After arriving in New Delhi, Lin Youde insisted on seeing the legendary Ganges River first.

Heniru was very happy to hear this, and felt that Lin Youde was expressing his respect for the culture of Great India. But in fact, Lin Youde went to see the strange, he had heard a lot of strange sayings about the Ganges River before he crossed, and he always wanted to verify it himself, and now he finally has this opportunity.

After a long bumpy ride on the road, Lin Youde finally saw the tributaries of the legendary Mother River of India, the main stream of the Ganges River that does not pass through New Delhi.

But it doesn't matter, it's all part of the Ganges anyway.

Lin Youde rushed to the river, and the accompanying Indians immediately began to explain how to use the water of the Ganges River for rituals in Hinduism. Lin Youde listened absentmindedly while observing the river.

The Indians near his location were dispersed, and there was a circle of onlookers outside the cordon, and when he was in Persia, the Persian king was still hiding, and the Indians were "suddenly attacked" by Lin Youde, and there was no time to arrange decent people to watch, so those were shown in front of Lin Youde in the real situation.

In addition to these people, there are many Indians doing their own thing as far as the eye can see, some washing clothes by the river, some bathing, and some drinking water - yes, drinking the water that other people have taken for bathing and laundry directly into their mouths. Although he had heard of it for a long time, Lin Youde was still stunned for a moment when he saw this scene in person.

"What a drink...... he muttered quietly.

At this time, the most energetic object flows down the river.

Although it was quite far away, Lin Youde immediately recognized that it was a floating corpse, and it was just going down the river, while the Indians by the river looked so commonplace that they completely ignored it.

Lin Youde couldn't help but interrupt the Indian who was explaining: "Then the corpse just let him go down the river?" ”

"Yes, it's our custom," the Indian said in broken curry-flavored English, "that we come from the Ganges and will eventually return to the bosom of the Ganges." ”

"And what if the corpse decomposes and causes an infectious disease?"

"The Ganges will kill a qiē epidemic." The Indian said it in a nutshell.

Lin Youde was quite mentally prepared, so he wasn't so surprised, Viola and Xiaolu were all dumbfounded.

The Indian who narrated the commentary was still laughing, and he made a gesture of invitation to the surface of the Ganges: "Would you like to try bathing in the Ganges?" This will bring you good luck. ”

"It's going to bring me bacteria and disease." Lin Youde said very bluntly, "This water is too dirty. ”

Lin Youde's words made the expressions of the Indian high-ranking officials who knew English around them ugly, but they actually didn't use the Ganges water to bathe, so they needed to make a show, and Lin Youde was a powerful person they couldn't provoke, so no one said anything. And the ordinary people who might be angry with these words couldn't understand Lin Youde's words at all, so they didn't react.

Lin Youde turned around directly, walked up the road he came, and said as he walked: "I've seen enough, let's go." ”

After getting into the car, Xiaolu finally couldn't help but say: "It's really backward and ignorant here. ”

"yes." As soon as Lin Youde spoke, he saw the military police chasing a young woman outside the car window.

The woman had a bell on her body, so Lin Youde knew at a glance that she was a so-called "untouchable", judging from her skin color, she may be a high-caste girl, probably moved by people from other classes, and as a result, she was demoted to a pariah, also called "untouchable", and the bell on her body was to remind everyone to pay attention to her arrival and not to have contact with her.

Of course, there will be no problem for the military and police to beat her.

The Indians, probably thinking it rude for a pariah, to appear in front of their distinguished guests, beat her with all the force of milk, grabbing her by the hair and smashing her face against the wall, laughing without the slightest guilt as the soldiers and police did it.

Kshatriya is supposed to be like this, and beating a pariah is not a big deal at all.

The car started, and the badly beaten untouchable woman was quickly left behind and out of sight.

"What an unpleasant country." Viola, despite the fact that the Indian driver might know German, said, "We must not allow it to join the Alliance for Human Renewal." ”

Lin Youde actually didn't expect India in this time and space to be so bad - or was it the same in India in the 60s in the original time and space?

Lin Youde remembers watching a series of BBC documentaries about India, in which an Indian girl who left India to live in a Western society returned to India with a BBC reporter to document the status and current situation of Indian women. The documentary made Lin Youde very depressed, and there were many things that he thought could only happen in the primitive tribes in the African jungle, but they were actually happening in India.

Later, Lin Youde found many documentaries about India, which some people said was a model of democracy and the true face of human hope, which shocked Lin Youde very much.

Lin Youde doesn't know how much of the truth is in those documentaries, and how much is for the grandstanding of eyeballs, but India in this time and space does make Lin Youde disgusted.

Maybe he just happened to bump into two less pleasant things, but his impression of India was completely finished, and at this time, Lin Youde no longer had the idea of understanding the real situation, and he was already eager to leave the country as soon as possible.

