I, Altria, only want to rule China.

Besides, Her Majesty the Queen seems to be pregnant again? Are you willing to let her handle government affairs for you while you go out to play?

In response to Xiao Ranhe and others' questions, Liya chuckled and said, "I plan to go from Tianjin to Guangzhou, from Guangzhou to Da Nang, and then to Tianzhu."

"Let's put it this way. Taking into account the time required for the journey, the round trip is only three to five months. Even if I return from India, it will not be the time for the Queen to give birth."

"Besides, even if Li Lin goes to Tianzhu, many things are not decided by the soldiers on the front line. Wouldn't the time spent on the trip delay military intelligence?"

"I've been to India, so even if something happens, I can make a decision on the spot."

"What's more, I can say that I brought up the army of Wu State myself. I know their strength very well. I also believe that within a few months, Tianzhu will be completely pacified."

Xiao Ran and other ministers basically held a disdainful attitude towards what Leah said.

If the Wu army is very capable, the ministers under it will have no doubt

These ministers would not doubt that Leah knew the Wu army very well, could lead it to victory, and could defeat Tianzhu within a few months.

However, the ministers below were very skeptical whether Leah would honestly return to Wu State.

To put it bluntly, Her Majesty just wants to be lazy!

These old guys have been working so hard, and Your Majesty still wants to pass on the government affairs to them. This is absolutely impossible to agree to!

Xiao Ranhe first winked at Liu Ren and the others, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think that the chaos in Tianzhu can be solved by General Li himself. Your Majesty is the supreme ruler of the world, how can you easily leave the capital because of the Tianzhu incident?"

Liu Ren and other ministers also bowed and said, "We second this motion."

Li Lin even clasped his fists and bowed, "Your Majesty, I will go to Tianzhu and put down the rebellion within three months. If I cannot, I will be willing to lead the military law!"

Liya shook her head and said, "I am going to India not just for India's affairs. This time I am going to India not only by myself, but also with some university scholars from the Royal Academy to try out the effect of the telegraph.

"Your Majesty, you can test the effect of the telegraph in the capital, or from Gansu to the capital. If it is still not enough, you can try from Guangzhou to Liaodong or even Tibet. Why go to India to test it? Your Majesty may just want to go out and have fun."

After hearing what Xiao Ranhe said, Leah's face suddenly turned dark.

Mr. Lu Xun once said, "If we see through each other but don't speak out, we can still be good friends. But as the Prime Minister, you want to expose my secrets as soon as you open your mouth. Isn't this very disrespectful to me?"

Besides, I am just informing you, not coming here to discuss something with you.

Therefore, Leah still ran away secretly, and took Long Luxin with her, which made Xiao Ran and other ministers very upset.

The dignified Emperor of Wu State fled without warning, and even went to a remote place like Tianzhu secretly. If something happened, how would these officials explain to the people of the world?

"And Her Majesty the Queen didn't try to stop His Majesty. Isn't Her Majesty worried at all?"

Morgan looked at the ministers below and said helplessly: "You have been with His Majesty for decades. I believe you are very clear about His Majesty's character."

"Your Majesty has hands and feet. If she wants to sneak out, no one will be able to find her. But you don't have to worry too much. Generally, nothing will happen to your Majesty."

At this moment, Liya had already brought Long Luxin to Guangzhou. She did not run away first, but acted directly with Li Lin.

Leah looked at the warship in front of her and nodded with satisfaction.

Now the warships of the Wu State are no longer the kind of warships made entirely of wood as before, but most of them are made of steel.

This is not as simple as covering a wooden board with iron sheets.

Most of the battleship was made of steel, and it no longer had oars, sails, and other things as before. The original mast was replaced by a large, thick, and long black chimney.

To put it bluntly, the whole of Western Europe had not yet completed the technological accumulation sufficient for the first industrial revolution, but it had already been dragged onto the United Nations carriage by Leah and had willingly or unwillingly joined the United Nations patent system.

The advancement of technology actually has a lot to do with war, just like the First World War and the Second World War.

But now everyone is in a mess. Under this premise, the technological progress of Western Europe will only be interrupted, while the technological progress of Wu State itself will not stop because of the existence of Leah.

In the future, Wu Kingdom will only move forward steadily under the leadership of Leah, the cheater. The distance between Western Europe and Wu Kingdom will only get wider and wider, and may eventually become so large that it is exciting.

Leah touched the gun barrel on the ship with a smile. If a KanColle game was released in the future, she wondered what the battleship she was riding would look like.

Chapter 251: A Weird Country

Long Luxin looked at the warship in front of him and swallowed his saliva imperceptibly, then praised Liya: "Father, our Wu country's warship is really majestic and magnificent. It is impossible for Britain to make such a warship at present."

Upon hearing this, Liya said proudly, "Xin'er, our Wu Kingdom only needs this one warship to allow its navy to roam the four seas. Moreover, Wu Kingdom has more than one warship. I will have people give you a few more when the time comes."

"Thank you, father!" When Long Luxin heard this, a smile immediately appeared on her face. This was a great bargain for free.

