"Change Manchu to 'lingua franca'?" Renshou was stunned, "However, Manchu is already a 'Chinese language', didn't the edict say, uh, this, 'one body can't be used for two purposes'?" ”

"Lao Rui," Guan Zhuofan smiled faintly, "When the two of us speak, we don't have to hide it - the edict said this, but it is just to take into account the Manchu language and the face of the Manchu people, if the Manchu language can really serve as a 'lingua franca', it is not a 'one body cannot be used for two purposes', but 'those who can work hard'." ”

Is Manchu a lingua franca? Tell Han officials to speak Manchu? Including Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang? If you can't learn, you will be fined, demoted, or cut off? Those who can't speak Manchu can't enter the Yan and Jinshi?

Uh, this, this-

Renshou blushed slightly.

Although he doesn't like the Han people, and is not satisfied with the situation of the Han Dynasty, his brain is not confused, and he knows that the above measures are absolutely impossible, if he really wants to do this, he is only afraid-

"If you really want to do this," Guan Zhuofan's voice became cold, "Lao Rui, you know it - to put it mildly, the emperor of Aixinjue Luo, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it for a year!" What time is it? It's not the beginning of the country! - Even at the beginning of the country, it was impossible to do this! ”

Renshou's face was blue and red, and after half a sound, he let out a long sigh, nodded, and said astringently: "Yixuan, what you said is very true." ”

"Also," the smile returned to Guan Zhuofan's face, "I don't know how Dechang's 'Chinese' speaks?" ”

Tokunaga is the son of Renju.

Seeing that Guan Zhuofan had changed the topic, Renshou was slightly stunned and thought about it. I understood what he meant. couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "It's not good! Stumble over. Inarticulate! Sometimes, when I asked him to say 'Chinese', after a long time, my face was red, and I still couldn't hold a fart! For his incompetence, I whipped him several times - alas, it was useless! ”

Guan Zhuofan smiled slightly and said, "Much better than me - Chinese." I can only say a few words, and I can't string together a complete sentence; I can't write a single word! If Manchu is really designated as the Chinese language, hehe, the first person to be 'punished, demoted, and cut off' must be someone I close! ”

After a pause, he continued: "We are courtiers, right...... What about 'above'? The empress dowager of the two palaces is Yao Shun, wise and wise, but this 'Chinese'. It's just talking, not writing. What about the emperor? Hey. I've heard that the Manchu teacher is not having a good time! ”

Renshou frowned: "Alas, our emperor's homework ......"

Shaking his head, he stopped talking.

"The Ninth Five-Year Supreme, the Noble Center," Guan Zhuofan said, "Manchu is the same, especially ...... Well, but that's it, the flag man below, not to mention. Lao Rui, Manchu, even the Manchus themselves don't say it, don't use it, how can they want other ethnic groups to say and use it? ”

Renshou was stunned for a while, and suddenly said: "Yixuan, you have such a big ability, can you think of a way to make us full of people and ...... again." Speaking of Manchu? ”

Guan Zhuofan didn't expect him to come up with such an idea, but he was stunned.

"Why did you come?" Guan Zhuofan was funny and angry in his heart, "Lao Rui, I'm not afraid to do hard things, I work hard, but I can't get any benefits, I don't do this kind of thing!" Tell the Manchurians to speak back to Manchu - hehe, with this kung fu, it is better to ask them to learn one more foreigner's language! At least, if you learn foreign language, you can come and go with foreigners, and what is the use of speaking Manchu? To whom? Tell it to other Manchurians? Well, people don't understand! ”

Renshou was stunned for a while, and sighed: "Helpless! ”

"Or," Guan Zhuofan smiled, "simply cancel the 'lingua franca', and all ethnic groups will be the same, or will each speak its own language?" Well, call him Chinese and Manchu, just like a saying in the south, 'If you knock over the dog food bowl, you won't be able to eat'! What do you think? ”

Renshou blushed slightly again: "This is, I'm afraid it's not appropriate......"

