Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1089 The lukewarm swallowing water of educating barbarians

The sun of the new day finally broke free from the seal of the incomparably evil bed, and rose into the sky listlessly. What it wants to do today is the same as what it did millions of years ago, but in this land, there are some strange things. Too much the same thing.

  The green brick floor outside the thatched hut and the seats inside the thatched hut need to be cleaned and wiped every day, and these tasks are naturally done by these school children who come to study.

There are no assignments, no rotations, all are voluntary, if you want to come, you can do these preparations earlier, and if you don’t want to, don’t force them, because these things, in the eyes of most people, are not a burden, but a kind of glory.

  On the left side of the hut, a schoolboy is holding a broom while cleaning the little dust on the green bricks, while muttering with a sad face:

   "One, two, three, four, five..."

  Every time he took a step and swiped the broom to sweep the slate, the schoolboy muttered and quickly counted from one to ten.

  As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese nation had already developed a complete set of mathematics system, but compared with Confucian classics, it was naturally weaker, but generally there were some, and almost all of them were available.

Numbers from one to ten can be said to be the basis of natural mathematics. The three numbers, one, two, three, have basically remained unchanged from Shang to Han, and four and five, some people will write them as four or five strokes just like one, two, and three. Later, it slowly evolved into four and five.

  Six, Eight, and Nine haven't changed much, they're just gradually re-simplified. Six and Eight have been perfected in the Han Dynasty, and there is no big difference from later generations.

   During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Qi was written almost like ten, with the same length horizontally and vertically. In the Qin Dynasty, Qi gradually became shorter vertically and longer horizontally. The current Han Dynasty also inherited the writing method of the Qin Dynasty, but the vertical gradually tilted, and then formed an oblique vertical folding pen. In order to distinguish it from ten and prevent confusion, sometimes even "桼" is used as "seven" under the guise of "seven", but it has not been fully replaced, and often it is just mixed.

  Ten originally had only one vertical line, but later added a horizontal line. The biggest difference from seven is that the vertical line is long and the horizontal line is short.

   "Seven, eight...nine, nine, nine..."

  The boy got stuck, and the broom in his hand stopped involuntarily.

For the people of later generations, perhaps this kind of math carry has become an instinct, and most of the time they can get the answer directly without even thinking about it, but for these schoolchildren with zero foundation in the Han Dynasty, the math carry It becomes a huge threshold.

   "Nine, nine..."

   After chanting for a long time, but still unable to continue, until the other schoolchild next to him couldn't listen anymore, he reminded him to say ten, and then the schoolchild was able to continue counting smoothly.

  The one who has been stuck counting to nine is actually the child of the nobles of the Southern Huns, but the one who reminds me of ten is indeed a Han child. The two children didn't think that there was any difference between Hu and Han in each other's identities, they were just people studying in the same school.

In the minds of children, the boundary between Hu people and Han people may not be as clear as the boundary between good people and bad people. In addition, parents who come to the school, whether they are Hu people or Han people, may have different thoughts. The same, just study hard and make progress every day.

Even outside the village, among the fathers of these schoolchildren, these Hu and Han people who could not go together at all, because of such an opportunity for their children to learn, they could not help but become neighbors, and invisibly, the growth of their children It became a way for parents to compare each other and prove how powerful their bloodline is.

  This kind of situation is not just in one village. After enlightenment, similar situations have appeared in many villages. And these Huren children who grew up in a Sinicized environment will become a pure Huren in the future?

  ………………

   A few days later.

  In the Pingyang Government Hall, Fei Qian was reviewing the briefings gathered during this period.

  Perhaps it was because the Southern Huns and Qiang people had recognized the Han culture, so during this stage of promotion, the Hu people did not show any rebellious attitude, on the contrary, they seemed to be quite cooperative.

   "Your Majesty, why do you educate more children..." Xun Chen, as the organizer of the deployment of education officials, said while looking at these briefings.

   Feiqian smiled and said: "Children are easy to teach, adults are hard to tame..."

