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Because Su Ze attached great importance to Jeju Island, he specially set up a fast channel to transmit information in Jeju Island.

It only took ten days for Yi Sun-shin's letter to be delivered from Jeju Island to Su Ze.

Su Ze attached great importance to North Korea's affairs and immediately convened a cabinet meeting.

Distributed Yi Sun-shin's letter to the ministers. After everyone read it, Prime Minister Xu Wei immediately said:

"Grand Governor, my subordinates believe that we should immediately strengthen support for Jeju Island and muddy the waters in North Korea as soon as possible!"

Su Ze nodded, Xu Wei's thoughts coincided with his.

Regarding military matters, Justice Minister He Xinyin has always been quiet and has not expressed any opinions.

Nowadays, Southeast Asia is very financially wealthy. It is easy to raise a rebel army in North Korea, let alone support a small Jeju Island.

Moreover, Jeju Island’s control of the northern route is related to the interests of the Southeast in Korea and Japan, so Fang Wanghai naturally expressed support.

Tan Lun, the Minister of Supervision, probably handed over the position of governor of Guangdong just two years ago. He only took up the cabinet post after the new year. He is still familiar with the work and remains silent on specific matters.

Hu Zongxian was still controlling floods in the northern part of Nanzhili, and the ministers of the Army Department and the Navy Department were also leading troops outside. This matter was considered approved by the cabinet.

After passing, Su Ze looked at Shen Shixing and said:

"Rumo, where do you think the disaster in North Korea comes from?"

This report sent by Yi Sun-shin can be said to cover all the problems within the small court of North Korea.

Yi Sun-shin traveled around the main island of North Korea, and he found that the current environment in North Korea was even worse than when he just left North Korea.

The internal struggle among North Korean officials has reached a fever pitch, and under such circumstances, they are caught between the three parties.

Ming Dynasty, Southeast, and Japan.

Needless to say, Ming Dynasty is the biological father of North Korea.

Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, sent troops to the Yajiang River, which scared the Korean monarchs and ministers to the point of peeing their pants. Then they fully accepted the Ming Dynasty's request to open a port and fully accepted the dumping of Ming Dynasty products.

The Ming Dynasty could not defeat it, nor could Southeast Korea.

North Korea also does not dare to offend southeastern businessmen who go to North Korea to do business. You must know that the gunboats of the Southeast Navy are no joke.

Next is Japan.

Just as the Ming Dynasty suffered from Japanese rebellion, North Korea, which was closer to the Japanese country, also suffered from Japanese rebellion for a long time.

And unlike the Ming Dynasty Japanese Rebellion, where the composition of the Japanese pirates was unknown, and many were local pirates who caused trouble in the name of Japanese pirates, the Korean Japanese Rebellion was really Japanese pirates.

North Korea is also a big country in Northeast Asia, but it has been relatively weak for a long time. Compared with the Japanese countries that are cultivating internal problems, North Korea is no match at all.

The Japanese country has also had ambitions for North Korea for a long time, and North Korea has been harassed by Japanese pirates for a long time.

However, these are all external factors, and North Korea has more internal problems.

Yi Sun-shin's report was very long, and it took Shen Shixing a long time to read it. After he finished reading it, he raised his head and said:

"Grand Governor, my subordinates believe that the biggest problem in North Korea is education."

Everyone looked at Shen Shixing. There were many problems in North Korea. Whether it was the succession of the monarch in North Korea, the party disputes between powerful ministers, the problem of relatives, the corruption problem, and the financial problem, they were all big problems. They were even more corrupt than the Ming Dynasty.

However, Shen Shixing mentioned one thing: education.

In the eyes of cabinet ministers, education is just the most insignificant issue.

You can't be the Minister of Education and talk about education issues every time, right?

Everyone looked at Shen Shixing, who said unhurriedly:

"The Governor, my subordinates believe that the problem of Korea is its education problem. The root cause is that it is too close to the Ming Dynasty and its own development is too poor, which has caused educational overflow."

