Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 246 Tianzhu December (two in one, [-] words, one update today)
The first year of Qingtai in the later Tang Dynasty, the 22nd year of Tongqing in Khotan, 934 AD, December.

In the Xindu River Basin of the Tianzhu Continent, there were even a few snowflakes for the first time. The Little Ice Age, which began in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, reached its peak at this time.

At this time, the snow-covered plateau that was originally warm enough to grow rice was snowing in June, and the Sichuan Basin, where the lychee is a specialty, even citrus trees froze to death.

In Anxi, the extremely cold weather prevented the snow on the snow-capped mountains from melting, and even the Lvyu River (Karakashi River) and Baiyu River (Yulong Kashi River) were cut off several times, and a large number of people are believed to be killed by heat every year. There are even snowflakes in the river and Ganges basins.

But this extremely cold weather will start to ease when the next week is established. When the death of the sorghum car god is basically over, Zhao Er's shameless son just picked up a big deal.

At that time, the weather was getting warmer, and the domestic harvest was bumper every year, and there was a rule of Xianping.

Outside the city of Chanzhou, Xiao Talin, the most unlucky person in history, was accidentally shot in the head, and Zhao Dechang made another military exploit.

In the end, half of the country was used to enshrine Zen and Mount Tai, and it would be disgusting to make the later generations Zhu Hongwu and Zhu Di disgusting.

But this kind of weather, for me, Zhang Dawang, is simply God's help.

Originally on the Tianzhu Continent, due to the high temperature, even fighting in armor in winter was a dangerous thing.

Because soldiers wearing two or three layers of armor will quickly dehydrate and suffer from large-scale heatstroke in this terrifying sweltering heat.

But this year, the weather in December has dropped to a maximum of four or five degrees for an unprecedented time, which is very suitable for fighting with armor.

For Zhang Zhao, cotton armor and iron armor are ready-made.

But for other countries in Tianzhu, their armor pays attention to breathability and lightness, and they don't have the habit of stockpiling heavy armor. They can't find so much armor for a while.

The armor of a Kshatriya cavalry is not even as good as that of ordinary soldiers of the Fengtian Army and Palace Guard Army.

This is already close to a dimensionality reduction attack, so the Fengtian Army, Gongwei Army and Shunyi Zuo Army who are preparing to go out, the children of Huwencheng local tyrants, and Zhang Zhaozheng's servant army belonging to Zhang Bingzhong and Bach Mahakshatrili, personally A beaming smile.

It didn't look like they were going to fight, but more like a group returning home to rob.

The reason why Zhang Zhao had to wait until December to act was because he had to wait for a reinforcement force, that is, the Shunyi Right Army of the Anyuan Army envoy Rashid Salaiman with more than [-] people.

These troops composed of the original Juzhanti Persian surrendered army are good at water warfare. After all, Juzhanti is a fortress on the river, and Yaoshashui can be regarded as a big river.

After they arrived, Zhang Zhao would send troops, because he was going down the Ganges this time, and it would be inconvenient without a professional navy.

"Your Majesty, Rajayapolo, the king of Bala, has sent another envoy!"

After the swearing-in meeting was over and they were about to leave, Guo Tiance ran over from a distance again, and Zhang Zhao smacked his mouth.

"This seems to be the seventh group of messengers, right? It seems that I am really in a hurry."

Just when my King Zhang was preparing to go out and resettle the Tajiks who went south to the plateau, the Balihar Dynasty launched a large-scale attack on the Balo Dynasty.

Fahrenheit, the royal city of the Balo Dynasty, had fallen at the end of November, and Rajjayapolo, the king of Balo, retreated to Rajgaha.

The envoys for help came one after another, basically before the first one arrived, the next one set off again.

"Bring it here! Let him see, we are really going to rescue, let him go back and give Rajayapolo a reassurance, so that he can risk his life to resist!"

Zhang Zhao smiled smugly. Although his face was kind, he couldn't help but shiver when he saw Guo Tiance.

This is still going to be fooled!Poor King Polo, probably knowing that Ju Er Khan has sent troops, he might put all the coffins on it.

India at this time has not yet developed to the population density of later generations, and the entire affluent area is basically along the banks of the Xindu River and the Ganges.

The famous Madara, Parajega, Qunv City, Fahrenheit City, Rajagha City, etc. are basically along the Ganges River, one after another like a pearl necklace.

