The victorious East India Company once again built troops and horses, and its territory was larger, and it was understandable to expand the scale of its private army in order to cope with the new form and new problems. However, shareholders soon noticed that as their private armed forces gradually increased, there were fewer and fewer rivals on the South Asian subcontinent who could compete with them. The more territory they controlled, the more resources they had, the more profit the company would make, and the more money would fall into their pockets.

So when the shareholders of the East India Company looked out, they found that the land on the other side was occupied by nothing more than a group of meek natives who were almost primitive and wielded with swords. No one could restrain the passion that erupted, and the private army struck with muskets in hand, overthrowing the forces of resistance, leaving behind blood and corpses, and rushing to glory and wealth - war, occupation, and expansion - with a bloody body of slaughter. War, occupation, and expansion...... This is the formula for wealth in the age of barbarism!

Greed knows no bounds, especially when you're holding a musket against a sword native.

In the following years, as the scale of investment continued to expand, the scale of profits of the East India Company began to expand rapidly. The registered capital of the account they submitted to the British Parliament showed that its turnover had soared from £8,000,000 in 1794 to £13,500,000 in 1803, and the East India Company became the de facto ruler of India! The area of her reign was even much larger than that of the Queen of England at the time.

A number of references to the East India Company were stored in the underground storage room of the British Museum during the years in which Wang Yi lived. It's also a good habit of the British, keeping all the old stuff. After a long time, there will be more things, there will be inheritance in concept, and there will be tradition in life.

In contrast, although the Celestial Empire is known as an ancient civilization, in fact, from 1600 A.D. to the era when Wang Yi lived, it must have been broken in terms of dress, one in the Ming Dynasty, one in the Qing Dynasty, one in the Republic of China, one in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and another in the reform and opening up. Although the United Kingdom and other European countries are also changing, they have a clear context and can trace the source. As for the concept, let alone think about it, ancient, modern, oriental, Western, and Celestial Empire are all half-baked and mixed together, not to mention, it can be regarded as a kind of characteristic. It's just that it lacks a foundation, and it will be much harder to develop than Europe after all, so it can only reluctantly choose to cross the river by feeling the stones.

The conversation returned to the East India Company, which had a strong private armed force and had a good life for decades. The choice they left to the natives was simple, there were only two options, either die or surrender! It's not a tough choice for most natives. What is difficult is life after surrender, maybe life is not so difficult. However, the differences in living habits and religion between the two sides continue to intensify the already profound contradictions. Decades of accumulation finally broke out in 1857, and this became known as the Great Indian Uprising!

The East India Company, due to the limited size of the native British, quickly changed the practice of nearly equal proportions of European soldiers to native soldiers. Adopt the method of governing the land by soil, and recruit a large number of native soldiers to maintain the rule. However, the British regard themselves as strong, although many people of insight demand to improve the social status of the Asans, but this is only for the better rule of the Asan, not for the pursuit of social equality, so the social contradictions still exist, and only occasionally they will be alleviated. Most of the British bureaucracy, of course, did not care what their native soldiers thought, and the fuse was finally lit.

The British asked the soldiers who believed in the Asan religion to smear their bullets with cow fat, and the cattle were respected in the Asanjiao, and the unbearable Asan finally began to resist, and then it became a prairie fire. The same unbearable Muslim Jihad chose to side with the Assams, which would have been hard to imagine in later generations, and they all pledged allegiance to the old Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah I. The war raged from Bengal to Punjab, and after a fierce battle, the British emerged victorious, exiled Bahadur to Burma, and almost killed the princes in a vent. However, the victory was not perfect, and India's population was decimated, especially among young adults, and it was a catastrophe for everyone.

As the saying goes, the enemy lost 1,000 and 800 themselves, and the British did not feel good. The Indian revolt shook the foundations of the East India Company's rule, leaving the shareholders with no money and money, and more importantly, the revolt had a strong impact on the British colonial system, and the operation of the East India Company began to be supervised by public opinion and the government. In 1858, the British Parliament began to intervene directly in the local affairs of India and firmly held its sovereignty in the hands of the British government, and the private armed forces of the East India Company were finally nationalized, and the century-old shop, which had endured 258 years of wind and rain, began to disintegrate, and completely disappeared in 1874, the year before Wang Yi crossed over.

The position of Viceroy of India, which began in 1773, was given to Warren Hastings, more customarily known as Commander-in-Chief Fort William, who shared power with a Supreme Council of five people, albeit in contradiction, who was responsible for directly controlling and supervising the officials of the East India Company in India.

In 1833, William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, reformed the system in India and expanded his rule, and it was only then that the Viceroy of India became truly worthy of the name. By the way, if it weren't for the marble not finding a buyer, the Taj Mahal would have been completely demolished by this duke.

After the end of the Indian uprising, in 1858 the British crown took direct control of India, and the Indian provinces applied to the British for the title of governor-general. Charles Canning took over the position, in fact, to clean up the mess of the Great Indian Uprising. During this period, the Viceroy of India was the representative of the royal family, not under the jurisdiction of the British government, and because of his power, he gradually had the title of Deputy King of India. The vice-king is a powerful governor, which is not the same as what we say in the history books.

It should also be mentioned here that at the same time as the great Indian uprising, Britain was also engaged in the Second Opium War (1856-1860) with the Qing court, and even with such a favorable external strategic environment, the Qing court was still defeated, which shows how corrupt this dynasty was.

The current vice-king of India is Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Duffelin. Now, in 1887, at the age of sixty-one, he is studying at Eton College and graduated from Christ's College, Oxford. He served as Governor General of Canada, Ambassador to Ottoman Turkey, and was a well-known British diplomat. Now he is the Viceroy of India and has led the invasion of Burma. Speaking of which, he is the biggest enemy of Wang Yi's current rule in the southeast.