typeface
large
in
Small
Turn off the lights
Previous bookshelf directory Bookmark Next

Chapter 413 Add some chaos to the British

In fact, the Kingdom of Burma was stronger than the Manchu Qing in its confrontation with the British and Indian troops.

On the one hand, Myanmar's complex jungle terrain and harsh weather conditions during the rainy season will cause a large number of non-combat casualties to the enemy's attack.

On the other hand, Myanmar’s army does have certain combat capabilities.

They are not the cowardly colonial people they were after being colonized by the British.

The people of the Kingdom of Myanmar have always believed that they are the largest country in the Indochina Peninsula, and they still have the dignity of being a big country in their bones.

Dong Shuheng was willing to accept Nagaya's request this time, which basically confirmed that he would accept this younger brother and thug from the Kingdom of Myanmar.

This also means that the Kingdom of Burma will continue to exist.

But China must have an outlet to the Indian Ocean.

In the end, Dong Shuheng could only choose the lower reaches of the Wen River in Sali and the Tanah area.

Mawlamyine, Coconut City and Dawei here are all excellent ports.

The Chinese railway can go all the way south along the Shan State Plateau to connect here, and the river transport on the Saliwin River can also be developed.

This is not the core area of ​​the Kingdom of Myanmar. Like the north, it is under the rule of chieftains, so Nagaya is willing to abandon it.

The core area of ​​Myanmar is in the Upper and Lower Myanmar areas along the Irrawaddy River. In order to take back the Lower Myanmar area, Nagaya gave up the chieftains under the supervision of Myanmar in the east, which was obviously a very cost-effective deal.

In addition, Dong Shuheng chose this narrow strip of land in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Myanmar. He also had another intention of separating Myanmar and Siam.

Of course, Dong Shuheng did not do it for peace-loving purposes.

Myanmar's external wars, apart from the northern suzerainty, had two main directions. One was the Bengal region in the west. This was the reason for the first Anglo-Burmese War.

There is also Siam to the east. There have been continuous wars between Myanmar and Siam in order to compete for land, population and dominance in the Indochina Peninsula.

Now China is directly inserted between the two. With China's national strength and size, it is impossible for either of them to challenge China again.

Now Myanmar can only rely on China to fight against the British.

As for Siam, it is now under the influence of China. Its domestic economic lifeline is also completely controlled by Chinese businessmen.

He has no certainty of jumping at all.

Therefore, these two countries can only remain vassal states of China.

Since the two countries are no longer bordering each other, there is no possibility of attacking each other.

In this way, the east and north sides of the Kingdom of Burma were blocked.

If he expands outward, only the Bengal region in the west will be left.

There is so much fertile land in the alluvial plains of the lower Ganges River that has always been coveted by the Kingdom of Myanmar.

After Burma regained Lower Burma with the support of China, the next thing it had to do was to compete with the British for control of Bengal to the west.

In this way, Dong Shuheng had two powerful thugs in the northeastern region of India, one was the Tianping Holy Army, which had experienced battles for a long time and all the people were soldiers, and the other was the army of the Kingdom of Myanmar, which had always dominated the south.

As a result, Dong Shuheng's layout in the south was basically completed.

As for the country of Siam, Dong Shuheng was not prepared to touch it.

Siam's economic lifeline has been controlled by the Chinese business forces in Southeast Asia a hundred years ago. Even the current royal family and big families have Chinese ancestry.

Nowadays, the influence of Chinese merchants in Nanyang is stronger than before.

With the support of the Chinese motherland, these Chinese businessmen continued to expand their power.

In addition to those big Chinese families who occupied a piece of land and established a small country, many Chinese businessmen who owned large plantations also had their own armed forces.

In the past, foreigners in Southeast Asia would restrict Chinese people and not allow them to have their own weapons. It was almost impossible for these Chinese people to buy weapons on a large scale from foreigners.

At that time, in Nanyang, the Chinese could make money, but they could not have the ability to protect themselves.

The colonists only allowed them to protect the Chinese businessmen, so that the Chinese businessmen could only rely on the colonists.

When these colonists felt that the power of the Chinese merchants was too strong, as long as a gap was opened in this layer of protection, the natives like evil wolves would swarm in and carve up all the wealth that the Chinese merchants had worked hard to accumulate.

Then the bruised Chinese businessmen started up again, like leeks grown by foreigners. They were cut off one crop after another.

