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Chapter 1594 Goryeo, No.20 Two Provinces
In Liaodong City, Yang Tai, the veteran of the Kyushu Army and the head of the First Corps, received a telegram from the capital, ordering his First Corps to cross the Yalu River into Koryo to quell the rebellion, abolish Koryo, and establish a Koryo province.

"Having been stationed in Liaodong for so many years, I have finally attacked Korea." Mrs. Yang couldn't help but sighed, and immediately mobilized the First Corps to prepare for the war.

The First Corps is the elite of the Kyushu Army. It has been guarding the iron ore-rich industrial bases in Liaodong and Liaonan. At the same time, it suppressed the former post-gold nobles and conquered some savage tribes in the Heilongjiang River Basin that have not yet surrendered.

When the order to send troops to Goryeo was issued, more than 10000 heavily armed soldiers gathered in Liaodong City, and a similar number of civilians were conscripted to transport food.In addition to the First Corps led by herself, Mrs. Yang also borrowed 2000 cavalry from the Liaodong Cavalry to supplement the lack of cavalry.

In the past, Chu Yun and other generals in the army discussed that two corps might be needed to pacify Goryeo, but now he thinks that one corps is enough.

The First Corps marched eastward with 17 artillery pieces and 2 Gatling machine guns. They were devastated along the way and easily broke through the fortresses built by the rebels.

They executed all the leaders of the rebels, confiscated the land of the rebels and distributed them according to households temporarily, and executed the big landlords who were unwilling to hand over their land in the same way as the rebels.

Wherever the First Corps went, they were invincible, and the rebels were terrified!

They have been fighting against the government of Seoul for several years, but those are the old-fashioned troops of the King of Koryo, and even the Japanese warriors were invincible, so the rebels fought tenaciously and became stronger.

When the Kyushu Army determined to annex Koryo to become the province of Koryo, the rebels found that their enemies were unparalleled!

In the decisive battle in the field, the First Corps only used artillery to bombard the formation of the rebels, and then marched forward in a line formation. The rebels would often be defeated after two to three rounds of shooting, and then be chased and killed by the cavalry.

The rebels could only hide in the mountain city as much as possible, but the mountain city looked fragile in front of the artillery, and often they surrendered before the artillery bombarded the city wall.

The Goryeo area has always regarded the Central Plains Dynasty as the suzerain state for a period of time. When they saw the suzerain state coming to crusade, the civilians were terrified. Under the premise that the other party was righteous and merciless, many people began to take the initiative to surrender and did not dare to continue to resist.

When the First Corps was triumphant, Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, informed the Governor of Korea, Kim Zidian, that he was going to take over Seoul.

Jin Zidian finally climbed to the high position of governor of Korea, but he obviously disappointed his master Chu Yun. He did not stabilize the situation in Korea in the past few years, but made the rebels intensify. Now Chu Yun plans to He personally sent troops to occupy Goryeo and turned a kingdom into a province. He is no longer the person in charge here.

"My incompetence has disappointed the military leader. What is the capital going to do with me after the war is over?" Jin Zi was sweating profusely, fearing that he would be punished by Qiuhou.

"The opinion from the capital is that after the establishment of the Koryo province, you will be removed from the status of the governor of the Koryo country, and you will be the magistrate of the Koryo province." Zheng Zhilong said.

"The magistrate of the provincial yamen, that's okay..." Jin Zidian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he can no longer be the top leader in the Koryo region, a province has three powers: civil affairs officer, justice of the peace, and justice, and the justice of the peace is also one of the highest positions in a province.

Jin Zidian then reorganized the local troops of Koryo, assembled 15000 imperial guards and peasant troops in Seoul, and handed over the command to Zheng Zhilong, who led the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet ashore and 15000 Koryo soldiers to clean up the active villages near Seoul. Rebels, and began to cooperate with the offensive of the First Corps to completely eliminate the rebels in Koryo.

The process of establishing the Koryo Province was more cruel than that of the Eastern Province. Those warriors in the Eastern Province had gone through long-term wars, and they would listen to whoever had the biggest fists. At the beginning, the Kyushu Army also united with the Western Daimyo to maintain order, but Koryo has always regarded itself as a small China, and there are also a group of stubborn literati and landlords. It is not easy to make them submit.

In the process of pacifying the Eight Ways of Koryo, there were at least tens of thousands of casualties, while the losses of the marine troops of the First Corps and the Beiyang Fleet were very small.

The battle to quell the Eight Ways of Koryo lasted for two months and was declared over. The First Corps was transferred from Liaodong to Koryo to be stationed here. Before it completely surrendered here, the First Corps would suppress this place like Wuzhishan, immobilizing the rebels.In addition, the Beiyang Fleet still monitored the newly annexed provinces of Koryo and Dongying until they completely surrendered.

The king of Goryeo, Li Mo, who had disappeared for a long time, returned to Seoul on the steamship "Yongchang" and announced to the officials and subjects that he would renounce the royal family's rule over Goryeo, and that Goryeo would become a province of the suzerain state.

This major decision shocked the ruling and opposition parties, and many rebel leaders who had just surrendered rebelled again, supporting other royal relatives of the Li dynasty to become the new king.

Of course, these rebellions were also strongly suppressed by the First Corps.

The Koryo province was then announced to be established, and a group of former officials and local civil and military officials formed a new government.The local civil and military officials complained quite a bit, because Goryeo changed from a kingdom to a province, and their official positions naturally declined.

However, in front of soldiers with live ammunition, they had to accept the fact that no matter how much they complained, their country became the No. 20 province of the empire.

The news of the annexation of Goryeo soon appeared in the newspapers. Regarding the annexation of Goryeo, the first reaction of ordinary people was where is Goryeo?For officials and businessmen who knew Koryo, the annexation of the Koryo area was expected, and there was nothing surprising.

At present, only the Koryo region in East Asia has not been formally incorporated into the territory of the empire. Under the premise that other places have fallen one after another, the Koryo people are destined to be unable to settle down.

Ever since the Beiyang Fleet arrested the old king of Goryeo and replaced him with the new king Li Mo, the affairs of Goryeo have been in the hands of the capital. Ships going to the local trade do not even need to pay customs duties to Goryeo, just like ordinary provinces.This time the capital mobilized the First Corps and the Beiyang Fleet to fully occupy Koryo. It is estimated that it was to completely realize the unification of the Chinese cultural circle and eliminate future territorial disputes and threats.This can be regarded as fulfilling the long-cherished wish of conquering the Koryo region in the Yang Guang era.

(End of this chapter)