When "Cripple" Edward slipped back to England with a lame leg and a wounded heart.

Kublai Khan, the second son of God, the Great Khan of Mongolia and Europa, had just arrived at Schönbrunn Palace on the outskirts of his Xijing Paris. The "Schönbrunn Palace" is located on the left bank of the Seine, about 60 kilometers from Paris. Surrounded by forests, beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, it was originally the hunting palace of the kings of France. In another time and space, this hunting palace consisting of castles, palaces, courtyards and gardens also has a very nice name, the Palace of Fontainebleau. "Fontainebleau" is a French transliteration that means "beautiful spring".

Kublai Khan preferred the Schönbrunn Palace to the dirty, messy, poor and small city of Paris, so he stayed here. It became the de facto capital of the entire Mongol-Europa Empire.

This time Kublai Khan returned from the Swiss front. The attack on Switzerland did not go well, and the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Switzerland desperately organized 50,000 German pikemen, and the Italian countries sent another 40,000 crossbowmen. After more than a month of bitter fighting with the Mongols, the two sides reached a stalemate. Eventually, the construction of castles in their respective zones of control began, preparing for the enduring.

At the same time, the Mongol offensive against Austria, Aragon and Navarre also did not make much progress. The Holy Roman Emperor Alphonse I held on to the city of Vienna and held back the Mongols. The Iberian states and the Ming coalition armies, under the command of the new Ming Governor of the Atlantic and the Viceroy of Macau, Lieutenant General Meng Qi, held all the castles in the Pyrenees.

Obviously, the Mongol offensive has come to an end, and the Europa, with the support of the Ming Empire, still have the strength to rely on the mountains to defend themselves.

Answer Schönbrunn Palace. Kublai Khan immediately convened a state council of all the banners, vice-governors, and civil and military ministers in the Paris Palace. Let everyone speak freely and discuss the future of the country.

"The two countries are fighting each other. After all, the contest is national strength, and our great Mongolia is now unfavorable to the south, and in the final analysis, the national strength is not enough to overwhelm the countries of Europa. Although our Great Mongolia has pacified most of Europa, it is only a preliminary decision, and it has not yet been firmly grasped, and it is impossible to fully use the manpower and material resources in it. According to what the ministers and others have seen, it is still necessary to follow the old practice of the two rivers and the Central Plains in the newly occupied land as soon as possible, demarcate provinces, prefectures, and counties, and set up official offices. Suppress lawlessness, collect taxes, and recruit soldiers for errands. ”

This was the view of the ministers who held a steady view, and the meaning was very straightforward, and the Great Mongol State did not now overwhelm the power of the Europa countries. After all, the population, financial resources, and production of the countries of Europa already surpassed that of Mongolia. Now the Mongols can fight France, in fact, mainly because the Europa themselves will not fight. But these Europa people are now also learning to be obedient, and they have the military advisers of the Ming Dynasty to teach, so they are naturally good at it. It is impossible to achieve such a landslide victory as the Vistula victory. It's better to be realistic and manage the territory that has already been acquired.

"Demarcate provinces, states and counties. Set up a government office? How many officials do you have to do that? Can we get it? ”

This was the opinion of the more pragmatic ministers, for it was difficult to establish a bureaucratic centralization in Europa like in the Central Plains, and the Mongols had never ruled in Europa, and therefore there were few officials to drive. And Europa has always been divided into feuds. There were not enough bureaucrats and reserve bureaucrats themselves to act as lackeys for the Mongols. This is not the same as the Central Plains and the Two Rivers.

"Now that Europa has not yet been unified, and there are enemies in both the north and the south who have rebelled against the Great Khan, it is now necessary to turn our energies to governing the region. Isn't it a little early? ”

There are also a group of radical ministers who want to pacify Europa in one fell swoop, and they advocate pacifying Europa first and then considering how to govern it.

Everyone has finished their opinions. waited for Kublai Khan to speak, but he was still silent. It seems that this is indeed a difficult matter. Europa's territory must be governed, but it is not easy to govern, and Greater Mongolia has no foundation here after all. Once the decision is made to govern, it will require a lot of manpower and material resources, and the war against the countries of Europa can only be stopped.

