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As a result of the acquisition of civic power, Indians began to gather in large numbers of slums on the outskirts of cities such as Kolkata and Mumbai, much like the development in real history, and the Indian governor was very troubled. This time, the wind disaster was mainly caused by the heavy casualties of these slum dwellers who were not resilient to disasters.

Downing proposed to the Governor a brain-opening idea of restoring the caste system. During the British government, in order to control the Indian people, the colonial government took India's caste system to the extreme, hoping to turn India into a permanent client state of the British Empire, with strict hierarchies and rigidity. This is the biggest secret to India's rapid economic take-off after Downing took over the modern liberal civilization system.

The so-called restoration of the caste system is only a superficial policy, and it is certainly impossible to return to the old era of harsh oppression of untouchables. The previous caste system was divided into two main categories, one was the privileged class, known as the Varna order; The other category is the untouchables. The lowest rank of varna is called the Shudra, which is the entry level of the privileged class, none of whom have personal freedom and are responsible for providing various services. The status of the untouchables is even more unfortunate - in Hinduism, "cleanliness" is regarded as the highest moral standard, so untouchables are often beaten or even killed if their dirty hands come into contact with the Varna masters. The uncleanness of those "mad hearts" who inter-caste marriage, adultery, etc., not to mention the miserable end.

Tang Ningjian could not have been such a caste that valued "morality" so much, and the rights of untouchables had to be guaranteed, but they could not move at will. This is the core policy of controlling slums. Not only that, but Tang Ning also borrowed from the Manchu Eight Banners system, in which the untouchables had to be attached to someone who was at least a Shudra, becoming the "banner people" of the Varna to facilitate the management and dissemination of policies. If a Dalit wants to migrate, he can only live with one of his varna companions.

If a Dalit wants to become a free-moving citizen, it is simply a matter of passing the primary education examinations consisting of Guò English and Mathematics to raise the caste to the rank of Shudra, becoming the "envy of all" Varna. If you are particularly intelligent, you can also take the exam for secondary education, which consists of 7 compulsory courses at the intermediate level, including English, Mathematics, Physical Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History, and Geography, with a total of 7 credits, after which you can advance to the Vaishyya order with infinite glory.

The Vaishyas have even more freedom, even if you don't have money, you can apply to the government for an eggshell house, this kind of house is cheap, the government will provide poor Vaishya housing loans, the first two years are interest-free, and it is estimated that if you find a job, you can pay off the loan with interest on your savings for three years. Unless the house you want is in a very expensive place. Because the construction of an eggshell house only takes a week, applicants can choose a location to build according to their needs and preferences, and it will not take a long time.

No matter what method you use, if you actually get enough exams for higher education, ordinary university and self-study, then you will enter the "Kshatriya" stage of "admired by all people". The noble Kshatriya castes generally find decent and high-paying jobs, however, before that, they can travel on buses and railways for free, and they can also apply to live in free eggshell houses, and in the future when they find jobs, they will naturally buy cars and houses, leaving eggshell houses that represent the primary stage.

The highest order is the "Brahmin" that is out of reach of ordinary people. This is the true Indian aristocracy, made up of East India Company shareholders, high-ranking government officials, elected parliamentarians, etc., who enjoy certain judicial immunity, are often jury members in important cases, and have the right to self-defense with guns and in any place. Only judges in the Intermediate Court have the power to summon them, and criminal detention requires the consent of the Ministry of Justice.

Ironically, the "priestly" Brahmin order under Downing's direction became an order that only atheists could enter, and theoretically not even the Queen of England and Emperor of India. The current senior Indian government officials are truly the world's only atheists, second only to the purer Israel. Of course, there is no religious persecution in either Israel or India, you can believe whatever you like, but you can't rise to the rank of senior official and senior military officer.

The East India Company made a mandatory rule for elected members of the Parliament - no religious inclination. In practice, it's about confirming that you're an atheist. This is not actually a democratic system, and it is impossible to have real democracy in the colonies.

India's current policies and laws actually have many things that are contrary to British tradition, but with the increasing military hegemony of the East India Company bigwigs, the British House of Lords, who are highly politically sensitive, do not dare to really exercise the supreme judicial power to veto India's religious policy, otherwise India is likely to be under the operation of Downing. India is now in a delicate balance between "**" and "British colony". Downing also doesn't want India to be completely **, so that he will lose a lot of support from Britain in terms of technology, talent, diplomacy, etc.

Therefore, Tangning did not completely ban the commercial cultivation of opium even in India, but there were legal opium halls in the Qing Dynasty, where opium was most popular, and the legal was to restrict, and all county-level officials and above were not allowed to smoke opium, otherwise they would be dismissed after judicial trial. Civilians have a record of opium smoking, and there are restrictions on it, such as the right to bear a gun, the reduction of points for civil servants, the difficulty of obtaining bank loans, and the non-reduction of medical expenses.

