On May 23, the 2nd year of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jishi, the son of the Great Tomorrow, officially paid tribute to the Taimiao and issued a message, announcing that he would personally lead a million soldiers to sweep the north and restore Liao, in order to avenge the hatred of the country and the family in the past 200 years. The next day, Zhu Jishi disguised himself and left Emperor Ying's City under the escort of more than 26,000 officers and soldiers of the Jinyi Guards (and one division remained behind), boarded the ship at Matou in Shimonoseki, and set sail east.

At the same time, in Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, Prince Gong Yixin, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, sat on the throne, and the officials wearing flower feathers on the hall were arguing.

"North Korea has 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains, 20 million Shuli (claimed), and the wealth and property are ten times that of Liaodong.

"Zhu Wei has publicly declared that he wants to sweep the north across the sea and destroy the foundation of my Eight Banners, if we leave more soldiers in Korea, Shengjing will be lost, and my Qing Dynasty will be in danger of collapse!"

"The foundation of my Eight Banners is skillful in archers and horses, and in my 100,000 Eight Banners warriors, not in the city of Shengjing. Manmeng is vast, fertile and fertile, as long as my Eight Banners warriors are still there, where can I go? Why bother to defend Shengjing? Aren't you afraid of repeating the scourge of Beijing? ”

"If North Korea is allowed to be annexed, what is the difference between being trapped and guarding Shengjing? If Ming rebels come across the sea, will we defend North Korea? If you keep it, my 100,000 Eight Banner warriors will inevitably spill blood on the battlefield, and if you don't defend it, Ming Rebellion will be the grace of the three creations to North Korea! ”

Sai Shang'a, Qi Ying, Gui Liang and their ministers are divided into two sides on the main hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace, and they are competing with each other.

What they are fighting over is whether or not to allow North Korea to annex itself. The so-called attachment is naturally to go to the name of the vassal country, the county of Xing, and completely become the land of the Qing Dynasty. Of course. Men in North Korea are also required to shave their hair and make it easier to wear. Dressed like the people of the Qing Dynasty.

And proposed "attached". It was the Korean king Yi Hwan who was placed under house arrest in Changdeok Palace. However, it is definitely not Li Huan's intention to attach the Qing Dynasty. However, in the face of the surging 100,000 Eight Banner Heavenly Soldiers, the North Korean people could not muster the courage to resist at all, except for sending envoys to Ganghwa Island to ask the Ming army for help, they could only honestly wait for the Qing Heavenly Soldiers to enter Seoul.

Although the Qing Dynasty has now lost most of the land in Guannai, and even the Daoguang Emperor was captured by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the national strength and military strength have plummeted, it is not something that the Korean Kingdom can fight against. This is no exaggeration. The weakness of the national defense strength of the Korean Kingdom has reached a strange point in the whole world. In history, the generals of the Huai Army, Wu Changqing and Yuan Shikai, once drove 3,000 Huai troops into Seoul and arrested the father of the king of Joseon, Xingxuan Dajun, who held the power of a country, back to China and imprisoned him.

Now that Prince Gong is the regent, Prince Yixin is personally commanding 100,000 Eight Banner Heavenly Soldiers across the Yalu River, where do the Korean monarchs and ministers dare to resist? Even the matter of asking Zhu Ming for help or abandoning Seoul and fleeing for a long time was discussed and could not make up his mind, and after the last time, the king of Joseon, Li Hwan, was ill again and could not act at all, so he could only lie in Changdeok Palace and wait for the Eight Banners to "protect".

Originally, Yi Xin and the others just wanted to come to North Korea to grab a handful and leave, and they didn't think about making North Korea become the land of the Qing Dynasty. But after occupying Seoul, I saw North Korean people rubbing shoulders on the streets of Seoul. The monarchs and ministers of the Northern Qing Dynasty couldn't help but think of the prosperous and lively Beijing City in the past and the current depressed Shengjing. The current Northern Qing Dynasty, although there are still thousands of miles of land. However, there are only more than one million Chinese people left, and the proportion of old and weak women and children is too high, and there are too few young and strong people who can produce and fight. If there is a slight mistake, it will end up with a country and no people.

Therefore, there will be a matter of "the DPRK asking for its own attachment".

Yi Xin on the throne also hesitated, and wanted to speak several times, but failed to make a sound.

North Korea's tens of millions of people, he really wanted to take captivity as he already had, but he did not dare to turn a blind eye to the threat of war from the Ming Dynasty. And he also knows how much resistance the Manchu Qing Dynasty has provoked in the history of the Manchu Dynasty, if this is done in North Korea now, it is very likely to provoke a popular uprising, Zhu Ming is taking the opportunity to attack, and the Qing Dynasty, which has finally recovered some vitality, is afraid that it will be destroyed in one fell swoop.

