dull. But it took a lot of effort to get the money in the stomach, how could the Li family take it out again to supplement the country.

Goryeo officials, who were deeply influenced by the Great Song Dynasty, also talked about the Confucian way of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, but they were also hypocrites, and they were officials just to enjoy the authoritative style, and they would not say that I had money, I would serve the country loyally, and I was willing to use my family's money to contribute to the purchase of war ships.

Even if there are one or two true gentlemen who are really dedicated to the country, they are designated as poor people, and there are few big sons who want to pay for it.

Rich officials and rich people are unwilling to pay, they are all all the way, Zhang San does not need to say Li Si, Li Si does not need to say Zhang San.

Now it is not possible to scrape enough money to collect money from the people.

You must know that the Goryeo Dynasty learned from the Han people everywhere, and the state system was very similar to that of the Great Song Dynasty, with Tokyo, Xijing, and Nanjing, but it was a semi-feudal and semi-slave country, and due to historical reasons, the centralization was very weak and the local power was strong.

As the Li family, a foreign relative, formed a party for personal gain, the ruling power has become more and more corrupt and greedy over the years, and has benefited the party henchmen in order to collude more closely and unite, instigating the slaves and maids under the party to also participate in the exploitation and looting of the people, and jointly frantically occupy the land and seize people and property.

The local landlords are not good birds, they act more unscrupulously, they are cruel and cruel to the people, they exploit, suppress and rob as much as they can, and there are often appalling incidents.

The corruption of the regime will inevitably give rise to another symbiotic phenomenon -- rampant rampant activities of local ruffians, hooligans, bullies, and gangsters.

The two dark forces, the court and the people, jointly plagued the people, and closely colluded with each other, each showing their useful strengths and using each other.

As a result, a large number of freedmen and rootless merchants who owned wealth and land lost their land and went bankrupt, became unemployed vagrants, and then most of them involuntarily fell into the slave class, while others woke up to the problem of becoming gang members. As a result, there were many slaves in Goryeo, refugees were flooding, and there were fewer and fewer free people.

Everything about slaves, including their lives, belongs to the powerful and powerful.

The looting of slaves required the magnates to pay for themselves, so naturally they could not do that.

The ruffian gangsters are the vested interests of their accomplices, and they are the convenient tools and right-hand men that those in power need to use. For this group of people, the powerful cannot loot and persecute them.

How much money can the remaining freedmen have to survive on that little bit of land and petty trade?

Many years after the taxes have been received, the bones have been squeezed dry, and it is impossible to get a large amount of money from the taxpayers for the purchase of seagoing ships in a short time.

The matter of urgently purchasing warships from the Great Song Dynasty was ripped around, and it was naturally over.

It turned out to be hilarious.

Because of the incident, the royalist faction and the Li family were more suspicious of each other, and the fight became more fierce and dangerous. In an extremely tense and treacherous political environment, no official with real political influence or real power can have the leisure to concentrate on trying to eradicate pirates, retake the island, and eliminate the hidden dangers as soon as possible.

Jeju Island was lost, but over the years, the ruling class of Goryeo, whether central or local, royalist or Lee, had generally lived an extraordinarily prosperous life, and the threat of aggression from the sea that they feared and guarded against did not come, not once.

It seems that Jeju Island and the pirates entrenched on it never existed in this world, and the scruples and fears of the rulers of Goryeo seem to be just a ridiculous nightmare.

What exactly are pirates like on Jeju Island?

I don't know.

Why did the pirates not even show up to attack, land, and loot near the mainland of Goryeo?

Unknown.

Even the people on the islands near the mainland have never seen this mysterious group of pirates, and even the fishermen who go out to sea have never been robbed. So much so that the people regarded the pirate rumors as a joke, or as another conspiracy trick played by the dog officials.

Net scares.

The officials are afraid that our grass people's lives can be a little more peaceful and worry-free, why not?

Damn it.

The hearts of the people of Goryeo were filled with deeper and deeper resentment.

