"Fortunately, there are still a lot of lands that belong to the empire, and we still have time to correct our past mistakes!"

Artoria picked up the globe in the room, played with it, and told him to turn to the side of Australia and New Guinea, and gaze there.

"This single bed in Europe is too small, but it is crowded with too many big men. No matter how hard you fight, the winner will not end well. In that case, why don't we jump out and go somewhere else? ”

Artoria said, her hand gently stroking over the maps of Australia, New Guinea, the Madhoolu Islands, and New Zealand, and then she continued to turn the globe until it stopped at the Canadian location.

In order for the empire to avoid the decline of the empire as it has historically, in addition to having enough women willing to have more children, it needs to do one thing that should have been done two hundred years ago: move and leave the crowded single bed of Europe.

While Artoria was struggling with how to transform the British Empire from a European country into an "American country" or an "Oceanian country", his father Lin Han was now thinking about how to prepare for a rainy day and prepare for the future "slicing" India into more pieces.

Lin Han knows very well that in the 21st century, if you want to become a world power, you must first be a "populous" country. China and the United States met this condition, and the Soviet Union, which did not disintegrate and bleed in World War II, and the British Commonwealth, which did not collapse, barely met this condition - of course, the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth did not exist after the disintegration.

India is the world's second most populous country in the future, and it also has the hope of becoming a great power.

The Indian Ah San of later generations is big but not strong. There are many reasons for this, but the important reason is that they lack a red party led by a leader named Li Desheng, who has swept away all the evils accumulated in India over the past 2,000 years. A large number of legacies left over from the old era have seriously slowed down the pace of its becoming a world power.

The only way to truly save India is for the "real" CPI to lead the people at the bottom of India to launch the most radical revolution from the bottom up.

But Lin Han didn't want to see India's red leather ~~ life succeed, even if there was a trace of "possibility of success", he didn't want to leave it to the Indians.

Because India will become China's biggest enemy in South Asia.

What he wants to see is a fragmented India that continues to retain the "caste" system. It doesn't matter if this India falls into British hands for a few more years as a British colony.

According to Lynhan, India's eventual independence from British control was inevitable, and even Artoria herself believed that it could not be prevented, and that it was only a matter of time.

In Lin Han's view, British rule over India, like in history, ended the entire British Indian region from British independence overnight like an "avalanche", and this situation was absolutely inadmissible. Because of the consequences of this. It is very likely that there will be a "big" India in South Asia.

Although in this plane, Lin Han can use his influence to dismember British India a few more parts, but this is only "possible", and no one knows what will happen at that time. Because such a large piece of land was suddenly completely out of the hands of the British, and the area was too large. The process is too difficult to control, and Lin Han is not willing to bet everything on those uncertain factors.

The case that it is best to grasp. It was to strip British India little by little from British rule. For example, today it is Myanmar, tomorrow it is Bangladesh, the day after tomorrow it is the Punjab region of northwestern Kashmir, and the day after tomorrow it is certain states of India.

These areas, which were out of British control, were each a "standing" country afterwards. No matter how powerful Gandhi and Nehru were, they could not put them back together as the "complete" India of history, the current People's Republic of North India, which was the first goal of Linhan's vision.

This process of slowly peeling off piece by piece is like pouring beans through a small hole in a bamboo tube, which is most convenient for him to make stalks from it. If it was the whole piece of the whole piece that was in history, it was detached in an instant. It's like pouring out all the beans in a bamboo tube in an instant, and it's hard to control at all.

There was no contradiction between Artoria and Ringhan on this point, and in order to achieve their goals, both sides needed the Latani guerrillas to have a presence and maintain a strong influence in West Bengal.

In this matter, the British and the Republic of Lanfang tacitly joined hands in this matter. Lin Han knew very well that it would be absolutely impossible for his dark thoughts and thoughts to be recognized by New China, so he completely skipped the New China side in the whole matter and directly contacted the Ratani guerrillas through his forces in Lanfang.

Lin Han didn't do anything in Lanfang, but the current rulers of the entire Lanfang Republic were almost all his students, and he was the head of the horse. After the divine impact, Lin Han's "identity" was exposed, and in the hearts of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, there was a savior-like existence, with countless worshippers and believers.

In the past, Lin Han had a lot of resistance when Lan Fang ordered the demolition of the Confucian temple and the destruction of the church, but now without his order, the people spontaneously invited the old Confucius and the foreign god to the Indian monk out of the temple, and then replaced it with the statue of the Emperor Xuanwu.

In March, Gandhi and Nehru traveled to the "Liberation Zone" in the northeastern part of West Bengal to see the post-war recovery situation in the country.

A little more than a month ago, there was a massacre that shocked the whole of India, and then the two were surprised to find a large number of remnants of the people, all dressed in the "holy robes" that "honorable Bretanians" often wore on their bodies to show their identity.

