Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2128 General Baikui ([-]) Jurchen Sinicization Strategy
Gao Wushi has always had a good attitude towards Ye Hebu, but in the final analysis, this does not mean that he is defenseless against Ye Hebu.Even if the two Baylors of Yehe tribe are his brother-in-laws now, that still cannot change the fact that they belong to the Jurchen tribe.

"People who are not of our race must have a different heart", this sentence may be too extreme. After all, there were many other ethnic minorities in Ming Dynasty who were not Han, and they did not "must have a different heart."They are as far away as Ma Fang, and closer as Ma Gui. They are not Han Chinese, but who can say that they are not loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty?

However, this kind of loyalty has a premise, that is, the ethnicity they belong to has a high degree of Sinicization, and they have accepted the rule of the Han imperial power like Ming Dynasty for a long time, and they have already formed inertia.

At the same time, Daming did not discriminate against them, it could basically be said that they were treated equally, and sometimes there was even some preferential treatment. And Daming also respected some of their traditions, and specially formulated some rules for them that were different from those of the Han army.

However, the Jurchens have not achieved such a status now.

Although they have long been the so-called "fences" of the Ming Dynasty, the time for them to completely obey the orders of the Ming Dynasty is not too long. The Ming government and the public regard them as their own?

Even if he is Gao Pragmatic himself, he can only guarantee that he will be in power for one day, and the Jurchens will never dare to deny it.However, if I am no longer in power, and the later court changes its style and removes one of the carrot and the stick, who knows what the consequences will be?

In the final analysis, the problem has three aspects: the time for the Jurchens to completely surrender is not long enough, the degree of Sinicization is not high enough, and the characteristics of the tribal system are too distinct.If these three issues are not resolved, it will be difficult for the imperial court to fully trust them, and they cannot "favor" them too much, otherwise they will definitely arouse discussions between the ruling and opposition parties, and even become political handles.

It has not been long since the attachment time, there is nothing to do about it, high pragmatism is not a god, and there is no such thing as magical power to change time and history.Fortunately, this can be covered up in other ways.It is not difficult to find a way to cover up, just start with "the degree of Sinicization is not high".

To put it simply, if the Jurchens have a very high degree of Sinicization, almost exactly the same as the Han people, then "the time of attachment is not long" will not be a problem.

This is like the China after the Qin and Han Dynasties. Whether you are from Guanzhong or Guandong, Hebei or Henan, this will not constitute an additional cost of governance at all-anyway, you speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, admitted Orthodoxy is Han culture.Therefore, even if a new dynasty rises and defeats the old dynasty, it will not cause difficulty in ruling because of any ethnic issues.

So I have to say that Qin Shihuang is indeed the same emperor through the ages, and "the books are in the same text, the cars are in the same track, and the weights and measures are unified" is indeed an epoch-making killer.Books and texts are meant for communication, vehicles with the same track are meant for transportation, and unified weights and measures are meant for circulation.

Many people think that since the origin of Chinese characters is basically the same, even if they look different, they should at least be able to recognize each other.In fact, the writings of the six countries at the end of the Warring States period were very different. An ordinary scholar from Qin State went to Qi State, and basically he could not read Qi State’s documents, and vice versa.No matter whether the Qin people went to Qi or the Qi people went to Qin, they had to bring a translator to read books when they arrived there.

Qin unified the script, and from now on, everyone will use Xiaozhuan and Lishu as the standard. This is the first time that Han culture in later generations has a unified communication method, even though it is only in written form.Don’t criticize Qin Shihuang for not having a unified pronunciation. It’s impossible to handle that thing without entering the modern society—think about how many old people still can’t speak Mandarin.

Compared with books and texts, it is easier for people to ignore the same track, and many people even don't know what the "track" here is.To put it simply, Qin Shihuang's car is on the same track. It is stipulated that the distance between the two wheels on the car should be changed to six feet, so that the distance between the wheels is the same.

As a modern person, when you see this place, your first reaction may be: This is it?Does this have a yarn meaning?I'm afraid you, Ying Zheng, are not in the late stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder, so you have to take care of this shit!I buy a large SUV with a wheelbase of more than two meters, and a miniature SUV with a wheelbase of 1.6 meters. Do you care?What's bothering you?
Sorry, this is looking at history out of history.

The roads at that time were not the cement roads and asphalt roads of today, and once they were damaged to a certain extent, repairs and maintenance would be arranged to ensure the quality of the road surface.What was the road at that time?The answer is: dirt road.

After the new century, at the beginning of the Hongchao Rural Revitalization Strategy, a major event was done. All the roads in the countryside were turned into concrete roads. This is a great achievement!But also because of this, younger people may have never seen "broad dirt roads" other than country lanes, and lack an intuitive understanding of the situation of "car trapping" on that kind of dirt road.

