People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 486 Cultural Invasion!

In the end, Ruan Zan and his men had their heads chopped off, and the people in the city were very happy.

I guess these people are only thinking about one thing now, which is to quickly get rid of all these troublemakers, so that no one can destroy our dream of getting rich.

After seeing the behavior of the people, Xia Yuanji knew that Chen Han’s idea was correct. These people didn’t care about what would happen in the future.

They are still thinking more about the present. As long as there are more opportunities for them to get rich now, they don’t care what the future will be like.

In their eyes, the future is too far away, so they should cherish the present.

So they show strong hostility towards anyone who makes a fortune on their own.

After dealing with Nguyen Zan and his men, Xia Yuanji was about to set off for Sanfuqi. This incident was just a small episode for him. Although it delayed him for several days, for him, the Ming Dynasty was becoming more and more powerful in the eyes of the King of Annan. This trip was not wasted. In fact, this diplomatic incident made Annan more honest in the future.

When Xia Yuanji arrived at the trade transit station and was about to board his own special ship to Sanfuqi, the Nankang Hou stationed there gave him a warm welcome on behalf of all the generals of the trade transit station.

Because the Ming army soldiers stationed here have many sources of information, whether it is from merchants or some spies who have infiltrated Annan, there are a lot of news that can be passed on to them.

After all, Xia Yuanji was riding in a carriage, slowly coming from the capital of Annan to the trade transit station, and the spies at the trade transit station had already reported everything that had happened in the capital of Annan to their ears.

After hearing how Xia Yuanji handled the events that happened in the capital of Annan, the generals felt very proud. It really brought them honor.

As a civil servant, Xia Yuanji dared to directly reprimand His Majesty the King in front of the court, and even forced the King of Annan to bow his head in the end.

Let the King of Annan realize that the Ming Dynasty is not only here to create more job opportunities for you, nor is it only here to create wealth for you, but it is also your bread and butter. If you want a better life in the future, you must rely on our Ming Dynasty.

Such remarks were so domineering that the generals felt that only such diplomatic envoys could truly represent them in negotiations with the Kingdom of Annan and make them truly submit to the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

Marquis Nankang saw Xia Yuanji's carriage from afar and was about to enter the trade transit station. Then he led more than a hundred civil and military officials of the trade transit station to welcome Xia Yuanji.

Nowadays, many young officials have come from the Ming Dynasty. Many of them are sent here according to Chen Han's request. They either come from the coastal areas or have knowledge of coastal trade or are interested in it.

After coming here, these young officials can also learn a lot from the trade between the two countries. Especially in the past two years, the trade between the two countries has become more and more frequent, and they have come into contact with all kinds of people, all kinds of goods, and local customs.

It not only increases these people's knowledge, but also their experience, so that they are no longer nerds who just sit in the study and bury their heads in books.

This is a good thing for them and for the Ming Dynasty as well.

The Ming Dynasty now needs to continuously cultivate this new type of talent. The definition of a new type of talent is that in addition to studying hard, they must also have sufficient knowledge.

Such talents are trained in various places and finally able to return to the central government to make decisions, instead of directly entering the officialdom as a scholar without much experience, but instead blindly thinking that they can create a beautiful world through Confucian principles.

Chen Han’s decision was correct. This group of talents will soon be able to play a real role.

When these talents learned about what Xia Yuanji had done in the capital of Annan, they felt very excited. They had long heard of this legendary figure Xia Yuanji.

Being able to see it with their own eyes is also a great stimulation for them.

Xia Yuanji's carriage slowly arrived. First, Xia Yuanji's several hundred guards appeared in everyone's sight, and then Xia Yuanji's carriage also slowly entered everyone's sight. Nankang Hou immediately shouted: "Play music!"

The band at the reception pavilion immediately started beating gongs and drums. The percussion band had all been summoned from China, so they were very familiar with the welcoming music, and the beating and drumming sounded very lively.

After seeing this situation, especially hearing the sounds of musical instruments from his hometown, Xia Yuanji felt very familiar and urged the carriage to hurry up.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Xia Yuanji's carriage came into the crowd. Xia Yuanji got out of the carriage and Nankang Hou immediately stepped forward.

"Your Excellency the Governor, thank you for your hard work!"

The soldiers shouted in unison: "General, thank you for your hard work!"

Then the civil officials also bowed and saluted, "Your Excellency the Governor, thank you for your hard work on the journey!"

Xia Yuanji seemed a little embarrassed to hear the welcome from the civil and military officials. He got off the carriage and bowed deeply to everyone, "I am very honored to trouble you to welcome me here!"

Nankang Hou led a team to welcome Xia Yuanji into the trade transit station. Although this place was a transit station, it was actually built no differently from a small town, and was even more prosperous than the local towns in Annan.

There are shops lining both sides of the street, crowds of people are shoulder to shoulder, and various hawking sounds are heard one after another. The most important thing is that the hawking sounds are all familiar local accents.

At the same time, the hawking sounds were mixed with some half-baked Ming Dynasty official language.

It turned out that many local merchants from Annan came here to do business, and they also wanted to have unimpeded contact with the merchants from the Ming Dynasty, so they spontaneously learned the Ming official language.

Even though they are still a little unfamiliar with it, they have still mastered the words used in hawking.

Xia Yuanji was secretly delighted when he saw this, because cultural invasion is achieved through this step-by-step accumulation, which eventually leads to qualitative changes.

Although only some merchants use Ming official language here now, as the urbanization here becomes more and more in-depth and more and more Annan locals come here to do business, some qualitative changes will occur.

