Chapter 148 I am not asking for your opinion!
Early morning

The sky was still gray, and a burst of dense footsteps could be heard outside the palace.

Hundreds of Korean ministers came to the palace anxiously.

There was a blood dragon circling in the air, blocking the four gates of Shangjing City with its terrifying strength of the fourth realm.

Even if these North Korean dignitaries wanted to escape, they could not leave the city.

When I arrived at the square in front of the palace, I saw Jia Cong talking with Ge Li.

There is also the embarrassed King Li Yuzhe of Korea.

For Li Yuzhe, this night seemed longer than the past thirty years.

I finally made it to dawn, but there was no light at all.

“My Lord!”

“After checking, there were 271 officials above the sixth rank in the capital, and the total number is 2,248!”

“Twenty-three people disobeyed the Marquis’ orders and have been exterminated by my subordinates!”

“All the Li clan members have been detained by my subordinates.”

Hou Jingyun’s eyes were bloodshot and there was still a lot of blood on his body.

Kneel down on one knee and report.

At this time, his strength was further improved and reached the eighth level of the acquired realm.

The murderous intent in his eyes was almost unsuppressible.

“Two hundred and seventy-one?”

“It looks like there are quite a few smart people here!”

Jia Cong smiled faintly.

The official system of Korea imitated Daqian, with separation of military and political power.

In terms of civil service, a council was established, which was equivalent to the Daqian Cabinet.

The head of the Council of Government is the Prime Minister, who is of the first rank.

Below the Prime Minister are the Left and Right Councillors, who are both of the first rank. Below them are the Left and Right Assistant Councillors, who are of the second rank.

Under the Council of State, there were six ministries: Personnel, Household, Rites, Military, Works, and Criminal.
Equivalent to the six ministries of Daqian!

In addition, there are also supervisory and advisory agencies, namely the Censorate and the Censorate!
Chengzhengyuan drafted edicts for the king, similar to the Daqian Hanlin Academy.

There are also clan and loyal institutions such as the Clan Palace, Loyal Palace, Yibin Palace, and Dunning Palace.

As for military generals, there are five military camps and three internal halls.

In charge of military affairs.

However, the soldiers and generals were separated, and only after authorization by the King of Korea could the general lead the troops.

The number of high-ranking officials above the third rank is just as much as that of Daqian.

Now, with the assistance of the ghost soldiers, only 271 people were found in the capital. Some of them must have seen the danger and escaped in advance.

But to Jia Cong, these were just details.

“Keng!”

With a casual point of his finger, a stream of sword energy flew up.

It fell at the feet of the Joseon King Li Yuzhe, creating a bottomless gap in the ground.

“Say it!”

“Yes! Lord Shangguo, please calm down, please calm down!”

Li Yuzhe stood in front of the palace in fear for nearly three hours in the cold wind.

By now he has become like a frightened bird.

Hearing Jia Cong speak, he shuddered and quickly begged for mercy.

Then he came before the Korean ministers, trembling, with a sad expression.

“My Lords!”

“Our ancestor Lee Seong-gye stole the country and usurped the throne. His name is not right and his words are not reasonable!”

“Fortunately, the great ancestor of the Great Qian Dynasty was benevolent and righteous. He took into consideration the fact that the people had suffered so much from war and made Korea a vassal state, protecting it.”

“The Kingdom of Korea has been passed down for generations until it came to this king. I am not talented enough, I am incompetent in governing the country, I listened to slander, and I protected the traitors.”

“Fortunately, the Marquis of Shangguo has put aside past grudges and personally come to Shangjing City to persuade the king…”

“If you betray your loyalty, heaven and earth will not tolerate it, so who will help you? If you break your alliance, both humans and gods will be angry, and I will not take it personally.”

“To show my gratitude and for the sake of my fellow Korean people.”

“I have decided to give up the throne and merge Korea into Daqian…”

Li Yuzhe trembled as he spoke the words he had been thinking about for two hours.

As soon as these words fell, they immediately caused an uproar among the Korean officials.