"It's really not appropriate," Guan Zhuofan said coldly, "If you don't speak Chinese, how can you seriously treat yourself as a Chinese?" One or twenty years later, messing with him again, killing him again and bleeding like a river - and so on, hehe, isn't it fun? ”

Renshou's face turned red and white, and he couldn't speak.

"Lao Rui," Guan Zhuofan made an extremely sincere appearance, "After Chinese is designated as the 'lingua franca', it is not only 'Chinese', but also 'Chinese'!" The purpose of making Chinese the 'lingua franca' is for the unification of the country and long-term peace and stability! The clan and the country are the same, the country is good, can the clan be bad? The clan is supported by the state, and the country is rich and strong, and the first one to fall into the favor is not the clan, which one else can it be? ”

After a while, Renshou breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Yixuan, I obeyed you!" I also figured it out, although I had nothing to do, but I had to do it, I ...... Seconded! ”

After a pause, he said: "It's okay, if you make Chinese the 'lingua franca', the Han people must be proud, and they should ...... It's even more desperate. ”

More desperate? Is that really the case?

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How did the Han people react to the designation of Chinese as the "lingua franca"? Let's select the three most representative of them - Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and Zuo Zongtang, let's take a look.

In the Governor's Mansion, Zeng Guofan and his most trusted staff Zhao Liewen sat opposite each other in the secret room.

"Huifu, do you still remember, in the second year of Tongzhi, well, it was almost the end of the year, the cold rain and the wind, the two of us traveled to Yanziji at night, what you told me?"

Zhao Liewen's eyes jumped: "What the prime minister said, but ...... 'won't die for fifty years'?" ”

Zeng Guofan said: "Exactly. ”

The conversation between Zeng and Zhao is roughly as follows:

Zeng Guofan said: "People come from Beijing, the weather in the capital is very bad, and the case of open fire is out from time to time, and there are groups of beggars in the market, and even women are naked and hakama. The people are poor and rich, and there are fears that there will be changes, so what can I do about it? ”

Zhao Liewen said: "The world's public security has been unified for a long time, and it is bound to be tamed to the point of separation. However, the lord is powerful, and the atmosphere has not been opened, if it is not for the core to be rotten, the situation of collapse will not be achieved. To a certain extent, the disaster of the different day must be fundamentally reversed first, and then the rear state has no owner, and people are in charge of their own affairs, and they will not die for 50 years. ”

Zeng Guofan said: "Then move south? ”

Zhao Liewen said: "I am afraid that Lu Shen will fail to follow the Jin and Song dynasties." ”

Zeng Guofan said: "This dynasty is virtuous, or not here." ”

Zhao Liewen said: "Junde is right, but the prosperity of the country is not unkind. At the beginning of the country, it was too easy to start a business, and the punishment was too heavy, so it was too clever to have the world, the way of heaven was difficult to know, good and evil were not drowned, and the virtue of the later monarch was not enough. ”

Zeng Guofan sighed: "I look forward to death day and night, and I am worried about the fall of the temple!" ”

In that year, Cai Shouqi folded and attacked King Gong, King Gong roared in front of the emperor and no one saluted, and was driven out of the military plane by the queen mother of the two palaces, Wenxiang visited Guan Zhuofan at night to "seek peace", Guan Zhuofan said that Wenxiang supported him to reform the Eight Banners, took Zeng Guofan, Zhao Liewen's words, concealed the names of the parties, replaced Zeng Guofan with "A", and replaced Zhao Liewen with "B".

Zeng and Zhao's words contain extremely taboo content, and they cannot enter the ears of third parties, so naturally they have not been circulated outside, how did Guan Zhuofan know? Hehe, naturally, it looks like it in Zhao Liewen's "Diary of Being Able to Live Quietly" - it's just that that's the 21st century.

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