The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 146 The Road to Chineseization

Duan Pixi and Duan Xiu left with Wen Qiao, which made both the Duan brothers and Wen Qiao very satisfied.

In Wen Qiao's view, Liu Tai showed some goodwill by letting the Duan brothers leave with him, and with the addition of Duan Xianbei, he could also check and balance Tuoba Xianbei.

For Duan Pixi and Duan Xiu, this incident proved Liu Tai's sincerity. They believed that the two brothers they left behind would be safe, and Liu Tai did not have the intention to kill themselves and others.

Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan finally let go of their worries as they watched their brothers leave smoothly with Liu Kun's people.

Because Liu Kun's reputation among the Xianbei clan is naturally better than that of Liu Tai, who directly slaughtered thousands of Xianbei cavalry.

However, this also made Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan completely let go of their thoughts and started working for Liu Tai as promised.

The first thing Liu Tai did was to say to them, "First I need you to form a Xianbei army!"

"The general asked us to form a Xianbei army?!" The two of them were a little unbelievable when they heard Liu Tai's words.

"There won't be too many people, only 1000. I don't care who you choose, but these Xianbei soldiers must pass the test of the people I send. They need to take Han surnames, speak Chinese, wear Han clothes, and perform Han rituals." , and the most important thing is to memorize the Book of Han!"

"Memorize "Book of Han"?!" After hearing the previous words, the two people's faces were already ugly, but at the end, even Duan Shujun jumped up involuntarily and said, "Can we Xianbei people really meet the requirements of the general?!"

"But all the soldiers in my army must go. I just put the requirements of the officers and soldiers in my army on you Xianbei soldiers. Can't you do it!?" Liu Tai said.

However, when Liu Tai said this, looking at the faces of several people, he understood that these were definitely not something that could be achieved in a short time.

Liu Tai sighed and said: "Okay, then I will take a step back and let go of memorizing the "Han Shu" for a while, but your entire army must read the "Han Shu" familiarly, because the content here is A lot needs to be assessed!”

"Thank you, General!" Seeing that Liu Tai was no longer in a stalemate, Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan finally expressed their gratitude to Liu Tai.

"Next, you can choose warriors from your tribe. They are prisoners now, but if they become soldiers, they will enjoy the same treatment as soldiers. If they get married, even if they are not Han women, I will grant them military Let them own the land for farming!" Liu Tai looked at the two of them and said.

"What the general said is true!" Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan couldn't help but marveled after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"I have said that what I want to do is to find a way for the Han people and foreigners to live in harmony.

Because you Xianbei people were captured by me in large numbers, you became the experimenters on this path.

Therefore, I must hope that the Xianbei lineage can be smoothly integrated into China, because if this path is successful, it means that the Han people and the Hu people no longer only have life and death, but have new choices! "

When Liu Tai arrived, he looked at the two of them and said, "To do this, I need your help!"

"We are willing to find this third way for the peace of the Hu and Han tribes!" Duan Shujun knelt down and bowed down to Liu Taixing.

At this moment, Duan Wenyuan knelt on one knee and placed his hand on his chest to express his sincerity.

"Get up! I will send military historians to teach them Chinese books and etiquette. I hope you can become a role model for your tribe!"

Liu Tai waved his hand, settled the matter completely, and then left.

At this moment, Duan Shujun looked at Duan Wenyuan beside him, with more or less excitement in his eyes.

Duan Wenyuan looked at Duan Shujun in confusion and said, "The Duke seems to want to turn us Xianbei people into Han people!"

"What's wrong if all our people become Han?" Duan Shujun looked at Duan Wenyuan and said,
"You have eaten all the things we have eaten these days, good things that our tribesmen cannot usually eat.

But among the Han people, it was actually given to the captives. We do have meat to eat occasionally, but can we allow everyone in the tribe to eat meat?

We can't do it, but the county can do it! "

When Duan Wenyuan heard Duan Shujun's words, he could not help but feel a little shaken in his heart.

Compared with the beautiful vision Liu Tai said, at least the food Liu Tai took out from his own hands was real.

What kind of world is it now? It can be said that it is a completely chaotic world. There are wars everywhere. The Xianbei people like myself have been captured. Let alone being able to eat enough every day, even if they can drink a bowl of porridge every day, the people will not rebel. !
But now, I feel Liu Tai's preferential treatment of the prisoners, especially Liu Tai himself who defeated the Xianbei cavalry in an upright manner, but the Xianbei cavalry really had no will to resist Liu Tai.