In fact, before the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, many areas with relatively poor infrastructure conditions were classified as rural roads. Even provincial roads were often dilapidated. When it rained, they were potholed like the surface of the moon, and the mud was knee-deep. routine.On this road, naturally, vehicles often get stuck in potholes and cannot get out.

In ancient times, the best roads outside cities were rammed earth, that is, hard-pressed dirt roads.Although this kind of road has been compacted, it will be rutted when driving for a long time in sunny and rainy weather. This kind of rut is not the "shallow mark" as imagined, and it is often [-] to [-] centimeters deep-that means that there is less than half of the rut when driving. Each wheel will be in a rut.

Because of this, in ancient times, if two vehicles met when driving outside, it would be a big problem who should avoid the other, because it is not a small effort to force the vehicle out of such a deep rut.So much so that later, whoever should avoid the sedan chair among officials in the city will be institutionalized, and the root cause is also here.

Now that we know that the ancient ruts are easy to enter and difficult to exit, we can say it again: if the vehicles are on different tracks, the ruts will be chaotic, and the traffic efficiency will become extremely low.

For example, if the ruts of Qin State are six feet, and the vehicles of Qin State go to a country with five-foot ruts, they will not be able to enter the ruts, or they will only enter one side of the ruts accidentally, and then they will be stuck in it and cannot get out.At this time, the entire convoy was stuck there and could not move.

So it affects one big thing: the long-distance transportation of supplies, like military rations.If it is forced to transport at this time, it will greatly increase the transportation cost until it cannot be transported at all.

Therefore, the same track, including the construction of Qin Zhidao, is essentially the "new infrastructure" of that era, and it is an unprecedented transportation reform.

If storytelling and writing make the cultural identity of the unified country a reality, then it is precisely because of Che Tonggui and Qin Zhidao that the unified country has a material basis.Otherwise, we can only continue the situation of separate regimes during the Warring States Period, and there will be no unified country.

The reason is simple, it will not be able to control such a large territory and extend its dominance.And in this way, there may be no difference between the historical development of China and Europe, and there will be no sophistry by some European and American scholars that "Chinese history has the characteristics of political maturity" (great unification).

Laughing to death, you said that China is precocious without Qin Shihuang?Why don't you say it's your own developmental disabilities?

Long story short, let’s talk about weights and measures first, and I’ll talk about them later when I have a chance.

In short, the key to solving the problem of the Sinicization of Jurchen lies mainly in culture, secondly in form, and finally in structure.

In terms of culture, the Jurchen ministries who were transferred to North Korea must immediately learn Chinese and Chinese in a unified manner. It cannot be like before that only a few Baylors or senior generals can speak Chinese, and they may not even understand Chinese.It is necessary to start building schools for them and to eliminate illiteracy.

Of course, simply building schools is not enough. With the level of investment in education in Ming Dynasty, the thirteen provinces in Han are still far from being able to educate all the people. How could it be possible to arrange for the Jurchens first?Therefore, it is necessary to "mix Hu and Han".

But this is also troublesome, because Jurchen moved the town to North Korea, not to the mainland. How could there be so many Chinese-speaking people?So this leads to another problem of North Korea's governance method, that is, it is necessary to immigrate to North Korea, and at the same time, the local population of North Korea must be relocated to the interior, and there will be a continuous exchange of blood.

Gao Yushi thought about it carefully, and thought that this point is indeed very important. It was not comprehensive to focus on the political structure attached to North Korea before.

The Han people undoubtedly have a huge advantage in terms of population. As long as the two sides start a continuous large-scale "exchange of blood", the Han people will eventually assimilate the Koreans and Jurchens, but doing so requires long-term investment—investment in the physical sense.After all, relocation costs money.

Fortunately, Gao Yu has quite a lot of experience in this matter, so he quickly figured out the basic principles: if North Korea is affected by a disaster, the population will be resettled from North Korea to the interior; if the interior is affected by the disaster, the population will be migrated from the interior to North Korea.

Not to mention, this matter has an excellent "time"-now is the Little Ice Age, and there are not many other things in East Asia, but there are so many disasters.

Thinking of this, Gao Yushi admired himself a little.Who else but a traveler like him would have thought of making use of the disaster situation at the level of national policy?
Of course, this is a long-term task, and it will take at least one or two generations, but now there are more urgent things to do. Only by doing so, can the Jurchen ministries quickly gain approval from the government and the opposition.

Is there really anything that works so well?Some, such as asking the top Jurchen officials to send all of their sons to the capital to study in the capital!

