My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 447 Delivering blessings by order of Emperor Qianlong: Where is the promised cruelty and inhumanity?

On the barren, yellowed hillside, only the gyrfalcon circled endlessly.

But Jin Wenxiu ignored the gyrfalcon on her head, her lips twitched, and her face slowly turned purplish-red.

Don't think we wouldn't dare!

Jin Wenxiu then shouted loudly.

Fucha Fuqing gritted his teeth and prepared himself to die there.

But Fucha Fuqing calmly said loudly, "Then you shall wait to bear the wrath of my Great Qing Emperor! When the army gathers, blood flows like rivers, and even your vassal rank of third grade and above is killed, do not regret what you have done today."

"We, your vassal lords, dare not!"

At this time.

A voice came from behind the hill where the ambush was set up.

This man is Li Weixian, the governor of Pyongan Province in North Korea.

He was leading a group of people toward the hill where Jin Wenxiu was.

Snapped!
Snapped!
As soon as Li Weixian arrived, he slapped Jin Wenxiu twice hard: "How dare you!"

North Korea's internal weakness and external weakness were even more severe than those of the Qing Dynasty, making the situation of valuing civil officials over military officials particularly evident.

Therefore, Li Weixian dared to slap Jin Wenxiu directly without giving him any face.

After Li Weixian slapped Jin Wenxiu twice, Jin Wenxiu immediately knelt down, clasped his hands and bowed his head, and said loudly, "Your subject is Li Weixian, the governor of Pyongan Province of Joseon, who has come to welcome the envoy!"

Upon seeing this, Fucha Fuqing smiled slightly, then questioned Li Weixian, "So what's going on here?"

"Reporting to Your Excellency, this was Jin Wenxiu's unauthorized decision. The vassal sent him only to welcome and escort you, because the roads in this area are narrow and the mountains are dangerous, making it easy to encounter ambushes. Therefore, the vassal had to be careful."

Li Weixian knelt respectfully on the hillside and replied loudly.

Jin Wenxiu, covering her burning face, asked Li Weixian in a low voice, "Is this truly your intention, sir?"

"shut up!"

"This person dared to say such a thing, and instead of turning around and running away or trying to persuade us with kind words, he directly threatened us, which shows that he is a truly courageous person."

"Our intention was merely to scare them; we would never actually kill the Emperor's brother-in-law."

"Since they can't be intimidated, we can only say that we're here to protect them."

Did I tell you that?

"How dare you make decisions on your own and order others to continue offending the angels?"

"Do you know how serious the consequences would be if you really did that? It would mean rivers of blood and the humiliation of the king!"

Li Weixian scolded Jin Wenxiu.

Jin Wenxiu lowered her head.

Fucha Fuqing then loudly commanded, "In that case, all of you, come down! Follow me, angel!"

"As ordered!"

Li Weixian then ordered Jin Wenxiu to withdraw all the Korean soldiers who had laid an ambush, and personally led Jin Wenxiu to Fucha Fuqing to pay his respects and apologize.

Fucha Fuqing glanced at Jin Wenxiu, whose cheeks were red and swollen, and then asked Li Weixian indifferently, "Inspector, do these soldiers listen to you or to this general?"

"They are now all at your command."

Li Weixian naturally dared not say that he was following Fucha Fuqing's orders, as that would only invite attacks from his political enemies in the court and arouse suspicion from the King of Joseon. So he simply said that he was following Fucha Fuqing's orders.

"is it?"

Upon hearing this, Fucha Fuqing's eyes lit up. He put his hands behind his back and looked up at the blue sky.

“I dare not lie to the angel, but the soldiers of my Korea are all money-oriented, not people-oriented. The money comes from the royal court, and the royal court is able to have money because of the generous gifts from the Emperor. Therefore, we obey the angel.”

Li Weixian then explained again, revealing that North Korea's current military system is primarily based on conscription.

Fucha Fuqing then suddenly pointed at Jin Wenxiu and said, "In that case, you shall order this traitor who has offended the majesty of the Celestial Empire to be beheaded and executed immediately! Otherwise, this angel will have no choice but to execute you as well!"

Jin Wenxiu looked up in surprise and then looked at Li Weixian.

Li Weixian was slightly taken aback, but then gritted his teeth and shouted, "Capture Jin Wenxiu and behead him immediately!"

"As ordered!"

