Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1339: Training System
Shangluo requires that in the future all Colombian automatic machine countries must accept the supervision of the tripod machine.

This is a very demanding requirement. The Korean Empire in history has entered this process - from a historical perspective, this stage is "training".

For a tributary state to go from independent governance to complete submission, it usually goes through two stages: training and propaganda.

During the period of political training in Korea, a large number of supervisory censors went to various parts of Korea to inspect the administration and various aspects of work in the eight provinces of Korea. During that period, the [Guardianship of Korea] composed of Ming censors became the central power structure of Korea.

During the period of tutelage, Joseon reformed the original formalized imperial examination system based on the [Wenwuyangban] feudal aristocracy and established a republic similar to the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Wenwuyangban aristocracy still existed, the actual affairs were gradually transferred to the hands of common people who stood out in the imperial examination under the protection of [Joseon guardianship].

After the end of the tutelage period, the [Korean Guardianship] withdrew most of its practical institutions and handed over the Korean government back to the [Korean Xuan Government] formed by Koreans themselves, retaining only representatives in the eight provinces of Korea and the two capitals of Seoul and Pyongyang. The permanent staff is also composed of supervisory censors, but compared with the previous [Korean Guardianship], the number of people has been reduced from thousands to about a hundred. They only retain the final decision-making power on many issues and do not interfere in daily affairs.

This process is worthy of praise in the history of the Ming Dynasty and is recorded in many history books because both sides were very satisfied with it.

First, the Joseon king ended the dispute over the heir through this process - because the cause of this incident was that the Joseon king wanted to keep the throne in his own line, but the civil and military officials in the court were dissatisfied with the prince's biological mother and demanded that the younger brother succeed the older brother. This incident caused chaos throughout the Joseon Dynasty, and the Joseon king simply took the opportunity of surrendering to the country to escape the political whirlpool within Joseon.

He stayed in Yingtian and didn't go back.

On the other hand, the civil and military officials of Joseon were also quite satisfied. Because even if the civil and military officials continued to fight among themselves, the Joseon king could not be overthrown. Whenever a new king ascended the throne, it was bound to cause bloodshed. This kind of political serial killing was unbearable even for them, and the departure of the Joseon king helped everything get out of the out-of-control state of "stall and spin".

Everything is better now that the King of Joseon is gone. Because there is no generational vendetta, all conflicts are smoothed out. Now only the head of the government will go to jail for impeachment, and no one will be implicated or have their entire family killed. More importantly, the departure of the King of Joseon has completely freed the country from constraints. The civil and military nobles have actually become the bulk of Joseon's vassal kings, and they are simply happy and unwilling to leave.

This is even better for the Korean people. In the past, they had no interest in the imperial examinations, but now everyone can afford to go to school and take the exams to become an official.

The only loss was that the Ming Dynasty sent many imperial censors to go abroad, which was considered a business trip and required a lot of extra travel expenses. However, the gratifying changes that took place in North Korea made these investments worthwhile.

Shangluo also learned this history in class.

He was familiar with this because it was not only recorded in history books, but also mentioned in a separate section of the textbook. This was a typical example of the suzerain-vassal relationship.

And now, Shangluo also plans to carry out similar reforms on the Colombian Automata Kingdom - and the censors he sent out are those tripods.

With the tripod that specifically restrains these bipeds, he hopes to quickly and thoroughly "train" the Columbian Automaton State, and then make it annexed. Shangluo intends to solve this problem as soon as possible. He has discussed this issue with Zhu Xianxun and Victoria. All three parties agree that the Columbian Automaton State is indeed useful, but it also needs some changes. Because the more useful and capable they are, the more dangerous they are.

The more this power that cannot be understood by humans shows its subjective initiative, the more uneasy Zhu Xianxin and Victoria feel.

Shangluo thought the same. Although no one knew more about the Columbian Automaton Country than he did, his own knowledge of it was quite limited. The other two were even more clueless about the situation here. They could tolerate the existence of these machine heads entirely because of Shangluo.

In other words, if Shangluo had not been there, both sides would have already started using doomsday weapons to destroy Colombia's territory.

Shangluo also did not intend to provide them with unlimited political guarantees - the only way for them to survive was to completely and thoroughly hand over control to Shangluo, rather than acting on their own, let alone suddenly having such a large space station pop up.

Although this may seem like he put down his bowl and scolded the chef, this dish was not what he ordered, but was added by the chef. Although it was delicious, it is still suspected of consumer fraud, and it is time for proper supervision.

"Yes, as you wish." The chef still did not resist or raise any objections.

This has always been his habit. Although he didn't know if he would have any other reaction when his ruling power was really touched. But Shangluo knew that the chef could not always remain the pure "chef" in the long future. Even if he always wanted to serve, and served wholeheartedly, and even wanted to help the hungry humans, when they had the real power, [providing relief] itself was a kind of power.

Shangluo did not want to wait until something happened before killing, because killing without teaching is called violence.

He decided to give the Colombian Automata a chance. If they were willing to accept complete, thorough, and comprehensive guardianship, and were willing to be true slaves instead of acting on their own, then Shangluo could make the chef a true "prime minister."

Because in the future, as his power continues to expand, more and more affairs need to be handled, and he really needs a "housekeeper" who can help him take care of everything, an all-powerful retainer. But the premise of all this is loyalty.

Loyalty is extremely important, especially in the position of "housekeeper". Because the situation of ministers holding the reins of state has been seen in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, and even the housekeepers of the ministers themselves may follow suit, and the position will be weakened layer by layer.

He wanted to kill all the signs of this within the initial loyalty. He hoped that these automata would remain loyal until the fire was extinguished.

The chef's first performance was satisfactory. Next, it was time to test his loyalty.

(End of this chapter)