Downing sometimes feels incredible, the world war has been fought so many times, and he has not even done the trivial matter of banning opium until now. Well, after the end of this European war, when the prestige is so loud that no country dares to act rashly, we must take strong measures to ban opium, and do not talk nonsense with those British parliamentarians with relevant interests.

It was interesting to carry out brain-opening reforms, and Downing did not require the governor to do so, but thought it would be fun, as if it would really solve the problem of extreme poverty and illiteracy on the fringes of the great cities where the living conditions were extremely harsh. However, the idea of the big man must still be supported, and the Viceroy of India really went to promote the legislation of this "reinstatement" caste system.

The "retro reform" is not the first time in Downing, the establishment of the Caucasian slave trading company seems to have played more, sparking a lot of discussion in public opinion, "only look at the actual effect, ignore the political zhì correct" style seems to be a mean mockery of the democratically elected politicians, especially Lincoln, who must say that freedom, fairness, and the people. Tang Ning did not deny that Lincoln was an excellent politician, but the ability of the politician was limited, and he didn't even dare to say anything incorrect.

Comparable to Tang Ning's brain-hole doctrine is Guo Songtao's westward expansionism, this guy is very passionate about the westernization of the Qing Dynasty, as mentioned earlier, he has changed the calendar with the emperor's year name as the core that has been inherited for thousands of years to the Gregorian calendar, and recently he has made another effort to replace the holidays of the Gregorian calendar that everyone is gradually accustomed to replace the holidays of the lunar calendar, and the Spring Festival is changed to New Year's Day! The corresponding Qixi Festival is placed on July 7 of the Gregorian calendar, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is placed on August 15 of the Gregorian calendar. The Qixi Festival is not enough, but the Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to symbolize reunion, and the moon on August 15 of the Gregorian calendar is probably not round, which is really a hilarious change.

The staff said that the lack of a full moon is just the shadow of the earth covering the moon, which has no meaning at all, but the date of August 15 has historical significance, and we Chinese like to use symbols indiscriminately, such as: seeing the fierceness of the tiger, thinking that the tiger whip has an aphrodisiac effect, this kind of chaotic imagination is absurd, not to mention the truth - in fact, the sexual power of large predators is the worst, the mating of tigers is only a few seconds, and their ability to give birth to offspring is not strong, This is the limited number of herbivores that leads carnivores to limit their fertility.

Similarly, eating black sesame seeds can make gray hair black, and eating children's urine can rejuvenate people. The aide believes that the Chinese need to change their habit of wild imagination, so the policy plan should reflect the determination of thorough reform in every detail. Lao Guo actually agreed with this idea, and Tang Ning saw the news about the complete change to the Gregorian calendar and its related explanations in the Daqing News, and couldn't help but feel Lao Guo's determination to change the thinking of the Chinese in a funny way, and the staff member was also worthy of being a glorious member of the Windsor family and had ideas.

Tang Ning felt funny, in Lao Guo's opinion, it was not funny at all, the staff member was a graduate of Windsor Medical School, and he was supposed to be a doctor, but he was not used to seeing patients every day, so he gave up medicine and entered politics. Although he is no longer engaged in medical work, but after he returned to the Qing Dynasty, he found that the traditional medicine here is full of all kinds of self-righteous absurd imagination, Guo Songtao also heard from him very cruel medical facts, the doctors of the past dynasties think that the medicine of the rare ginseng is in fact the imagination of the ancients, without any medical effect, it may be that the ancients saw its roots grow like a human form, and felt very magical, so they imagined that it could return the human body to a healthy body.

Cordyceps sinensis, "Materia Medica" believes that it is grass in summer, and turns into insects in winter, which is also very magical, so it is conjectured that it can "protect the lungs, benefit the kidneys, stop bleeding, dissolve phlegm, and have been tired". In fact, it is nothing more than a fungus parasitic on the larvae of an insect called the bat moth, and when the temperature rises, the fungal hyphae grow out of the head of the worm and emerge from the ground to become "summer grass". In fact, Cordyceps sinensis is the carcass and parasitic fungus of bat moth larvae. Entomologists are familiar with this, it's not miraculous at all, and it's unlikely that it will have any medicinal effect.

When the staff talked about the medical knowledge he had learned at the Windsor Medical School, Lao Guo was deeply shocked, could it be that most of the drugs were useless? The little staff member Zhengse replied: "There is a pharmacopoeia in Windsor Hospital, I have compared it, there are almost no classic drugs from China, in fact, there are almost no herbal medicines from Europe. There are also various unreliable legends circulating in Europe, including opium that can cure all kinds of diseases, and hot springs that can cure all diseases, which are actually legends. And there is only one way to get a truly useful drug - and that is the clinical practice advocated by Windsor Hospital. There should be enough patients involved, and there should be a dummy drug given to a group of control patients to rule out psychological effects. Windsor Hospital used this method to puncture a large number of medical legends, and after entering China, a large number of drugs were realized, and the results were published in the Chinese edition of Nature for peers to reproduce the results. ”

Lao Guo was deeply disturbed by this, not only personally asked Master Tang Ning, but also decided to personally organize a so-called "large-sample double-blind control of the real yàn", which was related to the livelihood of a large number of medical families, which caused a national sensation in the Qing Dynasty, and Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Siam and other countries that were also deeply influenced by Chinese medicine were very concerned about this heavy incident.

