Chapter 177: Simplified Chinese Characters

This time, more than a dozen people from the Western Regions who followed Timur to the grassland were willing to stay and join the Hualie tribe. Anyway, they are also wandering poor men and live the same everywhere. Since they have food and drink in the Hualie tribe, if they have military achievements, they can be promoted. If they marry a woman on the grassland, of course they will not be left behind.

Among the remaining guards of various tribes, most of them were willing to continue to serve the caravans of Hualie's army and continue to take over the work of caravans in the future. In this way, as long as the caravan transports salt a few times, they can select reliable guards from them and hire them for a long time, so as to reduce the task of the cavalry of the tribe, or increase the amount of green salt transported to the grassland, transport a large amount of green salt to the grassland, alleviate the crisis of salt shortage, and make the Hualie's army continue to become the richest tribe.

The recruitment mission of Pake Pao was also to absorb fresh power for Hualie's tribe. Luo Dacheng specifically instructed him to recruit more homeless people who have no foundation. When he came to the grassland, if he saw the happy life of Hualie's tribe eating meat every day, he would be reluctant to leave and stay on the grassland.

In addition, establishing a new intelligence network in Xingzhou is also a major task for Paike. In particular, we should pay attention to several key figures, and we should be under the surveillance of the Hualie Ministry’s intelligence network as much as possible. Once there is any movement, we should send the information back to Luo Dacheng as soon as possible.

Regarding the Uighur princess who left alone, Luo Dacheng ordered Pa Kepa to establish an intelligence network in the Western Regions, he must inquire more whether there was a sudden rise in the Uighur rebel army and attacking Li Yuanhao. To find out the whereabouts of the Uighur princess, he was afraid that it would fall on these rebels.

During business activities, in order to prevent the treacherous Han people from being deceived by the treacherous Han people, Luo Dacheng sent a tentman to follow him. The tentman was naturally also a Han Chinese. He turned out to be familiar with these things and would definitely help him a lot.

After sending this caravan to the start, Luo Dacheng missed Brother Su's caravan again. They endured their great expectations and had never come back now. I don't know how the things they told them to do in Song Realm, and whether the gunpowder craftsman they were looking for found it.

Timur and Shu Chitai, who were sent out to conquer various small tribes, quickly led their troops back and captured all the tribes. In the last war, most of the soldiers of the small tribes were killed and captured, without any resistance, and were easily defeated. The tribe was captured. People were panicked and worried that they would become slaves and be beaten and scolded and enslaved by their masters.

Luo Dacheng did not demote them all to slaves for the rebellious tribes, although this was a convention on the grassland.

The surrendered soldiers who came from small tribes and surrendered to the Hualie tribe in advance can now be regarded as ordinary tribes. Their relatives are naturally ordinary tribes. They were dispersed and distributed to various thousand households and received rewards to grazing and live a life of cattle and sheep.

Although the prisoners who are now locked up in prison were unwilling to surrender to the Hualie tribe, they now see that their relatives have been arrested. They can't imagine that they can only surrender and are considered ordinary tribes. They were invaded to the rule of each thousand households, but they received much less rewards and could only barely maintain food and clothing.

Their only hope is to get more spoils in future battles, and be rewarded and promoted for their military achievements, so that their relatives can live a good life.

As for those prisoners who resolutely resisted the attack of Hua Lie tribe and their relatives, they were immediately demoted to slaves and assigned to meritorious soldiers. After death in the battle, there were no adult men in the family and could not be soldiered to the army. They were also ordered to choose to marry the bachelors or meritorious soldiers in the clan and form a new family to join the military system, otherwise only the whole family would be slaves.

Although he has no good impression of slavery, it is a law on the grassland. Every herder treats it as a matter of natural deception, and Luo Dacheng has no intention of fighting with the power of habit. Capturing slaves and seizing property is the internal driving force for the heroic soldiers on the grassland to dominate the world. If they forcibly deprive them of this desire, they are afraid that the combat effectiveness of the heroic soldiers on the grassland will be reduced, which is not conducive to the plan to sweep the world.

After conquering the small tribes that had conspired with Wuba to attack the Hualie tribe, the strength of the Hualie tribe has expanded to the huge grassland area of ​​Xizhubu, with their grasslands and camps everywhere. They inform each other every day and rely on the intelligence networks spread all over the grassland to ensure the safety of the entire tribe.

The small tribes living in this area were frightened by the strength of the Hualie tribe and had to come and surrender, or work hard to make friends, so as not to be attacked by the Hualie tribe.

After several small tribes who could not eat, could only hunt, dig grass roots, and catch field mice, gritted their teeth and surrendered to Shun, Luo Dacheng's subordinates began to connect, and together with the chiefs of various tribes, he tweeted Luo Dacheng as a Khan, and ruled the large area of ​​Xizhubu with justification.

