Hearing that the Korean Kingdom was going to send a woman to him, Lin Zhe was a little speechless!

But speechless is speechless, but this very obvious political marriage is not easy to postpone, because this is not just as simple as sending a few women, but represents an obvious move of the North Korean upper echelons to actively move closer to the empire, if Lin Zhe refuses directly, I am afraid that the North Korean side will think that the empire is dissatisfied.

Isn't it just a few women, Lin Zhe's palace is so big, and it's nothing to raise a few more women.

So it was done very quickly.

The North Korean side moved very quickly, and soon sent a special mission to prepare for Nanjing.

The mission was the largest in recent decades sent to China by North Korea, and included not only some high-ranking North Korean officials, but also a large number of young officials who were ready to study and visit China, and of course, the most important of them were the two women of the Lee family of North Korea who had been sent to China to marry.

If you want to marry with the empire and send a woman to the supreme Son of Heaven in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people, this woman must not be an ordinary woman, an ordinary woman on the Korean side is absolutely not good, and a woman of the royal ministers and nobles is not good, it must be a woman of the Lee royal family of North Korea.

Otherwise, it would not be to send a woman to marry, but to slap the face of the empire.

It's just that I don't know if it's a bloodline problem or how to drop, the bloodline of the Korean Li royal family is so thin that it is comparable to the Manchu Aixinjue Luo clan in the late Qing Dynasty, and the previous generations of the kingdom were stunned that a daughter could not stay, and the most recent royal concubine, that is, the daughter of Joseon Zhezong Li Yu, that is, the lord of Yonghui Weng died last year.

At the beginning, in order to marry Li Yuying's Yuan Baoheng, the two of them turned the list of the Li royal family up for three generations, and they couldn't find a royal concubine of the right age and unmarried.

Not to mention the two major requirements of appropriate age and concubine, even if it is a concubine or an unmarried one.

This has to make Yuan Baoheng sigh very much, although your fertility ability of the emperor of the Li family of North Korea is good, but the premature death rate is too high, few royal children can grow up, but my Great Chinese Empire, none of the four princes died, it can be seen that this North Korea is really not a good place, and even sons and daughters can't be raised.

The royal concubines of the Li family could not be found, and the concubines could not be found, so they could only expand their eyes to the side branches of the Li royal family, which expanded, but found a lot of women of the right age, and after the final selection, two women were selected.

And Lee Yunhui is one of these two women, although she says that she is the Lee family, but in fact, her family and the royal family have been separated by many generations, which can be seen from her family background.

Although their family claims to be the Li clan, in fact, the family lives an ordinary life, with 100 acres of land and more than 10 houses.

However, in any case, their family is still the Li clan, and the women of this clan have also received the necessary education since childhood, especially Han cultural education, so her first-hand Chinese brush writing is barely passable, and her spoken language is quite fluent.

Of course, this is not the reason why she can be considered a candidate for marriage, because Han culture is something that the upper class of North Korea must understand, and everyone is actually about the same as her own level of knowledge.

The reason that really made her chosen by the upper echelons of North Korea is simple: this woman is good-looking!

The object of this marriage is not an ordinary person, but the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

You must know that Li Yuying selected her from hundreds of clan women, and this woman's appearance is naturally not as good as that.

After Lee Yun-hye was chosen, she was immediately given 'Princess Yunhye', which is a title only given to the daughter of the Korean princess, but in order to make Lee Yun-hye's identity more matched, she was specially given the title of Princess Yunhye.

Then he quickly followed the mission and embarked on a passenger ship to China.

When she saw the huge ship at the dock, she couldn't help but be stunned, even through the veil, the maid who followed her could see her shocked expression.

It's just that it's not just Lee Yun-hye, it's not just these women who show a shocked expression, even Kim Hong-ki, the commander of this North Korean division, is dumbfounded!

Because what appeared in front of them at this time was not some small-tonnage steamships that can be seen on the Han River now, let alone wooden ships, but a naval warship with a tonnage of more than 2,000 tons.

The ship is the ironclad Pangu of the Royal Navy, which has spent 11 years of service since it was commissioned in 1863.

The ship was changed from a capital ship to a reserve ship last year, and transferred to the Third Fleet, which is positioned as a 'reserve training' fleet in the sequence of the Imperial Royal Navy.

Of course, when it comes to war, even if the warships in the Third Fleet are old warships and training ships, they will go to the front line to participate in the war when necessary, and this is the 'reserve' mission of the Third Fleet.

After arriving at the Third Fleet, the Pangu undertook the task of training its crew and officers, this time for regular ocean-going training, and the scheduled voyage was to arrive at the Pusan military base, but before departure, they were given the task to meet the peace envoy from Korea.

The main reason why the navy assigned the task to the Pangu was that the Pangu originally had a training mission, but the target was changed from Busan to Seoul.

Of course, the North Korean peace mission will naturally not live on the Pangu, but there are two future concubines of the empire in the peace and family mission, although not yet, but in the future, so the military can ignore the other North Koreans in the peace and pro mission, but Lee Yunhui and another friendly North Korean woman cannot be ignored.

