"China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; There is the beauty of uniforms, which is called Hua. ”

No other civilization has ever taken etiquette so seriously for any other civilization. Etiquette is often just etiquette and nothing more.

However, in the Chinese civilization, its core is etiquette, of course, this "etiquette" is not only the establishment of the so-called "etiquette", but also the bloodline, just like the Zhou Dynasty mentioned in the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" during the Zhou Dynasty to the extent of 400 feudal countries and 800 serviposting the country. Then, these 400 countries are "Hua" in the sense of blood, and 800 service countries are countries or tribes that belong to the Siyi in blood, but pay tribute to the Zhou royal family politically.

A few years ago, King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, sealed the princes, and sent the relatives of the three aunts and seven aunts, plus the remnants of the former dynasty who knew the current affairs, to the local lord.

He said that he was the landlord, but in fact the land was not yours, and it was still in the hands of foreigners. It's like Zhou Tianzi is writing a blank check, you want to cash in? Cheng, you just go and grab it!

Of course, if you want to grab it, Zhou Tianzi will still sponsor weapons, grain and grass, and Ma Zai's younger brother, and these princes are also angry, and they have gained a firm foothold in the local area, and initially laid the map of China. The Zhou royal family and these princes were collectively referred to as Zhuxia. Zhu Xia is of course superior in blood, but in order to strengthen himself, Zhu Xia naturally needs to use various means to "appease the barbarians and belong to Zhu Xia", and in addition to the fist lesson, education is the most important means.

This was the case in the Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago, and the same is true in the Xingqian period now, although compared with the empty checks that casually pointed to a place when the Zhou Dynasty divided the seals, the Ming Dynasty's feudal country was more or less returned to a city.

However, they also face a more formidable enemy. It is no longer a barbaric and obscurantist barbarian, but a sub-civilization with religious beliefs, and how to conquer and assimilate them has always been the top priority of the development of all countries.

"The so-called assimilation, without him, grace and grace, to educate."

It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do. In fact, there is nothing difficult to say, it is nothing more than to open a academy and educate it, of course, people will not accept it willingly, that is another matter.

In any case, the establishment of social studies and seowon as the basis for education was still adopted by the vassal states, and for this reason, although the vassal states may have been the foundation of the foundation, their national soldiers had to guard against the hostile natives around them, and the establishment of social studies and seowon was still the top priority of each country.

Gui is no exception, but, compared with the capital of Qin, Nanhengzhou has excellent conditions that cannot be compared with other countries, more than 20 years ago, during the governor of Anthony van Diemen, Batavia established Dutch-style canals, castles, town halls, Christian churches, of course, Latin schools are also within the scope of its construction, and now, this Latin school run by the church is the Taixue of Gui. However, this titular Taixue is more like the Ming Dynasty Youfu School - most of the students are eleven or twelve-year-old teenagers, their fathers and brothers are often national soldiers, and even many students' relatives have either died in battle or disease. However, it also makes them seem different from their peers at home.

For Xu Fuyuan, who is in the academy, from the moment he entered this academy, he felt that the atmosphere here was different from that in China, and in the playground of the school, you could see teenagers wearing armor and protective gear practicing stabbing there.

In the academies in China, this scene is not seen at all. Although in the academy in the country, those students also need to learn martial arts and swordsmanship. But it's not like here, it's like a barracks, where everyone is fighting for their lives.

Although they wore the same clothes, spoke the same words, and wrote the same words, anyone could feel that this and Daming were two completely different worlds.

"Kill ......"

With a deafening roar, Xu Fuyuan immediately felt a strange atmosphere coming from the field. In the Ming Dynasty, whenever people went to the barracks to watch the ceremony, their favorite thing was probably the soldiers practicing assassination on the field.

Every assassination training can make the onlookers fascinated by it, because it is particularly exciting.

Although the Ming Dynasty used firearms, anyone who had fought with the Ming army knew that the Ming army's tactics were very simple - nothing more than shell smashing, followed by fire guns, demoralization on the opposite side, bayonet charge to solve the battle.

