"My lord, I have wronged you." Song Shilie said to Jin Shangxian, "In the Manchu Dynasty, there are traitors, and the king is deceived by Jin Zidian and a group of others. ”

"The heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably come to save our Korea, and that day will not be far away!"

Song Shilie put the decoction medicine on the bedside table, "The Celestial Empire has the grace of re-illuminating my Korea, and it is all up to Emperor Shenzong of the Celestial Dynasty to restore the country for me during the war." However, now that the Celestial Empire is strong, the Celestial Empire is too busy to take care of itself, and I am afraid that we will not have the strength to help us fight against the Tartars. ”

"Sooner or later, the Heavenly Soldiers will come."

"But Keel Da already knew that the adults reprimanded the peace back then, cracked their hands and books, and knew that the adults were strong advocates of the anti-Qing faction. The king asked the lord to return to Seoul, which means that the keel is big. I heard that the dragon bone will come again soon, and this time he will come with a large army, not only will we raise a large amount of grain and grass for tribute, but also take the anti-Qing adults back to Shenyang. ”

Song Shiyeol was the top student in high school in the early years, but he never came out, and his teacher was a Korean Confucian, who was very close to Kim Sang-hun. Jin Shangxian was the leader of the peace faction in the court, and when Bingzi was in chaos, he resolutely opposed the negotiation and surrender, and his brother was the right council at that time, equivalent to the second assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, and was killed in the invasion of the Qing army.

When the Qing army invaded Korea for the first time in the year of the Apocalypse, Kim Sang-hun sent a letter to the Ming Dynasty asking for rescue of Korea. Since then, he has always been the leader of the Yili faction who was dedicated to the Ming Dynasty and resolutely opposed the Qing Dynasty, and in the middle of the court, he also successively served as Du Chengzhi, Right Counselor, Dasi Xian, Hamgyong Provincial Observer, Criminal Cao, Gong Cao, Officials Cao, and Li Cao Judgment, among which each Cao judgment is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's various Shangshu, and the Great Sixian is equivalent to the imperial history, which are extremely important positions.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the country, Korea has been a vassal of the Ming Dynasty since the beginning of the country, and the Joseon Dynasty has changed to Confucianism. Its country is actually very similar to the Ming Dynasty at this time, the power of Confucianism is strong, and the power of scholars is strong, and the same party struggle continues, the East and the West, the South and the North, what is the big north and the small north, the bone and the north, the flesh and the skin of the north. Xun Xi Qing Xi.

The serious party strife greatly depleted the national strength of Korea, when Japan invaded, almost lost the country, and it was only thanks to the troops sent by the suzerain, the Ming Dynasty, that Japan was able to drive out Japan and keep the kingdom.

But when the Qing army rose and invaded, they had no power to fight back, and the two invasions of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasty were both defeated and surrendered. After the first invasion, a brotherly alliance was signed with the Qing Dynasty, and the second was an alliance between kings and ministers. Changed the Qing Dynasty to the suzerain.

In fact, the court is very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, believing that the Ming Dynasty has always been the suzerainty of Korea, and the court regards itself as Little China. Especially after the Japanese rebellion, it was believed that China had the grace to rebuild Korea.

But the Qing army invaded twice, especially the second invasion, tens of thousands of horses and horses all the way to Seoul, defeated tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the eight provinces of Korea along the way, and captured hundreds of thousands of people. took away countless belongings, and finally the king Li Liang had to surrender in Tsing Yi.

North Korea was already scared by the Qing people. Their army and city were powerless in front of the Qing army, and now even the prince was taken to Shenyang as a hostage. Especially when the Ming Dynasty fought with the Qing army for many years and lost consecutive battles, many Korean ministers began to become pragmatic.

Loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself. I can't control them. After the first invasion, they also remained loyal to the Ming Dynasty and opposed the Qing Dynasty, but in exchange for a second, more serious invasion, tens of thousands of people were killed. Hundreds of thousands of people have been abducted. The women alone were taken captive of 300,000.

With the support of the Westerners, they launched a mutiny, captured the capital, abolished King Gwanghae-jun, and established the grandson of Seonjo, Gwanghae-jun's nephew Yi Ju as the king, and was known as Injo anyway.

