Chapter 252: Servility
"This ...... Kind of far, right? Chen Xun looked at Zhu Zhanyan with suspicion.
He felt that Zhu Zhanyan was a little floating.
At present, Zhu Sanfeng is still in Dhaka, in order to stabilize Dhaka, that is, the great plain of the Ganges Plain, in order to make it the granary of Zhu Zhan's future.
But where is Multan? That's in the Indus Plains! It's more than 3,000 miles in a straight line!
From Dhaka to Multan, no normal person can make this kind of decision, so Chen Xun's first reaction was that Zhu Zhan was floating, or he was crazy.
"I didn't let you do it in one step, just kill it, why are you in a hurry!?" Zhu Zhanyan glanced at Chen Xun, and then took out a letter from the side.
"This was sent by Sanfeng some time ago, but at that time, I was attending my cousin's wedding, so this matter was temporarily shelved."
"Look at it."
Chen Xun breathed a sigh of relief, took the fold and looked at it.
In fact, there is nothing above, that is, the governance situation in the Dhaka area, although the whole fold is written everywhere, but in fact there is only one conclusion.
Smooth, incredibly smooth.
However, Chen Xun was stunned.
"Why is this happening?" Chen Xun was puzzled.
You know, when one country defeats another, no matter what way it takes, it is undoubtedly difficult to get the local people to be truly obedient.
Like Indochina, although the people here are very welcoming to the Ming army, there are also rebellions from time to time, mostly instigated by those who are related to the royal family, or people who were once local officials who are dissatisfied with their dismissal.
But Dhaka is different, since taking Dhaka last year, there has not been a single civil uprising! Not together!
This made Chen Xun very incomprehensible.
"Servile." Zhu Zhanyan smiled and gave Chen Xun an answer.
"Servile?" Chen Xun didn't understand.
"You're talking about their caste system? I know that, but I remember you said in Dhaka that where there is oppression, there is resistance. ”
"Compared to their high castes, our Ming army does treat the people very well, but it can't be everything, right? Are the high-caste people running out or are they dead? ”
"Dead."
……
Zhu Zhanyan almost choked Chen Xun to death with three simple words.
"You...... It's a joke, isn't it? Chen Xun looked at Zhu Zhanyan cautiously.
"No kidding, it's really damning." Zhu Zhanyan shook his head and said very seriously.
……
Chen Xun was silent.
Unbeknownst to him, the caste system essentially completely isolated people from the lower castes from becoming higher castes, but vice versa.
With the Ming army as the emboldening, the low-caste people in Dhaka quickly rose up and resisted, and almost wiped out the high-caste people.
Of course, this argument is too absolute, under the caste system, and in the case of this low caste system rising up to resist, it is impossible for the high castes to want to hide in the city, but it is okay to hide in the wild.
Well...... The big hidden in the city and the small hidden in the wild are not in the deep meaning, but also in the superficial meaning.
"So, is that what you're confident about?"
After a long time, Chen Xuncai said dryly.
He really didn't expect the course of events to be like this.
"This has nothing to do with my confidence, my confidence is still our Ming army, and it is the white phosphorus egg in our hands."
Zhu Zhanyan waved his hand very indifferently, he didn't feel anything about this so-called surrender.
"The people of Delhi Sultan, that is, those of the lower castes, have been oppressed for a long time, and now that we have come with the good life they desire, they will naturally not look at it."
"The current situation is that they have been slaves for a long time, and they are suddenly seen as people, and they are quite uncomfortable."
"Dhaka's stability is for this reason, because they don't want to lose this hard-won happy life, so they naturally work hard and obey the law."
"This is actually the crime of hanging the people."
Hearing this, Chen Xun nodded approvingly.
The so-called hanging of the people is to crusade against the guilty rulers and punish these guilty rulers to appease the people.
In terms of the caste system of the Delhi Sultan, the Ming army is really guilty of hanging the people.
Similarly, in this mode of hanging the people and fighting crimes, the people who are pacified are the most likely to become effective fighters.
Only after experiencing it will they know that it is not easy to come by, so that they will give everything for the life they have now.
"So......" Chen Xun suddenly had a flash of inspiration and looked at Zhu Zhanyan with a little excitement.
"Are you planning to raze the raze?"
"Yes." Zhu Zhanyan nodded.
To defeat raze, to put it bluntly, is to encourage those low-caste people of the Delhi Sultan, so that they can become the fighting power of the Ming army, so as to achieve Zhu Zhan's goal: to pocket the Indus River Plain.
"Sanfeng is not very good at this, she is still better at solving problems in a simple and efficient way, and she can't play this kind of trick."
"In comparison, it's better to be a literati and play this."
……
Chen Xun almost didn't get up in one breath.
In fact, in Chen Xun's heart, he is no longer a literati, at least not the group of literati who want to climb up and seek personal interests for themselves and their families.
But, in fact, he is still a literati, and his own ideas are just his own ideas.
Now that Zhu Zhanyan said this, he naturally felt very awkward, but he couldn't refute it.