The Li royal family usurped the throne of Goryeo and lived in a remote corner of the Liaodong Peninsula.

However, in history, it had successively resisted the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Facing the Middle-earth Dynasty, it has an inexplicable sense of superiority.

In addition, given the past events of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Central Plains dynasties were generally unwilling to start a war over this area.

Just nominally pay tribute and that’s enough.

Even during the Yuan Dynasty, a “Zhengdong Province” was established on the Liaodong Peninsula. The Left Prime Minister, the deputy minister of the Zhengdong Province, was also concurrently held by the King of Korea, who appointed his own officials, and the financial revenue did not go to the capital province.

In addition, the Yuan Dynasty would send princesses to marry kings of all generations.

The ministers thought that this time would be the same.

It’s nothing more than establishing a new king after conquering it.

By then, North Korea will still be an independent country.

It does not affect the status of officials at all.

But if they surrendered, the power of the civil and military officials in the court would certainly be greatly reduced.

“That’s unreasonable!”

“Korea has always been a vassal state of the superior country, paying tribute every year without interruption.”

“The sage said: Those who assist the ruler with the Way do not use force to conquer the world, and their affairs will be rewarded.”

“Where the army is, thorns grow. After a great army, there will be bad years.”

“I will go to Shenjing City to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Upper Country.”

“As the suzerain state, is this how Daqian invades vassal states?”

Choi Tae-woo, the head of the Joseon government, could no longer hold back and retorted with full force.

He is one of the few great Confucian scholars in North Korea.

Choi Tae-woo served under three generations of Joseon kings and rose to a position second only to the emperor.

He controlled the Council of State longer than Lee Ok-cheol ascended the throne.

He was an old minister who regented the government and had served as the chief academic officer of the Imperial Academy of Joseon. He had the highest prestige in Joseon and his students and former officials were all over the country.

Once Korea is incorporated into Daegan, he will be the one who suffers the most damage to his power.

Politics is essentially about struggle and compromise.

At this time, Cui Taiyu had to stand up no matter what, otherwise he would have to wait for the loss of power and be liquidated.

Just finished talking.

No struggle, no compromise!

A precious seal fell directly from the sky!

This great Korean scholar, who has many students all over the world, didn’t have time to react.

He was killed directly.

“To question His Majesty?”

“Do you think I am asking for your opinion?”

When the seal returned to Jia Cong, only a pool of blood and flesh remained.

He killed Cui Taiyu with ease.

Jia Cong looked around at the Korean officials with indifference.

Everyone lowered their heads tremblingly, and no one dared to look at Jia Cong.

“Hou Jingyun!”

“Cui Taiyu rebelled and attempted to assassinate the Prince of Joseon, but I discovered his plan in time and executed him on the spot.”

“Go and confiscate their property and exterminate their clan!”

Jia Cong fabricated charges at random, and Li Yuzhe had not yet officially issued an edict to abolish the country!

Now he is the Prince of Korea appointed by Daqian himself.

“I obey my orders!”

Hou Jingyun’s eyes were filled with murderous intent, and he led three hundred elite cavalrymen straight to Cui’s mansion.

“Does anyone have any objection to the order of the Prince of Korea?”

After Hou Jingyun left, Jia Cong asked indifferently.

With Cui Taiyu’s previous experience as a lesson, who would dare to say more?

They responded in unison.

“We will obey the king’s order!”

……

“Who has the highest official position among you?”

Seeing that no one objected, Jia Cong waved his hand and had Li Yuzhe dragged away and detained.

Then he asked.

“Reply…Reply to the Lord!”

“I am Kim Dae-jung, the Right Counselor of the Council of State. The Left and Right Counsellor of the Council of State agree with me. The Left Counselor previously joined the rebels and was beheaded by the Lord.”

“I am Han Mintai, the commander of the Fifth Army Camp Defense Office!”

A moment later, two ministers, one civil and one military, stood up.

They are all second-rank positions.

As for the first-rank officials of North Korea, they were all in the third realm, and had been killed by the ten great ghosts and gods in the bloody battle just now.

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