The Westerners appointed Li Liang as king, and all the ruling factions were killed, and the Westerners and the Southerners united to form a new government. At that time, the Westerners and the political coup d'état, abolished the charges of killing the brother and the brother, "the nullity of the mother-in-law", "ingratitude and betrayal", "losing the money and slavery" and other crimes, saying that our country has served the Celestial Empire for more than 200 years, and the righteousness is the monarch and the minister, and the father and son are graceful. The benefits of Renchen's reinvention will never be forgotten.

Li Liang was the king, and the Westerners Party was in power, firmly standing on the side of the Ming Dynasty. However, after two invasions by the Qing army, the Westerner Party was also divided, and was initially divided into the Xunxi faction and the Qingxi faction, and later into the Laoxi and Shaoxi factions.

At that time, the distinction between Xunxi and Qingxi was mainly the Westerner Party who participated in the Westerner Party and those who did not participate in the Anyway, and then Lao Xi was the righteous faction in the Westerner Party, and resolutely stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty to denounce and discuss peace. The Shaoxi faction was mainly the Xunxi faction, which was more realistic and believed that the Qing Dynasty could not be offended, and advocated peace.

Kim Sang-hun is a Westerner party, in his early years he was a Qingxi faction, and later an old Western faction.

When the Qing army invaded for the second time and the king surrendered, the Qing army captured and executed many pro-Ming factions, but Li Liang especially protected Jin Shangxian. At this time, Kim Sang-hun resigned and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, but he never changed his anti-Qing intentions, and many young scholars in North Korea also supported his ideas.

It was precisely because of his great influence that the Qing Dynasty finally let Jin Shangxian, the leader of the opposition, know about it, and sent a letter to North Korea, asking North Korea to arrest Jin Shangxian, and hand it over to him to bring back to Liaodong after Ying Erdai entered the court.

There was a knock on the door, and Song Shilie went to open the door.

"My lord, Lord Yuan is here."

Kim Sang-heon was a little surprised when he saw that it was his old friend Yuan Dou Pyo. "Aren't you in Kaesongfu, Huanghae-do, why did you come back?"

"Old friend, I'm here to save you." Jin Doubi smiled, he leaned over and whispered, "There is great news, I specially rushed to tell you as soon as possible, the Celestial Empire has sent heavenly soldiers to arrive!" ”

"The Heavenly Empire has sent heavenly soldiers?" Kim Sang-hun sat up straight, "Really? ”

At this time, Yuan Doopo served as the judge of Gongcao, and a few days ago, he was ordered by the king to inspect the Kaesong Mansion in Huanghae Province. He is also a Qingxi faction, and now he is also an old Western faction, and like Jin Shangxian, he is resolutely opposed to pro-Qing and anti-Ming.

"It's true, Chu Guogong, the righteous son of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty, personally commanded his troops from the sea, and there were a hundred warships!"

Jin Shangxian said worriedly, "The Heavenly Empire is here to ask for guilt, hey, the angel led the heavenly soldiers to come, I'm afraid it will be another disaster." ”

"Don't worry, the military discipline of the Heavenly Soldiers led by this Duke of Chu is excellent, he has landed in Tiancheng in Huanghaidao, and the army has entered Tiancheng Mansion, but he has nothing to do with Minqiu, even the grain and grass are used. and all in cash, not a single cent. ”

Jin Shangxian was shocked, "Such a heavenly soldier? He shook his head, "The heavenly soldiers came, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and he paid for food." So polite? Something is wrong. ”

Jin Doubi said with a smile, "It's not a secret, I've already met the Duke of Chu, very young, in his early twenties, but the soldiers and horses under his command are extremely elite, huge ships and cannons, and the soldiers are well-equipped with iron cannons, it's unimaginable." The ship was more than twenty feet long. The mast is dozens of zhang high, and a ship can carry thousands of soldiers and 100 large artillery. ”

"There is even better news for you, the civil strife in the Celestial Empire has been completely pacified, and now the Celestial Kingdom has mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and horses to counterattack the Tartars. In May, the Duke of Chu led tens of thousands of elites who had quelled civil strife in the Central Plains to land in southern Liaoning from the sea, and swept the coastal states of eastern Liaodong one after another, annihilating thousands of Tartars. ”

"How is this possible?" Kim Sang-hun said. Although he left the court for a while. But since the time of the apocalypse, the imperial court has repeatedly asked the Celestial Empire for help to fight against the Qing Dynasty. But the Celestial Empire never replied, and the Qing army attacked the capital of the Celestial Empire several times. Why did he leave the imperial court for a while, and the Celestial Empire had already launched a large-scale counterattack?

