Chapter 681: The Road
What Li Zhi wants to do is to destroy the Korean state that has lasted for hundreds of years and bring North Korea into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This was a very bad ending for the king of Joseon, Yi Liang. From now on, Li Liang will become a bureaucrat under Li Zhi, and can only manage this provincial-level administrative unit according to Li Zhi's ideas.
The Joseon Dynasty, which had existed in Northeast Asia for hundreds of years, came to an end.
Li Liang did not expect that the whole territory was occupied by Japan twice, and Korea, which was invaded twice by the Later Jin Manchu Qing Dynasty and did not perish, was killed by Li Zhi in this way.
Li Liang lay on the ground and couldn't speak, and Park Dajing, who was kneeling next to Li Liang, the "leader of the Korean parliamentary government", raised his head and said: "General, can we North Korean officials be retained?" ”
Zhong Feng turned his head to listen to the translator translate this sentence, and replied lightly: "In a short time, the officials of the DPRK can be retained." But in a few years, when the new-style talents cultivated in the schools mature, all government officials will have to change their blood. The two classes of officials from the aristocracy all stepped down and were replaced by newcomers trained by Tianjin-style education. ”
When the North Korean officials behind Li Kun heard this, they looked at each other, and their faces were like ashes.
Li Zhi: This is asking for their lives.
In the north of Korea, the main force of the Tiger Ben army led by Li Xing and Li Laosi was still plundering two classes of nobles. On the one hand, this new-style army from Tianjin raised a butcher's knife against the two classes of nobles and sacked one after another the estates of the two classes of nobles, and on the other hand, it encircled the Korean people at the bottom and distributed five buckets of food to each Korean people.
Such a strategy alleviated the contradiction between the Tiger Army and the people at the bottom of North Korea. The peasants who had benefited could not muster the courage to stand up to the Tiger Army. Although the two classes of nobles hated the Tiger Warrior, they could not gather the peasants together to snipe the Tiger Army.
It can be said that the grassroots political ecology of North Korea is being changed by this army. If the main force of the Tiger Ben army plundered all the way south from Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province, then the existing wealth of the entire Korean nobles and two classes would be plundered by Li Zhi.
The future wealth of the two classes of nobles will be wiped out by Li Zhi's new bureaucracy, schools, and newspapers.
The reason why the two classes of nobles became nobles was because of political privileges. Because the court officials had to come from two classes of noble families, all the officials spoke for the two classes of nobles. On weekdays, whenever there is a conflict between the two classes of nobles and the common people, the government is biased towards the two classes. Therefore, with the continuous increase in the population of the two classes of nobles, the land of Korea was constantly annexed by the two classes of nobles, and almost all the Korean peasants outside the two classes became tenant farmers of the two classes.
If Li Zhi abolished the political monopoly of the two classes of nobles in the government, the local power of the two classes of nobles would also be lost. Not to mention that there is no further annexation of land, and the land that was previously annexed by various means is very likely to be counter-attacked by the low-level peasants.
It can be said that once Yi Zhi's newspapers, schools, and new bureaucracy were implemented in Korea, the future wealth of the two classes of nobles would also be completely absent.
The history of the two classes of nobles as rulers of Korea will come to an end once and for all.
Li Zhi would rule the country with a new style of bureaucracy cultivated by the new school and cultivated by the culture of Tianjin. Turn North Korea into part of Tianjin.
After the two classes of nobles were abolished, he married the two classes of nobles, and the Korean king Yi Liang, who was politically dependent on the two classes of nobles, naturally became a rootless tree. Li Liang knew that if he could treat this Joseon festival envoy to death, it would be a good ending. As for passing on the throne to the heirs, there is no need to think about it at all.
Zhong Feng saw that the Korean monarchs and ministers on the ground were trembling, smiled and said, "Of course, the Korean army cannot be kept in the future." As far as I know, the DPRK's annual income is about 5 million taels, and its army is 4 million taels. In the future, the four million taels can be saved and handed over to Tianjin. An army was stationed in Seoul from Tianjin to protect Korea. ”
When the Korean monarchs on the ground heard this, they looked at each other and became even more desperate.
The army was also completely withdrawn, and the soldiers stationed in Tianjin in Korea. What is the difference between this and directly destroying North Korea? Yi Sik continued to retain Yi Ju's position as the leader of North Korea, just to appease the North Korean peasants so that they would not have a revolt mood to be destroyed.
The central idea of the first way is to temporarily preserve the North Korean government and appease the bottom peasants of North Korea. Then replace the government when the new newspapers and schools take control of North Korea.
The first road was so desperate that the North Korean "Prime Minister" Park Dae-kyung on the ground looked up and asked, "What about the second road?" ”
Hearing Park Dajing's inquiry, Zhong Feng's face sank.
Zhong Feng tapped his fingers on the throne of North Korea and snorted coldly.
The Korean monarchs and ministers kneeling below were furious by the sound of Zhong Feng's fingers, and they bowed their heads to the ground one by one, not daring to look up at Zhong Feng.
"The second way is to completely abolish the name of the country. North Korea will be divided into two administrative regions, the north and the south, all of which will be under military control. The royal family and officials of North Korea were all imprisoned as war criminals, and after being tried by the Tianjin court, the sentence was changed, and the sentence should be killed! ”
The translator turned Zhong Feng's words into Korean, and the officials on the ground couldn't help but tremble when they heard Zhong Feng's murderous words.
The so-called second way is that if the North Korean officials are unwilling to cooperate with Yi Sik, and if the North Korean monarchs and ministers are unwilling to form a transitional government before the newspapers and schools control North Korea's public opinion and culture, then Li Sik will come hard and maintain order in North Korea with an iron fist.
Perhaps this will contain Li Zhi's large number of troops, and there will be some uprisings and rebellions. But it is believed that after only five years, the order in North Korea will be stabilized.
For Li Zhi, the second path will waste a lot of Li Zhi's time. And for the Korean monarchs and ministers who were kneeling on the ground, if they chose the second path, they might lose their lives and have nothing left.
The king of Joseon on the ground, Yi Liang, did not expect that his end would be so bad.
Unexpectedly, he surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty by believing in the Great Doctrine of Enlightenment, and in this way offended the Ming Kingdom of Jinguogong, and finally led to the collapse of Korea.
No! Even if he did not defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that Li Zhi would have reached out to North Korea. North Korea is so close to Tianjin, and sooner or later Li Zhi will occupy North Korea.
Li Liang is already old, and he won't live many years. He suddenly felt a little angry, he raised his head sharply, and said loudly: "We, the monarchs of Korea, choose the first..."
Li Liang originally wanted to loudly announce that he was going to choose the second path.
However, as soon as the North Korean officials on the ground saw Li Liang's momentum, they knew what Li Liang was going to say. As if they had suddenly encountered the most dangerous situation, they rushed forward one by one, desperately blocking Li Liang's mouth with their hands and arms. More than a dozen people controlled Li Ju in an instant, and Li Ju couldn't speak.
The Korean monarchs and ministers on the ground suddenly became a mess.
Zhong Feng looked at the North Koreans playfully and asked with a smile, "Have you thought of a choice?" ”
More than a dozen officials on the ground said in unison: "Let's choose the first way!" ”
Li Liang, who was pressed to the ground by the officials, glanced at the bureaucrats around him angrily, and his eyes widened.
But now that he is no longer the king of Joseon, what can he do if he is angry. The anger flashed in his eyes, and then it vanished. Li Qi fell to the ground and sighed heavily.