My life skills in Daming Liver

On Jeju Island, Kinoshita Tokichiro, whose pseudonym is Mucha, is in a state of distress.

Ever since Yi Sun-shin left Jeju Island and went to the main island of North Korea to accumulate rebel power, he handed over all the brothers in Jeju Island to Mucha.

Only then did Kinoshita Tokichiro realize how complicated it was to manage such a large number of brothers.

When Kinoshita Tokichiro was under the command of Oda Nobunaga, he was just an ashigaru leader who had just become a low-level samurai. He was originally a small businessman and had no idea about leading troops to fight.

Just after getting married, Kinoshita Tokichiro was sent to the southeast by Oda Nobunaga, and then joined the new army in the southeast by accident.

Later, together with Yi Sun-shin, they crossed the sea from Shandong to Jeju Island after experiencing a series of adventures.

Kinoshita Tokichiro's experience can be called magical. Now he has become the second boss of Jeju Island. As soon as he opens his eyes, he has to manage the food, drink and toilet of everyone on the island.

However, Kinoshita Tokichiro has grown rapidly, and now he has managed the entire Jeju Island in an orderly manner.

"The second master, the first master sent someone here again!"

Hearing his subordinate's voice, Kinoshita Tokichiro got a headache again.

During these times, Yi Sun-shin often sent some people who opposed the small court of North Korea from the main island of North Korea to Jeju Island. As a result, the population of Jeju Island has expanded rapidly and there is not enough food to eat.

If it hadn't been for contact with the Southeast Mainland and Southeast Asia transporting part of the food, Jeju Island would have exploded long ago.

Even so, Yi Sun-shin kept sending people to the island, which made Jeju Island almost unable to hold on.

This is not a problem of food, but that no matter how incompetent the North Korean court is, there are ships docked at the beach day and night, transporting people to Jeju Island, and the North Korean court has also discovered it.

The earliest discovery was the Japanese merchant house in Busan.

Busan is just across the sea from Jeju Island and is a port city for North Korea's trade with Japanese pirates.

Originally, North Korea, like the Ming Dynasty, implemented a secluded policy and closed the Japanese merchant houses in Busan.

Later, after Zhang Juzheng came to power, in order to use North Korea as a springboard to dump goods to the Japanese country, he forcibly ordered North Korea to open and lease the Busan port.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has a concession in Busan, and the Japanese merchant house is managed by officials sent by the Ming Dynasty, and is responsible for exporting goods to the Japanese country.

The intensive traffic of ships on Jeju Island naturally attracted the attention of the Japanese merchant bureau, and they immediately informed the North Korean court of the situation.

By this time, the North Korean court also paid attention to it. At this time, they also knew the seriousness of the Jeju Island problem.

At that time, North Korea followed the Ming Dynasty in seclusion and moved all the people on Jeju Island back because they were afraid that someone would occupy Jeju Island and separatist rule.

Jeju Island is really close to the North Korean mainland.

Moreover, the location of Jeju Island is stuck between Japan and North Korea, which is also a huge threat to the North Korea-Japanese trade that is in full swing.

Not only could they not offend the Ming Dynasty's father, but now North Korea's monarchs and ministers also made a lot of money from trade with Japan.

Relying on transit trade, North Korea's monarchs and ministers quickly established various business groups and earned a lot of price differences.

Even the current stable situation in North Korea is due to the new space for wealth growth provided by North Korea-Japanese trade, which has made North Korea's court peaceful.

In Yi Sun-shin's view, North Korea today is even worse than when he left.

The two big mountains that originally weighed on the heads of ordinary people in North Korea were the two classes of North Korean nobles and the North Korean landlords.

Now, there is another mountain of North Korean compradors above the heads of the North Korean people.

The Ming Dynasty’s commodities quickly destroyed North Korea’s self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy.

The goods dumped by the Ming Dynasty completely destroyed the homespun cloth spun by Korean women themselves.

Farm tools and ironware also bankrupted all the small craftsmen in North Korea.

The already miserable North Korean people were exploited even more severely by the landlords to satisfy the ever-expanding consumption desires of the North Korean upper class.

Nowadays, the dazzling array of goods brought by merchants from the Central Plains has indeed improved the living standards of North Korea's upper class.

Even the most grassroots landowners in North Korea began to consume fabrics from the Ming Dynasty and purchased whale oil lamps from the southeast, taking pride in using products from the Central Plains.

What Yi Sun-shin saw was that ordinary people were buying and selling their children and could not afford the high land rent. A large number of scholars who accepted the new learning ideas became increasingly dissatisfied with the upper class.

Of course, Yi Sun-shin did not think that the dumping of goods from the southeast made people's lives miserable. In his opinion, it was the corruption and incompetence of North Korea's monarchs and ministers that led to the current situation in North Korea.

Southeast is just selling goods. What really makes North Korea so miserable is North Korea's corrupt small court and the large number of landlords who exploit the people.

Yi Sun-shin was even a little anxious. If North Korea continued to be so deeply tied to the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty was completely defeated in the future, North Korea would also be liquidated in the southeast.

By that time, North Korea's life will be even more uncomfortable.

