Chapter 228: Colonization of Korea
"Now the Shangguo has not heard our defense yet, so he has already been in Seoul. Do you have any solutions to deal with it?" Li Jue reluctantly recovered his composure and asked the ministers.&1t;/p>
A group of Western Party officials were also frightened and a little confused at this time.&1t;/p>
"Your Highness, now you can only find a way to repel the Ming official army and find another solution." One of the officials spoke. As soon as he finished speaking, he was criticized by the ministers.&1t;/p>
"Resistance to join the King's Division? Do you know what a crime? Do you want to kill Your Highness?"&1t;/p>
"What's more, the King's Division is now united with General Li Shi, what are you going to resist?"&1t;/p>
After all, North Korea is a small country and cannot stop the Dongjiang Army's military. North Korea's most important force is also in the hands of Li Shi.&1t;/p>
The North Korean Kingdom has not many troops to call, and its combat power is relatively poor, so there is no possibility of resistance at all.&1t;/p>
"For the sake of the current plan, Seoul may not be guaranteed. Your Majesty should move first!" Someone suggested that if you can't beat it, you can only run away.&1t;/p>
"Not good. If Your Majesty escapes from Seoul now, he will be fleeing for fear of his crime. And he has escaped for a while and cannot escape for a lifetime. And the situation is far from that bad at this time. The country's interference in North Korea is nothing more than not understanding the atrocities of the atrocities of the aborted king. If Your Majesty stays in Seoul, he will have a chance to defend himself."&1t;/p>
"Wouldn't you wait for death if you stay in Seoul?"&1t;/p>
"But if you escape, the Supreme Kingdom can enthrone it separately, and your Highness will have no chance at that time."&1t;/p>
A group of civil servants started to make noise again. The Korean court and the Ming Dynasty were very similar, and the party struggles were very fierce.&1t;/p>
The focus of the debate has also changed from being unable to resist to whether it is time to run away.&1t;/p>
The court officials were divided into two factions, one advocated running away, and the other advocated not running away, stayed to defend against the Shangguo.&1t;/p>
"Reporting to Your Highness, the Supreme Kingdom interferes with North Korea, is nothing more than thinking that Your Highness is not legal. However, the abolishment of the king's tyranny is already anger in North Korea. In terms of emotion and reason, there is a saying that your Highness overturns the tyranny. The Supreme Kingdom is a country of etiquette and education. It is impossible to be biased against our North Korea. If that is the case, why should Your Highness escape from the capital? It is better to send someone to welcome the Supreme King's rank and wait for the envoys of the Supreme Kingdom to defend themselves in person. If you escape from the capital and then defend again, it would seem not open enough." Li Gui, a core figure of the Western People's Party, stepped out to explain the pros and cons to Li Shi.&1t;/p>
After thinking distressed for a moment, Li Shi said dejectedly: "Just follow your decree! I will pass on the king's will, and the officers and soldiers along the way must not conflict with the king's army. Then send people to welcome the king's army to Beijing, and all the supplies along the way will be provided with all their hearts."&1t;/p>
"Your Highness, the wise." Li Gui and others knelt down and shouted.&1t;/p>
"Let's go!" Li Shi stood up and waved his sleeves, and said in a relaxed mood.&1t;/p>
…&1t;/p>
Zhao Yan led a group of Dongjiang troops to a distance of less than halfway. The North Korean soldiers gave up their resistance along the way. At the same time, the North Korean envoys also arrived, supplying supplies along the way, and welcoming the Dongjiang troops to Seoul.&1t;/p>
North Korea is so aware of each other, which greatly improves Zhao Yan's perception of this Li Jue.&1t;/p>
When he arrived in Seoul, North Korea's King Lee Nei took his ministers out of the city twenty miles to greet him. When he saw Zhao Yan, he knelt respectfully on the ground and shouted: "Li Nei, the criminal minister of the country, welcome the angels to patrol North Korea."&1t;/p>
"Get up!" Zhao Yan said, thinking in his heart that Li Jue is smart enough.&1t;/p>
