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The scale of China's cotton textile industry is larger than that of the United Kingdom, but most of the cotton yarn is self-produced, and cotton can be imported, but most of the cotton yarn is self-produced, and a small part is imported, mainly from countries with low wages such as Japan and North Korea, as well as overseas territories such as the Americas.

Cotton processing in British India is mainly to process local cotton, but the export is more raw cotton, but now the rural areas are very chaotic, otherwise the farmers will not pour into the cities as refugees, and the rural order has collapsed, resulting in the interruption of cotton planting, and the processing of local cotton is basically impossible. Raw materials imported from the Indus River region are competing with Japan and North Korea for raw material resources, the price of cotton naturally rises, exports are in competition with other countries, and the price of cotton yarn falls again.

Zhou Gu knew that the root cause was the abrupt interruption of exports to Britain, which was the largest market for British India. But the resumption of exports to the UK, which is basically impossible. Even after the war, it is likely that it will not be able to recover.

The focus must be on solving the problem of local raw materials, the urban order is easy to solve, the rural order is difficult to solve, because of the war, because of the famine, mainly the famine caused by the war, so that the rural production order collapses.

Now that the Chinese landing force is no longer limited to the coastal ports, the front has advanced deep into the hinterland, and the entire Pondicherry, the Indian peninsula south of Cochin, and the great princely state of Hyderabad in the center have been occupied. The Southern Route Army was attacking Madras Chennai, the most important city in British India after Calcutta, and attacking Hyderabad, the largest princely state in central China. The Northern Front, the main forces that crossed the Indus, had already begun to attack the twenty independent princely states of Kolkata, Raja Pudana.

It can be said that the speed of the march was extremely fast, and it was already an overnight time that the two armies converged and occupied the whole of British India. But the faster the march, the more serious the law and order problem becomes.

The complexity of the various forces far exceeded the situation encountered by Zhou Gu when he was in Manipur, when he felt that he was in chaos, how could such a small country have so many peoples, so many languages, so many hatreds and so many grievances.

But now compared with India, it is simply a small thing, and the independent forces here are based on hundreds, hundreds of princely states, hundreds of different ethnic groups, hundreds of large and small religions, and saint forces. Sometimes, Zhou Gu even sympathized with the British, who had maintained their rule in this place for hundreds of years, but sometimes he hated the British, who had ruled for hundreds of years, and the Age of Discovery, but the British did not make any effort to solve the chaos here. The book is the same text, the car is the same track, they haven't taken any measures!

Zhou Gu constantly visited the rural areas behind, and the complexity of the shape was beyond imagination. There were the poor scrawny Indian peasants under the rule of the tax collectors, the very rich super-large farms run by British commercial capital, the princes of the small princely states who were in fact bankrupt but decent, the princes of the great princely states who were so rich but stingy that they were so stingy, the millions of yeoman farmers, the tens of millions of tenant farmers who cultivated their own land and rented tenants, and the tens of millions of landless hired people who had no land at all. There is an agricultural situation that China has, and there is an agricultural situation that China does not have.

The peasants who are always on the verge of bankruptcy, after being squeezed dry by the landlords and colonists, the profiteers will climb up and suck the bone marrow, and the peasants on the verge of bankruptcy are not useless in their eyes, but fat sheep, and usury is popular here. When it was impossible to survive without borrowing money, even the devil's money peasants dared to borrow it, and if they borrowed it, they could not pay it back, so they could only sell their children and daughters, and human trafficking was completely open here.

Zhou Gu was in power in Manipur, and he heard a lot of news about India, and he once believed in the exploits that the British colonists boasted about, such as the abolition of the human inquiry system that they had touted for hundreds of years. But now Zhou Gu doesn't believe it, there are so many sins, so many injustices, so many sufferings, how many of them are caused by the colonizers, and don't they cause more damage than the construction they brought?

However, Zhou Gu was still able to remain rational under his anger, and he still negotiated with those British-funded farms, sent people to inform them to resume production as soon as possible, and if they lacked capital, he could even introduce loans to them. If production does not resume, their land will be auctioned off by the government to investors willing to resume production. Of course they will get the money from the auction, but obviously in this case, the auction price will be so low that it will be tearful.

The British farms were forced to recruit workers and resume farming, and the farming time was already wrong. Many cotton fields are deserted, so soybeans are planted instead. It was really impossible to open a farm, and even the owner of the farm could not be found for the time being, so the government took over directly, and transferred batch after batch of grassroots officials from African companies, and they had no problem organizing agricultural production.

Every effort was made to restore rural production, and in this agrarian country, ninety percent of employment came from agriculture. Resuming production means reducing losses and, more importantly, solving the refugee problem. Unemployed workers in rural areas can't find a job, so they don't have anything to eat, so they run to the city.

All the efforts paid off, and the self-adaptation of the people, combined with the extreme endurance of the Indians, led to the recovery of the economy before the feared general social upheaval began, and five months after the start of the war, the widespread famine in the occupied territories gradually ended.

