Chapter 225: The Colonial Rule of the Ming Dynasty
After arranging the process required for the establishment of the East India Company, Zhu Han continued to lead the Ming army to launch a series of attacks on the Delhi Sultanate.
Delhi Sultan Firuzisha had been terrified by the Ming army.
In order to stop the Ming army's attack, Firuzisha couldn't wait to send people to sue for peace with the Ming army.
Because now the situation in the Delhi Sultanate has become very bad.
Firuzisha no longer has the capital to fight.
You must know that in the Delhi Sultanate, the real foundation is composed of the middle and upper classes of Celestial Cultists.
All the Celestial Cultists of the Delhi Sultanate were only able to muster together less than 200,000 troops.
In just one battle under the city of New Dali, Zhu Han wiped out forty or fifty thousand of them.
And these forty or fifty thousand people are the elite of the elite.
The Delhi Sultanate is a nerve-wracking affair.
If he encounters such a big defeat again, Firuz Shah, the sultan, will not have to be the king, and will directly become the king of the dead country.
And after this defeat, the Delhi Sultanate's finances are also in great crisis.
Seeing the opportunity, the Brahmanical separatist forces in various places rebelled and stopped paying taxes and tribute to the Sultan of Delhi.
The mercenaries in the river led by Timur, because they could not get the commission that should have belonged to them from the Delhi Sultanate, also unceremoniously 'took' it themselves.
It's just that when these mercenaries of Timur 'took' their commissions, they did not have the consent of their masters.
And as they left, they set a few fires, burned several cities and warehouses, and robbed thousands of women from the Delhi Sultanate.
The Delhi Sultanate was instantly plunged into internal and external troubles.
Firuzishah's pride, as a sultan, is gone.
The Sultan's younger brother, Prince Manuel, as a plenipotentiary envoy, led a large number of looted treasures and personally prayed for peace to the Ming army.
Zhu Han clearly knew that it was completely impossible to eat the Tianzhu Continent in one bite.
This kind of thing can only be done step by step.
Therefore, after a little consideration, Zhu Han agreed to the proposal of the Delhi Sultanate to request peace.
Firuzishah's peace conditions were as follows: the Delhi Sultanate completely renounced all dominion over Bengal, the New Dali region, and recognized it as a territory belonging to the Ming Dynasty. The Delhi Sultanate was willing to trade peacefully with the Ming and gave great concessions to taxation. The Ming dynasty could not support the rebels in the territory of the Delhi Sultanate.
As for the soldiers of the Delhi Sudang State who were captured by the Ming army during the war, the Delhi Sultan would pay a ransom according to the capitation.
It has to be said that these demands are basically reasonable and very much in line with Zhu Han's strategy for the Delhi Sultanate.
However, after agreeing to all the conditions, Zhu Han also put forward his own requirements.
"The Delhi Sultanate is not allowed to form an alliance with Chen Youliang's rebels."
"Princess Alina of the Delhi Sultanate is now a guest in the Ming army, and she is now very yearning for the prosperous and powerful Daming, and she is bent on going to the East, so His Royal Highness the King of the Ming Dynasty is willing to conclude a friendly marriage with Princess Alina of the Delhi Sultanate and make her the prince's concubine."
Zhu Han put forward these requests, and Prince Manuel agreed without hesitation.
The Ming Dynasty has already reached his doorstep, and as long as the Delhi Sultanate is not a fool, it is impossible for him to form an alliance with Chen Youliang again.
As for Princess Alina, she has been lost in the Ming army for so long, with her beauty and seductiveness, it is impossible to keep her chastity, since this is the case, it is better to let her really marry Prince Ming.
The Ming and the Delhi Sultanate soon reached an agreement on peace.
The Ming Dynasty established the East India Company here, busy digesting and absorbing this rich land.
And the Delhi Sultanate, having secured its borders, is busy quelling rebellions large and small within its own borders.
In fact.
Zhu Han's proposal to Delhi Sudangguo to marry Princess Alina is completely to get on the bus first and then buy a ticket.
After all, such a beautiful woman full of Tianzhu style is by her side, and if Zhu Han doesn't eat her clean, then I'm sorry for my current identity.
New Dali City, a brand-new building, rises from the ground.
This is the location of the Ming East India Company in Tianzhu.
Meantime.
It is also the temporary residence of Zhu Han, the king of the Ming Dynasty.
Night fell quietly.
In the richly decorated room, dozens of bright gold wax candles emit a glow of red candlelight.
More than a dozen stunning Tianzhu beauties dressed in light clothes are serving Zhu Han and Princess Alina in the room.
