Chapter 974: 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'
The conditions of the British were quite harsh, but after the Chinese openly 'supported' Bahadur, they dared to get involved, and in fact it was very good that the British could have this kind of reaction.
Because at present, for the British, a weak but unified Mysore can better earn enough benefits from it, because Chen Han will not allow Mysore to be destroyed, based on this premise, a weak Mysore is the most in their interests in India.
This is also the most important reason why the British are willing to support Gulzari and Singh. The British intervened in the war in Mysore and had already offered to provide the necessary economic and ordnance assistance to Gulzari and Singh.
But they can't really challenge China's majesty.
The East India Company was well aware of the troubles that the British were suffering on the home continent, which could no longer afford to devote more forces to India.
In this case, they can only lurk, avoid the sharp edge of the Chinese, and protect their existing interests to the greatest extent.
But blind evasion is not a tradition of the Anglo-Saxons, and maintaining a small intensity of counterattacks in 'evasion' always reminds the Chinese that the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain must be protected. That's what London wants.
In addition to this reason, it also has a lot to do with Bahadur's personal factors. As the successor of the Tipu Sultan, Bahadur did not have much prestige within the Kingdom of Mysore, and was not a strong leader in the eyes of the British, but he was the only person to keep Mysore and stabilize the situation in south-central India.
Needless to say, Haider Ali Khan's manoeuvre, the British's strategic plan for south-central India had suffered a complete failure because of him; Tiepu Sultan is also known as the Tiger of Mysore, that is, Bahadur, and behaves less like a general than a king.
Both Britain and China have a good impression of Bahadur.
The British were willing to see signs of the rise of local power in the Kingdom of Mysore, but they were also unwilling to see the emergence of a second Tiepu Sultan and the fall of Bahadur.
So while the British were in contact with Singh and others, they were also in contact with Bahadur.
The Chinese signed an arms purchase agreement with Bahadur at a rapid pace, which in the eyes of the British was simply China's support for the Bahadur regime in Hongguoguo.
It can be said that so far, although the British have declared neutrality in the civil war of the Kingdom of Mysore on the surface, they have actually favored Singh and Gulzari, but China is an exception!
Today's China seems to have made up its mind to support Bahadur early.
Even the most ignorant people know that China has been the goal of the Mysore royal army over the years, and that Mysore's 'modernization' is largely dependent on China's support, and it is said that China has single-handedly forged the current Mysore.
Even the tax reform and police system promoted by Tiepu Sultan are rumored to have been proposed by Chinese people who remained in Seringabadan.
From another point of view, China is also the hero of Mysore's reach, the rebellion in Mysore, the assassination of Tiepu Sultan, all the causes are tax reform and the police system. Of course, this statement is unacceptable to many Mysorean people.
In the 'eyes' of many Mysorean people, China and Mysore are like Japan and China in the late Qing Dynasty in the original time and space history.
That is the direction in which Mysore is heading and is the benchmark for Mysore's efforts.
In fact, China at this time and Japan in the history of time and space really have changed a lot.
Because China's purpose is really to make Mysore strong, Tiepu Sultan is Chen Ming's trump card against the British.
In Japan, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Japan supported the Chinese revolution, not for the sake of China's republic, but because it wanted to mess up the situation in China, and at the same time wanted to fish in troubled waters and let one China fall apart.
And the history of the original time and space has also proved that Japan's support for Sun Cannon can be said to be its wisest decision since the Russo-Japanese War!
After the Xin New Year, China was torn apart, and the warlords fought each other for decades, not to mention the development of industry in these decades, even at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The Japanese, on the other hand, have reaped huge benefits that have driven their entire country crazy.
And now, for this reason, the Chinese consul in Guli has officially asked to meet Singh. Singer felt very bad in his heart.
But he did not expect that the first thing the consul said when he met him: "Our country is willing to provide loans and military supplies to His Honorable Highness!" ”
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Today's relationship between China and Mysore [India] is very different from the relationship between China and Japan in the original time and space.
The relationship between modern China and Japan in the original time and space can be said to be extremely complicated, and the overall direction is even in a state of hostility! It can be said that since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has begun to regard China as a potential enemy! The original goal of the Japanese Navy was even more clear and direct to the Beiyang Naval Division, and a war in the First Sino-Japanese War was the best reward for Japan's hard work for decades.
Since then, China has become Japan's 'wet nurse'. Whether it was the market or industrial raw materials, Japan got everything it wanted from China, and it also passed the most dangerous stage in the early days.
Without China's bottomless market to support the sales of Japan's inferior goods, how could Japan's economy transform? Why is it developing so fast?
Not as much as the 10 Koreas that China has 'helped' Japan to do.
