Section 665 Half a year flat India

Around the world, China and Britain have been promoting their more conscientious ways of ruling over the years, with China criticizing Britain for plundering India's poor too much and Britain criticizing China for interfering too much in the human rights of India's elites.

What do Indians think about this issue?

Mixed likes and dislikes!

Whether it is corporate India or British India, there are a large number of Indian elites who are waving the flag for the suzerain. This is the so-called spiritual Chinese or spiritual British. In British India, there were a large number of beneficiaries, either tax collectors who were dependent on the British government, who could oppress their fellow citizens, maintain their economic conditions and power, and whose descendants were educated in England and studied at Oxbridge, and it was impossible not to raise their voices for the British rulers.

Within the company, too, there are a large number of vested interests. Mainly from the landed class, or the gentry class with Indian characteristics, they became officials through the imperial examination and became Indian-style eunuchs and famous families. They also receive a good education, and their children are able to go to Chinese universities. Nor can they fail to raise their voices for African companies.

Similarly, in British India and corporate India, a considerable number of nationalists were born. By embracing modern culture, they began to see India for the first time as one people, rather than as a variety of different peoples. At the same time, they are also trying to fight for an Indian national state, but in the process of fighting for it is different.

In British India, these nationalists, who had absorbed Western national ideas, were dissatisfied with British rule. He hated the system of rule maintained and enforced by the British colonial government, and was extremely repulsive to the traditional religious beliefs of India. They believe that the religious system adhered to by the Hindus, which divides people into countless groups of castes, completely deprives the people of patriotic feelings, and that countless religious ceremonies and precepts deprive the people of the possibility of undertaking any difficult tasks. They regarded the officials who served in the British colonial government, the tax-payers who did all kinds of evil in the countryside and exploited the peasant party through high rents and usury, and the princes of the princely states who rode on the heads of the Indian people, were all foreign slaves who only sought to be promoted and rich.

What they pursued was to radically transform India politically, economically, and culturally, to promote Western political ideas, and to launch a great revolution in India and establish an Indian republic.

In the Indian Dominion Zone, there is also such a group of nationalists, which is slightly different. Because in the process of gradual expansion, China basically eliminated the fragmented feudal system. The government also exercised strong control over religion, although it also brought with it some Chinese hierarchical concepts such as "scholars, peasants, businessmen, and businessmen", and "everything is inferior only to study", but it is nothing compared to the horrific hierarchical system of the caste system in India.

As a result of the domination of the African corporations, it became more thorough, politically implementing a bureaucratic system that combined great unification with the imperial examination system, establishing a traditional small-scale peasant and modern industrial and commercial system economically, and promoting the literati ideology of agrarian civilization culturally.

And because of China's success, the bureaucracy created by the Chinese emperor as a technocratic bureaucracy was one of the most efficient, if not the most efficient, in the world; Economically more equal agriculture and freer industry and commerce are the same as in China; Culturally, agricultural China and agricultural India have something in common in nature, Confucianism is also relatively tolerant and open, and even does not regard itself as a religion, he does not oppose and reject other religions in thought, Confucianism is more of a political thought, so the combination with the local traditional culture is relatively good, and there is no strong cultural confrontation. Confucianism is that set, you love to believe it or not, cultivate the mind in the individual, not compulsory, I believe in the teachings of the saints, act according to the teachings of the saints, more is to produce a sense of nobility in the heart, self-establishment of a sense of superiority that I am a gentleman, as for others, willing to be a gentleman or willing to be a villain, they do not interfere, this is completely different from the religious wars in Europe that will burn people of different faiths.

As a result, the political, economic, and cultural confrontations under corporate India were not intense, and nationalists sought independence rather than reform. And their independence is not to seek to establish a republic, but to establish a kingdom of Indians, as for who this king is, Indians are actually similar to Europeans, and do not exclude foreign monarchs, because almost all of their monarchs in history are foreigners.

So the nationalists in the Indian region of the company, even when the Chinese crown prince was regent in Assam, near India, heard through the grapevine that the crown prince might be deposed and could not inherit the throne in China, and they also tried to persuade the crown prince to come to India to be emperor. The crown prince, who had once feared for his future, did establish close ties with some Hindu nationalist organizations, and even discussed starting a revolution to establish an Indian empire, as the Portuguese prince did in Brazil.