Over the years, Zhu Han has insisted on horseback riding and archery and other sports, which has made his body unusually strong.
Otherwise, the deep interaction with Princess Alina for several days would have made him collapse.
After another sweaty fight, Princess Alina turned into a gentle kitten and curled up beside Zhu Han.
Princess Alina was very afraid of these suddenly arrived Ming troops at the beginning, and she was even more afraid of Zhu Han.
But.
After being influenced by Zhu Han's actions, Princess Alina has become completely infatuated with this Prince of Daming.
"Now that the Ming and the Delhi Sultanate have become friendly countries, we are no longer enemies, and I have just received the news that your two elder brothers died in the course of fighting the rebels, so that your father has no biological son." Zhu Han put his arm around Princess Alina's shoulders and said.
It has to be said that the follow-up chain reaction brought about by the defeat of the Delhi Sultanate by the Ming army was very strong, and the Brahmins in various parts of Tianzhu rebelled one after another, and the Delhi Sultanate also paid a very heavy price in the internal turmoil.
The two sons of Delhi Sultan Firuz Shah both died at the hands of the Brahmin rebels.
"Ali and Hula, they are both valiant warriors, even if they die, they can ascend to heaven!" Princess Alina said painlessly.
Clearly, Princess Alina was not saddened by the deaths of her two brothers.
There are a lot of women in the harem of the Sultan of Firuzishah, and Princess Alina and these two brothers are not born to the same mother at all, and there is not much brother-sister affection at all.
"The Sultan of Firuz Shah is already a little overwhelmed, and he has sent someone to ask me for help, intending to spend a great deal of gold and silver treasure on the powerful firearms in my hands." Zhu Han said while rubbing her beautiful back.
When Princess Alina heard this, she immediately asked curiously, "How can such a powerful weapon be easily sold to others?" ”
Zhu Han was speechless for a while when he heard this.
Girls look outward, this kind of psychological change seems to be not only in China, but also all girls in the world have this common problem.
In just a few days, Princess Alina had already put herself on Zhu Han's side, and her father, Firuzisha, whom she originally regarded as a savior, had become someone else in her mouth.
"To sell, of course to sell, the Delhi Sultanate has reached peace with us, business naturally has to be done." Zhu Han said with a smile.
In fact, Zhu Han's real consideration was that the Delhi Sultanate must not fall easily now.
The Delhi Sultanate, as a state established by a foreign religious and military bloc, will adopt a high-pressure state of alert against the Brahmanisms, who are numerically superior in their territory.
In this way, even if the Delhi Sultanate put down this rebellion, his subsequent reign would be in turmoil.
As long as the Delhi Sultanate does not fall, the Tianzhu Continent will not be at peace for a day, and Naming can calmly encroach on colonization.
And if the Delhi Sultanate falls into a Brahmin rebellion, then the next regime to come to power must belong to the Brahmins in Tianzhu.
The Brahmins have absolute superiority in this land, and once they are in power, they will immediately become a formidable opponent.
So.
Zhu Han will never let the Delhi Sultanate perish now.
"I have sent someone to grant your father's request, but I have also made one condition." Zhu Han continued.
Princess Alina twisted her waist, "What is Your Highness's request?" ”
"My request is to secure an inheritance for you!" Zhu Han said.
When Princess Alina heard this, she sat up in surprise.
Unconsciously, the infinite scenery is revealed.
Zhu Han smiled playfully, and Princess Alina continued to ask while scrambling to cover it.
"In our teachings, it is impossible for a woman to have the right to inherit."
"I didn't have it before, but now I can have it."
In fact, Zhu Han's inheritance of the Delhi Sultanate was given to Princess Alina, and he didn't really fancy the throne of the Delhi Sultanate, he just wanted to keep an excuse for himself to send troops against the Delhi Sultanate in the future.
When the East India Company of the Ming Dynasty gained a firm foothold in the future, it would inevitably have a big war with the Delhi Sultanate.
As the saying goes, only when a teacher is famous can he win first.
Zhu Han is just making a deployment in advance for the sake of future wars.
But Zhu Han's long-term plan, how could Princess Alina guess it?
She simply thought that Zhu Han valued herself and won a unique privilege for herself.
The thought of being taken seriously, even by making that pious father ignore his teachings, Princess Alina was immediately moved again.
Forthwith.
Princess Alina stopped with a trick and personally started the war against Zhu Han again.
In this case, how could Zhu Han, as the dignified Prince of the Ming Dynasty, admit defeat easily?
Since Princess Alina took advantage of her tongue, Zhu Han came up with a means to pull out the seedlings to help them grow.
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The Daming East India Company had just been established, and various large orders continued to arrive.
