Chapter 2314: False Way to Destroy the East
The three of them were silent.
This is indeed a difficult problem.
Without the ambition to become a god, these important ministers would never have any idea of Dong Bai.
Firstly, be respectful to the other party, and secondly, it is better to do less than to do more.
Thirdly, wouldn’t it be better to use the money used by the imperial court for war to be spent on oneself?
Soldiers are a major event for the country. Although their side effects are good, they can easily overturn.
Now, the three of them began to rack their brains to think of a solution.
A long time.
The Minister of the Ministry of Industry took the lead and said:
"If you want to prevent tens of millions of people from causing trouble, you must make them think that they are also people of the Ming Dynasty and people of the Ming Dynasty."
"In this case, we must first make the words the same, and then the pronunciation must be the same "
"It's easy to say that the writing is unified. They are called Xiaohua, and they originally used Ming Dynasty writing." said the Minister of War.
“Actually, there is still a big problem, that is, it is difficult to promote our writing.”
“They always think that it is too difficult for us to learn Chinese.”
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The Minister of Civil Affairs nodded and said: "Yes, especially those traditional Chinese characters."
"So our next step is to simplify the characters so that they can be easily learned."
" What he said is that we will start to simplify it. As for whether traditional Chinese characters are beautiful and simplified characters are not beautiful, it will break the inheritance, so don’t worry about it,” said the Minister of War.
Yes, in front of the gods, what kind of written inheritance is nothing to them?
These are small things.
As long as it is conducive to their becoming gods, they are willing to do and learn anything.
No matter how hard it is, can it be harder than the imperial examination?
Ten years of squatting, both on and off the field should be taken into consideration.
So many famous people failed the imperial examination.
This thing depends not only on knowledge, but also on family background, reputation, luck, and health...
There is so much to see.
Just like Tang Bohu, he is obviously a great talent.
I happened to meet a loud-mouthed examiner who said that he would win the first prize from the very beginning.
The result was good, he was sued by a jealous person.
Not to mention Jinshi, even Jieyuan is gone, and the whole person is in prison.
This is the difficulty of the imperial examination.
Fortunately, Tang Bohu was lucky. There was a god above who mentioned something during the conversation.
Say he was wronged.
But there are losses as well as gains.
Because of this, Tang Bohu was able to become more successful in poetry, calligraphy and painting.
Let them see this through the spoken language.
So his fame was restored.
But Tang Bohu never entered the examination room again.
A great talent is wasted.
Tang Bohu is really talented.
Someone has said that if Tang Bohu had not encountered any difficulties, he would have been a figure who could become a god.
The result was wasted because of misfortune.
Of course they won't make the same mistake again.
So they are willing to do anything.
They are all willing to bow their heads and do it.
All in all, they were not afraid at all.
So they wanted to conquer Dongbai.
Decided to simplify Chinese characters first.
After all, conquest of land is not the goal, unity is the result.
Only in this way can one truly become a god.
Thousands of miles of land were seized, and then lost again within a few years.
That's useless.
The Minister of the Ministry of War asked again: "Is there anyone else in your bag?"
The Minister of the Ministry of Industry said: "I have a few people here, some missionaries from the West. Scholars."
"Those Western missionaries, they actually figured out a way to spell our Chinese characters with some Roman characters."
"I have seen that it is indeed beneficial for children to learn Chinese characters."
"It used to take half a year to learn, but now it only takes one month to learn a lot of characters."
"That's it. Very good." The Minister of War said happily.
If it were in the past, they would definitely object.
Because they came from the imperial examination.
People are accustomed to closing the door after getting in the car.
Especially the buses.
Everyone tends to monopolize knowledge and imperial examinations.
They are certainly not happy about making Chinese character recognition easier.
So traditional Chinese characters have not been removed.
Although there are also simplified characters.
But they definitely feel that the harder the text, the better.
They are not willing to promote even a punctuation mark.
Finally just come up with a sentence to read.
And there has never been any modern punctuation marks.
In short, it’s because everyone doesn’t have the motivation.
But it's different now, now they have a bigger goal.
If they could become gods, who would care about these little monopolies and little profits in this world.
So the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs urged: "Tell me carefully, how did those missionaries do it?"
At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Work said: "Didn't we have the anti-cut method before?"
"Just use two words to cut a word, and use the initial consonant of the previous word and the final rhyme of the following word to spell out a word."
"Now they directly use Roman letters to make up our The initial consonants and finals were used to spell the current text."
Then the three ministers began to study Roman writing.
This thing is much less difficult than the imperial examination.
In fact, early science and formal logic were not very difficult.
It is much easier than those eight-legged essays that are convoluted and uncertain.
Then they were all overjoyed.
Because this method can quickly promote text.
