Last time, it was mentioned that in order to provoke the "First Sino-Japanese War", the Japanese tried every means to set up a trap for the Qing Dynasty, but it was interfered with because Yuan Shikai led the army in the peninsula town.

When the situation on the peninsula was turbulent, Yuan Shikai also found another "backer" - Russia, because before that, there had been many armed conflicts between Tsarist Russia and the Japanese state on Sakhalin. However, the "British Empire", on which the sun never sets, hated Tsarist Russia, which had fought with Britain for Iran, Afghanistan, and the Pamir Plateau in China, so it secretly supported the emerging Japanese state against the brutal Tsarist Russia. This led to increased tensions between Russia and the Japanese state.

Before the outbreak of the "First Sino-Japanese War," the relationship between Tsarist Russia and the Japanese state had reached a dangerous level of almost war, because Tsarist Russia also coveted northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula, and completely clashed with the "mainland policy" of the Japanese state.

However, in order to protect its interests on the peninsula from being violated by Tsarist Russia, Britain preemptively dispatched troops to occupy Korea's "Jumundo" Island. Faced with this situation, after Yuan Shikai led his army to the peninsula, he immediately put pressure on the peninsula authorities to remove pro-Russian officials, and at the same time signed a series of treaties with them, and established many concessions, safeguarding the interests of the Qing Dynasty, after all, since the second "Opium War" was ceded by Tsarist Russia after a large amount of land, the Qing Dynasty hated Tsarist Russia the most!

From 1885 to the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, Yuan Shikai controlled the court affairs and political and economic decisions of Korea to a considerable extent, and restored the Qing Dynasty's control over Korea to a certain extent. In this regard, Yuan Shikai's life and career have also reached the "peak stage".

At this time, Yuan Shikai not only had countless wealth and real power, but also had the favor of the beauties of the royal concubines of the peninsula, which was covetous.

As early as 1882, Yuan Shikai was only 23 years old when he entered North Korea with Wu Changqing, the general of the Huai Army. His "uncle" Wu Changqing died three years later, and he was promoted to the position of plenipotentiary representative of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty to negotiate trade matters on the peninsula.

Yuan Shikai's design to help Gaozong and Empress Myeongseong was actually to let the Min family get rid of their political rival "Daewonjun", because they were appreciated by the Joseon royal family. At that time, it was actually Concubine Min who was in charge of the power of North Korea, and she followed Yuan Shikai's suggestion to form a "Volunteer Regiment" and appointed Yuan Shikai as a "military training ambassador", making the Volunteer Regiment an important force to maintain the Korean royal family represented by Gojong and Concubine Min.

At that time, Concubine Min in the Korean harem was extremely beautiful, and even known as "the world's first beauty". She was very grateful to Yuan Shikai for helping her get rid of the enemy, and admired Yuan Shikai's demeanor, so she intended to make a promise. And Yuan Shikai was not willing to be lonely, so he immediately went to Concubine Min's phoenix bed and had a good time with her.

In order not to arouse suspicion, Concubine Min came up with a clever plan, which was to marry her cousin Yu Bichan to Yuan Shikai as his wife. Although Bi Chan's appearance is not as charming as her cousin Concubine Min, she is also born in the country and the city, and is determined not to marry if she is not a "hero".

After passing through the door. Concubine Min came to Yuan Shikai's mansion almost every day for a tryst under the pretext of visiting her sister, but was soon discovered by her sister Bi Chan. Bi Chan was very angry when he learned the truth, so he gave Yuan Shi Kaixiao a hard time. Yuan Shikai was also worried that the affair with the mother of a country would have a great impact after it was exposed, so he brought back one of his aunts from Henan, China, according to Bi Chan's method, and falsely claimed that it was the "main room", so he asked her to preside over the housework.

Concubine Min hated this to the core, so she united with the aunt to calculate her cousin Bi Chan, and even took revenge in various ways. However, it didn't take long for the Japanese army to begin a large-scale attack on Korea, and Yuan Shikai was also ordered back to China by the Qing government, so he brought Bi Chan and her two maidservants with him.

After returning to China, Yuan Shikai didn't know why, he also accepted the two maids as "side rooms", and according to their age, they became "second aunt" and "fourth aunt" respectively, but poor Bi Chan was only ranked third. Bi Chan, who originally wanted to be the "main room", is now often beaten and scolded by the "aunt", and is depressed and moody all day long. Yuan Shikai thought that he was ashamed of her, and with her, he treated her more specially than several other aunts.

