The jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of Qi is the vast plain area between the Hubu River and the Indus River, including the entire Indus River Delta, and the overall area is not large, about 36,000 square kilometers, with a population of about 250,000.

However, there were not many real Qi people, or Han Chinese, in the entire governorate, only three or four thousand, even if you add the Qi-Indian mestizos and their descendants, there are no more than 15,000 people, most of whom live in Jinmen City, and the rest are local Sind, Rajput, and Baloch people.

As the seat of the government of the Shazhou Governorate, and also the location of the headquarters of the Indian Fleet of Qi, Jinmen naturally gathered a large number of people, officials, clerks, soldiers, scholars, merchants, craftsmen, and their families, plus a series of primary light industries such as ship repair, grain processing, cotton processing, building materials processing, pottery, tapestry, etc., which have been built over the years, have attracted many foreign residents to come to work, making the population of the whole city reach 80,000 or 90,000 people. Nearly three-to-four percent of the population of the Viceroyalty is one of the most important industrial and commercial towns on the Arabian Sea coast.

With the development of the port and the construction of roads to the surrounding areas, Jinmen also became the gateway to the Indus Valley, from which cotton, wheat, wool, livestock, and various minerals from the inland areas were exported to the Qi mainland and other overseas territories (or colonies).

During his three-day stay at Jinmen, Ibrahim Khan spent some time walking around the city that had been founded by the Qi people, as was customary.

To be honest, he was blown away by the city.

Ibrahim Khan had never seen such a magnificent city, with rows of high-rise buildings, splendid commercial buildings, bustling street markets, beautiful and luxurious carriages, well-dressed officials and merchants, and beautiful women dressed in traditional oriental costumes, all of which made the "backwood" people feel ashamed.

So, now that we Qi people are here, and the national strength is stronger, the military strength is more prosperous, and the civilization is more advanced, there is no reason to be unfair to this group of Indians who are as docile as sheep.

For this reason, every once in a while, the Shazhou Governor's District ordered the police department to cooperate with the Qi Yin servants to launch a large-scale population inventory operation to clear countless "black households" out of the Shazhou boundary.

As the ship drifted on the sea, and the seasick people continued to vomit and vomit on the boat, and when they saw that they had become accustomed to vomiting and seemed to have begun to gradually adapt to the symptoms of seasickness, Ibrahim Khan was surprised to find that the ship seemed to have arrived at its destination, Surat.

Surat was once the largest commercial center and the main foreign trade port in India, where countless merchants and scholars from all over the world lived and lived, and in later words, it was very internationalized and economically prosperous.

Ibrahim Khan did not understand what the Qi people were doing. Isn't the influx of more people into a region, or even a city, a great wealth and resource?

After decades of continuous infiltration and influence, Gujarat has also become a de facto colonial territory of the Qi State, and all the incumbent Mughal officials, petty officials, officers, and soldiers have become the "employees" of the Qi people, and everything needs to live on the breath of the Qi people.

When the "local buns" from the Khorasan region saw such a wide variety of goods at such favorable prices, how could they not see the joy of hunting and frantically sweeping the goods?

When the merchant ship bound for Surat was about to depart, Ibrahim Khan and others were still unsatisfied, feeling that there were still many novelties and practical things that they had not had time to buy.

In fact, Surat was still legally the legal territory of the Mughal Empire, and Mughal officials still exercised their authority, and more than 100,000 civilians and many merchants in the city still paid taxes and forced labor to the municipal authorities.

It seems that the Qi people have occupied almost all of India's important foreign trade bases, and then rely on the hundreds of millions of people in the region to obtain a steady stream of commercial benefits, in this situation, it is difficult not to get rich.

They either resold them locally to make high trade profits, or bribed them to curry favor with local princes, nobles, and tribal leaders in exchange for corresponding political or commercial benefits, and further developed their own power.

However, the moderates believe that the colonization of India should be carried out slowly, while continuing to consolidate the coastal colonial strongholds and trading ports, it should also take the opportunity to penetrate into the hinterland, control strategic points, continue to attack and weaken the ruling base of the two major local powers, the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Empire, and then support more local puppet regimes accordingly, so that the political unit of this region will be more fragmented and fragmented, so as to achieve the goal of indirect control of the entire Indian subcontinent.