"Let me tell you another piece of news, the Duke of Chu led tens of thousands of troops to come by sea, and another army has taken control of the Yalu River and captured Zhenjiang Fort on the north bank. In addition, the city of Yizhou on the south bank of the Yalu River, which was controlled by the Tartars, has also been seized and controlled by the army of the Duke of Chu, who have also re-stationed on Phi Island and built a castle in Tieshan. ”

"The Duke of Chu told me that we are loyal to the Great Ming Dynasty. There is no need to worry about the Tatars retaliating against the invasion, they will defend the line of the Yalu River for us and prevent the Tatars from entering the court. ”

A series of good news made Kim Sang-hun a little excited and didn't know what to say, while the young Song Shilie was also very excited.

"It's great, I know that Hu Lu can only be proud for a while. The kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, how can it be bullied? ”

Jin Doopo said, "My lord, we still have a little trouble now. ”

"What's the trouble?"

"It's Cui Mingji and Jin Zidian, these treacherous villains are traitors, and they don't know shame at all. Before the Duke of Chu came to the east, he had sent a letter to the king, but the court did not pay attention to it at all. It is precisely because of this that the Duke of Chu came in person and led a large army. ”

Jin Shangxian stroked his beard, "Do you mean that there are people in the court who oppose rejoining the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Yes, and they are still planning to mobilize troops to intercept the Duke of Chu from coming to Seoul. Wang Shangzheng mobilized generals Li Shu, Li Shibai, Gu Hong, Li Xianda and others to lead troops to Seoul, and transferred Marshal Jin Zidian, Shen Qiyuan and others to arrange to intercept the heavenly soldiers. My lord, the king is doing something stupid. Once the Duke of Chu is angered, he is afraid that a catastrophe will come. ”

Song Shilie asked puzzledly, "Why did the king do this?" ”

"Because Jin Zidian Cui Mingji and other soft bones surrendered faction were afraid of the Qing captives, they thought that since they had surrendered to the Qing army, they could only follow the Qing army, if it was repeated, then the Qing people would definitely be furious, and once the Qing army came south again, North Korea would die."

"Then they are not afraid of the wrath of the Celestial Empire and send troops to destroy the Dynasty?"

Jin Shangxian sighed, "Cui Mingji and the others must think that the Qing army is stronger than the Ming army." ”

Jin Doubi persuaded Jin Shangxian, "My lord, I have personally seen the army of the Duke of Chu, although the Qing army is fierce, it is absolutely capable of fighting with the elite of heavenly soldiers. Now that the Duke of Chu is still staying in Kaesong temporarily, he asked me to go back to Beijing to report to the king. But after the court learned the news, it did not send people to prepare to greet it, but instead deployed troops to prepare to intercept it, my lord, we must do something, otherwise, as soon as the heavenly soldiers arrive, it will be too late. ”

"Judge, what do you want me to do? Am I just a prisoner under house arrest? Kim Sang-heon said.

"My lord, you are the leader of the rebuke faction, known as Wen Tianxiang of North Korea by the scholars in the country, and the backbone of our scholars, at this time, you are needed to come out and pull things right."

Kim Sang-heon looked at Kim Doopyo and was silent.

"You should stand up at once and lead us to bring the chaos out of order, and we can contact Marshal Zhang Wan, who has great prestige and connections in the army. We can also contact the generals Liu Lin and Li Yiyuan, who are stationed near Gyeonggi Province and are equipped with a large number of shotguns, which are our most elite firearms troops, as well as Vice Marshal Shin Kyung-myeong and Gangwon Superintendent Cho Ting-ho, all of whom are also elite, and the generals and marshals are all decent people. As long as we contact them, we can do a lot of things. ”

Song Shilie was shocked when he heard this, "Are we going to mutiny?" ”

"It's not a mutiny, it's a soldier's admonition!" Kim Dou Dipper corrected. (To be continued......)