Compared with the signing of some treaties that humiliate the country and completely lose power, it is obvious that the latter is more difficult for Li Yuying to accept.

Li Yuying did not let Yuan Baoheng wait too long, and soon agreed to many conditions put forward by Yuan Baoheng, in order to regain power.

After sending Li Yuying away, a smile appeared on the corner of Yuan Baoheng's mouth, although Li Yuying hesitated for a moment, but it was the same as he expected, he had no other choice than to completely surrender to the empire.

Based on Li Yuying's statecraft, he was a very typical conservative in the Korean Kingdom, a staunch seclusion faction, except for trade and military and political exchanges with the empire, he excluded exchanges with other countries, in short, Li Yuying wanted North Korea to play his own house behind closed doors.

If the affairs of the DPRK are handled properly this time, I am afraid that the next commendation will be indispensable, and it is best to be able to be knighted with the help of foreign affairs, like Li Bocang, the predecessor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so that his Yuan family can return to a high position in Chinese politics just around the corner.

Although the Yuan family is a big family, his father Yuan Jiasan was an official in the former Qing Dynasty, and he was also an official to the governor of a province after returning to the empire, so that the Yuan family did not perish with the Manchus like many powerful families in the former Qing Dynasty, but maintained its glory and wealth as always.

In fact, this is also the choice of many high-ranking Han officials in the former Qing Dynasty.

On the eve of the fall of the former Qing Dynasty, many local middle- and lower-level Manchu officials, especially those from Confucianism, basically chose to submit to obedience, and not many rebelled to the end.

Middle- and high-level officials also chose to submit to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in many places, while many high-ranking officials also chose to serve the Manchus. It's a pity that when Xianfeng fled later, many of them were abandoned.

When Prince Gong surrendered the city. Killed another batch, and waited until the Chinese army entered Beiping. A group committed suicide, a group absconded, and the rest were killed by the Chinese army.

Most of the Han officials in places like Yuan Jiasan, Li Hongzhang, and Zeng Guofan either surrendered or voluntarily surrendered, and some of these people went home to retire from now on and did not care about the world, some were entrusted with idle posts, and some were retained.

And the sooner you take the initiative to submit. is also the easier it is to get reused, Yuan Jiasan is the early to return to obedience, so the later treatment is not bad.

But even so, compared with a large number of founding heroes and magnates in the empire, most of the powerful families in the early era of the Yuan family have declined, and few people can still maintain the past glory.

After all, once a son of heaven and a courtier, not to mention a change of dynasty, it is not easy for the magnates of the previous dynasty to not be killed.

Yuan Baoheng is now the highest-ranking person in the Yuan family in the empire. Yuan Baoheng knew that this was a rare opportunity in his life, and as long as he did a good job, he might be transferred to several other important countries as ministers in the future. When I returned to China, I was also a director of the department.

After a few more years, it is not impossible to get a co-organizer by then.

But to get enough credit in North Korea. It's not that simple, first of all, it's a simple way to oust Concubine Min from power. It is far from enough to support Li Yuying to come to power.

Because Korea was originally a vassal state of the empire, and the geographical location of Korea was important. However, for the contemporary empire, the status of North Korea is very low, and many businessmen of the empire are too lazy to go to North Korea to do business, because North Korea in these days has nothing, and even the market potential is not much, and the industrial products of the empire cannot be sold even if they are dumped at low prices in North Korea.

And after Japan was dismembered by the empire into a three-country state, Japan will not become a threat to the empire in a short period of time, or even for 50 years, and without the threat of Japan, the importance of the geographical location of Korea, a peninsula country sandwiched between the empire and Japan, will also decline indefinitely.

Therefore, in recent years, the empire has basically taken a laissez-faire attitude towards North Korea, and as long as North Korea obediently calls itself a minister, then the top level of the empire generally does not care about North Korea's affairs.

In 1864, Yi Hee ascended the throne as the new generation of Korean kings, and sent a letter to the empire asking for canonization.

Based on the contempt that the empire itself regards Korea, it is difficult to cause the empire to despise it without large-scale changes.

The reason why the empire sent Yuan Baoheng to Korea this time was because of the opening up of Korea to the outside world, and the introduction of Britain, France and other forces threatened the security of the empire on the Korean Peninsula, which made the empire that had always regarded Korea and Japan as its own backyard.

Therefore, this is the arrival of Yuan Baoheng.

