Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1251 The Price of Restoration
With the collapse of the front line of the British and Indian coalition forces on the battlefield, the battlefield was quickly transformed into a slaughterhouse.

The wounded Bengali cavalrymen stretched out their hands in surrender and muttered in Persian.

However, the soldiers on Dashun's side couldn't understand it at all.

Gestures may be internationally accepted, but the Dashun cavalry did not want to understand the gestures they actually understood, but skillfully stabbed their spears obliquely at the struggling Bengali cavalry on the ground.

Jump off the horse, open the bag behind your saddle, pull out the rings from the corpse or other things that look valuable, or wash and give to a good friend in a brothel, and put them in your saddle bag.

Every nobleman or military officer has become the focus of care.

Those Islamic-style knives inlaid with ivory or precious stones, and those turbans wrapped around the head and washed at home can be used as gowns. These are the reasons why Dashun cavalry chased and killed every Bengali cavalry or British infantry they saw.

These British infantry were very rich, and the company gave them enough rewards before the war. The officers of the previous Bengal War took the bulk of these soldiers and also shared a lot of silver from the Bangladesh treasury.

As for those who look like senior employees or military officers of the company, the map can be exchanged for money at the staff of the command post, and the officer's sword and noble sword can be sold to some domestic circles of military aristocrats.

And most of them wear pocket watches, which is more reason for them to die.

In fact, the battle was basically over at 08:30 in the morning, but it was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the various ministries regrouped the entire team.

In this battle, the British and Indian coalition forces totaled 12000 people.

By the time the battle results were counted in the afternoon, 4000 people had been captured, most of them were Bangladeshi infantry who had nothing to squeeze.

A total of about 6000 corpses were left on the battlefield, among which the British Dorset infantry regiment, the 102nd and 103rd Bengal battalions, and some sailors, officers, and senior company employees who followed were mostly killed.

Several key figures, many of them died in the pursuit of the Dashun soldiers for the purpose of fighting for the spoils.

Robert Clive committed suicide by swallowing the opium he carried with him, and his belongings were robbed.

Jafar was stabbed to death by the cavalry with a spear, and even his clothes were stripped off. Two Dashun cavalry even fought for the boots, causing a Dashun soldier's brow bone to be broken and the bridge of his nose to be broken. .

Although Watson Hastings was smarter, when he realized that he couldn't run away, he took off his clothes and hat decisively, and threw his package and everything to the cavalry chasing him.

But the chasing cavalry didn't show mercy, but habitually dragged a knife on his head before looking at the spoils.

The soldiers found something very valuable in the package, more valuable than the pocket watch in the package, but not necessarily very valuable.

A copy of Hastings' diary.

A volume of the Bhagavad Gita.

There are also several pages of definitely antique Sanskrit manuscripts.

These things are worthless to soldiers, and they may not be valuable to officers. After all, there are no scholars who specialize in Sanskrit to follow.

But in view of some preferences similar to the thin waist of King Chu, some people still buy these things, and they can directly get them to the high-ranking officers who bought them in exchange for a few silver coins.Dashun’s banknotes cannot be used in India for the time being, because the soldiers who got the spoils cannot use the banknotes to spend here.

The regrouped soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, and began to repair the corpses on the ground, transported away the dead soldiers of the Dashun Army, and piled up the corpses of the opposing soldiers.

Several battalions that can fight continuously will set out in the direction of Fort William tomorrow.

Those who stay here will be responsible for digging pits, building temples, and displaying martial arts.

Before evening, the screening of captured soldiers had already begun.

In view of Dashun's previous attitude towards the Netherlands, although there were too many people killed in the previous battle, the captured people finally felt that this was probably caused by a language barrier. After the battle, Dashun still made sense.

Especially the people in charge of the screening are all gentle and polite.Some understand Persian, some understand French, Dutch, Latin.

Although no one spoke English, but some prisoners who knew French, Persian, Dutch or Latin, when they heard these people speak in a language they could understand, they were just shocked by the horrible battlefield slaughter. Still willing to believe their words.

"Those who went to public school, missionary school, and those who understand Persian and Latin, stand up. The governor will give you special treatment and give you the treatment of captured officers. There will be dinner soon."

In fact, on the battlefield just now, almost all those who could meet these conditions were killed.The main reason is that the fulfillment of these conditions, even the simplest one, proficiency in Latin, is enough to prove that his family background is definitely not an ordinary family.

To a certain extent, it is the same reason as finding someone who can understand Chinese and read Chinese books in Japan at this time, [-]% of them have a good family background.

After all, English is the native language at this time, and even the King of England can't speak it, but instead relies on French or Latin to communicate.

Although almost all of them were killed on the battlefield, there were still six or seven people who stood up after hearing the screening order, saying that they knew Persian, English, or had attended missionary schools and the like.

Dashun also seemed to be keeping their word. They really gave them the "scholar" treatment of feudal aristocrats immediately, and did not imprison them with the captured soldiers.

