Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 238

"Yes!" Nohara Kotaro had both pride and shame on his face.

"What are you applying for?" The fat translator settled down.

He is now a member of the Ming government, a noble Ming naturalized person, and now he doesn't have to be afraid of any warriors at all!
Even, many former famous ministers need to be humbled to please him!

"Apply for hired samurai!" Nohara Kotaro said.

"Go over there for a test!" The fat translator resumed his posture of looking at people with his nostrils.

Nohara Kotaro walked through a small door at the back and entered a yard.

In it, several Ming soldiers tested him.

Although Nohara Kotaro was growling with hunger, he still gritted his teeth and persisted.

"qualified!"

A Ming soldier shouted loudly.

Nohara Kotaro panted heavily, and returned to the fat translator.

At this time, the officer of the Ming Army who had been sitting on the chair of the Taishi took a look at the test report and felt satisfied, so he said to Nohara Kotaro.

"It's okay, register your name and go over there to eat rice! Then you will receive the settlement allowance, and you have to board the boat and set off the day after tomorrow!"

After hearing what the translator said, Nohara Kotaro was shocked immediately.

He didn't expect to be in such a hurry, there were only two days.

At this time, he couldn't even bother to eat the delicious rice, so he hurriedly asked if he could give it two days.

"No, you can't change it for a moment when Daming's ship sets sail! If you can't be on time, you will be eliminated!" The fat translator continued to look at humanity with his nostrils.

"Hi! Yes, I can!"

Naturally, Nohara Kotaro couldn't let go of this opportunity to change his destiny. At the urging of the fat translator, he signed his name on the paperwork next to him and received a qualification to eat white rice for free.

After eating and drinking enough, he returned to his home with a paperwork.

A few days later, when he boarded the ship leaving the Wa country, his family could use this document to exchange five taels of silver for the settlement fee at the Daming government.

After Kotaro Nohara returned home and told his wife Ami about the incident, Ami was also surprised and delighted.

"For five taels of silver, our whole family can eat white rice for a whole year!" Amei's face was full of joy.

But then her mood darkened again.

Because Nohara Kotaro told her that every hired samurai needs to serve in Nanyang for three years.

During this period, there are no holidays and rest, and life, old age, sickness and death depend on destiny.

Three years, my wife Ami always felt that it was a bit too long.

But now the life of the family can no longer go on. If Nohara Kotaro does not go to Nanyang to become a hired samurai, then the whole family will either starve to death or work as a coolie.

Now Kotaro Nohara is working as a hired samurai, although it is equally hard and dangerous, but he barely maintains his identity and dignity as a samurai.

And Nohara Kotaro told his wife Ami a good news worth looking forward to.

"After the three years are up, I can obtain the status of a naturalized person when I come back, I can own my own land, and I can also deduct a lot of taxes!"

When Nohara Kotaro said this, he was full of hope for the future.

His wife, Ami, had the same expression.

Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the Wa people who could obtain the status of naturalized people were equivalent to the samurai class in the old shogunate era. Not only could they own land and houses and other properties, but they could also obtain precious Chinese surnames and Chinese names. The children and grandchildren can go to live in the prosperous kingdom of heaven as citizens of Ming Dynasty.

Today's Ming Dynasty, for all foreigners, is undoubtedly the ideal kingdom of heaven.

"That's great, Xinbingwei will be a noble citizen of Ming Dynasty!" His wife, Amei, looked forward to it.

Two days later.

On the pier outside Jiangxi, a Ming merchant ship slowly left the pier.

Nohara Kotaro stood on the deck with a group of hired samurai also recruited, waving goodbye to his family on the shore.

According to the recruitment order of the Ming Dynasty, in the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, there will be [-] Wa people working for the Ming Dynasty in this form.

The places they went to were all the most difficult and dangerous areas, whether they were fighting with the natives of Southeast Asia in the jungle, fighting fiercely with the tribes in Qingtang in the northwest, or transporting supplies for Ming Dynasty on the Gobi Desert.

This is all at great risk, at least half will die within three years of service.

For such a dangerous job, Daming only needs to pay them one tael of silver every month.

No matter how you calculate it, this deal is very cost-effective for Daming.

Zhu Han used the lives of these Japanese people to double the speed of Daming's expansion in the frontier.

