Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 284 The Peninsula is Recovered and Cheng Liang Dies!
Peninsula, Seoul.

Li Chengliang's "fearless" military order turned the former capital of Goryeo into a purgatory.

The people of Seoul, who were wantonly killed and humiliated, launched several counterattacks under the threat of death.

But under the iron-blooded suppression of Li Chengliang's soldiers who struck six times in one breath, all the counterattacks of the natives collapsed in an instant.

The carnival continues.

But the generals of the Liaodong Army gradually changed their colors. Li Chengliang could lock down the ordinary soldiers but not them. News from the north, from the Ming Dynasty, kept coming in.

The Jinyiwei were no pushovers, and they had many deployments in many neighboring countries. Even in the chaotic Seoul, letters and news could accurately let the people who needed to know know what they needed to know.

And today, almost all the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army have received a handwritten letter of surrender from their former comrade Dayong.

Lay down your weapons and you will be forgiven for your crimes.

He resisted stubbornly, but ended up dying and his clan was wiped out.

this moment.

No one can pretend to be ignorant anymore and continue to deceive their hearts, saying that they are fighting for the court and chasing the enemy for the Ming Dynasty.

The Liaodong Army was about to turn the peninsula over, but they didn't even see the remnants of Nurhaci's Jurchens.

After all, Changbai Mountain, which is more than 2,000 miles long, is half within the territory of the Ming Dynasty and half within the peninsula. Of course, the entire Changbai Mountain now belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

Given the terrain of the peninsula, it would be impossible to track Nurhaci if he disguised himself and fled into the mountains.

Anyone with a little military sense would know that everything the Liaodong Army did in response to Li Chengliang's orders was for the purpose of capturing the peninsula.

Whether it was conquering Pyongyang at lightning speed or defeating the Goryeo King's army of hundreds of thousands in a head-on blitzkrieg, these were the means China used to destroy small countries in the past.

The officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army were aware of this, but no one stood up to question Li Chengliang's orders and motives, nor did anyone discipline their subordinates to remain vigilant.

Because Li Chengliang gave too much.

Korea.

It ranked first among the fifteen unconquered countries of Emperor Taizu Gao, and its national strength and wealth were second only to Japan.

The Iwami Silver Mine and the Sado Gold Mine are two mines in Japan that no small country can compare to.

The Liaodong Army looted Pyongyang, Seoul, and most of the peninsula. It can be said that these 20,000 people possessed the wealth of an entire country.

The endless gold and silver to spend and the endless women to play with overwhelmed the rationality of all the Liaodong troops in Seoul.

It has to be said that some Liaodong soldiers no longer look like human beings, but more like wild beasts and beasts, fully displaying the dark and evil side of human nature on the peninsula.

Among the officers and soldiers, there were also some wild beasts and beasts. After seeing Dayong's letter of surrender, they took the letter and went to Li Chengliang to express their loyalty.

The Ming Dynasty court and the Ming royal family made them endure two hundred years of suffering.

However, Li Chengliang allowed them to enjoy the blessings that their ancestors of eighteen generations combined had never enjoyed.

This group of officers actually accounted for half of the entire Liaodong Army.

Just as the cabinet had worried, the carnival on the peninsula made many officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army forget about their family ties and everything else outside of themselves.

A lot of money, plenty of women, and the general's promise made them think that if the negotiations ended and Seoul was separated, the family could start with their own and build another one at will.

Can the old wife at home be cared for by the Silla maid who has been famous for thousands of years?
As for the children in the family, just give birth to more.

The only difficulty.

It may be the elderly parents in the family. If they are implicated, as children, it is inevitable that they will feel pain in their hearts.

But the pain was only for a moment, and then he hugged the beautiful woman given by the general and played with her on the cold golden and silver beds.

Even His Majesty the Emperor eats little more than “sumptuous dishes and abundant rice,” wears fine silk and satin, lives in luxurious palaces, and drinks fine wine.

Here, they enjoy treatment that is even better than that of the emperor, and the joy they experience here is beyond description.

Li Chengliang, who lived in the Goryeo royal palace, looked at the officers and soldiers standing on both sides and smiled. He won!

Relying on Goryeo's things, he gained so many loyal fans, and made a huge profit from this deal.

Even if he couldn't stay on the peninsula, he could still cross the sea to Japan and establish some achievements with the power in his hands.

Li Chengliang just didn't believe that the Ming army could catch up with him even though he had fled to the Japanese island!

That's right.

Li Chengliang had no intention of defending the peninsula to the death. It was precisely because he was the commander-in-chief and a general that he knew more clearly what kind of war power the Beiyuan Construction Corps, an army that had completely destroyed the nomadic tribes on the grassland, had.

After taking Seoul and knowing that Yu Dayou was "taking advantage" in the north, Li Chengliang made plans to continue his escape.

