Rule over Ming Dynasty

No matter how arrogant King Li of North Korea is, in the hearts of North Korean officials and people, it is impossible for North Korea to withstand the Ming Dynasty cavalry.

Their king openly challenged the Ming Dynasty, which was like hitting an egg against a stone. Now the Ming Dynasty cavalry has successfully moved south and has even arrived at the Royal City. This is an ironclad proof.

Once the Ming Dynasty's cavalry enters the city, who will be spared?

There was great chaos in Seoul. Countless members of the scholar-bureaucrat class fled one after another. The common people were also thinking of ways to leave. Some people took advantage of the chaos to rob property, and even killed people to steal goods.

Originally, there were soldiers in the royal city to maintain order, but under Li's leadership, the royal city was out of control.

The officials and generals responsible for managing the soldiers have fled, and these unruly soldiers have turned into bandits. Especially, more and more people in the royal city do not believe that they can defend the royal city.

"It's chaos, it's all chaos!"

"This is not a good thing that tyrant did!"

"Run away, this royal city will definitely fall!"

……

Facing the Ming Dynasty's cavalry stationed outside the north city gate, there were leaders in the city discussing politics and traffickers and pawns in the city, but no one had the fighting spirit and they all wanted to escape.

"Is the south city gate closed?"

"Li is so cruel!"

"He doesn't intend to give us all a way out in life!"

……

After learning that King Lee of North Korea had ordered martial law in the city, many dignitaries who were preparing to flee but were trapped in the city hated Lee deeply.

The Ming Dynasty cavalry only stationed troops in the north of the city, but completely ignored the other three gates. As a result, the Korean king actually closed them all, which directly trapped everyone in the city.

The Korean Peninsula in February is experiencing a depressing cloudy day.

Seoul, Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Li is now completely letting himself go, not only killing ministers in the court, but also becoming arrogant and lustful in life. Although there is no pool of wine and meat, there are still four beauties in the pool at this moment.

When it comes to beauty, North Korea is indeed a place rich in beauties. Not only did North Korean women win the favor of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty Palace also accepted many North Korean beauties as maids.

In order to maintain a good image, Li used to constantly disguise himself, but now he no longer cares about anything else and likes to play with beauties in this warm pool every day.

"Your Majesty, which grape do you want?"

"What grapes do you mean?"

"Hate it, does your Majesty want big white steamed buns?"

……

The four beauties surrounded Li in the hot water room, but they all tried to please the monarch.

Due to the blockade of information and the fact that they are born to entertain people with sex, they do not care about changes in the outside world. Now they know that only by pleasing the king in front of them can they live a good life.

Just when Li was holding a beauty in his arms, a burst of swords suddenly came from outside.

"What happened?"

Li stopped teasing with the beauty in the water and immediately looked out the door angrily.

The sound of fighting outside ended, and the screen was roughly kicked to the ground.

what……

The beauties in the pool had never seen such a scene before. When they thought that they were only wearing a barely visible bellyband, they immediately screamed in shame.

Li Wang looked at the general who kicked down the screen with a shocked expression on his face: "Li Shangming, you...why are you here?"

Although he knew that Li Shi had great influence in the court, and Li Shangming had a high reputation in the army, he was a strong enemy who had to be eliminated. But he never expected that Li Shangming would come back so quickly and even break into his palace.

At this moment, he knew that he had underestimated Li Shangming, or perhaps he had been abandoned by the civil and military ministers of the dynasty without knowing it.

Behind Li Shangming stood North Korea's important ministers headed by Li Kepei, who was in charge of political affairs.

There are serving ministers here, there are also officials who have been dismissed by Li, and there are even avengers who like Li Shangming had their homes ransacked and their families exterminated.

"Of course this general is here to take your head!" Li Shangming said without hiding his hatred when he saw the enemy who killed his father in front of him.

Li knew that the hatred between himself and Li Shangming could not be reconciled at all. He immediately looked at Li Kepei and others and said: "I am the king of North Korea. Do you have to think clearly?"

"Of course we have thought it through, otherwise we would not be here with Li Shangming!" Li Kepei responded firmly to Li's question.

Although they, civil servants, are at a natural disadvantage, after all, they are taught to be loyal to their emperor. It's just that after Li took power, he went on a killing spree against their officials, and he had already forged a bloody feud.

