Vol 2 Chapter 2556: Nine counties of Hanzhou, established by the Kingdom of Jin

Chapter 2556 Nine counties of Hanzhou, the establishment of the Kingdom of Jin

Chapter 2552: Nine counties of Hanzhou, establishment of the Kingdom of Jin

Before he became king, Wang Mang sent ceremonial invitations to the Qin, Wei, Wu, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and other countries. As a result, except for the Qing Dynasty, no country liked him at all.

The reason is that Wang Mang's reputation in the Central Plains is too bad. The countries in the Central Plains do not want to have any contact with him, so naturally they will not send envoys there, and Yuanmeng also looks down on the tiny territory of Sanhan.

As for Dorgon and Aguda, after learning that Wang Mang had unified the three Koreas, they both felt extremely regretful, but it was already too late.

No matter how reluctant they are, they can only recognize Wang Mang's status, and try their best to win over Wang Mang to prevent Wang Mang from falling to the other side;

The Korean state established by Wang Mang was not recognized by the Qin Dynasty and other countries, but it was also recognized by the neighboring Manchu Qing Dynasty. It can be regarded as a reluctant state.

After Wang Mang established diplomatic relations with the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, he began to carry out drastic reforms in the Three Han Dynasties, almost copying the land reforms of the Great Qin Dynasty exactly.

In addition, Wang Mang also divided the Sanhan Peninsula into nine counties based on the later maps of North and South Korea, namely: Seoul, Ping'an, Hamgyeong, Hwanghae, Gangwon, Chungcheong, Gyeongsang, Jeolla, and Jeju;

Hanzhou was divided into nine counties and seventy-six counties by Wang Mang. Not long after the division of counties and counties, Hanzhou's population census was completed, and the results obviously exceeded Wang Mang's expectations.

 Hanzhou has nine counties and 76 counties, with only 380,000 households and 1.97 million people, and the total population is less than 2 million;

You must know that before the war, Wang Mang's rule alone had a population of 1.2 million. After the destruction of Goguryeo, the overlord of the Three Koreans, the population only increased by 800,000.

Wang Mang had conducted investigations before the war. During the Li Yuanhao period, Goguryeo had a population of more than two million at its peak. Even after many wars with the Manchus and being defeated and weakened many times, it still had a population of 16.7 million.

 As a result, after Wang Mang destroyed Goguryeo, only more than 800,000 people were left. This number was obviously unreasonable.

As for the reason, it is very simple. The battle to destroy Goguryeo was too brutal.

Wang Mang did not expect that Li Chenggui's resistance would be so fierce. He originally wanted to end it within half a year, but ended up fighting for nearly two years. Countless people died in the war, and large areas in the northern part of Sanhan were reduced to scorched earth.

 This war caused the total population of the three Korean peninsulas to drop directly from three million to two million.

 Nearly one-third of the population died in the war, and nearly half of them were young.

This battle alone depleted Sanhan's energy, and I don't know how long it will take for him to fully recover.

Wang Mang must be dissatisfied with this, but it is the best ending for him. He can only hope to use iron fist to recover as soon as possible after the war.

In the process of unifying the three Koreas, Wang Mang also conquered many talents, such as Gaeyuan Suwen, the most powerful general in Goguryeo.

This fierce general could not even defeat Xue Kui. He had to team up with Xue Gang and Xue Kui and his son to defeat him. He caused a lot of trouble to Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang many times.

 But after Li Chenggui committed suicide, Gai Yuan Suwen was also very aware of current affairs and chose to voluntarily submit to Wang Mang.

In addition to Gaiyuan Suwen's position, Wang Mang also conquered: Fu Cailin, Eulji Wende, Jiang Hanzan, and Heijichangzhi.

 ‘Master Yijian’ Fu Cailin, the number one expert in Goguryeo and the great master of swordsmanship, was sent by Li Chengyu to assassinate Wang Mang three times, and the second time he almost killed Wang Mang.

In order to get rid of Fu Cailin, Wang Mang deployed 10,000 elite soldiers and laid a dragnet, even using himself as bait to lure him into the trap.

 In the end, Fu Cailin was captured alive by Xue Kui due to exhaustion, but Wang Mang did not kill him, but wanted to take him for his own use.

Wang Mang tried his best to persuade Fu Cailin to surrender, but failed to persuade him many times. After the fall of Goguryeo, Fu Cailin chose to surrender.

 Eulji Mundeok and Kang Hanzan, together with Yi Sun-shin, are known as the three great national salvation heroes on the Korean Peninsula.

Eulji Mundeok was a figure in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He served as the prime minister of Goguryeo. He played a key role in defeating the Sui Empire's one-million-strong army. He was a ruthless character with both civil and military skills and full of wisdom and scheming.

