At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 470: Past Events in Tianzhu

The 19th year of the Han calendar, June 15th, Chang'an City.

After receiving his report, Liu Bi's parents rushed to Chang'an City from their hometown in Pei County.

Afterwards, Liu Bi took his parents to travel in Chang'an City for more than half a month, and personally sent them back to their hometown on the train.

On July 5, Liu Bi and his group of officers returned to the Taiwei Mansion, and none of them chose to give up becoming the leader of the expedition team.

So the Han court officially began to train them, and the content of the training far exceeded the imagination of Liu Bi and others, as they originally thought that the training was related to military affairs.

What he ended up doing was to find a dozen teachers from the academy to teach them astronomy and the astrology, the trends of mountains and rivers, and also the knowledge of ocean currents and monsoons, the art of migrating stars, the sextant, and the ability to predict storms by observing celestial phenomena.

They also need to have certain carpentry and blacksmithing skills, and even have farmers teach them how to survive in the wilderness, and teach them how to roughly distinguish which plants are edible and which are poisonous when they don't recognize a plant.

Although these officers had received some training in astronomy and geography when they became captains, the place where they sailed on a daily basis was almost equivalent to the inland sea of ​​the Han Dynasty, and the farthest distance would not exceed a month's journey. During these ten years, they could not say that they knew all the conditions of the monsoons, ocean currents, undercurrents, etc. in this sea area, but they had a general grasp of them.

Therefore, to become the captain of the Han fleet, one needs to have a certain foundation of professional knowledge. But because there are talents in this area on the team, they do not need to be too proficient in it. However, if they want to understand the global market, it is obviously far from enough with their current level. Xu Fan sent them out to understand the world, not to send them to die, so they should be naturally prepared. The more thorough the better.

Therefore, their study workload was very heavy. Almost everyone was studying books that were half a person's height. Even the scholars who were taking the imperial examinations were not as tired as them.

Because the training was not closed, Liu Bi often took books back to Peihou Mansion. Sometimes when he encountered problems he didn't understand, he would ask Liu Ruyi, the top student, for help.

Originally Liu Ruyi was very happy and wanted to teach this brother who was a generation older than him. However, he couldn't understand the content of many of the questions, so he also wanted to ask the teacher for advice.

This made Liu Ruyi a little embarrassed, especially his brother's study attitude. He got up at five in the morning and went to bed at three. He always had a book in his hand and was reciting it. He didn't even know who was preparing for the high school entrance examination.

Have you been too lazy during this period?

Are you going to the water park too many times?

Liu Bi had become so introverted that Liu Ruyi had no choice but to grit his teeth and get up before dawn to study.

On the tenth day of the seventh month in the nineteenth year of the Han calendar, in Tianzhu, at the city of Tammosuldi.

A huge fleet appeared overseas again. This was the fleet of the Tianzhu Trading Company led by Hu Hai.

But he was also surprised by the changes in Tanmo Sudi City. Compared with a year ago, Tanmo Sudi City had changed a lot. The simple wooden dock had been completely demolished and replaced with a stone dock. In order to build this dock, Zhang Yong built three brick kilns and two cement kilns and recruited two thousand Indian laborers. Only then did he expand the area of ​​the dock area by five times, which could accommodate more than 5 giant sea-going ships with a tonnage of tons.

After entering the city, Hu Hai was surprised and said, "I didn't expect you to have the talent to govern a country. It's a waste of your talent to stay in Korea and be an officer."

Zhang Yong said: "I am also implementing the court's policy. Officers like me were trained. In the Han Dynasty, there are as many officers who can do this as the stars in the sky."

Hu Hai said: "You are too modest."

The appearance of the city of Tammosudi has also changed greatly. The number of poor people, beggars and slaves has been greatly reduced. The slums have been demolished and Han-style neighborhoods have been built. Although the people inside are poor, they at least have a straw house to shelter from the wind and rain. After more than a year of transformation, the city has already taken on a Han-style appearance.

After a large number of nobles were taken away by Hu Hai, the land left behind by the nobles was distributed to the local people. The number of local nobles and slaves decreased significantly, while the number of farmers increased. Moreover, Zhang Yong did not prohibit the local farmers from spontaneously reclaiming land, and also gave them a small amount of help. This greatly increased the farmers' enthusiasm for farming and developing land, and the rice fields outside the city were significantly improved.

