"Korean chaos!" Zhou Chong's expression when he received the news was very strange, as if he was a little surprised, and it seemed that he expected it, which made Bai Junwan, who came to report the news, a little incomprehensible.

In fact, the current chaos in North Korea was caused by Zhou Chong, who knew that Li Long was a rare tyrant in the history of North Korea, but he also secretly reported through Kim Wenxian, which led to the failure of the coup d'état launched by Yoo Soon-jeong and others, and also attracted Li Long's crazy revenge, which also made North Korea lose the last chance to set things right.

When Zhou Chong told Kim Wenxian the names of the North Korean ministers who participated in the coup, he had already foreseen the future of North Korea, after all, there was a brutal monarch like Li Long, and North Korea was also facing the same internal and external difficulties as the Ming Dynasty at this time.

It's just that what Zhou Chong didn't expect was that the war in North Korea came so quickly, and it was caused by the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce first, which made him really a little surprised, and he was also a little puzzled, he couldn't figure out why the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce suddenly attacked his fleet before, even if the other party wanted to rebel, but there was no need to offend himself, a Ming official, not to mention that they could get the master's money from their dealings with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce?

Zhou Chong couldn't figure it out about the above matter, and Bai Junwan couldn't figure it out either, and now that the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce has rebelled, and now it has captured Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province and has become the strongest of the Korean rebels. So this matter has temporarily become a mystery in Zhou Chong and Bai Junwan's hearts.

Zhou Zhong guessed in Shuangyu Port. The situation in North Korea is becoming more and more chaotic. In addition to the two provinces in Gyeonggi, the other 13 provinces all had rebellions, although only the government office of Chungcheongbuk-do Province was captured by the rebels, and the scale of the rebellion in the other provinces was not yet uncontrollable, but this has made the Korean court a mess, and there is no good counterinsurgency plan at all, and Li Long is also furious about this, killing more than a dozen palace maids around him in a row. It didn't make his anger come down.

No matter how angry Li Long is, there is no way to solve the current predicament of North Korea, and this time it is much more dangerous than the previous invasion of the Jurchens and the Japanese people, after all, the Jurchens and the Japanese are both foreign enemies, and they have no strength to destroy North Korea at all, and in the end, at most, they will withdraw by extorting some property and food, but now North Korea is a civil strife, and if it is not good, it will change the dynasty, and their Li family won the throne of Korea by force.

Unable to resolve the rebellion at home on his own, Li Long and the Korean ministers quickly thought of the Ming Dynasty. Last time, they relied on the help of the Ming Dynasty to get the Jurchens to withdraw from the army, and even wiped out the Japanese people. So now, when they encounter a rebellion in the country, they once again ask Da Ming for help through messengers.

However, for North Korea's request for help, Zhengde and the ministers of the cabinet are surprisingly unanimous, that is, the Ming Dynasty does not interfere in the internal affairs of the subject country, so the Ming Dynasty will not send troops to help in this civil strife in North Korea.

In fact, for this result, the Korean envoy also expected, after all, this time is different from the last time, the last time was the invasion of foreign enemies such as the Jurchens and the Japanese people, as the suzerain, the Ming has a reason to protect the subject country, so it is normal to send troops, but this time it is the Korean civil strife, according to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the subject country, this kind of civil strife has never interfered, at most, the civil strife will end in the future, the new ruler will once again call the Ming Dynasty, and then the Ming Dynasty will give him a title, the subject country is still the subject country, and it has no impact on the Ming Dynasty, Therefore, there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to send troops at all.

However, before the envoy came to Daming this time, he was threatened by Li Long, so that he had to persuade Daming to send troops, otherwise he would not have to come back! As a result, this envoy also had an extra heart, and when he came to Daming, he simply brought his family out, and this time he didn't plan to go back to Daming, so after he saw that Daming was unwilling to send troops, he simply stayed in Daming and didn't leave, it seems that he planned to live in Daming for a long time.

There is no hope for the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty, Li Long can only desperately organize the army to extinguish the rebels, but now North Korea is like a rag full of loopholes, blocking this side, and that side is broken again, and it is impossible to block it at all, and there is even a tendency to plug the loopholes more and more, for example, the officers and soldiers of North Korea have been defeated by the rebels several times, which makes the rebels in the thirteen roads more and more powerful, and they can already compete with the North Korean government head-on.

