The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 652: The Final Stop of the Journey West - Hexi and Longyou, Full of Imperial Han

What is Huang Han?

It is difficult for Arsen to answer this question, but if Mo Zibu, a time traveler, were to answer it, it would be easy to summarize.

The so-called Huang Han actually refers to the resentment and indignation that arose after the decline of Chinese civilization represented by the Han nationality in the most fatal two hundred years of modern times.

An ancient civilization, the only one in the world that has been continuously passed down, declined only once, and it happened to be the most fatal era. Anyone who thinks about this will find it very sad.

At least in the hundred years from 1840 to 1940, China could have maintained the level of Tsarist Russia or even Ottoman Turkey.

If the person sitting on the throne was not a bannerman slave owner who was trying to protect the interests of more than one million bannermen and produce material resources for the benefit of the country, but a normal emperor, things would not have come to this.

This resentment of unwillingness and indignation collided with the reform and opening up in later generations. When the wave of Western terrorist culture continued to penetrate and the local culture was in danger, the idea of Huang Han came into being.

The roots of this ideology are actually quite similar to those of the Arab Wahhabism.

Because Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are actually three versions of the same story, and because it is close to Europe, it was difficult for it to resist the erosion of Western culture after its decline.

At that time, if Muslims had not given rise to Wahhabi, a radically xenophobic and fundamentalist ideology, Muslims would have simply disappeared in a hundred or two hundred years.

They can only preserve their own culture by being extremely conservative, wrapping themselves up completely, pulling the thoughts of their believers back a thousand years, refusing all communication and all exchanges, and not hesitating to use the most radical means of xenophobia.

The Huang Han ideology is similar. In that era when Western culture was invading in all directions, Europeans and Americans were all moral role models and conscientious tycoons.

Even Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans are looked up to, and there is an era where just saying patriotism online can lead to people being chased and ridiculed for hundreds of stories.

Apart from carrying the banner of the Huang Han, using the glory of ancestors, and imagining what will happen in the future when we become powerful, in order to gather a little final confidence in our own culture, what else can we do?

This is a kind of helplessness, because in ancient China, the Huang Han thought did not exist independently, but was an integral part of the system of educating barbarians.

It is by no means the same as the Western pirate-style killing and looting mentality, but a proven system.

But unfortunately, when the educational function of Huang Han thought completely fails, when it is taken out alone, it will appear extremely abrupt and weird.

At this time, the emergence of Huang Han thought in the northwest was also due to certain reasons.

The root of the problem lies with the time traveler Emperor Mo Zibu. He is well aware of the destructive power and reproductive capacity of certain ethnic groups, so he would rather be a little rough and bear some infamy to solve the problem at this time.

Mo Zibu was only willing to use his education system on ethnic groups such as Goryeo, Japan, Jiaozhi, Siam, and Cambodia. This was the limit of what Mo Zibu could tolerate.

Most of those who exceeded this range were disciples, and Mo Zibu did not want them, so he released the Huang Han Thought in these places alone.

For this purpose, Mo Zibu also made great concessions in policy, hoping to drive these imperial men to complete what they should do during this window period.

Early in the morning, Yao Zhifu got up from his warm kang, and his wife and concubine hurried to help him wash up. This great man of the White Lotus Sect who came from a poor background in history is now living a good life.

He became the abbot of the White Lotus Sect's Dacijiangshi Fengsheng Temple at Tumenguan in Hezhou, Helong Province. There were 17 civil monks and 156 martial monks in the temple, as well as monk officials such as temple priests, Dharma teachers, merit teachers, and receptionists.

The four surrounding towns, twenty-one townships, 2,630 households, and a total population of more than 20,000 are all under the management of the Daci Xianshi Fengsheng Temple.

Of course, there are many small temples under Fengsheng Temple, which together control all aspects of the four towns and are actually the powerful families in these four towns.

They are really no different from the powerful people in the Han Dynasty, because the White Lotus Sect has very few rules. They can drink vegetarian wine, eat three kinds of clean meat, get married and have children. Only distilled liquor and onions and garlic are prohibited, which does not affect their daily life much.

Yao Zhifu's breakfast is meat buns with red dates and rock sugar tea. The meat is sold by the butcher in the town. Regardless of whether Yao Zhifu buys his meat or not, the butcher will kill the sheep, so it is standard three-clean meat.

Forty-seven-year-old Yao Zhifu had a very miserable first half of his life. Apart from knowing that his surname was Yao, he didn't even know where his hometown was. After his parents starved to death, he followed the wandering crowd to settle in Yunyang.

With such a miserable first half of his life, he naturally couldn't get married. It wasn't until he entered Helong that he began to settle down. Therefore, although he was old enough to be a grandfather at this time, his eldest son was only nine years old.

