Chapter 145: Entering the door, getting a son, the chaos in North Korea

(I have been paying attention to the July 5 incident these days, and I am so angry that I have no intention of writing a few days ago. I apologize to readers here. But to be honest, until today, I am still in a very sad mood and pay silence for my compatriots who died on July 5.)

November 18, 20th year of Wanli, December 21, 1592 AD.

This day is the winter solstice, which is considered a good day and the day when Qu Xiuhe comes in.

On this day, Gu Yunniang personally took a sedan chair and accompanied him, including Xuantian's drum music, and finally a large sedan chair and four pairs of red gauze lanterns. He went all the way, attracting countless people watching.

The woman's happy spot was set up in the Qixian Guild Hall. At this time, there were crowds of people and congratulations. However, most of them were merchants. In the end, Qu Xiuhe dressed up and got into a sedan chair. There were also many dowry items accompanying her.

The most expensive ones are many jewelry, totaling ten pairs of precious gold jewellery. One of them is the golden jewellery, Toad Palace, Osmanthus Rabbit Jewelry and the golden jewellery, which are also the best, even if placed in the south of the Yangtze River. The atmosphere is luxurious in the late Ming Dynasty, and the women are proud of the value of dowry items, so that women will be more valued by their husbands.

The sound of gongs and drums all the way, and the sound of firecrackers was deafening. When the sedan chair returned to Huang Mansion, it had already been completely dressed up here. Although he was taking a concubine, due to Huang Laifu's identity and the Qu family were also rich, there were still many guests.

Qu Xiuhe is not an ordinary concubine, so the marriage ceremony of taking concubines, such as sedan chairs, courtesans, paper candles, churches, withdrawals, etc., are all based on the most solemn ones.

Qu Xiuhe is a beautiful woman who is as beautiful as a flower. Huang Laifu was blessed that night...

The next day, Qu Xiuhe came to pay homage to the eldest wife Gu Yunniang, kowtowed to her, and handed her shoes and feet. Gu Yunniang sat upright and received four tributes, but did not answer. This was the rule of the wife and concubine in the Ming Dynasty at that time.

It was not until Qu Xiuhe finished worshiping that Gu Yunniang smiled and said, "Sister, please sit down, we will be a family in the future."

As he spoke, he looked at her carefully and saw that Qu Xiuhe was wearing a light green satin skirt, a sable fur around her neck, a large rhinoceros hairpin on her hair bun, a beaded hairpin on her ears and temples, and a drunken blush on her face, which was beautiful and charming, which was the reason why Huang Lai Fu rain last night was moistened.

Judging from her appearance, I guess she must have been tossed by Huang Laifu all night last night. Thinking of this, Gu Yunniang couldn't help feeling a little sad. However, she quickly suppressed her inner emotions and started to laugh with Qu Xiuhe.

Following up, Qu Xiuhe told Liu Yumeiping the sisterly ceremony again. Both girls sat on Gu Yunniang's lower head. Liu Huan and Mei Yue were not concubines, but the two girls were pregnant and their status improved a lot, so they also sat aside.

Gu Yunniang ordered the maids around to call Qu Xiuhe Sanniang in the future.

Huang Laifu took Qu Xiuhe as his concubine, sang opera, served wine, and treated him for three consecutive days before he stopped. In the next few days, he had an unexpected surprise. Liu Yumei, Liu Huan and Mei Yue, three daughters, each gave birth to a son within a few days, and the mother and son were safe.

Huang Laifu was overjoyed. He now had four sons, including Huang Dalang. He named the son of Liu Yumei and Huang Erlang, the son of Liu Huan and Huang Silang.

Just when Huang Laifu was immersed in the joy of taking a concubine and having a son, North Korea, which was thousands of miles away, the storm-like war was getting worse and worse.

