In the alliance of scholars who control the Gyeongsang army, there are mainly four warrior clans, namely Zheng, Cui, Jin, and Zhao, these four warrior clans have the greatest influence in the clan alliance, and the number and branch are also the largest, and each has a considerable number of supporters, and their strength is comparable, and even to some extent, the clan alliance is the alliance of their four major warrior clans.

As early as when Zhou Zhong had not yet selected the Heian Army as the target of support, he had already sent someone to investigate the entire Shi Alliance clearly, and he also knew very well about the four major Shi clans of Zheng, Cui, Jin, and Zhao, so when he rushed to Seoul in North Korea, he was naturally not surprised to see that the Shi Alliance sent four representatives at once.

In Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, Zhou Chong met with the representatives sent by the Shi Alliance to negotiate in the front hall, before Li Long committed suicide, he set fire to some palaces in Gyeongbokgung Palace, but the front hall is still well preserved, and now it has become the office of Liu Tao and Li Anliang and others, and Zhou Chong and the representatives of the Shi Alliance are also negotiating here.

"The people of the lower country, meet the Governor!" After the four envoys of the Shi Alliance entered the main hall, they immediately bowed to Zhou Chong and saluted, although they are also considered to be a strong party, but after all, they do not have any official status, and Daming is the suzerainty of North Korea, and now North Korea is under Zhou Chong's control, so they naturally dare not dare to hold it up, and they are all very humble.

"Hehe, no need to be polite, please take a seat!" Zhou Chong, who was sitting on the main seat, said with a smile, he shouldn't have come forward, although everyone in North Korea knew that the Ping An Army was supported by the Ming Dynasty, but no one had evidence of it. But now Zhou Zhong appeared in Seoul. It's just a no-brainer.

However, Zhou Zhong obviously didn't have any embarrassment. After entering Seoul and meeting the envoy of the Shi Alliance, he always regarded himself as the master of this place, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he was behind the support of the Heian Army. His behavior made the four messengers look at it, and they were still a little puzzled at first, but when they calmed down and thought about it seriously, they suddenly thought of a terrible thing, and it was precisely when they thought of this, when they saw Zhou Chong. All of them seemed very cautious.

Zhou Zhong warmly beckoned the four envoys down and sat down, and then ordered someone to serve tea, and then began to ask about the current situation in North Korea, although he knew the situation in North Korea better than anyone else, but now he wanted to hear the views of these North Korean scholars, after all, in the whole of North Korea, only these scholars have the concept of a country and a nation.

The four envoys did not dare to be disrespectful to Zhou Chong's knowingly questioned, and they all honestly told their views on the country at the moment, and also deliberately emphasized that North Korea was after this turmoil. The people in the country are already struggling to make a living, so they urgently need to recuperate. I can't afford any war.

After talking about the current situation in Korea, the representative of the Zheng family dared to ask Zhou Chong: "Your Excellency Governor, we have expressed our willingness to surrender to the Heian Army before, but at the time of surrender, we hope that the Heian Army can meet some of our small conditions, and now the other conditions are easy to say, except for the request to guarantee the rights of our Shi clan and recruit the Shi clan as officials, I don't know what the Governor thinks about this matter?" ”

Hearing the other party's question, Zhou Zhong raised his head and glanced at the other party, and smiled meaningfully: "Actually, these requests you have made are nothing in the eyes of this governor, and I can even promise you now, the reason why I came to North Korea in person this time and summoned you is for another matter." ”

When the four envoys heard Zhou Chong's words, they all glanced at each other thoughtfully, they had already sensed something from Zhou Chong's arrangement before, and now they heard that Zhou Chong had summoned them for another matter, which confirmed their guess, but for them, it was not a good thing.

"I wonder why the Governor summoned us?" Although they knew that what Zhou Chong said was not a good thing, these four envoys could only ask hard, because they knew that Zhou Chong had already proposed it himself, so he would definitely not give up easily, so they might as well listen to the other party's specific plans.

Zhou Zhong was waiting for the other party's words, only to see him take a sip of tea slowly, and suddenly smiled and said: "This matter should not be said by me, but by Li Anliang, the leader of the Ping An Army, come here, please Li Anliang come in!" ”

As soon as Zhou Chong's words fell, Li Anliang, who had already prepared for the ceremony, immediately walked in from the palace gate, only to see that he first saluted Zhou Chong, and then straightened up and looked at the four envoys, and said: "Everyone, for your Gyeongsang Army, the Governor General and our Heian Army have decided to agree to accept your surrender, but now after the disaster of Li Long in Korea, coupled with the rebels in the past, the people in Korea have long been struggling to make a living, and even only rely on our own strength in North Korea. It is completely impossible for the people to survive, so our Heian Army has decided to submit a request to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! ”

When Li Anliang said the word "attached", the four envoys of the scholar clan were all shocked, they had already felt something from Zhou Chong's various actions, but now they heard Li Anliang directly say that he wanted to let the DPRK attach the Ming Dynasty, which made them still a little unacceptable.