  This is actually a truth that has been tested by countless people in later generations.

In addition to the fact that a child is a blank sheet of paper, what has been learned and what is written on it will affect the child for a long time, there is another reason, that is, maybe as a parent, I don’t like learning, but When I meet my own children studying, they are extremely supportive, and I am afraid they will do it even if they sell everything.

  In addition to the so-called knowledge changing destiny, there are more helplessness in life.

After all, adults have to assume more social responsibilities and be responsible for more social labor, and these labors often take up a lot of time and consume a lot of energy. Under such circumstances, it is necessary for an adult to work It is undoubtedly a matter of extremely testing everyone's perseverance and endurance to be able to continue learning all the time.

  The reason for this is that the parents are struggling to survive and create more opportunities for their children to study.

  The same is true in the Han Dynasty.

  Although these Hu people have different living habits from the Han people, they treat their own children with the same family affection. Therefore, it is obviously the most ideal to use children as the first stone to pry the Hu people into Sinicization.

   Similarly, the most important point is concealment.

Although some Hu people think that it is awkward to wear Han clothes and abide by Han etiquette, these are just the feelings in the hearts of those Hu people who are adults. For the children of Hu people, it is more like a brand new game. In my heart, there is absolutely no emotional rejection like adults, so it is easier to accept and form a habit.

  The sinicization of the Hu people did not happen overnight, but this subtle influence is the most deadly. In areas that have been colonized for a long time in later generations, even after returning to the original country, there will still be people who will jump out and express all kinds of thunderous remarks...

   If it is fast, one generation, if it is slow, two or three generations, it is enough to change the habits of a nation. It's like someone said that China's change from vertical text to horizontal text is the origin of the essence of the bar. From the habit of nodding to the habit of shaking the head, I don't know whether it is a progress of the times or a regression of the times?

   However, judging from the first batch of feedback now, the effect seems to be pretty good.

Xun Chen tilted his head slightly, as if pondering over the unfinished meaning of Fei Qian's simple words, and immediately nodded to express his agreement. He did not continue to delve into this issue, but continued to approve the words on the table Come.

   Not long after, Xun Chen suddenly chuckled, then raised the bamboo slips in his hand, and said: "Your Majesty, someone said that since Hu people can get the opportunity to learn and enlighten, Han people should do the same..."

After hearing this, Fei Qian raised his eyebrows, put down the writing in his hand, and said, "Who is it?" Fei Qian had expected that such a feedback might appear after he began to educate the barbarians, but he didn't expect it to come soon. So fast.

"...Wang Ling and Wang Yanyun, currently working as a teacher in Yinshan Jiazi No. After Wang Situ..."

  It’s also interesting to say that this Wang Ling came. As a member of Wang Yun’s clan, he didn’t like fame very much, but liked to bury his head in the scriptures, so no one noticed him all the time. Unexpectedly, Wang Ling was interested in Fei Qian's proposal to recruit and educate Hu people this time. Otherwise, according to the reputation of the Taiyuan Wang family, it would be no problem at all to be an official of an ordinary county.

   "Oh?" Fei Qian nodded, then pondered for a while, and said, "This, I won't reply for now, let's put it aside for a while..."

  Although Fei Qian had a plan early on, he still couldn't be too eager for this period.

   Boiling frogs in warm water is the best.

  Science has proved that when the temperature of the water rises so small that it is not easy to detect, let alone frogs, even humans may not be able to escape the danger before reaching the critical temperature.

  In the gentry family of the Han Dynasty, Fei Qian didn’t want to raise the water temperature very high at once, and even sometimes, Fei Qian wanted to act like he was not leading the family, but as if he was being pushed away by the gentry...

  Of course, the power is provided by the aristocratic family, and the direction must be decided by Fei Qian.

   Therefore, this matter needs to be put aside and fermented before we talk about it.

  Xun Chen nodded in response, then glanced at Fei Qian thoughtfully, and then silently put Wang Ling's suggestion aside...

