Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1156 Many Diverging Roads, Today Is Here ([-])

Sometimes, fate is so bizarre.

The plight of Britain and France in India actually originated from Britain and France themselves.

Britain and France frantically traded slaves, planted sugar cane, and made sugar in the Caribbean.

The Dutch had no choice but to increase their control over sucrose in Nanyang, continue to lower the price of sucrose, and use the cheap labor in the East to try to hedge against the sugar in the Caribbean. The purchase price of sucrose is accumulating the anger of the Chinese, and the increasingly narrow market is brewing a huge crisis.

So, many years later, when Britain and France set their sights on India, they were surprised to find that they themselves sent their most difficult opponent to Ceylon, which is only a narrow strait away from India.

Because of the British Slave Act and the Sugar Tax Act, and the French Haitian Black Act, [-] to [-] Han Chinese have firmly established themselves on the islands on the other side of the earth.

Duplex, who was already drunk at this time, was only envious after complaining.

"If...if in India, there are as many Han Chinese and French people as you have in Ceylon, you don't even need so many, just one-fifth, I can drive out the British forces in South India..."

Du Feng only said: "This may not be a bad thing. It proves that you French people are living a good life, and you are not willing to leave your homeland and immigrate to other places. I heard that you have very few immigrants in North America... You must know that if the Celestial Dynasty is far away That piece of fertile and uninhabited land is only as far as the capital from the capital to Hainan, and thousands of people will go there to develop and cultivate. No one wants to leave their hometown. If life is good, there will not be so many people who choose Go to Nanyang."

"For China, what China envies most is the land of America. As for wealth, silk, cotton cloth, products...that is not what China likes. What China likes is the blank, uncultivated virgin land."

The French education that started at the Jinghai Palace, and the process of dealing with the French in Ceylon these years, has enabled Du Feng to communicate with Duplex in fluent French.

He still continued Liu Yu's statement, advocating that Dashun's favorite land is blank arable land, and inadvertently revealed some kind of envy that the French people live a good life without large-scale immigration.

Duplex didn't completely believe Du Feng's words, but he didn't completely disbelieve them either.

"I don't know what kind of decision your Chinese decision makers have made. It seems that every step you take is like a reaction to the shock after passively bearing the shock of the European countries. Whether it is going to sea Trade, still crowding out the Dutch... But there is no doubt that you have already taken advantage."

"In India, you have chosen the same policy as the British in Europe, trying to build a balance in India, and build a balance between us and the British and Indians."

"But now, this balance is about to be broken. Gordon is an idiot, he has no ability to take over what I left behind. The British attack will not stop."

"I hope you can tell your Duke Xingguo, or report to your emperor: Once the balance of India is broken, the victorious British will not stop their footsteps. Using India as a fulcrum, they will continue to invade your power scope."

"They learned a lot of my methods, they can learn my methods, but I can't learn theirs, because I can't learn their government's support for them..."

Du Feng thought about what Liu Yu said before, and reminded Duplex tactfully.

"Xing Guogong said that your enthusiasm for India is actually a mistake."

"Because if France wants to guarantee its advantage in India, it needs a powerful navy to ensure the connection between Paris and Pondicherry, just like the Grand Canal of the Chinese Empire."

"However, if and when France has a navy sufficient to ensure that Paris and Pondicherry are closely connected and will not be cut off."

"Then why doesn't France use this navy to cross the channel and land in England?"

"So, everything you do is in vain."

"The prerequisite for France to have India is to have a navy that can defeat the British fleet and land in Britain. With such a navy, France will not choose India, but will choose to destroy Britain first."

"So, as long as England exists, France will never get India."

"Similarly, if Britain does not exist, then how can the friendship between China and France be maintained? Whether France has the ability to bypass the Cape of Good Hope, Africa, and a decisive battle with China's doorstep here to gamble on the fate of India Woolen cloth?"

"The nearest city with tens of thousands of Han Chinese is Gaolangbu under my feet."

"The nearest city, with tens of thousands of French people, is Bordeaux."

"India's crown to France is only a decoration."

"India's crown to the Celestial Dynasty is like Liaodong 100 years ago and the Junggar Khanate not long ago. I may not get it, but I will never allow others to get it and rule the whole territory."

"To a certain extent, the French admirals who keep holding you back and the French cabinet that does not give you support have maintained the friendship between China and France."

"The Celestial Dynasty doesn't like India's dense population, nor does it like the goods here that conflict with the Celestial Dynasty. But it doesn't like it being occupied by others."

"The Celestial Dynasty likes to split here, because in this way, the Celestial Dynasty has 'hostages', and can use these 'hostages' to ensure the stability of trade between China and Europe, and will not be robbed by your privateers."

Dashun has actually used this "hostage" theory several times.

This is Dashun's helplessness. The earth is too big and the ocean is too wide. It is doomed that Dashun has no ability to directly participate in the European war.

This hostage theory was used the most in the previous disputes between China and the Netherlands.

As a hostage, Nanyang was able to force the Netherlands to compromise step by step, and finally squeezed out all the compromises before going to Nanyang.

What Du Feng meant was that if you are making troubles in India between Britain and France, Dashun usually just looks at it.

Because the more fierce you fight, the more valuable Dashun, a bystander, is, the so-called holding India as a hostage to force Britain and France to make some compromises on trade issues.

The British could indeed hijack Dashun's merchant ships, and Dashun absolutely had no ability to go to London to retaliate.

