Guangzong Yaoming

Chapter 298 The wind in the north is very noisy
If nothing had changed, the King of Joseon, Li Hui's father, would not have died at this moment, and would have been furious at the petition from the ministers of the Great North Faction who supported Li Hui, and would have openly reprimanded him:

【The prince of a vassal state must receive the order of the emperor before he can be called the prince. The prince has not received the order, which means the emperor does not allow it, and the world does not know about it. If he suddenly receives the throne, what if the emperor interrogates him and says: "The so-called prince of your country was not allowed by the emperor, and your king passed the throne privately. Your king's duties are also the duties of the emperor, which is not your king's own. How dare the prince accept it privately? Is there a reason for this?"】

But now he is dead and has been dead for a long time.

"'The Crown Prince is old, and according to tradition, he can pass on the throne.' Liu Yongqing, I want to ask you, did the Emperor father give such an order?"

Now, Li Hui is in the Jeongneung-dong Palace, and the person he is questioning is Liu Yongqing, the former Prime Minister and the leader of the Liu Party officials who control the Seongjeongwon.

Liu Yongqing had long been stripped of his official uniform and was now only wearing a thin white shirt, being forced to kneel in front of Li Hui.

He raised his head stubbornly and said, "'If passing on the throne is difficult, then you can also be regent!' Your Majesty knew that Your Highness had not received the order from the upper kingdom and that passing on the throne would be extremely difficult, so why did Your Highness only say the first half of the sentence?"

That was the decree issued last year when the King of Korea was seriously ill, and then this decree was concealed by Liu Yongqing and not issued.

The incident only became a fuse after the news leaked.

"Your Highness now knows that the King intends to pass the throne to you, but he is just worried about the imperial decree." Liu Yongqing stared at Li Hui, "But the King's condition had obviously improved a little, but he suddenly passed away. And Linhai Jun... How could he have kept assassins and weapons to plot against his will? Your Highness now only dares to claim to be in charge of state affairs, what do you want me to say today?"

He paused for a moment and then laughed grimly: "Has the envoy from the upper kingdom arrived? Do you want me to testify for Your Highness, or do you want me to persuade Lord Linhai to give way to the lord?"

"Bastard!" Li Hui was furious and wanted to pull out the guard's knife in excitement.

"Your Highness, calm down!"

"No!"

At this time, his supporters and officials of the Great North Faction were all horrified.

Li Hui's chest heaved with anger.

The pressure he had been under for some time suddenly erupted, and he spoke like a madman.

"Eighteen years old! When the Japanese invasion began in the year of Imjin, I was only eighteen years old!" Li Hui almost roared, "My father fled to Pyongyang and issued an edict to establish a crown prince. With my elder brother around, when have I ever thought about the throne? But I'm only eighteen years old, and my father wants me to serve the ancestral temple and the country and stay in Korea! I took charge of state affairs, set up a separate border defense department, went to the front line to comfort the army, and gathered scattered soldiers and volunteers. The Celestial Empire also knows my achievements, and appointed me as the military governor of Qingquan and Erdao!"

He got down from his seat and came to Liu Yongqing: "Did I ask for this throne? My father appointed a crown prince and issued an edict. In the face of national crisis, do I want to be like my elder brother and not contribute to the country or even be captured? Have I been rebellious to my father for fifteen years? Before my father passed away, he also issued an edict to pass the throne to me. Why did you have to hide this edict? Why can't you just help me wholeheartedly?"

Li Hui was really aggrieved, so aggrieved that he could not help but ask: "How have I ever let down the ancestral temple, the state, and you, and the country?"

The officials of the Great Northern Faction also felt the same way. Someone immediately said, "At that time, the separation of dynasties was a last resort! Just because you followed the previous king in the north and did not make any contributions, do you want to stop His Highness from succeeding to the throne?"

Liu Yongqing gritted his teeth and said, "But for so many years, the upper kingdom has been unwilling to appoint Your Highness. Can we just ignore this?"

Li Hui finally couldn't help but smash a cup, put his hands on the table and turned his back to the ministers.

Before his father had a legitimate son, he was the second son and had an older brother.