In this critical period, Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui, who were the first to provoke the rebellion, finally finished recuperating and once again showed their fangs to North Korea, and within a few days, they completely swept out the North Korean officers and soldiers from Chungcheongbuk-do, and even captured a part of Chungcheongnam-do, and based on this, they began to recruit the rebels of Chungcheongnam-do, and as a result, there were countless responders for a time, and countless rebels could be seen marching towards Chungcheongbuk-do every day, which made Qi Yanming's power snowballing bigger and bigger. In particular, after several frontal defeats of Korean officers and soldiers, the Chungcheong Army was greatly boosted and became recognized as the strongest part of the Korean rebels.

For the civil strife in North Korea, since the Ming official has made up his mind not to interfere, Zhou Chong, as the governor of the four seas, naturally does not dare to violate the ban of North Korea to send troops to North Korea, and the chaos in North Korea was originally provoked by him, so now he is even more happy to see it, anyway, the North Koreans are not a good thing, it is better to die, and then they will occupy North Korea, and it will be a good place to immigrate in the future.

However, although the power of the Governor's Palace cannot be used, but the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is his private power, this force can be used without taboos, don't look at the current Korean war, the past maritime trade has been greatly affected, but the more this time, the more good opportunities to make a fortune, after all, war money is the best money in the world, and the United States in later generations will become the world's boss by making war money, so he will not let go of such a good opportunity.

Food, weapons, cloth, and so on, all of these materials are the most urgently needed goods in North Korea, and they do not bargain, no matter how many goods are shipped to North Korea, they will all be swallowed by them, as for the payment of goods, it may be robbed money and property, or it may be ginseng and other special products, and it may even be directly exchanged with young North Korean women, anyway, as long as the North Koreans can take out the things, all can be used in exchange for the goods of the Ming Dynasty.

For the war wealth of the Koreans, Zhou Zhong does not have the slightest psychological burden, the grain must be controlled, and it must not be sold too much, first, the food of the Ming Dynasty is not enough to eat, and second, if the Koreans are full, then what kind of war will they fight?

As for the weapons, there should also be restrictions, Zhou Chong took advantage of the convenience of being the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and bought many dilapidated weapons that had retired from the army at a low price from Zhengde, although these weapons were already in tatters, but as long as they were repaired, they looked good on the surface, anyway, the rebels in North Korea were extremely short of weapons, and a broken knife was better than them holding a wooden stick, but Zhou Chong would not sell the real weapon to North Korea, after all, he didn't want to cultivate a group of strong enemies for himself.

Food and weapons should be controlled, but other supplies are not needed, as long as the North Koreans pay the starting price, then Zhou Zhong will transport the things over. Originally, Zhou Chong also wanted to use the power of the Chamber of Commerce to wipe out the sea fleet of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, but the people of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce were very clever, and immediately abandoned the sea power after the rebellion.

In addition, in addition to commerce, Zhouzhong's Sihai Governor's Mansion is not without a little action, such as Chang Hyo occupies Seongsanpo on Jeju Island, this Korean civil strife also involved Jeju Island, the North Koreans on the island also launched a rebellion, and soon the Korean officers and soldiers stationed on the island were defeated, and the people on the island were also harmed by the rebels, and in the end, Chang Xiao took his sailors to fight in person, which defeated the rebels and took over the entire Jeju Island by the way. In addition, some islands on the western coast of Korea were also taken over by Chang Hyo's sailors.

Of course, these actions are very hidden, and Zhengde was also informed in advance, otherwise if the unauthorized use of troops attracts Zhengde's suspicion, even if they are brothers, I am afraid it will bring big trouble to Zhou Chong, so inform it in advance, with Zhengde's temper will naturally not be blocked, and even feel very interesting.

However, when Zhou Da made a fortune in North Korea, he didn't forget to inquire about the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, after all, the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce attacked the fleet of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce for no reason, and this matter has been spread, and it has dealt some blows to the prestige of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, so in order to avenge the dead, and also to find out the reason for the whole thing, so Zhou Chong has been paying attention to the Chungcheong Army that evolved from the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce.

During this period of time, under the leadership of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the Ming merchants have been trading with all the forces in North Korea, but there is only one force but no one dares to trade with them, this force is the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, after all, whether it is public or private, Zhou Zhong is the overlord of the Ming coast, the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce offended him, naturally no one dared to trade with them at the risk of offending Zhou Chong.

However, on the surface, although no one trades with the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, under the temptation of interests, there are still many people who dare to secretly trade with the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, and these Zhou Zhong also know very well, and he is not angry at all, because these traders are actually instructed by him, and the purpose is to find out the true identity of the two leaders of the Chungcheong Army through transactions. After a period of trading, those people finally gained the trust of the Chungcheong army, and a few days later there was a very large amount of grain to be traded, and then the two leaders of the other side had to go to at least one, and this was a trap arranged by Zhou. (To be continued......)