The "Ganghwa Island Agreement" is the statement of later historians, and at that time, it was actually just a joint letter to the Ming Emperor by Bai Wangru, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty, and the governor of Korea Quan.

Kaesong, Indeokgung Palace.

Li Fangyuan looked at the fold prepared by Bai Wangru in front of him, waiting for him to sign it, and slapped the table with a snapping sound, green tendons bursting, and gritting his teeth. After a long time, he took the brush, and signed his name on the fold with trembling hands, and when he finished writing the last stroke, Li Fangyuan seemed to have lost all his strength, sat down on the chair in a dejected manner, closed his eyes, tears flowed down his cheeks, and said in a weak voice: "Li Shu, hand him over to the messenger of the Ming Dynasty, this king is tired, and he wants to rest." ”

"Take care of the king, the old minister is gone." Seeing Li Fangyuan signing, Li Shu breathed a sigh of relief, but a trace of sadness welled up in his heart, he respectfully bowed to Li Fangyuan three times and bowed nine times, picked up the fold and turned around and went out.

Hearing Li Shu's footsteps gradually disappearing, Li Fangyuan's heart was like a knife, he knew that he would not only lose half of the country, but also lose this minister.....

Looking at Li Fangyuan's painful appearance, Bian Zhongliang knelt on the ground: "Since the king is unwilling, then the last general will immediately gather soldiers and horses, the Ming envoy only has five hundred people in the city, and it can be destroyed overnight, since the Ming Dynasty is unkind, don't blame us for being unjust." ”

"Alas," Li Fangyuan sighed heavily, and said after a while: "Zhong Liang, you come closely, this king and tell me the reason why this king did this, Li Shu understands the hardships of this king, but unfortunately he has already sprouted the will to die, and this king will rely on you in the future." ”

"What? Master Lee? Bian Zhongliang looked up in surprise: "Then what are you waiting for, the last general will stop it." ”

"Block?" Li Fangyuan smiled bitterly: "When the news of the twist spreads, the crowd will inevitably boil, and it will inevitably need to find a scapegoat, what should I do when the time comes?" ”

"Then Master Li is ......"

"Yes." Li Fangyuan nodded, and then beckoned Bian Zhongliang to sit down.

"Zhongliang, this king is not willing to compromise, but this king also has a last resort, in fact, Zhang Fu's five thousand soldiers and horses, and even the Guards cavalry army are not a big deal, we defend the city, wait for its food and grass to run out, and then counterattack, we can win. For thousands of years, this is how we have dealt with the people of the Central Plains. Even Meng Yuan can't do anything about us, at that time we can float to the sea and go to Ganghwa Island. ”

"But the Ming Dynasty is different, its sailors can easily destroy our Korean sailors and land in any place, which this king never expected, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty are so powerful, especially the artillery on the ship, which is not something that Wu Yong can fight against."

"The plastered lands of our Korea are all close to the coast, especially in the Han River Valley, whether it is Xijing Pyongyang, Zhongjing Kaesong, Tokyo Seoul is in the Han River Valley, and they are all under the attack of the Daming Water Division, and once these places are lost, my Li clan is not qualified to claim the king in Korea."

"The most important thing is not these, a few years ago, that hateful fat envoy was actually asking everywhere about the situation of the Goryeo royal family, this is threatening this king, our Li family is still only the governor, not the king, if the Ming Dynasty supports a Goryeo royal family, and then occupies Kaegyung, Hangyeong and Pyongyang, and let it be king, what do you think will happen?"

"This, it's really troublesome, but it's not right, didn't the king kill all the Goryeo royal family?"

"How can it be that easy? Goryeo has been established for nearly 500 years, how can it be possible to kill them all? And even if Da Ming finds a random person and says that this is the Goryeo royal family, there will inevitably be countless people who are willing to admit it. ”

"Also, my fourth brother, he must be in the hands of the envoy now, because the jade pendant that the fat man carries with him is the token of the fourth brother. I don't know how this stupid fourth brother got together with Akito. ”

"That king means that the Ming people will --------?" Bian Zhongliang said with some uncertainty.

"Yes, the Ming people can also support the fourth brother, if the Ming Dynasty crowns the fourth brother as the king of Joseon, what do you think?"

Bian Zhongliang was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Da Ming is too vicious, the Celestial Empire in the impression of the last general should not be like this." ”

"Yes, this king also thought that the Ming Dynasty could be fooled, but it turned out that this king was wrong, the ambition of this emperor in his twenties is unimaginable, and begging for Pyongyang today is only the first step, and there will be new requirements in the future."

"Really?" Bian Zhongliang was shocked: "Could it be that the Ming Dynasty wants to destroy our North Korea?" ”

"Isn't this impossible, haven't you seen Daming begging for Jeju Island?"

