Chapter 880: I Want to Be an Official!
Jammu and Kashmir, a region larger than Henan Province, has a population of more than 6 million and its capital is Srinagar. Geographically, it is located in northwestern South Asia, bordered by southern Tibet to the east, Pakistan and the Sikh kingdoms to the west, which had just become independent for less than a year, to the south the traditional North Indo-Indian dynasty, and then to the north by Afghanistan. The terrain is mainly plateaus and mountains, and the Qiaogori Peak on the border with China is 8,611 meters above sea level, making it the second highest peak in the world.
China has just added this land to its territory, but there is not much of a hindrance. This land has a long history as a meeting place of ancient Indian thought, where both Buddhism and Hinduism developed. The capital, Srinagar, was rebuilt on the ruins of a Mauryan city. The spread of the Green Religion to Kashmir 600 years ago has injected a new and dynamic opportunity into the field of thought here.
When the Sikh Kingdom invaded Ladakh in 1834, Ladakh appealed to the Tibetan minister for help, but was defeated in 1835 and later incorporated into the Kashmir region of the Sikh Empire. Then, in 1845, the British defeated the Sikh Kingdom, and Kashmir became a state of British India. Grand Duke Gulab. As a loyal dog in the United Kingdom, Singh has also re-established his family's name in India.
Of course, there is no Singh family in Kashmir today, and the Chinese government that occupies the region knows all about Kashmir. Although it is mostly highlands and mountains, the Kashmir Valley is the most densely populated area of Kashmir with fertile soil, and the inhabitants of Jammu are mainly Hindus. The inhabitants of Ladakh are culturally close to those of the Tibetan people and believe in Tibetan Buddhism.
The Kashmiri way of life is very simple. Differences in religious beliefs are tolerant, and the conflicting clash between Greens and Hindus in the South Asian subcontinent never seems to have affected them. Most of the inhabitants prefer peace. The diversity of cultures is enough to reflect the diversity of religions, but it is nothing more than that.
Therefore, this place is the easiest land for China to integrate in the South Asian subcontinent. In other places, religious overtones are too conspicuous and glaring.
The total population of Ladakh is only 200,000, which is an absolute small number in the entire Kashmir region, but it is not a problem that the Tibetan Buddhist princely state of Ladakh was able to control 10 times or more than 10 times the number of Green Christians and Hindus as itself. Just like the Grand Duke of Hyderabad was a Green Christian, but his 15 million people were almost all Hindus. Hinduism is really perverted and works miracles.
Kashmir can only be a new special administrative region of China. The rights of the people here are completely different from those in China. According to the government's guidance report, Kashmir has been doing two things in the last year – training Buddhist cadres and sending Greens and Hindus back to their hometowns as much as possible.
6 million people, so many 'foreigners' can easily get Chinese nationality, that will make the Japanese, Nantianguo, Koreans, and Nguyen Dynasty who are desperately trying to get a Chinese nationality or even a permanent residence permit crazy.
However, the people of Kashmir are reluctant to leave their homeland. China advocates freedom of belief and cannot put up any obstacles to folk beliefs, although the heads of all faiths are also shrouded in the black clouds of the Religious Affairs Bureau.
China's policy towards the Kashmir region is: With the exception of Ladakhis, everyone can have a residence permit, but not Chinese nationality. Unless you can pass an advanced Chinese test and be able to speak Mandarin fluently. Able to write square kanji. Then you can get Chinese nationality. Such a decision still gave these people great benefits, being able to speak Mandarin and write Chinese characters, which is only a necessary prerequisite for people from countries such as Japan and North Korea to apply for naturalization. And in Kashmir. That's all there is to it.
"If I really give so much money, I'll sign up for the cadre exam. The newspaper made it clear if you participated. Even temporary workers are able to go to Shingaku for night school. The teachers there must be more educated than the teachers in Srinagar. I went to work as a temporary worker and went to night school at the same time! ”
Leh, in a Tibetan-style house, the two red-faced Qizara raised their heads and looked at Rob Dunzhu dumbfounded, he was very surprised in his heart, Rob Dunzhu is the son of a merchant in Leh, Zizara's family is also in business, the two have been very familiar since childhood, even if Rob Dunzhu's life and family fell because of his father's sudden death, Qi Zara did not look down on this friend at all. But the faint sense of superiority deep in my heart is always there.
