Chapter 20: The Prince's Turmoil

Just after the DPRK sent a special mission back to the DPRK capital Hanyang, there was another big wave in the DPRK.

That is, in order to completely drive the sphere of influence and strength of the easterners out of the imperial court, those Westerner ministers came up with the idea of using the opportunity to select and train the prince to support their future king.

At this moment, there was an unprecedented smallpox plague in Pyongan Province in Korea, and under the call of His Royal Highness King Seonjo, the two princes Gwanghae-jun and Linhae-kun were specially ordered.

Going to the severely affected location to replace His Royal Highness Seonjo to visit the victims of the disaster in Pyongan Province, Linhaijun's performance at this moment was a big disappointment.

Under the persuasion of the officials of Ping'an Dao, he didn't even think about riding back to his residence, maybe Linhaijun at this moment was afraid of being infected with the smallpox virus.

But at this moment, Guanghaijun is a very different performance, whether it is in the hearts of disaster relief officials or the people in the disaster area.

Gwanghae-kun is so amiable and very close to the people, and he is not afraid that he will be infected when he treats the affected people with the officers and soldiers in the disaster area.

Personally feeding medicine to those victims and having personal contact with those victims made the officers and soldiers in those disaster areas see in their eyes and remember in their hearts.

And Gwanghaejun, who is very modest at this moment, also personally expressed his unwillingness to be the son of the world, but at this moment, Joseon Seonjo has never had a son-in-law.

What does it mean to give up the opportunity to be a son? And at this moment, Guanghaijun can take the initiative to give up the opportunity to be the prince of the king, which is really commendable.

At this moment, Gwanghae-jun is the second son of His Royal Highness Seonjo, and Gwanghae-kun, who was born in 1575, is exactly seven years older than Princess Yuting (Zhu Tingting) of the Ming Dynasty.

In 1591, the seventeen-year-old Guanghaijun and the ten-year-old Princess Yuting (Zhu Tingting) of the Ming Dynasty already had a marriage contract between Joseon and the Ming Dynasty.

And Princess Daming Yuting (Zhu Tingting), who deliberately married the prince of Korea Guanghaijun from the Ming Kingdom, is also more concerned about the turmoil of the prince at this moment, because the events that are happening at this moment are related to the future fate of the future prince Guanghaijun and her (Zhu Tingting).

As a famous Korean courtier, the Westerner Chung Cheol has been contacting the ministers of the Western faction to encourage His Royal Highness King Seonjo to agree to canonize the prince as soon as possible.

In terms of the choice of the prince, the ministers of the Westerners gradually had the initial candidate, that is, Gwanghaejun, who finally became not only the prince of the king, but also the fifteenth king.

And why did he choose Gwanghae-kunna among the princes, because as the eldest son, Rinhae-kun had a very poor character and had committed serious crimes of extortion and killing.

And the misbehaving Linhai Jun naturally cannot be a suitable candidate in the eyes of the minister's teacher, and the other princes, including Dingyuan Jun and Shunhe Jun, are not suitable for the position of Wang Shizi based on personal moral and moral character issues.

And if it is according to the ancient royal tradition of having no heir, it is undoubtedly the best candidate for Linhai Jun, as the eldest son, to have the throne of the royal son.

But Linhaijun was not only young and ignorant, but also personally seized official maids and private land.

He also used the status of the prince to steal and privately dispose of others at every turn, so he attracted many impeachments from the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

And when he was young, Gwanghae-jun was really a good prince with good conduct, intelligence, studiousness, benevolence and filial piety, so all the Westerner ministers were taking advantage of various opportunities to recommend Gwanghae-jun to become the prince.

At this moment, Seonjo and Liu Chenglong (Zhao Kun) and Li Shanhai (Bi Chao), two ministers who are easterners, are extremely opposed to the proposal of the Westerners.

His Royal Highness King Seonjo believes that although he ascended to the throne as a weak body, he has always tried to remember and listen to the words of his ministers.

Dealing with government affairs just because you don't want to hear about it is not worthy of mentioning the throne.

Therefore, it is really like sitting on pins and needles to listen to the teachings of the ministers and observe the speeches of the Confucian scholars.

To tell the truth, how many days and nights has His Royal Highness King Seonjo had, yearning for the peaceful and carefree life of the past.

As a result, although His Royal Highness King Seonjo suffered from heart deficiency, Seonjo, who was still healthy, thought that as long as he was not bedridden.

Although His Royal Highness King Seonjo does not know when he will be bedridden, he hopes that there will be no infamy about himself in the history books.

There is no need to worry too much about the matter of establishing the prince in advance, and such a major event as the establishment of the prince still needs to be reported to the great Ming of the great state of the state.

It depends on whether the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty can give approval, and it can only be approved by the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the Wanli Emperor.

In order to have a certain legal status in Korea, otherwise it is just a rebellion to be a generation of kings.

That would be a clear crusade by the Ming Dynasty, which would be even more dangerous to destroy the country.

Therefore, in the canonization of Wang Shizi, His Royal Highness King Seonjo, the lord of Korea, is still extremely cautious.

What's more, His Royal Highness King Seonjo at this moment is still in good health, and it is indeed a bit early to canonize the prince early without signs of being terminally ill.

And at this moment, His Royal Highness King Seonjo is still constantly observing and examining the princes, and it is still unknown to see which prince is more suitable to serve as the future prince.

In the choice of Wang Shizi, King Seonjo of Joseon is very cautious, unlike those Westerner ministers who blindly ask for Gwanghaejun to be elected as the future prince of the king.

Even Jung Cheol, who is a Westerner, wants to use the power of the people to force His Royal Highness King Seonjo of North Korea to admit that the future prince of the king is Gwanghaejun through the power of the people.

It can be seen that these Westerner ministers now want to get rid of the control of His Royal Highness King Seonjo, and also want to completely eliminate the influence and power of the Easterners.

This win-win thing is more important in the eyes of Westerners, because once these two points are really achieved, then it will explain the situation of the whole Korea.

It is completely controlled by ministers from Western backgrounds, and all departments are controlled and managed by Westerners.

In that way, the Westerners would be able to implement what they considered to be moral governance, and then the whole of Korea would be under the control of the Westerners' ministers.

Westerner ministers can do whatever they want throughout the territory of Korea, and they don't have to hobble forward in everything they do, as they do now.

Just before the turmoil in the Joseon dynasty had passed, rumors of the Japanese invaders had caused the residents of Hasando in North Korea to move north.

And there will be a lot of uninhabited villages in the three southern provinces, so what is the reason why the lower three provinces of North Korea are so panicked?

It also depends on the remarks of the North Korean government, the personal feelings of the people of North Korea, and how His Royal Highness King Seonjo of North Korea treats the rumors about the Japanese invaders.

And in the rumors that the Japanese are about to invade North Korea, there is some truth in it.

So how should the North Korean government and the people face the rumors that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, and how the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the Wanli Emperor, as a great power, should face it.

And whether or not the Japanese invade the DPRK at this moment depends on whether Konishi Yukicho and the owner of Tsushima Island, Heiyoshizhi, succeed.