"It is too close to the Ming Dynasty because North Korea and the Ming Dynasty had too many exchanges and could always quickly accept the culture of the Central Plains. In comparison, the Japanese country was much farther away. On the contrary, it was not much influenced by the culture of the Central Plains. In other words, every time When the Japanese learned from the Central Plains culture, they painted tigers instead of dogs.

Everyone laughed.

Shen Shixing is right. The Japanese country also learned from the Central Plains many times. Especially during the Tang Dynasty, it sent many envoys to the Tang Dynasty to learn the culture of the Tang Dynasty.

The architectural style of Japan to this day has been influenced by Tang style.

However, the Japanese country, which learned from the culture of the Tang Dynasty, finally developed a shogun system.

The current internal melee in the Japanese state is based on the "Guan Gao System" and the "Mi Gao System". This backward system of maintaining governance through land enfeoffment was discontinued in the Central Plains thousands of years ago.

In comparison, North Korea appears to be more "advanced".

However, "advanced" is limited.

If the Japanese state was still an era of feudal rule, then Korea was an era of aristocratic families in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Although there has been progress in the historical process, the "Yangban" clans in North Korea are not even as good as the famous names of Japan.

The so-called yangban means that the civil and military officials of the North Korean leader are listed on both sides of the court meeting. The rights and positions of these civil and military ministers are hereditary, similar to the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

In the view of Xu Wei and others, the two-class system and this backward clan politics with hereditary neglect are the biggest cancer in North Korea.

The two groups of nobles continued to expand their farms and obtain political and economic privileges. Then they split into many internal factions and began to fight to the death for the highest power.

The royal power of North Korea was taken turns to be served by powerful ministers, relatives, and military officials at the same time. Even the legitimate existence of the throne was interfered with, and so many problems broke out.

Shen Shixing said: "In fact, any system has its own place. From our point of view in the Central Plains, Japan and Korea are very backward, but they have existed for so many years and have formed political inertia."

"The Japanese people have been able to accept the shogun ruling the country. As long as the Warring States Period is over, someone will naturally appear again to unify the Japanese country."

"We can critically say that these systems are backward, but there are still slaves in some island countries in Southeast Asia. Can't they still be ruled?"

Su Ze nodded. Shen Shixing was indeed right. North Korea, which implements the two-shift system, can be said to be backward, but that is not the reason why North Korea is now collapsing.

The clan politics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties have also influenced the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and there have been peaceful times and chaotic times of war. If we only talk about institutional issues, we cannot explain the current situation in North Korea.

Shen Shixing said: "There is a reason for the nine-level Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Central Plains. At that time, the only people who could study the knowledge of classics and meanings were the disciples of the clan. If the emperor wanted to govern the country, he could only rely on the clan."

"In the Southern Dynasties, starting from Emperor Wu of the Liu Song Dynasty Liu Yu, the poor families began to rise. However, even Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty was not of high origin, but he still had to unite the clans to rule the country, and the poor families still could not enter the court."

“Even in the Tang Dynasty, clan politics still could not be eradicated.”

Those present were all knowledgeable in ancient and modern times, so they naturally understood what Shen Shixing said.

It was not that the Central Plains chose sectarian politics, but that only sectarian politics could develop in that era.

Since the transformation of local wealthy families into aristocratic families in the late period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, clan politics has been seizing the highest power.

It can even be said that the Wei, Shu and Wu regimes of the Three Kingdoms "went against" the historical trend at that time. It was Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other outstanding figures who exceeded the upper limit of the era, forcibly delaying the historical process for decades.

By the time the three families returned to Jin, it was already a historical necessity at that time.

"So North Korea's two-shift system is also North Korea's natural choice. In our view, it is naturally backward, but originally this system was no problem in North Korea."

Everyone nodded.

Shen Shixing said: "The bad thing is that North Korea is too close to our Central Plains."

"Because it is so convenient to accept the culture of the Central Plains, in addition to the two groups of nobles, there are also a large number of scholars in North Korea."

"These scholars from poor families cannot advance further politically and are imprisoned at the grassroots level by their bloodline."

"And some of the North Korean ministers who failed in the struggle, as well as some Confucian scholars who were very good at studying classics, were ultimately unable to serve as officials and could only establish academies in North Korea."