Speaking of which, this continent of Tianzhu is really a place tailor-made for invaders!
Two affluent areas exist, one in the Sindhu River and the other in the Ganges River.

They are not like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in China, which have the natural dangers of the Yellow River, the Hukou Waterfall, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and the Yunmeng Daze.

The Sindhu River and the Ganges River Basin are completely river valley plains, spacious and spacious, and the water flow is rarely particularly turbulent. It is like a highway built for invaders, coming in and out is the same as going home.

Anyway, Zhang Zhao was like this. After arriving at the Yamuna River, the water flow calmed down, and the logistics supplies were loaded on the boat.

Khotan's palace guards drew [-] crossbowmen to board the ship, and the Shunyi right army was in charge of driving.

At this time, water warfare is still very simple, although China has already evolved five-tooth warships and invented tactics such as collision, fire, and smashing with a sledgehammer.

But this is in Tianzhu. The Shahi Dynasty, the Balikhar Dynasty, and the Balo Dynasty add up to less than [-] warrior classes equivalent to the Kshatriya.

With such a small number of people, how can they still play the difficult job of the five-tooth battleship, besides, they don't have that technology!

At this time, the water battle on the Ganges was just a gang fight after the two ships approached, without even throwing kerosene cans.

So inadvertently, the six hundred Khotan palace guards who could put bows and crossbows on the boat became big killers again.

They were originally trained by Zhang Zhao to fight water battles on the Yaosha water when they captured Juzhanti.

As a result, before reaching the step of besieging Juzhanti in the water battle, the defenders of Juzhanti were pushed to a dead end by the Bukhara politicians. After several months of training, it was completely useless.

Of course, the navy of the Balihar Dynasty would also put bows on board, but the Indian bows in their hands were not at all a match for the strong bows and crossbows in the hands of the Khotan Palace Guards.

In addition, Zhang Zhao attacked from top to bottom. He also prepared hundreds of small boats filled with tung oil and firewood. The small boats were equipped with hooks and chains, and the warships that hooked the Tianzhu people would burn non-stop.

In wartime, first set off the small fire boat, wait until the vanguard on the opposite side is burned, and then the big boat will go down the current, rushing forward and firing bows and crossbows.

Since going straight down the Yamuna River four days ago, they have defeated three battleships of the Balikhar dynasty, each time with a crushing record.

Zhang Zhao's fleet has grown from more than [-] large and small ships at the beginning to nearly [-] ships, and many of them had to be scuttled due to insufficient captives and unmanned pilots.

Six days later, Ju'er Khan's army, which was unimpeded all the way, arrived at the first fortress city of the Balikhar Dynasty, which was heavily guarded by troops—Parajega.

The status of this city in the Ganges River Basin at this time is equivalent to that of Jingzhou or Anqing on the Yangtze River in China, and has always been an important place for river defense.

If one breaks through here, Qunu City, the capital of the Balikhar Dynasty, which is similar in status to the city of Nanjing in China, will open the door wide.

"I don't think Tianzhu has such a majestic city. It's really majestic! It's taller than Dunhuang. I'm afraid it would take Ganzhou or Liangzhou to compare with it!"

It was Yan Jin who sighed. The Porojega City in front of him was at least six or seven meters high. It was built of loess, surrounded by satellite fortresses, and built a water city to control the waterway of the Ganges River. The tallest city.

"Although the city is great, it is not as numerous as Liangzhou City!" Cao Wuyuaner, a military master, disagreed with Yan Jin's opinion.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of Yan Jun, the city of Liangzhou is more than two feet high and twenty miles in circumference. It is built with strips of stone and rammed with three kinds of soil. There are seven fortresses surrounded by fields.

In the past, the Duke of Taibao took Liangzhou, and [-] elite soldiers fought bloody battles for nearly a year, only through threats and lures.

Although this Porojega city is tall, it is all made of loess. Although there are six castles outside the city that are horns, there are no brave men guarding them. How can they stop the king's heavenly soldiers?
What's more, Cao Dunhuang carried a thousand or two hundred catties of divine fire and thunder this time, and the mere earth wall was blown up! "

Yan Jin had never been to the east of Dunhuang in his whole life, so of course he couldn't imagine how big Liangzhou was.

Liangzhou's status in the Tang Dynasty was comparable to that of Guangzhou in the mid-Qing Dynasty and Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty.
Wu Yuan'er had been there when he was a merchant, so he could look at Porojega in front of him with contempt.