In his belt was a praise: "Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Mencius said to pursue righteousness. Only when righteousness is fulfilled can benevolence be achieved. What is the point of reading the books of sages? From now on, I hope I will have no regrets."

The theory says: Since ancient times, those who are ambitious and want to spread justice to the world will not be moved by success or failure, profit or loss. Gentlemen call this "benevolence" because it conforms to the righteousness of heaven and brings peace to people's hearts.

During the decline of the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty enjoyed a new virtue. At Mengjin, an unexpected gathering of eight hundred states took place. Boyi and Shuqi, two men, tried to stop them by holding up their horses, but a three-foot-tall boy knew it was impossible.

Later, Confucius praised him and said, "Seek benevolence and you will find it."

The child standing in front of Yao Zhifu, who had already recited the end of the Biography of Wen Tianxiang in the History of the Song Dynasty, was Yao Zhifu's eldest son.

Yao Zhifu squinted his eyes and recited with his eldest son with great enjoyment. The father and son both shook their heads and nodded together on the same screen.

"How great is Lord Wen Zhonglie!" Soon after the article was recited, Yao Zhifu opened his eyes and clapped his hands in praise.

"His loyalty, righteousness, and noble character endure forever. His aspirations were so noble that even the Mongols, such as Toghto and Aluto, dared not harm him in the slightest. They could only respect him and record his deeds with truth."

The History of Song Dynasty was compiled in the Yuan Dynasty. The chief editors at that time were the Mongolian prime ministers Toghto and Aluto, which is why Yao Zhifu made such an admiration.

"Dad is happy today. I'll make you a whole roasted lamb when I get home tonight so you can eat as much as you want!" Yao Zhifu rubbed his eldest son's head affectionately, feeling very happy.

This historical figure, Bai Lian Dahao, was a real tough guy. He lived by begging and doing odd jobs until he was in his twenties.

He joined the White Lotus Sect when he was almost thirty years old, and then learned a few words from his master. He slowly climbed up the ladder with his cleverness and loyalty.

But soon the White Lotus Sect was destroyed by the imperial court, and everyone became a wanted criminal. At this time, many people chose to leave, but Yao Zhifu remained loyal and persevered, gritting his teeth to unite the sect members.

Then they got their reward. The emperor had a need for the White Lotus Sect, so they were quickly incorporated and became part of the White Lotus Sect of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, with the emperor's father-in-law Cihang Pudu as the revered Buddha.

After emerging from the sea of blood and corpses in the chaos of the Northwest, everyone benefited greatly.

Among them, Yao Zhifu was the most successful one, because when he was almost forty years old, he fought and studied hard at the same time, and he went from being able to recognize only a hundred words to being familiar with the classics, history, and literature, and now he can be considered a Confucian scholar.

At the table, nine-year-old Yao Zhangquan grinned happily at his father's praise. He looked at Yao Zhifu and said in a clear childish voice, "Dad, when I grow up, I want to be a hero like Wen Zhongliegong!"

"Hahaha!" Yao Zhifu laughed, "My son, you have great ambitions, but you will never be able to become a loyal and brave Duke.

Because our Dayu people are rich and our country is strong, it is a first-class powerful country in the world, and its position is more stable than that of the Qin Dynasty in the First Warring States Period.

Now the Mongols have surrendered long ago, and the East and South Seas are all under our control. Only the Western Regions have not been recovered. However, those disciples are no match for us at all.

You don't have the chance to be a loyal and brave Duke, but you might be able to become a hero like Fu Jiezi."

Yao Zhifu had a look of longing on his face, because he knew that he would never have the chance to go to the Western Regions or Hezhong to make achievements in his lifetime.

He was forty-seven years old, and both body and mind were aging rapidly.

"How unfair is heaven! I, Yao Zhifu, have just figured out what kind of life I should live, but now I am about to be buried."

Yao Zhifu couldn't help but sigh, but when he looked at the children surrounding him, he felt that he was lucky.

"But Quan'er and his family have come at a good time, and they have unlimited hope for the future."

After sighing, Yao Zhifu raised his hand, and his wife and concubine immediately recited the basic scriptures of the White Lotus Sect very skillfully - "The White Lotus Infinite Deliverance Treasure Scroll" and "The Vajra Destroying Sutra of the Ming King's Descent to the World"

However, only his wife, concubine and five servants chanted the scriptures, while Yao Zhifu's two sons did not join in the chanting.

Because these wives, concubines and servants were all survivors of the war that year. As for why they were able to survive, it was obvious.