North Korea is known as a 3,000-mile land and has always been the target of the attacks between the mainland and the Japanese island countries. For thousands of years, this fate has not been changed. This peninsula has always been a place where the opposite island countries covet attacks. Of course, the ultimate goal of the islanders is to the rich and beautiful continent behind the peninsula. For them, the barren and earthquake-ridden island land is too insecure. And that continent is too rich.

Although the archipelago is small, it has never lacked ambitions. It has been like this since the Tang Dynasty, but its ability is limited. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, an ambitious man named Toyotomi Hideyoshi appeared. This man not only wanted to capture North Korea, but also China, and as for the fact that he also wanted to capture India. He had such ambition and fanaticism in the Ming Dynasty, which really made people wonder if he was a time traveler.

As early as the Warring States Period of Japan, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still conquering Maori, he wrote to Oda Nobunaga, saying that after the army pacified Honshu, he would advance to Kyushu, and then seek North Korea to see the Ming Dynasty and finally unify the earth. After conquering Konoji, he said in a letter to Ikyu Mo'an: "The affairs of Japan need not be discussed, and he still wants to order the Tang Dynasty."

In order to prepare for the war, he even commissioned European missionaries to purchase two European warships and prepare to imitate them.

By the beginning of the 19th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in 1591 AD, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had unified the entire Japan. His ambitions could not help but swell. He always muttered a sentence: "In my life, I swear to include the territory of the Tang Dynasty into my territory."

A few months later, because the Japanese samurai were extremely dissatisfied with the uneven land ban, in order to eliminate this hidden danger. In addition, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's anger at the Ming Dynasty not communicating with him and to satisfy his fanatical desires, he decided to send troops to the outside world.

In June, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent an envoy Soyoshi to write a letter to the Korean King Lee Kyung, asking the Korean King to attack the Ming Dynasty, and asked the Korean King to lead troops as the leader. He wrote in the book: "I want to use the country to transcend the mountains and seas, and go straight to the Ming Dynasty. On the day of my entry into the Ming Dynasty, my soldiers came to the military camp, so that I could build a neighboring alliance. I had no wishes and only showed my good reputation in the Three Kingdoms. On the day of my entry into the Ming Dynasty, King Kyung led his soldiers and took the military camp to lead me."

At that time, from the king to the people, the North Korean king and the father of the Ming Dynasty, and regarded itself as its first vassal state, and was extremely respectful, and never had any intention of rebellion. The North Korean king Lee Kyung naturally refused to the unreasonable request of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Rejection is rejection, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi thinks he knows it. Whether it was Japan during the Ming Dynasty or Japan during the Republic of China, they attached great importance to intelligence work and worked very seriously. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the maps drawn by the Japanese army were more accurate than those drawn by the Chinese themselves. Even a hill and a well were marked very clearly. Their maps have always been widely welcomed by the Chinese army. I think about how their intelligence work has achieved.

Not to mention North Korea at this time, it was the Ming Dynasty at this time. There was a lot of intelligence in both countries, and Japanese people knew about it. The local Korean military preparations were abolition, and the domestic atmosphere generally focused on culture and over military. The Chinese people did not know that they had been in war for more than 200 years. Most of the more than 300 counties in the country were not defended, and the party struggles were fierce. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, it was even better and the domestic chaos was extremely chaotic.

Such a situation naturally made Toyotomi Hideyoshi think that North Korea is not worth mentioning. His main concern was the Ming Dynasty. After all, arrogance was arrogance and could unify Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not a simple person. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was so huge, with so many armies, and so profound civilization influence, and the oppression of the Japanese was very heavy. It can be said that the shadows accumulated in his heart for thousands of years.

However, later Toyotomi Hideyoshi summoned a Japanese pirate, which allowed him to eliminate the shadow in his heart.

The man replied: "The remaining three hundred troops went to Fujian for a year and returned home in full armor. The Tang people feared the sun as if the flood collapsed and the sword was broken through, and the sword was broken, and Hecheng would not urge him."

After hearing his words, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was overjoyed and let go of his many worries.

