Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 199 The North Korean Coup
Apocalypse three years, this is destined to be an unstable year.

The internal revolution of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu You's inspection and withdrawal of guards ignited the vitality of Ming Dynasty.

Nurhachi of the Kingdom of Jin was constantly building stone fortresses, and thirty-six stone fortresses stood upright inside the Great Wall occupied by the Jin army.

There are hundreds of small stone castles on the dozens of roads leading to Hetuala.

These stone fortresses were all excavated from the mountains and weighed hundreds of catties. They were built in the narrow mountain roads, leaving only a seven-foot-wide gate.

On the grassland, the Chahar tribe began to mobilize troops. Chen Bing was at the border between the Horqin tribe and the Chahar tribe. It seemed that he was going to attack Horqin, who had betrayed him, when the war broke out in Ming and Jin.

Lin Dan Khan is still dreaming of his own Mongolian Khan, while some people have been pulled down from the dream of the throne...

When Daming was abolishing the guards in full swing, a chess piece buried by Zhu Youjian played a role.

"Angel, this is what you want..."

On the ninth day of February, late at night...

Accompanied by a voice, in a study room in a courtyard of Seoul, the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, a North Korean official in uniform and wearing a forehead wiped out a dossier, and the person sitting opposite him was the current King of Joseon. Wang's Yang Gao.

The candlelight was falling, Yang Gao looked at the file in front of him, and the person kneeling in front of him, his face was calm, he just said:

"Jin Tongzhi, what does this mean?"

The North Korean co-prescient Kim Jin, whose identity is a member of the Joseon People's Party.

As a country that imitated and learned from the Central Plains Dynasty, when Ming Dynasty was fighting among the parties, North Korea was not far behind.

The Eastern People's Party and the Western People's Party in North Korea were the products of that time, and the reason for their birth is said to be because one lived in the west of Hanyang and the other lived in the east of Hanyang.

Like the Ming Dynasty, in the countries where Confucian culture spread, the civil servants' competition for the right to establish a reserve was the beginning of the party struggle.

The origin of the Western People's Party can be traced back to the dispute over the establishment of the crown prince in 1591. At that time, the Eastern People's Party supported Li Hui, who was not a king at that time, as the crown prince, while the West People's Party supported Li Hui, the king of Xincheng, as the crown prince.

The mother of Lord Shinseong Li Jue was Concubine Kim, one of the two beauties favored by the former king of Joseon, and the other beauty was Concubine Kim, the biological mother of Lord Gwanghae Li Hun.

Since Concubine Gong died shortly after giving birth to Li Hun, Lord Gwanghae, Li Hun, Lord Gwanghae was actually raised by the concubine Kim.

Although speaking of political opposition, Mr. Gwanghae also imposed house arrest on Concubine Kim after he ascended the throne, but after all, there is such a special kind of nurturing grace that prevents Concubine Kim from being decapitated end.

As for the trump card in the hands of the Western People's Party, it is the Renpin Kim.

Renpin Jin's eldest son Xincheng Jun Li Jue lost in the battle for the crown prince, and soon died of illness, but Renpin Jin obviously did not give up the opportunity to fight for the throne, because she also had a son, Ding Yuanjun Li Yu.

Under the protection of the Western People's Party, the concubine Jin and the Dingyuan Lord planned to overthrow Li Hui's rule.

But it is a coincidence that before the overthrow, Dingyuan Jun Li Yu passed away.

Li Yu's death made the Western People's Party not strong enough to overthrow Li Hun's rule, but fortunately, Li Yu also had a son, that is Lingyang Lord Li Zhen.

Because Li Ji himself is young and promising, and he is also the eldest son of Lord Dingyuan, he was soon selected by the Western People's Party as a figure who can compete with Lord Guanghai for the world.

The Western People's Party quickly created considerable influence in the court by supporting the grandson of the Jin family, Li Yan.

In addition to the former Shen Qin, there are Jin Liu, Li Gui, Li Shi, Jin Zidian, Jin Shangxian, Hong Ruifeng, Cui Mingji and other officials who have gathered on the side of the Western People's Party, and have successively become leaders of the Western People's Party. .

With the growth of the Western People's Party, a political contest that will determine the fate of the North Korean country has begun, and this political contest is now at a critical time.

