Li Yongji didn't wait for the two beaten soldiers to plead their defenses, so he said sharply: "Why don't you apologize to the lord of the country, do you want to be sent to the official hall as an official slave?" ”

The North Korean soldiers in the courtyard originally expected that Li Yongji would make decisions for them after he came out, but they were unexpectedly poured a basin of cold water on Li Yongji's head, and they immediately became disgusted with Li Yongji.

The two soldiers with blue noses and swollen faces apologized to Mao Yongxi with resentment, and Wang Huazhen, who was standing on the side, suddenly smiled and said: "Today is the Lantern Festival and the Shangyuan Festival you are talking about. Lin Baihu, give these two soldiers some rewards, let them recuperate from their injuries. ”

Lin Yuanzhong agreed, took back the dagger against Li Yongji's vest without a trace, and then took out his wallet from his arms and threw it in front of the two soldiers who were beaten.

When the two North Korean soldiers picked up their wallets and estimated the weight of 5 or 6 taels of silver inside, the grievances and anger they had just now suddenly disappeared, and they hurriedly thanked Wang Huazhen and other Ming people.

"Alright, you all go down. This official wants to meet Guanghaijun, Li Dushi, can you lead the way in front? Wang Huazhen said to Li Yongji with a pleasant face.

Li Yongji looked at the soldiers who scattered before he could speak, and even the dagger behind his back was withdrawn and he didn't feel it.

The fright in the room just now made him dizzy. Now that he was frozen by the cold air, he suddenly sobered up a little.

Only then did he realize that he seemed to be in a great trouble, after Ayayang-kun colluded with the Western-Japanese Party to invade Hanyang and abolish the throne of Gwanghae-kun, the officials who imprisoned Gwanghae-kun were all his cronies in the Western-Japanese Party.

However, five years have passed since the coup d'état, and after this year, Kim invaded Korea, which greatly dealt a blow to His Highness's authority over the Joseon Kingdom, and in order to strengthen his power to support himself in the center, Hong Jin-do, who was in charge of supervising Gwanghae-gun, was recalled to Hanyang.

Correspondingly, the surveillance of Gwanghae-kun has also been lowered by one level. He is the nephew of Li Gui, the backbone of the Westerner Party, so His Royal Highness gave him the task of monitoring Gwanghae-kun.

But now, if he takes the lord of the kingdom to visit the former deposed king of Joseon, Gwanghaejun, then he will inevitably be punished by His Highness afterwards.

And if he opposes it now, it seems that his soldiers will not come out to use force with the adults, and they will worry about their lives if they can't say it.

Before Li Yongji could think about it, Lin Yuanzhong and Mao Yongxi had already clamped him left and right, and Lin Yuanzhong on the left stretched out his hand to him and made a gesture of please.

Li Yongji's face changed for a moment, and he thought about it luckily, "Anyway, the adults of the Kingdom just want to meet Guanghaijun, and they can't do anything."

There are only three of them, and they can't hijack Guanghaijun to leave this courtyard, and even if they leave the courtyard, they can't leave Ganghwa Island. As soon as they leave, I will transfer Gwanghae-kun first, and as long as Gwanghae-kun does not disappear, presumably His Highness will not punish me too much. ”

After Li Yongji figured it out, he immediately bowed down to Wang Huazhen and said, "Please come with me, but after the winter, Guanghaijun's body is extremely weak, and I hope that my lord will come out to rest when he sees him..."

After hearing Ren Zhaorong's introduction that the person who broke in was Wang Huazhen, the minister of the Ming State to Korea, he immediately saluted Wang Huazhen respectfully with the support of Ren Zhaorong and said: "Li Hui, the sinner of the lower state, greets the angel of the kingdom and wishes my Ming Emperor a long life. ”

Wang Huazhen first accepted the salute of Guanghaijun on behalf of Chongzhen, and then solemnly returned the salute and said: "Wang Huazhen, the governor of Dongjiang and the minister of North Korea, has seen Guanghaijun. ”

Wang Huazhen saluted and looked at the old Korean king, whom the Korean subjects called a tyrant.

With half-gray hair and a few deep wrinkles on his forehead, he looked like an ordinary bad old man. And Gwanghae-kun's tightly closed eyes indicate that this Gwanghae-kun has gone blind.

In Guanghaijun, Wang Huazhen can't see a little tyranny, it just makes people feel that this is a poor old man.

When they had finished their salutes, they took their seats and began to speak. Seeing that the angel of the kingdom was just chatting with Guanghaijun, this made Li Yongji feel a little more comfortable.

When he heard that Guanghaijun also had a daughter here, Wang Huazhen suddenly smiled and said: "Today is the Shangyuan Festival, since we can meet Guanghaijun here, the old man can't help but express it." It's better to invite the owner to come out and see him, and the old man can give the owner a gift. ”

Li Yongji subconsciously wanted to stop it, although this filial piety lord has been deposed, but after all, he is still the last heir of Guanghai Jun, and his subconscious feeling is that it is not a good thing for the ministers of the Ming Kingdom to see the lord of filial piety.

But as soon as he straightened his body, Mao Yongxi, who was sitting next to him, reached out and pressed his shoulder, and Li Yongji suddenly felt that there seemed to be an iron hand on his shoulder, making him unable to move.

He turned his head in some horror and realized that the young man beside him, who was not much older than himself, was staring at him without emotion.

