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"Can untouchables also serve as soldiers?"

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To the northeast is the border city whose walls he pulled out, and Taniguchi's goods must have been transported there.

Asked what the hell the enemy army looked like, Dawdya showed a greedy look.He has already figured it out now, the king from China must not have brought too many Chinese troops, otherwise he would have fought him head-on.

Forming all the untouchables into an army, the king of China has played all his cards, and he can completely defeat the enemy, and take away the goods there and return to the country.

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, and he even showed a disdainful smile. What kind of ghost battle can the untouchable army fight?If you charge by yourself, all those untouchables will be defeated.

This guy is hooked, he has an army of [-], and he has already reached Taniguchi, no one can stop him from withdrawing, and Sun Kewang can only watch him leave.

But now, the king decided to go to war and get back countless treasures!

The wages of avarice is death.

Da Vodeya prepared his army and headed northeast.

After the two armies met, Dawdya almost died laughing.There are nearly 7000 troops on the opposite side. Except for 2 people who look like an army, the other [-] people are almost like refugees fleeing famine.

"Attack the main force in the middle of the enemy army with all our strength, defeat those enemies, and the rest of the enemy army will be defeated!"

The two sides lined up close together, and the team that Sun Kewang temporarily rehearsed showed signs of collapse before the battle started.Especially those untouchables who were ready to flee at any time, the reward promised by Sun Kewang could no longer offset the fear at this moment.

"shoot!"

The Mysore archers shot in one round, only killing and wounding two or 300 people, and the team hit by the arrow collapsed.

Another round of projectiles, thousands of soldiers turned and fled.No promotion of caste, no reward of land, it is better to live, I only hate that my parents don't have two legs.

"All troops charge!"

Dodd Wardja made a decisive decision and let the infantry and cavalry all press up, leaving only the king's personal guard and the capital garrison.

As the entire army of Mysore pressed forward, more than 2 miscellaneous troops fled across the board in an instant.Those by the river ran along the river, those in the middle ran back, and those on the outside fled in all directions.

Those Mysore princes and nobles who commanded the army, how could they let go of the opportunity to make meritorious deeds?

Miscellaneous soldiers who were slow to escape continued to be killed, more and more broken soldiers jumped into the river, and more continued to flee along the river bank.

One side fled and was defeated, and the other party lost its formation after chasing.

Seeing that the situation had been settled, Dota Wodeya asked the elite Chinese army to take off their armor and carry them on the back of livestock to the small town where the opponent's wealth was. In this scorching hot weather, normal people would not march in full armor.

The Mysore soldiers who participated in the battle chased and killed them for several miles, and they had already killed red eyes.

Killing people was like chopping melons and vegetables, and some soldiers even stopped, wanting to rummage through the corpses for trophies.It's a pity that they are all poor ghosts who have been robbed once, and there is nothing valuable after searching the whole body.

This place belongs to the remaining range of mountains at the junction of the two countries. There are no high mountains, but many rolling hills.

Suddenly, Sun Kewang rushed out from behind the hill with more than 400 cavalry.Three hundred Han Chinese cavalry and more than 100 local aristocratic cavalry rushed obliquely to the Mysore pursuers who had no formation.

Peshra hid behind another hill, and he had three thousand elite under his command.

The so-called elite consisted of the strongest Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras, all of which were captured by Sun Kewang's raids on small towns and grain stations.

Peshra, a Kshatriya nobleman, was a little scared at first, with the mentality of running away at any time.At this time, seeing the situation of the enemy chasing soldiers, there is a lump in the east and a lump in the west, why don't you know what to do?

Sun Kewang led more than 400 cavalry to fight out. The chaotic Mysore army had long lost its organization and could not even find where its officers were.Seeing the cavalry rushing, these pursuers turned and fled, leaving their backs for the enemy cavalry to use as targets.

"Kill, kill quickly, we won!"

Peshra was inexplicably excited. Although he was robbed of his property, the city wall was torn down, and his family was missing, the victory now can dilute everything.

The three thousand "elites" were encouraged, and under the leadership of Peshra, they bypassed their own defeated troops and chased them out from the edge of the battlefield.

After the two sides broke away completely, Sun Kewang could finally let go.He didn't blindly chase and kill, but divided more than 400 cavalry into two teams, specifically to kill those relatively dense enemy troops.Anyway, the enemy army cannot be gathered together, where there are more people rushing, all the enemy troops in front of them will be scattered.

