Time flies so fast, and it's just like September. The snowflakes flying in the sky have swept the northern border of the Western Regions, and the news west of the Green Ridge is completely cut off from the Central Plains, that is, the news of the Western Regions is about to reach Jinling, and the speed is also slow.

Lu Qian has no intention of paying attention to the changes in the northwest now, and the situation in the northwest will not change substantially until the 'western expedition' is launched again.

The Ghaznavid dynasty was only a dynasty in decline, and as a dynasty at the eastern end of the Celestial Sect, it was not as important as the Eastern Qarakhanid.

In Lu Qian's eyes, this place may be the starting point of the Heavenly Fang Sect's invasion of Tianzhu. Now that Yelu Dashi is working hard to do it, he is actually helping Tianzhu, although they don't know it at all, let alone appreciate it.

- Without the Ghaznavids, the pressure on the Northern Tianzhu people, who are adjacent to China, will only be greater.

Ceylon, which had been captured by Lu Qi, had been swept away, and a large number of prisoners of war and rebellious Tamils had been turned into goods for the human trade.

The vast majority of these people have a rather dark complexion, and the Tamils belong to the Dravidian type. This is a native race of the Tianzhu Continent, with a short stature, a darker complexion, a small, flat nose, thick lips, and dark, thick, and curly hair. There is a certain resemblance to the African black horses, but their skin color is much lighter than that of the black horses.

At least to the extent that it is acceptable to the Chinese people.

The Tamils of Ceylon, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, were inferior in the Chola but superior to the Sinhalese.

Think of the caste system of Tianzhu, where the Sinhalese numbered as many as a million people, except for a small number of nobles who would be identified as Brahmins and Kshatriyas, or some Vaishyas, and more than ninety percent of the entire race would be identified as Shudras and Dalits. This is definitely a painful suppression of the Ceylonese who have been in the Buddhist atmosphere for a long time.

You must know that Ceylon also has a caste system, but the caste system in Ceylon is completely different from Tianzhu.

The Sinhalese caste is based on the division of labour in people's social life, with more emphasis and prominence on the occupational characteristics of people in economic activities. Among them, the caste of cultivators, "Qu Wei", is the highest caste, and this proportion can account for about half of the Sinhalese people. This is unimaginable in Tianzhu. As a result, in the native society of Ceylon, it is generally accepted that the castes below the "Qu Wei" are all lower castes.

In addition to the "Quwei" caste, the Sinhalese people also have: Yirava - the caste of fishermen. Most of them live in the coastal areas of their own countries, and they have historically made a living from fishing, second only to "Qu Wei" in number.

Sharo – a caste that peels cinnamon bark for a living. The Sharo caste claimed to be descendants of the Southern Tianzhu Brahmins, but apparently they did not become noble in Ceylon.

and finally the Durova-coir caste. Coconut wine brewing has a long history in Ceylon, and there are many people engaged in this profession, some of whom have become wealthy by running the liquor industry, and occupy an important position in the economic field.

Compared with the caste system of Tianzhu, this 'caste system' is simply amiable like a bodhisattva.

Before the extinction, the Buddhist tradition in Ceylon was Mahayana Buddhism, which did not conflict much with Southern Buddhism in terms of doctrine, but it was undoubtedly more consistent with Middle-earth Buddhism.

Ceylon once worshipped Mahayana in the middle of the Li and Tang dynasties, and Esoteric Buddhism was particularly prosperous. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Southern Buddhism was already dying in Ceylon, and it was difficult to even meet the required number of bhikshus for formal Buddhist ceremonies.

On the eve of the Chola invasion, King Vijayapahu ascended the throne and sent an envoy to Bagan to welcome the ordained monks who were proficient in the three Tibetan precepts to Ceylon to rebuild Southern Buddhism. It's a pity that the country was ruined before the 'great cause was accomplished'.

Now that Lu Qi has replaced Chola, Buddhism has been revived, Ceylonese traditions have been restored, and the Tamils have been removed, and it can be said that a general rule in Ceylon has been established very quickly.

In the process, the Tamils and a small number of Sinhalese who were affected were all classified as 'prisoners of war'.

