Beiyang new warlord

Shah Jahan was also born in the power struggle of the prince when he was young. Of course, he did not agree to Jastanbul's accusation, but politics is such a complicated thing. Who doesn't have a few political enemies?Because of the complaint filed by Jastanbul, Agra, the capital of the empire, was full of uproar, and the news spread to Bangladesh, which also made these local warlords and oligarchs panic like ants on a hot pot.

It’s a very strange scene. In May, several Bangladeshi governors were reluctant to chop off each other’s heads and put them on a silver plate. At the beginning of June, they all crowded together and crowded into Wu Sangui’s office in Dingwu Fort, West Bengal. .

Coincidentally, Mir Jabur, Danathan and Wu Sangui are all old acquaintances with noble blood, and they are also old friends at the Nawab poker table. Only one Jastanbul is missing, and they can make another table Mahjong is up.

With a bang, the golden silk sandalwood tables produced in Borneo trembled violently when they were hit by fists, and several Jingdezhen official kiln dense-colored porcelain tea bowls brought by Luo Yu fell to the ground and beat one. Looking at the broken porcelain pieces, Wu Sangui felt distressed The old face twitched.

But he didn't care about his mood at all. After smashing the table, Governor Mir was still angry, roaring manically, and his beard spread like a lion.

"Wu Sangui, you really didn't believe what you said! The governor risked his life to pass the news that the tyrant Nawab wanted to kill your East India Company to you, and the governor even swore with your blood to kill Jastanbul. Why did you let him go back to Madhya Pradesh alive? You are breaking the contract!"

It seemed that he was under a lot of pressure, and he didn't care that Danathan was still here, so Mir yelled out all these secrets.

With great difficulty, he turned his gaze back from the fragments of porcelain on the ground, but Wu Sangui's rather handsome black-bellied CEO's face also sank, and also shouted angrily: "Master Jabur, my East India Company broke the contract, It’s not easy for you to go there, right? On that day, it was agreed to use the painting as a title. Your Excellency rushed to disrupt the Jabul rear army. I, Wu Sangui, personally cut off the head of this tyrant for you. I welcome you as the Nawab of Bengal. Let’s take a look at you! All day! Let the tyrant's army attack our army all day! Our army is only 3000 people! How do you want me to kill that tyrant!"

"Besides, in the end, you didn't attack the Jastanbul Central Army, but instead attacked the troops of our ally Governor Danathan. Do you have the nerve to accuse me, Wu?"

These words made the two old ghosts thump in their hearts at the same time. Looking at Mir's annoyed and contemptuous eyes, Danathan slapped the table impatiently: "The governor is loyal to the empire, when will he form an alliance with you, a foreigner?" gone?"

Wu Sangui hummed noncommittally, but didn't make any distinctions. This attitude made Danathan, who had a bellyful of distinguishing words, even more uncomfortable.

After being embarrassed for a while, Wu Sangui knocked on the table and cleared his throat: "Everyone, there is no point in arguing now, all of you are rebellious by the empire. The emperor was angry and lay dead for hundreds of miles. At that time, hundreds of thousands When the army arrives, Wu will stop the business and go back to Daming, but the heads of all of you are not necessarily beautiful on a silver plate!"

Hearing these words, several ambitious warlords couldn't help but tremble, Mir.Jabur has now established himself as Nawab, he is a traitor, and Danathan has another military governor, Alaf. After pacifying Bangladesh, the two of them will definitely end badly.

I also knew this in my heart, otherwise these guys would not have gathered here in Calcutta. After a chill, Mir was the first to ask recklessly and impetuously: "My Lord! Master Wu does not want to give up his rights in Calcutta. Right? If there is any way, just take it out quickly!"

Although Danathan didn't make a sound, his old fox-like eyes were fixed on Wu Sangui, and his expression was self-evident.

Once the first step has been taken, the road to hegemony can never be turned back!Wu Sangui didn't even bother, and just tapped on the table with his fingers. Not to mention, Mill kicked and yelled just now, and nothing happened. The room leading from the office to the inner room was suddenly pushed away. It opened, and then, amidst the eyes of the three Indian princes of Mongolian descent, more than a dozen beautiful Japanese beauties in couple-color kimonos walked in holding a few boxes.

This is also the benefit of being famous. In the past two months, the Ming immigrants in Calcutta doubled to 1. A lot of people came here to ask for a living, so that Wu Sangui had a lot more resources at hand. These courtesans were gathered at this time. Beautiful women are sometimes more useful than tens of thousands of soldiers.