"And these academies have produced a large number of scholars. Like their teachers, these scholars cannot hold high positions because of the two-class system."

"And after the rise of our southeast, this situation has become more serious."

"The low-cost printing technology and paper allowed North Korea's academies to not only teach and educate people, but also began to print their own newspapers and make their own voices heard."

"Isn't this the reason why Yi Sun-shin came to the southeast back then?"

After Shen Shixing finished speaking, Xu Wei was silent for a while and said:

"Isn't the situation that Rumo mentioned similar to the issue of expansion of enrollment in Imperial College at the end of the Western Han Dynasty?"

After hearing what Xu Wei said, everyone understood.

Before Wang Mang usurped the throne in the Western Han Dynasty, the Imperial Academy experienced many expansions of enrollment.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Taixue could only be regarded as an institution for the study of Confucianism, with less than a hundred people in total. The number of officials awarded by Taixue students was only a few dozen, and they were all low-grade officials.

During the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the number of imperial students was not large, and all the imperial students who entered the court were in grass-roots positions.

But starting from Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Taixue began to expand its enrollment continuously.

By the time Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the number of imperial students had reached 3,000!

However, there are only so many positions that can be accommodated in the court. In the Han Dynasty, there were still a large number of relatives and princes who needed to be accommodated.

In the final process of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty, these imperial students who were unable to be accommodated due to large-scale enrollment expansion played a huge role in public opinion and actions, and were the political force that most supported Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty.

Shen Shixing is right. North Korea’s problem is that it is too close to the Central Plains.

A large number of intellectuals who are dissatisfied with the status quo have nothing to do but gather together to discuss politics.

The backward land carried an overly advanced culture, and the Southeast's idea of ​​"sovereignty lies with the people" quickly became popular in North Korea.

The young scholars who were originally shouting "abolition of the two-shift system" have now begun to shout the slogan "abolition of the Korean monarchy".

Although these scholars in the opposition are not two-class nobles, they are also from poor families in the local area.

A poor family is also a family, at least the owner-cultivators and small landowners are all people with a lot of weight at the grassroots level.

Such a group of people in the opposition united through cheap newspapers developed by printing technology to exchange various ideas, and even academies associations had emerged.

The North Korean royal family and two classes of nobles were busy fighting for power in the court, fighting each other to the death, which intensified the exploitation of the grassroots.

The two-shift system would have caused land annexation and corruption, and the Ming court's tough diplomacy destroyed North Korea's small-scale peasant economy.

The "big deal doctrine" pursued by the small court of North Korea and its obedience to the Ming court added the "comprador" debuff to the already backward rule.

All this has brought more people to the opposite side of the North Korean ruling group.

This is what Yi Sun-shin saw in the countryside of North Korea.

New ideas are spreading rapidly in North Korea, and the grassroots are getting out of control. There are powder keg everywhere that can ignite at a moment's notice.

Shen Shixing stopped talking, and everyone in the cabinet fell silent.

The rapidly expanding intellectual class is not just in North Korea.

Su Ze said: "Give scholars more outlets, and allow more grassroots scholars to move through fairness, so that our Southeast will not follow the old path of North Korea."

“Talent is a resource only if it is used well; if it is not used properly, it is a curse.”

Everyone's heart is filled with sorrow.

Of course, Su Ze was talking about the future. Today, there are still not enough talents in the southeast. A large number of grassroots positions are still vacant. However, the economy is booming and the market is full of opportunities.

Some scholars have given up on entering the official career and started to make a career in business.

But just as Su Ze worried, in this era of rapid change, in this era where the price of paper books has dropped, the dissemination of knowledge has become more convenient.

Perhaps it only takes one generation for the literacy rate in the Central Plains to double several times, and the number of scholars will expand rapidly.

What to do when that time comes?

Su Ze did not immediately answer the cabinet's question. He brought the topic back to the North Korean issue.

"Let Yi Sun-shin continue to recruit refugees on Jeju Island, and pour some oil on North Korea."

"Breaking North Korea is like breaking an arm of the Ming Dynasty."

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