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After Yuan Shikai further controlled the three northeastern provinces, the process of provincialization of Korea gradually advanced.

Changing the name of Dao to Fu is a natural move, and the eight provinces in the current administrative divisions of North Korea will be changed to the eight Fu of Korea, which is more in line with the Chinese name.

After the modification, there are two changes compared to the original.

The first is Gyeonggi-do, which became Hanseong-fu. The king was gone, and Hanseong was no longer the "royal capital". Naturally, the word Gyeonggi was in name only.

The second is that the former Hamgyong Province in the northeast of North Korea was changed to "Chongjin Prefecture".

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Originally, North Korea's territory extended to the northeast until it faced Tsarist Russia across the river on the west side of the Tumen River.

After being promoted to the Governor-General of the Three Northeastern Provinces, Yuan Shikai decided to give Jilin an outlet to the sea and divided Hamgyong Province into two.

80% of the land in the south remained unchanged and was changed to Hamgyong Province, while the remaining land in the north was merged into Chongjin Prefecture with Chongjin County as the center.

The local administrative hierarchy of the Qing Dynasty from top to bottom was basically

"provincial capital directly under the jurisdiction of prefectures, prefectures, counties and prefectures"

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The prefecture is the most basic unit of a province, but some places are important transportation routes, or the people are not peaceful and there are many bandit problems. If a prefecture is set up separately, the number of officials will be too large, and if it is not set up, there will not be enough manpower to manage it.

Therefore, these places were upgraded to direct-controlled prefectures or departments. After the upgrade, government orders could be directly transmitted to the provincial capital, and could be transmitted more effectively, which played a role in stabilizing the situation to a certain extent.

Zhili Prefecture, in terms of the administrative level of the Qing Dynasty, was half a level lower than the prefecture, but was still directly governed by the province.

The reason why Yuan Shikai did not directly incorporate Qingjin Prefecture into Jilin Province was to reduce the resistance of Korean scholars as much as possible.

After all, it was too ugly to transfer the original Korean territory to other places just after abolishing the feudal system and establishing provinces.

Even the provinces in inland China have had many conflicts due to land disputes between provinces, not to mention North Korea, which had just annexed China.

Therefore, under the guidance of the 16-character policy of "changing the roads into prefectures, adding a state, and retaining officials without transfers", North Korea completed the reform of its regional administrative divisions without almost any rebellion.

It has to be said that this was somewhat beyond Yuan Xiangcheng's expectations.

But after careful consideration, it makes sense.

First, the modern national consciousness of Korea at that time was not yet fully constructed. In addition, the change of "changing the road to the prefecture" was very small, so officials would not object naturally.

Secondly, this move does not harm anyone's interests. It is just a change of name, and the people will not have much objection.

Just when Yuan Shikai thought that Korea would continue to be "peaceful and stable", the trend caused by the abolition of customs duties and the change to commercial duties in Korea destroyed this harmonious scene.

After receiving news of instability in North Korea, Yuan Shikai also changed his plans.

In order to give the Jindan Dao in eastern Mengdong time to develop, and also to paralyze the Mongolian Beizi, he returned to Seoul to deal with Korean affairs after leaving behind a few hundred secret troops.

The abolition of customs duties and the change to commercial duties not only caused resistance in eastern Mongolia, but also caused considerable controversy in North Korea.

Or in other words, as long as interests are involved, there is no distinction between regions and nationalities.

As long as they can make me money, no matter how big a clan it is, they are better than me. But if you stop me from getting rich, even the same clan will beat me to death.

For example, the American Empire in later generations, the Saudi Crown Prince hired assassins to kill people, just because of the close cooperation with the United States, so it is a "friendly Gulf country"

Iran has been continuously promoting modernization reforms at home, but this is not in line with the wishes of the United States, so it has been listed as a "country sponsoring terrorism" list.

In the case of North Korea, when it came to such major issues as "abolishing the feudal system and establishing provinces" and "changing prefectures into prefectures", not many people in North Korea stood up to oppose it.