The reason why Zhou Zhong personally came to see the envoys of these Shi clan alliances was to force them to agree to the annexation of Korea, after all, in the whole of Korea, there are only two kinds of people who have a sense of state and nation, and can benefit from the rule of Korea, the first is the royal family and nobles of Li Longna, and the second is the scholar, and the Shi Alliance is the core force of it, and only these two people will oppose the annexation of Korea to the Ming Dynasty, after all, this is related to their vital interests, as for those ordinary Korean people, Now they can't even eat, they don't have time to care about this kind of thing, and even as long as Daming gives them a bite to eat, they will cheer to join Daming.

Li Long and those royal nobles have been slaughtered by the rebel army after the fall of Seoul, and the Ping'an Army that replaced them is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, so the new nobles have not yet been formed, it can be said that this class has died out, then the only people left are scholars, these people have formed their own national and national consciousness, and they are the winners of ruling Korea, so they are the biggest obstacle to Zhouzhong's merger with Korea.

Don't underestimate these scholars, they have great prestige among the poor people of North Korea, and they also control most of the actual government affairs of North Korea, before Li Long was dissatisfied with these scholars to limit their power, so they wantonly killed the scholars, but even so, he didn't dare to really send an army to exterminate the foundation of the scholars, after all, he also knew that if there were no these scholars, the whole Korea would be in chaos immediately.

It was precisely because he was worried that these Korean scholars would oppose his merger with Korea, so Zhou Zhong rushed to Korea from Weihaiwei and personally met with these envoys, in order to let these Korean scholars understand that he had made up his mind to annex Korea.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chong stared aggressively at the four envoys in front of him, as long as they said they disagreed, then he would not force it, but he would order the Heian Army to send troops to destroy the Qingshang Army, and then kill all the scholars, as for the chaos in Korea, then don't blame Zhou Zhongzhong for being ruthless, he can only suppress it with strong means, and wait until no one objects.

In the face of Zhou Chong's murderous gaze, the four envoys of the scholar clan also felt an unprecedented pressure, and now they were all sweating profusely, and they also understood that if they said that they did not agree to the annex today, then Zhou Chong would probably be angry and raise troops, and then not only would they die, but the entire North Korea would probably become chaotic again, and even countless people would die because of this.

"Total ...... Lord Governor, this matter is too important for the four of us to decide, I wonder if the Governor can give us a little time, let us go back and gather all the nobles, and then discuss a result? One of the messengers surnamed Cui wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said in a trembling voice.

"Hehe, don't think that I don't know the details of the four of you, the four families of Zheng, Cui, Jin, and Zhao are the most powerful families in the Shi clan, and the four of you, it is the patriarch of these four families, who have enough decision-making power in the Shi Alliance, so you don't have to discuss with anyone at all!"

When Zhou Zhong said this, his face changed suddenly, and he said in a stern voice: "Now I give you a day, everyone will stay in this hall and consider whether to agree with the matter of Korean annexation, if not, the Heian Army has now assembled along the two provinces of Gyeongsang and Jeolla, and can enter the territory of the Shi Alliance at any time, and the order I gave them is that as long as there is a war, all the Shi clans will be killed!" ”

"Boom~" As soon as Zhou Chong's words fell, the four envoys present all stood up, they didn't expect Zhou Chong to use such a tough means to force them to agree to the request of the Ming Dynasty to be attached to North Korea.

"Your Excellency Governor, you can't do this, His Majesty the Great Ming Taizu has already listed us as a non-conscripted country, but now you want to kill all our Korean scholars, which is against the ancestral teachings of the Great Ming Taizu!" The patriarch of the Zhao clan pointed at Zhou Chongdao with an angry face, he had been an envoy to the Ming Dynasty before, and he also knew the policies of the Ming Dynasty very well, so he would use the ancestral training of the Ming Taizu to oppress people.

However, when Zhou Zhong heard this, he bared his teeth and asked: "The Heian Army is obviously your Korean's own army, and now there is civil strife in your Korea, and as a result, your Qingshang Army and the Ping'an Army have a war, and the result of the death and annihilation of the clan in the end has nothing to do with our Ming Dynasty?" (To be continued......)