Xiongcheng?Where to look at the Xiongcheng!In Tianzhu, the top [-] in the Central Plains are not eligible.

"Wu Bingcao is right. As a Tubo slave, you know what is Xiongcheng? I think this city is just a chicken and a dog!"

Yan Jin was a little embarrassed by Wu Yuan'er's words, but Ma Yaozi came up with a timely contempt, which immediately relieved the embarrassment, and the two laughed and cursed a few words.

Yan Jin has always been deeply ashamed of being a slave of the Tubo people. Anyone who says he is a Tubo slave will be bloody, but only Ma Yaozi can say that.

Not only because he and Ma Yaozi were the team leader and the team deputy of Shouchang Town back then, but also because there was no Ma Yaozi to take care of Yan Jin. Can be a petty officer.

"Your Majesty, this city is not simple. There are wooden stakes buried in the water. You Yidu went downstream to look. If you don't pull out these wooden stakes, the warships will not be able to approach the opposite water city." Bai Congxin, who is in charge of Youyidu Came from afar again.

"Can you find a way to pull it out?" There are wooden rows in the water, and the big boat will definitely not pass through.

The Balihar Dynasty was worthy of being the head of the three kingdoms of Tianzhu, and it seemed that they had defended themselves. This wooden stake must have been placed recently, because it is impossible for such a busy river to pass through only small boats on weekdays.

"It's possible to pull it out, but we are not familiar with the undercurrent under the water, and we don't know the exact location of these wooden stakes. I'm afraid it will take a long time and delay the march of the army."

"Then withdraw You Yi first, and each fire knight will be equipped with 30 people familiar with the surrounding geography who jumped out of the captives, and I will capture all the fishermen around.

It is impossible for the Kshatriya of Parajega to bury the stake himself, he must have recruited the fishermen around him to do it. "

Zhang Zhao made a decision with a wave of his hand, and Bai Congxin hurried down to carry it out.

Guo Tiance's face was still tense, and he crossed his hands to Zhang Zhao.

"My lord, these fishermen are people under the rule of the Balihar Kingdom. Pulling out the stakes in the river is an extremely dangerous job. Even if they are willing, what should they do if they enter the water and run away?"

"Don't worry, I know how to make these fishermen obey." Zhang Zhao looked confident.

"You go and inform Cao Yanming and Shi Chongmin to get them ready to blast Boroyega City.

Yan Jin, Ma Yaozi, each of you leads 2000 people as the vanguard, to pull down the fortress outside the city, let Zhang Bingzhong and the Kshatriya under the command of Bahmaha go first. "

How can Zhang Zhao make these fishermen of the Balihar Dynasty risk their lives in the deep water for him, instead of running away as soon as they enter the water?
In fact, we still have to start with the caste system of Brahmanism.

Strictly speaking, the Brahmin caste system was not immutable.

If it is really impossible to flow at all, and does not give any hope to the bottom people, it is absolutely impossible to pass it down to future generations.

Although Indians seem to have no spirit of resistance from birth, they are some numb cows who can't shout "the princes and generals have kindness".

But how can people say that there are more than one billion people? After thousands of years, it is impossible for there to be no one who dares to resist, right?
Don't say that they are just people called cattle and horses, they are real cattle and horses. You squeezed him hard, and they still know how to lose their temper.

Mules and horses dare to shake off the things on their backs and run away, and the cows dare to stand up to people when they are in a hurry, let alone people?
Therefore, in order to attract people from the lower castes who know how to resist, Brahmanism specially invented a word called Brahmanization.

This was originally a religious term. During the period of Shamanism, people called the choice of a Buddhist who converted from the caste-based Brahmanism and advocated the equality of all beings to Buddhism, which means that he has upgraded and become noble.

After being hit hard by Buddhism, the Brahmanism picked up the word Sanskritization, and the way they upgraded the low caste to the high caste became Sanskritization.

There are two ways to achieve Sanskritization. One is that the lower caste marry their daughter to the higher caste, and then the whole family adopts the son-in-law's surname.

At the same time, move away from the original low-caste settlements and learn the living habits of the high-caste, so that after one or two generations, they can declare the success of Sanskritization and become a higher-level caste.

And if you want a man of a high caste to marry a daughter of a low caste regardless of his face and his family's obstruction, there are only two possible situations.

One is that you have a very beautiful daughter, so beautiful that the king can't walk after seeing her.

