Others didn't know what Yang Zhen meant when he asked An Yingchang, or what special intention or reason there was, but Yang Zhen himself knew it very well.

Through his last conversation with An Yingchang, Yang Zhen was convinced that An Yingchang was not alone, but had a group of people behind him.

This group of people are all on a different path from those in power today who control the power of the Lee family in Korea.

Because everyone Yang Zhen deliberately asked was a well-known conspirator in Lee's Joseon during this period and in the following years.

Shen Qiyuan is like this, An Wulun is like this, and An Yixin is like this.

Yang Zhen had never heard of An Yingchang's name, but Yang Zhen knew all the three names that Yang Zhen asked about.

In this way, Yang Zhen naturally understood what he said to An Yingchang.

And he was also hesitating about how to deal with these Korean defenders who held on until they finally opened the door and surrendered. Naturally, there was no need to hesitate at this time.

That night, Yang Zhen ordered the sentries of the Musket Battalion to station themselves in Dingzushan City with guns, artillery and ammunition. While guarding against the incoming North Korean troops in Jianghua City, he also guarded the more than 500 North Korean defenders captured in Dingzushan City.

At the same time, Yang Zhen also ordered Qiu Bi to lead a team with several sky-high cannons to occupy the beacon tower of Mani Mountain, which had long been empty.

Qiu Zhenhai was ordered to lead the fleet and anchor in the bay under Dingzu Mountain City to guard against possible unexpected attacks from the sea.

As for himself, he took Zhang Chen, An Yingchang and several of his attendants to stay at the Chuandeng Temple in a corner of Dingzu Mountain City.

The pavilions and pavilions of Chuandengsa Temple are not large in scale, but they are distinguished by their rich history, quiet environment, and hilltop-style wood and stone buildings, which are very pleasing to the eye.

On a summer night in early June, Yang Zhen was a guest. After a brief banquet with An Yingchang, he went for a walk accompanied by Zhang Chen, An Yingchang and others while asking Li in detail about the inside story of Korea.

An Yingchang, who had already expressed his position to Yang Zhen and was shocked by Yang Zhen's previous questions, finally revealed all the information he knew to Yang Zhen without reservation.

And Yang Zhen combined with his own understanding of the situation in Li's Korea during the Ming and Qing Dynasties in later generations. After mutual confirmation, he quickly understood the current situation in Li's Korea, especially Li Zhu's transformation after Bingzi's chaos. and its series of consequences.

In fact, although Yang Zhen was a little alienated from the situation in Lee's Korea in the late Ming Dynasty, he still had some understanding of the situation of Li Jie, the so-called King Injo of Lee's Korea.

Including the main figures and some major events during the reign of the so-called King Injo, I also know a little bit about it.

Li Zhu came to power by relying on a palace coup, and that palace coup was known as "Guihai Anyway" or "Injo Anyway" in history.

It is said that in the third year of the Apocalypse, Li Zhu and a group of ministers, dignitaries and Confucian scholars launched an action to seize the throne against the then Korean king Li Hui of the Li family.

After the success of that palace coup, Li Zhu successfully took over the throne, while the then King of North Korea, Li Hui, stepped down.

His close confidants and favored ministers were killed, and his eyes were burned with quicklime and he was exiled overseas. He was first imprisoned on Ganghwa Island. After Bingzi became reckless, he was transferred to Jeju Island and imprisoned until he died of illness.

This Li Hui is the Guanghai Lord known in history books as a man who acted in all kinds of perverse ways.

In the midst of Injo's rebellion, the slogan raised by Li Hui and his supporters, or the crime charged against Li Hui, was that Li Hui was immoral. He not only killed his brothers and his brothers, favored traitors, but also had illicit affairs. They rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.

It was under this banner that Li Zhu gathered a large number of middle and lower-level civil and military officials in North Korea and Confucian scholars in the opposition, won the support of public opinion in the government and the public, won the hearts and minds of the military and the people, and finally won the understanding and canonization of the Ming Dynasty.

When Li Jian came to power, he was sincerely committed to the Ming Dynasty and was more in line with the Ming Dynasty's strategy of "alliance with Korea to control slaves". On the one hand, he resolutely implemented the trade blockade policy against Houjin, and on the other hand, he also vigorously funded the troops and horses in Dongjiang Town.

Food, grass, wages and equipment.