At the same time, there is a prerequisite for them to inherit their ancestral business: pass the cultural qualification examination specially set up by the Ming court!If you fail the exam, continue reading until you pass the exam!

Of course, Gao Pragmatism didn't mean to let them all lose their inheritance rights on purpose. Doing so would be too obvious and easy to be backlashed.

The difficulty of this inheritance qualification test is definitely not as exaggerated as the Jinshi test. Basically... a scholar level is enough.After all, later generations who graduated from a bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literature may not be able to be admitted to Ming's scholars.Among other things, how many Chinese undergraduates can write a stereotyped essay in closed book? [Special note: Neither can I. ]
Of course, the difficulty of implementing this matter is also something that Gao Pragmatic needs to consider, but after thinking about it, he thinks it is not a big problem, because he is the chief assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty!He really didn't believe that any Jurchen would dare to go against his will.

The questions related to "books with text" are basically the same with these few items, and the next one is "vehicles with the same track".

It is a traffic problem that cars are on the same track. Thanks to the blessing of Qin Shihuang, it is not a big problem now, and even North Korea is "just like the Han system".However, traffic problems are not without problems. It is necessary to build an official road from Liaodong to North Korea on land, and the specifications and standards must be high.

Although North Korea is on the same track as Ming Dynasty, North Korea will obviously not take the initiative to build a "straight road" level "highway" connecting Daming. Daming originally regarded North Korea as a country without conquest, and had no motivation to build official roads to the border.

It is different now. The construction related to "cars on the same track" must be launched as soon as possible to completely connect North Korea and Liaodong, so that it is convenient to send a large army to support immediately if something happens to North Korea.

Finally, there is the issue of Jurchen's organizational structure.The previous article of this book specifically talked about the origins, changes, and respective characteristics of the Jin Guomeng'an Mouke System and the Post-Golden Eight Banners System, so there should be no need to repeat them here.

In short, although the current Jurchen did not produce the Eight Banners system due to the blending of high pragmatism, the foundation of the Eight Banners system actually exists faintly.

Later generations generally say that "the foundation of the Eight Banners system" is that "the Eight Banners system is based on the unity of soldiers and civilians, and there is no regulation on military pay before entering the customs."

In fact, this is not deep enough. The foundation of the Eight Banners system should actually be the relationship of personal dependence and economic dependence similar to slavery.

Historically, after the establishment of the Eight Banners, the masters of the Eight Banners were held by the royal family, and each banner had its own person. There was a personal attachment relationship between the banner owner and the person. ", this is a special situation determined by the typical Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty.

Since then, with the continuous strengthening of the imperial power system, the people of each of the Eight Banners have to be loyal not only to the banner owner, but also to the emperor.Since then, it has become common for bannerman ministers to call themselves "slaves" in memorials, forming a pyramid-like relationship of dependence.

It is illustrated by the fact that Jianzhou Jurchen was split by high pragmatism before.Originally Jianzhou Jurchen had been unified, and Nurhachi was the only official "Baile" of Jianzhou Jurchen [Note: Different translation of "Bojilie" in the Jin Dynasty]. .

However, although Nurhaci is the only official Baylor, Jianzhou only calls it "Big Baylor" because there is Shuerhaqi, the "Second Baylor".The reason why Shuerhaqi was able to be as famous as his elder brother Nurhachi for a while was because he had his own independent force-five thousand elite soldiers and forty generals.

Undoubtedly, since there are soldiers and generals, the premise is that they have their own territory and can afford to support these generals.Under the organizational structure of Jurchen military and civilian unity, having its own territory and its own generals naturally means having its own tribe. This is the prerequisite for high pragmatism to promote the split of Jianzhou.

If this basic organizational form is maintained, the Eight Banners system may still appear at any time, and the Sinicization of Jurchen will always be short of breath.Therefore, Gao Yushi believes that Jurchen can be used, but the previous system must be changed—towards the Han system.

Completing the above three changes means that Jurchen is available.At that time, whether Ye He wants to go to Japan for development, or simply wants to go to Japan to make a fortune, it is acceptable. Gao Pragmatic will not feel sorry for the Japanese—even though he also intends to use the naturalized household registration system to Sinicize Japan, But that is already a matter of the future, whether he can successfully see it in his lifetime is still a matter of debate.

After a long time, Gao Wushi turned his head to look at Meng Gu Zhezhe, and said in an unquestionable tone: "I have a few conditions. If the two Baylors can agree, I will allow them to follow Japan and obey orders under Kai. Of course, things After they are successful, they will naturally receive the rewards they deserve."

Meng Gu Zhezhe lowered his head and said obediently: "Master please show me, I will tell you the truth."
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