Shi Gaoyi was a slender middle-aged man with fair skin and looked like a scribe. He is a native of Beizhili, and he was indeed a scribe before, and he also took a lifting exam in the last year of Wanli. But although he is full of wealth, he is not a brainless person.

In the year of the Apocalypse, seeing that the Xuzhou Group was rising day by day, and it was uncontrollable, he gritted his teeth and went directly to Xuzhou, and then became a scribe in Xuzhou because of his literacy and hyphenation, but of course his ambition is not only that, he has been looking for opportunities to drill camps in addition to his hard work, and he wants to climb up.

Finally, he found an opportunity a few years ago, when the Han Dynasty had just been established, and the various systems and official offices were still in chaos, he followed the army to the capital, and then kept drilling the camp, and finally entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Because he is diligent and good at meeting his boss, he is very appreciated by the director Kong Zhang, who promoted him several times and made him his right-hand man.

But of course he doesn't have that little ambition alone. After two years of hiking, he waited for another opportunity. At that time, the new dynasty had largely pacified the chaos in Liaodong, most of the Jianzhou Jurchens had been wiped out, and a small number of remnants could only hide in the mountains and forests to survive, so the new dynasty put its ambitious eyes on Goryeo.

After several rounds of deliberations, the upper echelons of the imperial court decided to interfere in Goryeo on the grounds that the Goryeo ministers had staged a coup d'état without authorization and deposed the emperor, and at the same time, in order to minimize Goryeo's will to resist, the imperial court also wanted to whitewash its own intentions and support the exiled and blind deposed king Li Hun as a puppet.

The top priority of this plan naturally fell on how to contact Li Hui and other Koreans, and this became the task of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after learning this secret from his boss Kong Zhang, Shi Gaoyi simply volunteered to involve himself in this operation, and finally obtained the permission of Kong Zhang and the prime minister under fervent pleading.

He had been in the Foreign Affairs Department for a few years, and he had learned some Korean dialect intermittently because of the needs of his work, but after getting this task, he mustered all his energy to learn from others, and he mastered Goryeo dialect proficiently within two or three months, and then entered Goryeo territory with a few retinues.

After coming to the territory of Goryeo, according to the previous plan, he secretly contacted the ministers of the northern faction who had lost power, and promised them huge benefits, and these ministers who had lost their glory and wealth heard that the Chinese and Korean dynasties wanted to reinstate Li Hui, so they were naturally overjoyed, and the two sides hit it off, and soon with the help of these people, he got in touch with Li Hui on Ganghwa Island.

Then, he secretly investigated the situation around Ganghwa Island, and then through a surprise attack by the navy, he captured Li Hui from the guards, and then the Han advanced by land and water, forcing Goryeo to have Li Hui reinstated with absolute military pressure.

Such a big deal is not something that ordinary people can play, and the gamble of his own life has also given him enough rewards after the victory. After Li Hui was reinstated, the new dynasty set up a mission in Goryeo, and he became the undisputed candidate for the head of the mission, and he also hung the title of deputy director in the Department of Foreign Affairs, with official titles and positions. In addition, he was awarded the title of baron by the emperor and officially became a member of the Han nobles.

Now, years have passed, but whenever he thinks of these ruthless actions at that time, he is still secretly proud. From a scholar, in the end, he fought for wealth and wealth, and also won the title, and his husband's long-cherished wish was fulfilled, what a joy this is!

However, even at this point, Shi Gaoyi's ambition is still not fully satisfied, and he still wants to go further.

Although he was sent to Seoul, he was willing to spend money, so he was quite well-informed, and he could often get first-hand political news from the capital. From these news, he heard that the prime minister may want to upgrade the foreign affairs department to a ministry, and change it to the same level as the most important government offices, and the old boss, Kong Zhang, the director of the foreign affairs department, will naturally become the indispensable foreign minister at that time. He didn't count on the position of the minister, but the position of the deputy minister had to be said.

There are now several officials with the title of deputy director in the Department of Foreign Affairs, but there will obviously only be one vice minister at that time, and Shi Gaoyi wants to be that one. As long as he can become a vice minister, he will officially become one of the top bureaucrats in ****, and he can no longer be regarded as a clerk who looks up to others.

Shi Gaoyi is indeed an ambitious person, but only under the impetus of ambition can a person make a big career that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

He knew that he was promoted because his meritorious service was appreciated by the above, so if he wanted to continue to be promoted, he had to continue to make meritorious service to make the above more appreciated.

And how did he get appreciated in Goryeo?

