Indian civilization and Chinese civilization are always keen to be compared by experts and scholars, but there is no accurate conclusion about who is better, China, and the East Asian countries influenced by China, of course, firmly believe that Chinese civilization is better, but Indians and South Asian countries do not recognize it.

But no one can convince anyone, both sides can come up with a lot of evidence to prove their excellence, both sides have developed a highly developed handicraft industry, achieved quite brilliant ancient scientific and technological achievements, and the population size has always been in the top two in the world. Indians have also exported culture to China, but China has had a hard time exporting culture to India.

Of course, Zhou Lang firmly believes that Chinese civilization is more advantageous, because Chinese civilization is more stable, unlike the Indians, in thousands of years of history, there is basically no local dynasty for a long time, and the most outrageous thing is that it has never completed unification, even during the most powerful Mauryan Dynasty, the southernmost Tamil states of India are still independent.

India has a well-developed religious system, but the core religion may not have been born locally, but was brought about by the Aryan invasion. In the caste system brought by the Aryans, I am afraid that the native Indians of the time existed as untouchables. Just as after the Mongol conquest of China, the Han people in the south, the main ethnic group, were the most humble ethnic group. The various schools of thought in Chinese culture have basically developed independently, and there are hundreds of schools of thought, which are very characteristic of Chinese tradition and have built the deep spirit of the Chinese nation.

Putting aside the concept of national color, Zhou Lang objectively believes that India is a country that is long in religion and culture and clumsy in political culture, and the fact that it has been divided for a long time and has not been unified shows that its political management level is unable to manage the huge population, and these people still live densely in less than one-third of China's territory.

Some scholars believe that why India was conquered again and again by foreign races, while China maintained its independence most of the time, and only the Mongols and Manchurians ruled the whole of China as aliens, saying that it was because of the luck of the Chinese, because China was large enough, had enough buffers, and was more complex and easier to defend, unlike India, where the nomads crossed the Kundula Pass and almost all the horses.

But this is all the more inadequacy of the Indians, who are not only unable to manage a huge population, but also a simpler mountain geography than China. The Chinese can build the Great Wall in the middle of the mountains, but can't the Indians block a Kundula Pass?

In addition, the defense of ancient Chinese dynasties did not rely entirely on steep mountain ranges, the canals in the south of the Yangtze River were more effective weapons to block the northern cavalry, and the rivers in India were more complex than China's, but they were lost again and again, while China was in such a wide range of the Yangtze River, and repeatedly established a defensive line to block the attacks of the northern nomads, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty that was trapped in the south of the Yangtze River for the first time, relying on the direction of the Yangtze River and the Jianghuai defense line, rather than a certain high mountain. The Southern Song Dynasty, which was trapped in the south of the Yangtze River for the second time, also relied on the Yangtze River and Jianghuai, while India had the Ganges and Indus rivers, but did not keep its own country. This shows from the geography of mountains and rivers, although there is some truth, but it is not enough to explain the whole problem.

In addition, Zhou Lang believes that the Indians do not have the comprehensive ability to manage the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and there may be local water conservancy projects that can build wells like palaces, but in the face of such super projects as river control, the Indians have not done enough. Otherwise, their population should not be smaller than China for a long time, but should far surpass China for the vast majority of the time. In the 21st century, China is struggling to adhere to the red line of 1.8 billion mu, and India's 2.4 billion mu of precipitation far exceeds China's arable land, but it is also unable to feed its own people.

These judgments made Zhou Lang believe that even if Chinese civilization does not have an absolute advantage compared with Indian civilization, at least in terms of political management ability, it far surpasses India, so he chose to start from the political level and bring China's traditional agricultural management methods to India.

This kind of agricultural management ability is so widespread in China that it is almost effortless to find a large number of them.

Not to mention those local officials with rich experience in governance, even ordinary local gentry in Guangdong, can call on the villagers to build water conservancy projects, the river embankments and ponds built in the Pearl River Delta, and the mulberry fish ponds that have finally developed, but not the government's credit, which is developed by the clans themselves.

In order to avoid the distrust caused by religious issues, the first batch of officials selected by Zhou Lang were all officials of the Muslim faith, and these officials were also quite numerous in China, of course, the proportion was far inferior to that of the Han Chinese, and even less than the Manchus, but the total number was still quite large. These people believe in Islam, readable political books, the same books of the Four Books and the Five Classics, the knowledge of governing the world, the same agricultural books, textbooks such as the Complete Book of Agricultural Administration.

Zhou Lang personally recruited these personnel, told them that they would go to India to be officials, that the control and treatment should be similar to that in China, and told them to love the people like children.

