Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Kangxi thought to himself: "He must have never thought that Zhen would lead an army of [-] to inspect the autumn harvest in Shengjing... In this way, there will be [-] more Qing soldiers in Liaodong than he knew, and the speed of gathering will be faster. .

He would never have thought that I already knew that the rebel Third Prince Zhu was secretly training troops and stockpiling food in Dengzhou!

And now the weather is getting colder and colder, and the soldiers from the south can't adapt to the bitter cold in Liaodong and North Korea.

This time I can finally defeat Zhu Heqi, the number one traitor in the world! "

Just when Kangxi was proud, at the front of the team, a group of knights suddenly rushed up. The leader of the rider was Zhou Peigong, the head of the Confucian Dynasty Hall and one of the five Confucian masters.

Seeing "Zhou Beiguang", the joy on Emperor Kangxi's face gradually disappeared, and he quickly reined in the horse under his crotch, then watched the opponent get off the horse with a frown, and saluted respectfully to himself.

"Long Live Lord, I have received two secret reports from Jiangnan and Jiangbei... Among them, Jiangnan's secret report said that at least [-] puppet Ming troops were found boarding the fleet moored there in Wusong Port, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, and they also I found Zhu Hechi's favorite concubine Ye Shi! And when Ye Shi appeared, the Ming army who was boarding the ship shouted long live!"

Kangxi nodded: "Zhu Hechi has come to North Korea!"

Zhou Peigong said again: "The emperor is wise, but the secret report from Jiangbei said that thousands of Ming soldiers and Ye Yuling boarded the ship were also found in Qingjiangpu, Huai'an Prefecture. The Ming army also shouted long live."

Kangxi wasn't too surprised, "It's no big deal to play tricks..."

Zhou Peigong went on to say: "In addition, Jiangbei's secret report also mentioned the personnel changes of the puppet Ming court...Zhuge Sanhe left Jiangxi, Yang Xiuqing worshiped the right minister, Yu Zhongxian moved to the left minister, and Zhu Cijiong returned to Nanjing to act as supervisor of state affairs!"

The personnel change in Nanjing is not a secret, and the news will be publicly published in newspapers such as "Rumen Daily", so Zhou Peigong will know it soon.

"Then..." Kangxi squinted his eyes and thought for a while, "Zhu Heqi is definitely not in the middle school anymore." He then said to himself, "Zhuge Sanhe is handsome, and at the same time he is Zhu Heqi's confidant. Stationed in Jiangxi, Wu Zhou must not dare to act rashly.

Yang Xiuqing is Zhu Heqi's eldest brother-in-law, and Yu Zhongxian is Zhu Heyi's godfather...these two sit in the center to assist the third prince Zhu, and there will be no trouble. "

"Your majesty is wise!" Zhou Peigong sent another compliment, and then he added: "Your majesty, I think that Zhu Heqi will most likely be stationed in Dengzhou..."

Kangxi smiled: "Zhou Peigong, you are guessing again!"

"Slave..."

Zhou Peigong wanted to say something more, but Kangxi waved his hand and said, "Zhou Peigong, let me tell you clearly... This time, whether Zhu Heqi is in North Korea or in Dengzhou, I can beat him!

Because I have seen through his tricks a long time ago, he just wants to deal with me by diverting the tiger away from the mountain.But he forgot that I have an army of 30, and Galdan has already held Burni, and my army of 30 can be used against him.

Moreover, it is already October, and it has already snowed in many places in Liaodong and Liaoxi, and it will soon snow heavily in North Korea...Among the ice and snow, I am not afraid of his Southern Army!

In November and December, Huaibei will be covered with ice and snow, and it will be impossible for Zhu Heqi's army to cross Huaibei!At that time, I will be able to deal with the rebels in North Korea and Dengzhou with all my strength! "

Chapter 533 Scroll, roll, roll into a monster room!

Want to deal with the Ming army in Dengzhou?

