"The Tao can be the Tao, but it is not the eternal Tao. The name can be the name, but it is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of all things; the name is the mother of all things..." Lang Lang's reading sounded in a small house.
, floated outside the wall; the dark-skinned people who were working outside the wall had happy smiles on their faces when they heard the sound of reading.
"It's really not easy to hear the sound of reading in this land." Just outside the window of the house where the sound of reading came from, two big men were standing outside the window looking at the people reading in the house. One of them was about forty years old.
The big man sighed with emotion.
"This is also thanks to Brother Six. When my brother came, he didn't bring any books at all. He only brought a few notebooks, which were not even enough for memorizing things. He couldn't even make paper by himself for a while. It was Brother Six who brought many books.
This saves my brother from trouble, and I have extra books to teach the locals how to read." The thirty-year-old man next to him said with a smile.
"Twelfth brother, please don't praise your sixth brother. The main thing is that you have done well yourself. Sixth brother is just the icing on the cake. But," the older man paused and said, "I'm a little confused, why?
Teach them to read the Tao Te Ching instead of the Analects of Confucius?"
"Brother Six, you should still remember what your brother told you when you first came here, about the battle outside Jinchuan City where we surrendered?" said the slightly younger man.
"Of course I remember, Chilika led his tribe to attack the camp at night, but was frightened by your soldiers after throwing a few grenades. They thought they were messengers from the gods, and immediately knelt down and surrendered." The older, strong man remembered this incident.
He couldn't help but laugh, even though he had already encountered this situation himself.
This older and stronger man is the former King of Chu who came to the Hanzhou Continent from the Ming Dynasty in the seventh year of Jianye last year. The current King of Yin is Zhu Zhen. The slightly younger man is Yuan Xiang who arrived in the Hanzhou Continent in the fourth year of Jianye.
Wang, now Shang Wang Zhu Bai.
After Zhu Bai established the two cities of Jinchuan (San Francisco) and Luojin (Los Angeles), he heard that Fang Mingqian, who had returned from exploring the south, said that there were civilized people thousands of miles away from Luojin City in the south, and he was worried that he would encounter people if he continued to develop southward.
They; and he only has 3,000 people at hand, and needs to take care of the territory of more than 2,000 miles from Jinchuan City to Luojincheng City. Even if they are all savages, they are already unable to handle it, so he decided to stop developing southward and concentrate on running these two cities.
.
After Zhu Zhen came to the Hanzhou continent in the seventh year of Jianye, the two of them negotiated and divided the people and items they brought. They also agreed to use .5 degrees north latitude as the boundary, and all the territory and savages to the north belonged to Zhu Bai.
, all the territory and savages to the south belonged to Zhu Zhen. Zhu Bai also gave Zhu Zhen thousands of Jinchuan savages who had been "civilized" and tens of thousands of uneducated savages.
Taking advantage of these savages, Zhu Zhen first built a small city around the northern latitude as his base, named it Jinge (San Diego) City, and then used this city as a starting point to expand southward.
He quickly took the entire Baja California Peninsula as his own, so the latitude was close to his original residence of Wuchang, so he named it the Han Wuchang Peninsula; he selected a place in the Gulf of California as his new ruling center and named it Yi
An City (Peñasco). He also used the savages in the newly conquered areas to build a track from An City to Jin Ge City to connect the two places. The entire line was just completed recently.
Zhu Zhen immediately took his guards from Yi'an City to Jinge City by rail carriage, and then took a boat to Luojin City. He said that he had something to discuss with Zhu Bai. However, when he arrived at Luojin City, he did not immediately discuss it with Zhu Bai.
Zhu Bai changed into casual clothes to walk around the city to discuss matters. Zhu Bai didn't know what he meant, so he changed into casual clothes to accompany him around the city, and then went outside the newly established school.
Zhu Zhen was very surprised by the appearance of this school. It didn't exist when he came last time. Moreover, the children studying in this school had dark skin and were clearly local Jinchuan savages.
"Since Sixth Brother still remembers it, you know that the local savages are very ignorant. When frightened by firearms, they think that we are the messengers of God, and we are a very powerful messenger of God. As long as we let them do things in the name of God,
Not only do they dare not not do it, but they are also very conscientious and work hard, working harder than the people we brought from the Central Plains. If we ask them to offer food, they will go hunting and catching fish immediately; if we ask them to offer gold, they will go find it immediately
Yellow shiny stones; if you want them to build a house, they go to the forest to cut wood."
"In this case, although we are not the messengers of God, why not pretend to be? As for the gods we worship, they are the Three Pure Ones, Daode Tianzun (Tai Shang Laojun), Yuanshi Tianzun, and Lingbao Tianzun.
"The etiquette they are taught to perform is naturally Taoist etiquette, and the book they are taught to read is of course the Tao Te Ching." Zhu Bai replied.
"But when it comes to educating the barbarian people, shouldn't Confucianism be the first priority?" Zhu Zhen said.