"I know you are also interested in other continents, so father can only help you up to this point. You still need to work hard on your own in the future." Leah touched Long Luxin's head.

"I understand, father." Long Luxin nodded seriously.

Only when you become the king of a country can you understand how heavy the responsibility of a king is.

"Come to think of it, the people in India regard cows as sacred animals, right? Speaking of cows, my father and I have encountered a particularly funny thing in Britain." The two were standing on the deck of the battleship. Many days had passed, and they were about to reach India, so Long Luxin suddenly said.

"What's the matter?" Leah asked curiously.

"It's something about cattle. In Britain, people there used to eat steaks with blood in them. They were not cooked through at all, and every bite would fill your mouth with blood. And eating like that is considered gentlemanly there."

"Well, that's because every place has a different way of eating, but what's wrong?" Leah continued to ask

Long Luxin smiled and shook her head:

"What I'm going to tell you next is something quite funny. Ever since Britain joined the United Nations, the nobles there have gradually learned about what's happening in Wu. Then one day, a noble saw a report in a Wu newspaper saying that the blood on steaks is the water from the cow's carcass and is unhealthy. It's a wonder that the barbarians in Western Europe can eat it! Guess what?"

Liya laughed and said, "I guess they never ate bloody steak again, right?"

Bloody steak is a common problem among the nobles in Western Europe. People there really like it. It is not just the British who eat it this way, but basically everyone in Western Europe eats it this way. Otherwise, the newspapers in Wu State would not have reported this incident.

"Yes, from then on, no British nobles ate bloody steaks anymore, only well-cooked steaks." Long Luxin nodded.

If other countries said that eating undercooked steaks might affect your health, no one would take this news seriously. The problem is that it was said in the Wuguo Newspaper.

The effect would be different. Now the whole of Western Europe is learning from the Wu State, blindly following the trend.

Now, all the nobles in Western Europe were accusing the chefs in Western Europe of being useless. They had been frying steaks for hundreds of years, but they still didn't know how to fry them well. As a result, bloody steaks became a household name.

After listening to this, Leah also found it a little funny.

In fact, this is a case of whoever has the bigger fist has the final say, or it can be said to be another victory of the export of Wu State culture.

In later generations, especially in Western restaurants, eating well-done steak would be looked down upon. It seemed that eating steak with blood was truly noble, and the blood in the steak was also given a more noble name.

Myoglobin

But there is no way around it, as for the right to speak, even an undercooked steak can still be praised to death.

It's different now.

Using chopsticks is classy, ​​eating well-done beef is classy, ​​but eating bloody steak with a knife and fork is considered backward and barbaric.

This is the benefit of having the right to speak.

After laughing, Liya said, "When we get to Tianzhu, you can eat beef however you want."

After Liya finished speaking, Liu Ye, who had been standing not far from her, whispered, "Your Majesty, we will soon reach the Chennai Port in Tianzhu.

Liya looked in the direction of Liu Ye's finger and could see a fleet of twenty warships appearing in the distance on the sea. When they got closer, Liya and Long Luxin saw the large flags with the word "Wu" hanging on the warships.

These warships were naturally the soldiers who were previously sent by Leah to take over the Indian territory. When they heard that Her Majesty Leah, the Queen, was coming, they naturally hurried over to greet her.

"How arrogant!" Long Luxin exclaimed as he looked at the warships in the distance.

It would have been even better if the emperor had not driven her out. Perhaps all these things would have belonged to her in the future. Unfortunately, the emperor did not intend to let her and her daughters inherit the State of Wu.

After the two sides met each other, Liya asked the leading general: "Li Quan, what is the situation in Tianzhu?"

Li Quan bowed his hands with a troubled look on his face and replied, "Your Majesty, the situation in Tianzhu is really hard to describe. Those Tianzhu barbarians seem to care more about cattle than people."

"According to the intelligence I have collected recently, it is not a crime to harm women in India. As long as you can marry the harmed woman afterwards, it will be fine. However, harming cattle or other livestock is a serious crime."

Leah hummed, and couldn't help but secretly admire the amazing brain circuits of the three brothers.

Although the laws in the country of Haschi are already fucked up enough, it is not illegal to rape a woman as long as she is willing to marry him, but the third brother seems to have gone a step further and completely shifted his concern for people to concern for livestock.

It seems to be because of the relationship between livestock and gods?

Li Quan continued, "In addition to this point, there is another point that really puzzles me."

Leah asked curiously, "Which point?"

Li Quan rubbed his face and replied, "Your Majesty, I have fought many battles before, but I never expected that these Indian barbarians would not raise their flags to rebel, but would just sit quietly together, expressing their protest with silence."

Liya laughed and said, "There's nothing strange about this. After all, this is India. It's normal for something abnormal to happen. Since you've been here for a while, you should know how useless they are."

Liya, who came from the future, knew very well why these monks did this. In fact, the soldiers of Wu State treated them as prisoners and did not give them any privileges. As long as they were given privileges, they would help Wu State deal with other Indians.

"Hmm? Just sitting together to protest?" Long Luxin asked curiously, is this considered a rebellion?

Li Quan continued, "Yes, Your Highness. Not only that, but all the people in Tianzhu respect those monks and the cows on the streets."

