Chapter 45: Returning Like Lightning

"Let's take a look at Japan." Guo Kang pointed to the sea: "Japan's southern Korean regime, which is in a weak position, has already established contact with them in advance through its personnel in Korea. However, the Northern Dynasties also understood this, and in the direction of facing the Southern Dynasties and the peninsula, they increased their defensive forces. ”

In order to achieve suddenness and succeed in one fell swoop, Wang Baobao sent a large number of surrendered Goryeo, posing as Yuan Dynasty soldiers, to operate near the Tsushima Strait. He also deliberately asked a group of Goryeo soldiers to disguise themselves as Yuan troops, and as they did last time, they took the lead in attacking Tsushima Island, making the Japanese side think that this time they were still taking this as the main direction of attack. ”

"While the Japanese defenders repelled the Goryeo and rejoiced in the victory, he adopted the advice of the Jurchens and set out from the north and followed the route of the Jurchen pirates to attack the hinterland of the Northern Dynasty of Japan."

"The new Sultan Ashikaga clan was attacked by Wang Baobao's Henan Army and returned with a crushing defeat, and the already unstable domestic situation broke out in an instant. In addition, under the pretext of 'mediating' the dispute between the north and the south, the Yuan army also gave a more feasible plan, which made many lords lose the will to resist. ”

"How did they mediate? Supervise it yourself? "The queen looked interested.

"Yes, and they've devised a very clever selection method." Guo Kang said: "They proposed that qualified candidates of both the lineages of the Northern and Southern Dynasties are qualified to serve as caliphs, and since this is the case, it is better to reform the method of selection." ”

"The officials built a golden vase in the great temple of Kyoto, and a committee composed of eminent monks, monks, and nobles formed a committee to count and examine the qualified successors of the two families. The candidates who passed the review entered the lottery link, and under the supervision of the provincial government and a number of people, the next caliph was drawn in a golden bottle on the spot in the great temple. ”

The province of Zhengdong also imitated the experience of Yunnan and appointed the caliph as the governor of Japan to play a coordinating role. The Ashikaga Sultan announced his resignation and seclusion, became a monk, renounced his secular military position, and joined the temple committee. The other lords have made some adjustments, reorganized their territories into roads and prefectures, and set up Daru Huachi supervision in key areas. ”

"So far, this system is working well, and the Japanese can accept it. After Wang Baobao's death, it has remained until now. ”

"It's simply the perfect system." Borjan praised: "The council of nobles decides matters by consultation, which is called 'republic', and the selection by lot is called 'democracy.'" Both of these are mature systems that existed in the classical era and have been practiced for a long time. The presence of the army and military rulers of the Yuan Dynasty played the role of tyrants. ”

"The disadvantages and advantages of these systems are very obvious, and many times they are mutually exclusive, and the ancient Greeks have already experienced it deeply. And now, they can integrate the three ways of 'democracy', 'republican', and 'tyrant', which must be the creation of a great political theorist. ”

Guo Kang felt that he was exaggerating a little, but Borjan, like many scholars of this era, seemed to have a strange set of theories, and always had some unrealistic imagination about the far East. Of course, everyone is actually similar to this, and he can't say anything about others......

"We'll talk about the polity later." He interrupted Borjan's high-minded remarks: "Anyway, that's all I had gathered about that over there. ”

"These must have been decades old." Grand Lama Wang said, "Zhao Liang, please introduce the new trend to everyone. ”

"Over the years, the territory of the province itself has not changed much." Zhao Liang replied: "Our people are used to calling it Goryeo Province, because this province has always controlled the three islands of Japan and the homeland of Goryeo. ”

"There are three roads under the province: the original Dongning Mansion and the Shuangcheng Governor's Mansion are on the first line, called North Gaoli Road, which is located in Kaicheng, the old capital of Wang's Goryeo, and the actual manager is the local wealthy Li family; The southern part of the peninsula is known as the hometown of Samhan, where the provincial officials are directly responsible, called Namgoryeo Road; In addition, there are Japan's three islands, which are managed in the way General Guo just mentioned, called East Goryeo Road. ”

"The provincial capital was originally in Kaesong, Goryeo, and later moved to Kyoto, Japan. After the situation in Japan stabilized, it was moved to Dazaifu in Kyushu, probably to facilitate the coordination of the affairs of the three routes. ”

After the establishment of the province, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack the Yuan Dynasty and forced Nahachu to surrender. However, Wang Baobao and others refused to accept Zhao'an and defeated the Ming army on the side of the Datong River. After that, Zhu Hongwu and Hehan may have focused on managing internal affairs, and the two sides did not continue to fight a decisive battle, but various conflicts still occurred from time to time. ”

"Are there any new trends in the past few years?" Shi Ke asked.

"There's a lot of new development." Zhao Liang scratched his head and said, "I heard from my fellow countrymen, the most famous thing in recent years is a legend. About the former gold. ”

"How?" Guo Kang asked.

"It seems to say that Jin Aizong is not mediocre and has been doing everything to save the country, but the Jin country has long been gone, and in the end he didn't even hold Caizhou, so many people pity him." Zhao Liang replied.

"The government said that Aizong committed suicide before the city was broken, and his body was cremated by his subordinates, and the Song and Mongolian troops obtained some remains that were not burned out, confirming that he was dead."

"But on our side, some Jurchen shamans insist that the unrecognizable remains are used to fool people. They believe that the Dzong did not actually die, but was hidden by the goddess Abu Kaheh. In the distant future, when the time is right, the three goddesses will put him back again. ”

"The shamans decided that Thor would bring the heroes of the past back like lightning to defeat the Han and Mongols who besieged Caizhou back then, and make the Jin Kingdom great again."

"Don't come back." Tokhoff Buhua said speechlessly: "It's enough to stand it once, come back." ”

"It's all some country dancing gods, making up some jokes to fool believers, where can they be taken seriously." Zhao Liang explained: "It's just that there haven't been any major changes recently, and these outrageous stories have spread quickly." ”