The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 424 The Han envoy was killed
After handling the affairs of the Japanese state, the Han Dynasty sent more than 10,000 well-equipped soldiers and more than 30 civil and military officials to head toward the Japanese island along with the Japanese envoys.

In July of the third year of Yuanding, the Han Dynasty completely completed its military and political strategy against Japan.

At the end of August, a memorial arrived in Chang'an.

This memorial comes from Liaodong County. At the beginning of this year, the Han Dynasty sent envoy Shehe to Wei Manchu Korea.

With the rapid economic development of the Han Dynasty, countries all over the world have begun to trade with the Han Dynasty, making the Han Dynasty a lot of money.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set his sights on Weiman Korea, which as well as nearby Zhenfan and other small countries had not yet realized trade with the Han Dynasty.

If you go to sea from Liaodong and sell the goods of the Han Dynasty to the Korean Peninsula, the Han Dynasty can make a lot of money.

However, a letter from She He came back, which made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty very angry. She He did not achieve any results in the Korean Peninsula.

So She He was so angry that when he came back, he directly killed the North Korean envoy.

Wei Ning and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty read Shehe's memorial together.

As for the grievances between the Han Dynasty and North Korea... in fact, to put it bluntly, there is no grievances at all.

The main reason is that Weiman Korea has expanded.

The period can be traced back to the Warring States Period. At that time, the Yan State occupied Zhenfan to the east, and Jizi Korea in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula also surrendered to the Yan State. After Qin destroyed Yan, it established Liaodong County in Liaodong, which Jizi Korea used to gain independence.

Wei Man was originally from the Yan State at the end of the Warring States Period. In the twelfth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (195 BC), King Lu Wan of Yan rebelled against the imperial court. Liu Bang sent troops to attack the State of Yan. Lu Wan was defeated and fled to the Huns. Wei Man then also led more than a thousand of his followers. He crossed the Xishui River eastward and went to Jizi North Korea.

Weiman was not a good person either. He originally lived in the territory west of Korea, but he had great ambitions and recruited Liaodong refugees, deserters and dead people, and his power grew rapidly.

In the first year of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Wei Man, who was full-fledged, lied to Ji Zhun that the Han Dynasty army was coming to attack, and requested to lead his troops back to Wangxian City, the capital, to assist in the defense. Ji Zhun did not know that there was a fraud and agreed to his request. As a result, Weiman took the opportunity to launch a mutiny and seize the capital, and Ji Zhun led thousands of his followers to flee by sea to the Chen Kingdom in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

From then on, Weiman Korea was officially established.

However, Wei Man was not stupid. He naturally knew that the small country he established was incomparable to the Han Dynasty, so in the early days of his accession to the throne, he knelt down to the Han Dynasty and paid regular tribute to the Wang family of the Han Dynasty every year.

This was passed down for two generations, until Wei Man's grandson Wei Youqu came to the throne.

The current king of North Korea is Wei Youqu. He has no idea about the current situation of the Han Dynasty. He is a bit like the North Korean version of Yelang, who is arrogant.

He also kept his sights on the Central Plains in the Warring States Period. He felt that with North Korea's current national strength, it would be no problem to arm-wrestle with the Han Dynasty.

So when Shehe killed the Korean envoy, Wei Youqu immediately sent troops into Liaodong County, found Shehe and killed him directly.

This memorial about She He was not sent to Chang'an until now. It was not written by She He, but was written by the Liaodong governor on She He's behalf.

Seeing this, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Wei Ning were very angry.

Leading troops to invade Liaodong County is equivalent to going to war against the entire Han Dynasty! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately summoned the ministers in Qilin Hall.

When this news was made public, the crowd in the hall was furious, and almost everyone agreed to send troops to directly attack North Korea.

North Korea has been so crazy in the past few decades! Before, Wei Youqu's father and grandfather paid tribute to the Han Dynasty, but now they don't pay tribute. The Han court feels that your country is poor, so it is unwilling to accept your tribute, so it doesn't matter if it turns a blind eye. What kind of.

Now the Han Dynasty is sending envoys there, not to ask you to pay tribute, but to hope that the Han Dynasty's ships can enter North Korea and then sell the Han Dynasty's goods to North Korea.

Is this considered a business practice? You don't have any intention to provoke you, right?

Okay, even if Shehe becomes exaggerated and kills your envoys escorting him, this matter can be resolved through negotiation, and the Han may not be able to deal with Shehe, but you have no reason to send troops into Liaodong to kill my officials. Okay, isn't this Chi Guoguo's provocation?
The land of the Han Dynasty is something that your foreign armies can enter whenever they want?

Also, you don’t trade with the Han Dynasty, and you also prevent small neighboring countries from doing business. What does this mean?
Obviously, the country North Korea thinks that its country is invincible on the island, and Wei Youqu naturally has this qualification, because other countries on this island are too weak compared to their country.

He believes that the current national strength of the Han Dynasty is no more than this.

This is the consequence of the lack of information. He has no idea what the big man has become now. Trading goods can obviously bring them the benefit of knowledge.

They didn't appreciate it at all.

Now that we are in this situation, it is impossible for the Han Dynasty not to send troops.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to brazenly fight against the Xiongnu when the country was not yet developed.

How dare you, a small country like you, show your teeth in front of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a strong-willed man and never surrendered. Now I see your country's army invading our Han Dynasty and killing our officials on our land. Is this okay?

We need strict legal support to kill our own officials. Do you dare to interfere in our internal affairs?
Then hit!
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stood in the court hall, stood up suddenly, and shouted loudly: "Assemble Gongsun Ao from the southeast and bring ten thousand naval troops together to board a boat and land at Ziliekou on the Bohai Sea!"

"Ling Weiguang led 30,000 infantry, 5,000 light cavalry, and 5,000 firearms soldiers from Guanzhong into Liaodong and landed in North Korea from Xishui City!"

The two armies, a total of 50,000 people, are all well-equipped soldiers of the Han Dynasty. They include not only the navy, but also infantry, cavalry, and firearms. Among them, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of Gongsun Ao are equipped with firecrackers. If fighting on land, The advantage is even greater!
It's a pity that Huo Qubing is not in Chang'an, otherwise he would probably be very excited when he heard the news.

This time Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty unexpectedly used Wei Guang. Wei Guang was also Wei Ning's uncle. Although he did not have the same mother as Wei Qing and others, he could be regarded as one of the factions of the Wei family.

This is also one of the Wei family forces that came in after Wei Qing retired.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can now be regarded as selling Wei Qing a favor and assigning Wei Guang as the main force to attack North Korea this time!
It can be seen that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was really furious this time. According to the current conditions of the Han Dynasty, it was enough to flatten the country of North Korea!
However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty obviously did not have this intention, otherwise he would not have sent only 50,000 troops and horses.

Wei Ning thought that his father was still trying to save face for Wei Man Korea, hoping that this army could shock them in the past, defeat them without a fight, and make them surrender to the Han.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued the order, the civil and military officials immediately began to mobilize troops and generals!

(End of this chapter)