The second is that you are very rich, and you can directly spend money on it, so that people of high caste are willing to marry your daughter.

And it can only be promoted level by level, that is, Sudra can only be promoted to Vaishya, and cannot be promoted to Kshatriya all at once.

But there is a very obvious problem, that is, the identity of the low caste, which first limits your own appearance, and makes it difficult for you to marry a beautiful wife and give birth to beautiful daughters, especially in Tianzhu and the skin color Require.

At the same time, the lower castes are all engaged in low-level jobs, so it is difficult for you to accumulate a lot of wealth.

There are very few people who can go through this road to spiritualization.

The second path with the highest success rate is to get up and make trouble.

One is to make troubles about Brahmins and Kshatriyas, and they can't suppress it anymore, and finally they are willing to give you a high caste status to incorporate you.

Mr. Mo, the great commander of Tianzhu in later generations, is a typical representative of this kind of sanctification.

The second is to help Brahmins and Kshatriyas to make troubles, and to help the most senior Brahmins and Kshatriyas to make troubles.

In this way, people will promote your caste in an exceptional way. For example, what Zhang Zhao is going to do now is to prepare a group of people like this.

Zhang Da Khan came to this group of recruited fishermen, there were at least 700 people, it seems that Bai Congxin recruited everything from the surrounding fishermen.

These people don't have to ask their names at all, and they don't have to look at where they live or what they do.

Just by looking at their skin color, you can basically tell their caste, it must be down to the mud.

Look at this man with the same black and dark brown skin as a cow and a horse, and his face is full of bitterness and hatred, and his temperament is upright, revealing the word "untouchable".

According to the rules, as soon as Zhang Zhao appeared, they knelt down with a plop, and all stuck their heads in the mud.

Not to mention looking at Zhang Zhao, he didn't dare to breathe loudly, for fear of polluting Zhang Zhao.

What's more amazing is that a few Brahmins who took refuge in Zhang Zhao pulled Zhang Zhao to the upper wind of these fishermen like a gust of wind, and spread a layer of high-quality cotton cloth on the ground for Zhang Zhao to step on the cotton cloth.

The former is to prevent these low castes from polluting the air that Zhang Da Khan breathes, and the latter is to show that they are not even qualified to step on the same ground with Zhang Da Khan.

"My request is very simple. I need to pull out the stakes in the river. For this purpose, I have prepared twenty Vaishya surnames and forty Sudra surnames."

As he said that, Zhang Zhaoyi pointed to the two Kshatriyas around him who tried hard to make themselves seem willing.

"Besides, there are two Kshatriya masters here. They are willing to give you two a chance to get married. Whoever makes the most contributions, their next generation can become a Kshatriya. .”

Not to mention the Kshatriya, for most of the following Dalits, that is, the untouchables who are not in the caste system at all, and are called untouchables, becoming a Sudra is a qualitative leap.

If you can become a Vaisya, it is no different to ascend to the sky in one step. As for becoming a Kshatriya, it is called ascension in place.

For these people, not only his own life is not important anymore, but the life of the whole family is not important anymore.

Therefore, after the translator finished translating Zhang Zhao's words, although none of the fishermen kneeling in the distance dared to raise their heads, there was a phantom whimper, and they knelt on the ground and stuck their heads in the mud. The crowd in the field shook collectively, like leaves rustling in the wind.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Zhao decided to add fire, "Finally, I still need a family. As long as the family can send the things I specify to the city of Porojega and set them on fire, I can give them a gift." A surname, a single character, a surname belonging to the Han Ritian race!"

In Tianzhu, caste is not only divided into four classes and one untouchable, in fact, there are many sub-races.

As far as Zhang Zhao knows now, the Kshatriyas of the Xia Xi Kingdom are divided into more than a dozen sub-castes, which can be distinguished by ancestry, place of residence, and even language habits, etc., and they are despised layer by layer.

Originally in Shahi, the highest-ranking Brahmins and Kshatriyas were of course related to the Shahi royal family's surname.

And after Zhang Zhao arrived, the highest rank among Brahmans and Kshatriyas was the one-character surname known as Han Ri Tian Zhong.

Of course, at present, this rule is only valid in Xiaxi Kingdom, because Juer Khan only conquered this place, but it will soon be implemented in the territory of the Balihar Dynasty.

