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Chapter 1384 Treaty of Bombay
"We hope to surrender with honor. After the war, we are still free citizens and can continue to live in Goa City. Otherwise, we will resist to the last person." The Portuguese envoy met the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet besieging their headquarters , Deng Qianlong, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, made a request for honorable surrender.

This is the guy who led the fleet to take their Portuguese city of Malacca a few years ago, and now he has gone to India to take their city of Goa.

"On behalf of the Nanyang Fleet, I accept your surrender. You need to hand over the defense of Goa City, and our soldiers will take over the fort. The East India Company will enter Goa City for management. Your residents in Goa City need to register and Accept management and pay taxes to us." Deng Qianlong reiterated his conditions.

"We are willing to accept, thank you for your kindness." The Portuguese envoy said.

After the Portuguese surrendered, the land squad moved into the city and took complete control of the fort and key points.The Portuguese in the city looked at this army stationed in Goa with some anxiety, fearing that they would go back on their word.

However, Deng Qianlong has no intention of destroying the city of Goa, which can be used as another stronghold of the East India Company.

"You follow us to persuade the seven islands of Mumbai to surrender." Deng Qianlong asked the soldiers to bring the Portuguese governor over.

If a governor personally goes to Mumbai to persuade them to surrender, there will be no need to spend extra time besieging them.

"You took away our city of Malacca a few years ago, and now you are going to take away the city of Goa. Are you planning to monopolize the entire South Asian subcontinent?" Seeing Deng Qianlong, the Governor of Portugal asked Deng Qianlong with complicated emotions.

Isn't what Deng Qianlong is doing now what the Portuguese were doing decades ago!

"The Netherlanders also told us the same. They sympathize with your experience, but your resistance is futile. Whoever has a strong navy will be able to occupy this piece of ocean." Deng Qianlong said, pointing to the surface of the Indian Ocean.

Although the Governor of Portugal was always unwilling to lose their status, what Deng Qianlong said was the unchanging truth. He could only bow his head and admit that the Portuguese were no longer able to occupy this piece of coast.The Nanyang Fleet still allows them to live and trade in this place is the greatest tolerance.

"Let me take you to Mumbai." The Portuguese governor knew that the city of Goa, the headquarters of India, had fallen, so Mumbai would probably not be able to hold it. Mumbai's resistance would only increase casualties.

The history of Mumbai Island is older than the city of Goa. At this time, it has not been reclaimed. It is an archipelago composed of seven small islands.The Portuguese also had defenders and merchant ships there. The Nanyang Fleet brought the Portuguese governor to Bombay Island to demand their surrender. The few defenders on the Seven Islands of Bombay had no choice but to surrender obediently.

Deng Qianlong took the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet to the island to check, while looking for deep water areas.

"A deep-water port can be built on the east coast of the island, which is very suitable for berthing large ships. It is not as prosperous as Surat, but it will definitely become a prosperous city in the future." The Portuguese said.They are quite confident in their vision.

What Deng Qianlong values ​​most is the deep-water port here and Gujarat, which is close to the commercial prosperity of the Mughal Empire. In the future, it will be one of the three major naval bases in the Indian Ocean.

In order to manipulate the Mughal Empire, two of the three major naval bases in the Indian Ocean were deployed in the Mughal Empire, and one was deployed in the Strait of Hormuz owned by the Persian Empire.

Mughal, Persia, and Ottoman are the three great empires in South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia. They have a large number of people and many believers. They are not easy to control. They can only adopt the strategy of blocking the sea to control trade in the Indian Ocean.

After pulling out the Portuguese stronghold, the East India Company has basically controlled the coast of South Asia, and the long coastline of the entire Mughal Empire is within the strike range of the Nanyang Fleet.

"From then on, all ships trading on the west coast must go to any of Surat, Mumbai, and Goa for customs declaration. On the east coast, they need to go to Madras for customs declaration. In Bangladesh, they need to go to Calcutta to declare customs. Get the East India Company's trading license, otherwise, once our patrols find out, we have the right to sink ships without a license and impose more stringent navigation regulations on you."

After Deng Qianlong cleared the strongholds in the Netherlands and Portugal, he found the leaders of the Netherlands and Portugal to explain to them the management system of the East India Company for the South Asian subcontinent.

"In addition, everyone wants to benefit from the Mughal Empire and some indigenous kingdoms, so we must advance and retreat together. Without the permission of our East India Company, no party may privately submit to the Mughal Empire and some indigenous kingdoms. Other South Asian kingdoms sell guns, artillery, and gunpowder, and are not allowed to provide them with any technology related to firearms or metallurgy, and are not allowed to help them train soldiers.”

"Finally, all residents living in Calcutta, Madras, Goa City, and Mumbai will be treated as foreign residents and must submit to our management. We have security and judicial powers."

"If you agree with the above three points, sign the treaty, otherwise you will not be able to enter the South Asian subcontinent for trade."

Deng Qianlong threw the two treaties in front of them.

The Dutchman and the Portuguese looked at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

The treaty issued by the Nanyang Fleet is too ruthless!

They are equivalent to letting the East India Company set up an independent customs outside the customs of the Mughal Empire. If you want to do business with the Mughal Empire, you must first pay the East India Company customs duties, and then pay the Mughal Empire. Pay duties.

And a technological blockade of the Mughal Empire!If even the merchants of the Netherlands and Portugal did not sell firearms to the Mughal Empire, the level of weapons of the Mughal Empire might have been blocked at the current level. One can imagine how miserable it would be to be bullied in the future!
The leaders of the Netherlands and Portugal in the Indian Peninsula had no choice but to sign this unequal treaty known as the "Bombay Treaty". In the future, they will have to pay taxes to the East India Company held by China.

As for the fact that the technology of the Mughal Empire and other kingdoms on the Indian Peninsula was locked up, they couldn't even protect themselves, so they didn't care about these indigenous kingdoms.

"Let's go to the port of Surat in the Mughal Empire for supplies." Deng Qianlong ordered the treaty to be put away after the businessmen of the two countries signed it.

Next, as long as you go to the port of Surat in the Mughal Empire to replenish, the Nanyang Fleet led by Deng Qianlong can complete this mission.

But he did not expect that the siege of Calcutta at this time would trigger a major earthquake in the Mughal Empire, and things would not go so smoothly...

(End of this chapter)