Chapter 2326
This treaty of commerce and navigation was specifically placed at the coronation ceremony for public signing. This was Haihan's intention. Wang Tom hoped that through such an arrangement, the North Korean ministers would be fully aware of Haihan's recognition and support for Li Xie.
This is the first diplomatic treaty signed by Li Zhi after he ascended the throne. For North Korea, which is in turmoil, maintaining stable diplomatic relations with Haihan is of great significance. It can be said that North Korea will avoid foreign invasion in the future and even strengthen its national power. Necessary conditions.
Although most of the contents of this treaty are agreements reached with Haihan during the reign of the late King Li Zhi, many of which are already in the implementation stage. However, these agreements were re-signed at this time and were announced on the day Li Zhi ascended the throne. Among them The meaning is naturally not difficult to understand.
Of course, there are also careful people who have noticed that there are some new contents in the agreement that have not been covered in the past, such as the part about immigration. This is an area that the late King Li Zhuo had been strictly guarding and did not let go of, but the new king immediately let go of it when he came to power. I don’t know whether such an agreement is a blessing or a curse for North Korea.
However, no one would be bold enough to question this part at this time. This may be one of the conditions for Haihan to send troops to support Li Zhi. Questioning Li Zhi is equivalent to going against Haihan, but challenging Haihan is not What a wise move, of course no one would want to do such a dangerous temptation.
As the most prestigious official in the court, Kim Sang-hyun has also remained silent about the content of the treaty. He looks at his nose, his nose and his heart, and his mind is calm. It seems that it has nothing to do with him at all. Kim Sang-hyun didn't say anything to express his position, so other officials who only followed his lead naturally stayed quiet.
It’s not that Kim Sang-hyun doesn’t understand the negative impact this immigration issue will have on North Korea. In fact, he was opposed to the opening up of immigration during Lee Seo’s administration. And it is worth mentioning that Kim Sang-heon and his old enemy Cui Ming-gil have the same views on this matter, and Li Jie's attitude towards this matter is largely influenced by them.
But at this moment, Jin Sangxian also knew that the relationship between Li Zhen and Haihan was far closer than that of the previous king, and that Li Zhen, who had just ascended the throne, needed Haihan's support to consolidate his position. The immigration issue was undoubtedly a problem. A quid pro quo acceptable to both parties.
Although Kim Sang-hyun does not agree with the practice of allowing Haehan to absorb immigrants from his country, he knows that now is not the right time to speak out against it. At present, he has not had the opportunity to have a private meeting with Li Zhi, so he is not sure about Li Zhi's true thoughts on the immigration issue. However, as the king of Korea, he must not be willing to see his subjects being absorbed by the suzerain country. There should be room for mediation in this matter.
After reading the contents of the treaty, Li Zhen took the initiative and asked: "Do you have any opinions on this treaty?"
When Li Zhi was asking questions, his eyes were always looking at Jin Sangxian. He didn't really care whether other people present had any opinions. Now that Cui Mingji was gone, Kim Sang-hyun's attitude could basically be regarded as a bellwether in the court.
As if feeling the gaze from the throne, Kim Sang-hyun responded: "Our country and Haihan Kingdom have always had good relations. As long as these cooperation measures can promote the development of our country, I think it is a good thing."
Kim Sang-hyun's statement basically set the tone for this matter, but if you look carefully, he actually didn't say it to death. Maybe everyone will have different ideas in their minds about what kind of measures are beneficial to North Korea.
Li Zhi didn't think that much. He just hoped that Kim Sang-hyun wouldn't cause trouble in the signing of the contract. After signing this contract, Haihan will continue to provide North Korea with all kinds of assistance needed for development. Compared with the value of this assistance, even if North Korea needs to pay the price of immigration in the future, Li Zhi believes that this is still a considerable amount. Good deal. After all, population reduction can be supplemented by encouraging births, but there is no substitute for the assistance provided by Haihan. If he wants to secure the throne and quickly increase national strength, he cannot do without Haihan's support.
"Master Jin's words make sense!" Li Zhen nodded in approval of Jin Sangxian's statement: "The specific implementation in the future still needs to be supervised by Master Jin to grasp the scale."