One hundred thousand indigenous people were organized to build boats on the seashore, and as soon as they heard that Yu Dayou was heading south, they immediately escaped by boat.

Fight to the end?

Stop it.

Wherever you are happy, you are happy.

Li Chengliang also received a letter from the Jinyiwei, which was sent at an unknown time and by unknown means. There were two things in the letter: one was to surrender immediately, and the other was to exchange hostages.

After reading the letter, Li Chengliang executed all the people inside and outside the palace, even though he knew it was futile.

Afterwards, Li Chengliang ignored the first thing and agreed to the second one.

Compared with Yin Zhengmao and others, his younger brother Li Chengcai is obviously more important.

negotiation.

He was just worrying about the possibility that the Ming Dynasty would agree to his rule over the peninsula. Obviously, he had failed, but as brothers, it was better for them not to die.

Li Chengliang asked someone to take Yin Zhengmao and others to a designated location to exchange hostages, and asked the officers in the palace to mobilize the soldiers.

The Ming army was heading south and could no longer stay on the peninsula, so they prepared to cross the sea to the east.

But before that, there was one important thing to do, which was to deal with those officers who did not come to the palace to show their loyalty.

There were so many people who came to the palace to show their loyalty that Li Chengliang couldn't remember them all. But he remembered clearly who did not come to the palace and who did not show their loyalty.

Li Chengliang, wearing armor and holding a sword, led his personal guards to kick open the doors of the "unfamiliar" officers one after another, and killed them with a single sword without saying anything.

Li Chengliang held the sword, blood gathered into beads and dripped from the tip of the sword. He walked all the way, and the blood dripped all the way. His whole body was stained with blood, and the blood soaked his armor. When Li Chengliang appeared in front of the neatly organized army, he was like a demon living in the world. The murderous aura was overwhelming!
now.

Whether they had dissenters or not, their minds were all blanked by the overwhelming killing intent. This was exactly the effect Li Chengliang wanted. He wanted to make everyone dare not go against his will in the shortest possible time. Just like when he gave the order to attack the peninsula, he launched the second tactic of engulfing the entire army and said, "Pass my order, march east!"

Under the general's order.

No one dared to object, and they all mounted their horses and headed towards the East China Sea, boarding large ships and sailing towards the Japanese island.

Heading towards the direction of hope, after getting tired of playing with Silla maids, it is time to try the taste of Fuso prostitutes.

Far away from the mainland, Li Chengliang suddenly felt like he was traveling freely in the world. He seemed to have broken free from all constraints and laughed out loud.

On the peninsula.

Yu Dayou, who was chasing after them, looked at the disappearing ships without any sense of frustration. Instead, his expression looked very strange.

Controlling the Japanese islands was one of the highest secrets of the Ming Dynasty. No one knew about it except the cabinet ministers, the six ministries, the nine officials, and the military marshals and generals.

Nowadays, the western part of the island of Wa is entirely under the control of the puppet Amago clan supported by the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and they are constantly encroaching on the eastern part of the island of Wa.

Li Chengliang, who was completely unaware of the situation, carried all the weapons he could carry when he fled the peninsula in a hurry, but had very little food and supplies. He must have been anxious to land on the Wo Island and went ashore on the west side of the island.

Yu Dayou opened the map and determined the location based on the direction in which Li Chengliang's rebel army was heading out to sea and the geography of Japan.

"Fukuoka!"

"Send the speedboat to Japan and inform Jinyiwei's deputy commander Shen Yu in Japan to 'welcome' Li Chengliang!"

Issue the order.

A soldier immediately boarded a fast sailing boat and went to the Japanese island with the letter.

The Jinyiwei will take care of the issues in the east. Yu Dayou turned around and looked at the peninsula which had lost its counties for more than a thousand years, and his ambitions were fulfilled.

With the rise of China, the land that has been ours since ancient times has been taken back again, and this time it will not be lost again!
Li Chengliang's rebels fled the peninsula completely, and Yu Dayou took over Seoul and the entire peninsula without much effort. In addition, he had experience in pacifying the herdsmen in the grassland, now called Bukwon Province, so everything went quite smoothly.

Thanks to the "great shortcomings and great virtues" of Li Chengliang's rebels on the peninsula, the natives of the peninsula saw the arrival of the Ming army as if they had seen a savior.

The restoration of stability and order north of Pyongyang had long since spread to the south. Now, the wealthy natives of Seoul really organized the ordinary natives to provide food and drink to welcome the royal army.

Although the peninsula has been out of Chinese governance for thousands of years, its culture, clothing, life and other aspects are deeply influenced by China. The so-called Goryeo language is just a Chinese dialect in the eyes of many people.

Even the natives of the peninsula share this perception. On this peninsula, countless people are proud of being able to speak Chinese, especially the nobles on the peninsula. Almost everyone can speak Chinese.

