The eastern suburbs of Seoul, ten miles away.

"Commander Yuan, here...... It's all old and weak, women and children! Seeing the muzzles of the two Krupp cannons slowly pointing to the family residence area of the fifth battalion of the North Korean Army, Zhao Ningxia, the North Korean soldier Cao Juan, was shocked.

Just now he had seen the power of these two cannons - two shells directly blew up an abandoned watchtower, and now the gunners of the Qianjun army have turned the muzzle of the cannon and reloaded the ammunition, seeing that the families of those soldiers are about to suffer a terrible massacre, Zhao Ningxia couldn't bear it anymore, so he spoke loudly to stop it.

Zhao Ningxia belonged to the Zhao clan of Fengyang, a foreign relative, and successively served as Gongcao, Licao, Cao, Cao, Cao, and Gongyi. In the sixth year of Guangxu, at the suggestion of the Qianguo side, the DPRK government followed the example of the Qianguo prime minister's yamen and set up a new "yamen for the management of machinery," with Zhao Ningxia serving as the secretary of affairs and the two ministers of the neighborhood, responsible for diplomatic affairs. In that year, as a plenipotentiary official, he received the Japanese minister Hanafang Yoshito, and was responsible for receiving the British and German envoys brought by Ma Jianzhong, the envoy of the Qianguo, and handling trade matters. Zhao Ningxia was not killed because he treated the soldiers well during his tenure as a training general. But because of the relationship between his family and Concubine Min's group, he was demoted by Dayuanjun and appointed as a soldier Cao. After the arrival of the cadres, Zhao Ningxia was responsible for meeting with the officials of the cadres because he had experience in negotiating with the cadres.

Yuan Weiting just glanced at Zhao Ningxia and said calmly: "Otherwise, the leader of the chaotic party cannot be captured." If these people don't get it for a day, the monarchs and ministers of your country will not be able to sleep overnight, so I also ask Lord Zhao to be calm and not impatient. ”

Of course, Zhao Ningxia understood Yuan Weiting's purpose in doing this - to use the families of the rebels as hostages to force the leaders of the rebellion to show up, but what he was worried about was. Once the leader of the rebels refused to show up. It is very likely that Yuan Weiting will really kill these old and weak women and children.

From this cadre army general to 800 infantry. Judging from the ruthless performance of 4 cannons annihilating 5,000 cavalry of Dongxue Taoists outside the city gate, killing corpses all over the field and rivers of blood, he is completely capable.

"Your country's laws and regulations are not working, so there is such a big chaos, today's thing is for your country's new establishment of authority, not to slaughter the old and weak women and children, Lord Zhao don't worry." Ma Jianzhong, who was on the side, said to Zhao Ningxia.

Zhao Ningxia has to persuade again. But I saw a white flag in the distance.

Underneath the white flag was a team of about 100 people, including old people, young people, and a few children.

The men, dressed in rags and with heavy steps, walked towards this side step by step.

Seeing these people appear, Yuan Weiting's brows gradually tightened.

After a short time, these people came to the front of the cadre position.

Yuan Weiting saw that the leader was an old man with a white beard, holding a white flag in his hand. looked at Yuan Weiting with a sad face, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "We are the head of the rebellion!" ”

Yuan Weiting's gaze swept over these people. Finally, it came back to the old man.

"Dare to ask who the old man is? Why do you claim to be the head of the rebellion? Yuan Weiting asked calmly.

"The eldest grandson of the old decayed Jin, my son Jin Chunyong is in the army in the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, and the dog slave of Min Qianhao's thief sent me and the army's salary and rice are all sand and bran, which is inedible, and my son and the army are angry and argue with it, but they were arrested and imprisoned by Min Qianhao's thief. Later, the army was furious, set fire to the Min family, and killed Min Qianhao! Adults want to be guilty, and old decay deserves it! The old man named Jin Changsun said proudly, "The old man led everyone to the first place today, although he died without hatred!" I just ask the adults to spare the relatives of the armies here! ”

Yuan Weiting nodded, his gaze swept over the other people, and he pointed at the dozen or so young people among them, and several cadres stepped forward and tied up these dozen people and Jin Changsun.

