The political ecology of North Korea is quite similar to that of the Central Plains Dynasty. This is the result of them learning everything from the Central Plains Dynasty.
North Korea is currently in a period of political power. To put it in layman's terms, it means that traitors are in power.
At this stage, the Andong Kim family, the maternal relative, has exclusive power. The Andong Kim family has controlled the state affairs of North Korea since the era of Kim Jo-soon.
In the hands of Jin Zuogen, together with his sister Princess Chunyuan, they took advantage of Xianzong's death to support the royal family's sideline Li Min to inherit the throne, and they had even more power.
Li Ming lived on Ganghwa Island in his early years and lived in desolation. After the death of Joseon Xianjong in the 29th year of Daoguang (1849), under the designation of Queen Sunwon Kim, he succeeded to the throne of Joseon Sunjo as a branch of the royal family and inherited the throne.
After Li Min ascended the throne, the Andong Jin family took full power, and the country's affairs were dim.
This young king did not work hard because he knew the sufferings of the people like many emperors who lived in exile in history.
Instead, because he originally lived a poor life and had a weak personality, he was suddenly helped to the throne by the Andong Kim family and became a pawn in the hands of the Andong Kim family.
After he ascended the throne, he worshiped Queen Chunyuan as the great king and concubine. Although he was 19 years old, he went to Jingyan every day to study due to lack of knowledge, and the state affairs were left to Queen Chunyuan to listen behind the curtain for two and a half years.
The ministers of the Andong Kim clan who supported Li Min, such as Kim Zo-geun, Kim Soo-geun, and Kim Moon-geun, monopolized the government, suppressed the Cho clan of Pongyang, and pushed the political power of the Andong Kim clan to its peak.
In September of the first year of Xianfeng (1851), Kim Mun-geun's daughter married Li Min and was canonized as the Princess of Joseon, Queen Cheren. The Andong Kim family took this opportunity to further tighten their control over the royal family.
With the expansion of the power of the Andong Kim family, not only the power of the royal family is very weak, but also the country is increasingly collapsed. Wen Tian is arrogant and violent, bribery is common, local disasters are reported every year, and the people are in dire straits.
Although there was no major turmoil, crises inside and outside North Korea rapidly accumulated during his reign, and the entire society was on the verge of collapse.
Therefore, it can be said that Lin Fengxiang had great luck when he entered North Korea this time. The opponent he encountered was the corrupted relative of the Kim family.
Although the Jin family controlled the government, many local wealthy families were dissatisfied.
North Korea has experienced several generations of puppet kings, and the local powerful forces have more control over the local area than the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The Kim family can only fully control the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi Province and Andong, the base camp of the Kim family. This results in extremely low efficiency of the North Korean Kingdom under the control of the Kim family.
North Korea has also heard about the Taiping Army.
After all, North Korea relies on its suzerain country and pays great attention to every move of the suzerain country.
However, this peasant army known as the "Taiping Army" actually ran into North Korea, which shocked everyone in the North Korean court.
While the Jin family dispatched troops and generals, they asked for help from their overlord, the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
However, the Kim family did not directly send its troops stationed in Seoul to go north for rescue. They just urged the surrounding Taoist authorities to send troops to capture the bandits.
In this way, North Korea perfectly missed the period when the Taiping Army was not yet stable. This was the time when the Taiping Army was at its weakest.
After Lin Fengxiang occupied Yizhou, the Qing army did not rush across the border to pursue, but also set up defenses along the river. At the same time, the main force retreated to intercept the troops who stayed behind led by Ji Wenyuan.
Ji Wenyuan did not really attack Fuling, but was surrounded by the Qing army unexpectedly. He suddenly fled north. To the north were the wild white mountains and black waters. The Qing army himself was not willing to stay there. Why did Ji Wenyuan
Which way will it run?
This time, Lin Fengxiang and Ji Wenyuan's marching route did not follow the routine, leaving the Qing army confused.
However, the Qing army was mostly composed of cavalry, and the pursuit was extremely fast. Except for Ji Wenyuan who escaped with some cavalry, most of the other soldiers were annihilated or captured by the Qing army.
