nownovels Chapter 824: The Annexation Of Goryeo, The Promotion And Wealth, The Excited Middle- And Lower-Level
Chapter 824: The Annexation Of Goryeo, The Promotion And Wealth, The Excited Middle- And Lower-Level
It started in March of the eighteenth year of Hongwu and ended in June of the eighteenth year of Hongwu.
It took three months for Ming Dynasty to successfully annex Goryeo.
And this is also a normal thing. After all, Goryeo has a small territory and no strategic depth. Even if it wants to trade space for time, it cannot be done.
Secondly, the population of Goryeo people was also small, and the number of unemployed people they could afford to support, especially the number of soldiers, was even smaller.
So when the Ming Dynasty defeated Goryeo's hundreds of thousands of soldiers, Goryeo basically lost its ability to resist.
Thirdly, the King of Goryeo and the Goryeo dignitaries were not popular.
Since the 12th century, the Goryeo aristocrats have taken advantage of the contradictions in the Tianchaike system to expand private lands and build private farms. Productivity has been destroyed, social conflicts have intensified, and the underlying Goryeo people themselves have complained about the Goryeo dignitaries and the Goryeo king.
Under such circumstances, even if some Goryeo dignitaries wanted to mobilize millions of Goryeo people at the bottom to fight against the Ming Dynasty, most of the Goryeo people were indifferent and had few listeners.
Fourth, the Ming Dynasty even used the banner of liberating the people of Goryeo and equalizing and dividing their fields. During the attack on Goryeo, they did not massacre the people of Goryeo.
Even when he saw that the people of Goryeo were hungry and cold, he would take the initiative to open the warehouses of the Goryeo dignitaries and distribute the food and clothing accumulated by the Goryeo dignitaries to them.
And he also promised that after the Ming Dynasty conquers Goryeo, he will progressively allocate fields to them!
Under such circumstances, the hearts and minds of the people at the bottom of Goryeo were naturally captured by the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, facing the arrival of the Ming army, the people of Goryeo were not only not afraid, but also felt like welcoming the king.
One by one, the people of Goryeo either took the initiative to lead the way for the Ming army, or cooperated internally and externally, and took the initiative to open the city gates for the Ming army.
This is also one of the important reasons why the Ming army attacked and advanced smoothly.
And the reason why Ming Dynasty treated Goryeo so favorably was not without reason.
After all, there are so many gold mines, silver mines, iron mines, coal mines, and limestone mines in Goryeo, all of which require a lot of manpower to dig.
And the Ming Dynasty itself is short of population, so it is naturally impossible to say that a large number of people will be moved to Goryeo to do such hard work.
Therefore, the native Goryeo people of Goryeo became the best source of mining manpower after the conquest of Goryeo.
Therefore, under such circumstances, the Ming army treated the Korean people so favorably, and even in order to better gain the hearts of the Korean people, they even did not hesitate to publicly execute some Korean dignitaries who had done evil and oppressed the Korean people.
In the past five years, the Ming Dynasty, as the most advanced civilization and the most powerful empire in the world, had a huge gap in all aspects of Goryeo that could be called a dimensionality reduction attack.
For example, thermal weapons-muskets and artillery, which are now basically popular equipment in the Ming army, are not available in Goryeo.
Another example is the same cold weapons: bows and arrows, armor, swords, guns, swords and halberds, etc. Since the Ming Dynasty adopted the most advanced steel-making method, the quality of the various weapons and equipment produced was far better than that of Goryeo.
The same broadswords cut each other together, and the Ming Dynasty's saber can cut a gap out of the Goryeo saber.
Or if the same bows and arrows are fired at each other, the Ming Dynasty's bows and arrows can penetrate the leather armor of the Goryeo soldiers, but it is difficult for the Goryeo bows and arrows to penetrate the armor of the Ming Dynasty soldiers.
In the sixth century, Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty were bordered by land, allowing the Ming Dynasty to mobilize a large number of troops to attack Goryeo and so on.
Therefore, under the combined influence of many favorable factors, the Ming Dynasty was able to annex Goryeo in just three months.
After annexing Goryeo, Ming Dynasty did not continue to attack Japan immediately.
Firstly, it’s because in June, summer begins.
In other words, it’s the typhoon-prone season.
Under such circumstances, if you go to conquer Japan in the east, you will easily encounter a typhoon, which will cause heavy losses to the Ming Dynasty's Eastern Expedition Army.
Secondly, the Ming Dynasty had just annexed Goryeo, and it still needed a lot of management before Goryeo could truly become one of the Ming Dynasty's territories.