The railways operated by the British colonial government and private companies were basically auctioned off to African companies, who managed the fragmented railways in one place, repaired damaged sections, and unified track standards. In one India, there are more than a dozen different track standards. The standards in the east are different from those in the west, the standards in the mountains are different from those in the plains, the plains are broad-gauge, the mountains are narrow-gauge, and the standards between the narrow gauges and the narrow gauges are not the same, one meter, or even only 70 centimeters, is simply a toy train. There are two meters of broad gauge and some are one meter eight.

Now, except for a few mountainous areas, the unified gauge has been revised to two meters, and the track gauge is unified, so that locomotives can be transferred from China and transportation resumed.

African companies already have extensive experience in managing railways, and even the few companies in the world with experience in managing cross-border railways. In addition to building a large number of railways in Africa, African companies also built a railway across India from the Indus River to Bengal in Indian territory, and extended the railway through Persia to the Ural Mountains, connecting it to the European railway network.

Managing a country's rail network is nothing compared to that.

It was undoubtedly the right thing to hand over the entire occupation zone railway to the African companies, whose engineers found the best solution, and in order to restore traffic as quickly as possible, they focused on renovating the main lines first, and the branch lines first to maintain the cluttered standards. The main line was restored, and then the branch railway was modified one by one. The track gauge is commanded, and from the railways within the company's territory, a locomotive can even drive directly to the southern part of the Indian peninsula.

The resumption of transportation has allowed supplies from rural areas to be transported in large quantities to cities, to ports, and then to export. In exchange for other necessities such as grain, it is then sold back to the countryside through ports, cities, and finally to the countryside.

Transportation is the key to solving famine.

Finally, by the sixth month, on the west bank of India, the company armies that had moved south and north had converged, and the British army was left with only Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, as well as the surrounding small areas, and the number of troops had dropped to 500,000, and they were all surrounded.

Originally, the African Company expected that after the war, the British would be able to organize an army of up to three million, and they had a rudimentary military service system in British India, and some veterans were always registered and ready to be drafted at any time. But who knows, the British did not have this opportunity, and the general outbreak of famine disrupted administrative relations.

Bombay, Madras and Kolkata, as the most important cities of the Anglo-Indian government, plus they knew that once a war began, it would be impossible to control the sea, so they built a large number of fortified batteries here in recent years, and 500,000 people hid in these fortifications, and the forced attack not only suffered huge losses, but also ran out of time.

The half-year period given by the crown prince was less than ten days left, and ten days was obviously not enough to overcome these stubborn British troops.

Zhou Gu understood this situation, he did not order a day and night attack, but sent people to contact the Anglo-Indian defenders, and the people sent out were all well-known figures, in addition to the official representatives of the African company, there were also Catholic bishops from Pondicherry, missionary priests from Hyderabad, leaders from various denominations, as well as British, French and other European businessmen, and even captured British and Indian government officials.

The men were sent to prove to the defenders that they would be treated well, and the official delegates were to give an ultimatum to the Anglo-Indian commanders who were surrounded in the isolated city that they had seventy-two hours, or three days, to consider surrender, and that once the date had passed, the company would no longer accept their surrender.

At the same time, Zhou Gu assured the African Company that he would try to persuade the crown prince to lift the six-month restriction, and hoped to make the crown prince admit that the African company had basically completed its mission, and although it did not completely eliminate the British army, the British army had actually been defeated, but it was only a matter of survival.

If he could not convince the crown prince, Zhou Gu promised that he would compensate the African company if he had the opportunity.

The credit of an imperial grandson who is destined to be an emperor is still trustworthy, and African companies are also more willing to deal with Zhou Gu, if the crown prince is the crown prince, it is basically impossible to consult with them, but to put pressure on them directly.

From the crown prince, they can see the eternal elusive temperament of the king in the traditional power technique.

But the imperial grandson Zhou Gu is much more peaceful.

The Anglo-Indian army knew very well that the overall situation had been decided, and the belief that the Indian soldiers adhered to was indeed not good, although this overbearing ultimatum of not accepting surrender after the expiration date made the British feel very dissatisfied and thought it was barbaric, but they still did not dare to challenge this hegemony, and they chose to surrender rationally.

The situation in India was formalized in five months and 26 days.

The British presence in India ended for more than two hundred years, beginning on 31 December 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I granted the East India Company a royal charter granting India trading privileges.

In the Indian direction, Britain is also out!

However, India's story is not over, social order is far from being restored, and it took five to eight years for the North and the South to readjust their economies after the American Civil War. India is a region ten times larger than the north and south of the United States, and it is already very difficult to restore the economic order here from chaos, and it must be broken from the old economic chain and grafted into a new economic system, which is ten times more difficult.

As soon as Zhou Gu finished the battle, he began to plan the restoration of India, and he quickly sent a letter to the crown prince and the emperor, asking for a change in India.

The biggest, and most courageous reform, is that he wants to be here:

The car is on the same track, the book is the same, and the line is the same.

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