Fight for hegemony from a desert island

Chapter 555

Goryeo, Pyongyang, in the palace.

Half a month after Li Longxiang's incident, everyone in Korea finally reacted, or really understood the incident this time!

Only then did they know that what happened this time was not a small-scale rebellion at all.

In just half a month, the opponent slaughtered millions of people, and gathered a chaotic army of millions under his command.

The current state of affairs can no longer be simply described as severe. This is already the biggest crisis in the 500 years since the founding of the [Dynasty], and a dynasty that has been in existence for hundreds of years is about to come to an end.

Neither Wang Tao, the king of Goryeo, nor his dignitaries would be willing to see this century-old dynasty collapse like this. Without the dynasty, their glory and wealth would be gone.

Not to mention, Li Longxiang was almost killed all the way here, and he killed all the way.

Ordinary people are fine, as long as they fall under his command, or abandon their homes and run away, they still have a little hope of surviving, but the rich and powerful really have no way of surviving.

Therefore, in the fight against Li Longxiang, the reformist Ming army Wang Tao and his stubborn dignitaries rarely walked in the same camp.

Basically, Wang Tao didn't need to spend any more words, he only needed to gather people together, and they could meet any needs in dealing with Li Longxiang, and they could make concessions on any conditions.

This may be the time when Wang Tao reached a tacit understanding with this group of powerful people the fastest since he took the throne, and that group of powerful people made the most concessions and he gained the most rights.

So experience is the great enemy, but Wang Tao didn't feel too much anger in his heart, and even vaguely excited.

He knew very well how corrupt this 500-year dynasty had become.

Almost the entire country is controlled by the powerful, and as the supreme being of Korea, the power in his hands has been almost divided up.

Under such circumstances, the appearance of Li Longxiang was not only an unprecedented crisis, but also a rare opportunity for him.

A chance for him to reshuffle the dynasty and rejuvenate Korea.

And to do all of this, there is a prerequisite that Wang Tao needs to get something that has been controlled by the powerful for a long time.

Only by obtaining that one thing can he truly have the power to change everything.

Of course, Wang Tao knew very well that even though the situation in front of him was quite dangerous, if nothing else happened, the courtiers and dignitaries probably wouldn't hand over that thing to him at this time.

Therefore, Wang Tao did not do any useless work at this court meeting, but started with some places that the dignitaries could accept, and took over part of the military power from the dignitaries.

The most important thing is to get the part of the military power in Pyongyang that was originally held by the powerful.

After gaining military power, the first thing Wang Tao did was not to mobilize the army to deal with Li Yongxiang, but to clean the Pyongyang defenders first.

After cleaning out the power of the Pyongyang garrison dignitaries with lightning speed, the Pyongyang garrison launched an operation under the command of Wang Tao, but this time their things were not aimed at Li Longxiang, but It is aimed at the five families in Pyongyang that have been passed down for hundreds of years.

To say that Wang Tao is also ruthless, those five aristocratic families that have been passed down for hundreds of years have long been closely connected with the royal family during the hundreds of years of inheritance.

Wang Tao's mother and grandmother are from the five great families, his younger sisters and brothers married people from the five great families, and even his own concubines have several from the five great families, even the reason why he was able to sit on the throne , Seizing the throne was also due to the great efforts of the five great aristocratic families.

But even so, when it was time to make a move, Wang Tao still didn't hesitate at all.

With the sword in hand, five families that have been passed down for hundreds of years were directly slaughtered overnight.

This is because of hundreds of years of inheritance, these five great families have become the biggest parasites of the centuries-old dynasty. Wang Tao wants to reform and rejuvenate the dynasty only to destroy them. At the same time, Wang Tao's move this time is also for a legend.

It is said that at the beginning of the establishment of the "Dynasty", there was a national weapon, and it was this national weapon that helped their old Wang family achieve such a foundation.

But I don't know why, after the establishment of the "Dynasty", that national weapon was hidden in the snow.

The national equipment is divided into five parts, which are kept by the five great families.

Legend has it that 'Koryo' can be revitalized as long as the national equipment can be regrouped.

This legend itself is very nonsense, but Wang Tao believed it. Of course, he is not without reason.

The biggest reason is that he has awakened some powers and memories that do not belong to him in the past six months, and there are a lot of descriptions about national weapons in that memory.

And since this period of time, with the continuous improvement of Wang Tao's strength, he has gradually been able to sense the hidden power in Pyongyang.

Wang Tao, who has the memory that does not belong to him, knows very well that that force is the power of the national weapon.

Ever since he sensed the existence of the national weapon, Wang Tao was a little dazed, and he wanted to get that national weapon wholeheartedly.

His intuition told him that as long as he could put together the dismantled national weapon, he would be able to possess that power that could change the world.

Originally, Wang Tao thought that it would take at least a few years for him to obtain that piece of national equipment, but he did not expect that because of Li Longxiang's incident, he found a chance to obtain the national equipment earlier.

With such a great opportunity in front of him, Wang Tao will naturally not give up!

And everything on Wang Tao's side went quite smoothly. He wiped out the five great families very easily, and by virtue of his ability to sense national weapons, he got what he wanted more easily.

After obtaining the fragments of the five national artifacts, Wang Tao brought them back to the palace, and used the method he remembered to completely activate this national artifact that had been dusted for hundreds of years.

The combination and activation of the national equipment went quite smoothly, and Wang Tao completed a series of procedures with ease.

However, just when Wang Tao's series of procedures were completed and the activation of the last step of the national weapon was about to be completed, a change occurred.

The re-condensed, long-knife national weapon burned with black flames after it took shape.

The moment the black flame ignited, Wang Tao felt a terrifying palpitation that made him subconsciously want to escape from the long knife, but it was too late.

Before he could move, the black flames on the national weapon spread to his body.

Surprisingly, although surrounded by flames, there was nothing wrong with Wang Tao's body, but as the black flames outside his body continued to burn, the aura of Wang Tao's body and his originally bright eyes were changing. .

(End of this chapter)