Today's Korean Peninsula has an artificial line drawn from east to west in the middle.
The line divides north and south, and there is no connection anymore.
Not only the Marine Regiment, but all the troops on the front line adopted various methods to completely isolate the north.
Barbed wire fences, mine arrays, and closed passes have become insurmountable chasms for ordinary people.
Coincidentally, not only did the Xia army do this, but the Qing coalition forces in the north also adopted a similar method.
Both sides know very well that the war has come to an end for the time being and will not start again in the short term.
The next thing to compete with is who of the two sides can put down the plague earlier and manage the internal affairs well.
Whoever does it first will have an advantage and will be able to defeat the opponent in the future.
Before this, no one dared to act rashly without absolute certainty.
Starting from Paju, Zuo Menggeng inspected all frontline troops.
His arrival made the soldiers happy and morale high.
Whenever the commander can be with the soldiers, the entire army will always feel at ease.
What's more, Zuo Mengeng not only came here himself, but also brought a cultural troupe that everyone loved to see.
One theatrical performance after another enriched the spirits of the soldiers.
In addition, the political and engineering departments have also taken action.
They brought home letters from the soldiers.
The war rages on for three months, and a letter from home is worth ten thousand gold.
After the fierce battle of life and death, it is a great joy to be able to get news from your loved ones.
The soldiers cried and laughed while holding letters from home, but without exception, their originally impetuous and tormented hearts were soothed.
While Zuo Menggeng was inspecting the front line, the political forces in Hanyang City became restless again.
Although Kim Sang-hyun remains behind closed doors, as the largest force in North Korean politics, no one can ignore the ideas of the Kim clique.
Song Shilie and Jin Yu visited together.
"His Royal Highness King Xia is about to return to the country. Whether North Korea can have long-term peace and stability, we must find a way as soon as possible. After long discussions, everyone unanimously concluded that Gwanghaejun's restoration is the most beneficial to the overall situation. Mr. Jin is an important minister of the country. What do you think?
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In just a few days, Kim Sang-heon has really aged a lot.
In the political arena, he is known as a tough and tough man. Even when Nanhan Mountain City was in the most danger, he advocated fighting to the end and never surrendering.
It can be said that his spirit is extremely powerful.
To defeat such a person, force is useless.
His only weakness is his moral side.
I have been a celebrity all my life and been looked up to by others my whole life, but my son did such a shameless thing.
This caused Kim Sang-hyun to suffer an unprecedented defeat.
"If Lord Gwanghae is restored to power, we will all be treasonous and unjust ministers. Do we need to die to apologize?"
Like Shim Ji-won, Kim Sang-heon also hates Gwanghae-kun very much.
As another main member who overthrew Gwanghae-gun, Kim Sang-heon felt that his death was coming.
Jin Yu shook his head and handed him a letter.
"This is written by Lord Gwanghae himself, and all of it is his promise. Times have changed, and all the grudges in the past are no longer important."
Jin Sangxian opened the letter, and the content inside was exactly the same as what Shen Jiyuan had seen. It was Gwanghaejun's solemn promise, vowing not to pursue the matter of that year.
Seeing a monarch admit his mistakes was quite moving for a scholar-bureaucrat like Kim Sang-heon.
After all, the king is Heaven, how could Heaven be wrong?
Therefore, no matter what happens, the king will never do anything wrong.
The only one who is wrong is the minister.
Once the king admits his mistake, it means the sky will fall.
This is also the reason why emperors would not issue edicts to offend themselves easily.
Because it was not just an edict, nor was it just an admission of error, but it represented the loss of the king's majesty.
"Thinking back to the beginning, how could Lord Gwanghae not be a wise and wise king, whom everyone looked up to? Now that he can repent and return to the right path, it is really a great thing. In this case, Kim has no objections."
Seeing that Jin Sangxian agreed, Song Siyeol and Jin Yu both let out a sigh of relief.
At this point, the election of Lord Gwanghae as the new king of North Korea has been approved by all the political forces in North Korea. It can be said that it is a certainty and there will be no more twists and turns.
Shen Qiyuan and others notified the results to the Central Committee of Xia State, and wrote a memorial all night and sent it to Zuo Mengeng.
Sure enough, as Zuo Mengeng had stated previously, Xia Guo had no objections.
Zuo Menggeng came back with a personal message and asked Hou Xun and others to start preparing the seal letter and canonization edict for the new king of Korea.
Everyone in North Korea was excited and quickly began to prepare for the enthronement ceremony of the new monarch.
However, because it was during wartime, and North Korea was severely damaged, the treasury of North Korea and China was extremely empty, so the entire ceremony could only be simplified.
On June 15th, Zuo Menggeng returned to Hanyang and attended the king's succession ceremony.
This is a scene that has never happened in the history of North Korea. It is difficult for everyone in North Korea to figure out what the process should be.
In the end, it was Zuo Mengeng who made the decision.
There are five steps in total: respecting heaven, worshiping earth, worshiping ancestors, professing vassal status, and becoming king.
Among them, Zuo Menggeng ranked himself fourth, even behind the ancestors of the Korean royal family.
This humility made everyone in North Korea moved to tears and became even more convinced of him as the monarch of the previous country.
On June 18, North Korea gave up its only financial resources, and the king's succession ceremony officially began.
Under the guard of ceremonial guards, Gwanghae put on the royal uniform of Joseon, barely suppressed his excitement, climbed up Bukhan Mountain, and reported to heaven.
Then he went to the Han River to offer sacrifices to the mountains and rivers beneath his feet, praying for peace and prosperity for the country and the people.
He walked into the royal ancestral temple with his head held high, knelt down in front of the memorial tablets of his ancestors and cried in a very embarrassed manner.
He almost became a lonely ghost.
But now, he can be ranked in the ancestral temple and be the king of all people.
After worshiping the ancestors, it is the ceremony of surrender.
In the past, when the king of Korea succeeded to the throne, he only needed to report to the superior country and obtain the canonization of the superior country.
The official positions of the canonized personnel sent by the superior country were not very high.
Unlike this time, the king of the previous country was on hand to watch the ceremony.
Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of Korean residents, Lord Gwanghae led all the civil servants and military officers to kneel three times and kowtow nine times to the superior Zuo Menggeng.
Unlike Li Zhu at Santian Ferry, this time the Korean monarchs and ministers bowed to him willingly.
Because this means that North Korea has finally returned to the orthodoxy of human ethics and is once again a country with prosperous education and inheritance that inherits the orthodoxy of China.
It can be said that at this moment, all Koreans feel smooth and accessible from body to mind.
"According to the edict of His Royal Highness King Xia, I grant the King of Korea the Golden Seal!"
"According to the edict of His Royal Highness King Xia, I grant the King of Korea credentials!"
"According to the edict of His Royal Highness King Xia, the King of North Korea is given magical weapons!"
The gold seal, certificate of credence, and sword were delivered to Lord Gwanghae one by one. At this moment, it meant that he had officially become the legitimate king of Joseon.