In his opinion, what the emperor, the prime minister and the director want most is to strengthen the control of the dynasty over Goryeo, so he wants to do this tirelessly, constantly interfering in the internal affairs of Goryeo under various pretexts, and is not afraid of being seen as arrogant and undignified. He was not afraid that the Koreans would hate him at all, and they would not be able to decide on his own ascension anyway.

After his efforts in the past few years, the Han Dynasty's influence in Goryeo has penetrated more and more, and the economic benefits have become greater and greater, so he is also confident that the imperial court should be quite satisfied with his work performance, and he is very hopeful that he will get what he wants.

However, although he had exhausted himself, he was thousands of miles away, and could not see Director Kong and the top figures as often as several other rivals, and the news that the crown prince was going to visit Goryeo in person made him overjoyed.

Although the crown prince is young, since the emperor has sent him out, it means to let him participate in state affairs. And the same is true of the rumors that came out of Kyoto. Since this is the case, it is of great significance to please the prince, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becomes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as long as the prince can say a few good words for himself, then the promotion will definitely be a certainty.

The crown prince came to the town for a while to conquer Japan, so the most important thing they should do now is to work with the Goryeo court so that the prince can successfully complete his mission.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured." After he spoke, Zhang Daoyan, the deputy envoy of the mission, immediately spoke, "Everyone has a heart to serve the country with fists, and when they hear that the prince will come, they are all very excited, and they are waiting to satisfy the prince." ”

Shi Gaoyi bowed slightly, and then turned his gaze to the leader of the garrison, Yingzheng Meng Zhigao.

This Meng Zhigao is a military man with a rough figure and a dark complexion, he is a member of Xu Huairen's clan, and he was put into the Zhao Zi battalion when he started in the Han Dynasty early, because his combat bravery was quickly improved, and he climbed step by step from the small soldier to the position of the battalion.

He had previously participated in the war against Manchuria in Liaodong, and after the Han pacified Manchuria, he participated in the invasion of Goryeo and the restoration of Li Hui, and then after Li Hui was reinstated, the Han left two battalions of garrisons in Seoul, the capital of Goryeo, on the grounds of "protecting the personal safety of the lord", and he remained as the battalion of one of them. These two battalions were stationed in the embassy district on weekdays, so he and the other battalion often participated in the mission's meetings on weekdays. Among these two battalions, he has the most seniority and a lot of combat exploits, so if the other battalion is Wang Yun very convinced of him, he will become the number one person in the garrison.

The status of the garrison in Goryeo was important, and being able to serve as a battalion commander also showed that he was extremely trusted by his superiors, and it was rumored that after he ended this expatriate position and was transferred to China, he would be promoted in the army, and he might even be knighted.

Because of the separation of civil and military affairs in the Han Dynasty, strictly speaking, the ambassador was not his superior, and his status in Goryeo was transcendent. However, Goryeo was thousands of miles away, and the transportation was inconvenient, and Meng Zhigao was not a talent who was proficient in Goryeo's foreign affairs, so in order to deal with emergencies, he and the garrison were specially instructed to obey the ambassador's moderation under normal circumstances.

Of course, the ambassador still respects the leader of the garrison very much on the surface, after all, the power of the Han army is strong now, and it cannot be underestimated, so they have gotten along very well in the past few years.

"My lord, of course, our garrison and the embassy are of the same mind, and they will never cause trouble to everyone." Meng Zhigao also immediately expressed his position, "Over the years, we have all shared weal and sorrow in Goryeo, and finally created the current situation. The prince is here, this is a great joy, if anyone dares to let everyone have a bad time, I, Meng Zhigao, am the first not to agree! ”

After all, he is a martial artist, and he speaks so straightly, but he also happens to say the ambassador's heart, so Shi Gaoyi is not too much for himself. "Meng Yingzheng's words are the truth, everyone is doing things here, which one doesn't start from a blank sheet of paper? Finally, thanks to God's grace, everyone has made some achievements, which are not easy to come by, and they should not be easily lost...... Our own people, I am quite relieved, everyone is sincerely united, outside of our own people, it is difficult to say......"

"Your Excellency is talking about the Goryeo Imperial Court?" After all, Zhang Daoyan has worked with him for many years, and he immediately met his thoughts, "Could it be that I am worried that someone in Goryeo is plotting against him?" ”

"Yes, this matter has to be worrying." Shi Gaoyi sighed, "We are naturally loyal to the country, but it has been a terrible slander since ancient times, if the prince of the Goryeo monarch and the courtier has the opportunity to slander the prince, then ...... The consequences are unimaginable...... Think about it, when the prince arrived in Goryeo, because he was behind the main town, he must have had to deal with the ministers of Goryeo, and if he had a lot of contacts, he might listen to slander......