It was not until Hideyoshi said this that Hideopo remembered the great event that happened in the third year of Furu (1594 AD).

Friends who have watched "Dae Jang Geum" or "Business Road" should have a deep understanding of the party struggles of the Joseon Dynasty in the play, and Lee Sun-sin naturally has nothing to do with this matter.

In the first year of Jungdeok (1506 AD), the eleventh king of North Korea, Joong-jong (the one in "Dae Jang Geum", overthrew his brother Yeon-san-kun ascended the throne with the support of his ministers Park Won-jong and others.

Because he was a puppet elected by the meritorious officials, in terms of administration, Zhongzong had to rely on Park Won-jong and others. Correspondingly, the meritorious officials led by Park Won-jong organized an old school in the court to replace the king for political operations.

In order to eliminate the old scholars, when Park Won-jong and other meritorious officials died of illness, Zhao Guangzu and other new Jinshi Lin Confucian scholars walked onto the historical stage, and they were called Shilin School.

As the Shilin faction relied on the support of Zhongzong, the old scholars and the Shilin faction also reached a point where they were incompatible. Therefore, the new party leader Hong Jingzhou and others launched the "Jimao Shi Misfortune" in the 14th year of Zhengde (1519 AD), and captured and killed the leaders of the Shilin faction such as Zhao Guangzu, which seriously damaged the power of the Shilin faction.

Zhongzong did nothing in this major political event, and neither could help Zhao Guangzu and others stand up, nor could he suppress the arrogance of the heroic faction. His performance announced the beginning of the era of the Korean king's loss of power.

After that, an emerging political force supporting the prince rose. Under the leadership of the uncle Yin Ren and the royal family's relative Kim An-lao, they fought a tug-of-war with the old scholars in the court. Although the prince's faction was once attacked by the meritorious officials, the prince's faction, as Park Jingbin, was sentenced to death, the prince's faction eliminated the power of the meritorious officials.

However, there was a split within the Crown Sect. First, the national uncle Yin Ren joined forces with Zhongzong's princess, Queen Wending, and Yin Shi, to remove Jin An, and then the ten-year battle between the Dayin Sect and the Xiaoyin Sect, led by the two major national uncles Yin Ren and Yin Yuanheng (the relationship between uncle and nephew).

After the death of Emperor Zhongzong, the prince supported by the Dayin Sect inherited the throne, which is Renzong. However, Emperor Renzong only served as the monarch for one year. After his death, Emperor Qingyuan, the son of Emperor Ming, born to Yin Yuanheng's sister, Queen Wending, inherited the throne, which is Emperor Ming. The Xiaoyin Sect gained power.

In the 24th year of Jiajing (1545 AD), the Xiaoyin Sect launched the "Yi Si Shi Misfortune" and eliminated the power of the Dayin Sect. Queen Wending ruled behind the curtain and began the era of autocracy with Yin Yuanheng and his wife Zheng Lanzhen. This is also the prototype of "Women's World".

What is amazing is that in this year, many famous figures were born, including Hexaki Yoshiji, Matsuda Nagamori, Yamauchi Ichimori and Yamasumi Yukimori, but the most heavyweight figure was Lee Sun-sin, which is a will of God.

Queen Wending weakened the authority and influence of the monarch through more than ten years of autocracy. In order to regain power, Emperor Mingzong supported Shen Yiqian and other relatives to restrain Yin Yuanheng, and the prototypes of the Eastern People's Party and the Western People's Party gradually formed in the future.

After Queen Wending passed away, Shen Yiqian joined forces with Yin Yuanheng's disciple Kim Hyo-won and others to launch a coup to oust Yoon-won-hung, and even wanted Yoon-won-hung's wife Zheng Lan-jeong on the charge of poisoning the wife of his wife. After that, the court fell into the hands of the Shilin faction headed by Shen Yiqian and Kim Hyo-won.

After Emperor Mingzong's death, his nephew was made king, as Xuanzu, Li Bing. Queen Insun, the queen of Emperor Mingzong, began to rule the country from behind the curtain and cultivated power for his younger brother Chen Yiqian. This aroused strong dissatisfaction from another Shilin faction such as Jin Xiaoyuan, who tried every means to prevent Chen Yiqian's faction from entering the center of the court.

The confrontation between the two stern sects between the predecessors and the juniors gradually formed, and the political incident that really prompted the transformation of these two major forces into the Eastern People's Party and the Western People's Party was the "Yi Hai Party Theory". Since Kim Hyo-won lived in the eastern part of Seoul and Chen Yi-kun lived in the western part of Seoul, they each centered on the two of them, forming the Eastern People's Party (Lingnan School) and the Western People's Party (Jihu School).

