This Qing is wrong

Chapter 254 Tang Xiejun

"Yamashita-kun, you just got back from duty."

Yasuo Yamashita saw his old subordinate, who was also from Edo Castle, looking like he was about to leave with his luggage on his back, and he couldn't help being taken aback.

Subconsciously blurted out: "Are you leaving too?"

When told by his old boss, this Japanese ronin warrior, who had sold his life for several years in the name of the Tang Empire, scratched his head and replied in embarrassment: "Yamashita-kun, didn't the imperial court set up a women's army.

Since the establishment of the Women's Legion, the imperial court no longer relies on us Japanese to fight wars, so the restrictions on obtaining fiefs have been completely lifted, and I don't have to wait in line to claim fiefs.

Too many people have died in front of me in the past few years, and the original dream has long faded. Even if my title can only be distributed to more than 100 households, I am content.

At least, compared to those old brothers who died, you and I are the lucky ones to be taken care of by Amaterasu. "

Yasuo Yamashita couldn't help but fell silent after hearing this.

At first, when he heard that the imperial court set up a women's army, he was quite happy in his heart. At least the cannon fodder was no longer Japanese warriors like them.

But during this period of time, watching his comrades-in-arms leave one by one, his mood became more and more complicated.

Although the Japanese mercenaries have the reward of obtaining the fiefdom by obtaining the corresponding title, this reward needs to be applied for.

Originally, Li Changqing was only used by Japanese mercenaries, the cannon fodder who dared to fight and rush. The application sequence was restricted, and a batch of quotas would be released every once in a while.

And the one with the highest title is given priority, in order to encourage Japanese samurai to continue to strive for military exploits.

This has kept the establishment of Japanese mercenaries at more than 10!
Otherwise, as the Tang Empire stabilized its foothold in the northwestern part of India, the war weariness among the Japanese mercenaries became more and more serious, and many of the Japanese mercenaries who joined the army were veterans who had accumulated enough meritorious service and were eligible for manor.

If there are no restrictions, at least half of the Japanese mercenaries will disperse!
With the disintegration of the Maratha Alliance, this phenomenon has become more serious.

What the Japanese samurai among the Japanese mercenaries were afraid of was not fighting a large-scale battle with the core army of the Tang State, but the suppression war and security war after the big battle.

In this long-term and exhausting battle, the main force is the Japanese mercenaries, except for the private soldiers of the Indian nobles who have surrendered.

The meat grinder in Bangladesh greatly shocked the Japanese mercenaries. It turned out that the long-term security battle and suppression station did not cause less loss than the general war!

Moreover, big battles are often a one-shot deal, and you can enjoy the fruits of victory if you survive.

But during the war of repression and the war of security, everyone was afraid to even go to the toilet.

The gang of Indian bandits and thugs are not as good as them in frontal battles, but all kinds of sneak attacks are hard to guard against, even the psychological quality of Japanese samurai is difficult to accept.

During the war against public security, some Japanese samurai could not bear this long-term psychological torture and chose to commit suicide!

Of course, Li Changqing sent Japanese mercenaries to take charge precisely because he knew the difficulties of security warfare...

Now that there is a women's army, Li Changqing naturally no longer needs to restrict the increasingly war-weary Japanese mercenaries. After the policy is relaxed, not only most of the Japanese samurai veterans choose to retire to receive fiefdoms, but also those Japanese ronin samurai who can't claim fiefs also choose to retire.

In this regard, the court of the Tang Empire, which no longer needed Japanese samurai, was also more enlightened.

After all, these Japanese samurai are the same invaders as the Tang Dynasty, and the Indian natives can't tell the difference between the Japanese samurai and the Han people of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, even if a Japanese samurai who has no land chooses to retire, it will be difficult to get along on the land of India, which is hostile to the Tang invaders.

The only choice is to rely on the redistribution of employment by the court.

In fact, the retired Japanese samurai have changed from front-line combat troops to rear officials.

Similar to the police and urban management of later generations, violent institutions serving the imperial court.

It just so happens that it matches the Japanese samurai's hacking profession.

The most important thing is that this is an iron rice bowl, and you can work until you are old. When you get old, you can't kill people. The court also guarantees that they will be assigned to other yamen that don't require manual labor.

Moreover, children can also inherit their own positions.

This is actually a common job in the feudal era!