Duan Wenyuan believed that if he told the soldiers at the bottom that he wanted to kill Liu Tai, they would probably kill him first.

After all, they were prisoners and could still eat porridge and steamed buns. Why would they rebel in such a good life?

Duan Shujun looked at Duan Wenyuan and said solemnly, "What do you think is the difference between Duke Liu and Wang Jun?"

Duan Wenyuan was stunned when he saw Duan Shujun's serious look, and said seriously, "Wang Jun only wants to take advantage of the military power of our Xianbei people.

He even didn't give us the remuneration we had agreed to several times, but Duke Liu's words..."

"He wants us to become Han people!" Duan Shujun said seriously, "He wants to accept us Xianbei people as Han people!"

"Can we Xianbei people...become Han people?" Duan Wenyuan couldn't help but be confused after hearing Duan Shujun's words!
Duan Shujun looked at Duan Wenyuan and said seriously, "Wenyuan, I must warn you that most people in this world just use us Xianbei people as dogs, Wang Jun is like this, the Huns are like this, and even Liu Kun is the same.

Duke Liu is the first, maybe even the only one who reaches out to help us, Xianbei, become human beings!
Therefore, at least until this road really fails, I will never allow you, Mr. Liu, to have any bad ideas.

Otherwise, brother, I will kill you with my own hands! "

"Brother, why do you look at me like this!" Duan Wenyuan couldn't help but became furious when he heard Duan Shujun's words, "What kind of person am I!"

But Duan Shujun didn't answer, he just stared at Duan Wenyuan's eyes.

At this moment, Duan Wenyuan finally softened under Duan Shujun's gaze, and said helplessly: "I will definitely not look for trouble!"

Duan Wenyuan nodded and punched Duan Wenyuan's chest with his fist, saying, "Let's go help the tribesmen learn!"

Liu Tai's domestication of the Duan brothers was a conscious attempt. After all, Liu Tai came from a later generation and did not discriminate against the Xianbei people.As Liu Tai said, the entire Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were about finding a way for Hu and Han to integrate.

It's just that it's really not easy to find this road. The Xiongnu and Han Kingdoms fought against it, Zhao Han fought against it, and even the former Qin Dynasty, which almost unified the world, fought against it.

It was not until the reforms of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty that a path was finally found, and Emperor Xiaowen was from Xianbei after all.

And I am just using the path that has been successful in history to absorb these ethnic minorities into the Chinese system. This kind of absorption is completely meaningless if it is just a mouthful of equality between the two ethnic groups.

In terms of policy, you need to come up with a system that convinces both ethnic groups. Otherwise, the system you formulate will only benefit the Han people, which will inevitably cause alienation among the foreign ethnic groups and further intensify the contradiction between the two sides.

So far, Liu Tai's biggest reference for integrating these foreign races is the Tang Dynasty.

Among them, the most recognized systems by Liu Tai were the military system and the land equalization system. The two worked together to give foreigners the same economic treatment as the Han people.

Let the foreigners learn Chinese, practice Han rituals, and integrate themselves into the Han people, thereby reducing the resistance to integration as much as possible.

I do not deny that there is definitely a lot of nationalism among the Han people, and I even advocate this.

But thankfully, because all the ethnic minorities around the Han are deeply influenced by the culture of the Han, especially the upper class, the greater the influence of the Han. Therefore, at least they themselves do not object to guiding the surrounding foreign ethnic groups to integrate into the Han.

When the Western Jin Dynasty encountered military chaos, each wealthy family ran faster than the other, but the ethnic minorities around the Jin court became more loyal than the last, especially the Xianbei tribe, which made the Jin court officials even more embarrassed.

To be honest, if the Xianbei clan has the loyalty of the Xianbei clan to the Western Jin Dynasty, the governors created by the Jin court will not be in such chaos in this world.

Liu Tai didn't put his mind on this anymore, because he had done all he could, and the rest depended on how many Xianbei soldiers could climb out of the pit of Chineseization. Liu Tai was very patient and could wait.

Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan began to take the initiative to help the soldiers learn. Liu Tai gave them a full thousand places, but when they really started to educate the Xianbei people, they discovered the difficulty.

