Chapter 430: Landing on the Korean Peninsula
In January of the 63rd year of the Han Dynasty, after the large-scale battle of the land of China entered the peaceful stage, the Third Route Han Army, which had the smallest number of people, finally landed from Pusan on the vacant ships!
Since the real main force was transferred to the coastal areas of the Manchu Empire, only an army of more than 10,000 Indians landed in Korea, and it was not equipped with the advanced Han Yi rifle, but the Dreiser rifle that was eliminated from the hands of the Han Imperial Forest Army!
Moreover, the proportion of Maxine heavy machine guns and grenadiers was also twice as small as the troops attacking the Manchu Empire!
It can be said that Zhao Dutian was full of contempt for this vassal of the Manchu Empire, the Korean Kingdom, and if he didn't want the Korean coolies to fill the labor force urgently needed on the American continent, and use Korea as a pedal to enter the black soil of the three northeastern provinces that Emperor Qianlong regarded as a retreat, Zhao Dutian would not have bothered to attack the poor and backward, and wanted grain but no grain, and no minerals in the Korean Peninsula......
Perhaps, the only benefit that the Korean Peninsula can bring to Zhao Dutian is the population there, and the weakness of the military strength of the Korean Kingdom also made the General Staff of the Han Empire report the mentality of taking it away at will and send 10,000 poorly equipped troops to plunder......
When the Han Empire landed, it was not surprising that it was not stopped by any army, and with those wooden turtle shells of the Korean Kingdom, intercepting the navy of the Han Empire was no different from sending them to death, and fighting a landing sniper battle within the range of the Han Empire's naval guns, not to mention!
In fact, in this era, the tactical idea of sniping the enemy on the tidal flats was not popular, not that those bigwigs did not know that sniping on the tidal flats would cause great difficulties to the landing force when the enemy landed, but that they were limited by the weapons and equipment of this era!
Without machine guns, pillboxes and high-powered artillery, it was a real problem to stop the enemy from landing with outdated shotguns and broadsword spears......
Especially in the absence of sea supremacy, it is even more difficult!
But then again, without sea supremacy, it seems that the enemy forces would not dare to risk landing on the beach......
When the Han army landed, the Han Empire, as customary, sent an ultimatum to the capital of the Korean Kingdom, claiming that the Korean Kingdom would unconditionally obey the orders of the Han Empire's Wang Shi, and that the control of the army would be handed over to General Xue Ziwu (formerly the commander of the Second Army of the Han Guards) of the Han army that landed!
It can be said that if the Joseon royal family agreed to this ultimatum, it would basically be equivalent to giving up all resistance and kneeling as a slave in front of the landing Han army......
Perhaps, the Joseon royal family will be preserved and act as a puppet regime to stabilize the Korean kingdom, however, as long as a ruler is not willing to be such a puppet under the fence of completely parasitic people!
Although the Korean Kingdom was a vassal state of the Manchu Empire, the Manchu emperor could not look down on the poor and backward Korean Peninsula that could not squeeze oil and water, and said that it was a vassal country, but in fact, except for irregular tribute, the Manchu Empire did not have any binding force on the Korean royal family, and the Manchu emperor did not mean to restrain the Korean kingdom at all!
For the ruler, it is not that the greater the population is included in his own national system, the inclusion of foreign countries in his own country means that the ruler has to feed the people who have been incorporated into his own country!
It doesn't matter what the oppression is, the ruling class has never been able to oppress the people, even the country in the 21st century belongs to the violent machine of oppressing the people, but it is just dressed in the cloak of democracy, even the old man of the 21st century knows that it is democracy, but he has never exercised the right of the master in his life!
Therefore, these slogans can fool the people at the beginning, but as time goes by, the people find that they used to be dogs for the official master, but now they are still a bird, naturally, the people also understand what is going on, what is the right of the people that they dare not think of, they can eat enough and wear warm clothes to be satisfied......
Therefore, letting the people eat is something that the ruler must do, otherwise, the common people who are hungry to death will naturally break out in waves!
It's better to be killed than to be starved!
Limited by the productive forces of modern times, even the European powers that have entered the process of industrialization do not dare to guarantee that the common people will have enough to eat, at most to the extent that they will not starve to death, but the Europeans want to expand their territory to earn profits, and they cannot turn the civilians who encroach on the land into their own nationals, increase the burden on the state, and have to encroach on a large amount of land to obtain benefits. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
So, the Europeans invented a system, a predatory colonial system!
They used war and violence to oppress the people of the colonies, regardless of their lives or deaths, and did not care about their food problems, so simply and rudely solved the problem of expanding their territory!
It's just that the thinking of the Chinese is different from that of the Europeans, they uphold the thinking of great unification, not the bandit thinking of the Europeans, don't look at the territory of the European powers in modern times is beautiful on the map, and there are rice flags everywhere, but the Europeans themselves know very well that their control over there has not penetrated deeply!
Even the Europeans themselves see themselves as outsiders to the colonies!
This is completely different from laying down a piece of land in the Eastern world, either as a subject country or as a locality!
The colonial policy of the Europeans is maintained entirely by force, and as long as the force declines, the European forces that have not taken root in the colonies and have been enslaving the natives will collapse!
You must know that when Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the territory was only a small piece of territory in the Central Plains, and after the development of the Manchu Empire, how much did it expand more than doubled? !
It is the Oriental people's unified thinking, and the practice of integrating a piece of land when it is built, so that China's territorial area continues to expand the basic plate!
The sun never set on the British Empire at that time, how glorious it was, it was not that after the decline, only the mainland and some scattered islands remained, and China, in the modern war, it was repeatedly defeated, first by the British single, then by the British and French doubles back and forth, and then more complete calves, by the little Japan that rose up later, and was pressed to the ground by the little Japan that rose later!
Not to mention the deeds of being beaten up by eight countries......
China's modern history is a history of constantly defeating wars and ceding land and paying reparations!
However, looking at China in the 21st century, except for Outer Mongolia, which became independent under the cordial greetings of the Soviet Union's 'big brother', and Taiwan became a legacy issue, it seems that the other lands have not been divided!
The fact that China has been able to maintain this level of defeat all the way is enough to show how excellent China's idea of great reunification is!
Zhao Dutian also appreciates China's thinking, but unfortunately, he rose too fast, and if he didn't step on the bones of other peoples, he was simply unable to support a huge empire!