People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 375 The Li family of Korea is colluding with the Jurchens again! !

North Korean Royal Palace.

Lee Seong-gye and Koo Kang-ho are studying the future national trend.

They became nervous after seeing that Ming Dynasty had killed the Japanese slaves.

Of course, the entire nation resented Japanese slaves in the beginning, and Japanese pirates frequently came to harass the coastal areas.

Even if the number of Japanese pirates coming up is small, a few hundred or as few as a thousand, they can cause great damage in the coastal areas.

This has caused many citizens to be extremely troubled.

However, the national power of Lee's North Korea was not strong at that time.

Even though their king Li Chenggui was a general who was good at fighting, he ignored the reason why the Wang family of Korea was able to be overthrown by him.
It's not because his personal ability is quite strong, but because the Wang family has reached a point where it is on the verge of bankruptcy.

That's why he was able to destroy that country very quickly and then become the king himself.

The situation has lasted for seven or eight years, and now it is getting worse.
Nothing else. Li Chenggui's gradual expansion of ambition was the real trigger.

How did Li Chenggui guarantee this when the Li family's Joseon was founded?
The slogan he shouted was Wang's Goryeo, which did not abide by the vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty and was hostile to the Ming Dynasty.

This made the great scholars both inside and outside the government even more dissatisfied.

What he didn't expect was that Li Chenggui actually directly destroyed the Wang family of Goryeo, and Li Dai Taojiang became the king.
In this situation, although he used violence to suppress domestic opponents, but people in the mainland are afraid to speak out, it does not mean that he is satisfied with you.

Just like Liu Chengjun and others, they are the best among this group of people.

As we think, the Japanese slaves are the springboard between us and the Ming Dynasty. Without the Japanese slaves, the meaning of our existence would be lost.

So he pulled Gu Kanghao over.

Gu Kanghao was of the same mind as him, and the two discussed it over and over again, and finally decided to make a decision that could be said to be quite contrary to the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

Since Li Chenggui became the king, although he adhered to the vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty on the surface, he was very respectful and obedient on the surface.

However, just as he was about to solve it, the Ming Dynasty directly attacked the Japanese slaves, disrupting their steps.

At first they thought they had eliminated the person who had been colluding with the Mongols between Wang's Koryo and the Mongols, and then re-elected another descendant of Wang's Koryo to be the king, with everyone assisting him.

Especially when he saw the Japanese slaves being destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, he was even more opposed.

By purging a large number of Mongolian ministers from the Qing and Yuan dynasties, the country will be cleansed and everyone can proceed step by step.

However, he was hooking up with the Jurchens behind his back.

It took him seven or eight years to finally secure his current position.

The Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Japanese slaves ended so quickly, taking only two and a half years.

At the same time, he also hooked up with the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty who once abused the entire peninsula.

Gu Kanghao even shed a few tears as he said, "As ministers, even if the Lee family of Korea is destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, the worst case scenario is that we will just retreat to our hometown.
In a few years, you can pass the imperial examination and become an official again. But as the head of the country, what do you think will happen to you?
The best outcome for you is to be escorted to the Fengyang Mansion of the Ming Dynasty and be detained with their royal children.

But he also found that all those officials, especially those with Confucian background, looked down upon him.

The most important thing is that Li Chenggui was a general.

They can devour us if they want, they can do with us whatever they want.

It diluted some of the opposition's attacks on him, but that's what he didn't expect.

"Your Highness, if we really don't dare to resist this time, tomorrow the dynasty will treat us as weak persimmons.

However, when they supported Li Chenggui to overthrow Goryeo, they found that the regime of Li Chenggui and Wang's Goryeo had not changed much.

Nothing else, just because he knew that if he was still submissive at this juncture, the results waiting for him would not be good.

I have always hoped for Confucian orthodox rule.

If so, what do you do? "

In the future, if the Ming Dynasty continues to expand and operate in the land of Japanese slaves, then we will become a dispensable country in the middle.

Because in their eyes, Li Chenggui, who started his career as a rebel, was always inferior to the descendants of the Wang family in Korea.

Not only did they cooperate with the Jurchens many times to invade Han territory in Liaodong, they also encouraged the Jurchens' arrogance.