Jiang Hanzan was a figure in the Northern Song Dynasty. He led the army to fight against the Liao invasion and achieved the "Guizhou Victory", defeating the Liao army.

Black Teeth Changzhi was a figure in the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty surrendered to the Tang Dynasty after the destruction of Baekje. Since then, he has been fighting against the Tibetan army, and he was granted the title of Duke of Yan for his merits while he was still alive.

 Eulji Wende, Jiang Hanzan and Heijichang were also the biggest obstacles to Wang Mang's destruction of Goguryeo.

At the beginning of the war, Li Cheng met Eulji Wende and Jiang Hanzan, and faced Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang respectively. The two sides fought for three months, with each other winning or losing.

Chen Qingzhi saw that Ulji Wende had been unable to defend and it was difficult to defeat him in a head-on duel, so he sent people to spread rumors among the Han people, saying that the two generals had done nothing on the front line and had been passively beaten. If this continued, they would be defeated sooner or later.

Li Chengyu didn't know it was a trick after learning about it. After checking, he found that it was indeed the case, so he felt a little panicked.

At this time, the ministers in the court who were bribed by Wang Mang proposed that the king of the country should personally conduct the expedition to increase the life of the frontline soldiers.

Li Chengyu also felt that it made sense, so he led his troops to the front line to boost morale. As a result, the morale of the front line troops was improved. However, Li Chengyu was eager to win and always disrupted the pre-war arrangements. He commanded B remotely. Zhi Wende and Jiang Hanzan.

Originally facing two famous generals Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang, Ulji Wende and Jiang Hanzan were under great pressure, and Li Chengyu was still directing blindly.

 How can an outsider command an expert and be invincible?

 In the end, Li Chengyu paid the price for his ignorance and died directly on the front line. Jiang Hanzan was also captured due to defeat, but he also bought time and allowed Eulji Mundeok to successfully escape back to Seoul.

After Eulji Wende fled back to Seoul, he and Heiji Changzhi, who stayed behind, supported Li Chengyu's younger brother Li Chenggui as the new king.

After Li Chenggui succeeded to the throne, he appointed Eulji Mundeok as the general and was responsible for presiding over all the defense of Seoul.

Heiji Changzhi was also named the General of Zhenbei, responsible for guarding the northern area.

After Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang met in Seoul, they joined forces to fight against Ulchi Wende. They stormed Seoul for three months but could not break the city. They had to divide their forces to capture the northern cities first.

Although Chen Qingzhi only took away 8,000 partial divisions, he had many strong generals in his army, so he had the confidence to face Hei Te Changzhi, who had a greater strength than him.

Although Heiji Changzhi had many troops, he did not have many strong generals. He faced Chen Qingzhi, Xue Kui, Qian Zhao, Xu Miao and many other famous generals alone, but he still persisted tenaciously for six months, and was eventually ambushed and defeated by Xue Kui. Captured by Aoi.

After the fall of Goguryeo, Yeongae Su Wenxiao used emotion and reason, and finally persuaded Jiang Hanzan to surrender, and Jiang Hanzan also said that he would surrender Eulji Wende and Haijia Changzhi.

The surrender of these three generals made Jiang Minzhan, Zhao Yuanyi, Jin Zongxuan and other captured generals also choose to surrender.

 After Wang Mang founded the country and became king, he began to recruit meritorious officials one after another.

Wang Mang made Huo Guang prime minister.

 Chen Qingzhi was the general. Xue Gang is a hussar general.

 Wu Yong and Xu Meizu were military advisors.

　　Xue Kui, Qian Zhao, Xu Miao and other generals were all generals, and also held the position of prefect of a county.

 Zhang Tang and Prime Minister Wei were in charge of the government affairs of several counties;

Gaeyeon Sowen, Eulji Mundeok, Kang Hanzan, and Heiji Sangji, four fallen generals with outstanding abilities and great influence, were all awarded the title of general.

Yang Wanchun, Jiang Minzhan, Zhao Yuanyi, Jin Zongxuan and other lowered generals who were less capable and less influential were awarded the title of captain.

Wang Mang's reward, the heroes and the courtiers were very satisfied. The people inside and outside the North Korean court were attached, and they were completely attached to the hearts of the people, but it was only a matter of time.

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 “My emperor’s appearance is like this…”

Dorgon began to tell Huang Taiji about the coming of North Korea in public.

After Huang Taiji heard this, his heart was extremely complicated.

At the time when his father was still alive, the Sanhan Peninsula was almost the back garden of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army could fight whenever they wanted, and leave whenever they wanted.

