New Shun 1730

Of the three paths, which one will ultimately be taken is completely uncertain now.

Because this is a long process, and the world is constantly changing.

The root of the story of the man who carved the boat in search of a sword was that the man who carved the boat in search of a sword was neither stupid enough nor smart enough.

A person who is stupid enough will not be able to think of the sword staying in place after it falls, just as a really stupid person will not be able to think of the idea that a heavy ball will hit the ground before a light ball.

If you are smart enough, you will not expect that the ship is still moving forward.

The world is constantly changing, and no one can predict what will happen in the future. Because Liu Yu could only control the spinning of Indians, but he could not control any of the subsequent problems.

For example, the simplest thing he thought was that after spinning was replaced by steam engines, the Indians would definitely rise up.

But can he guarantee that the Indians will be like the people in Dashun, who refuse to live in peace and starve to death, and if they can't survive, they will be princes, generals and ministers?

Just starve to death at home.

He didn't want to starve to death and rose up.

The difference between the market impact on Dashun and the impact of the relative surplus crisis is simply heaven and earth.

Because starving to death only affects oneself, but rising up can affect ten people with one effect. It is destruction, killing, and shuffling, which will lead to a series of chain reactions of market collapse and shrinkage.

He can't decide this.

Because he himself could not quite understand why the great famine in Bengal under British rule was not accompanied by a large-scale uprising. How could there not be an uprising? But there really is no such thing in history...

External matters are still difficult to determine.

What's more, as the world changes, issues such as the ebb and flow of power among various classes in Dashun, compromises and confrontations, natural and man-made disasters, land annexation, ideological advancement and retreat, and the talent for rebellion will all affect the final outcome.

The things here are too complicated. It is not like the great development of the Americas and the eastward movement with Dashun characteristics in the future. It is an almost certain inevitability.

But one thing is certain.

Only chaos can change.

Only by changing can there be a possibility of choosing one of three outcomes.

And staying the same means there is no choice.

The basis for the change was India, and the aftermath of the Indian issue, which led to Dashun's participation in the First World War.

And now, the meeting between Dupleix and Du Feng, which determines the fate of India, will naturally determine how Dashun will take this step in India.

The meaning of people creating history is the hard work of the Indian people, which leads to the reality of Colbertism. France cannot make profits in India, so there is a high probability that France will not be inclined to invest more resources in India.

It was the diligence of the working people of Dashun and the awakening of Dashun's commercial bourgeoisie that led the British commercial bourgeoisie to try to replace Dashun's supplier status with India in order to save themselves.

It is the working people of India and Dashun who, through their hard work, have allowed a large amount of silver and gold in the world to flow into Dashun and India through trade. The Dutch have gone to Japan and China to trade a long time ago. Why not go to North Korea? Korea has no gold, silver and silk tea porcelain - for hundreds of years The accumulated gold and silver prompted the commercial bourgeoisie of various countries to intend to control this place and use the robbery system mentioned by Lao Ma to obtain high profits here. As for which commercial bourgeoisie will obtain the benefits here, it depends on Dupleix and Dupleix. Feng or Clive, who is the winner?

Whoever wins will choose the robbery system ruled by the commercial bourgeoisie, because it is only a Bengal region. Historically, Clive was not dead yet. He only controlled the Bengal region. The British annual tax revenue in Bangladesh was 3,332,343 pounds, which is equivalent to a large amount. Shun Kuping has 10 million taels of silver. Who wouldn't choose the method of plundering by collecting taxes?

If Dupleix wins, France will choose this way; if Du Feng wins, Dashun will choose this way; if Cliveux wins, Britain will still choose this way.

And what Du Feng reminded Dupleix—asking him if he was Indian or French—actually had a very clear meaning.

France will definitely lose in India.

Dupleix may win in India, but if he wins he is no longer French.

Because, there is a difference between taxation and robbery.

Dashun collects about 30 million taels in taxes every year, and spends all of this tax on Dashun, raising troops, providing disaster relief, flood control, immigration, etc. This is not called robbery, this is called rule.

The British collected about 28 million taels in taxes from India every year, of which 22 million taels were sent back to the United Kingdom. During the entire Bengal famine, the per capita relief amount was about 5 copper coins; India has such good water resources that it has hardly built canals and Water conservancy projects, this is called robbery.

Du Feng paraphrased Liu Yu's words, saying that if Dupleix succeeds and becomes the king of India by relying on his own, Indian, and independent power from the French regime, then he will transport all the tax revenue from India back to India. France, into the French treasury?

Of course not.

Because if he succeeds, the local power he relies on will not allow him to give all the money to the French treasury, because the prerequisite for his success without relying on France must be Indianization and reliance on local power.

