A fierce war ended in an anticlimactic manner.
Arthur Wellesley, who returned to Calcutta in despair, became the scapegoat for this war.
His position as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India was eliminated.
And he has to be recalled to London to report on his duties.
In the port of Kolkata.
An armed merchant ship is ready.
"The sun and moon flag of the Ming Empire and the pass issued by them are prepared on the ship. There should be no problem."
Richard Wellesley said somewhat helplessly.
When did the British Empire need to be so humble? Even its own colonial officials did not dare to ride on a warship when they wanted to return to London.
Well.
In fact, the British Empire currently has no maritime power in the Indian Ocean.
All the warships they could float to sea have been destroyed.
Except for some ships that had obtained the Indian Ocean Pass from the Ming Empire, the entire British Indian Governorate was unable to send any large ships to the Indian Ocean.
So they worked hard for so many years and used various methods to collect 30,000 lobster soldiers from London.
"The Chinese army is terrible. We must let the guys in London know this. If we don't carry out deep-seated military changes, Britain will be far behind the times."
Arthur stood on the plank road in the port, staring at the ships coming and going in Calcutta Port and said.
"We may be able to seek reconciliation with the Chinese and buy time."
"Reconciliation? Are they willing?"
"It depends on people." Arthur spread his hands and said, "We can only give it a try. We can't defeat them on the battlefield now. Fortunately, they are far away from Europe."
As he spoke, Arthur looked at several large boxes placed in front of him.
Equipped with rifled guns, four-inch rifled howitzers, and steel-cased mortars respectively. At the same time, there was also a box of new gunpowder that I didn't know where to get.
Richard looked at the weapons and said, 'These are the weapons the Chinese will use to defeat us. '
"Yes! We must also have these things." Arthur said, "Steam engines, metallurgical industry, chemical industry, the common progress of these industries can produce these weapons on a large scale. The military revolution triggered by these things will be profound. impact the entire world."
"The army of the future belongs to an era where firepower is king, and the navy of the future belongs to an era of steel-armored ships!"
"Only with these things can Britain have a future."
As the ship sailed away, Arthur's words lingered in Richard's mind.
Whether Britain could have a future, he wasn't sure.
But he knew very well that it was not certain whether his Indian Governor-General's Palace would have a future.
"Your Majesty, the war in India has come to an end. The war to compete for the Ganges waterway should not start until early next year."
Zhongdu, in the emperor's palace in the north city.
It is the new left prime minister Peng Jun who is reporting to the emperor.
The former Prime Minister Luo Fangbo has retired and is now the president of the Daming Federation of Industry and Commerce Promotion. He is currently compiling teaching materials to teach officials from various places how to develop industry and commerce.
The current right prime minister is Gu Song, and the left prime minister is Peng Jun.
One is the prime minister and the other is the deputy prime minister.
In short, the Ming court is still in harmony now.
Although the last conflict between the old and new schools in the Zhongdu Palace gave birth to the predecessors of the two main political parties in the future Ming Dynasty.
They are the Revitalization Party, which represents the new intellectual class and the new bourgeoisie with new learning.
and the Gentlemen’s Party, which represents the old scholar-bureaucrat and landlord class.
One Radical and one Conservative.
This structure is quite stable.
However, neither the Revitalization Party nor the Gentlemen's Party has been able to take over the political system. It is only spreading among young new students and scholars.
The Cantonese Party and the Hunan Party, which are divided by region, currently occupy the mainstream in the imperial court - but this structure of organizing groups based on regions will sooner or later collapse in the future.
Therefore, apart from maintaining a balance, Emperor Zhu basically did not interfere too much with his officials' respective reports to the Unity Party.
There are no factions in this party, and there are all kinds of strange things.
It is human nature to sign up for each other.
"The British Governor-General of India sent envoys to Zhongdu to sue for peace. They were willing to recognize the territory currently occupied by the Ming vassals, and would no longer even care about the life and death of the Mughal Empire."
"It's just a temporary measure." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.
"Ignore the Indian side's affairs for now, and recall Yang Yuchun and Luo Dingfang at the same time. There should be no big fight on the Indian side."
The vassals are now busy digesting their territory. Although Sun Shiyi is very active in marching into the Ganges River, other vassals are not very enthusiastic about this.
Emperor Zhu did not intend to directly force the vassals to obey Sun Shiyi's orders.
It is already good for these Indian vassals to occupy such a large territory now.
Now before Emperor Zhu was a navigation chart.
Departing from Shanghai, we resupply in Tokyo Bay, then go north, ride on the ocean currents, and drift all the way to a natural harbor named "Peanut Village" by the adventurers sent by the Ming Dynasty.
If you want to return, you will go south. There is a westward ocean current in the south near the Tropic of Cancer.
Emperor Zhu looked at the map of Peanut Village carefully.
“Isn’t this Vancouver?”
Emperor Zhu's face showed a burst of joy.
"Baochen, it can be said that Zheng Yi and Zhou Jihai have made great achievements. I summon them here and I will personally knight them!!"
Is this a knighthood?
Peng Jun was stunned. He looked at the map in front of Emperor Zhu and said, "Your Majesty, there are many good harbors in this place, but I don't know what the climate is like. Can we farm?"
"Yes! Of course I can!"
Emperor Zhu said affirmatively.
This is Vancouver. The climate is considered to be the best in North America. It was the forestry center of Canada in later generations. However, this place can actually cultivate a large amount of excellent arable land. It is just because Canada has such a small population that such a good land is not available. It's such a waste to use it to plant trees.
And if you go, it only takes fifty days to arrive in Vancouver from Shanghai Port.
A big fortune ship can carry 300 people and cargo. If there are a hundred big fortune ships, they can go back and forth every 120 days.
That means sending 30,000 people there in one hundred days!
That's 60,000 a year.
That’s 600,000 in ten years!
Emperor Zhu counted on his fingers.
Ten years, six hundred thousand
Still a little too little.
Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "It would be best if this place could attract more civilian immigrants. The place name of Peanut Village is not good and it is not attractive enough."
"Your Majesty, this Peanut Village is indeed not grand enough." Peng Jun nodded and said.
"Then change the name. This island will be called Treasure Island, this port will be called Jinshan Port, and when a city is built in the future, it will be called Jinshan City!! There is a big gold mine in this place! By the way, let it be published in the newspaper, just say Everyone who went to Jinshan found gold!"
There is indeed a large gold mine in Vancouver, but Emperor Zhu doesn’t know where it is.
"Golden Mountain."
Peng Jun was stunned.
“It’s a good name”
(End of chapter)