At present, there are still some disagreements about how to colonize India, and the radicals believe that they should exercise direct rule over the Indian region, as in the Nanyang region, gradually deposing the ruling power of various states and local separatist forces, and replacing it with appointing Qi officials as regional governors, taking the endless wealth of India for their own use, and using the abundant Indian manpower for their own use.

However, after boarding a sailing ship with a displacement of 2,400 tons, the high-spirited Ibrahim Khan suddenly showed a languishing and painful look.

In the northwest corner of the city, there is a large garden-style manor, which is obviously the residence and leisure place of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the roof with high ridge corners, coupled with the horse building, the brick carved gatehouse, the bright tile window, and the street building, make people feel an invisible elegance and nobility.

The Persians came and brought Zoroastrian genes to Brahmanism in India, which later developed into the religious idea of karmic reincarnation.

At worst, they can also be used as coolies, build bridges and pave roads, dig ditches, or serve as auxiliaries and send them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

The Qi people did not show too much surprise at their frenzied sweeping behavior, and it was obvious that they had long been accustomed to such a situation, whether it was the Baloch people of the Kharat Khanate, or the Sindhi of the Nawab kingdom, or the Punjabi people of the Banjinad kingdom, as well as the Persians and Arabs who were further away, all of them arrived at Jinmen, and they all turned into shopaholics, bringing all kinds of goods back to their hometowns in large bags.

The Aryans came, and then left the caste system to the Indians.

After all, the Port of Haining was the largest trading port in Mozhou (present-day Katiawa Peninsula), with advanced port handling equipment, a large number of supporting storage facilities, a variety of comprehensive financial services, and a railway to Ahmedabad, the largest and most prosperous city in western India, which brought goods that could be quickly absorbed by the huge market, reducing the waiting time of merchants.

It can be said that the Qi people gradually extended south to Gujarat, Shanghai, and the Cochin Kingdom at the southern tip of India, and almost completely controlled the entire west coast of India.

In the southeast of the city, huge factories roared, and the tall chimneys continued to spew black smoke outward, like hideous demons.

Although the city is located in the Sindh area, there is no Indian style at all, and there is no true temple and Western Catholic churches, all the buildings are oriental, and orderly, the whole looks very coordinated, the eaves and cranes, the blue tiles and white walls, the brick carved gatehouse, the dwellings, the ancestral hall, the bell tower, the archway, all show the traditional oriental classical style.

However, during this period, the Qi people's efforts to build and develop their own trading ports of Jinmen and Shanghai (present-day Mumbai) greatly diverted the flow of commerce and people from Surat, and the former international trade port inevitably fell into decline.

With the strong military strength and regional control of the Qi people in the Indian Ocean Rim, the only obstacle that can prevent the Qi from fully colonizing India is probably its huge population.

During the three-day visit, Ibrahim Khan and his entourage could not help but buy a large number of goods, which they planned to bring back to Khorasan on their return trip, and most of them were to be enjoyed at home, except for the offerings to Nadir.

After several rounds of "expanding the boundary", the area under its jurisdiction has already crossed the Jinmen City, and the area has increased more than ten times, with only two battalions of the Shazhou garrison army and one regiment of Qiyin servants, it is simply impossible to hold such a long border line, especially at night, a large number of Sindhi and Baloch people easily climb over the border trenches or simple fences, and pour into the territory of Shazhou, making people helpless.

What shocked him even more was that in such a huge city, with so many people, there was no such scene of and urine and garbage everywhere as Mashhad, and there were no countless beggars and refugees piling up in the market, everything seemed so orderly and planned.

In addition, the Mughal Empire has been fighting all year round, and the domestic finances have been on the verge of bankruptcy, and it is simply unable to continue to build and maintain Surat, especially the port siltation is becoming more and more serious, and it cannot be cleaned up all year round, which makes the passage in and out of the channel become congested and cramped.

In this era of scarcity of goods, no matter what kind of commodities and what kind of materials, they can greatly meet people's various needs.

After disembarking at the port of Surat, Ibrahim Khan was shocked to see that there were many Qi officials and merchants here, and that a Qi army was stationed, and he thought that this place had also become a colonial territory of Qi.

