10 Downing Street.
Grand Dukes Heshen, Qishan, and Mihail have all left. Now sitting in the conference room, in addition to the cabinet members of the current British cabinet, are Prince William and the Duke of Wellington, who are about to go to India.
Among them, Prince William will serve as the Vice-King of India. The so-called Vice-King is the king's deputy and a super governor who can exercise great power on the frontier or colony on behalf of the king. Prince William's deputy king is not the same thing as the previous governor of the East India Company. The latter's rule over India was actually somewhat unfair and inconsistent.
The British East India Company was a chartered trading company in its earliest days, mainly engaged in zero-dollar purchases, and also engaged in smuggling, slave trading, drug trafficking... and normal international trade. Well, normal trade is still necessary, because the black money earned by the East India Company from zero-dollar purchases, smuggling, slave trading, and drug trafficking is usually converted into silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, etc. and shipped back to Europe to make another profit. It is more profitable than transporting gold and silver directly back.
But I don’t know how the British do this business? Gradually, the feudal power to build castles and rule the local people was obtained from the Mughal governors or some short-sighted Indian princes - they may have treated the East India Company as a feudal lord. So the East India Company began to transform from a company to a political power.
Later, the East India Company gradually grew in size during the struggle with various Indian states and even the Mughal Dynasty - the company's organizational efficiency was of course much higher than that of the feudal monarchs, and the East India Company also had With foreign guns, foreign artillery, and foreign generals, where are the opponents of India's Mughal dynasty and its princes? By the 1830s, except for the Sikh Empire in the northwest corner, which was still not very submissive, the entire India was controlled by the East India Company.
However, this kind of control was not backed by justice, although the British Parliament passed a series of laws declaring that the sovereignty of the land acquired by the East India Company belonged to the British King. However, these laws were not recognized by the local princes and nobles in India. In their view, the East India Company only stole or snatched power from the Mughal Dynasty. Their rule in India had no righteousness. illegal!
As if to prove that its rule was illegal, the East India Company still retained the Mughal emperors of India, but kept these emperors under house arrest in the palace in Delhi and gave them large annuities every year... This was inevitable. It gave Indians the illusion that the legitimacy of British rule in India came from the Mughal emperors.
In this case, although the Mughal emperors did not have any political or military power, the East India Company also found it difficult to rule because it lacked sufficient legitimacy. There was no way to let go of the search, let alone to form an Indian army strong enough to fight the Ming Dynasty.
Nowadays, the confrontation between the British Empire and the Ming Empire is intensifying, and because of the insufficient white population, Britain is at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Ming Dynasty. The only way to reverse the decline seems to be to make British rule over India reasonable and legal, and have a rightful name recognized by Indians.
Therefore, the East India Company must be abolished first... However, it is impossible for the British to return the power held by the East India Company to the Indian emperor of the Mughal Dynasty. Instead, they will set up an Indian deputy king to take over. The power of the East India Company.
And this deputy king... is not only the deputy king sent by the British king, but also the deputy king of the Mughal emperor!
"Your Highness," George Canning said to Prince William, who was about to take office, "according to the suggestion of Viscount Amherst, you should serve as deputy king of the King of England and the Emperor of India at the same time. In this way, the sovereignty divided by the King of England and the Emperor of India , can be reunited in you... Then we will arrange a usurpation for you according to the customary laws of the East! You will legally usurp the throne of the Mughal Emperor and become the recognized emperor of India. And after you inherit the British throne, all sovereignty of India will be unified under the hands of the Indian Emperor of the Hanoverian Dynasty!
From now on, the monarchs of the British Empire will be able to firmly control India! "
"Can usurpation... really be legal?" Prince William was still a little worried. Although he also knew that there were three ways to usurp the throne: abdication, wearing a yellow robe, and killing his nephew and then being persuaded by the ministers to usurp the throne, was this really legal?
"Your Highness," the Duke of Wellington, the incoming Chief Minister of the Indian Empire, promised, patting his chest, "We can first establish the Indian Imperial Parliament, and then formulate an Indian version of the "Power Act" to stipulate that usurping the throne is legal... ..."
"Yes, yes, as long as there is an Indian version of the "Power Act", usurping the throne will be legal!" Prince William was completely relieved now.
Because he knows that the background for the introduction of this "Power Act" is a transnational usurpation!
The throne of King James II of England was usurped by his daughter and son-in-law, William III, the ruler of the Dutch Republic, and Princess Georgia Anne (a British princess)... Even the civilized and progressive British mainland can legally usurp the throne, let alone India?
George Canning smiled and said: "Now we and Ming have a problem in front of us. What we are facing is how to merge the divided sovereignty of India and hold it firmly! And Ming's problem is how to according to their They are willing to transform Japan and turn it into a vicious dog in their hands. And whoever solves their own problems first will definitely have the upper hand in the next gamble."
In fact, Britain's problem is insufficient production - compared with the Ming Dynasty, British production is quite insufficient! Therefore, Britain must extend the Industrial Revolution to a certain extent to India, which has a large population.
The problem of the Ming Dynasty is the shortage of cannon fodder - the per capita of the Ming Dynasty is high, and the gap between the rich and the poor in the country is relatively small. The people live a relatively comfortable life, and naturally they are not willing to fight. Moreover, the people of the Ming Dynasty who paid a certain amount of taxes could elect political officials...and political officials had the power to overthrow the cabinet! Therefore, once the Ming Dynasty suffered too many casualties in foreign wars, the cabinet would be in danger of overthrowing.
And Japan, with a population of more than 30 million, is a country that can provide millions of cannon fodder for the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, as long as India's partial industrialization is completed or Japan is integrated by Ming Dynasty, the final showdown between Ming Dynasty and Great Britain will not be far away.
And whoever solves his own problem first will undoubtedly have the upper hand in the future game.
Prince William asked again: "Prime Minister, has Japan not succumbed to the power of the Ming Dynasty?"
George Canning smiled and said: "The Tokugawa shogunate is seeking compromise, but there are still many brave samurai who are unwilling to surrender... They have already flown the banner of respecting the king and resisting the Ming in Nagasaki, and they have also threatened our British Empire. Asking for help. This is exactly the result we wanted from the beginning! Although the price paid was higher, Japan eventually became chaotic. If the Ming Dynasty carried out armed intervention in Japan, they would most likely fall into the quagmire of war and cannot Extricate yourself!"
Having said this, George Canning couldn't help but feel proud. He has only been prime minister for a few days, but the policies he implemented have been very successful! The war with Dajin has been successfully resolved, the war to carve up Turkey has also been solved very well, and the dispute with Ming has almost been negotiated... Yesterday, we got news that even Japan, which was originally planning to give up, , now it’s also in chaos!
Someone has already raised the flag of justice over in Nagasaki, and people are responding throughout Kyushu and the western part of Honshu. Chaos is about to start. The Tokugawa shogunate may be overthrown, and Japan may also fall into troubled times. As long as this troubled times comes , it will be difficult to clean up.
Although the Ming Dynasty will definitely ask the British Empire not to interfere in Japanese affairs, but now no agreement has been reached? They just seized the opportunity to step up their aid to the Japanese martyrs - the British Empire was very good at doing this kind of thing.
