Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1252 The Price of Restoration
Siraj also knew that restoration would of course require a price. It was hard to say how much power he would have left as a governor.

In order to reward the British East India Company, Jafar took 1600 million silver rupees in cash alone.Since Dashun chose to invest in Siraj, which is more difficult, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for Dashun to only have an appetite of 1600 million rupees.

It has been 11 years since Da Gama explored the Indian route in the 250th year of Hongzhi in the previous dynasty. It has been [-] years since a large amount of silver from silver mines in America and Europe poured into India.

As for the gold accumulated in India for thousands of years, it is undoubtedly much more than Dashun in terms of the total amount of gold and silver in the society.

However, there are many opinions on how to collect this precious metal.

At this time in the camp, Du Feng, who had just finished killing people on a large scale and built a Beijing temple, did not put too much pressure on Siraj.

He only cares about fighting and training soldiers. In Ceylon, even camping and Ding Ji are actually in charge of the deputies sent by the imperial court.

Therefore, in any case, he also knows that the matter of Bangladesh has little to do with him. What he may have to do is to stay here for three to five years, help Siraj to stabilize the situation physically, and clean up Bangladesh. domestic opposition.

Since how to manage and how to rule has nothing to do with him, at this time he only needs to comfort Siraj.

According to the transliteration in India, Siraj's name should be Nawab.However, since Dashun started negotiating with the Raksha people at the beginning, according to the translation practice of those Latin Romanized translators at that time, it still adopts the style of free translation for some official positions, which can be regarded as a kind of translation movement that started 20 years ago. stereotype.

So Du Feng still called him Jiedushi.

"Master Bengal Jiedu, after this battle, the whole of Bengal can be decided. As for how to deal with those traitors, whether it is ransacking or confiscating them, this is all up to you. I am a soldier, Since the imperial court said to let me guarantee you to retake the position of Jiedushi, I will naturally go all out."

"These thousands of captives belong to the name of the Jiedushi first. Most of them are patched together, not standing soldiers. Besides, even if they are standing soldiers, they will go with whoever pays them. Now it is known Most of the wealth in the treasury has been plundered by the British, but I heard that your aunt has always opposed you, and she hopes to have your second aunt's cousin be appointed as the Jiedushi. I have heard that your uncle is in charge of customs and military logistics. , Your aunt is in charge of the internal treasury and foreign trade, and the wealth in it can be used as military pay, which is naturally enough."

"As for my soldiers, in order to ensure you regain the position of Jiedushi... Although the military salary is naturally paid by the court, the compensation money and credit money other than the military salary..."

If it was just such a small condition, Siraj would die laughing.So he quickly said: "Lord Governor, don't worry, the soldiers' rewards are naturally paid by me."

"Since the British are defeated, even if their family wants to transfer their wealth, they will have little chance. Just block the river mouth and patrol more."

After saying this, he said in accordance with a set of procedural standard format that he had learned in Dashun: "The "Oath of Thailand" says: establish virtue, do good work, eliminate evil work. Today, the traitor Jafar has been executed. The leader of the rebel Xiao Xiao, venting his hatred of betrayal, the rest of the familiar thieves are still north of the Ganges River, when the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will be executed."

"The righteousness of the heavenly dynasty shines through the ages; the Bengal newspaper is only seen through its strength."

"This time I was able to regain the position of Jiedushi, all thanks to the emperor Hongfu and the great kindness of the celestial dynasty, I dare not forget."

The people from Dashun in the tent basically all laughed.

It’s not about laughing at Siraj’s Chinese with a crappy accent, it’s probably some words learned by rote from others, just like some low-ranking officers in Dashun memorized some foreign languages ​​that seemed awkward to them One, two, three, four are like buying things.

Instead, he laughed at what Siraj had memorized.Because of some well-known historical factors in Dashun, most of the words in this are satire. It is estimated that most of the people who helped Siraj write these things are also mostly contemptuous.

Weili is vision, it is a good word, and it comes from "Zuo Zhuan Xigong 24 Years", but for some reasons, this originally good word inevitably has some bad meanings in Dashun, after all, it involves Some things about the legitimacy of the founding of Dashun.

This is a very serious political issue in Dashun, and it is somewhat similar to the general evaluation of Wang Anshi by scholars before: affirm personal sentiment and deny political line.

After all, this involves the battle of Shanhaiguan, whether the orthodoxy was defeated by the traitors and Yi Di combined hands;

Although the situation is different, it can be heard that the mentality of those who helped Siraj write these things is probably the same as the argument that Liu Yu told them many years ago: I hope that I have as much meat as all my flesh. All the dogs wag their tails at me, but I will still point to the dog's backbone and curse: Bah, this dog has no spine.

This kind of special historical allusion is a special feature of Dashun. Naturally, Siraj couldn't understand the circles in it, but when he heard the officials of Dashun laughed, he thought he had reached a consensus with them.I thought to myself that as long as I can return to the position of Jiedushi, I can neither control nor control what they are going to do.

