"I hope that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire will save hundreds of millions of people from the destruction of the creatures in the land of submission. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" A well-dressed official, standing on the podium, read a lengthy document in front of a few lonely reporters.

Next to him, standing was an old officer in a Japanese military uniform, coughing twice from time to time, looking unhealthy.

It's just that although he wears a Japanese military uniform, he does not have the rank epaulette of the Japanese army on his shoulders, which shows that his identity is a general of the local army on the Korean Peninsula.

Supporting this old general were two middle-aged generals of the Korean Native Army, who were holding a surrender ceremony for the Ming Empire at this moment in Daejeon.

Yes, the native army of the Korean Peninsula announced that it would secede from the Japanese Empire, surrender its weapons to the Ming Empire, and admit defeat and surrender.

"We will lay down our arms, renounce the right to resist, and hope that the monarch of the Ming Empire, His Majesty the Merciful Great Emperor, will be able to order the cessation of all hostilities on the Korean Peninsula and allow the troops who have laid down their arms to return home and reunite with their families."

After reading this surrender document of thousands of words, Lee Seung-ha, who represented the Lee royal family on the Korean Peninsula, dropped the document and walked off the podium with squinted eyes.

For the past few years, his father had been a puppet used by Japan to play the affinity card in Korea, and now that his father had been captured in Japan, he became a member of the royal family left on the Korean Peninsula.

Originally, he could go to Japan with his father, but in line with the principle that eggs cannot be put in one basket, the followers of the Korean royal family finally resorted to means and left Lee Seung-ha on the Korean Peninsula.

As a result, His Majesty the Crown Prince, who seems to be very lucky, is also a puppet who can no longer be a puppet. The first thing he did was to surrender to the troops of the Ming Empire on behalf of the local military forces of Korea.

Originally, he was unwilling to hand over his family's great country, although this so-called great country was first a subject country of the Ming Empire, and then he bowed down to Nurhachi, and then was occupied and conquered by the Ming Empire, and later became a subsidiary kingdom of Japan.

The modern history of the entire Joseon Dynasty is simply a modern history of recognizing one's father everywhere, and it is naturally impossible for the royal family of such a country to stand on its own.

Not only did the surrounding powers not allow this kind of thing to happen, but his subordinates, who originally ostensibly supported him, and the retainers and generals who originally supported him on the surface, would not agree to him "die" like this.

Therefore, the first thing Li Chenghe did after coming to power was not to declare his legal inheritance of the Korean Peninsula, but to beg for surrender to the Ming Empire on behalf of a large group of peasants.

On 3 February, the retreating Japanese troops began to attack the Korean native soldiers they encountered, and the Korean native soldiers were defeated, and the entire southern part of Korea was thrown into chaos.

Wherever the army of the Ming Empire passed, they cleared the chaos and stabilized law and order, and captured Tianan, Qingzhou, Yeongju, Andong, Daejeon and other areas like a broken bamboo.

The Japanese army was defeated, and in the relatively rich southern plains of Korea, it was simply not able to organize a decent resistance, so it ceded large tracts of land.

The army of the Ming Empire occupied most of the southern part of Korea in one go, but lost a few soldiers in a hurry.

Compared with the price paid for occupying these areas, the benefits of the Ming Empire were huge. Because the local army on the Korean Peninsula gave up resistance, and by the way, in order to raise enough chips, protected a large number of factory facilities, which allowed the Ming Empire to reap a lot of benefits.

Because of the hasty retreat of the Japanese army, most of the elite industrial areas were retained, and the areas that were seriously damaged by the Japanese soldiers were actually only partially damaged by the loss of industrial facilities.

Under the desperate protection of the aborigines on the Korean Peninsula and the resistance of the local defenders, the Japanese soldiers who were afraid of being stumped and retreating, and were caught up and killed by the troops of the Ming Empire, did not have the heart to seriously carry out the sabotage mission.

They casually set fire to or planted some explosives, destroyed some things and then left in a hurry, leaving a large number of valuable factories and machinery to the Ming Empire.

These industrial facilities were originally to be counted in Japan's national strength, but now these machines have been damaged and have fallen into the hands of the Ming Empire.

Under the advantages of the other, Japan's comprehensive national strength fell by more than one-fifth, while the Ming Empire was not significantly enhanced.

In this way, after the Ming Empire seized the entire Korean Peninsula, it not only had a springboard to attack Japan, but also obtained a piece of land to enhance its strength.

Although in comparison, the demographic dividend brought to the Ming Empire by the Korean Peninsula is not obvious, but it provides a large number of cheap coolies for the Ming Empire.

Let's not calculate the strengthening of the Ming Empire by these gains, just calculate the blow to Japan from the loss of these human resources, which can make all the high-ranking members of the Ming Empire feel that this war is worth fighting.

Japan is the most blatant country in close proximity to oppose the Ming Empire, and it is an alliance with Ceylon, so weakening Japan is definitely a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.

And this weakening is not a little weakening, but a comprehensive and complete weakening. Japan, which had lost the Korean Peninsula, is now in a situation where they have lost even their self-sufficient food supply.

If Japan once again tries to use force against the Ming Empire in the future, it will have to consider the acute problem of whether it has enough food to eat.

What made the Japanese most depressed was that the rapid rout on the Korean Peninsula completely frustrated their original plan to fight a protracted war on the Korean Peninsula and hold on to the victory of Britain and Ceylon to mediate the war.

Now, no matter how Ceylon and the British Empire win on the Southeastern Peninsula, it is unlikely that the Ming Empire will spit out the Korean Peninsula.

Because Japan's war against the Ming Empire was too unsuccessful, the most likely problem now is that Britain and Ceylon will sell Japan's interests to gain the benefits of the war for themselves when negotiating.

Japan was pushed onto the table, from a chess player who surrounded the Ming Empire to a bargaining chip on the table.

This is definitely not pleasant good news for Japan today. Everyone knows the consequences of becoming a bargaining chip, that is, in the farther future, there is a great chance that it will be sold to the Ming Empire again for a good price!

"Now, we have to build a local defense circle, raise the strength of the whole country, and stop the attack of the Ming Empire in the next war!" After hearing that Daejeon was quickly lost, Emperor Tammu of Japan complained to Prime Minister Uesugi with a frown.