Chapter 779: Heaven is angry and people are resentful
The British have ruled the land for more than 100 years, starting from the British East India Company's colonization of India in 1773.
During these 100 years, Britain took away untold wealth from India.
Later generations would often say that the British plundered £10 trillion from India.
This may well be true.
Even if they don't have that much money, the wealth that the Ansars have taken away from this ancient land is incalculable.
And what they left behind, in addition to industrial facilities, the so-called "excellent system", and the "language of the world", is also a pile of bones.
During the period of British rule, there were 11 mass famines in India.
They are:
The Great Bengal Famine of 1769 killed about 10 million people
In 1783 the Great Famine of Charissa killed about 11 million people
In 1791, the "Great Skeleton Famine" killed about 11 million people
The Great Famine of 1837 in Agra killed about 800,000 people
In 1860 there was a great famine in Upper Doab, killing about 2 million people
The Great Orissa Famine of 1866 killed about 5 million people
In 1868 the Rajptana famine killed about 1.5 million people
The Great Famine of 1876 in India killed about 10.3 million people
The Great Famine of 1896 in India killed about 16 million people
The Great Famine of 1899 in India killed about 10 million people
The Great Bengal Famine of 1943 killed about 3 million people
As the number of rainless days continued, the Eighth Great Famine in Britain and India, with a death toll of 10 million (some statistics put it at 7 million or other figures, but the smallest number was also 5.5 million), finally began.
In fact, just three years earlier, in 1873, there had been a smaller, uncounted famine in the Indian state of Bihar.
The then Governor of Bangladesh, Sir Richard Temple, avoided a serious death by importing rice from the South Seas United Fruit Company.
But Sir Richard Temple, who did so, was not rewarded with flowers and was dismissed from his post and sent back to England to be questioned by London MPs for two years.
Churchill Sr., who was pushing for the sterling over-issuance bill, angrily rebuked Sir Richard Temple, calling him a wine bag and rice bag that wasted taxpayers' tax money and should be hanged on the dock.
So, when the famine of 1876 struck, no British official was willing to help the disaster.
The severe famine began in Madras and soon spread to the Indian city of Mumbai.
By April, there were also hordes of hungry people in Mysore, Hyderabad and other places.
The foreseen famine was so terrible that the entire South Asian subcontinent, especially the Deccan Plateau, was like a purgatory on earth.
More than 257,000 square miles of land have been reduced in yields or even unyielded, covering a total population of about 100 million people.
Ironically, it was in this year that John Churchill, the Anglo-Indian governor, issued an order from South Africa to increase wheat exports in order to support the Anglo-French summer offensive to regain Brussels in the European theater and to support South Africa in curbing the development of the Ming servant state.
Lord Robert Bourvo-Litton, the interim head of Calcutta, launched a bone-sucking raid from the less affected Gangetic plains.
Eventually, he managed to export a record 320,000 tonnes of wheat to the UK mainland and South Africa.
At the same time, Lord Lytton and other British aristocratic bureaucrats continued to live in poverty and luxury in Calcutta.
Under the pretext of commemorating Queen Victoria's coronation as Queen of India, he also held a grand banquet attended by 60,000 people as scheduled.
In addition, the British side also rejected the request of some princely states to convert sugar fields into food crops, saying that white sugar is an indispensable condiment for English gentlemen to drink afternoon tea. (The above are historical facts, without any exaggeration)
Such perverse behavior even Tatar Song can't stand it.
Zhao Xingzhen stroked the Indian emerald ring she had just acquired, and said in surprise: "This British is so brutal, isn't Victoria afraid that there will be a Li Chuang among the Indians, and there will be a flood?" ”
No one can answer Zhao Xingzhen's confusion.
Indeed, if she and Victoria swapped bodies, it was still unknown who would be the more king.
On April 4, April Fool's Day, God seemed to have made a black humorous joke.
The Tatar Song court opened a warehouse to release grain.
The prince of Sotna carried a saber and went from house to house on the Brahmin manor.
It's not so much disaster relief as looting.
After all, the Tatars and the Brahmin monks had not yet formed a highly interested community.
When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Chongzhen could not collect the taxes of the Jiangnan Confucianism until he died, and the Manchu Qing easily took it away.
And what should be collected, what should not be collected, all taken away.
Jiangnan Confucianism didn't dare to put one.
At most, like Qian Qianyi, after learning from the pain, he remembered the good of the Ming Dynasty again, and began to support the anti-Qing movement again.
This shows that collecting taxes is actually a very simple matter.
As long as there is money, there will be taxes.
The key is to see exactly where your ass is sitting.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the taxes of the Jiangnan gentry could be collected, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty, they could not be collected.
It's not that the knife is dull, but that the buttocks on both sides are slowly sitting together.
And now, the newly arrived Tartar Song just took advantage of the disaster to rob the Brahmins, the big landlords of Kshatriya.
Of course, the traditional arts of the Tatar Song Dynasty - layers of deductions are also indispensable.
How much of the big landlord's money can finally reach the pockets of the victims, which I am afraid that Sotena and Zhao Xingzhen themselves can't figure out.
But even if in the end the so-called disaster relief is just an excuse, and the porridge that is given to those Indian mud legs is drier and clearer than the water of the Ganges, at least the posture of the Tatars is there.
In India, such an act can be called supreme goodness.
In this regard, the elder Churchill, who was far away in London, said in an arrogant tone. "This is the desecration of freedom and human rights by the Tatars, and the famine is God's judgment on the lazy people!" (This is an official British statement in 1876, not made up by the author)
From Pujirat to West Bengal, millions, tens of millions, scrawny Indians have died on the roadside and in the fields like lowly weeds in the autumn wind.
They didn't have the courage to shout until they died: "Angsa white skin, would you rather have a kind?" ”
Most of them, perhaps, hated the world and the British, but in the end, they chose to die "peacefully" so that they could be reincarnated into good families in the next life, and they could be friends with the British, and in turn enslave others.
There are also a very small number of people who think that the world should not be like this, but they do not know how it should be.
But soon, they knew what to do.
May 27th.
A cargo ship laden with Shiva's whip docks at Gavoli.
With a whistle sounded by Gavoli, he finally brought Hindu characteristics to India, Zhu-Shiva-Fungism!
Soon, an ancient ghost began to hover over Andhra Pradesh, a place that was desperately poor, but which had been proven to have the best mass base.
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Angry!