After that, the Eastern People's Party regarded Xu Ye as its leader, while the Western People's Party regarded Pu Chun as its leader. Like Kim Hyo-won and Shen Yiqian, they were both core members of the Shilin faction that defeated Yin Yuanheng and maintained conflicting political views.

Xu Ye relied on his mission to the Ming Dynasty to gain strong support from the sect leader and served as the highest official position in the court of the judiciary; and Pu Chun also served as the highest official position in the court such as the left government affairs, the right government affairs and the leadership government affairs. Due to their joining, the power of the Eastern People's Party and the Western People's Party has been unprecedentedly improved, and further developed to the point of keeping the government affairs in power.

Xuanzu was simply unable to stop the struggle between the two major parties, and the government was abandoned due to the struggle between the party, but the era of franchises and politics in North Korea for more than two hundred years has just begun.

The dispute between the Eastern People's Party and the Western People's Party reached its peak around 1590. Li Shanhai, the Eastern People's Party, took the position of leading the political affairs after Pu Chun, the senior of the Western People's Party. The leaders of the Western People's Party, Zheng Che and Yin Doushou, were respectively in the Left Political Affairs Office and Li Cao's judgment, which was one level lower than Li Shanhai. It can be said that on the eve of the decisive battle, the Eastern People's Party occupied a favorable position.

At that time, Xuanzu's two favorite concubines were Concubine Gong Jin and Concubine Ren Jin. The two princes born by Concubine Gong were Linhai Jun and Kwang Hai Jun, and the prince born by Concubine Ren was Xincheng Jun. In this way, the battle for the position of crown prince revolved around these three princes.

However, what is not good for Linhai Jun and Guanghai Jun is that their mother, Gongpin Jin, passed away at the age of 24, and it is difficult for them to confront Xincheng Jun without their mother's protection. However, the political struggle of the court quickly expanded to **. The struggle for the matter on the crown prince began.

The Eastern People's Party believes that Linhai Jun and Guanghai Jun are the eldest and second sons of Xuanzu, respectively, and Guanghai Jun is a well-character person, so he supports Guanghai Jun; the Western People's Party has long been attracted by the Renpin Jin family, so he supports Xincheng Jun.

Since then, the leader of the Western Party, Zheng Che, appeared, igniting the fuse of the crown prince dispute and also igniting the fuse of the decisive battle between the East and West parties.

In the minds of the people and scholars and scholars, Zheng Che had a very noble image. In the court, he served as the right-level political and left-level political, and accumulated good power for the Western Party.

For this reason, after Li Shanhai of the Eastern People's Party failed to win over Zheng Che, he deliberately tried to get rid of this thorn in his side to stabilize his position in leading the political affairs.

Coincidentally, the dispute between the crown prince gave Li Shanhai a very good opportunity. On the Western Party, he has always supported Inpin's son Shin-seong-jun as the crown prince. Even if Zheng Che himself did not support it, due to party relations, Zheng Che must support Inpin and Shin-seong-jun. Li Shanhai and others seized this opportunity and launched an attack on Zheng Che and the Western Party.

Before Zheng Che, Yin Doushou and others proposed Xinchengjun, Li Shanhai proposed to establish Guanghai as the prince. Xuanzu, who prefers to favor Guanghaijun, basically agreed to Li Shanhai's suggestion. Then, Li Shanhai's son Li Qingquan bribed Jin Gongliang, the brother of In-pin Jin, and asked him to falsely accuse Zheng Che of deliberately supporting Xinchengjun to achieve the purpose of disturbing ** and framing the prince.

Under the continuous pressure from the Eastern People's Party, Inpin Jin had to abandon his car to protect his son Shin-seong-jun and betray Zheng Che and the Western People's Party in order to protect his son Shin-seong-jun.

As a result, Guanghai Jun was successfully enthroned as the crown prince, and the power of the Western Party in the court was instantly eliminated.

However, at this time, the contradictions within the Eastern People's Party also intensified to an irreversible level. The Northern People's Party headed by Li Shanhai and the Southern People's Party headed by Liu Chenglong officially appeared, and the Eastern People's Party divided into these two major parties.

Li Shanhai served as an official position of almost all ranks of the court, and knew the affairs of the court well. He was the number one giant in the late Eastern People's Party and the strongest leader of the Northern People's Party.

Liu Chenglong also held most of the imperial court positions, and was the second largest figure in the Eastern People's Party and the number one giant in the Southern People's Party.

At that time, Li Shanhai held the position of leading the political affairs, and Liu Chenglong held the position of left political affairs. Nominally, Liu Chenglong had to listen to Li Shanhai, but it would be difficult to implement the national policy of the court without the support of right political affairs. Li Shanhai led his Northern People's Party to adhere to the tough line, and Liu Chenglong led his Southern People's Party to adhere to the steady line. The political structure of the court was once again divided into two.

