Time flies, two months have passed in a blink of an eye, and the spring of 1794 has also arrived.

In early March, the border negotiations between Beihai Town and the Li Dynasty were interrupted for more than a month due to the Spring Festival, and it was restarted again. By the way, the Li Dynasty had been talking for so long since last year, and the Li Dynasty was basically just arguing about foreign workers and had no progress.

The main reason for this is that Beihai Town is just a lion's mouth on the border between the middle and eastern sections. No one from Li Xu to the lower lord and ministers dared to agree, and they were afraid of being criticized for eternal reasons. Faits Accomplishment is one thing, and signing a treaty and stamping a seal is another thing.

Just like when facing foreign enemies in the past, the Lee Dynasty's court is now divided into peace factions, the peace factions. Among them, the peace factions are the times factions headed by Cai Ji-kong, while the peace factions are the remote factions headed by Kim Jong-soo, the central government affairs affairs.

Because the former was born in southerners, he was more tolerant of the Catholic group, which was mostly southerners, and was more able to accept new things. Cai Jigong had been to Beihai Town himself and had a personal experience of his strength. His backbone Ding Ruoyong and Ding Ruoquan brothers had always maintained close correspondence with Cao Peng's father-in-law Lin Ruoyu, and firmly believed that only by following the pace of Beihai Town could the Li Dynasty achieve national strength and strength.

As for the latter, it is a group of self-proclaimed Qingliu, which is actually a group of people who have formed a party for personal gain in the name of "purging the party". The denunciation does not mean that they have to fight to the death with the North Navy. The idea they uphold is that the party is the same and the differences, and as long as the enemy agrees, we must oppose it.

Although Wang Zhong and Liu Taigong and others have been reasonably argued at the negotiating table in the past few months and have been surprised by the historical materials of the Kingdom of Korea from another time and space, the Lee Dynasty and other people are not vegetarians. Each of them has experienced many years of court political disputes, and their ability to argue is much more abundant than that of Wang Zhong and others. Once, Wang Zhong was so angry that he just shook his sleeves and stopped talking, hitting the hearts of the Li Dynasty envoy.

If you can, you can delay it for a day. Everyone thought that as long as the king didn’t say anything, whoever dared to promise would be a traitor who would rise up and kill him.

The problem is that Li Xu didn't dare to nod! If he dared to agree, he would be unworthy descendants.

In fact, the two sides have been talking for so long. In general, there is no objection to the western boundary with the central line of the Yalu River as the boundary. Facts have been formed since the Ming Dynasty. In history, negotiations on border people crossing the border on the western boundary were limited to the Yalu River. Crossing the river means crossing the border, and being punished for the crime of "violating the cross". The Li Dynasty punished this very much. The main culprit would be beheaded and displayed on the riverside. The second offender was dismissed from the border, and the local officials were either dismissed from their posts or dismissed from their posts.

However, on the middle boundary, Beihai Town's requirement was to completely overthrow the Mukden boundary survey in the 51st year of Kangxi, and directly advance to the line of Xiaobai Mountain and Dajiao Peak, with five miles north of the main peaks of the two mountain ranges as the boundary line. For this reason, Beihai Town simply drew a winding horizontal line on the map, starting from the Yalu River in the west and ending at the Tumen River in the east. This means that whether it is the Yalu River or the upper reaches of the Tumen River or even the source of the Tumen River, it has nothing to do with the Li Dynasty. In addition, Beihai Town also requires the Li Dynasty to make it clear in the agreement that Changbai Mountain, which has Tianchi Lake, is not the ancestral land of the Li Dynasty, and the official sacrificial ceremony for Changbai Mountain must be abolished in the future.

If the above requests of the Li Dynasty could barely recognize them, even the peace faction could not accept them on the issue of the eastern section of the border. Many people directly shouted that it would rather be shattered than let the thieves in Beihai Town understand the indomitable heart of the people of the eight paths.

That’s right, the Li Dynasty nowadays all privately call Beihai Town a "Thief".