Therefore, with the idea of sharpening the sword and chopping firewood, the Ming Dynasty began to operate and develop Goryeo.
The first and most important thing is to establish provinces, prefectures, states and counties.
After the annexation of Goryeo, it was naturally no longer possible to continue to use the original country name "Goryeo" as the name of a new province in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, after referring to the original ancient name of Goryeo, "Korea", Zhu Yuanzhang named Goryeo, a new province of the Ming Dynasty, "Korea".
Moreover, Joseon has the meaning of "Asahi Mingmyeong", which means facing the sunshine of the east wholeheartedly, which can be regarded as an elegant origin.
Therefore, the Manchu civil and military officials had no objections to this new provincial name.
However, after Yan Changqing heard the name, a look of confusion flashed across his face.
He didn't expect that after going around and around, he finally returned to the name "North Korea". He didn't know whether it was the so-called historical inertia or other factors.
But Yan Changqing didn't say anything. After all, it was just a slightly special name for him.
It's not worth making a big fuss about. North Korea will be fine as long as it becomes one of the territories of the Ming Dynasty.
After determining the name of the new province, the next step was the promotion that all civil and military officials were happy to see.
The Ming Dynasty immediately transferred a minister of household affairs from the central court to serve as the chief envoy in charge of a province in Korea.
In this regard, the Minister of Household Affairs did not have any complaints and went to take up his post happily.
After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that North Korea Province will definitely become a new development direction for the Ming Dynasty and an important source of national fiscal revenue.
During this period, transferring him out to serve as the Chief Envoy of North Korea was not only not a demotion, but also a different kind of recognition and promotion!
As long as he works hard and works hard to achieve good results in North Korea.
After a few years, when Ru Taisu, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, retires due to age, as long as there are no major problems with his personal moral character and ability, then the new Minister of the Ministry of Finance will most likely be his. .
But now it was just the last test before being promoted to the Minister of Household Affairs, so how could he complain about it.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang transferred one of the current chief envoys from the fourteen provinces to the central court to take over the responsibilities of the former minister of household affairs.
In this regard, the chief envoy did not have any complaints.
Although judging from the official rank, the Chief Envoy and the Minister of Household Affairs are both officials of the third rank.
But one is in the local area and the other is in the center of the court.
Although the local chief envoy is equivalent to a feudal official, his personal influence is limited to one province at most.
As for the Minister of Household Affairs in the center of the imperial court, although he was only one of the second-in-commands, his words and deeds might affect the entire world.
Comparing the two, it is obvious that the third rank in the center of the imperial court has a higher position and more weight, and at the same time, there is more room for improvement.
Therefore, he was transferred from the Chief Envoy to the Minister of Household Affairs. Although it was a flat transfer, it was equivalent to a promotion, so naturally there would be no complaints.
After that, one person was promoted from the current prefect to be the new chief envoy.
And then some officials from among the hundreds or thousands of county magistrates and prefecture magistrates will be transferred to serve in North Korea Province.
And all the transferred officials are basically what they thought at the beginning.
In order to compensate them, the imperial court transferred all the external transfers to rising tones. Those who were originally county magistrates were promoted to prefecture magistrates, and those who were originally prefecture magistrates were promoted to magistrates.
Then the positions of county magistrates, prefecture magistrates, and magistrates vacated in the Ming Dynasty were promoted accordingly by other local juren, jinshi, county magistrates, prefecture magistrates, and prefects.
A final calculation revealed that approximately one-twentieth of the civil and military officials in the entire Ming Dynasty had received more or less promotions and promotions as a result of the annexation of Goryeo, and their personal career had also progressed further as a result.
Therefore, after seeing that the annexation of Korea could bring them such great benefits, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty became even more interested in conquering the Japanese country.
After all, if the Japanese country can be annexed just like the annexation of Goryeo, then at least 10 out of 20 officials will benefit from it.
When Goryeo was annexed, I was not one-twentieth of the officials who benefited, so after the annexation of Japan, I should be one of the twentieth officials who benefited.
Therefore, under such circumstances, all the civil and military officials at the middle and lower levels were clamoring to immediately conquer the Japanese country, and even wished they could roll up their sleeves and go do it.
If Zhu Yuanzhang's personal prestige was not strong enough, and the six ministers, nine ministers and ten princes standing in front of the middle and lower-level civil and military officials in the court were calm enough, they would not have been dazzled by the smooth annexation of Goryeo.
Otherwise, Ming Dynasty might really have to be coerced by a large number of middle and lower-level civil and military officials to immediately launch an expedition against Japan.
By then, if you are really unlucky and encounter a typhoon, it will be great fun.
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