Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 942, Carry out comprehensive Ming Dynasty
After listening to Liu Jin's words, everyone immediately fell into deep thought.

Liu Jin's words surprised everyone. In everyone's impression, Liu Jin is a child of a high-ranking person. It stands to reason that he should have the integrity of a child of a high-level person in doing things.

The words of such a small family should not be uttered, but should be said to be inclusive of all rivers, tolerance is great, and so on, which is more in line with his personality.

But after thinking about it carefully, looking at the history of China since ancient times, and looking at the history of foreign countries, one has to agree with Liu Jin's words.

The period of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties can be regarded as the darkest thing in the history of China. The Five Hus were chaotic, and the Wuhus were just small tribes at first. Come here, and almost wiped out the northern Han people.

Since ancient times, the Central Dynasty has been very friendly to the foreign tribes, giving land, technology, and protection. However, the story of the farmer and the snake has been staged again and again.

All the people present were well-versed in the past and the present, and they had a good understanding of history, and they knew that what Liu Jin said was right.

Non-my family, its heart must be different!

People from other races simply cannot be trusted, let alone give them any chance to become bigger.

"Well, keep talking."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded solemnly, and Liu Jin continued to talk about the matter.

"The second central point is that the imperial court must unswervingly implement the policy of comprehensive Ming Dynasty."

"To put it simply, in the past few days, books and text cars have the same track. Within the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and even my vassal states, vassal states, etc., only one kind of writing is allowed to exist, and that is our Chinese characters. , any other writing and language cannot be used and must be abolished."

"In addition, in terms of language, it is necessary to fully promote Daming Mandarin in all parts of our Ming Dynasty. Although many southern regions of our Ming Dynasty also use Chinese characters, the pronunciation of each place is completely different in terms of language, which will seriously hinder exchanges between various regions. And communication, it is also very easy to breed divisions, so not only the text, but also the language must be unified and promoted in an all-round way."

"This point should be enforced not only in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of our Ming Dynasty, but also in overseas places and newly incorporated places, and the original local language and characters should be abolished."

"The so-called vehicles on the same track are not limited to the size of the vehicles, but to unify the weights and measures within the scope of my Ming Dynasty, whether it is length, weight, volume, area, etc., all must be unified."

"In addition, it is even more necessary to unify the currency of the whole country. Only the copper coins of my Ming Dynasty, the silver notes printed by the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty and the silver dollars issued by the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty can be used. Other than that, no other currency is allowed in the scope of my Ming Dynasty. internal circulation."

"After the books and text cars are on the same track, Han culture must be fully promoted. Everyone, no matter whether they are Turkic people or grassland people, must take Chinese surnames and change Chinese names to celebrate our Han family festivals. Allow them to keep their original surnames, their original festivals, customs and so on."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but stare slightly.

"Liu Jin, is this too domineering? Under such a policy, will many tribes be dissatisfied with the court?"

Liu Jian thought for a while and said, it's fine that the books are on the same track as the car, and it should be done this way, but they have to change even the festivals and customs, and they have to change it to Daming's few days, which is too overbearing up.

"If you are dissatisfied, let them be dissatisfied. They live under my Da Ming's protection. If they can't even do this, they can leave my Da Ming. No one forces them to stay in our Da Ming."

"This is like a big family. Since 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 you are an outsider, we don't need to be too hostile to them. angry."

Liu Jin replied with a smile.

When everyone heard this, they also nodded slightly. The current Da Ming is no longer the original Da Ming. There are too many, too many tribes and races included in the rule of Da Ming.

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 follow the rules of our Daming people, otherwise you are not a Daming person, and you are not qualified to live in Daming.

You must know that even the Koreans and Japanese people are now competing to change their Chinese surnames, adopt Chinese names, learn the official language of Ming Dynasty, and learn the customs of Ming Dynasty. They are just vassal states.

The comprehensive Ming Dynasty policy was formulated by Liu Jin when he was in the Western Regions.

Not only to promote the integration of large and small tribes in the Western Regions into Ming Dynasty culturally, but also to assimilate them economically, culturally, ideologically and customs, and let them integrate into Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that this is not only for Daming's benefit, but also for theirs.