However, now, seeing that Rob Dunzhu decided to take the exam and go to night school, Zizara couldn't help but be envious. His father had already planned everything for him, and although his life was better than that of the middle-of-the-family Rob Dunzhu, he did not have any autonomy.
The affairs of Kashmir are not Liu Xian's concern, and it is the governor of Tibetan Province, Zuo Tianping, who is in charge of all this, a figure who has no trace left in history. This is the case in China today, many 'historical celebrities' from the Republic of China period have appeared, and they have performed very well, but the main body of the government is still more nameless, and these new era of Chinese occupy higher, more and more powerful positions.
In order to integrate Kashmir as soon as possible, Zuo Tianping also deliberately removed 500 officials and civil servants at all levels from Tibet Province, and applied to the Tibetan troops for a special operation team, with as many as 100 personnel. What these people did in the past is tacitly known to everyone. If it were not for Zuo Tianping's cross-cutting stab, the future path of these people would be more likely to be forever running on the secret front, and the most open prospect would be to work in the security bureau under the local government.
But now they're about to jump out of the secret front system. These people are fluent in Hindi and English, can communicate pleasantly with the Green Christians and Hindus in Kashmir, and they are well versed in the customs and taboos of the region. There are even people who have a lot of 'friends' in North India, including Kashmir. By intervening in the formation of government agencies, these people are very well placed to 'unite' the local population at large.
In the near future, they will become the frontline officials of the government, and become a bridge between the local people and the government. As long as you have the ability. The future is bright and limitless.
The Singer family and countless aristocratic families who cling to the trunk of the Singer family. It has been handled very cleanly by the Wehrmacht. For the merchant class here, especially those who are not closely related to the 'Singh' system. The Wehrmacht did not touch them much. That's why Zizara can still live a worry-free life, so Rob Dunzhu can firmly believe that he has signed up for the government's 'temporary work'.
Zuo Tianping didn't want to be forcibly recruited, because the time of contact with each other was still short, and although the other party knew that China was extremely powerful, it would still feel awkward if it was 'forcibly recruited', not to mention that the local 'intellectual class' was already very weak, and it was very killing, so how much could the rest of the crowd be recruited?
Of course, these people will be in the mailbox in Kashmir, although it is more efficient to come out and be officials. But you have to give them some benefits. At least secretly give them a piece of 'unspoken rule'. The Chinese government has not been such a government at all since the founding of the old emperor. How many Qing court officials who surrendered in large numbers were able to really sit in positions of real power? But it is fortunate to keep the family property and head.
Even those demoted officials who still remain in positions of real power are obediently in accordance with the rules of the new dynasty. There is absolutely no reason or possibility for the new DPRK to compromise their 'interests.'"
Moreover, Zuo Tianping has a very low opinion of the 'intellectual class' in Kashmir, believing that even if these people have a certain amount of knowledge, they are all goddamn theological, and they have no effect on how to be a competent official. Such a person can't get into the eyes of Zuo Tianping. The two who are unbearable in Tibetan Province have now begun to obediently 'keep pace with the times', these two are the second deputy directors of the State Administration of Religious Affairs. The brain is still very smart. Therefore, any compromise for the local intellectual class in Kashmir made Zuo Tianping feel that it was not worth it.
But when it came time for the exam, the whole situation was much better than Zuo Tianping thought. Although only 19 people applied for the full-time civil service examination, 200 to 300 people were willing to work as temporary civil servants and government 'temporary workers'.
After two days of morning and afternoon exams. The written test of the four lessons is over. The content of the written test is divided into culture (including history), arithmetic, and geography. Comprehensive knowledge. The cultural class is not bad, with basic writing skills and the most basic historical knowledge of India, Tibet, and China. It's not too difficult for these Kashmiri intellectuals. At least they can write part of it. And arithmetic, geography. It's polarized, some people do well in these two subjects, and there are many people who answer in a mess.
