Chapter 59: Cui Ying's Death

It's still in Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Wang Yu, the king of Goryeo, was sitting on the steps at the moment, and Cui Ying was at the bottom of the steps.

When Cui Ying came before, she was wearing a red official robe. It was meticulously cleaned up and looked very refreshing. But at this moment, Cui Ying is dressed in a white prison clothes, and there are blood stains on the prison clothes, which are not his. but of his disciples, students, and children.

There are shackles on the hands and feet, and they make a heavy sound when they walk and drag.

Wang Yu, the king of Goryeo, said: "Teacher Cui, you are my teacher, I treat you well, let you preside over the country on my behalf, but you contact all parties and want to overthrow me." Is that how you repay me? Could it be that this is what you Confucian scholars call loyalty to the monarch and serving the country? ”

"Loyalty has great loyalty and small loyalty." Cui Ying said: "Loyalty to one person is small loyalty, loyalty to Sheji is great loyalty, originally, His Royal Highness is the monarch of the country, carrying the Goryeo Sheji, and the big loyalty and small loyalty should be in the body of His Royal Highness." But how did you do it, Your Highness? Over the years, he has walked through the alleys, hammered people's heads with hammers for no reason, and regarded them as killers who do not know himself, as for smuggling into the people, robbing the people's daughters. The list goes on. ”

Cui Ying slowly closed her eyes and said through gritted teeth; "It's still a subsection. But what happened next was incorrigible. The small country of Goryeo is also the only way for a small country to survive. Yuan Sheng is loyal to Yuan, and Ming Sheng is loyal to Ming. When the former king was there, he was very respectful to the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, and His Majesty read that our country was remote, exempted from five thousand horse tribute, and took thousands of miles to send goose feathers, so that all the tributes were taken one, and five thousand war horses became two, and one thousand taels of gold became one tael. Better than the previous yuan countless. But the first king still sent it respectfully, because the Celestial Empire was magnanimous, and the small country was humble. Mere property, not worth mentioning, and making friends with the Ming Dynasty is the benefit of eternity. Now that His Royal Highness has been in the dynasty, he has changed the government of the previous king, and he has wavered between Yuan and Ming, and he has just returned. The Ming people entered the east of the Yalu River and had a land dispute with our country. This is negotiable. Send envoys to Beijing to defend. If you really don't want to, the land of the twin cities was not owned by me before, so what if it was returned to the Celestial Empire? ”

"Now that the two countries are fighting each other, the soldiers of Liaodong have driven straight into the city, and the troops are coming to the city, and today the Korean army has not yet sent troops, and Goryeo has lost one-eighth of it. How long will this war last? The non-minister is not loyal to His Highness, His Highness is dead, and the minister is willing to die. But this cannot be the case in Goryeo. Goryeo is not your alone Goryeo, it is the Goryeo of the ancestors and ancestors. It cannot die at our hands. ”

When a person is about to die, his words are good, and in the same way, when a person is about to die, his words are also false.

Hypocrisy and goodness do not conflict.

When a person is about to die, he always wants to leave some of his life's experience, and at this time, he has no selfishness. Because even if he is selfish, it is useless.

But everyone's perception of themselves is overestimated, or halo effect. To understand this, look no further. Just go and read some memoirs. In their memoirs, they glorify their actions.

And at the time of death, everyone wants to talk about their good aspects, but not about their bad aspects. This is called pseudo.

Although Cui Ying has the heart of loyalty to the Goryeo society and the heart of setting things right, she may not have the heart of a powerful minister. It's just that at this time, Cui Ying just wants to leave a glorious image in history, and some things are naturally hidden.

Wang Yu, the king of Goryeo, rarely did not interrupt Cui Ying's words.

What does Wang Yu want to say? Don't know what to say?

Wang Yu also wants to know if he can bow his head to Daming now, can he? But as soon as he thought of this thought, Wang Yu had a huge fear that grabbed his heart, and it seemed that he couldn't even beat. Wang Yu's fear is fundamentally his torment of the weak.

It's like Cui Ying just said. Wang Yu's favorite time is to gallop on the street. Watch the people on the street flee frantically. Take a hammer and hide it in your sleeve. As he passed behind him, he struck out suddenly. I don't know how to die when I see people die.

It's like hunting.

How does he treat the weak? He put himself in Zhu Yuanzhang's position to see if someone offended him. He would never let their family die an easy death.

Therefore, he never felt that the Ming army would forgive him.