As a country above the Celestial Empire, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to face. This Li Yu gave the Ming Dynasty enough face. He did not resist or escape, and seemed extremely obedient.&1t;/p>
As long as the Li Jue coup was a little reasonable, the court would not be able to enthrone the King of Korea.&1t;/p>
Zhao Yan was welcomed into Seoul and took over the military and political power of North Korea in the name of the governor. Then he began to accept the case of North Korea's coup. The deposed Kwang Haijun Lee Hung was soon found, and the guy was blinded by lime.&1t;/p>
Zhao Yan conducted the trial separately, and then wrote the coup process and the cause and consequences into the memorial. Then he submitted it to the court.&1t;/p>
The memorial was arrived at the cabinet, and on the second day, Zhu Youxiao promoted the memorial to the ministers in the morning court.&1t;/p>
"I report to Your Majesty, during the reign of Li Hui, You deposed his mother and slaughtered his brother. He also entrusted heavy taxes to the Korean people and had an affair with Jiannu. He was really corrupt and he deserved the crime. I think that Li Yu's coup was reasonable, and Your Majesty can enthrone Li Yu as King of Korea."&1t;/p>
"I objected to it. Li Jue's coup is really against etiquette. Even if Li Hui was not able to bear it, Li Jue complained to our Ming Dynasty, how can he and the Seoul Palace be destroyed by fire."&1t;/p>
"This is a mistake. Although a fire broke out on that day, it was not a deliberate setting fire, and there were not many palaces burning."&1t;/p>
A group of court officials argued endlessly. Zhu Youxiao sat on the dragon throne and listened calmly to the opinions of the ministers. After the ministers argued for a while, they did not make any name for themselves. They said everything they should say, it depends on how Zhu Youxiao, the referee, judge.&1t;/p>
"Please give your Majesty the Holy Prison."&1t;/p>
"Please give your Majesty the Holy Prison."&1t;/p>
The ministers bowed and shouted, and at the request of the ministers, Zhu Youxiao said, "What you all say is reasonable. Lee is a benevolent and cruel person, and is not a blessing for the Korean people. He has been overthrown and his eyes have been blinded, so he exiled him. Lee's coup was arbitrarily voluntarily, which is indeed understandable. Therefore, I decided to enthrone Lee's king as the Korean king. However, Lee's violation of etiquette and law also had to be punished. Although Lee's king was appointed as the Korean king, he was not allowed to interfere in the Korean government affairs. The government affairs of the Korean government will be assigned by the court to manage it!"&1t;/p>
The ministers were stunned. Are they each hitting twenty big boards?&1t;/p>
"Your Majesty's Holy Wisdom!"&1t;/p>
The officials then bowed and shouted, and had to admire the emperor's plan to deal with it. It was reasonable, but they extended their hands to North Korea.&1t;/p>
The coup storm in North Korea is obviously far from over, but the court's disposal plan has greatly stabilized the situation.&1t;/p>
First, Li Shi was named the general of North Korea by the Ming Dynasty and had the title of the Supreme Kingdom. This position was as stable as Mount Tai. If Li Shi wanted to make this position stable, he would definitely support the governor of the Ming Dynasty to be sent to North Korea.&1t;/p>
Because the Ming Dynasty confiscated power from the King of Korea, there was no risk at all. After all, the Ming Dynasty could not have any fear of Lee Shi, and a powerful King of Korea would obviously want to get rid of him, Lee Shi and get rid of him.&1t;/p>
Li Shi is also a sensible person, and she turned to the Ming Dynasty very simply.&1t;/p>
Zhao Yan was officially appointed as the governor of North Korea, and he was like a prince in North Korea. However, Zhao Yan certainly did not dare to make trouble. After all, North Korea had already had serious problems at this time. During the reign of Li Hui, the land was largely annexed by the North Korean powerful people, and some of them even turned the farmers into their serfs.&1t;/p>
If there is a problem with the administrative management of North Korea under the intervention of Ming Dynasty at this time, then Ming's control over North Korea will be overthrown by the North Korean people.&1t;/p>