Zhou Peigong, who was kneeling on the ground, was shocked when he heard the words.

He has now been squeezed out of Kangxi's inner circle, and he is not even allowed to stay in the Qing Dynasty. Instead, he is sent to Haizhou, the "concession" of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea.As the head of Confucianism's Chosun Hall, he is responsible for developing Confucianism's influence in North Korea. At the same time, he is the supervisor of Haizhou Customs under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This supervisor is not only in charge of customs collection, but also an intelligence agency...

Because Haizhou in North Korea is now a "free port" like Dengzhou, anyone can come as long as they pay taxes.

Moreover, rare things such as ginseng, fur, sea cucumber, and Dongzhu produced in Northeast China and North Korea are now exported through Haizhou Port.Therefore, Haizhou has developed into a ring in the Northeast Asian triangle trade of "Shanghai-Haizhou-Dengzhou".

Therefore, Zhou Peigong, who is in Haizhou, will soon know what happened in Shanghai and Dengzhou... Confucian masters who have been familiar with the "anti-classic" of course know that there are "three caves for cunning Confucians".Therefore, they also set up secret strongholds in Dengzhou and Shanghai, established contact with Wu Zhou through the strongholds in Shanghai, and then opened a semicolon on Wu Zhou's territory.

And the stronghold in Shanghai was an important window for Confucianism to collect domestic intelligence of the Ming Dynasty. Li Guangdi found out that Zhu Heqi had personally conquered North Korea, and immediately sent a messenger to take the news to Zhou Peigong on a Western merchant ship from Shanghai-Haizhou.

In addition, in Haizhou of the Qing Dynasty next to Huai'an Prefecture, there are also merchant ships that go directly to Haizhou of North Korea.Therefore, Zhou Peigong can quickly know what happened in Huai'an-if there is a westerly wind on the sea, it will only take a day or two to sail between the two Haizhous.

That's why Zhou Peigong was able to bring these two important pieces of information to Kangxi before Kangxi crossed the Yalu River south.

But now he doesn't know Kangxi's arrangement... He originally estimated that Emperor Kangxi's goal was only to invade North Korea and the Ming army that might invade Liaodong from the sea, but he didn't want him to focus on the "free city" of Dengzhou!

When Kangxi saw the fleeting astonishment on Zhou Peigong's face, he knew that half of his trick of cheating was done.

If even Zhou Peigong, the "Duke Zhou of the Qing Dynasty", didn't know about it, then the fake Zhuge Liang of the Ming Dynasty certainly wouldn't know about it either...unless he really knows how to pinch and count!

In order to be able to conquer the dangerous place of Dengzhou, Kangxi has taken the risk of taking time out of the defense forces in Tianjin, Beijing and outside the mouth. When the Qing army deployed by Kangxi in these two areas is fully staffed, the total strength can reach as many as 12, accounting for Half of the total strength of the Qing army's field troops.

Now, except for 12 of the [-] troops who followed Kangxi to the northeast, most of the rest followed Chang Ning and Yue Le secretly to Shandong after mobilization.

And the main force of the Xu Su Corps of the Qing Army also went north secretly under the leadership of Fei Yanggu.After Chang Ning, Yue Le and Fei Yanggu joined forces, they formed a main force with 15 people!

Their goal is the very rich Liberty City of Dengzhou!

Regardless of the fact that Kangxi has been ignoring the existence of Dengzhou in the past two or three years, and even acquiescing to the "Confucian sticks" and Xiangxian under his hands to deposit money in the bank in Dengzhou... But he has long been Treat Dengzhou as a thorn in the side and meat in the bowl!

The nails must be pulled out quickly, and the fat must be swallowed first!

If he can eat the fat of Dengzhou this time, take over the North Korean beauty, and watch a fight between the Wu brothers from a distance, then Kang Mazi will really win!

But if he wants to win, Kangxi has to keep secret and must not leak the news.