Luo Daxian was unwilling to call him Khan in advance, but after Xie Xiaowan's persuasion, he remembered that calling him Khan might improve his reputation and would be more conducive to recruiting herders from various grassland tribes to surrender, so he agreed and handed over all the matters to the ministry. When all the preparations were done, the ceremony of calling him Khan was held.

Speaking of Xie Xiaowan, he has now become a big helper for Luo Dacheng. In addition to being able to occasionally analyze the situation for Luo Dacheng, he organized maids who recognize words every day, summoned a large number of women to teach them to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and promoted the literacy movement vigorously.

Among the women of the Hualie tribe, literacy competitions were also held with the support of Luo Dacheng. Competitions were held every few days, and some winners were selected from among those with excellent Chinese and Chinese characters, and cows and sheep were given. It was stipulated that these winners could not participate in the competition within five competitions, so as to ensure that more women had the opportunity to receive the rewarded cows and sheep.

Under such circumstances, the poor women's enthusiasm for learning has been unprecedentedly high. In addition to grazing and taking care of housework every day, they gather together to learn Chinese characters that are difficult to recognize. At night, it is even more time for them to gather together to learn Chinese.

In fact, those Chinese characters are also hard to recognize for Luo Dacheng. After watching several night school sessions, Xie Xiaowan was summoned to his account room.

He was summoned late at night. Although Xie Xiaowan did not dare to disobey, she stood in the tent and looked at Luo Dacheng's thoughtful back under the candlelight. The girl's heart was pounding, thinking that the wife was unwell after she became pregnant and the leader could not bear the loneliness, so she summoned herself to serve her.

Although he had already secretly promised him in his heart, the sudden change still made the Jiangnan girl panic. She stood behind Luo Dacheng, her delicate body trembled slightly, and she didn't know what to do.

Luo Dacheng stood in front of the candle and pondered for a long time, and ordered: "Xiao Xie, go and get paper and pen, I want to write!"

Xie Xiaowan's delicate body shook slightly, and she agreed in panic. She went out to get paper, ink, pen and ink, but her heart was still up and down. She didn't know what Luo Dacheng was thinking.

Since she entered the Hualie tribe, she has never seen Luo Dacheng write. She usually thinks he is illiterate. Now she is suddenly summoned to write in the middle of the night, but what is the purpose?

Although she was confused, she still stood by the table, grinding ink for him softly, looking forward to seeing the words he wrote.

The candlelight swayed, and under the red candle, the beauty of Jiangnan was like jade, gently lowering her head, and the shy beauty of polishing ink for herself was like a beautiful picture scroll, which made Luo Dacheng slightly stunned and an inexplicable feeling arose in his heart.

Thinking of what Di Liniang once said, Luo Dacheng couldn't help but feel a little rippling in his heart. Looking at her soft and shy appearance, he suddenly thought in his heart: "If she was left to bed tonight, she wouldn't refuse, right?"

When he saw his eyes, Xie Xiaowan couldn't help but look red and was ashamed. Her body seemed to be numb and difficult to move. After a long time, she lowered her head and said softly: "Chief, the ink has been ground."

Luo Dacheng came back to his senses, took his eyes off the girl's slim body, reached out and picked up the brush, and wrote a few Chinese characters on the white paper on the desktop.

When he lifted the pen, his movements were awkward and his strokes were skewed. Obviously, he rarely wrote. However, the words he wrote on the paper surprised Xie Xiaowan. He raised his hand to cover the cherry mouth and almost exclaimed.

What he wrote was obviously Chinese characters, but it was different from the Chinese characters that Xie Xiaowan used to write before. It often lacked a few strokes, which simplified a lot, making Xie Xiaowan unable to recognize them clearly.

Luo Dacheng wrote silently, writing out all the simplified words he thought of. Due to his aspiration, he also wrote many ancient and Tang poems he had recited before, and wrote them in a slewy way, filling several large pieces of paper. Since he came to this era, he has never written so many words.

He took the paper in his hand to Xie Xiaowan, and Luo Dacheng ordered: "Take these characters to read them well. In the future, Chinese characters will be based on these characters. You should not teach traditional Chinese characters different from this!"

Xie Xiaowan took the paper and said a moment of daze. With her unsightly skill in the past, she naturally remembered these ancient and Tang poems. Compared with the poems in her memory, she naturally knew which original Chinese character corresponds to these strange Chinese characters.

Although these Chinese characters look weird, they are much simpler than the original Chinese characters. If they are promoted, not to mention that foreigners are prone to Chinese characters, even among the Han people who do not recognize characters, many people will learn to recognize characters more easily. The effect is so great that they dare not resemble them now.
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