(Mao of the Lee Dynasty)
When the Li Dynasty was established, the Ming Dynasty gave its support and gave it a name.
Before the establishment of the Lee Dynasty, the regime on the Korean Peninsula was called the Koryo Dynasty and the Wangs Koryo. The Koryo dynasty was established by Wang Jian in 9 18, and then merged Xinle and Baekje to gradually unify the Korean peninsula. After the establishment of the Korean dynasty, it has been a vassal of the neighboring mainland dynasties.
After the Yuan Dynasty was driven out of the Central Plains by Zhu Yuanzhang, in A.D. 1369, the King of Gongcheng, Korea, abandoned the Yuan Dynasty for the Ming Dynasty, and accepted the knighthood of the Ming Dynasty the following year, becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and using the Ming Dynasty as the year of Hongwu.
In A.D. 1374, there was a coup in North Korea and King Gong was killed. Wang Zhen, the new king, resumed the vassal relationship with Beiyuan (the regime after the Yuan Dynasty withdrew from the Central Plains). Later, Korea and the Ming Dynasty had a dispute with Li Chenggui. On the March, South Korean troops fighting the Ming Dynasty returned to Kaesong, the capital of South Korea. With the support of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhen was forced to abdicate and was promoted to the throne by his subordinates in 1392.
After Li Chenggui acceded to the throne, he claimed to be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, using the title of the Ming Dynasty. 1393, Li Chenggui sent someone to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, to apply for changing the country name. On February 25th of the same year, Zhu Yuanzhang made the imperial edict of "replacing Korean names with Korean names" and officially renamed it "Korea". Why is it called "Korea"? It also means "the bright country of Asahi".
During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty tried its best to help North Korea put down the "Japanese rebellion."
After the establishment of the Li Dynasty, its governance has been modeled after that of the Ming Dynasty, and the main governance thought is Confucianism, which has a very harmonious relationship with the Ming Dynasty.
In A.D. 1588, Japan across the sea from Korea ended the Warring States Period, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi basically unified Japan. However, the Japanese samurai were extremely dissatisfied with the uneven enfeoffment, and the power of the vassal state was still quite strong. In order to alleviate domestic contradictions, Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched a war of aggression against North Korea.
1592 in April, Japan's war against Korea officially began. Due to the relaxation of North Korea's domestic military equipment, the capital was quickly captured and had to ask the suzerain Ming Dynasty for help.
With the help of North Korea, Emperor Wanli assembled Liaodong troops and sent about 40,000 people from Qijia Army with anti-Japanese experience to fight in North Korea. After the Ming army entered the DPRK, it quickly defeated the Japanese army in Pyongyang, forcing the Japanese army to negotiate peace.
After the defeat of the Japanese army, two years later, it crossed the sea and invaded Korea again with a force of 6.5438+0.4 million. With the help of North Korea, the Ming army once again entered the DPRK with 40,000 troops, and then gradually increased its troops to 70,000, eventually driving all Japanese troops out of the Korean peninsula.
The two voyages to the West in Wanli period made the relationship between Ming Dynasty and Korea closer, but these two wars,
It also caused great losses to the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty was trying its best to help North Korea, which made the Lee Dynasty and the Korean people very grateful to the Ming Dynasty.
Li Xuan, the first 19 monarch of North Korea, once said: "The Zongshen emperor in our country has unforgettable achievements. On the day of the board swing, if it wasn't for Emperor Zongshen who moved the world, how could we rebuild it and get it today? " After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Korea became a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, but privately it still used the name of the Ming Dynasty.
Because of its deep relationship with the Ming Dynasty, after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, although North Korea surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, it did not have a good impression on the Qing Dynasty. On the surface, it is a national gift to the Qing Dynasty, and the title of the Qing Dynasty is used in the formal communication with the Qing Dynasty. However, China still uses the title of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and its daily political and social activities are still carried out in the form of the Ming Dynasty. ?
Even when Emperor Xiaozong of North Korea was in power, he actively expanded his army to prepare for war and sent envoys to contact the Nanming regime in the Central Plains and other anti-Qing forces in an attempt to help overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Of course, the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains has been gradually consolidated, and North Korea has never found an opportunity. ?
However, the practice of using the year number in the Ming Dynasty continued until 1909, and the Lee Dynasty of Korea was destroyed by Japan. At this time, North Korea has recorded Chongzhen for 256 years. According to this calculation, the title of Chongzhen is the longest in the history of China.