Li Jicheng, the grandson of Emperor Dashun, is not the kind of rich emperor grandson who grew up in the deep palace and raised by women, but a well-informed warrior who has been in battle for a long time! After many years of fighting in Shaanxi, Burma, Arakan and other places, I have seen all kinds of ferocious enemies, but today is the first time I have encountered such a situation.

When he landed on the beach in Paladep, he already noticed that something was wrong!

He, a "One Piece", an aggressor, and a robber who was holding back his strength to go to Tianzhu to rob money, actually went ashore in the sea under the watchful eyes of a group of black, thin, and shirtless Tianzhu poor eggs.

These onlookers are really poor! He was shirtless not because it was hot, but because he was poor — at least in Li Jicheng's opinion because he saw many shirtless women...... Even a woman's clothes are gone, what kind of poverty has to become!

It's all poor like this, why don't you rebel? The landlords who rode on their necks and acted as powerful did not look very cruel, far worse than the soldiers of Dashun, and even inferior to the nobles of Burma and Arakan.

Hearing that someone was coming to invade, the gang did not know how to organize resistance, and they cheerfully greeted them with shirtless paupers and a basket of gifts that radiated a pleasing golden or silver light.

What does that mean? Is it true to welcome Dashun, or is it holding back something bad?

In a spacious and decent house belonging to a certain Rajput lord Jagildar, Li Jicheng met the tax lord and Brahmin from more than a dozen villages around him.

Li Jicheng, who was sweating profusely from the hot weather of Orissa Province, was also shirtless at this time, sitting in the hall with a golden knife, revealing a strong tendon and thick chest hair. There is also a girl beside him who is very white and beautiful, wearing a crop top and a long skirt who is helping to fan the fan, but this girl's eyes have been staring at Li Jicheng, who has deep eyes, a high nose and a big beard - this look, needless to say, must be Kshatriya! And at least it's a princely caste, which matches the race of the Rajputs just right......

The girl's father was also named Singh, which means lion, and was listed in the tenth generation of Sikhism, Gudbin. After Singh gave the surname "Singh" to Sikh men on a large scale in 1699, Singh went on the streets. However, it is only 1665, and there are not many Singh in India, and 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 northwest India, close to Afghanistan, and were generally white and beautiful, and Singh, who would soon become Li Jicheng's father-in-law, was no exception, and he looked very magnificent.

Singh's ancestor was one of the first Hindus to defect to the Timurid Empire in India, and after the Battle of Kannu (in which Babur defeated the Rajputs), he became a new lord and became a Hindu warrior of the Timurid Empire. In the time of Arbuckle the Great, Singh's great-grandfather followed Arbuckle's army to destroy the Orissa Kingdom, and then settled in Orissa, and also got the Jagil Territory - the Jagil Territory originally had the dual role of military service and tax package, but now it has also become a tax territory, so Singh does not need to be a soldier for Aurangzeb.

The Persian leader of the way, when Jalali changed into a white silk robe and a turban, he looked like a courtier of the Timurid Empire, and stood beside Li Jicheng.

Singh speaks Urdu (Persian is the basis of Urdu) and Jalali is able to converse fluently with him.

And Jalaari, the leader of the way, is really good - the Persian merchants in India often lead the way, and they have long been familiar with it.

The history of India's demise is basically the same way, the barbarian conquerors from Central Asia or Afghanistan invaded under the leadership of Persian profiteers, defeated the outsiders who came many years earlier than them, and then the Persian profiteers helped introduce the Hindu Kshatriya to be a tax collector (the Persians themselves sometimes also served as a tax collector) and a puppet army, and then everyone oppressed the working people of India together, and made a fortune together, how happy!

Now that Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen have not found their place in these foreign invaders, Li Jicheng thinks that he is a robber and will leave if he grabs a handful. Song Yaowen thought that he was the liberator who had come to save all kinds of untouchables in India, but Jalali and Singh were already consciously in place.

Jalari was going to make Li Jicheng the Minister of Finance - before the British East India Company conquered India, the conquerors from Central Asia and Afghanistan basically used the Persians to manage the finances, and they managed it well, not only better than the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, but even better than their counterparts in European countries!