Thinking of this, Kangxi smiled fairly to Zhou Pei: "Pei Gong, I still need someone to advise me... Why don't you go back to the South Study Room for a walk! There is no need to go back to Haizhou, I will give Shi Lang Go down to Dao Tingji, let him take over your errand."

When Zhou Peigong heard this, his heart trembled.

This Kang Mazi has no good intentions!

What did he notice?

Could it be that after taking down Dengzhou and swallowing North Korea, they want to attack the increasingly stubborn Confucianism?

His concerns are certainly justified.The purpose of Emperor Kangxi's support of Confucianism is obvious, one is to fight against Confucianism, and the other is to control the local sages.

However, the leader of the Confucian sect is Zhu Heqi himself, and the Confucian saint is Kong Yuqi, the former Yan Shenggong.

As Kong Yuqi got older and Confucianism became more powerful, Confucianism had become a little difficult to control...

So the time to harvest Confucianism is almost here.

Although he understands Kangxi's thoughts, Zhou Peigong can only thank the Lord for his kindness... Even if he has thoroughly understood the "anti-classic", but a master like Kangxi is not something he dares to oppose face to face.

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In late October, North Korea, Asan City.

Located at the foot of Asan on the south coast of Asan Bay on the Korean Peninsula, in a valley surrounded by mountains, there was originally a low and narrow town, which was Asan City.

However, since the change of Changdeok Palace two months ago, this small city of Asan has become a large barracks and a large construction site.

After Li Wenji, the lord of Ming'an in the Lee Dynasty of North Korea, became the right to know the state affairs of North Korea, the two groups of dignitaries in North Korea who had always been keen on party struggles suddenly became more united.

The leader of the Western People's Party, Song Shilie, took the post of Prime Minister, and the leader of the Southern People's Party, Yin Kai, took the post of Zuo Yizheng, who was second only to the leader, and the post of Right Yizheng was appointed by Hood Emperor as.

Facing the pressure of Emperor Kangxi's troops, the Korean government quickly operated under the leadership of these three political leaders.

And the first priority after the three major political discussions came to power, of course, is to spend money to prepare for the war!

The survival of North Korea is at stake here, so of course we can no longer be stingy and reluctant to spend money.

But this North Korea is really poor enough, and it is a "big country" with a population of 1000 million smaller... These days, England only has more than 500 million people, and Spain has about the same number, and France is considered the number one power in Europe. There are only 2000 million people, while the population of Huanghuang New Daming is less than 3000 million.Therefore, North Korea, with a population of nearly 1000 million, is really a big country.

But the finances of this big country are really more collapsed than the Chongzhen Dynasty in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. The country's annual revenue is only around [-] yuan when converted into silver dollars.And the income of these one hundred thousand silver coins does not exist in the form of silver or silver coins, but in the form of copper coins and real objects.

In fact, most people in North Korea have never seen silver!

Historically, during the Japanese Invasion of Imjin, Dae-myung soldiers brought silver into the DPRK and wanted to buy it locally in North Korea. As a result, the Koreans did not know the silver at all.

This is not the most frustrating thing. The most frustrating thing is that the North Koreans didn’t even know much about copper coins... This country was governed by a group of Liangban waste who were familiar with Confucian classics, and the commodity economy was extremely underdeveloped. Before the Imjin Japanese Invasion, bartering was still in progress.Copper coins are not in circulation!

However, this situation has improved in recent decades. After the efforts of the four dynasties of Ren, Xiao, Xian, and Su, the people in the wealthy areas on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula have finally become accustomed to using copper coins.

But North Korea does not have much copper (North Korea has copper, but it has not been developed), so their copper coins at this time are not in units of "guns", but in units of "pieces".Moreover, the Korean court also likes to issue "big money", which can be discounted by two, three, eleven or even one hundred.

However, this underdeveloped commodity economy also has a good side, that is, labor is extremely cheap, agricultural products are very cheap, and currency and handicraft products are very valuable when exchanging population and agricultural products.

