The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 61: India's Great Shun Dynasty
In order to help Byron complete his mission, the Portuguese fleet stopped at Ceylon in the southeast corner of India for supplies after arriving in the Indian Ocean.

Byron inquired about the situation from Dutch merchants in Ceylon and soon got the expected result.

All of Great Britain's colonies in India have "evaporated".

But the evaporation process was slightly different from what was expected, and the actual situation was even worse.

Four months after the Ming Dynasty's North American Fleet and North American Expeditionary Force set out, the Ming court began to send troops to India.

Going to North America would require a large-scale effort, requiring two or three hundred large ships to transport 30,000 soldiers.

But going to India is much easier.

It only takes the Ming Dynasty a dozen days to reach India from the Malacca area. It can be even faster if it starts from Myanmar, and there is basically no risk on the road.

France's two colonies in India soon gathered more than 30,000 Ming army troops.

People from the British East India Company next door also received news from London at about the same time.

Inform them that France and Britain have declared war, and ask the British East India Company to attack the French colonies and capture Pondicherry again.

In its original history, Pondicherry was captured by the British at least three times.

Because Pondicherry is too small, it has basically no depth and is completely surrounded by British colonies.

France only has more than a thousand soldiers here and cannot hold the position at all.

But after each war, Britain would exchange Pondicherry for something else and then return Pondicherry to France.

This time the situation was reversed. Before the British East India Company launched an attack, the French and the Ming people had already taken the initiative to attack.

The British East India Company did not have many troops in India. Usually they hired natives to fight against the natives, and the fights were quite back-and-forth.

In the original history, the British used various methods such as coercion and inducement, and it took several decades to slowly conquer all the Indian princely states.

To use these unreliable natives to fight against the regular army of the Ming Dynasty now would basically be giving away all the military merits for nothing.

In the southeastern region of the Indian peninsula, the British colonies around French Pondicherry were occupied by the Ming-French coalition forces in a single charge.

The allied forces then continued to attack northward, preparing to seize the British colony in southern Bengal.

But this time, the French and the Ming people were a step slower.

The British East India Company also had an old enemy in India - the Dashun.

According to Zhu Jianxuan's stereotype in his previous life, India's caste system is deeply rooted and has seriously constrained India's economic development.

Later generations often complained that Indians were willing to be slaves, and that foreign conquerors would quickly become corrupt when they entered India.

But many people don’t realize one thing: India is, after all, an ancient civilization.

The seemingly bizarre cultural system formed in India can actually barely govern tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people.

Before modern times, no cultural system other than the Shenzhou Empire possessed this ability.

Most of the outsiders who conquered India came from the harsh plateaus and grasslands in the north, and none of them had the same level of governance capabilities.

So they can only rely on India's local governance methods.

From the point of view of civilization and culture, they were all backward cultural organizations that conquered the ruling class of India by force.

They had to use the ruling class of India to help them rule India.

They will certainly be assimilated into Indian culture.

Muslims seem to be omnipotent, but in areas with a high cultural level or where the natural environment is not particularly harsh, it can basically not replace the local native mainstream culture.

Muslims were introduced to India, and there were Muslim believers who once ruled India, but Muslims did not eventually become the mainstream culture of India.

On the contrary, Southeast Asia behind India was basically assimilated by Islam.

This shows the resistance of Indian culture and how strong its adaptability is in local India.

But Dashun is completely different from all his predecessors.

Dashun originated from the Chinese civilization of Shenzhou, which also had experience in governing tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people. It also had the world's best experience in maintaining the stability of the dynasty.

Muslim religion also could not become the mainstream in China, and other foreign cultures such as Christianity and Buddhism could not become the mainstream either.

India's cultural system is capable of governing hundreds of millions of people, but it cannot unite hundreds of millions of people into a whole.

But the Shenzhou Empire can do it.

In the eyes of other conquerors, India's institutions were simply too strong.

But in the eyes of the Dashun army, who came from Shenzhou, the problems with India's social system were really serious.

What Brahmins? What Kshatriyas? What caste system?
As long as we have meritorious military generals and a civil service system, our Great Shun Dynasty can rule the world.

We have no place for you here.

The key point is, you Brahmins, you Indian monks, are actually riding on the heads of the powerful people in my empire?

Do you have too many nine clans?
India is not a snowy plateau, so there is no way to organize a large army. The country can only rely on religious personnel to win over the hearts of the people and maintain nominal rule.

The Kshatriyas and Brahmins want to rebel? Then kill them and give the land to the untouchables.

The reason why the untouchables in India were willing to be untouchables in the past was because they did not know there was another way to survive.

Nor did any conqueror attempt to liberate the Indian untouchables.

After the Dashun Army entered India, they really killed the Brahmins, really targeted the Kshatriyas, and really distributed land equally and exempted grain taxes.

The Dashun Army really distributed land to the untouchables. How could the untouchables still be willing to be untouchables?

They will all be good citizens of our Dashun Dynasty in the future.

This is of course a far cry from the true liberation of the new era.

But for the untouchables in India, they have gone from having a bunch of ruling classes oppressing them to having only one ruling class, the feudal nobles.

Only the Dashun army could oppress and enslave the Indians, no one else could!

Therefore, in the areas of India that were ruled by the Dashun Army for several years, the combat effectiveness of the local recruited soldiers has been greatly improved compared to before.

It changed from an army similar to that composed of corrupt slave owners to an army composed of self-cultivating farmers and good families in feudal society.

That's why the British East India Company's army became vulnerable.

Since 1775 AD, the Dashun regime has been transforming the Bengal region, implementing equal distribution of land and exempting grain from taxes for three years.

Now that the three-year period has passed, the local indigenous army has been formed.

The current Dashun Emperor Li Changshou, also known as Li Celing, is the great-great-grandson of Dashun Emperor Taizu Li Zisheng (Li Zicheng), and the grandson of Galdan Celing, the great-nephew of Dzungar Khanate leader Galdan. He is the ruler of the Dashun Han-Mongol United Empire.

When Li Celing discovered that the Ming Dynasty was attacking British India, he immediately ordered the farming troops on the east and west coasts of India to move south.

Let them fly the flags of both Dashun and Ming at the same time to avoid direct conflict with Ming.

Since the reign of Emperor Shun Taizu Li Zisheng, the Emperor of Dashun had a pseudonym in the Ming Dynasty - King Shun of the Ming Dynasty.

In name, Dashun was still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but officials from both sides did not take it seriously.

With the Dashun Army and the Ming Army attacking from the north and south, the British East India Company's Indian colony was directly evaporated.

Finally, the Ming army was a little surprised when they saw the Ming army’s flag appearing on the opposite side of the battlefield.

"Are these the other reinforcements from the Governor's Office that His Majesty has arranged?"

After the Ming military officers sent people to inquire about the situation, they found out that they were the remnants of the bandits from the north.

As a result, most of the northern part of Britain's colonies in India was occupied by Dashun, and only the southeastern part belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

There was a French colony between the Ming Dynasty and the Shun Dynasty.

In the southeast, among the colonies occupied by the Ming Dynasty, there are two small Dutch colonies.

(End of this chapter)