Chapter 149: The Culture Wars

"Hahaha......" Li Zhen laughed heartily when he saw this: "You can think so, that's right, you remember, this killing doesn't need to be guilty at all, we are fighting for the future."

Now I order, at once gather everything that can be used, bury the body, and we will rest for the night, and continue our departure tomorrow. ”

"Wansheng~"

"Wansheng~"

"Wansheng~"

"Wansheng~"

"Wansheng~"

“……”

The boys' army shouted in unison.

After everyone dispersed, Baili Changsheng finally couldn't help it, stood up and asked, "Since His Highness said that it is best to exterminate all the alien races, what does His Highness mean by leaving the Turks?" Compared with these and such natives, it is the Turks in the north of the Tang Dynasty that pose a greater threat to us, right? Your Highness is now killing the weak and retaining the strong, isn't it a contradiction, and even more suspected of bullying the weak and afraid of the hard? ”

"Presumptuous~ How can you question Your Highness?" Fang Yiai was furious: "Baili Changsheng, don't forget your identity, we see that you are the emperor's sake, so we let you stay in the Young Army, don't think how important you are, tell you, this is the jungle, if you want a person to die silently and reasonably, I have a way." ”

"Don't be angry, Captain Bailidu's questioning is still very reasonable. Ben Wang can also explain it to you. Li Zhen stopped Fang Yiai, glanced at Baili Changsheng, and said lightly: "The reason why this king left the Turks is very simple, it is because the Turks are still useful, at least they can help us raise horses and sheep, and they can also provide strong warriors."

But what can you let them do with these Nanyang barbarians? What are they going to do with their laziness? They have survived here for thousands of years, and they have not conquered even the most basic jungles, and they still survive in the form of tribes, except for using them as coolies, what use do you say they have? To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that there was no one in my hands, even if I let them be slaves, I would be wasting food.

Besides, who said that I didn't deal with the Turks?

It's never just knives that can kill...... You go to the Turks and see, how many people still say that they are Turkic? ”

"This ......" Baili Changsheng's complexion changed suddenly, and he suddenly remembered that when he was in Chang'an, he had a party with a few Turkic friends, and a considerable number of them were wearing Han robes, and all of them were Zhou Li, and they all spoke Chinese, and they had never heard them call themselves Turkic, and even fewer used Turkic to converse—even between two Turkic people.

Whenever they mention themselves, they regard themselves as Tang people...... But none of them thought it was strange, but now that I think about it, it's not strange that it's so strange - why not strange?

Doesn't anyone think that the Turks wearing obviously ill-fitting Han robes are crowned by monkeys?

Didn't anyone think it was so strange for the Turks to speak stumbling Chinese?

Doesn't anyone think it's funny that the Turks are doing specious rituals?

Why is this happening?

Why hasn't anyone noticed this?

Or maybe everyone has noticed it, but because they have agreed, they have ignored it?

Baili Changsheng's face turned even paler......

Looking at Li Zhen's eyes, he was even more frightened, silently changing the character and culture of a nation, is this really something that one person can do?

"I think you should have thought of it too, and now in the entire Turkic, how many people still say that they are Turkic?" Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Zhen's mouth: "It's still the same sentence, it's never just knives that can kill, soft knives are even more terrible to kill, culture war is the real killing without blood, and conquering a nation in silence is the king's way:

First of all, to give the Turks a better life, so that they can identify with the rule of the Tang Dynasty;

Then send caravans to do business in the Turks, bring our Tang civilization with them, and slowly change their style of acting;

Then, send their children to study, learn about our culture, cut off the inheritance of barbarian culture, and wait for more than ten years, this generation will grow up, even if you want to cut off the Turks from the Tang Dynasty, they will not agree.

Now ten years have passed, a new generation of people has grown up, as for the effect, you should have seen it, it is said that some of this group of people have participated in the scientific examination, a few have also successfully passed the Jinshi, and one ranks in the top ten of the second class...... Doesn't all this prove the success of the Turkic policy? ”

"Huh~" This time, not only Baili Changsheng's face turned pale, including Fang Yiai, the faces of all those who heard this changed, and the eyes that looked at Li Zhen were also full of fear - the person in front of him, who was talking and laughing and easily changed a nation, was it really His Royal Highness the King of Yue that they were familiar with? Isn't that scary? It is impossible for His Highness Dian to be so terrifying. He can't be possessed by some kind of demon, right?

It is said that there are a lot of demons and monsters in the South Seas......

"You ...... Why are you looking at me like that? Am I saying something wrong? Li Zhen quickly noticed that everyone's eyes were wrong, and asked with some weakness. I also muttered in my heart, could it be that I said too much today and exposed something, so that they discovered the secret of my crossing? No, I just said something about the Turkic policy, I shouldn't have revealed anything else, right?

"Ahem~" Fang Yiai coughed twice and said, "Eh...... It's nothing, it's just Your Highness, is it really okay to say these policies? Doesn't it cause resent among the Turks? After all, we've calculated them. ”

"What's this? You're thinking too much. Li Zhen smiled indifferently and said: "You have such an idea in governing the office, it is because you ignore one point - in fact, whether it is Turkic, Goguryeo, or Baekje Silla, etc., etc., they actually have a sense of admiration for my Central Plains culture, they are all envious of the prosperity of my Tang Dynasty, and they think about learning all the time."

So no matter what reason we spread culture in the Turks, one thing that will not change is that through our transmission, the Turks have learned from us the culture they want, and there is no doubt about that. What's more, now that the Turks have integrated into the Tang Dynasty, even if they say it, it will be nothing, they may be angry at our calculations, but this will not affect the integration of the Turks and the Tang Dynasty. ”

Fang Yiai scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly: "It's also ha, we forgot about this, it was his subordinates who misunderstood His Highness, and asked His Highness for forgiveness." ”

"You're just worried about the country." Li Zhen shook her head and said without saying anything more.

Wow, it's snowing here, it's nearly twenty centimeters deep, and it's freezing to death.

(End of chapter)