Chapter 886 The defects of high-carbon steel knives
In fact, it is not impossible to spread Hinduism in Japan. Historically, Hinduism has flourished for a period of time in Southeast Asia.
In Indonesia, several Hindu kingdoms appeared in history. Even in the 21st century, Bali, a famous tourist destination in Indonesia, was still a Hindu region. However, the Allah religion invaded Indonesia, and the more aggressive Allah religion regime completely replaced Indonesia's Hindu regime. This also led to Indonesia becoming the world's number one Allah religion country, and only Bali remains the Hindu faith.
This is enough to show that Hinduism can also be spread elsewhere in the world, not only in India. As for Allahism, it seems to be more popular among nomadic peoples. However, in agricultural society, it is a bit difficult to spread. Unless, like in ancient Southeast Asia, there is no strong country that can be forced to spread.
Why is this? Here we have to mention two self-binding rules that Allah teaches - one is to prohibit drinking, and the other is to prohibit eating pork...
If it weren't forbidden to drink, perhaps the Russians had converted to Allah's teachings and were not allowed to eat pork... Anyway, the Han and Germans definitely did not accept it...
In the farming society, raising pigs is an important source of meat. Because in the farming society, land has been reclaimed into farmland, lacking grassland and unable to sheep, and important production materials in the bull market... Therefore, the main source of meat in the farming society is pork...
You don't allow others to eat pork, but you don't let people eat meat... In this way, it would be strange if people in the farming society are willing to believe in Allah... unless they are conquered - for example, Indonesia is violently conquered by the fierce Allah regime...
But this also brought a huge social problem to Indonesia - Indonesia is obviously a farming country, but it believes in the Allah religion that is not allowed to eat pork. The result is that Indonesia has severely lacked meat and has to import a large amount of cattle and sheep from Australia every year to supplement the supply of meat. Otherwise, Indonesians will not be able to eat meat...
In fact, Indonesia is a country that is very suitable for pig farming. Java Island has a large rice yield and can naturally provide enough pig farming feed such as chaff. If pig farming, it will naturally easily solve the problem of national meat supply.
But it was just that Indonesia was a country of Allah that was not allowed to eat pork, and naturally it was not allowed to raise pigs. Then, they could only import beef and mutton from Australia to obtain beef and mutton.
Because meat relies on imports, Indonesia's meat prices remain high, so ordinary people naturally cannot afford it. According to a report that Marin read in his previous life, Indonesia's per capita meat consumption in 2016 was only 12.9 kg. In the same period, China had 59 kg. Even North Korea, which had difficulty in supplying food, had 13.9 kg, one kilogram more than Indonesia... Only A San was at the bottom, and the per capita meat consumption level of 4.1 kg can make Indonesia find some confidence... And the 120 kg in the United States is even more incomparable...
In fact, Indonesia is not poor, with a per capita GDP of US$3,570, several times higher than North Korea's US$665. However, it is because the rules of not being allowed to eat pork, which makes it difficult for people to eat meat and rely heavily on imports.
Therefore, if the reasons for violent conquest are excluded, the Allah religion can only be spread among nomadic peoples. In farming society, it is easy to be boycotted. For example, in Eastern Europe, Greece was occupied by Turkey for hundreds of years, but it did not change to the Allah religion because the two rules of Allah religion hindered the spread of religion. Greece is an ancient civilization and a farming society. You do not allow you to drink alcohol or eat pork, isn’t it tormenting people? Therefore, Turkey occupied the Balkans for hundreds of years, and only the Bosnian Mu people were Allah religion. Other areas have not been greened.
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Hinduism is different. Hinduism does not have these uncomfortable rules. It is only the only way to avoid eating beef, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
If it were put in Europe, Hinduism would definitely be difficult to spread. Because Europeans like to eat beef. But in Japan, there is absolutely no problem. Because, like China, Japan prohibits killing beef. Even Japanese people eat beef, which was the first precedent for Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito in the late 19th century. Then, Kobe beef was also discovered...
Therefore, there is no problem in spreading Hinduism in Japan. Moreover, it can be spread from top to bottom to fully safeguard the interests of the ruling class.
Generally speaking, Hinduism is spread from top to bottom. On the contrary, Buddhism is bottom to top. Because Hinduism protects the interests of the ruling class, while Buddhism meets the needs of the lower class people (in fact, it is also a fool). Therefore, in China, it also believes in the upper class, while ordinary people believe in Buddhism. After all, Hinduism does not meet the interests of the lower class people, and it is naturally difficult to promote it among the people. Hinduism is very in line with the interests of the upper class rulers, and naturally needs to be spread from top to bottom...
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Marin wrote down all these ideas, and after writing for a long time, he was a little dizzy. So he came to the martial arts performance venue in the palace to watch Kahn practice martial arts.
When she is fine, Kahn usually wanders around the palace. She goes to the martial arts field to practice martial arts, beats up sandbags and wooden stakes. Or lifts a large stone weighing 200 kilograms to fly... Once Malin is about to leave the palace, Kahn will follow closely to protect Malin's safety...
Today, when Marin came to the martial arts venue to relax and watch, he happened to see Kahn and a guard competed with a horse's sword technique.
The palace martial arts venue was very small and could not rush up. So, both of them rode on horses, moved forward at low speed, and then chopped each other with a saber.
Because they were wearing all-body armor, both sides did not hold back when they cut each other, and they were more serious. As a result, the two imitation 65 cavalry sabers of the two collide hard to collide... and then, both swords were broken...
"It's broken..." Marin was a little stunned. This was made of high-carbon steel by someone who made it out of high-carbon steel. Why did it break so easily? And there were two pieces of iron knives made by folk blacksmiths...
But Marin quickly reacted - can the steel knife be defeated by chopping the iron knife? But the high-carbon steel saber is chopping...
"It seems that high carbon steel has enough hardness, but lacks toughness..."
Marin remembered that many treasure knives in ancient China seemed to have been stacked forging. The "spine" inside the blade was made of softer steel, making the blade full of toughness. However, the surface wrapped around the hard part, making the blade sharp and hard. When chopping each other, the opponent's sword can be cut off without gaps... Or, through special treatments such as quenching, the surface strength of the sword is enhanced...
In later generations, spring steel was often used to make swords, but carburizing was performed on the blade surface to enhance strength. In this way, the sword has toughness and the blade strength is sufficient...
In other words, the harder the sword, the better. Although high-carbon steel has high strength, it is not tough enough. If a high-carbon steel knife is cut against an iron knife with a worse quality, it can naturally cut off the opponent. However, if it can cut off the opponent's weapons, such as iron rods and heavy-duty two-handed swords, it is easy to break itself...
Therefore, in order not to affect the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, Marin felt that the performance level of the cavalry sword should be improved...
Chapter completed!