Four days after the Roman Empire conquered Constantinople, the news reached the central capital and reached the shore of the crown prince of the prison state through the telegraph line of the Western Regions. Although in recent years, all domestic affairs have been decided by the prison country, but this matter is not trivial, and we must congratulate it in the name of the great tomorrow.

Of course, in addition to this, Zhu Hejia also told his father another thing.

"Father, the emperor, the sons heard that the policy implemented by Lao Jiu there seems to be a desire to implement Russian-style serfdom."

Perhaps in the past six months, Zhu Hejia is most familiar with Russia, and even as a prisoner, he once invited a delegation to a banquet in the royal garden, and he also has a certain understanding of serfdom in Russia.

However, now that the Russian mission has returned to China, with great results they signed a treaty with the Ming to jointly establish the "Ming-Russia Railway" and the "Ming-Russia Bank", according to which the Ming will build a railway to Moscow, which will eventually reach the Baltic Sea. Of course, this also involves part of the secret covenant, and the Ming will help Russia train an army of 50,000 people, set up a joint ordnance factory between Ming and Russia, hire Ming technicians, and purchase Ming materials. After the training is completed, they will declare war on Sweden in order to seize the Baltic Sea outlet.

Before the treaty was signed, Zhu Hejia once showed it to his father, and he still doesn't know why his father said "It's just a twenty-one article", indeed, there are only twenty-one contracts.

"Oh? How so? ”

Looking at the chessboard in front of him, Zhu Mingzhong said with half-squinted eyes.

In recent months, he felt that his energy did not seem to be as abundant as in the past, and he was really old, but he did not dare to slack off in the slightest, after all, in the process of sorting out knowledge, he found that many of the knowledge he had neglected was not only limited to science, but also many humanities, social, political and other aspects.

As the king of the Ming Empire, he hopes that he can build a thousand-year-old empire, so he tries his best to leave all the knowledge he knows, and maybe he can give some inspiration for the future.

"I heard that he gave all the estates to the soldiers of the legion, and completely inherited the Turkish fiefdom system."

"Oh, I've heard that the prototype of the Ottoman fiefdom system, from the Byzantine Empire's Pronian system and the Seljuk Sultanate's Iqtar system. The Turkish Sultan declared all arable land to be state land, with the exception of free lands called mullek and religious estates called Wakov. ”

Zhu Mingzhong has a certain understanding of Turkey's system, after all, at the beginning of his ascension, he also fully learned from the mining systems of various countries.

"The Turks' fiefdoms not only had land, but also peasants who cultivated it. The cultivators of the fiefdom constituted tenant farmers of the state, were under the protection of the government, and enjoyed the right to cultivate the land for generations, and the standard, time and method of collecting the land rent were determined by the sultan, and the owners of the fiefdom had no right to change it. Ottoman law forbade peasants to abandon their fields, and the owners of fiefdoms had the right to recover the fleeing peasants within a specified period of time, which was in particular different from serfdom. ”

"Father, there is indeed a difference between the two, but as far as the ministers know, they have always thought that the number of fiefdoms in Turkey is decreasing year by year, and now only 40% of the land in their country is fiefdom at most, but now he has restored all this, and all the land has been re-feuded, and even, he also plans to learn from the serfdom in Russia, hand over all the tenant farmers to the management of the miners, and prohibit the tenant farmers from leaving the land, all the fugitive peasants, no matter how long they have been on the run, after being caught, Together with the family and all property, it will be returned to the original owner. Erchen felt ......"

Browning tightly, recalling the information he had learned, Zhu Hejia said again.

"He is undoubtedly going against the master, that is, the slave system implemented in Nanyang, and the lives of slaves and maids are also protected by the law, but the lord of the city there has the right to hang the tenant farmers, and there is no need to go through trial......"

Everyone has their own bottom line, Zhu Hejia also has his bottom line, his bottom line is the slave system in Nanyang, but the lives of those slaves and maids are guaranteed, and according to the law, slaves can be free after giving birth to children for three generations.

