The treaty reaffirmed that the Kingdom of Korea was a vassal state of the Great China Empire and an integral part of the Great China Empire.

This is completely different from the so-called vassal states in the past, and the vassal states stipulated in the new treaty are based on the principles of many vassal states in the Central Plains in the past, similar to the relationship between the Zhou Dynasty and the princes in ancient times, and similar to the relationship between the German Empire and its subordinate kingdoms.

However, in order to make Korea agree to this, the empire also made a certain sacrifice, that is, the treaty also stipulated that the empire only had the power to canonize the king of Korea, but it could not interfere in the selection of the Korean kingdom, let alone depose the king of Korea.

At the same time, the subject state has complete autonomy in internal affairs, and the suzerainty cannot interfere.

The suzerainty has the power to canonize and depose the vassal monarch, and it is also the most feared and even the most rebellious power of the Koreans.

One of their kings, your suzerain's country said that if you dethrone it, you will be deposed, where do you put the face of the Koreans!

In addition to the righteous name, the most important price paid by the Joseon Kingdom was military and diplomatic power.

One of the most important was the establishment of the 'Korean Garrison' in order to coordinate the suppression of bandits, jointly defend against foreign enemies, and assist the empire and other enemy countries in their wars.

Soldiers were mainly recruited from the Kingdom of Korea, but the commanders were under the dual management of the Kingdom of Korea and the Empire, and the Supreme Commander had to be an active member of the Imperial Army, using the same establishment and training system as the Imperial Navy and Army.

Its main duties and tasks are to assist the Royal Army and Navy in a series of foreign campaigns.

In order to prevent this Korean army from threatening the security of the Kingdom of Korea itself, the Kingdom of Korea authorized the daily stationing of the army on Jeju Island and the Imperial Military Base in Busan.

At the same time, in order to avoid contact or conflict between the princes and the local population, the Joseon Kingdom will move all the people of the current Jeju Island back to the mainland of the peninsula, making Jeju Island a purely military jurisdiction, and in view of the fragile financial situation of the Korean Kingdom, the Empire will bear all the costs of the relocation of the people of Jeju Island.

As for the Busan military base, it has long been a purely military jurisdiction, and there are no North Koreans in the first place, and they are all soldiers of the imperial garrison.

This 'Korean garrison' was in fact a servant army, and its military expenses were borne by the Kingdom of Korea.

Of course, for the Empire, this Korean garrison is not only a servant army, but also an important means of control that affects the military diplomacy of the Korean Kingdom, although it is a dual leadership, but the actual control is in the hands of the Empire, if necessary, this Korean garrison can land on the main Korean island and then quickly control the situation.

The first commander of the Korean garrison was Colonel Jiang Zibei, the former head of the infantry regiment of the Busan military base sent by the Imperial Army.

Since Jiang Zibei was only a colonel, the imperial side also urgently promoted him to the rank of major general.

At the same time, some of the active duty officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army stationed in Korea will also take on the responsibility of helping to train the Korean garrison, and the main middle and senior officers will also be served by the active duty officers of the Imperial Army.

To put it simply, this is a Chinese-trained and commanded army of North Korean servants.

This was one of the important agreements reached by Yuan Baoheng and Li Yuying, which was to build an army that was nominally owned by North Korea but was actually controlled by China.

As for the reason?

Yuan Baoheng's reason was that Korea would no longer have land borders with other countries except the empire, and it would be better to hand over the regular field army to China, and the empire would promise to guarantee the Yi dynasty, well, the focus was on the stability of the Li Yuying regime, and the responsibility to suppress all armed rebellions against Li Yuying, etc.

Li Yuying is naturally unacceptable to this, but in order to gain power, he has to pinch his nose and admit it, besides, this North Korean garrison is just a newly built army, and Li Yuying has other armies, that is, the traditional five battalion army of North Korea, these troops are still loyal to Li Yuying.