The casual behavior of Hu Hai and Zhang Yong at the time greatly accelerated the progress of Indian civilization, just like dropping a huge rock into a calm pond, causing huge waves.

The progress of Indian civilization at this time was very similar to that of the Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods in Han history.

The Kshatriyas and Brahmins of India controlled all the religious power, political rights, and economic power of this civilization, and all the land of this civilization was owned by aristocratic temples.

The Shudras depended on the land of these nobles to cultivate, but their political and economic status was even worse than that of the common people during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Han Dynasty. They were a bit like the serfs of the Russians, with only the obligation to support the Kshatriyas and Brahmins, and no rights at all. (I recently got two Indian books and checked them out. I found that they were still in the slavery era, not even as good as the Warring States period. They should be in the Spring and Autumn Period or earlier. Although there were a small number of self-cultivating farmers, most of the land belonged to the nobles. The small peasant economy was fully spread over this land, probably during the Southern and Northern Dynasties several hundred years later.)
But Hu Hai and Zhang Yong's act of dividing the land caused a stir in the whole of India. People seek benefits and avoid harm, even the Shudras and the untouchables want to live a good life. When they know that there is a place that can give them land and does not care about their identities, they naturally don't care whether this group of people are foreigners or foreign demons.

The reason why the lower-class people in India were brainwashed by these religions is that they had nowhere else to go and could only find spiritual sustenance in religion.

But this world is material, and you can obtain tangible benefits. No one cares whether you are a Brahmin or a Kshatriya, or whether you live or die. The land you get is the real thing.

After learning about the division of land in the city of Tamasid, the Shudras and untouchables in the surrounding cities and countries fled to Zhang Yong's territory.

Zhang Yong accepted everyone who came. The officers in this group had experienced the founding period of the Han Dynasty. Their cultural level might not be very high, but their mobility and organizational abilities were the highest. This kind of thing was too common during the founding period of the Han Dynasty. After occupying a place, many officers would directly become county magistrates or county heads to maintain order in that place.

Zhang Yong had also received training in government affairs training and knew how to organize the people, let them reclaim land, organize industrial production, and maintain the healthy operation of a county.

Zhang Yong assigned some of these fleeing Shudras and untouchables to rural areas to work as farmers, while he assigned others to artisan workshops to build various farm implements and tools, such as waterwheels and windmills. Although Zhang Yong had never built one, he had seen many. He could not make a steam engine, but he could make a windmill or waterwheel by drawing a diagram.

Another group of people were mining, digging coal, burning bricks, firing kilns, and burning cement. Soon, a simple five-small industrial system was built by Zhang Yong.

Tamosui City is a port city, a trading city, and also a handicraft city. The local handicraft base is not bad.

After helping Zhang Yong bring the advanced technology of the Han Dynasty, the city of Tanmo Sudi quickly became rich and prosperous, just like Chen County which was originally occupied by Xu Fan. The surrounding caravans initially just wanted to buy some silk, tea, porcelain and other Serian specialties, but they soon discovered that the local salt price was very cheap, several times lower than that of other cities.

These fools from Seris don't even know the price of local salt, yet they sell salt indiscriminately. This kind of fine salt is something that nobles from other places are reluctant to use too much of, but now it is given away for free to the local Shudras, the untouchables. It is simply a sin.

Fortunately, with the blessing of Lord Shiva, they discovered this way to make money. In the spirit of not taking advantage of a good deal, a large number of merchants bought salt locally.

Without Zhang Yong's knowledge, the city of Tanmo Sudi had become the center of salt production in South India. The cost of drying salt was too low, and coupled with the hot climate in India, salt was produced continuously all year round. The salt from the city of Tanmo Sudi quickly conquered cities and territories within a year, destroying every workshop that was still boiling salt.

The same was true for other products. Cheap cloth, ironware, and pottery were produced in an endless stream. The prices were several times lower than in other places in India, attracting a large number of Indian merchants to shop here.

In less than a year, Tanmo Sudi City became the largest goods production center in the entire Tianzhu. In such trade, the wealth of the surrounding cities was continuously absorbed into Tanmo Sudi City. So when Hu Hai and his companions entered and left the city again, they found that Tanmo Sudi City was several times more prosperous than before.

Then Zhang Yong told Hu Hai and others what he had done in the past year and Tianzhu's reaction to them.

