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Chapter 200 Declaring War on Japan (Add more updates for Master Cheng Guoguo!)

Emperor Kangxi reorganized and returned to the Eight Banners and called on the warriors of Central Asia to print collectively. After all, it will not be completed in a short time. After all, there is no telegraph in this era...

Therefore, after the decisive battle in Samarkand, the Central Asian continent entered a period of stability again, and even Aurangzeb did not feel threatened. He was busy suppressing the pagan uprising!

At the same time, the Eastern Continent also entered a period of calm, and no war broke out.

Under the deterrence of the war puppets of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Changqing's lackeys of the Geng Jingzhong brand, the real dog Li Ergou, and the two old dogs Qiu Hui and Monk Zhixin, all performed very well.

Five years in Wuwei, the entire Outer Northeast, the HLJ River Basin, has surrendered under the banner of Datang.

Well, anyway, after being scraped by Kang Mazi, there were not many people left...

Basically a game of flags.

As for the strength of the Luocha Kingdom, after hearing that Geng Jingzhong had an army of tens of thousands, he immediately became honest, let alone actively invading, thank God that the opponent didn't come over!

Don't think how strong the fighting power of the Raksha Kingdom is, what is a Cossack?
Cossacks are bandit soldiers who were sent to Siberia to explore and expand the territory after being blasted by the hammer in the European battlefield.
In the history of the world in his previous life, Li Changqing advocated the fighting power of the Cossacks, but it was because the Qing Dynasty fought against a small number of Cossacks, and it was embarrassing to win.

After all, the history books cannot record that you are weak, you must record that the enemy is strong!
The quantity cannot be edited too far, so we can only work hard on the quality.

After all, in history, thousands of thousands of Qing troops besieged a fortress with hundreds of people and were defeated. It is really hard to explain...

The Cossacks of the Raksha Kingdom in this world are not nerds who don't know what's going on outside the window. They all witnessed how Emperor Kangxi was so frightened that he threw away the Northeast and ran away.

Naturally, he knew how powerful Li Changqing was, the monster of the Tang Empire.

Not only were they afraid of Geng Jingzhong's tens of thousands of troops, they were even more afraid of Li Changqing throwing a wave of puppets towards their fortress.

In fact, Li Changqing didn't even think about it, the reason is very simple, the fortress stationed by too few Cossacks can't even be displayed as a small red dot on the mini-map...

Li Changqing didn't pay attention to the small number of Cossacks who built fortifications in the freezing environment.

Li Changqing doesn't care about the land in the outer northeast, let alone the bridgehead of the Raksha Kingdom further north?
If you want to occupy that kind of territory, you don't just plant a flag and it's over, you need immigrants to reclaim wasteland and garrison troops!

This often means losing money year after year...

Li Changqing pays more attention to the Korean peninsula.

Although the Korean peninsula is not rich in materials, it still has a large population. Population is a precious wealth in this era!

In Seoul, the capital of the Korean Kingdom, the envoy of the Tang Empire swaggered up to the court hall and announced Li Changqing's intention straight to the point.

The general meaning is to let the Korean Kingdom give up resistance and merge into the Tang Empire. Hello, everyone, you can continue to be your officials, and the Korean royal family can also get a hereditary prince without power.

The most important thing is that Li Changqing did not intend to eradicate the two classes of nobles in North Korea, but guaranteed the power of the two classes of nobles in North Korea.

As for the Joseon royal family being stripped of their power...

The Tang Empire is so powerful, what can the two classes of nobles do?
Not to mention the invincible heavenly soldiers in the rumors, even the tens of thousands of Geng Jingzhong's army of Chen Bing Yalu River, the Kingdom of Korea can't stand it!
In the battle of the Qing court entering the dynasty, there were only tens of thousands of people. At that time, the Qing soldiers defeated the Joseon Kingdom, and they were defeated without any temper...

At this time, Geng Jingzhong's army was just the original Qing soldiers dressed in the robes of the Tang army, with the threat of war puppets summoned by Li Changqing hanging above their heads.

Because anyone with a discerning eye knows that they cannot win.

Kang Mazi, who had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, ran away. How could He De, the Kingdom of Korea, fight against the Tang Empire?
Galdan's 10,000+ army was destroyed within a day. Can the North Korean Kingdom pull out a 10,000+ army of the same size?

Even if you sell the girl group, you won't be able to get it together!
Oh, by the way, there are only dancers in the Kingdom of Korea now, and there are no girl groups.

