"Disband, disband, disband, ......," Tang Ning commented weakly.

Sissi: "The Governor of the Straits Settlements says that now is the right time to take full control of the East India Company, and he has advised you to buy the shares of the panic-sold stockholders, giving you more than 50% of the voting rights on the board of directors of the East India Company. ”

Downing had been buying shares in the dwindling East India Company, and wasn't that the day he was waiting for? However, he is in a very bad state now, and seems to have lost interest in the East India Company, and has not responded to this piece of information for a long time, and is entangled in silence.

The East India Company now has two options, one is to go bankrupt and stop loss, because India is the most important colony, and the British Empire will never sit idly by and watch India lose control, so it will definitely take over. The other is that the shareholders knocked out their front teeth and swallowed in their stomachs to pay for this great rebellion, and they could only fill it with huge sums of money, and now the East India Company is financially bankrupt. Originally, letting the British government take over was the only option, but now the Straits Settlements' military has shown strong combat effectiveness, and it seems that it can replace the British army to take over India's military affairs, so it has become the second possible choice in the eyes of the major shareholders.

Far away in Australia, the Governor of the Bank of Victoria, Rawlinson, and the Smith family of the Bank of Nottingham are shareholders of the East India Company, they have become accustomed to following Downing to make a fortune, at this time, only Downing is the first to look forward, and the boss will do whatever he wants, anyway, the money they make is enough to make up for the loss of the East India Company's stock, and now the key is whether Downing has the ambition to control India, although this place is important, but it is not profitable, and a qualified investor such as Rothschild and the like must be abandoned, But people with political ambitions are exceptions, and Tang Ning is likely to have political ambitions.

What else did the East India Company have? Nearly 300 million people, tens of thousands of British troops and the glory of the British Empire, the strategic geographical location of the Far East and South Asia. These have long been in Downing's mind, but because he has not expressed his position, Reuters is now addicted to being a governor, and he wants to go further, and keeps using India's political status to lure Downing to buy the East India Company.

Tang Ning was sick and didn't get better, he didn't have the energy to think about these big things, he was really bored by Reuters, okay, then buy it, he said to the "local tyrant's personal princess secretary": "Call that young man." ”

The princess's secretary: "Which lad?" ”

Downing: "J. p。 Morgan. "Now, this lad is one of his many assistants, J. p。 It's an assistant in the direction of finance, and it's going to cost a lot of money, so naturally you have to make a plan and let J. p。 To formulate, Tang Ning himself has no energy.

How much does it cost? For example, this time it's India to buy.

Buying Luxembourg can be regarded as a small purchase, buying Alaska is already a big purchase, buying India...... This is a big deal, a business that has attracted worldwide attention, will it be forced to buy and disappear? The tyrants who are already carrying out the two world-class projects of the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal at the same time can still withstand the toss?

Downing was now the largest single shareholder of the East India Company, and he could hold more than 50% of the shares by buying shares from Rothschild or the Scottish Bankers, and he could also gain a firm ally, because the political status of the Indian colonies was extremely high, and this transaction was not only a sale, but also the attitude of the British government and parliament, and Britain could not give up all power in India. It's a bit embarrassing here, these two giants, you can't get any benefit if you offend either one, you can't buy them all.

Seeing the possibility of a big tyrant taking over the East India Company in its entirety, some small retail investors still held the stocks that were now worthless in their hands, and kept speaking out in support of Downing's takeover, in their opinion, this was a redistribution of wealth. The Windsor chaebol has made enough money, and now that the East India Company is in trouble, why doesn't the Grand Duke help the suffering? If the government takes over directly, the small shareholders will be miserable, how much money can the government give? In a democracy, the government is frugal and thrifty, and it is strange that such a budget can be used to give away taxpayers' money.

Originally, Downing's intention was only to negotiate with the British government to take the Straits Settlements, but the current British atmosphere seemed to indicate the possibility of him taking over the whole of India. Although the matter of governing India is glorious, it is not in the interests of Downing, because India is too big and complicated, and it does not have a sense of belonging like the Qing Dynasty, so basically Downing is unwilling to govern there.

j。 p。 On behalf of Downing, he went to contact the British government and expressed his intention to accept only the Straits Settlements, and the cost of this plan was much smaller. When the news broke, the shares of the East India Company plummeted again.

After this plunge, in the end, the price offered by Rothschild and the Scottish Bankers Group was enough to allow Downing to buy it all without going to ashes, but he still dragged his feet and waited for the government to start a policy.

To be honest, the only reason for Tang Ning to take over the whole of India is to implement reliable benevolent government and improve the life and civilization of the people of the subcontinent.

The main conditions for Palmerston's administration are as follows: first, the Queen of England ascends the throne as the Emperor of India and becomes the nominal head of India; Second, India's Court of Final Appeal is in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Third, the Indian colonies were obliged to participate in the global military operations of the British Empire, such as the recent military campaign against the Qing Dynasty. Fourth, to guarantee the freedom of Christian missionary work in India, the general program of atheism that Downing planned to implement in Luxembourg could not be carried out.

The first three are fine, the protection of Christianity is unacceptable to Downing, he only agreed to change India's religious policy to "not support or crack down on the three major religions, including Christianity, respect the religious freedom of the people with traditional and secular principles as the guiding principle, but not let religious forces interfere with affairs, and the other two major religions are Hinduism and Islam, which are widely spread in India."

What do you mean by "heavy affairs"? This detail is very important, and Downing handed over to Marx and Engels to lead the negotiations with the British government, and these two people are excited to find an errand in India in the future, and maybe they can implement a certain degree of public ownership.