Stretching for several miles, corpses were everywhere along the river, and some corpses were floating in the river.Most of these corpses were left by the defeated soldiers of the Jin Kingdom, but the corpses of countless Mysore soldiers will soon be added.

Among the defeated troops in Mysore, the only cavalry quickly fled the battlefield and went back to report.

Da Vodeya led the King's Guard and the capital's garrison, and was speeding up his march to receive the goods. He got the news of the defeat on the way.

"Hurry up and line up!"

The king was so terrified that he rode forward himself and ordered the soldiers to line up in armor.

Then, the overwhelming army fled back, and the king ordered the musketeers to shoot immediately, and the archers also shot towards the front of the formation, lest the formation be overwhelmed by the army's defeat.

Facing the bullets and arrows, the first wave of rout soldiers really fled to both sides in a panic.But the second and third waves of rout soldiers didn't care about them. Sun Kewang chased them too fast, and they rushed directly towards the formation while their own army was filling the strings.

Mysore's melee units stepped forward, firing knives and guns, aiming at the defeated soldiers indiscriminately.

After killing some rout soldiers, the rest of the rout soldiers finally knew how to dodge and fled around the formation to both sides.This back and forth not only blocked the line of sight of the Mysore army, but also disrupted the formation of the Mysore army.

The cavalry led by Sun Kewang, hiding behind the third group of rout troops, quickly rushed to the mixed formation of the enemy's sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and archers.

The Mysore army, which had been panicking for a long time, charged directly in front of the cavalry. The front row was so frightened that it turned around and wanted to flee, and collided with the friendly troops in the back row.There was no formation to speak of, and the enemy army quickly disintegrated, and the team of more than 1000 people was smashed through by more than 400 cavalry.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Kewang did not rush to kill the king's guard, but circled back to attack the flank enemy formation.

The enemy army was attacked by Sun Kewang on the side and rear, and the front and side were routed again. They also collapsed in panic, dropped their weapons and flags and ran away.

The speed of the rout was too fast, and Dawdya didn't even have time to change.He rushed into the reserve team in a panic, and Sun Kewang had already broken through the flanks and came back, turning around and rushing towards a group of musketeers panickingly reloading.

Hundreds of musketeers were smashed through, and even the spearmen and sword shieldmen fled next to them.

Seeing this situation, the reserve team disregarded the king's order, and the Kshatriya officer fled first.

"Your Majesty, let's go!"

Urged by the generals to flee, Doda Wodeya had no choice but to leave. The [-] "elites" led by Pesra had entered their sight in a mess.

More than 400 cavalry can no longer deal with it, not to mention that the enemy has [-] infantry reinforcements.

As soon as the king and nobles fled, the precarious formation finally collapsed.Mysore soldiers rushed to flee, and were chased and killed by Sun Kewang's cavalry until they reached the small town of Taniguchi. These rout soldiers fled all over the mountains and plains.

As for the king Dawdya, he fled quickly on horseback with the royal family and nobles.Sun Kewang's cavalry was blocked by the rout, and they couldn't catch up for a while.

Chasing all the way into the valley, Sun Kewang ordered to stop advancing, turned around and continued to kill those rout soldiers.

Peshla brought [-] "elites" to kill them, and all they faced were routs. This guy killed anyone he saw, even those who knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty, the enemy is not chasing you!"

In the valley, Dawdya looked around on horseback. He led an army of [-] to the expedition, and at this time there were only a few dozen nobles left.

Doda Wodeya said to his son: "You go back on horseback, negotiate peace with the Chinese, and agree to whatever compensation you want first. Also, say that Mysore is willing to form an alliance with them, and I will marry your sister to the Chinese king I will rush back to Mysore City immediately to recruit soldiers, otherwise the news of the defeat will come back, and those remnants of the royal family and nobles will rebel!"

In this great victory, the Mysore army was wiped out.

The battle was over, and the rebel nobles in the north were still halfway, slowly heading towards Taiwu City.

Zhao Kuangchen sent people to various villages and communities to spread the news, saying that the Han army wiped out [-] Madurai troops in World War I, forcing the Sultan of Madurai to sign an alliance under the city.The second battle wiped out another [-] troops from Mysore, and the King of Mysore was forced to pay compensation and make peace.