In the end, the answer to the comprehensive knowledge test paper made many markers laugh. is the level of junior high school students in China, and answering these questions will not be unbearable.
"It's just a bunch of schoolchildren! Still a primary school student who doesn't study well. ”
Except for a limited number of people, Zuo Tianping, who personally read the papers, said such a sentence that made the entire Kashmiri people very embarrassed in the next 20 years.
Lobu Tondrup had been to Lhasa in his early years of affluence, but of course, he did not have the possibility of meeting the two masters of Tibetan Buddhism, but studied at a monastery in Lhasa. It was a college for the upper class of the Tibetan aristocracy, and the number of students in it was as high as 800 at most.
This number is definitely very small for the entire aristocratic family of Tibetan Province. What's more, among the 800 people, there are businessmen like CNOOC Luo Bu Dunzhu, and you can imagine how many real 'nobles' there are in it.
In the early days, in order to appease Tibetan Province and prevent chaos there, so that the British could see the opportunity, the requirements for Tibetan Province were almost copied from the Manchu system. However, as the troops stationed in Tibet became more and more firmly established in Tibetan Province, and as the communication between Tibet Province and Sichuan improved little by little, the central government completely took action against Tibet Province in 1885.
The two 'reincarnated saints' very intuitively gave up the power in their hands, leaving only a status similar to that under the original time and space Red Dynasty system, and became two very single spiritual leaders. But there was absolutely no danger to life. Since these two 'idols' have chosen to surrender, for the sake of the peace of Tibet, the old emperor will also accept their knees.
And this change has the most profound impact on the big and small heads and nobles in Tibetan Province.
The indescribable 'human master' lost his braincase, and the actions of the Red Dynasty made the authority of the central government completely consolidated on the roof of the world. Countless Tibetans, who in the past only knew about bowing down to the heads and monks, saw a greater force in the world. What's more, in the land of Qinghai, the Tibetans who had been tied to the new dynasty for a long time, had already completed the initial sinicization of the weir for more than ten or twenty years, and in 1885 they could already provide a certain number of new-style talents for the government. From these people to various parts of Tibetan Province, it took only two years for normal changes to completely cease to fluctuate.
The number of Tibetan nobles who remained after the great changes was greatly reduced, and the Buddhist monasteries in Lhasa also opened their doors, which attracted a number of children of Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh to ask for help. Rob Ton Bead is one of them. Although he only studied in Lhasa for two years before he had to return to Leh due to family changes, Rob Dunzhu was admitted to the temporary job without any suspense.
Zizara stood outside his father's door with some fear, but he had been lingering outside the door for a while. Suddenly, the door opened, and Zizara's father, Doto, appeared in front of him with a stiff face, and said in a somewhat impatient tone, "Come in! ”
Zizara felt a sense of relief on his body, he was such a person, and he didn't dare to think about any superfluous movements in the shadow of his father. Zizara wanted to go to the new school in Leh, and he should have taken the initiative to ask his father to explain his intentions. But he really didn't have the courage to say what he thought to his father. As she wandered outside the door, Zizara wished her father could hear her movements outside the door.
"Say it! What's the matter? Doto asked, saying that he didn't really like his son's indecision. This manifestation is considered cowardice to him.
"Abba, I have friends who have come out to be officials!" Zizara's voice was subtle, a bit like that of a mosquito.
"Humph!" Doto snorted in response, but did not answer.
"Recently, ......, the new school in town... Classes are about to start! ”
"Humph!" Doto's snort changed directly to a sneer.
Even though he knew that his father would basically not agree, Qizara at this time couldn't help but muster all his courage and continued: "The new school teaches new knowledge, I want to learn, and the examiner will be in the future!" "The people of Ladakh don't have the word 'scientific expedition'. No matter how smart and wise a person is, as long as his background is not high, he can only be a wealthy businessman with no status or a steward of the old man for the rest of his life.
"Abba, I'm ...... I want to be an official! (To be continued.) )