Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 158 The trick is exposed! Wanli is numb!
Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, that boy Zhang Chonghui...he...why don't you just stop reading?"

Chen Ju was holding a piece of paper in his hand, squirming and hesitating, looking very troubled.

"What did he write?" Zhu Yijun raised his hand to signal Chen Ju to hand the paper to him, and said, "It doesn't matter, I know he won't really come up with any ideas."

Facts have proved that Zhu Yijun's guess was not wrong, because there were only six big characters written on the paper.
——Kill Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
"Ha..." Zhu Yijun couldn't help but chuckle, with unclear meaning: "He really knows how to 'get it right in one step'."

Of course Zhu Yijun wanted to kill Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but the question was how? Let Jin Yiwei travel across the ocean to Japan to assassinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi?

This is nonsense...

Moreover, what if the assassination was successful? Even if there is no Toyotomi Hideyoshi! There will be another Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
It’s just treating the symptoms rather than the root cause!
"It's a useless method. I thought you really had any ideas." Zhu Yijun said scornfully.

Zhu Yijun had no intention of meeting Zhang Chonghui in the first place, and now that Zhang Chonghui had given such a 'nonsense' method, it was even less possible for him to meet him.

only……

And Shen Weijing, the translator who "led the way", was also gloriously "promoted" to the position of deputy diplomatic envoy.

Facts have proved that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was completely unaware of this "canonization" matter. Until this moment, he still thought that what the Ming Dynasty envoy was about to read out was the "seven treaties"!
Toyotomi Hideyoshi attaches great importance to the "signing of a contract" with the Ming Dynasty. This time he not only summoned all the important officials of the Japanese country, but even personally changed into the clothes of the Ming Dynasty to express that he wanted to sign a contract with the Ming Dynasty. Sincerity toward 'making good friends'!

Only then did Zhu Yijun realize that...his calligraphy...seemed to have stayed at the level he had been at when he was ten years old...

Li Zongcheng didn't want to be such a bullshit diplomatic envoy, because the job of being a diplomatic envoy was forced upon him by his 'superiors'!
And he always felt that this sudden errand came out of nowhere!

At this moment, apart from Governor Konishi, who knew the truth but did not dare to report it truthfully, the most nervous person was Shen Weijing.

The diplomatic envoy Li Zongcheng ran away, and this position naturally fell to the original deputy diplomatic envoy Yang Fangheng.

Xiao Xifei was finally able to return to his country. For him, it was really rare among rare things to be able to return from the Ming Dynasty alive this time...

Li Zongcheng, the true diplomatic envoy of the Ming Dynasty, seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He was frightened and cowered along the way...

"Ah? What did you say, Your Majesty?" Chen Ju 'once again' did not hear clearly what His Majesty the Emperor said.

This can't be blamed on Chen Ju's deafness, after all, His Majesty the Emperor's voice is too soft, and Chen Ju's age is really not young.

It can be said that Shen Weijing came here this time. If Shen had not promised to help him take care of his wife, children and children, and also promised to give him a large sum of money afterwards, he would never want to come to this ghost place again!

……

However, Li Zongcheng was as bold as a leopard that had eaten the heart of a bear. Without saying a word, he took off his official hat as an envoy and ran away in a hurry!
Ran……

"You go and select two "free-lance" officials as envoys, and then pass on the decree and ask them to take Shen Weijing with them to go to Japan with the envoys of the Japanese country, and canonize Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of the Japanese country."

"It's nothing." Zhu Yijun had long been accustomed to this deaf old eunuch, so he just waved his hand and said:

Almost instantly, Zhu Yijun remembered that familiar title again - child prodigy?

The group of people crossed the Yalu River with their own thoughts, passed Pyongyang City, and arrived at Busan City, North Korea, preparing to take a boat to Japan.

But anyway, the 'play' has been done for this purpose, so let's keep doing it!
Anyway, there is nothing to lose in 'acting', and I can take this opportunity to steal two noble families who 'just eat and do nothing' to add a small personal treasury to myself, the emperor!

