Zhao Kuangbiao ordered the infantry to defend the city, and asked Sun Kewang to lead the cavalry out to sweep the land with irrigation canals along the river.
Anyway, if the landlord is caught, he will be killed, and the rest of the people will be restrained and not allowed to leave the original village.2 5]
Seeing that the Han army only killed nobles, craftsmen, tenant farmers and untouchables, they all stood by and watched. Anyway, it was just a change of rulers, and their future destiny would not change, even if they risked their lives
Helping nobles fight wars won't do them any good if they win.
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It took Sun Kewang only a few days to capture the thirty miles along the river easily.
Zhao Kuangbiao's middle school classmate, Guan Xian, who once served as the chief of the county government department, went to the riverside countryside to sort out information and report: "Your Highness, the information on Honglu Temple is too rough.
Lu, I already have a general understanding of the original rural situation here.
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"Tell me about it," Zhao Kuangbiao said.
Guan Xian said: "The basic rural governance institution is the village community, one type is called Milasi Village Community, and the other type is called Chaiminda Village Community."[ 1
"The Mirasi village community is the most traditional. Hundreds of years ago, the Chola dynasty moved its capital to Taiwu (Tanjore city). This dynasty made some achievements. It organized the villages along the river into village communities and was responsible for
Irrigation canals were built in village communities. Although the Chola dynasty was overthrown, these village communities have survived and spread to all parts of the country."
"This kind of Mirasi village community consists of one or several villages, and the managers are all Brahmin castes. They use the clan as a link to jointly control the power of the village community, and there is no leader
When encountering major issues, several families will discuss and resolve them.
"Another kind of village community, Chai Daminger, only took a few decades to arise. King Nayak ruled this place and awarded land to officers and nobles. Each village is a village community, and the rule is
The rulers were all Kshatriya officers.
"Milaxi Village Community is similar to the gentry village of the Ming Dynasty. Qaidaming'er Village Community is similar to the military household village of the Ming Dynasty."
"There are no landlords here!
"There are no landlords?" Zhao Kuangbiao asked, "Then who are we killing in the riverside villages?" 3]
Guan Xian explained: "The ones we killed were village managers who came from the Brahmin and Kshatriya castes. All the land here belongs to the king and is managed by Brahmin or Kshatriya castes."
Carry out collective management of village communities.
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"Then how to collect taxes? These village community managers have no land, but they are in charge of the land. Can they enrich their own pockets at will?" Zhao Kuangbiao asked doubtfully.
Before Guan Xian could say anything, Wang Chongxi couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder we can't find the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book, and we can't count the population and land. We can only see one in the tax collection book."
Villages and communes. The land system here is still the same as the well-field system of the pre-Qin Dynasty! Those who manage each city are princes, and those who manage village communities are scholar-bureaucrats.
Historically, the British colonists ruled Tanjore for 150 years, and it took hundreds of years to break the village land management system and turn it into a more advanced landlord ownership system. Ren 4]
You heard it right, landlord ownership is an advanced system here and is more conducive to British colonists collecting agricultural taxes!
Zhao Kuangbiao was quite speechless. The land he occupied was actually engaged in the well-field system.
Guan Xian continued: "Brahmins and Kshatriyas are nobles, and the rest of the people are divided into several major castes and dozens or hundreds of small castes. Those small castes have followed the rule of law for generations.
Doing a certain business is like the Ming Dynasty’s private households, tea households, kitchen households, yin and yang households, etc.”
"Each type of caste has established rules, similar to Chinese guild conventions. Conflicts within castes, such as disputes between shoemakers and cobblers, are all caused by the cobbler's caste.
To solve the problem internally, Brahmans and Kshatriyas can only mediate and cannot dictate the shoemaking industry.
"Therefore, village communities in various places may seem chaotic and disorderly, but their internal structure is extremely strict. They belong to the same large caste but different small castes, and their occupations cannot be changed at will.
If a shoemaker changes his profession to become a carpenter, he will be collectively boycotted by the carpenters or even expelled from the village community."
"There are also some small castes who can change their occupations at will. For example, laundry workers, barbers, etc. are classified as servant castes. Today they can wash clothes to make a living, and tomorrow they can work as barbers."
"The tenants here do not pay a fixed rent to the village community. They are all calculated based on the grain harvest. The rent for paddy fields is about four-fifths, and the rent for hayfields is about one-half -
After explaining the situation, Zhao Kuangbiao and his subordinates were stunned.
The rent for paddy fields is 80, and the rent for hayfields is 50, but the tenants are not starved to death? Ren 3]
"Can the tenant farmers survive?" Wang Chongxi asked.
Guan Xian explained: "There are frequent droughts here, and the paddy fields are better. If it doesn't rain for a long time, a large number of tenants will starve to death. After the tenants die, if the land is vacant,
Priority is given to Sudra farmers for renting. If there are not enough Sudra tenants, the village community will rent the land to untouchables."
"Farmers starve to death every year. Don't the farmers here rebel?" Zhao Kuangbiao's college classmate Ma Li asked. Ren 5]]
Guan Xian shook his head: "I have never rebelled. The peasant uprisings here are always led by Brahmins or Kshatriyas. As for other castes, they can only rebel along with them and cannot stand on their own.
Come out and rebel."[19
Everyone looked at each other, what a magical caste society, they had never encountered it before.
Guan Xian said: "Your Highness, either the entire village community can be directly occupied, and the Han people can come wherever they want. Or don't even think about reforming a certain village community. It cannot be reformed at all. Several big groups
There are hundreds of small castes, and everyone is a supporter of the existing system. If it does not change, they will accept the rule honestly. If it changes, the whole village may rebel, even Shutuo, who is about to starve to death.
