Chapter 941, the implementation of comprehensive Mingming
After listening to Liu Jin's words, everyone suddenly fell into deep thought.
Liu Jin's words surprised everyone. In everyone's impression, Liu Jin was a descendant of an elite. Logically speaking, he should have the integrity of a disciple of an elite when doing things.
He shouldn't say words like this for a small family, but should say something like "Tolerance is great", which is more in line with his personality.
But if you think about it carefully, look at the history of China since ancient times, and look at the history of foreign countries, you can't help but agree with Liu Jin's words.
The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties can be regarded as the darkest events in Chinese history. The Five Hus disrupted China. The Wuhu were just small tribes at first. They relied on the Central Plains dynasty at that time to survive, developed and grew with the help of the Central Dynasty, and eventually turned against them.
Came here and almost wiped out the Han people in the north.
Since ancient times, the Central Dynasty has been very friendly to the tribes from all directions, providing land, technology, and protection. However, the story of the farmer and the snake has been repeated again and again.
Everyone present was a well-educated person with a good understanding of history, and it was clear that what Liu Jin said was true.
Non-my family, its heart must be different!
The foreigners simply cannot trust them, let alone give them any chance of becoming big.
"Well, keep talking."
Emperor Hongzhi nodded solemnly and Liu Jin continued talking.
"The second central point is that the imperial court must unswervingly implement the policy of comprehensive Ming Dynasty."
"To put it simply, these days, books and writings are on the same track. Within the territory of our Ming Dynasty, even our vassal states, vassal states, etc., only one kind of writing is allowed to exist, and that is our Chinese characters.
, any other words and languages cannot be used and must be abolished."
"In addition, in terms of language, Ming Mandarin must be fully promoted in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. Although many southern regions in the Ming Dynasty also use Chinese characters, the pronunciation of each place is completely different in terms of language. This will seriously hinder the communication between various regions.
And communication is also very easy to breed division, so not only the words, but also the language must be unified and promoted comprehensively.”
"This is not only our traditional Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen provinces, but also in overseas places and newly incorporated places. It should be enforced and the original local languages and characters should be abolished."
"The so-called vehicles on the same track does not only regulate the size of vehicles, but also unifies weights and measures within the scope of our Ming Dynasty. Whether it is length, weight, volume, area, etc., everything must be unified."
"In addition, the national currency should be unified. Only the copper coins of our Ming Dynasty and the bank notes printed and issued by the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty can pass. Apart from this, no other currencies are allowed within the scope of my Ming Dynasty.
Internal circulation.”
"After the writings and carriages are on the same track, Han culture must be fully promoted. Everyone, whether they were Turks or grassland people, must take Han surnames, change their names, and celebrate our Han festivals.
Allow them to retain their original surnames, original festivals, customs, etc."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but stare slightly.
"Liu Jin, is this too overbearing? Under such a policy, will many tribes be dissatisfied with the imperial court?"
Liu Jian thought for a while and said, it doesn't matter if the books and the carriages are on the same track, that's how it should be done. But they have to change even the festivals and customs, and they have to change them to the days of the Ming Dynasty. This is too overbearing.
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"If they are dissatisfied, let them be dissatisfied. They will live under the protection of our Ming Dynasty. If they cannot do this, they can leave our Ming Dynasty. No one forces them to stay in our Ming Dynasty."
"This is like a big family. If you want to stay in this big family, you must integrate into this big family. If you don't want to integrate, you are an outsider. Since we are outsiders, we don't need to be too polite to them.
Angry."
Liu Jin smiled and replied.
When everyone heard this, they nodded slightly. The current Ming Dynasty is no longer the original Ming Dynasty. There are too many tribes and races that have been included in the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
If you want to rule such a large territory and manage so many tribes for a long time, you must unify the standards and everything must be in accordance with the rules of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, you are not a Ming Dynasty person, and you are not qualified to live in the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that even Koreans and Japanese people are now rushing to change their Chinese surnames, take Chinese names, use Ming Dynasty Mandarin, and learn Ming Dynasty customs. They are just vassal states.
The comprehensive policy of Ming Dynasty was also formulated by Liu Jin when he was in the Western Regions.
It is not only necessary to promote the cultural integration of large and small tribes in the Western Regions into the Ming Dynasty, but also to assimilate them economically, culturally, ideologically and customs, so that they can integrate into the Ming Dynasty.
