Volume 9 Chapter 4 The butcher of the imperial examination of the country, Hongru

Korea, according to the official history records originated in 1122 B.C., is the uncle of the king of Shang Ji Zi led the Shang Dynasty remnants to build a vassal state, known as the Marquis of the Ji family or Jizi Korea, this vassal state in the early Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Yan general Wei Man, renamed Wei Manchu Korea, and later Wei Manchu Korea was conquered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Lelang County, Xuansu County, Zhenfan County, Lintun County four counties, so from the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the Ming Taizu Hongwu 25 years, this more than 1,000 years did not have the title of North Korea.

As for Goguryeo, which emerged during this period, it was actually a minority government established in the Heilongjiang River valley during the Han Dynasty, and Baekje was also separated from Goguryeo, but Silla was a local government that developed from the small tribe of Jinhan at the southern tip of the peninsula during the Han Dynasty.

This history is a bit messy, don't talk about it, back to the Ming Dynasty, the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1392 AD) Yuan Dynasty to the east of the thousand households and Daru Huachi Li Zichun's eldest son Li Chenggui seized the Goryeo regime, changed the name of the country to Korea, and called the Ming Dynasty, North Korea has since become a subject of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, if you want to say which of the subject countries of the Ming Dynasty is closest to the Ming Dynasty, it must be North Korea, because their basic national policy is the doctrine of big things, and this 'big thing' is not to see

The excitement is not afraid of 'big things', but small things are big, and it is based on the contrast between strong and weak forces, and small countries serve big countries.

But this is not a substantive service, the essence of which is just to rely on the Ming Dynasty, so as to obtain the protection of the Ming Dynasty to ensure national security. Therefore, although the king of Korea is respectful to the Ming Dynasty on the surface, he does not really regard himself as a member of the Ming Dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty orthodox eleventh year (AD 1446) Joseon Sejong Yi Yu created the Korean language, is to get rid of the influence of the Ming Dynasty and strengthen the independence of the nation, in fact, before this time Korea was only language without writing, all official documents are all Chinese characters, if he really wants to do a big thing, he should also unify the language into Chinese, but he wants to change the text into his own language, It can be seen that they are completely saying one thing and doing another to fool Daming!

For the sake of this face, in order to protect this little brother, whether it is the war in the Ming Dynasty or later, Huaxia can be said to have suffered heavy losses every time, but this little brother basically turns around and turns his face with you, and it is simply asking for trouble to be a subject country of this nature.

With the experience of Zhu Cijiong and his two lives, he naturally did not ask for hardships, he was looking for a method, or a set of plans, a set of plans to completely control all vassal states and subject states.

Someone must be saying at this time, isn't it the colonial period, and it would be nice to simply turn the subject country into a colony. In fact, there are problems with this colonial system, you don't see that in the end, almost all the colonies got rid of the control of the suzerainty and became independent, and the great powers that had many wars of independence were too busy to be busy, and in the end these colonial powers were almost beaten back to their original shape.

Zhu Cijiong also didn't want to be beaten back to the pre-liberation period overnight after decades of hard work, so whether it was a vassal country, a subject country or a colony, if you want to control it, you should control it, otherwise it is better to snatch it and leave.

The first step in this control plan is assimilation, or cultural invasion, replacing the language and script of vassal states, subject states, and colonies with the language and script of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it's not enough to make them become people of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty have rebelled, and the people of these vassal states, subject countries and colonies are naturally more likely to rebel, and they have to start in many other aspects, such as military, such as economy, etc., this is a process of exploration, how to do it Zhu Cijiong has not yet thought about it, but the first step has begun, and the experimental object is the current Lee Joseon Dynasty.

The reason why he decided to preside over the first imperial examination in North Korea was not only because the palace examination must be presided over by the emperor, but more importantly, he also wanted to go to see on the spot how to strengthen the control of the subject country from other aspects. If it was just to preside over the palace examination, why did he go to North Korea, just pull all the tribute students of this imperial examination to the capital to come to the palace examination.

The North Koreans naturally don't know that they have become the subjects of the experiment at this time, they only know that this imperial examination is not a joke with them, and anyone who has no merit cannot be an official, that is to say, even if you were an official appointed by the king of Joseon, if you did not get the merit in this imperial examination, then I'm sorry, I will give you a rod to the end, and you want to be an official without fame? Go for your civilians!

Although Huang Daozhou is a learned Confucian, he is a typical Confucian fanatic, and now he has the opportunity to spread the learning of the sages and sages, and he is not dead to educate the barbarians. A paranoid fanatic like him launched a ruthless attack, which was more terrible than a butcher, and he who refused to carry it out was killed; perfunctory, kill; Deliberately delayed, killed; Whoever attempts to deceive shall be killed; If you want to get away with it, kill .......

The fierce generals like Cao Wenzhao and Mao Wenlong, who were killed, were furious in their hearts, and they were afraid when they saw him, Nima, this guy is a madman, and he can't afford to provoke us to hide!

