Li Yanxian said that the prisoners who were killed were all foreigners, but in fact many of them were Uighurs and had the same ancestors as the nobles of Gaochang.
During the Mid-Tang Dynasty, Mou Yu Khan led the Uighur army southward to help the Tang Dynasty regain Luoyang.
The Sogdians and the Manichaeans, who had been suppressed and struggled to survive, found new partners for cooperation. Many Manichaean monks followed Mou Yu Khan to Mobei.
Immediately, Manichaeism became the state religion of the Uighur Khanate.
The Sogdians helped the Uighurs formulate policies and develop their economy, while the Uighurs supported the Sogdians in spreading Manichaeism, such as asking the Tang Dynasty to build the "Dayun Guangming Temple" in major cities.
The accumulation of more and more wealth and the advancement of civilization made the Uighurs the first khanate in the northern grasslands to build large cities.
The negative effect is: the combat effectiveness of the army continues to decline!
Therefore, the Uighurs perished.
A group of Uighurs fled to the Khitan territory and changed their surname to Xiao. They also merged with the Xi people and developed into descendants of the Liao Kingdom.
One group fled to the Central Plains and was gradually assimilated into the Han people.
One group fled to the territory under the jurisdiction of Tubo. With the disintegration of the Tubo Empire, those living in Gansu were ruled by Xixia, and those living in Qinghai became Yellow-headed Uighurs.
One group fled to the border of Anxi and established the Gaochang Uighur Kingdom, still retaining Manichaeism as the state religion.
One group fled to Central Asia and established the Kara Khanate. While converting the area to Turks, the rulers also converted to desert religions. Moreover, many descendants of the Uighur tribes gradually became oppressed groups.
Judging from this evolution, Yelu Dashi, Gaochang Uighurs, Kara Khanate... they are actually all related by ancestors.
Yelu Dashi was able to quickly annex the Eastern Kara Khanate, and the descendants of the Uighurs who became an oppressed group made a huge contribution. They were originally dissatisfied with the rule of the Kara Khanate, and had even rebelled, directly taking the Yelu Dashi from the land of their ancestors.
Treat it as one of your own!
"Should all Uighur writing be banned?"
This is the main content of Li Yanxian's first memorial to the imperial court.
As winter turned to spring, the imperial edict was sent to Gaochang.
First, reward the soldiers of the three armies.
Second, the Anxi Protectorate was established, Wu Jie was the first Anxi Protector, and Li Yanxian was transferred back to the central government to serve as the left minister of the Ministry of War.
Third, officials have been sent to the Anxi Protectorate.
Fourth, official documents must use Chinese characters, while unofficial documents and scriptures of various religions are temporarily allowed to continue to use Uighur script.
Xinjiang is too far away and the religious power is too strong. In order to avoid one after another rebellion, Emperor Zhu did not carry out a one-size-fits-all approach this time.
Another important reason is the influence of Uighur writing.
The Xixia script was modified by imitating Chinese characters, and many Xixia scholars knew Chinese characters. The Jin script was even more clumsy, and they rarely used it themselves. The scripts of these two countries would be destroyed if they were destroyed, and they would not make any waves at all.
Uighur writing is different.
It borrowed letters from the Sogdians and has been developing for hundreds of years. Even the Manchu and Mongolian characters of later generations are derived from this alphabet.
Once it is banned directly, it will be equivalent to turning all the nobles, scholars and monks in the Gaochang Kingdom into illiterate!
Therefore, Ju Ming relaxed a little and allowed the Uighur script to appear in unofficial documents and scriptures. With the power of Chinese characters and official promotion, it would be a matter of time to kill the Uighur script. If you can win with culture, there is no need to rush to resort to it.
Force.
As the rule of the Ming Dynasty deepens, more and more local people will take the initiative to learn Chinese characters.
Those sent by the imperial court included not only administrative officials, but also many eminent Han monks.
These eminent monks are mainly Buddhists and Nestorians.
Emperor Zhu even directly banned Nestorianism in the Hexi Corridor and confiscated all the Nestorian temples there. The Nestorian monks were thrown into the Anxi Protectorate. Many of them had learned Chinese characters and were about to be assigned to Anxi.
Various Nestorian temples.