The attempt of Indian nationalists to establish an Indian empire was normal in an era when monarchy was the mainstream, but the pursuit of a republic by the nationalists in British India was a testament to how disappointed they were with British rule.

But one thing is similar is that these nationalists are relatively peaceful, almost never organized violent revolutions, and historically, even during World War II, independence movements led by Gandhi and others emphasized non-violent non-cooperation, and in this respect, the Indian mentality is really more peaceful than that of the Chinese.

They disdained violence because they would not, or did not dare, or for highly civilized reasons, and as a result, they could only remain colonies of China and Britain.

Objectively speaking, the Indian region under the rule of the company has a higher degree of recognition for the company, while the British India has a greater degree of contradiction.

But this is not the reason why the company is more capable of mobilizing resources in the ruling areas, it is just that the centralization system that the company has spent a lot of money and time to build is more efficient, and the British are unwilling to invest resources to clear the obstacles, maintaining a complex system of direct rule and princely state rule, and at the same time there is a system of indirect taxation by tax collectors, it is impossible to mobilize the power of the whole Indian people from top to bottom.

China's system, based on a unified system, administratively centralized, and a system of armor protection in the countryside, which could enforce orders to every household, was able to establish a strict military service system, while Britain itself was still a conscription system, so it was unrealistic for them to establish a costly compulsory military service system in India.

As a result, they could only maintain an army of 1.5 million, or at most 2 million, under the high-squeeze system, while the African companies quickly armed 5 million men after mobilization, and they had an overwhelming advantage over British India without using a native army at all.

The crown prince's order also reached India, requiring the African company to conquer the whole of India and expel the British from India in a maximum of half a year.

Although the war is fought by African companies, because this is a national war, the Chinese government will bear all military expenses. And it gave a lot of benefits to the African companies, such as the government's promise that after conquering the whole of India, in principle, it would be bounded by the watershed of the central mountain range of the Indian peninsula, and the northern part of the country would be placed under the jurisdiction of the African companies, so that the Indus and Ganges valleys would all be under the company, and the Indus and Bengal would be completely connected, and there would not be an inch of British-occupied land in between. The Chinese government will only form the southern part of the Indian peninsula with the island of Ceylon as an overseas province in order to control the Pauk Strait, which leads to the Indian Ocean. For the princely states of British India, the status quo was to be maintained for the time being, and the question of power in those areas would be discussed after the war.

Although it is the land laid by the African company, according to the relevant system of the company, the supreme sovereignty of the company's territory can always be the emperor's, and without the emperor's authorization, the land occupied by the company has no legitimacy. So the crown prince's promise that African companies would get access to the entire Indus and Ganges basins is a huge benefit. This benefit is enough for them to fight this war, and after the war, an assessment will be made, converted into military spending, and the government will bear the full amount of the more, and the government will bear the full amount of the less. Therefore, the government's assumption of military spending is just a commercial statement, not a direct transfer of money to African companies.

The military expenses paid by African companies during the war, on the one hand, are supported by tax revenues within the territory, and on the other hand, they are financed through the issuance of bonds, and the bonds they issue, guaranteed by the government's credit, win, they get benefits, can offset this debt, and if they fail, the government bears all the military expenditures, and if the land is ceded, it is also commercially appraised, and the ceded land is converted into funds, and the government compensates the African companies.

This system has long formed a pattern, as was the case in the last war, the African companies won the war as the main force, and in the end they got the land north of the Ganges in East Bengal and the Ganges, and the final assessment results, based on the tax balance of the British in the land for thirty years, and finally the government did not bear any military expenses to the African companies, because the wealth squeezed by the British in their dream home is too much, and the wealth extracted in thirty years is more than 2 billion pounds, far exceeding the military expenditure of the company, and the government did not let the company compensate the government in the endAs a result, this wealth, which far exceeded the expenses, sent the shares of African companies soaring.

This time the crown prince's promise was equally generous, and the entire Great Plains south of the Ganges, West Bengal, which had been developed by the British, was more than enough to offset military spending, and as a result, at the beginning of the war, the interest rate on war bonds issued by African companies was not only extremely low, even much lower than the interest rate on the German national debt, but their stocks rose sharply again.

It's just that the conditions of the crown prince are just as harsh, and African companies must conquer India within half a year.

It's not that the crown prince is causing trouble for African companies, it's just that the crown prince doesn't want the war to last too long. Because the state of domestic and foreign affairs he is facing does not allow him to fight a protracted world war like his father!