"What's your surname?"

"Don't be expensive, the surname is Lai."

"Brother Lai, do you know what they are doing?"

"Burn books, ......"

"What a book! Lai Bao, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand! ”

Wen Tianxiang found a man who looked honest, a little older, wearing short clothes, and holding a horizontal knife. The two chatted for a few words, but they were interrupted by a tall man with a meaty face next to them.

"This is education, not burning books, education is the business of readers, we men who run the sea don't understand, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand!"

"What Lei Ye said is that the little ones don't understand, it's nonsense." This short-clothed old man is Lai Bao, the father of Lai Toad, and he and his son Lai Fu have followed Lei Batian's ship to the Bay of Bengal, and during this time they have been running transportation in Daguanghe, a newly built riverside port located in the lower reaches of the Mekna River in Bangladesh. They haven't encountered anything particularly dangerous for the time being--although Lei Batian is not a good person, he is not reckless, he knows the truth of stepping on a little first and then doing business, and doing that kind of business is not a lot of work, it is a lifetime of not opening for three years.

However, the father and son of the Lai family did not look for Lai Toad, Lai Toad was not a celebrity in the British army, and the British troops remaining in Chittagong were not Lai Toad's brigade - Lai Toad is now in the British Guards Musket Regiment and is following Chen Huai to clear the mess. At this time, most of them were watching the gate for Chen Huaiqing in the capital of Tianzhu Great Britain (that is, Bogra).

"Boss Lei, in Xia Wenxiang, came from Japan to do the ivory business." Wen Tianxiang bowed his hand to Lei Batian and smiled at this vicious man. "I don't mean anything else, I just want to inquire about the rules of Daguang here."

Lei Batian is a character who is used to running the rivers and lakes. How can you not see that Wen Tianxiang is upright, he must have been an official for many years and his official authority is still great! However, since the other party claims to be a businessman from Japan. Then you must not want to appear identity. Lei Batian would not be able to get along with this kind of person with a big background, and he politely replied at the moment.

"Mr. Wen. There are no big rules in Daguang Commercial Port for us Han people. However, this is still the world of the Great Song Dynasty, so pay attention to what you say. ”

What to pay attention to, Lei Batian didn't say, and Wen Tianxiang didn't ask much. In fact, when I entered the port just now, the official in charge of tax collection at the wharf had already said it. Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty is a mouthful of commerce, that is, the port of Daguang Commercial Port. Just pay attention to what you say here, don't open your eyes for the tyrannical anti-thief, and basically won't be expelled (most of the foreign Han merchants are subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and it's not okay to kill your head casually.) However, the penalty and expulsion are enough for them). However, this "mouth" has a range, just south of Daguangfu City, surrounded by a wooden fence. There are docks, warehouses, market companies, merchants, wine shops, green buildings, inns, and money houses that can exchange Tiandao tickets. You don't have to go out to buy and sell, it's enough to go around the commercial port.

"What did those monks do? Why do you take them, and burn the scriptures? Wen Tianxiang continued to ask.

"Well...... Lei Batian looked left and right, and then lowered his voice, "Actually, it's nothing, it's just a book on it that wants to destroy the Bagan script." Ordinary people here in Bagan are illiterate. Even their Ahmudan (people like warriors, knights, and the like) don't know a single big character, but most of the great monks here know how to read. Most of the books, scriptures, and historical materials are also kept in the temple. The temples outside the Daguang commercial port have been cleaned up, and now it is the turn of this Jinguang Temple. In addition, the monks here in Bagan are all Hinayana streamers. And the Great Song is a ...... who supports the Mahayana stream"

This Lei Batian's news is really bright, he is a Jianghu person in the sea industry, and he naturally has the habit of forming gangs. Lei Batian is no exception, and he is also an old man who has entered the gang sect. Arrived at Daguang Commercial Port. has its own brothers in the rivers and lakes to take care of, and the ears and eyes are naturally psychic.

It turned out that the Great Song Dynasty was destroying the Bagan script and cracking down on Theravada Buddhism. The former is naturally a history of dying culture. Jiang Wanli also understands this truth. Moreover, Jiang Wanli also knew that he wanted to make a fuss about religion and turn the Upper Theravada Buddhism in Bagan into Han Mahayana Buddhism.

As soon as Lei Batian's words box opened, he couldn't close it for a while, and he was still talking there, "Mr. Wen, in fact, this kind of thing has already been troubled in Dali once, and it is even worse, not only the monks in the temple are unlucky, but even the Confucian students in Dali have been killed a lot!" Burn books! This Jiang Pingzhang is really ruthless enough, much more powerful than Jia Pingzhang......"

Book burning! The corners of Wen Tianxiang's eyes jumped wildly, how could the Great Song Dynasty do such a thing?

