Jin Shangxian is tough and loyal and upright, and is deeply unashamed of Zhou Xian's actions. For this reason, he also wrote a letter to Zhou Xian, denounced his rebel ministers for their actions and announced that he had completely severed relations with him.

Lin Qingye was not as fierce as Kim Sang-hyun, but he was also quite dissatisfied with Zhou Xian's move.

After Zhou Xian received the letter from the two, he was speechless and moved at the same time.

In real history, the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea, can be said to have fulfilled its responsibilities as a vassal state. Many years after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, they still used Chongzhen's reign title.

It is said that during the Qianlong period, a Korean minister named Jin caused a stir in his letter to the King of Korea because he used the Qianlong reign title.

Under the criticism of many Korean ministers, the King of Korea removed him from his official position.

His family also claimed that he was an internal thief and drove him out of the family tree. A year name was still so powerful nearly a hundred years after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, which shows the influence of the Ming Dynasty on North Korea.

At this moment, China was in chaos, and the captives were not destroyed, and the Central Plains were separated from north to south.

In this case, there is indeed no need to make North Korea a choice, and Zhou Xian has not established a country either.

For this reason, Zhou Xian sent ministers overseas and declared that the four countries that were close to him, including North Korea, Brunei, Sulu and Ryukyu, could still be shown as the vassal states.

On the one hand, this maintained the dignity of the Ming Dynasty and did not cause a gap between Zhou Xian and the South. On the other hand, it is currently maintained with an orthodox dynasty of China, which will help to completely take over these vassal states when they are unified in the future.

The four countries sent envoys to Nanjing. King Lee De-in of the Joseon and King Shangxian of Ryukyu also requested the Ming Dynasty to enthrone them.

Li Deren ascended the throne under the support and rebellion of the Korean ministers and was inappropriate. Although North Korea's Inzong was dead, his crown prince Li Ya was in the Qing Dynasty and had already become king, and had received full support from the Qing Dynasty. In North Korea, many people still show Li Ya as the orthodox of North Korea.

Lee Dee-in urgently hopes that the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty would recognize that he was the orthodox king of Korea, so as to suppress the country's hearts and gain support from the Ming faction in the North Koreans.

After King Shangxian of Korea ascended the throne, he sent an envoy to Beijing to ask Emperor Chongzhen to envoy this. At that time, Emperor Chongzhen had already agreed, but he did not send an envoy in time due to the war, and the envoy was not completed.

Later, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and the matter was even more incomplete.

Because Zhou Xian's army entered Dezhi Island and assisted him in expelling the Satsuma army, Shangxian could only hold back this matter, but he had always longed for the official enthronement of the Ming Dynasty.

Since Zhou Xian had already expressed that they could continue to agree with the Ming Dynasty as the vassal state, they naturally made such a request again.

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty only occupied a corner of the south, and four envoys came, and the two countries requested enthronement. In any aspect, this is a great thing for the Ming Dynasty, which has internal and external troubles.

For this purpose, Zhu Cixuan sent a proud disciple of Confucian scholar Liu Zongzhou, and Qi Biaojia, who served as the right assistant censor, went on a boat to visit the two countries and completed the enthronement.

During this period, Qi Biaojia contacted many ministers and generals of North Korea and Ryukyu, and received expressions of their loyalty.

Lin Qingye also returned to Seoul and met with Qi Biaojia. He told Qi Biaojia that if there was a war between the Ming Dynasty and Zhou Xian in the future, he would try his best to recall all Korean soldiers and strive to make the North Korean country as neutral as possible.

This is also the opinion held by Joseon King Lee Deok-in, Left Political Consultative Choi Ming-ji, and Choi-won-jun Chen Qiyuan. Only Kim Sang-heon insisted that North Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and should fully support the Ming Dynasty.

It is also because of this that Kim Sang-hen was sent to Nanjing by the King of Joseon.

Qi Biaojia stayed in Seoul for the time being, which was a task given to him by Shi Kefa. He paid attention to the war between Zhou Xian and the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, and tried his best to find out Zhou Xian's strength in Shandong and Liaodong.

To this end, Qi Biaojia must find enough people in North Korea to support the Ming Dynasty. He once wanted to persuade Lin Qingye to provide information about Zhou Xianjun to the Ming Dynasty, but Lin Qingye refused the matter.

This is Lin Qingye's bottom line. Since he is still working under Zhou Xian, he is unwilling to be the kind of traitors. But he also knows in his heart that even if he doesn't do it, others will do it. The Ming Dynasty has too much influence in North Korea.

In order to better control the situation in North Korea, Zhou Xian had a set of intelligence networks built by Lee Xiong in North Korea. He could not be ignorant of these situations, but he chose to ignore them completely.

Even when he was about Lin Qingye visiting Qi Biaojia, he did not ask too much about it and asked him to continue to lead his troops. Although his power was divided as Li Dingguo came to Pidao, all the Han soldiers were divided, and all the Korean soldiers were still under his command, which instead made his control over his subordinates stronger.

Lin Qingye was puzzled by this.

But he thought that even a rebel like Li Dingguo could be awarded the leading general by Zhou Xian, and what was it that he could continue to lead troops?

If Zhou Xian did not have such a mind, how could he gather so many people who were willing to serve within a few years?

Moreover, even if Zhou Xian fights with the Ming Dynasty, it will probably be many years later. Who can tell how the situation will develop then?

This time, Li Dingguo handed over 6,000 cavalrymen to him, which has shown that Zhou Xian still trusted him. Moreover, this battle has special significance to him.

In his reply to him, Zhou Xian made it clear that he would do his best to make the King of Korea appoint him as Ping'an Jun and let Ping'an and Xianning belong to his rule.

But the premise is that he must make great contributions enough to keep the ministers in North Korea shut up.

After the Bingzi Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty took nearly 500,000 Korean prisoners into Liaodong. After Lin Qingye regained Seoul, Luke Dehun moved hundreds of thousands of Koreans away.

Some of the nearly one million Koreans were placed around Liaoyang with Li Fei, and most of the remaining ones were distributed to Jianzhou's bannermen as slaves.

They were arranged in the manors of the bannermen and did the lowest labor. Of course, there were also good situations and were valued by the bannermen as a tool for them to rule their own tribesmen.

If these North Koreans can be rescued and brought back to North Korea, please ask others to move, and then the position of Peaceful Lord will be sure to be successful.

Therefore, this battle was extremely important for both the Liao army and Lin Qingye himself. But in fact, it was difficult to complete these with 6,000 cavalry and two battalions of infantry.

Advance along a narrow road of hundreds of miles and rushed to Hetuala before the Qing army could react. Not to mention that there, the Qing Dynasty could gather an army of tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of reserve forces to fight against its own troops at any time. In other words, Hetuala was also the most solid city in Jianzhou.
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