If Li Zhi's wishes were to be followed, it is likely that Kim Sang-heon would have been appointed to the currently vacant post of Councilor and Advocate to take over the handling of government affairs. However, the two generals Hai and Han had clearly expressed their opposition to his idea before, and believed that before the coup incident was investigated clearly, there should be no rush to make decisions on the appointment and dismissal of important officials. Especially for a figure like Kim Sang-hyun who has huge influence in the court, he must be appointed with great caution.
However, based on Kim Sang-hyun's performance today, Li Zhi felt that maybe the Haihan people's ideas would change. After all, Kim Sang-hyun showed full support for his governance. This should be regarded as a signal worth reusing.
The three things announced by Li Zhi after he ascended the throne, including investigating the assassination case, canonizing the national protector general, and signing a new diplomatic treaty, are all directly related to Haihan. This also truly reflects the current situation of North Korea. It must be through the help of Only with Haihan's power can it be possible to maintain a smooth transition in the domestic political situation.
This is certainly a tragedy for North Korea, but Li Zhi has no other choice. Without Haihan's help, even if he returned to North Korea, it would be difficult for him to take over the power so smoothly.
After Li Xie signed the treaty with Wang Tom on the spot, the enthronement ceremony came to an end. However, today's political discussions in the court are not over yet. The country has been without a decision-maker for more than a month. Now that the new king has finally ascended the throne, many accumulated government affairs can finally be dealt with.
There are a lot of things to be submitted for approval in each yamen, and they are not over yet until noon. Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun had already resigned, leaving Li Xie to handle these government affairs slowly.
Li Xie's initial excitement soon turned into unspeakable exhaustion. Although it feels great to have great power, he also has to shoulder corresponding responsibilities. Just dealing with these mountains of government affairs makes him feel quite strenuous.
In the more than a month since the loss of the king, almost nothing good has happened in North Korea. Many places have fallen into a state of panic due to the blockade of Seoul. Many people are worried that new war will spread in the country again, and they have begun to flee. Go to the countryside to escape the limelight. The area around Seoul is even more empty. Almost everyone who can walk has left to avoid being affected by the armed conflicts that broke out in Seoul.
This momentum did not ease until the arrival of Haihan's army. So far, thousands of refugees are still living outside the city relying on the relief provided by Haihan. Not to mention the losses caused by the stagnation of social production during this period, the government also has a lot of work to do to restore these people to normal living conditions.
When you are not a leader, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. It was only when Li Zhi sat in this position that he truly felt the pressure of being a leader.
At present, North Korea's national treasury is almost empty, and all the tax money collected into the national treasury will basically flow out within two days to pay for various expenses required for the country's operation. Just repaying Haihan's various loans is a huge monthly expense. The official grain reserve situation is not much better. Last year's invasion by the Qing Dynasty caused nearly half of the country to fall into war. The war almost depleted the country's grain reserves, and it has not yet recovered. Now that winter is approaching, many places in the north still need government relief to survive this winter, and now Gyeonggi Province has added a large number of refugees in need of relief. How to allocate and arrange materials and stabilize people's hearts are difficult problems that extremely test the ability of governance.
Under normal circumstances, most of these affairs can actually be coordinated and handled by various yamen represented by Liu Cao, without the king having to personally handle everything. However, the chaos in Seoul this time has caused the entire bureaucracy to fall into a state of semi-paralysis. The king and consuls who were in charge of the government were gone, and many officials also lost their lives because of their involvement in the coup. As a result, various yamen were unable to perform their due functions. Even though normal work arrangements have now begun to resume, it is still due to a lack of manpower. and cannot operate smoothly.
The difficult problem facing Li Xie was to allow each government office to perform its due functions with seriously insufficient staffing. However, it is not easy to improve the operational efficiency of these yamen in a short period of time. Even replenishing manpower is not something that can be completed in a short time.
So when Li Zhi returned to the palace and heard Haihan's request for instructions on whether to conduct a thorough investigation of Kim Sang-heon, he decisively expressed his opposition.
"General Qian, if there is no real evidence, let this matter go for now!" Li Zhi said with a helpless look: "Now that the government is not smooth, many things have to be organized by Jin Sangxian. If you arrest him, , many things may be affected.”
