On the fifth day of September, Zhong Feng stood on a grain drying field in a small village on the outskirts of Seoul, presiding over a field dividing ceremony for the Korean people.
After Li Zhi destroyed North Korea this time, he carried out a series of reforms in North Korea.
First of all, it is to change the six provinces of Korea to the six provinces of Korea, and change the counties below the six provinces to counties. There will no longer be any more detailed administrative units below the county level.
Modeled on the counties of the Ming Dynasty, each county in North Korea has a magistrate, who has jurisdiction over a police station, a tax bureau, a water conservancy bureau, and several middle schools and primary schools. In addition to the jurisdiction of the magistrate, there is a court. Now with the expansion of the court, Li Zhi
The court has been renamed a court. Also outside the jurisdiction of the magistrate are the secret security office and the county office of the discipline inspection team.
The existence of courts, secret guards and disciplinary inspection teams can effectively supervise local officials and prevent corruption.
These institutions require a large number of officials, and Li Zhi cannot recruit them all at once. Li Zhi's method is to first recruit suitable personnel from Tianjin and Shandong to fill the positions of prefects, county magistrates, etc., and at the same time recruit all the tax officers in the tax bureau.
, let’s start collecting taxes first.
Li Zhi was very generous to the Han people under his rule, hiding wealth from the people in every possible way. But towards the Koreans, Li Zhi was not so kind. Just the troops stationed in North Korea would consume a lot of Li Zhi's money, and Li Zhi could not make a loss.
Business.
The ruling North Korea faces the problem of language barrier. But this problem is not too acute, because the written language originally used in North Korea is Chinese. If grassroots officials want to communicate with the North Korean people, they only need to find some literate North Korean scholars to serve as translators.
Write down what you want to say and have a North Korean scholar read it out in Korean.
In the future, Li Zhi's plan is that all North Koreans will speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin.
From now on, the official language of North Korea will be Ming Mandarin, and Korean will only exist as a dialect. From now on, North Korean children will all learn Ming Mandarin in school, and North Korean people will have to speak Ming Mandarin when doing business with the government. If you can't speak Ming Mandarin, you will have to use Ming Mandarin when collecting taxes.
A "translation fee" of one penny a year was charged per person as the cost for officials to hire translators.
If you learn Ming Dynasty Mandarin, this translation tax can be waived.
At the same time, all Korean weights and measures were abolished, and Li Zhi's weights and measures were used from now on.
Of course, these are all details. The biggest change Li Zhi made to North Korea was to abolish all the two classes of nobles and distribute their fields to farmers.
This time, the two classes of nobles in North Korea conspired to send out their servants to attack Li Zhi. Since Li Zhi destroyed North Korea, naturally he would not let the two classes of nobles go. Li Zhi wanted to destroy this class economically and culturally.
If the two classes of nobles were a class that was as helpful to the country's strength as the Japanese samurai, Li Zhi might not have destroyed such a class, but would have used it for external expansion. However, the fact is that the two classes of nobles did not only make North Korea become
A sleepy Confucian country has no other ability except to maintain the rule of the Li family.
In terms of culture, we must counteract the Confucian inheritance of the Yangban aristocrats through the establishment of the concept of public morality. By promoting the concept of public morality, let the North Korean people know that Confucianism is not something that benefits the country and the people, and abandon the cultural awe of the Yangban aristocrats.
Then, by publicizing some historical facts, it proves the incompetence of the two groups of nobles. For example, during the Wanli Korean War, most of the Korean resistance to the Japanese army came from civilians. After the war, a large number of civilians became nobles by virtue of military merit.
Economically, Li Zhi wanted to give all the fields of the two classes of nobles to North Korean farmers.
What Zhong Feng hosted today was just such a field distribution meeting.
The venue was very simple, with a large blackboard placed on a grain drying floor. North Korean farmers wore tattered summer clothes, some even shirtless, and sat cross-legged on the ground in the grain drying floor.
A class of Huben Army recruits stood next to the blackboard, and beside them were two classes of nobles from each place, who were also the landlords of the local people.
The North Korean farmers looked at the Tianjin soldiers who presided over the meeting with shrinking eyes. Apparently the North Koreans were still a little sad about the country's demise, but these farmers who dug in the soil did not dare to resist the Tiger Army, which was armed to the teeth.
Zhong Feng looked at the Korean people sitting on the ground, snorted coldly, and said: "You little people have seen it clearly! Jiang Renjian, the head of the Jiang family and the landlord of the second class, sent his servants to join the rebel army of the former Li family to attack Tianjin.
The Duke's Liaodong Province. In the end, only three of Jiang Renjian's twenty-three servants returned to Jiangba Village alive. Jiang Renjian caused the death of twenty people. His crime is so heinous that he should be executed according to the law."
"All the Jiang family's land and real estate were deprived of their property, and the land became the public land of the Duke of Jin, and was cultivated by the original tenant farmers on the land."
The translator standing nearby translated Zhong Feng's words into Korean.
When the farmers heard that the Huben Army wanted to kill Jiang Renjian, they had no big reaction. Everyone saw the fact that Jiang Renjian resisted the Huben Army. Now that he was finally executed, it was his own fault.
But after hearing later, they learned that the Jiang family's fields would be distributed to tenants as public fields, and the Korean people below suddenly became commotion. They whispered, wondering how the Huben Army would distribute these fields. How much can each household get?
?If it is treated as public land, how much rent will the tenants have to pay after it is divided?
Zhong Feng waved to the squad leader next to him, took the field account book from the local county government, and said coldly: "You little people have a good life, and now you have become subjects under the rule of the Duke of Jin! The Jiang family is fifteen years old in total.
The above seventy-three male and able-bodied female tenants, as well as twelve Jiang family members, will each be allocated thirteen acres of paddy field."
North Koreans are good at growing rice. Although the latitude of the Korean Peninsula is quite high, the main food in North Korea is rice. The average rice yield in North Korea is about one stone and two bushels per mu. In fact, a family of two can live by growing more than 20 acres of rice.
A whole family.
Hearing that Zhong Feng had allocated thirteen acres of paddy field to each person, the North Korean farmers below whispered. They looked at Zhong Feng with wide eyes to see how Zhong Feng said how to pay the land rent.
In the past, tenant farmers were required to pay 50% of the harvest as land rent to cultivate the fields built by ginger farmers. The farmers were in dire straits and were very poor.
Zhong Feng looked at the nervous farmers and said, "The rent for public land is 35%."
The translator quickly translated Zhong Feng's words.
Upon hearing this policy, the tenant farmers below suddenly became excited. Originally, these tenant farmers could only get 50% of the harvest, but now it has become 65% of the harvest, and their income has increased by 30%.
With this new income, the tenant farmers can make a few new clothes and eat a few pieces of fat meat every year.
Life suddenly became better.
Excited smiles bloomed on the faces of the tenant farmers. Looking at the soldiers of the Tiger Army who divided their fields, their eyes no longer had a trace of sorrow for the country's subjugation, but were filled with excitement about living a good life.
The last trace of sorrow for the country's subjugation in the hearts of North Korean people has been diluted by the beautiful life in the future and can no longer be found.
Zhong Feng looked at the excited people, snorted coldly and said: "You are so lucky that the country of Korea perished at the hands of the Duke of Jin!"