At such a critical moment, some external forces have become hidden in the darkness, the forces needed by the Western People's Party, and this force is Yang Gao in front of Jin Liu.

The power from the third party, the largest party, Daming...

It has been a year since Yang Gao came to North Korea. During this year, Yang Hao did not make friends with any North Korean ministers. He just traveled around North Korea to observe the terrain of North Korea.

Of course, he is also secretly collecting information on North Korea's relations with captives, but because of the shortage of manpower, he has only collected some superficial information so far.

But just when he was about to continue collecting, the visit of Jin Liu from the Western People's Party ushered in a turning point.

Before Yang Gao opened the file in front of him, he already knew what was inside.

But what he didn't understand was what Jin Liu meant by giving him such important information at this time.

"The angel and tyrant Li Hun privately carried out the behavior of not being angry with Jianlu. After we found out about this matter, we were very panicked."

"We are subjects of North Korea, how can we blame our monarch father?"

"However, the Emperor Ming Dynasty has the grace of rebuilding the lower country, so the lower officials brought this information to the angel, and ask the angel to call the shots and abolish the tyrant Li Hui!"

Jin Liu knelt on the ground, threw her body to the ground, lowered her head and said all this to Yang Gao, her voice was sad, as if she was sobbing.

But this kind of sadness and sobbing, but finally came a sentence asking Yang Gao to abolish Li Hui's position, which really made people not like it.

However, personal liking is one thing, and whether he can benefit Daming in behavior is another.

Long before Yang Hao set off, he had already obtained Zhu Youjian's handwritten letter, and he knew what he should do.

In the letter at that time, Zhu Youjian also vaguely mentioned that North Korea might go up in chaos and abolish Li Hui's position as monarch.

But Yang Hao did not expect that Zhu Youjian's guess would be so accurate...

Thinking of this, Yang Gao did not respond to Jin Liu, but stretched out his hand to pick up the file, then opened it, and saw the contents.

Most of these contents are evidence of the private trade between the governor of Jingcheng, North Korea, and Jianlu on the other side of the Yalu River.

In the first year of Tianqi alone, there were as many as [-] transactions between the two parties. The goods traded each time were mainly grain, ranging from thousands of stones to hundreds of stones.

Although this number does not seem to be a lot every time at first glance, it seems a bit too much when added up.

Yang Gao made a rough calculation, and the grain trade between the two sides in the first year of Tianqi reached more than [-] shi.

This amount of food was enough to feed the [-] soldiers under the old slave for two and a half months, but Yang Gao just took a look at it and felt that this information might be false.

The reason is simple. North Korea’s food is much more expensive than that of Ming Dynasty. It takes [-] cash to buy a stone of food.

If you use the information on ginseng, mink and other goods, you can't exchange so much stone grain at all.

In addition, intelligence also exposed another major weakness of Li Hui's reign.

During his reign, in the face of the rise of Jianlu, Lord Gwanghae not only did not actively assist Daming in this process, but instead gave Jianlu a sneak peek, trying to maintain North Korea's neutral position in the Ming-Jin War.

During the Battle of Saerhu, he reluctantly sent Jiang Hongli to lead an army of [-] to support the Ming army, but privately passed money to build captives and leaked military plans, leading to defeat.

Not only that, Li Hui also found various excuses to perfunctory Xiong Tingbi's request to send people to North Korea, and kept emphasizing the importance of maintaining contacts with Hou Jin.

However, Yang Gao, who had commanded the Battle of Sarhu, was very clear about whether North Korea was connected to the captives in the remaining articles.

It is impossible for North Korea to have too much information, and it is powerless to sell it.

As for the conscription and the maintenance of diplomatic peace between Li Hun and Jianlu, there is no doubt about it.

To sum up, this information is [-]% false and [-]% true. If you really investigate it carefully, you can find it out without much effort.

However, given the benefits, the authenticity of the information does not seem to be important, so Yang Gao pretended to be angry in order not to expose Jin Liu:
"It's unreasonable! Li Hun received the grace of the heavens and did such a nasty thing!"

"Angel Mingjian..." Jin Liu continued to worship, and then raised his head and said:

"Angel please take action to abolish the tyrant Li Hui who was not loyal to the Emperor Ming Dynasty!"