In the future Indochina, there will be two Chinese feet planted there, one along the Lancang River to control the original southern palm, Chenla, and directly into the Gulf of Siam, and the other one along the Saliwin River to reach the Indian Ocean.

With these two tentacles, Dong Shuheng believes that those who will lead China forward in the future will be able to completely control the Indochina Peninsula.

Li Jianfu is a capable person, especially as an official, and he will not be inferior to the princes and ministers of the Kingdom of Myanmar in terms of power and strategy.

This time he was sent to the Kingdom of Burma nominally to enthrone the King of Burma, but actually to help Nagaya ascend to power, reorganize the government of Burma, and organize a large army to attack Burma and other territories of the Kingdom of Burma that were occupied by the British.

This can take some of the pressure off the Taiping Holy Army in the northwest.

Neither India nor Lower Burma was something the British could give up easily.

With the current strength of Britain and India, it is very easy to organize an army of hundreds of thousands. Of course, this is only a slave army of colonial India and Bangladesh.

If so many people were to attack Shi Dakai, they might not be able to hold on.

Dong Shuheng has been thinking about the relationship between China and the British Empire after the Crimean War.

He believed that the British were also making preparations.

And his preparation was to use Indian weapons to hold back the British.

India is the jewel of the British, and they will protect India no matter how much losses they suffer.

Similarly, for the sake of India, they will give up all other strategic goals.

Dong Shuheng's move can be said to be ruthless. If you think that China has only made arrangements in the Northeast in India, you are too low.

Let's shift the perspective from the map to the upper left corner. That's Aiwuhan, right there.

It is closely connected with the North-West Province of British India Colony.

This was also an important channel for British India to obtain opium. Therefore, the British attached great importance to this place and built a large number of forts and outposts here.

Why should the protection be so strict? Because the local Baloch and Aiwuhan tribes often attack British and Indian commercial facilities.

Both the British-Indian colony and the Aiwuhan Kingdom's rule here was relatively weak.

In the past, China's tentacles could not reach this place, but now, Aiwuhan has declared vassal status to China, and the two have established a friendly relationship.

Chinese people can freely enter and leave Aiwuhan.

The favorite Chinese commodities of these Aiwuhan people are silk and muskets.

Every adult Aiwuhan should have a scimitar, a horse and a musket.

The British have always coveted the Aiwuhan region, so they have been blocking the import of weapons to the Aiwuhan region.

Now Chinese merchants have opened up the trade channel from the Western Regions to Central Asia and then to Aiwuhan.

In addition to breech-loaded rifles, muskets produced in China, whether smoothbore or rifled, were added to the trade list with Aiwuhan.

Along with these muskets came a variety of Chinese goods.

Various Chinese daily necessities and luxury goods became commodities that local nobles rushed to buy.

In the past, when they purchased a nail, they had to import it from the British through India.

But now Chinese products are richer and more affordable than British products. The Aiwuhan people naturally know how to choose.

The Aiwuhan people gradually fell in love with becoming a vassal state of China.

At least China did not make any territorial demands to them.

This Aiwuhan is a nail planted by China in India's northwest defense line.

However, Dong Shuheng did not expect Aiwuhan to fight against the British in the name of the country. That would easily cause Aiwuhan to suffer a large-scale counterattack from the British.

Spies from the Chinese Intelligence Department disguised themselves as Chinese businessmen and have begun to contact the tribes in southern Aiwuhan.

Sell ​​them weapons and arm those tribes.

More than a hundred years later, it was the warriors of these tribes who used crude weapons to bring disgrace to the two most powerful countries on earth.

This place Aiwuhan has a domineering nickname - "Imperial Cemetery".

Dong Shuheng believed that the British would also make a big mistake here.

The two Boer Wars in history caused the British Empire to squander hundreds of years of colonial accumulation.

Dong Shuheng's hand can't reach as far as South Africa. To extend his power there, he must have a strong fleet.

It would not be bad to replace South Africa with India. At least China is right next to it, and it can influence it wherever it wants.

Dinsukia is an important town in the northeastern region of Assam.

It is located on the south bank of the Brahmaputra River. Here the Brahmaputra River enters the plain area.

The water flow changed from rapid to gentle. The river that originally ran through the valley became a wide and gentle river here.

