Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 575: Taking advantage of Korea
Looking at the biography of Huo Guang, Li Chenggui fell into deep thought.

To be fair, Li Chenggui's power today is inferior to that of Li Chenggui in history.

First, the troops under his command were actually not enough to control the overall situation of Goryeo.Li Chenggui in history, because he actively recruited the Jurchen tribes, had an elite Jurchen army in his hands. This Jurchen army was one of Li Chenggui's trump cards in history. In terms of combat power, it was far superior to the Goryeo army. .

However, in the fifth year of Hongwu's reign, Lao Zhu ordered a massacre of the Jurchens who had moved to Liaodong, resulting in the Jurchen tribes being wiped out. Although Li Chenggui had protested, Tang He did not bother to pay attention to the noise of this general of the small country of Goryeo.Li Chenggui's plan to absorb the Jurchens as a source of strength went completely bankrupt.

The second is the incident of returning troops to Wahua Island, which was several years earlier than in history.At this stage, Li Chenggui had not yet succeeded in cultivating his own power in the court, and was still an outlier among the nobles and civil servants.Although all the officials in the court surrendered because of his mighty military power, it was only because of the fear of his military power. After all, many court ministers still had a bad opinion of this humble warrior.

If we talk about it, Li Chenggui at this time is quite similar to Dong Zhuo's situation at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Li Chenggui was also worried about what to do next.Due to his lack of background and the hasty coup, although King Wang Yu of Goryeo was sidelined, he still kept making changes and always wanted to regain his own power.Li Chenggui already felt that he was in danger. If he continued like this, he might not wait until the day he usurped the throne. He would be labeled as a traitor and traitor by the King of Goryeo and his ministers, and they would be expelled from the court together.

Of course he would not rashly raise or abolish kings just to "appease the anger of the Ming Dynasty".However, the existence of the Ming Dynasty undoubtedly gave him a high-sounding reason: he was not doing it for his own selfish desires, but to rejoin the Ming Dynasty and become a minister.If the Emperor of Ming Dynasty cannot be appeased, how can Goryeo, which has no one to rely on, withstand the critical blow from the Shangguo?
As for him, Li Chenggui... his authority was insufficient and the king was disobedient.Then change to an obedient king and use the abolishment to demonstrate Li Chenggui's supreme authority. That's it.

Li Chenggui chose the same approach as Dong Zhuo.

"You are truly a capable minister. This is a golden strategy."

"For the sake of the Goryeo Kingdom, what's the harm in me bearing the stigma of being a deposed king?"

Li Chenggui's face looked compassionate and selfless.

"The general is benevolent and righteous, and the people of Goryeo will definitely appreciate the general's great virtue!" The Goryeo official who presented Huo Guangzhuan bowed deeply to Li Chenggui, burying his expression in the shadows.

So Li Chenggui boldly led his troops into the palace and expelled Wang Yu from Kaijing.No one in the city dared to say anything. After all, Li Chenggui held the title of being a steward, and even a three-year-old boy in Goryeo knew that the most important policy was the fundamental national policy on which Goryeo relied.

If it were not for the protection of the great country, the mere Goryeo would have been destroyed long ago.

In June, Li Chenggui established Wang Chang, Wang Yu's son, as King of Goryeo, and sent Zheng Mengzhou to the Ming Dynasty to deliver a letter of credence to the Ming Dynasty to proclaim himself a minister and to apply for a title for the new king.Wang Yu was sent to Ganghwa Island and was not allowed to go to Kaijing again in this life.

On this side, Li Shanchang and Li Qi's father and son were on Jeju Island, secretly investigating the situation of the Goryeo Dynasty.When he learned that King Goryeo had been sent to Ganghwa Island, Li Shanchang called the Ming Dynasty defenders on Jeju Island.
"You will pretend to be a Japanese pirate in exile and head to Ganghwa Island secretly."

"Find the deposed king of Goryeo and kill him."

It was just a deposed king of a vassal state. The generals of the Ming army did not ask any questions. They took the order and went out. Within a few days, they brought a head and presented it to Li Shanchang's case. "Reporting to the Duke of Korea, the deposed king of Korea has been beheaded."