But it's a pity that the son born to the "concubine" of the North Korean aristocracy was forcibly taken away and raised by his "aunt", and Zhang Dacheng became a "playboy" and a "loser" in the doting, and he often suffered all kinds of domestic violence, and he also committed suicide after Yuan Shikai's death.

Speaking of the reason why Yuan Shikai can still "steal incense and steal jade" in a foreign country, it is mainly because of the life and death grievances between Concubine Min and "Dayuan Jun". The political struggle between Concubine Min and Daewonjun is actually a true portrayal of the turbulent history of the last feudal dynasty of Korea (the "Yi Dynasty").

Although Concubine Min is Gaozong's imperial concubine, "Dayuanjun" is Gaozong's biological father, which is equivalent to the "Taishang Emperor" of China's feudal dynasty. However, Concubine Min's living age, power experience and historical status are similar to the "Empress Dowager Cixi", that is, "Lafayette" in the last years of the Qing Dynasty in China.

In contrast, the "Dayuan Jun" has many similarities in many ways with Yixin, Prince Gong of the late Qing Dynasty in China. However, in terms of cognition of the outside world, "Dayuanjun" and Yixin are very different. Yixin is known for "handling foreign affairs", while "Dayuanjun" is famous for closing off the country.

Concubine Min was born in 1851 and fought to resist the invasion of the "Japanese Invaders" and was martyred in 1895 at the age of 44. At the time of Concubine Min's birth, the "Li Dynasty" established in 1392 AD had a history of 460 years, which was equivalent to experiencing the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, but it showed the scene of the end of the world.

At this time, Western Christianity began to be introduced, and the Chinese "Zhu Cheng Lixue", which was dominant in the Li Dynasty, was under attack, and a fierce struggle was waged between the old and new ideas. Moreover, at this time, the Korean "Li Dynasty" was the same as China's "Qing Dynasty" Aixinjue Luo, and the royal family was so weak that it could not even give birth to a son.

For 50 years, the crying of babies was not heard in the royal palace. This situation was seen and remembered by Li Shiying, the "prince of the courtyard" from the royal family, and it was inevitable that he would secretly calculate. "Dayuan Jun" Li Shiying was very talented when he was young, but he had a bad reputation. In his youth, in order to protect himself in the turmoil of the royal family, he deliberately pretended to be unambitious and unruly, and spent all day "bamboo cane and mango shoes" to mingle with the scoundrels in the market.

In 1863, Zhezong of the "Li Dynasty" died, and because there was no heir behind him, the storage position was vacant. Lee is supposed to immediately show his extraordinary true colors. He secretly befriended various factions and frequently carried out "public relations" activities, and finally made his 12-year-old son Yi Hee enter the throne of Daeun, that is, the 26th emperor of the "Joseon Dynasty" Gojong.

As a result, Li should naturally enter the "regent" of the court. According to the Korean ancestral system, the biological father of the "king" who was related to the unification of the country was given the honorific title of "Daewonjun". However, the former Li should have the name of "Xingxuan Jun", so he was called "Xingxuan Courtyard Jun".

Immediately after the regency of the Grand Courtyard, he resorted to thunderbolt means. He reshuffled the cabinet, eliminated the Qi clan forces that controlled the regime, cracked down on party disputes, and strengthened the royal power.

However, at that time, the Western colonial forces had already entered East Asia, and China's "Qing Dynasty" and Japan's "Edo Shogunate" were successively forced by the Western powers to open their borders with strong ships and cannons, allowing each other to come in and dump all kinds of goods, plunder resources and wealth, and support puppets to enslave the people everywhere...... Faced with such a complex situation. The "Dayuanjun" adopted the traditional countermeasure that a "feudal absolutist" must take, that is, to continue to "close himself off from the country."

As a result, the "Joseon Dynasty" regarded all Western forces that came to knock on the door as "foreign disturbances" and never got used to it, and resolutely resisted neighboring Japan, which had followed the path of capitalist development after the "Meiji Restoration" and began to expand aggressively abroad.

The hard-line domestic and foreign policies of "Dayuanjun" forced political opponents to begin to collude, and the most troublesome thing for him was the "Concubine Min Group".

In fact, the formation of the "Concubine Min Group" was also caused by him. In 1866, the third year of Gaozong's accession to the throne, although he was still a 15-year-old boy, in the eyes of the "royal family", he had reached the age of "big marriage".

Therefore, according to the lessons of the "dictatorship of foreign relatives" for many years, the regent "Dayuan Jun" put forward the harsh conditions for the selection of the "princess", that is, her own family must be depressed, there is no concern about the "dictatorship of foreign relatives", and the candidate himself must be docile and virtuous, and have no intention of interfering in government affairs.

