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An impatient admonition:

"Your Majesty, you must not send troops to aid Jin."

"The Jin dynasty were barbarians."

"A sudden rise to power is bound to be short-lived."

"The Ming Dynasty has now invaded southern Liaoning,"

"Our great Goryeo Kingdom should seize this opportunity to become independent,"

"We will no longer be subjects of those barbarian Jin Dynasty."

"We will now send troops from Baozhou to attack the Jin Kingdom,"

"The Jurchens will surely be unable to attend to both ends!"

Wang Gou said, "This matter is of great importance, and we must summon our ministers to discuss it."

The monk Miaoqing said, "Many of the court officials are in cahoots with the Jin state."

"Do not listen to their slander."

"What the Dharma Master says makes sense. Today I have some doubts about the Dharma..."

Wang Gou began to change the subject.

He sought instruction in Buddhism from the Venerable Miaoqing.

The government is now divided into two factions:

The first is the Beijing-based faction.

Advocating submission to the Jin Dynasty,

Then observe the changes in the situation gradually.

One is the Xijing School.

They advocated independence from the Jin dynasty.

It was also stated that Kaijing was burned down.

The royal aura there has been exhausted.

They urged the formal relocation of the capital to Pyongyang.

Historically, Goryeo's attitude towards the Jin and Song dynasties...

It's exactly the same as Korea at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

They outwardly submitted to the Jin dynasty.

Secretly, they also regarded the Jin Dynasty as barbarians.

They were clamoring to launch a northern expedition to destroy the regional chieftain.

North Korea is similar.

They clamored to train 100,000 musketeers to wipe out the Qing Dynasty.

However, only a little over a thousand musketeers were trained.

They even sent these soldiers to help the Manchus fight.

The main theme is hypocrisy!

Seeing that Wang Gou was changing the subject, the monk Miaoqing had no choice but to say:

"Your Majesty, I request permission to be sent as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty."

Wang Gou didn't want to listen to the monk's rambling all day, so he nodded and said:

"That's right."

"The monk went to the Ming Dynasty,"

"We can bring back some Buddhist and Confucian scriptures."

“I have a younger sister who is still unmarried,”

"I've heard that the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty is a man of great talent and bearing,"

"We could try to arrange a marriage between him and the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty."

"The minister obeys the order!"

Monk Miaoqing knelt and bowed.

This Goryeo princess,

Zhao Yuan dared not marry her.

The product of 100% consanguineous marriage.

.....

In the history books of the peninsula,

Miaoqing has always been portrayed as a demonic monk.

He was clearly a monk.

However, he claimed to be proficient in the Taiyi Jade Tent Footwork.

That is, a certain kind of Yin-Yang, Feng Shui, and prophetic arts.

And his mind seems a bit off.

The anti-gold movement has become an obsession.

With the disapproval of all the courtiers in Goryeo,

He directly launched a coup d'état.

They forced the king to establish a new reign title and declare himself emperor, and launched a military campaign against the Jin dynasty.

This matter caused a huge uproar.

Although Miaoqing was suppressed,

But Goryeo declined from then on.

The king was also sidelined by powerful clans.

Late September in the lunar calendar.

Miao Qing was sent as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty.

They crossed the sea and arrived at Dengzhou Port.

Before disembarking,

A large number of ships were seen anchored in the harbor.

Bag after bag of grain was carried ashore.

"It seems there really is going to be a great war between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty!" Monk Miaoqing muttered.

Deputy Envoy Zheng Zhichang said, "We should seize the opportunity."

"Gaining the support of the Ming Emperor,"

"This would force His Majesty to move the capital."

Monk Miaoqing said, "I hope the Ming Dynasty will win."

"There are too many Jin lackeys in the imperial court!"

Zheng Zhichang was a top scholar in the imperial examination.

Currently serving as a Hanlin Academician.

His poetry was unparalleled in Korea.

Chapter 1985 Xijing Faction

He disliked red tape.

Admiring the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi,

It is incompatible with mainstream Confucianism.

Both of them belonged to the Xijing faction.

They wanted to move the capital to Pyongyang.

It represents the interests of powerful clans in the Xijing region.

However, the Kaijing faction was more powerful.

The king was so frightened that he dared not take action—in fact, the king also wanted to move the capital.

He grew up in Kaijing.

He was traumatized by the local powerful families.

Just then, the Gaegyeong Palace was burned down by a powerful minister.

This time, the monk Miaoqing and Zheng Zhichang were sent as envoys to the Ming Dynasty.

They wanted to gain the support of the Ming emperor.

Disembarkation

Soon an official came to make contact.

He led them to the city of the prefecture to stay overnight.

The two had not yet entered the city,

A large number of soldiers were seen heading towards the dock.

The armor of these soldiers,

They've all been loaded onto the ship.

He was only carrying various weapons.

But even if all you have are weapons

They were also very powerful and imposing when marching.

They are clearly the elite among elites.

Zheng Zhichang couldn't help but ask, "Which general commands this army?"

Although the accent was strange,

But the clerk understood, and answered with a stern face:

"Your Excellency should not inquire about military matters,"

"Otherwise, it would be suspected of being a spy."

Zheng Zhichang could only shut up.

A general ran past with his personal guards.

He stood on the shore watching the soldiers board the ships, cursing and swearing:

"Damn it, he's been resting for half a year!"

"Finally, I can lead troops into battle again!"

This person was of course Zhang Shun.

His task was simple.

Cut off the Liaoxi Corridor across the sea.

They blocked the Jin Dynasty's most convenient grain supply route.

This prevented the rapid delivery of subsequent military supplies from Liaodong to Youzhou.

Historically, the Jin Dynasty's eastern army twice invaded the Northern Song Dynasty.