Chapter 57: The Great Purge of Korea

Twenty years of orthodoxy, Zhengdan.

The heavy snow in North Korea is much heavier than in Beijing.

Although Gyeongbokgung Palace was destroyed by fire, the Joseon Royal Palace is a large complex.

Since the end of October, it has been rumored that the king of North Korea, Zhu Qiyu, wants to reassemble the Korean virtuous and redefine the list of the two classes.

In this way, everyone in North Korea who has status has arrived.

For a while, it seemed that everyone had forgotten that the owner here had changed from the Li family to the Zhu family.

After some ceremonial music, Zhu Qiyu appeared on the main hall, and North Korea went up and down the mountain to call for a thousand years old, and saluted like a ceremony.

It's just that Zhu Qiyu is a little unaccustomed.

The first one is not used to it, it is this kind of person who is worshiped by the ministers, it is generally Zhu Qizhen and not him, and the second is not used to it, but he is not used to the palace of North Korea.

The palace in North Korea has a significant Tang Dynasty style, not that it is worse than Beijing, but in many details, Zhu Qiyu is still very unaccustomed.

For example, North Korean ministers mostly sit on their knees, and the floor is a smooth wooden floor instead of Suzhou gold bricks.

Zhu Qiyu's eyes swept over the audience. The 14 most powerful families of the two classes of nobility in Korea. Fourteen families, including the Gyeongju Kim family, the Anding Ren family, and the Gyeongwon Lee family, all of whom were present. Each of them can influence the political structure of several counties, and if the fourteen of them work together to assist Li Jin, North Korea will not be so easy to defeat.

In addition to this, there are also old ministers left behind by King Sejong.

It can be said that the entire elite of North Korea is here.

They may or may not have noticed that except for the guards in front of Zhu Qiyu, there is no official person from the Ming Dynasty here.

Zhu Qiyu has also drunk three glasses of wine. And he got up and left. He walked on the wooden corridor of the main hall, sighed softly in his heart, and said secretly: "It should begin." ”

Just as Zhu Qiyu had just left the stage, the sound of dense footsteps suddenly alarmed the Korean ministers in the main hall. But when he saw a big stride walk in, he came to Zhu Qiyu's seat, suddenly turned around, faced the people below, bowed deeply, and said, "Seniors, Jin Chengliu greets all seniors." ”

"Jin Saburo, why are you so rude, is this the place where you can come?" An old man of the Kim clan asked sharply.

Jin Chengliu's father, Jin Zongrui, can become a lonely minister, and naturally he is not from a Han family, so this old man is still Jin Chengliu's elder.

Jin Chengliu suddenly got up and said: "Just now, I was the juniors of the Jin family, and I wanted you seniors to salute, it was a personal friendship, but now I have to talk about business." Jin Chengliu said sharply: "Jin Chengliu, a thousand households in North Korea, is a metaphor for the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guard, and Li Yao is in the same party." Please don't make a mistake about yourself. ”

For a moment, the atmosphere was colder than the snow outside.

These North Korea

Two classes of nobles, not fools.

At this time, how do you not know, this is a Hongmen feast.

A person suddenly said: "Jin Qianhu, the matter of the puppet king, the people involved in it have already been disposed of, but what does it mean now?" ”

Jin Chengliu looked back, smiled slightly, and said, "It turned out to be Shen Gong." ”

This person's name is Shin Shuzhou, and he is an important minister of King Sejong, and in the original history, he took refuge in Yi Jin and participated in the abolition of the establishment.

But in this history, he sat back and watched, and seemed to find that Li Yao was difficult to achieve, so he tried to go out to take refuge, and when the Ming army arrived, he was the first Korean minister to come to the Ming Dynasty after the siege of Seoul.

Now it's Xu Youzhen's right and left hand.

It is very important, and before participating in the banquet, he was still doing things by Xu Youzhen's side.

I thought that in the eyes of the Ming people, he had a lot of status. Therefore, he came out to face the anti-Jin Chengliu.

Jin Chengliu smiled slightly and said: "I remember, that day, my father was stabbed in the abdomen, and I wanted to ask all the soldiers to be the king, walk more than a thousand steps, and there was blood every step, and then everyone closed the door, aren't you the accomplice of the Li thief?" ”

Jin Chengliu's eyes were red, and he looked at everyone with a fierce light, and said, "None of you are indispensable." ”

Kim Seung-ryu's words are indeed no problem.

