After hearing what Yang Jinu said, Jin Taiji nodded, looked at the vast Indian plains, pulled the reins and said: "If I had known, the south was so good, I should have arrested more people!"
Yang Jinu replied: "Yes, it's so warm here. If we bring more of these people here, we can rob more slaves and gold and silver."
Jin Taiji and Yang Jinu now regretted not bringing more people here, and for the Ming court authorities, they now regretted not coming here earlier to make Wanghua.
Because in fact, in the Indian subcontinent right now, it is the Ming Dynasty that reaps the greatest benefits.
All the land, population and property looted by the Jurchens and other Yiding must be exchanged for silver dollar coupons in the hands of the Ming court.
Then, the Jurchens waited for the Yiding to take silver dollar coupons to buy Ming products.
It is equivalent to what the Jurchens and other Yiding people worked hard to get, which are just cheap goods from the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also collected protection fees from the surrendered Brahmin feudal lords and dumped goods to them.
It is worth mentioning that today's Indian subcontinent is actually a non-centralized country composed of many feudal lords.
Maybe the Mughal Empire was more centralized, but in essence, the entire Indian subcontinent was a feudal society composed of several states.
This is naturally more conducive to Ming Dynasty achieving its strategic goals in the Indian subcontinent and maximizing its own interests.
In short, Ming Dynasty is now making money on both sides, and this has also caused the income of the Ming Dynasty court to continue to rise.
The key point is that the Jurchens and other nobles in Yiding basically used their excess silver dollar coupons to buy subscription coupons, which was equivalent to lending the money they worked hard to the Ming Dynasty. It can also be said to be investing in the Ming Dynasty.
This means that these nobles actively tied themselves to the interests of Ming Dynasty, and would not be dissatisfied with Ming Dynasty's exploitation model. For their own interests, they would have to be willing to open up territory for Ming Dynasty.
at the same time.
The Ming Dynasty also took the initiative to provide protection to the Brahmin feudal lords of the Mughal Empire, and advocated not killing them, and also allowed them to invest in the Ming Dynasty and lend money to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Brahmins did not hate the Ming Dynasty that much, and even began to Willing to contribute to the prosperity of Ming Dynasty.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty will also allocate a small portion of the profits earned to reward the middle and lower-level Jurchen Yiding who perform bravely. The outstanding ones will even be directly summoned to the capital to face the saints and become the emperor's disciples, and they are still being praised. They built Confucian colleges and medical clinics in the areas where the Jurchens and other Yidins massacred and plundered, as well as in the territories of Brahmin feudal lords, to provide relief to the poor and treat the sick. By the way, they promoted the theory of destiny and let the people at the bottom of these places know that the emperor of tomorrow is the destiny of heaven. The returned Holy Lord, the benevolent king, lives a hard life just because his life is harder than others. He should endure more hardships and work harder, so that he can have the opportunity to become a master.
Of course, to do all this well, one needs someone who is good at military, political and diplomatic skills to coordinate these affairs for the Ming Dynasty in India, so that all forces and classes will not have so much hatred for the Ming Dynasty. , or even just grateful to Ming Dynasty.
Liu Wei, who is only good at charging into battle and whose common name is Liu Dadao, is naturally not suitable for this job.
Therefore, after Liu Wei captured Dhaka, Zhu Yijun ordered him to be transferred back, and he was granted the title of Duke of Chengguo due to his meritorious service, and he stayed in Beijing to take charge of Beijing Wei's martial arts.
After Wan Shide, who had been promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of War, was recommended by the court as the new candidate for the Governor-General of India, Zhu Yijun appointed him to serve as the Governor-General of India, responsible for military and political affairs in India.
Zhu Yijun chose Wan Shide because Wan Shide was good at military command. He once blocked the attack of hundreds of thousands of rebels in Huamachi. He was also better at handling multi-ethnic relations. He also defeated two soldiers in Gansu without spending a single soldier. Hundreds of thousands of barbarians joined him, and they dared to act harshly but also showed mercy.
During his tenure as the Governor-General of India, according to the actual situation, Wan Shide did not adopt aggressive military strategies. Instead, he used his better methods as a civil servant to allow Ming Dynasty to obtain the most benefits in India, and also to make all classes in India have a strong interest in Ming Dynasty. Not so disgusting, even welcoming.
Setting up hospitals, schools and even almshouses are all what Wan Shide came here to do.
In addition, Wan Shide also focused on business and cultural education.
First of all, he vigorously set up business in Dhaka, using India's cheap labor force to transfer a large number of eliminated backward industries in the country, and then used the money earned in this way to purchase land and mines from Brahmins. It is equivalent to letting the Mughal people at the bottom exchange for a large amount of land and mines for the Ming Dynasty through their own labor.
Secondly, at this time, Wan Shide also conducted a gratitude education to these lower-class Mughals who were concentrated in his factory, so that they only realized that they only had a job and the possibility of living because of the arrival of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to cover up the fact that the Ming Dynasty came to India for profit and plunder, and to better enable the Ming Dynasty to gain the respect of the world, Wan Shide also petitioned for the abolition of the caste system in the Ming Dynasty's enlightenment area, and clearly demanded that under the rule of Xinli, India's There is no hierarchy among the various classes.