"Angel, spare me!" Upon seeing this, Jin Wenxiu immediately kowtowed.

But Fucha Fuqing ignored him.

Jin Wenxiu was dragged away by Li Weixian's personal guards and beheaded on the spot on the official road.

Soon after, Fucha Fuqing also arrived at the place where the heads were beheaded. He stopped beside Jin Wenxiu's head and said coldly, "This is the consequence of offending the majesty of the Celestial Empire!"

Li Weixian just chuckled and said, "The angel is right."

"When I see your king, I will speak well of you."

Fucha Fuqing then said the following.

Li Weixian kowtowed again: "Thank you, angel!"

As he spoke, Li Weixian took a jade toad from his sleeve and presented it to Fucha Fuqing with both hands: "This is a family heirloom of a vassal, which I wish to offer to the angel to express my gratitude for the angel's kind words!"

Fucha Fuqing smiled faintly and then said, "He is a clever person, but there is no need for formalities. This angel has come to deliver blessings, not to ask for benefits."

With that, Fucha Fuqing continued toward Seoul.

Through this incident, Fucha Fuqing gained a deeper understanding of the situation in North Korea, realizing that the powerful and influential in North Korea were even more cowardly and timid than he had imagined, and that the North Korean political scene was more civil than military.

This gave Fucha Fuqing even more confidence, and he went on to make some seemingly excessive demands on the Korean king.

The current king of North Korea is named Yi Geum.

Li Qin ascended the throne in the second year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, and had been on the throne for twelve years.

However, like the newly enthroned Emperor Qianlong, Li Qin still faced the problem of factional strife within the bureaucracy.

Moreover, internal party strife in North Korea intensified, even escalating to the point of armed rebellion.

Furthermore, the bureaucracy in North Korea is now mainly divided into two parties: the Old Lun and the Young Lun.

Influenced by Chinese thought at that time, Lao Lun admired the Zhu Xi school, while Shao Lun admired the Yangming school of mind.

Fucha Fuqing knew that to achieve his goals, he had to start with the serious factional strife within North Korea.

……

When Fucha Fuqing was on a diplomatic mission to Korea, Ignatius also arrived in the capital.

Because Hongli granted his request to see him and did not intend to block the communication between the two sides, after all, the Rakshasa Kingdom also needed cabbages.

However, after Ignatius arrived in the capital, Hongli did not meet with him.

Because Ignatius is not qualified.

After all, Ignatius was merely a diplomatic representative sent by the governor of Nerchensk of the Russian Empire.

Therefore, Hongli only allowed Nayantai, the Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs, to meet with him.

"Isn't your country worried that such enmity between the two sides will harm future generations?"

Upon meeting Nayantai, Ignatius questioned him about the Qing Dynasty's cruel and ruthless treatment of illegal Russians and locals who refused to submit during the implementation of the nationality system.

"Of course I'm worried. The actions of Yue Zhongqi and Zhao Hui were indeed inappropriate."

Although Nayantai was a vice minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs, he was of Mongol noble birth and was afraid of offending Russia and triggering a war, which would cause Mongol and Xinjiang to suffer the consequences. Therefore, he did not confront Ignati, but expressed his dissatisfaction with the current new policies.

Ignatius glanced at him, a hint of smugness in his eyes, and said, “To tell you the truth, we are all furious right now, clamoring to kill and plunder you all. If it weren’t for the governor’s efforts to suppress the crowd, especially those brutal Cossacks, it wouldn’t be me, a civil official, entering your country right now, but a large number of brave and ruthless Cossack cavalry!”

Why suppress it?

"Why not just retaliate directly?"

“We retaliated against you tenfold before, but you didn’t react, so we won’t say anything more.”

"Yue Zhongqi and his men have treated your people so ruthlessly, yet you've only sent one envoy and haven't sent any troops yet!"

"Your restraint and forbearance make it very difficult for us ministers, who are unwilling to offend your country and hope to persuade our masters to change their minds, to get things done!"

"How long will your country endure this?"

"Do we really have to wait until the nationality system is successfully implemented, until all of you in the three northeastern provinces are wiped out, until trade between the three northeastern provinces is successful, and until those tribes outside the Great Wall completely submit to the Qing Dynasty before taking any real action?!"

At this moment, Nayenthai turned around and suddenly questioned Ignati, dusting off his sleeves with a look of disappointment.

(End of this chapter)