As more news came back home, the imperial court also began an urgent discussion based on the latest news from the direction of Seoul.

The discussion was undoubtedly about what to do with the rebellious Joseon king Yi Di, and the court trusted the information provided by Jin Yiwei very much, so it did not suspect that it was a frame-up - taking a step back, Jin Yiwei had no reason to frame a vassal king who had just ascended the throne.

The imperial court has always had no tolerance for rebellion, and regardless of whether Li Di has rebelled or not, it is enough for him to have this intention to make it impossible for him to continue to keep the position of king, and the main question now is what to do with him and choose a new successor to the king of Joseon.

Most of the officials suggested that Li Di and the other Nanren Party ministers involved should be escorted to Jiangning for further interrogation, rather than being interrogated inside North Korea, and if someone encouraged the North Korean military and civilians to seize the king, wouldn't that give them a chance?

Moreover, by directly bringing it back to Jiangning for interrogation, the emperor can also directly take care of the interrogation process and get the result faster, which is better than continuing to stay in North Korea anyway.

Su Yan was also aware of this, but he did not directly order the Korean monarch and ministers to be escorted to Jiangning for interrogation, he had the heart to train his prince, so he ordered Li Di and a group of ministers of the Southern People's Party to be escorted to Beiping, with the crown prince Su Weize as the minister of the Qincha to take full charge of the case, and the right attendant of the criminal department, Lian Yiqian, and Jinyiwei commanded Tongzhi Wang Yuan to use the two as his deputies, and there were also officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, who went to Beiping with the prince.

Although the crown prince was appointed as the minister of the Qin Mission on the face of the full responsibility of this matter, but in fact, the focus is still on Lian Yiqian and Wang Yuanyong as deputies, Lian Yiqian is the son of Lian Chengbi who has been promoted from the governor of Guangdong to the governor of Jiangning, and the summer queen is the Langzhong of the Criminal Department.

In addition to these two people, there are also a number of subordinates of the East Palace, including Zhang Wanqi, the son of Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who is the Shao Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion under the East Palace, and is Su Yan's cronies for the prince.

This time, the prince went to Beiping, called the investigation of the case, but it was actually a northern tour, Su Yan could not let the prince stay in the palace all the time, just took the opportunity to exercise the prince, and also let him go out of the palace to inspect, sympathize with the people's feelings, and check the people's suffering.

The hundred officials were also clear about this, they did not object, and agreed to Su Yan's idea, and then led the topic to the new successor of the Joseon king.

The deceased Joseon Hyojong Li Hao had three sons, the eldest son Li Di inherited the throne, the second son and the third son have all died, so it is impossible to choose a new monarch from the heirs of Hyojong, but if you choose from the blood of Joseon Injo Yi Jung, there are still three people alive at this time.

Among them, the Lord of Linping, Li ?? He was once made the king of Joseon by the Qing court, although Hyojong did not execute him because of his family affection, but he still stripped him of his title and exiled him to Sangqingdao.

Just when the courtiers were arguing, I don't know who suddenly mentioned the only son of the current Korean king Yi Yan, Li Zhuo, who was born in the eighth year of Wu'an and is now seven years old, mentioning that his ministers thought that Li Zhuo was the son of the family, and he was the legitimate heir of the Korean monarch, even if his father was suspected of rebellion, he was now young, and he was appointed as the new monarch, and the imperial court would be able to further control the Korean court and avoid similar situations from happening again.

As long as the imperial court can deepen its control over North Korea, even if Li Zhuo wants to be his father when he grows up, he will be powerless.

This minister's words won Su Yan's heart, he nodded, praised the proposal, and took the opportunity to glance at the identity of the person who spoke, it turned out that Gu Yanwu, the left attendant of the military department.

Su Yan then adopted Gu Yanwu's proposal and decided to make the Joseon prince Li Zhuo the new king of Joseon, but this will was not issued in a hurry, because Li Yan's guilt had not yet been determined, which made it somewhat inappropriate to directly depose him.

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On the night of the decree, the queen took the prince to take the initiative to ask for a meeting, Su Yan of course understood the purpose of their coming, but he did not refuse, and summoned the two into the palace.

