Chapter 791: The Chaotic Goryeo Royal Family
Varys was furious at the sudden stab of the Koreans, and why wasn't it the case with Li Nan?
If a powerful country like Jin or Zhenla interfered in this war, then Li Nan and the imperial ministers would not be so angry, but this Goryeo is only a small country.
The current situation is like a fight between the two adults of the empire and the Song Kingdom, but Goryeo, a little hairy boy, came over and stumbled the empire, which is really unbearable.
After a major battle, the imperial army strengthened its vigilance against the Song state, and the Ministry of Defense transported a large number of recruits to the Yangtze River front to replenish the major army corps through horse-drawn trains dedicated to the army.
Although the Song army, which was already weaker in attack, tasted the sweetness, they did not dare to make a mistake in the face of the imperial army on the other side, and the armies of the two countries were temporarily stalemate, waiting for a new opportunity.
Li Nan never thinks of himself as a gentleman, so he doesn't believe in the nonsense that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, he prefers the sentence that the villain vents his grievances for half a day.
The Imperial Yellow Sea Fleet, which was originally sent to Jingdong Road to raid the coastal areas of the Song Kingdom, was urgently recruited, and Li Nan decided to go to Goryeo to meet Wang Kai, the lord of Goryeo, and Li Ziqian, the prince of Joseon.
Boarding the 'Aquaman' battleship he brought back from the Pirates of the Caribbean again, Li Nan's anger in his heart was soothed a lot, and he gently stroked the golden rudder to relive the familiar feeling.
Because this time he was going to take the 'Sea King', an invincible battleship on the sea, to go to Goryeo, there was no danger at all, so Li Nan deliberately brought Pan Jinlian and Sun Erniang, who had been separated for a long time.
The two of them can be regarded as women who have followed Li Nan for a long time, but because one is a married woman who divorced Wu Dalang, and the other used to be a married woman, the two daughters always feel that their status is inferior.
Pan Jinlian and Sun Erniang are both Li Nan's women after all, so when he felt that the two girls were not happy in the palace, he took them with him on this trip, hoping that in the wide sea and foreign land, they can forget those shackles and relax their minds.
In Dengzhou City, she was shot by an arrow by the Song army and injured the bird that controlled it, so the shapeshifter Wa Er also lost an eye, and after many days of cultivation, she also went to sea with the ship this time.
With the ability to control seagulls to reconnoiter in the air, the 'Sea King' made up for the last shortcoming in reconnaissance and set sail with dozens of warships.
Near the mouth of the Yangtze River, Artemisia, who was also furious, was leading the East China Sea Fleet to search for traces of the Goryeo fleet.
The terrain here is very complicated, with many islands, including Chongming, Changxing, and Hengsha islands nearby, and Zhoushan Islands in the distance.
But it's a pity that the Koreans met Li Nan this time.
Li Nan's last adventure was in the world of Caribbean pirates, he started from the coast of China, the first to occupy the Zhoushan Islands, and then conquered the north and south, and finally unified the entire Chinese seas.
In this era, when it comes to understanding the Chinese sea, it can be said that no one is more familiar with it than Li Nan.
After the two fleets converged at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the seagulls controlled by Wa Er flew into the sky.
After finding no trace of the Koreans on the islands near Chongming Island, Li Nan ordered the East China Sea Fleet led by Artemisia to sail from the west, and he himself led the Yellow Sea Fleet from the east, and the two fleets headed for the Zhoushan Islands, which was the most suitable for hiding a large number of ships.
To the north of the mouth of the Yangtze River, there is no suitable place for hiding, so Li Nan's judgment is very accurate, the Goryeo fleet is indeed hiding in the Zhoushan Islands in the southern sea.
A few days later, a massacre took place in the waters off Daishan Island.
There are a lot of ship debris floating on the surface of the sea, and in the water is a blue-black, huge monster devouring the Goryeo sailors who are constantly wailing for help.
Before the long-range missiles and torpedoes of later generations of attack weapons, the cursed mutated blue whale of the Big Mac was invincible in the ocean.
After finding the Goryeo fleet hiding here, Li Nan didn't let his own fleet do anything at all, and only released the mutated blue whale in the soul bone, which was enough.
For these Koreans who couldn't understand the situation and forcibly came to disrupt the situation and take advantage, Li Nan didn't have the slightest favor, so he let the mutated blue whale eat wantonly, until there were still some nobles and generals in the Goryeo fleet who were obviously gorgeously dressed, and the terrifying mutant blue whale returned to rest in the soul bones.