"Sixth brother, our brothers have also been guarding Huguang for many years, and have led troops to wipe out barbarian tribes. You said that before His Majesty sends doctors to various tribes to treat diseases and injuries of local people, how many chiefs will
Teaching people in the tribe to learn Chinese characters? At most, it is just a matter of selecting a few people who are used to deal with the government to learn Chinese characters and Chinese."
"But after your Majesty sent out doctors, did more people learn Chinese and Chinese characters? Even if you don't become a doctor in the future, you can always find another way to save your life if you are injured."
"But what does studying medicine have to do with letting them read the Tao Te Ching?"
"Sixth brother, what I mean is that if you want them to learn our words and characters, you have to make them feel that the things they learn are useful. Now the savages in Hanzhou continent believe in gods and think that they can learn the Tao Te Ching
Become a messenger of God, use the powerful firearms given by God, and become the envy of everyone in the tribe. So they will naturally study hard. If they are taught "The Analects of Confucius" and they hear that it has nothing to do with God, they will not want to learn it.
Even if we force them to learn, they will not be able to learn and this school will not be built."
"Twelfth brother, what you said makes sense, but is it really not made up because you believe in Taoism?" Zhu Zhen looked at Zhu Bai with suspicion.
Zhu Bai couldn't answer this, so he could only keep silent. Fortunately, Zhu Zhen was only half-joking, so he didn't expect him to answer, so he looked at him a few more times and went to other places.
After walking around the city and returning to the simple 'Prince's Mansion', the guests and hosts sat down. Zhu Bai took a sip of tea and asked Zhu Zhen: "Brother Six, you have already walked around the city. What do you want to do when you come here to meet my brother?"
Can you tell me what my brother is discussing? In addition, my brother also wants to know the reason for going around the city."
"Brother, the reason why I want to walk around the city is naturally to see how your city is developing; now it seems that it is developing very well, and even an army composed mainly of local savages has been established?
Not bad, not bad." Zhu Zhen said.
"Hey, isn't it because we don't have enough people, so we can only recruit local people as soldiers. But it's not easy to recruit them as soldiers. There are too few people who can speak Chinese, and these local savages are too backward.
In order to form this army, my brother spent a lot of effort. He waited until there were a few people who could speak Chinese proficiently before forming it. There were only two thousand people in total, and they still used the name of Taoism. This army
The army is not so much my brother's army as it is the Taoist guardian army. If Li Yuanjun and Li Zhenren want to seize my throne, there is an 80% chance of success," Zhu Bai said.
Zhu Zhen smiled and said: "He won't do it. Even if he seizes your throne, someone will inevitably escape. In the future, he will not need the things brought from the Central Plains; not to mention that there are still brothers who are in the Central Plains."
With support, we will definitely destroy him. So don't worry about him trying to take your throne."
"But you said that they are too backward and it is very laborious to form an army. I feel the same as my brother, but why is this? Back then, there were too many barbarian tribes in the southwest who were willing to serve as soldiers as long as they were promised enough pay."
"I don't know how to put it. Well, according to His Majesty, they don't have the concept of personal belongings yet. Everything is shared by the tribe, even the tribe leader."
Zhu Bai said: "There is no concept of marriage between men and women. When two people like each other, they find a place to get together, and when they don't like each other, they separate. The children born are not the children of the parents, but the children of the entire tribe.
"
"When I was in the Central Plains, I heard a lot of strange things, but this is the first time I have seen something like this." Zhu Bai said. Although he was used to such things in Hanzhou Continent, he was still a little surprised when he mentioned it.
"Maybe the same is true for our ancestors of the Han people." Zhu Zhen was very surprised when he heard it at first, but then he thought of something and said with a smile: "Think about the ancient times, when Yao, Shun, and Yu ceded each other's throne, it was probably because of the relationship between the Han people and the Hanzhou continent at that time
Like savages, everything is shared by the tribe, and so are the tribe leaders; but being a leader has a heavy responsibility, so after a few years, others will take over."
"Sixth brother, what you said really makes sense. Let me just say, how can there be so many people of noble character? Why did Dayu pretend to be dead and appoint an heir when he arrived? Most likely.
At this time, being the leader has additional benefits. As for why he did not want to pass it on to Xia Qi but to Boyi, most likely Boyi is his biological son, and Xia Qi is the child his wife had with someone unknown.
Anyway, the folk customs were open at that time," Zhu Bai said.
"According to what you say, Dayu's mind is not as big as that of Genghis Khan." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
"Boyi is not as good as Wokuotai. Since Boyi is the designated successor of Dayu, he certainly has a lot of soldiers. If he is not forced to a dead end, who is willing to risk his life to rebel? Most likely Boyi Rong
I was about to chop him down, but he had to resist, and luckily he succeeded." Zhu Bai also said with a smile.
The two of them chatted for a while. Zhu Bai finished the tea in his cup and said to Zhu Zhen: "Brother Six, it's getting late. Let's talk about business. What exactly are we going to discuss when we go to my brother's place today?"