Since then, the Taiping Army's threat to Liaodong was temporarily lifted. Although Seng Gelinqin did not complete the task perfectly and allowed several bandit leaders to escape, he did not allow the bandits to cause much damage to outside the customs.
The most important thing is that the ancestral mausoleum of the Aisin Gioro family was not disturbed.
After Xianfeng learned the news, he neither rewarded nor reprimanded him.
Xianfeng ordered General Shengjing and General Jilin to each send an army into the DPRK to pursue Lin Fengxiang. He also ordered General Heilongjiang to go north to hunt for the remnants of Ji Wenyuan.
Finally, he ordered Seng Gelinqin to return to the court because something happened on the grassland.
The things on the grassland naturally refer to things caused by Lu Guoyi and others of the Second Regiment of the Taihang Column.
Previously, Seng Gelinqin's mission in Liaodong was more important, so the Qing government only asked the Chahar Governor to handle it. I thought it was just a group of horse bandits, but I never expected that the Chahar Governor would be defeated.
Only then did the Qing court think of Senggelinqin. After all, he was also a Mongolian. In addition, Senggelinqin won the battle in Liaodong this time.
So Xianfeng still planned to let Seng Gelinqin go to the grassland.
Now the Qing court is quite suspicious of its generals. Although not all of the newly rising local forces are as independent as the Huai Navy.
But most of them don't obey the control.
Seng Gelinqin is now a rare general who defends the capital. Although he is loyal on the surface, emperors have their own ways of controlling people.
The more outstanding a general is, the more he should be kept outside fighting, using fighting to consume his energy, and not allowing him time to sit down and think.
After Lin Fengxiang captured Uiju, he left part of the army to guard the Yalu River, while he led the main force southward along Ping'an Road to attack Turtle City and Anju, and directed his troops towards Pyongyang.
Li Kaifang is mainly responsible for fighting. In the past few days, Li Kaifang has fought with overwhelming force.
North Korea's current center of gravity is in the south. Ping'an Road north of the Datong River is also a remote area for the North Korean Kingdom. And because it is adjacent to the Qing Dynasty, there are no heavy troops stationed there.
Therefore, Li Kaifang's attack on the city and the terrain was just like chopping melons and vegetables.
Lin Fengxiang is not so optimistic. He knows that his group of people here are of a different race after all, and they even speak with different accents. Although North Korea now uses Chinese characters and Korean is only a dialect of Chinese, this dialect is too difficult to understand.
Most of the ordinary people in North Korea were illiterate. The Taiping Army could not communicate with them at all.
Lin Fengxiang has captured many local literati these days and brings them with him for questioning.
At first, these literati were still up to date and unwilling to cooperate. After killing one of them, the remaining people finally bowed to the Taiping Army.
Lin Fengxiang was very particular about his killings. He only chose wealthy intellectuals wearing silk clothes and did not touch those from poor families.
In the Kingdom of Korea, the contradiction between the rich and the poor has always been very serious. Some uprisings were initiated by the poor.
Lin Fengxiang finally learned about the situation in North Korea thanks to the help of a poor scholar.
The Kingdom of Korea is now under the exclusive power of foreign relatives and treacherous ministers are in power. It is a good place for rebellion!
Lin Fengxiang selected Pu Zhiyong, a scholar from a poor family. This man was older. Although he came from a poor family, he also had a popular local surname.
According to the plan of these people, after Lin Fengxiang ordered Pu Zhiyong to stay as the general manager of Ping'an Road, he claimed that he was a Chinese army invited by the North Koreans to go to the side of the Qing Dynasty in Seoul to eradicate the Kim family and return power to the Wang family of North Korea.
Not to mention that these Koreans are really easy to deceive, and some of them would open the door to welcome Master Wang.
Lin Fengxiang centralized the families of these people, then selected some literati from poor families to serve in various places in the occupied area, and assigned them a certain number of troops.
After these people took office, the first thing they did was to reduce the original wealthy families to the ranks of Kim's lackeys.
Then there was the vigorous house raiding campaign. With the support of Lin Fengxiang's men, these house raids were carried out extremely smoothly.
