Chapter 318: Yuan Datou Governs Korea
"The land in the north was returned to China as a reward for helping it expel the Japanese army and restore its independence, what does it have to do with the current support?" , Li Hui couldn't help but sneer after learning about these situations, "It's really good to forget the pain of the scar, and if you are a little better for them, you forget that you are actually just an alternate choice......"
The point is that if North Korea is too poor, there will definitely be refugees running to China, and if North Korea is too weak, it will not be able to effectively balance Japan. However www.biquge.info the North Korean government's ignorance of the promotion still makes Li Hui very angry, and if he is angry, the consequences will be very serious......
So, Yuan Shikai, who had been in North Korea for many years, came to North Korea again, because he thought that he was taking the lead in persuading Li Hui to anger Li Hui and was sent here, Yuan Datou was in a very bad mood, and unconsciously regarded the North Korean royal family as a punching bag, and the latter's life was suddenly not good......
The day after coming to North Korea, the previous Joseon king Li Xi "took the initiative" to abdicate and was succeeded by the crown prince Li Kun, who was not yet 22 years old at the time (early 1896), this son was even more cowardly than his father, he was very afraid of Yuan Shikai when he was a child, and his brain was clearer than Li Xi, knowing that he would not look for death, which was even more important.
In addition, this son has another advantage, he is physically defective, will not have offspring, and is frail and sickly, and will not live long, so as long as Yuan Shikai first does some foreshadowing work to turn the Korean king into a complete rubber stamp, and as soon as the transitional king dies, North Korea can transition to a republic more conveniently. After realizing Li Hui's disgust with the imperial system, Yuan Shikai immediately saw the wind and turned to support the republican system in a high-profile manner, and did not forget to advocate when he came to North Korea, hoping to regain his holy grace.
However, Yuan Shikai, who knows Korea very well, knows that the king of Korea is actually only a small problem, and what is really difficult to solve is the lack of new talents similar to the problem of China in the late Qing Dynasty, and to some extent, the problem of North Korea in this regard is even more difficult to solve than China's, because there is also a chronic disease of class solidification......
Although North Korea has long imitated China in carrying out the imperial examination, the upward channel is actually still monopolized by the so-called "two classes of nobles", and even if the children of commoners have the opportunity to study, it is difficult to become officials, let alone hold high positions. Because of this special national condition, almost all of the limited talents in the DPRK come from those few large ethnic groups, and those large ethnic groups are precisely the main forces that prevent the reform of the DPRK, so one can imagine how difficult it is to complete the cultural reform in the DPRK.
Fortunately, Li Hui also understood this, and deliberately sent most of the cadres who could speak Korean in China (basically the biochemical soldiers who were originally prepared to deal with the Japanese invasion of Korea) over, although the number was only 10,000, but it still gave Yuan Shikai a lot of help, at least the local pilot can be carried out first.
Incheon was the most westernized city in Korea before the First Sino-Japanese War, and the citizens were relatively receptive to the new system and ideas, while Jeolla Province was the source of the Donghak uprising.
When the two pilot zones are successful, on the one hand, there are examples to enhance the persuasiveness, and on the other hand, it is much easier to discover and cultivate some available talents, and then promote them to the whole country.
In addition to the pilot, Yuan Shikai also purged the North Korean officialdom in the name of anti-corruption, and dismissed those diehards who dismissed officials, killed heads, and exterminated ethnic groups, in order to remove the resistance to reform. It's just that even if he is so ruthless, the future high-level of North Korea will still be dominated by the surnames of Kim, Li, Park, and Quan, which makes people have to sigh the depth of the poison of the two classes of nobles, but Li Hui has long expected this, he knows that even in the 21st century, the political system of the two Koreas still has traces of history, and those high-ranking officials and dignitaries are all from big families......
In addition, Yuan Shikai also responded to domestic requirements, recruited many laborers from North Korea to go to China to engage in highly dangerous work, to meet the labor gap caused by the rapid decline in the number of labor prisoners, although this is not very kind, but from the perspective of the Chinese, North Korean casualties are always better than Chinese casualties, not to mention that with the current poverty and backwardness of North Korea, North Koreans who have not undergone long-term training want to go to China to make money, and they can only do this kind of work. The wages are high (relative to the income of the poor in North Korea, of course), and every job is filled.
The reason why Yuan Shikai wants to vigorously promote this matter is, on the one hand, that he hopes to win domestic awards, but the more direct purpose is to open up a new source of revenue for North Korea. North Korea has almost no commodities other than labor and local products of limited value (in combination with market capacity), and the popularization of modern education is not an overnight thing, and the only way to achieve an early trade balance in North Korea is to export labor in the short term.
And to some extent, this can also be used to give those North Korean workers a first understanding of industrialization, and when they return to China, they will always be more supportive of reform than those foolish people at home, right?
Although Yuan Shikai did not wait for Korea to be completely enlightened and returned to China, the basic system of North Korea was basically from Yuan Datou's hands, and later the industrialization of Korea was gradually completed along the line formulated by Yuan Datou......
China interfered so deeply in the internal affairs of its allies that it directly sent a large number of troops and cadres to the country, and only two examples, North Korea and Hawaii, were rooted in the fact that the restoration of the two depended entirely on China's help, and naturally China also had the obligation and corresponding right to "be a good man to the end". As for other allies, the Chinese government will not care so much, and even if they have civil unrest, even if the government asks for help, the Chinese government will not necessarily intervene...... (To be continued.) )