The year before last, he actually had a younger brother, and this time he was a legitimate son, Prince Yongchang, who was just over one year old.

Because of the Japanese invasion, he established his prestige. How suspicious was his father? Chungcheong Province even raised an army to support him.

But that was all. The will to make him the crown prince had already been in place, and even if my father was suspicious of me later, he could only use the fact that I had not been appointed as the heir to the throne as an excuse.

It just so happened that the original Ming emperor appreciated him and conferred an official position on him, but the new Ming emperor used such an excuse to evade him.

Although both of them have a dispute over the national foundation, the current Ming emperor is the eldest son, and he is not!
How could enthroning him as the Crown Prince of Joseon endanger the legitimacy of the Ming Emperor?

But the Ming Dynasty is there, and a decree from the Ming Dynasty has such power in the vassal states.

Maybe it can stabilize the overall situation, or maybe it will become an excuse for unrest.

Li Hui stood up and turned around to look at him coldly: "I will ask you one more question. For the sake of the country and the people, are you willing to persuade my elder brother to give up his throne? Are you willing to report to the imperial envoy of the upper kingdom that my father had clearly decreed that he would pass the throne to me before his death?"

Liu Yongqing looked at him with deep eyes: "The imperial envoy has indeed arrived."

Of course the imperial envoy from the Ming Dynasty came.

When Nurhaci and his entourage came to pay homage last year, the envoys sent by Li Hui arrived outside Shanhaiguan.

He then went to the capital, and spent a long time arguing over procedures and letters from the Ming Dynasty, but in the end he was not able to be directly enthroned.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only said one word and then sent an envoy to Korea to investigate first: after all, he was neither the legitimate son nor the eldest son, and the Ming Dynasty had something to say.

Liu Yongqing looked at Li Hui dimly, "Your Highness exiled Linhai Jun to Qiaotong Island for plotting against the law, and everyone knows about this. Even if Linhai Jun petitioned to give up his throne, would the imperial envoy and His Majesty believe it? Linhai Jun petitioned to give up his throne, so isn't this another statement that the king wants to pass the throne to your Highness? Your Highness, it's not that we don't want to help you. In the current situation, it's better for your Highness to continue to serve as regent as the late king ordered, and wait for Prince Yongchang to grow up. In the end, your Highness can only get one side of the name and the reality. This is not our fault, but the country does not allow it."

"Death!"

Li Hui stopped talking nonsense and waved his hand.

Liu Yongqing's expression suddenly changed. He looked at Li Hui's cold face and shouted, "Your Highness, do you really want to deal with the country in this way?"

"Take them away and sentence them to death!" The officials of the Dabei faction were hesitant to speak. Li Hui finally regained the courage and spirit he had when he was 18 years old and had the highest prestige.

"I am too kind and naive!" He gritted his teeth and said, "Just regent? Wait for Prince Yongchang? Those rebels and ministers said exactly that. They wanted to see me being controlled by a decree from the upper country and being controlled by my status as neither the eldest nor the heir! The decree to establish a crown prince was already in place fifteen years ago. It doesn't matter whether the upper country recognizes me or not! Put down the rebellion first!"

He had already done the thing of begging for mercy, but the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was younger than him, was unwilling to help him in this most important matter.

He had already exiled his brother, so what Liu Yongqing said was right.

Once you embark on this path, there is no turning back.

Let the envoy say whatever he wants when he returns. If the situation cannot be stabilized by imperial decree, then the only option is to use force.

"Draw half of the troops from Pyeongan Province and Hamgyong Province to quell the Gangwon Province rebels as soon as possible. As for Gyeongsang Province, I will go there myself! I was once the military governor of Gyeongjeon. The people there still remember how I helped them return to their homeland!"

Ordering the death of people like Liu Yongqing also left the officials who supported him with no way out.

The only way left is to help him wipe out the North Korean rebel forces!

He only transferred half of the troops from the north and was not completely confident in Ming Dynasty and Jianzhou.

But I heard that the Ming Dynasty is currently dealing with the affairs of the Jurchen tribes and is planning to set up a new Liaoyuan Military and Civilian Prefecture in the Jurchen heartland, so I guess its energy will only be focused there.