These wealthy families also have some domestic soldiers, but they are no match for the fierce Taiping Army. Of course, some literati from poor families are purely seeking personal revenge.
However, Lin Fengxiang didn't care about this. He only wanted these people to help him stabilize the place and get logistical supplies for him.
Not to mention, after these wealthy families were confiscated, all their problems were solved.
The common people who were oppressed in the past have now released their grievances. The money and food obtained by the wealthy families who were raided naturally fell into the hands of Lin Fengxiang.
There was so much land that it was useless for the Taiping Army to come over, so all of it was given to the tenant farmers.
Of course, it's not free. If you want the land, you can, but a strong man from the family must come out to follow the heavenly soldiers to fight against the Jin family.
In this way, Lin Fengxiang had five thousand more servants behind him. Although these Korean civilians did not have much combat effectiveness, they could follow the Taiping Army as baggage troops. However, they could free up the original baggage troops and become combat soldiers.
At this time, many literati in North Korea knew the Mandarin of the Qing Dynasty. With them, Lin Fengxiang felt much more comfortable staying in North Korea. At least the communication problem was solved.
Originally, Lin Fengxiang was prepared to fight steadily, but after occupying Anzhou, the Korean literati below stood up and advised Lin Fengxiang to take advantage of the victory to occupy Pyongyang.
During the period of the Joseon Kingdom, Pyongyang was still an important city in North Korea at that time. The Kingdom of Korea established "Pyongyang Prefecture" here, which was the capital of Pingan Road and was known as the "City of the Two Wests".
People at that time praised Pyongyang's shape as "it has mountains to block water, controls the northwest, overlooks the Yangtze River (Datong River), and is far away from the wilderness."
Nie Shicheng, a later general in the late Qing Dynasty, also lamented after inspecting Pyongyang that "this palace is the most physically superior area compared to all the Korean roads he has visited. The royal capital was moved here, which is far better than Seoul."
At that time, the city of Pyongyang was divided into an inner city and an outer city to facilitate defense. If this place could be breached, it would definitely make Lin Fengxiang's army even more powerful.
Pu Zhiyong said to Lin Fengxiang: "If His Royal Highness the King of Liao can occupy this place, he can retreat to defend the Datong River and slowly digest the northern roads. If he advances, he can go straight to Gyeonggi Province and threaten the royal capital."
Lin Fengxiang accepted Pu Zhiyong's suggestion and led an army of 10,000 people and an army of 5,000 servants to march directly to Pyongyang.
After all, Pyongyang is the capital of Pyongyang Province and an important town in the north. Five thousand troops are stationed in it. It is led by Kim Soon-geun, a member of the Kim clan.
At this time, the city of Pyongyang was already heavily prepared. Kim Soon-geun asked for help from Seoul and asked the wealthy people in the city to come to the city to help defend the city.
It was this move that ended Kim's control of Pyongyang.
The Jin family controls the government, is arrogant and domineering, sells official positions, and suppresses other wealthy families.
In this regard, Jin Shungen had no self-awareness and even asked the big families to send troops to help defend the city wall. Didn't this give every big family a chance?
Outside Pyongyang City, Lin Fengxiang gathered his troops in the north of the city, looking at Pyongyang City, which was taller than other cities.
Lin Fengxiang frowned. This kind of city is probably not comparable to the average city in China.
In normal times, Lin Fengxiang would naturally not pay attention to such a city. But now he has few soldiers and few generals, and cannot withstand the consumption.
In such a strange place, if you have too little power in your hands, you will definitely be destroyed without even a scrap left.
"King of Liao, I just saw that there are members of a wealthy family on the city wall to help defend. The Park family is also a wealthy family in Pyongyang. If His Highness the King of Liao can send Xiaguan to the city, he will give Xiaguan a letter. Xiaguan is confident that he can persuade them to open it.
City gate." Pu Zhiyong said confidently.
Now he has become Lin Fengxiang's chief North Korean aide. In the past, he was just a down-and-out branch of the Park family.
Under certain circumstances, he can decide the prosperity or decline of a large family with a single word. This feeling of having power makes him intoxicated, and it also drives him to desire to seize greater power.