Chapter 2469
In order to achieve top-down comprehensive control over North Korea, Haihan has also accelerated the implementation of various control methods in recent years to ensure that this vassal state will not make any more disobedient actions.
In terms of culture and education, Haehan demanded that North Korea stop using and teaching proverbs in the country. All schools must use general education textbooks compiled by Haehan for basic education of young children. Official documents and business agreements must use Chinese characters. Write content.
Of course, with Haihan's skills, he will not just focus on basic education in North Korea. He has also been advancing the penetration and transformation of the upper class of society.
As early as two years ago, the Ministry of Culture and Education of Haihan came forward to build a college at the foot of Nanshan Mountain near Seoul dedicated to teaching Haihan cultural knowledge. The enrollment targets of this Nanshan College are not ordinary people. The expensive tuition fees are enough to exclude most students from ordinary families. Those who can apply for admission are either rich or noble and have some background. This even includes a certain person. Descendants of some royal families.
Of course, the purpose of these rich and powerful children spending a lot of money to attend Nanshan Academy is not just to read Chinese characters or learn Haihan Mandarin. As long as they can graduate from this academy, they will have a great chance of receiving the support of Haihan and enrolling in the academy in the future. If you are an official, you will rise to the top, if you join the army, you will have continuous military exploits, and if you are in business, you will make a lot of money. The future is bright.
Even if you are not interested in any of these and want to settle down and study as a scholar, you will have a better chance than others to become a great scholar in Korea. With Haihan's support, it will be easy to write books and even establish a sect in the future.
In short, the purpose of Nanshan Academy's existence is to continue to cultivate upper-class figures in society who are pro-Haihan. In the past, this work was carried out through study abroad training. However, due to the distance and transportation conditions between the Korean Peninsula and Hainan Island, the scale and quality of overseas study personnel were far from Haihan's expectations, so the Executive Committee Instructed the Ministry of Culture and Education to open Nanshan College near the North Korean capital for training.
Although the environment of Nanshan College cannot be compared with the study-abroad environment specially created in Haihan, and it is difficult for students to feel the prosperity of Haihan, the advantage is that it can attract training personnel nearby and can adjust teaching according to the changes in the domestic situation in North Korea. The means can be adjusted in a timely manner, which is also a condition that is difficult to achieve for those teaching institutions in Haihan that accept overseas students.
Although the officials in the court at this time are still mainly locals, and most of the officials who have returned from studying abroad are military attachés who do not have much say, Haihan's support for officials who have studied abroad is well known. As long as there are almost no officials with study abroad experience After returning to China, many powerful people were willing to send their children to Nanshan College, so that they could at least ensure a good future for future generations.
At the same time, books from Haihan also began to flood into North Korea. The quality of these printed materials produced by industrial means surpassed the woodblock printed books and manuscripts of the same era, and their production costs were lower than those of traditional models.
Under Haihan's deliberate operation, bookstores run by Haihan were opened in major cities in North Korea, and a large number of books printed by Haihan were put on the market at extremely low prices. Most of the local bookstores and printing houses in North Korea are small-scale operations. Naturally, they cannot withstand such competition. The only way left for them is to withdraw from the competition. In just one or two years, Haihan easily conquered this field.
Compared with the cultural field, Haihan's progress in the financial and trade field is even faster. The businessmen who go to North Korea from Haihan to carry out cross-border trade and engage in business projects not only have sufficient financial resources, but also mostly have deep backgrounds. They are either backed by large consortiums or have certain official backgrounds. Many businessmen are even working for senior officials in Haihan. Just doing errands. These commercial institutions from Haihan have very obvious advantages in shipping. North Korean local businessmen who want to engage in cross-border trade cannot compete with them in terms of freight costs. Most of them can only operate the domestic distribution part, which is equivalent to importing goods. All external channels for export trade are controlled by Haihan.
According to the provisions of the cooperation agreement between the two countries, the two sides are mutually exempt from all trade tariffs. Since the import and export of North Korean goods are actually completed by Haihan commercial institutions, this preferential measure creates an absolute opportunity for the influx of Haihan industrial products. Good trading environment.
As a result, North Korea's domestic handicraft industry suffered a violent impact. Industries such as textiles and smelting, like bookshops that printed books, were quickly squeezed out of business by cheap industrial products from Haihan. .
This is also one of the methods used by the Haihan Executive Committee to control North Korea, to cut off the country's development of handicraft industry and keep it in a purely agricultural society for a long time, existing as a pure resource supplier. In this way, Haihan Han can easily harvest North Korea's wealth through the scissor gap between industrial products and agricultural products. As long as there are no major changes in North Korea's social form and productivity level, this harvesting method can continue for a long time, even hundreds of years later.
Of course, in order to ensure the stability of North Korea, Haihan will also provide sufficient benefits to the upper class of society who obey the command, so that they can benefit from this scissor trade and ensure that their social status in North Korea can be maintained from generation to generation. passed down.
The Executive Committee had already used this method of cultivating the comprador class in Ming Dynasty and Annan in the early days of time travel. It had already had a complete plan for this, and the results achieved in North Korea were similar. As long as it can monopolize the import and export channels of one or several commodities, it is enough for a certain powerful family to make a lot of money, and those who try to resist Haihan's business model will be regarded as aliens who undermine class interests. , it is difficult to gain a long-term foothold in the court.
Public anger is inevitable, and even the Li royal family is not immune. King Li Zhi can only pretend to be deaf and dumb to Haihan's business methods. He also knows that if he wants to interfere with the import and export trade, it will affect too many people. The interests may even affect one's own throne.
Even though there were still many officials in the court who firmly supported him, Li Zhi gave up all restless thoughts when he thought that there was a brother in the distant Haihan Kingdom who could rule North Korea on his behalf at any time. But in fact, Li Zhen also knew that with the passage of time, more and more officials in the court would rely on Haehan, and his right to speak would become weaker and weaker in the future, until he gradually became the leader of Changdeok Palace. of a puppet.
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