However, Li Hui was somewhat disappointed by the results of the looting, it may be that he has been a colony for too long, and the precious metals accumulated over thousands of years have been looted to the ground, and the occupying army has almost confiscated all the princes and rich people in India, and only then has they looted more than 100 tons of gold and thousands of tons of silver, which is less than 10% of the domestic harvest, and he is not sorry for India's rich reputation at all. There are a lot of gems and works of art www.biquge.info the pen, but these things are not accepted systematically, and it is not easy to realize them in large quantities, and the actual value is much lower than the market price.

Although the seizure of precious metals is limited, the harvest is not small when other materials are included. Britain has been operating in India for many years, although it is only used as a colony to exploit and oppress, but it has also built many mines, factories and transportation facilities in India to improve the efficiency of exploitation, and the Chinese army is like locusts, dismantling all the machinery and equipment that is considered valuable and transporting it to several major ports such as Mumbai to load ships and then transport them back to China.

Due to the large number of seizures in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean battlefields, and the fact that Li Hui had previously produced military supplies one by one in order to facilitate deployment, and inadvertently built a large number of cargo ships, the total tonnage of China's merchant ships increased from a mere few tens of thousands of tons before the First Sino-Japanese War to more than 2 million tons......

With such a strong transport capacity, the 100,000 Chinese troops stationed in India naturally spared no effort to dismantle the machinery and facilities, and in the end, not only the machinery and equipment, but also the railroad tracks were taken away, of course, this must not be done until the ground is scraped and evacuated......

This kind of crazy practice of digging three feet into the ground will inevitably lead to smoke in India, but the headquarters of the army stationed in India does not care about this, because the cities that have been looted have lost their value and will not keep the garrisons. Could it be that the third brother still has the ability to fight Mumbai, Madras, and Kolkata, the three big cities with heavy troops? If you really have that ability, India will not be colonized by Westerners for so many years......

Moreover, China's vast merchant fleet did not come empty, as they brought nearly two million Javanese ashore before carrying away a large amount of supplies seized from India. On average, one ton of standard platoon carried one person, and it is conceivable how these people were transported here, and it is completely conceivable what so many foreigners who had only received a maximum of half a month's ration would frantically pour into India.

Due to the natural advantage of MSL's high degree of organization, these Javanese may be vulnerable in the face of the regular army, but they can still muster up the courage to fight in the face of the Indian "rebel army" whose combat effectiveness is not as good as the bandits, and compared with the Indians who are scattered and fighting separately, the Javanese are much more cohesive, often able to form a tenfold or even a hundredfold numerical advantage, making up for the disadvantage of the lack of weapons at the beginning, and as a result, they are really gradually gaining a foothold.

And as the Chinese fleet brought almost all the Javanese to it, the Javanese, whose population had soared to more than 7 million, had grown in strength and had unexpectedly carved a large territory in India. If it weren't for the decisive dispatch of troops to suppress India after the British took it back to India, India would have been conquered by foreign nations again......

Although the Malays who were then transported to India were not as cohesive and combative as the Javanese, they still had a large population, even if they were just displaced people, enough to cause a lot of damage to the areas they passed through.

First it was scraped a round of turf, and then tens of millions of uninvited guests came in, triggering a brutal "civil war", and the losses suffered by British India were shocking.

According to the rough statistics of the Viceroyalty of British India, the direct economic losses of British India exceeded 1 billion pounds, and the indirect losses were immeasurable, not to mention, the loss of tens of millions of people due to widespread famine and war in 1896-1898 alone was enough to devastate the vitality of British India, and the two foreign peoples who took root on Indian soil further complicated India's already head-raising ethnic relations, and also laid the groundwork for its future independence method that was very different from history......

India is ready to use it as a bargaining chip in Li Hui's plan to exchange benefits with the British, and after making such a mess, will the British lower their bids or even abandon India altogether?

That is obviously impossible, and even if you can only get a broken India, it will be much better for Britain than to lose it completely.

As long as India can be recovered, the previous losses can be earned back sooner or later through the exploitation of the Indian people, and if India is completely gone, then the British people will have to tighten their belts.

In addition, India is also a symbol that if it is not recovered, investors' confidence in Britain will completely collapse, and no matter how much gold reserves there are in the British treasury, the exchange rate of the pound will not be able to hold, and the losses will be too great.

Joseph Chamberlain, who had been to China as plenipotentiary ambassador, was shocked when he arrived in Alexandria, and instead of having the idea of asking the Chinese side to lower the asking price, he became more anxious to conclude a peace treaty with China.

The reason is very simple, since the British government wants to take India back no matter what, then it still regards India as its own property, and the longer the peace negotiations drag, the greater the losses caused by the Chinese to the British, and it is better to give up a little more interests in the negotiations than to let the Chinese continue to mess around like this!

But even if Joseph Chamberlain had a heart attack, he could not have turned a ship into an airplane, and by the time he finally met his negotiators, the Chinese army had done almost everything they could......

Despite his resentment, Joseph Chamberlain was, after all, a mature statesman, and by the time he sat down at the negotiating table, he had completely regained his composure.

To Joseph Chamberlain's deep shame and some joy, Chinese completely disobeyed the diplomatic etiquette of Western civilization and directly set their terms, almost like the attitude of the British colonizers towards the natives in those days......

"Well, it's in our interest to conclude a contract sooner, so let's tolerate the rudeness of these yellow-skinned monkeys for the time being." Joseph Chamberlain gritted his back molars and took over the draft peace treaty prepared by China.

There are not many clauses written in this draft, but each article makes Joseph Chamberlain's breathing a little heavier, if it were not for the city government deep enough, he almost shot the case on the spot, pointed at the other party and cursed, "Damn Chinese, even such harsh conditions, people who don't know read this draft, probably think that they have hit the British Isles!" (To be continued.) )