North Korea is different from China in that the status hierarchy has always been very strict. The situation of peasants like Dashun revolting and taking over the world, in North Korea's view, is really against the will of heaven and treason, and absolutely cannot be tolerated.
This is one of the reasons why North Korea still delayed establishing an alliance with Dashun when it faced a major threat from the remnants of the Qing army.
In fact, there is no such thing as yangban aristocracy in North Korea, because "yangban" are not aristocrats. The power of yangban is not hereditary. Only those who pass the imperial examination and become scholar-bureaucrats in the court can be ranked as yangban.
This kind of yangban in the strict sense only has hundreds of families and thousands of people across North Korea.
As for the Yangban in a broad sense, they are the landlords and gentry class who are related to the Yangban. They are larger in number and are estimated to account for one percent of North Korea's population.
During the Seonin period of Joseon, due to the repeated invasions of the Southern Japanese and the Northern Hu, the society was extremely turbulent, and the originally deep-rooted status hierarchy was also undergoing quiet changes.
During this period of chaos, many farmers and untouchables completed the "identity cleansing" from the untouchable level to the yangban level by moving to other places, purchasing or fabricating genealogies.
The North Korean government, which was financially depleted, also promoted wealthy families from lowly backgrounds to the ranks of the Yangtze class through methods such as accepting grains and empty name posts.
It has been more than a thousand years since North Korea separated from China at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It turns out that it has a much longer history of independence than Annan.
Over thousands of years, Koreans have accumulated their own unique culture, history and national spirit.
The oppression and invasion of foreigners can only control Korea for a short period of time, but they can never rule Korea permanently.
As an independent nation and country, although North Korea is weak, it cannot be taken lightly.
Therefore, Li Laiheng also understood that if the Dashun Army raised an unknown force and annexed North Korea by force, then what the Dashun Army would face would inevitably be endless uprisings and struggles.
When the emperor learned that the Manchus were slaughtering people all over Korea, he even felt a sense of joy in his heart, which was ruthless and cruel.
Doesn’t this mean that the Manchus are pulling out the thorns for me?
Daishan and other Eight Banners aristocrats frantically suppressed the uprising of the Korean people and wildly killed the two classes that represented the Korean national culture. Their intention was very obvious, which was to completely annex North Korea and make it a retreat for the Manchus.
It is said that while they were still in Seoul, Pyongyang issued a hair-cutting order again, and the requirements were stricter than during the Dorgon era. Its ambition to permanently annex North Korea was also clearly revealed.
The two groups of scholar-bureaucrats in North Korea had more intense party struggles than those in the Ming Dynasty.
During the Seonjo era, there was a dispute between the Easterners' Party and the Westerners' Party. After the Easterners' Party gained power, it split into the Southerners' faction headed by Li Hwang and the Northerners' faction headed by Yao Xingzhi.
The Northerners faction gained power for a period of time because they supported Lord Gwanghae's accession to the throne. The Northerners' party in the court split into the Great Northern faction, headed by Li Erzhan, who advocated supporting Lord Gwanghae, and the Northern faction, headed by Yao Yongqing, who advocated
The Xiaobei faction supported the legitimate son. The Xiaobei faction was attacked after King Gwanghae came to the throne and Liu Yongqing was sentenced to death. The Xiaobei faction split into Qing Xiaobei and Zhuo Xiaobei, while the Dabei faction split into Gubei and Roubei.
There are three factions: Northern and Central Northern. The Southerners are divided into Qingnan and Zhuonan.
After the Qing army invaded and captured the Korean monarch, these factions split into two factions to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and to resist the Qing Dynasty. The anti-Qing faction was fighting the Qing army with force, but due to the huge gap in strength, they were constantly massacred by the Manchus. Many of them were
The two groups of scholar-bureaucrats who resisted the Qing Dynasty were executed one after another, and their power continued to decline.
