Chapter 148 The Beginning of Colonial India(1/2)
Be a noble person from generation to generation?
If there really is such a good thing, can it be my turn?
I'm afraid that the heroes under King Ming will do it themselves.
When I saw Sun Shiyi, he looked confused and suspicious.
Zhu Daohua smiled.
Of course he knew that it was not easy to become a nobleman in India.
Because now almost the entire South India and Bengal are under the rule of the British.
According to the intelligence coming from India, after the Ming Dynasty gained control of Southeast Asia, the British sent additional troops to India.
But their total number of troops stationed in India is only about 7,000.
Just two infantry regiments of lobster soldiers.
It turned out that King Zhu Ming was going to war with the British.
This abacus is so accurate.
No, maybe the Fujian regiment training and those from Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou may also be shipped to India one after another.
Of course, this is only the cost of weapons. The Ming Dynasty still had to transport tens of thousands of people to India. However, this is not difficult. The shipping capacity of Nanyang Shipping Company is now strong enough.
Send them to India and create principalities and princes one after another.
Although India is a good place, it has too many people and is more suitable as a product dumping ground.
The cotton textile industry has absorbed a large number of workers and supported a series of industrial chains that are facing collapse.
While occupying territory in India, these regiment leaders also wanted to become compradors of Ming Dynasty products and serve as vanguards for the expansion of Ming Dynasty industrial products.
These include Gurkha Cavalry, Punjabi Cavalry, Sikh Cavalry, Bengal Light Cavalry, Bengal Infantry, etc.
From Malacca to the Bay of Bengal, it is only a thousand or two thousand kilometers.
The continuous rapid growth of industrialization forced the Ming Dynasty to use force to open up the market.
If Britain closes the Indian market to the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong's cotton textile industry, which has taken off in the past two years, will encounter a cold winter.
Sun Shiyi did not address himself as "Your Majesty", but as "King".
It was much cheaper for the Ming Dynasty to project power to India than it was for the British to project power from Europe.
But the British's methods of governance are very clever.
Zhu Daohua stretched out a finger and said.
The other one is to follow Zhu Daohua's arrangements.
Among them, 2,000 were indigenous Indian mercenaries, and there were only 900 lobster soldiers.
Zhu Daohua handed a "Zong-vassal Agreement" to Sun Shiyi.
But India has long mountains and long rivers, and it would be a waste of military expenditures to send the Ming army there.
The total strength of the British army is only 2,900.
The British also relied on wooing and utilizing the Indian comprador class and using local Indian mercenaries to finally complete their conquest of India!
It was difficult to take it down, and it was impossible to kill all the Indians.
"I can give you a loan!" Zhu Daohua waved his hand, "I can also arrange for businessmen in Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu to buy the things you grabbed in India, and they are guaranteed to be at preferential prices."
To ride on the heads of the Indian people and dominate them.
so.
To control the safety of the waterway from the Strait of Malacca to India, it was also necessary to have a solid territory on the South Asian subcontinent so that the British could not block the Indian market and allow Ming products to enter the Indian market without any obstacles.
Zhu Daohua pulled away the map of the South Asian subcontinent behind him.
"Go back to Hangzhou and tell the leaders of these regiments that if they are willing, they will sign this vassal agreement and make the Ming Dynasty the sect. The lonely king will make them the kings of principalities, princes, and uncles based on their military strength!
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Spending hundreds of thousands of Ming yuan to ensure that the Indian market is open to Ming Dynasty is a huge profit.
Doesn't this mean you can be a father-in-law or a marquis in India?
Then it must not be separated from the support of Ming Dynasty.
The best product dumping place in the world right now is India.
Coupled with the employment population absorbed by the cotton textile industry and the prosperity of the market.
Do the British agree?
That is to say.
As long as it is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
The strategy they adopted in India was to arm a section of Indian compradors to rule and disrupt Indian resistance.
What a wonderful people the Indian people are.
You can send an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people to India.
Sun Shiyi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "You are such a big Mingwang, what are you talking about?"
A rough estimate is that the total number of troops may exceed 30,000.
Whether you can become a master or not, you have to work hard on your own.
"In addition, you, Sun Shiyi, can be granted the title of British Duke. I am the British Duke of the Ming Dynasty. After you, Sun Shiyi, go to India, you can leave a family of heirs and inherit the title of British Duke in the Ming Dynasty. However, the one who remains in the Ming Dynasty is not a feudal king.
, they are just nobles of the Ming Dynasty."
Sun Shiyi's expression changed. He knew that the reason why Zhu Daohua asked them to surrender unconditionally was to force them to go to India.
Now I only have two choices.
If the Qing government doesn't have tens of millions of taels of silver, it will definitely not be available.
That cost can be reduced to a very low level.
Therefore, these 100,000 guns and 100 cannons were something that Zhu Daohua could solve with only a few hundred thousand yuan.
In other words, as long as King Zhu Ming provides some weapons, he doesn't even need logistics or military pay.
"The mouth of the Bengal River is densely populated, and the British have just conquered it. Their rule here is not stable. If you can occupy Bengal, you can ensure that our Ming Dynasty's goods can enter the Ganges River Basin unimpeded, and Northeast India."
We can establish contact with all the other princely states as well as the Mughal Empire and the Maratha League."
The Ming Dynasty is currently unable to obtain exact figures for this part of its military strength.
On the one hand, the population is large enough, and on the other hand, after thousands of years of accumulation, it is definitely a world mystery how much precious metal reserves the nobles of the Indian states have.
Are you saying that you can ride on the heads of the Indian people if you want?
"The King is not joking. Now the British fleet is coming to China. They are going to form some kind of intervention fleet to force me to succumb to their trade policy!"
The vigorous industrialization process of Ming Dynasty will also be set back.
Sun Shiyi was stunned again and again when he heard this.
"However, it is too naive for them to think that they can make the lonely king surrender by sending a few gunboats to the coast of China. They only have a few wooden boats and underestimate their capabilities, thinking that the lonely king is the Manchu!"
"Your Majesty, why don't you give me some more ammunition? Where do you have the money to buy it now?"
Zhu Daohua pointed to the northeastern part of the map of the South Asian subcontinent.
“From India!”
If you can spend this small amount of money to get an Indian market that can be controlled, it is definitely worth it!
We must know that the benefits brought by the industrial chain supported by Guangdong's cotton textile industry alone are worth more than one million yuan a year.
Understood..
Sun Shiyi suddenly realized.
Zhu Daohua smiled.
One is that he was deprived of all his property and stayed in the Ming Dynasty, and was stared at by Jin Yiwei's fans for the rest of his life.
Even Dai Ying, a ruthless villain, is reluctant to scalp Indians.
In order to ensure the enthusiasm of the training personnel of these regiments, all the territory gained is their own.
Mechanical production gradually began to replace manual factories.
Therefore, they sent these regiments to train troops and let them go to India to conquer territory.
How to choose.
It's really hesitant.
Who doesn't know that India is rich?
And most of India's coastal coastline is in British hands.
To be continued...