Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 821

In the history of China, why failed to control the entire Korean Peninsula which is close at hand?
This is a question that people of later generations can't help but ponder in their minds.

Because from the perspective of future generations, the Korean Peninsula is so good!
It has a large population, and its technology and economy are relatively developed, especially South Korea, which is separated from Japan by the Korean Strait. If you have North Korea in your hands, as long as you are upset, you can go up and slap the small book anytime, anywhere. beautiful thing.

In addition, Heilongjiang and Kyrgyzstan provinces also have outlets to the sea. I don't know how much economy it will bring.

But in fact, in the entire history of mankind, the broken place of the Korean Peninsula is really not a good place.

Look at the terrain, it's a broken peninsula, but there are tall mountains that soar into the sky and almost run through the entire peninsula.

The place where the fart is bigger is almost cut in half, making the west coast and east coast of North Korea extremely inconvenient for transportation in ancient times.

Most of the entire peninsula is mountainous. Only the Taedong River, Han River, and Nakdong River that come down from the mountains barely reach the sea, rushing out of the three small plains of Pyongyang, Seoul, and Fushan. More than half of the people on the road are crowded in these three places.

This has led to a strange situation. There are few and small plains, and the people are concentrated on these small plains. The population is too large, and it is difficult to eat and wear warmly.

If the situation is a little bit better and the people live for a few years, the per capita food shortage brought about by the explosive growth of the population will lead to the tragedy of starvation on a large scale, and this wave of natural elimination will occur almost every two to thirty years.

And the people living on the mountain, like their mother monkeys, barely cultivated a little land in the crevices of rocks and valleys, half of the grain, half of the wild vegetables and fruits, and the good years were as miserable as the people of the Central Plains in the disaster years.

Moreover, the place is extremely cold. Sometimes when a strong wind blows, the temperature can compete with that in Heilongjiang.

What is even more speechless is that the situation on the Korean peninsula has made their transportation to the Central Plains extremely inconvenient. From North Korea to the Central Plains, there are only rugged mountain roads to go, and they cannot rely on water transportation.

In such a place, whether it is tribute or taxes, it is worth [-] Wen at the time of departure, and if it is sent to Luoyang or Chang'an, it may have to owe a few hundred Wen for shipping, let alone the value, it is still a loss.

As a result, it is okay to collect some tribute every year. Anyway, the amount is not large. The central court raises the price, so that I can gain face and you can gain value, but if it is taxed, it is completely unnecessary.

The only possibility is sea transportation, but this thing was very inconvenient from Shandong to the Korean Peninsula before the Ming Dynasty.

Because the sea is not a river, it does not have enough power like a running river, so the general ancient sea transportation relied heavily on ocean currents and monsoons.

Both of these are weak near the Bohai Bay.

The ocean current is the younger brother of the younger brother, and later generations cannot even carry out the eutrophic seawater produced by the cities near the Bohai Bay.

The monsoon is also of little use because the Bohai Sea is surrounded by three sides.

Moreover, it is mainly blown from the Shandong Peninsula to the Liaohai Sea. That is to say, if it depends on the monsoon, there is a high probability that ships departing from Dengzhou will either be blown to Dalian or Yingkou.

So if you go from Shandong to North Korea, you have to gamble on your luck. If you are lucky, you will go directly to North Korea.

To sum up, North Korea, a broken place, is really useless to the Central Plains court.

One cannot carry the excess population, and the other cannot pay taxes, and on the contrary, it has to spend military expenses for stationing in vain, and occupy him at leisure!
After receiving the tribute of three melons and two dates, wouldn't it be good to let him go away and play in the mud by himself?
Moreover, the efforts of the Central Plains court in the direction of the Korean Peninsula have always been aimed at digesting Liaodong.

That is a good place, much better than the peninsula, so I am impatient to go to the peninsula to tinker.

Then some people have to ask again, since it is completely thankless to set up the four counties of Han Dynasty to govern directly like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but why can't you entrust your son to North Korea to be king like Zhang Tie?

What he said, he was his own son, not picked up on the street!

It's the kind of place where poor dogs can't lick ashes, where are you willing to let your son become a beggar king!What a cruel heart!
Not to mention the time of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is now, in this era when the peninsula is relatively richer than before.

When the news spread that Zhang Tie was going to bring Murong Nobunaga to South Korea and Japan, many people thought that Zhang Shengren was too cruel.

Cao Yuanzhong didn't know how many times he had complained in person, and Mrs. Cao San supported her in face, but shed tears behind her back.

Even Cao Shishi and Cao Yanming had a serious talk with Zhang Tie, and gently advised him not to treat Murong Nobunaga too harshly.

But Zhang Tie knows that the Korean peninsula is actually not as bad as these people's stereotypes make it out to be.

After the desperate struggle of Silla, Baekje and other countries, although it is still a poor place, it can support about 100 million people, and the coastal plain can support at least 50 million people.

