Chapter 185: The British Are Going Stud! What about Daming? (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
Grand Trianon, Versailles, France.
Early this morning, the Duke of Marseille hurried to his "father-in-law" and brought two astonishing news!
"Father, father, something is wrong! India, India has risen!"
Zhuge Weijiu was playing Tai Chi with Zhuge Weixue in the garden of the Grand Trianon Palace, where was he pushing his hand, when he suddenly heard the voice of the Duke of Marseille, he was stunned for a moment, and asked casually, "Eighty-eight brothers, did you hear that?" Some people are saying that India is pouting...... What does that mean?"
"Great military division, you have heard the mistake, not pouting, but rising! India is on the rise to become a world-class country!"
"Huh? And what's going on?"
"Possibly...... "Well," Zhuge said, "the briefings sent from China in the past few days have said that Prince William of England is preparing to be the vice emperor of India, and he wants the East India Company to return the government...... I don't know what the British are tossing?"
"Father, Uncle Ya (referring to Zhuge as learning)," while the two were talking, the Duke of Marseille was already panting and came running, "Prince William of England has become Emperor William..... Now India is going to rise!"
"What? Prince William has become emperor?"
"That's too fast, isn't it? Don't you go through the motions of adding nine tin and making three concessions?"
"Don't go, don't go through the motions!" The Duke of Marseille gasped and said, "This Prince William is a lot older, so he still has that kind of patience? And now is the critical moment of the Mingying dispute, Britain urgently needs India's helper to save the scene, so after Prince William legally became the vice emperor of India, he pulled Akbar II to a sit-in and usurped the throne in full view of everyone!"
"Sit-down usurper?"
"How do you usurp the throne in meditation?"
Now the two Zhuge stopped pushing their hands, and they all turned their heads to look at the Duke of Marseille.
Immediately, the Duke said, "Meditation usurpation is of course a non-violent sit-in method to force Emperor Akbar to voluntarily relinquish the throne!"
"Is that okay?" Zhuge still didn't understand it for a long time...... It seems that he is old, and his ability to pinch and calculate is already a lot worse, and he can't count the bad moves of Prince William.
"Okay!" The Duke of Marseille said, "That Prince William is also a smoker, and he knows that the Indian Emperor Akbar is a man who loves to make movies, so he took Akbar II to sit with him in full view of everyone, and did not let him enjoy it." That Akbar II was already addicted, so he couldn't stand it after sitting for half an hour, rolled all over the ground, and gave up the throne to William for a bite...... William became the emperor of India in this way, but he finally did no harm, and made Akbar a prince, and sent him and his family back to England to retire!"
"Sent back to England?" Zhuge frowned for Xue and said in a low voice, "This is for fear that we will rob people!"
Zhuge snorted for a long time: "Who wants to rob a ghost? By the way, even if India had an Emperor William, it wouldn't have risen so quickly, right?"
"That's right!" Zhuge Weixue disdainfully said, "India's industry is not worth mentioning, most of the people are still illiterate, just rely on farming and some handicrafts, how to rise the law? And it was impossible for that Kaiser Wilhelm to solve the ethnic, religious, caste and land problems of India...... How is it possible to rise?"
It turns out that the Zhuge family has studied the two issues of India and the rise of the country. In their view, India is now plagued by four major problems, and it would not have been possible to rise even without British colonization.
First of all, of course, ethnic and religious...... This is a problem in India, where Indians are roughly divided into Celestials and Hindus, and they are evenly matched.
Secondly, there is the caste question and the land issue, which are actually the same issue...... A small number of high-caste landlords (the same caste as the Hindu Celestials) hold a large amount of land, while the majority of the working people have no land, and there is a landed caste that cannot rise for generations.
So whoever becomes the emperor of India has no way to unite 200 million Indians. It is not even capable of keeping the Celestials and Hindus in India at peace...... How can your own people rise up when they fight around all day long?
The caste and land issues have made India's wealth too concentrated, and the middle and lower classes also lack an upward channel, and the social solidification is very serious. In this social form, the rich have no enthusiasm to invest in entrepreneurship, the poor have no possibility of making a fortune, and the excessive concentration of wealth also leads to insufficient consumer demand. Before the Industrial Revolution, production with a large number of people could support a strong country. But in today's industrial age, it is not enough to rely on a large number of people.
The Duke of Marseille shook his head and said, "Uncle Ya, what you said is one thing, but our expectations for the rise of India here in Europe are another...... India has a large population, vast land, a long history, and was one of the richest countries in the world before the Industrial Revolution, just like the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Emperor Napoleon also predicted the rise of India. Therefore, on the European side, they all think that as long as India is well governed, it will definitely be like the Ming Dynasty."
"Expected? What's the use of this expectation?"
"If you have an expectation, you can issue bonds!" Zhuge Weijiu had already understood, and he slapped the old man and said, "India has a population of 200 million and millions of square kilometers, and there is still oil and water...... When Aurangzeb was there, he could scrape 30 million pounds a year, and now with Kaiser Wilhelm, it is no problem to hang 60 or 70 million pounds a year. The government of the Indian Empire spent 20 million a year sufficiently. You can pay interest for an extra $50 million...... A billion pounds of debt cannot be issued, but 800 million pounds is secure!"
Zhuge Weixue was taken aback: "Didn't that mortgage the future of the Indian Empire?"
Zhuge Weijiu smiled coldly: "The British care about the future of the Indians? And freeing India from the rule of the British Empire is the only way for us to bring down the British Empire! If we win in the future, India's future will not belong to Britain!"
Historically, Napoleon and Mustache could bring down the British Empire by landing in England, but the Ming Dynasty could not do that...... After all, what the Ming Dynasty did was easy to do, that is, to liberate India from the British.
As long as Britain loses India, which has a population of 200 million, she will lose the qualification to compete for world hegemony with the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, it is natural for Britain to gamble with the future of India and the Ming Dynasty.
"Quick, send electricity to the house," Zhuge Weijiu pressed his forehead and said to Zhuge Wei, "Now the British are going to follow...... What shall we do? Let them do the math for the old man!"
Hearing this, the Duke of Marseille on the side said in his heart: "The old man is really old, and the 'computing power' is not enough, so I have to ask the seventeen Zhuge military advisors in the family to help calculate it together...... I don't know what they can figure out?"
In fact, Zhuge has long referred to the "home", which is the Naval Armaments Commission, not the Zhuge family.
When the Naval Armaments Committee learned that the British were ready to gamble with the future of the Indians with the Ming Dynasty, Zhuge Weidao was visiting a wind tunnel belonging to the Flying Dragon Industry in the mountains north of Beijing.
This is a continuous loop wind tunnel, not "Tianshu technology", but original technology, invented by Zhuge for the sky - this guy is really capable, he is an aerodynamicist! The shape of his Wyvern series airships is blown out of the wind tunnel.
And Zhuge Weidao has begun to make up airplanes these days - to build an airplane, first make up parts and materials, engines, aluminum alloys, rubber tires, wire ropes, special steel with enough strength, etc., about all of them. Then it was a matter of making a few models by hand, Zhuge drew drawings for Dao, found a carpenter non-commissioned officer of the airship unit, and built a few biplanes by hand. And then there's the wind tunnel.
Zhuge Weidao himself is not an expert in aerodynamics, so he doesn't know much about this, so he called Zhuge Weitian to ask for advice. After asking, I realized that the real bull was this Zhuge Weitian! So he took the model airplane, drove his little broken car, and went to the wind tunnel laboratory of Feilong Industries. Before it could start blowing, the Admiralty called me......
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