Chapter IX: Educating the Barbarians
Seeing that Huang Daozhou had received the imperial edict and still kneeled down and was still motionless, Zhu Cijing couldn't help but smiled sly at him, then walked back slowly, sat down, pretended to be serious and said, "Huang Aiqing, get up."
When Huang Daozhou heard his tone, he thought that the emperor was about to showdown. He looked like he was ready to die heroically at any time and stood up slowly.
Zhu Cijing saw him holding back his smile and pretended to be serious and asked, "Huang Aiqing, do you know the imperial examination?"
Huang Daozhou fainted after hearing this, why did he get into the imperial examination again? He was a Jinshi in the first grade. How could he not know about the imperial examination? He could only express helplessness to the emperor's nonsense behavior. The emperor had to reply when he asked questions. He had to reply stubbornly: "If you go back to the emperor, you will know a little about the imperial examination ministers."
Zhu Cijing didn't care whether he was modest or not, and then asked, "If you were asked to organize and prepare for an imperial examination, would you do it?"
Yes, the further he went, he had to say perfunctorily: "If you go back to the emperor, I can barely do it."
Zhu Cijiong changed his subject and asked, "Then do you know North Korea?"
Well, it was all taken thousands of miles away. Huang Daozhou was helpless and replied mechanically: "I know a little bit."
Zhu Cijiong continued to ask: "If you were asked to organize an imperial examination in North Korea, would you do it?"
Huang Daozhou just wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this. He smiled bitterly and said, "Please forgive me for not being able to do this."
Zhu Cijing asked seriously: "Why can't it be done?"
Is this still necessary to ask! Huang Daozhou replied helplessly: "North Korea is no longer a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. I am afraid that they will not listen to me at all."
Zhu Cijing stared at him and said slowly: "What if I sent 200,000 troops to accompany you?"
Huang Daozhou felt something was wrong. He thought about it and replied carefully: "That should be barely possible."
Zhu Cijiu suddenly stood up and said angrily: "I am very dissatisfied with the current North Korea. The fence-bearing and the wind blows both sides. Even if they pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, they just want the Ming Dynasty to protect him when necessary. They themselves do not regard themselves as subjects of the Ming Dynasty. What is the difference between this and the barbarians in the foreign world? So I want you to educate them well and let them understand what their duty is to be a subject."
Huang Daozhou was stunned when he heard this. The emperor was not talking nonsense with him at all, but he really wanted him to educate the barbarians!
Zhu Cijing did not care about him for the time being, but turned to Cao Huachun and said, "I drafted an order to order the Duke of Zhenguo Sun Chengzong of the Liaodong Army to guard the Guanning Jin line, and the Dingliao Army stayed at the Liaohai line in Tieling. The Guanning Army and the Dongjiang Army immediately went to Dingliao Right Guard to gather and form the army to attack the court. Cao Wenzhao was the head commander and Mao Wenlong was the deputy commander. When the Ming Dynasty's missionary mission arrived, he would lead his troops to the North Korea to assist the missionary missionary mission to promote education, but if there were any resistance, he would be killed."
After Cao Huachun finished writing, Zhu Cijiu checked it and felt that there was no problem. Then he turned to Huang Daozhou and said, "Huang Aiqing, I sent a first-class legion and a second-class legion to accompany you into the North Korea. Do you have confidence in educating the barbarians of North Korea?"
Huang Daozhou only felt a surge of blood rising, and subconsciously replied: "Yes."
Zhu Cijiong nodded and said to Cao Huachun again: "Print an order again."
Cao Huachun quickly took out another blank imperial edict and held the pen to wait.
Zhu Cijiu took a breath and said majesticly: "The Emperor Chengyun of Heaven issued an edict saying that all vassal states in the Ming Dynasty should learn the learning of sages. From now on, those who do not learn the scholars of sages will not inherit the position of vassal kings, and those who do not have the imperial examinations will not be allowed to serve as vassal officials. Impress this."
