"It's all fed with silver."

Li Chengliang replied indifferently.

Then, Li Chengliang looked meaningfully at the southern soldiers who rushed towards Fengyue Tower again, and said:

"Therefore, there is no need for us northerners to worry about this matter, and the southerners themselves will not allow the southern soldiers to exist forever, but I am afraid that the imperial court will not!"

"After all, the imperial court will not always be as abundant as it is now!"

"Report to the imperial court, Pyongyang has been lowered, and the army is about to question Seoul to show the prestige of the monarch!"

Then, Li Chengliang said another sentence, and then, he took the knife and walked down the city wall and walked towards Fengyue Tower.

At this time, the southern soldiers had captured Fengyue Tower.

The Pyongan Province observed that Zheng Cheol and a number of Korean officials and generals in Pyongyang, except for those who committed suicide in advance, had also been captured by the Ming army at this time.

When Li Chengliang came, Wu Weizhong took Zheng Che and other North Korean officials who were escorted to greet him, and pointed at Zheng Che and said to Li Chengliang: "Uncle Ning, this person is Zheng Guan." ”

Li Chengliang nodded, looked at Zheng Che, and asked: "Zheng Observation, is it your order to refuse the Heavenly Army to enter Pyongyang City, or is it your order?" ”

Zheng Che didn't rush to answer, after thinking about it, he said with a solemn expression: "It's my personal instruction, it has nothing to do with the king's order, and it has nothing to do with the soldiers and people in the city, the king's order was to let me meet the heavenly army, and the soldiers and civilians in the city also want to welcome the heavenly army, all of them are I who disobeyed the king's order, and deliberately obstructed the heavenly army, and falsely passed the king's order, forced the soldiers and civilians in the city to defend the city, and the crime of disobeying the heavenly empire is all my fault!" Please do not be angry with the king, and do not be angry with the soldiers and people in the city. ”

"He is a good man!"

Li Chengliang said with a smile and said, "If this is the case, then you are the only one who is guilty!" ”

With that, Li Chengliang instructed his family to detain Zheng Che.

After the order, Li Chengliang and the guilty army rested in Pyongyang for five days, and then came to Huangzhou.

Yin Yuancheng, the pastoral envoy of Huangzhou, asked if he knew that Pyongyang was lost, and he knew that the heavenly army was unstoppable, so he simply knelt directly ten miles outside the city to greet him, and organized the people to eat pot pulp.

Therefore, the Ming army went down to Huangzhou without a fight and came to the outskirts of Seoul.

The reason why the Korean monarch Li Hui refused the Ming Dynasty's request to garrison troops was because he knew that once the Ming Dynasty stationed troops in Korea, it meant that he was no longer the supreme ruler of the land, and the Ming court officials stationed here were the real supreme rulers, and his royal power would undoubtedly be greatly limited.

No one would willingly want to have an extra master on their head.

Li Hui is the same.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty has always been more kind than powerful to foreign vassals in the past, for example, North Korea has repeatedly encroached on the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the northeast, and the Ming Dynasty basically does not blame it.

Therefore, Li Hui never thought about the consequences of rejecting the Ming of the suzerain.

And it just so happened that several generations of Korean monarchs now intend to support Shilin to replace the power in the Xungui Dynasty and achieve the greater purpose of their own royal power, so that most of the current power in the court is dominated by Shilin, and Shilin is good at party fighting, and for the interests of their own party, they all collude with the king of Joseon, and they all cater to Li Hui's original intention and advocate rejecting the request of the Ming Dynasty to garrison troops.

Of course, the fundamental reason is that the Korean monarchs and ministers did not feel that they had always been more kind than powerful, and even the Ming Dynasty, who had not been accounted for according to the territory of the Celestial Empire, would treat his North Korea because he refused to garrison the army.

But what the Korean monarchs and ministers would not have thought of was that the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun they met was not a traditional emperor who only knew how to oppress his own small people, but was lenient to foreign vassals for the sake of the scenery of all countries coming to the dynasty on the surface, and even used his own people's fat to do generous things.

Moreover, after rejecting the Ming Dynasty, Li Hui did not even have the slightest worry, fearing that the Ming Court would blame him.

Because the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty gave Li Hui and other Korean monarchs and ministers the impression that they were not aggressive, they would only be more sensitive to the bottom line of whether the succession to the throne was legal, such as killing the monarch and usurping the throne in their own country, and they would not care about anything else.