Moreover, these two people have already made preparations to 'annex' the other party's forces at any time!
The canonization scene.

Facts have proved that everything is already too late. After all, everyone has arrived in Busan, North Korea...

……

It is worth mentioning that Li Zongcheng's father is Li Yangong, the eighth generation grandson of Li Wenzhong, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Li Zongcheng couldn't escape. Even if he had wings, he couldn't fly out of the Ming Dynasty's hands!
However, the 'big crime' of disobeying orders and absconding halfway would make Li Zongcheng suffer a lot of jail time!

This time, Tokugawa Ieyasu also came.

As we all know, Tokugawa Ieyasu only surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi on the surface, but in fact there was already a rift between the two!

Along the way, except for Xiao Xifei and Shen Weijing, who knew the 'truth', they were worried and didn't know how to face Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was eagerly awaiting the 'Seven Treaties of Ming Dynasty' in Japan...

Zhu Yijun has realized that the battle to aid Korea must continue regardless of the ups and downs.

……

In the twenty-second year of Wanli, June 20th!

"Who wrote this for Zhang Chonghui?" Zhu Yijun couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise when looking at the calligraphy handwriting - beautiful!
Zhu Yijun remembered that Zhang Chonghui's previous "ugly calligraphy" didn't even understand the layout. Although he also knew... the other party was probably pretending on purpose.

Poor Yang Fangheng didn't know the seriousness of the problem at this time, so he resolutely accepted such an 'honorable' job.

The diplomatic envoys of the Ming Dynasty have successfully arrived in Japan, and on this day, Toyotomi Hideyoshi will be officially canonized as the king of Japan!

"Replying to the emperor, this was written by Zhang Chonghui himself." Chen Ju seemed to have guessed what the emperor was wondering about, and deliberately added:
"Zhang Chonghui has been practicing calligraphy for more than a year, and his father-in-law Zhao Shizhen's calligraphy is already excellent. Come to think of it... he must have made such rapid progress in calligraphy under the guidance of Zhao Shizhen, a 'famous teacher' "

"More than a year? You can practice like this?" Zhu Yijun was stunned.

Looking at Zhang Chonghui's beautiful calligraphy that he practiced in less than a year, he recalled the calligraphy that he was most proud of...

The twenty-second year of Wanli, the twentieth day of the first lunar month.

The Ming Dynasty court decreed that Li Zongcheng, the governor of Linhuai Houxunwei Office, should serve as the diplomatic envoy, and Yang Fangheng, the governor of the Right Deputy General's Office of the Fifth Army Camp, should serve as the deputy diplomatic envoy. Each military attache would be given a first-class uniform, and they would go to Japan with Shen Weijing. In the name of the Great Tomorrow, Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Toyotomi Sekishi is canonized as the King of Japan!

Therefore, Li Zongcheng was always on tenterhooks along the way. After arriving in Busan, he even learned from the conversation with the Japanese army that there was something fishy about it!

As if he was feeling something, Zhu Yijun murmured in a low voice: "Some people are born as child prodigies... Some people are born... just to be forced to be that impossible saint..."

However, just the night before boarding the ship, an accident happened!
As the diplomatic envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zongcheng! He actually ran away!

But this time, Xiao Xi was not alone when he flew back, because he had to take three Ming Dynasty envoys back with him.

Shen Weijing didn't know if he could leave Japan alive. If he could leave Japan alive, he would not dare to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, Shen Weijing is already prepared. He is planning to buy a property in North Korea after this oolong incident.

It is also a kind of pleasure to retire in a foreign country with a lot of money. It is better than returning to the Ming Dynasty and being dragged to be beheaded...

Nervous was nervous, Shen Weijing was still Shen Weijing after all, and now that he was used to it, he wasn't really afraid of death anymore.

For Shen Weijing, who is like a gangster, living to this age and being able to open his eyes is the greatest joy of life!
It's just a pity...he still let 'that person' down...

