Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 482 Sinicization begins with name change

The herdsman Tuomu Taji also entered Helin City with his wife and several horses, planning to register with Zhang Huangyan, the prefect of Helin, and get a certain quota of grassland, and exchange some horses for some lambs and horses from the government .

Tuomu Taji did not intend to exchange the few horses he raised for tea and other Central Plains items. He planned to use the horses for the lambs and youngsters to raise some of his own animals after allotment of the grassland.

Of course, the horses he raised were originally raised for the upper-class nobles of the Lindan Khan tribe, but now the main cavalry of the Lindan Khan tribe has been wiped out, and the Ming Dynasty ordered that all the animals raised by the herdsmen for their masters be rewarded It is privately owned and does not need to be handed over, so now the few horses raised by Tuomu Taji are his own.

Tuomu Taji, like many herdsmen, was not dissatisfied with Daming's complete occupation of Mobei Mongolia. On the contrary, compared with the current life of Monan Mongolian herdsmen, they had long hoped that Daming would go out as soon as possible to destroy the Lindan Khan tribe. , so that they can have their own grassland as soon as possible like the Mongolian herdsmen in Monan, and the cattle, sheep, horses and other animals they raise belong to themselves, and the imperial court has to pay their wages for expropriation, and even their own children can go to school.

Although Tuomu Taji is a Mongolian like other Mongolian herdsmen and cannot speak the language of the Han people, under the influence of the Central Plains culture for a long time, even ordinary herdsmen like them know that once a person masters writing, he has the key to change his destiny. Therefore, like the Han people in the pass, they also hope that their children can master characters. Of course, they don't care whether these characters are Chinese characters or Mongolian characters.

Tuomu Taji also has a son who has just turned seven years old, but due to the impact of the climate of the Little Glacier in recent years, the life of herdsmen in Mobei Mongolia is not as good as before, so his seven-year-old son Datuo'er has been malnourished since childhood , whose body is thin and weak, but he is very sensible. He has known filial piety since he was a child, and he often milks horse milk for his parents. This also makes Tuomu Taji still love his son for 10 minutes, and he dare not let him Putting on the horse-drawn bow too early, so as not to hurt his son.

But now the Helin Mansion wants to open a social school, and requires each child to register first before going to school, and then distribute it. Therefore, Tuomu Taji thought about going to the social school office to register his son's name when he registered his household registration. Check in.

Tuomu Taji even fantasized that his son would be as majestic and majestic as Mr. Zhang on the stage in the scarlet robe and the plain gold belt around his waist.

"What's your name?"

Tuomutaji tremblingly pulled his son to Zhang Huangyan, and specially moved closer to stare at Zhang Huangyan's official robe, but Zhang Huangyan did not look up. In order to seek efficiency, he directly asked about Tuomutaji in Mongolian. .

"Tumu Taji", after Tuomu Taji answered in Mongolian, Zhang Huangyan also replied in Mongolian: "In the future, if you can speak Chinese, use Chinese. Those who can use Chinese will be rewarded with ten silver dollars by the government. A Silver Medal of Naturalization Daming, if not, there will be night study sessions in various counties, and you can also get rewards if you learn to speak Chinese successfully, but from now on, you have to change your name first, this is the rule! Your name is Tuomu Taji changed his surname to Mu. In the Tang Dynasty, there was Shi Muyu and his four sons who were all of high moral character, so they became a famous family for a while. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a heroine Mu Guiying. Now you change your surname to Mu. After coming from a famous family, my name is Muji, just for auspicious gift, is there anyone else in the family?"

rule?Now Mongolian herdsmen are most afraid of the word "rules". Almost everyone will be terrified when they hear the word "rules". Breaking the rules issued by the government.

Today, Tuumu Taji, who has changed his name to Muji, dare not violate this rule. Of course, as an ordinary herdsman, he does not have much resistance to the rule of changing his name to a Chinese name, so there is no need to risk death. rule.

For herdsmen like Tuomu Taji, they don't pay much attention to the cultural connotation of their surnames, so it is not difficult to ask them to change their names. Zhang Huangyan told him to open his hand and let Zhang Huangyan write his own name on his hand, so that he could memorize it several times. At the same time, he had to continue to answer Zhang Huangyan's words.

According to Zhang Huangyan's answer, he continued to register and gave his family members Chinese names. Among them, his wife's real name was changed from Gu Ya to Gu Ya, and his son was changed to Mu Tuo.

Changing the Mongolian people's names to Chinese names was the first step in the Ming Dynasty's cultural unification, just as Emperor Xiaowen's reforms in the Northern Wei Dynasty began with changing their surnames.

Not only the Tuomu Taji family, but almost every family has been given a new surname. At this time, there are no aristocratic families, and the surnames can be used casually, and there is no need to worry about opposition from people in the pass.

"Seven years old, you can go to school, go to the side to register." Zhang Huangyan also specially asked Mu Ji, urging him to let his son go to school as soon as possible.

Mu Ji naturally agreed again and again. His wife's family belongs to Monan Mongolia. He also went to Monan to visit because he was worried that his wife's natal family would be in trouble because of Daming's occupation. After occupying Monan, Daming allocated a large amount of grassland and became a local wealthy family, at least much richer than his family, and he also witnessed the solemn scene of his wife's children wearing colorful Hanfu reading the Four Books and Five Classics in the school.

On the one hand, it is the unique charm of Han culture itself, on the other hand, it is the admiration for characters. In short, it was from then on that Mu Ji began to have a stronger desire to send his children to school.

However, here, it is worth mentioning that considering the different purposes of education, Yang Tinglin, Minister of the Ministry of Education, asked His Majesty Zhu Youjia to allow the reform of education and administration to be implemented only inside the customs, while the old-fashioned Confucian education would continue outside the customs.

Because the education in the pass is to open up the wisdom of the people, cultivate more compound and multi-faceted talents for the Ming Dynasty, and implement a new type of multidisciplinary education for the purpose of rapidly increasing the literacy rate.

Outside the customs, the purpose is to make these Mongolian herdsmen truly Sinicized, agree with the Confucian principles of benevolence and righteousness, and stop killing them arbitrarily. To be truly educated and truly become obedient citizens, one has the idea of ​​loyalty.

Therefore, after many years, some old scholars had to sigh, saying that only outside the customs can they hear what the students read, learn from the sages, and know the Four Books and Five Classics, but inside the customs, they are too mixed. Those who are proficient in geography don't know Confucius and Mencius, those who know things thoroughly don't understand Zhu Zizhi's theory, and those who study for fame are more important, and they pay more attention to practical learning than self-cultivation.

(End of this chapter)