Chapter 346: Miserable Slave
The green temples that Yu Chenglong saw near Coconut City are relatively large green temples, and there are many small green temples in the countryside and small cities on Java Island, but now they have all been changed to Qing Z pig farms. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Yu Jackie Chan out of the coconut city, not far from the entrance of an obviously indigenous village, you saw a Q real pig farm.
It can be seen that the building, which is not much larger than the mountain temple in the country, was originally also a small green temple, and is now a pig farm, with two men with white hats on their heads, raising pigs under the supervision of the Aryans.
Yu Chenglong found that the village had become a slavery plantation, and the original villagers had become slaves. The village had some of the largest and most beautiful buildings, inhabited by fair-skinned Aryans, who also had a group of Annamites as overseers. The dark-skinned natives became slaves and worked under the supervision of the Annan overseers, and the slightest laziness caused the whips in the hands of the Annan overseers to fall on them.
Nguyen Thanh Gau is an overseer from Annam.
In the past two years in Annan, as more and more Han people came to Annan, Han people opened mines and built factories here, and more and more Annan women married Ming people.
In Annam, the women of Annam have completely looked down on the men of their own country, and every Annam woman is proud to marry a Han man. At first, only a few Annam women married Han Chinese, but after the Annam women who married Han returned home, they brought back a lot of good things, which made relatives, friends and neighbors envious.
This situation is just like the later generation of China, after the reform and opening up, women married Americans, or overseas Chinese. Married daughters come home and always come back with a lot of dollars and novelties, so that more women want to marry Americans, or marry overseas Chinese.
This is the case with Annan now, the daughters who came back, with fragrant canned pork, with glass lamps, with beautiful silk clothes, with clocks, brought back silver, and some brought back four-wheeled carriages.
Seeing that they are married to Han people and live a good life, more Annam women dream of marrying Han people.
However, there were not many Han Chinese working in Annam, so some Annam women tried their best to marry Japanese, Mongols and Manchurians who had already become Han Chinese. Even so, the number of first-class people is still limited! So some families sold their daughters directly to the Han people who came to be matchmakers for a few taels of silver.
There are Han people under the banner of "marrying Vietnamese brides" who go back and forth in the cities and villages of Annam, and act as matchmakers for Annam women everywhere.
Many people saw that those whose daughters were married to the Han people and had a good life, so they accepted the bride price paid by the matchmaker and handed over their daughters to the Han people to take away.
After these Annam women were taken away, they were put on ships and sent to various parts of the South Seas, where they were distributed to Han Chinese who worked there.
In Nguyen Thanh Gao village, there were originally 31 women of marriageable age, but in the past two years, women have all married outside, and only eight women who are too ugly in appearance are left to marry the locals.
Ruan Qinggao's family, who couldn't marry a daughter-in-law, began to be anxious, and at first heard that as a soldier, as long as he made military achievements, he would have the opportunity to be promoted to a Han Chinese, so Ruan Qinggao happily went to the branch of Nanyang Company stationed in Annam to sign up as a soldier, who knew that the physical examination had screened him down.
Ruan Qinggao, who was not qualified to be a soldier, was anxious, and later heard that if he took a Han ship to Nanyang, he could also get ahead, and even be promoted to a Han Chinese, so Ruan Qinggao couldn't bear it, so he signed up to join the ship to Nanyang.
When Ruan Qinggao came here, he found that his identity as an Annam was still very useful, they were third-class people here, that is, free people, who could find jobs at will, go in and out of any city at will, and work as security guards. Even if you go to someone else's house to work as a servant, you are eligible to enter the master's room.
To clarify, although the fourth-class and untouchables also have domestic servants, they are not qualified to enter the master's room to clean, and only the third-class people can become high-level domestic servants.
Some people with status and status will even use second-class people as domestic servants! Although some of them are only second-class themselves, second-class people can use second-class people as domestic servants. Most of the second-class people who became domestic servants were women from Tianzhu, or women smuggled in from Arabia, Persia and other places, and were called white slaves.
The white slave is beautiful and popular with his master. Of course, only a few wealthy people can afford to use white slaves.
When Nguyen Khanh Gao came to Java, he was hired as a supervisor of a Brahmin family, specializing in supervising the work of the fourth-class people. Every day he had to stand in the plantation with a whip in his hand, supervising the work of dark-skinned, ugly-looking, dirty-looking creatures.
In the eyes of second-class people, slaves are talking animals. Third-class people like Nguyen Thanh Quo treated their slaves more harshly than second-class people in order to show loyalty to their masters. In short, as long as the slaves are not beaten to death, they third-class people do not have the right to decide the life and death of slaves, only second-class people have the right to kill slaves, because slaves are the private property of second-class people, and third-class people have to pay money if they accidentally beat slaves to death. If you can't afford to lose money, then you will do a few years of unpaid work in vain to compensate for the loss of your master.
The slaves ate very poorly, they just didn't starve, and their staple food was miscellaneous grains, and there was a limited amount. The slaves lived in dozens of people crammed into a large shack.
Seeing the tragic scene of those slaves, Yu Chenglong shook his head: "It's so barbaric, why won't the slaves resist?" There are still officials in our country who are forced to rebel against the people, and the people here are so ignorant? ”
Liu Qi replied: "The caste system here is very strict, in fact, among the Aryans, some Buddhists are already first-class people, they are called Brahmins, and the monks from Siam and Burma that we have invited are also Brahmins. The Siamese and Burmese who come here to work can only be third-class people! The second-class people, called Kshatriyas, are basically specialized warriors, people who are directly in charge of slaves, and the second-class people in this village are Kshatriyas. As for the third-class people, they work harder than the second-class people! With the second-class and third-class people pressing, can the fourth-class and untouchables withstand the storm? ”
It can be said that the second-class and third-class people oppress the fourth-class people and the untouchables together, and it can be said that everyone is happy.
In addition, education brainwashing is also one thing, those fourth-class people and untouchables have been indoctrinated by Brahmins since they were young, saying that they are born lowly people, and only by working hard in this life can it be possible to change their fate in the next life.
However, the Buddhist monasteries of the Ming Dynasty on the island of Java did not exclude the fourth-class people from becoming monks, and the fourth-class people also had the right to practice. Of course, after becoming a monk, you can't get married, which is actually a disguised reduction in the population. (To be continued.) )