Goryeo - Part 10

-King Woo knew that General Yi was on the march.
   -He wanted to raise a force to fight him off, but he didn't have enough men and was advised to fortify Gaeseong instead.
   -Gneral Yi then led an army to Gaeseong and besieged it.  The defenders soon gave up, and General Yi took over the city.  Then he gave King Woo a speech about how his advisors were shitty and that Goryeo should swear fealty to the Ming dynasty.
-King Woo stupidly tried to have General Yi assassinated by a gang of eunuchs (?), but this failed.
   -Finally, General Yi and his men came to the conclusion that King Woo that was the illegitimate king and was secretly the monk Shin Don's son, so King Woo was banished to go retired in obscurity at Ganghwa Island.
-Meanwhile, there were those who believed that General Yi was an usurper, and wanted King Woo's son, Chang, to be king.
   -General Yi relented and allowed the son to be king, even if maybe he wasn't royal blood (King Woo was illegitimate, after all).
   -So, King Chang of Goryeo was enthroned in 1388 at the age of 7.  Of course, General Yi had all the power.
      -Land reforms were introduced with the peasants and shit.
      -General Yi also wanted to crack down on the power of the nobility, so he took all of the land deeds of the nobility and burned them!  Thus, the aristocracy's power was completely wiped out.
      -General Yi then enforced mandatory military conscription.
-The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty thought it was really dumb that an illegitimate king's son was allowed to be the new king of Goryeo, and this really pissed him off.
-Meanwhile, General Yi wanted to crack down on the waegu.  He sent a huge fleet to Tsushima Island (their HQ) and fucked them up badly.
-In order to appease Hongwu Emperor, King Chang was sent off to live in exile at Ganghwa Island with his dad.
-King Gongyang, a distant relative of King Sinjong, was enthroned in 1389.  This was the final king of Goryeo!
   -A puppet of General Yi, he sent assassins to kill the two previous kings (King Woo and King Chang) to make sure they wouldn't try to usurp the throne later.
-At some point though, General Yi had an accident and fell from his horse, and while he was recovering, his enemies in the court took the opportunity to stage a coup and get rid of his main supporters based on trumped-up charges.
   -General Yi was still weak, but he was able to get out of bed and stop the purge.
      -He assassinated the opposition leader, a dude named Jong Mong-ju who was a renowned scholar and official, loyal to the former kings.
      -He then forced King Gongyang to sign a document saying that essentially he and the king are equal and wouldn't work against each other.
-1392, King Gongyang stepped down because he had no supporters, no power, and was clearly just a puppet.  This made him not want to be king anymore, so he resigned and went off to live near the East Sea, where he soon died in 1394.
   -THIS WAS THE END OF THE GORYEO DYNASTY.
-August 1392- General Yi took the throne in Gaeseong, and crowned himself King Taejo of Joseon.