Chapter 307: The Law of Transforming Goryeo

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This Guo Kan is said to be the prototype of Guo Jing and Guo Juxia, the Han separatists who resisted reunification all his life in Jin Yong's pen and Jin Daxia. However, in real history, Guo Kan was a hardcore loyal minister of the Great Mongolia, his father and ancestor fought on behalf of the Mongols, and he followed Hülegü all the way to the Arabian Peninsula. Later, when he heard of Möngke Khan's death, he was ordered to return to Middle-earth and surrender to Kublai Khan.

Now hearing that Kublai Khan was going to appoint himself as the head of the navy, how dare Guo Kan slack off, and hurriedly bowed and saluted: "The last general will do his best to build a navy army for the Great Khan as soon as possible, and capture Chen Dexing, a thief!" ”

"With Guo Qing out of the horse, I will be relieved." Kublai Khan squeezed out a smile.

He was indeed at ease with Guo Kan, not only in his military prowess, but also in his belief that he would not rebel against the Great Mongols. Because Guo Kan is not a military and civilian household, the soldiers under his command are all recruited from the Han land directly under the Great Khan, not Guo Kan's private soldiers. It is safe to be sent to the naval warship to act as the main force of hand-to-hand combat - Kublai Khan really can't believe that a vote of colorful merchants can go to hand-to-hand combat with Chen Dexing's Northern Expeditionary Army! And he was reluctant to send the precious Mongols on the ship, so he could only use the Han Chinese.

"Guo Kan, after you arrive in the Haijin Army, you must do your best to select a group of people who dare to die to train on the ship, and there may be a good opportunity to establish meritorious service after the spring next year!"

Kublai Khan's ∮ ↗ face was already gloomy. On the issue of eliminating Chen Dexing, a big henchman, he couldn't believe the Koreans no matter what!

"The last general obeys!" Guo Kan looked murderous, patted his chest and said, "If Chen Dexing is a thief on Jianghua Island." The last general must have captured him alive for the Great Khan! ”

Kublai Khan looked back at a man in his twenties, dressed in a Mongolian leather robe. A young man with a face full of horizontal flesh and a pair of golden family's iconic triangular eyes.

"Hotu!" Kublai Khan said. "The things on the sea have Guo Kan and Pu Shougeng to deserve, so the things on land ......"

"Rest assured, my father has mobilized 30,000 Mongol warriors to camp north of the Yalu River. The 90,000 horses are fed with good horse feed to ensure that they can be used immediately at the beginning of spring. ”

This young Mongol was none other than Prince Hotu, the son of King Tachar. Now it is time to come on behalf of Tachar to report on the raid on Goryeo.

In order to eradicate Chen Dexing, the scourge of opposing national reunification, Kublai Khan really made a bloody investment. Not only did they allocate huge sums of money to build ships from the not very rich treasury. He also gave the entire Goryeo to the four kings of the host, and also carefully formulated a triple lore plan for the sea and land to bloom in the center!

Yoo Hyo-won successfully persuaded Kim In-joon to carry out the Ganghwado Incident, which was only the first of the triple killing moves!

And Guo Kan and Pu Shougeng led the Mongolian sailors to attack Ganghwa Island from the sea is the second of the triple killing moves!

And the third killing move is 30,000 Mongolian cavalry! They have now secretly driven to the north bank of the Yalu River. Before the arrival of spring, it will rush forward to the vicinity of Goryeo Xijing - at this time, the northern border of Goryeo has shrunk greatly, and Xijing Pyongyang is almost a border city! From Pyongyang to Kaekyung, it is only a 500-mile dry road, and the terrain is not complicated. If the Mongolian army with one man and three horsemen spares no horsepower, it will be able to pounce on Kaijing in two or three days!

According to Kublai Khan's prediction, if Kim Renjun and Pu Shougeng's double killing moves are all miscalculated. Chen Dexing will definitely lead his troops to attack Beijing. Go and capture the Goryeo court in order to use the Goryeo court to control the whole of Goryeo.

At that time, the 30,000 Mongolian troops led by the prince of Tachar will be able to take Chen Dexing's life!

Kublai Khan suddenly looked at Huo Tu with a gloomy face: "What if the 30,000 army can't take Chen Dexing?" ”

"W-How is this possible?" Hotu looked at Kublai Khan with his mouth wide open.

"How is it impossible?" Kublai Khan gritted his teeth. "You go back and tell Sù Chatar, and if so, kill all the way back to the north of the Yalu River - kill anyone you see along the way. Burn the house when you see it, don't leave anything for Chen Dexing! ”

"Ah...... Obey the order! Hotu muttered to himself. Why was the Great Khan so afraid of Chen Dexing? Wouldn't it be a pity to kill all the good Goryeo herdsmen? This great Mongolian war has always come and go. If you want to go, you can go, but you are still afraid that the Han people will catch up?

Kublai Khan seemed to know Huo Tu's thoughts, and suddenly accentuated his tone: "You must kill, burn, and rob everything, and nothing can be left for Chen Dexing!" You must not coerce the people of Goryeo to retreat slowly, otherwise it will be broken by Chen Dexing! ”

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The night is getting darker.

In the Jeju capital, the office of the Northland Envoy is still brightly lit.

Stacks of reports and documents, gathered from the yamen of various departments, were placed on Chen Dexing's desk. Now the Northern Expeditionary Army is still in its infancy, and there are too many things to do.

"What's wrong?" Seeing a hint of discoloration on Zhao Fu's face, Chen Dexing asked suspiciously.

