Chapter 141: The Gathering of Storms (Second Shift, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
The heavy snow in the first month of the year came so naturally, and large snowflakes fell one after another, dancing in various postures in the air, or flying, or circling, or falling straight and quickly to the ground. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The info went on like this for a whole day and didn't stop until the evening. At night, Seoul looks particularly quiet and serene under a blanket of silver.
In Gyeongbokgung Palace, Kim Zhiseon, the official in the main hall, was kicking the snow in a hurry at this time and ran towards the main hall.
"Your Majesty, the villain has something to tell."
"What's the matter?"
After a few moments, the voice of the Korean monarch came through the lattice sliding door.
"The villain is terrified, the king, the king ......"
"Say something quickly, don't spit out!"
"Yes, the king, the villain, the villain got the news that Lord Tang, the commander of the North Korea, will get married in a month!"
With a "snap", the lattice door was slammed open, and a young man wearing a red python robe with his mouth wide open and a frightened face stumbled out. He is the monarch of North Korea, Li Junrong, who ascended to the throne with the support of Tang Haoran. Although he is 22 years old, the state government is still in the regent courtyard, that is, presided over by his grandfather.
Perhaps it was because he was so excited that his overweight face trembled from time to time.
"Kim Neiguan, what did you just say?"
"Your Majesty, the villain got news from the East Asian Tongwen Association that Lord Tang will get married in two months!"
Jin Neiguan's voice seemed a little nervous, all along, the Wang family wanted to marry Lord Tang, deepen the relationship between the two parties through marriage, and even invited a few princesses to attend the banquet after the year. But who would have thought that Lord Tang didn't look down on any of them.
Now the Tang Lord, who has not been married for a long time. but suddenly got married. Thinking of this, Jin Chushan couldn't cry anymore.
"What about the Xuanji Eunuch, does the Xuanji Eunuch know? ……”
Li Junrong shouted and rushed into the vast snow, as if he wanted to go to his grandfather to discuss countermeasures.
"Your Majesty, your shoes, Your Majesty, please put them on...... It's late at night now, your majesty, you can't leave the palace, the palace and outside the palace are forbidden by the police."
Kim Neiguan hurried up while carrying the monarch's boots, and at the same time reminded loudly.
Not really!
It is manifested that the Unified Supervision Office does not interfere in the national affairs of the DPRK. But in fact, the interference of the unified supervision office in national affairs is ubiquitous, just like when the police were set up, no one could have imagined that one day the police of Seoul would take over the Beijing camp soldiers and be responsible for the "law and order" of the whole city of Seoul, and even the Beijing camp soldiers were confined to the palace. This is for the king's safety. And after the palace ban, the king wanted to leave the palace. Then the approval of the Unified Supervision Office is required.
Jin Neiguan's reminder made Li Junrong stunned, but finally said helplessly.
"Jin Neiguan, you immediately send someone to Yunyan Palace, see the courtyard Jun, hurry, go immediately!"
Yunyan Palace, this is the palace of the Xuanji Courtyard, as we all know that the Korean national politics are all out of the Yunyan, but there is a saying that "all are subject to the government", although there is this saying, but after all, at least most of the time, the unified supervision office does not directly inquire about the Korean national affairs, which always makes the owner of the Yunyan Palace feel more comfortable.
"Whose wife is the wife hired by Lord Tang?"
Li Yuying, who was sitting on the couch, had a calm face, he was seventy-two years old at this time, his thin face was full of wrinkles, and his small eyes seemed to be slitted as if they could never be opened, it felt as if people could never guess what he was thinking, in fact, no one could guess what he was thinking.
In the face of the reality that the authority of the Unified Supervision Office is constantly strengthened and local power is constantly eroded, as the regent of North Korea, he is silent and does not show too much emotion.
But in fact, only Li Yuying himself knows that in this era of foreign disturbances, North Korea must rely on China, otherwise it will not only be unable to stand on its own, but will even be in danger of annihilating the nation and destroying the country, and the only thing that makes him happy is that although the unified supervision office has encroached on the power of the local government, it has not directly touched the power of the Korean royal court, and in his opinion, maintaining this balance now is undoubtedly the most beneficial to North Korea.
"Back to the eunuch, the wife he hired is the daughter of the Shen family of Huayang Cave Imperial Dynasty Village! His grandfather was Shen Mingxin, vice president of the Tongwen Society. ”
Kim Yun-sik said softly on the side, he learned the news at the gathering of the Tongwen Society, and after getting the news, he immediately came to Yunyan Palace to report to the courtyard king.
"Oh......"
With a light response, Li Yuying's beard moved slightly with his breathing, but his eyes narrowed tighter, and finally let out a long sigh.
"In the eyes of Lord Tang, I am a North Korean, after all, I am not Chinese!"
When this exclamation came out of Li Yuying's voice, his words were full of helplessness, once upon a time, he had fantasized about deepening the relationship with Tang Haoran through marriage, and even did not hesitate to mention the royal princess. But the other party has never accepted it, obviously the other party can't accept the Korean princess as his wife.