There was no psychological resistance to returning to the royal rule. Some nobles and wealthy people on the peninsula even did their best to show their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, they took the opportunity to send their children to the Ming Dynasty across the Yalu River. They did everything they could to settle down in the Ming Dynasty in advance and truly become citizens of the Ming Dynasty.

Yu Dayou did not stop this, and Liaodong Town did not put too much resistance to the influx of natives from the peninsula. After confirming that there were no problems with their identities, they chose to release them.

The imperial court, after countless discussions, finally reached a resolution on the resettlement of the indigenous people of the peninsula. Although Gao Gong was already the chief minister of the cabinet, his two previous proposals to kill all the indigenous people and violate the harmony of nature were both rejected.

The imperial court finally adopted the proposal of Wang Chonggu, the second assistant minister of the cabinet, and divided all the indigenous people of the peninsula into two. Half of them would go to Lingnan with the grassland herdsmen who migrated to Lingnan, and the other half would cross the Yalu River and go to the northeast to live on the grassland nearby.

This migration reduced the court's expenditure as much as possible. Although Gao Gong was still not very satisfied, he reluctantly accepted it.

The Ministry of Revenue spent money and grain in large amounts.

There are expenses and there are incomes.

Li Chengliang's rebel army crossed the sea to the east in a hurry, and most of the peninsula's wealth had not been transferred quickly. The court naturally accepted it with a smile, which slightly comforted Gao Gong's heart as the Ministry of Revenue's silver and grain were increasingly reduced.

This immediately caused an uproar among the countries. In the eyes of small countries, the Ming Dynasty was a behemoth, and the Goryeo Kingdom was a "big country" in the eyes of small countries.

A "big country" was suddenly attacked by Ming Dynasty rebels and then it was destroyed. Then the Ming army drove the rebels out of the land and then "dismembered" the big country in the eyes of the small country?

The peninsula is more than 2,000 miles long, several hundred miles wide, and has a population of several million. However, all the history and traces of the past thousands of years seem to have been completely wiped out by an invisible hand.

In the eyes of small countries, this was no less than a move by heaven. Their nature of fearing power but not virtue drove the envoys of the only twelve unconquered countries to the Ming Dynasty to present letters of credence to express their loyalty.

If the tribute is increased at the end of the year, it will no longer be the end of the year. From this moment on, tribute will be paid to the Ming Dynasty every day.

The elephant soldiers in Annan were originally praised as the national soldiers. The King of Annan did not hesitate to let the soldiers dismount the elephants and gathered a hundred tamed white elephants, which were immediately sent to Yunnan, and then from Yunnan to the capital.

In addition to Japan, the other ten small countries were also actively preparing and presenting gifts, and a large amount of treasures and spices were imported into the Ming Dynasty.

The prices of pearls, agates, pepper, and sumac in the Ming Dynasty fell day by day and plummeted!

……

Wajima, Fukuoka, seaside.

Some fishermen disguised as the Niwa clan's army were happily harvesting their catches, spreading out their fishing nets and drying them, a scene of a peaceful life.

The head of the Amago clan, Amago Yoshihisa, was right next to the Jinyiwei commander Shen Yu. He carefully looked at Shen Yu's expression and wanted to say something, but didn't dare to.

There's not a single bit of the aura of a overlord of the western countries in Japan from that look.

Through the telescope, Shen Yu had already observed the ships on the sea in the distance. He put down the telescope and saw Nizi Yoshihisa's appearance. He frowned and said, "If you have something to say, just say it."

Nizi Yoshihisa smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Excellency is wise. Please forgive my daring. After this battle, can you please present a petition to His Majesty on my behalf and ask him to grant you divine grace and add a few Jinyiwei to the Nizi clan?"

The obedience of the Amago clan.

After receiving the reward he deserved, Amago Yoshihisa was granted the title of Captain of the Imperial Guard. His eldest son, who was still young, was sent to live in the capital and would inherit all of Amago Yoshihisa's official position and achievements in the future.

In other words, Amago Yoshihisa is no longer a Japanese, but a real Ming Dynasty person.

When people live a comfortable life, they also want to pull the people around them together. The Niko clan has many loyal retainers who are all waiting for the blessing of the Celestial Empire and the grace of His Majesty to change the status for themselves and their descendants.

Shen Yu stared at Nizi Yoshihisa for a while, and also saw some Nizi family generals behind Nizi Yoshihisa who seemed to be looking at the sea, but were actually listening attentively. He nodded to these Japanese who admired China and said, "Those who excel in this battle will be admitted to the Jinyiwei."

"Thank you, Mr. Secretary!" said Amako Yoshihisa in thanks.

The family generals behind him also showed uncontrollable excitement.

The rebel ships of Li Chengliang approached the shore, and they first killed those who were disguised as fishermen, and then prepared to march towards the Japanese island.

But just as all the rebels of Li Chengliang landed on the beach, Shen Yu closed his eyes and silently chanted: "Three!"

"two!"

"one!"

"Detonation!"

(End of this chapter)