Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 296 The Confused Third Brother

It is not incomprehensible to say that those Vaisyas, Sudras, and Dalits are unwilling to be recruited as laborers and resist. After all, people expect to have a good pregnancy in the next life.

If you want to figure out all kinds of bullshit problems in Tianzhu, you have to start with the origin of the caste system.

Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra, plus a Dalit, these five seemingly irrelevant words together form a kind of the most typical, strict and religious, Hierarchy in politics, military, economy, people's livelihood, culture and many other aspects.

In fact, the caste system is not unique to Tianzhu. It used to be common in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other countries, but Tianzhu was the most affected.

The formation of the caste system was mainly due to the migration of some Caucasian Aryans into Tianzhu. After centuries of military expansion, there was an urgent need for a hierarchical system with "cultural attributes" to solidify the caste system. The rule of the aborigines of Tianzhu.

The oldest collection of poems in Tianzhu, "Rig Veda", thus appeared, and in the 10th volume of its tenth volume, it clearly put forward the prototype of the caste system in Tianzhu, the "Original Song".

In the cultural system of Tianzhu, what this "original man" represents is actually similar to the "Pangu opened up the world" in Chinese myths and legends. All the gods of Tianzhu, as well as the concepts of time and space, are born based on it, and " The writing time of Rig Veda can be traced back to about 1000 BC, and then in the fourth century BC, the earliest oral version of the Indian epic "Mahabharata" also appeared.

In this Indian epic, the "caste system" has actually grown into a mature hierarchy based on the "blood lineage theory", that is, there is already a clear division of ranks.

Among these five levels, the Brahmin level composed of Aryan sacrificial groups is the highest, representing the mouth of the "original man" in the "Original Man Song".

Some people may wonder why it is the mouth, not the eyes or ears, nothing else, because these parts of the head already have owners, let's take the eyes, which represent the "sun".

Indirectly, it means that the Brahmins actually exist at the same level as the "Sun", and their status can be imagined, followed by the next level "Kshatriya", which is composed of military and administrative nobles among the Aryans. It represents the original person's arms. Obviously, he is no longer qualified to make a home on the original person's head.

However, Kshatriya, who is lower than Brahmin, has enough political power to tax the Vaishya, Sudra, and Dalit classes behind him in the form of political power. Protecting the peace of Brahmins for generations.

As for the Vaishya, it is composed of ordinary Aryans, representing the legs of the original people. The position in the Tianzhu social class is that they have no political power, but they can do business, and then use the business income to worship Brahmins and Kshatriyas.

Among the remaining two classes, the "Shudra" is composed of the conquered aborigines. It has the largest number of people and represents the feet of the original people. They cannot be engaged in politics or business. Three classes of service.

Dalits, the so-called untouchable existence, are even worse. In the cultural system of Tianzhu, they are basically excluded from the original human body. They have no right to speak, and they will not even be treated as a person. , also known as the "untouchable" class.

In such a hierarchical system, only the first three classes can have real power, and although the latter two classes have a large number of people, far exceeding the first three, they have almost no actual power to speak of.

According to common sense, such a hierarchy obviously cannot exist for a long time.

After all, the reason why people are called people is mainly because people can think actively. After being oppressed for a long time, the caste system, a deformed system that seriously violates common sense, is bound to have a sense of resistance because most people do not want to be oppressed.

To put it bluntly, it is the intensification of class contradictions.

Take the Sudra class as an example. Under the background that generations can only engage in the basic service industries such as daily life and house construction that serve the first three classes, what they can get is only a small number of survival resources, and thus As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Tianzhu social system has been severely widened, and most of the wealth is in the hands of a few people, that is, the three social classes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas.

Obviously, there is no need for such a caste system that violates human rights thinking, widens the gap between rich and poor, and intensifies class conflicts.

However, what is more amazing is that the "caste system" of Tianzhu has continued for thousands of years. Colonization and so on, but the "caste system" remains unchanged, as if it has not been affected at all.

Let's talk about the "equality of the four surnames" in Buddhism first. The so-called equality of the four surnames actually means that Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras are actually equal.

In essence, Buddhism that appeared around 565 BC actually resisted the "caste system", and it even appeared more than 100 years earlier than the Indian epic "Mahabharata".

Later, in 273 BC, after Ashoka became the third king of the Mauryan Dynasty, he became a loyal Buddhist and was also named the Buddhist Dharma Protector by Buddhism.

However, the caste system did not become weaker and weaker because of this, but was strengthened.

Because Ashoka attached great importance to religion in the late period of his administration, and it was not just Buddhism, but the pursuit of political tolerance and non-violence, that is, multiple religions can coexist at the same time, then Buddhism's "equality of the four surnames" is bound to be the same as " Caste system" formed an obvious hedge, and Ashoka wanted to achieve a coordination among various religions, that is, to eliminate these conflicts, so what should we do?

The "reincarnation theory" was thus born and became one of the common doctrines of Indian Buddhism, Vedicism, Indian religion and many other religions.

If it is applied to the caste system of Tianzhu, it probably means that it doesn’t matter if you are a low caste in this life, because the low caste has committed crimes in the previous life, so you have to practice through life experience and conduct yourself in the world, that is, atonement, then you can continue in the next life Reincarnated into a high caste.

As a result, the "equality of the four surnames" and the "caste system" have reached an agreement on the pace of development. After all, no matter what you say, even a high caste may become a low caste in the next life due to crime.

But in this way, although the differences between "castes" have been equalized on the metaphysical level, it has further widened the differences between high castes and low castes.