This is certainly because the National Defense Army is at their side and the North Koreans dare not hinder their attack, but the former two have not touched the interests of the local forces in North Korea. This is the most fundamental reason.

At the beginning of the "Abolition of Feudal States and Establishment of Provinces", Cixi asked Yuan Shikai whether to allow Koreans to shave their heads and change their clothes. Yuan Shikai asked Cixi to allow Koreans to continue to grow their hair on the grounds that "this is an old territory that has just been returned, and it is not appropriate to change it."

In other words, at this time, Korea and Zhongqu: Yichang and Haidong provinces were the only provinces in China where Ming Dynasty clothing was preserved.

Scholars wore square scarves and grew their hair on top of their heads.

This is not uncommon in Korea, and it is precisely because Yuan Shikai gave special treatment to Koreans in clothing.

A small number of mainland scholars who rushed to Korea also followed suit, cutting off their braids and buying wigs to wear on their heads to pretend to be Koreans.

At one time, "Korean scholars" with accents from various provinces appeared on the streets of Seoul, parading through the streets, afraid that others would not know where they came from.

You should know that after several Korean wars, a large number of scholars from all over the country and inland merchants rushed to Korea and concentrated in Incheon.

It can be said that there are more Chinese in Incheon than North Koreans.

But sometimes when you stand on the streets of Incheon and look around, you will find that half of the ten people don’t have braids. I don’t know when there became so many “Koreans” in Incheon.

After Yuan Shikai completely drove out Cixi and was promoted to the Governor-General of the Three Northeastern Provinces, a minister in the court, after learning about the situation in Korea, also reported to Guangxu, saying, "How can it be a disgrace for a country to have different customs?" and demanded that the Korean people shave their heads and change their clothes.

Fortunately, Guangxu did not care much about whether the Koreans shaved their heads and changed their clothes. He was fully focused on reforming the country and strengthening it, so the matter was left unresolved.

In addition, in order to reduce the resistance to equal distribution of land in Korea, Yuan Shikai, who was not yet fully developed, also introduced the likin system in Korea.

Except for Incheon, Pyongyang, Seoul and other places, the yangban in the eight provinces of Korea were allowed to set up checkpoints and collect taxes.

All important trade routes to Korea were by sea. Even though there were customs duties on land, not much money could be collected. Yuan Shikai gave these small profits as rewards to local nobles, and he did not feel bad about it.

However, the money that Yuan Xiangcheng looked down upon was also a delicacy in the eyes of the poor yangban.

Under the three-pronged attack of the Farmers' Association on water conservancy, production increase and agricultural product industrialization, the lives of these small landlords became increasingly difficult.

It is precisely because of this benefit that they are able to survive.

In addition, with tens of thousands of Yuan Dynasty soldiers and horses at their side, these small Korean nobles chose to cooperate with Yuan Dynasty and tacitly agreed to Korea's abolition of feudal domains and establishment of provinces, and change of roads into prefectures.

However, Yuan Shikai's attempt to take back their interests naturally touched their souls.

At this time, the land of North Korea already had a sense of bleak autumn wind. The trees beside the Han River were no longer green, but instead showed a little yellow.

Endemic water birds gaze at the shimmering water from the riverbank, hoping for a good meal before winter sets in.

Jin Bingshi looked at this scene of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, but he couldn't help feeling annoyed. He was about to pick up the musket beside him to drive away these water birds, but he heard Yuan Xiangcheng ask:

"Brother Shengchu, what's wrong? Why are you so upset?"

Before Jin Bingshi could reply, Ming Ye, who was also from Korea, said with a smile:

"I think Mr. Shengchu must have been tempted by these water birds. People near Seoul have had the custom of hunting birds and making soup in autumn since ancient times."

"Mingye, you are also Korean," Jin Bingshi stopped staring at the water bird and turned to look at Mingye:

"Tell me, if they keep going like this, sooner or later this group of people will ruin North Korea's promising future. Can't they see the situation clearly?"

"Mr. Shengchu, you overestimate these people." Ming Ye threw a stone into the Han River, clapped his hands and said:

"I have been an orphan since childhood, wandering around the countryside, and I am very familiar with the faces of these impoverished yangban.

