Zi said: Learn and learn from time to time, don't you also say? There are friends from afar, don't you also say it? People don't know and are not ashamed, aren't they also gentlemen? ”

I don't know when the sound of reading came from the Temple of Literature in the Mayan Coastal Division of Zama City--the great temple built on the cliff, and I don't know what god it was for? But now it is enshrined here the most holy King Wenxuan, that is, Confucius, his old man. In today's Zama City, the name of Confucius is well known. Whether it was the Mayans or the Aztecs, everyone knew that Confucius was a very powerful god, more powerful than the god of the sun, the moon, and the tiger!

Because the most ferocious group of people in the entire city of Zama, the Aztec Green Battalion soldiers who came from the Mexica Valley, have become followers of Confucius! Whoever dares to speak ill of Confucius is likely to be captured by them and sacrificed to blood! This Aztec blood sacrifice is very powerful, not to put some blood, but to peel the skin and dig out the heart......

And this temple of literature in the Mayan coastal system is not only a place to worship Confucius, but also a place to study in Zama Prefecture.

Wen Tianxiang asked his good friend, the Confucian monk Jiudeng of Lin'an Lingyin Temple, to be the official school of Zama Prefecture, responsible for managing the official school and the Confucian Temple, and teaching Confucianism. The students were mainly the children of the Aztec Green Battalion and the Mayan nobility of Zama - and everyone had to go to school. The family of Mayan nobles had a baby, and they either entered the official school of Zama State, or went to study Buddhism as a small novice.

The place where the little novice was was also on this cliff. Another Mayan temple next to the Temple of Literature was converted into the Mayan Lower Courtyard of the Shaolin Temple. Presided over by the great monk Yongxin Quan, pujas are held every three or five days, and the great monk Yongxing or the stick monks who followed him to Mingzhou take the stage to speak - of course, in the Mayan language, which no one understands.

While preaching the Dharma. The Mayan Lower House of Shaolin Temple also recruits a small novice who shaves his head first. Follow the study of Buddhism, martial arts, and Chinese, and do not charge tuition. The cost of this Shaolin Temple Mayan Lower Courtyard was naturally provided by the Preparation Division. Every month, you can get several large baskets of cocoa beans.

As mentioned earlier, Zama was a Mayan port city and a center of trade, and it was a fairly wealthy city-state that maintained trade by sea and many nearby islands, as well as some coastal city-states in the south. After Wen Tianxiang became the governor of Zama, he set up a city department in Zama Prefecture, and also opened a wine, salt and gold and silver business under the city department, and the wine department was naturally responsible for making wine and selling wine. It's corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc. The natives here in Mingzhou are not good at making wine, and they are particularly good wine, so starting a wine business is naturally a profitable business.

Salt is used to make and sell salt, using the method of drying salt and boiling salt - because there are no iron tools, you can only use pottery to boil seawater, burn some dry, and then use the method of sunlight to evaporate the water. This is a method of salt production invented by the Mayans, and Wen Tianxiang just let the salt department take over all the salt works in Zama Prefecture and change them to a government-run monopoly.

The gold and silver business is the department that collects and searches for gold and silver, in this regard. Wen Tianxiang is much more civilized than Mengqi. He didn't send the Aztec Green Battalion out to steal the god's stool, he traded wine for stool...... 100 catties of Zama soju for 1 catty of stool (which must have been pulled out by God) or 10 catties of silver. In addition, cocoa beans can also be exchanged for gold and silver, and the price is the same as Zama shochu.

Meantime. Wen Tianxiang also sent people to search for gold and silver mines everywhere in the territory of Zama Prefecture, but nothing has been found so far.

In addition to the Municipal Division, a production department was also established under the Zama Prefecture Administration. Under the production department, there are shipbuilding and hospital affairs. The former was responsible for shipbuilding - Zama had a shipbuilding workshop, but the Mayans could only build small boats. That is, the wood is the boat, and the wood is the pole. The Mayans relied on these ships for their maritime trade, but they could not cross the Atlantic. Therefore, Wen Tianxiang invited Han shipwrights from Yinshan Port (craftsmen on the Second Mingzhou Expedition. It is not a military member, so it can be recruited) to serve as a shipbuilder and preside over the work of replicating spinnakers.

The latter is a hodgepodge of handicraft workshops, including those who make weapons, those who make armor, those who make clothes, those who make paper, those who make pottery, woodware, and those who print books, and there are hundreds of workshops of all kinds. Most of the craftsmen are Mayan natives from Zama City, and only the Tiju Production Division is a Han Chinese invited from Yinshan City.

At present, the Confucian costumes worn by the Zama Prefecture officials and students, the "Analects" in their hands, and the four treasures of the study room and the desks and chairs they use are all provided by this production department.

After a while, after the arrival of the Mingzhou pioneer team in large numbers, there will even be a yamen of the agriculture and animal husbandry department in Zama Prefecture who manages farmland and animal husbandry.