Upon hearing this, Huang Daozhou couldn't help but kneel on the ground and said excitedly: "The emperor is wise, long live my emperor."
Zhu Cijing picked up the written imperial edict and handed it to Huang Daozhou, and then solemnly said: "The important task of educating the barbarians is to you. North Korea is only the first one. From now on, Annan, Sulu, Siam, even Japan, Tatars, Wats, etc. are the same as this. All of them must learn the learning of sages."
Huang Daozhou excitedly took over the imperial edict and said in a trembling voice: "I will do my best to educate the barbarians and spread the learning of sages all over the world."
Zhu Ci-kyung nodded and raised his hand and said, "Yeah, get up, go and tell the King of Korea that I will give them a year, and a year later, I will hold an Enko in the whole of North Korea. All officials who fail to take the exam will be dismissed. The time for the imperial examination will be determined according to the Ming Dynasty. In addition, he will send the prince to the capital. I will arrange for someone to teach him well, and the Enko will be sent back after the end."
Upon hearing this, Huang Daozhou quickly got up from the ground. It was a force of the army and a proton. It seemed that North Korea would not be able to surrender. The first education was successful in his sight. He was so excited that he didn't know what to say, but he just kept praising: "The Emperor is wise."
Zhu Cijing waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, there is still something to do. If you have nothing to do, go back and prepare quickly. I will draw up a list of missionary missions and missions. I will approve it for you. As long as the missionary missions are grouped together, you can take them out."
Huang Daozhou was about to leave, but suddenly remembered that it was not right. He was here to dissuade the emperor from promoting Western learning. He didn't say anything at this moment. How could he just leave like this!
He hesitated for a while, and finally hesitated to express the purpose of his visit: "Your Majesty, this, this, promoting Western learning is a disgrace to the sages, and making it even more ridiculous for the children who study Western learning to be officials. I ask the emperor to take it back."
Zhu Cijing saw this guy's hesitation and knew that this guy had been a little shaken. He explained calmly: "How can promoting Western learning be humiliating the sages? Isn't it to promote Western learning to enrich the country and strengthen the army? With a strong army, the four barbarians can surrender. Isn't it more conducive to spreading the sages? Also, the students who have learned Western learning are at most ninth-rank sesame officials, which is also to enrich the country and strengthen the army. Why is it ridiculous? Don't listen to those people with ulterior motives to provoke. They don't want the Ming Dynasty to be powerful and obey the world, and their hearts are punished!"
Huang Daozhou has focused on spreading the learning of sages all over the world. From this perspective, promoting Western learning is really conducive to spreading the learning of sages. Before he knew it, his position had begun to change, and it was a bit unclear whether he should oppose the promotion of Western learning.
He was persuaded to leave by Zhu Cijiu in a daze. He did not wake up slowly until he walked out of the Forbidden City. He touched the two volumes of imperial edicts he was carrying, and his position finally changed completely. No matter what Western learning or not, it is the right thing to quickly spread the learning of sages.
His position has changed, but there are still many old stubborn people who are stubborn. Just now, he just walked out of the Zuoyemen Gate and rushed forward, asking in a lingering manner: "How is it, what, what, what the emperor said, has it taken back to life?"
If it were the case, he would have to complain passionately, but now, no matter how he listened, he felt that these people had ulterior motives. He said a little impatiently: "What's the matter? The emperor asked me to educate the barbarians and spread the learning of sages. If you have nothing to do, go back to your respective yamen to write a memorial and go with me. I'm still busy, so I won't be with you."
After saying that, he bowed, walked around the crowd, and left, leaving only a bunch of old stubborn people standing there in amazement. The leading figures left for no reason, and in the end the group of people naturally scattered.
Huang Daozhou was really busy. He was busy inviting famous scholars who were well-educated. Most of these people were more interested in learning than being an official, so few of them were in important positions and were naturally more interested in promoting the learning of sages. Isn’t the ultimate goal of learning to promote the learning of sages and keeping famous in history? So Huang Daozhou quickly organized a huge missionary mission.
