I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 277



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (277)

“Why did China fall? The reasons can be divided into distortion of collective memory, political conflict, economic conflict, and cultural conflict.”

This is Jinling, and the historian Wang Je-ming (Chinese name Wang Jiming) coolly analyzed the reason why China disappeared into history.

The first reason China failed is said to be ‘distortion of collective memory’, but what exactly does this mean?

This requires examining when the concept of China was born.

The Chinese people probably think that China has existed for a long time and will naturally exist in the future, but that is the opinion of the majority Han Chinese, and the minority groups do not agree with that opinion.

China regularly demanded tribute from its surrounding barbarians and regarded the countries that paid tribute as its subjects.

This is the early Chinese thought,

For the Chinese, Sinocentrism was merely a yardstick to distinguish between themselves and others, and was far from the concept of unifying the East Asian world.

This concept persisted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

The People’s Republic of China, which had been calling for driving out the Qing barbarians and restoring China, oppressed ethnic minorities in accordance with its own beliefs.

This is the true Chinese ideology, but at some point, the Chinese ideology began to be distorted in a strange direction.

“Mao Zedong realized that he needed the power of ethnic minorities to win the war against the Kuomintang. So he recognized the autonomy of ethnic minorities and respected their culture, and in the process, the concept of China inevitably changed.”

Since when have Han Chinese and non-Han Chinese people lived together within the framework of China?

This is a clear mistake on the part of the Chinese, they were not one from the beginning.

Surprisingly, this concept also exists in the West.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato also considered all people other than Greeks to be barbarians, and this concept was passed down through the generations in Europe.

“Humans produce food, but animals gather food. How can we treat those who can’t even produce food as human?”

The eerie coincidence between China’s Sinocentrism and Western imperialism.

Just as China did not treat horseback-riding nomads as people, Europe also relegated barbarians to the realm of animals known to man.

Why are those in Europe or the East who think they are advanced and civilized countries so arrogant?

They even tried to educate the beasts in their own way.

“The Chinese ideology believed that Confucianism could be used to educate barbarians. That is why China treated countries that practiced Confucianism as people, and Korea was one of them. This is why Chiang Kai-shek treated Korea as part of China and a territory that needed to be recovered. Western imperialism also considered it God’s will to educate beasts with Christianity.”

The Chinese ideology and imperialism that were just the side dishes to the rice,

Since when have I been a child of God? Since when have I been a Chinese?

From the beginning, I was not Chinese, but you insist that you are Chinese and that the land you live in is also Chinese land. It is just unbelievable for the person on the receiving end.

“Get out!! This is our land!!”

“Wait!! Who are you guys?!!”

In fact, in 1958, a mass genocide of ethnic minorities occurred in China.

About 300,000 Han Chinese people have moved into the autonomous region called ‘Orocheon’, where ethnic minorities live.

The Chinese destroyed the forests where they lived and hunted their plants and animals for firewood. As a result, more than 100,000 Orochon people died or were scattered, and now no trace of them can be found.

This is the essence of Sinocentrism,

Why have the surrounding countries fought so fiercely against China? However, Sinocentrists interpret even this as a fight between ethnic minorities within China.

This is why countries like Korea and Vietnam hate China.

If you think about it, economic and cultural conflicts are also an extension of that. Isn’t this conflict happening because we only set the standard of China and do not recognize differences?

China has been caught up in the collective distortion that it has been one for two thousand years.

Professor Wang Je-myeong of the Department of History raised his voice, saying that it was now time to break it.

“China has never been one. China is just a concept that has been plausibly wrapped up in the process of killing, plundering, and annexing other ethnicities. It is no different from the imperialism we once detested so much.”

This claim caused a great stir in Geumneung.

If this is true, was the Chinese state that existed for the past two thousand years an illusion?

There were even rumors among Jinling people that China’s downfall was inevitable, as China was doing the same things to its neighboring countries as the Western powers it once detested.

The problem is how to apply this to modern society. Korea made Songho – Geumneung – Yeonan – Manchuria – Inner Mongolia all administrative districts.

30% of the former Qing territory is owned by Korea, and if you include Wuhan, which was recently taken over by the United States, this percentage rises to 33%.

So, is Korea succeeding China?

Or is it annexing the continent in a different way than China?

Even though the Korean leader allowed the transfer of Korean nationals and overseas territories, that does not mean that Chinese = Korean.

The two still have different relationships,

And Korea has no intention of entering inland China.

What good is it to reach into the interior of China when we have already eaten up all the valuable land located along the continental coast?

The attitude of the Korean leader is that he has no interest in whether the Chinese warlords fight each other.

This is why even Chinese people are confused.

“What on earth does the Korean leader want?”

“You’ve already eaten up 33% of the former Qing territory. Aren’t you going to eat up China at this rate?”

“That’s really strange. If I had put my mind to it, I would have come in already.”