The scriptures had been burned at this time, and the Great Song Tonghai Road, who commanded the burning of the books at the scene, appeased Su Liuyi, who was also the governor of Daguang Mansion, nodded with satisfaction, turned around and entered the temple. A man dressed as a military attache began to speak in Chinese.

"In order to appease the Great Song Dynasty Tonghai Road and the governor of Daguang Mansion Su Bachelor: The upper and lower courtyards of Daguang Jinguang Temple will be seized, all the monks of Jinguang Temple will be restored to the world, all the properties of Jinguang Temple will not be returned to the official, and the villages to which Jinguang Temple belongs (the upper part of Bagan Buddhism is very powerful, with a large amount of real estate and people) are all nationalized!"

After saying this, the officer waved his hand, and the soldiers couldn't help but say, stepped forward and tore off the monks' robes, threw over a few tattered clothes for them to cover their bodies, and then punched and kicked them all away. There is no need to say what the mood of the Bagan people who are watching around, and even the Han merchants shook their heads one by one.

Burn scriptures, drive monks, seal temples, and seize property! This is clearly to get along with the Buddha, a proper Buddha enemy is difficult, in this Bagan Buddha country, I really don't know how much trouble it will cause!

……

"Ren Zhong, I heard that you followed Jia Pingzhang when Lin'an fell, why did you get to Bagan now?"

Although he did not agree with the current style of the Great Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang still went to the Yamen of Daguang Mansion and found his former colleague Su Liuyi. Wen Tianxiang is now a well-known figure all over the world, and his "Manji of Wenshan" is a bestseller in Dali, in Bagan (city), and in Daguangfu. Such a character came to defect to the Great Song Dynasty, and Su Liuyi naturally would not push him out. Instead, he politely welcomed him into the yamen and put the wind wine on the table first. After eating, he invited Wen Zhuangyuan into his study. Be prepared to speak from the bottom of your heart.

"There are quite a few people coming from Lin'an," Su Liu said. "Orthodoxy is on our side after all." Saying that, he shook his head again, "It's a pity that Li Xiangfu and Lu Junshi just can't give up those tens of thousands of horses, and they are getting deeper and deeper." ”

The "legacy" left by Jia Yidao is mainly Liao Yingzhong, Su Liuyi's gentleman's camp and Li Xiangfu's tens of thousands of horses. Now the Junzi camp is almost dispersed, and some of them have become Chen Huaiqing's retainers, and they are looking like a special Brahmin. The other part of the people was in Mingying, and their hearts were in Song, and they all quit their errands one after another and ran to Dali and Bagan. There are also some people who are like Liao Yingzhong, who are disheartened and do not agree with Daming. But I don't believe that the Great Song Dynasty still has any hope - Chinese orthodoxy is messing around, they have all been expelled from the Chinese mainland, and now it is just a small court in exile, just continuing the blood of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Wen Tianxiang was silent for a while, and his brows were gradually wrinkled: "Brother Ren Zhong, what our Great Song is doing in Bagan now, is it a little too ......much?"

"Passed?" Su Liuyi was stunned, "Where has it been?" ”

"Burning scriptures, expelling monks, sealing temples and ......"

"Burn the scriptures that should be burned, and drive away the evil monks. The temple of obscenity and luxury. Su Liuyi straightened his waist, his face full of righteousness, "This is a move to change customs and beautify and educate." How have you been? ”

"Is this a change of customs, beauty and education?" Wen Tianxiang was stunned and stunned, "changing customs and beautifying education" is a "Mo Shan" move that Confucianism quite admires. Could it be that they burned other people's books and pitted scholars? The monk drove away, and the temple was sealed. Temple property snatched? Such a method has a fight with the Mongols! Do you want the hearts of the people of Dali and the hearts of Bagan?

This is the method of education in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It's something that I Confucianism admires. "Su Liu Yi Zhenzhen has words, he arrived in Dali very early to seek refuge in Jiang Wanli. At first, he also disagreed with Jiang Wanli's "book burning and pit Confucianism" in Dali. But the harsh reality is there, and it is very rare to be indoctrinated voluntarily. This kind of thing usually means that someone is going to lose power, lose their land, lose their wealth, lose their nation and culture!

"In the past, the Zhou Dynasty made the princes guard the Quartet, and there were many places of Rongyi. If it weren't for the change of customs and beautification, how would the Quartet Rongyi become the people of China? Su Liuyi looked at Wen Tianxiang and seemed to be smiling, "Wenshan, don't you think that the king of Rongyi and the people of Rongyi will happily let the Chinese princes of the Zhou Dynasty educate, right?" Is there such a thing in your "Wenshan Manji"? ”

"This ......"

