As soon as Zhu Ci's words about the expedition to North Korea came out, except for a few people such as Li Yan, most of the court were shocked.

"Your Majesty, North Korea has been a subject of my Ming Dynasty for many years, is it not appropriate to venture into it!" Huang Daozhou was the first to stand up and speak.

Zhu Ci stumbled and stopped: "More than two years ago, North Korea was not a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, Tielingwei and Xianxing Mansion have been the territory of my Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years, and they were taken away by North Korea by clumsy means, and it was just a subject country of the Ming Dynasty before, but now that it is not, what is wrong with me taking it back?" North Korea does not know the current affairs, and it should be conquered! ”

"The emperor is sage, and the minister also thinks that North Korea should be conquered!" Li Yan stood up.

While saying this, Li Yan thought of what the emperor said to him in the imperial study, and he knew that from today onwards, the Ming Dynasty will open up another real expansion of the Central Plains Dynasty since the end of the Han Dynasty!

Li Yan is the first assistant minister, and as soon as he stood up, he immediately attracted the attention of hundreds of civil and military officials.

"The emperor and the ministers also think that Korea should be conquered!" About a dozen officials stood up behind Li Yan and agreed to conquer Korea.

Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others were a little blindsided, and felt that the emperor seemed to intend to direct this scene.

They vaguely thought of Qian Qianyi's resignation as the first assistant, and now that they think about it, they feel that it may have a lot to do with the emperor's actions in the future, and what the emperor wants to do, from transforming the Mongolian steppe to today's conquest of Korea.

The emperor has been mobilizing a large number of grain and grass materials to Liaodong and Guangxi for more than a month, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou and others are not unaware, but they have not been determined at that time, they are not good to say, and now the emperor has clearly stated that he is ready to conquer North Korea, Li Yan and others stood up for the first time to support, I am afraid that it is not only North Korea, after the conquest of North Korea, the emperor may also plan to conquer Annam, or even more places.

Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others instantly understood that the emperor was probably going to learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and fight his martial arts!

Realizing this, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Dao opened their eyes at the same time.

Although Liu Zongzhou tried his best to fight the main war before, it was only against Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others in the Ming Dynasty who rebelled and drove out the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and really launched a war against foreign countries, and Liu Zongzhou did not always fight the main war.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has just settled down inside and outside for less than three years, and it is not appropriate to use troops abroad!" Liu Zongzhou and Huang Dao came out at the same time to persuade them.

In the final analysis, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou did not want the Ming Dynasty to become reckless in the future, which would hurt the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

"Needless to say, I have made up my mind, and North Korea should be destroyed!" Zhu Ci said extremely resolutely.

Liu Zongzhou and Huang Dao Er may be opposed, Zhu Ci has always expected it, but the court has Li Yan, the first assistant, to support it, but it does not affect the external use of troops, so Zhu Ci is too lazy to patiently explain too much to Liu Zongzhou and Zodiac Week.

After all, they are all fifty or sixty years old, and they are a little old-fashioned in their thinking, and they are not easy to convince, rather than this, it is better to prove to them one day that the Ming Dynasty launched a foreign war, and it will definitely not hurt the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, as long as this is proved, the two old guys may not be so opposed.

"Retreat!"

"Your Majesty, the Poor Soldiers"

Zhu Ci stopped paying attention to the shouts of Liu Zongzhou and Huang Dao, got up and left Jinluanduan.

The next day, Zhu Ci issued an edict to canonize Huang Degong, the commander of the Third Army in Liaodong, as the general of the expedition to Korea, commanding the Third Army, the Eighteenth Army and three garrison armies, etc., a total of 100,000 troops to conquer Korea!

The Third Army and the Eighteenth Army are all regular armies with full firearms, with strong combat effectiveness, responsible for attacking the city, and the three garrison armies are all newly formed ordinary cold weapon armies, and even the army commander has not been set up, responsible for the garrison of the captured city!

In Liaodong, as soon as Huang Degong and Shang Kexi of the 18th Army received the holy order to conquer Korea, they were all over the place in an instant.

"Hahahaha, it's finally time for this day!" Huang Degong laughed.

Huang Degong, who is almost 50 years old this year, is getting stronger and stronger.

"Yes, I finally waited for this day, 40,000 regular troops, 60,000 garrisons, such a powerful army, the emperor is bound to win North Korea, and the two of us can't disappoint the emperor no matter what!" Shang Kexi of the Eighteenth Army is also almost fifty years old, but he is also the same as Huang Degong, he should be old and strong.

Shang Kexi was named the king of Pingnan by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was a real traitor, when he returned to the Ming Dynasty with more than 100,000 Qing troops, Zhu Ci gave him two choices, one was not a title, he could only be the commander of an ordinary army in the Ming Dynasty, with an army of only 20,000 people, and at the same time, he had to receive sixty military sticks first, and he could continue to lead the troops if he could survive. One is to directly give him the title of marquis, so that he can live the rest of his life in peace.

At the beginning, Shang Kexi would rather accept sixty military sticks than choose to be the commander of an ordinary army, leading 20,000 people.

Originally, for a person who had been a traitor, Zhu Ci would never let him be the commander of a regular army, but Shang Kexi took the 20,000 surrendered troops under his command, made many military exploits, and was injured many times and killed at the front line.

For Zhu Ciji's trust, Shang Kexi was naturally ecstatic, and led the troops to fight for the Ming Dynasty wholeheartedly.

"Yes, we must not disappoint the emperor, North Korea will be destroyed!" Huang Degong clenched his fists, and his expression was full of sharpness.

The combat effectiveness of the 40,000 regular army of the Ming Dynasty is even stronger than that of the 400,000 ordinary army with cold weapons, not to mention the 60,000 garrison army and the Navy's East China Sea Fleet to assist, there is no reason why Korea cannot be destroyed.

On July 1 of the seventh year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Degong read Zhu Cijiao's holy decree to the whole army in Shenyang City, listed the eight major crimes of North Korea, and officially led the troops to start the war against Korea.

An army of 100,000 left the city of Shenyang and went straight to Dandong, preparing to cross the Yalu River from Dandong and attack the territory of Korea.

In order to allow 100,000 troops to cross the river smoothly, Zhu Cicheng also ordered Shen Jingchao, the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, to lead the East China Sea Fleet to assist Huang Degong and other 100,000 troops to cross the river.