Chapter 639: A Gift to the Old Eunuch
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The king of Korea, Li Hao, was so frightened that he collapsed directly to the ground, almost fainting directly, he didn't expect that even the south had news of the appearance of the Ming army.
"How could this be, when did these Ming troops suddenly appear, and what should they do now?"
The king of Joseon, Li Hao, began to panic, and he also knew that once Chungju was lost, Seoul would be in no danger to defend, and there was no point in running to Seoul by himself.
"For today's plan, I can only ask Daming to surrender, send someone to envoy Daming, choose three hundred beauties, send a generous gift, beg for mercy from Emperor Daming, and at the same time let Cui Guoxiao, the leader of the government, commit suicide, let him be a scapegoat, saying that it is His Royal Highness that he instigated You and Daming have a bad relationship, and all the sins are caused by Cui Guoxiao, when the time comes, Cui Guoxiao's head will be sacrificed, and then send some money to the senior officials of Daming, Daming should forgive Your Majesty, and you have done it before."
The Korean king Li Hao was worried that this would offend the big chaebol Choi family, and he didn't want to ask the Ming court for guilt in such humiliation, so he asked: "Is there no other way, what if you run away from the sea and flee to other places?" ”
"Is His Highness really willing to give up this great country, besides, now that the sea mouth has also been sealed by the Ming Dynasty, once Busan is lost, we will not be able to escape."
As soon as the North Korean official said this, the North Korean king Li Hao could only say weakly: "Arrest Cui Guoxiao, the leader of the council, the head of the prince, and the three hundred beauty pageants, and you will personally send the Ming Emperor to tell the Ming Emperor that he is willing to be the son of the Ming Emperor, and ask his father to spare the life of his son!" ”
As a result, the king of Joseon had no choice but to use the method of throwing the blame and taking the initiative to ask for forgiveness from the Ming Dynasty.
As for the Ming Dynasty's march in Korea, the Korean king Li Hao no longer cared, and even directly let it go, blindly staying in the harem and spoofing with his concubines, throwing the national politics aside.
As a result, the Ming Fourth Route Army successfully marched to the city of Pyongyang and Seoul.
When the Ming Dynasty appeared in Pyongyang City, the Korean king Li Hao also lost a lot of weight, trembling and climbing to the city wall to look at the black and oppressive Ming army, and knelt down directly: "Open the city wall, tell the Ming army outside that they can do whatever they want, just don't kill Gu." ”
The officers and soldiers of North Korea also knew that they were not the opponents of the Ming Dynasty now, and now that the king had issued an order to open the city gate, they had to open the city gate obediently.
Yan Yingyuan, the governor of the Northeast, and Gao Jie, the commander-in-chief, entered Pyongyang City with the main generals of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Korea.
"The root cause of several evil things done by the North Korean soldiers in our Ming Dynasty is that the ruling group of North Korea, the Lee clique, and other bureaucrats covet more interests of our Ming Dynasty, and they are the real culprits. In this way, I will be able to rule this place after the Ming Dynasty and establish a province and a government! ”
The governor of the northeast, Yan Yingyuan, ordered the infantry battalion to enter the city and began to implement the "three-day" policy of not sealing the sword in Pyongyang, in order to avenge the death of the Ming people at the hands of the Korean soldiers, and also to eradicate the opportunity for North Korea to regain its independence in the future.
As for the Korean king Li Hao, Yan Yingyuan ordered someone to drag him down and prepare to escort him to Beijing to be handled by the Ming Criminal Department.
Not long after, the Ming Marines also occupied Seoul and joined forces with the Ming Army in Pyongyang.
At this point, all North Korea was returned to the Ming Dynasty.
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In the Ming Dynasty.
The Korean envoys did not know that their Korea had been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and they had just arrived in the city of Beijing.
Today's Korean envoys have a lot of rules, and they no longer dare to regard themselves as tributary missions, ask the Ming Dynasty to give special treatment, and obediently live in the Huitong Pavilion by themselves, and only cautiously go to see the important ministers of the Ming Cabinet every day, hoping that the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen can see them.
Zhu Youzhen did not choose to meet these North Korean envoys, and even asked Dongchang to directly and secretly execute this group of North Korean envoys, and the three hundred North Korean beauties brought by North Korea were rewarded by Zhu Youzhen to the elderly eunuch Wang Chengen.
"You have been with me for so long, I have nothing to reward you, these three hundred Korean beauties, I can't bear to kill them, but I don't want to accept them, let my Ming royal family be dyed with Korean blood, so I will reward you."
Zhu Youzhen said.
"But Your Majesty, Weichen can't eat it!" Li Mingrui said and pointed to Song Yingxing, who was reporting the results of electromagnetic research on the side: "Why don't you give it to Song Gelao." ”
"Song Yingxing can't do it, I can't let him be squeezed dry, I have to let him give me a few more years of holy learning, you accept it all, even if you can't do some things for men and women, it's okay to warm your feet", Zhu Youzhen said this, Wang Chengen had to thank him, and Song Yingxing's eyes showed regret, and Zhang Dai, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the side, shook his head:
"It's a pity, I saw it, those three hundred Korean beauties are all stunning, but they can only be used to warm their feet."
Zhu Youzhen has no interest in North Korea's compromise and begging for mercy at this time, and now that North Korea is reunified by the Ming Dynasty, it is a foregone conclusion that he is more tolerant of North Korea now is to give North Korea more possibilities for independence in the future.
In order for the future Korean people to believe that they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they have always been only a part of China, they must be cruel now and eradicate all these Korean scholars.
However, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, still fantasized that he could be forgiven by the Ming Dynasty, and he believed that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty would forgive him, after all, the Ming Dynasty had always been tolerant of North Korea, so even if he was now in a prison car, he was not afraid.
Zhu Youzhen still chose to meet with the Korean king Li Hao, who was escorted to Beijing.
And this Korean king Li Hao knelt down as soon as he saw Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and cried: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Empire, the minister of the Korean King Li Hao knows that he is wrong, and the minister does not dare to raise troops to provoke the Celestial Empire without authorization, so that he is now suffering the pain of the country, I beg the wise Emperor of the Celestial Empire to forgive the sins of the minister, and the minister is willing to give up the territory of North Hamgyong Province in North Korea to the emperor of the Celestial Empire to herd horses!" Whining! ”
The king of Joseon, Li Hao, knew that he would have to pay some price if he wanted to be forgiven by the Ming Emperor now, and he also knew that the Ming Dynasty had always wanted North Hamgyong Province, a land that was once a Han dynasty, so he simply gave it away.
"What do you mean to let it out, your entire Korea is mine, I gave you the grace of the Li family, let you inform the land south of the Tumen River and the Yalu River for a hundred years, and now you are ungrateful, I have decided to take it all back, in addition, you will also be severely punished!"
Zhu Youzhen said and asked Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department: "The Dutch guard and the governor of the Dutch East India Company and the governor of the West India Company have not yet been dealt with." ”
"Back to Your Majesty, yes, it's still closed."
"Then execute them together with the king of Joseon, and I will execute them in the same way this time!"
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