Relying on the abundant water resources brought by the Brahmaputra River, farming here in Dinsugiya is very developed, and there are already some tea trees introduced from Yunnan.

The Assamese people here also grow jute and weave linen. Linen and silk are their main clothing fabrics.

During the previous rule in Myanmar, the local area was basically under a state of tribal autonomy.

Ordinary people only need to endure the exploitation of tribal leaders.

The Kingdom of Myanmar has very loose control here.

In addition, this is the only way to pass the Tea Horse Road, and there is an endless stream of caravans coming from Yunnan, which supplements everyone's lack of living materials.

Local specialties can also be transported through caravans.

Trade can maximize the value of goods through the exchange of supplies.

In such an environment, the life of the local people is pretty good.

But soon the British came over. The Mon and Indian soldiers were brutal and brutal.

The war almost collapsed the local economy, and the lives of the Assamese people were plunged into dire straits.

After the war, this area became the territory of the British. The British left a large number of Mon soldiers to guard the area.

There were also some local leaders who defected to the British, and they still maintained their original status, but these people now became the tools of the British to rule the Assam region.

The British no longer allow caravans from Yunnan to pass through the Assam region. They are forcing everyone to buy only British goods.

But the locals have no need for British things at all. Everything they eat and wear is produced by themselves.

The British saw that they could not gain much commercial benefits in the area. So they began to let the Mon warriors and puppet leaders who stayed in the area step up their search of the area. When they saw people planting tea trees in the area, they forced these people to turn all the cultivated land into tea gardens.

However, without cultivating food, the local Assamese people began to face hunger. They had to pay a large amount of tea as tax every year.

As for them not having time to grow the food they need and starving themselves, the British will not care about these things.

They did not occupy so many colonies to convert them into territories of the British Empire. They just wanted to plunder these places.

The British colonial system ultimately failed. One of the important reasons was that they never regarded the colonies as their native land and the people of the colonies as their own people.

This model eventually led to the collapse of the huge Sun Never Sets.

When Britain has to follow others and become its little brother, what will happen to its original colonies?

Who will stand up and support him?

The cycle of history brings unsatisfactory retribution!

As a small border town, Tinsukiya has an extremely important geographical location. The British will naturally pay special attention to it.

A Bengal infantry brigade, an Indian infantry regiment and a British infantry company were stationed here, with a total of 2,500 men.

As a small border town, this kind of troop deployment is quite large.

Chen Yucheng did not have enough confidence to march into Dinsu Kiya with great fanfare.

But it's not that easy to occupy this place unexpectedly.

Because the British perspective has long been attracted to the Mengyang area.

Although Smith and his party have been arrested, the news that the Chinese Renaissance Army has entered the Mengyang area has long reached the ears of the British, and it is impossible for them not to strengthen monitoring of the border areas.

Therefore, it would be very difficult for Chen Yucheng to unexpectedly appear outside Dinsukia City.

As for the hidden march, a surprise attack by a small group of troops is not very effective, after all, the opponent has a lot of troops.

In the end, it was the Renaissance Army that helped them solve the problem.

"Is there a way for the Renaissance Army to sneak people into Dinsugiya?" Chen Yucheng asked in surprise.

"Yes, we have an intelligence agent who has been operating in the Assam region as a businessman disguised as a caravan." The intelligence officer of the Renaissance Army explained.

"He has already settled his home in Dinsukiya and is very familiar with the officials there. You know, it is impossible for the proud British to interfere with some daily trivial matters. And those Indians and Bengalis,

As long as they are willing to spend money, they are willing to open any back door."

The corruption problem in the management agencies of the British and Indian colonies is indeed serious. Those British officials basically only went to the colonies to gild.

They think that in such a barbaric and backward colony, they can just hang out for a few years and then make a good fortune.

Otherwise, who would think of suffering in such a backward place?

In the eyes of these people, except for Europe, other places are barbaric lands.

Under the leadership of these British officials, underground Indian and Bangladeshi officials followed suit one by one.

Because the money the British received came from their filial piety, they were the ones who took action directly.

In later generations, India's official corruption ranked among the top in the world. A big reason is also due to the influence of colonial traditions.

ps: Two update tasks are completed today. Please give me monthly votes!!! This month I will sprint for 1,000 monthly votes, please gentlemen!


This chapter has been completed!
Previous Bookshelf directory Bookmark Next