Chapter 954: The Complete Unification of the Chinese Empire

The secret letter of the Gurkha king Suran Debala asking for help, Feng Yunshan was very moved.

Sulandebala, asking Feng Yunshan to send a large army to march into the Gurkha from southern Tibet, he will send the royal army to defeat the Gurkha army controlled by the powerful minister, and when he returns to power, he will organize the Gurkha army against the British, hoping to get the help of the army of the Celestial Empire of the Chinese Empire.

In the name of his ancestors, Surandbara swore that his Shah dynasty would forever be a vassal state of the Chinese Empire for generations to come. Moreover, he was also willing to obey Feng Yunshan's war call at any time, and mobilized 10,000 Gurkha warriors to fight for Emperor Feng Yunshan at any time. For this point, Feng Yunshan attaches great importance to it. The Gurkha people were good at fighting, especially the Gurkha mercenaries in the British army in later generations, which were very famous and were a rare source of good soldiers. Feng Yunshan saw this condition, so he agreed, willing to help the Gurkha king who was elevated.

However, Feng Yunshan didn't want to send troops directly to the Gurkha to confront the fierce Gurkha army, he thought of another way, since the Gurkha king Suran Debala has openly declared himself a vassal to the Chinese Empire, I can arrange for you to let your Gurkha army unite with Zhe Mengxiong to attack Bulukeba, and the territory and booty obtained will be distributed by your proportion, so that the poor Gurkha soldiers who make a living from war will naturally yearn for it, even if the powerful ministers are unwilling to send troops, they can't stop it, and the interests are there. More than half of the Gurkha army originally controlled by the Gurkha army has been sent to India to assist the British in quelling the rebellion, and the Gurkha army left in the Gurkhas, especially the capital Kathmandu, is not particularly large.

For Feng Yunshan, everyone is the same, as long as they listen to their own words, it will be beneficial to the Chinese Empire.

In addition to the secret missions sent by the Gurkhas, the pilgrimages of several other kingdoms were very grand.

At this time, it was not the time to pay tribute, just because these vassal countries saw that the Chinese Empire had defeated the British Expeditionary Force, so they hurriedly took this opportunity to pay tribute, which made Feng Yunshan sigh, it felt really good that the national strength was strong.

Although he is not yet 20 years old, he has already stepped into the front desk from behind the scenes, officially ascended the throne and became the lord of Japan, with the assistance of the main ruler of the shogunate. The so-called title of emperor has been abolished, after all, it is impossible for a vassal country to have an emperor, and there is only one emperor in the entire East, which is Feng Yunshan, the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

Tokugawa Ieshige had no descendants, so he directly sent his nominal heir, his brother Tokugawa Keiki, as an envoy, and presented 100 beauties and one million taels of gold to the suzerain, the Chinese Empire, as a tribute.

The Siamese kingdom sent the Siamese prince Chulalongkorn to carry eight elephants and countless pearls, shells and precious stones in twenty merchant ships, as well as countless fine agricultural products, which were specially paid tribute to the imperial palace.

The tribute delegation sent by the Burmese lord was even more huge, dozens of truckloads of Burmese treasures arrived in Shengjing from Mandalay into Yunnan by land, and arrived at Shengjing by waterway from Yangon coastal road, and more than 30 cargo ships loaded with jewels and jade such as rubies, sapphires, jade, and exotic trees and plants were sent to the imperial palace.

Not only that, the king of Siam and the king of Burma probably discussed and directly wrote to the south of the two places connecting the two places of Burma's Old City and Hua Hin Town in Thailand, which is equivalent to the entire Malay Peninsula, and all of them were directly assigned to the Chinese Empire.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but smile when he saw this scene. Undoubtedly, both the Burmese king and the Burmese king were wise men. In particular, the king of Burma, seeing that the Chinese Empire had defeated even the powerful British expeditionary force, was so frightened that he hurriedly sent an embassy to pay tribute. Moreover, after they found out that the Chinese Empire occupied the original Straits Settlements of LinkedIn, they immediately realized that the emperor far away in the east must have wanted to control the entire Malay Peninsula and the capital, so in order to prevent the army from coming to claim it, they took the initiative to hand over their own territory on the Malay Peninsula, which was really a helpless move to survive.

Feng Yunshan also had to admire the wisdom of their choice. I really want to occupy the entire Malay Peninsula, after all, there are now the majority of Chinese, and the Strait of Malacca, which guards the vital navigation route, must be in my own hands. And in order to fully control the Strait of Malacca, the land of the Malay Peninsula must be fully controlled in the hands of the Chinese Empire, when the naval strength of the Chinese Empire is not strong enough. In this way, the entire Malay Peninsula and Nisan and other places will be connected, and the entire Gulf of Thailand will almost become the inland sea of the Chinese Empire.

And what Feng Yunshan was most concerned about was actually the mission sent by the Sikh Maharaja. The Sikh mission was not very large, perhaps fearing that the British colonies in India would find out, and the mission had a somewhat secret stouch. In his letter of state, Samit Kumar claimed that he sent 8,000 horses directly from the Lahore region to Shidakai, the king of Kashgar in western Xinjiang, as a congratulatory gift to the Chinese Empire. Feng Yunshan was naturally happy about this, but he already knew very well that Summit Kumar must have a special purpose as a person.

