Chapter 1414: Indian Undercurrents

India, once known as the Queen of the British Empire, is the most shining diamond in the crown. This shows India's position in the British colonial system, and it is not an exaggeration to call India the most important British colony. The vast amount of wealth plundered from India each year allowed the British to maintain a strong military force. At the same time, India, with a population of nearly 200 million, is also the UK's largest overseas market and source of raw materials.

Relying on the large market of India, British industry was able to exploit and oppress these Indians and make huge profits even if they did not strive to develop new technologies. This also made Britain gradually begin to lag behind other emerging powers in industrial technology. This also led to the loss of India, and the British immediately collapsed.

What is now India is a colony of the Chinese Empire. Long Yufei, Emperor of the Chinese Empire, succeeded him as Emperor of India. And Long Hua, the crown prince of the Chinese Empire, is also the crown prince of India. When he ascends the throne and becomes emperor, he will also become the emperor of India. The Chinese Empire's abandonment of direct occupation of India was undoubtedly a very wise choice. The huge sum of 800 million Chinese dollars paid to the Chinese Empire every year by the major princely states of India enabled the Chinese Empire to have enough financial resources to develop its army and continue to maintain the superiority of the Chinese Empire over the West. At the same time, the vicinity of Kolkata was the direct domain of Emperor Long Yufei. This allowed the Chinese Empire to deploy troops here and closely control the situation in India.

India is undoubtedly an excellent market. With the industrial development of the Chinese Empire, even with a huge market of nearly 600 million people. It's getting saturated. As a result, India, an overseas market, has become another huge market for Chinese industry. Because India was a colony of the Chinese Empire, so. The Chinese Empire could directly issue an order prohibiting the sale of industrial goods from other countries to India. Dominate the Indian market. After the formation of the Peace Alliance, the products of other member countries of the Alliance can also be sold to India. This huge market became an important means for the Chinese Empire to win over other allies. However, goods from the Chinese Empire still have a monopoly in the Indian market.

The whole of India has become a colony of the Chinese Empire. It was also the most important colony of the Chinese Empire.

Although Long Yufei was the emperor of India, according to the agreement between the empire and the princely states of India, the empire did not interfere in the internal affairs of India, and the internal affairs of India were the responsibility of the princely states. Thousands of former princely states were also established under the Chinese Empire. It became two hundred princely states. Among them, the princely states of Hyderabad and Vadodara have developed into the largest princely states in India because they were the first to support the Chinese Empire.

Prior to the merger of the princely states, the Hyderabad and Vadodara princely states had a territory of more than 200,000 square kilometers and a population of over 10 million. With the support of the Chinese Empire, the two princely states expanded aggressively, almost doubling in size. With a population of more than 20 million, he became the de facto ruler of India. Of course, the rulers of both the princely states of Hyderabad and the princely states of Baroda know it. Their ability to become the de facto rulers of India was inseparable from the support of the Chinese Empire. Without the support of the Chinese Empire, they would not have been where they are today. As a result, they were loyal to the Chinese Empire.

Ancient India. It has also created a splendid civilization and belongs to one of the four ancient civilizations. However, the Indians seem to have been under foreign domination from the very beginning. Foreigners who traveled south from the plateaus of Central Asia. The light yì defeated the native Indians and established a huge state. Thousands of years of domestication. This made the native Indians very obedient to foreign rulers. They work hard, no matter how difficult life is. is also able to persevere, and light yì will not resist. This makes Indians the most docile people, and it is undoubtedly a very happy thing to be rulers here.

After the Chinese Empire gained control of India, these Indians did not resist at all. Especially after the Chinese Empire did not interfere in the internal affairs of India at all, their life was exactly the same as before. In addition, the absence of the British riding on their heads and exploiting them made the life of the Indians seem to be a little better than it was under the British rule. This also made the Indians grateful to the Chinese Empire and more willing to live this kind of life under the rule of the Chinese Empire.

