Lu Xuan listened to Li Zhe's performance on the first day reported by Xin Tong, and he was quite satisfied, the arrangements at the bottom should be enough, and a mere gentleman also wants to stand out in his army, don't think about it! The previous time this kid was clever enough to escape the trap he arranged, but then it is impossible to always have this kind of luck.

Even if Lu Xuan couldn't kill him with his own hands, he would have to give Li Zhe a bitter taste, which ruined his good deeds.

Although the law in the Great Song Dynasty army is strict now, it is no longer the situation that soldiers were generals in the past, and today's Great Song Dynasty officers are all professional officers, and the soldiers are also professional soldiers, and it is difficult for the officers to make the people below obey their words, but as a senior officer, it is still easy to make trouble for Li Zhe with his connections and prestige in the army.

I have to say that Lu Xuan's pity is so heartfelt, he can't take care of the various precepts of officers in the army, his behavior like this has already violated the taboo in the army, and his bosses and colleagues in the army have already been dissatisfied with him because of this, but he is still at a loss. From this, it can be seen that human nature always has weaknesses, and once it suffers from the pain of the skin, no matter how shrewd a person is, it is very likely to become stupid.

Not to mention that Lu Xuan was behind his back, but said that Li Zhe brought Ma Zhong to the banquet.

Banquet guests come, just in the city, the most prosperous city center of Dongcheng District, is a four-storey cement stone built of building, boxy, the wall is all half a meter square bluestone building, the floor is tall, there are two people hugging the huge round stone pillar support, the stone pillar is full of beasts, carved with patterns, are the best craftsmen to achieve, it is really beautiful. Even compared with the high-end hotels of later generations, it has a different flavor.

Speaking of this kind of stone building, but the Song people in the Central Plains did not have it, it was only after coming to this place where the east and west of Tianzhu converged that they learned from the craftsmen from the west, and it really looks like a feeling of the Greco-Roman era.

Li Zhe took Ma Zhong here, and when Xiao Eryi in the store saw Li Zhe's beautifully decorated carriage, he immediately knew that it was a distinguished guest coming, and hurriedly greeted him, "Guest officer, here!" "When you meet the people, you go inside.

In the courtyard of the main hall of the store, there is a surrounding stage, at this time there are two people with heavy makeup on the stage singing there, Li Zhe is a modern person, he can't hear anything good or bad, and he keeps walking in, but Ma Zhong and Hu Shi are shaking their heads when they listen to it, as if they have a lot of feelings.

A few people went up to the top floor of the fourth floor and found a box to sit down.

The little two asked Li Zhe what dish he ordered, and Hu Shi had already taken it to deal with it, Li Zhe just shouted loudly,

"Bring wine, good wine, good wine from the original to do."

The little two replied:

"Okay, here, the good wine of Shu in the Central Plains, Jian Nanchun, will come soon."

Li Zhe didn't drink alcohol in his previous life, and after the crossing, he was just average, and he didn't feel much about this wine, but looking at Ma Zhong next to him, when he heard the name of this Jian Nanchun, he almost drooled.

"Is this Jian Nanchun famous?" Li Zhe asked curiously.

"Famous, of course famous, this wine is heard to be famous all over the world when it was the Tang Dynasty of the previous dynasty, and it is rumored to be a famous wine in the world. It is rumored that Li Bai took off his mink fur in order to drink this wine in exchange for this wine, the so-called 'five-flowered horse, daughter Qiu, Hu'er will exchange for fine wine' is this wine, and in my dynasty, Su students also praised this wine and said, 'Three days to open the urn full of fragrance, the nectar is slightly turbid and clear'. ”

Yo, Li Zhe was surprised! This Ma Zhong looked at the dark complexion, rough face, and the military man like the native, but he didn't expect that when it came to fine wine, he would be able to talk elegantly, just like a scholar in the state school. This guy has content. Li Zhe was more and more aroused his interest in this guy.

"Ma Dutou, does it sound like you've read a book?"

"I have been in a private school for a few years." ”

Li Zhe smiled and said, "That Yima Dutou's talent must be the best, so why didn't he continue to study in the state?" ”

Ma Zhong raised his eyebrows, as if there was something unspeakable.

"Back to Yuhou, down there is Vaishya." Ma Zhong said expressionlessly.

Li Zhe was stunned when he heard this, and immediately saved Ma Zhong's difficulties, it turned out that Ma Zhong was not a pure Song person.

Vaishyas are the third class in the Tianzhu caste system, the Tianzhu caste system, the first layer is the Brahmins, the second layer is the Kshatriyas, in fact, they are the pure-blooded Song people, and the third layer is the Song people with impure blood, or the white Aryans, the original Kshatriyas, and now that the Song people have come, they have been beaten from the second layer to the third layer. As for the fourth layer, there are the untouchables, which are the Shudras.

In the Brahmin scriptures of the Vedas, the emergence of the caste system is explained in mythology, saying that after the death of the primordial giant Prusha, the god Brahmin made a Brahmin out of his mouth, a Kshatriya with his hands, a Vaishya with his legs, and a Shudra with his feet.

There are strict boundaries between the four ranks, and people of the next rank are not allowed to engage in the occupation of the previous rank, and people of different ranks are not allowed to intermarry with each other. The Manu Code also made cumbersome provisions for the clothing, food, shelter and transportation of the various castes. For example, it is stipulated that people of different castes cannot stay in the same room, eat at the same table, or drink water from the same well. Intermarriage is strictly forbidden for people of different castes in order to perpetuate the division of castes.

Since Li Zhe crossed over, as a child of the nobility, he has been living in the circle of the Song people all day long, and all he sees every day is Kshatriya, and he has no feeling for the entire deep-rooted caste system in Tianzhu, but in fact, in addition to the millions of Song people in Tianzhu Continent, tens of millions of real Tianzhu people are all living in such shackles all day long.

As a Vaishya, Ma Zhong is naturally a higher class than Shudra, able to join the army, and able to read some ordinary books, but it is absolutely impossible to really go to the next level and step into the real ruling class.

Since the conquest of Tianzhu by the Song people, although the Song people do not believe in Brahmanism, they also enjoy and maintain the local caste system with peace of mind, which is obviously beneficial to the interests of the entire Song people and the stability of the entire Tianzhu society.

No wonder Li Zhe felt that Ma Zhong's face was a little strange, not quite like the face of a pure Song person, coupled with his skin color that was obviously different from that of a Song person, it turned out that Ma Zhong was a mixed race of Song people and locals. It turned out to be a poor man too.

The difficulty of such a mixed-race child in the army can be imagined, Ma Zhong can become the head of the capital with his own talents, it can be seen that this guy definitely has real skills, but that's all, just a deputy capital head, not even the threshold of a low-level officer has been crossed, and when he really arrives on the battlefield, he actually doesn't even have the power to command a team.

If you want to really rely on military merits, it's difficult! At this time, even Li Zhe could imagine the exclusion of Ma Zhong among the officers who supported the Japanese army.