Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1183 Believe it or not depends on the head

04:30 in the afternoon.

The battle is over.

The Bangladeshi army was routed across the board, and only the French gunners persisted in the position until the last moment.

After they blocked the fire door of the cannon with iron nails, they chose to surrender to the traitor Jafar's cavalry instead of surrendering to the British.

Clive, who was extremely empty after the excitement, opened the bottle of laudanum with his trembling hands, which relieved the pain of emptiness after the excitement.

He now needs to calm down immediately to deal with the situation in front of him.

In front of them, the soldiers of the 39st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Infantry Regiment, namely the [-]th Infantry Regiment, were confronting the guards of the Dashun Mission.

The guards of the Dashun Mission have already displayed the Dashun flag.

They just held formation, but they didn't raise their weapons, they didn't take aim, but they carried their packs as if they were on their own soil.

Lieutenant Colonel Al Coote, commander of the Dorset infantry, did not know what to do with the situation at hand.

The Dorsetshire Infantry is not an army of the East India Company, but a loan from King George to the East India Company.

It's the British regular army.It was only loaned to the East India Company.

The flags displayed by the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side were not the flags of mercenaries, but the real battle flags of the Dashun army.

Lieutenant Colonel Kurt was completely at a loss as to how to deal with this situation, because before coming here, people from the British government had specifically told him to avoid war with the Chinese.

He even told him that if the Chinese are mixed with the French, if it is not necessary, do not attack the French who are mixed with the Chinese.

China has envoys in Bangladesh, they know it.

However, these Chinese missions did not choose to retreat in the direction of Murshidabad, the capital of Bangladesh.

Instead, they clearly moved forward in the direction of the British army.

Clive, who had calmed down after taking laudanum, walked to the front of the Dorset infantry regiment. After exchanging a few words with Lieutenant Colonel Coote, the soldiers of the Dorset infantry regiment also put away their muskets.

Clever walked to the front of Dashun's guards, took off his hat to pay tribute, and Zhang Sanbiao from Dashun's team also stood up.

"Where are you going?"

Clever kept being as polite as possible, and asked the people in Dashun in his unproficient Chinese.He had worked as a company employee in Songjiang for a period of time before. Although he couldn't speak well, he could still understand what he was talking about.

"We are going to Calcutta, and from there we will sail home. Can you send a guide? I am afraid that our party may cause misunderstandings in Calcutta."

Zhang Sanbiao replied in Chinese, and the interpreter translated these words into English and made an inquiry.

Clive breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to communicate with Lieutenant Colonel Kurt.

Now that the military flag has been displayed on Dashun's side, it's best not to look for trouble.What Britain is most afraid of now is the direction of India, and Dashun will make a move.

Even if there is no real war, just pulling the sidelines and letting the French navy go to Gaolangport to replenish and repair in Malacca, it will make Britain very uncomfortable in the direction of India.

Now the British don't want to test Dashun at all. The cultural gap between the two sides is too great. Many times, they talk like chickens and ducks, and it is impossible to communicate effectively.

If because of cultural barriers, what I thought was a small temptation, but Dashun's side interpreted it as a big humiliation, it would be troublesome.

Dashun's army was well-trained, and it was not affected by the war and the defeat of the Bengalis at all, and its formation was very neat.

Even so, with the [-] troops in hand, it is not difficult to destroy such an army of [-] men.

The question is, why fight?
How do you end up after the fight?

Not to mention that there is still a guard, even if there is only one Dashun envoy, if the Dashun envoy is taken out, the British will not only send people to protect them on the ship, but also send troops to protect them in case the defeated Bengali soldiers will kill them.

Even if the French escaped from the Jindernagar Fortress, in order to drag Dashun into the war, assassinate Dashun's envoy and blame Britain, it would be troublesome.

The main reason is that the British side can't understand what Dashun is going to do here, or because they don't understand, they can only think that Dashun hopes to be neutral in the war and make a lot of money from the war.

However, from the perspective of trade, it seems that Dashun has no interest in India, which is very reasonable.

Because, whether it is a production area or a sales area, India is of little significance to Dashun.

Relatively speaking, the conflicts between the British East India Company and the Dashun Western Trading Company in the Persian Gulf and other places were much more serious than in India.

From the perspective of trade, the East India Company hoped to get Bengal; but from the perspective of trade, the whole of Bengal was not comparable to a Muha on the Red Sea.

Of course, the two sides did not go to the point of fighting each other in Mucha. After all, it was the territory of Ottoman Turkey, and the main activities were bribery, gift giving, forming cliques, finding agents, trusting relationships, and cheating.

Dashun prematurely expressed a neutral attitude, which allowed the British to let go of their hands in India.After Duplex was transferred, the British transferred the battalion of the Dorset County Infantry Regiment and British field troops such as the 12th Artillery Regiment.

By the time the French realize that they have been tricked, it is already too late.

These two field troops transferred from the mainland quickly gained the upper hand with the cooperation of the navy, and immediately broke the promise of a truce between the two sides, and captured French fortresses such as Jindernagar-the one who served Siraj. Those artillerymen, as well as Reinhardt of Salzburg, who became famous in India as the "Dark Mercenary Corps" in the future, were all French troops who ran out of that fortress.

The advantage that Duplex had left for France was gone at this time.Even if King Algorithm came to his senses and sent Duplex, it would be useless.

After the King of France transferred Duplex, the Jiedushi from all over the world thought that the French were unreliable and began to waver.

All of this is based on Dashun's whole journey of watching dramas.

Otherwise, in the previous war, even if Dashun dispatched a battalion, or even provided only a group of professional gunners, then it would not be a question of victory or defeat at all, but a question of impossible fighting.

There have already been differences within the UK on the issue of whether to fight or not.

