No one will give a word about the French!

Between countries, when there is a conflict of interests, no one cares about the interests of the French, of course, the only premise for this is that the French have already stepped on the thief ship, and it is easy to get on the ship and difficult to get off the ship, and now that they are on the ship, no one cares what they think. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, after the outbreak of the Sino-British War, the French had been trying to set foot on this thief ship, and when the British made concessions on many issues in order to stabilize France so that it would not join the Sino-Russian alliance, and used Mexico as a bait, the British did not expect that France would set its sights on another part of the Indian Ocean - Madagascar.

At the end of 1861, in order to test the British, the French demanded the protection of the Sakarava people in the northwestern part of the island under the pretext of the inheritance of the expatriates, but this unreasonable demand was rejected by Radama II of the Kingdom of Madagascar, and the French army immediately bombarded the port of Mahajanga and landed at the port of Tamatave. Although Madagascar fought a war of resistance, just two months later, under military pressure, Radama II signed the so-called treaty of friendship and commerce with France, France recognized the independence and sovereignty of Madagascar, but foreign affairs were led by the French overseer, and the French had the right to lease land in Madagascar for a long time. In fact, Madagascar turned into a French protectorate.

The French were successful in their attempt to prevent the British from interfering with their actions - the British did not even protest and that "protecting" Madagascar was only their first step, and then the French increased their presence in Madagascar under the pretext of eliminating the Malagasy resistance.

Almost the whole world was deceived by the actions of the French, and the reason why the whole world was deceived was because before France sent troops, no one thought that the French did not attack the hinterland of India by first sending a large number of troops to French India, using French India as a stronghold.

French India is the general term for the territories occupied by France in India in the past, including Puducherry, Calica, and Yanam on the Coromandel Coast; Mahi on the Malabar coast and Kindernagar, near the Bay of Bengal. French India is not only 526 square kilometers in size, the largest of which is Pondicherry, but in the opinion of any military expert, the best option for France to send troops to India is to attack from the French Indian colonies.

Even the British could have misjudged precisely because the French did not follow this principle, but instead relentlessly mobilized their troops from the ends of the ocean, thousands of miles away. Just as the situation in Madagascar calmed down and the French threw more of their forces into Mexico, tens of thousands of French troops suddenly appeared in Thiruvananthapuram on hundreds of French merchant ships, and after a brief or even bitter battle, the city was occupied by the French army, and the French tricolor was re-raised, which had been occupied by the Free City of Hamburg centuries earlier, then under French control by French protests, and finally by the British.

Now, after nearly a hundred years of losing the city, the French have reappeared and are constantly sending troops into the Indian hinterland, and like the British, the French with extensive colonial experience have recruited mercenaries in the area immediately after the capture of Thiruvananthapuram.

It was only at this time that people discovered how the French were preparing for all this -- as early as a year earlier, the French had recruited a colonial army with a total strength of more than 10,000 men in their French Indian colonies under the pretext of changes in the situation in Asia, and a few months earlier, under the pretext of the needs of the Mexican battlefield, they had transferred 5,000 men from French India.

But no one could have imagined that this colonial army, consisting of 5,000 Indian soldiers, did not go to Mexico, but waited in Madagascar for several months, and appeared in Thiruvananthapuram with the invading French legion, and became the core force of the newly recruited colonial army. It was precisely because of these colonial armies who were familiar with the French that the French were able to recruit a large number of colonial troops in a short period of time to replenish their strength.

This port city, located at the southernmost tip of the subcontinent, had become the base camp of the French invasion of India, where they gathered nearly 50,000 troops from Madagascar, and a steady stream of reinforcements from the French mainland to Thiruvananthapuram.

As a result, Thiruvananthapuram has been transformed into a military camp, the port is full of French troop carriers, and military camps can be seen everywhere around the city, where tens of thousands of newly recruited local mercenaries are being trained.

At the same time, surprisingly, some Chinese merchants from Burma arrived before the French, appearing in the newly occupied city and selling their wares. As for these merchants from the "allies", they were allowed to use the shops that once belonged to the British in the area of the junction not far from the port, and they were allowed to open shops here, and of course not only ordinary merchants came here, but also some small Chinese traders, who even opened restaurants here to sell Chinese food.

For the French soldiers who had just arrived in India, they could not adapt to the food served in Indian restaurants - because Indians cleaned their hands when they pooped, which was always disgusting, but there was not a single French or British restaurant here, which is why they came to these taverns in droves, and did not have to walk a kilometer or two for a bowl of porridge.

And for these French soldiers in addition to the food in the barracks, if you want to eat something, you can only come to the Chinese restaurant here, and the food provided in the Chinese restaurant is undoubtedly a delicacy that has never been tasted in the eyes of the French soldiers, since it is just a bowl of very simple beef noodles, it is also a rare delicacy in their eyes, and those businessmen from China saw this, and introduced some oriental food and Chinese food that the French have never tasted, and quickly conquered these French, in the eyes of many French officers, Chinese cuisine is even far more than French cuisine.

