Chapter 1017 1012 [Find yourself an ancestor first]
Gaijing, the capital of Goryeo, actually belonged to Gongsun Kang during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era.
Don't look at "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Gongsun Kang has no sense of existence, he seems to be just a guard dog. In fact, this guy defeated Goguryeo, captured its capital, restored the territory of Daifang County in the Han Dynasty, and controlled almost half of Korea
peninsula.
His father, Gongsun Du, was equally powerful. He conquered Goguryeo in the east, Wuhuan in the west, the Liaodong Peninsula in the south, captured Jiaodong counties across the sea, and actively restored industry, agriculture, and commerce.
The good-for-nothing father and son in the novel, placed in Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula, are actually two generations of heroic heroes!
This poor place, Kaesong, has been destroyed twice since Goryeo established its capital.
The first time was when the Liao Kingdom went south, forcing the King of Goryeo to flee south, and tore down all the city walls of Kaicheng. They burned down the houses, kidnapped the people, and left Kaicheng Mansion empty.
It took more than ten years for Goryeo to recover its population before recruiting 340,000 civilians to rebuild the city.
The second time it was destroyed was the imperial city, that is, when the Ming Dynasty was first founded, the powerful officials fought with each other and burned the palace to the ground.
The reason why Goryeo has been neglecting its armaments in recent years is not just because the civil servants were lying low.
They lost the territory north of the Datong River, and their tax revenue and manpower were severely reduced. They also had to rebuild the Goryeo Imperial City, and spent a lot of money and food to recruit civilians. How could they have any money left to pay their soldiers?
At this moment, the actual controller of Kaijing City is Zheng Zhongfu’s thirteen-year-old son Zheng Yun.
A thirteen-year-old kid is naturally incapable of controlling civil and military affairs.
Zheng Yun stayed in Kaicheng as a banner, assisted by Zheng Zhongfu's cronies, many of whom were scholars from poor families.
Among these cronies, the military minister was headed by Li Shaoying.
Although Li Junyi's younger brother Li Yifang was responsible for gathering the army, he had to go through Li Shaoying to ask Zheng Yun for instructions on everything.
"How many troops have been gathered in the capital?" Li Shaoying asked.
Li Yifang said: "More than 12,000, of which 7,000 are from Gyeonggi and 3,000 from Yangzhou. Most of them are farmers who were temporarily recruited because they had no money."
Li Shaoying was very worried: "In other words, except for Yangzhou, the other states and counties only sent more than 2,000 troops?"
"The wealthy families from all over the country are watching the show, how can they obediently send the army?" Li Yifang sneered.
Yangjumu, Hansanseong, Hanyang-gun, Guangneung, and Nanjing, these five words all referred to Seoul in the Goryeo Dynasty, but the specific scope of inclusion was different.
An elite force, the Goryeo Zuo Shence Army, was stationed there.
Due to serious shortage of pay, Zuo Shence Army is short of more than half of its personnel, and now it can only recruit farmers to make up the number.
Li Shaoying said: "The general went to Haizhou with 6,000 elites and asked us to send 30,000 troops within half a month. Now there are only more than 12,000, not even half of it. We have to find another way.
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Li Yifang said: "There is no other way but to forcibly recruit more farmers in Gyeonggi to serve as soldiers."
"Then let's conscript the farmers." Li Shaoying said helplessly.
Li Shaoying was not only worried about the military, but also worried about the civil servants in the city taking the opportunity to cause chaos.
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The current head of Goryeo's civil service is called Han Lai.
This person was born in the Han family in Kaesong, his hometown is in the Gyeonggi area, and his ancestors are the maternal clan of the founding monarch Wang Jian.
Zheng Zhongfu appointed Han Lai as deputy prime minister because the Han family was in Gyeonggi, which was very convenient for the military regime to control. As long as Han Lai dared to mess around, Zheng Zhongfu would dare to send troops and kill all the Han family directly!
"Prime Minister Han, Zheng Zhongfu has deposed the king without permission and has invited the Ming Dynasty to send troops to attack him," Song Dasheng, the Minister of Rites, said. "When the soldiers and horses gathered in the capital are sent to the front by those warriors, we can contact the righteous people and take the opportunity to attack!"
Han Lai shook his head and sighed: "I am the deputy prime minister and you are the minister. Do we have any real power?"
Song Dasheng said: "We don't have real power, but those poor people do."
Han Lai said: "Zheng Zhongfu roped in the poor men and let them control the real power of the six ministries. How can these people listen to us?"
"Scholars from poor families are still scholars after all. How can they tolerate a warrior being in power? There are also righteous men among them." Song Dasheng said.