"In this rebellion, there is a reason for it, according to the order of the Son of Heaven, only the culprit is taken, and the rest are not asked." Yuan Weiting waved his hand to the rest of the people and said lightly.

When the rest of the people heard this, they all stood there, as if they couldn't believe their ears.

"The rice has been reissued, so don't make a mess again." After Yuan Weiting finished speaking, he returned to his horse, and the gunners unloaded the shells, re-covered the cannon with their cannons, and put them on the pack horses.

Jin Changsun looked at Yuan Weiting blankly, and suddenly rushed out of the queue desperately, came to Yuan Weiting, knelt down, and kowtowed heavily.

Zhao Ningxia looked at this amazing scene, and finally understood, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

At this time, Zhao Ningxia can be said to admire Yuan Weiting so much.

Because in this way, even after welcoming back Concubine Min, it should be impossible for the relatives of the Min family to want to take revenge on the rioting soldiers and civilians in Guangxing Prison!

But where will Concubine Min be now?

Yuan Weiting, who had returned to the barracks, was looking at the map when a relative hurriedly walked over and presented a telegram to him.

"Your Excellency, the call from Fuzhou has just been forwarded from Tianjin by a communication ship."

Hearing that the telegram was from Fuzhou, Yuan Weiting's expression became solemn, and he immediately took the telegram and opened it.

As expected, the telegram was sent by Lin Yiqing.

The content of this telegram was extremely short, with only a few words: "The concubine is in Changhuwon, Chungju, and the son is in Hongcheon Yangdeokwon." ”

After Yuan Weiting finished reading the telegram, a pair of eyes immediately lit up, like a wolf seeing its prey.

"Someone!" He shouted.

Hearing that there was no more cannon sound outside, the hanging heart of the Korean king Yi Xi finally let go.

He can be said to have been frightened too much these days.

At this time, somehow, he missed his childhood very much......

He remembered that he was walking in a large garden, with beautiful sunshine and meadows, and many women in gorgeous clothes looked at him with smiles.

"Xiao Xi'er, Xiao Xi'er."

"Xiao Xi'er, come here."

"Xiao Xi'er, it's so cute."

Originally, he was not called Li Xi, but Li Zaihuang, and his nickname was called Destiny. It was only because the first king had no queen, and after Concubine Zhao succeeded him to the first king as her adopted son, he became the son of the king and changed his name to Li Xi.

But he was young at the time. But where do you know the mystery and the hidden story behind it? He's just in this opulent and gorgeous palace. A boy who wanders all day.

When they surrounded him, they used to say to him, "In the future, if you were to choose one of us as a wife, who would you choose?" ”

He thought very confusedly, and then they all laughed: "Silly little Xi'er, as long as you are the king, we are all yours." ”

Yes, as long as I am king.

He didn't know what a king was before. When he knew, the word became his nightmare.

In addition to playing with the girls, his favorite thing is painting, and the little maids in the palace, the daughters of the two classes of noble relatives who enter the palace to accompany them, are proud to have a painting he painted for them. When he paints, there is always a group of girls looking out the door, envying the person who is happily sitting in front of his desk.

Little girls also have vanity, and most of the girls in the palace are close to him, I don't know when. In the little secret meeting of the girl's family, it was early to comment on who would be the future concubine. Who is the side concubine, there are many pairs of watery eyes, Baba is looking forward to him growing up, and can really treat him well, although they still believe that the child is put into the woman's womb by the gods in the middle of the night.

There are also factions among young girls, but no one will ever be indifferent to him, and he will never notice the shadow behind the smile in the adult world.

On that day, everyone put down the game, and suddenly they all ran to the south, crowded behind the crack of the palace gate, and watched the ceremonies of the outer palace.

For the young ones, the square of the outer palace is a plain with no edge in sight. When it is empty, it is as if the whole world is separated from the horizon, and when the court is worshipped, it is as if all the people of the world have gathered here. At that time, he thought that when he saw the square outside the main hall, he saw the whole world. It was not until many years later that he truly understood what the world was.

This time, among the golden flags and jade belts, he saw a beautiful girl.