And in order to make China the most in line with Japan's interests, supporting Sun Cannon has become a national policy of Japan. Perhaps Japan did not expect that Sun Dacang would really set off a great revolution in China to bury the Qing Dynasty after ten years of hard work. Perhaps their original intention was just to create trouble for China and drag China back.
But the current Kingdom of Mysore and China will not have such a relationship.
China is now like Britain cultivating the second in Europe, making the Kingdom of Mysore stronger little by little. Instead of blindly treating Mysore as a cash cow, China is a real help to Mysore, not a blind squeeze. Whether it was the original Prussia or the later Germany, there was a sweet life between the British and the British, right?
There was also a honeymoon between Mysore and China, and although China took the initiative to back down and let the honeymoon period come to an end, this does not mean that the people of Mysore hate China anymore.
And in the hearts of many Mysorean people, including Singh, the Chinese support the well-rooted Bahadur. When Tiepu was assassinated on the seaside, the news reached Seringa Badan, and Bahadur hurriedly took people to the seaside, and at that time, the entire capital was silent before the storm. The Bahadur people no longer have Salinga Badan, but they can finally suppress Singh and Gulzari to 'escape', relying on the Chinese.
The Chinese who stayed in Mysore all supported Bahadur. It is precisely because of this that Salinga Badan did not change color, and Bahadur did not lose his biggest base.
But now the Chinese are telling Singh that they want to lend money and trade arms to Singh. Singh's first feeling was that his ears were getting water.
Consul Chen Han in Guli was surnamed Huang, and Consul Huang looked at Singh with a ghostly look and asked, "Your Highness, who told you that my big Han supports His Highness Bahadur?" How many days has this happened? How could Nanjing's reply be so fast? ”
Now Chen Han's hands in Mysore are scattered, and the minister has not been reinstated, whether it is Seringa Badan or Guri, they are all consuls, with the rank of six ranks, and no one is older than the other.
Naturally, each has its own tendencies.
In the case of the Yellow Consul in front of him, he has a hundred confident beliefs that the empire will not want to see Bahadur sweep through Singh and Gulzari. Therefore, it is necessary to give Singh some help appropriately, enhance Singh's confidence, and enhance Singh's strength.
After Consul Huang left, Singh still didn't recover for a while.
The great god Brahma is above, and the first moment Singh received Consul Huang's visit, all he thought of was: This must be for Habadur as a lobbyist. Where did you think that people would send money and guns?
Although Singh paid for the control of the Guri customs, he also paid for the local salt administration.
- India's salt industry is ancient, but the Kingdom of Mysore is no less than the salt-rich region, which is mainly in the Gujarat region of northwestern India, which is now controlled by the Marathas.
Therefore, these two tax systems are still quite valuable. Of course, if Chen Han wants to ensure the validity of the entente signed by Singh, they must also ensure the existence of Singh's forces.
Singh had thought that Consul Huang was here to be a lobbyist for Bahadur, but it wasn't that he was cowardly.
After Bahadur had already signed an arms purchase agreement with China, the disadvantage in weapons made the Singh regime look precarious. Perhaps Singh and Gulzari could take the lead, one southwest and one southeast, and launch an offensive against Seringa Badan. Before the Chinese arms were delivered to Bahadur, Bahadur's head was chopped off.
But the possibility is too small and too small.
However, Singh did not expect that Consul Huang would be on his side. This surprise came too suddenly, and it was too big.
"Although I and Consul Zhang of Seringa Badan belong to the same country, aren't your Highness and His Highness Bahadur also from the same country?"
The subtext of Consul Huang is: Who said that the people of a country should have the same position?
This is really the most happy sentence that Singh has heard in the past few days.
It doesn't matter if China is preparing to meddle in Mysore's internal affairs, or if it intends to see itself as their proxy in Mysore, in India. Anyway, Singh is from. If he doesn't come from China, now he has no bright future; Only from China can he have a better tomorrow.
These things were all things that had happened before Chen Ming received the accident in Mysore. But Consul Huang was right about the situation.
Chen Ming really didn't want to see Bahadur sweep Singh and Gulzari without difficulty, and he felt that it was more in Chen Han's interests in India to maintain a 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'.
Although Tiepu's death turned Mysore's trump card into an old K, and greatly reduced its role in containing the British, it was also more convenient for China to return to Mysore and have a deeper impact on the Kingdom of Mysore, right?
From a certain point of view, this is not a good opportunity for China to expand its interests in India.
In addition, he could use it to gain some advantage from the British and the Marathas.
Because Chen Ming is extremely convinced, the British and Hyderabad certainly do not want to see a stable, unified and growing Mysore.