And to be honest, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also has the capital to be confident. Japan has experienced wars for a long time and has cultivated a group of soldiers who have experienced wars. The warriors under his command are more of the desperate people, fighting bravely, and regard war as a natural thing as breathing.

Moreover, at this time, Japan was well-equipped and imported a large number of weapons from the Westerners. Toyotomi Hideyoshi had a large-scale musket force. Their muskets were even more advanced than the Ming army. In terms of tactics, the Japanese army also made considerable progress, inventing third-line tactics, firing on the first line, loading bullets on the second and third lines, forming continuous firepower, and having great lethality to the cavalry. This tactic is comparable to the fifth-stage fire of the Qi family army.

Overall, the combat effectiveness, their equipment, and their tactical level at that time all reached a very high level, and they were definitely elite soldiers. This made Toyotomi Hideyoshi's courage become higher and higher, and he stepped up the pace of war.

In the 19th year of Wanli, more than a thousand Japanese warships had been built, and enough food and grass had been stored in Nagoya for several years. After the mobilization, the 300,000 troops were ready to go, and everything was on the string.

At the beginning of the 20th year of Wanli, in April 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued an order that nine legions had a total of 150,000 troops and more than 700 ships of all sizes and large and small, setting off from Fukuoka, Nagoya, Tsushima Strait and other places to fight against North Korea.

These 150,000 Japanese troops were the most elite troops in Japan at that time, and the troops were distributed as:

The First Army: Commander Konishi, 18,000 people. The Second Army: Kiyomasa Kato, 22,000 people. The Third Army: Kuroda Nagamasa, 12,000 people. The Fourth Army: Yoshihiro Shimazu, 14,500 people. The Fifth Army: Masano Fukushima, 25,000 people. The Sixth Army: Takake Kobayawa, 15,000 people. The Seventh Army: Hiromoto Mori, 30,000 people. The Eighth Army: Hideaki Ukita, 11,000 people. The Ninth Army: Hidesa Hashiba, 11,000 people.

In addition, Katsuraki Kyuhito led 9,200 navy troops and 700 ships to transport soldiers and naval battles. In order to supplement the military source, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also ordered Tokugawa Ieyasugi, Maeda Taki, Uesugi Keika, Pusuki Township, Masatoshi Township, Masato Ida and others to gather their troops in Nagoya as a reserve team, and there were another 15,000 people. For a time, the Japanese claimed that they "the genius came, and the young man gathered."

Strategically, Toyotomi Hideyoshi adopted Tokugawa Ieyasu's proposal to determine the tactics of "advance on land and sea", "bulking the weak with strong force", and "quick battle and quick decision" to ensure the supply of strategic materials for the army with the navy. The army advanced in three directions and occupied North Korea in one fell swoop.

The army was successfully captured. The first army led by Governor Konishi, 18,000 troops, and 700 ships were divided into ships. On April 12, they successfully landed in the early morning of the next day. They raided the Korean defenders of Busan with lightning speed and quickly captured Busan. The defending general Zheng Ba was killed in battle. Hundreds of Korean officers and soldiers in the city fought bloody battles to the last one, and the Japanese army paid the price of thousands of casualties.

On the same day, the Japanese navy Kyugi Kataka tribe defeated the troops of the Gyeongjung-jimai governor on Geoje Island. Ichie Takigawa led the Eastern Army to capture Ulsan Castle, and Ninoha Nagathii led the Western Army to land on Gucheng. Gucheng defended the city and fled without fighting.

Within four days, the important coastal defense centers of North Korea, Busan, Donglai, Liangshan and other places fell one after another, and the coastal defenders fled. On April 18, Kiyomasa Kato led the Second Army to 22,000, and Kuroda Nagamasa led the Third Army to 11,000 landed on the southern coast. After the front three armies landed, the subsequent main force of the Japanese army and the rest of the fleet entered North Korea one after another.