These things are not light, and a few delicate women struggled to put them on the ground, and with the sound of opening the box, the eyes of the three guys with unusually thick hair finally moved away from their low collars. Open it and place it on the contents of the box.

"This is?"

Ten long boxes almost constitute a small arsenal. The first one contains a Liaodong standard rifle without a bayonet, and then the miniaturized red cannon, conical shells, shrapnel shells, honeycomb shells, and Mao Jue's three-axe axe. Most of the armaments were piled up here. He casually picked up the musket and weighed it. Mir asked suspiciously.

"If you want to survive the wrath of the empire, the first few of you have to let go of your hatred and cooperate sincerely, otherwise everyone will have to leave!"

This is the most basic requirement. When Mir and Danathan came here, they were also clear minded, but this one was the most difficult to achieve. The two old ghosts couldn't help but looked at each other. From the pupils of both sides, they saw nothing It's full of distrust.

But regardless of the scheming between the two old guys, Wu Sangui briskly pointed to the exquisite sandalwood boxes.

"The second is arms. In order to save the Kolkata stronghold, Wu smuggled [-] sample rifles from the Ming army, [-] red-clothed military cannons, and [-] boxes of ammunition and various shells through his contacts in the high-level."

"However, the price is not cheap. A flintlock gun costs [-] silver rupees, a cannon [-] pieces, a round of [-] such cone bullets, [-] shrapnel shells, and honeycombs... ..”

"too expensive!!!"

Before Wu Sangui finished his introduction, Mier almost threw away the gun in his hand, his beard opened again with panting, and he shouted angrily: "Don't think about it when we're done, you still want to blackmail us at this time, Damn stranger!"

"blackmail?"

Listening to the translator's rapping translation, Wu Sangui also showed a sneer on his face, reached out and snatched the flintlock gun, skillfully took out a small paper bag and stuffed it into the gun chamber, and immediately the tong rod with the sharp awl The bullet went into the barrel of the gun, and the whole reload took less than ten seconds. Immediately, Wu Sangui suddenly raised the gun, squinted his eyes and shot towards the yard.

In Dingwu Fort, several native servants were eating apples, when there was a bang, the apple in the hands of one servant exploded, the huge explosive force made his hands dripping with blood, and he let out a scream, Several servants fled out holding their heads.

Seeing a hole in the window of the landing office on the third floor, facing Mir's surprised face, Wu Sangui stretched out his hand and threw the hot musket back into his arms. He took out an apple, took a bite out of it, and squirted the juice while biting into it, while humming indistinctly.

"A skilled gunman can fire one shot in ten seconds, six shots in one minute, a bayonet on the tip of the gun, and a short melee spear. With these things, my 1 men withstood your 3000 attack for a whole day!"

"I'll sell these to the Maratha country in the south, and I can sell them twice as much. If it's not for the business in Calcutta, I don't need to take the risk and try my luck! If you think it's worth it The army and war elephants in Madhya Pradesh, just pretend I didn’t say anything, and ship them away!”

"But, we don't have that much money in our hands!"

Looking at the hot flintlock in his hand, Mir's eyes were really hot!He also saw the battle of the tributaries of the Ganges that day. If it wasn't for the fact that Jastanbul could not break into the defense circle of the Ming army, he would not rebel cruelly. If he had [-] rifles in his hand, he would What are you afraid of in Madhya Pradesh?

But after a while, his old face became bitter again.

"But, Ben Du doesn't have that much money in his hands!"

"But you are Nawab, now Bengal is yours! Don't you have taxes?"

Speaking of this, Wu Sangui, who had been turned into a profiteer by Dongjiang, had a sly smile on his lips.

"I heard that during the time of the Four Great Khanates, the Great Khans contracted the treasury to businessmen to obtain more tax profits! Your Highness, I, the East India Company, are also businessmen!"

Chapter 743. Sad

What is the industry that is more profitable than drug trafficking in future generations?

arms!

Even Iron Man's family made their fortune by relying on the arms business. It seems that since the Age of Discovery, these Westerners have been very good at this mode of making a fortune. The most famous and notorious is the black slave trade.