Sure enough, the younger brother of the Sikh envoy Samit Kumar, a young man who had been in Guangzhou for a long time, took the opportunity to ask his brother when he visited Feng Yunshan.

The Sikh kingdom has quietly gathered nearly 50,000 Sikh troops near Chandigarh in Punjab, and is preparing to mobilize another 50,000 troops from Lahore and other places within a month to attack the Indian city of Delhi. Not only that, but Samit Kumar claimed that he also contacted more than a dozen princes in the northwestern and central states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra to start a new round of anti-British struggle. He asked the Chinese Empire to send troops into India, and if not work, at least sell tens of thousands of muskets to their Sikh army. It is believed that after more than two years of strength accumulation, even if they can't completely annihilate the British army in India, at least most of the Indian states can become independent.

Feng Yunshan smiled.

Summit Kumar's move, he couldn't ask for. Unlike the Mughals, the Sikh kingdom was not like the Mughals, and although they practiced Sikhism, which was separated from the Hindu congregation, it was very different from Hinduism, and the main population of the Indian states was Hindu, which made it impossible for the Sikh kingdom to unify India. For such a kingdom that is impossible to unify India, Feng Yunshan wants to vigorously support it.

He immediately said to the Sikh envoy, "I fully grant your Maharaja's request!" But first, show the sincerity of your Sikhs: First, the Sikh Kingdom officially tore up the armistice with Britain and declared war on Britain a month later. Second, the Sikh kingdom sent another 10,000 war horses to the city of Kashgar. After waiting for two o'clock to be completed, I will ask the righteous king Shi Dakai to prepare 30,000 muskets in Kashgar City, and when your war horses arrive, you can trade them directly. ”

Feng Yunshan is not afraid that Summit Kumar will not agree. He knew very well that as the British slowly put down the Indian rebellion, the Sikh Kingdom, the largest rebel force, would definitely become a thorn in the side of the British colonial government in India, and it would not be long before the British would mobilize troops to clean up the Sikhs.

It is estimated that Samit Kumar must have understood this, so as soon as he heard that the Chinese Empire had defeated the British Expeditionary Force, he immediately sent a mission to secretly invite the British army to attack India. In view of this, Feng Yunshan did not want to really send an army to attack India, the current land area of the Chinese Empire is already very large, and it is estimated that it will take at least ten years just to digest it. What's more, Feng Yunshan doesn't have much good impression of that part of India, a religious country with a large population, not to mention how many troops are needed to conquer it, even if it is reluctantly occupied, the quelling of rebellions everywhere and the control of the people are very headaches, after all, this nation is not within the scope of the Chinese cultural circle at all. Unless Feng Yunshan made up his mind to directly subdue this nation by bloody slaughter, but Feng Yunshan asked himself that it was still difficult to do, with a population of two or three hundred million, how many people would have to be killed? Feng Yunshan felt that it was better to indirectly control India by cultivating agents, and to emulate the British but not to imitate them entirely, but to just loot wealth from India.

Of course, Feng Yunshan will also learn the lessons of later generations and never let this South Asian continent be unified, even if it is a vassal state of the Chinese Empire. You must know that the original India was not a country at all, and it was because the British colonial authorities unified hundreds of states throughout the Indian subcontinent that the later India was born. A divided India is what the Chinese Empire needs most.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan did not tell the Sikh envoys that although the Chinese Empire would not send troops, it would order the Kingdom of Burma to send troops to capture Assam. At the same time, Feng Yunshan would secretly send spies to incite the Bengalis to rise up against the British, and ask the Burmese kingdom to help the Bengalis. Of course, for Burma, it is also undesirable, first, they are mortal enemies with the British, and secondly, the captured territories will always carve out some territory to be annexed to Burma.

And the thing that made Feng Yunshan happiest was that the great lama of Lhasa in Tibet left the temple and led the Tibetan delegation to Shengjing to officially worship himself, the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

As early as a few years ago, at the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, Feng Yunshan sent an envoy to Lhasa in Tibet to contact the great lama, but unfortunately, the other party ignored him at all. Later, the Chinese Empire basically unified the whole country and expanded strongly, occupying the western frontier in the west, invading the East in the east, touching the Beihai in the north, and reaching the Nanyang in the south. Unexpectedly, now, after defeating the British Expeditionary Force, the Lhasa Grand Lama, the religious leader of the region closest to heaven and the highest in the world, personally led a delegation of more than 2,000 people to Shengjing to ask for a holy meeting.

After a tedious meeting, Feng Yunshan understood one thing: the great lama in Tibet was probably afraid that the war would burn to Tibet, so he directly proposed to Feng Yunshan that Tibet should be officially included in the arms of the Chinese Empire.

At this point, Feng Yunshan breathed a long sigh of relief: the Chinese Empire was finally completely unified.