Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 261 Reviewing the Ezo Incident
The development of the seven cities of Izumigo, Chitose, Aoba, Changdu, Anping, Ruisui, and Oifen in the southern part of Ishikari is still relatively slow due to the problem of the vast coniferous forests in the area.

Although 7 settlements have been built in the southern part of Ishikari, the actual grain output is only 2 shi, which is still a fraction of the 13 cities in the two countries of Nanfang Danzhen and Hidaka.

The most important issue is the slowdown of Hideka's immigration to the Ezo area.

Of course, the Xiu family had already given him an alternative plan the year before last, which was to immigrate from North Korea.

North Korea is a very interesting country. It often advertises itself as the Ming Dynasty, but it only learns the problems of the Ming Dynasty, and does not learn any of the advantages of the Ming Dynasty.

Can you imagine that the Ming Dynasty, which has already regarded the imperial examination as the most important official evaluation channel, is next to him, and North Korea, which often regards itself as a small Ming country, still clings to the North Korean version of the Jiupin Zhongzheng System?
If you want to take the imperial examination, you can, but first you have to see if you are a class of nobles.

The so-called Yangban is a collective name for the descendants of the civil and military officials who served as kings in the history of the North Korean authorities.

What?You are not two classes of nobles, not even donated?
I'm sorry, but you're worse than a dog.

This aspect is not quite right, after all, there are good people and low people under the two classes, and subdivided between the two classes and the good people, there are middle-class people and official schools.

The descendants of the two classes of officials and their families gradually enjoyed many privileges and conveniences, and the shadow system of directly obtaining official positions through family blood and the emergence of special imperial examination preparation education institutions—private schools, made the two classes of families more and more like two classes. The main source of teams.

In addition, through the closed marriage relationship with the royal family and the two classes, the Liangban family has grown into a powerful family and aristocrats, so that the Liangban also includes these aristocratic forces.

In this way, Liangban developed from the concept of official position referring only to officials of the civil and military classes to the concept of identity referring to Liangban and its family.

At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had not started to invade North Korea, and the North Korean government had not opened Nako because of insufficient military rations, so the two classes were still very valuable and the quantity was very small.

You must know that after the Nako was opened, when the household registration was reorganized after the Imjin Japanese Invasion, it was discovered that the population of the two classes accounted for one-third of the total household registration in the country.

Said there is another strange thing here

In North Korea, untouchables are not qualified to serve as soldiers. If they want to serve as soldiers and eat imperial food, at least they are good people.Untouchables are essentially slave-like beings oppressed by the upper class.

Doesn’t it look like China’s Spring and Autumn Period?
From this point of view, North Korea and Japan sent Tang envoys to China to learn the enfeoffment culture, which has the same effect.It is obviously a culture that was abandoned by the times, but it has become a large-scale parity in other countries.

So in essence, the establishment of the state power system is still a human system. When the founders have selfish intentions, they will make all sorts of strange choices.

Going back to the previous article, we said that after the Imjin Japanese Invasion, the Yangban in North Korea exploded. Such an unreasonable structure would inevitably lead to the collapse of the state government, but they did not.

The credit for this is all in the succession law that has been enforced in the past-from the mother law.

To put it bluntly, it is true that your household registration is in two classes, but your wife must also be in two classes, so that the son you give birth to will be in two classes.

On the contrary, if the child is born in a low-status concubine's room, he cannot inherit the status of the second class. If he is lucky, he will be demoted to a middle-class man, and he will be given a piece of land to fend for himself.When you meet a mean mistress, even if you are a second-class son, you will not be as good as a pariah after you grow up.

In North Korea, Naban is only open to men, not women.To put it bluntly, only men can receive donations into two classes, but women cannot.

So here comes the question, how can there be so many young ladies from two classes marrying these two classes of elders?

And as an aristocrat of the two classes, especially the cheaper martial arts class, you will have to serve in the military after you donate!

At that time, the content of military service in North Korea was very simple. It was to send you to the front lines of Ulsan and Busan to fight against Japanese pirates.

Over time, the number of people in the two shifts plummeted like a cliff, and finally returned to a relatively reasonable range.

From this point of view, I have to lament the foresight of Li Chenggui, the ancestor of the Joseon Dynasty. If the old Zhutou had such foresight at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the government would not have been dragged down by the salary of the clan's heirs.

I still remember that when Lao Zhu formulated the enfeoffment system, Liu Ji reminded that the national finances might be dragged down if the enfeoffment continued. Facts have proved that what he said was still light.

