Chapter 147: The Beginning of the Colonization of India
To be a noble man for generations?
Is there really such a good thing, and you can still get your turn?
I'm afraid that the heroes under the command of King Ming will go on their own.
Seeing Sun Shiyi's face with doubts and suspicions.
Zhu Daohua smiled.
Of course, he knew that it was not easy to go to India to be a nobleman.
Because now almost the whole of South India and Bengal is under the rule of the British.
According to the intelligence from the direction of India, after the Ming Dynasty gained control of Southeast Asia, the British increased their troops in the direction of India.
But the total number of troops they had stationed in India was more than 7,000.
Lobster soldiers of two infantry regiments only.
But the British ruled very skillfully.
Their strategy in India was to arm a part of the Indian comprador to dominate and break up the Indian revolt.
Including the Maratha Alliance, the Mughal Empire and other local Indian powers, in fact, they have been fighting for a long time with mercenaries recruited by the British in India.
These include the Gurkha cavalry, Punjabi cavalry, Sikh cavalry, Bengali light cavalry, Bengali infantry, and many more.
This part of the strength of the Ming side cannot get the exact number for the time being.
A rough estimate of the total strength may have exceeded 30,000.
Other words.
The British actually used the Indians to conquer India.
In another time and space where there was no Ming Dynasty, the army troops actually stationed in India by the British never exceeded 9,000 people.
Even the time of the Battle of Plassey, a key battle for the original British colonization of India.
The total strength of the British army was only 2,900 men.
Of these, 2,000 were indigenous Indian mercenaries, and only 900 lobster soldiers.
In the end, it was with these 2,900 troops that Britain won the Battle of Plassey and began the process of colonizing India.
And Britain also relied on the co-optation and use of the Indian comprador class, using local mercenaries in India to finally complete the conquest of India!
And now, if you want to pull Sun Shiyi's Zhejiang regimental training to India to be nobles, then first of all, you must make them at least better than the Indian mercenaries under the British-this is actually not difficult, because the Indians' skills in fighting have never been very good.
The real key is how to get them to gain a foothold in India, and win the war with the British, and seize the rule of India!
To know.
The main strategic direction of the Ming Dynasty is certainly not India.
Because it is useless for the Ming to get India, what the Ming needs is those territories that can accommodate a large number of people to alleviate the pressure of the population explosion in the country.
And India is now a place that is no less densely populated than Jiangnan.
It took a lot of effort to take it down, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible to kill all the Indians.
Not to mention.
What a wonderful people the people of India are.
Basically, whoever rides on the head can be powerful, and there is no need to worry about one of them, Li Zicheng, Huang Chao or something.
Even a villain like Dai Ying is reluctant to scalp Indians.
There are so many humanoid leeks with a peaceful mind, who is willing to kill them.
And now for Daming.
The continuous rapid growth of the industrialization process forced the Ming court to use force to open up the market.
Now the best dumping ground in the world is India.
On the one hand, the population is large enough, and on the other hand, after thousands of years of accumulation, the amount of precious metal reserves in the hands of the nobles of those Indian princely states is definitely a mystery to the world.
And most of India's coastal coastline is in British hands.
If Britain closes the Indian market to Daming, the cotton textile industry in Guangdong, which has taken off in the past two years, will encounter a cold winter.
A large number of workers absorbed by the cotton textile industry and a series of industrial chains supported by these cotton textile industries are facing collapse.
The vigorous industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty will also be frustrated.
So...
To grasp the safety of the shipping route from the Strait of Malacca to India, and at the same time to have a solid territory in the South Asian subcontinent, so that Britain can not block the Indian market, so that Ming goods can enter the Indian market without obstacles.
"Your Majesty's riches. Where do you get it? β
Sun Shiyi asked.
"From India!"
Zhu Daohua pulled out the map of the South Asian subcontinent behind him.
"India's Yokogawa River basin is as densely populated and rich as the south of the Yangtze River! If you are a prince here for generations, will you not be rich and prosperous for generations? β
Zhu Daohua said with a smile.
Sun Shiyi smiled bitterly and shook his head, you said that you are such a big Ming King, what are you talking nonsense.