You should know that most of the people in Beihai Town have their haircuts and their hairstyles are buzz cuts or bald. After learning about it, Li Chao regarded it as a disobedient law, just like a thief who committed crimes and was punished in ancient times. The problem is that they do not like Beihai Town, and the people in Beihai Town do not like them! The reason why many men leave their buzz cuts is because they are easy to clean up and wash their hair to save soap.

Back to the topic, Beihai Town’s requirement on the eastern border was that in addition to giving up the nine places of Ludao, Qingxing, Ashanpu, Qianyuanpu, Qingyuanfu, Xunzhencheng, Meijianzhencheng, Wencheng, and Yongdacheng, the border between the two sides was also pushed to the Luoduan Mountain, Xiaobai Mountain and Huangshanling. In addition, Maoshan County had to be included in Beihai Town within a radius of 50 miles.

In addition, it is Lutun Island located at the mouth of the Tumen River.

The Tumen River rose from Changbai Mountain and winded for thousands of miles, and finally flowed into the sea. The surging river water hit the wide river channel along the way and accumulated fertile mudflats. This is how Lutun Island came from.

Its area is 32 square kilometers and is fifteen kilometers away from the estuary. Controlling this place is equivalent to holding the Tumen River's right to go to sea.

Although Li Xu had already made preparations to give up the five northern towns, he did not want to give Maoshan and Lutun Island!

Furthermore, the eastern border is divided into Luoduan Mountain, Xiaobai Mountain and Huangshan Mountain. This is completely different from what I thought before. This is no longer a matter of ten or twenty miles south of the Tumen River, but hundreds of miles!

It's so bullying that the rabbit bites people when it's anxious!

In the twelfth lunar month, the Lang Hall of the Biansi had already received a report from Funing County and learned that the North Navy occupying Maoshan City was an isolated army of only more than 300 people. So in the second month of the lunar calendar (March of the Gregorian calendar), Lee Ho issued an order to the Biansi to recruit merchant ships of all sizes and ships, and mobilize the army to enter the coastal city of Mirang City, Hamkyung Road.

By early April, eight thousand soldiers had arrived in Jingcheng County one after another. The civilians transporting food and grass every day and the ships on the sea continued to flow. When the food and grass were almost gathered, tens of thousands of people followed the post road to Funing County. Then they would follow the post roads of Qianshuiyan, Yaomaoshan, Chelunling and Matian to enter Duqi City and Nanling in the south of Maoshan City, and force the Northern Navy of Maoshan City to withdraw.

In order to form a battlefield cover, the Border Army also made a serious increase of 5,000 troops to Xishuiluo, and mobilized warships to gather in Xishuiluo Qianpu water camp to confuse Qingxing and Mokuowei North Navy.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Little did you know that the North Navy General Staff knew the movements of the Lee Dynasty army. Since three years ago, the North Navy Intelligence Bureau secretly recruited spies from the people of the Lee Dynasty who had crossed the border and opened up wasteland under the conditions of obtaining household registration in Beihai Town. Then, it took another two years to build a huge spy network throughout North Hamkyung.

Yongba is a node in this big network. He is from Huining County and a servant of Cui Jinshi's family. He helped Lin Ruoyu and his daughter smuggle to Hunchun a few years ago, and also helped the Qing army pass information. After Lin Ruoyu defected to Beihai Town, he in turn asked Yongba to help spy on the Qing army's intelligence on the south bank of the Tumen River. After a while, it was impossible for him to enter the intelligence bureau's sight.

The Intelligence Bureau must identify and inquire about all newly joined personnel, and also use the so-called "lie detector"; it is called a lie detector, but it is actually a portable electrocardiometer, plus a blood oxygen meter.

Yongba never saw this! He was so panicked when he was taken to the Intelligence Bureau's stronghold in Hunchun. After bringing the equipment, he was even more afraid. Especially when asked if he had been a spy for the Qing Dynasty, his heart beat a hundred and six.

The intelligence agency then gave him two choices, either to dig coal at Kuye Island or become a spy in Beihai Town. Yongba chose the latter without hesitation.