The Kingdom of Korea does not need to know about Li Changqing's other achievements, these two alone are enough to make the two groups of nobles who will not be kicked out of the power level object.

As for the Joseon royal family...

That's right, the King of Korea did have a lot of power, but under the threat of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, the two groups of nobles collectively kept silent, and no one supported the Korean royal family's rebellion.

And the king of North Korea is also more conscientious, and doesn't want to die before he leaves the army.

After careful consideration, I feel that the hereditary idle prince is not bad, at least the wealth of generations will be no problem.

The regime of the Korean Kingdom at this time was actually very cruel to the Korean people.

There is no other reason. The population of the Korean Peninsula is too large, but resources are scarce. All the power is controlled by the two classes of nobles. Let alone ordinary Koreans, even the bastards and evil sons of the two classes of nobles have no inheritance rights!

Bastards are the sons of nobles born to non-lawful wives, evil sons are illegitimate children, women who give birth to children do not even have the status of concubines...

The two classes of nobles in the Korean Kingdom also knew that such a large place could not withstand their unlimited reproduction and exploitation, so they formulated a strict system of succession by sons.

Bastards and evil sons don’t even have the chance to become nobles, not to mention the right of inheritance, and the imperial examination as a rising channel is invisible!

After the death of the old father, the bastards and wicked sons of the two classes of nobles in the Joseon Kingdom will be expelled from their homes, and the days when they can have enough to eat will never return...

The two classes of nobles in the Korean Kingdom used this method to control the population size of the nobles, and maintained the nobles of the Korean Kingdom to enjoy a luxurious life all the time.

Of course, the luxurious life of the Yangban nobles in the Joseon Kingdom was nothing more than being able to eat rice as much as they wanted.

There is no comparison with the dignitaries in the Central Plains and Han.

However, the living standards of the nobles on the Japanese island across the sea are similar to those of the two classes of nobles in North Korea. They are all nobles born in poor haha, and their biggest pursuit is to have enough food.

As a matter of course, the daimyo aristocrats in the Japanese island are so hard-working, which is the same reason as their overpopulation.

It's all because of the population!

Not surprisingly, under the absolute deterrence of force, any resistance becomes weak and powerless, and even the thought of resistance is not dared to arise.

The King of Korea announced his abdication, and the Kingdom of Korea was changed to a province of Korea under the rule of the Tang Empire...

The two classes of nobles only changed the names of officials and continued to rule the untouchables on the Korean peninsula.

The family of the King of Korea was dragged to one of the two capitals of the Tang Empire - BJ City, and became a leisurely and powerless prince.

At any rate, he surrendered voluntarily, even the country was sold to Li Changqing, so Li Changqing naturally couldn't look too ugly.

In fact, the case of the Korean Kingdom is an example that Li Changqing set for other small countries.

In addition, Geng Jingzhong's army entered the DPRK and served as the governor of North Korea part-time.

Geng Jingzhong with a gun is not something that the two classes of nobles dare to provoke. The Koreans have always been lacking in martial arts, and now they have surrendered, so naturally they dare not do anything unusual.

After Li Changqing asked Geng Jingzhong to lead the army into the court, the first thing he did was to smuggle people from the Kingdom of Korea... Oh no, it was migrants!
Naturally, the migrating population is young men and women.

Among them, the pretty ones rushed into the official Jiaofang Division of the Datang Empire, contributed to the service industry of the Datang Empire, and increased the fiscal revenue of the Datang Empire...

The men were dragged into the various mining areas and collective farms of the Datang Empire.

In the beginning, Li Changqing set up collective farms for captives. Later, he found that the captives who surrendered to him were all surrendered in an organized way, and even most of them did not surrender after fighting. To be precise, those captives belonged to surrender rather than surrender.

Of course, this naturally cannot draw such politically conscious prisoners of war into collective farms and mines.

As a result, the collective farms and mines established by Li Changqing have long been short of labor.

Today's Han land is full of scenes with less people and more land. Even in the populous provinces of Henan, Shandong, and Jiangnan, there are many surplus abandoned cultivated land after land equalization.

It is a huge country with a total population of just over 6000 million!
This is still the population of those Sinicized ethnic minorities!

There is no way, what can Li Changqing do besides being a receiver of the cauldron left after the massacre by the Qing court?
A small population naturally has the advantage of a small population. The policy of equal land and tax was implemented very smoothly. Li Changqing didn't even need to deprive the land of those big landlords, and some of the abandoned land was given to ordinary farmers.

But the small population limited Li Changqing's financial resources for expansion.