The canonization ceremony is about to begin, and everyone is sitting upright. Bored, Shen Weijing glanced at the people present.

It was just out of boredom, but Shen Weijing was attracted by a young man with handsome appearance and upright posture among the crowd!

Among this group of Japanese military generals with shaved samurai heads and indescribable appearance and height, this handsome man really stood out!
However, what surprised Shen Weijing the most was that although this handsome man was wearing a kimono, he did not shave his head like others. Instead, he wore his hair in a very 'normal' bun like a man from the Ming Dynasty!
"Is he a Korean?" Shen Weijing wondered. Looking at that man, he seemed to have a very good relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the two were talking and laughing.

"They must be Koreans." Shen Weijing justified himself, but for some reason, he always felt that this handsome man was born a little...

Somewhat like someone he knew?

……

The canonization ceremony began.

As the diplomatic envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Fangheng first read out the edict issued by the Ming Dynasty court in Chinese:

"The emperor is destined to be carried by heaven, and he says: The saint's benevolent fortune is carried by heaven and earth, and no one fails to respect the emperor's order. Toyotomi Hideyoshi... I specially made you the king of Japan, and gave you the imperial edict. Thank you!"

This long and smelly edict, which made people feel a little confused, was finally finished. Next, it was translated by Wagata, a monk whom Toyotomi Hideyoshi respected very much.

The monk in charge of translating was already a little distracted when he first heard the edict. When he took the edict in person, he was even more dumbfounded... The monk suddenly recalled that in the middle of the night yesterday, when Governor Konishi came to see him, Those words that were said...

At that time, Governor Konishi seemed to be very worried, panicked and frightened. As soon as he came up, he begged him, a monk, to remember to 'skip' some of the 'not so good' content when translating the contents of the Ming Dynasty edict today so that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would not hear it. Angry.

The monk didn't pay much attention to this matter at the time, but now he was stupid. He turned his head and looked at Konishi Yukinaga not far away. His face was ugly, as if he had eaten shit. The monk really wanted to ask him——

——"How the hell can I skip this? How do you want me to skip it?"

Governor Konishi lowered his head in despair, because he felt the hot gaze cast by the monk, and he knew...he was going to be doomed this time...

Not to mention the fact that so many people came, the key is that his boss’s nemesis Tokugawa Ieyasu also came...

If the boss is embarrassed in front of his arch-rival, isn't he destined to die...

At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was kneeling above the crowd, turned to look at the handsome young man beside him. The young man also happened to turn his head, and the two looked at each other and smiled meaningfully.

Obviously, these two people seemed to have known something for a long time.

……

In the end, the monk had no choice but to bite the bullet and translate. He had tried his best to 'skip' a lot, but no matter how much he skipped, he could not skip the last sentence, which was about canonizing Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of Japan...

Now, the matter is completely revealed!

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was furious when he learned that he had been tricked 'again'!

I saw Toyotomi Hideyoshi snatching the edict from the monk's hand! Without saying a word, he smashed it to the ground! He quickly rushed to the front of Yang Fangheng, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty! He grabbed the other person's collar and cursed:
"If I want to be king! Why do you need to come tomorrow to make me a king? You guys are actually trying to trick me again! This is simply too much!"

……

It was a foregone conclusion that the canonization ended unhappy. Unfortunately, Yang Fangheng, the diplomat of the Ming Dynasty who could not understand Japanese, was pointed at his nose and scolded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi for most of the day. He didn't even know what he was scolding...

In the end, Yang Fangheng learned the truth of the matter from the Japanese people, and also learned about the seven treaties, and even learned that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would fight again!

At this moment, Yang Fangheng realized it, and he hurriedly asked Shen Weijing, the deputy diplomatic envoy, to find out!

But Shen Weijing had already been prepared, and as soon as he found an opportunity, he ran away like a whirlwind!
Three people came, and now two are gone!
For a moment, Yang Fangheng even wanted to run away...

However, Yang Fangheng knew very well that he could not run away.