This was also a relatively smooth few years for Li Zhu after he came to power.

But the good times did not last long. After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty's policy towards Li's Korea changed.

As a result, the Ding Mao Rebellion in the seventh year of Tianqi soon appeared, that is, the Hou Jin invasion in 1627 AD.

Facing the invasion of the Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty, Li's Korea was no match at all, so with the support of the capitulation faction and the peace advocate faction, Li Jian was forced to reach a peace agreement with the Hou Jin Dynasty.

After the peace agreement was reached, Li Zhu not only sent his younger brother to Shengjing as a hostage, but also opened a mutual trade between the two parties as agreed. At the same time, he paid regular tribute to the Jin Kingdom and paid grain and annual coins every year.

Since then, the courtiers and Confucian scholars who initially supported Li Zhu's rise to power began to divide. Facing the issue of the post-Jin Dynasty, two camps gradually formed: the peace advocates and the peace-denying camps.

Before the Manchu-Tatar pseudo-emperor Huang Taiji personally conquered Korea, which was also known as the Bingzi Rebellion in history, in the small court of Li's Korea, the pro-Ming forces had always had the upper hand and held power over the rebels and the He faction.

The entire Li family's Korea was basically obedient and submissive in dealing with the post-Jin Dynasty. They did not dare to resist, but in fact they still loved the Ming Dynasty and did not dissolve the vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji conquered the remaining tribes of Chahar and obtained the jade seal of the Yuan Dynasty left by Lin Dan Khan. Therefore, he wanted to proclaim himself emperor, so he sent people to North Korea and asked the kings and ministers of North Korea to persuade him to join and proclaim himself a minister.

As a result, the Korean monarchs and ministers of the Li family who considered themselves Little China were furious after hearing the news. Not only did they refuse to come forward to persuade them to join, they also unanimously angrily rebuked the envoys sent by Huang Taiji, scolding the Hou Jin Kingdom as Jurchen barbarians who were not qualified to be emperor at all.

North Korea will never surrender to the barbarians.

After Huang Taiji changed his country's name and proclaimed himself emperor, the Li family of Korea was determined not to send congratulatory envoys or to declare vassalage to Huang Taiji.

When Li Shizong did this, he was very stubborn, but under the iron heel of the Qing Dynasty, the price of toughness was also very high.

In the second year after Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor, the Bingzi Rebellion broke out. Huang Taiji personally led an army to conquer North Korea. The strength of the two sides was vastly different, and the results can be imagined.

Correspondingly, in the midst of Bingzi's chaos, the Ming Dynasty, which Li's Korea had placed high hopes on, was really incompetent, which greatly disappointed the people of the Dynasty.

Because the reinforcements sent by Emperor Chongzhen did not expect that Huang Taiji's army would advance so quickly and the imperial troops would be so weak, they were not only late, but also did not dare to go ashore to fight after arriving.

Including the Dongjiang Army led by Shen Shikui, who was close at hand and had a close relationship with North Korea, they actually watched from the other side and watched North Korea being defeated.

After North Korea was defeated and the Manchu-Tatar army began to turn around and attack Pi Island, the Denglai reinforcements commanded by Chen Hongfan and others fled upon hearing the news, which led to the fall of Pi Island and the complete defeat of Dongjiang Town.

In this way, after Bingzi's chaos, Li Zhu was frightened. The ministers of Li's Korea were once again divided. On the issue of dealing with the Manchus, the peace faction who advocated surrender to the Manchus gained the upper hand, while those who advocated resisting the Qing Dynasty gained the upper hand.

The anti-peace faction was wiped out.

Among them, several ministers of the anti-peace faction who had high prestige among the government and the public were arrested and sent to Shengjing City by Li Zhu, who was frightened to death. They asked Manta to execute them.

Even if anyone between the government and the public dares to write a letter against surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Li Jie, as well as the Qing Dynasty ministers and ministers who have gained Li Jie's trust, will send people to arrest them and deliver them to the Qing Dynasty minister who is stationed in Jiuliancheng and is responsible for Korean affairs.

Trial and punishment.

After Bingzi's chaos, Li Zhu's actions, although they were forced by him and won the support of a group of peace-promoting ministers, also attracted many opponents.

Especially the group of middle- and lower-class warriors who survived the Bingzi chaos and forged a bloody feud with the Manchu Tatar army.

