The herdsman Tomutaji also entered Helin City with his wife and a few horses, preparing to register at Helin Prefect Zhang Huangyan, and get a certain quota of grassland. He also exchanged several horses for the government for several lambs and horsemen.

Tomutaji did not intend to exchange the few horses he had shepherded for tea and other Central Plains items. He planned to use the lambs and horsemen who exchanged them for horses to raise some of his own animals after they had divided the grass.

Of course, the horses he raised were originally raised by the upper nobles of the Lindan Khan tribe, but now the main cavalry of the Lindan Khan tribe has been wiped out, and the Ming Dynasty court ordered that all the animals raised by the herdsmen should be rewarded for their own private ownership without having to pay them over. Therefore, the few horses raised by Tomtaji have become his own.

Like many herders, Tomtaji was not dissatisfied with the complete occupation of Mongolia in northern Mo. On the contrary, compared with the current lives of Mongolian herders in southern Mo, they had long hoped that the Ming Dynasty would leave the pass as soon as possible to destroy Lin Dankhan's tribe, so that they would have their own grassland like Mongolian herders in southern Mo. The cattle, sheep, horses and other animals they raised belonged to themselves. The court would have to pay wages to requisition themselves, and even their children could go to school to study.

Although Tomtaji is a Mongolian like other Mongolian herdsmen and has no language to do with the Han people, under the influence of Central Plains culture for a long time, even ordinary herdsmen, know that once people master the words, it is equivalent to mastering the key to changing their destiny. Therefore, they also hope that their children can master the words, just like the Han people in the pass, they also hope that their children can master the words. Of course, they do not care whether these words are Chinese or Mongolian.

Tomutaji also has a son who has just turned seven years old, but due to the influence of the Little Glacier climate in recent years, the lives of the herdsmen in northern Mongolia in northern Germany are not as good as before. Therefore, his seven-year-old son, Datuoer, has been a little malnourished since childhood and is extremely thin and slim. However, he is very sensible. He has known filial piety since childhood and often goes to squeeze horse milk for his parents to drink. This also makes Tomutaji still love his son for ten minutes. It is precisely because of spoiling that he dares not let him get on the horse and draw a bow too early to avoid hurting his son.

Now Helin Mansion is going to open a social school, and requires children from all families to register first and then distribute it. Therefore, Tumutaji thought of going to the social school office to register his son's name when he registered his household registration.

Tomutaji even fantasized that if his son would be as majestic as the Lord Zhang on the stage in the future, wearing a red robe and a plain gold belt, and was as majestic as the one on the stage.

"What is your name?"

Tomtaji pulled his son to Zhang Huangyan tremblingly, and came closer to stare at Zhang Huangyan's robe. Zhang Huangyan did not look up. In order to pursue efficiency, he directly asked Tomtaji in Mongolian dialect.

"Tumatji", after Toumatji answered in Mongolian dialect, Zhang Huangyan also answered in Mongolian dialect: "In the future, if you can use Chinese dialect, you will use Chinese dialect. If you can use Chinese dialect, the government will reward ten yuan of silver dollars and naturalize a silver medal of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't, there will be counties to start night learning and study. You can also get rewards if you learn and speak Chinese dialect after learning. But from now on, the name must be changed first. This is the rule! If you are called Toumatji, you will change your surname Mu. In the Tang Dynasty, there were also people with noble character and noble character, so you became a famous clan. There were also heroines of the Northern Song Dynasty. Now you have changed your surname Mu, and you can also be considered as having a famous family. The name is Muji. If you want a good family, you will be called Muji. If you want a good family, you will have other people in your family?"

Rules? What Mongolian herders are most afraid of now is the word "rule". Almost everyone will be frightened when they hear the word "rule". After thinking about the phenomenon that countless people were directly killed because of violating the rules, almost no Mongolian herder dares to violate the rules issued by the government again.

Now, Tomutaji, who has been renamed Muji, dare not violate this rule. Of course, as an ordinary herdsman, he did not have much resistance to the rule of changing his name to a Chinese name, so he did not have to risk his life to violate this rule.

For herdsmen like Tomutaji, they do not attach so much importance to the cultural connotation of their surnames, so it is not difficult to change their names. After he silently recited his new name several times, he spread his hands as Zhang Huangyan told him to write his own name on his hand so that he could memorize it a few more times. At the same time, he had to continue to answer Zhang Huangyan's words.

Zhang Huangyan followed his answer and continued to register and give his family a Chinese name. His wife's real name Guya was changed to Guya, while his son was changed to Mutuo.

Changing the name of the Meng people to the Han name was the first step for the Ming Dynasty to unify culturally, just like Emperor Xiaowen's reform began to change his surname during the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Not only the Tomutaji family, almost every family was given a new surname. There were no major families at this time, and the surnames could be randomly exposed, so there was no need to worry about opposition from anyone in the pass.

"At the age of seven, you can go to school, go and register." Zhang Huangyan also gave Mu Ji a special instructing him to let his son enroll as soon as possible.

Muji naturally agreed repeatedly that his wife's family belonged to Mongolia in Monan. He also went to Monan for a visit because of his fear that his wife's family would be in trouble because of the Ming Dynasty. However, he never thought that his wife's family had become a wealthy family in the local area because of the large number of grasslands occupied by Monan after the Ming Dynasty occupied Monan. At least much wealthier than his family. He also saw with his own eyes the solemn scene of the children of his wife's family wearing colorful Hanfu reading the Four Books and Five Classics in the school.

On the one hand, the unique charm of Han culture itself is the admiration of words on the other hand. In short, Muji began to have a stronger desire to let his children go to school since then.

However, it is worth mentioning that considering the different educational purposes, the Minister of the School Yang Tinglin asked His Majesty Zhu You to approve that the reform of academic administration will only be implemented within the pass, while the old Confucian education will continue outside the pass.

Because education within the pass is to open up people's wisdom, cultivate more complex and multi-faceted talents for the Ming Dynasty, and implement new multi-disciplinary training education with the goal of rapidly increasing the literacy rate.

Outside the pass, the purpose is to make these Mongolian herdsmen truly sinicized, agree with the Confucian principles of benevolence and righteousness, and no longer kill at will. Therefore, we must continue to use the previous Confucian teaching methods, while teaching their writing, and teach their etiquette and human ethics, so that these herdsmen can truly be educated and truly become obedient to the people, with the idea of ​​loyalty and righteousness.

Therefore, many years later, some old scholars had to sigh, saying that only those who can listen to students' readings outside the pass are those who learn the learning of sages and know the Four Books and Five Classics. However, it is too mixed in the pass. Some people who are proficient in geography do not know Confucius and Mencius, and those who are well aware of things do not understand Zhu Zi's sayings. Those who study styles with fame and reputation are more important, and their emphasis on practical learning has far exceeded that of self-cultivation.
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