Zhao Fu raised his head with a smile of unknown meaning: "The king of Goryeo said that he would personally send his daughter to Ganghwa Island...... It seems that this prince really wants to serve us. ”

Under the influence of Ko Cun-chung, a correspondence channel between Kaegyong, the capital of Goryeo, and Jeju Island has been established. There is more than one, but one for the Goryeo court, and one for Kim In-jun, the leader of the Goryeo military ministers.

Both the Goryeo court and Kim In-joon had the same attitude towards Chen Dexing - to please as much as they could! The Goryeo women who were sent to Jeju Prefecture one after another alone have exceeded 200, and of course Chen Dexing can't use them, and they are all assigned to the officers who follow him as concubines. As for all kinds of goods, they were transported by boat, and the furs and ginseng produced in Goryeo were stacked in the warehouses of the Northern Expeditionary Army one by one!

is so attentive, it really makes Chen Dexing and Zhao Fu a little embarrassed to oppress Goryeo as a colony!

But just because you're embarrassed doesn't mean you can't do it! Chen Dexing and Zhao Fu are both black-bellied masters, so they won't be unable to pull their faces!

"Or you can take the king hostage!"

Chen Dexing and Zhao Fu, the two villains, spoke almost at the same time! It's exactly the same!

"How many guards does the letter say the king plans to bring to the island?" Chen Dexing hurriedly asked again.

"Will be guarded by Zuo Betsu." Zhao Fu said, "Don't copy is an elite army, the number is not too much, there are only more than 10,000 people in total, of which there are three or four thousand generals in Zuo Beitong." ”

"Only three or four thousand ......"

The army that Chen Dexing plans to bring to Ganghwa Island is 12,500, and he will bring at least 18 cannons! Not to mention the three or four thousand people, it is more than 10,000 people who gather together, and it is not impossible to eliminate.

Zhao Fu said again: "After controlling the prince and capturing the three bie, the army will enter Kaijing and be able to practice feudalism in Goryeo." ”

Goryeo now had a centralized bureaucracy similar to that of the Southern Song Dynasty before it. Of course, like the Southern Song Dynasty, it was mired in an inefficient bureaucracy, where a country's land and wealth were concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy families who controlled the government without fulfilling their corresponding obligations. He did not pay any taxes to the imperial court, nor did he bear much responsibility for defending the country. The burden of Goryeo's finances and national defense fell entirely on the common people, who had only a small amount of wealth.

The solution proposed by Zhao Fu for Chen Dexing, a foreign ruler, was actually a copy of the ruling method of the Mongol world empire - first killing people's heads, and then using the prestige established by killing people to implement feudal methods, distributing a country's land wealth to people who were willing to take refuge or cooperate, and using them to rule the people, rather than directly establishing rule.

The advantage of this policy of colonization and partition is that it can establish colonial rule in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort. Like the success of the Mongols in China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Rus'. The Mongols, numbering only a few thousand or tens of thousands, ruled over such large countries as the Rus' and Persia. Even in the current northern part of the Central Plains, the Mongols have invested only tens of thousands of households!

This cannot but be said to be a huge success!

In fact, even the colonization of Europeans in the future, in India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, which had large populations and relatively strong native civilizations, also adopted the mode of coexistence between colonists and indigenous feudal lords in a certain way.

As for the shortcomings of the colonial plus feudal model, in the face of such a huge advantage, it is not worth mentioning at all.

"Has the charter of feudal Goryeo been formulated?" Chen Dexing asked again.

"It's already worked out." Zhao Fu took a stack of documents and handed it to Chen Dexing with both hands.

"The land of the whole country of Goryeo will be divided into four categories: the direct domain of the upper kingdom, the royal domain, the feudal domain, and the vassal grange.

Among them, the direct command of the upper kingdom is the territory of the general, including Jeju Island, Jindo, Ganghwa Island, Judo Island, and the area of Naugan that can establish a port on the coast of Goryeo; The royal domain is the direct rule of the king of Goryeo, which should include Samgyo and the surrounding areas of Goryeo; The feudal lord's territory is the land allocated to the Goryeo gate valve, and the Goryeo gate valve is very powerful, and the lord can destroy part of it, and then seal a part of it as a marquis, and have a maximum of one county of land (the county of Goryeo is very small, and there are 334 counties in the whole country); The vassal grange is the land that is given to the civil and military ministers who serve the generals, the king of Goryeo, and the feudal lords of Goryeo, and these lands will be taken from the direct domain, the royal domain, and the royal domain.

All the lords of the grange were required to pay a certain amount of annual tribute to the superior feudal lord, king, or upper kingdom, the feudal lord was required to pay an annual tribute to the king, and the king of Goryeo was required to pay an annual rice grain of 100,000 to 150,000 koku to the Upper Kingdom, that is, the Northern Land Recruitment Division. In addition, the foreign trade of Korea must also be monopolized by the Northland Recruitment Division.

In addition, a vassal can only have one grange, and the land of the grange cannot exceed 30,000 mu and cannot be less than 300 mu. The vassal grange may not be bought, sold, transferred, or divided, and may only be inherited by the eldest son. If there is no son-in-law, the concubine can also inherit, and if there is no concubine, the daughter or adopted son can also inherit the grange.

In addition to the vassals who owned the grange, the ordinary people of Goryeo, regardless of whether they were high or low, could pass the guò imperial examination or serve in the army and become officials. The imperial examination of Goryeo should be divided into the Goryeo branch and the Shangguo department, and those who have made military achievements in the imperial examination and those who have made outstanding achievements can also be given to the grange to become vassals. The eldest son of the vassal can be made up for the prince, and the rest of the sons who want to become a prince still need the imperial examination or military merit. In addition to the eldest son, the feudal monarch can also recommend three people to enter the king and the kingdom every year. (To be continued......)