181 Methods of buying hearts and minds

"His Majesty the Heavenly King said with a smile, with our military strength, to want to slaughter a million people scattered on the great plains of Lithuania, it is tantamount to a fool's dream, a Archduke Janusz Rajvir who set off a tide of people has already made the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uneven, if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really uses tens of thousands of troops to slaughter millions of foreign Li people, it will inevitably become the public enemy of the Lithuanians, at that time, even the Lithuanian nobles who have taken refuge in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will probably be limited by the pressure of the lower subordinates, and have to point their guns at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, After all, the foundation of the Lithuanian nobility was based on their serfs, private soldiers, knights, vassals, and other loyalists, not from a feudal edict from His Majesty.

During this period of time, His Majesty has roughly understood the spiritual world of the alien civilians in Lithuania through the investigation of Jinyiwei, and the vast majority of low-level Lithuanian civilians do not have the concept of the national level, in the eyes of Lithuanian civilians, they are Lithuanians first, and then nationals of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, in other words, Lithuanians prefer to obey the orders of the Lithuanian noble lords to which they belong, rather than the orders of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom.

Of course, Lithuanians are not unaware of the difference between large and small Lithuanian nobles, which is one of the reasons why Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir, a legacy of the Lithuanian royal family, has a high reputation among the people.

However, it may seem like this on the outside, but in fact the loyalty of the lower Lithuanians and the civilians living in this land who have been conquered and integrated is very confused, on the one hand, they believe that they should obey the orders of their lords, and on the other hand, they willingly obey the 'holy orders' of the local church priests, and sometimes even a group of robbers can force them to join them with swords.

It's just that these alien fools can't get rid of the basic needs of human beings - bread and land.

In fact, the foolish people in this land of Eastern Europe are a group of 'retarded minds' who are very easy to educate, and in short, we only need to hold bread in one hand and a musket in the other, so that they can be obediently tamed, which is also the reason why the Taiping army is rampant, but can ensure the basic order of the occupied areas.

However, it is easier said than done, because it is difficult to determine whether the obedient Lithuanians were really willing to dig through the land just to fill their stomachs, or whether they were temporarily dormant and hostile to the Taipings, which was the helplessness of maintaining a large garrison in the occupied areas of the Taipings.

Compared with the millions of Lithuanians, relying on the Taiping army alone is not enough to see the soldiers, and it is easy to attract the covetousness of foreign enemies if they are killed and killed, so we might as well let the Lithuanians supervise themselves and even make them hostile to each other.

His Majesty the Heavenly King's previous practice of supporting the Lithuanian nobles was exactly the intention, but the Lithuanian nobles are a minority after all, and they themselves are not willing to really contribute to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and many things are turned a blind eye, because they don't know if our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be the one who has the last laugh, our enemies are too many!

It is easy to divide the Lithuanian nobility and the Lithuanian people, but the aristocracy that is separated from the people will not help me much, the military strength of the Lithuanian nobles who have been oppressed by my heavenly kingdom will be seriously reduced, and it will be difficult for them to even protect themselves in the face of the peasant uprising. ”

"Zhang Juzheng, you mean, we still have to support a class?" After all, Hong Tiancheng is a modern man who has been influenced by various historical cases of later generations, supporting one tribe to suppress another, creating weak civil wars and racist vendettas, but the only magic weapon for European and American powers to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries in the 21st century has long been known.

"Yes, the rulers of the land of Europe have invented a simple and crude but very effective way to control the minds of the people - religion, their religion is not enough to shout two words of faith in God, whether it is Orthodox Christianity or Catholicism, the teachings of which will penetrate into the daily life of the people, and the prayer every Sunday has become a religious rule to consolidate the minds of the people.

Therefore, His Majesty believes that if you want to distinguish the 'attributes' of the Lithuanians in the occupied areas, you must first start from the religious aspect, Your Majesty the Heavenly King, we can combine the Taiping doctrine with the Han culture, and make it mandatory on a daily basis, for example, the white people who believe in the Taiping doctrine must learn Chinese, and it is best to divide the level of Chinese into one, two, three, four, five, six and so on.

We might as well divide the first major level of Chinese into several levels, based on the first, second and third levels, if we pass the Chinese level 4 test, that is, we have crossed the first threshold, we can take the level 4 Chinese test as the first standard for the white 'good people' in the occupied areas.

This level 4 Chinese should not only allow learners to have basic Chinese communication and understand the surface of Han culture, but also not too difficult, because in the future white people, the vast majority of people of different races may only be able to stay at the threshold of Chinese level 4.

As for the last two major levels of Chinese, they can be used as one of the test criteria for key training objects, and we select local officials from among the locals, which will greatly increase the cost of sending spies from the enemy country to infiltrate the local government, because this kind of test is not only the level of speaking Chinese, but also an in-depth understanding of Han culture and Taiping teachings.

Although the brainwashing aspect of our Han culture is not as simple and crude as religion, it has a unique charm, and we will also secretly send Jinyi Wei spies to supervise, once it is found that the incumbent white local officials have a resistance and neglect attitude towards the Han culture, they will be the focus of review, so that our spy organization can get a big way to investigate the enemy's spies.

Our forced conversion of Lithuanians to the Taiping doctrine will inevitably be resisted by the people, and at this time, the help of the army will be needed, and His Majesty the Heavenly King allowed the Lithuanian nobles to keep their fiefdoms, but in the war we still obtained a large area of terra nullius, which is the biggest bargaining chip that the Kingdom of Heaven uses to buy people's hearts! ”