"It's feasible, why not make the king's cousin, Lord Funing, the emperor!"
Song Junji suggested.
"So, where does that leave the Crown Prince?"
Minister Jin Zhi asked at this time.
"Let Mr. Funing continue to recognize the king's eldest son as the crown prince!"
Yu Ji replied accordingly.
Everyone agreed.
Therefore, these North Korean civil servants went directly to the Lord Funing, Li Zhi, to show their affection and reason to him. Because Li Zhi did not want to be reduced to a commoner of the Ming Dynasty, and seemed to have the intention of becoming a king, So I agreed.
Then, these Korean civil servants went to incite the generals of the imperial guards.
These generals were not willing to have their property confiscated by the Ming court in the future, and were indeed dissatisfied with King Li Di's direct betrayal of his own country, and were willing to cooperate.
As a result, these North Korean civil servants successfully launched a coup.
Li Ming proclaimed himself king and announced to the world that the king, Li Fen, had passed away, but Li Yin was still appointed as the crown prince.
Li Di didn't care after hearing the news.
He is now very at ease in front of Yu Gong in the concession area of Ming Dynasty.
However, the Ming Emperor issued an edict to strictly prohibit the North Korean aristocrats and bureaucrats from changing monarchs, and directly characterized these people as rebellious officials and traitors.
Naturally, these North Korean nobles and bureaucrats turned a deaf ear to Ming's accusations.
Their arbitrary establishment of a new king already means a complete betrayal of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, for these North Korean nobles and bureaucrats to do this, it was considered a last resort for them, because they really did not want to give up their interests to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, aristocrats and bureaucrats all over North Korea later recognized Li Zhi's position as king.
The troops attacking North Korea from the Ming Dynasty have arrived in Luozhou City.
The Korean defenders in Quanzhou City were well prepared. There were trenches and low walls outside the city, and hundreds of cannons inside the city. They also had a lot of tens of thousands of enemies and thunderbolts purchased from the Ming Dynasty, and even every day. Gold juice was being boiled beside the battlements, and more than 30,000 troops were concentrated to defend the city.
But the Ming army had no intention of attacking the city.
Yang Tinglin ordered the alternate internal affairs officials who accompanied him to divide the fields directly outside the city.
Because Yang Tinglin discovered that the North Korean defenders really didn't care about the lives of many civilians outside the city. Of course, perhaps to prevent Ming army spies from sneaking in, they did not lock the people inside the city, so that common people with sallow faces and thin skin could be seen everywhere outside the city.
Therefore, Yang Tinglin and Li Dingguo discussed and decided to divide the fields directly outside the city, not with the goal of capturing the North Korean city, but with the goal of establishing a ruling system.
Therefore, the candidate internal affairs officials of the Ming Dynasty who came with the army were quickly and temporarily appointed as officials in various places by Yang Tinglin after delineating the relevant administrative divisions.
As a result, many ordinary people were organized and went directly to the manors of North Korean aristocrats and bureaucrats outside the city to divide their fields.
In addition to dividing the fields, the officials of the Ming Dynasty would also provide relief to the hungry people in accordance with Yang Tinglin's orders, and would also lend the grain seeds and farm tools they brought to these people, so that they could form production groups to help each other and use the official government Farm tools set aside.
The people of North Korea were naturally surprised.
They did not expect that such a sudden appearance of a foreign army would come to take care of the life and death of untouchables like themselves, and even divided their fields and borrowed farm tools to grow grain.
"How come you are so good! Woohoo!"
"Thank you, old guy, kowtow to you!"
Some people cried because of this, and knelt down in front of Ming officials, banging their heads on the mud.
"This is all the kindness of the Holy Emperor! The Holy Emperor cannot bear to see you mourning and dying of hunger! You must remember to accept the royal education of the Holy Emperor in the future, work hard, and contribute your own strength to the prosperity of China!"
Officials responsible for missionary work will naturally take the opportunity to domesticate these people.
Moreover, when attending night classes for the common people, Ming officials would organize some poor Korean scholars who had received Chinese education to teach Chinese characters to these common people, and the first Chinese character sentence taught to these common people was "Long live the Holy Emperor."
The reason why I teach this is naturally to facilitate the organization of people to shout slogans later.
"Pu Xunjian, the Ming army is allocating land to those untouchables! They have allotted all our farmland!"
Zhuang Tian was outside the city, but Quan Chongxin, a North Korean gentry who had hid in the city, spoke anxiously to Pu Shanhe, the governor of Nazhou.
Pu Shanhe, the governor of the capital, said with a gloomy face: "I have seen it. These Ming troops are really disgusting! Instead of attacking the city, they fought with the soldiers and civilians of Luozhou City, and actually divided the land for the untouchables outside the city. This is incredible!”
"It seems that they are not just saying they want to save the people here, but they really have this purpose!"