However, if the British hijacked Dashun's merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean, Dashun would choose to retaliate in India. Couldn't he go to London or Fort St. David?
Sounds like right.

And it sounds like it makes sense.

An India that is competing with each other can be used as a hostage; while an India that is unified by one side can only be used as an enemy.

At least, this is a plausible deceit based on a certain geopolitical theory.

In fact, at this point, flickering is meaningless.

Du Feng just continued the inertia of fooling around in the past.

Inertia won't last long, so after a few glasses of wine, Du Feng didn't talk about the relationship between China, Britain, France and India, but faced Duplex who was transferred away by the King of France with a single paper, and he couldn't tell. Things hurt their kind, and there is a worry in the heart.

With such a sad mentality, he relayed to Duplex what Liu Yu privately said about Duplex.

"Do you know? Duke Xingguo said that your problem is that you have never understood where your strength comes from."

"It's all because you don't know who you are, or who you want to be."

"Xing Guogong said that you have an excellent sense of troubled times. This is an enviable talent."

"But it's just talent."

"If you consider the reality, you have never figured out whether you are an Indian to conquer India? Or a French to serve the king."

"Your power comes from France. But you try to be a good Indian king. Because what you have to do is to establish a unified and centralized government, otherwise the tax collection you envisioned will not be possible. "

"However, when you are going to be an Indian and a king of India, you will have no power. Those who have no power cannot be the king of India."

"If you kicked France away, would you be able to complete your grand plan not as a Frenchman, but as an Indian, an Indian general?"

"You're going back and forth between being French and Indian."

Duplex thought for a while, then frowned.

His contacts with the Indian envoys and his participation in the disputes between the Indian envoys are indeed based on his official status as France and the power of France behind it.

Although he claims to be "If I leave India, things in India will be corrupted."

But he did not deny that it was because of the power of France that he was qualified to be regarded as a friend, benefactor, or something else by those Indian maharajas.

Liu Yu said that he has a talent for separatism and a keen sense of troubled times.

But this kind of talent... In fact, there are many people with this kind of talent in Dashun, but they are very clear about who they are and their position, so now they are all honest.

This kind of talent and keen sense of smell in troubled times is not a rare thing.

"Xing Guogong said that you are a poor French general, because if you think you are a French general, from the perspective of a French general, your strategic vision is very poor."

"Xing Guogong said that you are a poor Indian Jiedushi general, because if you are an Indian and think that you are a separatist force in India, then your ability is not enough-the history of the Chinese Dynasty tells us that in troubled times Among them, it is not enough for a person who can create a career to know how to maneuver, and when it comes to facing the enemy in battle, he must also be at the top three level in troubled times."

"Han Gaozu is the third in the world, but he can't fight against Huaiyinhou, the overlord of Chu, and the rest, such as Yingbu, heard that his personal conquests were broken; Emperor, needless to say."

"But you, your methods of preparing for battle are mediocre, and training in the field is just that. So if you regard yourself as an Indian, you are not capable enough."

"And you, as a Frenchman, should understand one thing."

"The reason why the Celestial Dynasty went to Nanyang is that since the beginning of the first emperor, the most affluent land in East Asia, which is rich, suitable for cultivation and can be cultivated, has been included. Nanyang is compared with the Central Plains, compared with Chengdu, compared with Jiangnan, and compared with The Pearl River Delta is all poor and bad land."

"And France?"

"It's still the same sentence. If France wants to keep India, it must have a navy that can defeat Britain. But if France has a navy that can defeat Britain, keep Paris and Pondicherry open, and gain command of the sea, why does France come to India? ?”

"Is the land in England not rich enough? Is the lowland of the Netherlands not rich enough? Are the grapes in Alsace not sweet?"

"You can defeat the British navy. Why did France choose to come to India instead of going to another Norman Conquest, not to seize the lowlands you have dreamed of, and not to restore the natural frontiers you have always dreamed of?"

"But if the French navy can't defeat Britain, how can France stabilize India?"

"The Dutch navy can't beat our new navy, so where is the Dutch Nanyang now?"

"So, as a Frenchman, you have no strategic vision; as an Indian, you are not capable enough. You only have a keen sense of troubled times, but you lack the talent for using soldiers like a god that is necessary for heroes in troubled times."

"You are a qualified staff member and chief of staff, but you are not a qualified commander in chief."

"The prerequisite for India to belong to France is that the British Navy does not exist, and the Chinese Empire retreats to the east of Malacca after being defeated in Ceylon. If one of these two prerequisites is missing, India will not belong to France."

Speaking of this, Du Feng smiled and said: "You said it yourself. The problem of India only needs a small number of elite European troops to cooperate with the local princes to complete the conquest."

"Since it is a small European army, the navy is the decisive force, because the British army is also a European army. The army, you can do it, so can he; and the navy, he can do it, and you can't. You have He has everything, and he has what you don’t have, so how can you win?”

"In this situation, if you want to win, you need to think of yourself as an Indian, a great king who wants to conquer India. The question is, are you capable enough if you have separated from your French identity?"

"As long as you are capable, at this moment, you can arrest Gordon and say that this is a mess, and you will not obey the order. But you know very well that you are not capable enough, so you can only choose to return to Paris in depression."

"You choose to go back to Paris, it has nothing to do with loyalty, it's just because you don't have the ability to travel from Pondicherry to Calcutta on your own without relying on France, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)