Chapter 2463

The cultural transformation of North Korea is not a task that can be completed overnight. The Executive Committee also knows that this matter cannot be urgent. However, in order to prevent the North Koreans from delaying and shirk the responsibility, the Executive Committee requires King Li Zhen to pay homage to the existing civil servants in North Korea.

In addition to the Liucao Yamen, a special agency was added that was responsible for promoting the application of Chinese characters in Chinese and revising Korean historical records.

The reason why Haihan wanted to add such an organization outside of Liucao was that he wanted this organization to be free from the hostage of other yamen and have the authority to operate independently.

Of course, it is not objective enough to say that it operates independently. After all, the function of this agency is to implement the instructions issued by Haihan. Therefore, in terms of the selection of officials, Haihan also proposed that the two countries should jointly select officials to manage this special agency.

, to put it bluntly, we don’t trust the North Koreans to operate it on their own, and they must keep this organization in their own hands.

Regardless of whether Li Zhi and the senior officials were willing to accept such an arrangement, the matter was finally settled, and with the promotion of Haihan officials, it quickly began to be implemented. About one hundred acres of land was quickly allocated outside Seoul.

Construction has begun as the future office space for this emerging institution.

In the spring of 1646, the Korean Culture Promotion Association was established in Seoul. Although the name of this yamen does not sound official, its actual authority is even higher than that of Liucao Yamen. Chen Yixin, commander of the Haihan Beihai Theater, also serves as the honorary president of this organization.

This alone is enough to prove how profound the background of this organization is.

The office space is still in the construction stage, and the Cultural Promotion Association issued the first batch of instructions after its establishment. Within the year, it began to promote Chinese literacy teaching materials provided by Haihan in North Korea, and completely stopped the proverb education system that had been used for two hundred years.

The promotion will send commissioners to all parts of the country to supervise the implementation. Anyone who objects and fails to comply will be punished as disobeying the king's order.

The revision of Korean historical records will also start within the year. At that time, the Cultural Promotion Association will organize scholars from many countries in East Asia to compile a Korean national history and pass it down as an official history. Of course, scholars who are qualified to participate in the compilation of this national history will naturally first

It requires Haihan's approval. Those Korean literati who want to insist on the so-called inheritance are basically unlikely to have the opportunity to participate in this work.

These methods used by Haihan will cut off the possibility of North Korea seeking cultural independence to a certain extent, so as to alleviate the inherent distrust of the Executive Committee.

Of course, whether this approach can achieve the desired effect of the Executive Committee will have to be observed for several more years before a clearer conclusion can be reached. Regardless of whether these operations of the Council for the Promotion of Culture in North Korea are useful or not, they will become valuable

In the future, there will be many vassal states that need to be managed during Haihan's external expansion. How to keep these countries in awe of Haihan for a long time, the operational experience in North Korea will become a model.

While exerting control measures on North Korea, Shi Diwen, who was in Kyushu, Japan, was not idle either. Haihan sent troops to occupy Sasebo Bay, which greatly shocked the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. Everyone in the shogunate believed that this was a typical attack by a foreign enemy.

Invasion. However, unlike the Yuan Army that crossed the sea to attack Japan in the past, the Kaihan Army had attacked Hirado Island at the northwest tip of Kyushu Island several times before, and retreated unscathed each time. After capturing Sasebo Bay, the Kaihan Army had

Having no intention of retreating, they quickly built a port and a fortress locally, and it seemed that they planned to stay there for a long time.

Naturally, the Tokugawa shogunate would not sit back and watch the invasion of foreign enemies, but there are continuous mountains near Sasebo Bay, which is not conducive to large troop marches and formation operations. If you want to attack this semi-enclosed bay from the sea, you will undoubtedly take a huge risk.

After all, the Hirado navy, known as Japan's number one naval force, was completely wiped out by the gunfire of the Haihan fleet a few years ago. Now Japan cannot build another armed fleet that can compete with it.

Later, under the coordination of Portuguese businessmen, the shogunate decided to send people to negotiate with Haihan first. After all, it was not easy to fight Haihan. If a war could be avoided, the shogunate did not want to use its limited resources to fight Haihan.

Monsters fight to the death.

The current shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu pursues a policy of seclusion, leaving only Nagasaki as the window for foreign trade. Therefore, he is relatively resistant to Shi Diwen's trade requirements. Shi Diwen had already expected this.

, indicating that if the shogunate insists on opposing trade, Kaihan will attack Nagasaki and other important coastal cities next.

As Japan's only window for foreign trade, Nagasaki involves great interests in all aspects. Therefore, after the news was spread back to Edo, the vested interests believed that the outbreak of war should be avoided as much as possible, and it was completely burned by Haihan.

Hirado is a lesson learned from the past.

However, opening up trade is undoubtedly contrary to Japan's current national policy, and Tokugawa Iemitsu still has many doubts about this. After all, the Haihan people are not as easy to deal with as the Europeans they have dealt with before, and this is a master who can take action without speculation.

Because the speed of information transmission was extremely slow, and the officials sent by Japan to negotiate had to consult the shogunate far away in Edo for everything, the progress of the negotiations was also very slow, and no results were achieved after several months.

Finally losing his patience, Shi Diwen took the initiative to interrupt the negotiations, mobilized his troops, and led the main force of the East China Sea Fleet from Sasebo Bay, southward around the southern tip of Kyushu Island, and then headed towards Kanto. On the way, the fleet was still at Osaka and Owari Domain.

After staying near Nagoya Castle for several days, our last stop was Edo Castle, where the shogunate is located.

After the fleet sailed into Edo Bay, Shi Diwen did not rush to order the use of force. Instead, he sent people to land to contact the shogunate and asked Tokugawa Iemitsu to send people aboard to visit the maritime exercises of the Kaihan East Sea Fleet.

After a series of artillery strikes and amphibious landings, the shogunate naturally realized the gap in force between the two sides and basically gave up the idea of ​​a head-on confrontation with the Haihan Army.

In the summer of 1646, the two countries signed the "Sea-Japan Friendship Treaty" at the Kaihan military base in Sasebo Bay. In addition to the original Nagasaki, four places including Fukuoka, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama were added for the exclusive use of Kaihan.

It became a treaty port and allowed Haihan merchants to purchase real estate and engage in business activities there.

In addition, Sasebo Bay on Kyushu Island will be leased to Haihan indefinitely at a price of 10,000 taels of silver per year. This condition is of course just a formality to make Haihan's occupation of Sasebo Bay legal.

change.

The Black Ship Incident, which originally occurred two hundred years later in history, was abruptly advanced by two centuries by Shi Diwen's fleet.
Chapter completed!