Three years after the apocalypse, this is destined to be an unstable year.

The internal innovation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen's removal of the guard, ignited the vitality of the Ming Dynasty.

Nurhachi of the Jin Kingdom continued to build stone forts, and thirty-six stone forts were erected in the Great Wall occupied by the Jin army alone.

There are hundreds of small stone forts on the dozens of roads leading to Hetuala.

These stone forts were excavated from the mountain, heavy and 100 catties, and were built in the narrow mountain road, leaving only a seven-foot-wide fort gate.

On the grassland, the Chahar Department began to mobilize troops and horses, and Chen Bing was on the border between the Horqin Department and the Chahar Department, and seemed to be preparing to take advantage of the time when the Ming Jin War broke out to attack Horqin, who betrayed him.

Lin Dan Khan is still dreaming of his Mongolian Great Khan, while some people are dreaming of being pulled off the throne......

When the guard station was abolished in Daming in full swing, a chess piece buried by Zhu Youzhen played a role.

"Angel, this is what you want......"

The ninth day of the second month, late at night......

With a sound sounding, in a courtyard study in Seoul, the king of Joseon, a North Korean official dressed in regular clothes and wearing a wipe on his head launched a dossier, and sitting opposite him was Yang Ho, who is now the king of Joseon.

The candle flame was drifting, Yang Hao looked at the file in front of him, and the person kneeling in front of him, his face was not shocked, but he said:

"What does Jin Tongzhi mean by this?"

Kim Jin, a North Korean Tongzhi, is a member of the Korean Westerners' Party.

As a country that imitates and learns from the Central Plains Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty was in the party struggle, North Korea was not far behind.

The East People's Party and the West People's Party in North Korea were products of that time, and the reason for their birth is said to be because one lived west of Hanyang and the other lived east of Hanyang.

Like the Ming Dynasty, in the countries affected by Confucian culture, the struggle for the right to establish the reserve was the beginning of the party struggle.

The origins of the Westerners Party can be traced back to the 1591 dispute between the establishment of the reserve and the Prince, when the Easterners supported Li Hui, who was not yet the king at the time, as the son, and the Westerners supported the Shinjo Jun Li Jue as the son.

The mother of this Xinchengjun Li Hui is the concubine Jin, one of the two beauties favored by the former king of Joseon, and the other beauty is the biological mother of Gwanghaejun Li Hui, the concubine Kim.

Since the concubine Kim died shortly after giving birth to Gwanghaejun Li Hun, in fact, Gwanghaejun Lee Hun was actually raised by the concubine Kim.

Although it is said that the relationship of political antagonism, Gwanghaejun also imposed house arrest on Ren Concubine Jin after ascending the throne, but after all, there is a little special nurturing grace that makes Ren Concubine Jin not end up in a different place.

As for the trump card in the hands of the Westerners, it is this Ren Concubine Jin.

Ren Concubine Jin's eldest son, Xincheng Jun Li Jue, was defeated in the battle for the prince that year and died of illness soon after, but Ren Concubine Jin obviously did not give up the opportunity to compete for the throne, because she also had a son, that is, Dingyuan Jun Li Xuan.

Ren Concubine Jin and this Dingyuan Jun, under the protection of the Westerners, also planned to overthrow Li Hui's rule.

But coincidentally, before the overthrow, Dingyuan Jun Li Jian died.

Li Hui's death made the Westerners Party not have enough strength to overthrow Li Hui's rule, but fortunately, Li Liang also has a son, that is, Li Liang, the king of Ayayang.

Because Li Liang himself was young and promising, and he was also the eldest son of Dingyuanjun, he was soon selected by the Westerners Party as a figure who could compete with Gwanghaejun for the world.

The Westerners soon created considerable influence in the imperial court by supporting Li Liang, the grandson of the Jin family.

In addition to the previous Shen Qin, there were also Jin Liu, Li Gui, Li Shi, Jin Zidian, Jin Shangxian, Hong Ruifeng, Cui Mingji and other large and small officials gathered on the side of the Western People's Party, and successively became the leading figures of the Western People's Party.

With the growth of the Westerners' Party, a political contest to determine the fate of the Korean state has begun, and now this political contest has reached a critical time.

At this critical time, some external forces have become the power hidden in the darkness and needed by the Westerners, and this force is Yang Ho in front of Jin Liu.