No way, very few Han people in the Tang Empire were willing to come to live in foreign countries. The new lands conquered by the Tang Empire were more reassuring to use Japanese than Indian natives.

Although the current ruling strategy of the Tang State is not explicitly stipulated, in the conquered lands, the Tang State court has an obvious chain of racial discrimination.

To put it simply, it is first-class Han, second-class Japanese, third-class Indian, and rebels and thugs are not counted as people.

Of course, this is not stipulated by law, but a general consensus in society, so the division is rather vague.

Some Indian traitors who were more valued by the Tang Empire court had a much higher status than ordinary Han people.

The status of those high-caste Indian dignitaries who surrendered is comparable to that of low-level Han bureaucrats.

Don't look down on national traitors. Generally speaking, traitors tend to live the most nourishing lives in invaded lands.

Of course, there is a threshold for wanting to be a traitor. Even if an ordinary pariah asks for it, the Tang Empire will not ask for it.

If you want to be a traitor, you must at least show your worth.

Therefore, those who can be traitors are often celebrities and big businessmen, and at worst they must have skills that are useful to intruders, and ordinary people really can't be.

In addition, most of the Han people in Central Asia and the Indian-controlled areas came from the Han Eight Banners who surrendered at the beginning.

Thanks to the Han Eight Banners providing a large number of Han people, otherwise the Tang Empire would not even have enough officials on the continent of India!
After all, the selection of officials must at least be literate and sensible.

After Yasuo Yamashita sent off his old subordinates, he returned to the barracks. The barracks that were originally lively are now empty, only a few Indian untouchable servants with complex tasks are left.

People who don't know think this barracks has been abandoned!

Yasuo Yamashita knew that starting today, he would be a veritable polished commander...

He didn't understand what kind of ability that women's army had that allowed the imperial court to let the Japanese mercenaries 'collapse' on their own.

The Japanese samurai did not disappear, but the Japanese mercenaries did exist in name only.

Japanese people like Yamashita Yasuo who are strong-willed and not afraid of death are in the minority after all.

Moreover, under the general trend of Japanese samurai, many Japanese samurai who are unwilling to leave can only follow the trend.

Otherwise, if all the soldiers under him have retired, how can they lead the team to fight?

Although the imperial court will not remove their official positions, they will be suspended indefinitely if they have no soldiers in their hands, and they will no longer be able to get military merits to fight for their dreams.

Just when Yasuo Yamashita was confused about his future, a group of heavily armed female soldiers suddenly walked in at the gate of the barracks.

These female soldiers were extremely revealingly dressed, with only a white chest covering on the upper body, and the large snow white was so bright for the men to see!

Each of those small waists is enough to be used as a sign in a brothel in a big city.

The lower body is only covered with a pair of 'hot pants' that are as short as the thighs. It is said that it is for the convenience of fighting and does not increase the burden...

If it wasn't for the shame, it is estimated that even the women's army would have saved these two pieces of cloth.

Yasuo Yamashita looked at the naked white soles of the female soldiers, stepping on the hard gravel without leaving a single trace, his pupils shrank involuntarily.

According to the realm of the Japanese samurai, this must at least reach the realm of stepping on the snow without a trace!
However, these female soldiers are clearly at the level of ordinary people.

It just looked a little weird, Yasuo Yamashita couldn't feel the blood of living people in them, as if the female soldier walking in front of him was just a doll.

Dolls that move?
Yasuo Yamashita couldn't help but think of the main force of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty who founded the country and conquered the world—the war puppets!

At this moment, Yasuo Yamashita understood why the emperor of the Tang Empire was so convinced that female soldiers could completely replace Japanese mercenaries.

Even the imperial court frequently shot behind the scenes to promote the "grassroots" and "lordization" of Japanese mercenaries.

To put it bluntly, it is to dismantle the Japanese mercenaries, those with titles will become small lords, and those without titles will contribute to the grassroots of the imperial court.

If it weren't for Yasuo Yamashita's lofty ambitions, he would have chosen these two routes.

That's right, if a Japanese samurai with a title doesn't want to be a lord, he can choose to retire and work for the court.

Of course, after the Japanese samurai with titles retired, they were not ordinary policemen and city management officers, but the leading officials of the police and city management teams.

Obviously, the power of being an official can be greater, and there can also be a channel for advancement.

The only downside is that there is no way to inherit it.

Officials with little power can be hereditary, but officials can't!
There is an insurmountable gap between officials and officials!
Even in the 21st century, civil servants and real officials are in the same place, and the two sides are not at the same level at all...

