Great time travel

Chapter 57. Turn England into India!

Autumn 1348, Kingdom of England, outside London
As the alluvial plain of the lower reaches of the Thames River, it was already a well-developed farming area long before the Roman Empire, and it was rich in succulent pastures, suitable for raising horses, so animal husbandry was also very prosperous.After the formation of the Kingdom of England, the London Plain, the richest and most developed place on the island, has always been the core of the rule of the kings of all dynasties, and there are pastures and farms under the name of the Plantagenet royal family everywhere.

However, in this dark summer, with the rapid spread of the terrible Black Death and a series of other unknown plagues, the shepherds and farmers in this land died in batches in the plague.Dead bodies littered the plains of London for a while, and there was no smoke in the abandoned villages. When you walked into those small mud huts or thatched huts, most of what you could find were a few corpses that had rotted or been eaten by animals.There are dense white bones everywhere on the side of the road, and there are too many corpses to be buried.Fruits and wheat can only rot in the ground, while poultry and livestock run all over the ground... There are dead or half-dead people everywhere, and occasionally there are a few living people, wandering around like walking corpses, mouths There are some meaningless words in the mouth: "Lord, I am guilty!" "Lord, please don't rush to call me to your kingdom!" "Oh, am I crazy, or is this world crazy... "

——Such a scene of desolation, death, absurdity and confusion, it seems that the history of human beings has come to an end, and the end of the world has come.

However, in autumn, some abandoned farms close to London actually started to become lively again, and busy figures appeared in the fields full of weeds again... Of course, these villages used to be The serfs living there have basically gone to heaven, and they can no longer let their souls work hard for the lord. At this time, the farmers who are farming on the plains of London have changed a group of completely different people.

These new farmers are generally thin and skinny, and their skin is much darker than most English people, but they are a little worse than the blacks in the south.They were bare-chested, with only a loincloth wrapped around their crotches. They were so tired from heavy farm work that their waists were bowed, and their spines looked like joints of hemp rope, the kind used to dig well water.The clavicle protrudes high outside, like a collar worn by a dog, and the whole body is covered with scars, from the bottom down, to the waist, and then to the buttocks, where it touches, there are large and small wounds and scars, like The marks carved on them by the whip of the years...

——These brown-black-skinned farmers came from India thousands of miles away, and most of them belonged to the lowest class of ancient Indian society.

Under the whip and scolding of the supervisors, the Indian untouchables took hoes, sickles, shovels and other tools to clean up the long-abandoned fields and sow the seeds of fast-growing crops.For some reason, the farm work of these Indians is a bit rusty, but they have definitely worked very hard.

According to the original historical trajectory, these Indians will not appear on the land of Britain on a large scale as colonial subjects until the Victorian era 500 years later.But here, relying on Doraemon's "Random Door", the Kingdom of England has a large number of Indian subjects 500 years in advance, and they can rely on them to fill the labor shortage caused by the Great Plague and save Her Majesty Queen Joan's manor from abandonment.

—It is sad that, just a year ago, the monarchs of European countries were still suffering from the huge pressure of overpopulation, but at this moment, if these monarchs are not dead, how to get them New subjects, worrying about filling their vacant lands.

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"...Hey, these Indians seem to be working hard, but... why are they all skinny? They are even thinner than the serfs in the poorest counties in England, and most of them are too poor to wear clothes Put on your clothes... don't they know shame and are not afraid of the cold?"

Looking at those dark figures busy in the fields, Queen Joan blinked, and asked the "angel" Wang Qiu beside her, "... According to the legend, India is not a happy place that is warm in all seasons, rich in spices, and flowing with honey and milk. Is it a land? And the Indian scenery I saw with my own eyes through that magical door before is so warm, rich and beautiful... But these Indians are living too miserable!"

——For medieval Englanders who lived in darkness and cold all year round, India, which is rumored to produce many good things such as spices, dyed cotton cloth, and gemstones, and which is like spring all year round and never suffers from frost and snow, is definitely a dream. A beautiful place worthy of obsession is like an imaginary paradise: the vast majority of Europeans in the Middle Ages had the above-mentioned beautiful fantasies about the legendary East.Queen Joan apparently thought so too.

When Venetian merchants and travelers went to India to "collect" these immigrants through the "random door", the Indian scenery that Her Majesty Queen Joan saw with her own eyes seemed to confirm the above impression: the tropical sun is so bright, the wind The fragrance of various spices seems to be floating in the air. The land on both sides of the Ganges is fertile and can be called a land of fish and rice. There are green rice fields everywhere, golden waves of wheat, and countless clear ponds.The pond is full of round water lilies, and buffaloes are lazily stepping on the mud beside the pond, chewing on the lotus leaves... However, the vast majority of ordinary Indians living in such an idyllic beauty are not Live what seems like a beautiful day in heaven.