Even the first-class military generals of the Ming Dynasty were afraid of him, and the fear of the Korean king and ministers of Korea can be imagined, under his crazy high-pressure policy, there was no problem with him in the national examination such as the student qualification examination. You must know that although the Joseon Dynasty is small, the establishment of that place is not small at all, there are a total of thirteen provinces, more than 200 state capitals, more than 2,000 counties, and the student qualification examination is divided into county examinations, government examinations and hospital examinations, and the mission mission under Huang Daozhou has only a few dozen people in total, and even each state government cannot send a personal overseer.

It's very simple, he just has to take the last college exam, whether the children who participated in the college exam cheated, whether they were selected through the county exam and the government exam, you can see it at a glance from his answer sheet. The article is written in a bullshit way, the words are written miserably, and if you can pass the county test and the government test, it will be a ghost, it must be cheating, all of them will be dragged out and cut, and all the county governments that have problems will be re-examined!

I have to say that sometimes I'm really afraid of doing things that kind of more serious, cheating is death, who dares to cheat.

In fact, at that time, the Chinese level of North Korean officials was still good, and more than half of the student qualification examinations could be passed, and at that time, the Korean language had not been promoted for a long time, and there was no background.

However, to obtain the qualification of a student is just a showman, and the showman can only be a small official below the seventh grade in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Daozhou is very rigid, the Ming Dynasty is like this, and North Korea should also be like this, if you want to be an official above the seventh grade, continue to take the exam, otherwise you will be!

However, Huang Daozhou is not the kind of idiot official who only knows how to serve with sticks and does not know how to give some carrots, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, Xiucai, who has obtained the qualification of a student, can go to the colleges in the state capital and county to study before the township examination, and North Korea does not have these colleges, he directly sent the erudite Hongru of the mission mission to the provincial capitals to open colleges, teach students, and completely treat them as Xiucai of the Ming Dynasty. From this point of view, his madness is only for those who are disobedient, and it is better for him to be obedient.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the township examination was held in August, and it was concentrated in the provincial capitals, so it was even more impossible to get out of the control of the Zodiac Zhou, and the township examination was completely presided over by the Ming officials of the missionary mission, so it was really exactly the same as the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the people raised in the township examination can only be officials below the fifth grade at most in the Ming Dynasty, and if they want to be officials above the fifth grade, they have to continue to take the exam.

The next is the examination, which is generally held in the capital in February of the following year after the New Year, but this time the situation is special, Huang Daozhou did not go against Zhu Cijiong's intention to pull these people from North Korea to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to hold the examination, but directly arranged to be held in the capital of North Korea, presided over by himself.

The tribute students who will be tested are actually Jinshi, but they still have to pass the palace examination to arrange the nouns, and the emperor will personally grant the title of Jinshi.

If you want to say how many officials in North Korea have more than five grades at this time, it is not much worse than Daming, Daming is six ministries, two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there are separate yamen such as the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, Guozijian, and Zhan Shifu, and there are also six Cao and thirteen provinces in North Korea, as well as separate yamen such as the Sixian Mansion, the Si Ji Yuan, and the Chengzheng Yuan. Except for the absence of the north and south capitals, almost all of the others are copied from the Ming official system, which means that there are at least thousands of Jinshi, will Huang Daozhou open this back door? There are really no doors, he strictly follows the standards of the Ming Dynasty, and the final selection of Jinshi is less than a hundred!

According to Huang Daozhou, you are a big vassal country, not as big as a province in the Ming Dynasty, why do you want so many officials above the fifth grade? He directly sent a letter to Zhu Cijiong, suggesting that the grades of the officials of the subject country should be determined according to the standards of the Ming Province, with a maximum of ten people above the third rank and a maximum of fifty people above the fifth grade.

Zhu Cijiong agrees with this, that is, let them regard the vassal state as a province of the Ming Dynasty, if they always think that the vassal state is a country independent of the Ming Dynasty, how can they return to their hearts!

He went down with a holy decree, and the vassal state set the official grade according to the standard of the Ming Province, there was no first grade, the highest second grade, and the others were ranked down in turn.

With the Holy Decree, Zodiac Zhou is naturally vigorous and resolute, all Korean officials, all demoted, how much Yu Lu Fa is your vassal king's business, but the grade must be set according to the standards of the Ming Dynasty. In other words, the power and income of North Korean officials have not changed, but their grades have been reduced.

As for Huang Daozhou, a butcher who claims to be a gentleman who stresses benevolence, righteousness and morality, but kills people without even blinking an eye, the Korean kings and officials are afraid to the core, whether they want grade or death, there is no need to think much about this question, ordinary people still want to die.

Someone is going to ask, if you toss people like this, won't they resist?

There is naturally resistance, but the 200,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty are pressed there, and they can't make any waves, like when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, all the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners added up to less than 200,000, and the nearly 100 million people of the Central Plains set off some waves!