Chapter 663: Negative Textbook
Li Siye slapped the battle report sent from Qunu City on the case, and said in a stern tone: "How can you rob the army!" Even if it is enough to rob Brahmins and Kshatriyas, why should even Vaishyas and Shudras be robbed? They have not yet gained a foothold in North India, so how will they sustain themselves in the future? ”
Feng Changqing asked suspiciously: "Why can the Brahmins and Kshatriyas rob them, but the Vaishyas and Shudras can't?" ”
"The wealth of the first two castes was exploited from the hands of the last two castes, and there was no psychological burden on it. What oil and water do the poor people of the lower castes have? What's the benefit of robbing them! After this matter is settled, all the battalion self-teams involved in the robbery will be fined for one year! ”
Feng Changqing couldn't help but laugh when he heard it, such a punishment can be described as powerless. The wealth that these people stole from Qunu City had already exceeded that of Yulu, but excessive punishment would reduce the morale and cohesion of the army. It is a false proposition to want to build a benevolent and righteous division who can go out to invade and still commit no crimes, and it is so false that it is equivalent to being a bitch and setting up an archway. So he can't be strict with the soldiers.
However, he did not feel the slightest guilt about the conquest of North India, because the rulers of the country were also foreigners, which is equivalent to what we often call a bad country. The Aryans' problem was not only the injustice of the country, but also the terrible apartheid they had imposed. This is not an exaggeration at all, the caste system of Brahmanism is actually apartheid in the guise of religion, and the caste system is also the core idea of Brahmanism.
Why, thousands of years later, did the head of a European power worship the Aryans and consider himself to be their relic? Because this destructive race wiped out three ancient civilizations, and in India, where it was located, it successfully completed the policy of apartheid and lasted for 3,000 years. But the greatest danger of the caste system is also very obvious, that is, it makes India extremely vulnerable to foreign subjugation and domination.
The Aryans were secondary, but the caste system they implemented kept the country marked by segregation for thousands of years. The Shudras at the bottom and the Dalits excluded from the caste will always consider themselves inferior, yet they make up more than half of India's population. In the event of a foreign invasion, the lower castes would treat outsiders as another Kshatriya and Brahmin. The Brahmins and Kshatriyas, as well as the lower Aryan Vaishyas, were in the minority, and they could not unite the majority against the alien races. Even these upper castes took the initiative to make peace with the foreigners, inviting them to rule over the inferior people together.
From the history of ancient India, it can be seen that for more than 3,000 years, even the Aryans ruled India independently for only a few hundred years, and it was more of a history of being conquered by foreign races. First, the Persian king Darius turned India into a province under his rule, and it was Alexander the Great of Greece who helped the Indians drive out Darius. Alexander's entry into India was short-lived, and he soon withdrew. Perhaps it was Alexander who galvanized the Aryans to rise up and establish the only great unified dynasty, which was truly unified in the time of Ashoka. As soon as Emperor Ashoka died, India soon split again, foreign tribes invaded again, and during the Han Dynasty, the Dayue clan entered northern India and established the Frost Gui Empire. After the fall of the Frost-Gui Empire, the Gupta Dynasty established by the Indians became the last glory of the nation, and the subsequent Ring Sun Dynasty was also the afterglow of this glory.
From then on, the Turkic invasion of India created the three-century-long Delhi Sultanate, followed by the Turkic Mongols who replaced the Delhi Sultanate and created the Womor Empire. The caste system and Hindu culture kept Indians from assimilating to other peoples, but also made them willing to be obedient to the rulers. Moreover, one of the most favorable aspects of the caste system for foreign rulers is that they do not have to go through any effort to engage in racial segregation, which the Indians have already done for them. In the eyes of the lower castes, outsiders were treated as Kshatriyas, or Brahmins, as long as they treated the foreigners with the same deference as Brahmins, and in their eyes the Turks, Mongols, and Brahmins were all superior people. The Brahmin class, on the other hand, was self-contained, and their only demand for the invaders was that they would remain privileged and allowed to adopt Hinduism.
National awakening is a false proposition for them. How do you wake up? The Aryans awakened to resist foreign invaders, but they themselves were outsiders. If the lower castes want to awaken and expel the invaders, should these brahmins and Kshatriyas also get out? The only thing that allowed them to find their presence was religious distinctions, the presence of Hinduism kept them from being assimilated, but the temple still refused to allow the lower castes to enter. The caste system has left Indians with only religion and caste and no state or nation for a long time.
The most striking example of this is the early colonization of India by European powers, when the dominant position on the Indian continent was still the Wolmer Empire. The Emperor Wolmer was at war with the British East India Company, and the Indians did not know who to help, because they were all foreign invaders. The British colonists did not even need to go back to the British mainland to transfer troops, and directly recruited Hindu soldiers to fight against the Womor soldiers locally. Later, Britain and France fought for colonies in India, and the soldiers on both sides turned out to be Indians, and they had already begun to fight for the interests of their masters as employees of the company.
Li Siye unconsciously stood in front of the tide of world history, and began to have an impact on the world pattern, he started from the thirsty city and Talas, drove *** out of the river and Tocharian realm, completely blocked the border with India, and prevented them from getting into India from the passes of the Hindu Kush and Suleiman Mountains. The South Asian subcontinent became a pearl in his hands.
He had fully conceived of India's plan, using it as a raw material base, exchanging its unique arable land and pepper and spice resources for monetary wealth from the Central Plains, and then using this wealth to arm Hexi, Anbei, and even Central Asia.
The control of India is the main and easiest, the direct use of the Brahmins and the Kshatriya class to enslave the lower castes, this is called non-stick pan, and even if they want to hate, they should hate the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas, and it turns out that they do not even dare to have this hatred.
If there is a possibility of falling out with the Brahmin class in the future, he can use the army to exchange the blood of the temple, and he does not have to worry about it at all. Even if there are many such temples in India, Brahmins can be brought in from other places.
Feng Changqing saw that Li Siye was deep in thought, and suddenly asked, "Since the doctor is worried about Zhao Congfang's defeat in Qunu City, why don't we personally lead the troops over." ”
"I've never worried about him losing." Li Siye said with a smile: "A mere North India is not enough to compete with us in terms of military strength. We stayed in Dabolu to prevent the Tibetans from taking advantage of our invasion of India to make any small moves.
As soon as his words fell, a herald scout knelt down on one knee at the door and reported: "Report! The general Bagjira, who was stationed in Morawa, was leading his army in an attempt to return to the rescue of the city. ”
Li Siye turned his gaze to Feng Changqing, and said with a smile: "Now it's your turn to make a move, take advantage of some reinforcements, and quickly enter the only way to Bajira, just defeat it and leave the aftermath to Zhao Congfang." ”