I am afraid that after Zhang Da Khan's sweep, skin color will still become the most intuitive judgment standard in Tianzhu in this time and space, but among the high castes, there is a more intuitive judgment. There is no doubt that who has a single-character Chinese surname is the highest caste.

"Khan! The whole Bajali family is willing to serve you!"

Finally someone responded, a strong man who looked a lot bigger than the surrounding fishermen put his head on the ground, like a bulldozer, pushed the soft wet soil by the river to a short distance in front of Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao understands a little bit of the language at this time. Bajali means people who live on the high soil by the water. In short, they are a group of fishermen who live on the hills by the water.

The biggest basis for Brahmanism to judge caste is based on the combination of skin color and surname. Looking at the dark back and the meaning of the surname, even if you say you are a Kshatriya, who will believe it?

That's why Zhang Zhaocai didn't say that these fishermen should be promoted to a higher caste. If they just said a word, they couldn't become a higher caste if they didn't change their surnames and didn't break away from the original low-caste settlements.

This is also the reason why the strong man came out immediately after hearing that Ju'er Khan bestowed a single-character surname.

Zhang Zhao waited for another minute. It seemed that this strong man had a high prestige among the fishermen around him. Once he came out, no one else dared to fight, so Zhang Zhao waved at Cao Yanming.

"Shishilang, take this guy down. If he can transport the sacred fire thunder to the gate of Porojega, I will give him the surname Yu and reward him with a thousand rupees!"

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The officers in the Borojega Water City have never seen such a thing. Those Dalit fishermen living on both sides of the river screamed and threw themselves into the water. Many of them didn’t even bring the pig urine bubbles for ventilation. , just rushing into the water like that.

It didn't take long before those wooden stakes that had been driven into the river more than a month ago by these people killed or injured dozens of them floated up one by one. Of course, many people went down and never came up again.

Every time a wooden stake came up, the women, children and children of the same clan by the river would go and hug it, crying and howling, and whoever wanted to grab it would fight with their lives.

These wooden stakes are the conditions given by Zhang Zhao. If two heels are pulled out, they will be given to a Sudra, if five roots are pulled out, they will be given to Vaishya, and the two families that are pulled out the most will be directly given to Kshatriya.

Only now did Zhang Zhao know that it was not the [-] fishermen who were arrested by You Yidu, but the heads of [-] fishermen's families, large and small.

At present, there are at least 10,000 fishermen on both sides of the Ganges.

Guo Tiance stared dumbfounded at the crowd of water rats in the wide Ganges River, and the wooden stakes that kept floating up one by one, his outlook on life was greatly impacted.

He can't understand that just changing their surnames can make these people so fanatical that they can't avoid life and death?
If it were in China, before the emperor bestowed a surname, he would have to find someone privately to test whether the person who was given a surname would like it.

But Guo Tiance is not the most dumbfounded person here, the most dumbfounded is the guard of Porojega Water City.

Looking at the dwindling stakes, he had to send out a large number of small boats, hoping that the archers on board would stop the fishermen who kept jumping into the water.

Zhang Zhao also hurriedly dispatched archers in small boats to protect them. The navy troops on both sides set up small boats and started bloody shooting on the river where people kept plopping and plopping into the water.

'boom! At the same time, there was a violent explosion at the South Gate and the West Gate at the same time, and a mushroom cloud rose into the sky. Not to mention the city gate, a large part of the city wall of the West Gate was blown down.

"Enter the city! Go!" Yan Jin drew out his horizontal knife and yelled, Man Xiong, Dun Zhu and others, as well as thousands of troops, rushed in directly from the bombed city wall.

Zhang Zhao looked at Shi Chongmin, who had been disfigured by the gunpowder, and for the first time showed a slightly unbearable look on his face.

"How many are left?"

He was asking about the whole Bajali family who were going to deliver gunpowder to the city.

"There must be seventy or eighty out of the two hundred men!" Shi Chongmin replied with his head bowed, feeling a little emotional after he finished speaking.

"You really don't want your life! You dare to risk your life to do it against a wooden board!"

There were more than a hundred people left, Zhang Zhao let out a sigh of relief, he thought they would all die.

"If it were you, would you risk your life like them?"

Shi Chongmin thought for a moment, then nodded fiercely.

"Yes! It's definitely worth it to change your face and reach the sky in one step, and kill dozens of young adults!"

　The term Dalit only appeared in the [-]th century. There was no unified name for this group before. For the convenience of reading, they are all referred to as Dalit in the book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)