Diqin Designer

Chapter 287 Daqin International College (Two in One)

But the difference was that the person standing on the stage was not Qin Li, but an old man, who was holding a small wooden stick and pointing at the words, and talking to the crowd below.

This is teaching the Qin people to read and write. Does it mean that all Qin people are expected to be literate?
He Ye took a deep breath. The Qin Dynasty was already so powerful. If all the Qin people could read and write, would the Qin Dynasty become even stronger? If the Qin Dynasty became stronger, would the Xiongnu still have a chance to catch up?
The answer he thought of made He Ye feel frustrated, but in fact, this was impossible to do, at least not for the current Daqin, but He Ye could not judge whether Daqin could do it.

In their minds, the Qin Dynasty was very powerful, so anything it could do was reasonable. Even if one day the Qin Dynasty announced that the Qin people could fly in the sky, nothing would be impossible.

He Ye noticed that the old man was speaking two languages, one was the language commonly spoken by the Qin people, and the other was the language he had heard the Qin generals speak.

The original seven languages ​​will be abandoned and replaced with the simplified Chinese characters that Li Nian brought from later times, but how can the simplified Chinese characters be popularized? It is impossible for everyone to have a dictionary.

Li Nian asked people to go to various places to actively speak and spread simplified Chinese characters, which not only spread simplified Chinese characters, but also popularized elegant language.

Although the original elegant language is considered the standard language of this era, many people do not actually master it, especially ordinary people. Therefore, it also needs to be popularized. This can also improve the literacy rate of some people without consuming too many resources.

As Xianyang was the capital of the Qin Dynasty, naturally there were people giving such lectures. The people who came to give the lectures were different every day, and they even came from different schools of thought.

He Ye didn't know how many times he had sighed in his heart: The Huns are far inferior to the Qin Dynasty. If the Huns don't change, they will be in danger!

Although they are all Chinese and are one family, the elder brother is too strong and the younger brother is too weak. This is not a good thing. Maybe they will really become one family.

Some of the Xiongnu teenagers and children in the carriage who knew about the incident had the same idea as He Ye. With such complicated and heavy feelings, the team arrived outside a building.

The high walls separated the inside and outside, and only through the open gate could one see a glimpse of the interior. The inside seemed to be quite large, with a large space.

The gate of this building is also quite strange. It is very tall, almost like a city gate, and can accommodate several carriages passing in parallel. To open this gate, it would take at least dozens of people, right?

At this moment, the door was wide open, with a team of Qin soldiers standing on each side. I don't know if these Qin soldiers will be on duty here in the future, but they probably will.

There were two sets of tables and chairs in front of the door, and there were Qin people sitting on the chairs, as if they had been waiting here for them to arrive.

There was a plaque hanging on the gate with words engraved on it. Unfortunately, He Ye didn't recognize them, otherwise he would have known that this was the name of the school they were going to attend: Daqin International College!

Li Nian did not plan to place these Xiongnu students, as well as the Baiyue students who would arrive later and possible students from other countries in the future, in the school under the jurisdiction of Liuying Palace, so he chose a place in Xianyang city to build the Daqin International College.

International students will first learn classical Chinese and simplified Chinese for two years. If they perform well enough and are considered by Li Nian to be worthy of investment (excellent scientific research talent and aspirations towards Daqin), they will have the opportunity to be selected to a school under the jurisdiction of Liuying Palace. Otherwise, they will study and live here until graduation.

The carriage did not enter through the main gate, but asked everyone to get off after arriving here. He Ye also got off with his companions.

The sturdy man who had given them instructions last night said, "Be smart and come forward when you hear your name."

What is this going to do?
Soon, He Ye knew what to do. He saw the Qin man sitting in front of two tables and chairs began to shout out names. After translation, the Xiongnu students realized that they were the ones being called.

Everyone whose name was called had to come forward to the table, and the Qin people would give them a piece of wood. He Ye also received his piece of wood.

The wood chips are made of a relatively sturdy wood, and a strange thing called "paper" is pasted on it. There are many words written on the paper, and some of them may not be words, but symbols or something like that.

The words and symbols were arranged in an orderly manner. He Ye discovered that the top line of words was the same as the words on the plaque at the gate. He concluded in his mind: This should be their identity proof here, and everyone has their own.

But why did the Qin people also give it to the servants?
After all the wood chips were distributed, a Qin person said, "This is your identity card here. Young Master calls it a 'student card'. It's best not to lose it. If you lose it, you must report it and then apply for a replacement. You have to pay for it."

