426th Caste Cochin (2)

Of the five feudal states of Nanyang and the Cochin domain, six of them have converted to Brahmanism one after another.

If the Brahmanical gods had spirits, they should be grateful to Wei Anhao for his outstanding contributions.

Walking in the Longbian Mansion in 1483, Wei Dongsheng discovered that Brahmanism had begun to show its prestige. Similar to the five feudal states of Nanyang, the Cochin feudal kingdom also compressed the living space of the Shudra class in all aspects. In the real world, the imperial examination system had discriminatory rules such as advocating merit and not allowing scientific examinations, while the Jiaozhi vassal state regarded the entire Shudra class as a target of discrimination, and forbade all Shudras to participate in the entrance examinations of the national eunuchs and the provincial schools. That is to say, the Shudra class did not want to enter the country to study, nor did they want to be promoted to become a master of the Cochin domain.

Once it is listed as the Shudra class, the class is solidified in the Shudra class, and the children and grandchildren will not want to change their fate by jumping over the dragon gate.

The reason for the great internal division of the Jiaozhi natives is that the caste distinction between the Shudra class and the Sanmin class can be said to be the main reason. After all, not all the people have the spirit of rebellion that is not afraid of death, and when the cost of rebellion is too high to bear, the Jiaozhi natives who are included in the Sanmin class successively betray other natives with a rebellious spirit in order to protect their own interests.

The Jiaochin vassal state not only forbade the Shudra class to serve as officials, but also forbade the Shudra class to engage in traditional occupations such as agriculture, industry and commerce: the Shudra class was not allowed to trade, artisans were not allowed to manufacture, and they were not allowed to own land. Because the caste system is rooted in profit, the Shinnong industry here specifically refers to ownership, saying that it is forbidden to work for business, but in fact it is only forbidden for the Shudras to have a chamber of commerce or a storefront, and other castes are allowed to employ the Shudra class to do laborious work; Nong, which also has a similar meaning, does not prohibit the Shudra class from cultivating and cultivating the land, but prohibits the Shudras from becoming landlords or large landowners through the purchase of land.

In other words, the Shudra class could only work as tenants and petty workers for the rest of their lives.

In the remote rural areas that were not under the jurisdiction of the Jiaozhi Domain, the Shudra class may still be able to encroach on one or two, but in the Longbian Mansion where the royal capital is located, no one dares to indulge the Shudra class to work as a business. Walking along the street, the storefronts are all in the Zhuxia style, and the shopkeepers are almost all Zhuxia bloodlines or Zhuxia bloodlines that have been certified by sacrifices.

The oppression of the Shudra class by the Cochin Domain can be imagined.

Of course, many indigenous people are not convinced. Especially those older natives who experienced the great rebellion of the Jiaozhi natives, although they were forced to bow their heads by the situation, they could see the unconvincing resentment. If it weren't for the fact that the Sanmin class, which was also a large population, increasingly supported the rule of the Jiaozhi Domain, and if it weren't for the Sanmin class actively helping the Jiaozhi Domain to monitor the ideological movements of the Shudras, these elderly natives would definitely have found an opportunity to die together with the officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhi Domain.

However, these problems are not serious.

Taking the Nanyang Five Domains as an example, as long as the caste system can continue to operate in the Cochin Domain, when these dissatisfied older generations slowly die, the new generation of Shudra who have grown up in the caste system environment will slowly give up their resistance due to the lack of education and oppression in all aspects. However, the risk of indigenous rebellion is becoming smaller and smaller, and eventually small enough to be ignored.

The confinement of the caste system does not stop at the Shudra class.

When the Sanmin class felt that they could take it for granted to discriminate against the Shudra class, the hierarchical concept of the caste system quietly began to take root, and they gradually felt that it was also a social phenomenon for the second caste class to oppress the third caste Sanmin class. The caste system has only been in operation for more than a decade, and the traders and townspeople along the streets have subconsciously accepted the hierarchical values of caste, discriminating against the Shudra class with lower social status than them, and respecting the noble class with higher social status than them.