Tang Ning still felt quite uncomfortable with the full acquisition of the East India Company, as if this was the first time he had made a loss-making deal. However, the meaning of this matter to the Kingdom of Prussia is completely different, by the way, this time I dare to laugh at the small country of Luxembourg and the widows, the Grand Duke may be going to rule India, and a big open war with Luxembourg is equivalent to a war with India, you have 20 million people in Prussia, right, we have 300 million ......

Besides, if you want to fight with India, you can't say that the tens of thousands of British troops of the East India Company have to go into battle, the queen is still the head of India, fighting back and forth, Britain has killed so many people, it is estimated that Congress will push the British Empire into the war, then Prussia will hang. Bismarck liked to play balance the most, hoping that Russia in the east, France in the west, and Britain in the north would not interfere with the unification of Germany, otherwise it would be extremely difficult. No matter how stupid William IV was, he felt that the power of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg was increasing, and it was really a good idea to go against the Grand Duke, and he couldn't help but be quite depressed.

Morgan Jr. is the same year as Sissi, not yet twenty years old, in this comprehensive acquisition of the East India Company deal played a very outstanding talent, advance and retreat, and finally reached an agreement with Rothschild, the Scottish Bankers Group, completed the most important step, with the support of the big giants, the support of small retail investors, the support of Rowlinson, Smith and other shareholders, and the support of Wood, the chairman of the Cabinet level in the government, Palmerston, is not too disgusted by the Windsor Grand Duke to enter India, The Hessian Chasseurs' loyalty and combat effectiveness were excellent in counterinsurgency, and the situation seemed to be becoming clearer.

Saigo Takamori's Satsuma mercenaries have been facing off from afar with the Prussian army, only a small amount of firefight, found that the Prussians are all breech-loading rifled guns, which does not match the original intelligence, and thought that 300 people could block the other side 2500 people, he quickly adjusted his strategy, 1000 soldiers gathered together, self-protection can, to destroy the other party's total of more than 10,000 troops according to the original plan, I am afraid it is quite difficult, fortunately, the Prussian king has been watching the situation in India, and even the declaration of war has not been officially announced, and the two sides still have room for maneuver.

Downing also approved Saigo's defensive posture, and he still had to clean up the mess in India, which I am afraid could not be done in a year and a half, or make a gesture of economic sanctions, and began to massively reduce the export of industrial products to Prussia. The hardest blow to Prussia was the skyrocketing prices of steel and aluminum, which had a great impact on Prussia's heavy industry. The Prussian government went to ask Krupp, haven't you already mastered the technology of steelmaking? Why is the price of steel in Prussia so much more expensive than in the neighboring France, Belgium and the Netherlands?

The people of Krupp said to the government: "Are you sure you are going to break with the Grand Duke of Luxembourg?" In this way, we can ignore the original agreement and expand the scale of production. Otherwise we will be in default, and until our ** team does not withdraw from Luxembourg, all production will be ordered by the Grand Duke. ”

When France was under economic sanctions, Prussia's economic development was significantly better than that of its main industrial neighbor, and the Prussian government was dazzled at the time, and now the feng shui took turns, and Prussia "enjoyed" this treatment, and the king was once again depressed. What about the rupture? Or will it not break up? It's a painful question.

Bismarck told the king that the technology exchange agreement between Krupp and Downing was led by him, and if Prussia did not withdraw from Luxembourg, it would be equivalent to him Bismarck deceiving the Grand Duke of Windsor.

The current situation in India is mostly due to the Governor Dalhousie sent by the British government, which is equivalent to the fault of the government, and now, the East India Company wants to take advantage of this to reorganize the power structure and take back the supreme executive power, which is also reasonable, and India will become a relatively autonomous colony in the future, but it is still within the territory of the British Empire, and the parliament has begun to debate.

The focus of the debate was on the question of religion, and the parliamentarians and forces were still leaning towards the dominance of Protestant Christianity, while the Labour Party, led by Engels, was an atheist, and the views of the two sides were very fiercely opposed. Engels satirized Christianity, according to its doctrine, these 300 million pagans in India will all go to hell after death, how terrible, tell the Indians this "truth" can we still rule India well? Society is in chaos. （http：／／.)。 It can be seen that Christianity is not much better than Hinduism and Islam. Do not blame people for rebelling on the grounds of opposing butter and lard paper shells, Christianity itself is unreasonable, why is God more true than Allah and more God than the true God of others?

Downing's faction found some pictures of the "Rat Temple" and showed them to the MPs, which is an act of rat worship in India, and the whole temple is crawling with disgusting rats, but they are not allowed to be culled because of their ignorance and worship of the rat god. Rats are mammals like humans, and an outbreak of plague is a terrible scourge. Similarly, there is the worship of various animals. Snake god, bird god, tiger god, monkey god, elephant god, tree god, mountain god, water god. There are hundreds of other gods. Every god imprisons the people in a completely absurd manner of all kinds of spirits and lifestyles, and religious superstition is a symbol of ignorance and backwardness. It's not interesting to simply preach, when the parliamentarians see that big bunch of rats, they feel this backwardness.

Not long after, Downing collected a lot of "good things" here, which was the execution scene of the brutal torture of moral criminals by Indians under the guidance of religion.

Some of Downing's masters came up with a big move, and they mailed "good things" to the homes of parliamentarians who love religious superstition twice in three days, and see what the logic of you ignorant and superstitious people will produce.

Later, some parliamentarians were not blessed to accept such a good thing, and took Downing to court, and the court of first instance ordered Downing to compensate the three parliamentarians with 10 pounds for moral damages each, and published a letter of apology in the Telegraph, Downing's apology was very sincere, and he also said that he would send more photos of the beautiful scenery in India to them to suppress their shock, but those parliamentarians did not dare to open it after receiving it.