In fact, now that I think about it, there should have been many beautiful girls that day, but there was only one in his memory, as if she was standing alone in the boundless square, sighing in the wind, and her sad eyes made people want to go over and hug her, so that she would never be sad again.

"That sister is so beautiful." He whispered.

"Where?" The girls next to him couldn't keep up with his gaze.

"Are they also here to play with us?"

"yes, it's the new show girls."

That's great. He thought to himself.

But after that time, he couldn't see the girl anymore.

"They should live in Qingyun Palace, right? Where do all the new talents live? ”

"Where is Qingyun Palace?" At that time, the five palaces of Seoul were as big as a country to him.

"Like...... From here all the way to the northwest, across a river, a forest, a grassland, a bamboo bridge, then a long wide road, and then through a wood, so big, they got lost there last time, and then they went over...... He hasn't been there either...... Maybe...... They know. ”

He is determined to embark on the first long journey of his life to find the girl he misses.

Without anyone to lead the way, he didn't know where he got the confidence that he would definitely get there. Just like in this life, there are often moments of fear and wandering, but always believing that there is a feeling that will lead him to the end.

After walking for a long distance, he didn't know how many rivers he saw, how many bridges he didn't know, and he really got lost in the dense forest.

Now that I think about it, I just need to catch an attendant and ask him to take him there, but he still doesn't want to meet people along the way, this trip is a secret in his little heart, and he doesn't want to show it in front of others.

With his senses, he kept walking forward, but gradually heard the voices of the women.

The palace ladies don't dare to be so noisy, and the concubines won't be so out of shape, this can only belong to those who are still playful and clever, those young girls who have just entered the palace, when they hear this laughter, he seems to have returned to his friends, and his fatigue is all gone, and he runs forward happily.

But a river blocked his way. He looked up, and on the huge platform in front of him, the girls were playing.

He saw her at a glance, and in the crowd of gigglers, he had not yet seen her face, but he had already confirmed it, and his eyes followed the pale yellow figure, rejoicing for her and sorrowing for her.

He doesn't know what Hou Shi thinks of him, he was romantic and dominant at a young age, and when he was young, he was obsessed with beauty every day, and he loved beauty but not the country.

He wasn't fit to be a king in the first place.

Her name is Lee Soon A.

Ever since I met her. He thought about her even more every day.

He had shouted at her. But his voice was too quiet. She couldn't hear it.

So the second time, he decided to go directly to Qingyun Palace.

The chief attendant in the East Palace didn't know what evil nature he was doing, and he scratched his head, but he couldn't help but listen to him, so he had to find a female official, a chariot and horse honor guard, and hugged him with a rumbling momentum, and as soon as he stepped on the high platform of Qingyun Palace. Those girls panicked for a while, and they were so frightened that they didn't know what to do with the etiquette they had practiced countless times. The female officer hurriedly turned to them and bowed to him, and they all bowed down.

As soon as they bowed their heads, he swept the maidens' sideburns and found her. Go up and take her by the sleeve, turn around and leave. Shun'e was so shocked that she didn't know what to do, and even the female officer and the chief chamberlain opened their mouths wide, watching him pull Shun'e down the steps all the time, and was about to leave when he got into the carriage. Only then did the chief of the chamberlain chase down.

"Shizi, where are you taking this girl to?"

"Come to me. I'm going to play with her. ”

When Shun'e heard this, she turned her face and smiled at him.

The smile is like a flower. opened in his heart. She was not afraid of life at all, and she could see at a glance that he was going to be good to her. She has trusted him all her life, and he should protect her all his life...... However, he failed to do so.

……

For this reason, the inner palace urgently convened a supreme meeting, and the inner chamberlains all thought that the etiquette of the generations was disordered, and it was absolutely impossible. But the concubines said that Xiao Xi'er just wanted to find someone to play with him, so she let Shun'e live in the East Palace for a few days

There is nothing. In the end, it was Concubine Zhao who spoke: "Alas...... What is this? Let Shun'e live with him first. ”

He didn't know that there was such a big movement behind this, and there would be endless turmoil in the future, but he only knew that as soon as he pulled his hand, happiness came. Since then, he has been playing with Shun'e every day, she is also an active girl, kicking and flying and flipping the ball, all of them are full of style, what makes him incredible and likes her the most is...... She can even climb trees!

