Chapter 478: There Are Always Righteous Ones

In this era, fewer and fewer people mentioned the name of North Korea, and more often used the name Hwasju instead, although the history of this name is very short.

For the North Koreans who do not have any sense of statehood, there is no feeling that the country is occupied by others, and the so-called national ruin is not there, except for those unlucky ghosts who have made all kinds of mistakes and have been taken into slavery by the National Guard Corps and sold to Kanwai and Nanyang, the rest of the people still feel that life is much better.

Since Incheon is already known as one of the largest ports in Northeast Asia, a lot of trade in Nagasaki was transferred here.

For the Han people in Huazhou, they are mainly working and serving in the army, and some of them go to the sea to do business, but there are not many people who work in agriculture, and a large number of fields are cultivated by Koreans, as well as ports, the rough work of various factories, and the mining and mining of coal, all of which are busy by North Koreans.

The work and labor they do are all hard and abnormal, but all the Koreans who do this have no concept of bitterness, but they sincerely support Jiang Jiajun, at the beginning, Liu Twelve and Luo Yi did not believe at all, why can they still have such a mentality under foreign rule.

The officials of the Taishou Mansion, who were in charge of internal intelligence and public security, as well as Luo Yi's personal military battalion, all sent meticulous work and spies to visit everywhere, hoping to find out any flaws and signs.

What I didn't expect was that the results were ridiculous, and the North Koreans reacted very strangely, saying that life is much better now than before.

Originally, the land in the whole of Korea was basically concentrated in the hands of the Hunjiu faction and the Shilin faction, and although their political views were different, the identities of these people were all large landowners who held a large amount of land, and there was no essential difference in the degree of oppression of the peasants.

A peasant family of several people worked day and night on the landlord's land, but they still did not have enough to eat, and they had to serve the landlord in various names, and the lives and safety of their wives and children were basically not guaranteed, and the so-called bullying of men and women was commonplace.

This is among the Korean slaves in the reclamation manor outside the Guanwai, and some people say that they came here, but they were much better than when they were in North Korea, at least they had enough to eat.

If a person who stays in North Korea works for Hermes-Epitek for a long time, even if that person's identity is guaranteed by the Hermes-Epitek family, his family can go to other Hermes-Epitek homes to farm, or work in the factory, or contribute to the wharf.

The Han people here were poor people in Shandong and Beizhili, and they often did not know how to oppress long-term workers, and the treatment of Korean laborers was much better than that of working for the landlords in their own country in the past.

Not to mention those North Korean craftsmen who have craftsmanship and work in handicraft workshops, their families are even allowed to own land, which is the land of Kim Jong-woo's Shilin faction back then.

These people are all full support for Jiang Jiajun, many people before Jiang Feng came, the status in North Korea is not even as good as a dog in the bureaucracy, now they are well fed, and the situation is much better than before, these people basically have no culture, simple-minded, whoever is good to them, they will naturally support whoever is desperate, besides, Jiang Jiajun is Han Chinese.

The Han people are all from the Celestial Empire of Korea, and they have changed from being enslaved by their own people to being enslaved by the people of the more noble Celestial Empire, which seems to sound a lot better.

There are nearly four or five hundred thousand Koreans who work as domestic servants in the Minwei, those who work in the port workshops, and those who mine in the mines, including their families, and these people behave and dress as much as possible to imitate the Han people, because the Governor's Office has a strict order, and anyone who is found wearing Korean clothes or Korean language in the Minwei will be whipped for 30 and sent to exile.

Everyone knows what this distribution and exile is all about, that is, they were caught at the port of Incheon or the emerging port in the south, and they were directly bought in the South Seas.

Although the slaves who were sold to the South Seas have not yet seen anyone return, there are sailors who have been on the ship and say that the place is full of miasma, and people will not live there for a few days, so it is better to be sold outside the customs!

However, if their children or if they are fluent in Chinese, dressed in the style of Han Chinese, and even try to imitate their living habits, the treatment will be much better, and there are better examples, many Korean craftsmen who work in the workshops have been granted Han status.

This kind of treatment has made other people's eyes red, and the Chinese language, Hanfu, and the living habits of the Han people have become the objects of desperate imitation and learning by every North Korean attached to the Huazhou system of the Jiangjia Army.