Originally, their strength was superior to Li's, but now that the civil and military officials united, they could naturally take over Li, a king who had been betrayed by his ministers.

As for seizing Gyeongbokgung Palace, Li Long was not regarded as the king, not only by him as the leader, but also by the traffickers and lackeys. This move was actually an easy matter.

"Someone! Someone! Come quickly! Escort!"

Li shouted loudly, but there was no movement outside.

Li Shangming and others looked at Li as if they were pitiful, but they knew that no one would come to rescue this tyrant. This tyrant and his subjects had already been alienated.

Although Li gathered a group of people and cultivated a few confidants, he was too complacent.

The power of the Ming Dynasty is obvious to all. The reason why everyone follows Li is because they hope to live a life of fine clothing and fine food, but they do not follow Li to die.

Now that the Ming Dynasty iron cavalry is approaching the city, it would be really stupid if the group of people who supported Li followed Li all the way to the dark side.

Li had already recognized the reality and immediately asked: "Are you going to kill the king?"

"So what if you kill the king?" Li Shangming, who was wearing armor, stepped forward and immediately pulled out the sword from his waist: "Today's Japanese general is not just for revenge, but to use your head to calm the swords and ensure the stability of the Korean people!"

"Haha... Do you think the Ming Dynasty might have a truce? The Ming Dynasty is so ambitious that it has long wanted to annex North Korea. You idiots are still going after the Ming Dynasty!" Li laughed and pointed at the officials present angrily.

"The Ming Dynasty is hundreds of times stronger than us, but you idiot dares to be so provocative. If you are not willing to succumb to the Ming Dynasty, then the people of the whole country should not be buried with you! Today, I will bear the name of regicide. Today Let me lend you your head!" Li Shangming saw through Li's reluctance and immediately stepped forward with the knife. This time it is not just about seizing the palace, nor is it just about killing the king, but it is about quelling the war with the Ming Dynasty.

Others may not know it clearly, but he knows the military gap between the two countries, which can even be described as a chasm. If North Korea goes to war with Ming Dynasty, there will be only death.

Especially now, the Ming Dynasty not only has elite soldiers and generals, but also strong ships and cannons, which can kill them directly from the Bohai Bay to Seoul.

Li thought he could be arrogant because he was the orthodox member of the North Korean royal family, but he didn't know that he was nothing in front of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty. When he was held hostage in the capital, Ganqing still couldn't recognize the reality.

Li Kepei and other officials nodded one after another, but they knew that everything happened because of Li. Naturally, they and the Korean people could not be buried with this idiot Li.

"You...you really dare to kill the king? You did it, you did it!" Li stood up from the pool, his face extremely shocked at this moment.

His biggest reliance has always been bloodline. He is the orthodox member of the Korean royal family and is their king. It was precisely because of this identity that all the ministers in the court succumbed to him.

Just seeing Li Shangming coming with a knife made him feel an unprecedented sense of powerlessness.

The status of the king who was always invincible in the past and the royal bloodline that people used to admire seemed to be ineffective at this moment and did not play any role.

"Where to go!" Li Shangming also entered the pool alone, his murderous intention rising at this moment.

Whether it is to avenge his dead father or for the millions of North Korean people, now he must cut off Li's head and use his head to quell the war.

When Li Kepei saw Li Shangming going into the pond to kill people, he also watched the scene silently.

If Li hadn't acted so recklessly, they wouldn't have wanted to reach this point. It's just that even though Li Dao and the others were trying to kill them all, they turned out to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty. So don't blame them for not caring about the relationship between monarch and minister.

Ah!
When the four beauties saw Li Kepei jumping into the water with a knife, they no longer cared about the fact that their clothes were too revealing and they all fled from the pool.

The soles of Li's feet slipped, and he fell into the pool again. He seemed to wake up in the water, and immediately changed his attitude and begged for mercy: "No! No! Please let me go, I will never dare to do it again!"

Anyone is cowardly in the face of life and death. Now that Li feels the murderous intention in Li Shangming, he will not care about his identity as king. Now he just wants to survive.

Having enjoyed the king's luxurious life, he naturally didn't want to die even more. Even if Li Shangming asked him to be a puppet king at this moment, he would not hesitate.