And Cui Ying's words hit the sore spot in his heart. Wang Yu muttered, "Kill him, kill him." When he says a word, he will cut him with a knife, and I will chop him into pulp. ”

When the attendants heard this, they immediately took action and hacked Cui Ying to death with a random knife.

And Cui Ying's death is not the end. It's a start.

Cui Ying's death made Wang Yu no longer have any trust in the family and the original ministers in the court. He promoted his attendants to take over the country. It is undeniable that there are some talents among Wang Yu's attendants. But on the whole, it is not enough to take over the whole country.

Even if you have talent, you need to be experienced.

Not to mention, the Goryeo scholars are all over Goryeo, in Kaegyeong. It's just a representation of it. Not all of them. The ministers who had fled from Kaijing immediately exerted their influence when they came to their hometowns. Let Kaijing's order become a piece of waste paper.

It was originally circulated privately in Kaijing. It was rumored that Wang Yu was not the son of the previous king Wang Qi, and almost within a few days, it became an open secret known to everyone in Goryeo. It is said that Wang Yu, the king of Goryeo, should be surnamed Xin, and he is the son of the demon monk Xin Yu of the previous dynasty.

This represents the brewing of the next wave of offensive of the family.

And the Kaijing Rebellion put Li Chenggui in this place of suspicion.

After the causes and consequences of the Kaijing Rebellion spread, almost everyone believed that Li Chenggui was Cui Ying's follower. And with Wang Yu's means of killing, sooner or later the Li family will be liquidated.

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"Return to the army." said: "Kaijing is only a few hundred miles away from Pingcheng. Now in the opening of Beijing, the people are panicking, and the general's light cavalry will definitely collapse with a blow. Since then, the cause of eternity has been laid. ”

Li Chenggui was silent for a while, and said, "Mr. Zheng, did you know about the opening of Beijing?" ”

Zheng Daochuan was silent for a while and said; "Probably not."

Li Chenggui said; "And when will they know?"

Zheng Dao said: "I have already ordered the news to be blocked. Within a few days, there should be no problem. It's just that after winter, I'm afraid I can't hide it. So, the general hurried. Now or never. ”

Li Chenggui looked up to the sky and sighed. said: "What you said, how can I not think about it, not only think about it, but also think about it repeatedly. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that the opportunity had been lost. In the Ming Dynasty's intervention in the chaos of Goryeo, the opportunity is gone. ”

"Goryeo is a small country, only big things, this is indeed a wise saying, it can be said that one sentence breaks through the fundamental policy of Goryeo. And Mr. Zheng, you still have some obsessions. ”

Zheng Daochuan has already guessed some of Li Chenggui's thoughts. Said: "What does the general mean?" ”

Li Chenggui said; "Go to Xicheng and tell him about the situation in Kaijing, saying that the tyrant of the small country has rebelled and left, and the minister invited the Celestial Empire to enter Goryeo to quell the rebellion and preside over the overall situation."

Zheng Daochuan's heart moved, and he found that Li Chenggui really thought very well.

If the Ming Dynasty really wants to destroy Goryeo. Li Chenggui turned to the past, and in the future, he will be a minister of the Ming Dynasty, exempting himself from the difficulty of the collapse of the family, and even a meritorious minister.

If the Ming just wanted to teach Goryeo a lesson, then Li Chenggui switched to the past and replaced the Ming to control Goryeo in the future, and it may not even be impossible to replace the Wang family.

No matter what the Ming Dynasty thinks of Goryeo, Li Chenggui will be treated favorably if he surrenders with more than 100,000 people, and because of Wang Yu's approach, Li Chenggui is there under the pretext of borrowing troops to quell the rebellion, which can be regarded as an explanation to the top and bottom of Goryeo.

Compared with Zheng Daochuan's strategy of taking the risk of attacking Kaijing, taking Wang Yu, and then negotiating between Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty, it is better to be stable. No matter what the result, the Li family can be preserved. is not as good as Zheng Daochuan's approach, there is Haidong in the victorious world, and if you lose, you will be ruined. Children and grandchildren are cut off.

Zheng Dao said: "Please rest assured, general, I will definitely bring the words." ”

It's just that Zheng Daochuan has a trace of melancholy in his heart, Goryeo is the old country after all, and at this moment he wants to fill in the soil for the demise of Goryeo, even Zheng Daochuan, who has no feelings for the Goryeo Dynasty for a long time, also feels a little stunned.