preface

Chapter 1 Shimonoseki Boom!
Chapter 2: Joshu's Last Day?!
Chapter 3 The Ingenious Army
Chapter 4 Under Pressure
Chapter 5 For the Alliance
Chapter 6: The Four Borders War
Chapter 7: End of the Beginning
Chapter 8: Palmerston's Memories
Chapter 9 Blue, Gray & Yellow
Chapter 10: The Rehemunan Temple
Chapter 11: Disruption of Justice
Chapter 12: The Imsul Peasant Uprising
Chapter 13 The Palace
Chapter 14 Change of Regime

Major events and people

The story unfolds between the Choshu clan, the leader of the Sonnojoi clan.
The conflicting dreams of the Western powers, the shogunate, and the samurai clans
Volume 6 mainly deals with Japan, which is still in turmoil both internally and externally following the outbreak of the Kinmen Incident.
At the center of this chaos is the Choshu clan, which shouted, "Yanggui go home."
On August 28, 1864, a week after the Kinmen Incident, Western powers gathered off the coast of Shimonoseki to show the Choshu clan, united by Western ideology, an example and to lift the blockade of the straits.
Britain, the Netherlands, France, and the United States form a combined fleet and exercise their power.
In the face of their overwhelming firepower, Choshu's batteries were simply shattered.
Meanwhile, in June of the same year, the emperor, enraged by Choshu firing a cannon at the imperial palace, appoints Choshu as an enemy of the court.
Accordingly, the shogunate sent out an army of 150,000 men from 35 clans to subdue the Choshu clan.
Could the shogunate truly wipe out Choshu with this massive army? The key to this question, surprisingly, lies with the Satsuma clan, a longtime enemy of Choshu.
Who will the Satsuma clan side with, the shogunate ordering them to attack Choshu or Choshu looking on?

Joseon, decaying in the confusion of the final days of the Sedo politics.
Can we expect an era of peace if we just deal with the civil unrest?
From this volume onwards, Joseon begins to gradually reveal itself.
In the late 1860s, Joseon was suffering from various types of corruption amid the confusion of the final days of the Sedo politics.
This is the so-called ‘disruption of the three governments.’
Corrupt officials are busy trying to get their hands on corrupt practices such as Jeonse (田稅), a tax levied on rice paddies and fields, Gunpo (軍布), a military cloth paid in lieu of military service, and Hwangok (還穀), a system of lending grain during the spring famine and receiving interest.
The people's anger, unable to endure all kinds of exploitation and embezzlement, eventually explodes in Jinju and develops into a large-scale civil unrest.
Although this rebellion ended in about ten days, the spark of the uprising spread throughout the three southern provinces and occurred simultaneously in various parts of the country.
The Joseon royal family struggles to resolve this chaos and somehow maintain the Yi dynasty system...
With 10 years left until Japan comes to tear down the door, how will Joseon resolve this chaos?

The 『Authentic Korean-Chinese-Japanese World History』 series

This is foul play! They don't even lose their humor in this profound content!
Easily overcoming the historical convention that "you have to memorize it to understand it."
When we talk about 'history', we often have the common perception that it is 'boring' and that 'you have to memorize it to understand it'.
This may be because the memories of memorizing the years and events that occurred during middle and high school history classes are all that remain of our image of history.
In contrast, this series deviates significantly from the conventional wisdom that history must be memorized.


This time, cartoonist Gupsinist has published a historical cartoon that covers the modern history of Korea, China, and Japan, utilizing his major.
This series describes the modern history of 19th-century East Asia, naturally incorporating various subcultures such as games, military, animation, and dramas into it.
As you slowly follow the author's extensive knowledge of history, the various parodies and wordplay that are sprinkled throughout, the zeitgeist and world situation of the time will naturally come to mind.
Through this series, readers will experience a significant reduction in the barriers to entry into history, which has often been perceived as difficult.

In the face of the tidal wave of Western imperialist powers entering the world,
How did China, Korea, and Japan resist or comply?
Why must we read world history through the lens of "Korea, China, and Japan"? To observe the tree of Korean history, our own history, we must first see the forest of Eastern history. Without understanding this, we cannot grasp the larger picture of world history.
To understand our country's past and present, and the global situation, we will compare the history of three East Asian countries.


World history up to now has not strayed far from the form of a brief description of the history of Western powers and the surrounding nations and peoples within the global historical flow they created.
However, in history, not only the military and diplomacy of powerful nations, but also the resistance and identity of weak nations occupy a large portion.
This series is an attempt to break away from the traditional Western-centric historical narrative and look at history from our East Asian perspective.
Among them, we will take a closer look at the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when Korea, China, and Japan were most closely connected.


01.
The beginning of the West Sea branch
02.
Typhoon Heaven Rising
03.
Japan's opening
04.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Downfall
05.
Archipelago game
06.
Tsunami of Dawn
07.
The hermit's deep sleep (the basis)…
* Will continue to be published.