425th caste Cochin

Compared with the passive defense of the Zhu Ming Dynasty when it came into contact with Portugal in the real world, whether it was the Battle of Tuen Mun or the Battle of Xicaowan in Ming and Portugal, they were far less than the defense of the country to block Portugal in West Africa.

In terms of the current combat effectiveness alone, the Wei Xia Divided Empire is obviously stronger.

A mere province of patriotism could kill Portugal's eastward expansion.

That's the background for now.

The perspective narrows out and focuses on it, returning to Wei Dongsheng's fourth life experience.

Wei Dongsheng is the fourth generation, and he is also a descendant of his bloodline. Compared with the experience of the previous three generations, Wei Dongsheng's identity background continued to decline, and his titular father was only a certain prefect of the Longbian Mansion of the Jiaozhi Domain. Wei Dongsheng's fourth titular father died in 1477, and he was the son of a high-ranking official with an even more declining background than the third generation.

The third is the son of the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom, and no matter how declining the family is, he will not be able to eat and wear; And the son of the prefect of the fourth generation, food and clothing have begun to be in short supply. Of course, the shortage here is only in the supply of luxury goods, in fact, the fourth Wei Dongsheng has more than 300 acres of fertile land under his name, and he is a veritable big landowner. As long as you don't spend a lot of money on the children of the gentlemen, these more than 300 acres of fertile land are enough to maintain a good standard of living.

More than 300 acres of fertile land, ten tenants, and a number of domestic servants, this is the experience of the fourth Wei Dongsheng given by the nominal father or the inferior tomorrow ring.

However, these properties all existed on paper, and Wei Dongsheng had no chance to see them for the time being, because he was studying in the Longbian Mansion at this moment.

When it comes to the study of the dragon compilation, it is necessary to introduce the system of taking scholars in the Wei Xia Dynasty in general.

As early as the first generation, Wei Dongsheng began to reform the imperial examination system with Chinese characteristics, and carried forward the Guozijian mechanism that existed in the Liu Han Dynasty. During the second generation, Wei Dongsheng used the power of the king of the Jin State to check and fill in the gaps and improve the Guozijian, which gradually became the standard configuration of the Wei Xia Dynasty and the Twenty Vassal States.

There are two types of eunuchs, tribute eunuchs, and shadow eunuchs.

A shadow eunuch is a person who has become a prisoner who has relied on his father. When the fathers have reached a certain level of officialdom, they are allowed to send one or two sons to the country to study, which is for the shadow of the prison. Those whose fathers have not yet reached the rank, but have made outstanding contributions or died in the line of duty, can also be shadowed by the children of the prison to study in the country.

Tribute supervisor is a variant of the probationary system. Some officials and nobles have a certain number of probation quotas, as if they are filial piety and other operational methods, and recommend outstanding talents to Guozijian.

Prison is a variant of the imperial examination system. Every year, the state holds an entrance examination similar to the imperial examination at a fixed time and place, and those who pass the examination can enter the Guozijian to study.

Unlike the imperial examination system, Guozijian is more like a real-world university education. Regardless of whether they are eunuchs, tribute eunuchs, or shadow eunuchs, they must receive a minimum of four years of education in Guozijian as a prisoner. Only by successfully passing the graduation examination of Guozijian and obtaining the honor of Xiucai can the students hope that the carp will jump the dragon gate and be promoted to a member of the ruling class.

With the increasing demand for employment in the country, Guozijian has gradually expanded its recruitment, such as the largest royal family in terms of population, Guozijian has been split and built three other branches. At the same time, the competition between inmates and inmates is becoming more and more fierce, especially those with lower status, who have stretched the starting line and worked towards the goal of the entrance examination of the national prison at an early age.

When there is a market demand, an industry will be formed, and there will be more and more private educational institutions or training institutions for the entrance examination of Guozijian, and more and more formalized, and private educational institutions similar to real-world middle schools will gradually be formed. As private education became more widespread, the state adapted to the situation and introduced official government schools.

Longbianfu School, that is, it can be simply translated as Longbianfu Middle School. Of course, since the Longbian Mansion is the capital of the Jiaozhi Domain, and because there is only one Longbian Mansion School in the great Jingshi, the social status of the Longbian Mansion School is much more powerful than the so-called Tsinghua High School in the real world.

Wei Dongsheng's titular father had served as the prefect of the Longbian Mansion, so he was able to go to the Longbian Mansion to study through the Yin Jian Passage. As long as Wei Dongsheng did not make fatal mistakes during his studies, he could almost easily graduate from the Longbian Mansion School and Jiaozhi Guozijian and obtain the honor of Xiucai. This is the privilege of the shadow prison, and the prisoners can find out what they want by holding their heads over the beams and the honor of the talents.

The reason why Wei Dongsheng was able to keep more than 300 acres of fertile land was also because of his status as a student of the Longbian Mansion and his qualifications as a shadow supervisor. The social status of Guozijian students is more popular than that of college students in the 80s in the real world, not only are there civil servant positions waiting for graduation, but non-governmental organizations such as chambers of commerce are also vying to hire outstanding students trained by Guozijian. Besides, Wei Dongsheng is familiar with the circle of prisoners and prisoners, and he can casually ask for help from some high-ranking officials whose fathers are still powerful, and he can wantonly hang and beat those vicious dogs who covet more than 300 acres of fertile land.

Gossip aside.

At the time of Wei Dongsheng's arrival, the annual Guozijian entrance exam had just ended, and a group of people who were anxiously waiting for the results were waiting for the results. Wei Dongsheng and other students with the qualification of shadow supervisor have received the admission notice of Guozijian before the entrance examination of Guozijian, and they have all obtained the qualification of supervisor in advance. With nothing to do, Wei Dongsheng strolled through the streets to appreciate the charm of the Jiaozhi Domain.