And the most important thing is the bayonet charge, and it can even be said that the seemingly inconspicuous bayonet, which ultimately determines the outcome of the war.

Even the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, who thought they were brave, were crushed when they faced the Ming troops who were lining up to charge with bayonets, and they didn't even have the courage to resist.

Because of this, the bayonet has been given an extremely important role from the loyal army to the Ming army, and the assassination training also occupies an extremely important position in the training of the Ming army, even comparable to the queue training.

So much so that some people say that the training of the Ming army is assassination in addition to the queue. Compared with the boring former, assassination confrontation is always the most exciting and shocking.

Xu Fuyuan, who used to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, was even frightened by the assassination and confrontation training of the soldiers, in China, only the army can see such a confrontation, but he never thought that he would see such a scene in the government of Guiguo. These people are even fighting for their lives as if they have a mortal enmity with each other.

"How so?"

There was a hint of confusion in his expression. He couldn't comprehend the demeanor of these people. I can't understand why they have to train there with the momentum of fighting for their lives, even on the training ground.

In the middle of the playground, two students are facing each other for combat training, both of them are wearing special protective gear - steel and leather chest guards, and helmets with iron nets, although they are not very tall, they may only look twelve or thirteen years old, just a group of teenagers, but they are armed with special wooden guns, but they look like warriors in military uniform who have come out of the picture scroll, and they look extremely powerful.

"Kill!"

Although the voice shouted from the face guard still seemed a little immature, the roar that burst out was formidable, and the wooden guns of the two collided in the air, one attacking, the other defending. The movements of both sides were extremely smooth, without a trace of mud and water, and they were obviously already veterans.

The stabbing technique looks extremely simple, but it is just a thrust, a stab left, a stab right, a stab, a stab, an anti-right stab, and a deception stab. It seems to be a simple confrontation, but the confrontation is extremely intense, at the moment of the impact of the gun, the other party took advantage of the situation to counterattack, the killing sound of the other side has not fallen, the other party's killing sound has risen again, for a while, this is just a burst of dragon and tiger leaping, killing like thunder confrontation, but it only lasts a few seconds, at most more than ten seconds, I don't know who stabbed the other party with the first shot, a shot, the referee immediately shouted to stop,

"Red wins!"

The rules of assassination are as simple as that, the first shot of the opponent's chest wins.

The fierce confrontation ended instantly, and before Xu Fuyuan could react, the two people holding the guns took off their masks and saluted each other. At this moment, the original enemies of life and death have now become friends again, and they also took the initiative to smile at each other, and the victor did not have a trace of pride in his eyebrows, and even used a smile to comfort each other and comfort his friends.

"Remember!"

When Xu Fuyuan was still in shock, the shouts that sounded in the field interrupted his thoughts, and he saw a man in a military uniform, shouting loudly there.

"It's like this on the battlefield, the comparison is hard-hitting, there is no flattering place, it is harder than anyone, and then, stabbing the other party to death at once, there is no place for regret. Either you kill the enemy, or you are killed by someone else......"

Such naked words reached Xu Fuyuan's ears, and when he was surprised, his heart was full of doubts. Zou Zhongyi, who accompanied him on the side, the champion of the nine years of Shunzhi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now the Ministry of Rites of the Qin State, which is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Rites Shangshu, is also a Taixue Datixue, and has obviously noticed her surprise. He explained softly.

"Hey, the public doesn't know, these countries are sealed overseas, this overseas is really surrounded by tigers and wolves, and the indigenous barbarians are eyeing at the side, and if they are not inferior, they will backfire on me, so, in order to survive, the men in the country must be equipped with firearms and swords to protect their families, in the end, this is a barbarian land after all......"

Although Zou Zhongyi is now the judge of the Ministry of Rites, but in his heart, he is always a little unwilling to suffer from his own experience, after all, although he has said that he has been clear, but he has also abandoned his post and returned to his hometown, who would have thought that later the imperial court would still investigate their responsibility for the crime of traitor, and had no choice but to flee to the countries in a hurry.