To put it bluntly, if you want to embezzle and accept bribes, you must at least be an official.

There are fewer Han Chinese officials in India than in Central Asia and the Western Regions. In order to establish rule, the Tang Empire could only delegate the number of grassroots officials to Japanese samurai with titles.

Not to mention, there are really many Japanese samurai with titles who use their titles to cash in their official positions.

Although they are all insignificant officials, they are as dispensable as ants to the court of the Tang Empire, but to the local Indian untouchables and even high-caste nobles, they cannot be ignored.

Because these low-level officials are the objects that the local people often deal with.

However, Yasuo Yamashita is still more keen on cutting people and fighting wars, and doesn't like being a low-level official in those localities.

So what if he was a police chief?
The low-level officials who directly belonged to the court of the Tang Empire usually worked in the city, and there was no fighting at all. The suppression of gangsters and gangs should not be regarded as fighting.

No matter how many gang thugs you kill, you will not get military merit...

The clothes on the female soldiers are very simple (on the one hand, it is also to save money), but the guys in their hands are not vague at all.

In addition to two pieces of cloth, these female soldiers have most of them are various belts and ropes, on which are hung custom-loaded paper shells (this thing does not have much technical content, Li Changqing made it out very early), flintlock guns Bayonets, and some dagger-like short blades or small axes.

Of course, if facing heavy armored units, these female soldiers will also be equipped with blunt weapons such as maces.

These female soldiers guard a Han man wearing an official Tang robe.

The reason why Yasuo Yamashita recognized the opponent as a Han Chinese at a glance is very simple.

In the Tang Empire, only Han officials could wear the orthodox official robes of the Tang Dynasty, and other races could only wear 'lower official robes'.

Generally, the patterns of official robes are different.

Even with the same rank, Han Chinese officials are first class higher than Japanese officials, and second class higher than Indian indigenous officials!

Of course, Indian indigenous officials are another set of bureaucratic systems, whose main function is to appease the surrendered Indian nobles, and their power is limited to their own fiefs.

The grades given to them are more like a symbol of honor after surrendering to the Tang Empire.

It's like sealing traitors of one, two, three and so on.

Without relying on Indian traitors, the Tang Empire would not be able to establish a perfect rule in the vast Indian subcontinent!
You know, after the disintegration of the Maratha Alliance, the Tang Empire has conquered two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent in the 16 years since Wuwei.

Even the large-scale rebellion in Bangladesh has been suppressed!
To the east, the sphere of influence of the Tang Empire has been extended to the Southeast Asian rainforest.

The holy places of Buddhism on the Indian subcontinent were even uprooted by the Tang Empire. Because of the resistance policy adopted by Indian Buddhists since the invasion of the Tang Empire, the fate of Indian Buddhism was very miserable. Under the rule of the Tang Empire, even the right to preach stripped away.

All Indian Buddhist temples have been transformed into Taoist temples.

Those who shaved their heads had to go to register to prove their origin, and they were not monks who believed in Buddhism, otherwise they would be interrogated on the street, and those who couldn't explain clearly were immediately locked up for hard labor.

Compared with Hinduism, Tianfangism, and Sikhism, Buddhism has the weakest combat effectiveness on the Indian mainland, which is easy to handle.

In fact, many rebels in the areas conquered by the Tang Empire were composed of monks.

Belief in this stuff is unreasonable.

It can only be said that Indian Buddhists chose the wrong position in the war.

It doesn't matter if you choose the wrong one in the war, but the Buddhists are not as numerous as the Hindu believers, and they are not as influential as the Tianfang religion, and they are not as powerful as the Sikhs. Who will Li Changqing not mess with them?
Politics, in fact, is the logic of picking soft persimmons.

Only if you are strong enough will others choose to compromise.

In politics, compromise is never about weakness, it is about stopping losses.

Li Changqing's policy of religious tolerance for Tianfang, Hinduism, and Sikhism is actually a kind of stop loss.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Tang Empire to rule stably in such a short period of time.

The Han officials were not surprised when they saw the emptiness of the barracks.

However, the Japanese samurai who chose to stay in this form happened to be the talents that the Tang Empire needed.

Soon, Yasuo Yamashita understood what the Han official came to read out.

The Tang Empire wants to establish Tang Xiejun in India!
(End of this chapter)