Because learning this thing itself is a very painful thing.

Needless to say, first of all, at the level of Chinese, even if the Xianbei people are quite close to the Han people, it would be very difficult for the Xianbei people to understand all the characters, let alone to educate them word by word. Talk about reciting it.

Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan are the top leaders of the Xianbei tribe, so they have been learning Chinese characters under the arrangement of their father since they were young, in order to bring their Xianbei tribe closer to civilization.

Now, they also hope that the Xianbei warriors under their command can learn, but how can they learn quickly?

The only thing they were lucky about was that the military historians arranged by Liu Tai all had good tempers.

Even though they themselves felt that the Xianbei soldiers under their command were somewhat hopeless, these military historians still worked hard to teach them word for word, as if their eyes were full of sacredness, because to them, this was enlightenment. !
Duan Wenyuan carefully selected a number of Xianbei warriors. All of them were fat, strong, and ferocious. He asked them to kill. They were all very good warriors, but if they were asked to learn, it would really kill them. life.

After discussion, they soon chose to give up teaching these warriors first, and instead began to look for young people among the Xianbei people.

Compared to the warriors, teaching the young men was relatively simple, and Duan Shujun also planned his studies in an orderly manner.

First learn to wear Chinese clothes, then learn to perform Chinese rituals, then learn to speak Chinese, then learn Chinese characters, and finally find the Chinese characters for your own surname. As for reciting the "Han Shu", it is better to wait until you can learn to read before talking about other things.

In any case, after Duan Shujun's orderly planning, the learning efficiency of the entire Xianbei ethnic group began to become higher.

Even so, it is not easy to pass even the simplest test of military historians.

At least for a short period of time, it is still a long way to go to select a thousand Xianbei soldiers who can be successfully Chineseized.

However, in each period of testing, those who perform well at least do not need to go down to the mine to dig coal, but do some physical work within their ability on the ground. This is the direct benefit brought by learning Han culture, which makes people Xianbei people are more active in learning.

After all, after really digging coal, normal people would never want to dig again if they had the chance.

Liu Taiqi first put aside the Xianbei clan's affairs and began to discuss the information revealed by Liu Kun with the entire team. Liu Tai looked around the crowd and said, "You said, the news Liu Kun asked Wen Qiao to bring is true. Fake?"

Everyone looked at each other and Cao Yi was the first to stand and said, "Wang Jun failed in the battle of Nanpi City. Now that both of us are recovering our military strength, it is normal for Wang Jun to join forces with Shi Le and Gou Xi to cause trouble for us.

After all, these three people have more or less grudges with us, but facing these three people in an instant is still a headache! "

"Uncle Cao, don't worry about this now!" Liu Tai nodded at the table, and then said, "Zhang Changshi, I need you to go to Yuan Yan's place to see if he can make our salt stop in Shile's jurisdiction without his intervention. The county is open for sale!”

"What does the Duke mean?" Zhang Song was slightly curious when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Let's cast doubt on it. They are short of salt. If I open this salt store under their noses, they probably won't object!" Liu Tai said calmly.

After hearing Liu Tai's words, everyone looked at each other a few times, and Chu Hui said:

"This is one way to deal with it, but what about the other one, which is Gou Xi? How should we deal with it.

After all, if he and Wang Jun attack us from both sides, we may not feel comfortable dealing with it! "

"Yeah!" Liu Tai nodded, "Although I think if a war really breaks out, I can still defeat him, but you still need to be cautious when you should be cautious. Do you have any ideas?"

"Let Gou Chun go on holiday and let Gou Chun go to Xuzhou as an envoy to try it out!" Chu Hui said calmly.
"His identity is more or less a proton!" Zhang Song couldn't help but worry. .

When Liu Tai heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Chu Hui.
Chu Hui smiled bitterly: "None of us still regard him as a proton, and hasn't he done a good enough job these days?
Comparing whether to continue to be Gou Xi's shadow or to be his own Gou Chun, he finally needs to make a decision.

Moreover, Gou Chun's inspection of land and service taxes has caused the family to get a little excited recently. Someone asked me to come here! "

"I know, let him take a vacation and go on a mission to his brother, just let him relax!"

Liu Tai nodded and sighed in his heart, there is another cool official like Gou Chun who is carefree and dares to do things in this world!
　After some calculation, it seems that I still owe three chapters.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)