"This..." Yang Gao frowned when he heard Jin Liu's insistence on getting rid of Li Hui. He didn't want to go through this muddy water.

Li Hui is certainly not a thing, but this does not mean that the Western People's Party is good. In comparison, they are even less a thing.

The following is chaotic, this kind of thing is not allowed by Daming.

If Yang Gao really made a move, he had no doubt that those ministers far away in the capital would be doomed to death by the emperor the next second after impeaching him.

But there is no doubt that if Li Hui is abolished, then Daming will be profitable.

Therefore, Yang Hao can only tentatively say:
"The old man can't make a move, because there is no long live will, the old man does not have this power."

"My lord doesn't need to act, I just need my lord to hand over this information to the emperor!" Jin Liu saw Yang Gao's hesitation and hurriedly came up with a solution.

As for this so-called method, it was just to use Zhu Youxiao's will and then abolish Li Hun.

In other words, as long as Zhu Youxiao issued a decree, even if the imperial decree was not needed, they would abolish Li Hui.

But if that's the case, Da Ming won't get any benefits, so Yang Gao thought of Zhu Youjian's letter, and couldn't help squinting his eyes and said:
"Hand over this information. The old man suspects that when Longyan Longyan is furious, he may send troops to the court to take over the Jingcheng Protectorate of the North Road to deal with Jianlu, and to prevent North Korea from having liaison with Jianlu."

"Er..." Hearing this, Jin Liu was also at a loss for words.

It's true that they want to seize power, but that doesn't mean they're fools.

Yang Gao's words seemed to confirm that if the North Province Jingcheng Capital Protectorate in Hamgyong Province was open to captives, then Daming would garrison troops here.

Although if Ming garrisoned troops there, North Korea would be protected by Ming, but the problem was that if the Western Party agreed to allow the Ming army to station troops, the Eastern Party would inevitably attack them.

If the Dongren Party cannot attack them, the only way is to slaughter the Dongren Party.

Doing so seems to be more difficult...

"It doesn't matter, just promise to come down first!"

Jin Liu gritted his teeth, and said directly: "It is a good thing for Huang Ming to garrison troops to defend against the Jian captives for our North Korea."

"If that's the case, then the old man will play this military situation." Hearing this, Yang Hao didn't give Jin Liu time to repent, and directly called the Jin Yiwei outside the door.

After Jin Yiwei came in, Yang Gao handed over the information provided by Jin Liu, and did not forget to say at the end:
"Eight hundred miles urgently."

With these words, Jin Liu had absolutely no way out.

As for Yang Gao, he was not at a loss at all, because no matter whether it was the victory of the Western People's Party or the Eastern People's Party, Daming had obtained the evidence of the crime of collusion provided by the Koreans themselves, and he could blatantly enter the DPRK and garrison troops.

Yang Gao's scheme succeeded, and Jin Liu returned to his mansion after a brief exchange of pleasantries after confirming that Yang Gao would not help Li Hui after he had no way out.

At this moment, his mansion has been surrounded by many Westerners, and the patrolling soldiers and horses on the street have also become their people.

Everyone was here to wait for Jin Liu's news, and when Jin Liu brought the news back, everyone's face became ugly.

"After handing over the information, if we can't make things right, then the Dongren Party will never let us go."

"First strike is stronger!"

Some officials within the Western People's Party are aware of how unfavorable it will be to them after the incident is exposed.

Even if Yang Gao came forward to protect them at that time, it would be very difficult to protect them.

In this case, then they have no choice but to do everything right.

"Gathering the soldiers and horses around, we can't defeat the Dongren Party with only the soldiers and horses in the city."

"Li Shi's prestige and ability are good. If he leads the army anyway, he will definitely be able to do things perfectly."

In this dimly lit room, more than a dozen people including Li Gui, Jin Liu, Shen Jingzhen, Li Shu, Gu Hong, Ju Renhou, Li Shibai, and Li Shifang formulated a plan for the opposite, and publicly recommended soldiers with high reputation in the army. Let Li Shi be the general anyway, and prepare to attack the palace tomorrow evening.

At the same time, Jin Liu also said:

"It is necessary to send Lord Lingyang to the army at the same time as anyway, and let Li Bing envoy protect him!"

"Of course." The rest of the people nodded one after another, and then discussed the details anyway, and finally everyone left before dawn.