The [-] Japanese laborers and hired warriors were like consumables, and half of them fell in the process of expanding the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there were [-] people in only six years of Hongwu. According to the poverty-stricken appearance of ordinary people in Japan, the same number of people can be recruited every year in the next three to five years.

According to Zhu Han's plan, in just five years, at least 20 young and middle-aged Japanese will die tragically.

In this way, many potential troubles were reduced for the Ming Dynasty to rule the Wa Kingdom Islands.

Zhu Han tried his best to reduce the Japanese population. The Japanese people are white-eyed wolves by nature, and Zhu Han is not at ease if they don't completely kill them all and assimilate them.

But in India thousands of miles away, Chen Youliang has a completely different feeling when facing the same huge population of local Indians.

Chen Youliang led his remnants of less than [-] people through the Savage Mountains, along the southern Himalayas, through Assam, and arrived in Nazar, India.

Nazar Pradesh is located in the middle reaches of the Ganges plain, with the towering Himalayas to the north and the wide Ganges to the south.

The Nazar area is relatively far away from the Bangladesh area occupied by Duan Gong, and is blocked by the flooded Ganges in the middle, so it is relatively very safe.

Chen Youliang led his soldiers and horses here and after two small-scale battles, they completely defeated the garrison of the Delhi Sultanate here.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate were defeated, and Chen Youliang occupied Nazar, which is equivalent to half the size of Sichuan, with tens of thousands of soldiers.

After defeating the army of the Delhi Sultanate, Chen Youliang originally thought that he would continue to fight the local aborigines.

After all, he already knew that the local aboriginal lord was powerful, possessed a lot of wealth and population, and had his own army.

At that time, Chen Youliang felt that he would definitely fall into a fierce battle with them, and even prepared for the worst.

but.

The local Brahman nobles extended an olive branch to Chen Youliang.

It turned out that these Brahmin nobles had conspired with each other to launch a rebellion before Chen Youliang arrived.

But the fighting power of the Brahmins was really weak. After several battles, the Delhi Sultanate suppressed them all.

Never thought of it.

The Delhi Sultanate army, which was chopping melons and vegetables in front of the Brahmins, was so vulnerable to Chen Youliang's tens of thousands of remnants.

The unlucky Delhi Sultanate didn't know at this time that his real life-and-death enemy had come to the land of India.

After these Brahmins saw Chen Youliang driving away the Tianfang Sect army from the Delhi Sultanate, they immediately felt that this was the great savior sent by Lord Shiva.

The Brahmins offered food and supplies to Chen Youliang one after another, and repeatedly stated that as long as Chen Youliang could guarantee their status and resist the Delhi Sultanate army, then all supplies for Chen Han's army would be provided by these Brahmins.

In less than half a month, the Brahmins sent mountains of grain, cloth, wine and meat to Chen Youliang's army.

The tens of thousands of Chen Han soldiers who had been displaced for thousands of miles finally lived a good life of eating meat and drinking.

For these Brahman nobles who took the initiative to seek refuge, Chen Youliang suspected at the beginning that they had any other plans or conspiracies.

But after getting along for a period of time, Chen Youliang gradually understood the psychology of these Brahman nobles.

In fact, they were so eager to be Chen Youliang's younger brother, it really scared the Delhi Sultanate.

Although the army of the Delhi Sultanate has been corrupted for many years, its combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of their ancestors when they first entered India.

But it is enough to hang these Brahmins.

And when Chen Youliang's army first arrived, they defeated the army of the Delhi Sultanate in a turbulent manner.

The Brahmins were naturally overjoyed.

An enemy's enemy is a friend, and Chen Youliang naturally became a good person in their hearts.

And after a period of in-depth communication between the two parties.

Chen Youliang learned from several beautiful Brahmans who had just been brought into the harem that these Brahmans were actually a fusion of religions such as Buddhism in ancient times.

After Chen Youliang heard the news, he was immediately pleasantly surprised.

Isn't this just a coincidence!
The southern branch of the Red Scarf Army that Chen Youliang was in used to promote the Maitreya Religion when it rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty.

Maitreya Buddha is actually a deity in Indian tradition.

So count down.

Chen Youliang's Maitreya religion and India's Brahmanism are basically the same teachers.

Chen Youliang knew very well that he had less than 5 soldiers and horses in his hands. With such a small number of people, if he wanted to gain a firm foothold here, he had to win over the Brahmin nobles.