"What then? We can't sit idly by, my lord. ”

"No, this king will not sit still, and it will not be so easy to control the Jurchens west of Pyongyang." Speaking of this, Li Fangyuan suddenly sat up straight, and said in a low voice: "Zhongliang, you immediately send someone to inform Meng's brother Timur and Li Zhongzhong, and let them launch a Jurchen attack to harass the Ming army, as long as they can fight the Ming army, this king will have a heavy reward; In addition, let them lie dormant and wait, and our North Korean army will fight back. ”

"Call back?" Bian Zhongliang looked at Li Fangyuan in surprise.

Li Fangyuan nodded heavily.

More than ten days later, the imperial court issued a decree to agree to the request of Li Fangyuan and Bai Wangru, and set up the Lelang Mansion in the new territory, which governed Pyongyang and was under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Political Envoy; At the same time, Zhuo Jing and his entourage were rewarded, Zhuo Jing, Bai Wangru, and Zhang Fu each gave 1,000 taels of silver, Bai Wangru was stationed in Kaesong, and served as the consul general of the Ming Dynasty in North Korea, and Zhang Fu was promoted to the commander of the Pyongyang Guard, stationed in Pyongyang, under the jurisdiction of Pyongyang, the front and back, the left and right middle five guards, under the command of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, responsible for the conquest of the Jurchens in Lelang Mansion, and made them naturalized.

At the end of the holy decree, Zhu Yunwen named Zhu Jiye, the younger brother of Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin, as the king of Pyongyang, and gave Pyongyang front and rear guards as his guards; He was given 1,000 acres of salt fields and 20,000 acres of fertile land by the sea, and 10,000 stone per year, but it decreased by 1,000 stone per year, and the imperial court only provided for him for ten years, after which he was self-reliant.

However, the process of accepting Lelang Province was not smooth, the garrisons in Pyongyang, Anju and other places refused to withdraw, even Li Fangyuan's orders did not work, and the Jurchens in the territory also united, led by Meng's brother Timur, supplemented by Li Zhongzhong, and frequently attacked the Ming army.

In the end, Zhu Yunwen ordered the Guards Cavalry Army to enter Korea and sweep away the Jurchens; He ordered 50,000 troops of Mei Yin, the commander of the horses, to set out from Dengju, Shandong, and landed at Nampo Port near Pyongyang to attack Pyongyang.

Under the power of artillery, the city of Pyongyang was breached in half a month, and the defender Choi Jinxing was killed, and more than 3,000 prisoners were requisitioned to build a royal palace for the king of Pyongyang. As soon as Pyongyang was broken, other cities also fell, and by September, most of Lelang Province was pacified, and the sergeants led by Mei Yin were divided into various parts of Lelang Province, and Mei Yin was appointed as the chief soldier of Lelang Province, and commanded all the garrisons of Lelang Province in a unified manner.

However, the Jurchen resistance still rose one after another, the war spanned both sides of the Yalu River, and although the Liaodong Army won one after another, it also paid a heavy price, which also shows how unpopular the Jurchen policy of the Ming Dynasty was.

In order to further deepen the control of Liaodong, Zhu Yunwen ordered Cheng Benli to implement the identity card system in Liaodong, all the people, including the Jurchens, must receive identity cards and keep them properly, all people without identity cards are regarded as disorderly people, once captured, they will be requisitioned to build Liaodong, and it will take at least three years to obtain the identity card, and you can enjoy the policies of Lelang Mansion.

For the Jurchens, in addition to hard labor, there are three ways to obtain an identity card: one is that the woman in the family marries a soldier in the guard, so that her immediate family can obtain an identity card; The second is to be in the army, and family members can also obtain identity cards; The third is to obtain the guarantee of more than five people who have identity tags, which is the most difficult.

In order to encourage soldiers to take concubines, Zhu Yunwen stipulated that for each concubine, 50 acres of land would be granted, and these lands would often be transferred to the woman's family for cultivation, and under this policy, soldiers quickly became landlords; But if the soldier is a Jurchen, he does not enjoy these privileges.

This cruel policy naturally provoked a revolt from the Jurchens, and some heroes emerged who sang and wept in pursuit of a free hunting life, but unfortunately, their efforts proved that the price of freedom was expensive. During the battle, the Liaodong Army also appeared some terrifying figures for the Jurchens, such as Zhang Fu of Pyongyang Wei, Shao Yun of Shenyang Wei, Xiong Hai of Tonghua Wei and others. With the efforts of the Jurchens, the construction of the acropolis along the river and along the coast was gradually completed, and the living space of the Jurchens was further compressed, and the Jurchens, who were unwilling to obey the king, gradually migrated northward, and some entered Korea eastward.

The commander of the Liaodong Naval Division, Luo Kening, and Li Mengde, the servant, were also commended by the emperor, and Li Mengde led a detachment of a detachment to be stationed at the port of Nampo near Pyongyang to protect the smooth passage from Pyongyang to Dalian in Liaodong and Dengzhou in Shandong.

One day in October of the third year of Jianwen, Li Shu, the minister of parliament who had long been ill, died suddenly at home at the age of 58.