It was Lieutenant Colonel Kut and Clive who repeatedly expressed their strategic views - time is on the side of the Bengalis, if the Bengalis cannot be defeated before the rainy season, then Siraj will integrate the legacy left by his grandfather , complete the internal cleansing and integration, then the company will have no chance of winning—this leads to the outbreak of the battle.

This is just Bangladesh's own strength. As long as Dashun loses a little bit, then this battle will be impossible to fight.

The British side has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Dashun army.

Although there was no large-scale field battle in the previous battle with the Netherlands, the efficiency with which Dashun knocked down the Dutch castle was enough to shock the world.

This is an era in which it is very easy to judge the opponent's combat effectiveness.

An army that captured a fortress in about half a month without relying on siege, but by siege, must be the benchmark for elite troops at this time.The last one with such efficiency was the French army that beat the Netherlands out of a disaster year.

So at this time, in the eyes of Clive and Kurt, the Dashun army of more than a hundred people is not weak. Behind it stands a behemoth from Siberia to Java; from Central Asia to Japan.

This kind of monster cannot be provoked.

Therefore, there are also some aristocrats and textile factory owners in the UK clamoring to show some color to Chinese smugglers.

But the East India Company is very firmly on the side of the opposition. Indeed, the smugglers of Dashun are very annoying, but that is just annoying. If there is a fight, it is not as simple as annoying, but the East India Company It can be declared disbanded immediately.

During this time, the East India Company also showed its favor to Dashun frequently.

This year, the company has already lobbied a large number of congressmen, and the tea tariff may be lifted. Wait a minute, there will be news soon.

Next year, it is said that the company has considered increasing the amount of cotton cloth imported in Dashun. You wait a little longer, and the cotton cloth tariff will be abolished immediately.

But in general, the East India Company still pinned its hopes on: Dashun would integrate Southeast Asia, seize Japan, expand Japanese trade, immigrate to Southern Oceania, develop trade, occupy the western Americas, and other strategic directions.

This is also the result of Liu Yu's continuous chanting to this group of people in the East India Company over the years. Liu Yu's chanting is very simple. The problem of the Chinese Empire is that there is not enough land and an overpopulation. We must first resolve internal conflicts. The land without a large population is the favorite of the Chinese Empire.

Buy a basket and return a pearl, do you understand?Do you understand the difference between taking jade as treasure and righteousness as treasure?
Things that you think are worthless, we think are very valuable, understand?

You are dominated by commercial capital, we hope to be dominated by industrial capital, do you understand?

My reform in Songsu has always been to enhance the property of cultivated land as a means of production, and to downplay the property of financial investment of cultivated land. Do you understand?

He recited scriptures, but it was really for the benefit of the British East India Company, to give them a little comfort.

But it's really hard to communicate.

The production thinking of the farming empire and the trade thinking of the commercial country have traditionally had huge differences in tone.

After all, even a master of Enlightenment philosophy like Voltaire once commented on North America with the harshest sentences—a few acres of snow, what’s so good—of course, he would not make such an evaluation now, because from the perspective of business thinking In North America, because ginseng and mink are valuable again, it is impossible for France to exchange the whole of North America for a palm-sized sugar-producing island of Guadeloupe.

As for the scriptures recited, whether the British believe it or not, Liu Yu doesn't care, anyway, the East India Company loves to believe it or not.

Do not believe?If you don’t believe it, then shareholders will invest in building a fleet of battleships in India, recruit 300 troops in India, and prepare [-] cannons.

Anyway, now North America has been disturbed by Dashun's trade, and its value has doubled. This is the situation. Dashun will not move at all, believe it or not.

Xin, fought fiercely with the French in India, and grabbed India before Dashun completed internal integration.

If you don't believe me, let the shareholders destroy their homes to relieve the difficulties, build a fleet in India and add [-] regular troops, and be ready at any time.

There is not much money. It is estimated that the ten-year investment will be 3000 million pounds, which is only [-] million taels of silver, which is almost the same.

Oh, not so much money?

Don't you believe that you have no money?

The status quo is that whether you believe it or not depends not on your brain, but on your material, and on whether you can take out the money.

Now that they are forced to the material level, everything can only fall into the pit that Liu Yu designed for Britain and France earlier.

Anyway, here lies the pitfall. Dashun’s hundred soldiers could watch the excitement on the Bengal battlefield, and after watching the excitement, they asked the British side to send them to Calcutta with personnel, guides, and translators.

After Clive discussed with Lieutenant Colonel Kut—of course they didn’t discuss whether to send someone to escort Dashun and his group to Calcutta, this issue is not a matter of discussion—Clive came forward again and asked politely Said: "Siraj's rule is over."

"He brutally slaughtered the innocent and law-abiding British people, and his rule was deserted, brutal and drunk, so that his people and subordinates stood against him to overthrow his brutal rule."

"The London East India Company can guarantee that the saltpeter trade contract between your country and Siraj will continue to be implemented and will not be affected in the slightest. This is the company's promise."

"If your country's envoys are willing to stay in Calcutta for a period of time, the company also expresses their great welcome. After they elect a new Bangladesh envoy, the company will prompt them to sign a new saltpeter trade contract immediately."

Niu Er, who had been silent all this time, stood up from the crowd, deliberately pretending to be gloomy, and decided to leave some memorable bombs for Bangladesh and the East India Company before leaving.

"The Celestial Dynasty has the morality of the Celestial Dynasty. The loyalty of the subjects to the monarch is the first priority. I witnessed a betrayal on the battlefield. I will tell the emperor what happened here."

"Moreover, I doubt whether your company is capable of guaranteeing the execution of the China saltpeter trade contract with an ambitious traitor. Personally, I am very dissatisfied with the traitor Jafar's virtues."

(End of this chapter)