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Nian Gengyao's actions were utterly foolish. It seems the local cloth merchants were simply trying to make a quick buck, hence this suggestion—nothing more than forcing the people to spend money on cloth!

Changing the way of the world through customs and ideas is a very long process, and Tang Yu was not in a hurry at all.

However, cutting off the braid is still an option.

Especially those who joined the Tang family army, if the men were unwilling to even cut their queues, weren't they just trying to continue being slaves of the Manchus? Tang Yu expelled all such people.

As for things like foot binding...

Tang Yu implemented a reporting mechanism for anyone who joined the Tang Family Army. If someone continued to bind the feet of their daughters or refused to unbind their feet, they would be kicked out of the Tang Family Army.

In reality, the poor at the bottom of society don't have so many traditional moral codes. They don't even know how to read, so they don't have so many ideological constraints in their minds.

Once they understand that they can be made to obey, the land can be distributed according to the rules, and this group of people can be reformed the fastest.

The most difficult group to reform in the world today is actually the scholar-official class among the Han people.

They were the most rigid and distorted group of Confucianists. The Three Cardinal Guides and Five Constant Virtues, female chastity, and male superiority over females were the most distorted Confucianism during this period!

After this group of people joined her, they started whispering and gossiping in her ear.

It's inappropriate for women to show their faces in public, it's wrong for men and women to eat together in the cafeteria, it's a virtue for women to be uneducated, it's forbidden for widows to remarry, it's mandatory for women to bind their feet, it's considered that merchants have low social status, it's believed that studying is only for the imperial examinations, and it's considered that science and technology are mere tricks and gimmicks...

These outdated ideas are all considered profound truths by the rigid and distorted Confucianists.

Tang Yu's method for dealing with this group was very direct: kill them one by one.

Anyone who dares to make such a suggestion is doomed.

As a result, many Han Chinese scholars and officials fled, but Tang Yu didn't care at all.

People who hold this view should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

She would rather cultivate new talents herself than have this group of people with distorted ideas join the Tang Family Army to manage affairs.

But this group is also the weakest. The Han Chinese scholar-officials, if you give them face, they'll take advantage of you. They'll lecture you with grand principles from sages, expecting you to act according to their rules.

If you don't reason with them, but kill a few people to warn them, they will say you did the right thing and then find reasons why you did the right thing in the teachings of the sages.

This group has always been like this. After entering the pass, great Confucian scholars will naturally come to debate the classics for me.

So the group of scholars who remained all became obedient, actively reformed themselves, and were very pragmatic.

For pragmatists, as long as they can become officials and gain power, they can believe whatever they want.

There are too many illiterate people in the world, so Tang Yu has no choice but to make do with these pragmatists.

After all, the illiteracy rate in the world is 99 percent, and the literacy rate is less than 1 percent.

However, if we have ten years, the next generation of young people who receive the new education will grow up, and the world's thinking can be thoroughly transformed.

Therefore, Tang Yu devoted himself to education in the north before fighting and farming.

After realizing they couldn't defeat her, all the Han Chinese armies in the surrounding area either surrendered or fled south.

And the world has now become a new arena for the struggle for supremacy.

This chapter isn't long and will be finished soon. I'm going to relax and do nothing for now in the next world.

Chapter 11, "Scarlet Heart," is now complete.

It took Tang Yu five years to unify the north, and then he went to deal with the enemies on the grasslands.

The next five years were spent dealing with the enemy in the south.

In fact, starting from the Song Dynasty, the economic center had already shifted to the south, so the south had no shortage of food and money and could completely form its own country.

But sometimes, even having money and food can't withstand the northern armies, just like the Song Dynasty couldn't resist the Mongols.

Moreover, Tang Yu has developed more advanced firearms in the past five years, and has a powerful cavalry in the north, so the south simply cannot resist.

With advanced weaponry, fighting in the south was a complete game of cat and mouse.

In addition, the South was still under the corrupt and backward rule of Confucianism, women were still confined to their homes and not allowed to go out, the court system was still the backward Confucian system of governing the country, and the land was still owned by the same group of powerful and wealthy people.

Therefore, when the people at the grassroots level heard that the Tang army from the north was attacking, they all opened the city gates to welcome them.

Five years is enough time for the lower classes in the south to learn that the Tang Dynasty in the north is distributing land to the poor.

This single piece of news was enough to excite farmers in the south.

Although the Han people in the south were freer after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, their rigid thinking did not disappear with the demise of the Qing.

They still wanted the Cheng-Zhu school of Neo-Confucianism to rule the world.

Outdated systems are bound to be defeated eventually, so the South launched a vigorous reform movement over the next five years.