At the speed at which piglets were born in the old Zhu family, no matter how high or low the mother and concubine were, the eldest son succeeded to the original title, and the other sons were degraded to the title of nobility.

By the Jiajing period, the number of descendants of the royal family had reached as many as 5000, and during the Wanli period, the clan had expanded to a population of 15.

During the Jiajing period, a total of 2285 million shi was taxed and taxed across the country, while the vassal king consumed 853 million shi, which already exceeded the total salary of all court officials combined.

As far as Shanxi Province is concerned, in 1562, the vassal king’s salary was 213 million shi, but the local food storage was only 152 million shi.

During the Wanli period, the money spent on the clan accounted for one-third of the country's total expenditure, and the financial resources consumed by the three major levies could only support the clan for three years.

The clan is like this, how did the Ming Dynasty save the country?
In fact, if the old Zhutou had referred to the Korean mother law to regulate the issue of inheritance rights throughout the country, the problem of the salary of the vassal princes in the Ming Dynasty could have solved more than half of it.

Even if there were civil servants fighting against the country, the Ming Dynasty might still be able to survive until the industrial age. It is still unknown, where there is such a thing as wild boar skin in the Northeast.

This point reminds Hideka that the huge samurai population of the descendants of the Tokugawa shogunate may be resolved after the Hideka took power by referring to the procrastination of the mother law in North Korea.

Close ~ Back to the North Korean issue.

Before the Imjin Japanese Invasion, the Yangban system in North Korea was relatively stable.Many local people were enslaved and domesticated and fixed in the fields, and the animals they obtained were not even as good as those of the landlords.

This group of people is ignorant, even if you talk to them about class liberation and gifting land, they don't understand what it means.

Hundreds of years of discipline made them think that they were born to work for the lords, and the Xiu family didn't bother to waste time on them.

Xiujia focuses on those good and moderate people who have received a little education. Regardless of their class status, they are above the untouchables. After the North Korean government has experienced 200 years of progress, the land conflicts caused by land annexation have become extremely tense.

These so-called good people are essentially tenant farmers of the upper class. The number of good people held by the state is decreasing day by day.

Such a cycle of vicious training can only lead to the remaining good people bearing more taxes, causing them to sell their land to the two classes of nobles who do not pay taxes, and become tenant farmers or refugees themselves, and their income is no different from that of the untouchables.

In essence, the Imjin Japanese Invasion, which was defined as a national humiliation by the Koreans, actually saved the precarious Kingdom of Korea.

The population of the southern provinces is declining, and the land has been reshuffled, so that the good people who lost their land in North Korea can be redistributed. This has resolved the extremely tense land conflicts to a certain extent.

But now it is only 1585, and there are still 7 years before the Battle of Wenlu Qingchang. The land conflicts in North Korea have not been cured, and many good people have lost their land after being exploited.

Xiujia is planning to use them to develop Hokkaido.

Compared with the untouchables who are bound to the land, the good people have a certain personality and are allowed to move under certain conditions.At that time, North Korea's political situation was extremely corrupt, and it was only a matter of paying a little bribe to transport the population out of North Korea.

For North Korean officials, these semi-mobile populations are regarded as a source of instability. Officials are afraid that they will start a rebellion. If they can export the explosive barrels on the basis of collecting money, why not do it?

As far as Xiujia is concerned, they intend to start trade with North Korea, which is not an official trade. They also need to send money and bribes, and if they give more, it is just a piece of cake to let them give the green light on the population trade.

What the Xiu family lacks is people who can cultivate the land. In the whole world, there are no people who are more able to cultivate the land than the three East Asian countries.Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the class contradictions in North Korea are more prominent, the nostalgia complex is not as good as that in the Ming Dynasty, and it is easier for the people to migrate.

For this group of people who lost their land, Xiujia did not oppress black slaves like the European colonists in history, but gave them land for farming without charging them a penny. ?

Although this matter is cloaked in the name of population luck, it is essentially a good thing that has the best of all things, and all three parties benefit from this event.

Therefore, one year after Xiujia's proposal was implemented, more than 1 Korean civilians have been relocated to Ezo, and they have been resettled in 14 cities.

Today, the population ratio in the control area of ​​Ezo Ukita is roughly Japan:Ming Dynasty:North Korea:Ainu=3.5:0.5:1:5.