Han Laixi said: "How many people have you contacted?"
Song Dasheng said: "Shen Hao, the doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, Cui Yan, the head of the household department, and Zhou Anzhong, the foreign minister of the criminal department. All three of them hold real power, especially Zhou Anzhong, who has a group of jailers at his disposal."
Han Lai thought for a while: "Continue to contact the poor people, but don't act rashly. I sent people back to the countryside in the name of recruiting volunteers to defend the city. Maybe I can lead the army into the city to rescue your majesty! As long as you rescue your majesty, you can control the whole country.
city."
"Don't you want to think about how to deal with the Ming army?" Li Zheng, the cabinet minister, suddenly said.
Lee Zheng came from the Lee family of Jeonju and had already prospered in the Silla Dynasty. Later, the Lee family of Korea was also founded by the Lee family of Jeonju.
The Li Zheng in front of me is the ancestor of Li Chenggui, the founding monarch of Joseon.
Song Dasheng said: "The purpose of Ming Dynasty's sending troops is nothing more than to attack the enemy. As long as Zheng Zhongfu and other warriors are killed, Ming Dynasty will withdraw its troops."
Li Zheng sneered: "Do you believe it? If the Ming Dynasty did not occupy Pyongyang, Baozhou and Anzhou, then they would definitely retreat this time. But the Ming Dynasty occupied half of Goryeo a few years ago. If they capture Kaicheng this time, they will really
Will you retreat obediently? The Ming Dynasty sent troops south just to help us eradicate the warriors?"
Han Lai and Song Dasheng fell silent immediately. Of course they were not stupid, they were just taking chances.
Song Dasheng asked: "What does Mr. Li think should be done?"
Li Zheng said: "Once the front line is defeated, we will immediately launch an attack and lead His Majesty south to hunt for Quanzhou. Quanzhou is the headquarters of the Annan Protectorate, and it has not been bloodbathed by Zheng Zhongfu. Once Your Majesty goes there, you can use the army and the mountains to fight all the time."
Fight until the Ming army withdraws. Before the opening of the capital, it was also attacked by the Liao Kingdom, so why not return to the old capital to reorganize the country?"
"That makes sense." Song Dasheng nodded in approval.
Han Lai remained silent.
As the mother clan of the founding monarch, the reason why the Han family declined for a time was because the Liao Kingdom invaded Kaicheng Prefecture. The peasants they controlled were kidnapped by the Liao Kingdom, and even the Han family's ancestral home was burned down.
What if the king is taken to the south and the Ming army occupies Kaicheng Prefecture and refuses to leave?
The Li family and the Song family could return to their hometowns to recruit troops to serve the king, but the Han family would become a lost dog, and their hometown would directly become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Zheng said: "After the Liao soldiers retreated, didn't the Han family get their property back? They left their hometown for a while, but they could come back again."
Han Lai sneered: "You put it lightly. When the Liao soldiers withdrew, they captured every ten of the people in Kaicheng Prefecture. Although I, the Han family, got back the land, we couldn't even recruit all the tenants. In the most difficult and difficult time,
It even requires Han’s children to work in the fields themselves!”
Li Zheng said: "Back then, the monarch moved a lot of people to enrich Kaicheng Prefecture, and one-fifth of them were given to the Han family. This time, when the Ming army withdraws, we can follow the story of that year. I, the Li family in Quanzhou, are willing to move to the Han family.
There are five hundred households of farmers."
Song Dasheng said: "I promise to move 300 households to the Han family."
Han Lai said: "Let me think about it again."
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The aristocratic families have been discussing secretly, and the civil servants from poor families also gather together every day.
The early leader of the poor family was Zheng Zhichang's good friend Wen Gongren.
To be honest, Wen Gongren was not a poor family at all. His ancestor had been an earl as early as the Silla Dynasty. The title of Nampyeong Bo continued from the Silla Dynasty to the Goryeo Dynasty.
But the Nanping Wen family is indeed in decline. Although it is known as a wealthy family, it is not much better than a poor family.
Duke Wenren was encouraged by Zheng Zhichang to serve as an internal agent of the Ming Dynasty. However, as the Cui family in Haizhou revived due to maritime trade, he, as the Cui family's son-in-law, also benefited from the glory. As he became more and more powerful, he gradually did not mention the poor family. Six years ago
He was already a servant when he died of illness.
Several of his sons were killed by Zheng Zhongfu!
The current leader of the poor family is named Jin Yungui. A few years ago, he was sent as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to cede the territory north of the Datong River.
