Chapter 426: A scripture in one hand and a sword in the other

"They refuse to convert to Wanghua and die, so what are they going to do?"

Guo Hong said indifferently. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the Great Commander of the Second Cavalry Corps was standing outside an Arab settlement on his beloved white Antalusian horse, and in front of him a large number of Ming cavalry rushed into the middle of the adobe houses like wolves hunting, flying with their sabers and slashing down any adult man they could reach, whether he had a weapon or not.

This army is newly formed.

The first to arrive was the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, this brigade was in Central Asia before, they were used to doing this kind of thing in the Kazakh steppe, not to mention just slaughtering villages, even slaughtering cities didn't care, adult men were killed, and underadults were captured and taken away as slaves, as for women......

As for women, they naturally keep it for enjoyment.

At this time, the Ming army, especially in the colonies and frontiers, could actually be described as completely brutal.

Of course, when they return to the mainland, they are all good law-abiding citizens, filial piety to their parents and neighbors, helping grandmothers cross the road, and picking kites for children, but when they get outside, it is a group of jackals, tigers and leopards, in the final analysis, this is just a cognitive problem, if those who die under their knives are inferior animals that can be killed like domestic animals in their cognition, then there is no psychological barrier.

Well, that's what we're looking for.

After only ten minutes, the cavalry had leveled the whole village, and then left the dead bodies everywhere, and as they left, the cavalry casually threw grenades filled with white phosphorus into the village, and then as the phosphorus fire splashed, the whole village turned into a raging flame, and at the same time, a large number of slaves were also driven out, including many female nuns, who were chained behind their horses, crying in terror and walking.

Guo Hong had no intention of stopping his subordinates.

Like a statue of terror, he quietly admired the raging fire and listened to the cries of the Arabs.

"My lord, someone brought it."

At this moment an officer stopped beside him, clenched his fists on his horse, and said.

Guo Hong nodded lightly.

He has a knighthood and can be called an adult.

Soon more than a dozen Arabs were brought over, and one by one they looked at the fire in the distance, at the women and children who were chained behind their horses, and then at the Ming soldiers who were talking and laughing with their sabers dripping blood, and immediately couldn't help but bow their heads in horror, and quickly dismounted and walked to Guo Hong, and knelt down busily, and bowed to the ground like a pilgrimage.

"Are you willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty?"

Guo Hong said lightly.

A translator next to him hurriedly repeated it to him.

Those Arabs hurriedly agreed, they were the leaders of several nearby tribes, at this time Yemen was completely scattered, the last counterattack on Aden can be said to be a rare unity, but after that almost total annihilation, there was no such thing left, the Ming army began to expand outward either surrendered or was destroyed, and these choices were surrenders, as for the burning tribe chose to be destroyed.

"So do you know what to do?"

Guo Hong said.

Those Arabs were at a loss.

"Tell them the rules."

Guo Hong beckoned to an officer and said.

The latter immediately stepped forward, took out a document and read: "Burn all the temples and scriptures, put all the monks to death, eradicate all the writings and carvings related to the old religion, women are not allowed to cover their faces, the old code is forbidden, all laws are based on the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it is forbidden to teach the old script and the historical calendar, and all books related to them must be burned." Each ministry must have at least one shrine and provide for the necessities of life for the priests and their servants, each household must purchase a set of oracles, one person from each household must attend on the day of the priest's preaching, each ministry must build a school, and all children must be educated in the school, at the expense of each ministry itself......"

Well, it's a long document, a dozen pages.

In short, according to this document, these Arabs must completely sever all relations with their past, except for the language, which cannot be solved in a short period of time, even the clothing must be discarded, and then replaced with the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty, as for whether the clothes are suitable for their living environment, this has nothing to do with the maker of the document, fortunately, it is not a big deal, and they have not seen them wear robes every day in modern times, not to mention that at this time the clothes of the Ming Dynasty are actually very simple.

And their writings, histories, calendars and other things have all been removed, including all the books have been burned, and even the Arabian Nights have been included in the list of destruction.

Next, Taichang Temple, a large number of priests and education officials from the Ministry of Rites and Religion will also come one after another, including some Chinese culture teachers sent by the Ministry of Education, the latter are specially hired from Goryeo and are proficient in all Confucian classics, and those who have been polluted by miscellaneous studies are not of the same grade. Then shrines will be built, schools will be built to teach Chinese and Chinese, and textbooks will be sent specifically for them. The rest is a matter of time, one generation is definitely not good, but the second generation is estimated to be about the same, and by the third generation it is estimated that they should completely forget the past and run to the holy shrine every day to pray sincerely in Chinese to the statue of Emperor Yang.

This is the real conquest.

With a scripture in one hand and a sword in the other, those who convert live or do not die!

In less than fifty years, the people of this land will have completely forgotten the past! Forget their past language, writing, beliefs, history, and culture and forget everything, and their memories will only be the Holy Religion, only the Emperor, and only the Ming Empire, and then they will only keep such memories for generations, and everything old will be annihilated in the sky like ashes rising from the flames.

This is the land of the Ming Dynasty.

It has been since ancient times.

Until then, of course, the killings will continue.

Armed to the teeth, the Ming army is constantly landing in the port of Aden, and then turning into wolves sweeping Yemen, spreading to the periphery, all they have walked through, leaving behind the most is the raging fire, the burning of temples, the burning of books, and even the burning of people, the burning of the city, the fire that burns everything old like a wildfire raging on the steppe in the dry season, and then waits for the rainy season to rain, when the new grass germinates here, it will be verdant, but it is no longer the same as before.

Also landed in the port of Aden, there are countless businessmen chasing profits.

