Park Zhiyong knew very well that if Lin Fengxiang and his group wanted to gain a foothold in North Korea, they must use Korean literati like them.
Therefore, as long as he follows Lin Fengxiang diligently, it is not impossible for him to become a marquis and prime minister.
Maybe he, a sidekick, will become the head of the Park family and strengthen the family lineage.
Power is intoxicating, can make timid people brave, can make stupid people look smart, and is the catalyst for human potential.
It may be difficult to storm Pyongyang with a large army, but it is much simpler to just send one person in.
The fact that Pu Zhiyong can be favored by Lin Fengxiang shows that he has some real abilities.
After entering the city, he met the head of the Park family through an acquaintance who was a descendant of the Park family in Pyongyang.
At the beginning, the Pyongyang Park family did not trust him. No matter how stupid the head of the Pyongyang Park family was, he would not risk the fate of the entire family, the family's wealth and life, just because of a few words from a down-and-out sideline child.
How many people who can become the head of a family are idiots?
This result was almost what Park Zhiyong expected. He did not panic and slowly took out the letter written by Lin Fengxiang to the head of the Park family in Pyongyang to make a wish.
After seeing the letter, the head of the Park family in Pyongyang snorted coldly: "They are just a group of rebels who fled from the Qing Dynasty. With such an identity, is it worthy of the whole Park family in Pyongyang to seek refuge?"
"No matter where my King of Liao comes from, he has at least tens of thousands of troops and most of the land in Ping'an Road. One word can determine the life or death of a family. How can it not be worth seeking refuge with?"
"Also, I forgot to tell the head of the family that another copy of this letter will be in Jin Shungen's hands soon. With Jin Shungen's habit of being as timid as a rat, what will he do?" Pu Zhiyong snorted coldly.
"You... you are a traitor to the family, you have simply tarnished the Park name." The head of Pyongyang's Park family pointed at Park Ji-yong, his eyes almost popping out.
He knew very well that if Jin Sungen got the letter, he would definitely attack the Pu family. Although the letter was not written by the Pu family, but was delivered from outside the city.
The head of the Park family still knows a little bit about Kim Soon-geun. If Kim Soon-geun knew about this, he would definitely wonder why the rebels outside the city didn't pass the message to other families, but instead passed it on to the Park family? Did you do it in advance?
Have you sent someone to contact people outside the city?
At this special time, Jin Shungen would definitely rather kill by mistake than let go. Thinking of this, the Park family leader broke out in a cold sweat on his back, which was not at all in harmony with the sultry weather outside.
"Master, the Pu family has sunk to this point, what else is there to lose?"
"If we give it a try now, we still have a chance to rise. Are you willing to be stepped on by the Andong Jin family forever?" Park Zhiyong strikes while the iron is hot. He believes that the family head will make the right choice.
The head of the Park family in Pyongyang closed his eyes. Did he have any choice? Park Ji-yong, a traitor to the family, actually used such despicable and despicable methods to drag the family down. Of course, it does not rule out that Park Ji-yong made the right bet.
"Forget it, let him go. If it fails, it will be said that this side disciple held him hostage. If he succeeds, it will be because he is decisive and has a vicious vision." The head of the Park family calculated while walking.
Seeing the head of the Pu family sitting there without saying anything, Pu Zhiyong knew that the matter was almost done.
"This is for you...use it to mobilize the children and guards of the clan." The head of the Pu family handed Pu Zhiyong a seal button engraved with a turtle, which was their family seal.
"The master of the family is wise!" Pu Zhiyong took the seal excitedly and strode out of the hall, his heart full of excitement.
At this time, several powerful-looking warriors came out from behind the screen in full armor and bowed to the head of the Park family.
"You guys go help him, maybe it will happen, but if you fail, you must catch him." The head of the Park family said to the warriors.
If it fails at that time, as long as Park Jiyong is captured, his identity is explained to the Jin family, and he is sent to Jin Sungen for disposal, then his family may have made a contribution!
"Yes, Master." Everyone bowed and left the room.
Facts have proved that the head of the Park family was overly worried and overestimated Jin Sungen's ability. This generation of talented people in the Jin family is already far inferior to the previous generation.
The guards assigned to important cities like Pyongyang can only be regarded as mediocre, which shows that the decline of the Kim family is inevitable.
No wonder that in the next few years in history, various civil unrests will continue on the land of North Korea.
After Pu Zhiyong obtained the command of the Pu family's troops, he immediately sent people out of the city to contact Lin Fengxiang. The two parties agreed to cooperate internally and externally to capture Pyongyang that night.
Things went very smoothly. Under the surprise attack by the Pu family soldiers, the city gate was briefly opened, which was enough.
The cavalry under Lin Fengxiang, who had been guarding outside the city for a long time, rushed into the city immediately. Jin Shungen also sent troops to retake the city gate. The two sides met directly on the street.
The streets of Pyongyang are straight and wide, which is very beneficial to Lin Fengxiang's cavalry.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, the cavalry rushed into the crowd of North Korean infantry. As can be imagined, the supporting North Korean infantry was quickly defeated.
Then these Taiping Army cavalry moved forward and fought towards the city lord's palace.
The subsequent infantry, led by the Pu family soldiers, also attacked various city gates and key points in the city.
The Taiping Army was not only brave and good at fighting, but also had more troops than the defenders of Pyongyang.
The battle had no suspense at all and was over quickly.
After dawn, Pyongyang City was already in Lin Fengxiang's hands.
After entering the city, Lin Fengxiang met with various families in the city and promised that they could save their families as long as they joined the Taiping Army.
