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Chapter 582: The Great Emperor of the Korean People, Go South

Mo Zibu's layout for North Korea actually started very early.

The two largest agencies of the Jinyiwei's Southern Pacification Division, which is responsible for foreign intelligence, are the Taixi Division responsible for Europe and the Dongying Division responsible for Korea and Japan.

Although the name of the Toyo Division seems to be targeting Japan, in fact, the Toyo Division focused its main energy on North Korea, and the intelligence on Japan was completed by the Fuxing Company.

Because we must fight Japan. We can defeat them with force and negotiate at the same time. Intelligence only needs to serve the military.

As for North Korea, the problem is very complicated.

It is definitely not possible to send troops directly to this place.

Because at that time, most people had not seen the disgusting faces of the Koreans in later generations, but instead had a good feeling towards North Korea.

This is a loyal vassal, a very loyal one. Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the internal affairs have been secretly recorded using the Chongzhen era name.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Korea was saved by the Ming Dynasty's military expedition. Korea has always regarded itself as the country rebuilt by the great emperor. The Chinese people also have special feelings for this little brother who they fought for and even destroyed the Ming Dynasty to save.

When facing such a loyal vassal, who has not made any major mistakes, you cannot send troops to attack him.

We can't let Mo Zibu follow the example of King Xiong Qu of Chu, who faced questions from the people of Korea and said, "I am a barbarian and cannot be given a Chinese title or posthumous title."

Therefore, the problem of North Korea can only be solved by meticulously looking for loopholes and then slowly expanding. There are very few areas where military can be used.
“Your Majesty, there are now many factions in North Korea.

Vertically, they can be divided into Eastern and Western factions.

Among them, the Eastern faction was further divided into the Northern faction and the Southern faction.

The southern faction is further divided into Lingnan southerners and Ji Hunan people.

Horizontally, it can be divided into the old school and the young school.

The virtuous faction of the scholar-officials and the relative faction of the maternal relatives.

Then the Laolun School of the northerners and the Shaolun School of the easterners formed the Shi School.

The Southerners' Shaolun faction has also formed a separate and very powerful sect."

Chen Xu, commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and pacification commissioner of the Southern Pacification Division, spoke until his mouth was dry. "It is said that they can be divided into groups. I really can't remember so many, but the most important ones are these few factions."

"I'll fucking kill you!" Mo Zibu was also deeply shocked and couldn't help but curse.

This is the most typical example of what is meant by "the smaller the temple, the more evil spirits there are, and the shallower the pond, the more turtles there are."

You have a total population of more than 8 million, and there are more than a dozen official factions in the country. If you were given the whole of China, you could create 10,000 political parties and play around with all sorts of permutations and combinations, right?

Then, Mo Zibu picked up the report handed over by Chen Xu, read it carefully, and then sighed deeply.

"In just a few hundred miles of territory, among eight million people, nearly 40% were completely exempt from taxes and labor service, and did not engage in production.

If we include the hidden population of the wealthy and powerful, there may be no more than two million people in the entire North Korea who are citizens of the country.

They had to shoulder the responsibility of running the entire Joseon Kingdom, and taxes, corvee labor, and forced labor were all placed on their shoulders. It was truly the most miserable thing in the world!"

Mo Zibu was speechless. The situation in North Korea was far more terrifying than he had imagined. More than 40% of the people on the country were fucking parasites. It was really scary.

It turns out that the Koreans are of the same origin!

In later generations, South Korea used monopoly enterprises to operate a two-shift system, and the national wealth was handed over to the United States through monopoly enterprises to ensure its own regime, and the leftovers were given to the hard-working citizens below.

So much so that in developed countries with a per capita income of $30,000, ordinary people eat kimchi and instant noodles every day, and some barbecue, ribs, and watermelon, all to improve their lives.

Mo Zibu patiently read the report from the Southern Pacification Office and then gave his own summary.

"There are too many monks and too few porridges; there are too many masters and too few ordinary people; the little bit of people's fat and blood is not enough to be divided.

So the masters can only subdivide and subdivide, using some completely irrelevant things to forcibly divide the parties, so that I can eat while others cannot. "

Hearing the emperor's words, Ji Yun, who happened to be present, said, "Your Majesty, you have hit the nail on the head. This is the essence of the Korean issue.

This problem of the Yangban class in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea existed since its establishment. Although successive kings of the Joseon Dynasty wanted to reform it, none of them succeeded.

Over time, even though the mother-following law was implemented, the number of yangban continued to grow, to the point that the Jinshi who passed the imperial examination through the regular route could only become village elders or neighborhood heads.

When I was in Shuntian Prefecture, I had frequent contact with Korean envoys. Every year, they would send envoys to the court, and even the lowest-ranking attendants would be obtained through fierce fighting.

When Ji Yun was in the Qing Dynasty, he received many Korean envoys and could even speak a little Korean, so he was very familiar with them.

"This intense internal strife also serves another purpose: it can strip a large number of yangban of their status through political struggle, thus alleviating some of the burden on the state."

The matriarchal system mentioned by Ji Yun is the biggest feature of Korea. Whether you are a yangban or not is not determined by your father but by your mother.

You can only inherit the status of yangban if your biological mother is a daughter of a yangban family and is the eldest wife, not a concubine.

As a result, the conditions for succession became quite stringent. In other words, only the legitimate daughter of a yangban family who married the legitimate son of another yangban family could be considered a yangban. But even so, the accumulation of time could not stop the number of yangbans from expanding to a terrifying level.

"I feel a little sympathetic towards Li San. He's not acting like the King of Joseon, he's acting like a roasted whole lamb!"