This guy got a bad reputation and was demoted again and again. He was so angry that he resigned from his job to spread "Ming Xue".
"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to Mencius," Jin Yungui said to a group of poor people. "Mencius said that the people are the most valuable, the country is second, and the king is the least. What is the people? We poor people are the people. The king and the scholars,
These are all secondary, the most important thing is that the people must live a good life."
"The Ming Dynasty places great emphasis on imperial examinations. Anyone who dares to cheat in the imperial examinations will be beheaded, even if he is the prime minister. Whether he is a child of a powerful person or a child from a poor family, as long as he has real talent and practical knowledge, he can be an official through the imperial examination based on his ability. And promotion is only based on political performance, not on performance.
Regardless of family background, a scholar from a humble family like me can still be the prime minister..."
After talking about the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Yungui then talked about the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.
His eyes radiated with light, and he said with infinite longing: "There are no beggars in Luoyang and Kaifeng. The widows and widows are lonely, and they are helped by yamen such as almshouses and sales homes. The traffickers and lackeys there are better fed than the officials of Goryeo.
, there is wine and meat every now and then.”
A poor scholar named Zhang Mingli asked: "Can the traders and lackeys of the Ming Dynasty really eat meat?"
Jin Yungui said with a smile: "You don't believe me when I say it. One day you go to Kaifeng, Luoyang, and you will know whether the traffickers and lackeys can eat meat."
Zhang Mingli sighed: "But how can we have the money to go to Ming Dynasty?"
Jin Yungui said: "When the Ming Dynasty annexes Goryeo and you pass the examination, you can go to Luoyang to take the examination!"
Many poor scholars present were not surprised by this. Obviously, they often said this kind of thing and had long hoped that the Ming Dynasty would swallow up Goryeo.
Only a few newcomers from poor families turned their heads and looked outside the room in panic, fearing that others would overhear what they said.
Jin Yungui continued: "The ancestors of the Huangfu family, the largest family in Huangzhou, must be Han Chinese. According to research, they moved here at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, even Kaijing was the territory of Cao Wei, but it was divided between Goguryeo and Silla. You and I
Among them, many are also descendants of Yan and Huang, and the aristocratic families are descendants of barbarians. Especially the big families in the south, most of their ancestors are barbarians."
"We poor families, we descendants of Yan and Huang, have been ruled by the Goryeo barbarians for too many years. Now it's time to recognize our ancestors and return to our motherland!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked.
Although they considered themselves of Chinese ethnicity before, they did not talk about recognizing their ancestors and returning to their motherland.
Because it is not a sin to consider oneself to be of Chinese descent, even many aristocratic families in Goryeo are related to China.
For example, Wang Jian, the founding monarch of Goryeo, said that he was related to the Langya Wang family in order to flatter himself.
The credibility of this thing is very high. Wang Jing, the governor of Lujiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born in Pyongyang. His eighth generation ancestor Wang Zhong moved there as early as the Western Han Dynasty. The Wang family has already become a wealthy family in Lelang County.
After Goguryeo captured Lelang County, Wang Jing's branch returned to the Langya Wang family, and another Wang family went south to Baekje and settled in Wang Jian's Longxing land.
There is also a Wang family in Lelang County who took refuge with the Murong family in western Liaoning during the Western Jin Dynasty. Yuwentai's mother is from this Wang family.
Jin Yungui stood up suddenly and took down several Chinese history books from the bookshelf:
"I have read the history books of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the past few years, and I know the origin of the various surnames in Goryeo. For example, my own surname is Jin, and my ancestor is actually the grandson of Jin Gong in the Han Dynasty. At that time, my ancestor Wang Sunggong gave birth to a son, but was forced by my mother-in-law to marry him.
Wife and divorce."
"His wife remarried Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty and gave birth to a son who was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."
A group of poor scholars were surprised to find out that Jin Yungui’s ancestor was actually the ex-husband of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty’s own mother!
Jin Yungui took out another booklet: "According to the history books of the Han and Tang Dynasties, I have recorded the origins of various surnames in Goryeo. If you don't know where your ancestors came from, you can find them in this booklet."
A group of poor scholars rushed forward. Their status in Goryeo was very awkward, and they couldn't wait to recognize their awesome ancestor.
The Zhang Mingli who spoke before quickly found his ancestors and cheered: "It turns out that my ancestors came from Wu County and moved to Silla during the Southern and Northern Dynasties!"
Everyone found their ancestors, and everyone was very happy.
Jin Yungui said: "The fall of Goryeo is imminent. We have been away from China for a long time. Now is the time to serve the country of our ancestors!"