Kublai Khan's gaze was blazing, and he swept lightly over the faces of the civil and military ministers in the hall, and finally stayed on Liu Xiaoyuan's face. Liu Xiaoyuan hasn't spoken today!

"Great Khan!"

Liu Xiaoyuan took a step forward, and everyone's ears immediately stood up - Kublai Khan was very trustworthy to this favorite! It's almost a matter of words......

"After investigating in Paris for half a month, he found that there were very few people who could read French characters."

The ministers are confused, the thing they are talking about today is obviously the governance of Europa, how can they become more literate? What's so strange about the lack of literate people? How troublesome is it to read and write? At least half of the people in this hall don't know a word!

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "The Europa people are so ignorant, they don't have any books, and they don't even know how to make paper. In the past, those who knew some writing were nobles who were not Christian clergymen but came from famous families. Now these two groups of people have either been killed by us, or they have fled to the south or England. The Europa people who remained in Paris were almost all illiterate and illiterate......"

Hearing this, many Mongolian generals were a little unconvinced, what's wrong with being illiterate? Illiterate and uneducated, did you still lay the foundation of Nuoda?

"Ignorant people have no opinions, and are the easiest to manipulate, and if there are no literate clergy and nobles to make trouble in secret, it will not be difficult to set up provinces and establish official offices."

Liu Xiaoyuan paused for a moment, and then said: "If you want to destroy your country, you must first destroy its history, and if you want to destroy its clan, you must first destroy its culture...... And the most effective way to destroy its history and culture is to eliminate its writing! ”

Sure enough!

A group of civil and military ministers, including more than a dozen illiterate Mongols, all provoked a thumbs up in their hearts. This Liu Xiaoyuan's so many books really haven't been read in vain, it's almost damaged to the bones! It seems that it makes sense to know Braille and read some books!

Liu Xiaoyuan paused, smiled, and continued: "And the best way to cut off its writing is to burn its books, destroy its priests and nobles, and leave only the ignorant people, so that it will be easy to educate." And it's not hard to do in Europa......"

Indeed, Europa at this time was claimed to be the Dark Middle Ages, but in fact it was quite dark. It's so dark that there's no paper...... Oh. It should be said that there is no low-cost paper, that is, the kind of paper used by Chinese that can wipe the ass. The Europa people now use parchment. This thing is expensive, and the owner who is not a little wealthy can't practice writing at all. So there are very few literate people. The proportion of the population is about one percent.

Moreover, because parchment is too expensive, so books are also expensive, not only expensive but also few. So little that it was not even necessary to develop the printing industry, and the books of Europa in this era were copied by hand. As a result, books are not only expensive, but also scarce and not too difficult to destroy.

Yao Shu, who was no less booked than Liu Xiaoyuan, shook his head again and again at this time. A different opinion was raised, "But without the Europa script, the whole country will be illiterate, who should be the official?" If there is no one to be an official, then the provinces, prefectures, and counties will be demarcated, and the matter of establishing an official office can be ......"

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "Why do we demarcate provinces, prefectures and counties, and why do we set up official offices?" Isn't it so that you can rule Europa for a long time? But if only the Europa people still had their writing, and knew their history. knows that their country was destroyed by us, and that they became slaves of the country and were crushed by us. Will there be long-term peace and stability in this Europa? ”

"But we can burn the books on our own territory, and kill the priests and nobles of Europa on our own territory. The countries of Europa to the south. In England to the north, don't there still be people who know the writing of Europa and know the history of Europa? ”

The question was asked by an eleven or twelve-year-old boy. He has a fat head and big ears, and a pair of triangular eyes that are exactly the same as those of Kublai Khan. The boy stood behind Kublai Khan. Dressed in a pure white robe, barehead and without a hat. The hair was combed into two braids and hung down from the ears.

Liu Xiaoyuan saluted the young man respectfully and replied, "Your Royal Highness, we must not only exterminate the Europa people's own writing, but also teach them our writing. We must not only exterminate the history of the Europa themselves, but also teach the Europa people the history we have written. In this way, the people of Europa on our side use our words and believe in the history we tell them. Naturally, the Europa of England and the Europa of the southern countries will be regarded as enemies. When the time comes, we will be able to drive the Europa to fight the Europa......"