And the people here attach great importance to religion, which is almost equivalent to half their lives.

The Delhi Sultanate and Brahmanism have been life-and-death enemies for hundreds of years, mostly because of their different religions.

Well now, Chen Youliang's Maitreya religion and the local Brahmans can be classified as one, which will directly allow Chen Youliang to integrate and absorb local forces without hindrance.

After discussing with his younger brother Chen Youren, military adviser Zou Pusheng and others, Chen Youliang immediately ordered to summon 36 local Brahmin nobles to hold a grand alliance.

In this meeting, Chen Youliang seamlessly connected his Maitreya religion with the local Brahmanism.

"Everything in the world has spirits, and all spirits have gods!"

"All flowers, all things and all things have spirits, and all spirits are treasured!"

Chen Youliang started with a twist that he didn't understand.

The teachings of Maitreyaism and Brahmanism have been filled in for hundreds of years, and various weird arguments and contradictions are not uncommon.

So when Chen Youliang fused Maitreya and Brahmanism together, these Brahmanists couldn't tell what was wrong.

Finally, after Chen Youliang's eloquent explanation, Maitreyaism officially equated with Brahmanism.

There are three gods in Brahmanism, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.

In Brahmanism, these three great gods cannot be phaseless and can transform into each other.

This can be regarded as allowing Chen Youliang to take advantage of the loophole.

Chen Youliang immediately publicized these brahmin Ah San.

The Maitreya Buddha of the Maitreya religion is actually the combination of the three Brahman gods!
Anyway, the three great gods can transform into each other, and there should be no problem with the combination of the three gods.

When I first heard this point of view, the local Brahmins were all stupid.

Originally, these Brahmins felt that these conquerors from the east were stronger than the Delhi Sultanate in terms of force, so as long as they don't squeeze too much in tax collection and allow them to believe in their own religion, they will be obedient citizens.

However, the surprise came so suddenly.

Chen Youliang's powerful army is not only not a pagan, but also a fellow Brahman who has been separated for many years.

The Brahman nobles all cheered, they felt that they were finally going to be proud.

"The 36 high priests of the Brahmins and the 72 Kshatriyas all worship the king you consider us!"

After some discussions, one hundred and eight noble families of Brahmans unanimously accepted Maitreya as the fellow of Brahmanism.

And they also gave Chen Youliang a resounding title.

"The Maitreya of the East is the combination of the three gods!"

"You are the messenger of the gods in the world!"

"We are willing to honor you as the king of the triad!"

In the praise of a large group of Brahmin indigenous nobles, Chen Youliang officially led tens of thousands of Chen Han soldiers to become a member of Brahmanism.

Brahmanism has a strict hierarchy, with strict hierarchy between gods and mortals, nobles and commoners, and commoners and untouchables.

Since the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Han army led by Chen Youliang joined the Brahmanism, they naturally had to start as nobles.

In Chen Youliang's royal family, the generals and officials are all the most noble Brahmins, while the low-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers are all Kshatriyas.

They are all noble and superior people.

The local civilians and untouchables had to kneel and kowtow to the ground when they saw any soldier of the Chen Han army, even the humblest fire soldier or groom, otherwise it would be disrespectful to the gods.

In Brahmanism, whoever dares to disrespect the gods will not only be punished with a whip in this life, but also have to be reincarnated as a pariah in the next life.

and so.

When Chen Youliang won the title of "King of Three Units", all the soldiers of Chen Han's army completely joined the happy life of Master Ren.

Because of the Ming army's sneak attack on Sichuan, almost all the soldiers of Chen Han's army lost their families.

Now that it is hard to take root in India thousands of miles away, the first thing to do is naturally to marry a wife.

As the emperor of the Han Dynasty and the king of the Sanhe, Chen Youliang set an example by marrying more than 20 Brahman beauties in one go, and ordered five Brahman daughter-in-laws for his son Chen Li.

Each of Chen Youliang's younger brothers also married several Brahman beauties.

All of a sudden, the Chen Han royal family was completely filled with the smell of curry.

But the number of nobles is limited after all.

Generals and officials could also marry the daughters of Brahmins or Kshatriya nobles.

Ordinary Chen Han army soldiers have little hope of marrying a noble daughter.

(End of this chapter)