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One of Concubine Min's personal female officials whispered outside the bead curtain.

"Let them in."

The voice is soft and melodious.

Soon, Hong Qixun, the envoy of Tieyuan Mansion in military uniform, Li Fanjin, the official Cao, and Shen Xiangxun, the right counselor of the degraded parliamentary government, walked into the Jade Hulou together.

"Greetings to the princess."

Shen Xiangxun, Li Fanjin, and Hong Qixun knelt down respectfully to say hello.

"Get up, give a seat, and watch the tea."

Concubine Min waited for Hong Qixun and the three of them to sit down, and asked through the bead curtain, "How is the situation outside?" ”

"Princess Qiyu, the Oriental brigade is marching to Pyongyang, and a brigade of infantry and a squadron of cavalry are left in the city, strictly blocking the gates of Seoul; Another cavalry squad has just been transferred from outside Gyeongbokgung Palace. ”

Speaking of this, Hong Qixun's face couldn't help but show anger.

Concubine Min thought for a while and said softly: "An infantry brigade and a cavalry squadron, a total of more than 1,400 people, there are only more than 600 Praetorian Guards in our palace, and the courtyard monarch also has a lot of cronies inserted in it; The Zhuangwei battalion is in the hands of Lee Jun-yong, Park Yong-hyo controls the patrol department, and the newly established training team is a big disaster in the future! ”

Shen Xiangxun, Li Fanjin, and Hong Qixun were all ashamed and angry when they heard this, but they had nothing to do.

"Giggles, Qixun, don't be so angry, you have to calm down and wait patiently;"

Concubine Min pursed her lips and giggled, and her laughter was as melodious as a silver bell: "The army of the Qing Dynasty is not so easy to defeat, and even if it is defeated for a while, it really loses Pyongyang, the Qing Dynasty has a population of hundreds of millions, and in the long run, the East will be defeated!" ”

Concubine Min stretched out a small hand, slowly stroked her smooth and tender thighs, leaned towards her cute little head and said:

"When the Qing Kingdom defeats the Oriental army, then it will be time for us to settle accounts with these traitors; You remind Park Dingyang that Li Wanyong these people, don't act rashly during this time, just sit down, pour a cup of hot tea, and take a good look at the fighting method between Li Yuying and Jin Hongji. ”

Listening to Concubine Min's 'giggle' laughter in the bead curtain, Hong Qixun's heart was about to jump out.

The reason why he risked his life to save Princess Min twelve years ago was not because he had a heart that was loyal to the monarch and courageous.

But when the rebel Zheng Yiji grabbed Concubine Min's long hair and dragged her out of the sedan chair, Concubine Min's beautiful face was as white as jade but full of strength, which he would never forget, and he was willing to sacrifice everything and even his life for this woman.

"Fan Jin, how is the formation of the Zhendong Club?"

Concubine Min set the tone of the next period of activities for several henchmen, and changed the topic.

"The princess, the Russian minister, Mr. Weber, the United States, and the German ministers all gladly participated, and Mr. Weber privately stated that Russia is closely monitoring the situation in Korea, and will never allow the East to take the opportunity to annex our country."

A smile appeared on Li Fanjin's face, and he could get the assurance of the Western powers, and Li Fanjin's heart that had been hanging about it these days was much more stable.

"Humph! It's time for them to do something Russia. ”

Concubine Min said coldly: "In order to sign a secret treaty with Russia, I offended Qing Guo and Yuan Shikai thoroughly; If this is not the case, Dayuanjun will not be released from Baoding by the Qing State, and Dayuanjun actually privately proposed to the Qing State to 'abolish Korea as a province, ask to imitate the Yuan Dynasty to set up a province to conquer the east, and send ministers to supervise the country', such a traitorous talk! ”

The room was quiet, and no one dared to speak out.

In the tenth and twelfth years of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the pro-Russian forces in Korea continued to rise, Concubine Min was "disgusted with vassals" and "especially jealous of Chinese intervention", and Gaozong Li Xi also lamented that "it is shameful to submit to Huawei with 3,000 miles of mountains and rivers".