Everyone spent a depressing day, and in order to avoid the coup d'état of the North Korean monarchs and ministers, Yang Hao also led more than two hundred people from Xiaoqiwei and Jinyiwei out of Seoul early in the morning, preparing to go to Suwon in the south for an outing.

Yang Gao's departure also completely relieved the hearts of everyone in the Western People's Party.

At the third quarter of unitary time (17:45), when the common people in Seoul, the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, drove out and the nobles returned in.

Li Gui, Jin Zidian and others from the Western People's Party successively led the recruited "righteous men" to Hongjiyuan in the city, and Jin Liu, as a general, also led his hundred family members to arrive.

In addition to them, there are hundreds of people who have not arrived one after another. In addition, the sky is not dark, and everyone is still waiting for the best opportunity.

just while they wait,

Just like all coups, there will always be some traitors in the coup d'état, and at this moment, Li Hun, who is the king of Joseon, is also a little uneasy.

"Gu today's eyelids have been twitching..."

In Changdeok Palace of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Li Hun, who was painting, pinched his brows.

As the royal palace of North Korea, Gyeongbokgung Palace is located in the west of the center of the northern half of Seoul, with Beiyue Mountain in the north.

In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, Li Chenggui, the ancestor of Korea, ordered Zheng Daochuan to supervise the construction of the palace, which was built according to the system of the royal palaces of the Ming Dynasty, so the palaces are actually not big, not as good as the Zhouwangfu, Fuwangfu and Shuwangfu in the same period of the Ming Dynasty.

In such a narrow palace, any disturbance could hardly escape the eyes of those who cared, and just when Li Hun felt uneasy, the sound of footsteps sounded in the corridor outside the palace.

"Your Majesty, I'm asking you to discuss the state affairs..."

"Xuan..." Li Hui also put down the brush in his hand when Zheng Renhong asked to see him.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Zheng Renhong, the leader of the political party, hurriedly walked into the hall, and kowtowed anxiously to Li Hun who had just put down his brush:
"Your Majesty! Jin Liu, Li Gui, and Li Shi intend to seek rebellion, and they have gathered hundreds of soldiers and horses in the royal city!"

"What did you say?" Li Hui's pupils shook when he heard that the Western People's Party was going to attack, and then he asked:
"Who is guarding the gates of Seoul today?!"

"Your Majesty, it's Song Yingwang and Li Xingli..." Zheng Renhong explained, and Li Hun got up immediately after hearing this, and walked anxiously:
"How many soldiers and horses are there in the city?"

"Li Shu has seven hundred soldiers and horses, and Li Xingli has one thousand and two hundred soldiers in charge."

"Where are the other soldiers and horses?" Li Hun asked anxiously, but Zheng Renhong said with an ugly expression:
"Master Yang went to Suwon early in the morning, and the military commander sent [-] guards to escort him..."

"Bastard!" Li Hun flipped over the short table in front of him, and said angrily:

"The rebels are making trouble in the city, and he actually sent [-] soldiers and horses to escort them!"

"Kings!"

When Li Hui was furious, his confidant Pu Dingji also trotted into the hall, knelt down and said:

"Your Majesty, Li Shi, the envoy of the army, led [-] soldiers and just entered Seoul from Zhangyi Gate. After joining forces with Song Yingwang's [-] soldiers, he shouted in the name of Lord Lingyang to set things right. He is now less than one step away from the palace. inside!"

"The rebellious ministers Jin Yan, Li Gui, and Li Shu led another [-] rebels and came to kill the palace. The soldiers under Li Xingli's command did not move!"

Pu Dingji brought the worst news. Jin Liu and the others moved too fast, and they had already brought their soldiers and horses to Gyeongbokgung Palace as soon as it got dark.

"Clap clap-"

Suddenly, Li Hun heard the sound of blunderbusses like fried beans, and immediately turned around and pulled out the sword placed on the shelf from the side of the study and said:

"The rebels are already attacking the palace, you must gather all the troops in the palace, and bring your son and Gu out of the back garden!"

"Your Majesty—" Zheng Renhong and the two wailed, but Li Hui kicked him over and scolded, "Go!"

