Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 148 The Beginning of Colonial India

Have been nobles for generations?

If there is such a good thing, can you still get yourself?
I'm afraid that those heroes under King Ming's command will go up on their own.

Seeing Sun Shiyi's expression of doubt and suspicion.

Zhu Daohua smiled.

Of course he knew that going to India to be a nobleman was not easy.

Because almost the entire South India and Bengal are now under the rule of the British.

According to the information from India, after Ming gained the rule of Southeast Asia, the British sent more troops to India.

But their total force stationed in India is only more than [-] people.

Lobster soldiers from two infantry regiments.

But the British ruled very cleverly.

The strategy they adopted in India was to arm some Indian compradors to rule and disintegrate the resistance of the Indians.

Including the native Indian forces such as the Maratha Alliance and the Mughal Empire, in fact, the mercenaries recruited by the British in India have long been fighting them.

These include Gurkha cavalry, Punjabi cavalry, Sikh cavalry, Bengal light cavalry, Bengal infantry and so on.

The strength of this part of Ming Dynasty is temporarily unable to get the exact figure.

It is roughly estimated that the total force may exceed [-].

In other words.

Britain actually used Indians to conquer India.

In another time and space without Ming Dynasty, the number of British troops stationed in India never exceeded 9000.

Even at the time of the Battle of Plassey, the key battle of the British colonization of India in the first place.

The total strength of the British army is only 2900 people.

Among them, 2000 are indigenous Indian mercenaries, and there are only 900 lobster soldiers.

In the end, it was with this 2900 troops that Britain won the Battle of Plassey and started the process of colonizing India.

And Britain also relied on the wooing and utilization of the Indian comprador class, and finally completed the conquest of India by using local mercenaries in India!

But now if you want to bring Sun Shiyi's Zhejiang regiments to India to become nobles, you must first make them at least better than the Indian mercenaries under the British-this is actually not too difficult, because India People's war skills have never been very good,

But the real key lies in how to let them gain a foothold in India, win the war with the British, and seize the rule of India!
To know.

The main strategic direction of Ming Dynasty is definitely not India.

Because it is useless for Ming to get India. What Ming needs are those sites that can accommodate a large number of people to relieve the pressure of the domestic population explosion.

And India is now a place with a population density no less than that of 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 good people the Indian people are.

Basically, whoever rides on the head can be domineering, and there is no need to worry about Li Zicheng's yellow nest among them.

Even such an inhuman villain as Dai Ying was reluctant to scalp Indians.

Who would be willing to kill so many peaceful human-shaped leeks.

And now for Daming.

The continuous rapid growth of industrialization forced the Ming court to use force to open up the market.

Now the best place to dump goods in the world is India.

On the one hand, there is a large enough population, and on the other hand, after thousands of years of accumulation, how much precious metal reserves are in the hands of those Indian rich and nobles is definitely a mystery in the world.

India's coastal coastline and most of it is in the hands of Britain.

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.

The large number of workers absorbed by the cotton textile industry, and a series of industrial chains supported by them will face collapse.

The vigorous industrialization process of Ming Dynasty also suffered a setback.

so.
To control the safety of the waterway from the Strait of Malacca to India, and at the same time have a stable territory on the South Asian subcontinent, so that the British cannot block the Indian market, so that Ming's products can enter the Indian market without obstacles.

"The wealth and honor His Majesty mentioned...where do you get it?"

Sun Shiyi asked.

"From India!"

Zhu Daohua opened the map of the South Asian subcontinent behind him.

"India's Henghe River Basin is densely populated and rich in wealth, comparable to Jiangnan! If you are princes here for generations, wouldn't you be rich and honored for generations?"

Zhu Daohua laughed.

Sun Shiyi smiled wryly and shook his head, you said that you are such a big King Ming, what are you talking about.

Who doesn't know that India is rich.

But you are going to India to be a prince or prince.

Do Indians agree?

Do the British agree?

Is this what you say you can ride on the heads of the Indian people if you want to?
"The lonely king is not joking. Now the British fleet is coming to China. What kind of intervention fleet are they going to form to force the king to submit to their trade policy!"

Zhu Daohua stood up and said.

"However, they sent a few gunboats on the coastline of China, thinking that the idea of ​​making the lonely king succumb is too naive. With their wooden boats, they think that the lonely king is Man Qing!"

Sun Shiyi was stunned and stunned when he heard the words.

What are you saying, King Ming?

The Manchus never fought the British.
"However...the British have mastered the coast of India, which gives them the ability to close the Indian market. In this case, the lonely king has to seek to project power to India to prevent the Indian market from being monopolized by the British!"

Zhu Daohua pointed to the northeast of the map of the South Asian subcontinent.

"The mouth of the Bengal River is densely populated, and the British have just conquered it not long ago. Their rule here is not stable. If you can occupy Bengal, you can ensure that the goods of my Ming Dynasty can enter the Ganges River Basin unimpeded, and Northeast India. The various states in the lower part of the country, as well as the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Federation can establish connections."

Understood..
Sun Shiyi was stunned.

It turned out that King Zhu Ming was going to war with the British.

But I was worried that after the war, the British would close the Indian market and shut down those factories in Guangdong that were doing cotton business.