"Okay, the writing aspect is settled, we still need to find an excuse. After all, the name is justifiable and the mission is famous. Only the people of Dongbai and the ministers of the two classes can easily accept the merger of the two states." Shangshu said.
"Isn't it hard to find an excuse? Aren't those Japanese pirates invading repeatedly?" the Minister of War said casually.
It seems that he has been paying attention to similar things for a long time.
"Just in time for the Japanese pirates to invade, we can first send people to provoke the Japanese pirates and lure them into invading Dongbai."
"When the time comes, we will send a large army to assist Dongbai, and then we will make a fake We will destroy Guo and annex Dongbai on the spot. "
"It is nominally for their own good to prevent them from being tortured by Japanese pirates in the future. I believe that the people at the bottom don't care as long as we lower taxes. Let them live better than before."
"Then the two ministers will be blamed and their king will bear the blame. In this case, the people will forget them within twenty years." The minister said proudly.
"High, really high."
"The Great Sima is the Great Sima. He really has the style of an ancient political strategist, who can destroy a whole country just by talking." The Minister of the Ministry of Industry admired him.
“Hahaha, it’s really difficult to say that.”
“Of course it’s difficult. If it wasn’t difficult, it wouldn’t be our turn to do it. Let’s do it. If that country is destroyed, I believe that the canonization of the gods will be successful," the official minister encouraged.
“Well, for the great cause of becoming a god, naturally I will not be afraid of the difficulty involved.”
"It is easy to destroy the country just by promoting our words, but it is not easy to win back the hearts of the people." The Minister of the Ministry of Industry added.
"Where do you start talking about this?"
"Because our own food is not enough, there is famine everywhere every year, and we have to buy food from overseas to provide disaster relief."
“If you want to conquer Dongbai, you have to stay there for a long time. If you stay there for a long time, you can’t consume the other side’s food. Otherwise, the other side’s people will suffer and resist us.”
At this time , the Minister of Civil Affairs suddenly said: "As for food, when I was young, I came into contact with a patriot from the southern ocean."
"He presented something called sweet potatoes and potatoes to my family."
"Those two things have been raised by my family for 20 years and have been found to be resistant to poverty. If we don't choose good land, they can grow on rotten or sandy land. It can be grown in mountains, slopes and even roadside, and the yield is high, at least twice as high as that of wheat and rice.”
“Even though it contains a lot of water, it can easily burn your stomach and intestines when eaten, which is not what middle-class people like. Food.”
“Everything can be planted in every corner, and there will be a harvest.”
“It’s just easy to get sick, so you need to choose healthy ones who are disease-free.”
20 years?
The two people understood immediately.
This high-yield food crop seems to be the big killer weapon prepared by the Minister of Civil Affairs for himself.
Of course the real promotion of food crops is not that easy.
In the final analysis, the people are too poor.
Can't afford the risk.
Fortunately, sweet potatoes and potatoes only need rotten soil for experimentation.
If we use good land for experiments, most people will not be able to invest in this way.
Because if there is no harvest in a year, people will starve to death. Most people are on the line of bankruptcy.
That’s why there were only ten families, but three families could not survive a hundred years later.
“In this way, we can use these lands to grow these crops. In that case, food will not be a problem.”
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Half a year later .
Dongbai Land, got the news.
The news is that Japanese pirates are about to invade.
Suddenly, from top to bottom, from the king to the two ministers, as well as the people along the coast, there was a panic.
Some people think this is just a rumor.
However, just ten days later, the Japanese pirates really invaded.
A group of extremely ferocious Japanese pirate warriors, the leader of which came to the shore with a knife.
Once again, they came to the show they loved to watch and bullied the Dongbai people.
If you can't defeat Daming, you will bully Dong Bai.
Of course they were proud of the fact that for a period of time, they also ran rampant in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.
A hundred or so people can fight thousands of miles away, which scares the guardsmen from joining the battle.
It was only later that with the reorganization, their good days were no longer.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty opened the sea again for foreign trade, and there were fewer pirates.
And now, instigated by some people, they went to Dongbai Lai to grab things.
Dong Bai became even weaker.
Anyway, just seek enlightenment in everything.
But this time, they never expected that this would be their last request.
There is no need to ask anymore.
Dongbai still asked Ming Dynasty to send troops as usual.
Daming was very happy.
80,000 soldiers were sent out in one breath.
80,000 soldiers is already a lot.
Among them, there are 60,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry.
Then add 30,000 civilian husbands.
The total is 110,000.
It is said that 200,000 people entered the land of Dongbai in a mighty manner.
However, when they entered, they did not want to be busy suppressing bandits and killing Japanese pirates as before.
They even sent people to promote Chinese characters on the spot.