Li Nam ordered the imperial sailors who accompanied the ship to salvage the Goryeo nobles and generals who were scared to death in the sea, and then they were all hung upside down on the mast of the 'Sea King'.
Now that this Goryeo naval army has been resolved, Li Nan signaled Artemisia to lead the fleet back to the Yangtze River valley to assist the five major armies of the empire, and he himself led the fleet to go towards Goryeo.
During the voyage, Lee Nam combined the intelligence of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau with the words of his daughter Lee Hyo-sun, the Korean prince of Goryeo, who was sent by him from the Korean state of Goryeo, Lee Hyo-sun, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current situation in Goryeo.
In one sentence, the current state of Goryeo can be described as chaotic.
The current lord of Goryeo, Wang Kai, is the 17th monarch of the Goryeo Dynasty, the character Renbiao, formerly known as Goo, is the son of King Ruizong of Goryeo and Queen Lee of Shundeok.
Due to his young age, Wang Kai, who was only thirteen years old after succeeding to the throne, was unable to compete with his maternal grandfather for power, and the government was completely controlled by Li Ziqian, the prince of Korea.
It is not uncommon in history for the lord to be young and strong, and the king is stripped of all his rights by important ministers, but it is not these that surprise Li Nam, but the chaotic court of Goryeo.
Wang Kai, the lord of Goryeo, is the eldest son of King Ruizong of Goryeo, and his biological mother is Li Shi, the daughter of Li Ziqian, the lord of Yeondeok Palace (Queen Shunde), and after Wang Kai succeeded to the throne, he accepted Li Ziqian's two daughters as concubines, one is the lord of Yeondeok Palace, and the other is the lord of Fuchang Temple.
To put it simply, it was Wang Kai, the lord of Goryeo, who included his two aunts in the harem.
After figuring out this matter, Li Nan couldn't help but ask Li Xiaoshan: "As far as I know, the Goryeo Kingdom imitates the Song Kingdom everywhere, why does this kind of unethical thing happen?" ”
"This is not new." Li Hyo-sun, who came to live in the empire for several years, now knows the views of the Song people and the imperial people on ethical matters, so she knows the history of Goryeo and explains it to Li Nan in detail.
Lee Hyo-sun is right, the matter of marriage regardless of ethics did not start from the current lord of Goryeo, Wang Kai, but has been around for a long time.
Today's Goryeo Kingdom can also be called Wang's Goryeo, and the founding king is Wang Jian, who was born in a wealthy family in Songak.
Wang Jian married a total of 29 concubines in his life, many of whom had a wealthy background. These 29 concubines gave birth to a total of 25 princes and 9 princesses for Wang Jian. Of these 9 princesses, 6 princesses are married to half-brothers.
Not only that, but throughout the Goryeo Dynasty, except in rare cases, princesses could only marry members of the clan, and it was forbidden to marry outside.
The Goryeo Dynasty's half-siblings were frequently married again during the reign of the 9th King Dejong.
Dejong was the son of the 8th King Hyeonjong and Queen Wonseong, and his two concubines were his half-sisters. Not only that, Dejong's mother and the mother of his concubine Queen Xiaosi were sisters.
The 11th king, Moon Jong, was the son of Hyeonjong and Queen Wonhye, and his concubine, Queen Inpyeong, was also his half-sister, and Moon Jong's mother and Queen Inpyeong's mother were also sisters.
The last case of half-sister marriage in the Goryeo Dynasty occurred among the children of the 11th king Munjong, who married his daughter, Princess Jiqing, to his son, Buyeo Gongwang Sui, and the mother of the two children was a sister.
Since the princesses of the Goryeo Dynasty could only marry members of the clan and were forbidden to marry outside, there was always an unequal number of men and women of the same generation, which gave rise to another type of consanguineous marriage, that is, the marriage relationship between uncle and nephew, that is, the cousin marrying a niece.
In addition to this kind of consanguineous marriage, which seems to be incestuous and contrary to common sense, but at least it is still the Ming media is marrying, extramarital affairs between close relatives of the Goryeo royal family also exist from time to time. In 981, after the death of the 5th king of the Goryeo Dynasty, King Gyeongjong was succeeded by Sungjong, who was a cousin of Gyeongjong and the "eldest brother" of Gyeongjong, and the fourth concubine of Gyeongjong, Queen Seonjeong, was Sungjong's own sister.
It can be said that the marriage of the Goryeo royal family, just like the Greek mythology in the West, is the norm in their lives due to incomprehensible incest.