After Yi Sun-shin arrived on the main island of North Korea, he began to travel continuously in North Korea's cities and villages to publish his political program.

Yi Sun-shin’s thoughts can be summed up in these few sentences:

First of all, North Korea's backwardness is caused by North Korea's two-class system and corrupt and incompetent monarchs and ministers. The long-term isolation of the country has led to North Korea's difficulties. Now it has become a vassal sucked by the Ming Dynasty. The compradors at the top do not hesitate to betray North Korea's interests. In order to fight for power and consolidate their rule.

If we want to solve the problem of North Korea's backwardness, we must overthrow the backward and decadent old system and free the people from the old shackles.

There is not much time left for North Korea. As the bond between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty deepens, when the Ming Dynasty is defeated, North Korea, which is a die-hard vassal of the Ming Dynasty, will definitely be liquidated by the southeast. By then, North Korea's status will be inferior to that of Japan.

Only by immediately correcting the chaos and overthrowing the rule of the Korean monarchs can we occupy a place in the new order of East Asia in the future.

Yi Sun-shin's words were very inflammatory among the large number of frustrated young scholars in North Korea.

North Korea's two-class system formed a monster similar to that of the Wei and Jin aristocratic families. This monster made bloodline the deciding factor in everything.

Only the children of the two groups can become high-ranking officials, and official positions have almost become a hereditary monopoly of these families.

This conflict has even become so intense that even the two groups of civil and military ministers have too many children!

As the number of children of these nobles increased, North Korea introduced the "Concubine Confinement Law".

The so-called "concubines" actually refer to the offspring of concubines in Yangban families. In order to slow down the growth rate of the population of Yangban, the population of Yangban, as concubines, was reduced to another class separated from the circle of Yangban. Known as "middlemen", they are not allowed to enjoy the treatment of two shifts, but can only serve as low-level grassroots officials such as translators, medical officers, and police officers.

In other words, even within the two classes of nobles, there has been a situation where official positions and interests are not divided enough.

This kind of thing actually happened in the Central Plains. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the wealthy families of the Wei and Jin Dynasties also attached great importance to the concepts of direct descendants and common descendants, because the interests within the aristocratic families were no longer divided enough.

The emergence of the "middlemen" class has further infringed upon the interests of small landowners who were still able to control grassroots positions.

Today, the large number of academies in North Korea, as well as the young scholars who are not allowed to serve in the academies, are such small landowners, or the middle class of the two classes of nobles.

Among all groups, the middle-aged group has the greatest grievances.

Everyone has the same father, but because of the difference between legitimate children and concubine children, legitimate children can inherit the family position at birth, marry into famous ladies, and hold high positions without any talent or education.

Children born from a concubine are like slaves in the family, competing for those poor grassroots positions, and have to endure the exclusion and oppression of children born from a legitimate family.

The more these "middlemen" see the luxurious life of the upper class, the more dissatisfied they are with the current situation in North Korea, because they have really seen the life of the upper class, not the country bumpkin's fantasy of the golden pole of the North Korean leader.

Among Yi Sun-shin's ideas, his opposition to the two-class system and clan politics were highly praised by these people.

And many of them are grassroots officials.

There are officials at the grassroots level to praise it, and there are academies at the grassroots level to promote it. The development of printing technology has further reduced the cost of publicity.

Therefore, after Yi Sun-shin traveled in North Korea for a while, a large number of followers immediately appeared. Yi Sun-Shin established an organization called the "Progress Association" to develop backbones in various places. .

Some of them were sent back to Jeju Island by Yi Sun-shin, while others were appeased by Yi Sun-shin and allowed to stay in the local area to accumulate strength.

Now that Yi Sun-shin had arrived in Busan, he was secretly convening a meeting with members of the local Progress Association when someone suddenly rushed in.

"President, the government is about to take action!"

Yi Sun-shin took a look and found that the man who rushed into the meeting was a low-level official of the Busan Japanese Merchant House and the backbone of Yi Sun-shin's development.

This key member did not attend the meeting today because the Japanese merchant hall held an impromptu meeting. After the Japanese merchant hall adjourned, he immediately found Yi Sun-shin.

The North Korean court is not blind. An island as big as Jeju Island has so many people coming and going. The North Korean court has only discovered the problem now, which already shows that this small court is rotten.

Everyone present was the backbone of the Progressive Association, and Yi Sun-shin immediately asked the junior official to explain the information clearly.

"All ten ships of the Busan Navy will be dispatched, plus the three Ming Dynasty warships from the Japanese merchant house, and they will set sail in three days to raid Jeju Island!"

Yi Sun-shin calmed down and asked, "Have you found out where you want to land from?"

The backbone lowered his head and said, "President, I haven't found out yet."

Yi Sun-shin smiled and said, "It's okay, as long as we know the departure date, it's enough."

"Send someone quickly to spread the news to the island, and ask Mu Xia to lead people to greet 'Master Wang' properly!"

Three days later, the North Korean navy and three Ming warships set sail in the early morning and landed on Jeju Island.

Encountered an ambush by the Jeju Islander group led by Kinoshita Tokichiro, the Ming Dynasty coalition forces were defeated!