Chapter 639: The Intricate Northeast

The little tigers in the junior class are divided into two ways. Under the covert protection of the Shadow Soldiers, they are marching towards the "forefront of the revolution" with high spirits.

These guys are carrying hundreds of taels of silver in their bodies, holding miniature versions of various sharp weapons in their hands, plus they are all little foxes who have been systematically trained, and they are walking in the territory actually controlled by the Jin Kingdom, so naturally there is no danger.

What is really dangerous is Zhao Hu's team, which has secretly infiltrated Liaodong for half a year.

Gongsun Du's family has been entrenched in the Liaodong region for decades, and now he actually controls the huge territory of the two states, with a total of 80,000 troops and horses under his command, and he has vaguely become the king of the northeast for a while.

According to the division of the territory of the Han states, the Liaoxi Prefecture, Liaodong Vassal, Liaodong Prefecture, Xuansu County, and Lelang County (the northwestern part of the Korean Peninsula) that Gongsun Du now occupies are all under the jurisdiction of Youzhou. It's just that because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Zhang Chunzhang's rebellion, as well as the perennial rebellion of the Wuhuan and Karasuma clans in the northern part of Youzhou, the tentacles of the imperial court could not reach here more than ten years ago.

Gongsun Duzi Shengji, originally a native of Xiangping, Liaodong. His father's name was Gongsun Yan, and in order to avoid the exploitation of officials, Xuansu County (now Shenyang, Fushun, and Tieling in Liaoning Province, which is extremely rich in minerals). At that time, Xuansu Taishou's name was Gongsun Chen, and his son Gongsun Leopard died early when he was eighteen years old. When Gongsun Du was young, his name was also called Leopard, and he was the same year as Gongsun Chen's son, so Gongsun Chen liked him very much, arranged for him to learn art, and married a wife for Gongsun Du.

With Gongsun Chen's care, Gongsun Du's career was smooth sailing, and he was later appointed as Shang Shulang by the imperial court, and then moved to Jizhou Assassin Shi, because of rumors, he finally did not take office. At that time, Xu Rong, who was in the same county as Gongsun Du, was Dong Zhuo's general, and after Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang, he recommended Gongsun Du to serve as the Taishou of Liaodong.

When Gongsun Du served as the Taishou of Liaodong, many big clans in the county thought that he was just a minor official of Xuansu, so they were very contemptuous of him. After Gongsun Du took office, he found a way and an excuse to wipe out more than 100 wealthy families, so everyone in Liaodong was shocked.

In fact, when Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju were proclaimed emperors in Yuyang, Gongsun Du had the idea of becoming king in Liaodong, but he was strongly dissuaded by his advisers Yang Yi and Liu Yi and temporarily pressed. Later, Zhao Xing supported Liu Rong to be the king in Bingzhou, and Liu Qian to be the king in Liangzhou, which suddenly aroused the ambition of Gongsun Du to be the king in various places.

Yang Yi and Liu Yi then came to dissuade Gongsun Du, believing that it was actually fundamental to control Liaodong, and that taking advantage of the great war between Zhao Xing and the imperial court and Yuan Cao in the north, the first task was to attack Goguryeo in the east and Karasuma in the west, and occupy a larger territory in one fell swoop. Although Gongsun Du did not like it in his heart, he also felt that the suggestions made by the two were meritorious, so he reorganized his troops and prepared to make a move against Karasuma and Goguryeo.

Just when Gongsun Du was about to make a move, Zhao Hu secretly infiltrated Liaodong County with people.

Zhao Hu infiltrated Liaodong this time, and he had several tasks on his shoulders. First of all, he had to comprehensively reconnoiter and grasp the detailed strength of Gongsun Du's forces, the specific deployment situation, the ability level of the main generals and strategists, and the preferences and characteristics; second, he had to check the topographic maps of the Liaodong region that the Shadow Squad had been secretly collecting and drawing in the past few years to ensure that the important passes, cities, rivers, mountains, and other military targets were correctly marked, and would not delay the actions of the Jin army in the future; finally, he had to find a way to provoke a war between the surrounding tribes and Gongsun Du, and create a great chaos in the vast northeast region.

At that time, in the northeast of Gongsundu's power, there was first a vassal state the size of two counties in Goguryeo (Nenggou), and the capital of the country was in Goguryeo County (present-day Ji'an, Jilin). Goguryeo and Goryeo were completely different from what later generations called Goryeo, with the northwestern part of the Korean Peninsula being occupied by Gongsundu, and the northeastern part being the Yako (Note 1) tribe (pronounced "Huimo").