But now, through the intelligence of the military director, he was surprised to find that everything that was being staged in the Roman Empire was touching his bottom line.

"Oh......"

Zhu Mingzhong pursed his lips and said.

"It was too far away, and we don't know why he did it, but we have to learn to be considerate of him, after all, the Caucasus has always been popular to plunder slaves, maybe this is also his compromise, after all, 90% of his army is Caucasian. It is inevitable that there will be some bad habits, so it is good to be considerate, and besides, there is also an advantage to this, which is ......"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Mingzhong thought of those banner men and slaves in the Western Regions.

"Do you remember the so-called Han army after we recovered the Western Regions? They are willing to make wrappers, and even proud of it, even when we recaptured the Western Regions and the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell, there are still many people who are willing to make wrappings, and even when they see the old master, they will still kneel down and kowtow......"

Referring to those guys who are not enough slaves, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, even this is the reason why Da Ming did not have a decree to forcibly return the freedom of slaves and maids, since they are willing to be slaves, then they will be slaves forever!

"Now that the Roman Empire has been restored, but in the composition of the local population, no more than 30% of the Orthodox Christians, the rest are pagans loyal to the Turks, and the use of land to fix them in the master's home is conducive to the next step of indoctrination, after all, people will always believe in their masters, just like those coats, they were not used to it back then, and even resisted, but just after a dozen years, they are proud to be slaves, do you know what the reason is?"

"Whip?"

Zhu Hejia's answer made Zhu Mingzhong nod.

In ancient times, human ancestors domesticated wild animals by capturing, imprisoning, beating, feeding, and living together, so wolves became dogs, wild horses became domestic horses, and wild animals became pets. In fact, people are the same, and the same can be domesticated. When a person encounters cruel punishment or severe fear, the victim faces a threat to his life and health at any time, and at this time, the abuser becomes the only object that the victim faces, and over time, the victim will think that a mouthful of food, a sip of water, or even a breath is the tolerance and compassion given by the abuser. For the perpetrator of the abuser, the victim will turn fear into gratitude, then into a kind of worship, and finally subconsciously think that the safety of the abuser is his own safety, and will even try to defend the abuser. ”

In fact, it is also known as "Stockholm syndrome", of course, there is no such doctrine in this era, but it does not prevent people from domesticating people through their enslavement for thousands of years.

"Now, all he is doing there is actually by these means, turning those who oppose the Roman Empire into supporters of the Empire, and although this support is forced by fear and livelihood, but over time they will get used to it, and when the time comes, they will agree. In fact, the Ottomans did the same back then, and now it is only repeated. ”

After saying this, Zhu Mingzhong looked at Zhu Hejia and said in an extremely serious tone.

"You should remember that each region has its own special situation, and you must not take it for granted and apply your own methods, but take measures according to the time and local conditions, only in this way can you achieve long-term peace and stability."

While telling his son, Zhu Mingzhong's mind was completely immersed in the future, and he was worried about his ...... behind him Not because he realized that he was old, nor because he was worried that he would die soon, but because he was worried about the future of the empire.

"A lot of times, we make some habitual mistakes, huh...... Barbarians are afraid of power but not virtue, this sentence naturally has his truth, not every place in the world is the same as the Celestial Empire, even the Celestial Empire is also very different, Nanyang implements indoctrination, naturally has his special place, but in the final analysis, indoctrination is still inseparable from the word "Wei". ”

When his father mentioned "Wei", Zhu Hejia said with emotion.

"This retainer understands that when Zhuxia arrives there, he will change people's temples, change people's customs, and change people's languages, if they can't use Yiwei, how can they be willing to accept indoctrination."

When he was in the navy, he had not sailed to the South Seas once, and he had also come into contact with the natives there, and he also knew what the indoctrination relied on to carry out, just a piece of law? That's just a joke.

