The bow of the battleship "Yingchuang King" ploughed a snow-white wave, and the course went straight to the west. The sailors on the deck were conducting artillery drills on the gun emplacements on both sides, and with the command of the Dutch instructor, the sailors who came to Sichuan and Yunnan nervously carried out simulated loading and firing.

Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen stood on the stern deck of this large 280-ton galleys, observing with great interest the training of the sailors, next to the mainmast of the ship's amidships, and the sailors either climbed up and down the mast under the guidance of Dutch instructors, or pulled the rope hard, trying to put away or lower the sails.

However, at this time, the west wind was blowing in the sea of the Bay of Bengal, so the "Yingchuang King" sailed westward not by sails to power, but by oars. There was also an oar deck below the upper deck of the "King of Bravery", where eighty oarsmen from Arakan and Chittagong were struggling to swing their heavy long oars to drive the flagship of the Dashun Navy westward through the waves.

The sea surface of the Bay of Bengal in front of you is undulating and the sea breeze is howling. A huge fleet of fifty-five galleys was heading for the coast of the Timurid Empire of India, 1,000 miles southwest of Chittagong, in the face of a sudden westerly wind.

Among the 55 warships, there were five warships of the same size as the "Yingchuang King", and in addition to the "Yingchuang Wang", they were the "Yingtai Prince", the "Yingtaisun", the "Yingqin Wang" and the "Yinghan Wang".

These five ships were all built in the Portuguese shipyard on the island of Poki outside Myau Castle that was "acquired" by the Dutch, and can be regarded as the "top match" of galleys. The hull is sturdy, the load is large, the sail area is also large, the number of oars is also large, it can provide fast speed, and the firepower is also very strong, with a total of 28 gun emplacements on the upper deck, and up to 24 6-pound bronze or cast iron cannons.

These five "Ying"-class warships undoubtedly pinned on Li Jicheng's naval dream of the grandson of Emperor Dashun, so the sailors on board, except for the oarsman who was an Arakan, the rest were serious Dashun soldiers, and Dutch instructors were also hired to train and act as advisers (in fact, in charge of command).

The remaining fifty galleys that went to sea with these five "Ying" class were larger and newer warships selected from the original Arakan naval army, and the sailors on board were all Arakans, but the officers and escorts of Dashun were also sent to supervise them.

Now on these fifty-five galleys, in addition to sailors and Dutch instructors, there are also 5,000 elite Long March soldiers!

And the targets of these Long March soldiers are the corrupt officials and landlords of the Odisha Province in eastern India, which belongs to the Timurid Empire!

Dashun Army! After all, they are more sympathetic to the working people, and even if they become imperialists, they are progressive imperialists who want to fight local tyrants and divide up the land.

Therefore, this trip to India will also play the slogan of "welcome the king, do not pay grain, divide the land", oh, and there is also a slogan, which is "abolish the caste"!

The "abolition of caste" was proposed by Song Yaowen, who was sent by Li Jicheng to India to investigate, and he originally wanted to see Aurangzeb, but Aurangzeb was in Samarkand, so he could only go to Bengal and the terminally ill governor Mir. Jumla meets. Mill. Jumla was sick and dying, so he didn't have time to toss with Song Yaowen, and readily agreed to the Dashun Empire's request to annex Chittagong.

After the end of the diplomatic mission, Song Yaowen put forward a request to visit and worship Buddha in the territory of the Timurid Empire in India. Mill. Jumla gave him a pass and sent several Hindu officials to accompany him around.

After some investigation, Song Yaowen found that the working people here in Tianzhu were much more bitter than the working people in Daming!

Now the biggest injustice faced by the working people of the Ming Dynasty is one - the inequality between the rich and the poor!

Moreover, the inequality between the rich and the poor in the Ming Dynasty is not completely unsolvable, and there are still many ways out for the poor...... If they are willing to endure hardships and are not particularly afraid of death.