Wei Dongsheng was the fourth nominal father, who served as the prefect of the Longbian Mansion.

The Cochin Domain set up six prefectures, including Longbian Mansion, Xiping Mansion, Annan Mansion, Jiuzhen Mansion, Ninan Mansion, Linyi Mansion, and Zhan'an Mansion, among which, Longbian Mansion was the seat of the royal capital. Compared with the real-world political system of China, the prefect of Longbianfu may not be comparable to the secretary of the Yanjing Municipal Party Committee, but it can be regarded as a provincial and ministerial-level cadre. As the son of the prefect of the Longbian Mansion, Wei Dongsheng is a son of a high-ranking cadre, a scholar among the scholars.

Wearing the emblematic costumes that matched the class of the scholars, the citizens consciously courteously courteous to Wei Dongsheng. If you don't know that everything is due to the values of the caste system, the world will be surprised to learn that the common people are more polite than the citizens of the metropolis in the real world.

Wait a minute.

Just like the caste system of the five Nanyang feudal states, which has been ignored for many years, Wei Dongsheng also only looked at the caste system of the Jiaozhi feudal kingdom. From the experience of the first to the third life, Wei Dongsheng gradually realized that he was only half a bottle of water at most, and vainly evaluating the evolution history of the Wei Xia Empire with the evolution history of the real world would only make people laugh.

Wei Dongsheng strolled to admire the customs of the Jiaozhi Domain, and as he walked, an unfamiliar voice suddenly came from behind him: "Brother Wei! ”

followed the prestige, but it was a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old.

Retrieving the background information of the fourth generation, the boy's name is Shiliang, the word Jizhou, and his ancestral home is Hubei Province. At the beginning of the royal family's conquest of Jiaozhi Province, Shiliang's ancestors came south with Wang Shi, and then stayed in Jiaozhi for some reason. Shi Liang's father was promoted to the prefect of Ninan Prefecture last year, and the official family allowed his son to study in the country. As a result, Shi Liang was transferred to Longbian Mansion last year, and at this time, he had also obtained the qualification of Guozi Jian in advance.

Commoners have circles of commoners, and the powerful also have circles of the powerful.

Shi Liang's father had just climbed to the prefect of Rinan Prefecture, and Shi Liang only had the qualification of a shadow supervisor last year, and his status in the shadow prison circle can be imagined. However, Shi Liang inherited his father's exquisite heart and did his best to establish a friendship with the prison students. Although Wei Dongsheng's family is in ruins, he is a veteran prisoner after all, and he is worthy of Shi Liang's deliberate friendship.

When Shi Liangxu heard the news, Wei Dongsheng had nothing else to do, and invited Wei Dongsheng to eat and drink with a smile.

The Shiliang brothers are the fourth, but unfortunately the eldest brother died in the Jiaozhi rebellion, the second brother died of fever, and now only the third brother and twin brother Shiyan survive. Because the prefect of Rinan Prefecture can only have one son of the shadow prison, Shi Yan, who has been smart and wise since childhood, gave up the place of shadow prison to Shi Liang, and he took the prison channel to apply for the Guozi prison. The brothers Shi Liang and Shi Yan have a good relationship, and Shi Liang is very grateful to Shi Yan for giving him the place of shadow prison. Now that it was time to decide the fate of Shiyan, Shi Liang took the time to accompany Shiyan with the anxious idea of relieving and waiting. Considering that Wei Dongsheng, the shadow prisoner, might help their brothers climb in their future careers, Shi Liang wanted to pull Shiyan to establish a friendship with Wei Dongsheng.

Wei Dongsheng was idle, so he simply agreed to Shi Liang's invitation.

