New Shun 1730

Siraj also knew that restoration would of course come at a cost. It was hard to say how much power he would have left as a governor.

In order to reward the British East India Company, Jafar took 16 million silver rupees in cash alone. Since Dashun chose to invest in the more difficult Siraj, no matter how you look at it, Dashun's appetite cannot only be 16 million rupees.

It has been 250 years since Vasco da Gama discovered the Indian route in the 11th year of the Hongzhi reign of the previous dynasty. In these years, a large amount of silver from American and European silver mines poured into India.

The gold accumulated in India over thousands of years, judging from the total amount of gold and silver in society, is undoubtedly much greater than that of Dashun.

However, there are many opinions on how to collect this precious metal.

At this time, in the camp, Du Feng, who had just finished killing people on a large scale and built a temple in the capital, did not put too much pressure on Siraj.

He was only responsible for fighting and training troops. In Ceylon, even matters such as camp fields and Ding registration were actually taken care of by deputies sent by the court.

Therefore, he himself knows that he has little to do with the affairs of Bangladesh. What he may have to do is to stabilize here for three to five years and help Siraj physically stabilize the situation and clean up Bangladesh. Domestic opposition.

Since it has nothing to do with him how to manage and rule, he only needs to comfort Siraj at this time.

According to the transliteration in India, Siraj's title should be Nawab. But since Dashun started negotiating with the Rakshasa people, in accordance with the practice of romanized translation of Latin at that time, some official positions were still translated in a free translation style, which can be regarded as part of the translation movement that started twenty years ago. kind of formula.

Du Feng still calls him Jiedushi.

"My Lord, the Governor of Bengal, after this battle, the whole of Bengal has been decided. As for how to deal with those traitors, whether it be ransacking their homes or sealing them down, this is all what you have to do. I am the one in charge of the army. Since the imperial court asked me to ensure that you return to the position of Jiedushi, I will naturally go all out."

"These thousands of prisoners were first attributed to the Jiedushi. Most of them were pieced together and were not standing troops. Moreover, even if they were standing troops, they would just follow whoever pays them. Now it is revealed Most of the wealth in the treasury has been plundered by the British, but I heard that your aunt has always been opposed to you, and hopes to let your second aunt's cousin ascend to the position of military governor. I have long heard that your uncle is in charge of customs and military logistics. , Your aunt is in charge of the internal treasury and foreign trade, and the wealth is used as military pay, which is enough. "

"As for my soldiers, in order to ensure that you return to the position of Jiedushi... Although the military salary will be paid by the court, in addition to the military salary, the pension money and merit money..."

With just such a condition, Siraj would have laughed to death. So he quickly said: "Don't worry, Lord Governor, I will naturally pay for the reward for the soldiers."

"Since the British have been defeated, even if their family wants to transfer their wealth, there will be no chance. All they have to do is block the river mouth and patrol more."

After saying this, he followed a set of standard procedural formats he learned in Dashun and said: "The Tai Oath says: Establish virtues and cultivate them, eliminate evils. Now the traitor Ja'far has been punished by heaven. The leader of the rebels is venting his hatred for betrayal. The other familiar thieves are still north of the Ganges. When the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will be killed. "

"Heaven's righteous news will shine for thousands of years; Bengal's illustrated report can only be seen by force."

"This time I was able to regain the position of Jiedu Envoy, thanks to the great blessings of the Emperor and the great favor of the Celestial Empire. I dare not forget it."

Most of the people in the tent who were born in Dashun laughed.

It's not that he was laughing at Siraj's Chinese with a bad accent. It was probably some words learned by rote from others, just like some lower-ranking officers in Dashun who memorized some foreign languages ​​that they thought were difficult to pronounce. One, two, three and four are as good as buying something.

Instead, he laughed at the things Siraj carried. Because of some well-known historical factors in Dashun, most of the words here are sarcastic. It is estimated that most of the people who helped Siraj write these things also have contempt.

"Wei Li means sight" is a good word. It comes from "Zuo Zhuan: The Twenty-Fourth Year of Duke Xi". However, due to some reasons, this originally good word inevitably has some bad meanings in Dashun. After all, This involves something about the legitimacy of the founding of Dashun.

This is a very serious political issue in Dashun. It is somewhat similar to the previous evaluation of Wang Anshi by scholars: affirming personal sentiment and denying political line.

After all, this involves the battle of Shanhaiguan. Is the orthodox one defeated by the alliance between traitors and Yi and Di? Or is it the rogue bandits who are defeated by the orthodox Ji Guogong borrowing troops to defeat the thieves?

Although the situation is different, it can be heard that the mentality of the people who helped Siraj write these things is probably the same as what Liu Yu told them many years ago: I hope I have as much meat as possible. All the dogs wagged their tails at me, but I would still point to the dog’s spine and curse: Bah, this spineless dog.