Su Liuyi sneered: "Brother Wenshan, when I Su Liuyi was in Lin'an in the past, I would not have thought that 'changing customs and beautifying education' would be like this." But when I arrived in Dali, I realized that people's own customs are hundreds of thousands of years, why should they use the Central Plains Han style when they have a good life? They worship Buddha in Dali Miaoxiang country, and every household knows the etiquette, where can we use it to educate? It is the book of Confucius and Mencius, and they also have it. We, the people of the Central Plains, led our troops over, how can we gain a foothold if we don't take their land? How can you feed and clothe without taking their goods? The princes who were sealed thousands of miles by Zhou Tianzi in the past are probably the same as us, right? ”

"But this man's heart ......"

Su Liuyi smiled disdainfully, stood up and walked to the bookshelf, took out a copy of "Wenshan Manji" and threw it in front of Wen Tianxiang. Wen Tianxiang looked down and saw that this was a bound version of the first three volumes of "Wenshan Manji", a thick tome, and the cover was very rough, so he knew that it was pirated at a glance. With Su Liuyi's financial resources, he did not want to buy pirated books, most of them were banned by the Song Dynasty, but most of them were the same as the Ming Dynasty, only genuine editions were banned.

"Brother Wenshan, didn't you write in your own book how Tyrant Ming won people's hearts in Mingzhou?" Su Liuyi pointed to the pirated book and asked loudly, "First bombardment, then use hot air balloons to deceive, then spread the Heavenly Taoism, and finally use the plague." It can be said that everything is done, do you think the hearts of the people of this new continent can be captured by the Ming Dynasty? ”

"This ......," Wen Tianxiang was speechless. It's hard to say about the whole New World, but in the area around the west coast of Zhongmingzhou and Beimingzhou, everyone believes in the way of heaven. It is nonsense to say that Chen Dexing has no hearts there, but it is even more nonsense to say that Chen Dexing has done some kind of benevolent government there.

There seems to be no necessary connection between this person's heart and benevolence!

"The barbarians of Mingzhou have never been civilized, and there is no writing, and the religion they believe in is indeed evil, and they like human sacrifice......"

It is true that the natives of Mingzhou are relatively backward and do not have a high culture, and the Maya are slightly better, with very strange mathematics and hieroglyphs. However, only a handful of priests had mastered Mayan mathematics and writing, and they were nearly wiped out during the last smallpox plague. Moreover, Wen Tianxiang also looted a large number of Mayan books (the total number of Mayan books is very small) and brought them back to the Ming Dynasty, perhaps the Mayan script will soon be extinct.

Su Liu Yi clapped his hands and said, "Isn't this it!" There is no writing, no history, and even the gods are not effective, which is easy to educate. Now the Great Song Dynasty is doing this in Dali and Bagan, first destroying its writing, destroying its gods, and destroying its history, and then moving customs, beautifying and educating, it is a great good! ”

Is this the great good?

"It's a great good!" Su Liuyi saw Wen Tianxiang's face full of suspicion, so he nodded and told Wen Tianxiang the truth he had wholesaled from Jiang Wanli. "Because we destroy people's writing and history, and then use our own writing and history to educate, decades later, maybe some people will remember Bagan and Dali, hundreds of years later, who will remember that their ancestors are Bagan and Dali? The only one they agree with is the Great Song Dynasty! Just like the current Han people in the Central Plains, who will remember the dog Rong and Dongyi? ”

Seeing Wen Tianxiang stunned, Su Liuyi knew that the other party had already recognized his reasoning. Actually, this is also true! Chen Dexing is at least not wrong in saying that the Western Zhou Dynasty admired by Confucianism was actually very fierce, and the things of the country of the dead and the exterminating of the human race were not less, and they were done thoroughly. It directly exterminated the history and culture of other people, and eliminated the possibility of revival from the root. What Huaxia inherited in later generations was the Western Zhou Daotong, and if he didn't speak for King Wen and King Wu, would he still have to overturn the case for Yin Shang Rongyi?

Wen Tianxiang seemed to have been persuaded by Su Liuyi, so he just shook his head slightly and said: "It's just such a method, sooner or later, the people of Bagan will rebel, right?" In fact, the people of Mingzhou Mexika were ready to rebel for a time, but there was a great plague, and eight or nine out of ten people died, which allowed the Ming Dynasty's Zhongmingzhou Governor's Mansion to escape a catastrophe......"

Su Liuyi shook his head with a smile, "We don't have to kill so much, the Bagan Burmese people have been injured in the first battle of Jida before, and we have destroyed a lot when we came in." The Dai people and the Mon people were bullied when they were in the Bagan Kingdom, and now they are being won over by us, and they will not follow the Burmese to make trouble. Now is actually the time when the Burmese are at their weakest! Jiang Pingzhang is now striking while the iron is hot, and he is going to completely educate Bagan. (To be continued......)