I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 129



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (129)

[When a great country attacks a small country, the people of the small country are dragged to the battlefield and cannot engage in their livelihood. And since the people of the great country also have to fight in the war, in the end, only the people become exhausted. – Mozi]

[In order to unify the country, Qin Shi Huang took the wheel invented by the Mohists and made a chariot. The Mohists made the wheel to make life easier for the people, but Qin Shi Huang used it to torment many of the people.]

[Mu Jia thought that the reason wars occur in the world is because people love only themselves. They only value their families and their countries, and they do not think that their selfish actions can cause inconvenience to their neighbors or neighboring countries. And this is China’s biggest problem.]

This is China, and a paper presented by a professor has attracted people’s attention.

Why on earth did China fail?

When the Qing Dynasty was shaken by foreign invasion, many Chinese intellectuals tried to find out the reason.

However, the cause was never discovered, the country was destroyed, and China entered a period of great chaos ruled by warlords.

What popped out here was Mao Zedong,

Mao Zedong won the support of the masses by advocating that the people, not the ruling class that only cared about its own well-being, should be the main players in the country.

But wasn’t there a claim like this in the past?

In order to resolve the chaotic Warring States Period, many thinkers emerged, and among them was Mohism.

Their argument is that the ruling class started wars because of their own greed, and the world ended up like this.

When a big country attacks a small country, don’t the people of the big country get tired?

We are both tired, so why do we start a war?

The same goes for technological development, who developed wheels for use on tanks?

Technology is meant to enrich the lives of the people, but the problem is the ruling class who use it for war.

So, Mohism advocated thorough universal love.

If people live by caring for, loving, and helping each other, then there would be no reason for war to break out, right?

Naturally, Mohist thought gained great popularity.

The problem is that this idea may be popular with the masses, but it is not welcomed by the ruling classes. Do you think the ruling classes would like to hear words like “don’t go to war, love and care for each other”?

However, in order to rule the masses, those in power also had to show that they cared for the people, and Confucianism cleverly utilized this.

[Confucianism does not deny universal love. First, you must love your father and your son before you can love others. If a king loves his subjects like his children, the subjects must serve him like a father.]

In short, it means that since the king works hard for you, your people should follow him without saying a word.

However, it is safe to say that the universal love advocated by Confucius has rarely been put into practice in China.

Humility is ultimately something that only applies to my family and those around me.

If the emperor truly cared for the people, shouldn’t he not wage useless wars or civil engineering projects?

Mao Zedong was an extension of that. He shouted ‘the masses’ to people’s faces, but he was just a dictator who committed all kinds of evil acts to maintain his power.

Was he really a leader for the people?

The Great Leap Forward starved tens of millions of Chinese to death, and the Cultural Revolution reduced thousands of years of Chinese history and culture to ashes.

The worst ruler who has thrown away all the things like humility, the public, and such.

And now that Mao Zedong has fallen, communism can no longer be the ideology that will lead China.

What China needs now is to attack Korea and recover its former territory.

Everyone seems to be making a big mistake, but the university professor drew the line and said that such things are no longer necessary.

“What China needs now is not the restoration of the great China. For thousands of years, China has attacked its neighbors and subjugated them by force. That is the reality of China.

Many people think that Korea was a small country under the Chinese order.

If Korea really considered China its fatherland, would they be persecuting China like this today?

They have been oppressed by China’s power for a long time, but they have never truly served China, and now that they have gained power, they are trying to attack China.

In this situation, China’s attitude toward Korea is set.

We must accept the ideas of Mohism and open an era of peace in which China, Korea, and Japan cooperate with each other. We should not fight each other, but understand and respect each other. Only then will East Asia never be engulfed in war again, and the people’s lives will be comfortable.”

This claim caused a huge stir in China.

It was only 30 years ago that Japan bombed Shanghai and turned all of China into a sea of ​​fire, giving up the restoration of the great China and seeking reconciliation with Korea and Japan.

Forgetting all that and understanding and reconciling with each other? Does that make sense?

Although many people opposed it, there were also many who supported it.

“Please stop now!!”

“You’ve fought against Korea once, right?!! How many more people do you have to kill before you’re satisfied?!!”

The Chinese army suffered casualties alone in the Shanghai Battle, amounting to one million.

Do you think that people who barely survived that hell would cry out for the restoration of China?

Reclaiming Shanghai will not dramatically improve the Chinese economy, and what to do about the economy is more urgent than war at the moment.

Zhou Enlai also knows that, so he asks Korea for economic support.

But Korea doesn’t budge.

They think that if China grows in power, it will attack Korea, and Korea still does not see China as a neighbor.

The system is different, the race is different, and the culture is different.

There’s no overlap.

Above all, why isn’t South Korea reducing its military spending even though it was only eight years ago that they pointed guns at each other in Shanghai and South Korea destroyed North Korea?