This kind of special historical allusion issue can be regarded as a characteristic of Dashun. Naturally, Siraj could not understand the twists and turns involved. He just heard that the officials in Dashun laughed, thinking that he had reached a consensus with them. I thought that as long as I can return to the position of Jiedushi, I can neither control nor control what they want to do.

Siraj was defeated by Clevu, but it did not destroy his heart and make him mentally collapsed.

At that time, in his opinion, everything was due to Jafar's betrayal. If Jafar had not betrayed and attacked his flank, then Clive would have died in that battle, and the British East India Company would have been expelled from Bengal, and at least the tariff sovereignty could be taken back.

Because, before that decisive battle, it was not that he had not fought with Clive, nor had he not captured the British.

He had captured Fort William, seized British merchants, and even almost killed Clive in the first field battle with Clive.

And now, what made him completely give up the desire to resist was not only because he had no strength and no troops.

But because he really went to the capital and saw the most prosperous side of Dashun - Dashun certainly would not let him go to those remote and poor areas. Judging from Tianjin, the capital, Songsu and other places, Dashun was indeed prosperous and rich, and it was invincible.

For him, Britain was a distant existence, and he had no idea what Britain was like.

Although he could read books and hear about it, what was really imprinted in his heart was the direct communication with the East India Company.

At least in this era, Siraj's intuitive observation of the East India Company was just like that.

They had been beaten by the Mughal Empire's army before, and they had captured the so-called solid Fort William and captured a lot of prisoners. They only knew how to play sneak attacks before the land battle, but they kicked the iron plate. If it weren't for the Afghans making trouble in the west, he could have pushed the British away.

One-on-one, 3,000 against 3,000, naturally they couldn't beat them.

But why 3,000 against 3,000? Why not 30,000 against 3,000?

This intuitive feeling made him very dissatisfied with Britain, hating Jafar's betrayal more than anything else, and believed that everything was due to Jafar's betrayal.

Otherwise, he would take back the customs, abolish the East India Company's abuse of tax exemption rights, support Moorish merchants to monopolize silk, jute and saltpeter, complete internal cleansing and integration, have money in hand, and with the help of the fighting between China, France, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and other countries in India, he could completely train a new army without having to borrow artillery from the French East India Company.

His refusal to obey, thinking that "everything was due to betrayal and accident", was soon shattered after he went to Dashun.

And in his heart, a demon seed of "Dashun is invincible" was planted, which took deep root and made him dare not resist.

It was not just because of Dashun's wealth.

It was not because he watched the military formation drills of Dashun.

It was not because he witnessed the train from Mentougou to Beijing.

Rather, during the years he was in Dashun, he saw something that was actually not a big deal in the court of Dashun.

It was the governor of Gansu who was impeached and accused of some crimes.

The emperor... actually only sent a dozen of the inner guards of the child army to guard a few officials, and arrested the man directly from the army to the capital, and executed him after trial.

Siraj, who witnessed all this at the time, was completely frightened, and now believed that Dashun was really invincible, which was terrible!

The emperor could actually send only a dozen personal guards to the military camp to capture a Jiedushi from a place two thousand miles away.

And it was easy to capture him.

He didn't even send an army of more than 20,000 people with cannons and war horses?

Moreover, the silver from each province was paid to the central government on time every year, and even the tax silver from Yunnan, which was thousands of miles away, was paid on time?

This... is too scary!

In this era, the emperor could sit at home and directly send people to capture a Jiedushi from a place two thousand miles away without sending out the imperial guards. This might not be a big deal in Dashun.

In the eyes of Dashun officials, is this also a big deal? As for the fact that Yunnan actually paid taxes to the central government, isn't this nonsense? What do you want to do if you don't pay taxes?

But in Siraj's view, it directly planted the seeds of fear in his heart.

What would happen if the Mughal emperor of Delhi sent seven or eight envoys to Rajshahi and said that you are not qualified as a Jiedushi and you should stop being one. Someone from above was sent to you?

Siraj knew this very well.

Let alone the bullshit Mughal, what would happen if he, the governor of Bengal, asked his aunt to give him the customs money? Or what would happen if the nobles assigned to Orissa were asked to serve in the army and pay the money on time?

It was precisely because of this trivial and normal thing in the eyes of the Dashun officials that Siraj lost his will to resist, his mentality completely collapsed, and he planted the invincible magic poison.

Therefore, Du Feng chose the location to receive Siraj's "return of the king" this time, next to the Jingguan he built to show his martial arts, which was actually a bit of icing on the cake for Siraj.

It was really unnecessary.

But Siraj was not the whole of Bengal.

For the rest of the nobles and landlords in Bengal, this Jingguan was very meaningful, not just a simple icing on the cake.

After all, not everyone has been to the legendary "Zhendan".

Not everyone has a brain to understand what it means for a country with its capital in the capital to be able to concentrate nearly 20,000 troops on Sagar Island. To understand the true significance of Dashun's concentration of nearly 20,000 troops on Sager Island, rather than whether it can win in a battlefield tactical confrontation like a chess game, requires brains, but it is obvious that most people do not have brains that can think non-intuitively.