The palace complex of Changdeokgung Palace is not very large, but it is better than the beautiful scenery, with mountains, rivers and forests, and there are pavilions and pavilions dotted around the mountains and rivers, which can be regarded as a feng shui treasure in the east of Seoul. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the king of Joseon, Yi Liang, and the prince of Joseon, Yi Jun, were wearing black and red crowns, sitting in the main hall of the Injeongjeong Hall of Changdeok Palace, patiently waiting for the arrival of the Great Envoy.

Changdeokgung Palace was originally a separate palace of the Joseon royal family in the eastern suburbs of Seoul, and it was a place for the Joseon lord to come out from time to time to rest, and its political nature and status are somewhat similar to the leopard house built outside the Forbidden City during the period of Emperor Jeongdeok, and the Xiyuan where Emperor Jiajing often lived out of the palace during the period of Emperor Jiajing.

Changdeokgung Palace's status naturally cannot be compared with Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, because Gyeongbokgung Palace is the largest palace complex built since the relocation of the capital to Seoul after the founding of the Joseon family, and it has always been the core of the Joseon royal power before the time of Lee Kuo's grandfather, the so-called King Seonjo of North Korea.

However, in the twentieth year of Wanli, Japan invaded Korea, and the so-called King Seonjo of Korea abandoned Seoul and fled all the way west, all the way to the Sino-Korean border, and the Japanese soon occupied most of Korea, including the national capital Seoul, and the Japanese first looted the huge and magnificent Gyeongbokgung Palace, and then burned it.

Although Gyeongbokgung Palace was not completely burned down, eight years later, after the Ming army defeated the Japanese and restored Korea, Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul was no longer inhabitable.

During the same period, Changdeokgung Palace, including the eastern suburbs of Seoul, was also severely damaged by the Japanese army, and after King Seonjo of Korea returned to Seoul, he found that there was no place to live, so he renamed a clan mansion that had suffered relatively little damage at that time to Gyeongungung Palace, and since then it has been his own palace.

Due to the large scale of Gyeongbokgung Palace, the damage was also very serious, and it was difficult to restore it, so King Seonjo of Joseon and Gwanghaejun Yi Hun, who later inherited the throne of Seonjo, took Changdeokgung Palace as the first goal to restore and rebuild, and then spent more than ten years to restore Changdeokgung Palace.

However, before Gwanghaejun could stay in Changdeokgung Palace, Gwanghaejun Li Hui's nephew Ayayangjun Yi Liang, who is now the king of Joseon, launched a coup d'état, united a group of clan children and civil and military generals who supported him, and rushed into the Jingyun Palace, which was renamed Gyeongun Palace by Gwanghaejun, and arrested Gwanghaejun Li Hui and his son and imprisoned them, and then imprisoned them in Ganghwa Island, while Li Liang became the king.

After becoming the king, Changdeokgung Palace was the main palace of the royal family, and from then on, Changdeokgung Palace replaced Gyeongbokgung Palace, and for the next 260 years, it was the seat of the Joseon royal palace until the 70s of the 19th century, after Gyeongbokgung Palace was rebuilt, and the center of power of the Joseon royal family was transferred back to Gyeongbokgung Palace.

But that's all for later.

At noon on February 24 in the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Joseon, who had been recognized and canonized by the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty, brought his son Li Wei and many relatives and officials to gather in the Injeong Hall of Changdeokgong Palace to wait for the angel to come.

At this time, Li Liang already knew the requirements of the Ming Emperor, and he had also carefully read the treaty between the two countries brought back by Yin Xuan and others, so his mood at this moment was extremely complicated and indescribable.

On the issue of dealing with the Ming Dynasty, he was both grateful, fearful, and resentful at the same time.

The reason for the gratitude goes without saying, because the Li dynasty can still be passed down today, and it is all up to the Wanli Emperor to send troops to fight the Japanese and drive the Japanese out of Korea.

This point, at this time, North Korea, from the old clan to the hundred officials of Shilin, that is to say, the top and bottom are all agreed.

This is also an important reason why North Korea is so close to the Ming Dynasty in this era and opposes Jianyu.