Although it is still hard work to be a king in such a place, it is not considered a beggar king.

And at this time, it is the last chance to control the Korean peninsula.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, the place was too poor to bear, but by the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, a normal king could already be put down.

The reason why we haven’t reached this point in history is that my Great Song Dynasty is too powerful. They can’t deal with the Khitan people, let alone the Korean Peninsula, and there are not even Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.

At the same time, the Liao Kingdom is also the eldest brother, not to mention the second brother. The Yelu family is incompetent in attacking and shameless in retreating. They put a lot of energy on how to keep the sweet pastry of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.

As a result, the Koreans were beaten several times, all because they were afraid that the Song army would not dare to mobilize the army, and it became a small fight, and the Koreans just knelt down and settled the matter.

Can't you fucking put in a lot of effort to develop Liaodong and the Peninsula?Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched just to ask the Koreans, 'Are you convinced? '

You said these two things, as long as there is a point of fighting for a big unification, there is no such thing as the latter.

This is also the reason why Zhang Tie agreed to hand over South Korea to Murong Nobunaga. There are too few good places, and there are only three places that are the essence of the entire peninsula.

The West Korea Bay, dominated by the three rivers of Qingchuan River, Daedong River and Yalu River, is where the later generations of Pyongyang, Pyongcheng and Sinuiju are distributed.

Ganghwa Bay, dominated by the Han River, includes the current capital of Wang's Koryo, Kaijing (Kaicheng), and Seoul, the cosmopolitan metropolis of Nanbang in later generations, are all here.

Andong Prefecture, which is dominated by the Nakdong River estuary area, is also the area of ​​Nanbangfu Mountain and Ulsan in later generations.

At the same time, the only place that can be called rich in Wa country at this time is Honshu Island in the Heiankyo and Nara areas.

Whether it is Shikoku or Kyushu, there are occasionally a few good lands, but the overall situation is still very backward, and the Kanto area is even less eye-catching.

Therefore, Murong Nobunaga is not so much a conquest of Japan, but in fact, it is enough to focus on Heian-kyo and Nara. The rest of the places may take decades to slowly develop and gain a firm foothold.

Then, the small area around Ping'anjing is still too backward compared to the Central Plains. So many heroes under Murong Xinchang have to settle down, and the tens of thousands of people who went with him will live a good life. Hold the Wa country firmly.

With so many people and such high expectations, it is inappropriate to be stingy and only give it to a Japanese country.

So Zhang Ting planned to take back the piece of Sinuiju opposite Pyongyang and Dandong among the three pieces of land on the Korean Peninsula to the court.

Zhang Xianjiong, the sixth son of the emperor born by Yelu Abli, is already seven years old, and now it is impossible to entrust him with the Liaodong promised at the beginning, so he can simply be entrusted to Pyongyang.

And the rest of Jianghua Bay, Fushan, and Ulsan will all be given to Murong Xinchang, so that Hao Daer can use it to settle his subjects.

At the same time, the taxes in these two relatively affluent areas and the Heian-kyo and Nara areas were used to afford most of the cost of going east to find America.

What?You said that you are worried that the descendants of the eldest son will fight for independence like Tang Silla in history?
Don't be kidding, Silla is a pure native who is the king, and we all know what kind of virtue the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty went abroad when they went abroad.

In the eyes of these military masters, although Silla is known as the vassal and ally of the Tang Dynasty, how can they treat Silla as an equal, and they just slap the left and the right to teach these sticks to be human.

Besides, Silla maidservants are so valuable in Chang'an, whoever stays there for a period of time will not think of bringing some 'souvenirs' to sell, and then go home to build a big house or something.

This kind of openly invaded the benefits of the upper class of Silla, and secretly robbed the benefits of the middle and lower classes. In addition, the upper class of Silla was extremely dissatisfied because Datang did not give them the old land of Baekje, and they continued to provoke the relationship between Datang and the local people in a premeditated manner. In this case, it would be strange not to rebel.

But this time Murong Xinchang went, not to protect the country and attack Goguryeo, but to go directly to become the king. He himself has almost 50 people under his command.

With so many people gone, how many people can survive in the upper middle class in the southern part of the peninsula?

Zhang Ting has already sent a middle-ranking official to explain to Murong Nobunaga that at least 10,000 people will be executed by the upper echelons of Goryeo and Wa. This is all men, but there are [-]+ women and children behind them.

It can be said that killing these 5 people almost wiped out the local upper class.

Those who follow Nobunaga Murong are all Han Chinese. They will not suffer discrimination from the motherland. At the same time, they will completely change the local race and culture. Their descendants are no different from the people of the Central Plains.

Even if there is trouble, the Central Plains Dynasty has such a big and good territory, but they can't put down the rebellion in the southern part of the peninsula and the country of Wa, and they deserve it.

(End of this chapter)