In this way, many "wealthy ladies" have been classified out of the circle, because which man from a wealthy family is not a man with three wives and four concubines, and a house full of children and grandchildren?

Searching around, his eyes were fixed on an orphan girl in the distant branch of his wife's family. This girl is twenty-eight years old and is the daughter of Min Zhilu, the wife of the Min clan of Dayuanjun. The Min family was originally a wang family, but at this time it had declined.

In the autumn of 1851, Min Zhilu was happy to have a daughter in a thatched house with wind on all sides. This is his only daughter, Min Ziying. When Ziying was 8 years old, Min Zhilu died in poverty. It is said that "the children of the poor are in charge early", and sure enough, the lonely little Ziying was forced by life, and went to several relatives in the capital alone to ask for help, which naturally made her have an unforgettable experience of "human warmth" and "the hot and cold world".

This situation has created her ability to be clever and thoughtful and calm in the world. This is the reason why she was immediately selected after entering the field of vision of "Dayuanjun". However, there is also a fateful ending that the two are incompatible with. In March 1866, with the wedding of Gaozong, Min Ziying officially became the princess. She was 16 years old this year, and Gao Zong was only 15 years old. In the first three years of entering the palace, Concubine Min strictly adhered to the etiquette of the mother of the country and did her best to be filial to her daughter-in-law, which was very satisfactory to her mother-in-law.

But what disturbed her was that her little husband was a little respectful of her, while he showed a young man's enthusiasm for another woman, Li Shanggong. As a result, a series of dramas of wives and concubines competing for favor were staged in the "Joseon Palace". Of course, whether it is ancient or modern, or Chinese and foreign, the emperor's harem competition for favor is always filled with bursts of blood, even between this underage couple, "the most ruthless emperor's family".

In the Korean court at that time, the women who had the opportunity to be favored around Gojong were not only his main wife and imperial concubine, but also had a variety of deputy positions, deputy deputy positions, and many colorful beauties, after all, "three thousand beauties in the harem" was very normal for the king of a country.

These women can't compete with the imperial concubine in terms of status, but as long as they are liked by the king, especially if they have a big belly, they can be promoted immediately. If the belly fights and gives birth to a "dragon son", and if she is more fortunate that her son is selected as the successor to the throne and canonized as the "prince", then she can rely on the "mother is more precious than the son", and one day she will become the "princess" of the absolute super big name in the harem, which is equivalent to the "queen mother" of the Chinese feudal dynasty.

Therefore, Concubine Min had a faint sense of crisis in her heart. But the calm and calm kung fu she has practiced since she was a child makes her never put the worries and jealousies in her heart on her face. She immersed herself in reading to dispel her inner depression, so she read the ancient Chinese "Spring and Autumn Zuo's Biography" and some other imperial classics such as "Shangjun Shu", "Lü's Spring and Autumn", "Zizhi Tongjian" and so on, laying a solid foundation for the future power and imperial country.

Concubine Min buried herself in studying, but Gaozong and Li Shanggong had a hot fight together, and soon had a child. In April 1868, the "Li Dynasty" was pleased with the noble son, and Gaozong was naturally happy to dance, and his father "Dayuan Jun" was full of joy.

Because the eldest grandson was born and there were successors, in the "eyes of the king of the courtyard", this is a sign of the revival of the "royal bloodline" and the continuation of the country, and it is an "auspicious omen".

So, in a cheer, this baby was given the name "Wanhejun", and the future "Donggong Shizi" is undoubtedly this baby. But in those years, Concubine Min read poetry and books, and set up a filial piety character, Concubine Min woke up in the morning and waited for the "princess" (the mother of the king of Korea), this kind of gentleness and frugality made her win the respect of many palace people. Concubine Min also often sent people to give gifts to her mother-in-law, and often wrote letters of greetings.

As a result, Concubine Min became the most respected woman in the Korean harem, and her family's Min Seung-ho and Min Kyu-ho were able to enter the court as officials. This is just the first step for Concubine Min to reach the pinnacle of power.

Next, she secretly got in touch with the famous families such as the Andong Jin clan and the Fengyang Zhao clan who were expelled by the "Dayuan Jun" through these two people. At the same time, Zhao Ningxia and Li Yuyuan, who were not reused by the "courtyard king", also threw themselves under Concubine Min.

It can be seen that Princess Min has played the "enemy of the enemy" to the fullest, that is, her friend, and has taken the opportunity to gradually increase her strength and prepare to seize power.

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