The third Wei Dongsheng died in the Jiaozhi Domain, when the Jiaozhi rebels were unconvinced, and the jungles and mountains were full of the remnants of indigenous thieves. The soldiers of the Cochin Domain all carried swords and swords, and if they slackened, they could be assassinated by the native bandits.

Fortunately, time was the best time to dispel hatred, and between 1443 and 1456 and 1465 and 1483, the situation gradually stabilized.

Wei Dongsheng noticed that the Cochin Domain had introduced a caste system.

Speaking of the caste system, it originated from Wei Anhao, the second emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty, just like the feudal system. At that time, Wei Anhao and his nephew Wei Xiuwen competed for the throne, the front-line battlefield was crushed for thousands of miles, and the Nanyang Islands were also surging, which can be described as extremely dangerous. In order to stabilize the rule of the Wei Xia Dynasty in the Nanyang Islands, and in order to resist the invasion of the monotheistic Juan religion, Wei Anhao was shocked to introduce Brahmanism (Hinduism). Of course, just like the localization of Buddhism in China, Wei Anhao also drastically redacted the teachings of Brahmanism based on the needs of national interests.

However, the caste system was deliberately retained by Wei Anhao.

In the Weixia version of the caste system, the first caste was the sacrificial caste, similar to the Brahmins of Brahmanism, who mastered the interpretation and judgment of the doctrine; The second caste is the noble class, similar to the Brahmanical Kshatriyas, who control the politics, military, and economy of the country; The third caste is the three peoples represented by farmers, workers, and merchants, similar to the Brahmanical Vaishyas, who are the common people who support the kingdom's power.

The sacrificial class and the scholar class are the ruling class of the Shunta Kingdom, which is dominated by the Tang ethnic group, and the Sanmin class is also the civilian class or middle class dominated by the Tang ethnic group. The natives of the Nanyang Islands, with the exception of a few tribal chiefs who needed to be wooed, were all relegated to a fourth class similar to the Shudras of Brahmanism.

The harshness of the caste system lies in blood segregation.

Wei Anhao's improved version of Brahmanism allowed limited conversion of the sacrificial class, the scholar class, and the Sanmin class, but the conversion conditions were often very harsh and had no universal significance at all. On the other hand, the segregation of blood has far-reaching implications, taking the Sanmin class and the Shudra class, which have the largest number of peoples, as an example, the daughter of the Sanmin class marries the scholar class, and the heir is promoted to the quasi-Shi class, which means that he or she can stick to the teachings for life, and he or she and the descendants of the bloodline will be regarded as members of the Shi class; The daughter of the Sanmin class married the Sudra class, and the heirs immediately slipped down to the Shudra class.

For example, in the case of religious isolation, Wei Anhao referred to the reality of Chinese religion and integrated Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and was only hostile to the monotheistic religion of Juanism, which posed the highest threat to the Nanyang Islands. The policy of religious segregation stipulated that all those who openly believed in pagan religions and refused to repent were all reduced to untouchables whose status was inferior to that of the Shudras, regardless of whether it was the sacrificial class, the scholar class, or the Sanmin class. This blood and religious segregation of the caste system not only deliberately compresses the living space of the local indigenous people, but also does everything to prevent the invasion of other religions.

Wei Anhao's introduction of Brahmanism to implement the caste system was mainly based on political interests and other considerations. Therefore, in the provinces of the Central Plains, where there were no indigenous contradictions, Wei Anhao not only refused to introduce Brahmanism, but deliberately restricted the spread of Brahmanism. Brahmin doctrine also euphemistically stipulates that, except for a few pagans who are not Buddhists, non-Taoists, and non-Confucians, the people of the Central Plains provinces are also the lowest class of the three peoples.

The disadvantages and advantages of Brahmanism are very obvious.

Before the death of Wei Dongsheng III, except for the five feudal states of Nanyang, which was the basic territory of Brahmanism, the Yan and Lelang kingdoms, which also had indigenous conflicts in their territories, refused to convert to Brahmanism. In the early days when the royal family set up the province of Cochin and divided the feudal kingdom of Cochin, they did not promote Brahmanism in Cochin.

However, in the 18 years since Wei Dongsheng was temporarily gone, the Jiaozhi Domain has obviously undergone great changes.

According to the canon, in 1467, the third year after the death of the third Wei Dongsheng, the Cochin Domain converted to Brahmanism, and the five Nanyang feudal states sent a large number of sacrifices to the Cochin Domain to assist the Cochin Domain in establishing a caste system related to Brahmanism.

The caste system is more powerful than Wei Dongsheng imagined.

The sacrifice of the five feudal states of Nanyang uses the debate of Huayi to screen the indigenous attributes of Jiaozhi. Considering that Jiaozhi was a traditional Chinese territory 500 years ago, anyone who looks similar to Zhuxia or considers himself a descendant of Zhuxia is judged to be a third caste and three peoples; Those who have a very different appearance from Zhuxia or who are hostile to the descendants of Zhuxia are all divided into the Shudra class. A simple bloodline screening unexpectedly induced a great internal division among the Jiaozhi natives, and the Jiaozhi natives who were screened as the three peoples class slowly became the supporters of the Jiaozhi domain.

After more than a decade of continuous caste screening and religious trials, the rebellion of the Cochin natives has plummeted.

By the time Wei Dongsheng came for the fourth time, the risk of rebellion among the Jiaozhi natives could be ignored.