The reason for the fear is also very simple. The Ming Dynasty is too big, and the DPRK is too small.

Although since the end of the Wanli Emperor, the Ming Dynasty has been declining, losing troops and losing troops in the war with the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, and the lost land is about to catch up with the size of Korea, but compared with the weak North Korea, the Ming Dynasty still has the ability to annex Korea at any time.

As for resentment, it is because he has not been in the right position and has always been coldly treated by the emperors and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Yi Liang came to power by a coup d'état, and his father, Dingyuanjun Yi Xuan, was the younger brother of the previous Joseon king, Yi Hui.

According to common sense, it is impossible for Li Liang to inherit the throne, and his father Li Liang certainly has no chance.

But having said that, it could not stop the then Korean king Li Hui from committing his own sin and had to die by himself.

Li Hui and Li Liang's father, Li Xuan, were both concubines of King Seonjo of Joseon, and they had no chance of inheriting the throne, but the Japanese invasion of Korea in the twentieth year of Wanli made all this possible.

At that time, the Korean King of Seonjo had no sons-in-law, only a bunch of sons, among which the eldest was canonized as a prince by the Ming Dynasty, but was captured during the invasion of the Japanese and released back a few years later.

Li Hui was the second in line, but when the Seonjo king of Joseon fled from Seoul, he was authorized to stay in Seoul and gather troops to fight against the Japanese invaders.

As the second eldest among the concubines, Li Hui was able to grasp the military power of North Korea.

A few years later, the Japanese were driven out of the Korean Peninsula by the Ming army, and Li Hao returned to Seoul.

At this time, he felt that Li Hui had made a contribution to staying in Seoul at a critical moment, and the son he had previously established had been captured by the Japanese, so he was not suitable to be the son again, so he played the Ming court and asked to change Li Hui as the son.

As a result, this recital was categorically rejected by the Ming court.

Because at that time, above the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor and the courtiers were fighting over the matter of establishing the crown prince.

It was the basic consensus of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

At that time, the empress of the Wanli Emperor on the side of the Ming Dynasty did not give birth to a son, and Zhu Changluo occupied the position of the eldest son.

At that time, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, did not have a son-in-law, and his eldest son had been canonized as the son of the Korean state by the Ming Dynasty.

If North Korea can change it, then can the Ming side also change it?

Therefore, the court officials of the Ming Dynasty did not consider the request of Joseon at all.

As a result, this Guanghai Jun Li Hui did not successfully become the prince of Joseon, and at the same time, he was full of resentment towards the Ming Dynasty.

Li Hui, Guanghaijun, who was full of resentment towards Daming, had no way to take Daming for a while, but he had military power in his hands, so he had tricks to deal with his brothers and younger brothers.

In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, the eldest concubine of the Korean king Li Hao, at the "advanced age" of more than forty years old, unexpectedly gave birth to a son to him.

Although this son was born not long ago, he was the youngest of his sons, but he was a righteous son-in-law.

At this moment, the small court of North Korea suddenly became a pot of porridge, and soon split into several factions around the question of whether to establish a successor or a chief.

At the same time, Li Hao, who has a son-in-law, also wavered in his support for Li Hui, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

At this time, Li Hui, who had already been named Guanghaijun, felt that he could not wait any longer.

So, in the winter of the 36th year of Wanli, many strange things happened one after another in the Jingyun Palace in Seoul, North Korea.

First of all, the king of North Korea, Li Hao, suddenly fell ill and died, and Li Hui, who was already in power at this time, reported his funeral to the Ming court while appointing himself the right to handle Korean state affairs.

Then, before Daming could figure out what was going on, the eldest son and sister-in-law of the Korean king Li Hao died of a violent illness in Jingyun Palace.

At this time, Li Hao's eldest son and sister-in-law were gone, and Li Hui, the second son, was embraced as the king of Joseon.

However, he, the king of Joseon, came from an improper way and was not canonized and recognized by the Ming court, so in the first ten years after his accession to the throne, he ruled Korea in the name of powering Korean state affairs.

Therefore, his resentment against the Ming court was suppressed and accumulated for a whole decade.