Therefore, in order to prevent some people from trying to break through the boundaries of "high and low castes" in this life, the Brahmin class formulated a "Manu Code" and proposed a system called "Jati System", that is, a system that can divide all classes into castes. The occupations engaged in are solidified in the form of law, which makes the various castes in Tianzhu begin to self-enclose one after another, especially in the high caste class.

The emergence of this system has directly led to a simpler way to promote the "caste" attribute through mutual circulation. In the case that the males in the family can only inherit the father's caste, how can the promotion of the caste be completed? ?

There is no other, only women's marriage, which is to indirectly enhance the caste attribute of the family as a whole through the marriage objects of women in the family.

However, under the influence of the "Manu Code", high-caste women in Tianzhu cannot marry low-caste men, so the promotion of caste attributes can only be achieved through low-caste women marrying high-caste men.

But this is not easy, not to mention the high dowry that the woman’s family needs to pay, and the possibility of resistance or even murder from other members of the man’s family. But it will become the last beneficiary, and the man's family will affect the social status of his own caste in the social circle of the same class because of accepting the lower caste.

The series of incidents of "extorting dowry and burning wives" in Tianzhu, that is, the cases of "domestic murder" came from this.

Many people may still think that it can be achieved through meritorious deeds. The question is, what do Sudras who do not have any political power or even business power use to make meritorious deeds?

The most important thing is that the multi-religious coexistence policy proposed by Ashoka has also become the practice of the Indian monarchs in the future. The subsequent series of "reincarnation theory" or "Manu Code" based on this policy will also Therefore, it can be preserved for a long time and affects every Tianzhu people all the time.

After clarifying the caste system in Tianzhu, all the following problems became easy to understand, and even from the perspective of caste, everything became logical.

For example, the English East India Company, this must be regarded as a foreign invader, right?

However, the Tianzhu people do not hate the English East India Company, let alone the English, because the English East India Company never thought of changing the caste system. They came with money and minerals, and they didn't come all the way to give warmth to the third brothers.

In fact, the colonization method adopted by the East India Company to Tianzhu was based on the Tianzhu caste system, thus taking advantage of the sharp class contradictions in Tianzhu to realize the colonial plan of letting the third brother beat the third brother.

Otherwise, no matter how backward Tianzhu was at that time, it was not something that the mercenaries of the East India Company could easily defeat in a short time and establish strongholds in Madras, Calcutta, Mumbai and other regions.

In the same way, it is now understandable why they are madly opposed to being recruited as laborers.

The problem is that if you resist, at least you have to look like you are resisting, right?

For example, after the Ming Dynasty was cold, the common people in the world did not think about being obedient citizens, but Gou Chengzi was not a person, and Wu Sangui was not a person, and the Jianlu who was brought into the pass by Wu Sangui was still Improper person, what the hell should I do?
Of course it is resistance.

The ten days in a certain place failed to frighten the people in the Central Plains, the three massacres in a certain place failed to frighten the people in the Central Plains, and the massacre in a certain place left only five survivors, but they still failed to frighten the people. The people of Tangkou in the Central Plains.

Although Jianlu Hu Chief finally succeeded in sitting on the dragon chair, but from Mazi's sentence "Don't learn from the Mongolian and Han", there is almost a clue.

For nearly 300 years, there have been many people who wanted to raise troops to kill Jianlu, from Zheng Chenggong, a positive national hero, to Wu Sangui, the traitor who led Jianlu into the customs, from Bai Lianjian to Yihequan.

However, the brain circuit of the three buddies from Tianzhu is different from that of Zhongyuan Tangkou.

The so-called resistance of the three buddies is not to fight vigorously with the British East Tianzhu Company and the Dutch East Tianzhu Company, but to sit quietly after surrounding the human resources office, posing as if you don’t Stop recruiting and we have always sat down like this.

This magical operation directly confused the entire British Dongtianzhu Company and the Dutch Dongtianzhu Company.

The human resources of the British East Tianzhu Company are better. After all, they were ordered by King George III and have worked in Tianzhu for many years. They can understand the operations of the three brothers to some extent.

But the human resources of the Dutch East Tianzhu Company can't do it.

In itself, the Netherlands has already been wiped out by France, and the Dutch East Tianzhu Company is also almost unable to survive. In order to restore the country, William I even handed over Batavia to Daming.

Now that he finally had the opportunity to restore the country, Louis XVI even entrusted the Dutch East Tianzhu Company to come to Tianzhu to help Daming recruit labor, which was clearly an opportunity for the Dutch East Tianzhu Company to curry favor with Daming.

It turned out to be a good thing, the three buddies were actually unwilling to cooperate!
Then, Overstraten, the leader of the Dutch East Tianzhu Company, went crazy at that time-if the recruitment of labor was messed up, it would be hard to say what would happen to Daming, William I, the Netherlands The king will not let the East Tianzhu Company go, and the seventeen gentlemen of the East Tianzhu Company will never let themselves, the unlucky ones, go before they are unlucky!
Therefore, even if it is for his own benefit, Overstraten cannot allow these diaper heads to sit still like this.

For Overstraten, since these diaper heads cannot be tolerated to continue sitting like this, the only way is to directly recruit these diaper heads as laborers.

Overstraten thinks I can't provoke Daming or France, but I, Oumou, are also responsible for the dignified Dutch East Tianzhu Company, and I can't cure you diaper heads?

Overstraten thinks so, and does so.

After receiving the order from Overstraten, the horsemen under the Dutch Dongtianzhu Company did not hesitate to capture and attack the diaper heads sitting quietly in front of the labor recruitment office.

Now the three buddies were confused.

(End of this chapter)