Chapter 252: Only Protest

"They have divided all the people into four classes. They bully each other and are very lazy. They have no other ideas except to protest by sitting in. The four classes are Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras."

"Among these four levels, Brahmins are monks, the first caste, and have the highest status. Kshatriyas are warriors, princes, nobles, etc., the second caste, and can be officials or soldiers, and may also become princes, nobles, etc. Vaishyas are merchants, the third caste, and can only do business all their lives. And Shudras are farmers, the fourth caste, have the lowest status and can only farm or do some other manual labor, or some handicraft work."

"Besides this, there is another group of people excluded from the caste, the 'untouchables' or 'untouchables'. These untouchables have to be careful to avoid others even when they walk, lest their shadows affect others."

"In addition, these classes cannot intermarry. If they do, they will be treated as pariahs and will have no hope of turning their lives around."

"What I find most puzzling is that the Indians seem to treat the people of Wu as the second caste of Kshatriyas. The Vaisyas, Shudras, or untouchables are very careful when treating the people of Wu, and the Kshatriyas treat the people of Wu equally. Only the Brahmin monks always seem to want to interfere in the affairs of the people of Wu."

"As far as I know, there was a Wu merchant who wanted to take two concubines after arriving in India. One of them was a Kshatriya noblewoman, and the other was a Shudra peasant girl."

"If the Roman army had not intervened in this matter, the merchant would have been beaten into a pariah by a Brahmin here."

When Li Lin was talking about the Indian caste issue, there was no change in Leah's expression, and there was even a hint of a playful smile at the corner of her mouth.

As for India, don’t be surprised at what it does. After all, this is a country that can make missiles perform Brownian motion.

Rumor has it that if you are targeted by India's missiles, you must stay where you are and not move, because staying still is the safest way. Running around may result in you being hit.

There are also rumors that India went to the Russians to buy Kalashnikovs, and the Russians turned around and bought a boatload of five or six, with Chinese instruction manuals included.

What's even more amazing is that his third brother actually called and asked for after-sales service...

Therefore, Leah felt that there was nothing strange about her third brother having such a unique way of thinking.

But when Li Lin mentioned that the Brahmins wanted to turn Wu merchants into untouchables, the smile on Liya's lips disappeared.

What is a businessman?

From the perspective of traditional emperors in the Central Plains of China, merchants were like pigs raised by the imperial court. When they were fattened and the court was short of money, they would pull a group of them out and slaughter them.

This can be considered a good tradition that has been passed down from the Qin and Han dynasties.

So, can we, the pigs of the Central Plains of China, be turned into pariahs by you, the Indian barbarians?

Liya thought for a moment and said, "The King of Britain, Long Luxin, is visiting India and wants to taste the local beef. Please convey my order and have someone kill some of the best cattle."

Hearing his father pulling him out, Long Luxin could only smile bitterly and said, "Father, I don't think I said that, did I?"

"But Your Majesty, if this is the case, won't it force the Indians to rise up in resistance?" Li Quan hesitated.

Liya smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, I intend to force them to rebel. They regard the people of Wu as Kshatriyas, so what do they regard me as? Do they think I am the same as Brahmins?"

"Besides, I haven't even classified the people of Wu State into any classes, so how can it be the turn of these barbarians to determine the class of the people of Wu State?"

"Wu Guo's pigs can be killed by Wu Guo, but others cannot!" Of course, the pigs that Liya mentioned were not the people of Wu Guo, but those corrupt officials and illegal speculators!

"You don't have to think about persuading me anymore. This time I came here to completely solve the problem of Tianzhu. It just so happens that there are several copper mines in Tianzhu that Wu State needs. Wu State also happens to be short of some laborers. I think these Tianzhu barbarians are very suitable."

No one had any idea about Leah's plan to recruit the Indian barbarians as laborers.

After all, the Wu Kingdom has been buying various laborers from Western Europe. Among the laborers sold to the Wu Kingdom, Frank and Rome can be regarded as well-known tough guys. The seven-level laborers are all provided by these two countries.

Finally, Liya said, "Notify that Brahmin and tell him that I am sending people to arrest them. I want to see what these so-called Brahmin monks have in their power to dare to be on the same level as me!"

When Leah, led by Li Quan, came to the residence of the Brahmin monk, there were already more than a hundred Kshatriya warriors and a number of Indian civilians gathered there.

Leah took a look and thought, wow, these Kshatriya warriors are really not afraid of death.

However, Leah just narrowed her eyes and glanced at the group of people. Even so, she didn't take it to heart.

However, what Leah did not expect was that these Kshatriyas with weapons in their hands did not seem to have any intention of taking the initiative to attack. Instead, they sat down in front of the door of the Brahmin monk one by one.

This behavior immediately confused Leah. Although she had heard of it before, she really didn't know what to say after seeing it with her own eyes.

The behavior of these people reminded Leah of those monks. Since I can't beat you, I will just sit here and you can use a knife or cut me as you like.

How similar are the behavior of these Kshatriyas before us to those monks?

Of course, these people are not really waiting to die, they are just expressing their protest through silence and non-cooperation.