Prime Minister Bizen

After getting Hideyoshi's approval, the Asahi Japanese army responded quickly.

Masayoshi Fukushima was ordered to go to Chungcheongdo to guard, and once again wiped out the Chungcheongdo soldiers.Kobayakawa Takakage and Shimadzu Yoshihiro also led the army southward, hoping to complete Jeolla-do's complete peace as soon as possible.

Mori Huiyuan has the heaviest responsibility. He needs to maintain the Busan → Chungcheong road, so he cannot leave easily.

As for Hanfang Zhengxing, he came here to occupy a hole. Didn't you see that he didn't even say a word during the whole scene?After the meeting, without waiting for the dinner, I returned to Gangwon-do after finishing the day.

So in the end, the two brothers Toyotomi Hideji and Toyotomi Hidekatsu were actually in charge of the defense of Gyeonggi-do.Originally, Toyotomi Hideji was responsible for stabilizing the defense line around Wangjing, and Toyotomi Hidekatsu was responsible for the second sweep of Gyeonggi Province.

But I didn't expect Kuroda Nagamasa to be unwilling to return to Huangkaido in the end. On the contrary, Toyotomi Hidekatsu was very interested in sending troops to the north. In the end, the two tasks were switched. Toyotomi Hidekatsu was responsible for the defense of Huangkaido, and Kuroda Nagamasa was responsible for assisting Toyotomi Hideji Guard Gyeonggi-do.

The plan of stabilizing the cession of the Eight Kingdoms set by the Wangjing Conference is essentially a vested interest daimyo who is unwilling to give up the territory already in his hands.

However, there were only 15 Japanese troops landing in North Korea until now, and nearly 300 people were lost in the early battles. They had to be stationed in each city in the eight provinces, and additional garrisons were needed in key cities. Some cities had only 500 to [-] garrisons.

Every invading country, when faced with individuals of the same size or larger than itself, will face such problems: how to quickly conquer the entire territory, and how to quickly stabilize the new territory.

After all, as a foreign invader, the local acceptance is very low. The most important thing is that the two sides are likely to have very different systems and habits. It is difficult for the people of the new collar to integrate into the original system.

Even, those guys who follow you to fight the world are not selling their lives for your so-called righteousness, cultural governance and martial arts, they are for real interests, and these interests are likely to actually squeeze the new collar people.

At this time, as the lord of the country, how do you balance the balance between the core heroes and the new leaders and the old people, and how can you quickly digest the new leaders so that they can create blood for your next round of expansion?
For a small country like Japan, there are only two ways to gobble up North Korea, which is comparable in size to its own knowledge and practice.

One is to suppress it with national power, and the other is to break it quickly.

Obviously, Japan's national strength is not enough to form a huge gap with North Korea, and at the same time, it cannot break through the Korean court in a short period of time, capture the upper courtiers, and benevolent to the Korean people. Then the Japanese army will inevitably enter a protracted war. This is exactly what the Japanese side is most afraid of seeing.

Japan didn't think about this issue before conquering the dynasty. Even if the strategy of "Eight Kingdoms Separation" has been formulated in advance, it can only arrange the strategy of the states and roads in advance to prevent the situation of being separated by the rebels in history.

On the contrary, due to the shortage of troops, the "Eight Ways of the Kingdom" plan in advance helped the Japanese army to stabilize the rear, but also weakened the Japanese army's strength. The current "Eight Ways of the Kingdom" strategy is like a poisonous honey, which is slowly developing. kill the Japanese.

The Xiu family had expected this a long time ago. He couldn't control other state roads. Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province had to follow their own rules.

Fortunately, Xiu's family was lucky, when they attacked Gangwon and Hamgyong, most of the fields below were not damaged, and now it's August, which is the time to harvest autumn grain.

In the past, after the people of North Korea paid the land tax with grain, they left the seeds and necessary grain for the next year, and sold the rest to the surrounding landlords at a low price, so that they could exchange money from them so that they could use the money to pay all kinds of money. Miscellaneous taxes.

However, under the supervision of the Japanese samurai, all the grain and education taxes for this year are collected in the form of land taxes and other miscellaneous taxes are exempted.