It was just as he thought, but if all the cards were student cards, doesn’t that mean Ma Ba and Niu Jiu also got student cards?

They were sent to Xianyang to study, and Ma Ba and Niu Jiu were just servants who came with them to serve them. Why did they also have student cards? Servants and slaves were equal to their masters?
He Ye felt a little unhappy. There were many Xiongnu students who had the same idea as him, but they did not dare to say it in front of the Qin people. They could only glare at their servants.

The strong man was somewhat caught off guard by the Qin man's trick. He carefully negotiated with the Qin man who was speaking, asking why student cards were also given to the servants.

The Qin man just glanced at him calmly and said, "They are your servants, but in the eyes of my Great Qin, there is no difference. If they want to be here, they must have proof of identity. If you don't want them to get their student cards, you can take them away."

These words sounded like an explanation to the strong man, He Ye and the others. From Qin's perspective, there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it. Qin didn't even consider whether they were servants or not. It was just because they needed a student card as proof of identity to be here, so he prepared one for the servants.

Moreover, the Qin people also said that if you don’t want those servants and slaves to get the student cards, you can take them away and leave them here. We will not stop you.

But that also means that servants cannot enter here to serve them. Without anyone to help them, they have to fetch water for washing their feet, wash clothes and fold quilts by themselves.

After weighing the pros and cons, compared to the psychological discomfort of servants getting student cards, it is still more comfortable to have servants serving you.

Humph, even if I get the student card given by the Qin people, I will not be on an equal footing with them. Servants are servants, slaves are slaves, can I really go against the will of heaven?
However, Ma Ba, Niu Jiu and others interpreted the Qin man's words in a different way. Although the Qin man might not have meant those things, it did not prevent them from thinking for themselves, especially the sentence "They are your servants, but in the eyes of my great Qin, there is no difference."

Does this mean that the Qin people did not treat them as servants or slaves, but treated them equally?

This feeling of being treated equally made them feel warm, especially in a country like Daqin that was more powerful than the Xiongnu. In the Xiongnu, they were servants and slaves, but in Daqin, the Qin people were willing to treat them the same as the young masters and regarded them as students.

After being treated as cattle and horses for a long time, they were suddenly treated as human beings by a stranger. The feeling was filled with emotion, not to mention that this stranger was even more powerful than their masters.

Powerful strangers are willing to treat them as human beings, but their masters treat them as cattle and livestock, ordering them around, whipping and bullying them at will. It is easy to imagine how the psychological balance would be tilted.

This was of course intentional by the Qin State in order to provoke conflict between these servants and slaves and the Xiongnu nobles. The better the Qin State showed them, the worse the Xiongnu nobles treated them, the more they would lean towards the Qin State, and the more likely they would pay off the Xiongnu for the Qin State in the future.

The Qin Dynasty didn't have to put in much effort. It only needed to give a little push in certain areas, and the Xiongnu nobles would help them complete the task. It wasn't that the Qin Dynasty was wise, but that the enemy was stupid!

Many things in this world do not need to be conceived and arranged perfectly. In fact, that is difficult to do. More often than not, it is just a matter of waiting for the opponent to make mistakes and then seeing who makes fewer mistakes.

After getting the Qin man's answer, the strong man didn't ask any more questions, because the explanation given by the Qin man was indeed reasonable, and it didn't seem like there was any big problem after thinking about it.

All the students began to enter the school. After all, it was the first batch of students to enroll in Daqin International College, and it was also the first time that Daqin International College opened. An opening ceremony was also held, but Qin Shihuang and Li Nian did not attend. The person sent to preside over the opening ceremony was Zhao Gao, who was also responsible for the management of discipline in the college.

Of course, there was another important purpose for letting Zhao Gao come. If there were any problems in the academy in the future, Zhao Gao could be thrown out to take the blame. However, Zhao Gao didn't know this and thought that he was being entrusted with an important task and was very happy.

The ceremony process is similar to that of Liuying Palace School and Naval Academy, with the national flag being raised and the national anthem being played.

When they saw the Qin national flag being raised and fluttering in the wind, but there was no flag on the pole next to it, just standing there bare, the Xiongnu students felt very uncomfortable: the Qin people had reserved a place for the Xiongnu to raise the national flag, but unfortunately they, the Xiongnu, had no national flag.