As for the issue of birth inequality, if it does not count wealth inequality, it was nothing in the world in the 17th century. It is said that Dashun, which is a peasant uprising, is not comparable to Daming in this regard - now Dashun has as many as 600,000 military households, which is more than ten times more than the nobles of Daming!

Moreover, most of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were concentrated in Yingtianfu, and they could not do too many bad things under the supervision of Emperor Zhu, and the greatest privilege they enjoyed was that they could receive a high standard and a high level of education.

However, the common people of the Ming Dynasty are not without the opportunity to receive a high-level education, and the best aristocratic schools in Yingtianfu also recruit civilian students, but the number of places is limited and the competition is fierce. However, there are many private new schools in Daming, and some of them are not low, so there are many opportunities for civilians with certain financial resources and intelligence to receive new education.

And it is much more difficult for the farmers and industrialists on the Dashun side to become "soldiers" (government soldiers)!

Of course, difficulties are difficulties, but it is not impossible, otherwise there would not be so many soldiers in Dashun.

However, the problem of uneven wealth on Dashun's side is not serious, they are all poor! The peasants paid rent and paid poverty, and the government soldiers fought and fought poor......

And the working people on Tianzhu's side have endured the hardships of the common people of the Ming and Dashun dynasties, and they have doubled their food!

They are not only poor, but also cheap, and their children and grandchildren will not be turned over!

What kind of caste system does Tianzhu have, people have a species, and if the seed is not good, the children and grandchildren are untouchables! The princes will have a kind of thing, which is not allowed in them.

If you want to turn over, you can only cultivate the afterlife...... But who knows what will happen in the afterlife? That's too much of a bully!

The children and grandchildren of the untouchables cannot turn over, and of course they are also poor. The landlords of the government soldiers in Dashun have already made Emperor Li Guo talk about reducing and limiting rents every day. And the government of the Timurid Empire on this side of Tianzhu directly collects one-third of the tax, and the landlords who "plant" good ones have to collect at least one-third of the rent, and some gods and corrupt officials will also reach out to collect money!

In the end, I don't know if there is a single percent that can fall into the hands of the untouchables? I really don't know how these untouchables survive on such a small amount of food?

"Taisun, there are a lot of untouchables in Tianzhu Orissa Province that we are going to this time, and they are very poor, all of them are hungry and have no clothes, so they can't live happily! If we don't go, it won't be long before they themselves will revolt! ”

Song Yaowen saw that the training of the sailors on the deck had come to an end, so he talked to Li Jicheng about launching a rebellion among the untouchables in Orissa.

Li Jicheng nodded and didn't say anything.

Song Yaowen continued: "The minister also selected hundreds of people who are proficient in the Tianzhu language in Chittagong, and all of them have taught them Chinese. ”

"Good, well done!"

Li Jicheng had little interest in launching the Tianzhu untouchables to meet the king, because he wanted to grab a handful and run away, and he didn't plan to be a rogue in Tianzhu at all, and he didn't care if the untouchables welcomed the king or not.

However, he still praised Song Yaowen's efforts, because "Yingchuang Wang" is the political correctness of Dashun!

Li Jicheng also boasted this in the recital to Li Guo - he didn't dare to say that he asked Tianzhu to be a robber, he didn't care about this, but his grandfather was very taboo and didn't let people say it. If Li Jicheng dares to talk about being a robber, I am afraid that the position of the grandson will be gone immediately......

Therefore, Li Jicheng's recital is full of Tianzhu untouchable people's sorrow, looking at the Dashun Heavenly Dynasty from afar like a baby looking forward to his parents, waiting for King Chuang to save him.

Li Jicheng was silent for a while, and then said: "Yaowen, are there many corrupt officials in Tianzhu in Orissa Province?" Who are they? How did you become an official? Have you inquired about it all? Do they have any power in the local area? ”

Song Yaowen said with a smile: "I've inquired about it, most of the corrupt officials in Orissa Province are samurai from a place called Rajput Province in the northwest of Tianzhu, and they are all outsiders and have no power. ”