Early August of the seventeenth year of Kangxi's reign, North Korea, Seoul.

The streets of Seoul, the capital of North Korea... are so lively now!

It's not prosperity, but the commotion caused by all the forces coming together to make it so hot and noisy that it's about to start a fight!

Ever since the 15th year of Kangxi's reign, General Ba Hai of Shengjing of the Qing Dynasty personally led five thousand and eight banners of heavenly troops to enter the Korean capital in a furious manner. The peaceful years of the Korean Kingdom are gone forever.

It is unbelievable to say that before Bahai's 5,080-banner new army entered North Korea, the ruling Southern People's Party in North Korea was divided into the Northern Expedition faction and the Moderate faction over whether to raise troops to respond to Zhu Heji.

Party strife!

That’s right, it’s a partisan struggle!

We don’t really want the Northern Expedition. I will never dare to do so in my life, but I can still let loose some of the rhetoric about the Northern Expedition...

So a group of Korean ministers started a political struggle on the theme of "Is it better to conduct the Northern Expedition immediately? Or to conduct a steady Northern Expedition?"

Among them, Yin Jin, a great scholar of the Southern People's Party, advocated immediately sending people to Nanjing to contact the Ming Dynasty's supervisor, King Ming, and at the same time build a large number of chariots to fight against the Qing's cavalry.

Xu Ji, another giant leader of the Southern People's Party, advocated a cautious wait-and-see approach.

But at the same time, he should also build cities in the border areas close to the Qing Dynasty to prevent the chaos in China from spreading to North Korea.

In addition, Xu Ji also proposed the establishment of a military command organization, the Tifu, and appointed himself as the military inspector of the five provinces of Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Chungcheong, Gyeonggi, and Gangwon to secretly rectify armaments.

However, before the two factions could come to an agreement, Bahai's 5,000 Eight Banners soldiers came over in a menacing manner.

This frightened Princess Jin and the North Korean King Li Yin, who was only fifteen years old at the time. They thought North Korea was going to be over. The two women did not listen to the Northern Expeditionists, and the Moderates faction quarreled and hurriedly asked people to collect the gold and silver.

Xiruan just wants to run away - they don't want North Korea anymore, let's escape to Nanjing first!

If Xu Ji and Yin Yin had not stopped their quarreling and came together to stop them, the Lee Dynasty of North Korea would have been accidentally wiped out by Ba Hai more than two years ago...

And after learning that the Kingdom of Korea was almost destroyed by him, Bahai was also shocked and broke out in a sweat - Kangxi asked him to "protect" Korea from the invasion of the pseudo-Ming Dynasty. If he could destroy Korea with a shake of his hand,

How to explain it later?

Because you are worried that North Korea will be destroyed by the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, so you decide to destroy it first?

Bahai, who almost destroyed North Korea, quickly sent Nalan Mingzhu, a Confucian leader, to have a good talk with the North Korean monarchs... He had to let them know that the Qing Dynasty was a good country, and it was not a hypocrite about those unkind and unjust people.

An evil country. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty will not destroy North Korea, and North Korea's monarchs and ministers can still be kings and engage in party disputes with peace of mind.

So Li Yin reluctantly returned to the palace and became king for two years. The issue of the North Korean party struggle also changed from whether to go to the Northern Expedition to whether to believe in Confucianism or join Confucianism, or whether to believe in neither and continue to play with Confucianism.

Of course, Yin Jin, who previously advocated the Northern Expedition, must have lost power and stepped down. After he stepped down, because he was unwilling to fall, he contacted the "Zhanren Confucian" who came to Korea to spread the true principles of Confucianism and joined Confucianism.

Xu Ji, who continued to be in power, saw that his former political rival had entered the Confucian sect, so he immediately found Mingzhu and became a member of the Shenggong sect.

In addition, North Korea's great Neo-Confucian scholar Song Si-yeol, leader of the Western People's Party, who has been in opposition for many years, continues to adhere to the traditional "gentleman Confucianism" - you can neither chop people with a sword nor hit them with a stick, so you can convince people with reason!

So now in North Korea, there are actually three cronies distinguished by Confucian factions.

It's just that Song Shilie had always been close to the Ming Dynasty, so he was polite to the Confucian Confucians, so he was treated as one of his own by those Confucian Confucians who came from the new Ming Dynasty and were not very good at Confucianism.