And Shen Weijing and Li Zongcheng, who have already escaped, cannot escape either!
……

"Hahahaha! Jianchu, have you seen Toyotomi Hideyoshi's furious face? I really laughed to death! He was so stupid that he really believed that the Ming Dynasty would agree to those seven conditions! He was still waiting for Princess Ming to marry him! Hahahaha!”

Tokugawa Ieyasu laughed so hard that he couldn't stand up straight! He felt happy when he thought that his rival Toyotomi Hideyoshi had suffered such a big blow! It feels so good!

The handsome young man on the side also smiled and said: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi will continue to attack North Korea. He even wants to use this to swallow up the Ming Dynasty, which is still strong in national power. This is the real stupidity."

"Hahahaha! Let him go!" Tokugawa Ieyasu smiled, patted the young man on the shoulder, and praised:
"Jianchu, your method is wonderful! Thanks to you for allowing me to deliberately release the false news that the Ming army was weak and most of them were wine bags and waste! This succeeded in making Toyotomi Hideyoshi think that the Ming army was incompetent, and he hurriedly gave up. His people are going to die!"

Tokugawa Ieyasu's smile was full of appreciation. Hearing this, the handsome young man also politely and humbly complimented: "General, your words are serious. I think if you didn't value me, General, I would be just a down-and-out person. How could I help General?" Your opportunity.”

"Haha, Jianchu, you are so humble!" Tokugawa Ieyasu patted the handsome young man on the shoulder again and said solemnly:

"You are my military advisor! Whether or not I can realize my 'ideal' in the future depends entirely on your help!"

"Don't worry, General." The handsome young man replied with a hand-over-hand gesture that did not belong to Japanese people:
"Right now, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been tricked by the Ming Dynasty! All he can think about is swallowing up North Korea! He is so angry! Since he wants to fight, let his people fight to the full!
All you have to do now is wait! By the time Toyotomi Hideyoshi's trusted troops were almost all dead! You can't be more clueless! Kill Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
By then, General, you will be able to replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi with ease! It can also swallow up the remaining power of him! At that time, Shogun, you will become the new 'Shogun'! It’s time to create the era you want! "

"Okay!" Tokugawa Ieyasu became more and more excited as he listened, and the excitement in his eyes grew stronger and stronger!
He seems to have passed the words of the 'strategist'! I saw that one from afar! 'Founded' by Tokugawa Ieyasu himself - the Tokugawa Shogunate Era!
After being forcefully beaten with a large tube of chicken blood by the 'strategist', Tokugawa Ieyasu could be said to have no use for all his strength. He pulled the military advisor over and said:
"Would you like to go whore together?"

However, this young and handsome military advisor sighed in embarrassment and sadly refused:
"I'm sorry, general, but I can't do it today... because... today is my father's memorial day..."

"Ah...this..." Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned, and then apologized profusely: "Private Marseille! Private Marseille!"

……

The news of the collapse of negotiations with the Japanese country was quickly reported back to the Ming Dynasty.

And those 'seven treaties' were finally exposed!
It is said that Emperor Wanli Long Yan was furious after learning about this incident! It’s a direct decree! Arrest all the people involved! Prepare for severe punishment!
It can be said that there are quite a lot of people involved in this oolong incident!
Except for Song Yingchang, who had already resigned from office long ago, all the other officials involved inevitably suffered punishments of varying sizes!
Shi Xing, who was the Minister of the Ministry of War, was the first to be unlucky. After all, he was the most critical core figure in this oolong incident. Emperor Wanli showed no mercy to him and immediately sent him to prison!

And Shi Xing, who went together with Shi Xing to inquire repeatedly about Xiao Xifei's cabinet position, was also implicated in great misfortune. This ideal cabinet bachelor was now forced to resign.

In addition, the two diplomatic envoys who had run away, except Shen Weijing, were still missing. Li Zongcheng was quickly captured and put in jail, awaiting punishment at any time!
In the late autumn of the twenty-second year of Wanli, a large group of ministers in the court were all implicated in the "peace negotiation incident".