Unlike Li Yongji, who grew up in the women's pile, Mao Yongxi is only 24 years old, but he is already a battle-hardened veteran.

Li Yongji, who was stared at by Mao Yongxi, felt like a little white rabbit being targeted by Hai Dongqing.

From Mao Yongxi's eyes, he seemed to be able to hear that if he dared to say a word, this young man would break his neck.

This made Li Yongji suddenly forget what he wanted to say, and just squeezed out a smile at Mao Yongxi tremblingly, indicating that he didn't want to do anything.

After Mao Yongxi watched Li Yongji come down honestly, he relaxed the strength in his hand, leaned into his ear and said, "When Lord Fuyuan is talking to Guang Haijun, don't interject. Pay attention to your identity, Li Dushi. ”

Li Yongji hurriedly nodded and said flatteringly: "I understand the lowly position, the lowly position is reckless, thank you for the reminder." ”

Li Yongji felt that the pain in his shoulder gradually lessened, and he suddenly stopped thinking about what his duty was. He realized that it was better to do nothing at such moments.

Wang Huazhen's request was a bit uncourteous, but Guanghaijun seemed to feel something, he had heard the sound of horses' hooves before at least dozens of horses, but when he was chatting with Wang Huazhen just now, the angel of the Ming Kingdom said that he was lost when he only took the two of them to the Chuandeng Temple to play.

Now the minister of the Ming Kingdom, who has always strictly observed etiquette, made a request that was not polite, and his heart suddenly became a little excited.

He felt that it was impossible for this angel of the Ming Kingdom to come here for no reason, and this was his only chance to get out of trouble.

When he became the king of Joseon, he was impressed by the experience of the Korean almost lost during the Imjin War, and tried to carry out some reform of Korean politics, and adopted the principle of equidistance diplomacy for the Houjin and Daemyeong in diplomacy.

Although among Seonjo's sons, Gwanghae-jun was the most talented, and he was appointed to supervise the country during the Imjin War, collecting scattered troops and volunteers, and calling for the restoration of King Qin in order to recover. His move inspired the morale of the North Korean people and made him quite popular among the North Korean people.

However, Li Hui is not the eldest son, and the Ming Kingdom is in the competition for the heir of Wanli, so the reply from the Ming Dynasty to the Korean king and the prince is: "Inheriting the righteousness of the unification, the eldest and the youngest are divided, and it is not appropriate to make mistakes."

Joseon claims to have a two-hundred-year-old relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and has always regarded itself as the first foreign vassal under the Ming Dynasty, and the pro-Ming forces in the country are strong. In particular, the Wanli Emperor sent troops to drive out the Japanese invaders, which was regarded as "the grace of reconstruction" by the whole Koreans.

A Korean king who was not recognized by the Ming Dynasty naturally had a somewhat unstable position. And Guanghaijun wanted to take the middle route between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty, which also caused the dissatisfaction of the pro-Ming doctors.

However, these were not the most important reasons for his overthrow, and he reformed the political and economic system of North Korea, introduced the Seonhye Law, and changed the tribute to a land tax, that is, instead of paying the state-designated tribute on a household basis, he paid rice grain on a field knot basis, which harmed the interests of large landowners and officials.

The implementation of the license plate law harmed the interests of the two classes of nobles, and although this law was soon repealed under the opposition of the two classes of nobles, the rift between the two classes of nobles and him had already been caused.

Later, in order to consolidate his rule, he connived at the Great Northern faction that supported him to suppress the opposition in the court, and even went to the extreme of abolishing his mother and killing his brother. Finally let his enemies unite and overthrow his rule.

After Guanghaijun's eyes were blinded, his heart brightened. When his son and wife passed away, he became aware of one fact.

If he wants to get out of the hellish days now, and take revenge on the traitor Li Ju and the rebels Jin Liu, Li Gui, Li Shi, Li Shu, Cui Mingji, Jin Zidian, Shen Qiyuan, Shen Jingzhen and others, unless the Ming emperor personally intervenes.

Otherwise, these two classes of nobles in the country would never send him to the throne again, and he would be a blind and deposed king.

Regarding Wang Huazhen's invitation, Guang Haijun forcibly suppressed his excitement, nodded to Ren Zhaorong beside him and said, "You go and bring Xiaoyuan and let her meet the angel of the kingdom." ”

Ren Aiying agreed and exited the room, and soon brought a little girl with her eyes rubbed.

After accepting Xiaoyuan's invitation, Wang Huazhen took a jade gap from her waist and gave it to the little Weng master as a gift.

Then Wang Huazhen said to Gwanghaejun: "Tonight is the Shangyuan Festival in North Korea, but it is the Lantern Festival in my Ming Kingdom. I have always had the custom of eating Lantern Festival and watching fireworks during the Lantern Festival, and I will definitely not be able to eat today's Lantern Festival.

However, the old man crossed the sea to the east and brought a few fireworks. Just invite the little master to watch the scenery of my Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as adding some joy to the festival. Do you think it's good, little master? ”

"What are pyrotechnics? I want to see. Xiaoyuan, who was originally sleepy, suddenly sobered up.

Looking at the lively little girl in front of him, Wang Huazhen suddenly thought of his son, and he couldn't help but say to Xiaoyuan kindly: "Okay, let's ask the little master to see what our Ming fireworks are..."