Prisoners of war mean no human rights, they mean money.

In the second half of the year, tens of thousands of Tamils were transported to various feudal states in the South Seas, and they were all born similarly, at least as black.

The vast majority of these Tamils were also Shudras and Dalits, and labor was not painful for them. The labor endured by these people in the countries of the South Seas has certainly increased year-on-year, but they have also earned respect.

Shudras aside, the Dalits will at least no longer be considered "untouchable" by society as a whole. You don't have to worry about being beaten for no reason if you undoubtedly touch anyone; Even shadows can't touch others, and when you walk, you have to bring your own broom, and sweep your footprints as you go.

Under the Chinese, they work more and more intensively than before, but they can at least live like a human being.

After a short period of adaptation, many of these people will show a strong tendency to proselytize, and Buddhism and a small amount of Taoism in Nanyang are all fundamentally negative caste systems in terms of doctrine.

Perhaps, in the history of Tianzhu, Tianfang Sect was once widespread, and it was not related to the influence of this surname system.

No matter how much criticism there is in the afterlife, there really is no such thing as a caste system. The doctrine of Heaven believes that all people have only one ancestor, all beings are equal, and all heaven in the world are brothers. There is fundamentally no soil for the caste system. As for the hierarchical differentiation and family politics within the Heavenly Kingdom in later generations, it involves another level of social issues.

In the second half of the year, there was a large number of labor imports from the Nanyang feudal countries, and there was a small possibility of being sincerely reined in, which in a sense stimulated the development of the Nanyang countries. It even made the human firm see a big gold mountain.

The number of Shudras and Dalits on the island of Ceylon is limited, but the Shudras and Dalits on the Tianzhu Continent are unlimited, and the latter is not a big gold mine.

It is that there is a faint wave surging in the Central Plains. The feudal countries of Nanyang need labor, so why don't they need labor?

One by one, they dragged the relationship to the human power firm, and the latter was still run by Yang Lin and Shi Xiu, and the shoulders of the two were too narrow to bear it at all, and the news was transferred to Emperor Lu.

"Points have their own rankings, and they are distributed according to high and low. If you are in a hurry, you will go on your own. ”

Lu Qian chose to look at the points without hesitation.

This kind of thing was easy for him to judge, but the new problem born behind the problem made him hesitate a little.

Lu Qian knew that Buddhism was born in Tianzhu and then perished in Tianzhu. No, it's not the time to die. In later Bangladesh, there was also a Bala dynasty at this time protecting the Buddhist gate.

Nalanda Temple and Chaojie Temple still exist.

It's just that although Buddhism is under the protection of the Polo Dynasty, Hugh said that in other places in Northern Tianzhu, even in the Polo Dynasty itself, they are already dying.

Moreover, Tianzhu Mahayana Buddhism has fallen into the Esoteric era by this time, and a large number of Brahmanical rituals and forms have been adopted, too many cumbersome rituals have been used, and some methods of Esoteric practice have been ......

To put it bluntly, the monks of these two super temples are the ancestors of Tibetan Buddhism. And the latter has been a lot of benign improvements over the former.

So now Lu Qian has to think about a question that is: Do you want to pass Buddhism back to Tianzhu?

Monk Hua was looking at him from the side. But it was difficult for Lu Qian to make a decision in a short period of time. Middle-earth Buddhism pays attention to the equality of all beings, Tianzhu has so many people, this is going to be equal, will it be a third brother in the future?

The Brahmin and caste system made only one-tenth of the people of Tianzhu Continent become a real 'person', so that its huge population could not exert its due strength at all, which was the biggest reliance of China's long-term conquest of Tianzhu.

For faith or something, Lu Qi is more concerned about China's long-term meal ticket. As long as Tianzhu continued to believe in Brahmins, there was no way to abolish that kind of surname system, and the populous Tianzhu could only become a huge piece of fat to be slaughtered by China.

Can the same be true of Buddhism?

Emperor Lu felt that he didn't need to be too kind, the third brother was very happy, wasn't he? Tianzhu people are not Chinese? Or that he never thought about turning Tianzhu into Han soil from the beginning......