Prince Li You of the Great Tang Dynasty begs the noble families to their deaths!
Chapter 088 Dalit and the Dravidians
"Mr. Chao, rebellion is going against the will of Heaven, and it is normal for people to have different opinions. You may stay temporarily in my Huang Chao army and observe and think more. I will be opening a new class at the 'University' in two days, and I hope you will come and listen to it."
"Going against the will of Heaven..." Upon hearing these four words, Chao Yang's heart stirred.
For some reason, he was deeply moved by these four words.
"Very well, thank you, Your Majesty, for clearing up my doubts today. Also... has there been any reply to the letter sent to the Liu family in Huangzhou?"
"Haha, sir, you are truly a man of deep feelings... You can ask Wu Hong about this matter."
Chao Yang blushed and bowed, explaining, "Your Majesty, you are unaware of this. I have already married three wives, all of whom died from serious illnesses. Fortune tellers all say I am cursed to bring misfortune to my wives… My elders are pressuring me to remarry. Having no other choice, I spent a fortune to find Master Pudu at the Yuhua Temple in Xuzhou. Seeing my pitiful state, the master pointed me in the right direction, saying my final marriage would be in Huangzhou. I never expected… the master is truly a master!"
"Mr. Chao, your situation is indeed... rather tragic. How about I send someone to Huangzhou to kidnap that widow from the Liu family? It won't take much effort."
Chao Yang waved his hands repeatedly: "Absolutely not! Liu and I are deeply in love. Your Majesty must not act so rashly!"
Li You laughed and said, "They're even in love... Well then, I shouldn't act recklessly in this matter. I just hope you and Lady Liu will have a long and happy marriage and have a son soon."
"Sigh, I'm already thirty-six and still have no children. My elderly mother is going crazy with worry..."
……
The third lesson that Li You was preparing was about to begin.
The "university" is not large, and can only accommodate a maximum of two hundred people.
But the students were very enthusiastic about learning, and in the end, they squeezed in three hundred people, one after another.
Li You began his explanation using the same world map he had used in the previous lesson.
"Ladies and gentlemen, in the first lesson we learned about the origin of humankind, and we already know that there is no essential difference among people in this world."
"In the second lesson, we learned about countries and nations in the world."
"This third lesson will cover the wars between ethnic groups and nations."
"Although there is no difference between the various races in the world, the development of different regions is extremely uneven."
"Because of this, the strong bully the weak, and powerful nations tend to conquer and bully weaker nations, which has led to many tragedies."
As he spoke, Li You pointed to the map and asked, "Where is this?"
"India!"
The students below reacted quickly.
"Yes, everyone studied very well."
"The Kingdom of India was the result of the clash between two peoples."
"Around 2,500 years ago, a nomadic people arose in Central Asia and Europe, known as the Aryans."
"At that time, there were also indigenous people in India, known as the Dravidians."
"The Aryans developed earlier, so their weapons were more advanced than those of the Dravidians."
"Due to the southward migration of the Aryans, a war broke out between the two major peoples, and the Dravidians were unfortunately defeated and lost their dominion over the Indian subcontinent."
"The problem is that the Aryan population was small, while the Dravidian population was much larger than that of the Aryans."
"In order to rule over the Dravidians, who outnumbered them, the wise men among the Aryans invented the caste system."
At this point, Li You removed the map and replaced it with a pyramid-shaped explanatory diagram.
"The caste system divides all people in India into five categories."
"The highest level of people are called Brahmins, who govern religion and knowledge. They are the most noble, but also the rarest in number."
"The second level consists of people called Kshatriyas, who are in charge of military and administrative affairs, and they are the next most numerous."
"The people of the third layer are called Vaishyas, who are mainly engaged in trade, crafts manufacturing, and agriculture, similar to merchants and small landowners."
"The fourth level of people are called Shudras. They are much more numerous and exist as slaves of the three levels mentioned above. Their life and death are also in the hands of the upper level."
"The people on the fifth level are called Dalits. Dalits are the most numerous, more than the people on the previous four levels combined, but their fate is the most tragic, even worse than that of the Shudras on the fourth level. Dalits do work that even slaves would not do, and are despised by the entire society, and are called 'untouchables'."
"This is India's caste system."
"The upper three levels of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas were the original priestly, administrative, and commoner classes of the Aryans."
"The Shudras and Dalits on the lower two levels were originally the Dravidians."
"The most insidious feature of this system is that each social class can only marry within their own class, thereby ensuring that their children can enjoy the rights of that class for generations. One layer presses down on the next, thus achieving 'stability' for the entire society."
"Through this design, the Aryans in the Indian suburbs suppressed and enslaved a large number of Dravidians for more than two thousand years, and this is still the case today."
At this point, Li You paused, allowing the attentive students below to digest the information.
After a while, Yan Jiu raised his hand and asked, "My lord, these Aryans are so cunning and hateful, won't the Dravidians rebel? The Dravidians are far more numerous; don't they have any courage at all?"
Li You looked at Yan Jiu approvingly: "Your question is excellent."
Hearing Li You's praise, Yan Jiu felt pleased.
Li You continued, "Gentlemen, if this kind of mess happened here, the people would have already raised the flag of rebellion."
"But the problem was that the Brahmins were very clever. They created many evil gods and led the lower-class Dalits to believe in these evil gods. They also deceived them by saying that if they suffered and toiled in this life, they could turn the tables and become Brahmins in the next life. Most Dalits believed this and willingly endured suffering and accepted oppression without resistance."
"Dalit is not without its awakened individuals, but once such people emerge, Dalit will first kill a batch from within, and then the Brahmins will send troops to kill another batch. This killing will continue for hundreds of years until those who dare to resist are extinct. Those who survive have lost the will to resist in their bones and are no different from walking corpses."
At this point, many of the students below were seething with anger.
Many of them had been oppressed in the past, so they felt sympathy for Dalit.
Yin Hongzhi, Dou Jun, and the newly arrived Chao Yang all seemed lost in thought.
"Alright, this is the India we've been talking about."
"Now, let's focus our attention on the Brahmins."
"The Brahmin class possesses knowledge and religion, practices endogamy, has hereditary status, and enjoys the best resources in India. Perhaps we should consider whether there is a similar class in Central China?"
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