Li Qi looked at Wang Yu's head in the box with a look of death. Even though he was kind, he didn't have much compassion. "Hmph, you are uttering arrogant words and betraying my Ming Dynasty. You really deserve to die." "Father, did you kill this animal to put the blame on Li Chenggui? Then why did you pretend to be a Japanese pirate?"

"Ahem, it's true. If Li Chenggui wants to kill Wang Yu, how can he show his flag?" Li Shanchang clasped his hands behind his back.Although it is also bitterly cold in Jeju, when he arrived here, Li Shanchang actually felt a bit like a dragon entering the sea and letting me do whatever he wanted.His body, which was originally in decline, actually gradually improved.

"But so what if we put the blame on him? Li Chenggui already has a reputation for regicide. There is no proof. The Goryeo courtiers still won't do anything to him. At most, they will just chat a few words after dinner."

"Ahem... Yes, killing is just a selfish method, and it is indeed difficult to damage the foundation of others."

"Since it's difficult to damage its foundation...why did my father alert him?" Li Qi asked puzzled.

"It doesn't matter, this clandestine method is just a way to open up the situation." Li Shanchang also intended to use this to teach his son, so he explained: "If you want to master Goryeo with twice the result with half the effort, naturally you cannot rely entirely on these killing methods."

"The best strategy is to win over the courtiers of Goryeo. Goryeo is a good place... This place has been taught by the Han family for hundreds of years. It is not like the grassland of Helin. Everything has to be started from scratch. If you can seal it here, you can get twice the result with half the effort. .”

"In this case, we shouldn't let the military calamity overwhelm this land of three Koreas... I just need to drive out those evil villains and bandits from my own house. There is no reason to take the initiative to smash them."

"We'll sit down and wait for a while. After more than a month, we will send someone to deliver the reply letter to the capital." Although he had not even received Goryeo's credentials when he left the capital, he had already communicated with Lao Zhu when he left the capital. After discussing it, Honglu Temple was asked to prepare a reply letter in advance.

Li Shanchang twisted his beard and chuckled. As for how to control the Goryeo Dynasty and make the Korean people surrender and surrender, he, Li Shanchang, was determined to win.

Two months later, in the capital, Li Chenggui received a reply from Daming.

In the palindrome, the Ming Dynasty vigorously refuted Li Chenggui's rebellion of deposing the emperor and killing the king, and accused Li Chenggui of being a traitor to Goryeo.He also stated in his reply that Zheng Mengzhou secretly escorted a member of the Goryeo family to the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty had already named that member of the Goryeo family as the new king of Goryeo, and called on all Goryeo ministers to remember the principles of loyalty and filial piety and to deal with regicide and rebellious bandits. Li Chenggui's group rose up and attacked.

Li Chenggui was horrified and angry at the same time. He believed that he always favored the Ming Dynasty between Yuanting and the Ming Dynasty. He had also been friendly with Lan Yu, Duke of Liang Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Su, the king of Zhou. He returned to Weihua Island in name only for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. To prevent Goryeo from sending troops to the Ming Dynasty...who would have expected that the Ming Dynasty would deal with him like this!

What makes Li Chenggui even more worried is that the palindrome also says that Zheng Mengzhou followed the Japanese example of asking the Ming Dynasty to send troops to eliminate the rebels, and also asked the Ming Emperor to send troops to expel the rebels who deposed the emperor and killed the king for Goryeo, and put an end to the chaos in Goryeo. .

"The Ming Dynasty...the Ming Dynasty sent troops to my country, Goryeo?" Li Chenggui was so frightened that he sweated through his heavy clothes. "Who is it? Where is it? Have you ever heard that Ming Dynasty has sent troops?"

However, a few days later, he got the news: Zheng Mengzhou and the new king of Goryeo who were named by the Ming Dynasty joined the troops sent by the Ming Dynasty to quell the rebellion on Jeju Island.They established a small court in Jeju, solicited Goryeo ministers to join them, and had already raised a flag of rebellion against him, Li Chenggui.

(End of this chapter)