According to Henry Pitt's report, the three Muslim lords of Sindh Province are not strong, the population here is only more than three million, and the three lords are equally powerful, all of whom were military generals under Aurangzeb, but after several generations, there is no courage of the ancestors for a long time, the army is lax, and the armament is lax, Zhou Lang only sent 3,000 troops, and defeated the more than 20,000 people they put together in turn.

Now that the three lords had sued for peace and promised to give more trade concessions, the magnate who had offended the Chinese East India Company had his head cut off and sent to Karachi by their lords, hoping for a ceasefire now.

Henry Pitt was anxious to create the same glory as Clevour, and to catch up with the power of the British East India Company in India today, and he could take advantage of this spirit. But Henry Pitt was too aggressive, and he was anxious to extend the scope of his direct territory to the level of the British East India Company, which was not possible.

Zhou Lang attaches great importance to the affairs of Karachi, the reason is very simple, this may be his first base in India, if you can keep it in the competition between colonists, the role depends on your ability, it may be useless, or it may be infinite.

However, after the British won the Battle of Plassey, they did not directly include Bengal into their direct territory, but supported a puppet prince, allowing the prince to cede a large area of territory to the East India Company, but the vast majority of Bengal land was still ruled by this puppet prince.

It wasn't until eight years later, when the Bengali puppet princes rebelled against the East India Company, and colluded with the neighboring Otder princes and Mughal emperors, all of whom were defeated by the British army, and even occupied the territory of the Otto-German dynasty, that the British began to rule Bengal directly, and it took them eight years to establish their direct ruling ability.

Now Henry Pitt wants to annex Xinde immediately, not because it can't be done, but because the cost may be very high.

Zhou Lang learned that most of India is dominated by Hindu beliefs, but the ruler may be a Muslim conqueror, such as the Mughal Dynasty, which is such a Muslim conquering force, and the Mughal emperor canonized a large number of his own military nobles to be princes in various places, causing the phenomenon of India being divided. By the time the British annexed Bengal, the Mughal Empire had already been invaded by successive Muslim warlords from Persia and Afghanistan, and even the Emperor surrendered once, and even the Persians forcibly installed a puppet emperor of their kind in the Mughal Dynasty.

It is impossible for such India to resist the encroachment of the British, and it should not be difficult to invade the trust by itself now.

It is credible that it is different from the situation of the mainstream Muslim aristocracy ruling the Indian people, the people here are weird, and the three Muslim countries in Sindh Province are all **** countries, which is difficult to do. Zhou Lang knew that there were not many foreign forces in history that could successfully rule the Muslim country, and if one did not do it well, it would provoke endless resistance.

After careful consideration, Zhou Lang would rather take the first step slowly, but also take the first step steadily.

So he told Henry Pitt that it would be difficult for him to send more forces into India, and that the company must have the strength to protect itself, and suggested that the war should be ended by ceding territory, and he suggested that the company should be ceded within thirty miles of the coast of Sindh. At the same time, the company was granted the privilege of trading in Sindh, on terms of which were referred to the agreements signed between the East India Company and the Maharajas.

Zhou Lang also suggested that Henry Pitt must pay attention to local beliefs, and that he can carry out political reforms, but try to maintain the status quo in religion. He also said that he would provide sufficient help in this regard, because China has a large number of Muslims of the same faith, and some of them scholars served in China's old government and have a lot of experience in managing agricultural production. Given that Sindh is an area with excellent agricultural conditions, these officials should be able to play a significant role.

As for business, Zhou Lang allowed Henry Pitt to recruit his favored personnel from China and even Western countries to build the port of Karachi in his way, and Zhou Lang even suggested that Henry Pitt could dig talent from the East India Company with high salaries.

Zhou Lang was discussing with Henry Pitt as a shareholder of the China East India Company, but Zhou Lang was now the emperor of China, and the authorization of the company was issued by him, and his suggestion could not be ignored by Henry Pitt.

But this British aristocrat who was in a hurry may not be convinced, now this person is too important, and Zhou Lang is unwilling to force Henry Pitt to be in a hurry.

Because he is an Englishman, the younger brother of the British Prime Minister, he has a great say in the East India Company, which is very likely to provoke British forces. Moreover, the governor of the British East India Company was replaced again, and he was replaced by a strong Sir Wellesley, who had a very strong family background, and his younger brother was called Wellington. He came to India with his brother and his army, and a few years earlier launched the Fourth Mysore War, which annihilated and annexed Mysore, a powerful enemy in southern India.