Although it is reused, for him, how can such a land of tigers and wolves be compared to the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River. Because of this, he always feels a little aggrieved in his heart.

I think he was also a dignified champion back then. At that time, she was so beautiful and high-spirited. But now, he is just a small official in such a small border country.

Only God knows him. Even when I dream at night, I dream of my hometown and the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River. But everything back home is just a dream.

From the time they came here, everything from Daming had already said goodbye and come to an end. But even so, his words will inevitably reveal some unwillingness.

"From this point of view, Zhuxia also has a bit of a pre-Qin trend."

Ignore the unwillingness in the other party's words. Xu Fuyuan said directly.

"Raising the son of the country with Taoism is the six arts of teaching: one is five rites, two is six music, three is five shots, four is five royals, five is six books, and six is nine numbers."

Quoting the six arts of "Zhou Li Baoshi", Xu Fuyuan continued.

These six arts are really the foundation of the pre-Qin Zhuxia country, and after the descendants were ashamed to enter the Tang and Song dynasties, the imperial examination became more and more prosperous, and the cloth clothes were forced to abandon the shooting and imperial family poverty. Instead, they only practice rituals, music, books, and mathematics. In this way, my Han people are weak, and they do not return to the martial arts of the Han Dynasty. ”

Although Xu Fuyuan did not agree with His Majesty's disparagement of "scholars are weak", for him who had encountered the Jiashen Heavenly Change, he remembered the lesson that scholars had hearts but were powerless to turn the tide, and it was precisely because of this that during his time in the Ministry of Rites, he would fully support His Majesty's promotion of martial arts such as swordsmanship in social studies.

Only because of the painful lesson, people will think about change, Jiashen Tianchang, the lesson of Lu Shen in China, so that the Ming scholars learned to change, and for the countries, the reality of tigers and wolves also forced them to choose to use the way of all the people to fight, in order to gain a firm foothold in this land.

The current situation and the different environments made Da Ming and Zhu Xia make choices that look similar, but are completely different. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the environment of these feudal countries is more cruel.

He could understand how cruel the people of these places had become in order to survive here. Of course, what makes him happy is that they have not abandoned the "rites" of being Chinese.

If the "ceremony" is lost, then Huaxia will no longer be Huaxia. And what is the difference between it and animals? The reason why humans are human and why animals are beasts is that the difference between them lies here.

The politeness shown by those teenagers after the life-and-death struggle made him see the future of Zhuxia, and their future is still Huaxia. They did not abandon the essence of Huaxia just because they were in a barbaric land.

"What the public said is very true, it is because my Han people only speak of Wenzhi in the day, regardless of martial arts, only to have the suffering of the later prisoners of the state, today to regain martial arts, cultural governance and martial arts as a whole, will be able to reproduce the prosperity of the summer, the public side please, the country in the middle of the country can be said to have admired the public for a long time, this time the public can come to the small state, for us and other scholars to give lectures, it is really the luck of the small state scholars......"

Zou Zhongyi, who realized that he was speechless, hurriedly changed the topic, followed Xu Fuyuan's side, and led him into the largest lecture hall in Taixue, which was already full of scholars from the "whole country" - but there were only more than 100 people, and it was extremely rare for Gui Guo, who had no more than 10,000 households and more than 10,000 scholars.

When watching these scholars of different ages get up and salute, Xu Fuyuan, who was standing on the podium, first returned the salute, and then began to lecture, just like lecturing in the academy in Songjiang, there was no difference.

"Summer, Chinese people are also ......"

Just as his words fell, suddenly, the rapid sound of the bell interrupted his words, and the scholars, who had been listening attentively, stood up and looked out the window.

The bells rang from the east, south, and west, and the bells came from all directions, and everyone's faces changed.

Seeing the change in their expressions, Xu Fuyuan was a little puzzled. She didn't know why everyone's expressions had become so nervous at this time.

At this time, one of the students beside him said,

"Sir, something is wrong."