Even if he wanted to, he couldn't do it, and the people who followed him to "conquer the world" wouldn't allow him to do it.

Moreover, the French navy cannot defeat the British. Even if Dupleix has loyal loyalists overseas, why should he maintain control of India?

If Dashun had no navy and no Grand Canal, it would be difficult to tell between the north and the south, let alone such a far away place?

Therefore, France must fail in India.

And Dupleix might win, but if he wins, it does not mean that Bourbon France wins, because if he wins, he will definitely not be a Bourbon minister.

This is just a layer of light mist shrouding Dupleix's eyes.

The light mist, he can also vaguely think of this problem in his heart, but he can't summarize it into an idea for a while.

The words relayed by Du Feng are like a layer of breeze, blowing away this layer of mist, as if he had a sudden enlightenment, and his thoughts were clear.

In itself, he came here not just to find Du Feng to drink and tell his grievances and depression.

Drinking and complaining, he can find someone else.

The reason he came to Du Feng is that he hopes to pull Dashun into the game.

It's not that he trusts Dashun very much.

But only by pulling Dashun into the game can possible peace be maintained.

So he has to believe in Dashun, not that he trusts Dashun itself-just like a drowning person, seeing a straw, he has to believe that the straw will create a miracle, because this is the only possibility.

Dupleix thought that Machalt's idea was pure nonsense. How could he believe that concessions in India would allow Britain to maintain peace with France?

However, the reality could not be changed. He did not have the strength of "this is a chaotic order, and I will not obey it" as Du Feng said, so he could only accept this reality.

Under the unchangeable French strategy of "concession will allow Britain to maintain peace", he came to Gaolangbu in Ceylon to find Du Feng before leaving, which was to convey a signal.

He hoped that the British would maintain this balance under the threat of Dashun. In other words, let Britain think that some kind of agreement had been reached between China and France.

Even let Dashun be the mediator and let Britain and France abide by the treaty.

The reason why Dupleix chose this was out of his own pride.

He was proud and thought that Machalt was a fool, and that Gordon, who came to replace him, was a waste.

He even proudly believed that if he left India, things in India would inevitably deteriorate. Gordon, that waste, would be beaten by the British.

If he were not so proud, or not so confident, then he would at most feel that his personal realization was impossible, and France's expansion would still maintain its advantage in India under Gordon's leadership.

But, in fact, who among those who have reached this position does not think that he is very powerful and the earth will not turn without him?

After receiving the imperial edict, Dupleix had a brief exchange with Gordon and was sure that the French court was simply out of its mind and found a person who did not understand India, did not understand reality, and was stupid because of reading to replace him.

This successor could not gain an advantage in India at all. Even the Chinese idiom of talking about war on paper is not worthy, because this person does not even have the ability to talk about war on paper.

So in this reality, Dupleix had to do the last thing before he left India.

The words relayed by Du Feng forced Dupleix to choose between the two identities of "Indian conqueror" and "loyal Frenchman".

The conqueror of India means fighting with Indians, British, Dutch, Marathas, Afghans, Chinese and Portuguese.

The Ceylon Han and Guiyi Army, who are within reach, are his potential enemies. He will not let the wolf into the house or drive the tiger to eat the wolf.

A loyal Frenchman means that even if he leaves India, he will leave an obstacle for France's enemies.

If France cannot get India.

Then, the first thing is to never let the British get India.

Because the two hundred years of war between the two countries are fighting the second hundred years; and because the military power of Dashun cannot influence Europe after all, at least at this time.

Even without Du Feng's words, Dupleix hopes that through his personal relationship with Liu Yu's people, Dashun will send a military delegation to visit the French-occupied cities and meet with France's Indian Jiedushi allies before he leaves India.

In order to create a kind of pressure on Britain: indeed, Ma Chaoerte is a fool, but it has been like this and it is irreversible, so let's work towards this foolish fantasy.

Let the British really abide by the fragile peace agreement for the sake of Sino-French relations, and no one will take the initiative to make trouble in India.

However, in fact, even if you think so, it is actually stupid.

The main force making trouble in India is the governors of various parts of India, which is not dominated by Britain and France.

Dupleix believes that the expansion in India is divided into three stages.

The first stage is to take advantage of the disputes between the governors of India as an outside force.

The second stage is to influence the disputes between the governors of India and take the initiative to provoke disputes between the governors of India as a powerful force entering the game, and profit from it.

The third stage is to eliminate or disintegrate the governors of various parties in India as a conqueror.

Now, France and Britain are at most at the end of the first stage, and neither has reached the position of being able to influence and dominate in the second stage.

