What Li Zhi wanted to do was to destroy the Korean state that had lasted for hundreds of years and bring it into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
This was a very bad ending for the North Korean King Li Zhu. From now on, Li Zhu would become a bureaucrat under Li Zhi and could only manage this provincial administrative unit according to Li Zhi's ideas.
The Joseon Dynasty, which had existed in Northeast Asia for hundreds of years, perished.
Li Zhu did not expect that North Korea, which was occupied twice by Japan and was invaded twice by Jin Manqing and was not destroyed, would be destroyed by Li Zhi.
Li Zhu was lying on the ground speechless. Park Dae-kyung, the leader of the North Korean parliament, who was kneeling next to Li Zhu, raised his head and said, "General, can all our North Korean officials be retained?"
Zhong Feng turned to listen to the translator translate this sentence, and replied calmly: "In the short term, North Korean officials can be retained. But in a few years, when the new talents trained in the school mature, all government officials will have to be replaced.
.Both groups of officials with noble backgrounds have all stepped down and been replaced by new people trained by Tianjin-style education."
When the North Korean officials behind Li Zhu heard this, they looked at each other with ashen faces.
Li Zhi is going to kill them.
In the north of North Korea, the main force of the Huben Army led by Li Xing and Li Laosi is still looting the two classes of nobles. On the one hand, this new army from Tianjin raised a butcher knife against the two classes of nobles, looting one after another the estates of the two classes of nobles.
On the other hand, he also won over the lower class Korean people and distributed five measures of food to each Korean citizen.
This strategy alleviated the conflict between the Huben Army and the lower class people of North Korea. The farmers who had benefited could not muster the courage to fight against the Huben Army. Although the two groups of nobles hated the Huben Army, they could not gather the peasants to attack the Huben Army.
It can be said that the grassroots political ecology of North Korea is being changed by this army. If the main force of the Huben Army plunders all the way from Ping'an Road and Hamgyong Road to the south, then the existing wealth of the entire two classes of nobles in North Korea will be plundered by Li Zhi
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The future wealth of the two classes of nobles will be wiped out by Li Zhi's new official system, schools and newspapers.
The reason why the Yangban nobles became nobles relied on their political privileges. Because court officials must come from the families of the Yangban nobles, all officials spoke for the Yangban nobles. On weekdays, whenever there was a conflict between the Yangban nobles and the common people, the government would
It was biased towards the Yangban. Therefore, as the population of the Yangban nobles continued to increase, the land in North Korea was continuously annexed by the Yangban nobles, and almost all Korean farmers other than the Yangban became tenant farmers of the Yangban.
If Li Zhi abolishes the political monopoly of the two classes of nobles in the government, the local power of the two classes of nobles will also be wiped out. Not to mention the inability to further annex land, the land that has been annexed by various means in the past is also very likely to be annexed by the lower class.
The farmers counterattacked.
It can be said that once Li Zhi's newspapers, schools and new official system are implemented in North Korea, the future wealth of the two classes of nobles will completely disappear.
The history of the Yangban nobles as the rulers of Korea will be completely over.
Li Zhihui will rule this country with new-style bureaucrats trained in new-style schools and influenced by Tianjin culture. He will turn North Korea into a part of Tianjin.
After the two classes of nobles were abolished, they married the two classes of nobles and relied on the two classes of nobles politically. Naturally, the Korean king Li Zhu became a rootless tree. Li Zhu knew that if he could regard this Korean military governor as his
Death is a good ending. As for passing the throne to heirs, there is no need to think about it.
Seeing that the North Korean monarchs and ministers on the ground were all trembling, Zhong Feng smiled and said: "Of course, North Korea's army cannot be retained in the future. As far as I know, North Korea's current annual income is about five million taels, of which **
It costs four million taels to maintain the army. In the future, these four million taels can be saved and all handed over to Tianjin. Tianjin will send troops to station in Seoul to protect North Korea."
When the Korean monarchs and ministers on the ground heard these words, they looked at each other and became even more desperate.
The army has also been cancelled. The soldiers stationed in Tianjin in North Korea. What is the difference between this and the direct destruction of North Korea? Li Zhi continued to retain Li Zhu's leadership of North Korea just to appease the farmers of North Korea so that the farmers would not resist the destruction of the country.
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The central idea of the first path is to temporarily preserve the North Korean government and appease the bottom farmers of North Korea. Then replace the government after new newspapers and schools can control North Korea.
The first path was so desperate that Park Dae-kyung, the North Korean "prime minister" on the ground, raised his head and asked: "What about the second path?"
Upon hearing Park Dajing's inquiry, Zhong Feng's face darkened.
Zhong Feng tapped his finger on the Korean throne and snorted coldly.
The North Korean monarchs and ministers kneeling below were so struck by the tapping sound of Zhong Feng's fingers that they all bowed their heads to the ground, not daring to look up at Zhong Feng.
"The second way is to completely abolish the name of the country North Korea. North Korea will be divided into two administrative regions, north and south, and all will be subject to military control. All North Korean royal families and officials will be imprisoned as war criminals. After trial by the Tianjin court, the sentence will be changed.
Kill, kill!”
The translator translated Zhong Feng's words into Korean. The officials on the ground couldn't help but tremble when they heard Zhong Feng's murderous words.
The so-called second way is that if North Korean officials are unwilling to cooperate with Li Zhi, and if North Korean monarchs and ministers are unwilling to establish a transitional government before newspapers and schools control North Korean public opinion and culture, then Li Zhi will be tough and rely on iron and blood.
fist to maintain order in North Korea.
Maybe doing this will tie down a large number of Li Zhi's troops, and there will be some uprisings and rebellions. But I believe that as long as five years pass, the order in North Korea will stabilize.
For Li Zhi, the second path would waste a lot of Li Zhi's time. But for the Korean monarchs and ministers who were kneeling on the ground, if they chose the second path, they might lose their lives and lose everything.
The Korean King Li Zhu on earth did not expect that his ending would be so bad.
Unexpectedly, he surrendered to the Manchus and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty due to his belief in serving the great people. This offended the Duke of Jin in the Ming Dynasty and eventually led to the collapse of Korea.
No! Even if he had not defected to the Manchus, it is estimated that Li Zhi would have reached out to North Korea. North Korea is so close to Tianjin, and Li Zhi will occupy North Korea sooner or later.
Li Zhu was already old and could not live for many years. He suddenly became angry. He raised his head suddenly and said loudly: "Our kings and ministers in Korea choose the first..."
Li Zhu originally wanted to announce loudly that he would choose the second path.
However, as soon as the North Korean officials on the ground saw Li Zhu's momentum, they knew what Li Zhu was going to say. As if they suddenly encountered the most dangerous situation, they rushed forward one by one, blocking Li Zhu with their hands and arms without thinking about their own safety.
More than a dozen people controlled Li Zhu in an instant, leaving Li Zhu unable to speak.
The North Korean monarchs and ministers on the ground suddenly became a mess.
Zhong Feng looked at the North Koreans playfully and asked with a smile: "Have you thought about your choice?"
A dozen officials on the ground said in unison: "We choose the first path!"
Li Shu, who was pinned to the ground by the officials, glanced angrily at the bureaucrats around him and glared.
But now he is no longer the king of North Korea. Even if he is angry, what can he do? The anger only flashes in his eyes and then disappears. Li Zhu fell to the ground and sighed heavily.