Who doesn't know that India is rich.
But you are going to India to be a grandfather and a marquis.
Do the Indians agree?
Do the British agree?
Is this what you say you can ride on the heads of the people of India?
"The Lone King is not joking, now the British fleet is coming to China, what kind of interference fleet are they going to form, they want to force this king to submit to their trade policy!"
Zhu Daohua stood up and said.
"However, they sent a few gunboats on the coastline of China, and it was too naΓ―ve to think that they could make the Lone King submit, and they thought that the Lone King was the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"
Sun Shiyi was stunned and stunned when he heard this.
What do you say, the king?
The Manchus have never fought with the British....
"But... The British have mastered the Indian coast, which gives them the ability to close the Indian market, since this is the case, then the Lone King has to seek to project power to India to avoid the Indian market being monopolized by the British! β
Zhu Daohua pointed to the northeastern part of the map of the South Asian subcontinent.
"The mouth of the Bengal River is densely populated, and the British have just conquered it, and their rule here is not stable, if you can occupy Bengal, you can ensure that the goods of our Ming Dynasty can enter the Ganges valley unimpeded, and establish contact with the princely states of northeastern India, the Mughal Empire, and the Maratha League."
I see..
Sun Shiyi was stunned.
It turned out that King Zhu Ming was going to war with the British.
But they were worried that after the war, the British would close the Indian market and shut down the factories in Canton that were engaged in the cotton cloth business.
Therefore, it was decided to strike first and send people to India to occupy it first.
However, this India is far away, and if the Ming army is sent there, it will be a waste of military spending.
Therefore, they sent these regiments to train soldiers and let them go to India to fight for territory.
In order to ensure the enthusiasm of the training personnel of these regiments, the territory they have laid down is their own.
Isn't this enough to be a grandfather and a marquis in India?
Moreover, these regiments from China want to gain a firm foothold in India and fight with the British.
Then it must not be separated from the support of the Ming Dynasty.
That is, as long as King Zhu Ming has some weapons, he doesn't even need logistics and military salaries.
You can send an army of seventy or eighty thousand men to India.
No, perhaps the Fujian regimental training and the Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou regimental training may also be transported to the borders of India one after another.
While occupying the territory of India, these regimental leaders also wanted to become compradors of Ming commodities and act as the vanguard of the expansion of Ming industrial products.
This abacus is too fine.
Of course, Zhu Daohua's abacus is fine.
India is a good place, but there are too many people, so it is more suitable as a dumping ground for goods.
Moreover, the retention of these regimental training soldiers in the country is also an unstable factor, after all, there are so many people, and one by one they are still a little resentful because the Ming Dynasty deprived them of their property.
Send them to India and seal them as principalities and princes.
Whether you can become a master or not, you have to work hard yourself.
Sun Shiyi's face changed, he knew that the reason why Zhu Daohua asked them to surrender unconditionally was to force them to go to India.
Now I have only two options.
One is to be deprived of all his property and stay in the Ming Dynasty, and be stared at by Jinyiwei's fans for a lifetime.
The other is to follow Zhu Daohua's arrangement.
Go to India.
Go and ride on the heads of the people of India.
How to choose...
It's really hesitant.
"Your Majesty, although the Zhejiang regiment has a lot of training, its weapons and equipment are mainly spears, bows and arrows, and it really has no ability to go against the British."
Sun Shiyi said.
The corners of Zhu Daohua's mouth rose slightly: "Since the lonely king said that he asked you to go to India to be the master, then he will not let you die!" β
"100,000 guns! A hundred cannons! This was given to you by the Lone King, but you'll have to pay for the ammunition! β
Zhu Daohua stretched out a finger and said.
These 100,000 guns and 100 cannons.
If you don't have tens of millions of taels of silver on the side of the Qing court, you will definitely not be able to get it.
But on the side of Daming.
With the widespread use of steam engines.
Mechanical production gradually began to replace artisanal factories.
As well as the rise in Daming steel production and the decline in steel prices.
If only flintlock guns and front-loading smoothbore guns without rifling were produced.
