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Zhao Kuanglui 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, the landlords will be killed if caught, and the rest of the people will be restrained and not allowed to leave the original village.

Seeing that the Han army only killed nobles, craftsmen, tenant farmers and untouchables all stood by and watched. Anyway, it's just a change of ruler, and their future destiny will not change. Even if they desperately help the nobles fight, they will not gain much after winning.

It took Sun Kewang only a few days to capture the thirty miles along the river easily.

Guan Xian, a middle school classmate of Zhao Kuangli and the former chief of the county government department, went to the countryside along the river to sort out information and report: "Your Highness, the information on Honglu Temple is too rough. I already have a general understanding of the original history of this place. Rural conditions.”

"Tell me about it," Zhao Kuangluo said.

Guan Xian said: "The basic rural governance institutions are village communities, one is called Milasi Village Community, and the other is called Chaiminda Village Community."

"Milaxi 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 ordered the construction of village communities as units. Irrigation canals. Although the Chola dynasty has been destroyed, 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 major issues arise, several families discuss and resolve them."

"Another type of village community, Zaidamingr, only arose within a few decades. King Nayak ruled here and awarded land to military officers and nobles. A village is a village community, and the rulers are all Kshatriya officers."

"Milaxi Village is similar to the gentry villages of the Ming Dynasty. Qaidaming'er Village is similar to the military villages of the Ming Dynasty."

"There are no landlords here!"

"There are no landlords?" Zhao Kuangluo asked, "Then who are we killing in the riverside villages?"

Guan Xian explained: "We killed village managers who came from the Brahmin and Kshatriya castes. All the land here belongs to the king, and the village community is collectively managed by Brahmin or Kshatriya."

"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 Kuangluo asked doubtfully.

Before Guan Xian spoke, 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 village communities in the tax collection books. The land system here, It’s still like the well-field system of the pre-Qin Dynasty! The princes are the ones who manage the cities, and the scholar-bureaucrats are the ones who manage the villages.”

Historically, the British colonists ruled Tanjore for 150 years and took hundreds of years to break the village land management system and transform it into a more advanced landlord ownership system.

You heard it right, landlord ownership is an advanced system here and is more conducive to British colonists collecting agricultural taxes!

Zhao Kuanglui was quite speechless. The land he occupied was still 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 been engaged in a certain industry for generations, just like the households in the Ming Dynasty , tea household, kitchen household, yin and yang household, etc.”

"Each caste has established rules, similar to Chinese guild conventions. Conflicts within castes, such as disputes between shoemakers and shoemakers, are resolved within the shoemaker caste. Brahmins and Kshatriyas can only mediate, not Pointing fingers at the shoemaker’s trade.”

"Therefore, village communities in various places may seem chaotic, but their internal structures are extremely strict. They belong to the same large caste but different small castes, and their occupation cannot be changed at will. If a shoemaker changes his profession to become a carpenter, he will be collectively boycotted by the carpenters. Even being 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 dry fields is about one-half..."

Zhao Kuanglui and his subordinates were stunned when the situation was explained.

The rent for paddy fields is 80% and the rent for dry fields is 50%, but the tenants are not starving to death?

"Can the tenant farmers survive?" Wang Chongxi asked.

Guan Xian explained: "There are frequent droughts here, and the paddy fields are better. If there is no rain in the dry fields for a long time, a large number of tenants will starve to death. After the tenants die, if the land is vacant, priority will be given to Sudra farmers. If there are not enough recruits, If there are no Dhara tenants, the village community will farm the land to the untouchables.”

"Farmers starve to death every year. Aren't the farmers here rebelling?" asked Zhao Kuanglui's college classmate Ma Kui.

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 up to rebel on their own."

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 is directly occupied, and the Han people can come wherever they want. Or don't even think about reforming a certain village community. It can't be changed at all. There are several large castes and hundreds of small castes. Everyone They are supporters of the existing system. If they don't change it, they will accept the rule honestly. If it changes, I'm afraid the whole village will rebel, and even the Shudras who are about to starve to death will feel that we are going to steal his job."