Gandhi and Nehru, who are also considered "celebrities" in India, have always been easily "watched" and welcomed by many people wherever they used to go, but here, ordinary people ignore them and treat them as air, because the people here have now found a better and more worthy "savior" than Gandhi.

The former Latani guerrilla areas and base areas are now completely controlled by the "Untouchables" and "Shudra Divisions" formed in Calcutta, and along with these armed forces, there are also missionaries sent by the British

The area has been "tug-of-war" by guerrillas and bandit return groups, and both the upper castes and the lower castes have suffered heavy demographic losses. After the British regained the area, there was a lesson from the past, and the local population was in a state of extreme unease.

Mountbatten at the same time as announcing the Queen's pardon. The British missionaries who were stationed in the area openly preached to the area, telling the local poor that if they joined the Anglican Church, the British would guarantee the absolute safety of their lives and property, and the local people flocked to the untouchables who feared being liquidated after the war.

Gandhi and Nehru were on the ground for nearly a month. Then he returned to Kolkata with a lot of fear.

"Insidious British."

This is the whole feeling of the two of them.

At this time, in Calcutta, there was a commotion in front of the Governor's Palace.

A large group of high-caste, holding placards, were confronting another group of "Honorary Brittanans" in white crosses in front of the Governor's Palace.

Most of the high-ranking people are from the Guerrilla areas and base areas of the Latani guerrillas in West Bengal, and they are all family members and relatives of the "landless landlords" there.

During the year-long activity of the Ratani guerrillas, which swept through the local middle and upper classes, a large number of Brahmins and Kshatriyas were killed, in the midst of their radical agrarian reform policy. Everywhere he went, the landlords who owned more land were killed, and the title deeds were burned in large numbers.

After recovering these "lost lands", the British directly declared a large number of unclaimed lands without title deeds to be "nationalized", and then distributed them to their "honorary Brittanans" for cultivation. All the families of the "Honorary Bretons" who joined the army to join the "Untouchables" and "Shudra Divisions" were given their own share of the land. And the original garrisons in the guerrilla zone. As long as they are willing to join the Anglican Church and become recognized as "honorary Brittany", there is also a land allocation (just in smaller numbers).

The British colonial authorities announced. These "honorable Brittany" families, some of whom served in the army, were completely exempt from tax for the first year, 20 per cent for the second year and 30 per cent for the third year. If the soldier dies in combat while serving in the military. Families are exempt from taxes for 10 years - and there are also punitive measures, and if a soldier escapes as a deserter during the war, the land will be recovered.

The land allocated to the non-military "Honorary Brittany" would have to pay 30% of the annual rent, and there would be no tax on it.

These fields are all nominally "public fields" belonging to the royal family of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The land tax was called "imperial rent" and did not need to be handed over to the local princes.

During this period in India, the land rent was very low and "good governance" was very low. Forty percent of the ordinary peasant tenants' annual work has to be handed over to the landlord, and after counting other taxes, forty percent of what remains in their hands in the end is considered very good.

By virtue of this agrarian policy, the British firmly bound the honorable Brittans to the British colonists.

The British were able to stabilize the situation easily and soon gained the full support of the poorest in the area. During Gandhi and Nehru's trip to the north, it was after seeing the scene of land reform and land redistribution that they retreated in fear.

Agrarian reform was the policy of Ratani, and the British, after driving out Ratani, continued his policy, which naturally caused discontent among the middle and upper classes, whose local interests were seriously damaged, but so what?

After the red scythe of the Ratani guerrillas was swung around the harvest, there were not many surviving high-caste people in the area, they were no longer the "mainstream" here, and although they took to the streets to protest, they did not have the support from the bottom, and in the eyes of the British, they were no different from flies.

The British's "Imperial Land" policy completely changed their colonial methods in West Bengal. Skip the local princely lords with the "Unowned Imperial Field" and collect taxes directly from the bottom. While all the benefits are eaten and wiped out by themselves, it is the local princes who suffer heavy losses.

The sound of their protests the British simply don't care. In West Bengal, the British no longer need to rely on these princely lords for rule and blood-sucking taxes, as they did in the past. Through the policy of "royal fields" and honoring the Brittanians, coupled with religious influences and agitation of local class antagonisms, the British achieved "imperial power in the countryside" in India for the first time in history.

In the face of the protests of the local upper strata, the British, who were well aware of the principle of "printing with prints", immediately instigated the poor of the lower classes of India, who had enjoyed the benefits, to take to the streets and confront the "upper castes", expressing their absolute support for the colonial policy.

In front of the Doge's Palace, thousands of "honorary Bretanians" in white crosses and hundreds of well-dressed high-caste people are divided into two distinct camps, staring at each other with hatred. If it weren't for the fact that the British army pulled out a twenty-meter-long separation zone in the middle. The two sides may have fought a long time ago.