So when Li Wenji, a little girl who had no concept of money, opened up North Korea's treasury and Li Chao's internal treasury, and opened up the "prodigal family and country", the manpower and material resources in exchange were still very amazing.

In less than two months, more than [-] strong men gathered from Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, Gyeongsang-do, and Gangwon-do to Asan Fortress, which was built as an anti-Qing stronghold, and turned this small The small city and its surroundings turned into a huge construction site and barracks.

Chapter 534 Ming father and Qing father are good fathers!

Seoul, Changdeok Palace, Xuanzheng Palace.

Behind the empty throne, a curtain has been lowered.

Behind the curtain, Li Wenji, the lord of Ming'an, who knows the affairs of the Korean state in plain clothes, is sitting on the cushion, her eyebrows slightly frowned, looking at a group of speechless senior ministers through the bead curtain...

Li Wenji should have jumped into the arms of this "father Ming" from Seoul immediately after Zhu Hechi arrived in Asan.However, after arriving in Asan, Zhu Heqi ordered her to stay in Seoul temporarily to preside over the overall situation.

It is not in charge of the overall situation of the anti-Qing Dynasty, but the overall situation of running away... Now there are thousands of elite soldiers of Ming Dad stationed in Seoul, so a small number of Qing troops in Haizhou and Pyongyang dare not go south, which gave the North Korean center in Seoul to calmly organize the retreat Opportunity.

In fact, after the change in Seoul, the Ui government of North Korea, with the support of You Yizheng Hu Dedi, began to retreat in a planned way.

The first thing to be transported away is the small amount of reserves in the treasury of Seoul, including grain, silver, copper coins, iron materials, cloth and so on.

Then the government-run handicraft workshops in Seoul, such as the Papermaking Department, the Tile Department, etc., as well as the Shotgun Department, which was opened at the request of Emperor Kangxi to make musket barrels, and the private handicraft workshops in Seoul under the jurisdiction of the Pingshi Department were moved away. workshops and merchants.

Then, the third-hand army under the jurisdiction of the training capital stationed in Seoul was also ordered to be transferred to Asan to receive training from the Ming army.

At the same time, Zhu Heqi also asked the Ui government of North Korea to continue to hire strong men from various places to go to the three areas controlled by the Ming army, including Asan, Lishan, and Dangjin.

And when the North Korean Ui government did all the above things one by one, Zhu Hechi made further demands.

He ordered Li Wenji and the three chancellors of Yizheng to arrange the Yizheng and its subordinate Liucao as soon as possible, as well as Sixianfu, Sijianyuan, Chengzhengwon, Zongqinfu, Zhongxunfu, Yibinfu, Dunningfu, Sungkyunkwan The central government office of North Korea, as well as the inner court worship and other government offices, all moved to Asan, Dangjin, and Lishan for resettlement!After the arrangements are made, we will go to Asan to meet each other immediately.

When two of North Korea's three prime ministers (not including Emperor Hu De) received this decree, it can be said that they were taken aback.

Because Zhu Heqi, the "Ming Father", made them move the capital!

Moreover, the royal capital of North Korea must be moved to Asan, Lisan, and Dangjin, which were actually under the control of the Ming army.

There are now more than 2 Ming troops stationed in North Korea, and under the strong request of Emperor Hu De, the North Korean government also used the old foundation in the treasury and internal treasury to hire more than 10 strong men for the Ming army to use!

After the Ming army got the strong men, they immediately incorporated the strong men into the army, and selected a group of brave men from the Confucian disciples in North Korea, who could use flintlock guns as officers to command Those newly enlisted North Korean soldiers.

Moreover, the only third-hand army in the hands of the North Korean Kingdom that has some combat effectiveness in the training capital is now also being taken away by the Ming army.

In other words, not only is there a leading party, but even the "puppet army" is ready!

If the central government offices of the Joseon Kingdom and the little sister Li Wenji, who is the right to know the state affairs, come to throw themselves into the net again, then "Ming Dae" can withdraw the vassal state and the county with a word?

