Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 344
It didn't take much time this time because I had already prepared.Guo Kang quickly persuaded Lama Wang to provide him with more help, and also asked several priests of Ross to help him.

Father Mikhail is happy to help.Guo Kang told him that he planned to set up a new local school in the future and ask the church to arrange manpower to teach these Ross people how to recognize and read basic characters.According to his plan, every family needs at least one literate person.

Moreover, in the process of class, these people have to be taught to study law and understand basic common sense-such as how the country works, who manages the city, how to respond to the situation when something happens, and so on.

Although it seems that this is very simple knowledge, but in this day and age, many people really don't know it, especially these Ross people.

According to previous understanding, these people have no concept of "joining the army is a civil right" at all.In their eyes, to be a soldier is to serve as cannon fodder for Lord Boyar, and they do not understand the relationship between power and force, as well as the principle of reciprocal power and responsibility.If no one has this concept in the environment they live in, then even if these people are stuffed into the army, they will not be able to fight well.

To put it bluntly, a qualified army is not formed in the barracks, but is jointly built by the whole society.Based on this principle, you will know why they attach so much importance to their community environment.

Therefore, it is necessary to carefully sort out their settlements, sort out their household registrations, and establish an effective education system so that qualified soldiers can be trained.

Both priests have studied theology in the Orthodox Church, know Greek, and are well aware of the importance of language and writing.Therefore, they all agree with Guo Kang's suggestion.Father Mikhail even said gratefully that this is an act of kindness like a saint.

Because the opening conditions were so good, they didn't bother to pursue other details—of course, Guo Kang himself hadn't planned the details yet.According to his original plan, these people don't need to learn Greek, but just learn Chinese characters.

However, he hasn't discussed this matter with other people, and he doesn't know how to arrange it most properly.

At the beginning, everyone promoted Chinese characters, in fact, they did not want to see divisions in Rome due to language issues.But looking at it now, the situation is still quite embarrassing.

As a lingua franca, Chinese characters do have various advantages.But on the other hand, the Purple Horde Khanate did not have the ability to popularize Chinese and Chinese characters throughout the people.This has led to strange phenomena: some people can speak half-baked Chinese; some people will use the grammar and word order of the local language to read Chinese characters forcibly; some people directly spell Chinese characters in the local language, making reading and writing two separate systems... ...Up to now, only the upper and middle ranks of the army can be guaranteed to be able to use Chinese proficiently.

But on the other hand, everyone has no better lingua franca.In the "Romania" area where the Purple Horde started, the local Bulgarians and Wallachians were not willing to accept Greek.They felt that the Greeks' own empire didn't force them to accept this language, and the Purple Horde didn't need it either.

Especially in the border areas, due to the long-term antagonistic relationship, some people would rather learn Chinese than Greek, let alone accept Greek as a common language that everyone must learn, and firmly oppose linking Greece and Rome.

And for the same reason, the Greeks don't like these "Slavs" words either.There are not many Greeks serving as officials, and their opinions also have a certain influence and cannot be ignored casually.

At the end of the entanglement, none of us could convince anyone, so we could only use the Chinese characters for "third party".The advantage in this kind of debate, the biggest advantage of Chinese characters, is that the Legion likes it very much.Anyway, everyone can say that the use of Chinese characters is a military requirement, not to despise and suppress anyone culturally, thus avoiding troublesome disputes among local people.

As far as the current situation of these Slavs is concerned, if they have a choice, they will definitely choose Chinese instead of Greek.Therefore, Guo Kang has some confidence in this.

Other than that, it can only be decided temporarily based on the situation.

When Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he demanded that all countries use their own characters in a unified way.It seems that this is a big project, but in fact the difficulty is not very high.

According to the conclusions obtained by later generations from the Liye Qin Bamboo Slips, during the Qin Dynasty, some of the local officials were the officials of the former Chu State.The characters they used changed from Chu Chinese characters to the fonts designated by the Qin Dynasty, but it only took these Chu people a few months to fully adapt to the new format of official documents, and even learned the common sayings in the official documents of the Qin people. up.

Therefore, the premise of quickly unifying the characters is that everyone's characters are similar.Although there is indeed a difference, it depends on who you compare with—compared to the situation in Europe, their side can even be regarded as negligible.

No matter how great the achievements of Qin Shihuang are, he is just an ordinary person, not a myth like the Heavenly Father, and it is impossible to do things out of the historical background.It is precisely because of this realistic foundation that the unified writing is possible.

As for the Purple Horde Khanate, they have done their best to reach the current level...

Of course, there is another aspect that is difficult to explain, which is the mentality of the upper rulers.

Guo Kang himself knew that the Purple Horde Khanate was still a structure of a small clan facing a big country.In this system, the mentality of the ruling class is actually very subtle.

Although it is nominally a country established by the Mongolian Golden Family, since the ancestor Boyan Timur, in fact, basically no one in the whole family can speak Mongolian.Because the Golden Horde speaks the Kipchak language of the Turkic family, Boyan Timur, as a middle- and lower-level headman, only spoke this language back then.As for the following generations, they gradually lost their ability to speak Turkic...

Moreover, after the Civil War, the Mongolian princes were liquidated once; after Timur defeated Tutuo and lost the remnants of the Golden Horde, the local grassland nobles experienced a major reshuffle.After two rounds of purges, the traditional tribal aristocrats actually don't have much power anymore.

Now among the group of "Mongolians", there are probably only a few officials who are in charge of diplomacy and often conduct trade and diplomatic exchanges with Central Asia and grassland regions, and they can also speak Mongolian.Even Tuohuan himself can only say hello to people, ask them to drink and so on.

And because of the role of Nanya Shihou, as the real high-level language of the court, Chinese is actually the "national language" of the Khan court.It has been basically established since Guo Gai was in charge of internal affairs for a long time.

In fact, all the families of nobles and lords actually knew more than one language.Like the Cao family and historians, they all got mixed up in the Turkic tribes.But for everyone, Chinese is not only the biggest common ground, but also the collective memory of each family as a community, which has irreplaceable significance.Without Chinese, maybe everyone will have to break up.

Although it sounds strange, Chinese language and military skills are actually the "anchor" for the self-positioning of the upper echelons of the Khan court.

(End of this chapter)