This kind of sinicization is the most effective, let these people succumb to the sword and gun, let them be attracted by all kinds of interests, let them feel that as long as they try to get close to the Han people, they may even be accepted by the Han people, this method is extremely efficient, Liu Twelve once had an estimate that the Koreans who are attached to the Jiang family's army, as long as they grow up in the second generation, will become part of the Han people.

By the third generation, they don't even know whether they are North Koreans or not.

The 460,000 Koreans are divided into 23,000 households, and the soldiers who are rewarded according to their military merits can collect taxes from those families and levy labor.

In the current North Korea, because of the killing at the beginning of the conquest and the inevitable death of captured slaves, the population has been greatly reduced, counting the continuous slave trafficking out every year, there are still about 2.5 million people, and the Han people have about 700,000.

If you remove the 460,000 Koreans who are dependent on the Han people, at this time, the comparison between Hwashu and the Kingdom of Korea in terms of population alone is 1.1 million to 2 million, counting the wealth of Hwashu and the combat power of the army, the Jiang army at this time has completely controlled the country, and this control is constantly deepening.

In North Korea, people who can really speak Chinese fluently, and imitate the Ming Dynasty people in every move, and even imitate the Ming Dynasty officials, are the nobles and bureaucrats of this country, and these people's Beijing official dialect is even more authentic than most people in Huazhou.

The life of these people is also happy now, because Jiang Feng used thirty percent of the taxes paid in the entire Seoul to support these people, and Li Rengong, the most powerful Baishan Jun at present, and his cronies still have their own granges in the north of Korea, but they just get the production, and the villagers are not under their control.

In addition, all the royal family, nobles and officials allowed by Jiang Feng to exist still have quite a lot of offerings, which are part of the profits of Maoshan Iron Mine, because at the beginning, Jiang Feng was also worried that these farmers and Mongols in North Korea have the natural nature of obeying nobles, if they keep the king, they are willing to drive them to be cattle and horses, and if they are rashly abolished, there may be some trouble.

Seoul, near Incheon, has become a place where Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, Japanese and Western traders gathered, and commerce is thriving, and the market is much more prosperous than before.

Those bureaucrats and aristocrats who take silver for nothing every day and pay the small Korean court for nothing, do not have any sense of loyalty and righteousness, and every day they are in these teahouses and wine shops that have never been before, looking for fun, in these places, but the rich are the masters, who cares if you are Han, Korean or Japanese.

In the past, the Japanese in Kyushu often came to Korea to loot, and now there are a lot of Japanese prostitutes in the Qinglou in Seoul, which is a new thing for these Korean rich and nobles.

For the Joseon royal family and officials, this is simply a paradise, I don't know how much better it is than before, it is too late to enjoy every day, and there is still any loyalty, righteousness and filial piety.

However, there are also people who look at this unpleasantly, and have a deep sense of crisis, in a house close to the Korean palace, it is also a rare pavilion and water pavilion in North Korea, which looks very luxurious, sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard, the sound of silk and bamboo floating from somewhere outside, it seems ethereal and beautiful.

The two people sitting in the pavilion were not in the mood for appreciation, and one of them scolded angrily:

"In the long run, this is still North Korea, it is clearly the Ming Dynasty, and the country laid down by the ancestors, is it just ignored?"

After hearing this, the people on the side hurriedly made a silent gesture and said in a low voice:

"Brother Pu, be careful that the wall has ears, in case those Ming people know, it will be a river of blood!"

The man who scolded angrily did not look afraid, but stood up with a solemn face, and said with a fist at the person opposite:

"Lord Baishanjun, the lower officials have already raised nine hundred dead soldiers, and everyone is willing to sacrifice blood for the king, as long as Baishan Jun and the king invite the thief chief Jiang Feng to come to the palace for a banquet, when the time comes, the dead soldiers will be exhausted, and this thief will be killed, and then the thief army will be leaderless and will be in chaos, which is a good plan to restore the country in one fell swoop!"

These impassioned words made Li Rengong, the Baishan Jun opposite, full of cold sweat, and only said there:

"Rong Benjun think about it, Rong Benjun think about it......"