With the support of Li Shi, North Korea King Lee Nai had no choice but to hand over military and political power and live a life of dying. After Zhao Yan took over military and political power, he immediately reshuffled North Korea's interests as Zhu Youxiao ordered him.&1t;/p>
The biggest profits of this reshuffle are nothing more than the Royal Trading Company of the Ming Dynasty and the North Korean General Lee Shi.&1t;/p>
In the name of anti-corruption and reform, the North Korean powerful people suffered heavy blows in the next period of time. Those powerful people had to spit out a large amount of land under the high taxes. These lands were either obtained by ordinary North Korean farmers or by the Royal Ming Dynasty Trading Company and Li Shi.&1t;/p>
Li Shi is the bodyguard of this reform. Wherever there is a powerful person resisting, he will suppress it in a fire. Therefore, the reshuffle of interests caused by the reform has his own dividend.&1t;/p>
In addition, taxes on powerful and high-income groups are also one after another, which is like sucking bones and marrow. In addition, North Korea's tariffs, commercial taxes, etc. have been improved.&1t;/p>
The Korean people also gained great benefits in this reform. First, they obtained some land, although they were from some mountainous and hilly areas. However, they also received various relief and also obtained many jobs.&1t;/p>
Not long after Zhao Yan governor North Korea, he purchased a large amount of food from the Ming Dynasty to provide relief and relief to the people of North Korea. However, the money used was not from the Ming Dynasty, but from the North Korea.&1t;/p>
North Korea obviously doesn't have that much money. This money was obtained by North Korea from Royal Bank of China, with an annual interest rate of 10%, and at the same time, it only received 70% of the loan amount.&1t;/p>
Then, in addition to using this money to provide relief to the affected people in North Korea and to help some low-income groups in North Korea who cannot survive, the money was also built on North Korea's roads and other facilities to provide employment for the people of North Korea.&1t;/p>
Zhao Yan's reform of North Korea seems to be very fair in his efforts to the people of North Korea. But in fact, it is hidden financial loans that exploit North Korea.&1t;/p>
This kind of fiscal loan looks like an interest rate of only 10% on the surface, which is not very high. However, the money I got is only 70%, and I don’t know where the remaining 30% will go.&1t;/p>
But the public only knows that the interest rate is 1o%.&1t;/p>
This method is actually a financial means by which the modern powers in later generations exploited small countries. The interest rates seem preferential on the surface, but the money you actually give you is less than the surface, and it is actually not much different from high interest rates.&1t;/p>
The establishment of North Korea's tariffs is naturally not to prevent Ming's goods from entering North Korea. Instead, it prohibits Ming's private merchants or other countries from entering the North Korean market. However, the goods exported by royal capital to North Korea do not need to consider the tariff level, because no matter how high the North Korean tariffs are, even if the tariffs are still paid, they can also be brought back from the loan interest. It is nothing more than a trick of changing the left hand to the right hand.&1t;/p>
Of course, the royal capital did not brutally squeeze North Korea, but first loaned it to North Korea to make the cake bigger and then squeezed it to the limit that the North Korean people could tolerate.&1t;/p>
The King of Korea Lee Seung was naturally unwilling to give up, but Lee Se became a partner of the royal capital to exploit North Korea and shared some of the dividends. Lee Seung joined the Ming Dynasty, gained status and wealth, and worked harder for the royal capital. After being named a general of North Korea by the Ming Dynasty, North Korea's military power was gradually captured by Lee Seung. The King of Korea Lee Seung has become a puppet.&1t;/p>
But Lee also has some interest, that is, 5% of North Korea's annual tax revenue is allocated to him for expenses and kept as a mascot. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
ps: There are many trivial matters today, and I have been updated late, and there is only one chapter, sorry!&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!