The Three Spirit Stones

Chapter 134 Sinicization

Compared with their colleagues in Bian Jing who were feeling very comfortable, the gentlemen who were assigned to Yenching College seemed very frustrated.

The president of Yenching College was Yang Zhi.

He has been training under Li Yunze over the years. When he returned to Beijing to attend Acai's birthday party, Cheng Yu proposed that he be the president of Yenching College. After the two had a detailed discussion overnight, he agreed.

There were more than 400 people assigned to Yenching College, many of whom were Yang Zhi's old classmates.

This group of young people are full of enthusiasm and hope to make Yenching College as successful as Cheng Industrial College.

However, ideals are full and reality is skinny.

The political situation in Yanyun area is very complicated!

The Han people here had long been under the rule of the Liao Kingdom and had long lost their sense of national identity with the Song Dynasty. Even they themselves did not admit that they were Song people.

In addition, the children of Liao people were also admitted here.

The Liao people were a nomadic people with tough customs. The reason these Liao people sent their children to school was because the school could provide free meals.

Usually, there are only three or four kittens during class time, but when it's time for dinner, they all come out from somewhere.

These children not only have poor discipline, but also lack hygiene.

There are toilets in the school, but they still want to urinate and defecate anywhere.

Especially those children from the grasslands, many of whose fathers were tribal leaders,

On the grassland, they were used to pulling down their pants and squatting down to relieve themselves when they had to, regardless of whether there were people around.

The originally clean and tidy college became smelly and people often stepped on landmines when walking on the street.

They often fight over trivial matters.

Students not only fight with other students, but also hit teachers.

Some of the teachers sent by the Imperial College were relatively old and weak.

The Liao people were warlike and naturally looked down on the weak. Sometimes they would start fighting if someone said a few more words to them or they disagreed with them.

Besides that, there is the language barrier.

The language used in class was the official language of the Song Dynasty, and the Liao people spoke the Liao language, so there was a Liao language translator in each classroom.

Rather than calling these children students, it would be better to call them beast cubs.

At the teachers' meeting, Yang Zhi said excitedly,

Our job now is not to teach people but to train animals. We want to turn a group of wild animals back into humans.

To deal with wild beasts, we must use the law of the jungle. Morality and justice are useless. We must regard ourselves as animal trainers rather than teachers. The law of the jungle is that the strong are king.

Then, the students were surprised to find that their teachers could be very tough.

The first to suffer are those who urinate and defecate in public.

The school has set up a health inspection team to conduct inspections in the school.

If anyone is found defecating anywhere, he will be whipped on the spot and asked to clean up his own mess after being whipped. If he refuses to obey, he will be locked up in a small dark room and not given any food.

Those who skipped classes were not allowed to eat in the cafeteria.

Want to sneak away?

Sorry, you need to show your class attendance certificate to get your meal.

Also, don’t you like fighting?

We will organize a wrestling match every seven days so that the gentlemen can compete with you.

These gentlemen who graduated from the Industrial College were not weak scholars who were powerless.

Archery, horse riding and archery are all compulsory courses for them.

The teacher who taught them was a veteran soldier who had been through many battles and was invited by Cheng Yu from the army.

In the first competition, these naughty kids really saw how powerful the gentlemen were.

One by one, they fell with bruised faces and swollen noses, crying for their parents.

After a series of rectifications, the school spirit of the college immediately improved.

But education cannot rely on beatings alone, but also requires a combination of kindness and severity.

For example, a scholarship score mechanism was established.

Those who can write their own names will be rewarded with a small red flower, those who can learn to speak ten sentences of Mandarin will be rewarded with another small red flower, and those who can actively complete their homework will be rewarded with another small red flower.

If you collect a certain number of red flowers, you will get a certain reward.

For example, having a sumptuous dinner, or giving a bag of wheat or rice as a reward, or a piece of cloth or a piece of clothing, etc.

Gradually, the college began to take shape, and formal teaching between teachers and students began.

Yang Zhi often thinks of that night's all-night conversation with Cheng Yu!

At first, he was very confused about the Marquis's decision to enroll Liao people's children.

He was very clear about how the Liao people treated the Song people.

On the surface, they are neighbors, but in reality, they are hostile to each other. There are minor conflicts on the border between the two countries from time to time.

Asking them to learn our advanced culture now, isn't that inviting a wolf into the house?

But Cheng Yu told him that it was okay to bring the wolf into the house, the important thing was to train the wolf into a dog and let the dog guard our house.

Han culture is broad and profound. No matter which ethnic group is living with the Han people, it is easy to be assimilated into Han culture.

What we need to do now is to assimilate the Liao people into Chinese.

No, it is to sinicize the next generation of Liao people.

To be precise, all the people living in the Yanyun area were assimilated into the Han culture.

They should speak the Song language, develop the habits of the Song people, learn from the Song people, understand the Song people, and finally become Song people.

After hearing this, Yang Zhi's blood started boiling.

Because the Marquis was talking about people from the Yanyun area.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are the pain in the hearts of every Song Dynasty man with blood.

Without this natural barrier, the territory of the Song Dynasty was exposed to the hooves of the northern nomadic peoples.

Everyone hopes that the Song Dynasty can recover Yanyun, but how easy is this?

Yanyun is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but didn’t Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi return in defeat?

But in Yang Zhi's heart, the Marquis was a more powerful person than Emperor Taizong.

He asked excitedly, "My Lord, what are your plans?"

Cheng Yu smiled and said, "This is a long process. It is possible that you won't see the result you want until the moment you close your eyes. Even so, are you willing to devote your life to this?"

"I am willing, as long as there is hope,"

"If I can't wait, I can let my son wait. If my son can't wait, I can let my grandson wait."

"Okay, I'll tell you the plan."

"Yanyun is strategically located, and each state is mutually supportive, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is very difficult to seize it by force."

"Um,"

Yang Zhi nodded heavily.

Cheng Yu continued, "If we can't use the hard way, we can use the soft way."

"First, we must use economic benefits to impress them. When they gradually relax their vigilance and become economically dependent on us, we can then carry out cultural infiltration of the people here, so that they can identify with and accept the Song Dynasty."

"They have been brainwashed generation after generation,"

"brainwashing?"

"Yes, brainwash them, tell them about Chinese civilization and Han culture, and make them realize how glorious it is to be a Song person."

"Cheng's Industry's future investment focus will be tilted towards this area. I will build various agricultural and poultry breeding and planting sites here, and will also invest in setting up factories here,"

"Yanyun will attract more and more people to settle here in the future, and it will be very prosperous,"

"When there are too many people in a place, it's like muddy water. It's easier to fish in muddy water."

"We need to find a way to slowly infiltrate the Liao army stationed in this area. The best way is to send in the Liao people who have been sinicized."

"When the entire top leadership is made up of soldiers loyal to the Song Dynasty, then doesn't that mean the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun actually belong to the Song Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Yang Zhi was simply amazed!

Cheng Yu continued, "Xiao Yang, Yanjing College is responsible for the Sinicization of the Liao people. Now that it has just started, the Liao nobles are still very vigilant. You must be careful and cautious, and don't be careless."

"You can tell Governor Li about this matter. With his guidance, I believe you can do better."

"Yes, Lord Marquis."