Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Western Regions Sing Qin Feng

"In the land of the Western Regions, there are many clans and factions, it is not difficult to fight, but the difficult thing is to govern!" Chen Ying looked at Ma Mengming and said with a smile: "Ma joined the army and has been the commander of Gaochang for more than ten years, so he must have a lot of experience in governing the Western Regions, right?" ”

Ma Mengming thought for a while and said: "There are no more than two ways to govern the place, rule from the right and rule from the custom!" ”

Chen Ying was amazed. He naturally knows that the literal understanding means respecting local customs and habits and taking local autonomy. Govern the locals with the locals.

Many people actually advocate the rule of the world, but in fact, this policy has failed.

Once the central government loses its binding force, the local government will definitely disintegrate, and the country will be divided into countless small countries, possibly one place and one country or one city and one country.

The most famous is the Soviet Union, or Russia. In fact, it is a country with a high degree of autonomy, but the self-government and the central government, because of the conflict of interests, will definitely be opposed, and this is an irreconcilable contradiction. The boss wants to make more money, the workers want to work less, and once the contradictions are irreconcilable, civil war is inevitable.

China is a great unification ideology, which is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. From the establishment of counties by Qin Shi Huang, to the edict of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which weakened the princes and kings, it was actually to avoid local autonomy.

There is a very big drawback to local autonomy, because the local government is strong, it does not like the central government at all, the people's support is insufficient, and it still wants to set up a separate central government. In the Chinese context, this tradition has endured for thousands of years.

In fact, during the Tang Dynasty, this kind of political system was also adopted. In areas where ethnic minorities are concentrated, the establishment of a state of detention refers to the prefecture placed by the ancient imperial court in remote minority areas. The situation is special, because it is commonly ruled, which is different from ordinary states and counties. It is equivalent to the current autonomous region. It is worth noting that not all the ancient feudal lands were Shaomin, and the Tusi surnamed Kokang Yang and the Tusi surnamed Damengwen Duan were all Han Chinese. However, the Kokang region is no longer owned by China.

Earlier, of course, it dates back to the Spring and Autumn period.

When he heard the words of following the custom, Chen Ying immediately shook his head and said: "This method is absolutely not advisable, this capital protects the 100,000 army by taking advantage of the general trend of defeating the 200,000 army of the Western Turks, and can suppress all ethnic groups and dare not rebel, once this elite is transferred back to Guannei, the Western Regions will be chaotic!" ”

Ma Mengming said: "If this is the case, then only from the right rule, when the Duke of Zhou sent his son to the Lu State, it was to use the etiquette and music culture of the Western Zhou Orthodox Dynasty to teach the residents of the Lu State one by one, and they were transformed into Zhou people, so it took three years to be considered a success!" ”

"Okay, then let's do it right!" Chen Ying pointed to the map and said: "You first change all the places in the Western Regions into prefectures and counties, report to the Chang'an Imperial Court, and at the same time, promulgate Tang Dynasty laws and regulations to all prefectures and counties......

When Luo Shixin heard this, he pouted and said: "Dadu Hu, I'm afraid this is a bit taken for granted, those barbarians, I'm afraid they won't abide by the laws of our Tang Dynasty!" ”

"They will comply!" Chen Yingdao.

Ma Mengming shook his head and said, "Dadu Protector, they will definitely not abide by it!" ”

Chen Ying's eyes widened, and he pointed at Luo Shixin and said, "The guy in your hand is eating?" If you don't obey the law, you will be killed, you will be killed, you will be killed, you will be killed! ”

Ma Mengming realized that on the surface, Chen Ying looked kind, but it turned out to be a ruthless master.

Chen Ying said again: "Now we must speed up!" ”

"Speed up?" Ma Mengming looked puzzled: "How to speed up!" ”

"Change starts with talking!" Chen Yingdao: "From now on, the officers and men of the whole army, learn Tang Yan and Zhaowu Nine Divisions and other departments to take the lead in learning, no matter what method I take, I must learn Tang Yan within a month, all cities in the Western Regions, but all past business travel, must be traded in Tang Yan, otherwise double the language tax!" ”

Ma Mengming felt that Chen Ying was messing around, but his arms couldn't twist his thighs.