Li Kepei and others couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw Li who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

Since Li came to power, he has killed ministers and good generals in vain. Now he knows how to repent when he is about to die, but it is already too late. All I can say is: It’s your own fault and you won’t survive.

puff!
Li Shangming clenched the knife in his hand and slashed hard at Li. A stream of blood immediately splashed on Li's neck, and the head fell directly into the pool.

Under the action of buoyancy, the head floated on the water, but the eyes remained open.

As the corpses continued to gush out blood, the warm pool that had just blossomed was now dyed red with blood.

died?

When Li Kepei and other officials saw Li's head chopped off and his body floating on the water, they felt very complicated, but they did not regret it at all.

Not to mention that too many of them are victims, and now it is Li who is taking the lead in challenging the Ming Dynasty. Only by cutting off Li's head can it be possible to calm the anger of the Ming Dynasty.

When Li Kepei saw Li Shangming picking up the tyrant's head from the pool, he looked very serious and asked: "General, can you really persuade Ming Dynasty to withdraw its troops?"

"I can't!" Li Shangming took revenge at this moment, but shook his head slightly.

"This..." Li Kepei originally placed his hope on Li Shangming, but he did not expect such a result.

"The general will handle the matter properly, just wait for the good news!" Li Kepei walked out of the pool and left straight away, looking very confident.

Seoul was in complete chaos. Although Li Shangming and Li Kepei teamed up to break into the palace and even chopped off the head of King Li of Korea, it did not cause much trouble.

Since everyone is trapped in the city, what they hope most is that the Ming Dynasty cavalry can evacuate, or promise that entering the city will not harm them.

Outside the north gate of Seoul, the Ming army was stationed here.

"One two one, one two three four!"

The Ming Dynasty's army is becoming more and more organized. Even though it is wartime, it conducts drills every day in order to maintain the best combat condition.

In a certain camp, there was a strange beeping sound.

Yu Yuanzan already knew that the royal city was in chaos, but he was not in a hurry to attack. He was not only waiting for the chaos in the royal city to heat up, but also to give the troops in the rear some time.

Although he is now alone in the expedition, each of them carries military rations. They also bought food through bank notes along the way, and grain ships at sea are ready to support them, so there is no need to worry too much about the military rations.

Yu Yuanzan was wearing armor and looking at Seoul in front of him.

It is very easy to take over North Korea with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, but it is too remote. From Beijing to Seoul via the northeast, it is almost the same distance as Hangzhou.

However, the agriculture here is not too developed, and the south is occasionally intruded by Japanese pirates, so the Central Plains Dynasty prefers to allow North Korea to govern itself.

In fact, North Korea is a country with a strong servility. It has always been very deferential to the powerful Central Plains dynasty, and it can even be said that it tries to please them in every possible way. Even in this dynasty, there is a tribute girl system.

The Ming Dynasty saw such a submissive North Korea, and North Korea was not an ideal fertile land, so there was no need to include it in the territory, but North Korea had an alternative like Li.

Li was not only cruel to domestic ministers, but also openly challenged the Ming Dynasty. This prompted the Ming Dynasty to send cavalry south to conquer North Korea.

As long as the Ming Dynasty's heavy artillery is delivered, no matter how strong the city gate of Seoul is, it will not be able to withstand the power of a single shot from the heavy artillery.

At noon, the North Gate of Seoul opens wide.

Li Shangming, wearing heavy armor, rode out from the city gate, followed by a carriage.

"Haha... General Li, aren't you afraid that our soldiers will take the opportunity to attack the city?" Yu Yuanzan clapped his horse and asked with a half-smile.

Li Shangming saw that Yu Yuanzan did not do this, and knew that he had not misjudged the person: "General Yu, I believe that in your eyes, you are not all about military merit, but a good general who can truly share the worries of your Ming Emperor."

"Stop flattering me! If there is nothing that can impress me, I will lead my troops into Seoul immediately!" Yu Yuanzan looked at the unclosed city gate and expressed his thoughts.

Li Shangming knew that the other party would keep his word, so he immediately presented the prepared things: "Please take a look at it, Commander-in-Chief Daming!"

"What is this?"

"The Commander-in-Chief will know it at a glance!"

Yu Yuanzan opened the sandalwood box and found that it turned out to be a calligraphy and painting. (End of chapter)