In fact, at first glance, most of them seem to be living like serfs in medieval Europe, naked and hungry, with green eyes and half dead.A small number of them even seem to be living in a worse situation. They can't even live in the simplest thatched huts. The whole family can only sleep on the side of the road or under the trees, just like beggars or refugees, but their faces rarely look sad. , making it difficult to understand why they can still laugh so happily.

In addition, there are many weird people who are too poor to even wear clothes. They don't think about how to work to earn money to buy clothes and support their families, but they squat by the wall all day long and pose in strange exercise poses, starving themselves, Until the end starved to death under the wall, the Indians respected them, saying that this is a great ascetic who has the power to communicate with the gods, but outsiders are very puzzled - do Indian gods like believers? suicide?

"... There is no way to do this! India is indeed a rich place. Even if you just took a glimpse from the outside, you should know how magnificent and magnificent the temples and palaces of the Indians are. But the problem is, no matter where you are, the rich and the poor, the nobles and the commoners, always live completely different lives. No matter how rich the products of a certain land are, only the upper class can enjoy it The lower classes are equally poor wherever they are, in England, in India, and in China... The richness and abundance of that part of India only means that the kings and nobles live in abundance, What does it have to do with these inferior people?"

Regarding this naive question, Wang Qiu curled his lips, "...if Indians, no matter noble or humble, all seem to live in heaven and are as happy as being soaked in honey, how can we get them to England? , sowing and plowing your estate?"

——Although in India at this time, human trafficking is not a rare thing, but due to the plundering and plundering of the traversers, neither the Kingdom of England, the Venetians, or the Papal State have been able to produce How much hard currency such as gold, silver and precious metals.

Therefore, most of the Indians appearing on the outskirts of London are actually fooled. The specific method is to let Doraemon appear on the stage first, and find the poorest, dirtiest and tattered India Most of the villages are inhabited by untouchables. They perform miracles such as "fire and rain from the sky" or "day turns into night" in public, which frightens these Indian farmers or untouchables, and makes them fall to the ground and worship.Then he fiddled with an "oracle", announcing that they would be taken to a better place to live, and by the way, those village elders who dared to jump out to obstruct and sing dissent were struck with lightning... In this case, of course, some people would flee in panic, But most of the rest of the people will be scared to death and obediently accept their fate.

——India is a strictly hierarchical society, the priests are Brahmins, the military nobles who own large tracts of land are Kshatriyas, merchants and small landowners are classified as Vaishyas, and ordinary laborers such as farmers and craftsmen are Sudras .Their occupations and surnames correspond one by one, inherited from generation to generation, those who farm the land for generations, those who boil sugar for generations, those who dig manure for generations, and they have performed their duties for thousands of years. What do Indians do.Crowds of different castes are segregated from each other, and not only are intermarriages generally prohibited, but even communication with each other is rare.The advantage of doing this is that it eliminates the ability of the lower-level Indians to form a collective resistance, allowing them to settle down in a lowly status and only hope for a good afterlife.

In addition, there are untouchables, who make up one-seventh of India's population, who are outside this caste hierarchy and are despised as "untouchable people".It was difficult for them to own land, and they were destined to work only in some industries considered unclean, such as hunters, fishers, butchers, executioners, gravediggers, undertakers, cobblers, and scavengers.Even if you want to grow crops for landlords as tenants, it is very difficult-in rural India, there are many sudras who compete with them for work.Moreover, untouchables cannot stay in the city, they can only live in small remote villages isolated from the world, and they must be very careful not to contaminate members of various castes, that is to say, they must not have any physical contact with the latter , in extreme cases, may not even enter the sight of the latter.Therefore, whenever they go out of their dwellings or villages, they must tap a pair of clappers to warn others of the approaching untouchables.

In this way, even if the traversers evacuate the entire untouchable village, other Indians may not know anything about it in a short period of time.Of course, these untouchables may not be very skilled in farm work because they don't farm much, but under the whip and knife of the supervisor, I believe they will learn quickly.

