Li Jicheng, the grandson of the Dashun Emperor, is not the kind of wealthy grandson who lives in a palace and is raised by women, but a well-informed warrior who has experienced many battles! Having fought in Shaanxi, Myanmar, Arakan and other places for many years, I have seen all kinds of ferocious enemies, but this is the first time I have encountered a situation like this.
When he landed on the beach in Paradeep, he already noticed something was wrong!
He was the "Pirate King", an invader, and a robber who was holding back his energy to steal money from Tianzhu. He actually waded ashore in the sea under the watch of a group of dark, skinny, and shirtless Tianzhu paupers.
These onlookers are really poor! He went shirtless not because the weather was hot, but because he was poor - at least in Li Jicheng's opinion, it was because he was poor, because he also saw many shirtless women...even the women's clothes were not even covering their bodies. He was poor. What a change!
We are all so poor, why don't we rebel? The landlords who rode on their necks and lorded it over them didn't look very cruel. They were far worse than the soldiers in Dashun, and even worse than the nobles in Burma and Arakan.
Hearing that someone was coming to invade, this group of people didn't know how to organize resistance, and they happily greeted them with shirtless paupers and baskets of gifts that exuded a pleasing golden or silver light.
What does it mean? Are you sincerely welcoming Dashun, or are you holding back something bad?
In a large, spacious and respectable house belonging to a certain Jagirdar master from Rajput, Li Jicheng met tax collectors and Brahmins from more than a dozen surrounding villages.
Li Jicheng, who was sweating profusely from the hot weather in Orissa Province, was also shirtless at this time. He was sitting in the hall with a handsome look, still revealing his strong tendons and thick chest hair. Next to him, there was a girl with fair and pretty skin, wearing a midriff-baring top and a long skirt, who was fanning herself. However, the girl's eyes were always staring at Li Jicheng, who had deep eyes, a high nose and a big beard - this appearance , Needless to say, it must be a Kshatriya! And at least it is a princely caste, which matches the race of the Rajputs...
The girl's father is also named Singh. Singh means lion. In the tenth generation of Sikhism, he was listed as Gudbin. In 1699, Singh distributed the surname "Singh" to male Sikh believers on a large scale. After that, Singer fell into disrepair. However, it is only 1665, and there are not many Singhs in India. They are basically Kshatriyas. The Rajputs who served the Timurid Empire are all Kshatriyas, so there are many Singhs.
Moreover, the Rajputs originally lived in the northwest of India, close to Afghanistan. They are generally fair-skinned and beautiful. Singh, who will soon become Li Jicheng's father-in-law, is no exception. He is very handsome.
The ancestors of this Singh were the first batch of Hindus to surrender to the Timurid Empire in India. After the Battle of Kannu (in which Babur defeated the Rajputs), they recognized the new master and became the Timurid Empire. hindu warrior. During the era of Emperor Abak, Singh's great-grandfather followed Abak's army to destroy the Kingdom of Orissa, and then settled in Orissa, and also obtained the Jagir territory - the Jagir territory originally had both military service and taxation As a result, it has now become a tax-free territory, so Singh no longer needs to serve as a soldier for Aurangzeb.
The Persian leader Jalali put on a white silk robe and a turban at this time, looking like a courtier of the Timurid Empire, and stood next to Li Jicheng.
Singh can speak Urdu (Urdu is based on Persian), and Jalali can have a fluent conversation with him.
And Jalali is really a good leader - Persian businessmen in India often lead people, and they have long been familiar with the roads.
The history of India's subjugation is basically the same. Barbaric conquerors from Central Asia or Afghanistan invaded under the leadership of Persian profiteers, and defeated the immigrants who had arrived many years earlier. The Persian profiteers then helped introduce the Hindu Kshatriyas. Become tax collectors (Persians themselves sometimes become tax collectors) and puppet soldiers, and then we can oppress the working people of India and make a fortune together. How happy it is!
Now that foreign invaders such as Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen have not found their positions yet, Li Jicheng thinks that he is a robber and will leave after grabbing a handful. Song Yaowen thought that he was the liberator who came to save the various untouchables in India, but Jalali and Singh had already taken their positions consciously.