We even recruited a group of children to teach them Chinese characters and Chinese language.
What are you doing?
A Dongbai envoy was puzzled and then stepped forward to ask.
As a result, the leading general said: "Only by making children proficient in writing can we establish better communication. If you have something to do in the future, we can come over easily and quickly have a group of logistics personnel to help."
The messenger seemed to understand but not understand, and felt that it was somewhat useful, but also felt that it was of no use at all.
What do you expect a group of children to do?
Then he couldn’t understand it even more.
Because the leading general arranged for a group of civil servants to start promoting new food crops in the garrison.
Take out a kind of sweet potato and tell them to plant it on the hillside, at home, behind the home, or even on the roadside...
Say this is a new food.
Don’t pick the place.
And it tastes delicious.
The farmers then planted it experimentally.
After all, they were officers and soldiers and had to obey.
Those officers and soldiers were very good.
He also helped them collect firewood and carry water every day.
For a group of soldiers from the feudal era to be able to do such a thing, one can only imagine how much thought their leader put into it.
Not to mention eating the soldiers' flesh and drinking the soldiers' blood, I must have added a lot of money and food to it.
Only those who have lost everything and rebelled can compare.
Those officers and soldiers, after working, told the people that they were also Ming people.
Our ancestors were a family.
It is said that they are the descendants of the Shang Dynasty.
He also said he was a descendant of the Three Kingdoms period.
After all, we are a family, so it is only right to help them with their work.
Don't worry.
Have ordinary people ever seen such a thing?
In fact, those soldiers who pass through the villages and do not destroy fertile fields, do not rob people and food, or even burn down the villages are considered to be superior uniform troops, which is their blessing.
And now these officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can actually do these things.
The public sentiment is naturally rising.
They can perform like this because their military pay is high enough.
A full 8 taels of silver per month.
Such a high income exceeds that of a Qipin County Magistrate.
80,000 soldiers is 640,000 taels. In fact, the cavalry is higher.
In fact, the monthly military salary alone is 1 million taels.
This year it is 12 million taels.
Of course this is the military pay during the expedition.
Usually there are only 2 taels, one and a half.
This is normal money.
But if you can exert your strength, you will still be very strong.
The Ming army is not satisfied with its pay, but it is invincible if it is fully paid.
The Guan Ning cavalry in the late period had sufficient military pay and were actually quite capable of fighting.
Able to fight against the Qing Dynasty's Central Guards.
It is just insufficient in numbers and lacks reason for confrontation.
Because their survival is not a problem.
But the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty fought for survival.
So the latter is more brave.
The former has become a warlord and wants to preserve its strength.
The latter has not yet become a warlord. They are all tribes that have joined and have shares.
The ministers of Dongbai realized that something was wrong, but they were helpless.
Because the other party is here to save themselves.
And those Japanese pirates are indeed invincible.
They also know that Ming Dynasty seems to be raising the bandits to respect themselves.
There is a feeling of being dragged away.
However, they did not believe how long the other party could last on the expedition.
It is true that with the current account deposit system, it will not last long.
Ten years of carelessness.
They could see it, but they couldn't stop it.
This is just like playing chess. You know that the opponent is going to do this, but you can't stop it because the opponent has blocked your lifeline.
Just like now, didn't Minister Dongbai think that Ming Dynasty wanted to annex them?
It must have come to mind.
But there was nothing they could do. After all, they could not defeat the Japanese pirates, let alone the people of the Ming Dynasty.
And not only that, there are people within them who are also actively integrating into the Ming Dynasty.
They said: "We are originally in the same line as the Ming Dynasty. If we join the Ming Dynasty, we can also have the opportunity to go to heaven and become gods."
"Yes, we have the same roots and the same origin. The same culture of writing, that’s what some people think.
Therefore, under the cooperation of internal and external forces, the country of hundreds of thousands of miles east and west gradually fell into the pocket of Ming Dynasty.
The Japanese pirates only got some benefits from robbery.
It will soon be used up.
Facts have proved that although the wealth gained from robbery seems to be a lot, it is actually far less than the wealth gained from construction.
And the wealth gained from robbery cannot increase productivity.
If it is not used for expanded reproduction, but only for self-enjoyment consumption.
At this time, many people were unconvinced.
They all said:
"It has been hundreds of years since we established our country in the East, and we have been an independent country since the Sui Dynasty."
"It has been nearly a thousand years now."
"What's the benefit of joining the Ming Dynasty? I'd rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Even if the so-called god can really become a god?"
"Yes, even if you can become a god, it will only be a few years later. It has nothing to do with our success.”
That’s true.
It is impossible for the previous generations who integrated into the Ming Dynasty to successfully become gods.
They are still outsiders.
(End of this chapter)