Ji Yun and Chen Xu were stunned for a moment before they understood what roasted whole lamb was.

"I have read the report. King Yi Sun of Joseon and his grandfather, King Jangsun Yi Sun, were among the most capable kings of the Joseon Dynasty. They were very good at balancing the two powers and still held some power.

But even so, King Zhuangshun Li Cheng was forced to kill even his own son.

The current King Yi Sun never took off his outer robe when he slept, and never allowed his favorite concubines to stay with him overnight so that he could get up and escape at any time. In the second year of Guangzhong (1777), he was assassinated and almost died.

Lee Sun is somewhat well-known in later generations because Koreans made a movie called "The Throne" for his father, Crown Prince Sado. It was very well made and many Chinese people who love history have seen it.

He was the one who was nailed in a rice jar and starved to death.

"The king is like sitting on the edge of a volcano, the infighting between the Yangban class is as brutal as a war, and the people are struggling on the brink of starvation. Chen Xu, can such a Joseon country be provoked?" Mo Zibu looked at Chen Xu and asked loudly.

"Of course!" Chen Xu replied confidently, "Your Majesty, the Southern Pacification Division has been operating in Korea for many years and has recruited a large number of illegitimate sons.

They come from wealthy families, but their own circumstances are very miserable. They look like young masters, but in fact they are just slaves of the legitimate sons. Some of them have a status even lower than that of slaves.

These people are filled with resentment, and their hearts are filled with a fire that wants to burn the entire Kingdom of Korea to ashes. With just a little guidance, they will immediately burn like wildfire.

In Joseon, where the Yangban nobility practiced the maternal law, there was actually another law, the Law for the Imprisonment of Bastards.

Among them, the sons born to concubines are called illegitimate sons, and the sons born to maids are called illegitimate sons.

Joseon passed the law of confinement of illegitimate children, which prevented illegitimate and unlawful sons from inheriting family property, obtaining the status of yangban, and participating in imperial examinations. They were confined to the family and treated as slaves.

Up to this point, it's actually okay, because slavery has always existed in North Korea, and it was only abolished in modern times. There were many people as slaves, so there was no shortage of one or two.

However, while restricting the future of illegitimate and bad sons and treating them as slaves, the families of the two classes also attached great importance to education in order to compete with each other.

This resulted in a large number of illegitimate children, who were like slaves, receiving education through various channels.

This is terrible. They have studied but have no future; they have broadened their horizons but have to be slaves.

This is a bit like Bangladesh in later generations. The country's future, interests and territory are only as big as a booger, but it still insists on pursuing higher education.

Not only do you focus on higher education, but in order to make money, you don't offer many engineering courses. All the subjects in the university are liberal arts.

These college students who studied politics, history, and law can't even find jobs as rickshaw drivers after graduation. Just imagine what will happen.

Of course, the kings of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea were aware of this danger, and a very small number of knowledgeable people in Korea were also worried about it.

So for hundreds of years, these wise people have been making a fuss about the law of imprisonment of illegitimate children.

The kings in power even promoted some illegitimate children to minor officials, hoping to use them as an opportunity to break the enslavement of the upper class of the Yangban class over the entire country.

But the resistance encountered was obviously not something that a king with little power and a few knowledgeable people could deal with.

In history, Li Sun died because of this. Even when he was sick, he only dared to prescribe medicine for himself, but someone still found an opportunity to poison him to death.

"Okay, from now on, the Southern Pacification Office will do its utmost to instigate conflict between the illegitimate sons and legitimate sons in Korea, and completely ignite the fire of the peninsula's rule."

Mo Zibu quickly authorized Chen Xu to have the Jinyiwei Southern Pacification Division make every effort to sabotage it, and then said to Ji Yun: "Korea is next to China and has received thousands of years of teachings. It is known as the East China.

But even now, they are still playing the game of separating legitimate sons from illegitimate children. The father treats his son as a slave, and the elder brother treats his younger brother as a servant.

In this way, the ruler is not a ruler, the ministers are not ministers, the father is not kind, the sons are not filial, there is no respect and courtesy between brothers, morality is lost, and etiquette and law do not exist. I will definitely not tolerate this situation to continue.

After you leave, Ji Yun, secretly gather all the great scholars in the country to criticize North Korea's bad habits in depth and submit an article.

In the future, after I have quelled the rebellion for Li Sun, I will know how to criticize and educate him."

"I obey your order and will prepare it immediately." Ji Dayanpai seemed to obey your order immediately, but he was complaining in his heart.

What criticism and education? It sounds nice. The emperor wants to annex Korea directly. The reason he uses is that the Joseon Dynasty is corrupt, morals are degraded, and etiquette and laws are in chaos.

Well, it doesn’t necessarily mean that all of them have to be taken. Mo Zibu’s arrangements for North Korea are becoming increasingly clear.

That is to cut Korea into two halves first, and give the northern half to the emperor's second son, Axu, who is also the adopted son of Queen Zheng Shishi, and build a vassal state for Axu.

Because there are only some mines in the north of the entire peninsula, especially uranium mines.

In addition, after the north, which originally belonged to the four Han counties, returned, it would be able to connect the northeast into one piece, making it easier to utilize the transportation conditions of major rivers such as the Tumen River.

As for the rest of the south, a bunch of vassal states were given to those illegitimate sons of the Li Dynasty who conquered China. They were not considered Chinese citizens for the time being, so that it would be convenient to harvest a wave of piglets every year and sell them to Southeast Asia.

When the piglets are no longer needed, future generations can abolish their feudal system and establish counties.

(End of this chapter)