Of course, it is only a few small traders who open restaurants, and as in Myanmar and the Straits Settlements, it is more Chinese traders from Southeast Asia who are pouring into these areas. After the French occupied Thiruvananthapuram, most of the British merchants in the city fled inland to escape the French, and most of the warehouses in the port were destroyed by shelling, and because of this, the Indians in the city were extremely short of necessities, and with the stability of the city, the number of people buying things gradually increased, at first, most of them used Indian rupees to buy supplies, but soon, some Indians took out paper money and asked to buy things. But in the face of these rupee notes, the Chinese merchants naturally refused to sell to these Indians, after all, everyone knew that with the decline of British rule in India, these banknotes were likely to become waste paper.

When the merchants waved their hands and said, "Get out!" Get out! And then when I drove the Indian natives out, in the vicinity of many Chinese shops on the streets, you could see groups of natives who couldn't buy things, wandering the streets in confusion. Dressed in Indian costumes, they stared blankly at the French soldiers in the streets.

Here, it is clear that no one will sympathize or pity them, this is the miserable situation of being colonized, and it is precisely when they are seen that those overseas Chinese who are engaged in business will sigh at the strength of the country and the benefits of the individual.

And the country's strength has brought rich rewards to overseas Chinese, just like some overseas Chinese opened canning factories here, they shipped equipment from China, and then set up factories here to produce canned food for the army, as for the raw materials for making canned meat, it is the cattle on the street that are regarded as sacred objects by the Indians.

Although Indians do not eat cattle, the Chinese do not have such taboos, these cheap Indian cattle for them, is the best canned raw materials, whether it is the Russian army or the French army, need a large number of canned beef, need Chinese merchants to provide them with raw materials.

In this regard, those Indians can only endure all this, after all, as weak people, no one will care about their interests at all, but soon, the Indians found a market that belongs to them.

For the French soldiers, they were interested in some of the most distinctive local things, and in addition to the fine Indian handicrafts that always attracted the attention of the French soldiers, there were also those who were interested in the beautifully printed rupee banknotes, which could be kept as a souvenir or as a gift - and above all, these things were cheap and could be sent to their families in France along with ordinary letters.

If the soldier got interested, then asked a certain Indian who asked, "Is it okay to go to the five rupee note with a franc?" Immediately, someone would quickly nod their heads and say yes, and then immediately hand over the rupee banknotes, perhaps at this time, what they regret the most is why they had to ask for these ruble notes in the first place.

Then the Indians would use the franc to buy some enamel plates. One franc is enough to buy ten plates. Of course, he did not use them for himself, but took the plates back to the area inhabited by the Indians. There they would sell it for 50 paisa for a plate, and then take the nickel paisa to the Chinese makeshift bank for francs or rupees, but not 100 paisa for one rupee, and it would cost more than twice the usual price, so that they could make a lot of money.

And in the areas where money can't buy anything, Indians live, everything can be bought and sold. And the price is very expensive, there, some even hold only a glass in their hands, and can even be used for trading, and can even be robbed madly, the reason is very simple, the French shelled the city, so that many people lost their homes, lost a lot of daily necessities, and the lack of market materials, especially the shortage of circulating coins, further pushed up prices.

However, for some overseas Chinese businessmen who opened shops, their real purpose was not in the store, their eyes were on the rupee banknotes issued by the Bank of Bangladesh, for the Indians who had adapted to the paper money trade decades ago, they never lacked those banknotes in their pockets, when the Anglo-Indian army was in a complete collapse, ordinary Chinese businessmen and French soldiers mostly thought that those rupee banknotes were like waste paper, so some overseas Chinese businessmen bought them at a low price. After collecting a certain amount of Indian bills of ten rupees into two rupees or three rupees, they would ship those notes to Calcutta. In Calcutta, the capital of the British and Indian authorities, one rupee note could still be exchanged for one rupee, and those weighing three cents and two cents could be exchanged for one national dollar for every 225 pieces. This is a naked currency speculation.

Although the British rule in India was in the process of collapse, because India was not economically collapsed, the value of its paper money was still maintained, and even the French eventually introduced an exchange policy to protect the value of the currency from shrinking in order to ensure that the economy of the colonies did not collapse. In this way, the overseas Chinese businessmen who had experienced the currency exchange in Myanmar and the Russian-occupied territories became nouveau riche overnight, or were about to become nouveau riche. It is precisely because of the existence of these Chinese merchants that the military aggression of the French quickly turned into the economic aggression of the Chinese, and when the French reacted, they found that there were Chinese merchants everywhere, and the French army and Chinese merchants reached a weak balance here, and the French army could not do without the help of these Chinese merchants.

However, the French army, realizing that Chinese merchants were engaged in financial speculation, strictly banned this currency speculation, and then opened exchange offices in the name of the military command to ensure that the lives of ordinary Indians could continue, and of course, to avoid losses in France due to Chinese financial speculation after the war.

But when all was right, the French, whether they wanted it or not, had to face a situation in which a group of merchants very different from the French merchants appeared in the colony they had just occupied, and took advantage of the war to quickly seize the market.

Perhaps this is the biggest difference between this war and previous wars, although the French acquired a large number of colonies from British India through the war, Chinese merchants entered these colonies belonging to the French with the help of the state.

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