Chapter 60: Bribery
The readership was usurped by a handful of careerists, who ignored our pleas and insisted that we live a corrupt life in the group, big fish and meat every day, hooked up with a few girls, and didn't care about the life and death of the group members, so they instigated the group members who didn't know the truth to join forces to force us to abdicate, and asked us to move out of the group.
In order to restore the social and ruling privileges of the country, the bones set up a new group: 663127095 (Zhenfu Division), there are a large number of official positions and titles waiting to be vacant, and I hope that people of insight will actively buy... Ahem, no, it's an enthusiastic sign up for the purpose of Daweixin.
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The Ming Imperial Army advanced rapidly, and after starting from Liyuan, it took only two days to reach Anchuan County, which was less than 40 miles from Hongyuan.
It is a pity that the Joseon prefectural commander of Anchon County fled to Hongwon with his people as early as the day before yesterday, so that the imperial army found nothing in Ancheon County.
In addition, most of the Korean villages along the way were deserted, and some were only old, weak, women and children, which made it difficult for the imperial army to realize its intention to eat the local area.
Fortunately, with the strong support of the Mirror City Protector and the hard work of the rear transfer master, the soldiers of the imperial army are not in danger of running out of food.
But a sudden situation appeared, and on the 23rd, heavy rain began to fall in the Hongyuan area. Heavy rains made the official roads muddy, and some areas were washed away by flash floods, which affected the next military operations of the imperial army. In addition, due to the heavy rain, half of the gunpowder carried by the Imperial Army was soaked, and it is likely that the firearms will not be able to play their role in the next battle.
Military operations against Hongwon were suspended, and the Imperial Army and the Korean Brigade had to be stationed in Ancheon County to wait for the weather to clear.
However, what the Korean people and the officers and men of the Korean brigade and regiment never expected was that after inspecting the disaster around Ancheon, the Great Envoy ordered the Imperial Army and the Korean officers and soldiers to immediately dispatch manpower to help the people fight the flood and provide disaster relief.
On the 25th, the Great Tomorrow Envoy Wei Gonggong personally led his men and horses to reinforce the embankment at the Jiaoliu River north of Anchuan to prevent floods from breaking the embankment and bringing ruin to the Korean people downstream.
In the painting, the father-in-law of Wei was dressed in a short costume, carrying a cloth bag full of dirt on his shoulders, and walked fearlessly towards the raging river. Behind him were hundreds of North Koreans. On the embankment, a big flag with the word "Ming" fluttered in the wind...
In the end, this "Picture of Rescue and Disaster Relief" was sent to Yizhou by Kuaiju, and then it will be presented to the Beijing division by Yizhou for the emperor's imperial viewing.
However, some officials later impeached the painting as a forgery, because during the creation of this painting, Wei Gelding had asked the painter to revise it several times, and the Korean people behind Wei Gelding at that time were very different from the common people of the vassal in terms of spirit and appearance.
For such blatant slanderous rumors, Grandpa Wei has always disdained them. It's just that during the Apocalypse, the official who was impeached was found to be corrupt and bribery, and he was sent to Dongfan for labor reform.
The Ming army stopped moving, and the Korean defenders on the Hongyuan side were also affected by the heavy rain and had to retreat in Hongyuan City.
Yoo Hee-fen, the commander of the Hongyuan garrison, received specific instructions from Pyongyang on the 28th.
This instruction made Liu Xifen a little confused by the second monk, the instruction was sent by Dao Yin Zheng Renhong, requiring Liu Xifen not to take the initiative to attack the Ming army, let alone claim that the Ming Dynasty invaded, and not to contact the Ming envoy, if the Ming army attacked Hongyuan, Liu Xifen also had to ensure the safety of the "uninvited" Ming envoy, and minimize the casualties of the Ming army. At the same time, he also asked Hongyuan to give a certain amount of money and food gifts to the country, but it must not be an official act.
"My lord, this is asking us to tie our hands and feet!" Liu Xifen smiled bitterly and handed Pyongyang's letter to Adjutant General Han Gui.
"It's ridiculous that the enemy has taken over our capital and hit us right under our noses, and Pyongyang still wants us to make sure that envoy is safe!"
Han Gui angrily slapped the letter on the table, "This must be the pro-Ming officials in Seoul who bewitched the king, otherwise how could your lord send us such a stupid order!" ”
Han Gui's guess was really true, this instruction did come from Seoul, not Zheng Renhong's meaning. But there is one thing that Han Gui didn't expect was that it was not the pro-Ming officials in the parliamentary government who issued such an absurd order, but their king, Guanghaijun.
After receiving the news of the sudden entry of the Ming army, Gwanghae-kun's first thought was not to immediately negotiate with the Ming Dynasty and send the forbidden army north to reinforce and ensure the "sovereignty" of Korea, but to send people to Ganghwa Island to imprison his seven-year-old brother Yongchang Dajun in a wooden house.
After that, Gwanghae-kun summoned officials from the Parliamentary Government and the Seongjeongwon, and on the same day, the absurd order was sent to Pyongyang, where the Pyongan Provincial Government was located.
"The king is afraid that the Ming Dynasty will pursue the Yongchang Maharaja."
As the backbone of the officials of the Great Northern Faction, Zheng Inhong saw Gwanghae-jun's worry and fear from this absurd order, so he did not insist on taking a tough stance on the invading Ming army and sent this order to Hongwon.
The best way to solve a problem is to have no problem.
Both Gwanghae-jun and Jung In-hong hoped that the unidentified envoy would be able to retreat, after all, the important town of Hongyuan in front of them could not be taken by a Ming army of only two or three thousand men. But this also means that if this envoy returns to China, the wealth of the Mirror City Protectorate can be taken at his own discretion.
In exchange for the Ming Dynasty's recognition of his succession, Guanghaijun bribed the Ming envoy with 110,000 taels, and this time, he also hoped to spend money to eliminate the disaster. However, it is by no means the war compensation mentioned in the envoy's proclamation, and it must not be given by the DPRK officials.
This is Gwanghae-kun's bottom line.
He hoped that the envoy would understand his plight.
Wars that were stopped due to the weather gave both sides time to analyze the pros and cons.
Due to the restrictions of Seoul and Pyongyang, it was no longer possible for Hongyuan to adopt the strategy of attacking the weak first and then the strong, as Han Gui said, so they had to wait passively.
Here in the Anchuan Ming Army, Gonggong Wei is not idle while trying to build his image of an angel and the Ming Imperial Army.
It's not easy to fight.
But fighting a war is not the only way to solve the problem.
Attack the heart for the top, siege for the bottom.
These eight words were firmly remembered by Park Zhengtai, one of Wei's closest comrades-in-arms in North Korea, and in order to implement this supreme instruction from the Great Tomorrow Envoy, Park Zhengtai began his "money offensive".
"For the person we want to fight, we must be generous, we must be generous, we must not be careful, as long as he makes a bid, then there will be no counteroffer. Today's small efforts will definitely be able to get high returns in other days! ”
Gonggong Wei was categorical and took out a huge sum of 30,000 taels to ask Park Zhengtai to buy the Korean civil and military forces in Hongyuan City at all costs.
That's politics.
Politics is all about money.