Destiny Only Han

Chapter 1089 Liu Ying: Hu Er speaks Chinese, but he scolds Hu people at the top of the city...

Mengzhou Protectorate.

Shixin County.

The sun had just risen above the sea level, and it suddenly became extremely hot here.

Despite this, it does not prevent countless poisonous people from flocking here.

Today is the day when the Brahmin master Prajna Liu Zhi and the Protestant eminent monk Jiva debate scriptures!
This makes a lot of sense.

It is not only two masters betting on each other's heads, but also a dispute between two religious ideas.

Today's debate will determine the hegemony of Brahmanism and Protestantism on this continent.

The losing party will lose people's faith.

At least on the surface.

However, Jia Yi, who was standing on the roof and looking out, didn't think so.

This is not because he is certain that Qi Po will win.

More, it is his judgment on human nature.

After all, both Brahmanism and Buddhism advocate the theory of reincarnation. They believe that the soul is immortal and that a soul can be reincarnated in various possible forms. If you devote more or practice more in this life, you can be reincarnated as a god or a Brahmin in the next life. , Kshatriya...

But if the dedication is not enough, you will inevitably be reincarnated as a pariah, a beast, or even go to hell.

Therefore, even though such a religion is greedy and makes money, it is pleasing to the rulers.

However, Protestantism emphasizes that sincerity leads to spirituality.

There is no need for hard work or even dedication, just piety, and you can be reborn in bliss and never suffer the pain in this world again!

Well, there is still dedication.

For example, buy a piece of high-quality silk, then write scriptures on it, hang it on the top of a mountain or in a temple. When the wind blows, the prayer flags will sway wildly, and the merits will increase...

Therefore, no matter whether Qipo can win this debate today, it will not have the slightest impact on the spread of Protestantism throughout the Shendu Continent!

This is human nature.

Greedy, lazy, and always looking for shortcuts.

Jia Yi laughed silently and walked down from the roof, preparing to go with Zhou Yafu and others to listen to the master's debate.

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podium.

It's exactly eight o'clock.

When the bell tower in Shixin County roared eight times according to the "Han Standard Time", a series of elephants roared on the long street leading to the podium.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
A huge white elephant came slowly.

Zhou Yafu pinched his chin, with a bit of greed on his face.

According to the custom inherited from the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, albino animals are called auspicious!
Therefore, if this white elephant is sent to Chang'an as an auspicious sign, it will definitely please Liu Ying!
As for the gold, agate, diamond, jade and other treasures decorated on the white elephant, they are naturally the trophies of him, Jia Yi and others.

This is called sharing the experience!
His father taught him!

On the other side, Liu Yingke, the second son of King Chu, and Liu Zhao, the Marquis of Dongmao, were somewhat uninterested.

Especially Liu Zhao.

In his view, it would be enough to just kill the remaining expenses if you argue with a hammer?
The worst case scenario is to start a war immediately!
He came all the way here just for this matter!
Well, Liu Zhao mainly received the news from his friends. Boyang Hou Chenbi has arrived in Panyu County and will set off by boat soon. He will arrive here to preside over the overall situation and take charge of the Anhai Protectorate and Mengzhou Protectorate. , the military power of the Anman Protectorate was ordered to attack King Xunjia!
This means that there is one more person to share the meat!
Moreover, it is still the biggest piece!
But he had no choice but to watch the meat being eaten by others.

After all, this is Liu Ying's arrangement.

With Liu Zhao and others having their own thoughts, the debate officially began.

But they were dumbfounded.

The reason is very simple. Prajna Liu Zhi and Ji Po, who were talking to each other on the stage, all spoke Sanskrit, not Chinese.

Who can understand this?

Not only them, but many children in Shixin County who came to join in the fun were also confused. They looked at their parents and elders who looked infatuated with some confusion, and yelled for them to tell them.

But what they got, without exception, were scoldings and beatings from their elders.

After all, debating scriptures is a solemn and solemn matter. How can we allow naughty boys to act recklessly?
Zhou Yafu was keenly aware of the commotion.

It's just that he didn't know the inside story, so he regarded it as an arrangement by the Boruoliuzhi, thinking that the Brahmans wanted to organize a manpower raid on Shixin County!

"not good!"

Zhou Yafu shouted softly, and immediately summoned a captain from the Protectorate, and whispered: "Assemble five hundred Marines, occupy commanding heights everywhere, wait for my order, and be ready to shoot at any time!"

"Order the county soldiers to guard the four gates and not let anyone leave the city!"

"In addition, mobilize another thousand cavalry, wait for the gunshots in the city, and immediately rush into the city. Anyone who runs around or draws a sword at them will be killed!"

The captain saluted, turned around and strode away.

Liu Zhao is gearing up.

Liu Yingke sat with his sword in hand.

Jia Yi was confused.

After a while, he approached Zhou Yafu and asked, "Why mobilize troops?"

Zhou Yafu signaled the crowd with his eyes: "Look, those people are all the craftsmen of the Xunjia Kingdom. We should take the first step to gain strength!"

Jia Yi was stunned.

He stammered: "Those seem to be good people, right?"

"Good people? Have you got any words engraved on your face?" Zhou Yafu looked disdainful and pointed his halberd at the crowd: "Good people, how could you beat and scold your children on the day of the Bible debate? You can see that they are doing it carefully. Those children must have been hired by them. !" Jia Yi was speechless.

During these days, he searched for people's sentiments in the city and wrote down records of his experiences, so he got to know many people whom Zhou Yafu accused of being meticulous.

