"Let's take a look at the Japanese side." Guo Kang pointed to the sea: "The weak Japanese and Southern Korean regimes have established contact with them in advance through personnel in North Korea. But the North Korean side also knows about this, and in front of them In the direction of South Korea and the peninsula, defense forces have been increased."
"In order to achieve sudden success, Wang Baobao sent a large number of surrendered Koreans to pretend to be soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty and operate near the Tsushima Strait. He also specially asked a group of Korean soldiers to disguise themselves as Yuan troops and take the lead in attacking Tsushima just like last time. Island, making the Japanese think that this is still the main direction of attack this time.”
"While the Japanese defenders repelled the Koreans and were thankful to have won the victory, he adopted the Jurchens' suggestions and set out from the north, following the Jurchen pirates' route back then, and headed straight into the hinterland of Japan's Northern Dynasties."
"The new sultan, the Ashikaga clan, was attacked by Wang Baobao's Henan Army and returned with a disastrous defeat. The already unstable domestic situation erupted instantly. In addition, the Yuan army used the excuse of 'mediating' the dispute between the Southern and Northern Dynasties and gave a more feasible plan. The plan made many lords lose their will to resist.”
"How did they mediate? Will you supervise it yourself?" The Queen looked a little interested.
"Yes, and they designed a very clever selection method." Guo Kang said: "They proposed that qualified candidates from both lineages of the Southern and Northern Dynasties are eligible to serve as caliphs. In this case, it is better to reform the selection method."
"The officials built a golden vase in a large temple in Kyoto. A committee composed of eminent monks, monks, nobles, etc. was responsible for counting and reviewing the qualified successors of the two families. Those who passed the review were entered into the lottery. At this stage, under the supervision of the provincial officials and a group of people, the next caliph was drawn from a gold vase in the main temple."
"The expedition to the east also imitated the experience of Yunnan and appointed the caliph as the general manager of Japan to play a coordinating role. Ashikaga Sultan announced his resignation and retired as a monk, giving up his secular military position and joining the temple committee. Other lords, some Adjust, organize the territory into roads and prefectures, and set up Daruhuachi supervision in key areas."
"From the current point of view, this system is working well and the Japanese can accept it. After Wang Baobao passed away, it is still maintained until now."
"This is simply a perfect system." Borjan praised: "The aristocratic assembly decides on matters through consultation, which is called 'republic'; and the selection by lot is called 'democracy'. Both of them existed in the classical era and have been developed over a long period of time. A mature system of practice. The existence of the Yuan Dynasty's army and military rulers played the role of tyrants."
"The shortcomings and advantages of these systems are very obvious, and they are often mutually exclusive. The ancient Greeks already understood this deeply. But now, they can combine 'democracy', 'republic' and 'tyrant' When the methods are combined, this must be the creation of a great political theorist."
Guo Kang felt that his boast was a bit exaggerated, but Borjan seemed to have a set of strange theories like many scholars of this era, and he always had some unrealistic imaginations about the distant East. Of course, everyone is pretty much the same on this point, and it’s hard for him to say anything to others...
"We'll talk about the political system later." He interrupted Borjan's spiel: "Anyway, these are the information I collected about that place before."
"These should be from decades ago." Lama Wang said: "Zhao Liang, please introduce the new trends to everyone."
"In recent years, the jurisdiction of Zhengdong Province itself has indeed not changed much." Zhao Liang replied: "Our people there are accustomed to calling it Koryo Province, because this province has always controlled the three islands of Japan and the homeland of Koryo. .”
"There are three roads under the province: the line between the former Dongning Prefecture and the Shuangcheng General Manager's Office is called North Korea Road. The administrative center is Kaicheng, the old capital of Korea of the Wang family. The actual person in charge is the local wealthy Li family; the southern part of the peninsula is called North Korea Road. The hometown of the Three Koreas is directly responsible for the provincial officials, and it is called South Korea Road; there are also the three Japanese islands, which are managed in the way General Guo just said, and it is called East Korea Road."
"The provincial capital was originally established in Goryeo, and later moved to Kyoto, Japan. After the situation in Japan stabilized, it was moved to Dazaifu, Kyushu, probably to facilitate the coordination of the affairs of the three routes."
"After the province was established, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack the Yuan Dynasty and forced Naha to surrender. However, Wang Baobao and others refused to accept Zhao'an and defeated the Ming Dynasty army on the Datong River. After that, Zhu Hongwu Hehan may have focused on managing internal affairs. , the two sides did not continue the 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 are a lot of new trends." Zhao Liang scratched his head and said, "I heard from my fellow villagers that the most famous thing in recent years is a legend. It's about the former Jin Dynasty."
"What do you say?" Guo Kang asked.
"It seems to be that Jin Aizong Wanyan Shouxu is not a fool. He has been doing everything he can to save the country. However, the Jin Kingdom has already been defeated. In the end, even Caizhou was not defended, 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. The Song and Mongolian armies obtained some unburned remains and confirmed that he was dead."
"But over there, some Jurchen shamans insisted that those unidentifiable remains were used to fool people. They believed that Aizong was not actually dead, but was hidden by the Goddess Abu Kahehe. In the distant future , when the time is right, the three goddesses will put him back again."
"The shamans believe that the God of Thunder will return like lightning with the heroes of the past, defeat the Han and Mongols who besieged Caizhou back then, and make the Kingdom of Jin great again."
"Then don't come back." Tuotuo Buhua said speechlessly, "I've suffered enough once, why don't you come back?"
"They are all country dance masters who make up jokes to fool believers. How can they be taken seriously?" Zhao Liang explained: "It's just that there haven't been any big changes recently, so these outrageous stories spread quickly."
