Be a noble person for generations?
If there really is such a good thing, can it be my turn?
I am afraid that the heroes under King Ming will do it themselves.
When I saw Sun Shiyi, he looked confused and suspicious.
Zhu Daohua smiled.
Of course he knew that it was not easy to become a nobleman in India.
Because almost the entire South India and Bengal region was now under the rule of the British.
According to the intelligence coming from India, after the Ming Dynasty gained control of Southeast Asia, the British sent additional troops to India.
But their total number of troops stationed in India is only more than 7,000.
Just two infantry regiments of lobster soldiers.
But the British rule is very clever.
Their strategy in India was to arm a section of Indian compradors to rule and break up Indian resistance.
Including local Indian forces such as the Maratha League and the Mughal Empire, in fact, those who have been fighting against them for a long time have been mercenaries recruited by the British in India.
These include Gurkha Cavalry, Punjab Cavalry, Sikh Cavalry, Bengal Light Cavalry, Bengal Infantry, etc.
The Ming Dynasty cannot obtain exact figures for this part of the army for the time being.
A rough estimate is that the total strength may exceed 30,000.
That is to say.
The British actually used Indians to conquer India.
In another time and space without the Ming Dynasty, the British army stationed in India never exceeded 9,000 people.
Even the Battle of Plassey, a key battle in the initial British colonization of India.
The total strength of the British army was only 2,900.
Among them, 2,000 were indigenous Indian mercenaries, and there were only 900 lobster soldiers.
In the end, it was with these 2,900 troops that the British won the Battle of Plassey and started the process of colonizing India.
The British also relied on wooing and utilizing the Indian comprador class and using local Indian mercenaries to finally complete their conquest of India!
And now if you want to drag the Zhejiang regiments under Sun Shiyi to India to become nobles, then you must first make them at least better at fighting than the Indian mercenaries under the British - this is actually not difficult, because India People's fighting skills are never very good.
The real key is how to let them gain a foothold in India, win the war with the British, and seize the rule of India!
To know.
Ming Dynasty's main strategic direction is definitely not India.
Because it is useless for the Ming Dynasty to acquire India. What the Ming Dynasty needs are sites that can accommodate a large population to alleviate the pressure of the domestic population explosion.
And India is now a place as densely populated as Jiangnan.
It was difficult to take it down, and it was impossible to kill all the Indians.
not to mention.
What a wonderful people the Indian people are.
Basically, whoever rides on top can dominate, and there is no need to worry about Li Zicheng or Huang Chao among them.
Even Dai Ying, a ruthless villain, is reluctant to scalp Indians.
Who would be willing to kill so many peaceful humanoid leeks?
And now for Daming.
The continuous rapid growth of industrialization forced the Ming court to use force to open up markets.
The best dumping ground for goods in the world right now is India.
On the one hand, the population is large enough, and on the other hand, after thousands of years of accumulation, it is definitely a world mystery how much precious metal reserves the nobles of the Indian states have.
Most of India's coastal coastline is in British hands.
If Britain closes the Indian market to Ming Dynasty, Guangdong's cotton textile industry, which has taken off in the past two years, will encounter a cold winter.
The large number of workers absorbed by these cotton textile industries and the series of industrial chains supported by them are all facing collapse.
The vigorous industrialization process of Ming Dynasty will also be set back.
so...
To control the safety of the waterway from the Strait of Malacca to India, and at the same time have a solid territory in the South Asian subcontinent, so that the British cannot block the Indian market, so that Ming's goods can enter the Indian market without obstacles.
"Where did the wealth that Your Majesty mentioned... come from?"
Sun Shiyi asked.
"From India!"
Zhu Daohua pulled open the map of the South Asian subcontinent behind him.
"The Henghe River Basin in India is as densely populated and rich as the south of the Yangtze River! If you were to be princes here for generations, wouldn't you be rich for generations?"
Zhu Daohua smiled.
Sun Shiyi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "You are such a big Mingwang, what are you talking about?"
Who doesn’t know that India is rich?
But you are going to India to become a prince or a marquis.
Do Indians agree?
Do the British agree?
Is this something you can ride on if you want to ride on the heads of the Indian people?
"The Lone King is not joking. Now the British fleet is coming to China. What kind of intervention fleet are they going to form to force me to succumb to their trade policy?"
Zhu Daohua stood up and said.
"However, they are too naive to think that they can make the lonely king surrender by sending a few gunboats to the coast of China. They only have a few wooden boats and underestimate their capabilities, thinking that the lonely king is the Manchu!"
Sun Shiyi was stunned again and again when he heard this.
What do you, the wise king, say?
The Manchu and Qing Dynasties never fought against the British...
"However... the British have mastered the Indian coast, which gives them the ability to close the Indian market. In this case, the Lone 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 northeastern part of the map of the South Asian subcontinent.
"The mouth of the Bengal River is densely populated, and the British have just conquered it. Their rule here is not stable. If you can occupy Bengal, you can ensure that our Ming Dynasty's goods can enter the Ganges River Basin unimpeded and connect with Northeast India. We can establish contact with all the other princely states, as well as the Mughal Empire and the Maratha League.”
Understood..
Sun Shiyi suddenly realized.