"That's true, this is the essence of expansion, my Chinese sages from the Central Plains, divided Kyushu, and later opened up Lingnan, what do you think you rely on?"

Shaking his head, Zhu Mingzhong let out a long sigh.

"I said that sometimes, civilization is very good, but if civilization lasts for a long time, it will forget barbarism, and barbarism ......"

Staring at Zhu Hejia, Zhu Mingzhong said in an extremely serious tone.

"Barbarism is the essence of human beings, the essence of human beings is barbaric, the so-called civilization, but it is only formed by borrowing laws, morals, etc., which takes a long time to form, and in this case, can we try to get along with barbarism in a civilized way?"

Looking at his son's teaching, Zhu Ming Zhong sighed, some things may have changed a lot, but it is only a change to a certain extent, people have been civilized for too long, and they will always forget barbarism intentionally or unintentionally, perhaps, this is why the more developed the society, the more likely it is to appear "silly and sweet".

That's it, now, maybe there is no need to think about this, after all, now the barbarian conquest of civilization no longer exists, even if it is a possible "womb conquest" in a few hundred years, it is very likely that it will no longer exist, after all...... The revival of the Roman Empire is bound to have a surprising impact on the valley of the two rivers and beyond, and perhaps in Baghdad, in many places, there will be another neo-canthropy, among other ......

Who knows?

Barbarous...... Maybe it will disappear from this world!

On the other hand, including the Roman Empire, Egypt and other "imperial China" appeared, for Zhuxia, is not a strong competition, the royal family from the Ming Dynasty they are different from the West, their bloodline allows them to enjoy the convenience of Zhuxia, can introduce Ming scholars, science. But in terms of the blood of the residents, it is fundamentally different from the Ming Dynasty.

And this arrangement can keep the Chinese civilization fully vigorous, and the competition is not limited to the Ming Dynasty and Zhuxia, and now there is the intervention of a third force in the "Western Xia...... Perhaps, the completely different composition of civilization will also inject new vitality into the Chinese civilization, and they will create an equally brilliant new civilization under the influence of the Chinese civilization in combination with their own civilization.

And this kind of fierce competition is precisely the driving force behind Huaxia, and even let human civilization keep moving forward, and may even be the main factor, just relying on "Zhuxia" may not necessarily be able to form pressure, but the "Western Xia" with a certain difference in bloodline can increase some kind of external pressure, so that it can be transformed into the driving force of civilization progress.

"What my father said is very true, and there is another thing for the sons, that is, Lao Jiu wants to reconstruct a new language, Turkish is bound to be abandoned, and the unification of the empire must have a unified language, he thinks that Chinese is too complicated, and the writing is too cumbersome, and there is no connection with the locals, so he ......"

"Same as Egypt?"

Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically. Egypt uses Coptic, as for Chinese...... It is the language of the court.

"Yes, his initial intention was to combine Greek, Latin, and Armenian to develop a new Roman language, and of course, to borrow a lot of Chinese to speak, and his idea was that the Roman language of the future would be easy to learn, so that the peoples would be able to master the new language as soon as possible, and at the same time, the Roman speakers would be able to communicate with us in a simple way,"

Belch...... This thought made Zhu Mingzhong stunned, is this possibility? It seems that only another time and space with a large number of kanji in Japanese has done this, but it is also written communication.

"Never get tired of greedy!"

Shaking his head, Zhu Mingzhong groaned.

"You write to him and tell him that there is no need to force everyone to speak the same language, let them speak various languages, and keep Chinese the language of the court. Over time, they will definitely learn Chinese. Chinese ......"

Looking into the distance, Zhu Mingzhong sighed.

"It seems complicated, but Chinese is the most beautiful language in the world,"

When he said this, Zhu Mingzhong's tone was full of expectation, when will the world speak the same language? He didn't know it, but one day, Chinese would become the lingua franca of the upper echelons of the world...... This day will come.