It doesn't matter if it's just these three factions engaging in party disputes. The Kingdom of Korea has been doing this for many years, and isn't it just surviving?

But Kangxi had other demands for North Korea!

Shortly after King Li Yen of Korea and Princess Jin returned to the palace, Bahai and Nalan Mingzhu read the imperial edict of Emperor Kangxi to them.

In his edict, Kangxi requested North Korea to "lease" Haizhou Port to the Qing Dynasty for military training and transportation to the West. He also announced that a supervising government office would be established in North Korea and permanent soldiers would be stationed there.

Moreover, Kangxi also asked North Korea to join the Sixteen-Nation Anti-Ming Alliance!

This is really the end!

Because joining the Anti-Ming Alliance not only means becoming an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the former "father country", but also becoming allies with Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain...

This is simply to recognize the enemy as a friend and the thief as the father, and to work with the thief country and the enemy country to deal with the father country!

But the Qing Dynasty’s five thousand heavenly soldiers are just outside Seoul, while the Ming Dynasty’s army is still unknown?

So the North Korean monarchs and ministers, whose lives were at stake, had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, join the Sixteen-Nation Anti-Ming Alliance, and hand over Haizhou to the Qing army.

And joining the alliance and renting out Haizhou is not the end...the "beating Confucian" carrying a stick, the ferocious-looking Bai Yi wearing strange clothes, and the arrogant Shangguo with long braided arrow sleeves

The nobles are pouring into North Korea like a flowing stream, and there is no way to stop them!

In addition, Emperor Kangxi kept asking for money, food and equipment from North Korea, and even sent "musketeers" to North Korea, requiring North Korea to donate 10,000 musket barrels to the Qing Dynasty every year... and

It also requires high quality and not easy to explode!

And they didn’t even give me a penny…it was all for nothing!

Under this kind of oppression, the knowledgeable people in North Korea certainly felt that North Korea was about to end. However, they had no ability to rise up to resist the Qing Dynasty, so they had to wear "Confucius clothes" and hang "Confucius" on their waists.

sword" in protest.

Although the King of Joseon had long followed the will of the Qing Emperor and issued an edict (the decree of the King of Joseon) in May of the 16th year of Kangxi's reign, banning all Confucian activities in Korea.

But helplessly, the two groups of officials below ignored this religious order... and turned a blind eye to the "confucian killers" who were dressed in commoners and wrapped in handkerchiefs, with long swords hanging from their waists.

Moreover, they also used the excuse of "needing to import good iron from the Ming Dynasty to make gun barrels" to open trade privately, allowing Ming Dynasty merchant ships to enter the port, allowing Ming Dynasty merchants to disembark, and not only did not stop the activities of Confucian disciples in various parts of Korea.

, and actively participated in it.

The power of Confucianism in North Korea is like wildfire that can't be contained.

A group of Qing knights from Haizhou flew into the city gate of Seoul and flew through the bustling streets of the city. The bells tied to the horses' hooves rang, and the Korean people stumbled around.

He ran away and looked extremely embarrassed.

These were the messengers of the Qing Dynasty’s imperial yamen who traveled between the Qing Concession in Haizhou and Seoul... They were probably here to convey Kangxi’s edict!

How can the Korean people mess with this? So of course the knight who was leading the horse was very proud. Looking at the embarrassed appearance of the Korean people and the exposed breasts of the Korean women, he laughed so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth.

While he was looking left and right, he suddenly focused his eyes and saw a group of guys wearing "Confucius uniforms" coming out of an academy next to the street. They were putting their hands in their wide sleeves and looking at them fiercely with their heads raised.

Hold them.

The Chuanqi passed by at high speed, and there was no conflict. However, the Qing army Chuanqi on the horse also gave the most vicious look in his eyes, and cursed in his heart: "A traitor who kills a thousand swords..."

And one of the leading Confucian Confucians below also cursed in Chinese: "Slave with pigtails, you will not die well!"

This kind of scene happens every day on the streets of Seoul. Although the Ming Dynasty's army has not yet set foot on the land of North Korea, the Confucian disciples have already arrived here first!

And now the Qing Empire is not so easy to deal with. The Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the point where it is rotten to the core. This country has restored a certain degree of vitality through the New Deal reforms in the past two years... Between the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The struggle between them may break out at any time!

And one thing is probably certain. If the dispute between the Ming and Qing Dynasties occurred on a large scale on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean Kingdom would be over!
Chapter completed!