It turned out that King Zhu Ming was going to war with the British.
But they were worried that after the war started, the British would close the Indian market and cause the cotton factories in Guangdong to close down.
Therefore, they decided to strike first and send people to occupy India first.
But India is a country with long mountains and long rivers. If the Ming army is sent there, it will be a waste of military expenditures.
Therefore, they sent these regiments to train troops and let them go to India to conquer territory.
In order to ensure the enthusiasm of the training personnel of these regiments, the territory they conquered is their own.
Doesn't this mean you can be a father-in-law or a marquis in India?
Moreover, these regiments who left China to train troops wanted to gain a foothold in India and fight the British.
Then it must not be separated from the support of Ming Dynasty.
In other words, as long as King Zhu Ming provides some weapons, he doesn't even need logistics or military pay.
You can send an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people to India.
No, maybe the Fujian regiment training and those in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou may also be transported to India one after another.
While occupying territory in India, these regiment leaders also wanted to become compradors of Ming Dynasty products and serve as vanguards for the expansion of Ming Dynasty industrial products.
This abacus is so accurate.
Zhu Daohua's calculation was certainly accurate.
Although India is a good place, it has too many people and is more suitable as a product dumping ground.
Moreover, it is also a destabilizing factor for these regiments to train in the country. After all, there are so many people, and each of them is somewhat resentful because the Ming Dynasty deprived them of their property.
Send them to India and create principalities and princes one by one.
Whether you can become a master or not, you have to work hard on your own.
Sun Shiyi's expression changed. He knew that the reason why Zhu Daohua asked them to surrender unconditionally was 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 Jin Yiwei's fans for the rest of his life.
The other one is to follow Zhu Daohua's arrangements.
Go to India.
Go and dominate the Indian people.
How to choose...
It’s really hesitant.
"Your Majesty, although the Zhejiang regiment has trained a lot of troops, its weapons and equipment are mainly spears, bows and arrows. It really does not have the ability to go against the British."
Sun Shiyi said.
The corners of Zhu Daohua's mouth raised slightly: "Since the lonely king said he wants you to go to India to become masters, he will not let you die!"
"One hundred thousand guns! One hundred cannons! This is given to you by the Lone 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 the Qing court doesn't have tens of millions of taels of silver, it will definitely not be available.
But on Daming’s side.
With the widespread use of steam engines.
Mechanical production gradually began to replace manual factories.
As well as the increase in Ming Dynasty steel production and the fall in steel prices.
If only flintlock muskets without rifling and muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons were produced.
That cost can be reduced to a very low level.
Therefore, these 100,000 guns and 100 cannons were something that Zhu Daohua could solve with only a few hundred thousand yuan.
It's not a lot of money at all.
If you can spend this small amount of 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 worth more than one million yuan a year. ,
Coupled with the employment population absorbed by the cotton textile industry and the prosperity of the market.
Spending hundreds of thousands of Ming yuan to ensure that the Indian market is open to Ming Dynasty is a huge profit.
Of course, this is only the cost of weapons. Ming Dynasty still has to transport tens of thousands of people to India, but this is not difficult. Nowadays, the shipping capacity of Nanyang Shipping Company is strong enough.
From Malacca Haixia to the Bay of Bengal, it is only a thousand or two thousand kilometers.
It was much cheaper for the Ming Dynasty to project power to India than it was for the British to project power from Europe.
"Go back to Hangzhou and tell the leaders of these regiments that if they are willing, they will sign this vassal agreement and make the Ming Dynasty the sect. The Lone King will make them kings of principalities, princes, and uncles based on their military strength! "
"In addition, these training regiments must first be transported to the Strait of Malacca for consolidation and training. After they are proficient in the use of guns and artillery and the tactics of the Ming-style army, they will be sent to India! With the support of the lonely king, you will definitely be able to become this Indian Noble man."
"Your Majesty, why don't you give me some more ammunition? Where do you have the money to buy it now?"
Sun Shiyi did not address himself as "Your Majesty", but as "King".
"I can give you a loan!" Zhu Daohua waved his hand, "I can also arrange for businessmen in Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu to purchase the things you grabbed in India, and they will be guaranteed to be at preferential prices."
"In addition, you Sun Shiyi can be made a British Duke. I am the British Duke of the Ming Dynasty. After you Sun Shiyi goes to India, you can leave a family of heirs and inherit the title of British Duke in the Ming Dynasty. However, the one who stays in the Ming Dynasty is not a feudal king. , they are just nobles of the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Daohua handed a "Zong-vassal Agreement" to Sun Shiyi.
According to the agreement.
As long as it is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
You must act according to etiquette.
The Ming Dynasty rites will also stipulate in detail the respective rights and obligations between sects and vassals.
Sun Shiyi glanced through it and knew that he was unlikely to refuse.
Walked out of 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 and had been a slave of Emperor Qianlong for half his life.
At this point, he actually has the luck to be the king of a country...
Life is so unpredictable...
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the latest chapter content, but the Xingxing Reading APP has updated the latest chapter content.
He took a big breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously observed his surroundings, and then became even more confused.
A single dormitory?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
The body and appearance have changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:? ? ?
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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Beastmaster?