They served the soldiers, provided everything they needed, and then bought from the latter everything they had plundered, slaves, women, all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry, and helped them turn their blood-stained wealth into bank accounts for their relatives in the country to enjoy at will. When their relatives in China use these to buy all kinds of fashionable clothes, build more beautiful houses, buy carriages for travel, and even buy a beautiful girl, they will not see a trace of blood on those dragon dollar bills.

They also served the conquered people, buying cotton, leather, and wool from the latter, and then shipping them back to domestic factories, turning them into clothing, shoes, blankets and other daily necessities, and then returning to the hands of those people, and this simple process brought the prosperity of countless Ming factories, the wealth of countless Ming workers, and the guarantee of the luxurious life of countless Ming merchants, and the people here have been at the bottom of this industrial chain for generations, with their blood and sweat to support the prosperity of that distant country.

That's what conquest is all about.

"What's the point of conquest without plunder?"

Emperor Yang said with his wine glass.

He was standing high in a luxurious stand at this time, the queen and several noble concubines were clustered around him, a bunch of large and small princes and princesses were frolicking around, and those palace maids and eunuchs were carefully watching over the next generation of these empires, and the eldest prince was already ten years old, sitting there in a boy scout uniform, maintaining his majesty like an adult, but more gentlemanly than his father.

According to the Ming system, all Han children must be incorporated into the Boy Scout after they reach the age of ten, and then undergo ten days of military training every year, regardless of gender, let alone the royal family.

This system swept the practice of foot-binding into the dustbin of history, because a little girl with bound feet was certainly not allowed to join the Boy Scouts, and anyone who avoided joining the Boy Scouts in any way as long as it was not a congenital or accidental disability was punished by their parents, as guardians, were also punished as evading military service. The punishment is usually exile, either to the icy and snowy land north of Blackwater, or to the vast wasteland of the Western Golden State, or to a savage island in the Spice Islands, in short, there is no good fruit to eat.

As a result, the footbinding is completely gone.

"Your Majesty, the Persians have ordered a large quantity of arms from our merchants."

Yang Zhong said respectfully on the side.

"Persians? Hussein can't sit still either? ”

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

It seems that the current Ottoman Empire has the smell of the wall falling down and everyone pushing it, and even their brothers who share the same faith are looking forward to tearing a piece of flesh from Ahmet III.

At this time, Persia still belonged to the Safavid Dynasty, and the sultan was Hussein, but at this time Persia was still very strong, and in addition to the modern Iranian part, it also occupied a large territory in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and the Caucasus. In particular, most of Afghanistan except for Kabul was under Persian rule, and they even defeated the Mughal Empire and entered Delhi more than a decade later, and then looted a large amount of gold and silver treasures, including those famous diamonds, as the Ming army did in Delhi.

But now......

"Don't worry about it, just let them buy it!"

Yang Feng said.

He doesn't care about these uninvited guys who join the feast of carving, anyway, they will all be swept into the garbage heap by him in the end, in fact, Hussein's choice is normal, although they are all bearded believers, but Persia and Ottomans are not brothers, the two have been killing each other for centuries, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a feud, originally in history, the Persians even allied with the Russians to deal with the Ottoman Empire, it is obvious that heresy makes them hate more than paganism.

In addition, the Persians are not looking for him to buy, in fact, the Persian official and the Ming official have long broken off normal exchanges, after all, Yang Feng's attitude towards Mu Dabeard is too bad, especially Yemen is still the territory of the Shiites, and what the Ming army did there could not make the Persians not express.

But that's just the way it goes.

In fact, the trade between the Ming and Persia is still normal, in other words, under the condition that the Ming controls the spice trade, the Persians have no other choice, and even the Ottomans still maintain normal trade with the Ming in the current situation, and they also need to buy guns from the Ming. So Hussein is looking for those civilian arms dealers to buy, now this kind of small arms dealers are very common, anyway, front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns are produced casually by the people, a large number of small arms factories are making this thing, and their products are also sold through these small arms dealers, such small arms dealers have almost no control.

Since the Persians were willing to pay money, Yang Feng certainly didn't mind letting his people earn more.

Anyway, as long as it's not rifled weapons, if you really want to fight, those weapons are no different from the Ming army and burning sticks, and it's even better to simply use cold weapons, and use these guns to induce those fierce Persian warriors to forget the bow and arrow scimitar, it should be said that it is also a good strategy, if they can be the same as the Eight Banners, because with guns and cannons, in the end they become a group of wastes who can only shoot toy bows, then the Ming army will face less pressure to conquer in the future.

"Your Majesty, please give orders!"

At this time, Xiao Guizi handed a flare gun to Yang Feng and said.

Then nearly 100,000 pairs of eyes all looked at His Majesty the Emperor together.

Well, this is Yingtian Stadium.

This large stadium with a capacity of 100,000 spectators, completely modeled after the modern design, rows of open-air seats are arranged in a stepped manner, surrounding the oval field below, and a large number of staff are busy on this ground, a team of athletes in various costumes are waiting at the entrance, and in front of them there is a little beauty holding a sign with their team name, that is, the name of each subject country of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the first National Games of the Ming Empire.

Sports have long been popular in the Ming Dynasty, and even football, basketball, etc., have become very common things, including various rules are also copied by Yang Feng in modern times, especially football is quite popular, after all, this thing has a long history in China, those young people who have nowhere to vent their energy in school, many are keen on these new things, and various competitions are also common, in this case, the next national sports meeting is expected.

Emperor Yang smiled and took the flare gun, then stood up, and then everyone stood up, and he pulled the trigger at the sky under the gaze of 100,000 pairs of eyes.

As a red signal flare exploded in the sky, the music of Man Jianghong was played, announcing the official opening of the Games. (To be continued.) )