Ali Gaponi smiled and said, "How can you think that? We in the British Empire have had some setbacks on the battlefield, but that doesn't mean we've failed, we still have a chance."

Another thinker said on the side: "Your Excellency the Governor, it's not that we don't have confidence, but that the gap between us and Chinese is too great, you see, our fleet in the port of Helsinki was defeated by Chinese, and we also suffered defeats in Sweden and Finland, as well as Calcutta in Burma and India, Chinese victorious ......"

Ali Gaponi laughed and said, "Do you think the Chinese will win the final victory?" ”

The think tank's expression darkened, his demeanor was obviously saying "yes", but he did not have the courage to say the word "yes", Ali Gaponi smiled leisurely: "Don't worry, it is not so simple for the Chinese to win in India." ”

A puzzle flashed in the eyes of the think tank, and said: "The Chinese have carried out all kinds of reforms in Calcutta, I heard that even the teachings of Hinduism have been changed, and in the era of our rule, there were many people who wanted to reform Hinduism, but they were unsuccessful, but Lin Yuan succeeded once. ”

The think tank is right, in the era of British rule in Indian history, there were indeed Indians who reformed Hinduism, and these reforms are also very famous in Indian history, including the abolition of the caste system, the promotion of equality between men and women, and the abolition of some bad habits of Hinduism that are not in line with the development of the times.

However, all of these reforms have ended in failure, and the fundamental reason for this is that they do not have a strong and powerful leadership core, and they do not have a force that is completely subordinate to them, and when their reforms touch the interests of vested interests, vested interests will obstruct their reforms in every possible way.

And Lin Yuan's reform was successful, because Lin Yuan had an incomparably powerful army in his hands, which ensured that Lin Yuan's orders could be carried out most completely, and those big landlords and Brahmins who obstructed Lin Yuan's reform were all cleaned up by Lin Yuan with iron-blooded means.

The think tank continued: "Lin Yuan also abolished the original land system in the villages around Kolkata and established a new land system, and the social and economic level has also been greatly improved. Ali Gaboni smiled faintly and said, "These are Lin Yuan's merits, and they are also Lin Yuan's weaknesses. ”

The thinkers were stunned for a moment, and asked one after another: "Is this Lin Yuan's weakness?" What do you mean? ”

Ali Gaboni smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll find out later." ”

After Ali Gaboni finished speaking, he turned his head and stopped talking, and everyone in the car was silent for a while, no one spoke, and the convoy passed through the vast Deccan plateau, the fiery sun scorched the earth, and the wind swept up the yellow sand, and from time to time the green trees flashed in the yellow sand.

The yellow sand gradually faded, and golden wheat fields appeared, and Indian farmers in tattered clothes appeared in the wheat fields, and houses built with mud walls and thatched roofs.

One of the think tanks said, "Report to the Governor, we are in Bangalore. ”

Aligaponi nodded and said, "Let's go into the city, let's go to Governor Carriola." ”

The convoy then marched towards the city, and at the junction came a few Indian soldiers, who stretched out their hands to stop the convoy and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Ali Gaponi's subordinates replied: "We are the subordinates of Governor Ali Gaboni of Madras, Madras was occupied by the Chinese, and we withdrew." ”

The Indian soldiers did not directly let Ali Gaponi's convoy enter the city, but notified their superiors by phone, and the news was reported layer by layer, and finally reported to Governor Kariola, and soon the Indian native soldiers said to Ali Gaponi's men: "Governor Kariola said, he will soon bring people to meet you." ”

Ali Gaponi's subordinates relayed the news to Ali Gaboni, who nodded, and began to wait, but it was not long to see a large group of Indians surrounded by an Indian dressed in fine clothes, and the most important characteristic of the gorgeously dressed Indian was "short and fat", and his body was almost spherical.

Ali Gaponi got out of the car, walked up to the richly dressed Indian, stretched out his hand, and said with a smile: "Hello, Dear Governor Kariola. ”

It turned out that the Governor of Carriola was an Indian, and the British appointed an Indian as a governor, which sounds incredible, but in fact it was also a helpless move by the British.

India has never had a unified dynasty in its history, and in the vast Indian subcontinent, the princely states are dominant, similar to the warlords of ancient China's troubled times.

During the Great Indian Revolt of 1857 and 1859, the princes of many princely states became the backbone of the rebellion against British rule, including the Queen of Chhansi, who was included in Chinese middle and high school history textbooks.

The great Indian revolt failed to overthrow the British rulers, but it made the British rulers see the power of the Indian people, especially the power of the princely states, and the British had to change their attitudes and forms of rule towards the princely states.

Before the great Indian national uprising, the British sent officials when they ruled the princely states, and these officials relied on the powerful military power of the British to regard themselves as protectors, and commanded the princes of the princely states of India, criticized the customs and habits of India, and wantonly interfered in the internal affairs of the princely states.

In order to suppress the uprising, the British took great pains to suppress the uprising, transferring troops from Burma, Malaya, and even going north to participate in the Second Opium War, attacking China.

The British saw the power of the princes of the princely states, so they had to change their attitude from "conquest" to "co-optation", so they made the princes of the princely states as the local governors, and the princes of the princely states knew well about the small abacus of the British, but they adopted an indifferent mentality about being co-opted, as long as they had land, wealth, and army, and it did not matter whether they were puppets of the British or not.

Bangalore is located in Karnatal, and Kariola was originally the king of Karnatal, and later the British crowned him as the governor of Karnatal.