Lin Yuan stayed in Kolkata for a while, and during this time, the 28th Division stationed in Kunming went down the Brahmaputra River into the Bangladesh Autonomous Region, and then entered Kolkata from the Bangladesh Autonomous Region, and Lin Yuan ordered the commander of the 28th Division, Yun Tiangang, to march along the Ganges River valley to Delhi.

The 28th Division was accompanied by officials of the Kolkata Autonomous Region sent by Lin Yuan from China, and after entering India, these officials absorbed scholars such as Mangil and Gandhi into the regional government.

Under Lin Yuan's guidance, the new government carried out drastic reforms in the Kolkata Autonomous Region, starting with land reform, in which land was distributed regardless of caste.

This policy certainly aroused the resentment of the local high castes, but even if they were dissatisfied, they could not do anything because the Chinese had political and military power in their hands, and these people could not resist.

Under the arrangements of the new government, a large part of the urban poor returned to the countryside, and the new government carried out large-scale infrastructure construction in the cities to absorb the urban labor force.

Lin Yuan was not in a hurry to leave Calcutta and lead the fleet to the next place, but stayed in Kolkata to deal with the recent reforms, and on July 10, Gandhi suddenly came to Lin Yuan.

Gandhi was appointed by Lin Yuan as the chief administrative officer of the Kolkata Autonomous Region at this time, and Lin Yuan's arrangement was to value Gandhi's strength of "influencing with love", and at this time Lin Yuan really needed a person like Gandhi to alleviate the various contradictions brought about by the reform.

Lin Yuan received Gandhi in the reception room and asked directly, "Mr. Gandhi, is there anything you want me to do?" ”

Gandhi sighed, put a pile of texts in front of Lin Yuan, and said, "Mr. Lin Yuan, please think of a way, now the caste system has strictly affected our construction." ”

Lin Yuan was not surprised, he had long expected this situation, Lin Yuan asked, "Tell me carefully, what happened?" ”

Gandhi sighed and said, "You have come up with a plan for a 'tidy city' to clean up all the garbage in the city and transport it to a landfill for deep burial, which requires a lot of garbage sweepers, but the garbage sweepers have been slow to recruit them, even though we have paid a high price, because many people think that this is the work that only the lowest castes can do. ”

"Your plan to 'eradicate slums' is to build a large number of clean and tidy buildings in the city, but there are not enough construction workers because we have recruited workers from the lower castes, and people from other castes are not willing to work with them."

"There are also schools, where many Brahmin parents do not allow children of lower castes to enter schools, and there is a similar situation in adult literacy classes...... There are many such things, and the people of the lower castes are content with their position, they do not want to resist at all, and they are obedient to the oppression of the upper castes. ”

Gandhi wanted to say more, Lin Yuan waved his hand lightly and said, "I can imagine these things, there is no need to say more." ”

Gandhi then asked, "Do you have a solution?" ”

Lin Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "There are methods, but it is more difficult to implement." ”

Gandhi said: "As long as we don't use violence, we can find a way no matter how difficult it is." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "How many temples are there in Kolkata?" ”

Gandhi replied, "There are a hundred of them, big and small, what do you ask for?" ”

Lin Yuan didn't answer, and continued to ask, "How many are the most influential and appealing ones?" ”

Gandhi thought for a moment and said, "There are fifteen or sixteen." ”

Lin Yuan nodded slightly, and said lightly: "Invite all the most prestigious elders in these temples, and none of them will be left behind." ”

Gandhi was shocked after hearing Lin Yuan's words, and thought to himself: "Lin Yuan is Lin Yuan!" A casual remark is to bring in all the elders, knowing that these elders are very prestigious people in Calcutta, the governor of the year, George? Curzon didn't have the power to bring them all in. ”

Gandhi knew that Lin Yuan's words were not something he could resist, so he sent his men to invite the elders of these temples, and the elders of these temples heard that Lin Yuan summoned them, and their hearts were also "suddenly" jumping, because they helped the British to do things against Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan hadn't settled accounts with them yet!

The elders came to Lin Yuan's command post in fear, Lin Yuan's subordinates were very polite to them, which made their hearts relax a little, more than two hundred elders walked into the conference room, only to see Lin Yuan sitting alone on the rostrum drinking tea, they all felt the majesty of Lin Yuan's body, no one dared to sit down, no one dared to speak.

Lin Yuan put down the teacup and said casually: "Take a seat, the highest status sits in front of me." ”

More than 200 elders took their seats at this time, and the conference room was filled in a short time, Lin Yuan looked at the person in front of him, turned his head to look at the translator, and the translator immediately whispered to Lin Yuan: "This person's name is Thakur, he is the most high-status elder in Calcutta, and the temple where he is located is called ......."

Lin Yuan waved his hand lightly and said, "I don't need to know what his temple is called. Then he said to Elder Thakur, "Hello Elder Thakur, has your monastery recently summoned a holy woman again?" ”

The "holy women" are the women in the Indian monasteries for the monks and Brahmins, these women were sent to the monastery when they were ten years old, nominally to serve the gods with their bodies, but in fact they were the slaves of the monks and Brahmins, these women usually lived in their own homes, and the monks came to them when they were in need, they did not have a normal marriage in their lives, and they would be kicked away by the monks when they were old and decrepit.

After the liberation of Calcutta, Lin Yuan had already issued a decree prohibiting the existence of "holy women", but how could a decree change thousands of years of tradition? So this phenomenon is still not uncommon.

Elder Thakur also knew that the monks under his command had summoned the Holy Maiden many times to vent their desires, his face was embarrassed, he hesitated, and did not answer, Lin Yuan sneered, making Elder Thakur tremble with fright.

Lin Yuan mentioned that this matter was not the intention of the drunkard, he just wanted to use the matter of the Holy Maiden to deter Elder Thakur, he had brought so many elders here, there was something more important to talk about.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Elder Thakur, you should know where the caste system originated, right? ”