The Arabs who started the black slave trade were so stubborn that they organized a large number of troops to ride camels and swat the bend to kill African plunderers. The Portuguese who took over later, the Spaniards were much smarter. They used muskets to fight The local black chiefs traded and encouraged the black tribes to launch slave hunting wars, and then continued to exchange the captured black slaves for arms and weapons. These well-dressed bastards had no blood on their bodies, and they acquired thousands of slaves to develop the Americas.

There is also the Middle East, known as the source of chaos in later generations, which has also become a weapons testing ground for superpowers. Super political groups wantonly stir up local religious and political conflicts, and then exchange precious things by spitting fire and death. Oil, minerals.

And the profit of the arms business is even secondary. Marx once commented on the process of the British ruling India. First, the supreme rights of the Great Mughals were destroyed by their governors, and the rights of the governors were destroyed by the Marathas. The rights of the Tatars were destroyed by the Afghans, and when everyone was fighting, the Britons broke in and conquered everyone!

Indian civilization is indeed great, but it is too diverse, not only Christianity, Hinduism, but also Catholicism and other religious oppositions added later, the contradiction between high caste and low caste, and the conflict between conquerors and indigenous people. Hatred, there is still a deep gap between tribes, this is doomed that Indian civilization will not have a unified powerful empire like the Chinese civilization that believes in Confucianism, and there are too many weaknesses to attack!

Although Wu Sangui did not study society as meticulously as Marx did, but he had been in the Mughals for three years, and he was well aware of these weaknesses. Now, he is implementing the first article summarized by Marx, asking the governors to destroy the Mughal Central Emperor The supreme imperial power, let them split!

The Bengal army that was defeated in the tributary of the Henghe River was reorganized again. Boxes and boxes of Northern Ming Empire-style weapons were punted upstream from Calcutta, and then deployed in Murshidabad and Dhaka successively. The army of Jabur, Danathan and others, but it is ironic that these descendants of nomadic knights from Central Asia still have the last strand of pride, and refuse to give up the exquisite Damascus machete in their hands, as well as the war horses under their crotch After obtaining this batch of armaments that were more advanced than those provided by the French, several governors continued to equip the large number of light infantry troops that were forcibly recruited from urban residents with low morale.

I'm afraid Wu Sangui didn't give them instructions on how to use them. No matter how sharp a weapon is, it needs a strong and powerful fighter to use it. The Zuojun mercenaries under his command have also fought against the Peng army for many years, and have accepted Liaodong for more than half a year. The cruel military training for recruits is so cruel that they can kill people for fun.

If Wu Sangui led a group of native sheep, all of them would be scared away by a single charge, and they would even make wool!

But for such a small amount of arms, these short-sighted guys will pay for the whole of Bengal. In the past, the commercial activities of the East India Company were only limited to a few strongholds such as Calcutta. Now that the company has obtained a trade charter, the merchants under Mao Jue will You can trade in any corner of Subba, Bangladesh, and the Persian tax collectors of the Mughals in the past will also be replaced by the accountants of the East India Company, because several governors are exchanged for the tax money of the Bengal treasury for the next ten years East India Company support.

The current level of production and commerce in Beiming is much higher than the natural economy of small farmers in Bangladesh. Ten years is enough for the directors of the East India Company to use taxation and trade to control the economy of this land.

Under the city wall of Dingwu Fort, Mir and Danatan, who had escorted the last batch of weapons and equipment, waved their hands and said goodbye contentedly. A deep sneer erupted.

"A few idiots!"

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The era of great navigation is the first era of globalization. With Mao Jue in this time and space, China, which was once a step behind in this important historical period, is now catching up with great strides. At this end, the Mughal Empire has just emerged A series of changes, at the other end, the port of Hangzhou, immediately enjoyed the benefits brought about by this change.

Hangzhou Bay, the warm port looks like a forest growing out from a distance, all of which are densely packed with masts, leaning on the first floor of the East India Company headquarters building next to the port, desks are lined up with thick Business documents, one by one, after training, capable male and female accountants are counting with their hands like flying fingers, and nearly half of the goods in Southeast Asia are being processed in their hands. While calculating, these "brain nerve cells" need more Forecast the future business trend, so as to provide more reasonable import and export suggestions for the businessmen under the company.

"I have obtained the right to tax in Bangladesh! This year's imported rice and grain will increase by 30.00% compared to last year. Coupled with the operation of the Huguang Commodity Grain Base, the price of grain will inevitably fall, and the purchase price for the Jiangnan area will be fully reduced!"