In the 19th year of Tianzheng (1591 AD), communications sent Huang Yunji and Kim Seung-yi back to China, and they brought news that Japan was about to invade North Korea. However, there were still political struggles in the court, and the northern Jurchen tribes were constantly unifying and strengthening, and threats to North Korea were increasingly threatening.

The following year, Hideyoshi officially issued an order to go to North Korea. Within four days, the important coastal defense centers of Busan, Donglai, Liangshan and other places fell one after another. The rest of the coastal defenders fled and North Korea's coastal defense line collapsed quickly. Only 17 days after landing, the Japanese army entered Seoul without bloodshed. The Korean court fled to Kaesong.

At this time, under Liu Chenglong's impeachment, Li Shanhai, the leader of the Northern People's Party, was charged with the crime of misleading the country and was driven out of the position of governing the country. Liu Chenglong got his wish and took the position of governing the country.

Liu Chenglong first recommended Li Shunchen for his death, Quan Ying and other famous generals who had resisted the Jurchen tribe, and asked them to lead a large army of water and land to block Japan's attack. Later, he recommended Li Cao Shen and Datie Li Dexin, and asked him to go to the front line to negotiate with the Japanese army.

Unfortunately, Li Dexin did not delay the pace of Japanese invasion. The Japanese army rectified for a while and continued to attack Kaesong in the north. The Korean court fled to Pyongyang.

Xuan Zu put all the blame on Liu Chenglong. Under the pressure of the remaining Northern and Western Party members, Liu Chenglong resigned and transferred to the Pekan Road Observation Envoy, and was ordered to organize the rebel army to resist Japan with Kim Seung-yi.

At this time, Yin Dooshou, the leader of the Western Party, was temporarily invited to serve as a leader for a period of time. Soon, Pyongyang was also lost and Linhaijun was captured.

In this way, in just two months and two days, all three capitals of North Korea were lost. Xuanzu, with the help of Zheng Zhuo, a member of the Western Party, led the court officials to flee to Yizhou, the northern border, and sent Li Dexin to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Chenglong of the Southern People's Party gained military power through war. Although he was delegated to a foreign position, he gained certain military power with the ability to recruit rebels.

Secondly, the fleet led by the famous Korean naval general Lee Sun-sen attacked the supply line of the Japanese fleet many times and made military achievements. Then Liu Chenglong, who recommended Lee Sun-sen, naturally obtained magic weapons.

Third, Li Dexin, who was sent to the Ming Dynasty to seek help, was also a member of the Southern People's Party, and the subsequent Ming Dynasty reinforcements would naturally stand on Liu Chenglong's side.

Just after Li Shanhai and Liu Chenglong were forced to step down, the Western Party took advantage of Yin Doushou's opportunity to lead the political discussion and attempted to make a comeback and eliminate the southern and northern people who were originally the Eastern Party.

The atmosphere of the Ming court's dominance was high. Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty ordered Song Yingchang as the governor and general to take charge of the anti-Japanese war. He urgently dispatched Shaanxi general Li Rusong to Liao to become the admiral of the Eastern Expedition and was generally responsible for military affairs. The Ming Dynasty mobilized 40,000 elite troops from all over the country. Under the leadership of Song Yingchang and Li Rusong, these 40,000 troops crossed the Yalu River and entered North Korea.

As the reception officer of the Ming army, Li Dexin quickly reached a tacit understanding of political cooperation with Li Rusong. The Ming Dynasty officers, who had preconceived psychological ideas, naturally began to support the power of the Southern Party in the court.

After that, the Ming army defeated the Japanese army with its advantage in firepower and forced the governor to lead his army to flee to Seoul.

The victory of the Ming army greatly encouraged the Southern Party's momentum in the court. Li Dexin and other pro-Ming factions suddenly overwhelmed the Northern Party and Western Party.

With the support of Ming Dynasty generals such as Li Rusong, Xuanzu restored some of Liu Chenglong's official positions.

Ten days after the end of the Battle of Pyongyang, Li Rusong took advantage of the victory and then regained Kaicheng. North Korea's three capitals and eight roads have recovered Pyongyang, two capitals and Huanghai, Ping'an, Gyeonggi, Gangwon, and Xianjing.

The coalition of Li Rusong and Liu Chenglong continued to advance southward and forced Seoul. Although the Ming army suffered a defeat in the subsequent Battle of Bitiguan, the subsequent Battle of Longshan, the Ming army attacked the Japanese granary, causing the Japanese army to suffer a crushing defeat.