During the war, they lost their tribes, their wealth, their relatives, and their wives and daughters were taken captive and became slaves.

And in the chorus of surrender after the war, they lost their status, power, and reputation, and ended up having to surrender to their former mortal enemies.

Is it tolerable or not?

Correspondingly, in the Li family's Korea, which had served the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the defense of Yi and Xia, in which Han and traitors were incompatible, had long been deeply rooted among many officials who were born as Confucian scholars.

Many officials with Confucian scholar backgrounds were very dissatisfied with the state affairs after Bingzi's chaos, including those who participated in Guihai's rebellion and supported Li Zhu.

After all, if Li Zhu betrayed the Ming Dynasty and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who had a favor for rebuilding Korea, and changed his position to the Qing Dynasty, he changed his position to the Jurchen Hulu who had a language barrier, different clothes, different customs, and shaved his hair and tied it into braids.

How is his behavior different from that of Guanghaijun Li Hui, who was overthrown by them when Guihai was in power?

Couldn't it be possible that the charges they had denounced against Lord Gwanghae back then could be pinned on themselves now?

This is what Yang Zhen thought about the Shen Qiyuan mentioned by An Yingchang.

Moreover, this Shen Qiyuan was very different from the cowardly behavior of other ministers who just thought about it in their hearts and did not dare to put their thoughts into action.

Shen Qiyuan dared to think and act. When he was a down-and-out Confucian scholar, he dared to instigate Li Zhu to launch a palace coup. Now he still dares to plan to overthrow the cowardly and incompetent Li Zhu and establish a new king.

In the original history, Shen Qiyuan did this.

During the chaos of Bingzi, Li Zhu appointed Shen Qiyuan, who advocated resistance and peace, as the marshal of the capital, and asked him to go to defend the enemy, but he did not give him a single soldier.

When he collected reinforcements from all walks of life and finally caught up with Huang Taiji's army, which was advancing rapidly, he was defeated in one fell swoop by Huang Taiji's army, who was good at encircling points while waiting for help.

Shen Qiyuan dispersed the troops he had recruited from his family fortune, and in the end only a few dozen people were left to protect him and escape from the battlefield, finally saving his life.

But after the war, Li Zhu punished him for resisting the invaders and punishing him for defeat, and exiled him to a deserted island at sea, leaving him to fend for himself.

Fortunately, although Li Zhu, who was named Renzu after his death, was mediocre and weak, he still cared about Shen Qiyuan's support for him, and released him within two years and recalled him to the court.

Hold important positions in.

But what he didn't know was that the Shen Qiyuan he recalled was no longer the righteous scholar Shen Qiyuan who planned the palace coup for him, helped him contact the scholars, and then supported him to the throne.

It was Shen Qi who was determined to overthrow him and plan to establish a new king and re-establish the banner of resistance and resistance.

Therefore, Shen Jiyuan, who returned to serve in the imperial court, first unsuccessfully sought a post as a stayer in Ganghwa, but then found a position as the envoy to guard Namhansan Fortress and the commander-in-chief of Gyeonggi Province.

In this position, internally, he deliberately made friends with many middle- and lower-level military attachés who were dissatisfied with the rebel leaders and factions, especially the troops in Nanhan Mountain City, and planned to use these forces to cause trouble.

Externally, it attempted to contact the Ming Dynasty ships that frequented the Korean waters, hoping to join forces with the Ming army and continue to help the Ming Dynasty restore Liaodong after eradicating the domestic peace faction.

Shen Qiyuan, who held a high position but was generous with his wealth and loved to make friends with his subordinates, naturally won the hearts of the military and soon gained the service of a large number of military attachés in the royal camp of Nanhan Mountain City.

In order to achieve his purpose of secretly contacting Ming Dynasty, he also arranged for some middle and low-level military attachés he brought together to garrison on Ganghwa Island and nearby islands under Gyeonggi Province and Royal Camp Guards, hoping that one day he could contact Ming Dynasty. Navy.

In the original history, Shen Qiyuan was not able to wait for the Ming Dynasty's official army, and had to initiate action without external help.

As a result, because his subordinates acted secrecy, the news leaked out before the palace coup was about to be launched, resulting in the failure of the operation.

Shen Qiyuan himself was executed by Lingchi, and his whole family, a group of like-minded comrades, and a group of middle and lower-level military attachés who advocated resistance to the Japanese were all killed.
Chapter completed!