"The Koreans are now our allies, or rather affiliates."

Xu Shizhen replied:

"Isn't the stronger the affiliation, the better?"

"No, you're mistaken." Xu Shiyang said coldly: "I hope the Koreans become stronger, but they can't become too strong." Actually, I don't want any regime outside of China to become too strong! ”

"But ......"

"No, but." Xu Shiyang continued: "I don't annex Goryeo, just because Goryeo has too many people, our Qi Province has a total population of less than two million, and Goryeo has almost one million households!" ”

"To occupy such a country, we must maintain a large security army in Goryeo for a long time, but we cannot expect more benefits from barren Goryeo."

"Therefore, the occupation of Goryeo is a loss, and I can allow the king of Goryeo to continue to maintain his rule, because I need such a person to help me control Goryeo and consciously send enough benefits."

Just like the late Qing dynasty in another plane, the great powers did not directly annex the Manchus, and were willing to work to help the Manchus maintain their rule.

……

For foreigners, do one, the chief of the land guard.

Suppress me, all the Han people, surrender to the ocean.

……

Chen Tianhua's poems are very real portrayals, aren't they?

"If you follow your idea and strengthen Goryeo as much as possible, then the most important thing we should do now is to improve the status of Goryeo slaves."

"First of all, change the policy of obedience and leave a channel for slaves and maids to rise. But after the slaves and maids rose to status, they had to be treated in a way that matched their status. ”

Xu Shizhen also said just now that there are no ordinary yeoman farmers in Goryeo, except for slaves and maids, who account for more than 80% of the population, everyone else in the Central Plains is all landlord class.

So, if a slave or maid gets rid of the lowly status and becomes above the class of good people, should they also obtain a large amount of land and become a landlord?

Where do the fields come from? Wasteland? How much wasteland in Goryeo could be provided to the slave class, who made up more than 80% of the population?

Divide the land of a beloved or two classes among slaves and maids?

This brings us to another question - who should the Qi army support in Goryeo?

By supporting the slave class, Goryeo would be able to convert most of its population into national power, and the Qi army would gain a strong ally, if they were willing to be allies at all.

The advantage of supporting the slave-owning class above the beloved is that Goryeo will never have the strength to resist the suppression of the Qi army, and the disadvantage is that Goryeo is too weak, and it will always be the weakest link in the Jurchen encirclement.

"Fourth, if you want to improve the combat effectiveness of the Koreans, I have no objection."

Xu Shiyang patted Xu Shizhen on the shoulder, smiled and said:

"But don't forget your identity: you are a relative of the Xu family, the governor of Qi Province, you have a bright future, and you are still Han."

"You want to elevate the status of the Goryeo slaves? Yes, but only those who are willing to fight for us for the rest of their lives, us! Keep that in mind! Others are honest slaves. ”

"Even, if the Kingdom of Goryeo wants to reform itself, improve the status of slaves and maids, and open up channels for ascension, I will oppose and destroy this policy!"

Xu Shiyang thought about it, and said to Xu Shizhen:

"One more thing, Goryeo is a vassal state! Subsidiary! ”

"I helped Li Liang keep his throne and country this time, it can't be free! He has to pay something! ”

Xu Shiyang's idea is very simple, since Goryeo is the weakest link in the golden siege network, then make a strengthening.

He planned to force Li Liang to agree to hand over the situation of the "concession" of Ping'an and Hamgyong, which had been occupied by Wanyan Yinshu, to Qi Province for control.

The main reason why it was a concession rather than an annex was to avoid triggering a war for the whole people, and Xu Shiyang did not want the region to face the threat of the Tartars and at the same time worry about the Goryeo rebels.

In this area, Xu Shiyang will prepare to build a number of dock forts with the Han people as the core and the Goryeo people as the backbone, and each dock fort will maintain 100 to 300 armed strong men.

Such a force was enough to withstand the small-scale attacks of the Jin army, and it was also enough to deal with the threat of Goryeo itself.

In addition, because Yinshu could carry out the inhumane looting of Pyongan and Hamgyong during the six-month occupation period, the Goryeo nobles, Liangren and other landlord classes with land names in these two places have been swept away, and Xu Shiyang was able to receive enough land here to settle the Goryeo people who took refuge in Qi Province.

"Shizhen, since you know Goryeo more clearly, then you will be the governor of the leased land, remember your identity, remember my words, and take advantage of this opportunity."

Xu Shiyang directly ordered:

"The new Goryeo army still has to be built, in addition to the odd soldier brigade, the regular brigade will also be handed over to you, if there are conditions, you can also form more Goryeo brigades."

"The new Goryeo army brigade still maintains 5,000 people, regardless of the regular soldiers, I provide 1,000 shotguns for each brigade, but Li Liang has to pay for these weapons."

"With the shotguns, coupled with the original armament and dock forts of Goryeo, I don't think they will be quickly conquered by the Jurchens, as part of the Jurchen encirclement network, this is enough, I don't expect more help from them."

"Another point, after crossing the Yalu River, without the approval of the Governor's Office, all the land in Liaodong is not allowed for Goryeo soldiers to set foot at will, otherwise there will be no forgiveness."

……

After arranging Xu Shizhen's work, on June 20, Xu Shiyang prepared to return to Qi Province.

Before that, he still has some small things to do.

First of all, Xu Shiyang released all the Goryeo people who could be plundered by silver arts, but the other more than 20,000 Goryeo slaves and maids, who accounted for the vast majority, became Xu Shiyang's spoils of war, and these people were to be transported to Qi Province as slaves.

Now that the Metropolitan Governor's Office had begun to expand into Dongchang Province and even Ji Province, these places were desolate and desolate, and there was almost no land at all, and the development of these places required a large number of laborers to fill agriculture, and these Goryeo slaves were used in this regard.

In return for helping Goryeo expel the invaders, at the end of June, the Governor forced the king of Goryeo and his court to sign the second Ganghwa Treaty, known as the Ganghwa Re-Treaty.

The treaty stipulated that Goryeo would hand over Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province in the north as concessions to Qi Province, and Qi Province had the right to dispatch a governor here to enforce the laws of Qi Province on the leased land, and the Goryeo people had no right to govern it.

In the end, as a trivial matter, Xu Shiyang ordered Xu Shizhen to escort Yan Yinshuke and several of his main subordinates to parade through the streets of Goryeo Wangjing, and after severely humiliating the former Jin Guobo, Xu Shizhen ordered his executioner to scrape Yinshuke and more than 20 other captured female nobles alive in front of the Goryeo palace.

This cruel method is a kind of deterrent to the Goryeo people, and Xu Shiyang believes that from now on, even if the Goryeo people want to resist, they must consider whether the fate of Wanyan Yinshuke will fall on their heads.

In addition, having Seo Se-jung perform this job will increase his status and reputation in Goryeo - a reputation for tyranny is also a reputation, and a reputation is useful.

At least the Koreans certainly don't dare to rebel against the young governor now.