Zhu Cijing was not idle either. He took advantage of the past few days to print dozens of boxes of the Four Books and Five Classics so that he could use them as a textbook for him.
Huang Daozhou led a group of scholars who had learned a lot and set off with several carts of Four Books and Five Classics. In order to let them experience the benefits of Western learning, Zhu Cijing specially arranged for them to take the train to Dongdaying, and then asked the Beiyang Navy to gather all the warships to send them to Dingliao's Right Guard to meet with Cao Wenzhao and Mao Wenlong. Huang Daozhou was also shocked by the power of the Ming Dynasty. From then on, he became a firm supporter of Western learning. There is a saying, "The combination of Chinese and Western is the most important." Joke, joke, continue to the topic.
In fact, the Li North Korea was quite respectful to the Ming Dynasty, but the forest was big and all kinds of birds came out. Some people agreed with the issue of returning to the Ming Dynasty and naturally some opposed it. The two sides had no results, and the Ming Dynasty was brought over and over.
The so-called scholars used to mislead the country and used it to be the most appropriate for the Ming Dynasty, but now it is the most appropriate for the North Korean king. At this time, Li Jue, the king of North Korea, was very regretful.
Even if the 200,000 Ming army did not have new muskets and artillery to deal with a small North Korea, it would not take much trouble. Now with new muskets and artillery, it is naturally invincible. In less than half a month, it attacked the city of King Jing of Korea. Li Yu, the king of Lingyang, had to send the princess, princes and ministers' wives to Jianghua Island for refuge. He led all civil and military officials to retreat to Nanhan Mountain City to wait for the arrival of various royal soldiers. At the same time, he sent envoys to the Ming army camp to negotiate, delaying time.
This little trick is simply not worth a joke in the eyes of Cao Wenzhao and Mao Wenlong. The reinforcements from all walks of life were beaten to the point of being beaten by them. Mao Wenlong also ran to Jianghua Island with a familiarity and captured the princess of Korea, prince and other royal families in one fell swoop.
He persuaded Li Jue to surrender several times but failed. Cao Wenzhao was also rough and directly set up two hundred howitzers and banged fiercely on the city wall. Seeing that something was wrong with the big deal, Li Jue had to surrender out of the city.
Now it was the turn of missionary to make Huang Daozhou appear. He took out the imperial edict and shouted: "The imperial edict has arrived, and the emperor Li Yu of Lingyang will receive the imperial edict."
When Li Yu, the king of Lingyang, heard this, he lay down on the ground with a bang. Other Korean officials had to lie down. Huang Daozhou recited aloud: "The emperor's decree in the heavenly dynasty, saying that all vassal states in the Ming Dynasty should learn the learning of sages. From now on, those who do not learn the scholars of sages will not inherit the position of vassal kings. Those who have no fame and fame in the imperial examinations will not be allowed to serve as vassal officials. Impress this."
At this time, Li Jue, the Lord of Lingyang, was so scared that he lay there and shivered all over. Among the ministers, the one who was not afraid of death began to curse. Cao Wenzhao thought of their loyalty and courage, gave them a pleasure, and dragged them all out and chopped them down!
After cutting more than ten, the North Korean civil and military ministers finally became honest. If they were not convinced, they would die. In the end, Li Yu, the king of Lingyang, had to surrender and hand over the crown prince Li Qi to study in the capital of Daming. At the same time, all ministers were ordered to study the Four Books and Five Classics with the missionary mission.
It is said that some of the Korean officials know Chinese and Confucianism, but most people don’t understand it very much. It is impossible to get all the scholars or above in one year. Huang Daozhou is also cruel and directly sent an army to inform the entire country of Korea that anyone who understands Chinese can come to Wangjing to study, and anyone who passes the exam can be awarded an official position!
Chapter completed!