Chapter 19: The Envoy to the Wakos

When the Easterners and Westerners of North Korea finally stopped strife, North Korea also entered a fairly stable stage of development.

At this moment, His Royal Highness Seonjo also made the right choice in the final decision, regardless of the opposition of the Westerners.

Prepare to send a communication mission to the Wako in the land of beasts, but the purpose of the communication mission is not to restore foreign trade relations.

Rather, it was only for the sake of the DPRK that the DPRK wanted to observe the country of the Japanese at the moment, and then decided whether to establish diplomatic relations.

In other words, the ultimate mission of the North Korean mission is nothing more than to observe the words and deeds of the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, on March 6, 1590, His Royal Highness Seonjo ordered a special mission to be sent to the country of the Japanese Invaders.

The delegation consisted of Huang Yunji as the chief envoy and Kim Chengyi as the deputy envoy, and dozens of people from the delegation went to the country of the Japanese invaders.

Before this trip, His Royal Highness Seonjo always urged the ministers to maintain the dignity of the Korean national body from being violated during the period of the envoy to the Japanese invaders.

We must not do anything that harms the national body, and we must not back down in front of the Japanese while maintaining our national dignity.

At the same time, Lord Cao Shu (Zhao Kun) was promoted to the right council lord, and at this moment, Lord Yoo Chenglong (Zhao Kun) devoted his life to the country of North Korea.

In July 1590, three months after the Korean Correspondence Mission left Korea, it finally arrived in Kyoto, the capital of the Japanese Invaders, after a long and bumpy journey.

However, there is no welcome in Kyoto at this moment, and there is no celebratory ceremony held at this moment.

All the Japanese invaders, including Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the lord of the Japanese Empire, did not exercise any due courtesy to the Korean mission.

However, how to deal with the small country of the Japanese invaders when the DPRK sent out the mission, and such an arrogant and rude attitude towards the DPRK mission is a very serious special problem.

In the end, there was a lot of conflict between the main envoy Hwang Yun-gil and the deputy envoy Kim Cheng-il, and during the period of entering the city, only Kim Cheng-il entered the city wearing North Korean official uniforms.

In foreign relations with the DPRK, the rude attitude of the small Japanese country towards the DPRK mission began unceasingly at this time.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not the king of the Wako, but the actual power that has obtained the position of Sekihaku.

Therefore, there was a lot of controversy in the Joseon mission over whether to give the credentials to the king of the Japanese or to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who held the post of Sekihaku.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who has the post of Sekihaku, originally wanted to make the Korean mission submit to his majesty, so at this moment, Taira Yoshitomo and his party were very worried that their plan would be miscalculated.

Because Hira concealed each other's intentions from the two countries, the intention of the Japanese was very simple and clear: they wanted Korea to submit to the Japanese and did not really want to establish diplomatic relations with Korea.

The intention of the DPRK is also very simple: it is to send an embassy to observe the words and deeds of the Japanese before deciding whether to establish diplomatic relations.

At this moment, however, there was a small-scale rebellion in the country of the Wakos, and the lord of Odawara Castle, the Hojo clan, launched a rebellion against Sekihaku Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

So at this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent 50,000 troops to crusade against the rebellious Odawara Castle lord Hojo Clan.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had summoned the daimyo of the whole country and led his troops to support the military crusade in Kyoto.

At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi only used Konishi Yukinaga and made him his vanguard army to level North Korea.

So when Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Odawara Castle, it was as long as three months after Odawara Castle had no food and grass.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Odawara Castle, it directly led to the suicide of the Hojo clan, and the Hojo family was exiled to Koyasan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after the complete surrender.

Toyotomi Hidekichi took advantage of this opportunity to achieve a final victory, and after defeating the Hojo clan, he joyfully returned to Kyoto, the capital of the Japanese Empire.

During this three-month period, Taira's task was to prevent the DPRK envoys from being aware of the Japanese envoy's attitude of neglecting the DPRK envoys.

After the news of the victory of the Japanese Emperor Sekihaku and his return to Kyoto reached the Korean Mission, Kim Chengyi, as a deputy envoy, wanted to return to China as soon as possible to report on his work.

In the following meeting with the North Korean mission, the North Korean mission first read out the credentials of the DPRK.