Zhou Lang is not a conqueror, he is there to spread civilization, not to squeeze wealth. Only by truly bringing benefits to the locals can we get the support of the locals, and this truth remains unchanged for eternity.

After these people arrived in India, they faced many difficulties, the biggest problem being Henry Pitt's non-cooperation. Henry Pitt did not like the soft policy of exempting from taxes, and he hated to follow the example of the East India Company at once, which would raise the taxes and use the collected taxes to extract Indian goods and resell them for a profit.

But these Chinese officials insisted on exempting themselves from taxes, and they also made friends with local nobles, because according to their beliefs, to be an official in a foreign country, he had to build good relations with the local tycoons, and that he could do anything.

Unlike the Chinese family inheritance, the local power in India exists as tax collectors, who have power not because they have the land, but because they have the right to collect taxes.

The East India Company's approach was to raise the tax limits of these contractors and, if they did not agree, to cancel their right to tax. In this way, the East India Company in Bengal transferred the right to pack taxes from a large number of small feudal lords to wealthy merchants, who were more ruthless and efficient than the feudal lords, and the excess taxes they paid to the East India Company were eventually passed on to the peasants, and they were able to get rich as a result. Since the East India Company derives their power from these packagers, they quickly became the East India Company's trusted minions in the management of the Indian ranks.

In the words of the East India Company, it was the cultivation of a landowning class as the backbone of the colonial regime.

Henry Pitt planned to follow the example of the British East India Company and increase the amount of tax packages, delegating the right to tax packages to wealthy merchants, who were newly supported to rule the colonies; But these Chinese civil officials objected, demanding a lighter levy and closer ties with the local landed class, suggesting that they wanted to rule by sharing power with the old powers.

As a result, these literati, who shared the same beliefs as the local ruling class, were soon supported by the traditional Chinese powerhouses, who even used these Chinese civil officials as their backing against the company.

Henry Pitt was very annoyed, and wrote to ask Zhou Lang to transfer these people back, Zhou Lang is a businessman, and he is also very inclined to the East India Company's practice of cultivating new puppets and replacing the old forces, which is really good, the Indians have missed the British for several lifetimes, but there are these British-supported compradors, and in the same way, it is estimated that some forces in Hong Kong are just like that.

But was it the sound of these Chinese civil servants, or was it the British way of establishing a longer and more effective rule?

What finally made Zhou Lang make a decision was that he knew that the British had left in the end, and that China had changed so many emperors back and forth, and it was the landlords who ruled the countryside. The rule of the British can make their mature dogs miss them and sing their praises, but it is not enough to leave an eternal mark on the cultural level, which is after all forcibly stuffing a commercial civilization management method into an agricultural civilization.

The civil officials sent by Zhou Lang were trying to connect China's rural model with India's landed class.

As an output of civilization, he chose to support these people.

He wrote back to Henry Pitt that he should not focus on immediate gains, but should think long-term, and that if he followed the model of the East India Company, he would be a poor imitator and not a brilliant pioneer. He encouraged Henry Pitt to surpass the British East India Company in a pioneering way, which piqued Henry Pitt's competitive spirit.

At the same time, they were told that they would be recalled if they could not produce good results in the management of the countryside within two years. As for the economic losses arising from their tax reduction, Zhou Lang will subsidize them by giving tax rebates to the China East India Company.

With Zhou Lang's strong support and the establishment of good relations with local forces, these civil officials began to put their experience in China into practice. They began to train in the local area to protect armor and organize group exercises. The local lords were called upon to gather the idle peasants during the slack period to carry out the construction of water conservancy projects.

Repair the old water conservancy facilities that already exist in the local area, and build a number of new water conservancy facilities. Although they were mainly for irrigation, there was a certain shipping effect, which made Henry Pitt find that the cost of construction was lower than directly hiring people, and with Chinese subsidies, there were gradually fewer complaints.

In the lower reaches of the Indus River, within the territory controlled by the company, the civil servants built a large number of irrigation canals and improved irrigation conditions. Many new crops were also introduced, such as Chinese rice seeds, silkworms, and mulberry farming. In a large amount of low-lying land that was previously unusable to Indians, the promotion of the mulberry fish pond model has not only increased local food production, but also increased the output of cash crops such as raw silk, which are all popular commodities.

In less than two years, the income level of the local people has increased significantly, and the appeal of these civil officials who like to be on the front line in person even exceeds that of the lords of the past.

At this time, the regimental training formed by the lords had also begun to take shape, and under the training of the Chinese soldiers, they already had a certain combat effectiveness, and it was time to expand externally.