The herdsman Tom Taji also entered the city of Helin with his wife and a few horses, preparing to register with Zhang Huangyan, the prefect of Helin, and get a certain quota of grassland, and exchange a few horses for a few lambs and horses from the government. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tumtaji did not plan to exchange the few horses he raised for tea and other Central Plains goods, he planned to use the lambs and horses exchanged for horses after he got the meadow, so as to raise some of his own animals.

Of course, these horses he raised were originally raised for the upper nobles of the Lin Dan Khan Department, but now the main cavalry of the Lin Dan Khan Department has been wiped out, and the Ming court ordered that all the animals raised by the herdsmen for their owners will be rewarded for their own private ownership and do not need to be handed over, so now the horses raised by this Tumutaji have become his own.

On the contrary, under the comparison of the current life of the Mongolian herdsmen in the southern Mongolia, they have long hoped that the Ming Dynasty can get out of the customs as soon as possible to eliminate the Lin Dan Khan, so that they can also have their own grassland like the Mongolian herdsmen in Southern Mongolia as soon as possible, and the cattle, sheep and horses and other animals raised also belong to them, and the imperial court has to pay wages for requisitioning them, and even their children can go to school.

Although Tomtaji, like other Mongolian herdsmen, is a Mongolian and does not understand the language of the Han Chinese, under the influence of the Central Plains culture for a long time, even ordinary herdsmen know that once a person masters the written language, it is equivalent to grasping the key to changing their fate, so they also hope that their children can master the written language, of course, they do not care whether the writing is Chinese or Mongolian.

Tomutaji also has a son who has just turned seven, but due to the influence of the climate of the Xiaoice River in recent years, the herdsmen in Mobei Mongolia are not as good as before, so his seven-year-old son Tatoer has been a little malnourished since he was a child, and his body is thin, but he is very sensible, he knows filial piety since he was a child, and often goes to milk his parents to drink, which also makes Tomutaji still love his son for ten minutes, and it is precisely because of his doting that he does not dare to let him go to the horse bow too early, so as not to hurt his son.

Now that the Helin Mansion wants to open a social school, and requires that the children of each family need to register first and then distribute if they want to go to school, so Tomu Taji wants to go to the social science office to register his son's name when he registers his household registration.

Tomutaji even imagined that his son would be as majestic as the man on the stage wearing a scarlet robe and a plain gold belt around his waist in the future.

"What's your name?"

Tumtaji trembled and pulled his son to Zhang Huangyan, and specially approached to stare at Zhang Huangyan's official robe, but Zhang Huangyan did not look up, in order to pursue efficiency, he directly asked Tumtaji in Mongolian.

"Tumu Taji", after Tumu Taji replied in Mongolian, Zhang Huangyan also replied in Mongolian: "In the future, if you can use Chinese, you will use Chinese, and those who can use Chinese will be rewarded with ten silver dollars, and a silver medal of naturalization will be naturalized. Your name is Tumu Taji, so you changed your surname to Mu, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a servant Shi Muyu and his four sons were people of noble character and became a famous family for a while, and the Northern Song Dynasty had a heroine Mu Guiying, you have now changed your surname to Mu, and after you have become famous, your name is Mu Ji, ask for an auspicious gift, can there be other people in the family? ”

Propriety? Now Mongolian herdsmen are most afraid of the word "rules", almost everyone will be frightened when they hear the word "rules", after thinking of the phenomenon that countless people have been killed directly because of breaking the rules, almost no Mongolian herdsmen dare to violate the rules issued by the government.

Now, Tumtaji, who has changed his name to Muji, does not dare to violate this rule, of course, as an ordinary herdsman, he does not have much resistance to this rule of changing his name to a Han name, so he can't risk his life to break this rule.

For herdsmen like Tomtaji, they don't attach so much importance to the cultural connotation of their surnames, so it is not difficult to get them to change their names, and after silently reciting his new name several times, he spreads out his hand according to Zhang Huangyan's instructions, and Zhang Huangyan writes his own name on his hand, so that he can memorize it several more times, and at the same time, he has to continue to answer Zhang Huangyan's words.

Zhang Huangyan continued to register and give his family a Chinese name according to his answer, in which his wife's real name Gu Ya was changed to Gu Ya, and his son was changed to Mu Tuo.

Changing the name of the Mongolian people to the Han name was the first step of the Ming Dynasty's cultural unification of them, just as the reform of Emperor Xiaowen in the Northern Wei Dynasty began with the first change of surname.

Not only the Tomutagi family, but almost every family was also given a new surname, and at this time, there were no big families, and the surname could be used casually, but there was no need to worry about anyone in the customs to oppose it.

"Seven years old, you can go to school, go to the side to register", Zhang Huangyan also specially instructed this Muji to persuade him to let his son go to school as soon as possible.

Mu Ji naturally agreed again and again, his wife's family belongs to Monan Mongolia, and he also went to visit Mo Nan because he was worried that his wife's maiden family would fall into trouble because of the occupation of the Ming Dynasty, but he never thought that his wife's family had become a local rich family because of the large amount of grassland divided after the Ming Dynasty occupied Mo Nan, at least much richer than his family, and he also saw the solemn scene of his wife's children wearing colorful Hanfu in the school to read the Four Books and Five Classics.

On the one hand, the unique charm of Han culture itself, and on the other hand, the admiration for the written word, in short, it was from then that Muji began to have a stronger desire to let his children go to school.

However, it is worth mentioning that, considering the different purposes of education, Yang Tinglin, the secretary of the school, asked His Majesty Zhu Youqi to approve that the reform of academic administration should only be carried out in the Guan, while the old-fashioned Confucian education would continue outside the Guan.

Because the education in the customs is to open up the wisdom of the people, cultivate more compound and multi-faceted talents for the Ming Dynasty, and implement a new type of multidisciplinary training education for the purpose of rapidly improving the literacy rate.

The purpose outside the Guanxi is to make these Mongolian herdsmen truly sinicized, agree with the Confucian norms of benevolence and righteousness, and no longer kill arbitrarily, so they should continue to use the previous set of Confucian teaching methods, teaching their words and teaching their etiquette and ethics at the same time, so that these herdsmen can really be educated, and truly become obedient people, and they have the idea of loyalty.

Therefore, many years later, some old scholars have to sigh, saying that now only outside the customs can listen to the students read the people, learn the study of the sages, know the four books and five classics, but in the customs is too mixed, there are proficient in geography but do not know Confucius and Mencius, those who know the art of things do not understand Zhu Zi's words, the style of study is more important to the people who read the name of merit, and the emphasis on practical learning has far exceeded the study of self-cultivation.