Luo, he will also think that we are going to steal his job."
Wang Chongxi said: "Your Highness, if this is the case, there is no need to provoke a fight between Kshatriyas and Brahmins. They are actually the same kind of people, nothing more than hereditary officers and gentry.
ethnic differences.
Everyone re-formulated their ruling strategies based on the actual situation.
If the Han people want to expand, they should expand in village communities. Kill the village nobles, the Han people will be the landlords, and everything else will continue as usual. Ren 5
To put it bluntly, it means integrating into the caste society, and the Han people become new Brahmins and Kshatriyas.
This caste system is inherently designed for conquerors.[6
You can easily conquer this land and replace it by killing the Brahmins and Kshatriyas. However, don't try to reform this system. It is a completely thankless task.
for.[9]
Unless more and more Han people immigrate, the Han people will reproduce more and more offspring. As the number of Han people increases, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes. Only then can the original system be broken!
Because the downtrodden high caste can engage in low caste occupations (caste theory stipulates that this is not possible, but in practice it is possible).
When the Han people filled up various occupations, the caste bondage was broken.
Zhao Kuangbiao ordered: "Let Sun Kewang temporarily stop his march and send an order to the nobles everywhere. As long as they are loyal to me, they will still hold their original positions. The land that has been conquered, you
Formulate a land appreciation plan. According to the land area, the occupied villages will be divided into town and village levels. The Han people are all town and village nobles. The officials we brought are either in Taiwu
To be an official in the city, you either go to the town to be an official. In Han villages and communities, there is no caste distinction among Han people, and the other castes and occupations remain unchanged.
Guan Xian said: "Your Highness, if things continue like this, the Han people will become Brahmins and Kshatriyas. And your Highness's Jin Kingdom will be no different from the small states here. In a hundred years, it will be very
There is a possibility of being exploited by others.”
Zhao Kuangbiao said: “That’s why the Han people do not practice caste system among themselves.
"Your Highness, people's hearts tend to be profitable, and human nature is also addicted to comfort," Guan Xian admonished, "We people may still be able to stick to our hearts, but what about our descendants? When the time comes, there will be
Maybe the Confucian education was forgotten, and in order to facilitate the rule, the king took the lead in converting to Hinduism."
Ma Li said: "Education must not be forgotten. When free time is available, a Confucius temple must be built. When there are more Han children, schools must be built. The caste system here is too scary and is a temptation."
What people enjoy, wears away their will little by little, and eventually wears away so much that even their ancestors and the teachings of Confucian sages are forgotten!"
"Your Highness, please build a Confucius Temple immediately after the country is stabilized!" Wang Chongxi bowed his hands and bowed.
"Your Highness, please build a Confucius Temple!"
Everyone collectively prostrated.
Zhao Kuangbiao gritted his teeth and said: Of course a Confucius temple must be built. There are so many foreign temples in the city. Let’s demolish one and change it into a Confucius temple first and smash all the statues in the temple! If any believers rebel, then
Just kill them all!”
The Confucius Temple was built in India and was the cultural spark of the Han people.
If the Temple of Confucius is immortal, China will last forever.
Once there is no Confucius Temple, the Han people here will quickly degenerate and eventually be completely integrated into the caste system where they live and die.
Wang Chongxi added: "Your Highness, the Han people who immigrated here are not allowed to believe in foreign religions. If you don't talk about faith, you can't even worship gods. Anyone who violates this will have their homes searched and questioned."
Behead!" 6_
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Zhao Kuangbiao was also frightened by the caste system. People who have received Confucian education are naturally repelled by this kind of thing.
Sun Kewang stopped his march, and Zhao Kuangbiao asked civil servants to measure dozens of miles of land along the river. According to the total area of the land, rewards were given to officials and soldiers. All Han people were landlords, and there was no landowner.
All Tamil farmers in the land were converted into private tenants.
There are two types of laws implemented across the country. One is for the Han people, which is directly imported from China and modified according to the actual situation. The other is for the indigenous people and follows the caste law.
At present, Zhao Kuangbiao's actual control area consists of one city and several miles of land along the river, organized into one county and several villages and towns.
After the order was sent to all directions, the nobles in cities and villages all over the country really paid allegiance and had no intention of resisting. When the Chola dynasty was destroyed, they were too lazy to do so.
Resistance, now that Zhao Kuangbiao has destroyed the Tanjore country, they will not resist either.
The premise is not to change the caste system!
As long as the caste system remains unchanged, they don't care who becomes the king.
What Zhao Kuangbiao had to do next was to measure the land, grant farmland, build Confucius temples, and resume commerce. He also needed to build water conservancy projects. Many irrigation canals were in tatters, which made it difficult for Shutuo to do so.
The Luo and untouchables work as laborers, and it doesn't matter if they are given enough food to avoid starving to death. If you don't pay attention, it doesn't matter if you starve to death.
As far as the land collective management system of Brahmins and Kshatriyas is concerned, don’t expect to collect too much agricultural tax in the future, most of it has been embezzled by the Hindu nobles.
It has to be changed, so that Brahmins and Kshatriyas can become landlords and implement a more advanced landlord ownership system. But it cannot be changed now because there are not enough officials. Even if it is changed, the situation will be different.
Without changing the dressing, we will still report the number of acres of land to you.
Zhao Kuangbiao was speechless. He never dreamed that he would see the well-field system in his life.
(Only one update today.)
(After checking a lot of information, I found that the southern part of India is different from the northern part. Here in Tanjore, the land ownership system is actually a village community, and there is not even a single landlord.