A few decades ago, the Ming Dynasty spent a huge amount of money to help Korea repel Japan.

In the years since, North Korea has indeed been full of gratitude to the Ming Dynasty, and has wanted to help the Ming Dynasty and repay the kindness, but a small country is a small country after all.

Although psychologically, North Korea has always been very supportive of the Ming Dynasty, but in action, they succumbed and did not provide any substantial help to the Ming Dynasty.

This expedition of the Great Wei cost a huge amount of money, and Gao Yihuan did not imagine doing good things like the Ming Dynasty.

The country is impermanent, and instead of pinning hopes on the emotions between countries after the decline, it is better to take advantage of the strength of the country to become a part of the Great Wei, so that he can coexist with the fate of the Great Wei.

Time tells people that the vast majority of people are unreliable, and so is the country.

Gao Yihuan originally planned to annex North Korea, but the sudden appearance of the Korean clan and the Korean scholars undoubtedly disrupted his plan.

Jin Shangzhong and the others did not know that they had angered Gao Yihuan, and when they came out of the palace, they told people that the Great Wei Emperor was merciful and was ready to help Korea recover.

This made the Korean scholars boil, singing praises to Gao Yihuan, and Jin Shangzhong sent people back to his house to invite the son of the son of the Korean Zhaoxian prince to Seoul, ready to meet the Emperor of Great Wei.

Soon after returning to Korea, he was poisoned by Li Kun, and his three sons were also exiled, and Kim Sang-chung protected one of them, named Li Yu, who was only ten years old.

In the palace, Gao Yihuan was handling affairs, meeting with several Korean scholars and appointing them to official positions.

In Korea, like the Ming Dynasty, the party struggle was very fierce, first the Dongren Party and the Westerner Party competed, and after the Dongren Party gained power, the Westerners were excluded, and the Dongren Party, which held power, was divided into the Southerners and the Northerners.

After the end of the rebellion, the Beiren Party came to power, but it was soon divided into the Great Northern Party and the Small Northern Party.

After that, the Daebuk Party, which supported Gwanghae-jun's accession to the throne, gained momentum, and was divided into the Gubei Party and the Meat North Party.

At this time, the Western-People's Party helped King Injo overthrow Gwanghae-kun, and the Western-People's Party, which had been in decline for a long time, gained power, and was also divided into the Sunseo Party, the Cheongseo Party, the Mountain Party, and the Han Party.

The partisan struggle in Korea, which can be said to be dazzling, continued until the fall of the Korean Kingdom, and was even more wonderful than the political struggle of the suzerain.

Jin Shangzhong and Qi Minglu are both from the Westerners' Party, and the people Gao Yihuan met with are obviously not from the Westerners' Party.

When Gao Yihuan was talking with others, Wang Shicong entered the palace and saluted and reported: "Your Majesty, Li Yan has arrived in Seoul. Jin Shangzhong asked to see him, and His Majesty was going to summon him when he was going to summon him. ”

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, "Then summon me tomorrow." ”

In the early morning of the next day, there were many armor soldiers outside the main hall of the palace, Gao Yihuan was wearing a dragon robe in the main hall, wearing a winged crown and sitting on it, and the hall was full of Great Wei officials, as well as Korean officials and scholars who surrendered.

At this time, Jin Shangzhong and Xuan Minglu entered the main hall, looked at the formation, secretly rejoiced in their hearts, and hurriedly saluted Gao Yihuan.

Gao Yihuan smiled and waved his hand, and then smiled at everyone: "These two gentlemen say that there is a child, who is the son of Zhaoxian of North Korea. If this is the case, then he is my grandson. I should be compassionate and help him recover his country, so that he will not be lost. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming, Entong reinvents!" Minglu was so excited that she cried bitterly and fell down.

Gao Yihuan smiled kindly and waved his hand: "Come in!" Ministers of the DPRK, let's distinguish it together. ”

The guards sang loudly: "Xuan Li Yan enters the hall." ”

Not long after, a little boy about ten years old, wearing the dress of the Joseon prince, entered the temple and saluted Gao Yihuan.

Gao Yihuan looked left and right, ordered the DPRK to demote, and stepped forward to examine, one of them was Zheng Renli, the former Korean state rite Cao Juju, who had taught the three sons of Zhaoxian Shizi to read, and was familiar with the appearance of the three.

He stepped forward to look at Li Yan, and suddenly broke off, "Who are you?" Why pretend to be a clan. ”

His shout surprised the whole house, and there was silence for an instant, and he didn't expect this to happen at all.

Zhaoxian Shizi was a hostage in Shenyang for many years, and was only released after the Qing army entered the customs, and died in the same year, I don't know whether he died of illness or was poisoned, anyway, it didn't take long for his three sons to be exiled, and very few ministers in North Korea had seen Li Yan, and Haoge purged a batch, so no one knew him.

However, Zheng Renli did teach Li Yan to read, and he should know him, and many North Koreans were naturally stunned when they heard his interruption, and then they were in an instant uproar and discussed.

When Ming Lu heard this, he immediately became anxious, and hurriedly said: "Zheng Jushu, take a closer look, this is the son of the son!" ”

Zheng Renli was determined, "If it is really the son of the son, how can I not know it, no matter how many times I watch it, it is all fake!" ”

At this time, Li Yan said: "Sir, don't you know me, I still remember the book of sages you taught me." After that, Li Yan actually recited it.

Zheng Renli twisted his head to the side, and instead of looking at Li Yan, he saluted Gao Yihuan and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has taught Li Yan to read, and this boy is definitely not Li Yan." ”

On the side, Jin Shangzhong was furious, "Zheng Renli, what do you want?" Is it worthy of the previous kings to say such a thing? ”

The urging Minglu next to him hurriedly saluted Gao Yihuan, "Your Majesty, you can't believe this person's words, Zheng Renli surrendered to Hu Lu, with ill intentions, he should be killed." ”

As soon as he said this, the faces of many North Koreans in the hall changed, and they came out to salute and began to support Zheng Renli.

The DPRK is already fiercely contested by the party, and the internal struggle is more ruthless than the external struggle. At that time, the Japanese all came in, and the king of Korea was driven to the Yalu River, and the struggle within Korea was not forgotten.

At this time, many people were originally out of the way, and as soon as they heard Ming Lu's words, they immediately raised their vigilance, they all surrendered to the Qing army, looking at this meaning, if Ming Lu was in power, they would definitely be liquidated in the future.

Since this is the case, it is okay, no matter whether Li Yan is true or not, everyone immediately stood up and questioned it.

Seeing that everyone in the palace was hyped up, Wang Shicong came out and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is too controversial, and it is necessary to find out the identity of Li Yan. ”

Gao Yihuan took the case and said angrily: "Put this child, as well as Jin Shangzhong, Qi Minglu, and Zheng Renli in prison, and send officials to try it overnight to identify the identity as soon as possible." ”

After speaking, Gao Yihuan brushed his sleeves and left.

Just when such a scene happened in the main hall, a small village in the place of Li Yan's exile was suddenly attacked by Qing soldiers, and the whole village was killed.

Gao Yihuan left the main hall, returned to the palace study, picked up a pen and wrote a note, and then recruited a Xuanyi guard.

Xuan Yiwei took the note, returned to the public room, unfolded it, and saw that there was a name written on it - Zheng Renli.

He burned the note, pondered for a moment, and after a moment he straightened his brow and got up to leave.