Unexpectedly, when he came to Shiyan's temporary residence, Shiyan and some prison friends were invited to the banquet by relatives, leaving only one servant to tell Shiliang: "If you have any urgent matters, you can go to the banquet in Ansuo Garden to find me." ”

Completely different from the real world Zhu Ming Dynasty, the Wei Xia Empire's relatives had a very high sense of existence. Taking the current King of Jiaozhi as an example, his wife's surname is Wu, and she is the daughter of a baron in a certain prefecture and county in the Yue Kingdom. In the title system of the Wei Xia Empire, the king, duke, marquis, earl, son, and male descended in order, with the same surname vassal being the king, and the different surname vassal being the duke, and the marquis was often used to commend the landless and void lords. Except for the marquis, almost all titles have fiefdoms, and the threshold for knighthood is extremely high.

Baron Wu is just a baron, but his strength far exceeds what everyone imagines.

In terms of wealth alone, Baron Wu may be richer than some viscounts and earls.

Baron Wu owns a maritime trade chamber of commerce, and its ships are rampant in Tianzhu and other places in the Western Ocean, and his wealth is unimaginable. Wei Liangjun, the first king of the Jiaozhi Domain, also known as Wei Shansheng's second son, decisively promised to marry the heir to Baron Wu in order to raise military expenses for the rebellion of the indigenous people of Jiaozhi. Baron Wu gave Wei Liangjun 5,000 taels of gold in the form of a dowry, and then traveled around the world in the name of Jiaozhi envoy to persuade the Ming, Yue, and Nanyang feudal states to support Wei Liangjun's rule of the Jiaozhi domain. When the situation of the Jiaozhi vassal was stable, Wei Liangjun ceded the land of Jiaozhi County, and the second son of Baron Wu was named a viscount; Baron Wu's baronial fiefdom in Yue Kingdom was inherited by his eldest son, and one case was divided into two.

However, perhaps because the Wu family is still short, or perhaps Baron Wu's daughter has become the queen of Jiaozhi above 10,000 people under one person, the Baron Sect of the Yue Kingdom and the Viscount Sect of Jiaozhi are still closely united behind the queen of Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi also recruits relatives and friends of the two sects as their strong backing. Constrained by the values of the feudal system, even King Jiaozhi often had to consider the opinions of the Wu family.

Although the Wu family does not have the ambitions of Wang Mang and Cao Cao, they also have the authority of Huo Guang and Dou Xian.

Moreover, under the feudal system, even the royal family does not have the ability to cut the feudal domain, let alone the feudal kings of various countries? There are two ways to retreat from the Yue Barony and the Jiaozhi Viscountdom, and even if the next King of Jiaozhi returns to power and deposes the ministers, it will be difficult for him to purge the Wu family by force. With the influence of the Wu family in the Yue Kingdom, once the King of Jiaozhi initiated the war of cutting the feudal domain, the Wu family even hoped to persuade the Yue Kingdom to intervene by force.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the tragedy of the Wu family going to Huo Guang.

In this context, the power of the Wu family in Jiaozhi can be imagined. Shi Liang was surprised that the Wu family invited his brother Shiyan to the banquet, and at the same time, he was unwilling to miss the opportunity to befriend the Wu family, so he subconsciously invited Wei Dongsheng to go to Ansuo Garden to find Shiyan together. At the same time, Wei Dongsheng witnessed Baron Wu's hoarding of Juqi-style political investment like Lü Buwei when he was in the third generation, and he couldn't help but become interested in the Wu family 18 years later.

When I arrived at the destination, Ansho Garden, I saw soldiers standing inside and outside the door with firearms and short swords on their waists.

Wei Dongsheng noticed some small details.

First of all, the weapons and equipment that can best reflect the information of the times. Compared with the experience of the third generation, the quality of the firearms in the hands of the soldiers has improved significantly. Retrieving background information, the firearm is called the bird's beak gun, referred to as the bird's gun, which is a new type of firearm that was rapidly popularized in the territory of the Wei Xia Empire during the third and fourth training periods of Wei Dongsheng.