Soon after the edict of the meritorious personnel of the Western Expedition was issued, the aftermath of the great victory of Jinjibao was still warm, and a super-heavyweight edict was issued throughout the country: the Chinese language was designated as the "lingua franca".

The whole country shook.

Thousands of words are sprinkled, what a big article.

The edict wedged in from Shaanxi, Gansu and Hui, saying, "Han and Hui are brothers, and the middle is a slight gap, and the evil is reversed, resulting in great anger, fratricide, and how painful!" ”

After the heartache, he asked the sky speechlessly, "The blood color has been recorded, so Zhao Jiong has been precautioned; Yin Jian is not far away, why make mistakes? ”

Then he began to flicker: "I have studied history, all the countries of the world, more than three generations, the same language, yellow hair hanging down, no businessmen, and the people are bustling; Below three generations, the language is different, the retranslation is difficult to understand, suspicion is gradually born, and there are many discords. but each has different hearts, and reproaches one another, and doubts one another. Suspicion eventually becomes a big anger, siblings turn into enemies, soldiers intersect, grievances are revenged, and generations of enemies are feuded. Oh, isn't it painful, isn't it stupid! ”

This "three generations" is not the "three generations" of the "three generations of ancestors and grandchildren", but refers to the three dynasties of "Xia, Shang and Zhou".

In the imagination and narrative of Confucianism, "more than three generations", including Tang Yao and Yu Shun of the primitive tribes, are heavenly existences, with simple folk customs, filial piety to fathers and sons, brothers, friends and brothers, husbands and women, all those who are in high positions are saints, and those who go down are all living Lei Feng; "Less than three generations", people's hearts will begin to deteriorate, scheming and deceitful, one crab is not as good as one crab, one generation is not as good as the next, and the worst generation will always be the current generation.

Interestingly, at that time, many people in Europe and the United States held a similar view: the Middle Ages was dark and evil, and industrialization was distorted and debauched. All the beauty and light was left in distant ancient Greece.

So, this "three generations". It refers to both China's "three generations" and Taixi's "three generations", and the four words "all the countries of the world" are not fictitious.

As for how "words are the same" and how "words are different", it is a rubbing of the legend of Babel in the Bible - when he was in Tianjin, Guan Zhuofan once used it to fool the royal sister.

This paragraph. Combining East and West, pulling Taixi's tiger skin and pulling his own banner. Quite capable of bluffing. Anyway, for the Chinese scholars at that time, what China's "three generations" looked like was all up to imagination; What about Tessie's "three generations". I can't even imagine it. Naturally, whatever the oracle says, it is.

The word "噫", at the time of drafting, was quite controversial -- this is a holy decree, not an ordinary article, and this word "噫", uh, will it be a little ...... Not dignified enough?

However, Kwan Zhuofan finally decided to keep it. Solemn or not. Opinion, this edict. The first thing is contagious and persuasive. Anyway, it's just a "噫" word, not a "噫曫 play".

Okay, let's move on.

"I follow all the surnames, educate the world, Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, all Chinese people, I am a child, there is no Xuan, how can I divide the domain?"

This and this, different ethnic groups, for the sake of different words, chickens and ducks talk, and finally a big fight, what is the sad thing, how can I sit idly by?

What to do?

By this time, the prescription was actually about to come out: as long as the "words are the same", wouldn't everyone be close to each other again?

However, the edict did not try to be poor so quickly, but continued to pull Tessie's tiger skin and pull the banner of China:

"The kingdoms of Taixi are all of a variety of ethnic groups, suspicious of each other, hating and killing each other, and the disaster will last for hundreds of generations. Ming Jun and virtuous ministers, learn from the pain, is to take the first-class distribution of the most widespread ethnic language, or said to be the common language, or the working language, or the official language, promulgated throughout the country, for the eternal example, so that all ethnic groups speak this language, since then hand in hand, no longer quarrel, but to work together, strong country and rich people. The prosperity of the Taixi countries today is really made here! ”

"Oh, isn't the 'official language' the meaning of 'official language'? I have it in ancient China! ”

There is another word "噫", plus the word "ancient", well, the ancestors have already done it, don't say that I worship foreign flattery, let alone me "go against the ancestral system" Shenma!

At this point, it is time to flop: for the sake of ethnic harmony, for long-term peace and stability, and for the sake of strengthening the country and enriching the people, the Chinese language is set as the "lingua franca", and "promulgated throughout the country, and it is a permanent example".

As mentioned above, "there is no Xuanxuan, how can there be no domain", then, Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, the five languages, why choose only Chinese?

The reason is self-evident, but even if it is nonsense, it must be explained seriously in the edict.

First of all, Manchu has been designated as a "Chinese language" and cannot be used for two purposes. Moreover, "Chinese" is a term "above the temple", and its status is high, and it is really not appropriate to grieve the "Chinese" to do such a trivial and troublesome errand as "lingua franca".

Second, the population of the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui ethnic groups is no more than 11 percent of the country's population, and if any one of the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui languages is designated as the "lingua franca," then 99 percent of the country's population needs to learn another language. If Chinese is designated as the "lingua franca", only 3 percent of the country's population needs to learn another language.

How to do is the business experience, don't you understand it at a glance?

It takes a lot of effort to promote the "lingua franca", three points of strength, the court still has it, ninety-nine points of strength, cough cough, there is really no ah.

The three words "lingua franca" are not called in vain, black and white, and there are hard indicators:

After a period of five years, those who cannot speak the "lingua franca," those who are not allowed to speak the "common language," those who are in office, those who are in the "Jingcha" and "Great Plans" of civilian officials, and the "military and political" of military attachés, that is, the various personnel evaluations of officials, cannot be included in the "outstanding and distinctive" categories, let alone be promoted. Those who have been knighted and those who have knighthoods cannot be promoted to knighthood; Those who do not have a knighthood cannot be knighted or attacked. In addition, depending on the severity of the situation, the punishment of fines, demotion, and reduction of knighthood shall be given.

After five years, those who can't speak the "lingua franca" will not be allowed to be knighted or knighted.

Let's take a closer look at how this regulation will affect each ethnic group.

Naturally, it had no effect on the Han people.

The impact on the Manchu people is also minimal. By the time of the Tongzhi Dynasty, there were only a handful of Manchus who could not speak Chinese, and there were, and they were also nested in the old forests of the white mountains and black waters. There are no people who enter the Central Plains who can't speak Chinese, and there is no need to say that they are slaughtered for officials.

And what about the Mongols?

This is a matter of two things.

This regulation is aimed at the upper echelons of various ethnic groups, and the Mongolian people in the Eight Banners are not counted, but only the Mongolian people in the Mongolian region. This part of the upper class of the Mongolian people was divided into two parts, one part was in Beijing, such as the family of Boyan Namo. This part of the Mongolian people can speak Chinese, which is no different from ordinary banner people, and the regulations have no effect on them; The real impact was on the part that remained in the Mongolian region.

However, the Manchu and Mongolian alliances, marriages, and the Manchu and Mongolian tribes have been closely related since the beginning of the country, and many of the upper Mongolian people can speak Manchu - and vice versa, and many of the upper Manchu people can speak Mongolian, and the Manchu language is directly converted from Mongolian. As the Sinicization of the Manchus became deeper and deeper, in order to maintain each other, there were more and more Mongolian upper-class people who could speak Chinese. Therefore, this regulation will have a considerable impact on the Mongols, but this impact will not hurt the muscles and bones.

What about the Hui people?

*(To be continued......)