Singh, on the other hand, is ready to be Li Jicheng's father-in-law and the general of the puppet army, recruiting Kshatriya warriors for him to strengthen his face and suppress all kinds of untouchables.

If Li Jicheng is willing to guarantee religious freedom, then there are a few Brahmins outside the door who are ready to educate the Indian untouchables for the Dashun Dynasty in India......

In short, everyone is in place and ready to make a fortune!

Jalali, who was a little self-talking, smiled at this time and reported to Li Jicheng, and he said: "Your Royal Highness, the minister has already agreed with the warrior Singh of Orissa Province and several other Brahmanical tax collectors and Brahmins!" ”

"Okay?" Li Jicheng was stunned, what did he say?

Jalaari smiled, "Of course you are welcome to conquer Orissa. ”

"Ah......" Li Jicheng said in his heart: I just want to grab a handful, how can I conquer it? And why are you welcome?

Jalali added: "There are also taxes and the recruitment of warriors. ”

"How do you collect taxes?" Li Jicheng asked.

Jalali said with a smile: "Tianzhu is a very large place, and the following situation is more complicated, and the matter of collecting taxes is very troublesome, so the common way is to send out a contract, and in the area inhabited by the Brahmans, it will be contracted to the Kshatriyas, and in the areas inhabited by the Tianfang Sect, it will be contracted to our Persian merchants or warriors of the Tianfang Sect." In general, the taxes of the Brahmin diocese are relatively high, and the agricultural tax can receive one-third of the harvest. ”

"A third?" Li Jicheng was taken aback, "The peasants in Tianzhu are so bitter, they want to give one-third of the harvest to the imperial court?" ”

"No, no, it's not a third...... "Jalali laughed, "it's you, merciful conqueror, His Royal Highness the Emperor of the Great Shun Empire who receives a third!" ”

"Received a third? How much do the people below have to pay? ”

"At least two-thirds of the way......," said Jalaari with a laugh, "the tax collectors also have to pay a lot of costs, they are responsible for collecting taxes, they are responsible for selling the grain they receive, they have to transport the proceeds of the sale to the designated place, and they are also responsible for the security and litigation of the places they are contracted, all of which cost money!" ”

"Then the people below can only get a third of the harvest? Is it too little? "Li Jicheng is still sympathetic to the working people!

"Not so much......," said Jalaari, shaking his head, "and the Brahmins, they are also very important!" ”

"Aren't they just monks?" Li Jicheng said.

"No, no, no, they do more than the monk might do!" "Buddhism comes from Brahmanism and is a heresy of Brahminism, but it is not as capable of educating the people as Brahmans because Buddhism places too much emphasis on equality. Brahmanism, on the other hand, is hierarchical, respectful and orderly, rich and poor, and each has its own life. ”

"What does it mean to be at peace with each other?" Li Jicheng asked.

Jalali said: "Brahmins believe that the riches and lowliness of a person in this life are the results, and the merits and good and evil in the past lives are the causes. Therefore the suffering of this world is atonement for the sins of the past life......"

"Buddhism is pretty much the same!" Li Jicheng still doesn't quite understand.

"It's different, ......it's different," Jalali shook his head, "Buddhism is that all living beings suffer, and if you want to be liberated, you can only be born." And Brahmanas have both happiness and suffering, and happiness and suffering, and their fate is determined by heaven and cannot be changed. ”

Li Jicheng was still confused, and Jalali had to say more bluntly: "According to the rules of Brahman, a person's life is decided when he is born!" If he was born in a peasant family, then he was born as a peasant, and if he was born in a samurai family, then he was born as a samurai! ”

Li Jicheng asked, "Then what if he was born in a family of beggars and robbers?" ”

"Of course you should be a beggar or a robber!"

"That's right!" Li Jicheng said: Fortunately, Er and Zhu Cihong are not from Tianzhu, otherwise they are still being thieves, and the surname Zhu is even worse, so they can only go to ask for food!