Therefore, before Li Hui learned that the Ming army had entered the court, he only paid attention to the disaster situation in Anzhou, and specially asked Shen Douhe, the envoy of the Anzhou Metropolitan Protectorate who was recalled from Anzhou: "Is the drought in Anzhou serious?" ”

Shen Douhe didn't dare to tell Li Hui the truth, because he knew that Li Hui was just asking, and he wouldn't really care about the situation in Anzhou, he was just acting like a benevolent monarch, and once he told the truth, he would become his own back, and he was said to be ineffective in governance, so he replied with a smile: "Anzhou can still support it!" ”

Li Hui nodded after hearing this, and laughed: "This is very good, it seems that God has not blamed the lonely and immoral." ”

"Report! Li Chengliang, the uncle of Ning Yuanbo of the Celestial Dynasty, was ordered to lead a large army to ask for the guilt, and now he has captured Yizhou and Anzhou! ”

And at this moment, Bing Cao was in a hurry.

After hearing this, Li Hui and Junchen froze on the spot.

After a long time, Li Hui came to his senses and hurriedly asked the ministers to discuss how to resolve the matter.

Today's North Korea is in a period of fierce party strife, so the ministers' opinions are very different, and they quarrel and quarrel, and they are chattering and messing into a pot of porridge.

It was said that the king of soldiers and horses from all over the country should be summoned immediately.

There are also those who say that they will immediately contact the Celestial Army to negotiate peace.

It is more hopeful that the king will move to Ganghwa Island immediately.

As a result, until the news of the Ming army's capture of Pyongyang came, the imperial court did not reach an agreement, and only issued an order to Zheng Che, who was guarding Pyongyang, to defend it.

The Ming army had not received any signal from North Korea to give in, so it had been marching towards Seoul.

On the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of Wanli.

The New Year is approaching, and there are plums in the wild.

On this day, the Ming army smelled the faint fragrance of flowers and officially arrived in the outer city of Seoul with the mood of resting for the New Year.

And on the 28th of the lunar month, the Liaodong Naval Division also repelled the Korean naval army, and transported the heavy artillery by sea to the outside of Seoul, and with the assistance of the Ming army on land, organized the Korean people to arrive outside the city of Seoul.

"General Wu, try the bronze heavy cannon cast by the son of the family, and by the way, also break the courage of the Korean monarchs and ministers in Seoul! Save them from making up their minds all the time, and they are unwilling to confess their sins to this dynasty! ”

Li Chengliang instructed Wu Weizhong at this time.

Wu Weizhong said yes, and on the morning of the 29th of the lunar month, he organized the gunners to manipulate, and Zhu Yijun asked Qi Changguo to cast a bronze heavy cannon to bombard Hancheng.

Ten twelve-pound guns with two ears and a thin mouth and a thick tail, so it didn't take long for them to start shelling Seoul.

Rumble!

As soon as the first bombardment began, the ground trembled, and the whole of Seoul trembled with fear, causing the snow to fall from the city as if a curtain of snow had fallen.

Rumble!

With another bombardment, the walls of Seoul not only snowed like rain again, but also began to fall bricks like hailstones, and the dignitaries and eunuchs and ordinary people in the city were so frightened that they hid in their houses one after another, and they did not dare to come out.

And it didn't take long for a big hole to appear in the city wall.

However, the Ming army only lined up outside and did not rush in.

The defenders of Seoul, North Korea, were naturally frightened and hurriedly informed Li Hui.

Rumble!

And the king Li Hui in the main hall also had to make up his mind after hearing the bombardment, and said cautiously to Lu Shoushen, the leader of the council: "I didn't expect that the Celestial Empire would one day be so strong and not as lenient as before, so let's borrow the head of the Qing people." ”

Lu Shoushen knelt down with tears in his eyes and prostrate on the ground: "Yes!" ”

So, on the afternoon of the 29th day of the lunar month, Li Er, the great student of the DPRK, as a Korean ambassador, walked out with Lu Shoushen's head, knelt on the snow, and raised Lu's head and shouted:

"The traitor Lu Shou cautiously deceived the public and the audience, separated His Highness and His Majesty's father and son, deliberately plotted chaos, and only then did he refuse the decree of the Celestial Empire's garrison, and now, it has been known to my Highness, and he has been killed, and his head is specially dedicated to the Heavenly Army, in the hope that the Celestial Empire will be merciful and forgive His Highness for failing to comply with the decree!"

After Li Chengliang learned about it, he specially told the news to Yu Youding, the official sent by the Ministry of Rites.

Yu Youding came directly by the boat of the Liaodong Naval Division, so when he arrived in Seoul, he met with Li Chengliang and others, and also met Zheng Che who was escorted.

Yu Youding didn't doubt it at this time after hearing that Zheng Che admitted that he had disobeyed the king's order and refused to allow the heavenly army to enter the city, but only reprimanded Zheng Che's disobedience from the perspective of science, and then after seeing Li Er at this time, he also asked directly:

"This church is the minister of His Majesty's sin of asking His Highness, what about your Highness?"

"Back to the angel, His Highness is kneeling at the palace gate to greet you."

Li Er replied.

"Get up, and take us to him."

(End of chapter)