From the third party, and also the biggest party, the power of the Ming Dynasty......

It has been a year since Yang Ho came to North Korea, and during this year, Yang Ho did not make friends with any North Korean ministers, but just traveled around North Korea to observe the terrain of North Korea.

Of course, he is also secretly collecting information on North Korean captives, but because of the lack of manpower, he has only collected some scratches so far.

However, just when he was about to continue collecting, the visit of Jin Liu, the Westerner Party, brought things to a turn for the better.

The dossier in front of him, before Yang Hao opened it, he already knew what would be inside.

But what he didn't understand was what it meant for Jin Liu to hand over such important information to himself at such a time.

"The angel and tyrant Li Hui privately carried out the act of not being angry with Jianyu, and after we found out about this matter, we were very frightened."

"We are subjects of Korea, how can we blame our own monarch?"

"But the emperor has the grace of reinvention to the lower country, so the lower officials brought this information to the angel, and asked the angel to be the master, and abolished the position of the tyrant Li Hui!"

Jin Liu knelt on the ground, threw himself to the ground, lowered his head and said all this to Yang Hao, his voice was sad, as if he was sobbing.

But such sadness and sobbing, in the end, came a sentence asking Yang Hao to abolish Li Hui's position, which really makes people like it.

However, personal liking is one thing, and whether you can profit for Daming in behavior is another.

Long before Yang Hao set off, he had already obtained Zhu Youzhen's handwriting and understood what he should do.

In the letter at that time, Zhu Youzhen also vaguely mentioned that North Korea might go into chaos and abolish Li Hui's position as monarch.

But Yang Hao didn't expect that Zhu Youzhen's guess would be so accurate......

Thinking of this, Yang Ho did not respond to Jin Liu, but reached out and picked up the file, then opened it and saw the contents.

Most of these contents are evidence that the Gyeongseong Metropolitan of North Korea Province secretly built trade with the other side of the Yalu River.

In the first year of the Apocalypse alone, there were as many as thirty-seven transactions between the two sides, and each time the trade items were mainly grain, ranging from thousands of stones to hundreds of stones.

At first glance, this may not seem like a lot at a time, but it adds up to a lot of money.

Yang Hao roughly calculated, the trade grain between the two sides in the first year of the Apocalypse reached more than 200,000 stones.

So much food is enough for the 100,000 soldiers and horses under the old slave to eat for two and a half months, but Yang Hao just glanced at it and felt that this information might be fake.

The reason is very simple, the grain in North Korea is much more expensive than that of the Ming Dynasty, and one stone of grain costs 600 wen to buy.

If you use the goods such as mountain ginseng and mink skin on the intelligence, you will not be able to exchange so much stone grain at all.

In addition, the intelligence also exposed another major weakness of Li Hui's reign.

During his reign, in the face of the rise of Jianguo, Gwanghaejun not only did not actively assist the Ming Dynasty in this process, but secretly sent Qiubo to Jianguo, trying to maintain Korea's neutral position in the Mingjin War.

During the Battle of Salhu, he reluctantly sent Jiang Hongli to lead an army of 13,000 to support the Ming army, but privately paid for the construction of the prisoner and leaked the military aircraft, resulting in defeat.

Not only that, in the face of Xiong Tingbi's request to send people to North Korea to recruit troops, Li Hui also found various excuses to perfunctory, and constantly emphasized the importance of maintaining contacts with Houjin.

However, judging from the remaining articles, whether North Korea is captured or not, Yang Hao, who commanded the Battle of Salhu, is very clear in his heart.

North Korea is unlikely to have much information, and it is powerless to betray it.

As for conscription and Li Hui's diplomatic peace with Jianyu, there is no doubt about this.

To sum up, this information is seven points false and three points true, if it is really carefully traced, it will not take much energy to find out.

However, under the interests, the truth of the information does not seem to matter, so Yang Hao pretended to be angry instead of debunking the golden gill:

"How can this be true? Li Hui received the grace of the Heavenly Empire and actually did such a pickled thing! ”

"Angel Mingjian......" Jin Liu continued to worship, and then raised his head and said:

"Please take action from the angel and abolish the tyrant Li Hui who is not loyal to the emperor's dynasty!"

"This ......" Hearing that Jin Liu insisted on letting him abolish Li Hui, Yang Hao frowned, he was not willing to wade into this troubled water.