That cost can be compressed to a very low level.
Therefore, these 100,000 guns and 100 cannons are only a matter that can be solved by hundreds of thousands of Ming Yuan for Zhu Daohua.
It's not a lot of money at all.
If you can spend this small amount of money to get an Indian market that can be controlled, it will definitely be worth it!
You must know that the benefits brought by the industrial chain supported by Guangdong's cotton textile industry alone are no less than one million yuan a year. γ
Coupled with the employment population absorbed by the cotton textile industry and the prosperity of the market.
Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars can ensure that the Indian market is open to Daming, which is simply a big profit.
Of course, this is only the cost of weapons, and the Ming Dynasty still has to transport these tens of thousands of people to India, but it is not difficult, and now the shipping capacity of the Nanyang Shipping Company is strong enough.
From Malacca Sea Man to the Bay of Bengal, it is only one or two thousand kilometers.
It was much cheaper for the Ming to project power to India than for the British to project power from Europe.
"Go back to Hangzhou and tell these regimental leaders that if they want, they will sign this feudal agreement, with the Ming Dynasty as the sect, and the Lone King will make them the kings of the principality, the Hou State, and the Bo Kingdom according to their troops!"
"In addition, these regimental training troops must first be transported to the Strait of Malacca for rectification and training, and after they are proficient in the use of muskets and artillery and the tactics of the Ming-style army, they will be sent to India! With the support of the lonely king, you are sure to be able to become the nobles of India. β
"Your Majesty, why don't you send me a little more ammunition, where can the big guy have the money to buy it now."
Sun Shiyi is not called Your Majesty, but is called the king.
"I can give you a loan!" Zhu Daohua waved his hand, "What you grabbed in India, I can also arrange for businessmen from Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu to buy it, and it is guaranteed to be a preferential price." β
"In addition, your Sun Shiyi can be crowned a British duke, my British duke of Daming, after your Sun Shiyi goes to India, you can leave your heirs and family, and inherit the title of British duke in Daming, but this branch that stays in Daming is not the king of the feudal country, but the nobles of Daming."
Zhu Daohua handed a "clan agreement" to Sun Shiyi.
In accordance with the agreement.
As long as it is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
You must act according to propriety.
And the Ming Rite will also stipulate in detail the respective rights and obligations between the clans and vassals.
Sun Shiyi probably flipped through it, and knew that he was unlikely to refuse.
Walked out of King Ming's temporary palace.
Sun Shiyi couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
Unexpectedly.
His grandson Shiyi was a Confucian scholar and served as a slave to Emperor Qianlong for half his life.
When it comes to it, I still have the luck to be the king of a country...
It's really impermanent...
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly got up from the bed. If you want to watch the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the content of the latest chapters, and the Star Reading APP has updated the content of the latest chapters.
He took a big breath of fresh air, and his chest trembled.
Confused, incomprehensible, all kinds of emotions come to my heart.
Where is this?
Then, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around, and then became even more dazed.
A single dormitory?
Even if he had managed to be rescued, he would have been in the ward by now.
And their own bodies...... How could it be that there was no injury at all.
With doubts, Shi Yu's gaze quickly swept from the room, and finally his gaze stayed on a mirror at the head of the bed.
The mirror reflected his current appearance, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his appearance was very handsome.
But the problem is, it's not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters ad-free and free
The previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look at it, this appearance is only the age of a high school student......
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was a success......
The body and face have changed, and this is not a question of surgery or not surgery at all, but immortal magic.
He's a different guy altogether!
Don't...... Did you cross by yourself?
In addition to the mirror at the head of the bed, which was obviously not good in feng shui, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and looked at it, and the title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Novice Breeders"
Postpartum Care for Pet Animals
"Alien Beast Ear Girl Evaluation Guide"
Shi Yu: ???
The names of the first two books are quite normal, but what are you doing with the last one?
"Ahem."
Shi Yu's eyes were solemn and he stretched out his hand, but his arm quickly stiffened.
Just as he was about to open the third book to see what it was, his brain stabbed violently, and a flood of memories flooded back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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Beastmaster?