As long as it is a weapon produced by the Ming Dynasty, whether it is a sword, a gun, a sword, a halberd, an armor, a bow and a crossbow, or a low-end version of the musket and artillery, all of them have become bestsellers.
Not only were the weapons that the Delhi Sultanate was able to buy from the Ming Dynasty, but the Brahmin rebels in its territory were also able to secretly smuggle weapons from the Ming Dynasty.
War is really the best business.
In less than two months, under Zhu Han's arrangement, the Daming East India Company earned a full 1 million taels of silver just after it opened.
Moreover, the war between the Delhi Sultanate and the Brahmins was getting bigger and bigger, and the profits of the Ming East India Company would grow even more rapidly in the future.
The war not only brought huge amounts of gold and silver, but also made the slave trade more convenient.
After several purchases, the Delhi Sultanate no longer had much gold and silver reserves to buy weapons from the Ming Dynasty.
So.
With Zhu Han's consent, the army of the Delhi Sultanate began to plunder the Brahmanical population to pay the bill.
Men could become slaves of the East India Company and grow grain and sugar cane in the Bengal region.
Female slaves, after layers of screening, according to their different ranks, each has their own destiny, the best destination is assigned to the Ming army soldiers, the middle destination is to be trafficked back to the Ming Dynasty, and then sold to large families as female slaves, as for the lowest destination, this is to be rationed to male slaves, working on the farm for a lifetime.
The colonial plunder is so bloody, cruel and violent, anyway, it is not the people of the Ming Dynasty who suffer from the poison, and Zhu Han is not willing to be a virgin at all.
Because of the arrival of the Ming army, the situation in the Tianzhu Continent was turned upside down.
Zhu Han was happy to see this situation, as long as the Ming Dynasty acted as an intermediate force and allowed the two sides of the war to prolong the battle as long as possible, then the Ming Dynasty would benefit immensely.
This operation is actually very simple, it is nothing more than to support which faction is weaker when you see it.
After several teachings, Zhu Han could rest assured that he would be the shopkeeper and hand over the corresponding disposal rights to Duan Gong to deal with.
Zhu Han, on the other hand, used this period of time to urge his craftsmen to make as many merchant ships as possible.
In two months, the eastward monsoon will begin.
When Zhu Han returned to Daming this time, the only thing he was worried about was that the number of ships under his command was too small, and there were not enough ships to carry back a large number of gold and silver goods and female slaves.
Just as Zhu Han was urging his craftsmen to work overtime to make ships.
Zhu Han was suddenly informed.
"Your Highness, the ship is here, and Yuhe's fleet is back!"
Zhang Dingbian, who was in charge of commanding the navy, hurriedly came to report to Zhu Han.
"What, that's great, the soup and the time came." Zhu Han was overjoyed when he heard it.
He was worried that there were too many goods and slave girls in his hands, and there were not enough ships to transport them, so Tang He came back.
You must know that Tang He's fleet is also about the same as the number led by Zhu Han.
And comparatively speaking, the number of merchant ships in the Tonghe fleet was somewhat larger.
In this way, Zhu Han was basically able to transport all the gold, silver, belongings and female slaves back to the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Han immediately sent Zhang Dingbian to the front to welcome Tang He's return.
But after meeting Yuwa.
Zhu Han was dumbfounded.
Because the carrying capacity of Yuwa's fleet is also full.
Even, compared with Zhu Han, the batch of goods shipped from Persia by Tang He is even better.
Boatload after boatload of white female slaves, almost more than 3,000 people.
In addition to these female slaves, Tang He also brought back a large number of sheep and war horses from Post in the Western Regions.
These things are very good breeds of animal husbandry, which are very rare in Daming.
Zhu Han attaches great importance to these things, so naturally he can't throw them here in Tianzhu, and he must bring them back to the Great Annihilation.
"Tell Your Highness, I have set up a Persian protectorate in Persia, leaving a hundred soldiers to garrison the fortress, and from then on, my Ming navy will have a foothold in Persia." Tang He saluted Zhu Han respectfully and said.
Tang He acted very cautiously and maturely, never arrogant in front of Zhu Han, or posed as an old brother.
"That's great, I have set up a foothold here in Tianzhu, and you have set up another in Persia, and from then on my Ming navy can be unimpeded in the Western Ocean."
Zhu Han knew the importance of bases on land for ocean voyages.
After Zhu Han joined Tang He, he streamlined and screened all the goods.
When the monsoon came, they rode in an easterly direction and embarked on a voyage back to Daming.
After Tang He and Zhu Han went to the West twice, the small city-states in the Nanyang area had already been frightened by the Ming Dynasty.