It can be said that this is not only for the good of Ming Dynasty, but also for their good.
In a country like the Ming Dynasty, if they always maintain their own language, writing, customs, etc., they will never be able to integrate into the Ming Dynasty. Sooner or later, they will be born with a desire to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, and they will rebel against the Ming Dynasty if they have the opportunity.
And when that time comes, there will inevitably be a war, and the war will inevitably bring a large number of casualties, and for some small tribes, it may even bring about destruction.
So this is also for their own good and for the good of Ming Dynasty. If they integrate into the main body of Ming Dynasty and form one body, they can naturally follow the Ming Dynasty and continue to inherit and continue.
"It's not easy to do this."
"Even in the thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, although everyone uses Chinese characters, it is difficult for us to unify our language. The north is better, everyone speaks the same language, but in the south, there are ten different pronunciations.
Baili is not ordinary."
Li Dongyang thought for a while and shook his head slightly.
It is not difficult to use Chinese characters uniformly. The Ming Dynasty is doing it now. In the Western Regions, it is mandatory for children of all tribes to go to school. It is also the case in Nanyang. If we persist for a long time, we will definitely be able to use Chinese characters uniformly.
But language is more difficult. It is not easy to promote the Ming Dynasty Mandarin. The language differences in various places in the south of the Ming Dynasty are very big, let alone promoting it throughout the Ming Dynasty.
"It is indeed a difficult thing to do, and it cannot be done in a year or two. What is needed is long-term persistence and promotion."
"But if we do it now and promote it, we can achieve this goal sooner. Just imagine, when people from all over the Ming Dynasty can speak the Ming Dynasty Mandarin, the exchanges and communication between each other will be more convenient, that is,
It is not easy to breed local separatist forces."
Liu Jin also nodded and said, even later generations have accomplished this before they even said it was complete.
"Hmm~"
Emperor Hongzhi and others also nodded slightly. Language is indeed a problem. In every imperial examination, although everyone writes Chinese characters and each other can understand them, when chatting, it is difficult for each other to understand each other.
So many new scholars had to go to training first to learn how to speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin, so that the emperor could understand them when they reported their work to the emperor.
Because of the huge language gap between each other, a very interesting phenomenon occurred in ancient times. If the other party could not understand each other when speaking, they would simply use writing instead. This is called word chat...
Of course, only those who are educated can write and chat. If you have not read, it will be difficult for you to travel far away. Others cannot understand what you say, nor what other people say. You can only communicate by gestures. This is
This is one of the reasons why people in ancient times did not travel far.
This is also one of the reasons why it was easy for separatist forces to breed in ancient times.
For example, when recruiting troops in ancient times, people from the same place often gathered together to form an army, such as the Sichuan Army, the Hunan Army, the Qingzhou Army, the Jizhou Army, and so on.
The people who command these forces must also be local people. It is better if the imperial court is strong. Once the imperial court is weak, these generals who command the troops can easily become local emperors, forming separatist and separatist forces.
Why can't we disrupt the sources of troops from various places like later generations?
Because they don't understand each other's languages, and the soldiers are basically uneducated people, it's difficult to communicate with each other, and the military orders can't be unified, so how can we fight a war?
Therefore, in ancient times, when recruiting troops, they were recruited in one place to form armies with local characteristics.
There are also officials sent by the imperial court to various places. Because they are appointed in different places, many times when the officials arrive at the place, they simply cannot understand what the people in this place say, so they need to rely on the master, county magistrate, etc.
Auxiliary.
Often these masters and county magistrates are locals, and a very important role is to help translate and translate what the locals say.
One of the important reasons why the imperial power did not go to the countryside was because of the language barrier. Once you sent the officials there, you still had to rely on the local people. There was no point in the imperial power not going to the countryside.
Some people in later generations have studied why China speaks different words in different places. It has experienced countless divisions in history, but it can be unified in the end.
In fact, a very important reason is because of the use of unified Chinese characters. Europe is not a big place, but it has been divided into many countries. This is mainly because they only use more than 20 Latin letters. Each place has a long history of
Based on their respective speeches, etc., they naturally and gradually formed their own languages, characters, pronunciations, etc., and thus formed independent countries.
It is not like the Chinese side. Although there have been divisions, they are finally unified. The importance of unified writing can be imagined, and the disunity of language can easily cause division.