In fact, the Royal Navy was only responsible for escorting the cortants, and it was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that picked up and dropped off the North Korean and pro-missions.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had long hired a medium-tonnage cruise ship owned by the Royal Shipping Company to serve as a ship.

Even though it was just passing by the pier under the Pangu, it shocked many North Koreans who had never seen such a huge warship.

Except for a few diplomats who had been on missions to China and a few who had dealt with the Imperial Navy, none of these Koreans had ever seen such a huge warship with their own eyes.

In the past, they had all heard of the empire's huge warships that were 100 meters long, tens of meters wide, and looked like mountains up close, but few of them had actually seen them with their own eyes.

The North Koreans in this time and space actually have less contact with the outside world than North Korea in the time and space of history.

In the 60s and 70s, Korea had contact with Britain, France, Japan and other countries, and was finally opened by the bombardment of Jianchuan.

However, in this era, the strong rise of the empire has almost wiped out the traces of Britain and France in the East China Sea, and the empire has always regarded Korea as its backyard.

On the one hand, it was the rise of the empire that protected North Korea from Western interference, but on the other hand, the rise of the empire also kept North Korea in an ignorant and uncivilized state.

Several high-ranking officials of the DPRK and the pro-embassy were even invited to visit the Pangu and were shocked by what they saw.

Few of them knew that ironclad ships like the Pangu were already backward more than ten years ago, and in the Imperial Navy, which lacked ships, they could only serve as reserve warships or training ships.

If they were to see the Empire's newest 10,000-ton ship, such as the Chiyou, they would not be scared to death.

The girl Lee Yun-hye didn't feel as deeply as those high-ranking officials in North Korea, she just felt that the ship was so big, but she didn't have any specific feelings.

After the people from the embassy were on board, the cruise ship and the Pangu ironclad ship left the dock, then crossed the Yellow Sea, and headed straight for Shanghai.

Because it was the first time to go to sea by boat, Li Yunhui was a little seasick, and even vomited for a while, and finally arrived in Shanghai, the officials of the Imperial Foreign Ministry saw that the people who were close to the embassy were really seasick, so they were not going to arrange for them to change to an inland river passenger ferry to go to Nanjing along the Yangtze River, but were ready to let them take a train from Shanghai to Nanjing.

After arriving in Shanghai, the first thing that catches the eye is the Yangtze River estuary and the Huangpu River densely packed with ships, Shanghai as the largest industrial and commercial city of the contemporary empire, shipping is very developed, all kinds of ships are very numerous, and at the mouth of the Huangpu River, it is one of the most important bases of the imperial Royal Navy Songhu Naval Base, where a large number of capital ships of the Imperial Royal Navy are moored, including a Chiyou-class battleship Yinglong.

Seeing the 10,000-ton giant ship moored on the dock, it scared the North Koreans who were close to the mission, originally they thought that the Pangu was big enough, but they didn't expect that compared with the 10,000-ton giant ship they saw, this Pangu was a three-year-old child.

After entering the Huangpu River, in addition to the boats of the Huangpu River, many high-rise buildings on the north bank of the Huangpu River also gave them a great shock.

Shanghai is the essence of China's industry and commerce, and the Bund Avenue is the essence of Shanghai, a Bund Avenue, which can be called the most obvious representative of the industrialization reform of the contemporary empire, and is the most shining business card of the empire.

Not to mention these uncivilized people from North Korea, even businessmen from European and American countries who came to Shanghai for the first time were all shocked by the prosperity of the Bund Avenue.

That night, the DPRK Peace Mission stayed at the Bund Hotel, and the next day it went to Shanghai North Railway Station.

After being shocked by the huge warships and the prosperity of the Bund in Shanghai, the North Koreans did not show much surprise at the train, not that they felt that the train was not shocked enough, but that they were shocked a lot, and it was troublesome, anyway, what they saw now has subverted their previous cognition.

Of course, this is not the case with several North Korean diplomats who have been to China in the past, some of whom have been in China for many years and have long been accustomed to the changes in the empire and even to the modernization of the empire.

If they return to live in North Korea now, I am afraid they will not get used to it.

Lee Yoon-hye feels much better about the train, because finally she doesn't have to get seasick.

In these years, the train went slowly, only a few tens of kilometers per hour, and it seemed slow in the eyes of later generations, but it was the fastest and most convenient means of transportation in modern times, even faster than high-speed passenger ships.

Sitting on the train, Lee Yunhui looked at the scenery on both sides of the railway through the window from time to time, and most of the scenes were similar to what she saw in China, the farmland and the farmers working, but sometimes there were some obvious differences.

For example, the telegraph line along the railroad is next to it, and there is occasionally a large factory building, most of which has a high chimney and a puff of smoke.

She was told that it was a column of smoke coming from a steam engine, and that the factories were powered by steam engines.

Lee Yun-hui didn't know what a steam engine was, nor did she understand what a modern machine factory was, she just felt that this country was different from her own country. (To be continued.) )