However, even if it is just taking away some lowly and unnoticed sudras and untouchables, if the movement is too great, it will attract the attention and perhaps a little hostility of the Indian princes who rule these lands.At this time, it was the turn of the Venetian merchant with great powers to appear. While borrowing the tiger skin of Doraemon, he casually threatened and frightened these princes, and at the same time sent some Chinese porcelain, silk scarves, glass mirrors, aluminum alloy and Plastic trinkets and the like are very valuable in India these days, but they are not worth much in the modern world... So after weighing the pros and cons, the Indian princes who think that their interests have not received much damage, They all acquiesced to the pulling action of these "big powers".

There are even some Indian princes in densely populated places, in order to relieve the pressure of overpopulation in the territory, they simply take the initiative to escort groups of untouchables over as trade goods, and exchange more things they want with Venetian merchants...India Although the place has been warm and humid since ancient times and has abundant products, due to long-term overpopulation, the population pressure has always been severe. Moreover, because any job under the caste system is hereditary from generation to generation, people of different occupations are isolated from each other, so that people who want to let It is very difficult for the surplus population to change careers—for example, in ancient India, the family surnamed "gravediggers" could only be gravediggers for generations. Fishing or carpentry, because hereditary fishermen and carpenters don't want people to take their jobs-so simply driving out the surplus population is also a solution to the problem.

So, in this way, even cheating and abduction, as well as a certain degree of trading and bribery, if it is not possible, let those unscrupulous European knights put on armor and wield their sharp swords, and make a guest appearance as a slave hunting team—they were originally This is also often done during wars: if all the serfs in the family are killed and no one is farming for themselves, then go to the enemy's territory to grab some serfs and bring them back.However, going deep into a foreign land to capture slaves is really a very laborious task. The cost-effectiveness ratio of the knights in person is often extremely low, and it is quite dangerous. If possible, even the most stingy Venetian merchants are more willing to spend a small amount of money Collecting sources of goods from local powerful figures... No matter what means they used, they finally got tens of thousands of Indian "immigrants" in a short period of time, and all of them were sent to London to farm. This is the first large-scale Enter the "pilot" of the workforce.

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At this moment, there was a loud commotion not far away, as well as the clear ringing of trumpets and copper bells.Wang Qiu looked up and found that it was a priest and several soldiers with long guns, who were driving a group of newly arrived Indians into a small river, forcing them to be baptized collectively and convert to Christianity... If they refused, they would be punished immediately Fat beating and violent suppression, if you don't obey, you should be hanged or burned directly.

——British people these days, unlike their descendants who have been fooled by the "multicultural theory", have no advanced concepts of religious freedom at all. They only know that all heretics and heretics should be played with living people on the fire Barbecue, Christians who don’t know how to roast heretics and heretics are not good Christians... On the contrary, there are countless missionaries who are keen to promote the faith of Christ and expand the "Lord's flock". If they can "civilize the barbarians", Converting them to Christianity is a great merit.As for whether to preach with a knife or with words, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, after hanging and burning to death a very few thorns who refused to submit, the remaining Indians naturally converted obediently.

——Isn’t it just going down to the river to take a cold bath (baptism), as for losing your precious life for such a trivial matter?
Even such slight resistance is only felt by people of the Sudra caste. If they are untouchables, it doesn't matter at all.Anyway, in the original history, because they were not treated as human beings by Hinduism, they first worshiped Buddha, then worshiped Allah, and then knelt at the feet of missionaries and believed in Christ. Some even joined Judaism and Zoroastrianism—because Excluded from the Hindu system, the beliefs of the Indian untouchables are similar to those of the Chinese. They are always changing and changing, worshiping whichever god they think is more effective, but no matter how hard they think and change their beliefs, I can't get rid of the sad status of being a pariah, which is despised by others, but I don't have the courage and determination to break the situation through violence...

All in all, the vast majority of Indians are docile, easy to obey, and hardworking guys. Their spirit of resistance has long been almost wiped out under the caste system. Be a slave—otherwise, in Queen Victoria's time, the British colonists would not have easily ruled the entire South Asian subcontinent with only [-] civil servants and [-] white soldiers.

Therefore, Wang Qiu didn’t think that adding a group of Indian subjects to Queen Joan would cause any real trouble—speaking of which, the ancestors of the Plantagenet Dynasty came from Northern Europe, and they should be regarded as Vikings (Normans) strictly speaking. Neither French native nor English native.

Since they were able to successfully rule the Saxons and Celts in Britain, as well as the French across the Channel, and win the loyal support of these foreigners (until modern times, the British royal family is actually descended from the Plantagenet dynasty), naturally There's no reason why the more docile Indians can't be dealt with.