Li Hui is certainly not a thing, but this does not mean that the Westerners are good, and they are not a thing in comparison.

In the following chaos, this kind of thing is not allowed by the Ming Dynasty.

If Yang Hao really made a move, he had no doubt that those ministers who were far away in the capital would impeach him and be killed by the emperor in the next second.

But there is no doubt that if Li Hui is deposed, then Daming is profitable.

Therefore, Yang Ho can only say tentatively:

"The old man can't make a move, because there is no will of Banzai, and the old man does not have this power."

"You don't need an adult to make a move, you just need an adult to hand over this information to the Son of Heaven!" Jin Liu saw Yang Hao's hesitation and hurriedly came up with a solution.

As for this so-called method, it is just to use Zhu Youxiao's will and then abolish Li Hui.

In other words, as long as Zhu Youxiao issued a decree, or even a holy decree, they would abolish Li Hui.

But if that's the case, Daming won't get any benefits, so Yang Hao remembered Zhu Youzhen's letter, and couldn't help squinting his eyes and said:

"Hand over this information, the old man suspects that when Long Live Long Yan is furious, he may send troops into the DPRK to take over the Gyeongseong Metropolitan Protectorate in Northern Province to deal with Jianyu, and to prevent someone from North Korea from having an affair with Jianyu."

"Uh......" Hearing this, Jin Liu was also speechless.

It's true that they want to seize power, but that doesn't mean they're fools.

Yang Hao's words seem to confirm that if the Northern Province of Hamgyong Province is captured, then the Ming Dynasty will garrison here.

Although if the Ming stationed troops there, North Korea could be protected by the Ming Dynasty, but the problem was that if the Westerners agreed to let the Ming troops station, the Easterners would inevitably attack them en masse.

If the Easterners can't beat them, then the only way to do this is to slaughter the Easterners.

It seems to be more difficult to do this......

"No matter, promise to come down first!"

Jin Liu gritted his teeth and said directly: "The emperor Ming stationed troops in the upper dynasty to resist Jianyu for my Korea, which is naturally a good thing." ”

"In that case, the old man will play this military situation." When Yang Hao heard this, he didn't give Jin Liu time to repent, so he directly called the brocade guard outside the door.

After accompanying Jin Yiwei in, Yang Hao handed over the information provided by Jin Liu, and did not forget to say at the end:

"Eight hundred miles expedited."

This sentence said, Jin Liu has no way out at all.

As for Yang Ho, he didn't lose at all, because whether it was the victory of the Westerners or the victory of the Easterners, the Ming Dynasty had obtained the evidence of the crime of being captured by the Koreans themselves, and they could blatantly enter the Korean garrison.

Yang Hao's plan succeeded, and after Jin Liu had no way out, he also determined that Yang Hao would not help Li Hui, so he returned to his mansion after a short greeting.

At this moment, his mansion was surrounded by many Westerners, and the patrols on the streets had become their men.

Everyone was here to wait for Jin Liu's news, and when Jin Liu brought the news back, everyone's faces turned ugly.

"The information has been handed over, if we can't set things right, then the Easterners will definitely not let us go."

"First strike!"

Some officials within the Western Party are aware of how bad this matter will be for them if it is exposed.

Even if Yang Hao comes forward to protect them at that time, it will be difficult to protect them.

In that case, then they have to do it to the end.

"Gather the soldiers and horses around us, with only the soldiers and horses in the city, we can't defeat the Dongren Party."

"Li Shi's prestige and ability are good, and with him leading the soldiers and horses anyway, he will definitely be able to do things perfectly."

In this dim room, more than ten people, including Li Gui, Jin Liu, Shen Jingzhen, Li Shu, Gu Hong, Gu Renyuan, Li Shibai, and Li Shifang, formulated a plan for the eventuality, and publicly recommended Li Shi, a soldier with a high reputation in the army, as the general of the anti-epidemic situation, and prepared to attack the palace tomorrow evening.

At the same time, Jin Liu also spoke:

"At the same time as the anyway, send Ayayang-kun to the army and let Li Bing protect him!"

"Of course." The rest of the people bowed their heads, and then discussed the details of the anyway, and finally everyone left before dawn.

Everyone spent a depressing day, and in order to avoid the coup d'état of the Korean monarchs, Yang Ho also led more than 200 people of Xiao Caiwei and Jinyi Wei out of Seoul early in the morning, preparing to go to Suwon in the south to go to Qingqing.