It took a full ten years to barely unify the country.

Tang Yu did not declare himself emperor because the Industrial Revolution was possible during his lifetime, so he could not rule society through an imperial system.

The movement to seize land from landlords and distribute it to peasants is still ongoing in the south. Although the country has been unified, the land redistribution will continue for a long time.

Over the past decade, the North has trained many talented individuals through basic education, and its official system is no longer lacking in talent. The old imperial examination system is no longer needed.

Basic education in the north already included basic science education, a large number of factories were established, and advanced looms had spread throughout the north.

Ten years is also enough time to build large ships and then go to sea to trade with some neighboring countries.

In fact, both the Ming and Qing dynasties had extensive trade relations with Western countries.

Those porcelain, silk, and tea items have always been traded via maritime trade.

In ten years, Zhang Xiao has gone from an ordinary teacher to the head of the education department.

Tang Yu was extremely busy; she had to personally lead the battles while also managing affairs in many other departments.

In the education department, no one else understood Tang Yu's thoughts except Zhang Xiao.

After all, only Zhang Xiao truly understands how important mathematics, physics, and chemistry are.

After Tang Yu took out the books from her spatial storage, Zhang Xiao began to implement reforms within the education department.

Over the past decade, under the teaching guidelines of Tang Yu and Zhang Xiao, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and hygiene knowledge have become essential basic knowledge that must be learned in the North.

The South is still gradually being popularized, and in another ten years, the South will be completely transformed.

A-Yue became the manager of a textile factory. She was not good at reading and writing, but she was very good at weaving, so she was promoted step by step from a female worker.

At the current rate of development, Tangyu will be able to plan and build a railway in another ten years.

Now that the world is unified, Tang Yu, who is focused on domestic affairs, still has a very important matter to attend to.

She even called Zhang Xiao over.

"Is the education department going to implement some kind of reform again?"

Zhang Xiao asked this question as soon as he arrived, and Tang Yu chuckled.

"No, the current system is fine. I'm here to talk to you about something else."

Zhang Xiao showed a curious expression and sat down directly opposite Tang Yu.

Over the years, Tang Yu abolished those kneeling and bowing rituals.

Zhang Xiao was naturally the first to adapt. She never liked any kneeling or bowing etiquette, having to call herself a servant, and having to kneel down and kowtow at any time.

That oppressive hierarchical system almost assimilated her into the Qing Dynasty.

Fortunately, she quickly escaped this dead end and saw a different world.

She is not a particularly capable person, but with her patience and her more than ten years of basic education, she is able to do some things in this world.

This made her happy.

"Although there are still some stubborn forces in the south, they can be dealt with sooner or later. I don't need to worry about these things; these young people who have grown up can handle them."

But there's one thing they can't understand, and probably only you in this world can.

"There's one thing I need to resolve in my lifetime, Zhang Xiao: even if you don't dare kill on the battlefield, do you dare kill the Japanese devils?"

Upon hearing this question, Zhang Xiao looked surprised.

"Are you going to fight in Japan?"

"Knowing it's a huge threat, shouldn't we eliminate it? Even though we might be in a parallel world, it definitely exists."

Japan's covetousness towards us will never change; they will invade whenever they find an opportunity. So it's better to deal with it in advance.

So, would you be interested in going to Japan with me?

Zhang Xiao admitted that she had been tempted.

If you asked her to kill a chicken, she probably wouldn't dare.

The thought of murder is terrifying.

But when asked about killing Japanese people, her first thought was...

"Although I've worked on my physique and improved my shooting skills over the years, I'm still no match for soldiers. Will I be a burden?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Tang Yu was instantly amused.

"It's alright. Going to Japan doesn't necessarily mean killing people. We can use bombs to blow up the Emperor's tomb and palace. But now the Tokugawa Shogunate rules Japan, so we can blow up the Tokugawa Shogunate family too."

Anyway, wipe out their cultural foundation and those powerful families, completely destroy their roots, do you dare?"

Zhang Xiao didn't hesitate at this moment.

"Okay, I'll go with you!"

In the year that the world was unified, Tang Yu led his army by ship to Japan.

Then, they destroyed the Japanese emperor and the Tokugawa shogunate, undermining the foundation of Japan.

For the next few decades, China focused on strengthening education in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and then on building railways and developing technology.

The world will certainly undergo a new round of changes in the future, but Tang Yu can only develop to the level of the first industrial revolution in his lifetime.

Electricity will be widely available a long time from now, but that's okay, Tang Yu feels that he has done what he needed to do.

The next generation should naturally take care of what comes next; we can't expect our predecessors to worry about everything.