Chapter five hundred and fifty-first ideological danger
After the Lantern Festival in the seventh year of Tianbao, Dai Wang, who was hiding in Shule Town and secretly planning trade routes, wrote a long letter to Li Siye, describing the results of the previous year. Dai Wang personally organized several people to go to India to learn about
Some known difficulties on the trade road have been addressed.
Pepper grows mostly near Qunu City, and most of it is wild and less cultivated. When writing this, Dai Wang said in his letter that the land in the Ganges River Basin is fertile, with a vast plain, various spices and plants, and a wealth of resources that makes people jealous.
Almost all the spices in the Tang Dynasty came from here. People only need to go to the forest to pick them, and there is no need to plant them at all.
Such a rich place, however, is torn apart. To reach Qunu City, they have to pass through part of Kashmir ruled by Lalita Dedo and two other small countries on the way. The ruler of Qunu City at the end is Yesa.
Poman, the territory he occupies is only around Qunu City.
Dai Liulang is good at thinking. The Indian land he saw was very flat. Even the mountain peaks were as gentle as arcs. There were no geographical boundaries, let alone the natural dangers of the Yangtze River and the Hengduan Mountains. However, this resource-rich and vast plain was fragmented. There were
There are dozens or hundreds of city-states.
This situation made Dai Liulang think deeply. The terrain of India is much flatter than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the products here are far richer than that of the Tang Dynasty. Why has there not been a long-term unified country here? Asoka and Maurya can almost only have a glorious generation.
, immediately fell into pieces after death.
If Dai Wang could understand this truth, he could be called a saint or a philosopher. Li Siye couldn't answer him. He only knew that it should be a combination of geography and culture, and perhaps India's land resources and
Wild plant resources are too abundant? The environment is so good that there is no need to mobilize too many people to carry out major projects? So there is no need to develop into a whole.
The more countries he passed through, the more money and effort Dai Wang spent. Just like the eminent monks back then, he traveled to four countries on the earth, met with the heads of these countries, and gave precious silk and paper as gifts.
He was sent out. The kings were also very happy and allowed him to do business, live and build strongholds within the territory, and also gave him the title of nobleman to facilitate his movement within the territory.
Especially the king of Qunu City, Yesa Poman, Dai Liulang spent more efforts on this king. He twice brought silk, paper, Sichuan brocade, tricolor and gold hairpins, which attracted the favor of the king.
As a result, the king of the country recommended him to join the Brahman religion, and also acquired a pepper-rich territory northwest of Qunu City, becoming a noble in the territory.
Li Siye was quite speechless when he saw this. He was the only one who could even change his religious beliefs in order to do business.
Next Dai Liulang told the reason why he joined Brahmanism, because Brahmanism stipulates four levels, which evolve according to the body of the god Brahma. The head represents Brahman, the arms and torso represent Kshatriya, and the legs represent
The Vaishyas, the Sudras represented by the two feet, and the vast number of untouchables who are not accepted by Brahmanism are excluded as dirt outside of Brahma. This is the real solidification of class. Under the oppression of this religious system atmosphere
, it is absolutely impossible to say that princes, generals, and ministers would rather have the guts, and I probably would not even dare to have such an idea.
Dai Wang was introduced by the Brahmin Yesabhaman and became a Kshatriya noble on the second level of the caste system. The advantage of becoming a Kshatriya is that he can freely exploit the lower-level Vaishyas and Shudras, as well as untouchables who have no caste.
Slaves, these are free labor. When he builds pepper plantations in his territory in the future, free slaves can minimize the cost of raw materials to the greatest extent.
In Dai Wang's hands, Brahmanism is like an exploitable tool, used only to gain profits. His behavior is still like that of the previous household clerk who did not hesitate to use any means to achieve his goals. He maintains a calm analysis and judgment ability.
In his eyes, any religion or person is a pawn that can be used. And the mask on his face also gives people a sense of mystery. It would be a pity not to be a mysterious and elegant noble.
Fortunately, he is now serving Li Siye.
It seems that Dai Wang’s work in the raw material areas in India has been laid. This year, he may have to build a series of transfer station-type commercial stations from Xiaobolu to Qunu City. This may cost a lot of money. I don’t know what he will do.
Is the box of gold prepared for guarding the city in Congling enough for him to waste?
Dai Wang has achieved preliminary results in India, and he hopes that he can also develop in Beiting.
He wanted to expand his military strength, but the fixed quota given to him by the court was only so many people, and there was no war to falsely report casualties on the battlefield, so expanding the number of troops would not be very effective.
The local population of Tingzhou is small, so it is unrealistic to recruit troops from the local area. Moreover, the armor and weapons distributed by the imperial court are limited to the number of soldiers. You ordered so many sets of armor from the North Capital Ordnance Supervisor of Chang'an Shaofu Supervisor for no reason.
What was it used for, and how could it not arouse suspicion?
Li Siye got some news from the Central Plains. Due to the laxity of the government military system, Zhechong Mansion and Zhechong captains had become useless and cheap. A large number of people were trying every means to break away from the status of soldiers, and then a kind of despise of soldiers was formed.
Public opinion.
Because now is the peak of the Tang Dynasty, everyone is pursuing wealth and forgetting their responsibilities. Many people in Chang'an, Luoyang, and Yangzhou have forgotten that the border is still in the baptism of war, and have forgotten the instinct of being prepared for danger in times of peace.
Soldiering has become a profession that is looked down upon by them. It seems that all young people who are motivated should study for scientific examinations. Even if they are not good enough, they have to go to farming to create wealth and support their families. If not, they can still go into business. They are really hopeless and do not even have these skills.
People should serve as soldiers and get food for the army. As for the significance of protecting their home and country, they have completely forgotten it.
The army in Chang'an is filled with some shabby households, scoundrels and refugees, and the proportion of barbarians in the army at the border is getting higher and higher. Some people even think that the profession of soldiers is reserved for refugees without property and those who only know how to fight.
The barbarians who herded sheep came to do it. The more prosperous and wealthy the place, the more they thought that being a soldier was a lowly profession.
This kind of thinking really makes Li Siye feel worried. The Tang Dynasty did not build the Great Wall. The defense line was built by the ten military envoys and their more than 600,000 soldiers. If we start to promote the idea that being a soldier is useless from now on, then when the Anshi Rebellion occurs
Who else can put an end to the chaos and restore order?
Li Siye also felt that many people in his three armies in Beiting had such thoughts. This made Li Siye feel a crisis. If the Tang army denied themselves, what was the point of guarding the border for the country?
He believes that the ideological system of the military should be reshaped and let them pick up the values of honor as a soldier and loyalty to the emperor and the country, because this is in line with the traditional Confucian concepts, and coupled with the vivid deeds of characters, it serves as a role model for learning.
Most people in the Tang Dynasty admired the Han Dynasty and looked down on the current dynasty. Even the nobles regarded the ancestral honors that continued to the Han Dynasty as an honor. This should be a kind of human mentality. Just like the people in the Tang Dynasty looked down on themselves and admired the Han Dynasty, the people in the Song Dynasty looked down on themselves.
They admired the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the Ming Dynasty also admired the Tang Dynasty and wanted to restore the Han and Tang dynasties.
There are indeed many examples among the sages of the Han Dynasty that are worthy of learning by contemporary people, such as Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Chen Tang, Ma Yuan, and Zhang Qian and Su Wu. How many people in the Tang Dynasty can catch up with the heroic deeds of these people?