For example, the phenomenon of comparison.

Because some local Annan people can communicate directly with merchants from the Ming Dynasty, their status may gradually become higher than other merchants.

In the end, more and more people will learn Ming Mandarin.

Cultural invasion is first of all a linguistic invasion. When a country begins to constantly learn the language knowledge of other countries, it proves that the language of other countries has dominated its own language.

At that time, in addition to the invasion of language, the invasion of culture will be subtle and silent.

Once the local Annan people started learning Chinese and Chinese characters, some savvy businessmen would come here to smell the business opportunities. For example, they would bring the operas, novels, and historical stories of the Ming Dynasty to this place for printing and selling, thus expanding their business.

With the spread of this cultural knowledge, the living habits, world outlook, and cultural core of the Ming Dynasty can be fully penetrated.

Only then can we truly play the role of ruling Annan bit by bit, and this kind of soft knife attack is the most deadly.

After seeing this, Xia Yuanji was very pleased, because even the local people of the Ming Dynasty did not notice this invasion.

They don't know that this is called cultural invasion, and they don't know that because of their business, more and more people in Annan will be assimilated into the culture of the Ming Dynasty. This is the crushing of a strong culture over a backward culture.

Even people like Nankang Hou couldn't figure out what was going on, but Xia Yuanji could see it.

Because when Xia Yuanji was discussing these things with He Chenhan, Chenhan had been telling him these things.

Chen Han has always emphasized to him that if the Ming Dynasty wants to be strong, it must become strong in culture.

Culture is a soft knife. Its invasion can make another country become a supporter of the Ming Dynasty without knowing it.

Only at that time can the power of the Ming Dynasty be truly demonstrated. Military power is only manifested on the surface, while cultural power is the real inner power.

When your culture is very powerful, when you raise your arms and call for action, countless people will be willing to follow you and believe in you.

Once your military becomes powerful, everyone will be afraid of you and be wary of you.

Now the Kingdom of Annan is being led forward by the Ming Dynasty without knowing it, and they themselves may not even realize that even though it is just a trade transit station, it has already caused internal divisions in Annan.

Some people insisted on making their own decisions, but more people subconsciously followed after seeing Daming pulling the cart forward for them.

From then on, they were unwilling to take the trouble to pull the cart in front, and this inertial following would also affect the inertia of their thinking.

From now on, no matter what the Ming Dynasty says, they will follow the inertia and move forward according to the Ming Dynasty's perspective.

By that time, even if Annan wanted to have the opportunity to be independent, it would not be possible.

Isn't this less labor-intensive than sending out a large army to destroy them?
Isn't this better than planting so many seeds of trouble?
What the Ming Dynasty needs now is a continuous supply of grain-producing land to provide food for the Ming Dynasty, rather than the emergence of enemies one after another. Therefore, Xia Yuanji was very pleased after seeing the surrounding situation. At least the first step of his and Chen Han's action had been completely successful.

Xia Yuanji followed Nankang Hou to the trade transit station, and the first batch of craftsmen and students who came here also came to Xia Yuanji at this time.

When they went to Southeast Asia, they were encouraged by Xia Yuanji in Guangdong.

Xia Yuanji hoped that after they arrived in Annan, they could use their strengths to help build the trade transit station.

At the same time, some technologies can be introduced to Annan, and now is the time to test their results.

When Xia Yuanji saw them here, all ten students came forward to report on what achievements they had made in the past year.

The most important one was a student who was deceived by the local naval commander and then handed over the cement preparation technology to the naval commander's family.

This family really made a lot of money, but at the same time, during this year, this family was also excluded by many surrounding families.

Because they kept this technology very secret and did not pass it on to others, they were accused of possessing a treasure.

Now the lost general is no longer here, because he not only offended the local family, but also offended other officials in the court.

Because they were unwilling to share this technology, not only was the naval commander's family marginalized, but he also faced difficulties in the officialdom.

A superior seized on a small mistake of his and demoted him directly to the lowest position. Now he has become an ordinary member of the Annan Navy.

Driven by this, cement configuration technology was soon developed and a conspiracy was formed at this trade transit station.

Originally, Chen Han and Xia Yuanji wanted to get more people from Annan to participate in the construction of cement roads, because when all the families were immersed in it, it proved that many Annan people had given up their original advantages and began to absorb the advantages of the Ming Dynasty.

They originally thought that this was a representation of advancement, but they never thought that once they did so, more people would believe that the things of the Ming Dynasty were the best, which would invisibly help promote the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, local families spontaneously built cement roads, which could help the Ming Dynasty reduce a large amount of investment.

For example, many roads near trade transit stations are actually contracted by local families.

They consumed their own resources and repaired the roads here, which not only made it convenient for merchants to enter and exit, but also made it more convenient for the transportation of food. It can be said that they achieved twice the result with half the effort.

Originally, this technology was not a secret technology. As long as you think about it a little, you can understand the mystery and then copy it infinitely.

There is no way to hide this technology, so why not just share it?

Only the naval commander's family hid this as a treasure, and then they were targeted by other families and fell into poverty.

This is called stealing the chicken but end up losing the rice. The naval commander can only watch helplessly as the technology he obtained is stolen by other families and then contracted to build the nearby roads.

He could only watch others making huge amounts of money, while he, who was trying it for the first time, became just a small soldier.

It’s their family’s fault for lack of foresight. At the same time, he only realized now that he seemed to have been fooled by the people of the Ming Dynasty and helped the Ming Dynasty promote cement technology. Not only did he not get any benefits, but he also harmed his own family.

But now it's too late...

(End of this chapter)