I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 364: Strategy against Meng
Many people may have forgotten that the Soviet Union also ruled the Mongols for a long time, although it ruled the northern Mongolia
Of course, the Soviet Union’s methods of ruling the Mongols were rather crude. First, they relied on military deterrence, and second, on cultural assimilation.

Zhu Houxuan was going to use the first method used by the Soviets in cultural assimilation.
The method is to let the Mongols criticize and denounce Genghis Khan!
Do you feel that this method is simple and crude?
Although the Soviet Union's style of doing things was relatively simple and crude, they were still very developed in the humanities and social sciences at the time, and they did so under scientific guidance.

Criticizing Genghis Khan is equivalent to completely denying the Mongolian national historical view at that time.

National historical view refers to people's views on the historical status, mutual relations and related issues of various ethnic groups in history, and is one of the components of national view.

The narrow sense of national historical perspective refers to how the majority of members of a nation remember, narrate and evaluate their own history, and how they define their nation's position in world history.

The national historical perspective is not so much a narration of the past as it is an evaluation of the present and a direction for the future.

Some people try to influence our evaluation of the present and our direction for the future by shaking our national historical perspective.

Back to the topic, the reason why Zhu Houxuan wanted to use this method was that after he came to this era and came into contact with many Mongolians, he was surprised to find that the Mongolians had a stronger national consciousness, a more complete national historical perspective, and had completed part of the nation-building.
In this regard, most of the Ming people of this era were not as good as the Mongols.
Why does this happen?
In the final analysis, it was Genghis Khan who established such a brilliant achievement.
Although Genghis Khan has been dead for nearly three hundred years, the various Mongol Khanates have fallen apart, and the Mongolian national fortune has plummeted, but he still continues to influence the world.
The era of Genghis Khan was the most glorious era for the Mongols. The more destitute the Mongols are today, the more they miss Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan has gradually become a myth, a belief of the Mongols, and a totemic figure.
Just look at the ups and downs of the Golden Family on the grasslands. Many times, members of the Golden Family became puppets of the forces on the grasslands, but in the end they were still able to control a large force on the grasslands. This is the appeal of Genghis Khan.
It is precisely because of this that the Mongols actually had their own relatively complete national historical perspective during this era and began to complete part of their national construction.
Therefore, if you want to assimilate the Mongols culturally, you need to first deny their national historical view.

The Soviet Union's approach was to replace the national historical view with the class historical view after denying it, and then vigorously promoted Russian education in Mongolia. Even the traditional Mongolian language was added with many Cyrillic letters. If the Russians hadn't killed themselves, the Mongolians might have been assimilated in a few decades.
It can be seen that although the specific method of the Russians is a bit rough, the attack points are still steady, accurate and ruthless.
Zhu Houxun was ready to learn from the Soviet Union, first denying their national historical view and then stifling their national consciousness.

Some people may think that it is a bit too much to criticize Genghis Khan so harshly.
Let's put aside subjective factors and evaluate Temujin objectively. Just say that he did so many anti-human things. Is there any reason to criticize him?
Of course, Zhu Houxun certainly could not replace the Mongolian national historical view with the class historical view like the Russians did at this time. However, he could replace the Mongolian national historical view with the Chinese national historical view that he had been promoting, add narratives about the Mongols to the Chinese national historical view, and accept the Mongols as members of the Chinese nation.

Then, cultural assimilation can be carried out, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The culture of the Chinese nation was originally in a strong position, so assimilating the relatively weaker Mongolian culture was no problem.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Stan countries in Central Asia all created and invented history when they founded their own countries. They first compiled their own national history, and then used history to shape national consciousness and complete national construction. This is how a modern nation-state works. Of course, in order to achieve all this, it is necessary to have an absolute military advantage over the Mongols, so that the Mongols will be obedient, and with the help of economic and political means, culturally assimilate the Mongols of this era.

In fact, when I was discussing the strategy of ruling the Mongols with Zhu Houzhao just now, I really wanted to add a sentence "weaken Mongolia religiously", but in the end Zhu Houzhao did not add this sentence.

"Weakening Mongolia religiously" was one of the main means used by the Qing Dynasty to control Mongolia. They used the Yellow Sect to weaken the Mongols and reduce the threat posed by the Mongols.

If Zhu Houxuan just wanted the Mongols to be a buffer for the Ming Dynasty, then he could do so, but Zhu Houxuan's expectations for the assimilated Mongols were more than that.
He hoped to use the power of industry to arm the Mongols again, and use economic benefits, military honors and political status to induce the Mongols to expand northward and westward and become the Cossacks of the Ming Dynasty. Only in this way could the Mongols play their greatest role.
In his vision, the development of the north would be entirely left to the assimilated Mongols, and all the resources on the nine frontier defense lines could be invested in the industrial revolution and the great voyages of discovery.
The warm climate and rich products in the south are waiting for the Ming Dynasty to explore. There is really no need to waste time and resources with the Mongols in the bitter cold north.
In this way, Ming can maintain offensive in multiple directions at the same time.
Thinking of this, Zhu Houxuan came back to his senses, looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile and said: "Since my brother has said this, I will not refuse anymore."

"Why are you making excuses? Only you can do this." Zhu Houzhao said indifferently.

"Then my emperor, please hand over those Mongolian prisoners to me. I can use them in a big way." Zhu Houzhao put away his smile and requested solemnly.

"That's easy. I'm just racking my brain over what to do with those prisoners. If you want them, just take them away." Zhu Houzhao said simply.

Zhu Houxuan smiled and nodded.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes rolled, as if he had thought of something, and he said hesitantly, "Brother, I just happen to have something to discuss with you."

(End of this chapter)