"By the way..." Fei Qian suddenly raised his head and said, "...someone invites the Xiongnu Shanyu Fuluo, I heard that he went to Zhenlin during this period, right...Since someone objected to this matter, a certain here Under such great pressure, why should this Yu Fuluo express himself..."

   "..." Xun Chen's eyes widened, he was taken aback for a moment, and immediately nodded in response.

  ………………

   "...General Zhengxi did this, isn't it a little bit too much... Hu people, just teach a little etiquette, just know how to deal with it, why should you be so serious..."

"...Who says it's not? What is there to teach this barbarian? It doesn't smell like a fishy smell after teaching. You can smell it even a mile or two away! Tell me, such a barbarian is a Teaching, what good can you teach? With that kind of skill, why not teach more of your own Han people..."

  "...I heard that someone gave advice to General Zhengxi, saying that we should pay more attention to the Han people and not favor the Hu people so much... But there is no more... Now I don't know if General Zhengxi didn't see it, or..."

   I don’t know when it started, but the education of Hu people and Han people has become a new topic that people in Pingyang City are eager to talk about.

From the very beginning, many people were skeptical about the indoctrination of the Hu people, and now they complain about the unequal treatment between the Hu people and the Han people. Many people unknowingly stared at it, and the robber Han people also want to enjoy this equality, or even better. When I was being treated, I forgot a very important thing.

   Originally there was nothing...

  Knowledge was originally kept secret.

Although Confucius set a precedent for teaching, and because of this incident, many Confucian scholars in later generations have made a great achievement, but in the Han Dynasty, a lot of knowledge was preserved in the hands of noble families from the pre-Qin period, and passed on from generation to generation. Come down and become the foundation for them to settle down.

  The protection of knowledge in the current Han Dynasty cannot actually be said to be the fault of the aristocratic and noble families. After all, this knowledge began in the Zhou Dynasty. It was accumulated by the ancient nobles and scholar-bureaucrats little by little, and as the foundation of the entire family, they tried their best to pass it down. If it weren't for these aristocratic families, Huaxia might not be able to accumulate much civilization like the Hu people now.

  From this perspective, the contribution of the aristocratic family to the Chinese civilization is not insignificant.

However, with the passage of time, the increase in population and the expansion of the scope of human activities, the original model of the Zhou Dynasty could not keep up with the changes of the times. Therefore, during the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang pioneered the division of the country It became a county and county, forming a feudal system structure that has begun to take shape.

Although many ancient nobles at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty said that the prefecture and county system was unbearable, and then overthrew the Qin Dynasty, but what I didn’t expect was that Liu Bang, who was lazy or really thought that the prefecture and county system was good, actually continued to use it like this. until now. The system of prefectures and counties, after adding the control of the regional centralized government, obviously promoted the economy and development more effectively, so the Han Dynasty was able to last for three or four hundred years on the basis of the Qin Dynasty.

  But now, with the changes of the times, the increase of population, and the development of economy and trade, the aristocratic families and noble families who were once the leaders of the whole society are unknowingly hindering the progress of the whole society.

   One of the most important reasons is the popularization of knowledge.

If the society wants to develop, then there will be more relative division of labor and cooperation, and more people will be required to at least understand the relevant knowledge and skills, so the demand for the education system will be higher, but because of the relative barriers to knowledge of the noble families, ordinary Most people do not have access to some of the most basic knowledge.

  In addition, because it was proposed from the Confucian theory of the interaction between heaven and man in the Han Dynasty, although the imperial power was strengthened, it also led to further mystification of the emperor and widened the distance between ordinary people. In order to maintain such a sense of mystery and distance, later emperors even adopted various policies to fool the people, which further made it difficult for the people to acquire knowledge.

  Fortunately, it is only the Han Dynasty, and Confucianism has not yet developed to such a strong point. Regarding the school, even the behavior of opening a school house in the name of educating the barbarians like Fei Qian, I haven't realized how this will change the future...

  (end of this chapter)