Of course, there are also some families that have been sanctioned. This list was provided by Park Zhiyong. Lin Fengxiang knew that Park Zhiyong must have had the intention of suppressing dissidents when drawing up this list.
However, this is nothing to fear for Lin Fengxiang. To him, these North Korean families all look similar.
In any case, one group of people have to be killed to show to another group of people. These people will not really give in without seeing blood.
Since you have to kill people, whoever you kill is not killing. The more the butcher knife falls in Park Zhiyong's hand, the more enemies he has. From now on, he can only rely on the force of the Taiping Army.
After entering the city of Pyongyang, Lin Fengxiang did something abnormal. He rewarded all the women he had gained from exterminating the powerful clans these days to his meritorious soldiers, and assigned them housing in Pyongyang.
Most of them were veterans under Lin Fengxiang. These people followed Lin Fengxiang to fight in the north and south. In a few years, they made outstanding achievements.
What Lin Fengxiang did was contrary to the Taiping Army's previous approach.
In the past, when the Taiping Army fought in separate camps, men and women were separated into separate camps. This was because they were worried that after the soldiers had families, they would have some thoughts in their hearts, which would not be conducive to marching.
In the palace of the Lord of Pyongyang, Lin and Li gathered together. They were very tired from continuous marching and fighting these days.
"Xiucai, do you want to take root here?" Li Kaifang seemed to have noticed Lin Fengxiang's plan and asked.
"Lao Li, you are the eldest, so you can take the younger one. You have been fighting all your life just to honor your ancestors. How can you honor your ancestors when you don't have many children in your family?"
Li Kaifang was speechless for a moment and didn't even know what to say.
"Why are you talking about this?" Li Kaifang asked.
"I know you are thinking about the children at home. Don't worry, they are all fine. Huai Haijun provides them with delicious food and drinks. I will discuss with them the next time I see the people over there to redeem them.
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"That Dong Shuheng is a businessman. As long as we meet the conditions, he will agree."
"Then what if he insists on asking us to surrender?" Li Kaifang asked.
"Don't worry, it won't happen. Dong Shuheng is a smart man and won't ask such stupid questions." Lin Fengxiang laughed.
Li Kaifang's mind was focused on leading troops to fight, and he rarely considered issues from a political perspective. Lin Fengxiang was capable of both civil and military skills, and he knew that Dong Shuheng would not force them to surrender.
On the contrary, Dong Shuheng probably hoped that they would use the name of the Taiping Army to stir up troubles in North Korea and make North Korea more chaotic, which would be in Dong Shuheng's interests.
Politicians often see things that are different from normal people. Especially people like Dong Shuheng, whose ambition is like a bottomless pit.
"Okay, scholar, I don't understand, but I listen to you, where should we fight next? Should we go straight to Seoul?"
"No, we are not going to fight in Seoul. We will talk about it later when those North Koreans come over."
Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang moved to the lobby.
After a while, Pu Zhiyong and several other North Korean subordinates newly recruited by Lin Fengxiang came running over.
"Park Aiqing, I have a few things for you to handle."
"Your Majesty, please give me your orders!" Lin Fengxiang still regarded himself as the king of Liao Dynasty after arriving in North Korea.
Pu Zhiyong also prefers to call him the King of Liao. Daliao has also ruled northern Korea for a long time in history. So Pu Zhiyong feels that based on this, it is logical for the current King of Liao to rule his own people.
"The first thing I want to do is let some of my veterans with outstanding military exploits settle down in Pyongyang city, and select the wives and daughters of the previous criminals who are of suitable age to be betrothed to them."
"Yes, Your Majesty, this is exactly what happened. I will definitely handle this matter well." This thing is easy to do, and it can bring you a lot of favors.
By then, those veterans in the military will not be able to call themselves matchmakers.
These people will definitely become generals in the army in the future. This is a good opportunity to increase political capital for yourself. You must treat me well.
As for because of this incident, he, Park Jiyong, will be firmly in the top spot of court rape, and I don’t know how many people will scold him in private. This Park Jiyong has never thought in his mind.
"The second thing is that I plan to recruit another 10,000 new soldiers. Just like before, I will take out the seized land and give it to a family with a male soldier, and allocate fifty acres of land."
"In the past, the veterans were organized into the Forbidden Army, and they were given military pay in peacetime. Those with military merit were assigned houses in the city. The soldiers who were assigned to the land were organized into the Xiang Army. They had land but no military pay. The officers of the Xiang Army were also selected from the Forbidden Army."
Lin Fengxiang is planning to establish a hierarchical military system. After all, he only brings those people from the country. Only through such a hierarchical system can he control those Koreans.
"The third thing is to raise a batch of money and food. In a few days, I will send two armies to attack Hamgyong Road, Cijiang Road, and Liangjiang Road in the west. First, consolidate the territory north of the Datong River, and then we will
Go south and attack Seoul. You should also prepare a group of civilian officials to accompany the army to take over the management of the place."
Lin Fengxiang is going to stabilize the situation first and consolidate the rear. As a foreigner, Lin Fengxiang still knows himself.
He left all local administrative management to these Koreans. He did not have talents capable of managing North Korea.
Why Dong Shuheng didn't destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty now is also because he didn't have so many civil servants to manage the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
However, Lin Fengxiang will keep all the family members of these people in Pyongyang as hostages. He believes that Park Zhiyong will handle this matter. That person has the natural qualifications to be a traitor.
First, stabilize the area north of the Datong River, and wait until the families in the north have tasted the benefits of his rule, and wait until the poor scholars are willing to accept him.
After he led the Taiping Army to defeat the army coming from the south, it was time to go south.