Since the "reform and opening up", a large number of drugs from Windsor Hospital have poured into the Qing Dynasty, especially the immediate painkillers, which are amazing, seeing that the hospital is very profitable, Hu Xueyan is also ready to make a big deal, but he has played a disgraceful role in it, played the banner of patriotism, and collected a large number of "test prescriptions" under the guise of revitalizing "national medicine", and made a "Hu Qingyutang" with the support of Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang's old bosses. You know, these so-called prescriptions are actually word of mouth, and people who are completely entangled in various interests whether they are sick or not are convinced.

Lao Hu invested a lot of money in Hu Qingyutang, and he himself knew that traditional Chinese medicine seemed to "work very slowly", so he often played signs such as "treating chronic diseases" and "no side effects", but in fact, the treatment effect was so slow that it was almost ineffective, and the side effects were not clear, and there seemed to be no immediate fatal effect. His most famous "Qingyu Saving Heart Pill" and "Avoiding Plague Pill" actually can't stand the test of a large sample of double-blind real yàn. What "procurement is true, repair the fine business" "is the benevolence of the art, the real price" is all the archway that fools people.

Chinese medicine has been flickering for thousands of years, this huge national real yàn suddenly attracted the interests of the whole country, ghosts, snakes and gods, and they have given gifts and gifts to the chiefs, especially in the case that the results are unfavorable to traditional prescriptions, I heard that the Qing Dynasty court wants to completely ban unverified prescriptions, these Chinese doctors have said various reasons, what "human constitution is different, so the prescription should also be different" "Some medicines have no effect, that is the level of the person who prescribes the prescription is not good, and you can't overturn a boatload of people with a stick, How can a medical technique that has been passed down for thousands of years not have any effect? ”

This is a big debate that has swept the country, and the newspapers of modern medicine have many excellent counter-arguments, arguing that "the rough division of cold and hot constitution is an ancient characteristic of the extremely scarce medical terminology, and modern medicine has been able to understand the whole process of pathogenesis in detail through human anatomy, and if there are pathogenic microorganisms, you can also directly see the pathogenic bacteria through a microscope, so please don't use the language of primitive people with different constitutions to quibble." If everyone's prescription is different, there is no experience to accumulate in medical skills. Medicine is possible only if it is recognized that there is a commonality in the effects of medicine, and that at least a certain group of people can apply a certain drug. With the periodic table all out for you, please don't describe the world in terms of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, although that sounds poetic. ”

There are also very fierce quarrels, modern medicine is accused of "forgetting the ancestors", and the annoyed opponent directly bursts into foul language, "**** ancestors!" What traditional moral concepts do you have to think about when discussing scientific things? Effective is effective, ineffective is invalid, look at the effect! ”

And that's not even counting the occasional rumors of people getting into fights on the street because of differences of opinion. Later, I heard that one party used modern medical stitches, anti-inflammatory, and tetanus prevention injections to recover, while the other party refused to accept these miraculous tricks because of his backbone, and used the herbs handed down by his ancestors to carefully recuperate, and finally the wound became inflamed and infected, and in desperation he was sent to Windsor Hospital, where he ended up with an amputation.

But don't think that modern medicine is done, conservatives can also say that "European medicine is good at surgery, and my great doctor is good at internal medicine!" ”

Guo Songtao was puzzled by the turbulent confrontation between the two sides, and the only thing that was not perplexed was that he received a real-name report from a person who supported modern medicine that the staff of Jiangsu Governor Li Hongzhang had interfered with the clinical practice, and Lao Guo finally became angry, and he did not care about the judicial immunity of the elected governor, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Shanghai summoned Li Hongzhang for tea for the first time. （http：／／.）。 However, this old fox sacrificed his staff, and Hu Xueyan, the real mastermind behind the operation, fled to Zuo Zongtang, another old boss in Heilongjiang, under the instructions of Li Hongzhang.

The evidence of Li Hongzhang's aides bending the law for personal gain was conclusive, and he was prosecuted by the Jiangsu Anti-Corruption Office as a public prosecutor to the Shanghai District Court. To say that the judicial system of the Qing Dynasty is almost entirely in the hands of the Chinese of the Windsor family who studied law in the United Kingdom, the judicial system of the Qing Dynasty is real, and even the people at the level of auxiliary ministers and parliamentary kings cannot influence the judicial system of the Qing Dynasty.

Li's aides fought a failed lawsuit without any suspense, Li Hongzhang's prestige was severely damaged, and Zeng Jize, one of the two senators of Jiangsu Province, launched a campaign to impeach the governor in the Jiangsu Provincial House of Representatives, but unfortunately it did not reach the scale of two-thirds prescribed by law.

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