In order to ensure the stability of its own power, the Korean side also forcibly demanded that this army not leave Jeju Island and return to the main island of Korea without the invitation of the lord of the Korean Kingdom, of course, this is only a peacetime rule, anyway, the command is in the hands of the empire, and if the situation in Korea changes, this servant army can quickly cross the sea and land.

In addition to political factors, this is also related to the Empire's desire to transfer some of the military pressure to the subject countries, the size of the Empire's army is already very large, and the annual military expenditure has been high.

In addition to the cost of weapons and equipment, the large part of the annual military expenditure is the salary cost of personnel, although in order to reduce military spending, the empire began to reform personnel salaries very early on, in order to reduce personnel salaries.

But these soldiers are not compulsory soldiers, even if the salary is compressed, but it must be guaranteed at a minimum level, although the average is not much for each person, but the total amount is not large.

In contrast, the cost of human resources in the poor country of North Korea is lower, and the salary of the North Koreans recruited as soldiers is only one-fifth or even less than that of the imperial soldiers, and more importantly, the salary costs of these personnel are borne by the North Koreans.

In this way, the empire can obtain a large number of cheap cannon fodder for the army to use, which can effectively reduce military spending and the number of casualties of its own soldiers when used in foreign wars.

In addition to military power, there were also diplomatic powers, and the empire was established for the first time in a treaty, and the diplomatic treaties of any nature entered into by vassal states and other countries must be ratified by the empire.

In addition to the general righteousness, military and diplomatic power, the empire renounced interference in Korea's internal affairs.

However, although the official interference, in fact, the interference is very obvious.

For example, Li Yu should promise to hire some Chinese to carry out economic and customs reforms.

This is a series of treaties, basically the empire infiltrates Korea in all aspects, through various advisers, so as to control the two major powers of Korea, military and diplomatic, and economic power, it is mainly responsible for the empire, as for the North Koreans themselves want to reform and so on, the empire does not care.

Li Yu should agree to this, also because he saw that the empire did not care about the internal affairs of Korea, because the empire did not mean to interfere in the internal affairs of Korea.

In addition to military and diplomatic issues, he Li Yuying can play whatever he wants in terms of internal affairs, and he will appoint whoever he likes to be ministers, and Yuan Baoheng promised Li Yuying very frankly: The empire is not interested in the internal affairs of Korea.

Anyway, for the empire, if they support themselves, then they will be the regent of North Korea, but if they don't agree, then there are a lot of people in North Korea waiting to accept the conditions of the empire and then serve as the new regent.

Moreover, just like Yuan Baoheng said, anyway, the border of Korea is the empire, as long as it does not resist the empire, there is basically no worry about foreign enemies, so there is no so-called diplomatic or military problem.

As long as he can continue to be in power, Li Yuying does not mind being a regent who only has internal power.

Of course, if he had the opportunity in the future, he would not mind rebelling against the strength of the empire, but such a rebellion would not be realistic in a short period of time.

After the ********, after hiring a large number of Chinese advisers, and also in order to appease some reformist forces in North Korea, Li announced the beginning of reform.

The main reform was incomplete, mainly focused on internal affairs, while externally, it insisted on a policy of closing the country to the outside world, maintaining only exchanges with the empire, thus refusing to communicate with Western countries, and even expelling British and French diplomats who had just arrived in Korea.

Most of these internal reforms focused on consolidating the power of the central government, such as establishing a new customs and taxation system, or building a new imperial examination education system modeled after the existing education system of the empire.

At the same time, under the influence of the empire, the Korean side also began to move closer to the empire in an all-round way, and this closeness was not only reflected in military and diplomatic aspects.

It is more reflected in the culture, and the North Korean side even introduced such a word, that is, 'Sinicization reform'.

There is a very interesting content in this Sinicization reform,That is, North Korean women are forbidden to wear" exposed "milk clothes",Because this kind of clothing that prevails in the ordinary women of North Korea Although there are advantages such as cool summer、Convenient breastfeeding and other later generations of otaku like to see,But it is really immoral,You think,North Korean women who go to the street and look at it all show two,Or like a pigeon,Or like a white-faced steamed bun。

How can those imperial people who are deeply educated by traditional Confucianism stand it, and they all exclaim like a sour master: It's immoral!