Chen Yingdao: "How much was the tax revenue in the Western Regions before? ”

Ma Mengming said: "In the past, all localities basically followed the cow leg tax, that is, one cow head paid one leg tax, four cows paid one cow, and four sheep paid one sheep. ”

Chen Ying nodded and said: "Okay, the taxation of the Tang Western Regions Protectorate is also implemented according to this, however, if you can speak Tang Yan, you don't need to be too proficient, that is, you can speak daily speaking, half of the tax is exempt, you can speak Tang Yan, you can write, you can be appointed as an official, even if you are a tribal leader, you can't speak Tang Yan, you can't be an official!" ”

Ma Mengming vaguely understood Chen Ying's intentions, as if he was taking a knife in one hand and dates in the other.

In fact, Ma Mengming didn't know how much Chen Ying complained about the compulsory learning of English in later generations.

Chinese, why bother learning foreign languages?

Now that Chen Ying has this opportunity, he decided to let tens of millions of people in tens of millions of miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean all bite the wooden stopper to learn Tang Yan......

Ha ha. Haha, although it was painful to learn, and I wanted to see my neck in pain, I still had to learn that scene with my head hanging on the beam, and it must be spectacular! Thinking of this, Chen Ying's heart was so happy!

Of course, Chen Ying also took advantage of the method of learning Tang Yan to reduce taxes.

A quarter of the taxes are high, but they are used to it. In this way, Chen Ying can first gain the favor of the Han people of the Western Regions or the descendants of the Han people of the Western Regions and their half-breeds, after all, they can speak Tang Yan, and even if they can't speak it, it is very easy to learn, so that they can appreciate the benefits of being a Tang people.

Gaoche City, at this time, was the first to implement Chen Ying's action of learning Tang Yan.

"Eat ......"

"......"

"You're fucking stupid!" A soldier of the Modao Army pointed at the butt of a soldier of the Zhaowu Ninth Division and yelled, "What you pulled out is shit!" ”

"Pull it out...... Eat! ”

The soldiers of the Modao Army on the side couldn't stand laughing.

"I can't tell the difference between shit and food, I'm a fucking stupid!"

"Eat ......"

"!"

A hook-scythe cavalry pointed to the hook-scythe in his hand and said, "Hook-sickle!" ”

A soldier of the servant army of the Zhaowu Ninth Division, his eyes widened: "Dog wall!" ”

"Dog wall!" The hook and sickle lancer was about to go berserk: "I'll fuck you!" ”

"Left!"

The most distressed is Cao Dan of Cao Ministry, he can speak Tang Yan, although the tone is a little weird, but his son Cao Yaqian just can't learn.

Cao Dan pointed to a big watermelon and shouted, "Big watermelon! ”

Cao Yaqian said: "Big chicken, put!" ”

"Big watermelon!"

"Big ...... Big chicken, put! ”

Cao Dan couldn't help it anymore and slapped it.

Throughout the winter, learning Tang Yan was still in full swing.

However, Chen Ying likes this feeling very much.

There was a thunderous roar everywhere, and there was a crackling sound everywhere, and Chen Ying felt very relieved when he saw this scene.

At this moment, Luo Shixin threw the iron gun at the door in frustration, sat on the bed with a heavy butt, and said angrily at Chen Ying: "Dadu Hu, please spare me, these people are too stupid to teach at all!" ”

"Be patient!" Chen Ying looked at Luo Shixin and said with a smile: "If there is one-on-one teaching, mastering a language can be very fast, especially in an environment where you need to speak and listen frequently, it is possible to master the daily language of a language in a few days." We must not only teach them Tang Yan, but also teach them to sing and write, but also care about their lives, be friends and brothers with them, and let them trust us, first of all, we must trust them first. Cao Dan, later, you will choose a soldier of the Zhaowu Nine Divisions to join my personal guard. ”

Cao Dan left happily.

Luo Shixin and Ma Mengming exclaimed at the same time: "Dadu Hu, this can't be, it's not my race, its heart will be different!" You can't."