Now, His Royal Highness King Jin's troops already numbered 20, and they were on their way to Beijing to suppress the rebellion.

His Royal Highness King Jin is merciful, and he only punishes the chief villain, and those who are forced to rebel can be forgiven.

The local nobles who were held hostage by the rebels were frightened by a series of news.Before the Han army approached, the rebel army split up. The local nobles joined forces to attack the princes of Canmei City, and finally sent the heads of several rebel princes.

After this campaign, the western and northern parts of Jin State were devastated, and cities and villages were severely damaged.

But with the great reputation of the King of Jin, the surrounding countries all knew that the Chinese army was not easy to mess with, so they sent envoys to get closer.

Zhao Kuangchen also had three more concubines, one from Jinji Kingdom, one from Mysore, and one from Madurai, all of whom were married princesses.

Finally, we can develop our internal affairs with peace of mind.

Chapter 974 [Prince tribute and female tribute]

The first batch of merchant ships that followed Zhao Kuangchen to sea had already returned to Palembang.

They not only earned food freight, but also brought spices, porcelain, tea and other goods, and sold them to the Dutch in Ceylon to make a fortune.On the return voyage, it was fully loaded with cotton, ivory, gemstones and other commodities brought back from India (and Ceylon).

And the maritime merchants in Guangdong went to Palembang to trade, and brought these Indian goods back to the mainland, and brought back Zhao Kuangchen's immigration policy by the way.

Fang Zixin, Zhao Kuangchen's old classmate, was sent back to Guangzhou to take in immigrants.He not only spread the news along the coast, but also spread the immigration policy to Jiangxi through inland freight forwarders.

The first large group of immigrants came from the Bapai Yao region. Zhao Kuangchen’s cousin brought more than 600 people, and more than [-]% of them were Yao people who were proficient in Chinese.

Immediately afterwards, the Hakka people in the southern Ganshan Mountains heard from merchants who came to buy tobacco that they could get paddy fields when they went to India, and they could also receive a settling allowance before going to sea.Some Hakka people in the mountains were moved, and nearly a hundred of them ran to Fang Zixin in Guangzhou to report.

Going further north, the people of Ji'an Mansion got the news.

This is the land of Zhao Han's Longxing, and it is also the place in Jiangxi where the population is the largest, the land is the tightest, and the imperial examination is the most introverted!

The prosperity of Ji'an Mansion is no less than that of Nanchang Mansion.Especially with the booming of maritime trade, a large amount of Jiangxi goods were transported from Ji'an Mansion down the Ganjiang River to the coastal ports through Guangdong, which was more prosperous than in the Ming Dynasty.

Within half a year, 200 people went south one after another, went to Guangzhou to find Fang Zixin and signed up to go to sea.

Of the two hundred Ji'an immigrants, more than 95% graduated from primary school, and more than 60% belonged to secondary school students.They are willing to go to India, and the allocation of land is second, just to be an official!

The imperial examination here is too fiercely competitive.

In the Ming Dynasty in this time and space, there are more than 80 champions, of which 12 champions are from Ji'an.Especially in the 80 years from Jianwen to Chenghua, the number one scholar from Ji'an Mansion directly accounted for one-third.In the second year of Jianwen, the scholars of Ji'an Prefecture won the first prize, third prize and second place.Zhu Di came to power, the first imperial examination, Ji'an scholars won the top seven.

In Jishui County of Ji'an Prefecture, within ten miles, there are five champions.

Before the Datong New Dynasty was established, Ji'an Prefecture began to provide compulsory education.Thanks to the excellent imperial examination tradition, the poor people here in the mountains have to send their children to school even if they sell everything. The primary school dropout rate is the lowest in the country. Ask any young people on the street, and most of them have obtained a primary school diploma.

However, the number of public-funded students in middle schools is limited, and those who can go to middle schools at public funds are all top students who have fought their way out of it.There are countless self-supporting students in middle schools, and there are even coolies on the docks who eat bran and swallow vegetables for their children to go to middle school at their own expense.

The number of public-funded students in universities is also limited, and the tuition fees for self-funded students are frighteningly high.

As a result, a large number of middle school graduates emerge every year in Ji'an Prefecture. After all, only a small number of them can be admitted as officials, and the rest can only find jobs by themselves.

I heard that King Jin founded the country in India, and scholars became officials when they went, and the group of scholars in Ji'an Mansion quickly became a sensation.