Before coming to North Korea, Foreign Minister Song Guanqian met with him and told him to restore calm to North Korea, stop having nothing to do, and bring in Britain, France and other Western countries.

And it is also frankly said that in order to maintain the strategic security of the northeast direction of the empire, the empire will take all necessary measures to quell the turmoil in North Korea.

This kind of thing is almost to Yuan Baoheng to say that the empire is already ready for a military solution, let Yuan Baoheng go to defense.

Of course, there is no special preparation for the so-called military preparations, and if the military wants to support troops against Korea, there is no need to mobilize at all, and there is no need to even increase temporary war expenses.

The Imperial Army stationed two divisions of regular field troops in Korea and the border provinces of Liaoyang and Jilin, as well as a number of local garrisons.

Then there were more than 200 troops stationed in the Seoul Empire, and in the naval port of Busan, there was a battalion of marines and a number of sailors.

If the empire were to solve the Korean problem militarily, it would be very easy.

However, for the empire, although it has the right to garrison troops in Korea, the right to military access and other rights, but Korea is only a vassal state of the empire, and on the surface, it is still necessary to respect the will of the Korean kingdom, and if it rushes to send troops, it will bring some bad international influence.

If the empire sent troops to destroy one of its vassal states for no reason, it would make other vassal states even more panicked, and the power of Britain and France would be introduced.

This is detrimental to the East Asian foreign policy being pursued by the Empire.

In recent years, the empire has been pursuing a foreign policy in East Asia, trying to bring the traditional Confucian countries in Asia under the control of the empire, so that the relationship between the suzerains and vassal states is not simply a verbal vassal, but has evolved into a real alliance, of course, this alliance must be dominated by the empire.

Of course, this is only one of the options, and many people within the empire, especially the military and some radicals, prefer to completely annex the surrounding countries and complete the great achievement of expanding the territory.

Just like the annexation of New Eastern Province and Kokand Province, opening up millions of square kilometers of land for the empire is what many military generals and radical civilian officials of the empire are pursuing.

Later generations often said that the Russians were the countries that were most hungry for territory, but empires with Confucian traditions had an equally serious desire for territory.

Ancient and modern, foreign policy and territorial expansion were the first choice of ambitious monarchs to build great achievements.

And when every dynasty is first established, it is always the best time to expand its territory.

The current Chinese Empire is no exception, in the sixties, except for the Hawaii accident that Lin Zhe insisted on seizing, the expansion of the empire in Central Asia and Siberia was basically supported by the unified support of the whole empire, even if it was the civilian faction that clamed for the weakening of military spending, they also supported the expansion of the empire in these two directions.

It's just that they don't want to spend money on it!

Those civilian officials hoped that the military soldiers would 'replace bullets with blood, and replace shells with courage' to expand the territory of the empire!

Now on the side of the empire against Korea, there are many people who want to take advantage of this opportunity to completely achieve a feat that no dynasty has been able to achieve in thousands of years: the complete subjugation of Korea and the turning of the Korean Peninsula into imperial territory!

From ancient times to the present, although there are many Central Plains dynasties that can defeat Korea and force them to surrender, there is no Central Plains Dynasty that can completely annex Korea, and always give them the right to autonomy after the Koreans surrender. ”

In short, in ancient times, due to the very long distance between Korea and the Central Plains Dynasty, and there was nothing to do, except for the consumption of military expenses, there was no actual income, and the taxes collected were estimated to be not enough to suppress disasters.

Then Korea is a barbarian land, which has to rely on strong military rule, and will not be easily submitted, if there is a rebellion every three years, just suppressing it is enough to be annoying.

However, these problems are not a problem for many military and political leaders in the empire today.

Far from Beijing?

No matter how far away can there be Kokand Province? Can there be Hawaii far? Can there be Alaska far?

Now the empire was able to expand in Central Asia and effectively rule the province of Kokand, as well as the province of New Eastern and rule effectively, and even went thousands of miles away to Hawaii to try to occupy the Pacific island nation, and finally although most of the goals failed, it still captured a Pearl Harbor, thus completely planting the imperial flag in the Central Pacific.

No matter how far away North Korea is, can it be as far away as the above-mentioned places?

The so-called 'Goryeo went to Beijing for 4,000 miles' is no longer a reason to hinder the empire's conquest of Korea in the contemporary empire! (To be continued.) )