Yang Hao's departure also made the people of the Westerner Party completely relieved.

At 17:45, when the people of the Joseon Dynasty were rushing out and the nobles were returning.

Li Gui, Jin Zidian and others of the Westerner Party successively led the recruited "righteous soldiers" to the Hongji Temple in the city, and Jin Liu, as a general, also led his own 100 families to arrive.

In addition to them, there are hundreds of people who have not arrived one after another, and the sky is not dark, and everyone is still waiting for the best time.

Just while they wait,

It's just that like all coups, there will always be some traitors in the coup, and Li Hui, as the king of Joseon, is also a little uncertain at this moment.

"Lonely's eyelids have been jumping ...... today"

In Changdeok Palace in Gyeongbokgung Palace, Li Hui, who was painting, pinched his eyebrows.

As the royal palace of Joseon, Gyeongbokgung Palace is located in the center of the northern half of Seoul to the west, with Bukakksan Mountain to the north.

In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, Joseon Taizu Li Chenggui ordered Zheng Daochuan to supervise the construction of the palace, which was built according to the system of the Ming Dynasty's palace, so the palace was actually not big, and it was not as good as the Zhou Palace, Fu Wangfu and Shu Wangfu in the same period of the Ming Dynasty.

In such a small palace, it is difficult for any wind and grass to escape the eyes of those who have a heart, and just when Li Hui felt uneasy, footsteps sounded in the corridor outside the hall.

"Your Majesty, the leader of the council asks to see ......"

"Xuan ......" heard that Zheng Renhong, the leader of the council, asked to see him, and Li Hui also put down the brush in his hand.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Zheng Renhong, the leader of the council, hurriedly walked into the hall with his crotch on his hips, and kowtowed anxiously to Li Hui, who had just put down the brush:

"Your Majesty! Jin Liu, Li Gui, and Li Shi intended to rebel, and at this moment, they had gathered hundreds of soldiers and horses in the royal city! ”

"What did you say?" Hearing that the Westerners were going to make a move, Li Hui's Tong Kong shook, and then asked:

"Who is guarding the gates of Seoul today?!"

"Wangshang, it's Song Yingwang and Li Xingli......" Zheng Renhong explained, and Li Hui immediately got up when he heard it, and anxiously crossed the trail:

"How many soldiers and horses are there in the city?"

"Li Shu has 700 soldiers and horses, and Li Xingli has 1,200 supervising soldiers."

"What about the rest of the horses?" Li Hui asked anxiously, but Zheng Renhong said with an ugly face:

"Early in the morning, Yang Shilang went to Suwon, and the military judge sent eight hundred capital supervisors to escort ......"

"Bastard!" Li Hui overturned the dwarf table in front of him and said angrily:

"The rebels are rioting in the city, and he actually sent 800 soldiers and horses to escort them!"

"Your Majesty!"

Just when Li Hui was furious, his confidant Park Dingji also trotted into the temple, knelt down and said:

"Your Majesty, the soldier Li Shi led a thousand and a half troops, and he just entered Hancheng from Changyi Gate, and after merging with Song Yingwang's six hundred soldiers and horses, he shouted under the banner of Ayayang Jun to set things right, and now he is less than a mile away from the palace!"

"The rebellious ministers Jin Jin, Li Gui, and Li Shu led another 1,400 rebels to kill the palace, and the capital supervisors under the command of the capital supervisor Li Xingli did not move!"

Park Dingji brought the worst news, Jin Liu's actions were too fast, and it was just getting dark, and they had already come to Gyeongbokgung Palace with their soldiers and horses.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

Suddenly, Li Hui heard the sound of fried beans, and immediately turned around and pulled out the sword that was placed on the shelf from the side of the study:

"The rebels are already attacking the palace, you all order the people and horses of the palace, and take the prince and Gu from the back garden to kill!"

"Wangshang—" Zheng Renhong and the two wailed, but they were kicked over by Li Hui and scolded bitterly: "Go quickly!" ”

Seeing Li Hui's angry and action-oriented appearance, Zheng Renhong and the others ran out of the palace in a hurry, began to gather some guards who had not yet been in chaos, and finally escorted Li Hui and Shizi, taking advantage of the fact that the rebels had not yet taken the city gate, and fled towards the back garden.