It is precisely for these reasons that India has a huge population but a very weak military. Each princely state has only a small number of troops. Law and order is almost always carried out by a small number of police officers and elders in each village. Even the princely states of Hyderabad and Vadodara, with populations of more than 20 million, have an army of only 50,000. Although the Chinese Empire provided them with sophisticated weapons, and even excellent military instructors. However, it has to be admitted that these Indians do not have the talent to be soldiers. After a long period of training, the combat effectiveness of these Indian troops is still frighteningly low. Even an army like the Imperial Army, which had just completed its recruit training, was able to defeat these Indian armies with ease. So, relying on these Indians to go to war, it's almost impossible.

Originally, the Imperial General Staff also planned to use India's huge population to form a million-strong mercenary army in India. In this way, it can effectively reduce the loss of the empire's native population. However, after learning about the combat effectiveness of the Indians, this plan had to be abandoned. Otherwise, to send these Indian troops to the battlefield is simply to let them go to the enemy as prisoners of war and give them valuable weapons.

Indians also seem to be self-aware. So, even if the two hundred princely states of India combined, their army did not exceed half a million. Combat effectiveness is even more problematic. Afghans in northwestern India have long coveted India's fertile territory. If India were not a colony of the Empire, the Afghans would have already moved south. Although the population of India is much larger than that of Afghanistan. But if war does break out, the Indians will certainly not be the match of the Afghans. The army of Afghanistan can easily destroy the whole of India and then enslave them. It's just that India now belongs to the empire. Therefore, the Kingdom of Afghanistan had to change the direction of expansion. Otherwise, the empire would be able to support the kingdom of Afghanistan, and it would also be able to destroy them lightly.

Although the life of Indians is very poor, on the whole, the situation in India is stable. The princely lords of the princely states, with the support of the Chinese Empire, oppressed these Indians, exploited them, and lived a life of luxury. The Chinese Empire was able to receive 800 million Chinese dollars a year from India, and the empire's industry also regarded India as a huge market. Although the life of Indians is poor, they are content with the status quo and have no intention of resisting at all. It was as if their suffering was justified.

The whole of India was not without resistance to the colonial rule of the Chinese Empire and the oppression of the princely states. What was once more than 3,000 princely states was suddenly reduced to 200. More than ninety percent of the princely states were destroyed, and the princes and nobles of those princely states suddenly changed from high rulers to commoners, which made them feel angry all the time. It's just that because of the strength of the Chinese Empire, they didn't dare to show it, for fear of losing their lives.

As time passed, these rebellious Indians also became active. Coupled with the support of the Germans, they were given quite a few weapons. They desperately wanted to be restored to their status and glory. So, they hit it off with these Germans.

Originally, during the riots in Japan, the Germans planned to plan a large-scale uprising in India. In the eyes of the Germans, the Indians had always been oppressed by the Chinese, and they would certainly be happy to rise up against the rule of the Chinese. In this case, a massive uprising will break out in India. Even if one-tenth of the 200 million Indians joined the uprising, it would be enough to make the Chinese anxious.

However, the Japanese rebellion was quickly suppressed, which caused the Germans to change their minds. They realized how powerful the Chinese Empire was militarily in Asia. If you start an uprising rashly, you will only lose these chess pieces in vain. In addition, the uprising at that time had a very limited effect, and it could not really threaten the Chinese Empire at all. So, the Germans planned to wait until after the outbreak of war before launching an uprising. In this way, it will be able to keep the Chinese busy. Once India is an important colony, the strength of the Chinese Empire will be greatly affected, and the war potential will be greatly reduced. At the very least, there will be a big impact on the cost of the war.

But now, the Chinese are aggressive. This, coupled with the fact that China's preparations for war seemed to be about to be completed soon, made the Germans feel a great threat. If a large-scale uprising breaks out in India at this time, it should be able to contain most of the Chinese's energy. In this case, Germany may have enough time to prepare for war.

The Boer rebellion seemed to the Germans to be nothing more than a petty fight. The uprising of the Indians, that was the killer weapon of the Germans. They hoped that with the help of the Indian uprising, the arrogance of the Chinese would be severely attacked, and it would be better to plunge the Chinese Empire into the quagmire of war. In this case, it would have been much easier for Germany to win the world war.

After deciding to detonate the Indian pawn, agents from German intelligence agencies immediately began to contact people from various secret societies in India. (To be continued......)

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