Especially in the military industry, there is an urgent shortage of people for mining.

It just so happened that the densely populated North Koreans came to their door.

Of course, Li Changqing is not an unreasonable emperor. When the population of North Korea was young, couples and families were allowed to come with their children.

However, Li Changqing did not allow the Koreans to settle down and reproduce in large groups, but dispersed them to manage large and small settlements in various places, so as to facilitate their Sinicization.

It only takes a generation or two before these North Koreans basically don't speak Korean...

Not only the Korean population who migrated over did this, but in the North Korean province, Li Changqing's Datang Empire also required the Korean province to carry out a comprehensive sinicization education reform.

With the tens of thousands of troops supervised by Geng Jingzhong, those North Korean nobles naturally dare not refute.

Fortunately, there is no national consciousness in this era, and the Koreans have little resistance to this change.

Reforming education mainly affects the nobles and the rich, and only they are eligible to educate their children.

As for spoken language, you need to take your time. The official language is defined as Chinese. All officials in the Korean province must speak Chinese, and all official documents must be written in Chinese characters!

The clothing of the Koreans is defined as national characteristic clothing, and the requirement for formal attire on weekdays must be Hanfu...

This kind of reform is all-round and takes a long time, but there are policy preferences, and assimilation is definitely much faster than natural evolution.

As for the large tracts of black land in Liaodong and even the Black Dragon Army basin, Li Changqing requested that some poor Han people be relocated from the Han land.

Allocate double or even triple the fields in the Liaodong and HLJ watersheds!

At the same time, a similar number of Koreans who migrated used to work as tenants for Han farmers.

After all, peasant families are allocated more land than they can cultivate, and more labor is definitely needed.

This kind of tenants is not mandatory, because the migrants are all impoverished households in North Korea, and all their consumption during the migration process is recorded and needs to be paid.

Being tenants means that they are actually 'repaying the loan'.

It's just that the object of repayment is their Han peasant master.

The Han farmer masters would not refuse this loan. Not only did they not have to pay extra, but they could also exploit some of the surplus value of the North Korean tenants to supplement their families when repaying the loan.

Because the number of Han people is equal to the number of Koreans, the Tang Empire does not have to worry that the Koreans will turn against customers.

Of course, all of this is still a matter of policy. Large-scale migrations are often based on annual units, and consume a lot of food and materials.

These food supplies are all loans on the back of the migrants. Only the migrants in the Han area can receive a certain amount of migration subsidies.

During this great migration, Li Changqing saw the important role of the local garrison.

They are basically responsible for the regulation and protection of personnel.

As for recruiting troops from the Korean Peninsula, Li Changqing never thought about it.

It's not that I look down on the combat effectiveness of North Korean soldiers (it's not very good), but that Li Changqing feels that it is unnecessary.

Does he still need troops to fight?

After settling North Korea, Li Changqing also sent envoys to Japan.

The conditions announced by the envoys sent to Japan were similar to North Korea, but Li Changqing knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for Japan to surrender like the North Korean Kingdom.

Since ancient times, the Kingdom of Korea has always regarded the Central Plains Dynasty as its suzerain and heavenly kingdom. It has a natural fear of the Central Plains Dynasty and a high degree of acceptance of Han culture.

But Japan, which is separated by an ocean, has never been conquered by the Central Plains Dynasty. The cultural imprint is completely different from the Central Plains Dynasty. At most, it is half a student.

Relying on a group of envoys to make Japan surrender, even if there are heavenly soldiers as a deterrent, Li Changqing feels that the possibility is very small.

But even if the envoy failed, it didn't matter. After expressing his attitude, Japan refused, and Li Changqing could justifiably throw war puppets against Japan.

Li Changqing only needs to arrive at Busan City in the North Korean province, and he can see most of the Japanese island on the small map.

Among them are the economic, political and cultural centers in central Japan such as Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka!

Next, it depends on how the Tokugawa shogunate plans to die...

In March of the fifth year of Wuwei, the envoys of the Tang Empire took the lead in visiting the beggar emperor in Kyoto, which made the Tokugawa shogunate feel slighted.

Later, he went to Edo, but the door was closed. General Tokugawa didn't even see the envoys, so he sent the envoys away...

However, the envoys did not leave, but instead visited the Southwestern Qiang Fan who had been at odds with the Tokugawa shogunate.

Then they returned to the mainland of the Tang Empire by boat.

In June of the fifth year of Wuwei, Li Changqing, who received a report from the envoys, officially declared war on Japan!
(End of this chapter)