Whether it was Li Yuanhao or Li Chengyu, when facing the Qing army, they were passively defensive, swallowing their anger, and unable to fight back at all.

 Hence, in the hearts of most Manchus, including Huang Taiji, Sanhan has long been regarded as forbidden, and sooner or later it will be Hanzhou of the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Mang, who was expelled from the Central Plains by Ying Hao and fled to Sanhan, first took advantage of the Manchu Qing's plan to covet Youzhou and destroyed many effects in the southern part of Sanhan, and finally occupied the southern part of Sanhan.

And when he was captured and the Manchus were caught in internal strife and had no time to think about anything else, it took only a few years to completely unify the three divided Koreas and create the state of Korea.

It can be said that the reason why Wang Mang was able to unify the three Koreas was all based on the fact that the Manchus did not interfere.

As long as the Manchus paid a little more attention to it, Wang Mang would not be able to unify the three Koreas.

 It is a pity that neither Nurhaci, Dorgon, Aguda, or even Huang Taiji had ever put Wang Mang in the eyes of the country before.

Now that the three Koreas have been unified and North Korea has been established, it is too late for Huang Taiji and others to pay attention to Wang Mang.

 The unified Three Koreas are no longer what they used to be. Even if too much energy was spent in the battle for unification, it is not something that the divided Manchu Qing Dynasty can manipulate at will.

Moreover, for the current Manchu Qing Dynasty, the most important thing is not to covet other lands, but to unify. Only complete internal unification can the Manchu Qing Dynasty have the will to expand its territory.

Therefore, before this, the Manchu Qing Dynasty not only could not hate North Korea, but also tried their best to win over North Korea to prevent North Korea from siding with Aguda.

 This also means that for a long time to come, Korea will be an independent kingdom and will not be owned by the Manchus.

 This naturally made Huang Taiji, who had always looked down on Sanhan, feel complicated.

“Lu Yu, the envoy of the Qin Dynasty, has met with His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. He wishes that the borders between Qin and Qing countries would be stable and that they would always form an alliance.”

As soon as the Qin envoy appeared, many Manchu ministers showed resentment.

At the time when the Qing Dynasty was at its peak, it was the Qin Dynasty that brought down the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop. Taizu Nurhaci and many generals died in the battle. After that, the Qing Dynasty fell into internal strife and has not recovered yet.

The Qing Dynasty will weaken to the point where it is today, and the Qin Dynasty is the culprit. The hatred between the Qin and Qing Dynasties is as deep as the sea.

If it were not necessary to trade with the Qin Dynasty to obtain food, grass and weapons, and to eliminate the Wanyan family headed by Aguda, the Manchu officials would definitely not agree to form an alliance with the Qin Dynasty.

North Korean envoy Xu Meizu also showed a complicated look on his face when he saw that the Qin envoy who came to congratulate him was Lu Yuzhi.

 Xu Meizu and Lu Yu were both officials of the Northern Han Dynasty. However, after the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty, Lu Yu followed the general trend and surrendered to the Qin Dynasty, while Xu Meizu, Huo Guang and others joined Wang Mang.

After Lu Yu discovered Xu Meizu, he was stunned for a moment, then showed a touch of melancholy on his face, and then became serious. Act like I don't know you.

After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty, Zhao Chongguo faked surrender and was imprisoned for life. After the Prime Minister of Wei resigned, he defected to Wang Mang.

Now the people who were demoted from the Northern Han Dynasty in Youzhou are keeping a distance from former friends like Huo Guang, for fear that they will arouse the suspicion of the court.

 Except for Da Qin who sent envoys to the Qing Dynasty to congratulate him, no other country in the Central Plains sent envoys.

 Hong Taiji glanced at the representatives of the Manchu and Qing ethnic groups below, as if he was looking for someone, and after a while he asked, "Didn't the envoy from the Wanyan family come?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a guard hurried into the hall, knelt down and reported anxiously: "Your Majesty, Wanyan Agu beat him, he..."

“What’s wrong with A Gu beating him?” Huang Taiji asked with a frown.

“Wanyan Aguda rebelled and proclaimed himself emperor. Today is the day. The country will be named Jin, and Jinzhou and Jincheng will be its capital.”

"What?"

 “This traitor.”

 “You are a wolf cub that is not well-raised.”

When all the ministers of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties heard this, they immediately exploded and cursed Aguda one after another.

 Hong Taiji, Dorgon, Yinzhen, Xuan Ye, Hongli and others also looked shocked. They did not expect Aguda's reaction to be so violent, and he would directly treason and proclaim himself emperor.

 (End of this chapter)