But he still has things to do in this country.

After entering the center of New Delhi, Lin Youde was arranged in a luxurious hotel, and then Heniru hosted a banquet for Lin Youde at the equally luxurious Presidential Palace. The Indian officials at the banquet were all dressed in shiny suits and leather shoes, while their wives were dressed in fancy clothes, with "a red spot in the middle of their eyebrows and a veil covering their faces."

But Lin Youde thought that the smell on them would definitely not be curry.

"Can I destroy them?" Xiaolu whispered to Lin Youde during the banquet, "As soon as I saw them and thought of the day's events, I was very angry, Dad, how can you allow such a country to exist?" ”

"I'm not a savior, and you're going to sing your father's Internationale, 'There has never been a savior, and we don't rely on the gods and emperors, it's up to us to create the happiness of mankind,' and if the Indian crowd rebels, we will definitely support it." Now, if they are willing to continue to be oppressed and exploited, and if they are willing to continue to live this life, then let them be. ”

Lin Youde remembers reading a document saying that India's untouchables because their descendants are untouchables, so after years of accumulation, the number can account for 20 to 25 percent of the entire population of India, according to Lin Youde's understanding, this base is already very large, if the Chinese have long been "princes and generals have a kind of Xiangning", can't live Lao Tzu and you desperately, who is especially afraid of whom.

But there is no such thing in India, and in so many years of long history, there has been no untouchable uprising.

Lin Youde has always been puzzled, and later took modern world history in college, he asked this question to the old professor who retired and returned to earn pocket money, and the old professor said something that made all the students in the class who did not sleep particularly impressive.

He said, "You know that Chinese are like this." Don't look at a bunch of people on the Internet lamenting the servility of the Chinese, in fact, from the perspective of world history, China is the hardest hit area of slave uprisings and peasant uprisings! In the history of the West for so many years, how many dynasties were destroyed by slave revolts and peasant wars? Except for a few dynasties that were killed by outsiders on the Chinese side, the other dynasties were basically ruined in the vast sea of peasant uprisings!

"When it comes to the heroes of slave and peasant uprisings in the West, there are only a few, Spartacus, Robin Hood - although this latter is known as the leader of the outlaws of Thur Woolin, the hero of the green forest, but in fact his original form is a down-and-out nobleman, and after becoming a person in the legend, he was recruited by King Lionheart, and in some stories he married the princess of the nobles and lived a happy life. There were several emperors in the Roman Empire, who were from the bottom of the family, such as Diocletian, but he did not ascend to the throne through the peasant war, he rose step by step to accumulate power, and then assassinated the Roman emperor and replaced him, which was an internal line of power seizure. Other Roman emperors from lower backgrounds were similar. Can you think of anyone else?

"Who said Martin Luther? Now the chicken soup text says that Martin Luther's family is a serf and a miner, yes, but to add a 'once', when Martin Luther was born, he had already relied on the general trend of society at that time to become a member of the city council, a mine owner, Martin Luther was a second-generation official and a rich second-generation. All in all, before the start of the capitalist revolution in Western society, the peasant wars were all lost, and they were not very numerous, and they succeeded later because they were peasant uprisings of the nature of the capitalist revolution, and the light of the change in the ownership of the means of production was glued.

"On the other hand, in our China, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are heroes, and from now on, whenever the people can't live anymore, they will remember Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's words, 'The prince will have a kind of Xiangning', this is a beginning, and they can no longer hold it. Of course, most of the time the peasant war was eventually used by the intellectuals, and the new emperor was only part of the original vested interests, and the people just changed to someone who oppressed them and took a breath. You can't say that this peasant war was successful, and it stands to reason that there should be no successful peasant uprising in China before the capitalist revolution comes.

However, China appeared, and there was a beggar named Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Baba, who started from scratch and laid down the Ming dynasty. This is a very, very miraculous thing, and throughout the history of the world, there has been only one peasant uprising that has been completely successful without the help of a change in the social system. This is the only one in the world. So remember, students, the Chinese are the most resistant in the world, so don't ask 'why XX people don't resist', don't use the Chinese's spirit of resistance to measure the gringos. ”

After the banquet, when his family was together, Lin Youde relayed the old man's words to his wife and daughter, and immediately won his approval.

"Here, it makes more sense." Viola said, "There is a god here, but you still have many large-scale peasant uprisings in China, but we in the West, what do you call that?" Spartacus? I didn't know there was such a person, this time and space, Robin Hood did know that the story of King Lionheart's goddess disguised as a man and acted chivalrous is very famous. ”

And Xiaolu continued: "I just thought that they didn't resist because they had a god, but when I think about it this way, they don't resist because of servility......"

That's right, servility, some people say that India only produced a Gandhi when it needed Lao Mao, but in fact, even if India is given an old Mao, it is useless. What's more, the soil of India can probably only give birth to guys like Gandhi.