——In India, through repeated brainwashing of religion, caste, and traditional concepts, a small number of ruling classes have completely domesticated the remaining 90.00% of the inferior people, making these inferior people forever companions of slavery.This slavishness has reached such a height that if you throw the key of liberation in front of him, he will spit on the key instead!Even if a master is changed, this servility will not disappear quickly.

But the problem is that the British in this era still don't know anything about the conduct of the Indians in the distance, and they have some "unknown fears" to some extent.

"...Dear Angel, although these Indians seem to be honest, they are pagans after all. Even if they have been baptized and converted to our Lord, they are probably not the same as us born Christians, will they? Difficult to control, unwilling to serve the lord faithfully?"

A British nobleman frowned as he watched these Indians working under the whip of the supervisor, and said somewhat unconfidently, "...I heard from some noblemen from Spain that there are many believers in here. The Moors who taught (Spain was still in the tug-of-war between the two major faiths at the time), even though they had surrendered to the Christian kings, they were still very rebellious and never really thought that they were someone's. Subjects. Even if they are forced to be baptized and converted to Christ our Lord, they still can’t forget their pagan beliefs. They are always deeply hostile to us Christians. They will flee or rebel whenever they have the chance. Taking care of them is like taking care of prisoners. It's just as troublesome...these Indians should be like this in the future!"

"...I don't think so. These Indians can be regarded as the most docile coolies in the world. Although they are all pagans, they originally believed in another false god, which is completely different from the Moors who believed in the so-called Allah. Different, less aggressive. According to the Indian doctrine of karma, a person's status in this world is determined by his actions in his previous life. Therefore, the untouchables in India have always believed that they were caused by their past sins. The untouchables' only hope is to have a good birth in reincarnation and to improve their status in the afterlife, and this can only be achieved by respectfully fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations in this world, so they will definitely not compare with Europeans. Serfs are harder to control..."

Wang Qiu replied, "...What's more, as untouchables who were discriminated against, they were originally abandoned by Indian society and have become accustomed to being enslaved. Well, what are untouchables? That is to say, their social status was originally lower than that of serfs. It's a bit like the gypsies in Europe. If you treat them as serfs and give them land to cultivate, you are already exalting their status. These untouchables are too late to be happy, so how can they make trouble?
Even if the worst happens and riots break out, don't worry too much—don't look at these Indians who look similar, but actually belong to dozens of ethnic groups. They don't speak each other's language, and they can't communicate with each other. It is impossible to unite and fight together.If only a small group of people jumped out to make troubles, it must be easy to suppress them: don’t you suppress serfs and make troubles less often? "

"...But if this happens, won't we not be able to communicate with them? How will we give them orders then?"

Queen Joan muttered with some headaches, "...I have to learn both French and English since I was born. After finalizing the marriage to marry far away in Spain, in order to prevent me from understanding the words of future subjects, I even talked with my husband. I need an interpreter on the bed, and my father urged me to learn Spanish for a year, which is really miserable... Do I have to learn Indian languages ​​now, or dozens of them? Oh, God—"

Speaking of it, it seems that it is not easy for the European royal families these days to be competent. Foreign languages ​​alone can make people crazy.For example, if Queen Joan, who has just ascended the throne, wants to communicate directly with all her subjects, she must master English, French, Gaelic in Ireland, and Low German in the Netherlands (the future Dutch), There is also Latin as an international language in the Middle Ages (the standard language of the Roman Empire, but in the Middle Ages it has become a 'dead script' dedicated to churches and intellectuals, and basically disappeared in the bottom society. The difference between Italian and Latin is roughly the It is similar to the difference between Chinese vernacular and classical Chinese - so not everyone can understand Latin even if they are Italians).If it were Her Majesty Queen Joanna of Naples, then she would have to master French, Italian, Provencal (a small language that was eliminated in later generations) and Latin. Fortunately, the Jerusalem under her name has been lost, otherwise she might return Gotta learn Arabic!

Not to mention that intermarriage is still popular among royal families in various European countries. If you don’t want to sign language with your future husband in bed, you poor princesses have to prepare in advance and work hard to learn more foreign language courses-of course, those who are sympathetic to future wives Princes, probably the same.

But it is very obvious that no matter how learned and talented these medieval European royal families were, it was impossible to speak the language of the Indians.

——Fortunately, for the supernatural and omnipotent Doraemon, these little troubles are really nothing.If they can't even pass the most basic language level, how can Doraemon and Nobi Nobita venture into the multiverse and embark on one adventure after another beyond imagination?
"...Please rest assured about this problem, Your Majesty, and Your Excellencies, you don't need to worry at all. Our Lord is omniscient and omnipotent, and will definitely not be unable to solve even this little trouble, at least so far So far, everything is still under our control..."