"India is divided!"

Looking at this scene, Gandhi's eyes were filled with tears.

He knew very well that the British, with the help of Ratani, had completed the "land reform" of a large area in the northeastern part of West Bengal, thereby completely pulling the lower classes of Indians to their side. Only the local upper echelons were damaged.

In the days to come, these lower strata, who enjoyed the benefits of the British's "illegal land reform", would be the biggest supporters of the British colonial policy here. And Gandhi himself, by his class, was the upper class of India, and the British only had to respond to this by shouting the slogan "After Indian independence, the Brahmin high castes will confiscate and rob the land that was previously given to you "honorable Brittanans", and the underground strata would stand firmly on their side.

Gandhi also understood. The benefits and progressiveness of land reform for the country of India. However, the land reform itself is an earth-shaking revolution, and the revolution has always been the fate of the "masters" of the upper class. Gandhi's Congress Party, or the vast majority of political parties in India, can exist, survive, and develop without the support of these "old men". On this issue, which they cannot avoid, all they can do is oppose land reform. And then go to the opposite side of the bottom of India.

"This kind of thing will continue to happen."

Nehru feared that over the past month, there have been reports in West Bengal that the remnants of the Rattani guerrillas have moved into the northwestern part of West Bengal. But the British once again showed a state of "turning a blind eye" to this.

Nehru had a terrifying image in his mind.

PKI guerrillas continued to emerge across India and then grew through radical land reform policies.

The British deliberately sat idly by.

The growing PKI guerrillas clashes violently with the princely lords in various parts of the country led to complete antagonism and hatred between ethnic groups and classes.

After the Indians killed the Indians. A large amount of "free" land was "vacated".

The British came forward to "crack down on bandits" to clean up the mess, and then distributed a large amount of land that originally belonged to the upper castes to the lower castes, winning the hearts and minds of the people at the bottom while continuing to increase the class antagonism in India.

And so on and so forth.

Both Gandhi and Nehru knew that India was of a high caste. After all, it is the "minority" of Indians, and in any country, the bottom people account for the vast majority. If the Indian independence movement cannot gain the support of the people at the bottom, the movement will be a tree without roots and water without a source.

The colonizers "supported land reform", and a "weird" scene in the history of human colonization is being staged in India.

Artoria's "experiment" in West Bengal has already achieved initial success. Although there will be some small-scale unrest in the local area due to the damage to the interests of the upper class, such as protests and even lord rebellions.

But the British, who did not care about these, were completely confident that they would be able to calm all this, and the successful experience of the "reforms" of West Bengal was soon "promoted" throughout India.

In the days to come, the sinful caste system will continue in India, and the rotten princely lords will live on for a long time.

But the purpose of their existence is only to be the "MT" who is full of hatred and helps the British colonizers to gain support from the bottom of the "blame attraction".

Unless Gandhi had the courage to turn his Congress Party into a genuine "proletarian revolutionary" completely rooted in the bottom, like the Bolsheviks in China or the Soviet Union, it would be an unsolvable problem.

Gandhi understood this, so he cried.

As for Artoria, who had planned all this, she left India in April of that year and returned to England after completing her missionary work in the northeastern part of West Benglas.

After a year and a half of construction, the 70,000-ton ship Brittana, a giant ship equipped with nine eighteen-inch guns, is now nearing the end of its construction, and she needs to go back to do the finishing touches after absorbing a lot of faith power in India.

Lin Han's "daughter", the later she is born, the weaker her superpowers. In order for Artoria to carry out a perfect "magic change" on this giant ship, she needs to fuse with Lin Han to achieve 100% perfection.

It was expected that by the end of 1945, after five years of continuous efforts, not counting the "rags" sold by the Americans, the British Royal Navy would acquire a total of six battleships and twelve aircraft carriers by the end of the year. In terms of overall combat power, it is more than a year before the war, in addition to four more aircraft carriers are being built in the dockyard, and they will be commissioned in 1946

The German Navy, which was across the strait, was only four battleships and eight aircraft carriers as the main ships of the German navy in 1945 due to Hitler's (little Hannah's) policy of "shrinking" from sea to land, four of which were built after Artoria and Hannah met in the Netherlands in 1943 and negotiated with the British.

In terms of total tonnage, the size of the German Navy not only complied with the Second Anglo-German Naval Treaty, but even "too well".

Britain and Germany developed their navies on a large scale, and their purpose was no longer the imaginary enemy of each other, but the United States, the terrifying country on the other side of the Atlantic.

It is estimated that by the end of 1945, the US Navy, which was expanding at a high speed, would have five Iowa-class battleships, four Montana-class battleships, at least 32 Essex-class aircraft carriers, 12 Independence-class light aircraft carriers, and 200 escort aircraft carriers. (To be continued......)

PS: The plot about Britain and India is written here for the time being, and then the story will turn to Japan