Mystery Makes Me Strong

The three of them were silent.

This is indeed a difficult problem.

If they didn't have the ambition to become a god, these important ministers would never have any idea of ​​Dong Bai.

Firstly, be respectful to the other party, and secondly, it is better to do less than to do more.

Thirdly, wouldn’t it be better to use the money used by the imperial court to spend on war?

Soldiers are a major event for the country. Although their side effects are good, they can easily overturn.

Now, the three of them began to rack their brains to think of a solution.

for a long time.

The Minister of Industry was the first to say:

"If you want to prevent tens of millions of people from causing trouble, you must make them think that they are also people of the Ming Dynasty and people of the Ming Dynasty."

"In this case, we must first make the words the same, and then the pronunciation."

"It's easy to say that the writing is unified. They are called Xiaohua, and they originally used the Ming Dynasty writing." said the Minister of War.

"Actually, there is still a big problem right now, that is, it is difficult to promote our text."

"They always think it's too difficult for us to learn Chinese."

The Minister of Civil Affairs nodded and said: "Yes, especially those traditional characters."

"So our next step is to simplify the characters so that they can be easily learned."

"What he said is that we will start to simplify it. As for whether traditional Chinese characters are beautiful and simplified characters are not beautiful, it will break the inheritance, so don't worry about it." said the Minister of War.

That's right, in front of the gods, what kind of written inheritance is nothing to them?

These are all small things.

As long as it is conducive to their becoming gods, they are willing to do and learn anything.

No matter how hard it is, can it be more difficult than the imperial examination?

After ten years of squatting, we have to take it into consideration both on and off the field.

So many celebrities failed the imperial examination.

This thing depends not only on knowledge, but also on family background, reputation, luck, and health...

There is so much to see.

Just like Tang Bohu, he is obviously a great talent.

I happened to meet a loud-mouthed examiner who said that he would be the top pick right from the start.

The result was good, he was sued by the jealous person.

Not to mention Jinshi, even Jieyuan is gone, and everyone is in prison.

This is the difficulty of the imperial examination.

Fortunately, Tang Bohu was lucky, and there was a god above who mentioned something during the conversation.

Said he was wronged.

But there are losses as well as gains.

Because of this, Tang Bohu was able to become more successful in poetry, calligraphy and painting.

Let them see this through the spoken language.

So his fame was restored.

But Tang Bohu never entered the examination room again.

What a waste of a great talent.

Tang Bohu is really talented.

Someone has said that if Tang Bohu had not encountered any difficulties, he would have been a figure who could become a god.

As a result, it was wasted because of misfortune.

They certainly won't make the same mistake again.

So they are willing to do anything.

They are all willing to bow their heads and do it.

All in all, they were not afraid at all.

So they wanted to conquer Dongbai.

We decided to simplify Chinese characters first.

After all, conquest of land is not the goal, unification is the result.

Only then can one truly become a god.

Thousands of miles of land were seized, and then lost again within a few years.

That's useless.

The Minister of War asked again: "Is there anyone else in your bag?"

The Minister of Works said: "I have a few people here, some missionaries from the West."

"Those Western missionaries, they actually figured out a way to spell our Chinese characters with some romanized pronunciation."

"I looked at it and it is indeed helpful for children to learn Chinese characters."

“It used to take half a year to learn, but now you can learn a lot of words in just one month.”

"That's very good." The Minister of War said happily.

If it were in the past, they would definitely object.

Because they came from the imperial examination.

People are accustomed to closing the door after getting in the car.

Especially buses.

Everyone tends to monopolize knowledge and imperial examinations.

They certainly aren't happy about making Chinese character recognition easier.

Therefore, traditional Chinese characters have not been removed.

Although there are also simplified characters.

But they definitely feel that the harder the text, the better.

They are not willing to promote even a punctuation mark.

In the end, I just came up with a sentence to read.

And there has never been a modern punctuation mark.

In short, it’s because everyone doesn’t have the motivation.

But now it's different, now they have bigger goals.

If they could become gods, who would care about these little monopolies and little profits in the world.

Therefore, the Minister of Civil Affairs urged: "Tell me carefully, what did those missionaries do?"

At this time, the minister of the Ministry of Industry said: "Didn't we have the anti-cut method before?"

"Just use two words to cut a word, and use the initial consonant of the previous word and the final of the next word to spell out a word."

"Now they directly use the Roman alphabet to make up our initial consonants and final rhymes, and then spell the current text."

Subsequently, the three ministers began to study Roman writing.

This thing is much less difficult than the imperial examination.

In fact, early science and formal logic are not very difficult.

It is much easier than those eight-legged essays that are convoluted and uncertain.

Then they were all overjoyed.

Because this method can quickly promote text.

