"Zhang Rui, you are too reckless this time, we could have continued to do business with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and then accumulated a lot of wealth, but now after you make such a fuss, we have completely torn our faces with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, let alone doing business in the future, I am afraid that we may be retaliated by the Ming Dynasty!" In a luxurious mansion in Chungcheong Port in North Korea, the majestic Qi Yanming roared angrily at the pale Zhang Rui.

"Brother Qi, I did a little reckless this time, but you also know my affairs, after seeing my wife that day, I really couldn't restrain myself, and I was confused for a while before I ordered someone to attack the fleet of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, wanting to keep her, if possible, I also wanted Zhou Zhong to hand over my daughter, but I didn't expect the fleet of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce to be so strong, and our hundreds of ships failed to keep each other." Although Zhang Rui was apologizing, his face was still calm.

After a chance encounter at sea, Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui escaped from the fleet when they arrived in Korea, and then stayed in Chungcheong Port for a while, but they soon discovered that Chungcheong Port was a very good place, not only was there money and people here, but also the president of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, Kim Mun-hyun, had a deep relationship with the king of Korea.

Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui are both dragons and phoenixes among people, and they will not be willing to be ordinary anywhere, especially after seeing the special status of Chungcheong Port, so the two took the initiative to join the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, and then desperately climbed up, and soon won Kim Wenxian's appreciation with their own abilities, and both of them changed their names and declared themselves to be Koreans, coupled with Jin Wenxian's promotion, they soon became the top figures in the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, especially Zhang Rui also looted a lot of beauties to give to the Korean king Li Long. As a result, Kim Wenxian quickly set aside and got in touch with Li Long.

A few months ago. Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui felt that the time was finally ripe. And Jin Wenxian also seemed to feel that the strength of the two of them was growing too fast, so he wanted to slowly weaken the influence of the two on the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, but before Jin Wenxian could make a move, Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui took the initiative and led their subordinates to kill Jin Wenxian and several other leaders of the Chamber of Commerce in one fell swoop, thus completely controlling the entire Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce.

Although Jin Wenxian was Li Long's person, Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming immediately sent Li Long a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry after killing Jin Wenxian. and a lot of beauties, and took the initiative to increase the wealth handed over by the Chamber of Commerce every year by one percent, which made Li Long very happy, anyway, in his opinion, the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce is just a tool to make money for his own squandering, as for who manages this tool, he doesn't care at all, as long as he can provide enough money, so he didn't pursue Jin Wenxian's death, but acquiesced in Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui's approach.

Qi Yanming was a martial artist who was in charge of the fleet and armed forces of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce. Zhang Rui used to be a scholar, and he was the governor of Dongchang. He is very good at management, so he took over the business and finance of the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, and the two of them also cooperated very tacitly.

In addition, Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming also saw the chaos in Korea, especially Li Long's brutal elimination of the domestic scholar forces, as well as the rebellion of the Japanese and Jurchens in the north and south, coupled with Li Long's brutal policy in Korea, which made the whole of Korea tremble under Li Long's tyranny, and the people were not able to survive, and a disaster of national destruction was already brewing in North Korea.

Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui see the situation in North Korea very clearly, but the two of them have no intention of changing, and even hope that North Korea will become as chaotic as possible, because only when there is chaos can they have a chance to come out, for example, Zhang Rui's life has gone through several ups and downs, and his temperament is more extreme, he can't wait for the whole world to be chaotic now, not to mention Qi Yanming, he originally started with rebellion, if the world is not chaotic, what will he do to rebel.

Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui both knew that North Korea was going to be chaotic, but they both knew it. Zhang Rui worked hard to run the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, desperately accumulating wealth, using this wealth to buy weapons and food to accumulate, Qi Yanming began to recruit people to practice, especially those Korean generals who fled abroad due to the involvement of the Shi clan, and it was the focus of his recruitment, as a result, in just a few months, he recruited more than 3,000 people, fortunately, these people have been practicing in the valley next to Chungcheong Port, and did not participate in the previous siege of Bai Junwan's fleet, otherwise they may not be able to go back.

Originally, the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce was running smoothly under the management of Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming, and it was also very hidden when getting rid of Jin Wenxian, and even the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce did not notice that the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce had been replaced, but unfortunately when Zhang Rui saw Bai Junwan on the ship that day, he was inexplicably excited for a while, and finally ordered people to besiege the fleet of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, wanting to snatch Bai Junwan over, which caused a big disaster.

Qi Yanming heard Zhang Rui admit that he had done wrong, although he didn't admit his mistake on his face, he knew that Zhang Rui was originally an arrogant character, and it was very rare to make him admit his mistake, so it was not good to blame him anymore.