In this situation, they are thousands of miles away, and they say that they want to maintain peace and balance in India with a treaty. Isn't this nonsense?

Now they can only use the disputes between the Indian governors to interrupt. How can Britain and France decide the peace and balance of India with a secret treaty thousands of miles away?

In Dupleix's view, this is simply schizophrenia.

Take Dashun as a simple example. If Korea got into trouble because of the "bastard" and "brother-killing" issues, and Dashun said no to fighting, then it really couldn't fight; and the reason why Dashun's words were effective was that Dashun really had the ability to kill both sides - Dashun's hesitation on the issue of Korea was simply because Korea was poor. If Korea was like Bangladesh, it could collect 10 million taels of silver in taxes a year, and Dashun would instantly redefine the concept of "kingly way".

The same is true for the Indian issue.

On the one hand, they think that Dupleix's idea of ​​conquering India and collecting taxes is nonsense, and that the legacy of the Mughals can't be decided by a few thousand soldiers?

On the other hand, they think that with a secret agreement between Britain and France, the situation in India can be determined. If India is peaceful, then India is peaceful. If they say no to fighting, then no fighting?

The premise of being able to decide whether a subcontinent is peaceful or war-torn with a secret agreement, isn't it necessary to first believe that a few thousand soldiers can determine the fate of the subcontinent?

On the other hand, I can decide the ownership of the subcontinent with a secret agreement, so why don't I send troops to conquer this place and eat up all those Jiedushi and princes?

These two are completely contradictory.

How could those idiots in the cabinet come up with this idea?

But now, the matter is done and there is no use in scolding. What else can we do?

We should try our best.

Dupleix wanted to conquer India and dominate India before, so Dashun would naturally be full of vigilance.

Because, since Dashun went to Southeast Asia, there are actually only five players left on the chessboard of India.

China.

France.

Britain.

Afghans.

Marathas.

The rest, whether it is the Netherlands or Portugal, are no longer qualified to get involved.

Dupleix knew Liu Yu as early as when Liu Yu was training troops in Weihai. The first batch of new French cannons of Dashun were negotiated by Liu Yu and Dupleix.

So how is Liu Yu's diplomatic credibility over the years? Or, what does Dupleix think of Liu Yu?

This... most of them are derogatory words.

How can a person who has been keeping a close eye on the situation in Europe and even participated in the coups in Russia and the Netherlands not see India in front of him?

Let Dashun be the mediator of peace between Britain and France, isn't this inviting a wolf into the house?

Before, Dupleix didn't want to drive the tiger to swallow the wolf, because he really felt that he had the ability to conquer India.

Now, whether it is to invite the wolf into the house or drive the tiger to swallow the wolf, he can only let Dashun enter.

Hope itself is slim.

What if, maybe, once, perhaps, possibly, maybe, Liu Yu really didn't see India and really had no interest in India?

What else can he do?

Let the British dominate India?

Then he might as well invite Dashun into India.

In the midst of drunkenness, Dupleix stared at Du Feng's eyes with his drunken eyes, either intentionally or pretending to be unintentional, and asked: "How many troops do you have in Ceylon?"

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How many troops does Dashun have in Ceylon?

Dupleix didn't know this question.

Even though Ceylon is so close to India, and even though the French can actually go anywhere in Ceylon as long as they don't preach.

But Dupleix is ​​French, not Dashun.

He doesn't understand Dashun's military system, finance, land policy, and military system.

Therefore, he can't infer how many soldiers Dashun has available in Ceylon.

Dupleix, who has been in India for a long time, can't understand the real strength of Dashun in Ceylon.

On the contrary, Quan Zheshen, who has just arrived in Ceylon, relies on his understanding of the traditional land system, finance, and military system. After landing on the island for a few days, he believes that Dashun has a lot of soldiers on the island of Ceylon.

Because... Dashun in Ceylon is not a pure recruitment system.

According to the tradition of the Confucian cultural circle, this kind of military system that is not purely a conscription system can be understood, and it is definitely closely related to the land system.

In short.

Farming and warfare.

If we only look at conscription, the army of Dashun in Ceylon is really not that large.

But in fact, there are many who can be pulled out to resist the front.

Quan Zheshen is a person in the Celestial Empire cultural circle after all. He is very familiar with things like government soldiers, equal land distribution, military service, good citizens, national land grant system, farming and warfare, frontier army variant military household hereditary soldier system, and good family son service system.

And in the Celestial Empire cultural circle, a fundamental issue of reform is the land system.

He just came to find a way to save the country, the people, and the world, so naturally he had to look at the land system here.

So after setting foot in Ceylon, he quickly understood the war potential of Dashun here.