Later, he also talked about this thought, after all, for Tang Haoran, he always has too many concerns, at least if he marries, he will inevitably become a junior, and in his opinion, maybe Tang Haoran's wife will be the daughter of an important minister in the Qing court, thinking that the court will help. But to his surprise, his wife was a dynasty man in exile in Korea.
It is precisely because of this that he will make such an exclamation, if his wife is the daughter of an important minister of the Qing State, he will not make this exclamation, but now......
"Eunuch, how should this matter be handled?"
"Xunqing, you personally congratulate Lord Tang, and you discuss it with Shen Mingxin......"
After thinking for a moment, Li Yuying continued.
"Longxi Li, the ancestor is a descendant of Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, who avoided North Korea after the Jiashen State Disaster, and is a member of the same dynasty as the Shen family, I heard that the daughter of the Li family is naturally beautiful, and can be married to the Shen family, and there are ......"
Although the Shen family doesn't know much about it. But Li Yuying knew that most of the people in the imperial village were sparsely populated. Naturally, he moved his thoughts to the Shen family's concubines. Although you can't marry him, you always need to give a gift to befriend this Tang lord, not to mention that his concubine is from North Korea, which can always deepen the relationship between the two parties.
Tang Haoran, who was in the Nanbie Palace, naturally didn't know that the Xuanji Courtyard Jun had once again moved his thoughts to his marriage, and even now, after the two sides exchanged eight characters, Tang Haoran was still a little confused.
Why did you propose to Shen Jingxian again!
Even Tang Haoran himself didn't know. Perhaps when I saw her for the first time in the ancestral hall, the pretty shadow that came out of the picture of a lady was imprinted in Tang Haoran's heart, but on the other hand, it was also to save some trouble. In the past two years, I don't know how many people have proposed marriage, but they have all been rejected by him under various excuses. Compared with those "ladies who have never met", Tang Haoran prefers Shen Jingxian's "Little Jasper".
However, as the commander of North Korea, he didn't need to worry about his marriage, and naturally someone else would handle it - the members of the Tongwen Society would naturally give him a standard Han-style wedding. As for Tang Haoran, he still needs to devote his energy to his own work.
"What can we do to help now?"
Putting down the documents in his hand, Tang Haoran stared at Li Muchen with his eyes. Asked aloud.
Why did he propose to Jingxian again after learning that Tan Sitong would launch an uprising. He never thought about this problem, but he just thought that if it dragged on, I don't know how many people would be remembered, at least it would be better to get married now than to remember his marriage in the Manchu court in the future.
Now the "help" in him naturally refers to the help given to Tan Si and others.
"My lord, in addition to providing weapons support, the Intelligence Bureau plans to send people directly to Hangzhou to assist in the uprising!"
Although he was not optimistic about the Hangzhou uprising, Li Muchen still chose to send people to participate in the uprising in order to obtain first-hand information, and of course, more importantly, according to the instructions of the lord, he wanted to ensure the safety of Tan Si and others, so that they could escape from Hangzhou in a hurry after the failure of the uprising.
"Does the Intelligence Bureau have the right person?"
Tang Haoran asked rhetorically, if there is no suitable candidate, maybe some people can be transferred from the police department, but Li Muchen's next words made Tang Haoran surprised.
"My lord, my personal opinion is that Shiro Fukushima should lead 75 Chinese and Japanese volunteers to Hangzhou!"
What the!
"Japanese!"
His brows jumped slightly, and Tang Haoran looked at Li Muchen in surprise, how could this guy use the Japanese.
"My lord, although Shiro Fukushima is a Japanese, he has devoted himself to the cause of East Asia as early as last year, and has completely dedicated the Beijing-Tianjin and Tohoku intelligence networks founded by his father and himself to the intelligence department.
Now, as the person in charge of the intelligence department, Li Muchen has a great appreciation for the more than 10 Japanese intelligence officers in the department, who are good at intelligence collection and analysis, especially the latter, and the analysts of the intelligence department are completely under the instruction of Japanese intelligence personnel to learn intelligence analysis work.
"So, I personally feel that he can be trusted!"
At least for now, it can be trusted, through contact with Fukushima Shiro, Li Muchen knows very well the thoughts of this former Japanese lieutenant, he hopes to help Japan with the help of China's strength, but his view of Qing Guo is pessimistic, and it is precisely because of this that the two sides hit it off, and even took it upon himself to completely dedicate the intelligence network as a "letter of nomination" to enter the intelligence department.
"At least on the anti-Qing stance, our interests are the same!"
"Hmm!"
After pondering for a moment, Tang Haoran nodded and said.
"These people can use it, but you have to pay attention to how to use it, and you can't give them access to information related to Japan, understand? And there's someone to control them! You must not let it preside over an action, you must remember one thing, if you are not of my race, its heart will be different! ”
(Lord Tang is getting married...... Hehe, okay, no longer have to worry about who the heroine is for, use the cannon sound of the uprising as a wedding gift, it seems, um...... Not bad either! Ask for a monthly pass, ask for support! (To be continued.) )