It's just that when they braved the darkness and fled to Xiyuan under the escort of dozens of guards, a large number of torches suddenly appeared around them, and more than 200 rebels with knives pointed at them.

"Bastard! Don't kneel down when you see Lone?! ”

Li Hui pushed away the guards in front of him and raised his sword to roar at the rebels, but at this time, he saw several people dressed in armor and wearing foreheads walking out of the rebels.

The leader is his nephew, Ayayang Jun Li Liang, and Li Liang is surrounded by Jin Liu and Li Gui.

"Li Hui! In the past few years of your reign, despite Jianlu's invasion of Liaodong in the Emperor's Ming Dynasty, not only did you not actively assist the Emperor's Ming Dynasty, but secretly sent autumn waves to Jianlu. ”

"In the first battle of the Emperor Ming Dynasty Salhu, you secretly paid for the construction of the prisoner and leaked the military aircraft, which led to the defeat."

"The Emperor Ming Dynasty sent people to recruit troops from North Korea, and you also found all kinds of excuses to perfunctory it, and now you are still secretly confusing and betraying the Emperor Ming Dynasty, so that my North Korea will become a country of beasts!"

"Now with the will of the concubine, depose your throne!"

Among the rebels, Li Ju was under the guard of the rebels, counting Li Hui's crimes, and among these crimes, except for the private arrest when Li Hui paused, Li Hui was punished as if he hadn't heard it, and scolded back:

"Nonsense, ridiculous! Lone is the king canonized by His Majesty of the Emperor's Ming Dynasty! What qualifications does the concubine have to depose Lone?! Even if you want to be deposed, it is an order from His Majesty the Emperor Ming, what qualifications do you have! ”

"Betraying the Emperor Ming to the court, you still have the face to mention the Emperor's Majesty!" Seeing that Li Hui still had to resist, Li Liang immediately took a step back and waved his hand to signal the rebels to surround him.

The two sides fought each other, and there was no formation at all, just slashing the knife in their hands according to the level of clothing.

At this time, Li Hui actually had the will to resist, in the midst of the chaos, relying on the rebels did not dare to kill him, holding the prince with one hand, and slashing with a sword with the other.

Seeing that Li Hui was about to break out of the encirclement, Li Ju couldn't help it, so he shouted: "Catch this tyrant first!" ”

"Yes—"

Hearing Li Hui's order, the rebels responded loudly, and then all of them flocked to Li Hui and his son.

Not long after, Li Hui and Shizi were successfully captured, and the remaining guards surrendered one after another when they saw that the situation was not good.

Li Liang, who captured Li Hui, also escorted him to the palace of Renmu's concubine Jin, and then asked Jin to personally depose him and let Li Liang temporarily take the throne.

Such a family-like political battle actually decided the direction of the Joseon throne, and when the news reached Suwon, Yang Ho's face twitched a few times.

"Decades have passed, and the soldiers and horses of North Korea are still ...... Still is...... Forehead ......"

For a while, Yang Ho didn't know what to say.

But at this time, standing beside him, a brocade-clothed guard Qianhu who was dressed in a flying fish suit spoke:

"You can send a message to Banzai and His Highness, asking if you have sent troops to the Mirror City Metropolitan Protectorate."

"Hmm...... This Li Lian succeeds to the throne, and he also needs the approval of my Ming Dynasty, otherwise his name is not justified, and he will be deposed by a coup d'état. Yang Hao bowed slightly, and then said to Jinyi Wei Qianhu:

"Shen Qianhu, I'm bothering you to send someone to go."

"No, I'll go myself this time." Shen Lian shook his head, and then said:

"It's been four months since I came to North Korea, and everything is almost done, and the route map from Gyeongseong Metropolitan Protectorate to Hetuala, and from Busan to Gyeongseong Metropolitan Protectorate has also been cleared."

"Send these things back to Daming, I believe Your Highness will be very happy."

"It's okay......" Yang Hao bowed slightly, and then arched his hand:

"In that case, then please ask Shen Qianhu to return to the capital and ask Banzai and His Royal Highness, what should the old man do next......"

It is comfortable in North Korea, but it is not as prosperous as Daming, if he can, Yang Hao is still willing to return to Daming.

Shen Lian also knew this, and after nodding his head and saying that he would ask for him, he left with Jinyiwei......