"Yes" Chen Ying smiled disapprehantly: "The people of the Western Regions are actually a group of pure people, they worship the strong, and most of them have the power to defeat 200,000 Western Turks, they will willingly surrender to me, besides, wasn't Ashina Simo the same at the beginning?" Don't worry, you have to believe me, I have the confidence to conquer him, if I don't even have the ability to conquer a personal soldier? ”

Chen Ying naturally doesn't have to worry, his personal guards usually stand a sentry in a group of three people. The implication of mutual surveillance is very strong. Even if he wanted to murder Chen Ying, he didn't have that chance.

"Most of the guards are bought by a thousand dollars!" Ma Mengming secretly thought in his heart: "This is really well-intentioned! ”

Most of the people in the Western Regions did not have the concept of "national integrity", when the Xiongnu were strong, they were all Huns, and when the Han was strong, they called themselves Han people. When the Xianbei people were strong, they were also called Xianbei people. When the Turks were strong, they called themselves Turks.

Now Datang has become the master of the Western Regions. These people in the Western Regions found that although it was painful to learn Tang Yan, once they learned Tang Yan, they could pay half less tax, and in the past, four sheep had to pay the tax of one sheep, but now they can pay half less after learning Tang Yan, this kind of thing is actually more convincing than a sword.

Later, the people of the Western Regions slowly discovered that the Han people began to hang the peach charm in front of the door, the peach charm is the predecessor of the Spring Festival couplet, the Han people take the peach wood on the first day of the first month, cut it into a style of six inches long and three inches wide, and draw the name of the door god of warding off evil spirits and driving away ghosts on it, "Shen Tu Yu Lei" hanging all year round.

When the people of the Western Regions asked, they knew that the people with peach charms would come to send a bucket of noodles.

As a result, almost all urban households in the Western Regions have hung peach charms.

In the time and space before Chen Ying traveled, because the state gave preferential treatment to the young people in all aspects, many people saw that it was profitable to change the nation and change their ancestors, at first it was just for immediate interests, and there was no consciousness that they were a few people, but after two or three generations, the long-term falsehood came true, and the national concept was naturally formed.

Contrary to the ridiculous "turning the Han into a Han" in later generations, at this time, the people of the Western Regions, especially those in the west, took the initiative to "turn the Han into a Han" in order to reduce taxes.

Of course, this kind of turning Hu into Han was also fake at the beginning, but because most of the people themselves look yellow skin and black hair, and many people are of mixed Hu and Han blood, and it is not uncommon for them to speak Chinese, so it is very easy to "pretend" to be Tang Min, that is, to hang a peach charm at the door and change the style of clothes.

In just one winter, Chen applied taxes to attract, and the entire Western Regions, including the Ili River Valley area west of Gaochang, also became a place where everyone learned to speak Tang dialect, everyone wore Han clothes, practiced Han etiquette, and competed for the Tang people.

Because the Tang people can pay less taxes!

Of course, although Chen Ying asked these people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions to pay less taxes, he didn't care at all. Because, with an army of 100,000 in hand, if you are still short of money, it is simply a joke.

In fact, there are also many tribes who are obsessed, and so they become history.

In April of the fourth year of Wude, the spring grass began to grow wildly.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty, which had been in the winter to conquer the Western Army, finally began to leave the high car and go all the way to the west.

The 100,000-strong army marched slowly, and the soldiers of all ethnic groups sang one after another: "How can you say that you have no clothes, and you are with your son?" Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son......"

Although the voice was a little weird, Chen Ying was very satisfied. It is very rare to have such a step in half a year. Ma Mengming admired Chen Ying very much at this moment, and he didn't expect Chen Ying to use such a method to assimilate the Western Regions without blood.

Now it is Gaochang City, but now it has been renamed Tingzhou City.

In the area east of Tingzhou City, everyone wears Hanfu and everyone speaks Tang Yan, if you don't consider the weird tone, this place is no different from the Central Plains.

PS: The third watch is over, let's fix the typo tomorrow, my eyes are a little spent.