"That'...... After departure, it's up to me or ......."
Chen Xun took a deep breath and decided not to bother with Zhu Zhanyan, because he couldn't care either.
"Didn't I say it all?" Zhu Zhanyan glanced at Chen Xun very strangely.
"You all have your own strengths, if there is a conflict, then leave it to Sanfeng to call the shots, you are not as good as her in this regard."
"But if there is no conflict, and there is no need to use force to solve the problem, then everything is up to you."
"If you disagree on something, then pause, whether you solve it yourself or send me a message, in short, to ensure stability."
Speaking of this, Zhu Zhanyan stood up and patted Chen Xun's shoulder heavily.
"You also know what kind of place Yingtian is in Zhejiang, and you also know what kind of place Dhaka is, Multan is not much different from these two places, and they are both good places for farming."
"The Timurid Empire once decided to conquer my Ming Dynasty in the early years of Yongle, if it weren't for Timur's unfortunate death, then my Ming would inevitably have to fight with them."
"So, you and I know the wolf ambitions of the Timurid Empire."
"Taking Multan, firstly, the desert and high mountains west of Multan will become our first barrier against the Timurid Empire, and secondly, it can become an important grain producing area for us."
"Certainly, there is no room for error!"
"Yes!"
It was only at this time that Chen Xun became really serious, and he no longer had that wonderful expression.
"Go ahead." Zhu Zhanyan waved his hand.
"I've prepared the people for you, although there are only three hundred people, but they are all selected from my guard station, and there is no problem in ensuring that you arrive in Dhaka safely."
"After you meet with Sanfeng, the safety will be completely guaranteed."
"One thing to keep in mind, though!"
As he spoke, Zhu Zhanyan took out a token from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Chen Xun's hand.
It was his father, Zhu Gaoxu's token.
"There is still danger in this trip, because no one can be sure whether this is a strategy by the Delhi Sultan to lure the enemy in."
"Therefore, when you encounter danger, if you can get out of the way, it is naturally the best, but if you can't ......"
"You and Sanfeng, you must come back alive!"
Chen Xun was slightly stunned.
In Chen Xun's impression, Zhu Zhan Yan is actually a relatively cold-blooded person, because although Zhu Zhan Yan has the same style as a military general, he does not have the human touch of a military general.
In the grassland, in Annam, and in the Wa Kingdom, the soldiers who fought with Zhu Zhan Yan in all directions, after being wounded and killed in battle, received cold subsidies, and never received a word of comfort from Zhu Zhan Yan.
In fact, Chen Xun also knows that this is the best, because only by treating everyone equally can a bowl of water be truly leveled.
It is impossible for Zhu Zhan to give preferential treatment and condolences to every soldier and his family, and this is the best choice in the case of not suffering from widowhood and unevenness.
This time, it was the first time Chen Xun had heard Zhu Zhanyan give such an instruction.
In the past, let alone hearing it with my own ears, I had never even heard of it.
"Don't worry......" Chen Xun was still a little moved.
"You also said that the people of the Delhi Sultan under the caste system are so servile, basically they will not think about our Ming army."
"At the very least, that's not going to happen with the current situation in Dhaka."
Hearing this, Zhu Zhanyan just patted Chen Xun's shoulder, but did not speak.
From his personal point of view, in this era, he does not believe in any ethnic group other than the Han Chinese, and Ah San naturally does not believe it.
The current situation in Dhaka City is very good, after the Ming army hanged the people, the liberated Ah San did not live like an ordinary person, but there was not much difference from before.
This is complicated to explain because there are two aspects.
In terms of quality of life, they have changed dramatically, because although the Ming army is also squeezing them, it is just a tax collection in the normal feudal era, but in comparison, they have to pay much more taxes than the Ming people.
But even so, their lives were several times better than they were under the rule of the high-caste Aryans.
However, this is only an aspect of quality of life.
From a spiritual point of view, these Ah San, who were liberated by the Ming army, still put themselves in the position of a low caste, even if the Ming army did not oppress or abuse them, they still treated themselves as a low caste when they saw the Han people.
According to their statement, it is a low caste, and if it is according to Zhu Zhanyan, these Ah San are treating themselves as slaves.
They demanded from the Ming army, although there was no problem now, but Zhu Zhanyan knew that there would definitely be problems in the future.
Although Zhu Zhanyan has very serious discrimination, he discriminates against all non-Ming people, which belongs to the inferior nature of human beings.
But the difference is that Zhu Zhanyan can control his inferior nature very well, because he was born not on the same level as a normal person.
Can it be done later?
If he completely ruled all parts of the Delhi Sultanate, the arrival of the Han people was inevitable, and at that time, Zhu Zhanyan estimated that there would be many surprising situations.
For example, Ah San in the past will send his wife and daughter to serve the high-caste Aryans, and there will even be a plot comparable to a Japanese movie in the future.
For example, helping to raise children.
Not all Han people are good people, and not everyone will abide by moral standards, if really every Han can do it, then the Ming Dynasty would have been peaceful.
Where else is there so much chaos?