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They only care about their little money every day, and if anyone touches it, it will be their life!"

"Can't they tell the difference between money and life?"

Ming Ye smiled disdainfully: "Until the coffin lid is closed, money is the most important thing."

"Weiting, what do you mean?" Jin Bingshi looked at Yuan Xiangcheng.

Chapter 180 Those who love the dynasty govern it

After Yuan Shikai was promoted to Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces, Jin Bingshi became the Governor of Haidong Korea.

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"Governing the country by its own people and patriots is more conducive to the North Korean people's harmony and will prevent the situation from recurring."

Therefore, under this principle, Jin Bingshi can be considered to have worked diligently after taking office as the governor of Haidong.

He was very concerned about people's livelihood, farming, Western affairs, and suppressing rebellions and bandits, because Jin Bingshi wanted to preserve the vitality of Korea and did not take any fatal action against the impoverished yangban.

Jin Bingshi knew that North Korea's return to China was the general trend, and it was unrealistic to want to seek independence now.

After joining the Red Confucian Society, the more he understood the international situation, the more he realized that if North Korea wanted to gain a foothold in the world today, it must have a backer.

Looking around, Japan is greedy and brutal, the Russians do not respect Confucianism, and only China next door can be said to be of the same lineage as North Korea.

Therefore, with the idea of ​​preserving the Korean cultural heritage, Jin Bingshi willingly joined Yuan Xiangcheng's Red Confucian Society.

But who would have thought that if he didn't kill these people, these two classes would gather together and cause trouble again.

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In his opinion, under the rule of himself, a "pro-China" governor, the situation in Korea was still under his control.

If Yuan Shikai was angered and asked to plow Korea again, would Korea still have a future?

So what he had to do now was to retreat in order to advance and ask Yuan Xiangcheng what he thought. At least for his own sake, Yuan Xiangcheng had to consider some of the impact.

Seeing that Jin Bingshi's words were full of hidden meanings, Yuan Xiangcheng did not beat around the bush and told him the intelligence in his hand:

"The Red Search Department has learned that after the abolition of customs duties and the reform of commercial duties, many people have expressed their dissatisfaction, and customs duties in various parts of North Korea have continued to be collected.

We can send patrols to disperse them, but these people will not resist, but will simply flee in all directions, and then gather again after the patrols are withdrawn."

"You've never fought against the government army?" Jin Bingshi asked in surprise.

"Yes, I never confronted the patrol directly."

"Before this, we didn't receive any clear orders, and the patrol troops didn't know whether to arrest or disperse them, so there were such repeated situations at the customs offices in various places." Yuan Xiangcheng looked at Jin Bingshi meaningfully.

Jin Bingshi naturally knew that Yuan Xiangcheng was pointing at him.

After the Battle of Pass, as the scope of governance expanded, Yuan Shikai felt that the National Defense Army was no longer suitable for use in internal suppression.

So he divided the military force into three parts, and the Wehrmacht remained the most powerful and advanced armed force in his hands.

But it is also necessary to introduce new military forces to "maintain stability"

Therefore, after the old, weak and ruffian soldiers of the Jiashen New Army and Zhili Training Army that were captured were laid off, some were incorporated into patrol battalions, and some were reorganized into new-style police forces.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the Wehrmacht had new rifles and cannons, while the patrol battalion only had outdated muskets, and the police were still completely armed with swords and spears.

Needless to say, the command of the National Defense Army belonged to the Red Confucian Society, or more precisely, to the Central Committee of the Red Confucian Society, Yuan Shikai.

If the patrol battalion is to be mobilized, the local commanders need to discuss with the local members of the Red Confucian Society. Most of these members serve in modern positions such as economic assistants, industrial supervisors, and railway general managers.

After discussion, a telegram was sent to the Central Committee of the Red Confucian Society as a backup, and then the patrol battalion could be mobilized.

The police force is entirely under the control of local officials.

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Therefore, Jin Bingshi, who was both a member of the Red Confucian Society and the governor of Haedong, could mobilize the patrol camps in the Korean area without any constraints.