In a country like Ming Dynasty, if they always want to maintain their own language, characters, customs, etc., they will never be able to integrate into Ming Dynasty, and sooner or later they will develop a heart of rebellion, and they will rebel against Daming once they have the opportunity.

And at that time, there will inevitably be wars, and wars will inevitably bring a lot of casualties, and for some small tribes, it may even bring about extinction.

So it's also for their own good, and for the good of Ming Dynasty, it can be integrated into the main body of Ming Dynasty and form a whole, so it can naturally be inherited and continued with Daming.

"It's not easy to do this."

"Even in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, although everyone uses Chinese characters, it is still difficult for us to achieve a unified language. The north is better, and everyone speaks the same language, but in the south, there are ten different pronunciations. Baili is not common."

Li Dongyang thought for a while and shook his head slightly.

It is not difficult to use Chinese characters uniformly. Now Ming Dynasty is doing it. In the Western Regions, children of all tribes are forced to go to school. The Nanyang region is also the same. If we persist for a long time, we will definitely be able to use Chinese characters uniformly.

But the language is more difficult. It is not easy to promote the Ming Dynasty official language. The language differences in various places in the south of the Ming Dynasty are very large, let alone promote it in the entire Ming Dynasty.

"It is indeed a difficult thing to do, and it cannot be done in one or two years. What is needed is long-term persistence and promotion."

"But if we do it now and promote it, we can realize this goal one day earlier. Just imagine, when people from all over the Ming Dynasty can speak the official language of Ming Dynasty, it will be more convenient to communicate and communicate with each other. It is not easy to breed local separatist forces."

Liu Jin also nodded straightly and said that even later generations have already achieved this before saying it completely.

"Hmm~"

Emperor Hongzhi and the others also nodded slightly. Language is indeed a problem. Every time in the imperial examination, although everyone writes Chinese characters, they can understand each other, but when chatting, it is difficult for each other to understand each other's words. As a result, many new scholars have to go to training first to learn how to speak Daming official language, so that when they report to the emperor, the emperor can understand it.

Because of the huge language gap between each other, there was a very interesting phenomenon in ancient times. When talking to each other, the other party could not understand each other, so they simply used writing instead. This is called word chat...

Of course, only educated people can write and chat. If you haven’t read a book, it’s difficult to travel far away. Others can’t understand what you say, and you can’t understand other people’s words. You can only communicate with gestures. One of the reasons why ancient people didn't travel far.

This is also one of the reasons why it was easy to breed separatist forces in ancient times.

For example, in ancient times, when recruiting soldiers, people from the same place often gathered together to establish a certain army, such as the Sichuan Army, the Hunan Army, the Qingzhou Army, the Jizhou Army, and so on.

And those who command these must be locals. It is better for the imperial court to be stronger. Once the imperial court is weak, these generals who command the troops will easily become the emperor of one side, forming a separatist regime and splitting forces.

Why can't the sources of soldiers in various places be disrupted like in later generations?
Because they do not understand each other's language, and the soldiers are basically uneducated, it is difficult to communicate with each other, and the military orders cannot be unified, so how can they fight?

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, so many times when the officials arrive at the place, they can't understand what the people in this place say, so they need to rely on the master, the county magistrate, etc. auxiliary.

And often these masters and county magistrates are locals, and a very important role is to help translate and read what the locals say.

One of the important reasons why the imperial power does not go to the countryside is also because of the language barrier. The officials you send in the past still have to rely on the locals. It doesn’t make much sense whether the imperial power goes to the countryside.

Some people in later generations have studied why China obviously speaks different languages ​​in different places. It has experienced countless divisions in history, but it can finally be united together.

In fact, the very important reason is because of the use of unified Chinese characters, while Europe is not a big place, but it has split into many countries. This is mainly because they only use a dozen or so Latin letters. According to their speeches, etc., they naturally and gradually formed their own languages, characters, pronunciation, etc., and formed independent countries one by one.

It will not be like the Huaxia side, which has always been divided, but eventually unified together. The importance of unification of characters can be imagined, and the disunity of language can easily cause division.

　personal opinion~~
　　
　
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