This young man turned out to be a Mongolian prince, and the eldest grandson of Kublai Khan, the concubine of the prince of Zhenjin who was burned to death by Chen Dexing in Lin'an, named Huang Ebo. Because her mother was just a slave girl, she shouldn't have been taken seriously. But due to the tragic death of Zhenjin, he was the only bloodline of Zhenjin, so he received special care from Kublai Khan. Now that he is a little older, he was taken by Kublai Khan's side, which made several of Kublai Khan's sons red-eyed.

"Drive the Europa to fight the Europa? Isn't this the same as when we drove the Han people to fight the Han people? "But the Han people finally betrayed our Great Mongolia!" ”

This was said so bluntly that even Kublai Khan frowned, "Huang Erbo, the Han people have good and bad ......"

What is the ...... The level of talking is also not good, who is a good man? Who would dare to say that the Han people who followed Chen Dexing to drive out the Mongols and create the Ming Dynasty were bad? They are not good, you Kublai Khan still sent Liu Bingzhong to be a minister? If Chen Dexing, a Han man, is good, then the Han people who are following you now Kublai Khan are not bad and traitorous?

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and said: "It is precisely because the Han people in the Central Plains have their own writing, their own history, and their own culture that they will follow Chen Dexing after his rise." If they don't have words, history and culture, even if a hero like Chen Dexing is born, no one will follow, no one will follow, and naturally they won't be able to become a climate. ”

When Kublai Khan heard this, he nodded slightly, as if he was saying to himself, "It's a pity...... There are too many readers and too many books in Handi, so it's not easy to ban it! ”

The young man named Huang Ebo also said: "Grandfather, there are few people who read and there are few books in Europa, so it's easy to ban it, right?" ”

Kublai Khan shook his head and said, "It's not easy! Because we really have to rely on the literate Europa to manage the illiterate Europa, if we ban it......"

He didn't say any more, but Huang Ebo shook his head and said: "It's only inconvenient to ban it for one or two decades, and if you don't ban it, I'm afraid it won't be stable for one or two hundred years!" We would rather fight for one or two decades of inconvenience than ask for one or two hundred years of stability! ”

Kublai Khan was stunned for a moment, looked back at his grandson, nodded heavily, and his tone was full of appreciation, "What a spirit!" Worthy of being a descendant of Genghis Khan! If the first great khans had such determination, why would Great Mongolia be where it is today? ”

He turned his head, his gaze full of determination, followed by emotionless words, "This is the case!" From now on, all Europa scripts are forbidden, and all Christian clergy, Europa nobles, and merchants who are proficient in Europa scripts are arrested! In the future, anything related to Europa writing will not be allowed to enter the country! ”

Kublai Khan ordered that Europa history has officially entered the darkest age!

"As for what kind of script to use instead of Europa script......" Kublai Khan looked at Liu Xiaoyuan, "Liu Qing, tell me about it." ”

"Naturally, Chinese characters and Mongolian characters are used together." Liu Xiaoyuan replied.

"What? With kanji? ”

"Why do we use Chinese characters in Mongolia?"

"Judge Liu, don't you advocate the use of Chinese characters just because you are Han, right?"

The Mongols present began to discuss. A Mongolian script is already a headache for them, and adding another Chinese character will be troublesome!

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled faintly, looked at the expressionless Kublai Khan, and said: "Of course, Mongolian characters are fundamental, and Chinese characters are ...... Now it is a universal passage. If we want to associate with the Ming Dynasty in the future, and learn the Ming Dynasty's H medicine, guns, shipbuilding, and steelmaking techniques, this Chinese character must be learned. Otherwise, we can't understand the books and texts of the Ming Dynasty, how can we communicate? How to learn other people's skills? If you don't learn from other people's skills, how can you keep Europa's territory? ”

The reason for this...... It doesn't seem to be enough. However, Kublai Khan's triangular eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "If it is peaceful, the Han script can pass through Europa." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, why did they go around in a circle and return to seek peace? Is this statement really that scary?

Liu Xiaoyuan bowed and said, "Great Khan, the minister is willing to go to Hong Kong." ”

Kublai Khan nodded, and then said, "I am willing to make peace not only with the Great Ming, but also with the English language. Liu Qing can try to contact Prince Edward of England to clarify the matter. My great Mongolia, my ambition is only on land, and I don't want to cross the ocean! (To be continued.) )