"Angel" Wang Qiu said calmly, and at the same time took out a bag of [Translation Konjac Jelly] that he asked for from Doraemon, and handed it to Queen Joan, "...as long as you eat this magical pastry in advance , you can communicate with any foreigner, and the effective time is about half a day to a day...Of course, this is only a temporary emergency measure. We have prepared a truly once-and-for-all countermeasure for you..."

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In addition to fooling a large number of Indian untouchables and sudras, in order to try to make the British society of the 21th century as close as possible to the British society of the [-]st century, the traversers also tried to get out from the West African region of this plane through the [random door]. A group of strong black slaves came.

Because the tropical forests in West Africa are full of poisonous insects and plagues, even the most ferocious and violent slave catchers are afraid of it.So these black slaves did not come through war and plunder, but bought from some black tribes with things like glass beads, bells, cloth, swords and spears, and salt (the black tribes have always captured hostile slaves during the war the custom of taking tribal captives as slaves).

Compared with the generally short and skinny Indians (the tall and mighty Indian Asan is not without it, but usually has a bit of status, and generally does not appear among the untouchables and Sudras, let alone be easily brought over as a Coolies), most of the black slaves from Africa looked taller, muscular, more robust, hard-working, and much stronger in vitality, so they were naturally more favored by the English ruling class who were thirsty for labor.

But it is also unavoidable that with the arrival of these West African blacks, various parasites and infectious diseases native to tropical Africa have also followed. The disease is so terrible that the Venetian merchants who dealt with it did not expect to shave the black slaves' hair, wash them dry and kill fleas, etc. A series of quarantine and purification procedures... Fortunately, at this time, the European land has almost become an epidemic disease Museums have long been free from lice and no worries about debts. Even if a few new infectious diseases are added, it seems that it doesn't matter anymore.

In this way, Indian-Pakistani immigrants and black people already exist in England today. As for the yellow-race Asians... Doraemon and Wang Qiu are too embarrassed to attack the ancient compatriots of their motherland, so they put [Free Door] Opened to the Americas, bought a small group of Mayan slaves with plastic jewelry, metal knives and green glass beads, just in time for them to teach whites and blacks how to grow corn, pumpkins, peppers and potato crops.

In short, after importing nearly 10 people into England through this series of unappreciable means, the extreme shortage of labor force caused by the Great Plague has finally been slightly alleviated, at least most of the royal family’s farms on the London Plain are temporarily With someone doing the cooking, Queen Joan and her courtiers don't have to cultivate their land with their own hands, and they don't have to worry about food for the Plantagenet court next year.

And Wang Qiu was also very pleased to see that London, the capital of the Kingdom of England, has become a world ethnographic museum like India, where there are white, black, and yellow races, and it can practice the multiculturalism of the European Union 500 years in advance theory.And the Anglo-Saxons can also broaden their horizons and try how to get along with neighbors of different skin colors day and night. Maybe they can smoothly evolve into a melting pot of nations like the United States in the future—it can also be regarded as the Anglo-Saxons who will colonize the world in the future. , in their homeland of the island country to conduct a preview in advance...

But even so, for the Kingdom of England, which was almost becoming the kingdom of the dead, some troubles were not completely resolved.First of all, whether it is Indians, Mayans or blacks, I am afraid that they are not very cold-resistant... Fortunately, this is not a big problem in the Middle Ages when human rights were ignored, until those who are most afraid of the cold are frozen to death in the first winter , the remaining people should be able to better adapt to the climate of the Kingdom of England.

Secondly, the most fundamental problem is that Europe is still in the shadow of the plague at this time. Whether it is a prosperous city or a remote village, they are all trembling under the scythe of the black-robed death. If an effective means to curb the epidemic cannot be found, Then no matter how many people are imported from all over the world, it is estimated that they will be summoned to heaven by the terrible plague soon, turning the world of Europa into a desolate and dead country of the undead again...

Fortunately, after paying off the debts, Doraemon, whose integrity index has begun to rise sharply, has already helped these poor medieval Europeans prepare a countermeasure together with the traversers-to take the cure-all "" Healing" was taught to them, so that Europe really entered the magical age!

"...Your Majesty the Queen, Your Excellencies, the 'Hogwarts School' we converted from the old site of Oxford University is now basically completed. The first batch of students gathered from all over Europe has also arrived in Oxford. I don't know Are you interested in attending the Commencement Ceremony next Monday?"