Therefore, without China's permission, the Min Concubine clique, as a vassal state with no diplomatic rights, privately tried twice to sign a 'secret treaty between Korea and Russia' with Tsarist Russia.

As a result, both times were distracted by Yuan Shikai's vigilance.

After the first secret incident, the Qing court was furious and wanted to escort Dayuanjun from Baoding back to Seoul.

As a result, Li Yuying, the king of the courtyard, actually proposed to make Korea a province of China, and said, "A hundred mouths in this country are the same, and if you hear this fate, you will dance with your hands."

In the end, Li Hongzhang felt that Dayuanjun's proposal was 'too strange', so he simply sent Dayuanjun back to Seoul.

After the second secret incident in 1886, Yuan Shikai condemned the king Li Xi, who 'betrayed China and independence', and at the same time secretly discussed with Dayuanjun to depose Gaozong and let Dayuanjun's grandson Li Junrong succeed to the throne.

In the end, Gaozong was so frightened that he cried and cried, and Yuan Shikai never found strong evidence, so the matter of 'deposing' was not over.

"If the 'theory of Korean neutrality' put forward by the German Counsellor Mulin Demu nine years ago had been allowed by the Qing Dynasty to classify our Korea as a neutral zone of 'China, Japan, and Russia,' then there would have been no war disaster today."

Shen Xiangxun, who was demoted to his home position, is not only the aunt and nephew of Dayuanjun's wife, 'Mrs. Lixingfu', but also the in-law of Concubine Min, known as the 'avant-garde of the Min family'.

This time, Daewonjun was regent with the support of Toyo, because he was the loyal dog of Concubine Min, and was demoted by Kim Hongji, the prime minister of the parliamentary government.

"Humph!"

Concubine Min snorted coldly again: "Having lost Vietnam, these Southeast Asian vassal states, and now that North Korea is the last face of the Great Qing Kingdom, how can they give up?" I can understand that the Oriental people are greedy and excessive, and associating with them is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, and the Qing Dynasty likes to point fingers at everything, and it will mention 'abolishing the establishment' at every turn, and only Western Russia, which is both far and close to our Korea, can be regarded as a strong aid; don't be discouraged, this national change is not an opportunity for our Korean nation to get rid of the control of the Qing Dynasty and resist the Oriental! ”

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Kim Hong-ji, the prime minister of the parliamentary government, hurriedly returned home under the pretext of Nozu Michikan leading the Oriental Fifth Division to leave Seoul.

In the closed study, Kim Hongji thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and began to write secret reports to Pyongyang.

Now in the whole of North Korea, everyone says that he Kim Hong-ji is a pro-Japanese faction, but in Kim Hong-ji's view, he is not a faction at all, and everything he does is for the sake of North Korea.

"This time, the Oriental Four Route Army came out together, and the Wonsan Road was even more amazing, wanting to annihilate the Qing army in Pyongyang on the spot; Without the exhaustion of the Qing Dynasty, who can subdue the ambition of the Oriental wolf? Ye Dashuai, Nie Dashuai, don't let us down the Korean vassal state! ”

Jin Hongji muttered to himself, full of melancholy.

At the same time, Kim Yoon-sik, the leader of the 'Major Party' and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Military Aircraft Department, received military information on the Oriental army from Kim Hong-ji, the prime minister of the parliamentary government, and hurriedly returned home, closed the door of his room, and began to write a secret report to the Qing army in Pyongyang:

"There were more than 30,000 people coming by land and water before and after the Japanese soldiers, all of them were towards Pyongyang, and there were 10,000 strange soldiers, after surrounding Pyongyang from Wonsan, they went straight out of Uiju as a joint attack plan, and claimed that they would cross the Yalu River and go straight to Shenyang."

After writing this, Kim Yun-sik put down the brush, looked to the north, and said affectionately:

"The suzerain, this time the Japanese are powerful and menacing; Although you were completely defeated in Asan, it was only because there were many Japanese soldiers at that time, so don't let us down the Korean vassal state again this time, please! ”

After speaking, Kim Yun-sik looked solemnly in the direction of Pyongyang and bowed deeply.

It's been a long time!