Siraj was defeated by Clive back then, but it didn't destroy his heart and make him mentally collapse.

In his view at the time, everything was due to Jafar's betrayal.If Jafar hadn't betrayed and raided his flank at that time, then the battle of Clive would have died, and the British East India Company would have been expelled from Bengal, at least the customs sovereignty could be regained.

Because, before that decisive battle, it was not that he had never fought Clive, nor had he never captured the British.

He captured Fort William, seized British merchants, and even nearly killed Clive in the first field battle at Clive.

But now, what made him completely let go of his resistance was not just because he had no strength or troops anymore.

It was because he really went to the capital city and saw the most prosperous side of Dashun—of course Dashun would not allow him to visit those remote and impoverished areas.Judging from Tianjin, Beijing, Songsu and other places, Dashun is indeed prosperous and prosperous, and it cannot compete.

To him, Britain is a distant existence. He has no idea what Britain is like.

Although you can read books and listen to them, what really imprints in your heart is the direct communication with the East India Company.

At least in this day and age, in Siraj's intuitive way of looking at the East India Company's senses, that's about it.

He was beaten violently by the Mughal Empire's legions before, and the so-called fortified Fort William was captured by himself, and he also captured a bunch of prisoners. Before the land battle, he only played sneak attacks, but he was kicked on the iron board. If the Afghans did not cause trouble in the west, he would be fine Push the British away.

One-on-one, three thousand against three thousand, naturally they can't beat it.

But why is it three thousand against three thousand?Why can't it be [-] to [-]?
This intuitive feeling made him very dissatisfied with Britain. He hated Jafar's betrayal more than anything else, and believed that everything was due to Jafar's betrayal.

Otherwise, he will take back the customs, abolish the tax-free rights abused by the East India Company, support Moorish merchants to monopolize silk, jute and saltpetre, complete internal cleaning and integration, and have money in hand. The Chinese way of fighting in India can completely train a new type of army without having to ask the French East India Company to borrow artillery.

His disobedient mentality that "everything is due to betrayal and accident" was quickly shattered after he went to Dashun.

And in his heart, he planted a "Dashun is invincible" demon seed, which took root deeply and made him dare not resist.

Neither is it solely because of the prosperity of Dashun.

Nor was it because of watching Dashun's army formation drill.

Not to mention witnessing the train from Mentougou to Beijing.

Rather, during the past few years in Dashun, he saw something that was actually not a big deal that happened in Dashun's court.

It was the Jiedushi of Gansu who was impeached and accused of some crimes.

The emperor... actually only sent a dozen or so inner guards from the Boyer Army to guard a few officials, and he was taken directly from the army to the capital, where he was tried and executed.

Siraj, who had witnessed all this at the time, was completely terrified. So far, he believes that Dashun is really invincible. This is too scary!

For a Jiedu envoy two thousand miles away, the emperor could actually send only a dozen personal guards to the military camp to arrest people directly.

And it was easy to catch.

Didn't even dispatch an army of more than 2 people with cannons and horses?

Moreover, the silver from each province is handed over to the central government on time every year, and even the tax silver in Yunnan, which is thousands of miles away, can also be handed in on time?
This... is too scary!
In this era, when the emperor sat at home, he could directly send someone to arrest a Jiedu envoy two thousand miles away without dispatching the imperial army. This might not be considered a big deal in Dashun.

In the eyes of Dashun officials, is this a problem?As for the fact that Yunnan actually pays taxes to the central government, isn't that nonsense?What do you want to do without paying taxes?
But in Siraj's view, it directly planted the seeds of fear in his heart.

If the Mughal emperor in Delhi sent seven or eight envoys to Rajshahi, saying that you are unqualified as a Jiedu envoy, don’t be an envoy, and someone from above will be sent, what will happen?
Siraj is well aware of this.

Don't even talk about Mughal bullshit, it's him, the Bengal governor, who asks his aunt to hand over the customs money to him, what will happen?Or what will happen if the nobles assigned to Orissa are given military service and payment on time?
It was precisely because of this trivial and normal incident in the eyes of Dashun officials that Siraj immediately lost the will to resist, his mentality completely collapsed, and an invincible demon was planted.

Therefore, Du Feng chose the location to receive Siraj's "Return of the King" this time, next to the Beijing Temple he built to showcase his martial arts. For Siraj, it was actually a bit of icing on the cake.

It is not necessary.

However, Siraj is not the whole of Bengal.

For the rest of the nobles and landowners in Bangladesh, this Jingguan is very meaningful, not simply icing on the cake.

After all, not everyone has been to the legendary "Aurora".

Not everyone has the brains to understand what it means for a country with its capital to be able to concentrate nearly 2 troops on Sagar Island.To understand the true meaning of Dashun's concentration of nearly [-] troops on Sagar Island, rather than whether it can win a battlefield tactical confrontation like fighting beast chess, requires brains, but obviously, most people do not have the ability to think. The non-intuitive sense of the brain.

(End of this chapter)