"Okay, the writing aspect is settled, we still need to find an excuse. After all, the name is justifiable and the mission is famous. Only the people of Dongbai and the ministers of the two classes can easily accept the merger of the two states." said the Minister of Civil Affairs.

"Isn't it hard to find an excuse? Aren't those Japanese pirates invading repeatedly?" the Minister of War said casually.

It seems that he has been paying attention to similar things for a long time.

"Just in time for the Japanese pirates to invade, we can first send people to provoke the Japanese pirates and lure them to invade Dongbai."

"When the time comes, we will send a large army to assist Dongbai, and then use a false plan to destroy Guo and directly annex Dongbai on the spot."

"Nominally it's for their own good, to prevent them from being tortured by Japanese pirates in the future. I believe the people at the bottom don't care. We just need to lower taxes to make them live a better life than before."

"Then the ministers of the Ministry of War will be blamed and their king will bear the blame. In this case, the people will forget them in less than twenty years." The Minister of War said proudly.

"High, really high."

"The Great Sima is the Great Sima. He really has the style of an ancient political strategist. He can destroy an entire country just by talking." The Minister of the Ministry of Industry admired him.

"Hahaha, it's really hard to say that."

"Of course it's difficult. If it wasn't difficult, it wouldn't be our turn to do it. Let's go and destroy that country. I believe we can succeed in becoming a god." The Minister of Civil Affairs encouraged.

"Well, for the great cause of becoming a god, naturally I won't be afraid of the difficulty involved."

"It is easy to destroy the country just by promoting our words, but it is not easy to win back the hearts of the people." The Minister of the Ministry of Industry added.

"Where do you start talking about this?"

“Because we don’t have enough food ourselves, and there are famines everywhere every year, we have to buy food from overseas to provide disaster relief.”

"If you want to conquer Dongbai, you have to stay there for a long time. If you stay there for a long time, you can't consume the other side's food. Otherwise, the other side's people will suffer and resist us."

At this time, the Minister of Civil Affairs suddenly said: "Regarding food, when I was young, I came into contact with a man of lofty ideals from the southern ocean."

“He brought something called sweet potatoes and potatoes to my family.”

"Those two things have been raised by my family for 20 years and have been found to be resistant to poverty. They can be grown in rotten land, sandy land, mountains, slopes and even roadside without choosing good land. The yield is also high, at least two times higher than that of wheat and rice. More than times."

"Even though it contains a lot of water, it's easy to burn your stomach and intestines when you eat it. It's not something middle-class people like to eat."

"You can plant anything in every corner, and you will reap a harvest."

"It's just easy to get sick, so you need to choose disease-free and healthy ones for planting."

20 years?

The two people understood immediately.

This high-yield food crop seems to be the big killer weapon prepared by the Minister of Civil Affairs for himself.

Of course, real food crop promotion is not that easy.

In the final analysis, the people are too poor.

Can't afford the risk.

Fortunately, sweet potatoes and potatoes only need rotten soil for experimentation.

If we use good land for experiments, most people will not be able to invest in this way.

Because if there is no harvest in a year, people will starve to death.

Most people are on the line of bankruptcy.

That’s why there were only ten families, but three families could not survive a hundred years later.

"That way, we can use the land to grow these crops, and then food won't be an issue."

…………

half year later.

Dongbai Land, got the news.

The news is that Japanese pirates are about to invade.

Suddenly, from top to bottom, from the king to the two ministers, as well as the people along the coast, there was a panic.

Some people thought this was just a rumor.

However, just ten days later, the Japanese pirates really invaded.

Groups of extremely ferocious Japanese pirate warriors, the leader of which took a knife, came to the shore to chop down the pirates.

Once again, they came to the show they loved to watch and bullied the Dongbai people.

If he can't defeat Daming, he will bully Dong Bai.

Of course, they were proud that for a period of time, they were rampant in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

A hundred or so men can fight thousands of miles away, frightening the guards so much that they dare not engage in battle.

But later, with the reorganization, their good days ended.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty opened the sea again for foreign trade, and there were fewer pirates.

And now, under the instigation of some people, they went to Dongbai Lai to grab things.

Dong Bai became even weaker.

Anyway, just ask for enlightenment in everything.

But this time, they never imagined that this would be their last request.

There is no need to ask anymore.

Dongbai still asked Ming Dynasty to send troops as usual.

Daming was very happy.

In one breath, 80,000 soldiers were sent out.

80,000 soldiers is already a lot.

Among them, there are 60,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry.

Then add 30,000 civilian husbands.

The total is 110,000.

It was said that 200,000 people entered the land of Dongbai in a mighty manner.

However, when they entered, they were not as busy suppressing bandits and killing Japanese pirates as before.

They even sent people to promote Chinese characters on the spot.