If it weren't for the fact that India is too far away, I am afraid that more than 200 people have signed up to go to sea.Even if the destination is changed to Nanyang, there may be thousands of applicants, and the distant sea route scares away the vast majority of those who are interested.

These high-level intellectuals have passed, and Zhao Kuangchen has no shortage of officials for the time being, and they are all treasures!

Wait for these two hundred Ji'an scholars to successfully arrive in India and settle down.Some of them will write letters to send money home, and some simply take their family members with them. After a few years, the demonstration effect will be achieved, and more scholars will be willing to go to sea.

Once you go there, you can become an official, and you can get two crops a year in paddy fields, and you can also have wives and concubines in groups and servants everywhere.If this kind of information spreads, it will be like a paradise for scholars who are unable to pass the examination as officials and are not satisfied with working in commercial companies.

Perhaps in a few years, with the joining of a large number of scholars, Zhao Kuangchen will be able to completely rule Canmei City.At that time, with Taiwu City and Canmei City as the center, and colonizing the two counties at the same time, the expansion speed will definitely be doubled.

Zhao Kuangchen obtained a high-quality population, and Ji'an Prefecture eased the contradiction between people and land and the employment pressure of scholars.Win-win!

Maybe after someone emigrates, he takes the whole family with him.

For example, my father is a coolie on the dock, my mother is a housewife doing odd jobs to subsidize the family, and there are a lot of brothers and sisters in the family.Their children are working as officials in the state of Jin to allocate land, and the whole family must emigrate.Parents enjoy good fortune in the village community, being the old man and old lady, served by a bunch of sudras and untouchable servants.The brothers may not have a high level of education, but they are more than enough to manage the tenants, so there is no need for soldiers to manage the village community. Just choose a prestigious Han village head.

Decades later, this kind of low-level family in Ji'an Prefecture will become a local big family in India.

The only one who was really troubled was Li Quan. This guy's American immigration plan had always been difficult to get going.In the past, ordinary people all immigrated to Nanyang, and now there is an additional choice of India. Who wants to go to the Americas to develop?

Li Quan can only rely on high profits to attract more maritime merchants to do business in America.Relying on high wages, he attracted people to be his crew.As for immigration, it depends on the imperial court to send a few serious criminals into exile.

Today's Datong China has ushered in a real population explosion period.

Many children born in the new dynasty can make soy sauce.The society is stable, there is enough food and clothing, and the cubs are hard-pressed, and the schools are crowded with school-age children.

The three-year compulsory education has long been out of reach.

Now not only is there no free lunch, but there is also a book fee, and even some states and counties have begun to charge miscellaneous fees.The purpose is to reduce the number of enrollments, otherwise there will not be enough classrooms.

The imperial court turned a blind eye to this.

However, the imperial court has repeatedly emphasized that no compulsory fee for books should be charged, and students can bring their own books.

Local officials also have a bit of conscience. Children who cannot pay tuition and miscellaneous fees can stand outside the classroom and listen, and they can still have school status.Once the auditors with excellent grades are found, all fees will be waived, and they will be put in the classroom to listen to lectures, so that these poor students can study with peace of mind.

Zhao Han's compulsory education policy has just entered into an embarrassing state.As the population continues to grow, the situation will get worse in the future, and the number of children who have not read a day of primary school will become more and more.

Again, the backward productivity of the agricultural society cannot support the advanced education system at all.

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The second prince, Zhao Kuangzhen, has become very successful in India, and the third prince, Zhao Kuangping, has also graduated from university.

Zhao Kuangping and the crown prince share the same mother, and both were born to Fei Rulan.

Moreover, Zhao Kuangping's academic performance is very good, and his ability to solve problems exceeds that of his two elder brothers. He obtained his university diploma entirely on his strength.Next, he can even take part in the examination, and maybe he can become an official as a Jinshi—provided that he gives up his title.

By the way, the second prince was named King of Jin, and the third prince was named King of Chu.

Zhao Kuangping, king of Chu, is obviously not stupid. Could it be that it is wrong to be a good prince and start from a small official when he is released outside?

Of course, in order to prove himself, he decided to take part in this year's examination.Moreover, I greeted my father in advance, and I only take the exam and not be an official, so that when the Ministry of Rites admits Jinshi, one more place will be admitted, so as not to cause a certain scholar to fail because of myself.

The tribute courtyard of the Ministry of Rites.