The Japanese army advanced rapidly to the north in three directions. The Korean soldiers were unable to resist. The defenders along the way fled, and the Japanese army seemed to have entered a deserted land. Soon the Japanese army arrived at the city of Seoul, the North Korean border envoy Li Shu saw the strong Japanese army, and he sighed, "Today's enemy is like a divine weapon!"

On May 2, the Japanese army captured Seoul, the King of Korea. The King of Korea, Li Bing, fled north before the Japanese army crossed the Han River. The garrison of the capital, Li Yangyuan, sank the weapons into the Han River and surrendered without fighting. After the Japanese army entered the King of Korea, they massacred and robbed Seoul, known as the "Little China", to burn the Seoul.

The war went so smoothly, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was ecstatic.

On May 26, Toyotomi Hideyoshi formulated twenty-five plans to conquer Korea and the Ming Dynasty. He said to his nephew Toyotomi Hideji: "The capital of Goryeo has been conquered in the second day, so it is necessary to quickly cross the sea in the near future... If you can sweep the Ming Dynasty this time, you should be given the title of Guanbai of the Tang Dynasty. You should prepare to serve the sage in the capital of the Tang Dynasty. You can be lucky in the year after year. At that time, the ten countries near the capital will be used as the territory of the sage. The salary of the ministers and the lower ones will also increase, and the lower ones will increase tenfold, and the higher ones will be regarded as their status.... Let you be appointed as Guanbai of the Tang Dynasty and the land of the capital of hundreds of countries. The Japanese Guanbai post will be regarded as the situation of the two Yamato Zhongnayan and the former prime minister, and choose to take the position of the two."

On June 3, Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued an order to attack the Ming Dynasty. He said frantically: "Like the Great Ming Kingdom of Virgins, can we know that the egg-pressing of the mountains is like the Indians and the Southern Barbarians?" He compared the Ming Dynasty to a virgin and Japan to a fierce man, which is extremely arrogant.

Because the war went smoothly, not to mention that the whole country in Japan was jubilant at that time, even the Japanese army invaded North Korea was blinded by victory. The Japanese general Naoshima asked Toyotomi Hideyoshi to reward him with a large area of ​​territory in the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese general Ida Masamune wrote: "How can you know that this year, the Goryeo Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the hand."

After a little rectification of the Japanese army in Seoul, they continued to advance northward. On June 15, the Japanese army captured Pyongyang.

In just two months and two days, between the two months and two days, Sandu was lost, and all directions were disintegrated. All eighteen roads of Sandu were captured. Two Korean princes were captured. Eight roads in Korea were lost, leaving only north of the Pekan Road, and the area near the Liaodong Peninsula was not yet captured by the Japanese army.

After North Korea's king Lee Kyung fled to Yizhou, he knew that it would be impossible to restore North Korea without the help of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he sent several envoys to seek help from the Ming Dynasty. In order to get the Ming Dynasty to send troops, the North Korean envoys tried every means. In addition to submitting the letter of state to Emperor Wanli, they also went to lobby for the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers, ministers, censors, eunuchs, etc., and even expressed their willingness to attach themselves to the Ming Dynasty.

When North Korea's King Lee Seung faced the Ming envoy, he said excitedly: "It is better to die in the country of his parents than to die in the hands of a thief!"

At this time, the Japanese army's large-scale invasion of North Korea also greatly shocked the Ming Dynasty. Faced with the Korean war, the Ming court debated endlessly. Many court officials believed that North Korea was too incompetent and even if it was aid, it was useless. Shi Xing, Minister of War, believed that the enemy should be defended outside the country. The debate was very fierce. From April to July, the Ming officials had not yet competed for their status as Chou Yin and Mao Chen.

Finally, Emperor Wanli said: "It is better to rescue quickly! The Japanese pirates are aimed at North Korea, and their intentions are to be China, while our soldiers are to save North Korea, so we protect China."

With the final say, the Ming Dynasty decided to send troops.
Chapter completed!