As Su Yan guessed, the purpose of the queen and the crown prince was for the purpose of today's decree, and Empress Zheng went to the prince, who was now just over fifteen years old

Beiping was really a little worried, so she wanted to ask Su Yan what he thought.

And the crown prince is eager to try, he has been thinking that one day he will leave this deep palace compound, go outside into the people, experience the suffering of the people, and now the opportunity has finally come, he heard that the queen mother is reluctant to do this, so he hurriedly moved, wanting to be there before his father was moved.

But fortunately, Su Yan's attitude was resolute, he did not retract his intention because of the queen's reluctance, but told the queen that the prince had grown up, and blindly doting on him would only have the opposite effect, and he still had to let him go out to experience more in order to become a qualified prince.

Seeing Su Yan's attitude so resolute, even if the queen was reluctant to give up on the prince in her heart, she had to keep her mouth shut and stop saying anything, Su Yan saw her like this, so she had to comfort her and tell the queen that the prince would be well protected on the way, and he would go out to play completely, and there would be no danger.

When the prince heard this, he echoed it again and again, patting his chest to ensure that he would not run around, and that he would return to Jiangning with a large group of guards and a lot of hair wherever he went.

After being beaten several times by the father and son, the queen finally relented and agreed to let the prince go on a northern tour.

After this day, after more than half a month of preparation, the prince's car finally left Jiangning City and drove to Beiping.

In addition to the two deputies and a number of subordinate officials of the East Palace, Yu Lindu and Long Xiang's left and right guards also followed, and set off as the prince's garrison.

After crossing the Yangtze River, the prince continued to sail north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, escorted by the East China Sea Division's brig and brig frigates along the way, and finally arrived in Beiping.

When the news spread, officials along the entire Grand Canal from Jiangning to Beiping began to get busy, cleaning up the unstable factors in their jurisdiction, preparing tributes to the crown prince, etc., and for a time there was a lot of trouble.

In Korea, after the news reached Seoul, the first standard, which still controlled Gyeongbokgung Palace, also began to act, and they sent the Joseon king into a carriage, and the ministers of the Nanren Party involved were not treated so well, they were put in prison clothes, and they were escorted forward after the king's chariot.

The first standard will start directly from Seoul, take the land route into the northeast region, and then enter the Guannai, and finally arrive in Beiping, which is also for the sake of safety, after all, the climate on the sea is complex and changeable, if you encounter a shipwreck, the king of Korea has a three long and two short, it is not good.

And Su Fu also set off at about the same time, crossing the sea from Tsukushi to Seoul to take up the town, to prevent any changes in Korea during the absence of the king of Joseon.

After the king of Joseon was escorted away, there was actually not much turmoil in Korea, except for those two classes of nobles who were not reconciled to this, most of the commoners looked like they had nothing to do with themselves.

In contrast, they are actually more concerned about the conscription points set up by the Xia Dynasty in Korea, the number of an infantry brigade has not been able to be recruited under the deliberate interference of the Korean king, and now the biggest source of interference has been captured, and the people have gone to sign up, and in less than ten days, the quota of nearly 10,000 people in an infantry brigade has finally been recruited.

After the recruitment was full, the DPRK soldiers did not stay in the DPRK for training, but after a short queue training of more than half a month, they took a ship to Shandong, preparing to go to Shandong for further training.

For the infantry brigades composed of these foreign soldiers, their weapons and equipment are exactly the same as those of the Xia Army Brigade on active duty, but they are not exactly the same, and each brigade is also mixed with some equipment with national characteristics.

The Korean brigade was the most sinicized, so they were almost the same equipment as the Han soldiers, while the Japanese brigade was equipped with an additional katana and helmet armor in addition to the two-type rifle with its own bayonet.

The Annan and Burmese brigades did not have many weapons, but their armor was even less - because of the environment they were in, the armor on their bodies had also become short armor with local characteristics, which only protected the vital parts, which allowed them to move freely in the tropical forest, without sweating and raining down on a few steps.

For the newly recruited Korean brigades, Japanese brigades, Annam brigades, and Burmese brigades, the imperial court was prepared to send them all to Meng after they completed their training

The Imperial Court will continue to use troops in the west in the next few years, and when the war starts, these foreign infantry brigades will have the opportunity to prove themselves to the Imperial Court.