The two classes of nobles are not a whole, and there are also factional battles, so in the face of Li Yao's sudden attack, many people chose to close their doors and not participate in anything. For the family itself, these initiatives are not necessarily wrong.

At that time, the king of Joseon was only about ten years old, who was willing to put his life on a mere ten-year-old child, you must know that the battle between the Korean royal family has always been extremely cruel. Those who are implicated are not one who dies, but those who want to implicate the family.

During the reign of Taejo Taejong of Joseon, there were two princely rebellions, which undoubtedly revealed this cruelty.

But from Kim Seung-ryu's eyes, everyone killed his father's accomplice.

Therefore, he knew that he was a knife for this errand, and he was gladly willing to be this knife.

"There's no talk about you here." I don't know who said a word.

Jin Chengliu's eyes immediately stared fiercely.

Joseon Taizu favored the youngest son and wanted to abolish the elder and young, but was rebelled by Joseon Taizong, and after Joseon Taizong ascended the throne, he hated this concubine.

So a strange rule was set.

The power of the concubine was strictly restricted, not only the father's official position, but also the family property could only be inherited by the son-in-law, and the concubine did not even have the qualifications to be an official.

There is a world of difference between a concubine and a concubine.

The sister-in-law can simply treat the concubine as a slave.

And Jin Chengliu is Jin Zongrui's concubine, which is also the reason why Jin Chengliu was able to survive that day, because he is a concubine, even if he has the heart to take revenge, his identity

and status, it is impossible to have any future in North Korean society.

Jin Chengliu waved his hand, and an arrow immediately flew out behind him, nailing the person who had just spoken to the ground.

Only then did all the Koreans find that they didn't know when, the curtains in the corners on both sides fell, but they found a team of neatly clad brocade guards.

Jin Chengliu said lightly: "Don't be impatient, the imperial court will not kill a good person by mistake, nor will it let go of a bad person." ”

Immediately, countless brocade guards suddenly appeared, and nearly half of the Korean ministers were brought down.

For a while, the hall that was originally full of friends suddenly decreased by more than half.

Xu Youzhen had an explanation before she started.

He didn't explain who wanted to protect, but explained the number to Jin Chengliu, that is, six hundred.

The two classes of Korean nobles were tossed around by the three generations of emperors of Joseon Taejong Sejong, who changed the old two classes of nobles in Goryeo to two classes of nobles loyal to Lee's Joseon.

In terms of numbers, many two-class nobles were also kicked out, and the two-class nobles were limited to around two thousand, which greatly increased the centralization of power.

And after the Ming Dynasty broke through Seoul, following Li Jin, he didn't dare to be willing, or forced to be helpless, there were more than 100 in total, and they were swept away.

Now the five or six hundred of the most powerful ones have been cleaned up.

The main body of the two classes of nobility in Korea did not exist.

As for the rest, although there are more than a thousand, it must be understood that the power of these nobles is not evenly distributed. Most of the following two types of aristocracy are local nobles, who have little power at all, and are attached to these big families.

Now these big families don't exist anymore.

They want to rebel by their own power, but they can't.

After cleaning up so many upper-class people, there will be enough space for these local nobles to be promoted.

After all, for the great nobles who enjoy various privileges and have several high-quality officials at birth, the biggest bargaining chip for them is to keep the original appearance.

But for these two classes of nobles who have sunk in various places, after Da Ming killed these upper echelons, there are many, many things that can be given to them.

Faced with such a situation, all illusions were shattered.

But what can be done?

A few months ago, when they handed over the South Three Provinces of Korea to the Ming Dynasty in a peaceful manner, they laid down their arms. Although they did not lay down their arms, it was impossible for them to resist the army of the Ming Dynasty.

There is no longer any strength to resist the Ming Dynasty, but it is just a man-made sword and I am a fish.

And such a scene is not just in Seoul, but in the whole of North Korea, where everything is done, and the key area is to be dealt with, that is, south of Seoul.

These places have not seen the great soldiers of the Great Tomorrow, and they have not experienced the flames of war, so they have to make up for this lesson at this moment.