They, the Huns, must also have their own national flag and national anthem like the Qin!
After raising the flag, Zhao Gao began to give a speech. He spoke in Mandarin, saying that both the Qin and the Xiongnu were part of the Chinese nation and were brothers. They should work together to seek better development and cope with this changing world.

After the speech, Zhao Gao followed Li Nian's example and took the Xiongnu students to visit the academy and told them about the various facilities in the academy.

"This is the sports field, where you will take the physical training class. The so-called 'physical training class' means 'civilizing the spirit and brutalizing the body'. It was proposed by Master Li Nian of the Great Qin. In addition to reading and learning to read, you must also have a strong body."

"There is a special kind of exercise here that you have never seen before. Have you seen these two..."

Zhao Gao pointed at the two goal posts on the playground and said with a smile, "This is a sport created by Master Li Nian called Cuju. I believe you will like it."

At this time, Zhao Gao saw a Xiongnu boy who seemed to want to say something. He pointed at the boy and asked, "What does he want to say?"

The young Xiongnu man spoke a few words quickly, and the accompanying interpreter translated his words. It turned out that he was saying that he knew about Cuju, and the envoy of the Qin Dynasty had told the Xiongnu about it.

Zhao Gao suddenly realized and nodded in acknowledgment, "This is something I didn't think of at the moment, but you know it better. This semester, there will be a sports competition for the whole college, and there will be a Cuju competition. The winning team will compete with the team from Liuying Academy."

The sport of Cuju was introduced to the Xiongnu during the diplomatic missions of Jiaoli and Chen Ping, and would be introduced to more countries in the future.

This is also an instruction given by Li Nian, to export it as a culture to other countries, and perhaps use it to consume the national strength of other countries.

When the Xiongnu students heard Zhao Gao mention the Liuying Academy, they knew that it must be the Qin people's academy, which taught more profound and advanced knowledge than what they wanted to learn, and they should not be able to enter there.

But at this moment, Zhao Gao said: "If you are good enough, you may have a chance to enter the Liuying Academy."

The Xiongnu students were shocked. They also had the opportunity to enter the Liuying Academy? The Qin people actually allowed it?
It is worthy of being a superior country, it is truly magnanimous!

However, they did not think much about the "good enough" in Zhao Gao's words. There is no specific measurement standard. All the right of interpretation and decision-making lies with the Qin Dynasty: It is not enough if you think you are excellent, the Qin Dynasty must think you are "excellent"!
Zhao Gao continued, "When the Liuying Academy opened, a very interesting experiment was conducted, proving that the air around us has pressure. That force... never mind. If you have the opportunity to visit the Liuying Academy, you will know that it is a very interesting and extraordinary place."

If it weren't for Zhao Gao's status, the Xiongnu students would have wanted to rush up and force Zhao Gao to tell the truth. How could they whet people's appetite but not let him finish?
But this also made the Xiongnu students more curious about the Liuying Academy, especially the servants and slaves, and those who were determined to change the weak situation of the Xiongnu.

The former thought that this might be a chance to escape their status as servants and slaves, while the latter believed that they could learn something from it and change the Huns.

Zhao Gao led the students to a classroom and said, "This is where you will study. Since you have just arrived and do not understand the language of the Qin Empire, you must first learn the elegant language and the Qin Empire's writing system for two years."

"Of course, you will not only learn Chinese, but also mathematics, music, history, sculpture, and painting. After two years, if you can pass the assessment, you can enter the next stage of study, where you can learn more subjects."

It is still necessary to offer some sweet promises. If you only promise something without providing any benefits, it will be difficult to attract people. No one will be willing to be a complainer forever.

The same is true if you want to influence these international students. You cannot teach them the core technical knowledge, but you have to give them some minor tips. Only in this way can they better recognize Daqin's model and believe that Daqin is strong and excellent, so that they can recognize Daqin from the bottom of their hearts and be loyal to Daqin.

The Qin Empire is good and strong, but why are we, the Huns, backward and weak, and even bullied by the Donghu and Yuezhi?
That’s because we didn’t follow the path of the Qin Dynasty and we have too many shortcomings. We, the Xiongnu, must learn from the Qin Dynasty, become completely like the Qin Dynasty, and get rid of those shortcomings. Otherwise, we cannot become stronger!

As for the impact of becoming fully Qin-ized and getting rid of its own "bad habits", compared with the huge benefits brought by Qin-ization, what's the harm in a little impact?
The key is to shape these people's thoughts into the shape of Daqin, so that they think in the way Daqin expects, and believe that Daqin is the authority and is correct.

(End of this chapter)