Jalali is preparing to serve as Li Jicheng's finance minister - before the British East India Company conquered India, the conquerors from Central Asia and Afghanistan basically used Persians to manage finances, and they managed them well, not only better than the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty. Strong, even stronger than those of our counterparts in European countries!
And Singh is preparing to be Li Jicheng's father-in-law and general of the puppet army, recruiting Kshatriya warriors for him to show his power and suppress all kinds of untouchables.
If Li Jicheng is willing to protect religious freedom, then there are several Brahmins outside the door who are ready to educate the Indian untouchables for the Dashun Dynasty of India...
In short, you are all set and ready to make a fortune!
Jalali, who was talking a bit to himself, then smiled and reported his merits to Li Jicheng. He said: "Your Highness, I have already worked with the warrior Singh of Orissa Province and several other Brahman tax collectors. And the Brahmin has agreed!”
"Already agreed?" Li Jicheng was stunned, what did he say?
Jalali smiled: "Of course you are welcome to conquer Orissa."
"Ah..." Li Jicheng said sincerely: I just want to grab a handful, how can it be considered a conquest? And why did you welcome it?
Jalali added: "There are also matters of tax collection and recruitment of fighters."
"How to collect taxes?" Li Jicheng asked.
Jalali smiled and said: "Tianzhu is a big place, and the situation below is more complicated. Tax collection is very troublesome, so the common method is to outsource it. In areas where Brahmanism is concentrated, it is outsourced to Kshatriyas. The inhabited areas are entrusted to us Persian merchants or warriors of the Tianfang Sect. Generally speaking, the tax in Brahmin parishes is relatively high, and the agricultural tax can collect one-third of the harvest."
"One-third?" Li Jicheng was surprised, "The farmers in Tianzhu are so miserable that they want to hand over one-third of the harvest to the court?"
"No, no, it's not one-third..." Jalali smiled, "It's you, the benevolent conqueror, His Royal Highness the Grandson of the Dashun Empire who receives one-third!"
"Received one-third? How much will the people below pay?"
"At least two-thirds..." Jalali said with a smile, "Tax collectors also have to pay a lot of costs. They are responsible for collecting taxes, selling the grain they receive, and collecting the proceeds from the sales. It costs money to transport it to the designated location, and also be responsible for the security and litigation of the contracted place!"
"Then the people down there can only get one-third of the harvest? Isn't it too little?" Li Jicheng still sympathizes with the working people!
"Not that many..." Jalali shook his head and said, "There are also Brahmins, they are also very important!"
"Aren't they just monks?" Li Jicheng said.
"No, no, no, they may do more than the monks!" Jalali explained, "Buddhism comes from Brahmanism and is a heresy of Brahmanism, but its ability to educate people is not as good as Brahminism because Buddhism places too much emphasis on equality. And Brahmanism The teachings are strictly hierarchical, with order in order of superiority and inferiority, and the rich, the poor, and the humble, everyone is content with his or her destiny.”
"What does it mean to live in peace with one's fate?" Li Jicheng asked.
Jalali said: "Brahman believes that wealth and poverty in this life are the consequences, and the merits and demerits in the previous life are the causes. Therefore, the suffering in this life is to atone for the sins in the previous life..."
"Buddhism is similar!" Li Jicheng still didn't quite understand.
"It's different, it's different..." Jalali shook his head and said, "Buddhism is that all living beings are suffering, and if you want to be liberated, you can only be born in this world. But Brahman has suffering and happiness, and suffering and happiness have destiny. Destiny cannot be changed."
Li Jicheng was still confused, so Jalalali had to say more bluntly: "According to Brahmin rules, a person's fate is decided when he is born! If he is born into a peasant family, then he A farmer’s destiny, if he is born into a samurai family, is his destiny to be a samurai!”
Li Jicheng asked: "What if he was born in the home of a beggar and a robber?"
"Of course you can be a beggar or a robber!"
"That's right!" Li Jicheng said sincerely: Fortunately, neither Er nor Zhu Cihong are from Tianzhu, otherwise Er would still be a bandit, and the one named Zhu would be even worse, and would have to beg for food!