He was very sure that those people were by no means so-called craftsmen, but good people, very good people!

Therefore, Jia Yi said: "If I guess correctly, the reason why those children were beaten was because they could not understand what Bo Ruoliuzhi was saying, and their parents did not want to translate for them on today's occasion."

"In other words, they didn't know how to translate it at all, and then they became angry..."

This time, it was Zhou Yafu's turn to be confused.

"What?" He looked at Jia Yi in confusion and asked, "It's normal that we can't understand the birdsong on the stage, but their parents can understand the birdsong, so why can't the children understand it?"

Jia Yi sighed: "Have you not read the prohibition issued by the Duhufu?"

Zhou Yafu was stunned and nodded shyly: "I haven't read it..."

Jia Yi was silent for a moment and explained: "The first prohibition issued by the Duhufu is to force the poisonous people who live in the concession or work in the concession to wear Han clothes and follow Han customs, and do not talk about them unless necessary. own language, but learn to speak Chinese!”

"Anyone who violates the rules will be fined and deported, or severely beaten and hung on a flagpole for public display!"

"As time goes by, children who grow up here will naturally not be able to speak their hometown dialect."

"Furthermore, Prajna Liuzhi and others speak Sanskrit with a heavy accent, just like the elegant dialect of Qi used by the students of Jixia Academy in the Spring and Autumn Period. Not to mention the more remote Qin and Chu people, even if they are The princes of the Zhou royal family were stunned for a while before they understood the meaning!"

Zhou Yafu suddenly realized.

He murmured: "Fortunately, the Han people now speak Mandarin, and the Han people from the north and the Han people from Lingnan can communicate without any problems!"

Jia Yi nodded in agreement: "Yes, this is your majesty's great achievement! Cars on the same track, books on the same text, it's hard to achieve the same pronunciation of words!"

Zhou Yafu seemed to suddenly remember something, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

Jia Yi looked at him curiously.

Zhou Yafu asked with a smile: "Do you know who taught me Mandarin?"

Although Jia Yi had some guesses, he deliberately said: "Could it be Jianghou?"

Zhou Yafu shook his head and sighed slightly: "My father is busy with military affairs, where does he have that kind of free time? And even if he is free, it is my eldest brother who educates me. Who makes me the second eldest brother in the family..."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Yafu's eyes became a little brighter and he said with a smile: "To be honest, my Mandarin was first taught by His Majesty the current emperor!"

Jia Yi was a little envious and asked curiously: "If I remember correctly, the emperor at that time should still be the prince, right?"

Zhou Yafu nodded: "That's right."

He smiled and asked, "Do you know what method I used to learn Mandarin at that time?"

Jia Yi shook his head.

Zhou Yafu became interested and used tea to draw phonetic symbols such as 'aoei uü' on the table. He smiled and said: "The 'teaching material' I used at that time was written by Jinshang himself, and he used this ghostly symbol to make rhymes." …”

Jia Yi looked at it for a long time, feeling confused.

He turned his gaze to Zhou Yafu, whose face was full of memories of the past, and asked, "Why can't I understand this?"

Zhou Yafu said with a smile: "Don't say it's you, even I can only remember the first few characters..."

Jia Yi asked: "Why? Didn't it mean that this was taught by His Majesty himself?"

Zhou Yafu shook his head:

"Your Majesty was busy with many things at that time, so it was very rare for me to be able to spare a day and a half as a professor..."

"But the fact that I have forgotten those characters now has nothing to do with His Majesty's busy schedule. It is purely because His Majesty said inexplicably later that the Han Dynasty is the best in the world. How can it be Westernized and imitated by foreign barbarians..."

"So, all those 'textbooks' were taken back and burned by His Majesty, and the new textbook for teaching me Mandarin became "206 Rhymes of the Han Dynasty" written by the Marquis of Beiping (Zhang Cang)..."

Jia Yi smiled and said: ""Da Han 206 Rhymes" is also my enlightenment. Now I heard that it has been revised for four editions, and the pronunciation of many words has become different from before..."

Zhou Yafu smiled and said: "Whatever, anyway, I am still Ye (shè) who loves dragons, not Ye (yè) who loves dragons."

Jia Yi raised the corners of his mouth and gave a thumbs up.

When Zhou Yafu was about to say something more, he suddenly heard several screams from the distance, followed by cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

He quickly took a closer look and saw on the podium, the previously arrogant and powerful Brahmin master Prajna Ryubra, whose face was ashen and he fell to the ground shaking.

"What happened?"

"He lost!"

"Who?"

"Just wait and see, whoever gets his head cut off loses!"

Zhou Yafu was about to ask again, but he remained silent, with a look of ecstasy on his face.

On the podium, the old woman with a shaved head and a bright red cassock slowly stood up. Although her feet staggered slightly, she walked step by step to Prajna Liuzhi, took a sword, and murmured something.

It is obvious that the Protestants won today’s debate!

Zhou Yafu turned his eyes away and stared at the crowd in the distance who were either cheering or beating their chests.

At the same time, the 'assassins' who had been arranged long ago also appeared behind the Brahman masters who came with the Prajna stream.

This was Zhou Yafu's preparation.

If the Protestants win, then everything will be fine. If the Protestants lose, no Brahmans will be able to leave alive!

Zhou Yafu thought for a while, then found one of his followers to whisper something in a low voice, and pointed at the white elephant standing in the shade, shaking its nose and looking very bored...

Well, that was the gift he was going to give Liu Ying...

(End of this chapter)