In addition, he can't help but consider the prestige he has accumulated with great difficulty. Now it is the victory of the "War to Resist the Ming Dynasty and Aid the Dynasty", as long as you return to Shengjing with the spoils of war and the loot or the people and animals, you can sit on the dragon chair and become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, instead of the current regent Prince Gong.

But if he was defeated in Korea, he fled back to Shengjing in embarrassment. Will the ministers below still support themselves as emperors? However, how long can the more than one million people that the Northern Qing Dynasty can now control can maintain? You must know that among the 1.2 million Qing people on the account of the household, 800,000 are the children of the Eight Banners and do not need to pay any taxes! Can this Qing Dynasty rely on 400,000 Han people who followed? If Korea is not allowed to annex itself, Zhu Ming will probably not need to attack, and the Qing Dynasty will die of poverty.

Looking at the noisy ministers who were red-faced, Prince Gong felt extremely sad, the stall he took over from Emperor Daoguang was too bad, it was difficult to think of not being the king of the country, and now it was a few days of delay, and he was worthy of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty.

Prince Gong secretly lamented: "Lonely is not the king of a dead country, but he has taken over a country that is bound to die!" ”

Today's discussion did not come to a conclusion in the end, anyway, Zhu Ming's army had no signs of attacking, so he was not busy deciding whether to run away or not.

When I returned to the dormitory of Gyeongbokgung Palace, there were already two courtiers wearing flower feathers waiting in the study, and when I saw Prince Gong coming in, I wanted to bow down.

"No courtesy, all sit, sit down and talk...... Fu Fang, Su Shun, how are things going in Eight Banners Korea? ”

The visitor turned out to be the opponent of Prince Gong in history, Ai Xin Jueluo. Su Shun and Fucha, who broke an arm in the battle of Huaxian County. Fu Fang.

These two people are now the few generals who can fight in the Northern Qing Dynasty, so they have been reused by Prince Gong, and they are now the left and right capitals of the Eight Banners of Korea, responsible for recruiting Korean warriors to participate in the Eight Banners New Army.

By the way, the Northern Qing Dynasty is also currently brewing a reform, but it is not a reform of the constitution and a parliament, but a "Eight Banners Retro Movement". The so-called Eight Banners retro is to consolidate and strengthen the Eight Banners military system, and all the subjects under the rule of the Northern Qing Dynasty will be included in the Eight Banners system. It is hoped that through this reform, the original loose Eight Banners people will be mobilized to the greatest extent and restored to the old era of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry and invincible soldiers.

Although it was pure delusion, it was the best way that Prince Gong could think of now, otherwise there would be no way to stand with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Zhu Ming with such a small population.

Moreover, in addition to the original Manchurian Eight Banners, Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners, the "retro" Eight Banners also added two new members, the Eight Banners of North Korea and the Hui Eight Banners. Of course, the eight banners of the DPRK were recruited in the DPRK, and 100,000 households and 400,000 people were planned to be recruited, and they were organized into eight banners, with 25,000 households and 100,000 people in each banner, and 25,000 soldiers.

The Hui Eight Banners were recruited by Prince Hui under the orders of the general Mianyu in Ganshan and Xinjiang, and the amount of recruitment was decided by Mianyu and Seng Lingqin, and Shengjing would not ask.

In addition, the Han people who followed Prince Gong to Manchuria were also incorporated into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. However, the treatment and regulation of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are different from those of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Eight Banners of Hui, and the Eight Banners of Korea, they do not need to be soldiers to go on the expedition, but they must bear heavy taxes, which is the main source of taxes for the Northern Qing Dynasty!

"Back to King Gong's words, the recruitment of the Eight Banners of Korea has been completed, and the people of North Korea admire the prestige of our Qing Dynasty and are willing to drive for our Qing Dynasty, so they are eager to apply." Su Shun arched his hand, and his mouth was full of clichés.

However, the matter of recruiting the Eight Banners of Korea was indeed relatively smooth, because there were many people in North Korea, and there were many landless and poor peasants, and Prince Gong used the fertile land of Manchuria as bait, and there were preferential conditions for exempting all taxes, so it would be strange if he could not recruit talents.

Of course, this is also related to the news blockade of North Korea, the poor North Koreans who apply for the recruitment are only pies in the sky and can become nobles of the kingdom, and few people know that the Qing Dynasty is really in tatters, and the land of Manchuria is not easy to take!

"One Hundred Thousand Eight Banners of North Korea...... Are they all available? Prince Gong asked with a frown.

"With our Manchurian officers, it can be used." Fu Fang took over the topic, "The Eight Banners recruited by the minions and others are all simple peasants, with strong bodies, and they only need strict training, coupled with shotguns and spears, they should be able to fight." (To be continued......)