Li Hui did not know that Nurhaci was preparing to march south from the northeasternmost part of Hamgyong Province.

He also didn't know that the Ming Dynasty was training the Beiyang Fleet east of Dagu, ready to take action.

The Ming Dynasty’s attention is currently not mainly on Korea, but on the north.

To the north, in the more distant Chahar Tatar Khanate, Borjigin Ligdan Batur, who was born when Li Hui was eighteen years old, is now sixteen years old.

He had only succeeded to the throne four years ago. In the past few years, he finally understood the situation facing the Khanate: the left and right wings divided by Dayan Khan had a total of six Wanhu, and now he could only command the eight Otogs of Chahar. The other tribes were all independent. On the surface, they respected him as the common leader, but they would not listen to his orders at all.

Even Chahar was only because it was originally a central Wanhu and its interests were completely consistent with the Khan's court.

As for Lindan Batur himself, what they respected was only the Khan position and the direct blood of the Golden Family flowing in his body, rather than his own ability as the Khan.

What kind of abilities can a sixteen-year-old boy have?
"I want to go to Laoha River and see Daiqing Duling."

"... Great Khan, what are you going there to meet him for?"

Lindan Batur looked at Sirhunak Duleng Hongtaiji, who nominally commanded the entire left wing.

Duling is the title of the Tatar lord. The one in charge of the left wing should have the title of Jinong, but Hong Taiji, like the lord of the Chahar Wanhu Aohan tribe who was called Xiaodaiqing by the Ming Dynasty, was only Duling.

But Taiji is also a title of honor, originally it was only a title for the eldest son of the Khan and the crown prince. Gradually, the great lords also had such a title, so his status was still higher than that of Daiqing.

Lindan Batur said: "Daiqing Duling is the most capable hero in leading the army in the Central Wanhu. He fought side by side with my father and grandfather. I want to meet him and let him see me now."

No one believes that Lindan Batur has any ability yet, but Lindan Batur feels that he has it.

The more he knew about the current situation facing the Khanate, the more he regarded Genghis Khan as his role model.

"But the Khan..."

"I have heard from Tashhai Anda that something bad has happened to the Doyan families in Kharchin." Lindan Batur said firmly, "Duling, I have grown up! The Khanate must do something. Don't you want to become a Jinong who can truly lead the left wing?"

On the banks of the Laoha River in the Aohan tribe, a white tower was built just a few years ago.

Lindan Batur was on the way and Daiqing was also praying in the White Pagoda.

Twelve years ago, he and the Ming Dynasty agreed to trade wood and horses, and then he gradually saved money and built this pagoda.

But starting three years ago, the Ming Dynasty and the Aohan tribe stopped trading in the Trojan Horse Market in Guangning, and the Ming Dynasty only traded with the enthroned Right Wing Shunyi King in Zhangbei.

Dai Qing pondered over this question for a long time: A new emperor came to the south, and at first he still abided by the agreement of the year, but did not give him the "life reward silver" he wanted. Why did he simply stop the market now?
For this reason, he instigated the Duoyan tribe, which was very close to the Aohan tribe, to test the strength of the tribe first, and promised Changang to support him in fully controlling the Kalaqin Wanhu.

But three generations of Chang Ang’s family are all gone. I heard that they were captured and executed by the Ming Dynasty.

Now, the Kharchin tribes in the southwest were in chaos. Dai Qing was looking at the Buddha statue in the white pagoda, which took several extra years to build, and thinking carefully.

It has been fourteen years since the Ming Dynasty last took action. Even if Qi Jiguang was dead, didn't the still-living Li Chengliang tell the Ming Emperor about his old rival and persuade him to think twice?
After leaving the White Pagoda, he told his son: "Go to the east and meet Chaohua. Since Changang of the Duoyan tribe is gone, in addition to the original territory of the Fuyu tribe, see if he wants to occupy the territory of the Duoyan tribe as well."

This Chaohua is the most powerful leader among the Inner Khalkha nowadays.

Chaohua and Changang are both forces secretly supported by Daiqing. His influence has long penetrated into the area between his territory and the Ming border wall.

Now, the Trojan Market has stopped, the weather is getting colder and the wind is getting stronger.

(End of this chapter)