Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 382

The North Korean King Li Di was very resistant, but neither the Yangban ministers loyal to him nor the North Korean generals who followed him could stop him.

The courtier Song Shilie lashed out at Hong Qifeng with agitated words, thinking that Daming's actions were very out of the style and grace of a great country, and some North Korean officials even expressed their dissatisfaction by committing suicide.But Hong Qifeng always replied to them with a smiling but firm expression, which was what Daming meant, irresistible.

"North Korea lacks the basic ability to maintain the domestic situation. Whether it is the Wanli Korean War before Jiazi or the current mutiny, a weak and incompetent North Korea is Daming's negative asset. I don’t want to continue to bleed because of North Korea. Da Ming decided to take on the responsibility of a responsible suzerain, and completely turned North Korea into a place where people live and work in peace and harmony. You can’t blame Daming for what happened to North Korea today. You are the king and ministers of North Korea. People who should be condemned. If North Korea was rich and strong, how could it have been abused by Japanese pirates back then, and how could it make me, Ming, worry about it at this time?"

A Hong Qifeng, just like this in the North Korean court, quarreled with the Confucian scholars. No matter what kind of classics were cited by North Korean officials to try to persuade Hong Qifeng, Hong Qifeng could always quickly seize the opportunity to refute them.

"North Korea has been loyal to Ming Dynasty for generations and fulfilled its obligations as a tributary state. Ming's intention to annex North Korea is unpopular!"

Hong Qifeng's answer was: "How much blood did the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty shed on this land in order to protect North Korea? When Jiannu came, you didn't resist them, and you surrendered to them. Even if you don't change the year name in action, you despise Hu You even set up a shrine for Emperor Chongzhen, but in essence you still surrendered. You even helped build slaves to beat our Ming Dynasty. What you did was just to put on makeup and powder for yourself to save a little face."

"Da Ming is bullying the weak, and wants to annex North Korea. This is an unjust act, and heaven will punish it!"

"The Ming Dynasty was friendly with North Korea, but North Korea once coveted our land in Liaodong and invaded a lot of our land in China. The Ming managed North Korea for the sake of the people of North Korea, for the sake of pacifying wars and chaos, widening education, promoting virtue, and governing benevolently. , the mistakes and mistakes of the kings and ministers of North Korea, Ming Dynasty has its own virtuous ministers and gentlemen to treat it, it will not take many years, and North Korea will have a richness that has not been seen in thousands of years, the people are proud, and the scholars are happy, you are dissatisfied, isn't it shameful and ridiculous?"

None of the Korean officials in the Manchu Dynasty could argue against Hong Qifeng, Song Shilie could only sigh and sigh: "The scenery of the great country is much better than that of our North Korea, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites, who are sent as envoys, are much more talented than our North Korean officials. Ping Wangjing, drive out thieves and bandits, fight against Confucianism without defeat, the fall of North Korea, isn't it true as he said, we are incompetent!"

For traditional civil servants, they would not recognize the role of warriors, so they would assign most of the merits to civil servant Hong Qifeng.

On the contrary, Lin You'an stood here very calmly. When he thought about it, Hong Qifeng was able to fight the Confucians with a straight back and tongue, or it was because behind him was the support of a powerful empire. No matter how we talk about it, when it comes to the comparison of strength, North Korea still has nothing to do of.So Hong Qifeng can be free and easy, unrestrained, and everything he says can be reasonable.

Li Di finally got on the carriage to Shuntian Mansion full of resentment. What made him even more angry was that there were only a few Korean officials who were willing to leave Seoul and accompany him to Shuntian to show their loyalty and take care of him before and after riding. .Those ministers that he respected and valued very much in the past, those big families that had existed in the center of North Korea's power for hundreds of years, were trying to compete for the meager power of the New Ming Military Administration Office, and went to flatter Hong Qifeng, who had been appointed as the guardian.

His father also went to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became a hostage in this way. Even he himself was born in Shenyang.Unexpectedly, he eventually became a proton and may never return to North Korea in this life.

When he crossed the Yalu River, he saw someone removing boundary markers. They told him that most of Ping'an Road and Hamjing Road had been merged into the two provinces of Liaoning and Jilin in the Ming Dynasty. Li Di was full of resentment and unwillingness and had no choice but to do anything.

"Does my son want to be the king of the subjugated country?"

But at this moment, some knights also came behind, and they still carried one thing.

"Your Highness, our Ming army has defeated Cui Xiandong's rebels. Cui Xiandong's head has been obtained and is about to be sent to Shuntian. Your Highness, would you like to check it first?" the knight who came asked him.

The knight opened a small box, and inside was a human head that had been treated with embalming. Li Wei was terrified after seeing it. The head was exactly the Cui Xiandong he knew.

This scene made Li Wei quickly put away his dissatisfaction and resentment. Although he lost the throne of real power and was sent to Shuntian Mansion, at least he is still alive, his family is fine, and he has also received the Emperor Guangfu of the Ming Dynasty. Guarantee that the Li family will retain the Korean throne for generations and will never be taken back by Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, after he went to Shuntian Mansion, he had a certain degree of freedom of movement. Although there would be someone following him, he would not be under house arrest somewhere, but could do what he wanted to do.

The turmoil in North Korea came quickly and subsided very quickly.Bai Mingxiu originally wanted to retain a little of Ming's hypocrisy and allow these tributary states to continue to exist, but he soon realized that Daming's strength was too strong, and these countries did not even have the basis for their existence.

Just as Spain and Portugal had the ability to overthrow a kingdom in the Americas with an expedition of hundreds or ten people, the Ming Dynasty now also has the ability to overthrow a kingdom that had existed for hundreds of years with just a hundred or ten people.Behind the individual strength is the strong and flourishing industrial and military strength of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the organizational advantages of the Ming Dynasty became more and more apparent at this time and were recognized by more Ming people.

In the next few months, the Siamese aristocrat Shachu defeated the Ayutthaya dynasty and invaded Khmer in the name of family revenge. Then he retired and turned the two places into Siam Xuanwei. Department and Cambodian Propaganda Department.The garrison army also sent a regiment to the Malay Peninsula by boat in May 1664, and established a new city at the intersection of the Gombak River and the Klang River, and officially announced the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Lunan Xuanwei Division, whose territory included The Malay Peninsula south of Siam until Singapore, Batam, Tanjung Pinang and Bangka Belitung Islands.

So far, Ming has basically controlled the entire territory of the entire eastern Asian continent, at least in terms of claims.

(End of this chapter)