Therefore, in Helong, these people must be able to recite the two basic scriptures of the White Lotus Sect. If they can't, once they are discovered, the White Lotus Sect's monks can kill them with a single blow.

Yao Zhifu's children were authentic Han Chinese. Those who wanted to inherit the family business and believe in the White Lotus Sect were required to recite the scriptures. If they chose to study, practice martial arts and become officials, they naturally did not have to recite them.

"Abbot, Inspector Zhao is here. He said an important figure has arrived and is likely to come to our Fengsheng Temple. The county magistrate wants you to quickly prepare to welcome him!"

After his wives and concubines had finished reciting the scriptures, Yao Zhifu had not yet had time to sit down and eat a bite of his hot steamed bun when the monk in charge of reception at the temple came running over to inform him.

Mist grass!

Yao Zhifu jumped up immediately, looked at the monk in disbelief and asked:
"Could it be that the Crown Prince has come to our Tumen Pass? That's not right. Your Highness is going to Lanzhou, so why is he suddenly heading west? Isn't this on the way?"

The monk in charge of reception shrugged. "I don't know that either. Besides, I can't be sure whether this is the Crown Prince coming."

"The (county) magistrate didn't say who came?" Yao Zhifu asked in confusion.

The monk in charge of reception nodded and replied, "It was because he didn't mention it that I felt it must be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who had arrived.

If anyone else came, the master would definitely tell the truth. But only when His Highness really came did the master not dare to tell the truth, because revealing the whereabouts of the emperor is a capital crime."

Yao Zhifu immediately realized that the monk's guess was correct, so he quickly turned around, took two big buns and handed them to the monk, and the two of them hurried to the temple on the mountain.

However, although the monk in charge of reception guessed correctly, the two men did not know that Asen had already entered Fengsheng Temple and was mistaken by the monks in the temple as a distinguished guest from Lanzhou Prefecture.

"Master Chen, I was here eight years ago. At that time, there were numerous Indian temples everywhere, and various sects and officials arbitrarily erected memorial archways and stone tablets, just like the aristocratic families in the Central Plains during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Moreover, the old religion still has flying eaves and brackets, but the new religion has been completely influenced by the Arabs. The temples built all have domes. When you walk in them, you can hear the sound of foreign language chanting, which is louder than the previous one, as if you are in a foreign land.

The power of the government is no longer a question of whether it goes to the countryside or not, but the fact that all local officials are disciples. After the county magistrate from other provinces takes office, he has ordered them not to leave the county government office.

This shows how incompetent the governance was at that time, which allowed the so-called Hezong, who was far away in the river, to extend his tentacles to the vicinity of Lanzhou and disregard the laws of the court.

I have repeatedly submitted memorials, but Emperor Qianlong and the ministers at the Central Government have turned a deaf ear. They can't even figure out who the most dangerous enemy is. How can we have such a prosperous era?

The person who called himself a villain next to Asen and angrily scolded Qianlong and others was actually a bannerman, Baoning, a Mongolian Zhengbai Bannerman and former governor of Helong in the Qing Dynasty.

He joined Li Xianwen when he lifted the siege of Lanzhou. He was skilled in archery and horse riding, brave and strong, and also had some command ability.

Therefore, after he surrendered, he was not put on ice. After accumulating military merits over the past few years, he returned to the position of Admiral of Helong.

Baoning's words were not entirely flattery or a show of loyalty, but he did feel a little resentful. He had reported the affairs of the Helong disciples countless times, but Qianlong ignored him every time.

Because compared to his disciples becoming powerful in Helong, Qianlong was more afraid that the Han people would dominate Helong, a place that has produced strong soldiers since ancient times.

This indulgence eventually led to the outbreak of war in the northwest. Baoning's younger brother and three nephews all died on the battlefield. How could he not feel resentment?

Asen nodded and calmed down Baoning, who was a little excited. Of course, he might be acting to express his deep hatred for the Qing Dynasty. Suddenly, he heard the sound of reading aloud.

"Is there still children studying in the temple? That would be fascinating, worth seeing."

Asen became interested at this time, and the abbot Yao Zhifu arrived, so he immediately summoned Yao Zhifu over.

In addition to using Taksin to religiously bind the emperor to the Vajra King worshipped by the White Lotus Sect, the imperial court also had many spies within the White Lotus Sect.

The first one was Wu Sanniang from the Dianqian Division. She was the concubine of Wang Lun, the leader of the Qingshui Sect, who was a branch of the White Lotus Sect that revolted in Shouzhang County, Shandong Province in the 1774th year of Qianlong's reign ().

After Wang Lun was defeated and killed, the martial arts-skilled Wu Sanniang was recruited by the Jinyiwei Palace Front Division and ordered to infiltrate the White Lotus Sect, becoming the first spy.