"Now it seems that we can only send troops and horses out to fight with them! Otherwise, we can only watch them finish dividing the fields outside the city, and then we will only become trapped beasts!"
Governor Li Shan also started talking at this time.
Pu Shanhe said: "You can't leave the city. You may defend the city and fight with the Ming army, but you will undoubtedly lose if you leave the city! The firearms and equipment of the Ming army are far superior to ours. The key is, their tactics are also superior to ours! Who can let Our firearms and tactical training are all inherited from the Ming army. Without fighting with them, we can know that what the Ming Dynasty let us master must be their abandoned firearms and tactics. Therefore, they will undoubtedly equip our firearms with ours. We know the tactics well, but we don’t know them well. It is said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will be victorious in any battle. If we go out and fight the Ming army in the field, the Ming army will win, but our army will lose!"
"What should we do, sirs, you can't just sit back and watch our land being distributed to those untouchables by the Ming army!"
Quan Chongxin started talking, and then the hand holding the Ming-made telescope couldn't stop shaking, because he was seeing his rice field outside the city being measured by the Ming army with a tape measure, "This field was contracted by Li Erniu" The huge wooden sign with Chinese characters was also nailed into the field ridge after being measured.
"Inspector, you cannot ignore this situation! If all the fields are taken away by these untouchables, then there will be no point in defending this city!"
"Do you, your superiors, really want to sit back and watch the benefits of the two squads go to the Ming army?!"
The other Jin gentry also became anxious.
"Wait a minute! I don't believe that the Ming army really only wants villages but not cities."
Pu Shanhe replied helplessly.
But then, the Ming army did not attack the heavily defended Luozhou City, but continued to divide the fields outside to provide relief. Not only that, the Ming army also directly began to recruit local young people to form peasant soldiers to be responsible for road construction and camp construction. It's a work-for-relief approach.
In addition, in order to give full play to the enthusiasm of these peasants and soldiers and establish a consumer market as soon as possible, the Ming army would also pay labor wages to the workers so that these peasants could consume after working.
Also because they were paid for joining the peasant soldiers and project construction, these Korean people were very active, working hard in both farming and project construction, and also brought about rural consumption.
Later, the entire area outside Naju City was divided into fields, and even Han merchants in Mokpo opened branches at the junction of several villages that had already divided their fields, forming a market here.
Phew!
Luozhou's observation made Cheng Dongbao suddenly stab Pu Shanhe in the abdomen the next day, and then said to Li Shan: "Surrender! Fu Yin! This move of the Ming army is too vicious! They are We really don’t plan to attack the city, we just want to rescue our people, and there is no way we can defeat them.”
"Why!"
Li Shan sighed and nodded.
"This, this, why did you surrender? My lords, do you not care about our Jin gentry?"
Quan Chongxin asked disappointedly.
Li Shan and Cheng Dongbao ignored Quan Chongxin and other Jin gentry, but directly ordered the city gates to be opened and the white flag to be raised.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty successfully occupied Luozhou City.
Next, Gwangju, Intae, Hampyeong, Changmo, Gochang, Jeonju and other cities were successively captured by the Ming army, and basically encountered no resistance.
It just took more time, because the Ming army did not directly attack the city, but directly distributed the fields to the people outside the city, and then isolated the corresponding city, which also caused more time.
Even so, the Kingdom of Korea does not have broad strategic depth due to its small territory. In addition, the Ming Dynasty is now geographically encircling Korea. It can send troops and personnel from four directions to divide the land and dismantle the grassroots rule of Korea. , Therefore, North Korea still cannot stand Ming Dynasty playing like this.
Not long after, officers and soldiers sent by the Ming Dynasty even around Seoul began to divide the fields.
The aristocrats and bureaucrats of North Korea also sent troops and even asked the landlords and gentry to organize rural warriors to go out to fight and even harassed them. However, because they were defeated by the Ming army and they retaliated too cruelly against the people who had been allocated the land, it was so irritating to the North Korean people. He supported the Ming army even more, and even took the initiative to fight against it in the form of peasant-soldier organizations under the mobilization of the Ming army.
In addition, because these officers and soldiers of the Korean aristocrats and bureaucrats and the rural warriors of the landlords and gentry are all mercenaries, they are not determined to risk everything to protect their land. On the contrary, the peasants composed of Koreans are more willing to protect their newly allocated land. A bloody battle, so in the end, not only were these people no match for the Ming army, they were not even a match for the North Korean peasants and soldiers who stood on the side of the Ming army.
The Ming Dynasty constantly sent new graduates from various universities to serve as grassroots officials in the newly occupied areas of North Korea after training. At the same time, it also sent domestic grassroots officials to serve as county officials in the newly occupied areas of North Korea.
Just like India and Rakshasa before.
Even now, India and Rakshasa need to send more officials because some new territories have been developed.