Wang Chongxi said: "Your Highness, if this is the case, then there is no need to provoke a fight between Kshatriyas and Brahmins. They are actually the same kind of people, and the difference is nothing more than hereditary officers and gentry and noble families."

Everyone re-formulated their ruling strategies based on the actual situation.

If the Han people wanted to expand, they would expand in village communities. Kill the village nobles, the Han people will become the landlords, and everything else will remain as usual.

To put it bluntly, it means integrating into caste society, and the Han people become new Brahmins and Kshatriyas.

This caste system was born for the conquerors.

You can easily conquer this land and replace it by killing Brahmins and Kshatriyas. However, don't try to reform this system, it is purely a thankless act.

Unless more and more Han people immigrate, the Han people will produce more and more descendants. As the number of Han people increases, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. Only then can the original system be broken!

Because the downtrodden upper castes can engage in lower caste occupations (caste theory stipulates that this is not possible, but in fact it is possible).

When Han people filled up various occupations, caste constraints were broken.

Zhao Kuangluo ordered: "Let Sun Kewang temporarily stop his march and send an order to the nobles from all over the country. As long as they are loyal to me, they will still hold their original positions. For the land that has been conquered, we will formulate a land reward plan. According to the land area, the occupied villages will be It is divided into towns and villages. All Han people are town and village aristocrats. The officials we brought will either serve as officials in Taiwu City or go to the towns. Han people in villages and communities, Han people have no caste distinction, and other castes and occupations are not Change."

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, and it is very likely that they will be slaughtered by others in a hundred years."

Zhao Kuangluo said: “That’s why the Han people do not practice caste system within themselves.”

"Your Highness, people's hearts tend to be profitable, and human nature is also addicted to comfort," Guan Xian advised, "We people may still be able to stick to our original intentions, but what about our descendants? By then, it is possible that Confucian teachings will be forgotten, and for the sake of convenience Rule, the king took the lead in converting to Hinduism.”

Ma Ju 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. It is tempting to enjoy. It wears away the will little by little, and finally wears away the Even our ancestors have been forgotten, and even the teachings of Confucian sages have been 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 Kuanglui gritted his teeth and said: "Of course we must build a Confucian temple. There are so many foreign temples in the city. Let's demolish one and change it into a Confucian temple. Then smash all the statues in the temple! If any believers rebel, then 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 raided and executed!"

"Can."

Zhao Kuangyi 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 Kuanglui asked civil servants to measure dozens of miles of land along the river. According to the total area of ​​land, rewards were given to officials and soldiers. All Han people were landlords, and Tamil farmers without land were all converted into private tenants.

There are two types of laws implemented across the country. One is aimed at Han people and is directly imported from China and modified according to actual conditions. One set is for the natives and follows the laws of caste.

At present, Zhao Kuangli's actual control area consists of one city and dozens of 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 across the country really paid allegiance and had no intention of resisting at all. When the Chola dynasty was destroyed, they were too lazy to resist. Now that Zhao Kuangluo destroyed Tanjore, 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.

The next thing Zhao Kuangyi had to do was to measure the land, grant farmland, build Confucius temples, and resume trade. We also need to build water conservancy projects. Many of the irrigation canals are in dilapidated condition, so Shudras and untouchables are forced to work as slave laborers, so that they can eat enough to avoid starving to death. If you don't pay attention, it won't matter if you starve to death.

As for the land collective management system of Brahmins and Kshatriyas, don’t expect to collect too much agricultural tax in the future, most of it has been embezzled by the Hindu nobles.

It needs to be changed, let Brahmins and Kshatriyas 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 method will be changed without changing the medicine, and the number of acres of land will still be reported to you.

Zhao Kuangluo 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 southern India is different from northern India. Here in Tanjore, the land ownership system is actually a village community, without even a single landlord.)