After he became king, he realized how bad the whole country was now.

Use such an excuse to call out those Confucian ministers who opposed Wang's collusion between Goryeo and the Mongols.

Of course he would object in this case.

Knowing that the Jurchens were an underfed wolf cub, after invading the Ming Dynasty, he immediately launched an indiscriminate invasion of the land of Li's Korea.

Of course, the Confucian ministers hoped that the Ming Dynasty could directly rule North Korea, and as an ambitious person like Li Chenggui, he certainly did not want a so-called suzerain state above his head to suppress him.

As a result, a group of conservatives emerged who worked with the so-called reformists.

Confucian ministers have always aimed to be loyal to the Central Plains. They hate the brutal rule of the Mongols.

It was precisely because these things were mixed together that Li Chenggui realized that it would be very troublesome if these problems were not solved.

Using domestic food in exchange for cotton cloth and various Ming Dynasty bargains, the national happiness increased.

Li Chenggui saw some business opportunities, and they have actually made a little fortune in the past two years.

He hasn't reacted yet, and now he has to consider the next question.

If you are cruel, just cut off your head, and then teach Jiubian to inform all opponents of Lee's Korea. This is the fate of opposition.

This can also be done. "

Gu Kanghao's words are like a sharp sword.

Directly inserted into Li Chenggui's heart.

It made his heart skip a beat.

He had difficulty breathing, his face was pale, his forehead was sweating, and his whole body was shaking.

After a long time, he finally yelled and dropped the cup on his hand to the ground.

The pieces of the cup shattered into pieces, just like his heart was shattered by these words.

"Gu will never be the one to sit back and wait for death. Just tell me how you are going to solve the current predicament.

Even if we have to fight to the death, I will never let the Ming Dynasty take us down so easily.

Even if I have to pluck the beard from the tiger's head, I will break one of his teeth. "

Li Chenggui is quite confident.

Because he felt that he had never failed despite leading troops in battles for so many years.

Even when he followed the Yuan Dynasty to suppress the Red Turban uprising, he never failed.

Because of this, he always felt that he was already a famous general in the world, and it was absolutely impossible for anyone to defeat him on the battlefield. Even if the Ming Dynasty's army is now quite powerful, so what?
As long as he dares to fight, the warriors of Lee's Korea will be his greatest support.

After Gu Kanghao saw the determination on Li Chenggui's face, he said: "There is no other way to go. We can only go north immediately to summon the remaining Jurchens in Haixi and the Savage Jurchens.
Treating them as death squads and allowing them to continue harassing Liaodong will give us more room for relaxation.

Only the Jurchens in Liaodong have the ability to be hostile to the soldiers of Liaodong, and we in North Korea have the opportunity to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it delays him for a year or two, for us, it will still be a year or two of hard work. What do you think, Your Highness? "

Li Chenggui fell into deep thought.

They had already supported the Jianzhou Jurchens before, but the Jianzhou Jurchens were quickly destroyed by Chen Han and the others.

So restarting this plan now is also a very big challenge for them.

The most important thing to know now is that they no longer have that much food to give to the Jurchens.

Besides, the Jurchens are now afraid of being beaten and may not necessarily agree to their requests.

Because there are so many considerations, Li Chenggui is now hesitant: "The Jurchens have been frightened by the Ming Dynasty, are they still willing to accept our funding?"

Li Chenggui asked a question that concerned him more.

Ju Kanghao analyzed it for Li Chenggui: "Your Highness, you don't know something. The reason why the Jurchens today repeatedly offend the border, Wei Chen has studied, there are no more than two reasons.

First, the Han people expanded their cultivated land to the north, which greatly reduced the hunting and fishing range of the Jurchens and intensified the conflict between the two ethnic groups;
Secondly, as the weather gets colder and colder, the Jurchens are forced to go south.

Weichen has studied that in recent years, it has become colder every winter.

In the past, people in several states had to move southward in winter, leaving their homes and businesses behind.

Wei Chen went to do some research and discovered that at least the north was much colder than in previous years.

We have already felt the cold weather on the banks of the Yalu River.

And if the Jurchens are farther north, their perception will be deeper.