Therefore, officials in the Ming Dynasty did not have to worry about whether they would be promoted. As long as they were not too greedy and not too wasteful, they would basically get the chance to be promoted.
Scholars no longer have to worry about not having the chance to become officials.
Because Ming Dynasty was in a state of expansion, the demand for talents was always in short supply.
Zhu Youxiao even made a special decree to continue to significantly increase the number of Jinshi, Juren and Shengyuan in the imperial examination.
In addition, the major factories also expanded their markets due to the military expansion of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the scale of major factories also expanded, and they began to build various types of rough processing and Assembly branch.
As a result, many workers have risen to management level. Many older employees have not had the chance to get promotions and salary increases due to excess factory capacity and factory shutdowns, and are still facing unemployment crises.
This also made the scholars and people of the Ming Dynasty not much involved.
There are plenty of opportunities for official promotion and job promotion waiting for them.
The root cause of all this is the continued economic growth brought about by expansion.
"Gong Li, I really didn't expect that I would be the workshop director so soon. I thought I would have to wait another three to five years to be like you."
Shi Zai, who had gone to the capital to meet Emperor Tianqi with Li Yuanhui from Datong Machinery Factory, was sitting in the cabin of the ship heading to Donghui, looking at the sea outside, and spoke to Li Yuanhui opposite him.
Li Yuanhui also smiled and said: "Now that things are getting better, I didn't expect that I would have to go to Japan to take charge of a new factory so soon! North Korea is about to be conquered, and by then, it is estimated that a new factory will have to be built there. For things that don't require much skill, you can hire local people to do it. The local people are definitely not as easy to serve as us Han people. Let them wait half an hour longer before causing trouble, so you can save a lot of costs."
"Then I guess I can become a factory worker soon."
Shi Zai laughed as he spoke, his face full of optimism and positivity.
At this time, Guo Shijian, the deposed envoy of North Korea's observation team who was responsible for guarding Incheon City, looked with disappointment on his face as the people of his country outside the city, under the instruction of the Ming army, shouted "Submit to China", "Obey Wang Hua", The slogan of 'loyalty to the Holy Emperor'.
Therefore, Guo Shijian clenched his fists and couldn't help looking up to the sky and crying: "Teacher! Tell me, why are the people so ignorant of the country's kindness? They would rather rebel against the court and be slaves of the Han family, even at the expense of having land and food. Fight bloody battles with our officers and soldiers for this reason! Is it true that only we, the scholar-bureaucrats, know that starving to death is a small matter and being dishonest is a big deal?!"
Guo Shijian then added: "Before the arrival of the Ming army, I never thought that these common people would become the accomplices of the Ming army, and they were very powerful accomplices! Now even before the Ming army arrived, they started to separate themselves Tian, caused trouble and completely ruined the ceremony! The students couldn't figure out why the monarch and the people betrayed the kingdom so confidently! The students knew that they were unable to defend Incheon anymore, and now they can only defend with death. Festival!"
So, after Guo Shijian finished speaking, he drew his sword and killed himself.
At this time, the Korean aristocrats and bureaucrats were indeed feeling desperate, and Guo Shijian was not the only one.
Song Junji looked at the huge crowds of people outside Seoul who had gathered for the public trial of some Korean civil officials who had been captured by the Ming army. He was also very frightened, and his body could not help but tremble. He asked Yu Di who was also coming up the city: "Why are you so far away? Will the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who is external and aloof, notice these untouchables and know that these untouchables can be exploited and become his power to annex our dynasty?"
Yu Ji smiled bitterly: "Who knows! This damn Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao, his appearance is not only a disaster for the meat-eaters of the Ming Dynasty, but also a disaster for the meat-eaters of all countries in the world!"
"The sky has no eyes! Let such a devil come to the world!"
Yu Ji sighed and said.
"Yes, if I had known this, I should have united with everyone in the world to get rid of him from the beginning! At any cost! Even if it means destroying the nine tribes!"
Song Junji gritted his teeth and said.
"It's too late to say this. Let's evacuate as soon as possible. Don't wait for the Ming Navy to completely seal the sea. By then it will be too late to evacuate."
Yu Ji said.
Song Junji nodded.
So, next, another group of North Korean dignitaries and bureaucrats began to evacuate Seoul by boat.
However, their newly elected king Li Zhi was abandoned.
"Why don't they allow me to leave! Why?!"
Li Zhi roared angrily.
"Your Majesty, calm down! According to what is said outside, you have decreed that you will live and die with Seoul, and they are just moving eastward in accordance with your order, not escaping."
Li Zhi's chamberlain Shen Yihe advised.
After hearing this, Li Zhi broke down even more and cried: "I shouldn't have agreed to be the king! They are such a bunch of bastards, no wonder the emperor would rather give up his title!"
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