Even though the Xiu family had sent people to counties, townships, and villages to preach the new policy, most of the people just listened to it.

It wasn't until this tax payment that there were no other miscellaneous taxes after the tax was paid, and they actually kept 2% more in their hands than in previous years. Only then did they find out that what the new master said was the truth.

In fact, the taxes collected by the Korean court in previous years were only 4% of the income of the common people, and the remaining [-]% to [-]% were folded in by the landlords when rice grains were converted into silver.

To say who has suffered the most under this policy is undoubtedly the North Korean gentry who were on the ground before.

But from the very beginning, the Xiu family didn't intend to win them over to govern the two realms. They were just the group of people riding on the heads of the common people and domineering.

Even if the Xiu family favors them and oppresses the people together with them, they will not think of you. When the Ming army comes, if a "thief" fights back, they will unite with the Ming army to wipe out your regiment.

Moreover, the two classes of nobles in North Korea are only a minority after all, but they occupy the vast majority of wealth. When the Xiu family established a new ruling system in Gangwon Province and Hamgyong Province, in addition to reusing Japanese samurai nobles, they secretly promoted local officials. The originally lost people came up and became his new loyal dog.

Even if this time the imperial conquest ends in vain, the Xiu family will arouse conflicts between these two groups of gentlemen and the low-level people, and completely pierce the window paper.

In addition to the above arrangements, the Xiu family knew very well that if they wanted to assimilate or enslave a nation, they had to start by oppressing and belittling their culture.

The Korean nation learned from Ming Dynasty. If we want to say what culture can be best reflected on the outside, it has little influence on ordinary people, but it can stimulate the Korean nobles and make a clear distinction between the two groups, that is, to change their clothes and cut off their hair. It's over.

Just like what the Manchu Qing did in the Central Plains in history.

If you look at the portraits of the previous emperors of the Qing Dynasty, you can clearly see the hair on the temples until Qianlong. Didn’t the emperor of the Qing Dynasty shave the hair of the money mouse tail?
In fact, this is true. The Qing Dynasty’s strict requirements for discovery were the original Han people in the Central Plains and the lower-level bannermen, because the haircut itself was a domestication of their slavery. If you refuse to accept it, your head will be chopped off.

If the occupation of land and the collection of taxes are just a way for the ruler to swear his ruling power on this land.

Then spiritual castration of the hearts of the local people is the basis for their rule for hundreds of years.

Taking advantage of the rare time a year to gather the people in the territory to pay for food, the Xiu family will also start their own reform of the cultural customs of the two Taoists.

The Xiu family sent many Japanese-style cloth clothes to Jiangyuan and Hamgyong, and gave them to the poor local people for free, saying that as long as they abandon Korean clothes and wear Japanese-style clothes in the future, each household can receive a copy from the government office every month. fish or meat.

The people at the bottom of North Korea are actually very poor. Many families can't afford two pieces of clothes that can be worn out. Only those who need to go out will wear them to go out.

Right now, the "new lords" of the "new imperial court" have not only reduced taxes, but also said that as long as they wear their clothes, they can receive fish every month.

For these low-level people, they don’t have any clothes to wear, and it doesn’t matter what clothes they wear, not to mention that these are free clothes, and they will be rewarded for wearing them every day.

The families of officials in the two provinces are not ashamed to wear Japanese-style clothes like ordinary people. Although they are not ashamed of the local people abandoning Korean clothes and wearing clothes, they are at most scolding a few chicken legs for not knowing the prosperity of Chinese clothes. , and did not find the problem behind this.

After the Fu was completed, Huafang Zhengxing issued a second order to the two Taoists, asking both men and women to abandon the Korean-style hair buns and use Japanese-style hair buns instead.

If it is said that you can get fish for clothes, the common people are still flocking to it, but it is really hard for them to accept to cut off their hair and change their hairstyle.

Although the mud legs at the bottom have not read much, they have heard more or less from the old masters that their parents are responsible for their body, hair and skin, so they are very resistant to such a move.