This is the city built by the people of Qi!

Of course, Jinmen City is not all so glamorous, and there are also large areas of messy and cramped slums. It was inhabited by a large number of war refugees or famine escapees, mainly Sindhi from northwestern India and Baloch people from the Kharat Khanate.

On the east coast of India, the Qi people also possessed large and small colonial territories and trading ports, and with the deeply controlled Bengal region, this vast and rich Indian subcontinent has been completely surrounded by Qi forces and continues to infiltrate into the hinterland.

As a result, many merchant ships that came to trade on the west coast of India would sail to Tianjin or Shanghai, and even if they were to trade in the Gujarat region, they would dock at the port of Haining (present-day Baunagar in Gujarat, India) on the west side of Cambay Bay.

If there is a slight failure on the Indian continent, or if a major event occurs, the Qi people will also be able to change from "single-sided printing" in the early days to "comprehensive printing", and can launch interference (attacks) against all local forces in India from any place and from any angle.

Like the people of the Qi country, the large influx of outsiders will have to spend a huge price to send them to the situation, which is purely a lot of money to burn!

Or, to be more ruthless, when refugees are pouring in, just go on a killing spree to see who dares to smuggle into the country at will?

Although he did not understand the approach of the Qi people, Ibrahim Khan did not dare to easily assert and deny it, because he must have accumulated a lot of experience after decades of experience in India, and if he did not resolutely stop the influx of Indian refugees, he might have another deep meaning.

The Macedonians also came, but after breaking through the Khyber Pass, they encountered the powerful kingdom of Magadha in the Ganges Valley, and before they could bite down and occupy India, they turned around and left.

However, the central government of the Mughal Empire, due to various reasons, or the government's endless loans, or war reparations, owed a large amount of foreign debts to the Qi people, and had already paid the entire Gujarat province including Surat the right to collect taxes to the Qi people.

The native Indians, who could only continue to be slaves and captives in these foreign invasions, suffered in silence for 2,000 years without any resistance.

Moreover, the goods produced by Qi Guoda Industry are not only of high quality, but also affordable to the people, and are naturally loved by consumers all over the world.

The abundance of goods and materials in Jinmen, and the price of most of the similar goods in Khorasan is only two or three percent, so that everyone is eager to pack everything on the market and take it home.

You must know that the Indian continent has a population of hundreds of millions, and there are sharp religious contradictions and cultural conflicts, so if you want to achieve direct control, how much manpower and material resources will be spent!

But the radicals scoffed at this, and looking at India's more than 2,000 years of history, it is a history of humiliation that has been ravaged by foreign nations again and again.

As for the destination of the repatriation, there are only two places, either to drive to the Kharat Khanate to replenish the population base of this close vassal state, or to be loaded and shipped to overseas colonial territories that are in urgent need of development and have a relatively harsh environment, so as to contribute to the colonial construction of the Qi State.

However, even though Surat's commercial status is no longer what it once was, it is still the most important trading port and commercial center in the Gujarat region.

Oh, the people of Qi are still too soft-hearted, or not too black-hearted, to stay in the Khorasan region, if there can be so many war refugees and famine people influx, then it is necessary to select young and strong men to enlist as soldiers, expand the size of the army, and then carry out continuous conquest and plunder, and the rest are all declared slaves, whether it is farming or free-range livestock, but it is a good labor.

Immediately afterwards, the Greeks of the Bactria Kingdom, the Serbs in Central Asia, the Anxi people in West Asia, the Yueshi people who were driven out by the Huns, and the Turks and Mongols came to India one after another and established one foreign ruling regime after another.

Therefore, many fanatics clamored that Qi should launch an all-out attack on the whole of India, sweep away many local Indian forces such as the Mughal Empire, the Maratha Empire, and the Mysore Kingdom, and then establish an effective colonial system to completely annex this vast and rich continent.

However, ordinary people's emotions and thoughts often only lie in the near or short term, lacking macro thinking, and cannot see things that are too long-term. However, the grand national strategy is usually calculated in five, ten, or even decades, so how can the blood surge and brazenly launch a war of annihilation and annexation?

India, although fat and juicy, but the volume is huge, it still takes time to eat, chew slowly, slowly digest, so as not to break the stomach.

(End of chapter)