However, their purposes were very opposite, and North Korea only sent the mission for the purpose of observation.

And the small country of the Japanese actually thought that North Korea had come to submit to the Japanese invaders, and here Konishi Yukicho played a sufficient role to deceive the two countries.

Konishi Yukicho was the main figure who deceived both countries to deliver messages, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi deliberately danced a special dance during the luncheon welcoming the North Korean mission.

As Toyotomi Hideyoshi's confidant, Kato Kiyomasa also performed a samurai-specific traditional sword dance, and the sword dance at this moment was directed at the Korean envoy so that the Korean mission was not possessed.

And at this moment, the North Korean mission also saw the true view of the DPRK and the attitude of mocking the DPRK envoys.

On March 1, 1591, as a special communication mission of the Korean state, he completed the mission assigned by His Royal Highness Seonjo of Joseon, successfully returned to Hanyang, the capital of Korea, and entered the palace to meet His Royal Highness Seonjo in order to report to His Royal Highness Seonjo.

On the pretext of congratulating the Japanese with the new Kwanbai regime, the Korean communications mission observed the Japanese for a year.

And this report to His Royal Highness Seonjo plunged the Joseon Dynasty into a new crisis.

Hwang Yoon-gil, the envoy of the Westerners, thought that the intention of attacking Korea could be seen from the eyes of the Japanese invaders, but Kim Chengil, who was the deputy envoy of the Easterners, thought that there was no need to worry about it, because even if the Japanese did send troops to invade Korea, there was no need to worry.

As a result, there was a heated debate between the envoy and the deputy envoy of the country of the Japanese invaders about whether the Japanese invaded Korea, and at this moment, His Royal Highness Seonjo was somehow caught in a dilemma with those ministers.

In fact, at this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who held the position of the Japanese Kou Guanbai, had already obtained the map of the Eight Roads of Korea that the Japanese merchants brought back from Korea.

And at any time to plan an attack on North Korea, and at this moment there is a more urgent matter to deal with.

Because the prince of the Ryukyus was forced by the coercion of the Japanese Invaders, he had to come to meet the Japanese Kou's Sekibai Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the Toyotomi Hideyoshi at this moment was definitely not a good man and a woman.

By the way, he extorted 20,000 stone of grain and grass from the prince of the Ryukyus, and handed it over to the country of the Japanese as a tribute for the attack on Korea and the Ming Dynasty.

The prince of the Ryukyus had no choice but to agree to this robbery of Sogon, because if the prince of the Ryukyus did not agree to pay tribute, he would die tragically under the sword of Kato Kiyomasa.

At this moment, North Korea is also shrouded in the clouds of war, and the only way for North Korea to avoid war with the Japanese invaders.

The only way to get out of the way was to let the army of the Japanese invaders pass through Korea and directly attack the Ming Dynasty, and also asked the Korean people and officials and troops not to have any conflicts with the army of the Japanese invaders.

But can North Korea agree to this very despicable demand of the Japanese Invaders, after all, North Korea is regarded as a great power by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the midst of the wishful thinking of the Japanese invaders, North Korea constantly loses patience to wait for opportunities.

At this moment, the Japanese were found on the coast of Gimhae in Korea, and the Korean officials and troops fought against the Japanese in the battle with them.

At this moment, the Koreans who were smuggling in northern Xinjiang were also strangled by the up-and-coming Nurhachi soldiers.

At this moment, East Asia is really rising, and there is a newly rising Sekihaku Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the country of Japanese pirates on the coast of the East China Sea.

In the northern part of Korea, there is also Nurhachi, the leader of the Jurchen tribe, who is uniting the military forces of other Jurchen tribes to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

And the ministers in North Korea are also entangled in the question of whether they should establish a prince or not, because the ministers at this moment think that Gwanghae-kun is the most suitable candidate.

At this moment, another abominable plague disaster broke out in Korea, and the outbreak of the plague in Korea forced the Korean Imperial Court to step up the matter with the peace of the road.

During this period, Gwanghae-kun's patriotism and love for the people will always be remembered by all the ministers and the people in the disaster-stricken areas.

And the canonization of the son of the DPRK will bring a great historical turmoil, what kind of story will there be in the DPRK situation? It will depend on how His Royal Highness Seonjo and the ministers of Joseon deal with each other.