In fact, after the Cangzhao navy occupied Jeju Island, it was not that it did not plan to loot Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom, but it was stopped by Zhao Yue.

In Zhao Yue's plan, Jeju was a simple military base where horses and troops were raised.

In this way, the food supplies needed on the island need external support.

At the beginning, there were few people and horses on the island, and it could still be supported by the output of the island's natives and the transportation of materials from Cangzhou and the South China Sea, but once the soldiers and horses grew to 100,000 and hundreds of thousands, the island did not grow food, and it was too expensive to rely on long-distance transportation by sea alone, and the burden was too heavy, and it was not safe, inconvenient and untimely. Food still has to be done nearby.

In the north, the only alien races who are good at farming are Goryeo and Wa.

At the beginning, Zhao Yue's master brought back peanuts, corn, peppers and other species from South America to grow and eat them himself. At that time, Zhao Yue was the only one in the Eastern world who knew the valuable economic and edible value of these crops, so Zhao Zhuang attached great importance to it, planted it on his own land and gradually multiplied it on a large scale.

After Zhao Gonglian became an official, he used the convenience of being by the emperor's side to encourage the emperor to promote corn planting, hoping to improve the grain production and food structure of the Great Song Dynasty, so that the people would be less hungry and stronger, and the country would benefit a lot from it.

However, this good wish and seemingly simple thing were really to be implemented, but they encountered unexpected difficulties.

At that time, the imperial court generally held the so-called conservative and prudent concept of whether this exotic new crop was suitable for the widespread cultivation of the Great Song Dynasty, but in fact, it was the degenerate bureaucratic inaction that had been formed that more things were better than less, and that there was nothing to worry about so much, and it also involved practical troubles such as tax adjustment and the entanglement of the interests of the ruling class in agriculture and commerce.

The only little trial planting in the Royal Grange was extremely unsatisfactory because there were no important people who really cared about it, and the growers were careless and did not know how to grow good corn. The implementation of corn in the Great Song Dynasty can be imagined.

At that time, Zhao Gonglian, who still had a trace of illusion about the Great Song Dynasty, further died, but he and his younger brother Zhao Yuexin had new ideals and new goals, and did not give up.

Funnily enough, when corn seeds were scarce, the Great Song Dynasty itself was not enough, and the vast majority of Song people had not yet tasted what corn tasted like, the corn cultivation in Western Xia, Daliao, and Goryeo, which had close contacts with the Great Song Dynasty, had developed rapidly, enriching the national food and further strengthening the country's strength.

This is naturally the result of the combined effect of the stupid/coercive behavior that the Han rulers have been accustomed to and persisted in throughout the ages, as well as the sexual behavior of greedy and traitorous slaves.

With corn as a high-yield crop, the imperial court knew that it was necessary to maintain this advantage, and tried to keep it secret to prevent the two enemy countries from obtaining seeds, but to the "obedient" and non-threatening small Goryeo states, as always, they played the generous vanity of the great powers of the Celestial/Empire.

Emperor Zhao Ji was praised by the Goryeo envoy who came to see him, and he waved his hand arrogantly and generously to ask for it, and rewarded Goryeo with a lot of corn seeds.

He believed that the Great Liao also invaded and bullied Goryeo, and Goryeo, like the Great Song Dynasty, hated and was hostile to the Great Liao, and would never give the good things of corn to the Great Liao. With the high yield of corn in Goryeo, it can be stronger and more powerful against Daliao.

Most of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty also held that the emperor thought so, praised the emperor's wisdom and saintliness, and blessed the people overseas. There was a murmur of opposition and was also ridiculed and ignored.

With one mouth, with only a few good words that made the rulers of the Great Song Dynasty listen to the ears proudly, Goryeo once again easily received a rich reward from the Han people and had a big harvest, but as always, he played the ungrateful two-faced and three-knife method of survival, and secretly turned his head and sold the Great Song Dynasty, and the corn seeds flowed into the Great Liao. (To be continued.) )