If the entire Korean Peninsula were to be bounded by the vicinity of the 38th parallel, North Korea would actually be divided mainly into Jang-gun in the east and Lelang County in the west, while South Korea would be occupied by Samhan (Mahan, Jinhan, and Benhan). Samhan is the collective name of the three tribal alliances in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula in ancient times (late 2nd century BC to around 4th century AD). Samhan was later unified by Silla. The period of Samhan's existence is sometimes referred to as the "Pre-Joseon Three Kingdoms Period".

Samhan was still a loose alliance of city-states at the time. The ruling class of the city-state was considered a mixture of politics and shamanism. Each city-state had its own ruler, but there is no evidence of the existence of a hereditary system.

Mahan is the largest of the three Koreas, consisting of 54 city-states. It is roughly located in Jeolla-do, Chungcheong-do, and Gyeonggi-do. Later, Baekje unified Mahan, and Chenhan was mainly located east of the Nakdong River and consisted of 12 city-states. One of the city-states later absorbed the other city-states to develop into Silla, and Benhan consisted of 12 city-states that developed into Gaya and was absorbed by Silla. Benhan is located to the south and west of the Nakdong River.

It was not until 313 A.D. that the Goguryeo Kingdom moved south to annex Lelang County and Obibang County, and in 427 Goguryeo moved its capital from Ji'an, Jilin Province to Pyongyang.

After explaining Goguryeo, Zhan and Samhan, let's take a look at the big tribe composed of three ethnic minorities that exist in the northeast of Goguryeo.

They are Wofu located in the east of Goguryeo, Rulou in the northeast of Goguryeo, that is, in the north of Wofu, and Fuyu in the northwest of Goguryeo. These three major tribes occupy almost the vast majority of what is now China's northeastern Inner Mongolia, the Heilongjiang River (including the Xihote Mountains and Hasarin Island), and Jilin Province, with a huge territory of nearly 2 million square kilometers.

To the north of Liaoxi County, which borders Youbeiping County controlled by Zhao Xing, are two large rivers, Raoleshui and Wuhou Qinshui. In these waters, the remnants of the Karasuma and Xianbei people live. At that time, the Flying Tiger Army swept through all ethnic groups north of Youbeiping, but in the end it did not advance eastward again, and took advantage of the situation to destroy the remnants of Karasuma and Liaoxi Xianbei, mainly based on the consideration of not wanting to stimulate and awaken Gongsun Du for the time being.

Now, when the forces are complicated and all parties are calculating each other, Zhao Hu has come in and intervened, and it is destined that there will be no peace in the Northeast from now on.

Note 1: Yemack is an ancient ethnic group in Northeast China, also known as raccoon dog, raccoon dog or Tibetan 貊, and is called "Baimin", "Haoren" or "Fa Ren" in ancient texts. The Hui people are formed by the convergence of the Hao and the Hui people, and are characterized by agricultural city gates, which are different from the nomadic people.

Note 2: Although the names of the ancient countries on the Korean Peninsula are changeable, the names of "Koreans" and "Koreans" have always been continued among the people, and they also appear from time to time in the legal documents of China and South Korea, for example, in the 80s of the 19th century, the "Qing Dynasty Water and Land Trade Regulations" have the names of "Chinese people" and "Koreans", and in the mid-90s of the 19th century, the Qing emperor's edict declaring war on Japan also has the title of "Li Hongzhang sent various armies, quickly marched and suppressed, gathered strong divisions, and marched one after another, in order to save the Han people from the charcoal".

After the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War, in the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" to give up the suzerainty of Korea and recognize the independence of Korea, in 1897, the king of Joseon announced the establishment of the emperor, the establishment of the "Korean Empire", "Han" for the first time from the folk into the country name, the sound of han in Korean is the meaning of "big", also has the meaning of "one", the vast majority of ethnic groups like to choose a good meaning or commemorative name as the name of the country, the name of the clan.

PS: This chapter may be difficult for book lovers to read, but Nandao is even more laborious in order to check the information. Why do you want to be thankless, mainly to let everyone understand that the big fool X country in the mouths of some sticks was originally a god horse......

If you haven't understood it yet, Nandao will continue to analyze and explain it in the future. We must stop the crooked trend of some mallets who rob our ancestors at every turn!