Buddhism and Nestorianism, which had the largest number of believers in the old Gaochang Kingdom and had the greatest influence among the people, were the main goals of Sinicization for the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court even issued a time-limited order: Buddhist and Nestorian monks under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate, if they cannot read Chinese characters within five years, they are not allowed to hold important positions in temples. Within ten years, if a monk in a temple
If the literacy rate (Chinese characters) is less than 30%, the temple will be banned by the imperial court. Within fifteen years, all scriptures used publicly in the temple must be in Chinese characters!
In addition, the following content was also spread in the form of rumors. If other sects do not follow Buddhism and Nestorianism, and do not take the initiative to learn Chinese characters and chant sutras in Chinese, the imperial court will ban the spread of this religion in the future.
In disguise, various sects are forced to sinicize!
Anyway, don't worry about religious issues, just stick to Buddhism and Nestorianism - these two are the mainstream.
The Manichaeism in Gaochang has long been separated from the masses and lost its influence among the people because it has been the Uighur state religion for hundreds of years. It is completely different from the Manichaeism in the Han region. The former represents the interests of the nobles, while the latter is a professional rebel.
If both sides meet, they will definitely denounce each other as heretics.
Zoroastrianism also continued to decline, but it was just the opposite of Manichaeism.
Because Gaochang Manichaeism is separated from the masses, most of its believers belong to the upper class.
As for Zoroastrianism in Gaochang, the temples in the city have almost been demolished. They mainly exist in vast rural areas, and most of their believers are small and medium-sized nobles and ordinary people. And because of doctrinal issues, this religion cannot become big - it was given the name "Zoroastora" in Persia.
Nationalist characteristics, no matter how they are improved, will inevitably become more and more niche, so they are ostracized by all sects in the Gaochang area.
If the imperial court did not take the initiative to support Zoroastrianism, the religion would definitely die out naturally.
As for Gaochang Taoism, because it was too niche, the court was too lazy to take care of it, leaving it to the Uighur Taoist priests to enclose their territory for their own sake.
Shamanism and the like are similar to Taoism.
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The snow melted and excess troops were evacuated.
Gaochang has a garrison of 6,000 troops and 25,000 immigrants.
Illinois has 3,000 troops stationed and 20,000 immigrants.
Shanshan has 800 troops stationed and 3,000 immigrants.
Datun has 800 troops stationed and 1,000 immigrants.
Yanqi has a garrison of 3,000 troops and 10,000 immigrants.
In Qiuci, there are 6,000 troops stationed and 10,000 immigrants.
Hotan, one thousand troops stationed, one thousand immigrants.
In Zhangbali, there are 5,000 troops stationed and 10,000 immigrants.
There are 20,600 troops stationed in the entire area under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate. However, there are only 10,000 fully-off-the-job field troops, and the remaining garrison troops are semi-off-the-job.
Accordingly, the Ningxia Governor's Mansion was transferred to Ningxia Province ahead of schedule, reducing the number of troops in the areas bordering Shaanxi.
The number of troops stationed in Shaanxi also decreased again.
The troops withdrawn from Shaanxi and Ningxia were all thrown into the jurisdiction of the newly established Anxi Protectorate.
The remaining provinces sending troops this time will also leave a small number of troops behind.
Because the relevant soldiers need to defend thousands of miles away, everyone will be compensated with money. If they want to bring their family members over, all the expenses will be borne by the court. If due to special circumstances, such as a brother dying of illness and becoming an only son, you can apply to stay in your place of origin and transfer.
Other troops.
Although there are 20,000 troops stationed in the Anxi Protectorate, in terms of the number of troops in the country, the actual increase in troops is only four to five thousand.
The expenditures in the past few years must have been huge, not only to transport military rations, but also to provide various materials for immigrants. But once the tax exemption period for immigrants has passed, plus the amount of taxes paid by local people, the Anxi Protectorate can do it
Become self-sufficient.
If there are casualties in the army here, priority will be given to replenishing them from Han immigrants.
Five years later, soldiers began to be recruited from local young men, but the annual recruitment ratio needed to be strictly limited.
Ten years later, recruitment can be opened up, but the proportion of Han people in each army must remain above 70% at all times.
This restriction can be lifted after the Protectorate is converted into a province, because that means that the degree of Chineseization in the Anxi area has been sufficient.
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Wu Juyuan came from the suburbs of Kaifeng.
His father's name is Wu Song, and his first teacher is Wu Jialiang. He is the eldest son, so he is also called Wu Dalang.
Wu Jialiang helped pick this name, hoping that he would be named on the gold medal list and become an official.
It's a pity that Wu Juyuan is not a student, but he is good at martial arts.
To be continued...