Seeing Li Hui's furious attack, Zheng Renhong and Zheng Renhong ran out of the hall in a hurry, and began to gather some guards who hadn't yet become chaotic, and finally escorted Li Hui and the prince, and fled towards the back garden before the rebels took the city gate. go.

But when they fled to Xiyuan under the escort of dozens of guards in the dark, a large number of torches suddenly appeared around them, and more than two hundred rebels with swords pointed their swords at them.

"You bastard! You don't kneel down when you see Gu?!"

Li Hun pushed away the guards in front of him, raised his sword and roared at the rebels, but at this moment, he saw several men in armor and forehead wipes coming out of the rebels.

The leader was his nephew, Lingyang Lord Li Tan, and beside him were Jin Liu and Li Gui.

"Li Hun! In the past few years you have been in power, regardless of Jianlu's invasion of Liaodong, where Huang Ming was in power, not only did you not actively assist Huang Ming in going to court, but instead you gave Jianlu a sneak peek."

"In the first battle of Emperor Ming Dynasty's Sarhu, you secretly used money to build captives and leaked military plans, leading to the defeat of the battle."

"The Emperor Ming Dynasty sent people to recruit soldiers to North Korea, and you also found various excuses to perfunctory them. Now you are secretly cooperating with captives, betraying the Emperor Ming Dynasty, and making North Korea a country of beasts!"

"Now, I will depose your throne with the imperial concubine's order!"

Among the rebels, Li Ji, under the guard of the rebels, reprimanded Li Hui for his crimes. Among these crimes, Li Hui paused for other crimes, except for the one of privately communicating with captives. Didn't hear it, and cursed back:
"Nonsense, absurd theory! Gu is the king conferred by His Majesty the Emperor! What qualifications does the empress have to depose Gu?! Even if she wants to be deposed, it is His Majesty's decree. What qualifications do you have!"

"You betrayed Huangming to the court, and you still have the face to mention Huangming's majesty!" Seeing that Li Hui still resisted, he immediately took a step back and waved his hand to signal the rebels to surround him.

When the two sides fought against each other, there was no formation at all, they just slashed the knives in their hands according to the height of their clothing.

At such a time, Li Hui actually still had the will to resist. Among the rebels, relying on the rebels not daring to kill him, he held the son with one hand and swung his sword with the other.

Seeing that Li Hun was about to break out of the siege, Li Jing couldn't bear it anymore, so he shouted: "Catch this tyrant first!"

"Yes--"

Hearing Li Zhen's order, the rebels responded loudly, and then all rushed towards Li Hui and his son.

Not long after, Li Hun and Shizi were successfully captured, while the remaining guards surrendered one after another seeing the situation was not good.

Li Zhen, who had captured Li Hun, also escorted him to the palace of Concubine Renmu Jin, and then asked Jin to depose him personally, and let Li Zhen take the throne temporarily.

Such a play-by-play political struggle actually determined the direction of the Joseon throne. When the news reached Suwon, Yang Gao's face twitched a few times.

"Decades have passed, and the soldiers and horses of North Korea are still... still... uh..."

For a moment, Yang Gao didn't know what to say.

But at this time, standing beside him, Qianhu, a Jin Yiwei who was wearing the flying fish suit, said:

"You can send a letter to Long Live and His Highness to ask if you have sent troops to the Jingcheng Capital Protectorate."

"Well... Li Zhen's succession to the throne also needs the approval of my Daming, otherwise his name will not be right, and he will be abolished by a coup d'etat." Yang Gao nodded slightly, and then said to Jin Yiwei Qianhu:
"Shen Qianhu, please send someone to go."

"No, I'll go in person this time." Shen Lian shook his head, and then said:
"It's been four months since I came to North Korea, and I've checked everything out. I've also found out the routes from Jingcheng Protectorate to Hetuala, and from Busan to Jingcheng Protectorate."

"Send these things back to Daming, I believe His Highness will be very happy."

"Alright..." Yang Gao nodded slightly, then cupped his hands and said:
"In this case, please ask Shen Qianhu to return to the capital and ask Long Live and Your Highness what the old man should do next..."

Although it is comfortable in North Korea, it is still not as prosperous as Daming. If possible, Yang Gao is still willing to go back to Daming.

Shen Lian was also aware of this, so he nodded and said that he would inquire for him, and then left with Jin Yiwei...

(End of this chapter)