Although this kind of government-run and government-run model of copying the Song Dynasty was inevitably inefficient and was basically abandoned in the Ming Dynasty, it had its value in the Mingzhou colony.

This Zama Prefecture, which was run by Wen Tianxiang with the "Song system", became the most prosperous industrial and commercial and trading city in the entire Mingzhou for a long time. And this kind of use of professionals (not Confucians) as officials to manage production. And the "Zama model" of full governance by the governor or king, or the grand duke, or the prince, or the system or something, has also been copied to almost all the colonial cities of Mingzhou, and has become the standard model for the Ming Dynasty to develop Mingzhou.

Of course, the method of educating the indigenous soldiers and the children of the nobility and cultivating agents with official education. It was also an important part of the "Zama model", and was later used not only in Mingzhou, but also in other Chinese colonies around the world.

Therefore, in the official history books of later generations, Zhou Xiaoqi was called the "discoverer", Meng Qi was called the "conqueror", and Wen Tianxiang was undoubtedly the "colonist".

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Just when the Mingzhou development fleet sailed out of Dinghai Port and sailed eastward, the era of Han people's large-scale foreign colonization was about to begin.

The colonist Wen Tianxiang is presiding over an exam in the lobby of the Temple of Literature with the monk Nine Lights. The hall of Nuoda was full of Aztec scholars sitting on the ground, and each of them had a low table in front of them, on which were placed the four treasures of the study, and there was a scroll of Wen Tianxiang's question. The examination was Confucianism, mainly the contents of the "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Texts" and "Three Character Classics", and one of the major topics was the interpretation of the "Analects" -- of course, a "Analects" was not taught so quickly, and now only a few of them are taught.

And the textbooks of the Zama Prefecture official school are "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Three Character Classics" and "Analects", the Three Classics of Heaven and Dao, Wen Tianxiang is not a bird, and naturally he will not use it to teach Aztec scholars.

His ideal was to use Confucian principles to educate the barbarians of Mingzhou, and to pass down the Taoism of Confucius and Mencius in Mingzhou. Then he sailed across the ocean to Flynn, and then to Europa, to spread the truth of Confucius to the scholars there—and of course, with thousands of heavily armed Aztec green battalions!

"Teacher, the disciple has done a good job."

Someone had already handed in the papers, and it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Aztec scholar -- although all the Aztec soldiers in the Green Battalion had to learn Confucianism, most of these people were clumsy, and they couldn't even memorize half of the three-character scripture after studying it for a long time, and they could barely speak some Chinese. However, there are also some smart students among them, and this one was the first to hand in the papers.

"It turned out to be Tesven, and he was the first to hand in the papers." Monk Jiudeng smiled gently, took the paper and glanced at it, all the questions were answered, although the handwriting was crooked, but he could barely understand it. It's really not easy! After all, it has been less than a year since the Zama State Government School opened.

"Go back to your seat and sit down, and then you can finish class together when everyone is done." The monk said softly, and raised his hand again.

Tesven bowed, "The student knows." Then he saluted Wen Tianxiang, who was sitting next to the monk of the Nine Lights, and then walked back to his seat lightly, kneeling upright and waiting, with the demeanor of a scholar.

Wen Tianxiang stroked his beard and nodded with satisfaction. Although these Aztecs were savage and liked to skin and bleed people, they were much easier to indoctrinate than the Jinshan Indians, and they also obeyed the rules in class...... This is because the Aztec society was more advanced than that of the Jinshan Indians, they had entered the class society, formed the city-state, and had their own education system - it was not easy to knock people out on the battlefield, skin them, bleed them, etc., and it took a long time to learn to master!

In addition, the Aztec civilians were also required to receive education and learn the skills of farming, breeding, and handicrafts. In the words of later generations, the Aztecs were a city-state with free and compulsory education for all! Although the Aztec education system imparts very backward knowledge.

It is also worth mentioning that the Aztecs also had their own hieroglyphs, which were understood only by priests, but were much more advanced than civilizations without writing.

"Brother Wenshan, the volume has been changed, you can also take a look." Monk Jiudeng handed the scroll made by the student named Teswen (of course, given by Jiudeng to Wen Tianxiang), and his face showed a satisfied expression.

The paper is well done, but there are a lot of typos, but if you don't consider the typos, this Tesven also got a few questions right.

"Not bad, indeed." Wen Tianxiang looked at the volume, and also showed a surprised expression, in less than a year, he was able to learn this level. This Teswen is really a talent, if he was born in the Great Song Dynasty and was taught by a famous teacher since he was a child, he should have one or two percent hope of being admitted to the Jinshi.

Wen Tianxiang nodded and put down the scroll, "It seems that there is still hope here in Mingzhou, as long as we are carefully educated, within a few years, we will be able to rule Zama Prefecture." Then you and I will be able to sail east to Flynn. (To be continued......)