Later, Lin Ruoyu wrote a secret letter to Yongba's owner Cui Jinshi, saying that he had come up with some money to do fur and farm tools business. He was optimistic about Yongba and planned to let him be responsible for the business of Huining and Funing. Cui Jinshi agreed readily and helped to clear the official position. So Yongba took the funds and opened two shops in Huining and Funing. Since then, he has frequently traveled between the two places to collect information from the Qing army and the Li Dynasty.

After learning about the news of Li Chao's dispatch of troops, Zhao Xin warmly welcomed this approach, saying that there was finally an excuse! He was determined to let Li Chao sign this territorial agreement, and for this reason he would not hesitate to change the king of Li Chao, and he had found the candidate for the new king!

On April 8, 1794, the three Northern Navy gunboats stationed in Mokuowei were ordered to be dispatched. Pan Xiucheng, who was also in charge of Hunchun, also received the order from Zhao Xin. He sent an artillery battalion to Qingxing Prefecture and went south along the post road to attack Xishuiluo.

On April 12, the North Navy fleet bombarded Xishuiluo Qianpu Shuizhai and the wharf. The next day, under the guidance of the drone, the artillery battalion launched an artillery bombardment on the Li Dynasty defenders in Xishuiluo. Eighteen 75mm cannons only took an hour to fire. The Li Dynasty army, who had no experience in positional warfare, was already blown up and cried, and only regretted that he had grown two legs. Then the ground troops of the North Navy entered Xishuiluo with great strides.

On April 13, a battalion of the Northern Navy stationed in Tongguan City crossed Xiaochuan and took a day to cross the National Shitangling Ridge, and suddenly appeared under Zhongcheng City. The local defenders immediately ignited the beacon fire and called on the alarm and summoned the people in the city to defend the city. The Li Dynasty built a strict beacon fire alarm system in the six northern towns, especially along the Tumen River, where there was a beacon fire tower every fifteen miles.

The Northern Navy outside Zhongcheng did not send troops to attack the city. After submitting a letter of surrender to the defenders, it dug fortifications and trenches on the hills two miles north of the city. During this period, it used several mortars to bomb the city walls. This scared the soldiers and civilians in the city. Then the defenders tried to launch a night attack, but they did not expect that the chicken would be stolen and the rice would be lost. Not to mention the heavy casualties, even the generals in command were seriously injured and unconscious. The helpless county magistrate Zhongcheng thought about it for a day, and finally gritted his teeth and surrendered.

On April 15, eight North Navy sailboats and five transport supply ships departing from Dolphin Harbor arrived in Mokuwai, including two battalions of marines.

On April 17, the fleet that completed the supply of Tamsui began to move south, including three gunboats and a supply ship to Yuyoujian in the south of Xishuiluo, and implemented a maritime blockade on Jingcheng. Jingcheng is the key point connecting the east coast of Hammoth Road. Once this place is lost, Funing County will become an isolated city, and the 8,000 troops heading to Maoshan will be cut off.

However, what scared Li Chao the most was not the problem of Jingcheng. On the morning of April 22, a fleet of five gunboats and four transport ships arrived at Anping Port. After completing the supply again, the fleet headed straight north and appeared on the sea surface in the southern part of Yanping Island in two days.

This time, the Northern Navy's target is Jianghua Island.

Speaking of Jianghua Island, because it guards the estuary of the Han River, and the Jianghua Strait is complex in hydrological conditions and has many reefs, it has been a place to escape from foreign invasions since the Goryeo Dynasty. After the Jin Dynasty invaded Korea in the year of Dingmao, King Inzu first fled here and later went to the Nanhan Mountain City. Therefore, Jianghua Island's status is equivalent to that of the accompanying capital. Since it was upgraded to a left-behind mansion, it has been repeatedly strengthened in military defense.

Since the base camp of the three naval army commander of the Li Dynasty was stationed on Jianghua Island, when King Xiaozong, the son of King Renzu, planned to revive the Ming Dynasty, set up Yuechuan, Jiwu, Longjin, Guangcheng Fortress and other fortresses on the island. When his grandson, King Suzong, he built 53 fortresses on the prominent coastal location on the island, making the entire Jianghua Island a huge military fortress group, which not only defends against the enemy at sea, but also guards the Jianghua Strait to deal with the inland.

