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Chapter 1120 Preparing to Receive the East India Company

"The Fourth Fleet and the Western Company's fleet have set sail. We need to confirm the list of members who will go to Mughal to receive the East India Company. The East India Company was acquired by the treasury, and we even spent a lot of money to bribe them Therefore, the East India Company is also the property of our government, and the candidates sent must be honest and perform their duties to protect the interests of our country."

"There should not be too many people going to receive the East India Company, otherwise it will cause panic on the other side. The Mughal Empire has a large number of cavalry. We may be able to defeat them, but we are unable to launch a new war when the war in Japan is over. We cannot benefit from the war."

"Do you need to send fleet protection personnel to Surat Port in Gujarat? There seem to be many pirates in the ocean over there?"

At the meeting of the six ministries, a group of top officials of the empire were discussing to take over the workshop of the East India Company in the Indian peninsula.

The East India Company did not just buy it and finish it. It had to send people to receive and manage it, and the attitude of the Mughal emperor had to be taken into consideration.Although the two large agricultural empires with large populations were both in Asia and very close to each other, they were separated by the Himalayas and the sea, and there were not many exchanges between the two sides in history.Even Nanyang is more influenced by both parties than by each other.

"The fleet is unnecessary, and two frigates can be sent to receive the East India Company. Until we have enough financial support for the army to obtain privileges, we will still have to fly the British flag on the surface. The fourth Mughal emperor for Check and balance the intrusion of the Frangji people on the sea, and promise to give the British merchants who compete with Frangji the privilege of establishing business houses and living freely. The current fifth emperor should not easily go against his father's approach. But if they know Now we are the masters behind the East India Company, and our privileges may be revoked soon." Chu Yun said in a low voice.

In Chu Yun's view, the expedition to the Mughals is a matter of time, but not now.The purpose of conquering East India across the ocean was only to plunder raw materials and occupy the local market, not for territorial expansion.Conquest is for economic privileges and cultural export.

"If we only use two warships to escort, we can easily afford such expenses financially," Tobu Shiro said.

"In addition, I think that for the operation of the East India Company, we should hand it over to private businessmen, instead of letting inefficient officials run the affairs of the East India Company. Businessmen are proficient in business and will find ways to make a lot of profits. The profits of the East India Company will subsidize our finances and even train the army locally to control the barbarians with barbarians," Chu Yun said.

Chu Yun has used countless methods like this. The Ruan family and Zheng family in An Nanguo are fighting for the top, and Chu Yun is selling firearms behind him.The civil war in Japan was also indirectly caused by Chu Yun. In the future, it is still necessary to hire local elites to serve as security forces, and use the contradictions between local forces and groups to form checks and balances.

"The two warships should be sent by the Nanyang Fleet, which is relatively close. The capital sent a telegram to the Guangzhou government, and then the Guangzhou government sent a ship to Hoi An Port to inform the Nanyang Fleet. After our people understand the local situation, we can Privately recruit businessmen to go to Mughal to set up factories and establish permanent trading posts and warehouses." An official suggested.

"Seconded."

A group of officials believed that they should first send two ships to find out the local assets of the East India Company and the market conditions of the Mughals, and then send a large number of people to establish commercial strongholds and factories.

Chu Yun didn't have any opinion on this. It took the East India Company more than 100 years to colonize the Indian peninsula before it could truly control it. He didn't care about delaying it for a year or two.At present, the products produced by the Mughal Empire basically have or have substitutes in China.

After the regular meetings of the six ministries ended, many officials went back to their offices.

Ella followed Chu Yun with a bunch of recorded materials. She was responsible for the construction of the secret intelligence network, and she was only responsible for Chu Yun.

"The East India is really unfortunate. They were ruled by the East India Company in my era, and they still can't escape this fate." Ella, who was born in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, witnessed a glorious period when the East India Company ruled the Indian peninsula. period.

"In your era, the East India Company was already a giant..." Chu Yun remembered.

"Yes, at that time the East India Company defeated other competitors and controlled most of the territory of the East India. The private army exceeded 20 people, with an annual income of more than 1000 million pounds, and even interfered in the commodity trade in East Asia." Ella Said.

Chu Yun listened and nodded.The East India Company is an unprecedented behemoth in history. It can be said to be a legend that it can establish a private army on the Indian Peninsula with the power of a company to control a large empire with a population of hundreds of millions.Although it has also brought suffering to many places, even the countries in the world where Chu Yun originally lived were poisoned by the East India Company—Lin Zexu, the fuse of the first Opium War, sold cigarettes in Humen, and the East India Company, which monopolized the opium trade, was affected. The loss intensified the conflict between the two sides and led to the first Opium War. The consequence was that the Qing Dynasty paid 100 million silver dollars in compensation.

However, the objective impact brought about by the Opium War was that the country was forced to open the door, the dream of the heavenly kingdom was shattered, and the Qing Dynasty was also rapidly dying.Even without the East India Company, other European powers would not let go of this piece of fat.

"The land is vast and the resources are abundant. If the country is not strong and prosperous, the large population and resources will become the objects of covetousness. The law of nature is the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest." Chu Yun said.

"Master, do you know what happened to the East India Company?" Ella only knew about the East India Company in her era, but she didn't know how the East India Company developed after her era.

"It's a long story here. Although the East India Company was very successful in the early stage, its monopoly position and over-emphasis on interests brought a lot of trouble. The company's employees were corrupt and smuggled, and the site was too large to manage, which eventually led to the Mughal The rebellion of the children and the people of other kingdoms was led by the local feudal lords and servants. The rebellion was later suppressed by the East India Company and finally taken over by the government. And then there is a long story..." Chu Yun thought for her Speaking of what happened next.

"There are so many things that happened later!" Ella listened to Chu Yun's description of the vicissitudes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with relish, as if she was listening to the Arabian Nights.

"Even though East India finally became independent, Britain had already plundered enough benefits from the local area in the early stage. This is the accumulation of capital. Our deployment of the Mughals this time is just a copy, but our progress is faster." Chu Yun said.

(End of this chapter)