"Brother Zhang, although we have accumulated some food and weapons now, and the personnel have almost been trained, but the DPRK is not completely chaotic, and we don't dare to make any big moves, but now that we have a falling out with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, with a careful temperament, I am afraid that we will immediately ask Li Long for the guilt, and then Li Long will blame him, how should we deal with it?" Qi Yanming sat down and poured a big sip of tea and asked, Zhang Rui is resourceful, so when he encounters this kind of problem, Qi Yanming always asks him to make a decision.

"Brother Qi you think too much, it is really an unfortunate thing that there is a monarch like Li Long in North Korea, although the Ming Dynasty helped him pacify the chaos of the Japanese people in the south and the Jurchens in the north, but his persecution of the Shi clan in the country has reached its peak, and countless people related to the Shi clan have been killed, plus he is lustful and excessive, causing the whole North Korea to be angry and resentful, it can be said that now North Korea is on the verge of riot, and now as long as someone rises up, other places will definitely respond, so in my opinion, now is the time!" When Zhang Rui said the end, a strange flush also appeared on his face, as if he was very excited when he thought of the scene of North Korea's bloodshed.

"Now?" Qi Yanming was startled when he heard Zhang Rui's words, and said a little unconfidently, "We have only been preparing for a few months, and the soldiers, weapons, food and grass have just been prepared, if we rebel now, I am afraid that we will be exterminated immediately by the North Korean officers and soldiers, right?" ”

"Hehe, Brother Qi, you have been staying in the valley to train during this time, but you don't know much about the situation outside, not to mention anything else, now we are thirty miles northeast of Zhongqing Port, there was originally a prosperous town, but Li Long in order to build a new palace, actually doubled the original tax, so that not only the farmers can't afford it, but even the merchants in the town can't afford it, now most of the shops in that town have been closed, there are few pedestrians on the streets, and even most of the farmers around the town have fled. Quite a few people came to the port to eat and eat. ”

Zhang Rui paused when he said this, and then said: "In addition, the south and north of Korea have been plagued by the Japanese and Jurchens too much, and now there is no one for hundreds of miles, and there are bandits everywhere, in order to maintain law and order there, North Korea has to send the master's troops there, and now the entire North Korea is empty of troops, as long as we can organize a huge number of troops in a short period of time, then Li Long is not our opponent at all!" ”

After listening to Zhang Rui's analysis, Qi Yanming also increased his confidence, and immediately slapped his thigh and said: "I see, it seems that this Li Long is even more mediocre than Zhengde, North Korea is really unlucky to meet such a monarch, but for our brothers, it can't be better, I'm going to organize the army, you prepare weapons and food and grass, and we will raise the flag to rebel when the time comes!" ”

Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui saw the opportunity of the civil strife in Korea to prepare for rebellion, Zhou Chong, who was far away in Shuangyu Port, did not know about this, and did not know that the change in the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce was caused by Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui, the two old enemies, if he knew, I am afraid that he would immediately send troops to encircle and suppress the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, even if it was because of this, he would not hesitate to make enemies with North Korea, after all, if these two people really grew up, the threat to himself would be too great.

In the winter of the 11th year of Jeongdeok, there was a rebellion in Chungcheong Port, the westernmost part of Chungcheongbuk-do, and the rebels with the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce as the main backbone were huge, and they captured several towns in just a few days, and they played the slogan of "kill the faint king, all the fields", and attracted countless bankrupt Korean poor people along the way to join, and by the time the army called the Chungcheong Army arrived in Cheongju, the entire army had reached 100,000 people, and the Korean troops along the way did not dare to fight with them at all.

Cheongju is the seat of Chungcheongbuk-do, and it is also the most important city in the whole province, so the officials here naturally did not dare to flee, so they could only desperately organize the army to prepare to defend the city, but unfortunately on the second night when the Chungcheong army arrived at Cheongju City, a part of the poor people in Cheongju City rioted, these rebel troops not only rushed into the rich area of the city to smash, but also opened the city gate, as a result, the Chungcheong army rushed into the city very smoothly, and quickly controlled Cheongju City with the assistance of the rebellious people, so that Cheongju fell.

After Qi Yanming and Zhang Rui conquered Qingzhou City, they decided to take a break, after all, they had attracted 100,000 people to join their army at once, and the good and bad among these people were uneven, and they had to be rearranged to improve their combat effectiveness.

However, although the offensive of the Chungcheong Army stopped, Korea did not calm down, and with the example of the Chungcheong Army, the Shi clans who had been forced to the edge of the cliff by Li Long finally couldn't bear it anymore, and finally united to form a rebellion of the Shi army. In addition, there were the poor people who could not survive in all parts of Korea, and they also rebelled under their banner, and for a time the whole of Korea was in flames, and almost everywhere fell into rebellion. (To be continued......)