For this reason, Yuan Baoheng specifically mentioned this matter to Li Yuying, can you North Koreans show face, let's be a diplomat, this Asia can be regarded as a running all over Asia, a few years ago, I also went to Europe, it can be regarded as a wealth of knowledge, how can I have seen shirtless arms, legs, and backs in my diplomat career for so many years, and even seen naked without clothes.

But I didn't see the rest of the body covered by the whole body, and only two breasts were exposed.

Of course,The problem of wearing is just a trivial matter.,In the Sinicization reform of North Korea,The promotion of Chinese clothing、The prohibition of wearing dew~Milk clothing and the like is not the point.,It can only be regarded as an anecdote.。

The focus of North Korea's Sinicization reform is still on education.

The Joseon Kingdom was ready to build a new education system following the example of the empire, and this comprehensive imitation was not only the imitation of the education system, but also the learning content: that is, the use of Chinese textbooks and the use of Chinese language teaching.

North Korea originally implemented Chinese education, the official documents were originally Chinese, but the pronunciation is different, the North Koreans' imperial examinations, the same use of Bagu script, written in Chinese, before modern times, Chinese is the official language of North Korea, the official language of the upper class, to be able to write Chinese characters, speak Chinese proud.

As for the Korean script, it is the language of life of the lower classes, and it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance.

What is even more interesting about this reform of the Koreans is that it is not because they were forced by the empire, but because of their spontaneous behavior, it can be seen that the current Korea is completely different from the future Korea.

On the other hand, it is also an example of the enormous influence of empires in the contemporary Asian periphery.

The promotion of this kind of Chinese-style education is not limited to Korea, but also basically in the Kingdom of Vietnam, Japan and other countries.

These small countries in Asia, after seeing the success of the imperial reform, all regard the reform of the empire as a successful path and rush to imitate it, plus these countries are all in the traditional Han culture radiation area, and the influence of Han culture has not been one or two hundred years, but thousands of years, so there is no resistance to this.

This kind of non-resistance is also related to the fact that there is no modern concept of state and nation in contemporary times.

The concept of the modern state in the general sense of later generations was gradually formed after the rise of nationalism in the late nineteenth century.

Prior to this, the so-called state was generally only a 'dynasty', or a family under heaven, and this was especially true for the traditional Confucian regions of Asia.

Even in the present empire, it is in the stage of a dynastic state, not the stage of a modern state as later generations believed.

This can be seen from the slogans shouted by the soldiers when they launched the charge, they shouted slogans such as fighting to the death for Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, and so on, rather than saying anything like long live China.

The navy and land armies of the empire were not loyal to the country of the Chinese Empire, but to the emperor Lin Zhe.

Therefore, the modern empire is completely different from the modern state of later generations.

The empire is like this, and the situation in other countries is naturally similar.

Therefore, the ordinary people of the present day have signed treaties that humiliate the country, and they basically do not care much about how much territory has been ceded, and many people have never heard of the concepts of cultural loss and national extinction.

Therefore, the Empire's promotion of Han culture in the Asian direction was not ostracized, but rather welcomed.

Because in this way, the Han-style education that many local nobles and upper-class people were able to learn and get rid of can be contacted and learned by more people in the middle and lower classes.

Unlike the historical Westernization that was generally rejected in Asia, Sinicization was universally welcomed.

While watching the opening ceremony of the newly established 'Seoul High School' in the Kingdom of Korea, Yuan Baoheng thought that in order for Korea to completely join the Chinese Empire, this alone was not enough, and more efforts must be made.

And in this case, what could be more suitable than marriage!

Soon, under the impetus of Yuan Baoheng, the North Korean side prepared to send the royal women to Nanjing. (To be continued.) )