For a time, people were jailed, people resigned, people ransacked their homes, and people had their heads beheaded.

This means that there is a 'big change' in the court, and this will be a real 'shuffle' moment!
It is worth mentioning that this time, Wang Xijue, the chief minister of the cabinet, who had been refusing to go out due to illness, finally received approval from His Majesty the Emperor to resign.

Wang Xijue was finally able to return to his hometown in Suzhou and live with Shen Shixing in retirement as he wished.

Before leaving, Wang Xijue went to the Zhao Mansion to see Zhang Chonghui and said arrogantly: "Who said I couldn't be the first assistant for a year? You miscalculated!"

Zhang Chonghui originally thought that Wang Xijue came to visit this time because "people are good at words when they are about to die" and wanted to say some parting words.

Unexpectedly, this old guy came to provoke me again.

At this time, Zhang Chonghui also lost his patience. He directly asked the servants of the Zhao family to drive Wang Xijue out!

However, before being driven out of the Zhao Mansion, Wang Xijue deliberately shouted loudly:
"Zhang Juzheng, wait! I will come back again!"

……

Qianqing Palace.

Whenever he recalled the first of the seven treaties, Zhu Yijun was so angry that his tooth ached!

"You Zhang...Chonghui! You dare to promise my daughter out casually! You are really brave!"

Zhu Yijun gritted his teeth and cursed, saying why the Japanese were so easy to talk to during the first peace talks. It turned out that Zhang Chonghui was bragging about not drafting, and actually proposed such outrageous seven treaties!

What makes Zhu Yijun most angry is that he still can't find a reason to involve Zhang Chonghui and convict him!
After all, the purpose of the first peace talks was just to delay the Japanese army! Who would have thought that there would be a second peace talk later!
"I should have known this! I wouldn't have escorted him back so quickly!"

Zhu Yijun thought that if he had not been so hasty in ordering Luo Sigong to escort Zhang Chonghui back, Zhang Chonghui, as the deputy diplomatic envoy, would inevitably be involved in the second peace talks!

As long as he comes into contact with the second peace talks, Zhang Chonghui will definitely not be able to escape this conviction!

"Wait!" Zhu Yijun suddenly remembered something!
Why was he in such a hurry to ask Luo Sigong to escort Zhang Chonghui back to Ming Dynasty?

Because Zhang Chonghui was too close to the North Korean king, he was afraid that the other party would have thoughts about Wu Zixu...

The reason why he, the emperor, knew that Zhang Chonghui was close to the North Korean king was because Song Yingchang complained to him, saying that Zhang Chonghui concealed military information and failed to report it. The North Korean king couldn't stand it anymore, so he interceded on behalf of Deputy Ambassador Zhang in his own name!

That is to say...

A series of memories seemed to be connected together at this moment, and Zhu Yijun suddenly realized it!
From the beginning to the end of co-writing, Zhang Chonghui just wanted to make a start!
Zhu Yijun finally understood that co-author Zhang Chonghui had long known that participating in the second negotiation would lead to death!
This kid is deliberately causing trouble so that Song Yingchang can file a complaint! He also deliberately made trouble so that he could be locked up by Li Rusong! He even deliberately made him, the emperor, think that Zhang Chonghui was close to the king of North Korea!
As a result, when Zhang Chonghui returned to China, he, the emperor, couldn't wait to "take the initiative" to send him back!
Zhu Yijun is numb...

So...from the beginning to the end, the person who 'sent' Zhang Chonghui into this dead situation and 'pulled' Zhang Chonghui out of this dead situation was actually the emperor himself! ?

"Cunning...too cunning..."

As he thought about it carefully, Zhu Yijun's back was covered with sweat. He seemed to have realized that the 'game' set by Zhang Chonghui was not over yet...

"What on earth does he want to do..."

"Is it just for redress?"

"Madman...he is simply a madman..."

(End of this chapter)