They even recruited a group of children and taught them Chinese characters and Chinese language.

What is this doing?

An envoy from Dongbai was puzzled and then stepped forward to ask.

As a result, the leading general said: "Only by making the children proficient in writing can we establish better communication. If you have something to do in the future, we can come over easily and quickly have a group of logistics personnel to help."

The messenger seemed to understand but not understand, and felt that it was somewhat useful, but also felt that it was of no use at all.

What do you expect a group of kids to do?

Then he couldn't understand it even more.

Because the leading general arranged for a group of civilian officials to start promoting new food crops in the garrison.

Take out a kind of sweet potato and tell them to plant it on the hillside, at home, behind the home, or even on the roadside...

Say this is a new food.

Don't pick the place.

And it tastes delicious.

These farmers then planted it experimentally.

After all, they were officers and soldiers and had to obey.

Those officers and soldiers were very good.

They also help them collect firewood and carry water every day.

For a group of soldiers from the feudal era to be able to do such a thing, one can only imagine how much thought their leader put into it.

Not to mention eating soldiers' flesh and drinking soldiers' blood, I must also add a lot of money and food to it.

Only those who have lost everything and rebelled can compare.

Those officers and soldiers, after working, told the people that they were also Ming people.

Our ancestors were originally a family.

It is said that they are the descendants of the Shang Dynasty.

He also said he was a descendant of the Three Kingdoms period.

After all, we are a family, so it is only right to help them with their work.

Don't worry.

Have ordinary people ever seen such a thing?

In fact, those soldiers who pass through the villages and do not destroy fertile fields, do not rob people and food, or even burn down the villages, are considered to be superior uniform troops, and that is their blessing.

But now these officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can actually do these things.

The public sentiment is naturally rising.

They can perform like this because their military pay is high enough.

A full 8 taels of silver per month.

Such a high income exceeds that of a seventh-grade county magistrate.

80,000 soldiers is 640,000 taels, but the cavalry is actually higher.

In fact, the monthly military salary alone is 1 million taels.

This year it is 12 million taels.

Of course, this is the military pay during the expedition.

Usually there are only 2 taels, one and a half.

This is normal money.

But if he can exert enough force, he is still very strong.

The Ming army is not satisfied with its pay, but it is invincible if it is fully paid.

The Guan Ning cavalry in the late period had sufficient military pay and were actually quite capable of fighting.

Able to fight against the Qing Dynasty's Central Guards.

It's just not enough in numbers, and there's no reason for confrontation.

Because their survival is not a problem.

But the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty fought for survival.

So the latter is more brave.

The former has become a warlord and wants to preserve its strength.

The latter has not yet become a warlord. They are all joined tribes and have shares.

The ministers in Dongbai realized that something was wrong, but they were helpless.

Because the other party is here to save themselves.

And those Japanese pirates are indeed invincible.

They also knew that Ming Dynasty seemed to be raising the bandits to respect themselves.

There is a feeling of being dragged on.

However, they did not believe how long the other party could last on the expedition.

It is true that with the current account deposit system, it will not last long.

Ten years of carelessness.

They could see it, but they couldn't stop it.

This is just like playing chess. You know that the opponent is going to do this, but you can't stop it because the opponent has blocked your lifeline.

Just like now, didn't Minister Dongbai think that Ming Dynasty wanted to annex them?

It must have come to mind.

But there was nothing they could do. After all, they could not defeat the Japanese pirates, let alone the people of the Ming Dynasty.

And not only that, there are also people within themselves who are also actively integrating into the Ming Dynasty.

They said: "We are originally in the same line as the Ming Dynasty. If we join the Ming Dynasty, we can also have the opportunity to go to heaven and become gods."

"Yes, we have the same roots and the same writing culture. This is natural." That's what some people think.

Therefore, under the cooperation of internal and external forces, the country of hundreds of thousands of miles east and west gradually fell into the pocket of Ming Dynasty.

The Japanese pirates only got some benefits from robbery.

It soon ran out.

Facts have proved that although the wealth obtained from robbery seems to be large, it is actually far less than that obtained from construction.

Moreover, the wealth gained from robbery cannot increase productivity.

If it is not used for expanded reproduction, but only for self-enjoyment consumption.

At this time, many people were unconvinced.

They all said:

"It has been hundreds of years since we established our country in the East, and we have been an independent country since the Sui Dynasty."

"It's nearly a thousand years now."

"What's the benefit of joining the Ming Dynasty? I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Even if the so-called god can really become a god?"

"That's right, even if you can become a god, you will only be able to succeed in the next few generations. It has nothing to do with us."

indeed so.

It is impossible for the previous generations who integrated into the Ming Dynasty to successfully become gods.

They are still outsiders.