With the reduction of the number of people migrating from Xiujia and the increase of Korean migrating people, this ratio will inevitably change. Before the second generation of Japan and Ainu people come of age, the ratio of Japanese people will inevitably be surpassed by North Korea and Ainu people for a long time .

But Xiujia is not worried about problems with such a population ratio. In essence, it is still the way of the British, using ethnic conflicts to divide them.

At this stage, the population of North Korea is small, and they can be placed in different pioneering strongholds. If they want to survive in the local area, they must be close to the Japanese who have the absolute right to speak and have similar habits. custodian.

When the population of North Korea increases, the conflict between the Korean and Ainu ethnic groups will inevitably become sharp after so many years of suppression. The Xiu family can completely play the role of peacemaker and walk between the two ethnic groups.

Over time, generations of immigrants blend and multiply, and after a few generations, most of the population will be assimilated into Japanese.

What I said is still too far away, and it is not what the Xiu family cares about. Maybe they can record it and pass it on to their descendants.

But the issue that Xiujia is most concerned about now is precisely the problem of the depopulation of the Ezo area. In order to solve this immediate problem, large-scale emigration of Koreans in a short period of time is necessary.

You must know that it has only been 7 years since the Imjin Japanese Invasion. After 7 years, the trade route was cut off, and the Xiu family had no choice but to go to the Korean Peninsula if they wanted a population.

However, in order to ensure the stability of the local Korean population in Ezo, Hideka did not intend to let them know about the war between Japan and North Korea, so it was necessary to block the exchange of local information in North Korea.

In other words, even if it is really "bright robbery", these people cannot be resettled in the already developed walled city, but can only be resettled in another remote place, such as Kushiro, Nemuro Ryogoku, or even the Kuril Islands.

Moreover, the number of people must be limited, so that too many people will cause riots in the local area and spread to Hidaka, Kitami, Kamikawa and other countries.

To sum up, Xiujia expects that the dividend period of population trade is only a short period of 7 years. During these 7 years, Xiujia must transport as much as possible [-] North Koreans to Ezo for resettlement, so that the development of Ezo in the next ten years can be achieved. Steady forward.

In the diary brought back by the Seto family, it also recorded the battle between the Ezo Fan soldiers and the Ainu natives.

As they moved further north to Ishikari, they built settlements.The conflict between them and the local Ainu became more intense.

At the beginning, Xuan Zhuhai hoped to use trade to resolve conflicts, but the Ainu's attachment to land was even more important than the Japanese.

When they reported the year before last, the settlements built in Shimamatsu and Eniwa the year before last were pulled out by the local Ainu people in Ishikari who took advantage of the heavy snow to block the road. More than a hundred local Japanese people and dozens of Ainu people was killed.

This kind of defeat has never happened since the Ezo Raiders. For the Ezo Monastery, every Japanese citizen is extremely precious, let alone more than a hundred people died at once.

The serious casualties on this side forced Master Xuanzhu to slow down the colonization of the north, and instead firmly developed the three kingdoms of the southern Ishikari, Hidaka, and Danzhen that he had already controlled.

Of course, it is not Yukita's style not to fight back when he is violated.

In the summer of last year, after finding out the situation of the Ainu tribe in Ishikari and other places, Shigeka Hatoyama, the military governor of the Ezo region, led 1200 people and went deep into the hinterland with the help of more than 2000 Ainu friendly tribal soldiers. Attack the three Ainu tribes in Eiwa and Shimamatsu.

All the men in the tribe who were taller than the horses were all executed, all the underage boys were given to these tribes as slaves, and all the women were taken back as spoils of war and rewarded to the Ainu soldiers attached to Ushido.

Among the 1200 people brought by the Hatoyama Shige family just now, more than 350 were Ainu soldiers who belonged to the family.

Different from the tribal allies, they are the people of several cities under the control of Yuxiduo. They have changed from fishing and hunting to farming, and the adult and strong men are also included in the military service of Yuxiduo.

It can be imagined that compared to the average height of the larger and ethnic groups of 1.5 meters, this group of Ainu people of 1.6 to 1.7 meters are like giants.

They are also more powerful. Compared with the local Japanese ashigaru equipped with wood-paneled leather armor and holding two and a half spears, these soldiers are wearing thick leather armor made of various animal leathers, and holding a 2 A heavy single-edged giant axe, specialized in charging and slashing with the axe.

The unique leather armor of the Ainu people is the best protective tool in Ezo, where there is no threat of iron cannons. The outdated stone weapons of the local tribes can't hurt them at all. prototype.

(End of this chapter)