That’s because they see China as an enemy. What other reason could there be? World public opinion is also trying to spin the idea that Korea will eventually attack China.

But from China’s perspective, that would be the worst possible development.

The right answer now is to make peace with Korea and receive economic assistance.

The problem is that it is uncertain whether Korea will respond to China’s claim of a ‘Greater East Asian Union’.

Since they are at a disadvantage, they are even bringing in the idea of ​​universal love from the Mohists. If this continues, when China gains power in the future, won’t they ask Korea to return Shanghai?

Knowing that, Korea is beating up China to make sure it never rises again.

Korea’s ultimate goal is to erase the existence of China.

The South Korean president also kept sharpening his sword to strike China’s neck.

***

“Your Majesty, what do you plan to do with Director Park Jeong-ui?”

“Just leave it for now. I’ll think about it.”

“All right.”

The same routine that repeats itself today,

I was troubled over what to do with my uncle.

According to Confucianism, universal love begins with loving one’s own family first.

How can someone who can’t even love his own family work for the people? That’s why I hugged my family, and the same goes for my uncle.

I have to take care of my uncle, who else will? But that belief is starting to crack little by little.

‘Can my uncle really do it well?’

I will be retiring in a year, so of course I have to think about a successor.

My uncle, who has done a lot as the political director of the Korean People’s Party for the past 16 years, has no doubt about his political ability.

The problem is that people are not universal.

It is true that Kim Hak-young, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, made a mistake last time.

No, if you think about it, it wasn’t really a mistake. He was just staying still, but his wife said something wrong and that’s how it happened.

Then you should know how to be generous and understanding, but my uncle can’t do that.

The personality that immediately gets rid of anything that causes me even the slightest harm.

The answer can be found by looking at how the Democratic Republican Party of Korea’s leader Kim Jong-pil is treated.

“The more relatives of the president, the more careful they should be in their actions. The president is also a human being. Wouldn’t he want to embrace his family? This incident is no different. The political director of the Korean People’s Party not only cheated on his wife, but also had an extramarital child. How will the people view this? What is the position of the president, who has to embrace this?”

Kim Jong-pil is a straightforward person, but he is not the type to use foul language.

If you look at politicians, there are too many people who are below the level of those who criticize their opponents just because they are political enemies, but at least Kim Jong-pil speaks his mind while being polite.

A person who is upright to put it nicely, and a person who has clear enemies and allies to put it badly.

How should we deal with people like this?

I am in a position to try to understand my uncle in some way, but I cannot force politicians to keep quiet about my uncle’s mistakes.

So, there is no need to look down on Kim Jong-pil for quietly criticizing, but my uncle is displeased with that.

Who are you to talk about the president’s feelings?

Would it be unloving if I embraced my cheating uncle?

If a public official had an affair with a concubine and had an extramarital child, I might have punished that official.

That’s why I’m not a universal person. As the president of this country, I have to treat my family and everyone else equally, but I’m not very good at that.

“Oh, okay… You can curse at my uncle… But he’s my family, right? Beat him up a little for my honor as the president, but not too hard.”

How is this a compassionate leader?

I, too, must understand that Kim Jong-pil is a man who puts his family first, but he is the president of a country and he speaks his mind.

I think that person is saying that because he thinks about my position.

If my uncle hadn’t caused this problem, I wouldn’t have to worry like this, so I don’t stay away from Kim Jong-pil.

But my uncle is a person whose scope of love is narrower than mine.

I can’t admit it if you’re not on my side.

What would happen to Korean politics if an uncle like this succeeds me as the president of Korea?

Even now, the Korean People’s Party is dominating the Korean political scene, and this could get worse.

In the worst case scenario, there will be a large-scale crackdown on the Democratic Republican Party of Korea.

No, if it’s the uncle I know, he’d do that and more.

I can’t always be nice to my family. Can I really hand over power to my uncle?

Or should we purge them now and remove them from the center of power?

There’s only one year left in my term, and I can’t possibly kick out my uncle with my own hands.

‘It’s too difficult. It’s difficult….’

This is why the universal love of the Mohists did not become the ideology that governed the world.

My family and my people come first, how can I love the public equally? I can say with certainty that I have no intention of joining forces with the burning China.

If possible, I would like to erase China from the world. Honestly, I don’t care if the Chinese people starve or not.

And I am a person who did not feel guilty even when I rained down cluster bombs on Pyongyang.

Because I am the President of South Korea, not the President of North Korea, why should I feel guilty about killing citizens of another country?

Of course, I feel sorry for the Korean people because starting a war itself is a burden to the people.

The reason I do not invade China is not because I wish for peace, but because the burden and damage that the Korean people will have to bear is too great.

Otherwise we would have been at war already.

The scope of my humility ends here. As long as Korea lives well and its people are comfortable, I am satisfied with that. I am not interested in world peace.

My family is important, who is more important?

But his position as the leader of Korea did not allow that.