But then Wellesley set his sights on the Marat Alliance, a much more formidable rival than Mysore, whose Mughal emperor had become a puppet, and which could openly tax the Indian capital, Delhi.

Wellesley is separated from Sindh by a Marat alliance and is unlikely to expand into Sindh for the time being, and Britain is in the midst of an anti-French alliance war in Europe, and it is unlikely that it will provide enough troops to India. Wellesley could not have ignored the Chinese factor, so the chances of a conflict between the two sides were slim.

But if Henry Pitt invited Wellesley, the other party would definitely not mind swallowing Xinde Province, after all, no matter how you look at the expansion of the new Chinese East India Company, it will be a competitor of the British East India Company in the future, and it is impossible for a politician like Wellesley not to have this foresight.

If Henry Pitt did not want the British East India Company to intervene, it would have been more likely that the East India Company would have exercised restraint in the event of its ambitions. In the end, it may be to cooperate with Chinese companies rather than to compete.

Therefore, Zhou Lang is not at ease with Henry Pitt now, and it is difficult to find a more suitable person than him.

Therefore, after suppressing Henry Pitt's expansion ambitions, Zhou Lang immediately proposed to support Henry Pitt to become the governor of the Chinese East India Company, and he would have absolute power in India, similar to the British governor of the British East India Company. and told him that, in principle, he was in favor of the question of Sindh, and therefore supported him in using the company's financial resources for the later conquest of Sindh. Zhou Lang was willing to send mature officers to help him assemble a local army in Sindh Province to use in a war of conquest.

Eventually, the two agreed, and Henry Pitt agreed to accept Zhou Lang's dispatch of civilian officials to manage the agricultural development of the company's territory, and he would take full charge of the commercial development. The company will not pay dividends to shareholders for the next five years, and all profits will be used to build a local armed force, and Zhou Lang will provide military assistance, including sending officers and selling weapons.

Henry Pitt also decided to leave China and take up his post in Karachi, where he would establish the Indian base of the Chinese East India Company, or the capital. The Management Board will remain in China, with Henry Pitt representing him on a three-member committee, which will be responsible for the overall development of the company's commercial business in China and the long-term support for the company's growth.

Zhou Lang also fulfilled his promise quickly, and even couldn't wait to start acting.

Sending officials from China, for him, it means too much.

Zhou Lang has always believed that the expansion of any country and nation will eventually come down to the expansion of civilization. Chinese civilization has never been a civilization that is good at expansion, and it is not a civilization that is keen on expansion. Successive dynasties even strictly forbade the export of books, because Chinese civilization is an agricultural civilization, with a strong small-scale peasant mentality, he is proud of himself, feels that everything is good, so he does not want to share his best things with others. China is also a civilization that respects literati, so it believes that the most precious things are those books written by literati. Think of the gift of books as a kind of grace.

Therefore, when Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, she could bring a large number of classics, but in foreign trade, the export of books was strictly checked, and Japan was keen to smuggle all kinds of books from China for a long time, because it was difficult to obtain.

Under this concept of civilization, most of the export of Chinese civilization was accompanied by the export of Chinese immigrants, and the successive dynasties did not encourage immigration, all of which caused Chinese civilization to be far inferior to India in terms of expansion. In fact, there are only four or five countries in the real Chinese civilization circle, North Korea counts one, Vietnam counts one, Ryukyu counts one, and Japan still retains a large number of its own characteristics, which can only be counted as half. The Indian civilization has long expanded to China's doorstep, and the two countries of Burma and Siam are far larger than the Chinese civilization under the influence of Indian civilization.

Even China itself has been exported by Indians, for example, Buddhism is completely a religion from India.

But Zhou Lang always firmly believes that this is by no means the reason why Indian civilization is higher than China in history, but that Chinese civilization is not good at exporting. In the classical period, the most powerful tool for the export of civilization was the spread of religion. However, China's native religion is not good at this, and is more keen to integrate with the government and obtain resources, rather than develop through civil expansion. So Confucianism in China dominated political thought, and Taoism gained the trust of the king. On the contrary, Buddhism from India occupied the minds of the common people.

But the strength of religion does not mean the absolute strength of a civilization, if this is the case, the Jews are the most powerful civilization, because Judaism is the source of Christianity and Islam. But it is clear that the Jewish civilization does not have the qualifications to be compared with the Chinese civilization, and although the Jews are excellent, they have always been dependent on other civilizations in terms of civilization.

Zhou Lang's dispatch of officials to India this time is a reverse import of civilization, and whether it can be successfully exported is related to whether Chinese civilization is really better.