Qian Tiandun said: "Whether we continue to investigate the case, of course we will base on your wishes, but Kim Sang-heon has monopolized power, and you must beware of the risks involved!"
Li Xie nodded and said: "Thank you, General, for reminding me! I have also begun to make arrangements to gradually take over various yamen, but it will take some time to implement."
Although Li Zhi needs to rely on Kim Sang-hun to solve the problems encountered in the process of governing, this does not mean that he has enough trust in Kim Sang-hun. In terms of employment, Li Zhi of course prefers to use the young officials he brought back from Sanya.
These people studied abroad in Sanya for a year with him and have been deeply marked as princelings. It can be said that this was the ruling team created for him by the late king Li Zhu. It's just that the incident happened suddenly, and this team has no time to hone slowly. The situation requires them to be pushed to the front line as soon as possible to take over power.
Even if their abilities are still lacking, Li Zhi believes that they at least have no problem with loyalty, and they will still be loyal to him after taking power.
Of course, with their current capabilities, they cannot replace Kim Sang-heon's coordinating role in the DPRK. Therefore, although there are doubts about Kim Sang-heon's role in the coup, Li Zhen believes that the current governance cannot be separated from Kim Sang-heon for the time being. Assistance, so he hopes that Haihan can make some adjustments to the direction of the investigation and not rush to pull Kim Sang-heon down, so as not to worsen the current situation again.
Qian Tiandun didn't have much opinion on Li Xie's request. He had already listened to Fu Li's report. Although there were signs that Kim Sang-hyun might have played a disgraceful role in the coup, no tangible results had been achieved so far. The evidence proves this.
But Qian Tiandun knew that there was actually no problem with the direction of Fu Li's investigation. During the coup, everyone related to Kim Sang-heon died. This phenomenon itself was very abnormal. Qian Tiandun believed that only a big shot like Kim Sang-heon could deal with the aftermath. The work was done so thoroughly that all negative evidence was removed.
But Haehan's purpose is to clear away Li Zhi's obstacles to power, and Kim Sang-heon's attitude so far has been to support Li Zhi. From this perspective, Haehan does not have the need to remove him, and naturally it is not necessary. You can sell a favor to Li Xie.
Qian Tiandun found out about Li Xie's attitude, so he sent someone to send a letter to Fu Li, asking him to conduct the investigation against Jin Shangxian secretly, so as not to affect the current political stability.
Fu Li was not too surprised by this order. Through the investigation work in the past few days, he has fully realized the influence of Kim Sang-hyun in the government and the public. It is very difficult to bring down this big shot through explicit means. Knowing that The people he kept secret were basically already lying in coffins, and if he continued to investigate further, there would probably be more dead people.
However, Fu Li is not worried that he will suffer retaliation from Kim Sang-hyun. As the investigation work he is engaged in continues, the targets are increasingly focused on Kim Sang-hyun. If anything happens to him, it will obviously be related to this investigation target. Hae Han will definitely not let Kim Sang Heon go by then.
Qian Tiandun's order was to turn to covert investigation instead of stopping the investigation. Fu Li could roughly understand the meaning of the difference. Even if the superiors don't want to overthrow Kim Sang-hyun right away, they still need to get a handle on this person, so they need to continue the investigation.
Although many insiders have died due to various reasons, Fu Li believes that there will still be other clues that can continue the investigation.
After reorganizing the case files, Fu Li found a breakthrough point that he had previously neglected. Although Kim Sang-hyun acts with sophistication, he cannot always be flawless. If there is anyone who can catch his flaws, then this person is most likely his old rival Cui Mingji.
According to Kim Sang-hyun's own account, he launched a counterattack on the last night and defeated Cui Mingji and his gang in one fell swoop. However, it was certainly impossible for Cui Mingji to be defenseless against him before that. In addition to force, he might also There were some things Kim Sang-hyun had in his hands, but he just couldn't use them until the last moment.
Fu Li's previous investigation of Cui Mingji did not go to the Cui Mansion, so he decided to return to the scene where Cui Mingji committed suicide by taking poison to look for any clues that might have been missed.
(End of chapter)