Although the two classes of senior officials in the Korean court all regard Daming as "Ming Daddy", but if they really want to withdraw from the country and counties, no one is willing... If they want to, the Japanese soldiers of Toyotomi Hideyoshi called It was attached at the time, why delay until now?

But the current situation... makes them afraid to say no to Zhu Heqi.

I dare not say "no", and I am unwilling to promise.Of course, these two classes of important ministers had no choice but to remain silent, and each of them practiced the technique of keeping their mouth shut.

Time passed by like this little by little, and it was almost time for dinner.Li Wenji, who was called to "be a vase" before she woke up early in the morning, was already so hungry that her stomach was growling.

Seeing the group of uncles sitting there all morning, Li Wenji finally couldn't help but speak very fluent Chinese: "Ming Wang's decree has been issued, how do you plan to carry it out? When can I go to Yashan to have an audience?" His Royal Highness King Ming?"

Hearing Li Wenji's voice coming from behind the curtain, Song Shilie, who was in charge of political affairs, had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak: "His Royal Highness is informed of state affairs, and I am worried that His Royal Highness King Ming may... withdraw from the vassal state and go to counties!"

"Oh, is it possible for you to discuss politics?" Li Wenji posed this question to Emperor Hu De again.

Emperor Hu De smiled and said: "His Royal Highness, if you are not willing to withdraw from the vassal state and go to the prefectures and counties, the king will not do so, you can rest assured."

"But what if I am willing to withdraw from the vassal state?"

Li Wenji's words startled Song Shilie and Yin Kai.

Song Shilie hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness knows the affairs of the country, North Korea is the foundation of the Li family's ancestors, and it should not be abandoned lightly."

Yin Kai also said: "Your Highness, Knowing State Affairs, although North Korea belongs to the Chinese lineage, it has been established for a long time and has long since become a self-contained entity. You must not rashly withdraw from the vassal state and move to counties and counties."

"His Royal Highness, I ask you to take back your order!"

"Your Highness, you must never withdraw from the vassal state and the county!"

"Your Highness, please think twice..."

The two councilors took the lead, and the following six Cao judgments were also admonished together, and they were all ordered by Li Wenji to take it back.

Li Wenji saw that these people were yelling fiercely, but she didn't show any fear at all. She just coughed and asked the people to be quiet, and then said slowly: "North Korea is now a place where big powers compete. Whether to withdraw or stay, we can only let the big powers." Arrangement, we can only follow it. Since Qing and others are worried that His Royal Highness King Ming intends to withdraw from the kingdom, he must really have this intention... Then why don’t you not agree with what he wants? Didn’t it mean that the king was going to die, and all the ministers had to die? If King Ming needed , Yu's life can also be offered, a vassal state, Ming Wang wants to withdraw, why is Yu reluctant?

If he doesn't want to withdraw the vassal state, if Yu invites him, it will also let King Ming know Yu's loyalty, what's wrong?

In the past, Qing and others kept saying that Daming was the father country of North Korea, so would those who are fathers and mothers really treat their children badly?Daming is the father country, even if the vassal state of North Korea is withdrawn, it will definitely be good for us and the common people of North Korea. "

After Li Wenji finished speaking, the ministers below were all speechless.

The truth of this little girl is actually what the North Korean monarchs and ministers often talk about, but everyone is just talking, but I didn't expect that Li Wenji was young and ignorant, and took it seriously...

But after thinking about it carefully, the big guy felt that her words seemed to make sense.

If Ming Dynasty didn't want to withdraw the vassal state, they, the North Korean monarchs and ministers, would not be able to withdraw if they took the initiative to withdraw.

On the other hand, if Daming really had this intention, North Korea would not be able to survive relying on them.

That being the case, why not take the initiative?

Take the initiative, won't you have political capital if you join the officialdom of Ming Dynasty in the future?