However, Wulanniang was almost thirty years old. She had found a husband of her dreams in the army and was now semi-retired. The Palace Front Department then looked for two more targets.

One is Zhang Zhengmo near Shandan, Ganzhou, and the other is Yao Zhifu in front of us.

Of the two, Zhang Zhengmo was originally a wealthy man in Yidu, Hubei. He was eager to become an official to change his situation of being exploited by the government. After running into obstacles everywhere, he made up his mind to join the White Lotus Sect.

Over the years, he had happened to catch a good time and had achieved his wish of becoming the magistrate of Shandan County. It was an official position at that time, so he was extremely satisfied and wanted to make progress. It was a good choice.

Yao Zhifu attracted attention because of his hard work and diligence, which was quite similar to that of a scholar. If one really reads the Confucian classics thoroughly, one will basically not be blinded by the so-called doctrines.

Asen deliberately took a detour to Tumen Pass in Hezhou. One reason was that this was the place where the conflict was most intense back then, and he wanted to see if it had really been completely resolved.

Secondly, it is to see whether Yao Zhifu is worth the court's efforts to recruit him.

Yao Zhifu certainly didn't know all this, but he certainly understood that if he served the prince well, he would definitely gain great benefits.

"Your Highness, please follow me. The chaos in the northwest has been pacified. The people of Hexi and Longyou are deeply grateful to Your Majesty.

The same was true for our White Lotus Sect followers. After entering Gansu, we fought bravely, with more than 70,000 casualties and over 200,000 wounded.

For example, this place was originally the stronghold of the Disciples Protestant Church. I, along with 60,000 believers, besieged it for three and a half years before I was able to take it down.

In this battle, nearly eight thousand people were killed. The corpses piled up like mountains, and the land was a sea of blood. The stench lasted for years.

Just by listening to what Yao Zhifu said, Asen could imagine what the scene was like at that time.

Eight thousand of the sixty thousand White Lotus Army soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than ten thousand were certainly wounded. At that time, they had the support of a Beijing artillery regiment, yet the battle still ended in such a mess. You can imagine how stubborn the disciples in the city were.

Asen hesitated for a moment and did not ask where the disciples went after breaking through the Tumen Pass, and Yao Zhifu naturally did not mention it either.

But judging from the broken walls and bones in the mud that Asen could still see on the road from Didao, it was not difficult to judge.

As they were talking, several people continued to stride inside.

"Emperor Yuan of Jin was incompetent and only cared about preserving his small, isolated empire. He only knew how to enjoy wealth and luxury, and had no ambition at all.

At that time, the entire north of the Yangtze River had fallen into the hands of bandits, the land was filled with the smell of blood, barbarian language was heard everywhere, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the people were suffering. The remaining Han people looked south, but could not see the royal army.

Zu Ti knew that he was outnumbered, but he could not bear to see his compatriots being oppressed by the barbarians, so he led a hundred of his men across the river, vowing to recover the lost territory of the Han Dynasty.

When the boat reached the middle of the river, he struck the oar and swore an oath, saying with deep emotion: "The river is as vast as the one that Zu Ti could not clear the Central Plains and restore to its former glory!"

At this point, the teacher was filled with grief and indignation, "How tragic! The Jin ruler was as cowardly as a mouse and as greedy as a sheep. He allowed Zu Ti to fight bravely in Jiangbei without sending a single soldier to support him. When Zu Ti showed some success, he ordered the treacherous minister Dai Yuan to replace him, leading to the hero's death with hatred in his heart!"

The Central Plains of the past was like the Helong region today. Fortunately, our emperor was wise and powerful, and he sent a large army to rescue us, thus saving us from becoming slaves of the barbarians in the Helong region!

"So these barbarians are so mean! They came all the way here just to harm us. No, we can't just let them beat us. We have to fight back!"

"My father said that those Khojas in the river just want to make us Han people their slaves!"

"How can we allow ourselves to be bullied by them? When I turn fifteen, I will be the first to join the army and kill all the barbarians in the river!"

Asen was standing at the door, looking at the passionate teachers and the extremely angry eight or nine-year-old students inside. This was not the first time he had seen such a scene.

This educational method of using stories of Chinese heroes as teaching materials was first proposed by Mo Zibu, but it has not been very effective in other places.

However, in Helong, the effect seemed to be a bit too good. This teaching method cultivated a large number of young people who would shout and kill the barbarians when they saw them, and would always refer to the Han people when they spoke.

From these aspects, Asen, the crown prince of the Dayu Dynasty, deeply felt the hatred of the people in Hexi and Longyou. For the first time, he felt that the Three Khanates in Hezhong were doomed!
(End of this chapter)