Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 644: Xu Heng led his army into Seoul and North Korea marched to stab Japan in the back.
Taking a step back, for Li Hongwei, the emperor had given the prince a title and allowed him to take away [-]% of the royal family's wealth.

The Lee Dynasty has enslaved the Korean people for so many years and plundered countless people's wealth. [-]% of the royal family's wealth is already a lot.

If you are still not satisfied, then keep playing.When the army is defeated and captured, nothing will be left.

No matter how good-tempered the emperor is, he cannot give a captive the title of prince and [-]% of the royal family's wealth.

Surrender must be done as early as possible, this is Li Hongwei's understanding.

So Li Hongwei expressed his attitude in public: "The matter has come to this, and we have tried our best. Besides, we were originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Now that we have been merged into the Ming Dynasty and are directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, it is not a bad thing for the subjects.

I have decided to surrender to Kaicheng. "

When Quan Zhen and Han Minghui heard this, they immediately knelt down on the ground with their ministers and cried bitterly.

The overall situation has been decided, and then it’s time for the affectionate performances of the civil and military officials.

The raw rice was cooked into cooked rice. Lord Jincheng and Lord Anping looked at the ministers, dumbfounded.

Lord Jincheng and Lord Anping had two choices: either surrender or move to Qiongzhou.Either go back to Gyeongsang Province and Jeolla Province, gather rebels, and continue to resist.

The Emperor of Heaven didn't care about this. It was a good thing that the North Korean royal family was willing to continue to resist, and then they could take advantage of the situation and start killing.

After killing the royal family and dignitaries and confiscating their property, there will be more sufficient land to distribute to the people.

Lord Jincheng and Lord Anping did not express their stance immediately. After the court meeting was over, they went to discuss countermeasures in private.

On the 27th of the first lunar month, Li Hongwei, in the name of the King of Korea, ordered the entire country's military and civilians to formally surrender, and transferred [-] Kaesong troops to Deyuan to join the siege against the Japanese army.

On the second day of February, Jiang Yuan, Xu Heng, and Xu Yongning led an army of [-] troops to Seoul.

Li Hongwei led his ministers out of the city to surrender.

Since the terms had been negotiated, Li Hongwei did not resort to pleading guilty to Jing.

Li Hongwei was named a prince, but Jiang Yuan, Xu Heng, and Xu Yongning all treated him with the courtesy of a county king. After all, this kind of surrendered king cannot be compared with the real prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Yongning and Li Hongwei were familiar with each other. In the past, the emperor sent Yu Shan and Li Jin to North Korea to purchase servants, and Xu Yongning came with them.

At that time, Li Hongwei was still the prince, and the two had equal status. Therefore, the king of North Korea at that time specially sent Li Hongwei to accompany Xu Yongning to understand the local customs.

I just didn't expect that after a few years, the two would meet again in such a situation.

But after all, it is much easier to talk if you have acquaintances. Li Hongwei welcomed everyone into the city and had a banquet in the palace.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, seeing that Li Hongwei was still frowning, Xu Yongning advised him: "Your Highness, there is no need to worry. Your Majesty does not necessarily want to trap you in Qiongzhou for the rest of your life."

When Li Hongwei heard this, he perked up and immediately asked, "What do you mean by Duke Dingguo's words?"

Xu Yongning introduced Li Sicheng, who was sitting next to him, to Li Hongwei: "Your Highness, this is the fourth brother of the former King Annan, who was named King of Pingyuan by the Holy One.

The original Annan royal family had all moved to Qiongzhou, but King Pingyuan was specially left by the emperor, and this time he was sent to the Ming Dynasty to serve as military counselor.

So after Your Highness arrives in Beijing, if you can work a little, and your Majesty is in a good mood, you might be able to stay as well. "

And this?This was the first time Li Hongwei heard that King Pingyuan was among the Ming troops entering the dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu sent Pingyuan King Li Sicheng to follow him to North Korea, with the intention of setting an example for the North Korean royal family.However, asking Li Sicheng to serve as military counselor was just a decent way of saying it. In fact, Li Sicheng could only observe battle formations in the army.