Zhang Yong's behavior soon caused dissatisfaction among the king and the city lord of Tianzhu, firstly because their wealth was being lost, and secondly because their population was being lost. The price of the prosperity of the city of Tammosudhi was the continuous shrinking of their wealth.

For thousands of years in India, there has been no division of land. Nobles are nobles, and slaves are slaves. You foreigners, when you break into India, it would be fine if you didn't burn, kill, and loot, but you actually divided the land. The Shudras can have enough food to eat if they have land, and when they are full, they will have all kinds of thoughts. Their minds are not pure, so how can they believe in our God?

This is an attempt to break the rules of India. These foreign invaders are too rude. We cannot allow them to continue doing this.

In addition, under Zhang Yong's governance, Tamasid City has become the richest city in South India. The Brahmins and Kshatriyas of India are also coveting Tamasid City.

Especially when they knew that there were only 1000 Seres in the whole of India, and that the monks in the city of Tammosudi were willing to be their insiders, and that the advantages were on their side no matter how you looked at it, there was nothing else to think about and they could just drive away these hateful Seres.

Therefore, the small countries around the city of Tammo Sudi formed two coalition forces. The first coalition force had 1 soldiers, who marched towards the city of Tammo Sudi with great momentum.

On the way of the march, these city lords even divided the spoils. The city of Tamasid was divided into four parts: east, west, south and north. The factory belonged to whoever's territory it was located on. All the Shudras in the city of Tamasid were classified as untouchables, and the land became theirs.

Just when these Kshatriyas were thinking about making a fortune, they were defeated on the border by a village chief under Zhang Yong, who led a militia team composed of thousands of farmers. Only less than 2000 of the tens of thousands of Indian soldiers escaped, and the remaining 8000 soldiers surrendered directly to the village chief. Before Zhang Yong could react, the enemy disappeared.

Zhang Yong once again witnessed the weak fighting power of the Indians. You must know that the main force in this battle was the Indians, and the gap in the strength of the two sides was as high as 7 times. However, the side with more people and more power was defeated so easily.

But in fact, this kind of fighting ratio is very reasonable. In history, those military households of the Ming Dynasty lived like beggars under the oppression of Ming generals. These people were brave enough to surrender at the sight of war, but they were cowards if they did not shoot their commander in the back.

However, these Kshatriya nobles treat their soldiers not much better than the generals of the Ming Dynasty. The lower-level soldiers can't even get enough food to eat, so why should they fight for the Kshatriya nobles?

On the contrary, the Shudras under Zhang Yong had just received their lands, and it could be said that this period of time was the only ray of light in their decades of miserable life.

The Indian people planted rice seedlings, watched them grow little by little, and looked forward to the harvest scene.

At this time, the noble lord came again, wanting to take away their land again and destroy the only ray of light in their lives.

There is an old saying that goes, when you are always in the dark, you can still bear such a dark life, but when you see the light, the darkness becomes unbearable.

When the Indian people learned that the Kshatriya nobles were coming to kill them, the resentment accumulated over decades of miserable life reached its peak, and their hatred towards these Kshatriya nobles also reached its peak.

Led by the commander of the Han army, these Indian people vented all their hatred and anger on this army, and with a single charge they defeated this army of ten thousand people.

Countless previously unattainable Kshatriya nobles died under the Shudras' crude spears.

But after the defeat, the Kshatriya nobles did not reflect on themselves. Instead, they felt that the troops they sent were too small and the numerical advantage was not enough, so they could not form a crushing momentum, and were defeated by the small number of elite troops of the Seres.

It really cannot be said that the ideas of these Kshatriya nobles were wrong. They thought that the Seris had only 1000 people, but they did not expect that they could gather more than 1500 soldiers. It was inevitable that they were defeated even with a 10-fold advantage in troop strength.

As long as they gathered more troops next time, victory would eventually belong to them. So a month later, they gathered another 3 coalition troops to besiege the city of Tammo Sudi.

This time, Zhang Yong recruited tens of thousands of Shudra soldiers, and the two sides fought a decisive battle outside the city of Tamasid. In this battle, Zhang Yong coordinated infantry and artillery, and once again defeated the Indian coalition forces in one battle. The Indian children were so beaten that they dared not cry at night when they heard Zhang Yong's name.

(End of this chapter)