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While the Xia army escorted the king of Joseon to Beiping, thousands of miles away in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, which was later known as a pearl in the Indian Ocean, five ships flying the flag of the Xia Dynasty slowly sailed into the exotic port of Colombo.

Lai, like the rest of the fleet, looked with curiosity at the bustling port, where Colombo, the capital of Dutch Ceylon, was densely populated and received most of the Europeans who had fled the war in East Asia, so that not only dark-skinned natives but also blond-haired foreigners could be seen in the city.

The arrival of the five Xia Dynasty flags quickly attracted the attention of the whole city—not quite a sensation, but it also attracted the attention of many people.

Whether it was the Dutch who ruled the city, the Europeans who had fled here, or the indigenous Sinhalese, they all looked at the Han Chinese who had disembarked from the five Xia Dynasty ships.

Because of the growing strength of the Xia Dynasty and the act of forcing the Dutch to sign a defeated treaty, the Dutch were full of fear of the Xia Dynasty, although they were full of hostility to these Han people who came from afar, but they did not dare to make some small moves openly, so they could only turn a blind eye and pretend that nothing happened.

Chen Yongan, the leader of the fleet, led the sailors out of the ship and stood on the hot harbor, looking at the topless coolies who made a living by selling their physical strength, and could not help but feel that there were such people everywhere.

Lai Zhihao also disembarked from the ship, he was one of the learned people in the fleet, and he had also read ancient books that recorded Zheng He's voyage to the West in the early Ming Dynasty, so he knew that hundreds of years ago, Zheng He led a huge fleet to sail here.

At that time, it was still ruled by the country called the Ceylon Mountain Country, and its monarch Yalie Kuner was "stubborn and irreverent, plotting to kill the boat master", Zheng He was aware of it, left the Ceylon Mountains to go to another country, and visited the Ceylon Mountain Country again on the return journey, Yalie Kuner lured Zheng He to the country, sent 50,000 troops to besiege Zheng He's fleet, and cut down trees to block Zheng He's way back, Zheng He immediately attacked the Ceylon Mountain Country, captured its monarch, and brought it back to the country to present to the Yongle Emperor.

The Yongle Emperor did not kill Yarekhunar for this, but released him and selected a sage in his country to inherit the throne and crown him as the king of the mountains of Ceylon.

Zheng He's fleet in the past was so powerful that Lai Zhihao couldn't help but think that if Zheng He and his fleet were allowed to go to the Western Ocean during the Wu'an period, they could more or less be awarded the title of Earl and Marquis by virtue of their exploits in discovering the Borderland.

As mentioned earlier, Colombo received many Europeans who had fled from the South Seas, and many of these Europeans knew Chinese, so that when the fleet came to this non-linguistic territory, these Europeans who knew Chinese became the medium of communication between them and the locals.

In this era, the foreigners did not have a condescending face in the face of the Han people, they would not think that it was a shame to serve the Han people, as long as there was money, everything was easy to say.

The exception, of course, was the, who were no different from animals at this time, and no one would treat them as human beings - except for East Asians who were not directly involved in the triangular trade.

With Europeans who knew Chinese as a medium, the fleet quickly bought new charts and supplies from the local area, and translated the charts with the help of the foreigner, and in order to prevent the future from finding foreign devils who could speak Chinese, the European who accepted their employment also officially accepted the appointment of the fleet under the persuasion of Chen Yongan and became one of them.

After receiving fresh water and food, the fleet left Colombo and continued westward along the coastline of the Indian peninsula, where they were bound to try their luck in what would become known as the Horn of Africa, a country that had not yet been visited by European colonizers and was only a few loose city-states that were not connected to each other, and they were ready to try their luck there to see if they could find a habitable land.

Of course, this is all known from the European population who joined the fleet, and the Europeans were not interested in barren Somalia – there would be no time until hundreds of years later

It was found to be rich in mineral and oil resources, and attracted competition from various countries, and now it was seen by European colonists as little more than a resource-poor wasteland.

However, it is no wonder that they are not at all, in this era, oil and other very important resources in later generations are completely useless, at most used as fierce fire oil used in war, and other than that, there is no other use worth mentioning.