Chapter 269: The Prince of Joseon
Tamna Island, where Zheng Xi's largest horse farm is located, is also the place used by the Ming army to house the Joseon prince Yi Yong. The www.biquge.info large island is a vast expanse of grassland where immigrants from Tohoku, Japan and Korea raise horses.
On the grassland by the sea, the horse ranchers were mowing the grass at the horse ranch, and someone raised his head and suddenly saw a large fleet on the sea, sailing in the direction of Tamna Island.
"There's a fleet attacking, report to the general!" The people of the island panicked. When this fleet approached, people found out that it was a false alarm, this was a fleet flying the flag of the Daming Naval Division.
In fact, in the eastern seas, there is no fleet that can match the navy of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the South Sea Fleet is brought to Europe, I am afraid that in addition to the Netherlands and Britain, Spain and Portugal, which have begun to weaken, will not be opponents, let alone second-rate maritime countries such as France, Venice, and Turkey. The fleet, with two ironclad ships, four second-class battleships, twelve third-class battleships, sixty-eight fourth-class cruisers, more than a hundred fifth-class cruisers, and thousands of small warships, has completely controlled the eastern seas, and no European fleet dares to come from afar to defeat this eastern fleet.
"What kind of ship is that? How did it catch fire? "The people of the island suddenly saw two ships towed by a huge battleship, which were low in shape and emitted billowing smoke.
"Maybe it's a burned boat, it's really pitiful, the mast and sails are burned out, no wonder it has to be pulled by another ship." A Japanese man said.
The fleet sailed into the harbor, and the Ming troops on the batteries on both sides of the strait fired a salute to salute the fleet. The first second-class battleship slowly docked on the dock, and Wang Yu, surrounded by the guards, stepped down from the battleship.
A new city in the northwestern part of Tamna Island, a newly built city that was only a few years ago, has no walls on the periphery, but like newer cities such as Singapore, the buildings are extremely sturdy, and there are castles in various important parts of the city. The streets of the city are full of people and prosperous. The city, called Tamna, is the largest port city on Tamna Island, where ships dock every day, a large number of new arrivals set foot on the island, and people who have lived here for many years take mail boats and leave here.
Every day, several regular flights of clippers carrying goods arrived, bringing food, cloth and other necessities of life, and transporting the horses that had grown up.
Wang Yu's motorcade entered Tamna City and went straight to the palace where the Joseon prince Yi Yu lived.
The palace where the Joseon prince lived was built by Zheng Xi, and it was said to be the palace, but in fact, it did not cover a large area, it was a castle with a length and width of 60 zhang, and Li Zhuo and his sisters and sisters lived here. Zheng Xi has not been here for a long time, and the Ming soldiers stationed at the castle strictly carry out their tasks and guard the castle. As for the people who took care of the living conditions of the princes and princesses of Joseon, it was a group of palace maids and eunuchs who had escaped from Korea.
Wang Yu and his entourage entered the castle, passed through the castle gate, and entered the inner castle. Climb the spiral staircase to the top floor of the castle, where Li Zhuo and his sisters live. On the top floor of the castle, there is a large office and dining room, and when Zheng Xi was there, he worked in it. Around the dining room, there are four bedrooms by the window.
"See the prince!" Li Yu, who was only eleven years old, took his sister and sister and saluted Wang Yu who came up.
Today's Korea has been revoked by the Qing court as a vassal state and has become a province of China, and the king of Korea has also become a vassal king. Even if Joseon is not revoked as a vassal state, the status of the king of Joseon can only be equated with that of the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the status of the prince is naturally one level lower than that of the prince.
Wang Yu arched his hand and returned the salute: "Little prince, this clan is here this time to prepare to bring you back to North Korea!" You're going to go back and be a prince. ”
Li Zhuo lowered his head, his lips squirmed a few times, and he hesitated for a while before he mustered up the courage to ask: "Lord Wang, do you want Xiao Wang to go back to restore the status of the Korean vassal state?" It was the hateful Tartars who revoked our vassal status and turned us into a Manchu province. Our North Korea is loyal to the Ming Dynasty and hopes that the prince will be gracious. ”
"Vassal status?" Wang Yu shook his head, "Little prince, don't say that you North Korea is loyal to our Ming Dynasty!" This time, this clan will take you back to take a look, and you will know what the Eight Banners of North Korea are, the Green Camp of North Korea! Their loyalty to the Qing Dynasty is far greater than their loyalty to my Ming Dynasty! ”
Li Yan bit his lip tightly, and after a long while, he squeezed out a few words from his mouth: "I don't believe it!" We, the Koreans, will not surrender to the Tatars! ”
"Seeing is believing! It's useless for this clan to tell you! Wang Yu sneered, "Don't think about the status of the vassal state, if you are not demoted to the king of the county, you can still give you a prince is the favor of the court!" ”
Li Yan lowered his head, with unwilling tears in his eyes. After a while, he remembered to ask about his father's condition, so he asked, "I wonder what happened to my father?" ”
Wang Yu replied: "Ling Zun was originally imprisoned in Shengjing by the Tartars, but the Tartars were not at ease, and Ling Zun was sent to the capital. Now my Ming army has conquered the capital, and I have not found Ling Zun. Wu Sangui interrogated the captives and learned from the captives that the Tartar puppet emperor did not kill Ling Zun, and they took the old prince to Mobei. But now I don't know what happened, the Tartars' escape to the North Sea was not easy, and they were chased and killed by the Mongols along the way, and many people died. ”
"I hope my father is safe and sound." Li Yan said.
In fact, Li Di had died on the way to escape, he was not in good health, after Korea was destroyed by the Qing army, Li Li was first sent to Shengjing, and then sent to the capital, and soon had a serious illness. Later, Wu Sangui's army arrived near the capital, and Kangxi took Li Li with him when he ran away. But Li Di, who was weak, couldn't stand the toss at all, and died halfway through.
"Okay, the little prince and the three princesses, please come with this domain, and this domain will send you back to Seoul, North Korea with a battleship." Wang Yu touched his beard and nodded.
Li Zhuo and three Korean princesses boarded the second class battleship Shandong, and the gongs and drums on the pier were noisy and salutes were fired. As the sailing bell rang, the dock workers untied the cables, and the sailors on board put away the cables, pulled up the anchor chains, and hoisted the sails. The massive battleship slowly left the dock, turned its bow, and headed out to sea.
Looking at the Tamna City on the shore that was gradually moving away, Li Zhuo was very excited. He was sent here when he was seven years old and has lived on the island for four years. As a child, Gyeongbokgung still has vivid memories of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, and he can't wait to return to North Korea as soon as possible to see how his Gyeongbokgung Palace is doing.
The huge fleet headed for the central part of the Korean Peninsula, preparing to land directly near Seoul.