In addition, on Qiaotong Island on the west side of Jianghua Island, there is also a military fortress called "Qiaotongyi City", and some water camps are stationed.

The southern part of Li Chao had been in war for many years, and his military preparations were lax. He engaged in anti-smuggling at sea. He was okay to fight a thief, but he was a waste against the North Navy. Just as they were panicked, the North Navy fleet, under the guidance of the drone, fired fire at Qiao Tongshui Camp.

For a moment, the sea surface was like thunder and smoke filled the smoke. In just one hour, the warships in the water camp sank and burned, and the officers and soldiers on the shore fled into the city. Immediately afterwards, the fleet turned south and began to bombard the Wangshan beacon tower and Pujing Fortress on the west side of Jianghua Island. After the defenders were knocked away, the land battle camp happily landed on a charge boat, and then rushed to the Xuekou Mountain, which was only more than 400 meters above sea level, and rushed straight along the ridge to Jianghua Mountain City.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! When the Land War Battalion appeared outside the mountain city, the defenders on all over the island had not yet completed the assembly. The defenders in the mountain city saw the Northern Navy surrounding from all directions, and were all scared. As they fired randomly outside the city and fired a few more guns, the mortars of the Land War Battalion opened fire. More than a dozen shells fell, and the officers and soldiers on the top of the city ran away.

Jianghua Mountain City was built very strongly, but no matter how strong it was, it could not stop the explosive pack. With a huge explosion, the gate of Zhanhua Tower on the west was blown up to pieces, and the small city tower above also shaking continuously, and bricks, wood and stones fell, and it became a dangerous building in the blink of an eye. When the soldiers of the land battle camp rushed into the city with guns, the messy gunshots rang out in the remains-behind government offices and palaces. In less than an hour, the battle in the city was declared over.

Xu Dayong, wearing military uniform, quickly walked into Jianghua Mountain City from Yan Bo Tower to the south under the escort of several soldiers. Because Zhao Xin said that this mission was very important, he, the deputy director, came in person.

After whispering a few words to a company commander of a land battle camp at the gate of the city, Xu Dayong was led to a dilapidated courtyard surrounded by fences in the city.

At this time, on the small open space in the yard, there were five men, three women, and eight, four adults and four boys, all bowed their heads. Although they were wearing white clothes and net scarves, both men and women had messy hair and a little worn out. It was obvious that life was very bad.

Xu Dayong first asked all five to stand up, and then said to the middle-aged man in the middle, who looked panicked, "You! That's you! What's your name?"

"Report to the Shangguo Junye, I am Li Yi."

Ouch! When Xu Dayong heard that the other party was good in Chinese, he obviously had higher education since he was a child. So he spoke a little kindly and said with a smile: "Are you the son of Prince Zhuang Xian? The younger brother of the current King of Korea?"

Well, this middle-aged man is the candidate for the new king of Li Chao selected by Zhao Xin, Li Xu's half-brother, and his biological mother is the side room of Prince Zhuang Xian.

Because he was born in a illegitimate family, Li Yi's fate was very tragic. When this unlucky child was seventeen, he borrowed money from a merchant because he was tight in his hands, and King Yingzu found out.

Since ancient times, the concubine's son has no status, even the prince's son is the same. So the unlucky child and his younger brother were exiled to Dajing County, Jeju Island, which is now Anpinggang. During this period, his younger brother died of illness, and Li Ying returned to Hanyang two years later.

I thought I could live a good life, but unexpectedly, someone reported to the princess Jin more than ten years later, saying that Hong Guorong, the powerful minister who died five years ago, planned a rebellion during his lifetime and wanted to support Li Yi's eldest son Li Zhan as the king.

This is so terrible! Li Zhan was soon given poisoned wine to commit suicide. Li Yi, who had gone from an unlucky child to an unlucky father, was stripped of his official title again, and his family was sent to Jianghua Island and lived a slave-like life.

When Li Yi raised his head in horror and surprise when he heard Xu Dayong mention his biological father, he raised his head in fear and surprise, then lowered his head and bowed his hands with a serious look on his face.

