The literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty was very low, the cost of reading and reading was very high, and the literacy rate was expected to be only about one percent, which was in terms of the total population, if it was replaced by a large city with a large population like Guangzhou City, the literacy rate would increase several times, and before the People's Army captured the city of Guangzhou, it was expected that the number of literate people in the city would exceed 10,000.

After the People's Army captured the city of Guangzhou, it raided many large families and executed or reduced thousands of literate people to coolies, and there are still thousands of literate people in Guangzhou today, and the number of its Chinese scholars is as high as thousands.

In fact, after the People's Army captured the city of Guangzhou, they did not arrest too many literati and scholars, and they could be called literati, and they had the backbone of some literati, who disdained to bully ordinary people, and even thought that doing something to the common people would dirty their hands, and it could be regarded as letting them escape.

The People's Army continued to defeat the Ming Army, and many wealthy gentry and businessmen in Guangzhou City, even if they did not recognize the People's Army, would be forced to start running their own industries again due to the situation.

The vast majority of literati and scholars are different, they have read so many Confucian books, one of the Confucian ideas is loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, and there are many people who want to be officials, and they are still stubbornly loyal to Emperor Ming.

Of course, there are also a very small number of literati scholars for one reason or another, the idea of defecting to the people's army, this situation is not uncommon throughout the ages, those peasant rebel army will have a certain influence, will attract a very small number of literati scholars to join, and even some literati scholars to join the alien race.

Under the rule of the People's Army, the status of literati scholars has greatly declined, and ordinary people still respect literati scholars, but in front of the People's Army, literati scholars and ordinary people are treated equally, without any privileges.

Although the People's Army does not judge crimes by words and deeds, if those literati and scholars dare to scold the People's Army, and the People's Army has the evidence, they will definitely punish them.

It is impossible to scold the People's Army, but these literati scholars can criticize the policies of the People's Army, and the People's Army will not condemn people for these words.

For example, when the People's Army raided the evil family, some Confucian scholars criticized the People's Army for "destroying its own foundation and taking death in a proper way."

In the view of the Confucian scholars, if a political power wants to rule the world, it must rely on the scholars and the landlord class, the scholars can manage the world, and the landlord class has money and food, and even in front of the common people, the words of the landlords are better than the words of the officials.

Only with the support of the scholars and the landlord class can the People's Army overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and now the People's Army massacres the landlords and does not accept the scholars, and will definitely be exterminated by the Ming Army.

Of course, Confucian scholars were only laughing at the People's Army's way of taking death, and did not have the idea of joining the People's Army, they were still loyal to the Ming Court, thinking of being an official in the Ming Court, but they just tried to ridicule and belittle the People's Army.

However, the Confucian scholars did not dare to say this in front of the common people, and there were once Confucian scholars who said similar words and were heard by the common people, and then attracted several ordinary people to chase and beat them.

The reason for being chased and beaten by the common people is very simple: the People's Army divides the fields to the common people, and these fields mainly come from those large households, if the People's Army does not raid the large households, where will the fields be distributed to the common people, and the common people will live a good life by relying on the allocated fields, and the common people will wholeheartedly support the People's Army.

However, if there are Confucian scholars who say good things for those landlords, the common people will not be angry, even if they respected the literati and scholars in the past, at this time, under the influence of anger, they will not care about chasing and beating Confucianism.

Fights were not allowed under the rule of the People's Army, but the Confucian would not go to the enemy to sue the official, and he was beaten in vain.

Nowadays, because of the simplified Chinese characters, literati scholars continue to criticize the People's Army, and in their view, the People's Army is destroying tradition by abandoning traditional Chinese characters and using simplified Chinese characters.

Interestingly, a small number of literati and scholars who secretly made a fuss about things had the idea of defecting to the People's Army, the People's Army had defeated the Ming Army so many times, their confidence in the Ming Court was declining, and they even felt that the world might be taken away by the People's Army, and if they joined the People's Army at this time, they might be able to become the founding heroes.

But the KPA demanded that they learn simplified Chinese characters that they could not accept, and they had been using traditional Chinese characters and were unwilling to replace them with simplified Chinese characters.

"As long as we all oppose it, the KPA will definitely take back this order."

"The Ming court will listen to our voice, and so will the People's Army, and without our People's Army, it will definitely not be able to overthrow the Ming Court."

These are the thoughts of a very small number of literati scholars, who treat the People's Army as the Ming court of the past, and the Ming court attaches great importance to the voices of literati scholars, and they believe that the People's Army will also attach importance to the voices of literati scholars, and as long as literati and scholars oppose it, the People's Army will withdraw the order to learn simplified Chinese.

It's a pity that the People's Army is not as they imagined, and under normal circumstances, the People's Army does not need to reply to the voices of literati and scholars, but Fang Nan wanted to debate with the intellectuals of the old era with some interest, so there was the announcement in the name of the Governor of the People's Army.

Seeing this announcement, many literati and scholars were speechless for a moment, many sages have used simplified characters, this is indeed an irrefutable statement, unless they don't recognize these sages, but is this possible?

Some Confucian scholars kept silent, some Confucian students tried to quibble, and a very small number of Confucian students finally made up their minds to learn simplified Chinese because of this announcement.

Not all literati scholars come from wealthy families, and a small number of Confucian scholars come from lower-middle families, trying their best to be literate, they know the difficulties of the people at the bottom, and they also think that one day they can let the people at the bottom live a good life.

Even if some people still think that the People's Army is a thief, in the case of the People's Army's victories again and again, some people soon change their minds and think that joining the People's Army to overthrow the Ming Dynasty is a good choice.

At least the People's Army divided the land among the common people, so that the common people could live a good life, but under the rule of the Ming Court, many ordinary people were miserable, and the difference between the two was too great.

In addition, choosing to join the People's Army also means that this part of the Confucian students will be separated from the previous Confucian groups, and the Confucian students regard the People's Army as thieves, but there are Confucian students who defect to thieves, which is a betrayal.

Once the matter of defecting to the People's Army is leaked, I am afraid that this Confucian student who defected to the People's Army will become the target of criticism by other Confucian students.

For the intellectuals of the old era, Fang Nan's idea is very simple, these intellectuals of the old era have some role in the people's army, and it is better to be willing to integrate into the people's army, and if they are unwilling to integrate into the people's army, then they will live under the rule of the people's army as ordinary people, and if they violate the laws and regulations of the people's army, they must be punished in accordance with the law.