Although Wan Shide did this only because the Ming Dynasty did not need the caste system to obtain benefits, and he did so in order to attract more labor to the enlightenment area, it did attract many idealistic Mughal intellectuals and gained their good impression.
They began to take the initiative to regard the Ming Dynasty as an advanced civilization that came to save them. They were full of favorable impressions of the Ming Dynasty and actively brainwashed themselves, saying that the arrival of the Ming Dynasty's army had finally ushered in the dawn of India, which had always been in a dark world.
Many Mughal intellectuals also began to migrate to the Ming Dynasty enlightenment area. After arriving here, they also took the initiative to learn Chinese culture, and even took the initiative to wear Han clothes, speak Chinese, and write Chinese characters.
There were even Brahmin-level feudal lords who took the initiative to accept Sinicization, and there were also idealistic individual Brahmins who took the initiative to dedicate their territories to the Ming Dynasty, with the intention of allowing the Ming Dynasty to transform the civilization of their territories, liberate the people in their territories, and free them from Stupid.
It's just that some Brahmins, although they do not reject contact with Chinese culture, are very opposed to ordinary people's contact with Chinese culture, and even prohibit them from wearing Han clothes and learning Chinese characters, saying that doing so is abandoning their ancestors and betraying their own civilization.
Some ultra-conservative Brahmins directly and brutally suppressed ordinary Indians who immigrated to the Han Dynasty to change their customs. However, the Brahmins themselves secretly came to Dhaka and other Ming Dynasty to purchase Chinese furniture and handicrafts, and even took the initiative to pay high prices to ask Han people to teach them Chinese characters. With the Han family Yinlu, he even took the initiative to send his own children to the education area to study.
In short, the Brahmins are very contradictory. While they say in front of the lower class Indians that they must abide by tradition and preserve their own culture, they themselves are the first to come into contact with Chinese culture.
Since Indians are proud of their own culture, most ordinary Indians have chosen to cooperate with the Brahmins to abide by their own civilization and culture. They are unwilling to be assimilated and would rather become poorer as a result.
Of course, there are also smart ordinary Indians who have begun to advocate absorbing Chinese civilization while transforming their own civilization, and hope that India can be unified as soon as possible.
It's just that such people are in the minority, and they often don't please both sides. They are despised by compradors, saying that they have not cleansed themselves from ignorance and backwardness. They are also reprimanded by conservatives, saying that such people are not confident in their own civilization and He is a hypocritical villain who wants to take advantage of both sides.
And therefore.
Throughout the Indian continent, there are both Jurchens and other Yiding people, Han people, and lower-class Indians who are in dire straits, as well as high-caste Indians such as Brahmins who are divided ideologically and politically and militarily.
Here, there are both rough and barbaric Shengfan tribes in Yiding, that is, tribes that have not been greatly Hanized, and Shufan tribes that are almost indistinguishable from Han people.
Among high-caste Indians such as Brahmins, there are compradors and agents who only want to be the lackeys of the Ming Dynasty. There are also people who want to improve and catch up with the Ming Dynasty. They even despise their own civilization and feel that their own civilization is very backward and has no merit. , is simply a low-lying place in the world in terms of the difficulty of education, and people who can only get rid of ignorance and be completely saved can only completely abandon their backward ideas and become completely Chinese.
Among low-caste Indians, there are those who listen to the conservatives among Brahmins and just want to abide by the traditional caste system without changing it, and there are also those who don't want to care at all.
Anyway, under the leadership of the Ming Emperor and the rulers, and Wan Shide's good execution of this strategy, the Indian subcontinent is now more complicated than before.
It must be mentioned that the Indian subcontinent now still has colonies of Portuguese and other Western colonists.
Therefore, the current Indian subcontinent is really far away from being able to unify and then improve it.
What's more, the Mughal Empire itself was a loose structure composed of various princely states.
Moreover, because the current Indian subcontinent has too many and too complex forces, wars often occur.
There are not only the wars between the major feudal lords within the Mughal Empire against foreign invaders, but also the melee in which they conquer each other. There are also the wars between the Green Camp and the Associated Guards Camp, as well as their own internal conquests. There are also feudal lords, Green Camp, and Associate Guards. War broke out after the conflict between these camps and the Western colonists.
The entire Indian subcontinent was in chaos, and wars were going on almost every day.
During this period, Ming was frantically selling its soon-to-be-obsolete weapons to the two warring parties, while acting as a mediator to mediate everywhere. This made the upper-class people who just wanted to fight for territory inseparable from Ming's weapons support, and those who just wanted to live a peaceful life. The lower class people have a good impression of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty. After all, only the rulers of the Ming Dynasty are calling for peace.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun issued an imperial edict to Wan Shide and said: "We must make full use of various non-war means so that Ming Dynasty can achieve civilized unification in India as soon as possible."
(End of chapter)