Xu Dayong said: "Do you have something to prove your identity?"

Li Yi thought about it, then reached into his arms and took out a small green jade seal. Xu Dayong took it and looked carefully, and found that the words "Mingxing" engraved on it. Zhao Xin wrote it very clearly in the information given to him, and Li Yi's word is Mingxing.

It's OK! Xu Dayong handed the seal back and said to Li Yi: "Carry out your belongings, forget it, don't clean it up, your whole family will follow me immediately."

Li Yi was shocked and said, "Where is Shangguan taking us?"

"Do you know Beihai Town?"

Li Yong thought about it and shook his head helplessly. He had been exiled to Jianghua Island for nine years, and he was isolated from the news and had no impression of many things.

"Please rest assured, we won't harm you. You said that your family is so down and out, how can it be worse?" Xu Dayong smiled after saying that, and leaned forward and whispered to the panic-ridden Li Yi: "You said that if the woman in Hanyang knew that your wife and daughter-in-law were Catholics, what would you think she would do?"

Li Yi's demeanor suddenly changed, his legs couldn't help but soften and he sat on the ground. He couldn't figure out how this person in front of him knew about it!

Speaking of another time and space, in 1801, the Li Dynasty suppressed the Catholic Church again. During the investigation, it was found that Li Yi's wife Song and his widow daughter-in-law Shen had been baptized. They had been upgraded to the princess and were in charge of the country's affairs. Jin, who said he would never let it go, so he sentenced the three people to death one after another, leaving only one of his only sons to escape. This only son was Li Yu, the later Quanxi Dayuanjun, and the father of King Zhezong, the 25th generation of the Li Dynasty monarch.

The news of the Northern Navy's attack on Jianghua Island soon reached Hanyang. The shocked Li Xu immediately took a family to Suwon Hwa Castle, more than 60 miles south of Hanyang, in the name of paying homage to his father, Prince Zhuang Xian.

Since Li Chao, who was in this time and space, received a large amount of rent from Anping Port, greatly alleviating the dilemma of financial tension, Li Xu's city building plan was launched in advance in 1792. During the construction process, the Li Chao officials in charge of the presidency learned from various lifting equipment in Beihai Town at Whale Port and made a large number of wooden boom cranes and iron hand-pulled hoists, which greatly improved the engineering efficiency. Therefore, this fortress city integrating politics and military was built in just one and a half years.

The morning of the second day after Li Xu arrived at Huacheng Palace, his butt was not hot yet, and his subordinates suddenly reported that all the North Navy troops on Jianghua Island had retreated that night. However, before he could be happy, a bolt from the blue came, and the North Navy took Li Yi's family away!

Now Li Xu finally panicked, and he immediately understood the purpose of the North Navy here.

OK! This is to threaten the abolition of the new king and force me to bow my head!

Sure enough, a few days later, the North Navy sent an ultimatum to Lee Chao through Hanyang merchants who were traveling to Anping Port, saying that if the demarcation agreement was not signed before the end of April of the lunar calendar, not to mention that the entire Hamkyung Dok could not be saved, they would directly enter Hanyang to support the new king.

Now that Li Xu didn't recite the curse, he had to send a secret envoy to Beihai Town, saying that he would do as King Zhao wanted. He sent an envoy on the front foot, and then went to the tombstone of his father, Prince Zhuang Xian and Yingzu, to burst into tears. It was humiliating! It was really humiliating!

After receiving the news, the time travelers in Beihai Town were naturally very happy. When they went home to visit their relatives not long ago, they were disgusted by Bangzi's plagiarism. However, in addition to being excited, some time travelers raised questions, why didn't they take down the entire peninsula?

Zhao Xin's answer to this is that the control cost is too high in the poor and remote areas, and I don't have that time to do it.

Well, Zhao Xin finally achieved the goal he planned many years ago. Changbai Mountain has nothing to do with Li Chao. The lower reaches of Tumen River have become an inland river. The high-grade iron ore that the steel mill urgently needs has also been obtained.
Chapter completed!