However, Huafang Zhengxing still expressed softly that those who are willing to change hair crowns will be given 1 bucket of food and 1 Guanwen per person. From now on, with this hair accessory, they can go to the final county government to receive half a bucket of food and money 100 texts.

For families whose whole family has changed to Yiguan, 1% of the tax of the year will be refunded, and the refund will be paid in two installments in half a year.

You must know that tofu in North Korea at that time was only 3~4 renminbi, and a sea fish was about 20 renminbi, and 100 renminbi was enough for them to eat tofu for a long time and buy 5 fish.

For ordinary people who were so poor that they couldn't even eat enough rice and had to dig wild vegetables, the comparison between the Japanese army under the Xiu family and the previous regime was nothing short of stark.

The conditions offered by the Xiu family were entirely voluntary, not mandatory as in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history.

But for this group of ordinary people who haven't even eaten a few meals, it is too rich. As for the words "parents who suffer from body, hair, skin and skin", where do these come from? Outside the Japanese military camps in the two counties, there were crowds of men queuing up to have their heads shaved.

If these aristocrats could bear the clothes given before, but now they have even started to shave their heads, which is not acceptable to them.

And Hanafang Zhengxing had already greeted the samurai below. If you don’t shave your head, I won’t force you, but if you stop others from shaving your head, I will arrest you, hang a sign that says you are a traitor who hinders the prosperity of the people, and parade your hair. The head was shaved into Yuedai head, but no compensation was given.

In a word, we must make good use of this wave of opportunities and develop the propaganda work to the extreme.

In fact, in Japan, Tsukidai head is the patent of samurai. Ordinary people, even the Japanese invaders have no right to shave this kind of hair.

The Xiu family really had no choice, they couldn't find the iconic hairstyle, which made Hanfang Zhengxing choose this kind of hair bun among the Korean people.

But when it was actually implemented, Hanabang Zhengxing still took into account the face of the Japanese samurai, and made changes to the hair buns of Korean civilians. Although it is still Mediterranean, the hair buns will be tied and braided at the back, which looks more like Xixia hair. bun.

Don't think that Xiujia is doing useless work. Isn't the reason why the Japanese army faced endless volunteer soldiers in history because Japan oppressed North Korea too much?

Coupled with the fact that the local gentry used national hatred and family hatred as propaganda, the common people fought against the Japanese army with the same hatred.

Just imagine what would this group of people think if they found out that life under Japanese rule was much better than under the previous North Korean rule?
Imagine again, if in the future the Japanese army was forced to withdraw because of the entry of the Ming army, and the Korean court ruled the two provinces again, what would they do when they saw this group of people who had their heads shaved and changed their clothes?

For this group of people, North Korea took away the clothes that the Japanese side gave them before, and did not give them new North Korean clothes. How do you let them take action on the streets?

Then it was another autumn harvest, and they found that all the land tax, miscellaneous taxes, and silver had been paid, and there was not much left for their own family, let alone fish and meat, what would they think?
Let's make a mess~ Let's make a mess, the more chaotic North Korea is, the more beneficial it is for the Xiu family.

The Xiu family's move is a well-planned conspiracy, slow to cut flesh, and constantly intensifies the conflict between the people of North Korea and the court.

It's a pity that the Xiu family only has Gangwon and Hamgyong under their tent at the moment. If it can be implemented in the whole of North Korea, then the second conquest of the dynasty will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

If there is an opportunity, the Xiu family will personally lead the second imperial conquest, then when they rule the North Korean state again, the Xiu family will no longer carry out voluntary and harmonious reforms, but the same as in the history of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. The oppression like iron and blood, until then is the time to completely separate the bottom of North Korea from the two classes of nobles.

Huafang Zhengxing's actions in Gangwon-do and Hamgyong-do naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many North Korean righteous men.

Many of them were from the noble families of North Korea, so it’s fine if the new rulers don’t pay homage to the wharf, but they don’t join them in oppressing the people, taking away the money that should have belonged to them, and even taking away the money they embezzled before. The fields were forcibly returned to those tenants.

They are "competing for profit with the people"! "Competing for profit with the people", people of insight in the world will never succumb to their oppression!