It's good to have hope. Li Hongwei didn't want to stay in Qiongzhou for the rest of his life, so he asked: "Please give me some guidance from Duke Dingguo. Please give me some advice."

Xu Yongning smiled and said: "The Holy One only cares about his family. As long as the empress dowager and the imperial concubines are happy, there will naturally be an opportunity to open up the world. Just like what you thought of before, if you donate concubines to the Holy One, follow What's the difference between seeking your own death? The imperial concubines don't want anyone new to share the throne with them. If you make the imperial concubines angry, you'll have no choice but to go to Qiongzhou and stay there for the rest of your life."

Only then did Li Hongwei realize that there were still these mysteries. No wonder the emperor was quite rude to his overtures.

But Li Hongwei immediately asked curiously: "Shouldn't the emperor accept a wide range of harems? Do the imperial concubines still have the ability to prevent the emperor from accepting new concubines?"

Xu Yongning said with a smile: "Let's talk about it in detail later. Your Majesty has ordered me to accompany His Highness to the capital. After we stay in the capital for a few days, you will understand all these things."

When Li Hongwei heard this, he temporarily stopped his curiosity.

……

On the sixth day of February, news of North Korea's formal surrender reached the Ming and North Korean coalition forces besieging the Japanese army.

After Fan Guang read the appeal, he passed it on to Fang Ying.

After reading it, Fang Ying sincerely admired: "It was actually done. I always thought that the North Korean peace talks were just casual talk to delay time.

Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, North Korea, which still has nearly [-] troops, stopped fighting.

The two princes on the Western Front have gone to Seoul to eat, drink and have fun, but we two princes on the Eastern Front have to continue to suffer from hunger and cold. "

Fan Guang said with a smile: "We have to hurry up, otherwise it will be ruined if the Japanese army escapes from the sea by boat."

"The military newspaper said that the North Korean navy was assembled in Pusan ​​to prevent Japan from sending warships to support it again?"

Fan Guang replied: "Don't worry, the Holy One told me that sending warships from the Japanese mainland to Anbian will have to travel at least two thousand miles on the sea.

At such a long distance, if there is a storm, the entire fleet may be sunk.

It's not that easy. If Japan wants to rescue, the best choice is to land in Busan.

But there are [-] Korean naval forces and hundreds of large and small warships in Pusan.

Besides, the civil war in Japan is getting more and more intense, so how can anyone think of rescuing the Japanese troops who invaded North Korea? "

"Then when will we launch our attack?"

Fan Guang shook his head: "We will not attack, let the North Korean army attack the fortress. This is the condition negotiated before, and we cannot let our soldiers make unnecessary sacrifices.

It turns out that Anbian had already fought a war. At that time, Nanhe Houyou led the Ming army to defend, and the Japanese army was the attacking party. At that time, the city walls were blown down by artillery.

It turned out that the city wall that had been blown down had not yet been completely repaired.

Now that the offensive and defensive situation has changed, all we need to do is direct the North Korean army to shell the original gap. "

Fang Ying sighed with a serious face: "In the original Battle of Anbian, the Ming army suffered numerous casualties. I want to avenge them with my own hands."

Fan Guang shook his head: "It concerns the overall situation, Nanhehou, don't be impulsive. In the Battle of Tumubao, 50 Ming troops died. When we fought to defend the capital, we were also calm. We were not in a hurry for revenge, but slowly Even if it is exhausted, it will come first.

Now Anbian City is already full of fat. Let the Korean army take human lives to fill it, and it will be done.

If we rush into a fight of our own will and God blames us, no one can bear it. "

Now these [-] Ming troops are all new troops organized and trained by Fan Guang, and Fang Ying cannot command them.So since Fan Guang insisted on sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, Fang Ying had no choice but to accept it.

In the afternoon of that day, [-] North Korean troops moved to the west of Anbyian City to camp and began shelling.

(End of this chapter)