Chinese people who secretly hope that Korea will eat up China.

It is inevitable because the world knows that the parts of China that are now under Korean rule have achieved rapid economic development.

Rather than living in a hell where warlords fight each other, wouldn’t it be better for a foreign power to invade and solve this mess?

But the Korean government did not budge.

***

“Your Majesty, we have discovered a new species.”

“tribe?”

“Yes, here is the report.”

This is Geumneung,

I received a report from the Central Intelligence Agency.

We know that there are dozens of ethnic minorities in China, but no one knows exactly how many there are.

Overseas territories are not colonies, but areas that Korea must govern.

Of course, we also need to figure out who lives on this land.

For a long time, Korea focused on cities located along the continental coast, and failed to recognize ethnic minorities deep in the interior.

Research on ethnic minorities began three years ago, and this time a new ethnic group was discovered.

The identity is the Orochon tribe, who disappeared after being attacked by the Han Chinese in 1958.

They were people who had lived in the mountains for generations, and even after being driven out of their hometown, they continued to live in the mountains.

So, what went undetected for the past 30 years, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s investigation, was that the size of the village was less than 4,000 people.

The miserable plight of an ethnic minority that once numbered 100,000 people, in any case, was something that could not be ignored since they were living in Inner Mongolia, a region under Korean rule.

“What is their position? Do they want assimilation with Korea?”

“No. They are afraid now.”

“Are you scared?”

“Yes, because 30 years ago, my clan was almost completely wiped out by the Chinese invasion.”

I nodded.

In some ways, they are pitiful beings, but if we leave them like this, isn’t that any different from treating them like animals?

Draw a line and acknowledge the differences between you and me?

The moment the border is drawn, Korea and they are divided into civilized and uncivilized, human and beast.

Why did the Chinese invade Orochon villages without hesitation? It is a somewhat cruel reality, but such things still happen today.

Why are ethnic minorities in the Amazon region losing their homes due to the Brazilian government’s indiscriminate deforestation and plundering?

What about Indians in America?

Do you think those people would be treated as human beings in America?

Americans do not consider themselves the original inhabitants of the American continent and do not recognize that the Indians were the owners of this land.

The history of mankind is one in which the majority oppresses the minority with violence.

It’s not just the idea of ​​Sinocentrism that’s like that; history just has been like that.

That’s why I reached out to the Orochon tribe. With a population of only 4,000, how long do you think they can maintain their customs?

Even if you leave it alone, it is destined to disappear someday.

In fact, the investigation found that young Orochon people were working in Inner Mongolia under false pretenses for low wages.

All that’s left in the village are the elderly, children, and women. Who knows what will happen if their existence becomes known to the outside world?

In fact, just 20 years ago, they were fighting fiercely with various ethnic minorities such as the Daurs, Evenks, and Hui.

Since there is no force to protect them, it is natural that they are attacked from the surrounding area, and now they have caught the eye of Korea.

Is it really best to just leave them alone? First, we gathered the opinions of young Orochon people living in Inner Mongolia under false pretenses.

“If you want to naturalize in Korea, I will do so.”

“Is that really okay?”

“Of course. You also came to the city because you couldn’t make a living in the mountains. Once you settle down, you can bring your family to the city too. What do you think?”

“great.”

In this way, I naturalized 300 young people of the Orochon tribe as Koreans.

Of course, if this happened, the Orochon tribe’s culture would disappear, so they bought the tools they used in their daily lives and moved them to the museum.

And research into their history was also conducted, and the results were surprising.

[The Orochon people are a Tungusic people, some of whom are distributed throughout Hokkaido, Japan. Of course, they are less powerful than the Ainu people and are not recognized as a minority, but they are also a minority with their own culture.]

It has been confirmed that their clan lives not only in Japan but also in the Sakhalin-Amur River region of Russia.

The problem is that these villages are all small, with populations of 30 to 100 people, and there is a high possibility that they will perish in less than a century.

‘This is why people must be in the majority to survive.’

This incident made me realize something.

The reason Korea was able to maintain its independence under the shadow of China was because it was the majority. If that hadn’t happened, it would have been uprooted like the Orochon tribe.

The current population of Korea is 120 million, of which a little over 50 million are native Koreans.

Does that mean we will maintain our national identity by being confined within the framework of 50 million people?

With 50 million, we can probably survive somehow, but it is a pitiful scale compared to the US and Russia, which boast a population of over 200 million.

If we want to maintain Korea’s identity in the future, we need to include more people.

After much deliberation, I made a decision.

‘The power of civilization is to make others’ things our own. In the future, Korea will make others’ things our own. Whether it be history, culture, or people.’

From that day on, I made all of China’s ethnic minorities and their cultures Korean.

Some may criticize this as a revival of Sinocentrism, but I have concluded that we need to grow in size for the eternal survival of Korea.