They contacted Quan Yingdou, the former governor of Pyeongchang County who had fled to the mountains, and Han Xiaochun, the envoy of arrest in Gyeongsangdo, and others, and spent their family wealth to help them resist the "tyranny" of the Japanese side!
Because many people in the two provinces became obedient citizens under the "sugar-coated shells" of the Japanese side, they recruited volunteers from the neighboring Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do, and Gyeongsang-do in an attempt to restore Gangwon-do.

At first they progressed very smoothly, and successively captured Chuncheon, Hongcheon and other cities at the junction of Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do and Gangwon-do, as well as Pinghaedengcheng at the junction with Gyeongsang-do.

They expelled the Japanese soldiers stationed here, and swept up the civilians who obeyed the Japanese army. As for how to distinguish them, it is very easy. Those who wear Japanese-style horseshoes and double-breasted, and have their heads shaved are "chao traitors."

North Korean volunteer soldiers arrested their family, stripped them of all their clothes, robbed them of all their food, killed the men, abused the women, and left them to fend for themselves.

Hanafang Masako even encountered 2 North Korean volunteer soldiers when he went to Wangjing for a meeting for the second time. Unfortunately, the 2 people failed to defeat the elite of the Fengchun family, and the 2 people who were killed scattered and fled.

At the same time, Toyotomi Xiuzhen and others also led the North Korean servants to fight against these volunteers.

Most of the volunteer soldiers wore red war jackets, and few of them had armor on them.On the other hand, the servants uniformly wore black linen clothes, with Japanese-style belly rolls and body balls on the outside, which were very easy to distinguish.

After expelling the volunteers who invaded Gangwon-do, strangling Gyeongsang-do envoy Han Hyo-sun and others, the Japanese propaganda work started again under the layout of the flower house.

This time, North Korean soldiers and civilians visited the capital in person, allowing them to see what the village looked like after the disaster caused by the "rebellious soldiers" in the name of righteous soldiers.

As for the two squads that had connections with the volunteer soldiers, they naturally became the targets of the people to vent their anger. Fortunately, Huafang also took this opportunity to clean up some nobles who were usually disobedient.

They were arrested and paraded in the streets, their family properties were confiscated, the men were sent to the mountains to farm, and the women were directly married to the meritorious generals of the North Korean servant army.

Many generals of the servant army used to be ordinary people in the land, not even two classes of nobles, let alone married noble ladies, they didn't even have the chance to look up.

But now, under the rule of Hanabou Masayuki, there are no two classes of nobles. Now that you are a samurai, you are a samurai. The noble lady of the second class is considered a reward for you.

The Korean aristocrats don't look at who your father is, but look at who your mother is.

This can reasonably prevent the children of concubines and maidservants from having the same status as those born to their main wives, which indeed reduces the number of nobles in the two classes to a certain extent, and affects the continuation of North Korea to a certain extent.

Corresponding to it is the Daming family next door. Although there are also divisions of concubine and concubine, the master's concubine is also the master's family, and he is still the master who oppresses the people.

For those former local people, marrying a beautiful Korean aristocratic woman one day is something that they dare not even dream about.

It is a shame for these nobles that the mud-legged son can marry a noblewoman. From this moment on, they have completely stood on the independent side of the nobles.

If the Japanese side withdraws one day, they will be the first group of people to be liquidated by the Korean nobles.

At that time, they won't care whose son-in-law you are, and even the daughters-in-law of noble birth will be a disgrace in their eyes.

What they waited for was not the rescue of their biological father and brothers, and even their biological father and brothers wanted to kill them more urgently than others, as if tearing away a page that recorded the shame of the family.

Of course, the female family members of those particularly large families and those especially beautiful noble ladies were all digested by the Japanese soldiers themselves, and some of the best products were shipped to Japan by the Seto family to enrich the Hide family. Onee.

All in all, taking advantage of this autumn harvest, Daming still sent troops to support North Korea. Hanafang Zhengxing led his subordinates to carry out drastic reforms in Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province. lay the groundwork for the chaos in the DPRK.

The day and the moon sign, and the day and night turn.

May the new year be better than the old one, happy and successful, and everything can be expected.