Two days after the collapse of the Jurchen army, Wanyan Yinshu was discovered by the local Goryeo rebels as they tried to escape into Hamgyong Province.

Like a magnet, all the Koreans in Hamgyong Province and its vicinity collectively went anyway, and countless rebels consciously rushed to the place where they found Wanyan Yinshu.

The Jurchen commander and the last dozen of his cavalry were cornered, and after a few laps around Hamgyong Road like headless flies, they were finally overtaken by the Qi light cavalry who were in desperate pursuit.

Yinshu did not put up much resistance and quickly surrendered to the Qi army.

At this point, the Battle of Kaesong was completely over.

In the Battle of Kaesong, the Qi army annihilated the entire army of Yan Yinshuke, killed more than 1,500 people, captured 1,500 Jurchens, nearly 4,000 Aha, and rescued more than 30,000 Goryeo.

For a long time after that, the Goryeo rebels continued to hunt down and kill the Jurchen rout, who had become a lost dog, and hundreds of people were hunted down and killed by the angry Goryeo.

However, that is no longer the focus of Xu Shiyang's attention.

On 29 May, Xu Shizhen led the Strange Brigade of the New Army of Goryeo to join forces with Xu Shiyang, and the two armies immediately joined forces to the north.

Since the main force of the Silver Magic Army had been wiped out, the advance of the coalition forces was not hindered in any way at this time.

At the beginning of June, the 5th coalition army recaptured Haizhou, the capital of the right province of the Yellow Sea, and three days later, Huangzhou, the capital of the left province.

At this time, all the Goryeo people in Pyongan and Hamgyong were in rebellion, and all the officials who could be appointed locally by Yinshu, whether Jurchen or Goryeo, were beheaded by the rebels.

Some rebels even crossed the Yalu River, occupied Zhenjiang in eastern Liaodong, and advanced towards Phoenix, the capital of Yinshuke.

Xu Shiyang was very angry about this.

On 15 June, Xu Shiyang, the secretary of the military department and the Ministry of Industry of the Qi Provincial Governor's Office, ordered the disarmament of all Goryeo rebels in Pyongan and Hamgyong.

The Goryeo rebels, who were celebrating their victory, were caught off guard, and almost all of their leaders were held captive by the Qi army, whom they thought were allies.

……

"Third brother, what happened?"

Xu Shizhen hurriedly found Xu Shiyang and asked puzzledly:

"How did you arrest all those rebel leaders?"

"Without my permission, they dare to go out to fight!"

Xu Shiyang angrily accused:

"This is a serious violation of the Ganghwa Treaty! It must not be tolerated! ”

The Treaty of Ganghwa stipulated that the Goryeo Kingdom should accept the "comprehensive guidance" of the Metropolitan Governorate in military matters, that is, without the permission of the Metropolitan Governorate, Goryeo did not have the right to declare war on foreign countries and send troops out of the country to fight.

"But ......, they're going to fight the Jurchens!"

Xu Shizhen argued:

"Fighting the Jurchens is helping us ......."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Shiyang unceremoniously directly interrupted the words of this clan brother:

"Have I allowed them to help?"

"Third brother, what are you?"

"They can fight in the territory of Goryeo, but who allows them to go out and pursue them? Liaodong is the homeland of the former dynasty, and it has been the territory of China since ancient times, so they can't help it! ”

Xu Shiyang hated the Korean people very much: when they were beaten, they commanded to hold their heads and squat, as if anyone could bully them.

But once something goes wrong in Liaodong, they will persevere, and they will really let them arch all the way to the edge of the Yalu River!

"Facing ......." Xu Shizhen thought for a while, and then realized that Xu Shiyang was talking about the Central Plains Dynasty before the Great Zhou.

At its peak, that dynasty controlled not only Liaodong, but also a vast territory south of the Yalu River—presumably part of what is now Pyongan in Goryeo, Hamgyong Province, and Hwanghae-do.

"Third brother, that was hundreds of years ago."

"The revenge of a hundred generations can be restored, what is a few hundred years?" Xu Shiyang replied: "Since it is a Chinese territory since ancient times, it can't be touched by others at will!" Otherwise, we descendants will be ashamed of our ancestors and ancestors in China! ”

Xu Shizhen pouted.

said that the righteousness is awe-inspiring, but in fact, don't you think that the Koreans have moved Liaodong, which has been regarded as a forbidden country?

Seeing his fourth brother's disapproving look, Xu Shiyang asked, "Shizhen, what do you think we should do with the Koreans?" ”

"It's the time of the war, and Liaodong isn't our territory after all."

Xu Shizhen replied without hesitation:

"I hope that Goryeo will become ......, well, at least a little more normal, and be able to feed a really combat-ready army on its own, threatening the Jurchens from the east and sharing the pressure for us."

"And then? How exactly are you going to do it? ”

"During my time in Goryeo, I did a small survey of Goryeo up and down."

徐世桢 says:

"Goryeo is not a normal country at all."

Xu Shizhen once looked through a lot of historical materials about Goryeo, most of which were recorded by the Goryeo people themselves.

Even according to their own records, the more Xu Shizhen looked, the more he felt that this was not a normal country at all.

The first is that the hierarchy is so rigid that there is almost no movement of social classes.

In Goryeo, only two classes of nobles could rise from the 9th rank to the 1st rank unimpeded.

And the technocrats, the concubines of the two classes of aristocratic families (who must be born to non-slave mothers) can only rise to the highest rank of 3.

The landlord class, such as village officials and beloved, can only be promoted to 5 grades at most.

Slaves and maids, no matter how talented they are, are not qualified to be officials, no, you can't say that, they don't even count as people.

On the contrary, the slaves and maids of Goryeo accounted for more than 80% of the total population.

Xu Shiyang listened carefully to his brother's narration, and he felt that the policy of the Goryeo people seemed to be a bit like another caste system that was inevitably Asan-born as a nobleman and a nobleman forever, a slave and maid at birth, and a slave and maid at birth, and a slave and maid all life, without any chance to change their fate at all.

Such a society is indeed prone to becoming a stagnant water, and it may be able to be maintained in peacetime, but in the current world of great contention, Goryeo is like a fat pig that anyone can grab a handful.

"There are actually no ordinary people in Goryeo."

Xu Shizhen went on to explain:

"The royal family, the two classes, the village officials, and the good people, among them, the lowest good people are actually landlords with a lot of land."

"Below the landlord, all slaves are not considered human beings."

In fact, the tax revenue of the Goryeo court was not very high, and it was probably maintained at the level of 5 taxes 1 to 10 taxes 1 depending on the geographical resources.

But this light tax rate has nothing to do with slaves and maids, and you don't expect such people to consciously pay too much for the country by the landlord class who own the land.

"I think we can help change that state of affairs in Goryeo."

徐世桢 says:

"In this battle, the best performers in my Wonder Brigade are those who are desperately fighting to become freemen, for the five buckets of miscellaneous food a month, these people used to be slaves."

"I think that as long as we break the class monopoly of the Goryeo people, as a large country with a million household registrations, the flank of the Jurchens will not be at peace."

Xu Shiyang looked at Xu Shizhen, and after a long time, he asked again:

"Why do you think we want the Koreans to be stronger?"