Shun'e's family is from a civilian background, there is no family wealth to treat women, and there are not so many rules and etiquette, he is a thousand good to Shun'e, the more Shun'e is not afraid of him, and later, he completely regarded him as the little brother of her family who dragged his nose and dragged his ass, poked his head and pinched his face, and looked like an eldest sister, those girls were stunned when they saw Shun'e training him, and they didn't know that the prince could play like this. Later, he learned to be a teacher, and he no longer wanted to rush to be his concubine, as long as he called him sister, he didn't call him, even Shun'e, he didn't call him, every day the East Palace made sparrows turn over the lynx dog on the tree, and the brush pillow flew around. The chamberlains said it's good to look at it, a wild cat has come, and it has brought a group of domestic cats.

"Shun'e, Shun'e, grow up quickly, and be my wife when you grow up." On the couch in the afternoon, he propped his head and looked at Shun'e and said.

"Bah, fool, who wants to be your wife." Following Shun'e, the girls have learned a lot of folk sayings such as "Bah, you, stupid", "In the future, maybe you will call me a concubine." ”

I really don't know what's so good about pressing him in his life, it's not enough to be a sister, and I still want to be a mother.

"As soon as my father came back, I told him I wanted you, and he would definitely agree."

"You don't dare."

He believed in his courage, but he was not quite sure of the outcome.

He rarely saw his biological father, and now when he thinks of him, he is all on the portrait, and in his hazy impression, as soon as a shadow appears, the inner palace does not have the usual gentle voice, and the concubines dare not come out, is that him?

After he ascended to the throne, another important woman in his life appeared.

In the end, Soon-e also failed to become his princess - because the Korean royal family had a rule that the Lee family could not be called a concubine.

When he was 15 years old, his father's Dayuanjun organized an unprecedented grand wedding for him, and the woman named Min Ziying became his princess from then on.

She was a relative of his mother's family. He never understood why his father would marry him a woman from his mother's family. Calculated carefully, Min Ziying is not only one year older than him, but also his aunt in terms of generation. But this is nothing in the eyes of his iron-fisted father Dayuanjun, and later he realized that in order to prevent the history of his relatives' dictatorship, his father's Dayuanjun specially found this relative of his wife's family, Min Ziying, a poor girl who lost her father at a young age, as the princess. He thought that in this way, he would eliminate the hidden danger of the dictatorship of his relatives once and for all, and at the same time make himself a clan relative and a national relative, which was really a clever move to consolidate his power.

But my father never imagined that this time he would lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

Because it was the woman his father forcibly stuffed into him, he always disliked her and snubbed her for three years, and during this time, he and Shun'e had a boy - Wanhejun Li Shan.

Father's wishful thinking was not accurate. His chess piece, Concubine Min, like her father-in-law, is full of power lust and ambition, and at the same time is familiar with political power. Concubine Min spent three years in the cold reading all the books in the palace, especially the ancient history of the Qianguo such as "Zuo Chuan", and after she finally gained her trust after unremitting efforts, she began to gradually get involved in court politics. The conflict between her and her father, Dayuanjun, was caused by the issue of heirs. In order to prevent the expansion of her power, her father, Dayuanjun, was ready to appoint Li Shan, the eldest son of him and Shun'e, as the prince of the king. This caused him to have a fundamental opposition to his father, Dayuanjun. She first made him firmly stand on the same front as herself, and then gathered the power of her maiden family, the Lixing Min family, and gradually formed a group of relatives, and at the same time entangled the power of the Andong Kim family, Fengyang Zhao family and other families who were ousted by Dayuanjun, to compete with her father Dayuanjun. And the father underestimated the strength of his daughter-in-law. On November 5, the twelfth year of Tongzhi, she used Choi Yi-hyun to criticize her father's Dayuanjun Shangshang, instigated herself to declare "pro-government", and launched a palace coup to force her father's Dajun to retreat and drive him out of the capital. (To be continued......)

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