As for the two groups of scholar-bureaucrats who sent to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, they have lost the support and support of the Korean people internally, which can be described as disloyal and unjust. In the future, after the Dashun army enters North Korea, they will destroy the remaining Qing Dynasty and surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
It would be very easy to send two groups of scholar-officials to kill them together.
In this way, the Shunjun could successfully eliminate the Yangban class that preserved Korean national culture without arousing strong resentment among the Korean people.
Li Laiheng has always disagreed with the Zhengshitang's request to send troops to rescue North Korea, but he was waiting and waiting, preparing to borrow the sword of the Manchus to pave the way for Dashun to directly control North Korea in the future.
When Fang Yiren and Bai Wang revealed this, many courtiers who learned the secret were a little shocked.
After all, the emperor's method is, at best, an expansion of territory, but at worst, it's simply plunder.
Moreover, it is not unkind to sit back and watch the Qing army brutally brutalize the Korean people and massacre two groups of Korean scholar-bureaucrats.
You must know that the legitimacy of Dashun's army to overthrow the Ming Dynasty lies in Li Zicheng's words, "I raised an army of benevolence and righteousness just for a few common people."
Now, in order to devour North Korea, Li Laiheng sat back and watched the Qing army brutalize the people of North Korea. This kind of thing must not be told to outsiders.
Once word spreads, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the legitimacy of the founding of Dashun.
So after the meeting ended and the court was dismissed, Fang Yiren said to Bai Wang:
"Your Majesty wanted to compare himself to the Han, Wu and Tang sects, but he chose to resort to such cunning and plundering methods. If Taizu Taizong Quanxia had known about it, I don't know what he would have thought."
Bai Wang also had deep sympathy for the Korean people. After all, the founders and heroes of the Shun Dynasty had all experienced the tragic apocalypse in the late Ming Dynasty.
Even foreigners can feel the same way.
What's more, the Qing army ravaged North China and killed countless compatriots from the Central Plains. Now the emperor did not think about how to wipe out the Liaozu as soon as possible, but he had the idea of using the Qing army as the king's vanguard.
There is no such thing as benevolence and righteousness.
Opposition has always existed in the Dashun government and opposition parties, and Li Laiheng has never fully exposed his wolfish ambitions.
In the court, he only delayed the pace of sending troops to Liaodong and North Korea for three reasons: difficulties in financing, difficulties in raising grain and fodder, and difficulties in mobilizing troops from various places.
After all, this is a relatively fair and honest reason, and it is also a pertinent and prudent argument. Most ministers will not object, but the founders who know the inside story will definitely not tell the emperor's little thoughts.
But this matter was very unfair after all, and envoys sent by the rebels from all over North Korea came one after another. Li Laiheng dragged the matter until April of the second year of Tianfa, until the late spring and summer solstice, a
On a cool night, while he was sitting among the pavilions of the palace conducting official business, he couldn't help but say to Luo Yanqing:
"Taizu and Taizong all acted with integrity and did not use deceit to win over the world. It is really cruel for me to not be able to obtain even the slightest bit of justice from my father and ancestors."
Luo Yanqing poured a pot of wine for the emperor. The imperial concubine, like the concubine Liu Youci, was also pregnant recently. However, she had a graceful and slender figure. She had just been pregnant for a short period of time, and there was no bulge on her belly at all.
"I only feel that Your Majesty has saved tens of millions of people. Even if you feel guilty to some people, how many people in this world can have a clear conscience for the whole world?
Even Taizu Taizong, does he have a clear conscience?"
Luo Yanqing's words made Li Laiheng a little unhappy. He knew what Luo Yanqing meant. After all, Taizu Taizong was not that interested in Luo Rucai.
Otherwise, there would be no chance of Luo Rucai dying at the hands of Yang Chengzu and others.
"I'm tired. Imperial Concubine, please go back to the palace. I want to rest alone."
Li Laiheng said: "Don't talk about Taizu Taizong's affairs from now on. This is not something you can talk about."
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