In desperation, the main Japanese forces operating in various parts of North Korea regrouped and defended Seoul to the death. At this point, the Sino-Korean coalition and the Japanese army entered a stalemate, and the military structure on the Korean Peninsula also stabilized.

Li Rusong, who succeeded in counterattack, extended his power back to the court of North Korea. At this time, Li Shunchen led his tortoise shell ship fleet to win again and again in the naval battle, and the army led by Liu Chenglong also made great achievements. With the support of Li Rusong, Li Dexin and others, Xuan Zu once again appointed Liu Chenglong as the leader of the political affairs. Many members of the Southern People's Party were also promoted in large numbers, and the power of the Southern People's Party once again reached its peak.

However, the power of the Southern Party did not continue.

On the Ming Dynasty, because Shi Xing, the Minister of War, who was the central leader of the court, came to power again, and Li Rusong did not receive subsequent reinforcements, he could not further attack the Japanese army; on the North Korean side, due to the death of Kim Seung-yi, a core member of the Southern Party, and the reassembly of the forces of the Northern Party and the Western Party, officials such as Liu Chenglong, who advocated a prudent policy, did not want the war to expand. Since neither side wanted to fight, there was a possibility of peace talks.

After that, all the Japanese troops evacuated Seoul, except for some coastal areas of Jeolla and Gyeongsang Road, all the rest were recovered.

At this time, a new round of party struggles began. First, the Western Party made a comeback. Through their repeated activity, Xuanzu had the idea of ​​re-appointing important members of the Western Party. For example, Zheng Che unexpectedly returned to the court.

Xuanzu decided to send Zheng Che as a mission to the Ming Dynasty as a thank-you mission, and the Western Party was about to seize this opportunity to win over the Ming Dynasty. However, in the face of the Western Party's situation, the Southern Party would not sit idly by. When Zheng Che returned to China, Liu Chenglong and others impeached Zheng Che one after another. Under pressure, Zheng Che had to resign and lived in Songting Village, Jianghua Island, and died soon after.

With the end of the Wenlu Battle, North Korea entered a short period of peace. After the political situation of the court was controlled by the Southern Party, it gradually stabilized.

Xuanzu, who believed that the overall situation had been decided, promoted a large number of officials to reward the ministers. With the efforts of the Northern People's Party, Li Shanhai, the leader of the Northern People's Party, returned to the court and served as the leader of the Dunning Prefecture and Datie School.

In order to defeat the Southern Party, the Northern Party tried to seize the foundation of the Southern Party and dealt a heavy blow. After the main force of the Ming army withdrew from North Korea, the main military force supporting the Southern Party was the Korean navy led by Lee Sun-sen, who had made many military achievements. Therefore, to eliminate Liu Chenglong, Li Sun-sen must be eliminated first.

However, Lee Sun-sen was a hero who had extremely high military achievements. At that time, the Korean army was in a major retreat, and only Lee Sun-sen's naval army never allowed the Japanese army to take advantage of the slightest advantage, and repeatedly blocked the Japanese army's rear transportation lines.

In order to successfully defeat Li Shunchen, the Northern People's Party wooed famous general Yuan Jun. There had been huge differences between Yuan Jun and Li Shunchen for their military achievements. The Northern People's Party used the personal conflicts between the two to weaken the power of the Southern People's Party. With the support of the Northern People's Party, Yuan Jun submitted a memorial to falsely accusing Li Shunchen of colluding with the Japanese army during the war.

It happened that at this time, the governor also heard that there was something wrong with Sun-sin within North Korea, so at Hideyoshi's instructor, he sent his confidants to the camp of Jin Yingrui, the right army envoy of Gyeongsang-do, saying that the peace talks were delayed because Qingzheng had interfered with it, and falsely claimed that Qingzheng was about to go out to sea and asked the navy to attack Qingzheng on the sea.

Ying Rui did not dare to delay and reported the situation. The president and Qingzheng were in conflict with each other. The North Koreans knew that Li Bing urged Shunchen to send troops, but Shunchen suspected that the enemy was cheating and wandered for several days, but he refused to go out to sea.

At this time, the president sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that Qingzheng had landed, but North Korea did not intercept the navy, and counted all the blame on Shunchen.

Although Li Bing did not believe that Li Shunchen was in touch with the enemy, because Li Shanhai controlled the way of speech, the situation was very unfavorable to Li Shunchen.

At this moment, Liu Chenglong considered that the overall situation was initially decided and did not want to have a large-scale conflict with the Northern People's Party, so he abandoned the car to protect the general and did not actively prevent the Northern People's Party from impeaching Li Shunchen. Li Shunchen was also charged with "false" crimes and was arrested by the Yiban Palace, while Yuan Jun became the new three-way naval army commander.
Chapter completed!