Therefore, it was decided to act first and send people to India to occupy it first.

But this India is far away, and if the Ming army is sent there, it will waste military expenses.

Therefore, these regiments were sent to train troops and let them go to India to fight for territory.

In order to ensure the enthusiasm of the trainees of these regiments, all the territories they have conquered are their own.

Doesn't this mean you can be a prince or marquis in India?

Moreover, these regiments training from China want to gain a firm foothold in India and continue to fight the British.

Then it must not be separated from Daming's support.

In other words, as long as King Zhu Ming produced some weapons, he didn't even need logistics and military pay.

An army of 8 to [-] people can be sent to India.

No, maybe the Fujian regiment training and those regiment training in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou may also be transported to the border of India one after another.

While occupying the territory of India, these group training leaders will also become the compradors of Ming's products and the vanguard of the expansion of Ming's industrial products.

This abacus is too accurate.

Of course Zhu Daohua's calculations were accurate.

Although India is a good place, but there are too many people, it is more suitable as a place for dumping goods.

Moreover, it is also an unstable factor for these regiments to stay in the country for training. After all, there are so many people, and each of them is somewhat resentful because Da Ming deprived them of their property.

Send them to India and seal principalities and marquises one by one.

Whether you can become a master or not depends on your own efforts.

Sun Shiyi's expression changed. He knew that the reason why Zhu Daohua asked them to surrender unconditionally was probably to force them to go to India.

Now I only have two choices.

One is that he was deprived of all his property and stayed in the Ming Dynasty, and was stared at by the Jin Yiwei for his whole life.

The other one is to follow Zhu Daohua's arrangement.

go to india.

Go and ride on the heads of the Indian people to be domineering.

How to choose.
It's really hesitant.

"Your Majesty, although the Zhejiang Regiment has trained a lot of soldiers, its weapons and equipment are mainly spears and bows. It is really incapable of fighting against the British."

Sun Shiyi said.

The corners of Zhu Daohua's mouth rose slightly: "Since the lonely king said that he wants you to go to India to become masters, then he won't let you go to die!"

"One hundred thousand guns! One hundred cannons! These are given to you by the lonely king, but you have to pay for the ammunition!"

Zhu Daohua stretched out a finger and said.

There are one hundred thousand guns and one hundred cannons.

If there is no tens of millions of taels of silver on the Qing court, it will definitely not come down.

But on Daming's side.

With the widespread use of steam engines.

Mechanical production gradually began to replace hand factories.

As well as the increase in the output of Daming Iron and Steel, the decline in steel prices.

If only flintlock guns and muzzle-loading smoothbore guns without rifling are produced.

That cost can be compressed to a very low point.

So these 10,000 guns and [-] cannons, for Zhu Daohua, can only be solved with [-]+ Ming Yuan.

Not a lot of money at all.

If you can spend this little money to get an Indian market that can be controlled, it is definitely worth it!
We 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. ,

Coupled with the employment population absorbed by the cotton textile industry and the prosperity of the market.

Spending 10,000+ Ming Yuan can ensure that the Indian market is open to Ming, that would be a huge profit.

Of course, this is just the cost of weapons, and Ming Dynasty has to transport these tens of thousands of people to India, but this is not difficult, and the shipping capacity of Nanyang Shipping Company is strong enough.

From Malacca Haixia to the Bay of Bengal, it is only one or two thousand kilometers.

It is much cheaper for Ming to project power to India than for the British to project power from Europe.

"Go back to Hangzhou and tell the training leaders of these regiments that if they are willing, they can sign this vassal agreement, with Ming as the clan, and the lonely king will grant them the titles of principalities, marquises, and uncles according to their military strength! "

"In addition, these regiments have to be transported to the Strait of Malacca for reorganization and training. They will be sent to India only after they have mastered the use of guns and artillery and the tactics of the Ming army! With the support of the lonely king, you will definitely be able to become this Indian My lord."

"Your Majesty, why don't you give me some more ammunition, where can the big guy have the money to buy it now?"

Sun Shiyi didn't call himself His Majesty, but called him King.

"I can give you a loan!" Zhu Daohua waved his hand, "I can also arrange for businessmen from Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu to buy the things you robbed in India, and they will definitely be at preferential prices."

"In addition, you, Sun Shiyi, can be granted the title of British Duke, my British Duke of Ming Dynasty, after your Sun Shiyi goes to India, you can leave your sons and heirs to inherit the title of British Duke in Daming, but the one who stays in Daming is not the king of the country. , it’s just the nobles of Ming Dynasty.”

Zhu Daohua handed over a "suzerain-vassal agreement" to Sun Shiyi.

According to the agreement.

As long as it is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

You must act according to the etiquette.

The ceremony of the Ming Dynasty will also stipulate in detail the respective rights and obligations between the suzerains and vassals.

Sun Shiyi probably flipped through it and knew that he was unlikely to refuse.

Walked out from King Ming's temporary palace.

Sun Shiyi couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

did not expect.

He, Sun Shiyi, was a Confucian scholar who had been Emperor Qianlong's slave for half his life.

When you arrive, you still have the luck to be the king of a country
Life is really impermanent.
(End of this chapter)