They had no choice but to move south and look for life.

In this process, there is no room for them to retreat.

They can only press all the way south, and in this tearing process, we have room for maneuver.

Wei Chen thought he could secretly find the Jurchen chiefs and explain the current stakes to them.

After all, they can't go further north. Every winter will get colder and colder. How will they survive if they go further north?

If they can't even guarantee food and drink, do they still have room to retreat?

Secondly, we should not spend all our food on transactions with Ming Dynasty.
At least raise some food prices to secretly manipulate our food hoarding,

To give this part of the food to the Jurchens, there is no need to explain to them in the early stage, but now we need to form an offensive and defensive alliance with them.
Because as long as they have food, they will grow stronger. As long as they grow stronger, they will inevitably have confrontation with Liaodong.

There is no need for us to say it explicitly or to seduce them. This will definitely happen.

Once there is a confrontation with the Jurchens in Liaodong, our role will be highlighted.

We cooperated with Liaodong to put pressure on the Jurchens in the north, and at the same time secretly cooperated with them.

Anyway, raising bandits with self-respect is not only the law for the Liaodong generals, but also the only way for us to survive.

As long as there are Jurchens interfering with it, I believe the Ming Dynasty will not easily touch us.

Because they move us, they will increase their strength to guard our opposition forces and share their defensive strength.

What will be damaged will be the military power of the Ming Dynasty, what do you think? "

When Gu Kanghao said this, Li Chenggui's eyes lit up.

"Yes, yes, that's why the Jianzhou Jurchens were so troublesome to Liaodong back then.

According to your analysis, Gu Wang feels that it is very reasonable.

Go ahead and do it right away, but you can't let those die-hards know about it. First, increase the price of our country's grain exports to force the Ming Dynasty to reduce its purchase of grain.

Furthermore, the Ming Dynasty has already wiped out the Japanese slaves, so they don’t need to buy more food from us, and there will be no big war consumption.

We can also use this to conserve our own strength and give this part of the food to the Jurchens, and you can arrange for someone to complete it secretly immediately. "

Gu Kanghao took the order and left.

Li Chenggui finally breathed a sigh of relief after Gu Kanghao left.

If this recent plan succeeds, it will be a perfect curve to save the country for Lee's North Korea.

So half a month later, when the Ming Dynasty caravan escorting prisoners from the Japanese slaves arrived at Hepu Port in Busan, they were stationed and disembarked to buy food.

Nowadays, the price of grain per stone is at least about half more expensive than before, which makes the caravan very strange.

After inquiring about the news, the information obtained was that the Lee family in North Korea was purchasing a large amount of grain and hoarding it, thus reducing the amount of grain on the market, so the price began to rise.

This made the caravan at that time very strange, but they didn't think much about it.

Anyway, the profit from going back and forth is quite large, and you can get a lot of freight by escorting the captives.

When they came, they could sell a large amount of daily necessities such as cotton cloth and porcelain to Lee's Korea along the way, as well as the Japanese slaves who are now occupying them. This was nothing to them.

So even if the price rose, the Ming Dynasty's caravans could still find money to buy food.

But after this back and forth, I gradually discovered that in addition to rising prices, the supply was also getting smaller and smaller.

After waiting several times, the caravan no longer coveted this small advantage, but directly purchased grain from Weihai, Shandong, ignoring the role of Li's North Korean Hepu port.

Although they relied on Hepu Port to serve Ming Dynasty caravans, many Korean citizens of the Lee family found that their jobs were gone and they were unable to earn more money, and they were very frustrated.

But none of them noticed the difference.

Their plan gradually succeeded.

At the same time, the Liaodong soldiers also discovered something was different.

First, although the Jurchens were dispersed, their species was not eliminated.

Or never.

At that time, Chen Han personally led the Liaodong soldiers and killed many Jurchens on the spot in the early stage.

Especially among the Jurchen tribe who were killed, almost no one survived.

But many people from the Savage Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens fled north.

Now, inexplicably, Jurchens from those two tribes can occasionally be seen appearing on the banks of the Yalu River.

At first, no one took it seriously, thinking it was just normal.

But later I realized something was wrong. More and more Jurchens started to move south from the north...

(End of this chapter)