Although Europe is still playing this way at this time, for example, Frederick can eat with captured Austrian nobles between battles. After all, everyone can get relatives.

But on Dashun's side, in fact, after the Spring and Autumn Period, they didn't play this game much anymore.At the very least, it is impossible for the bottom-level "soldiers" to be treated as officers, at least they will be treated as doctors and generals.

But this time is still very special. The seven people who were screened out really got the treatment of officers.

When camping and carnival at night, Du Feng also treated them to a sumptuous meal, and also invited them to drink some wine, and communicated with them in French or Latin.

The screening and massacre order issued by the Privy Council is a secret, so naturally few people know about it.

After drinking happily, the next morning, Du Feng took the seven people to the pile of corpses to identify the corpses.

Forget it, basically the core figures of the British East India Company here, except for the lieutenant admiral whose uncle is the former British Lord of the Navy who is in Fort William due to illness, the rest are officers above the company level, contacts in the Jafar court, etc. , basically all were killed or captured.

After counting the number of people and matching them one by one, they also identified Jafar's body, and cut up his body according to Dashun's style.

The heads were chopped off, pickled with salt and lime, and spread to various cities in Bengal, and those who were not on the list of "betrayers" identified by Siraj were asked to go to Rajshahi as soon as possible to prepare for Siraj's restoration.

Except for the cavalry who continued to pursue and search, and the battalions with stronger combat capabilities that could continue to fight and continued to advance towards Calcutta, the rest of the soldiers were busy digging out the piles of soil that were piled up trying to build a Beijing temple.

There is also an indescribable absurdity about digging and burying people:

Dashun officers follow the theory of Yin Yang, Five Elements, Feng Shui, Eight Diagrams, Four Emperors, and Chi You, the leader of the army.

A pyramid-like Jingguan was piled up.

Inside are buried the dead bodies of enemy soldiers who believed in Anglicanism, Puritanism, or Shia or Sunni.

The location of Jingguan is near Sagar Island, the holy place of Hinduism.

Let a Buddhist monk in Ceylon recite a scripture.

The digging project has not yet been completed. At noon, good news came from Fort William.

The engineer battalion in the sneak attack took down Fort William, which was garrisoned by few people, and captured the former British Governor of Newfoundland and Vice Admiral Charles Watson almost without bloodshed.Except for one battleship that chose to sink itself, the British warships under its command chose to surrender under the threat of shore artillery and Dashun Navy blocking the river mouth.

The sneak attack went very smoothly. Only two people in the engineer battalion were injured, a large amount of supplies were captured, and several warehouses of the East India Company were also seized.

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A few days later, the overall situation was settled.

In the tent next to Jingguan, which has completed sealing the soil, Siraj, who fled to Dashun because of betrayal, forced a smile.

The huge Fengtu Jingguan outside scared him.

Although in fact he tortured and killed many people after he inherited the post of Jiedushi, Dashun's side did not torture and kill, but just killed and buried normally on the battlefield.

However, the gloomy seal of more than 6000 corpses is still too shocking.

The strange battle loss ratio made Siraj panic even more.

In this battle, only more than 80 people died in Dashun. In addition to those who were seriously injured and possibly infected, there were less than [-] people.

Among the more than 4000 captured prisoners, the selected Bangladeshi infantry were placed under the command of Siraj.

Because Siraj has nothing left, these captured infantry are the only "own army" he can count on to return to Rajshahi.

And these captured Bangladeshi infantrymen were obviously terrified by Dashun's troops.

The killing didn't scare them, the killing on the battlefield was normal.The lightning breakthrough of the Dashun infantry column made them no longer have the courage to fight against the Dashun troops.

More importantly, Dashun basically killed all the cavalry, which was an important pillar of the Bengal Jiedushi's rule.

To Dashun, these cavalrymen were like the sons of good families from Dashun.Without an elite cavalry, as a Jiedu envoy, in fact, he could only obey Da Shun's advice.

Of course, this involved some complicated issues, so although Siraj fled to Dashun before, he was not a king within the scope of Dashun's tribute.

The rule of the British East India Company in India was legally authorized to the Mughal Empire.

Moreover, this is an important reversal theory in the Hastings impeachment case in history: that is, the company is private in nature, and the company's rights in India do not come from the Congress, but from the emperor of the Mughal Empire.The Corporation has only a monopoly on domestic trade and is accountable to Congress.

Dashun is different from the British, because Dashun did not come to Bangladesh to fight with a Dashun Indian company, but the serious governor of Ceylon, an official appointed by the imperial court, and Dashun did not have an Indian company at all.

But it is not that Dashun does not have its own diplomatic logic system.

For example, Li Tang, of course, has the claim and title of King of Kings in the Persian Empire.

However, Siraj was only the Mughal Empire's Bengal envoy. Although he did not need to be conferred by the court as an envoy, it was impossible for Dashun to confer kingship on him. He was not from the royal line of the Mughal Empire.

For the time being, Dashun did not make any excessive demands on Siraj.

Nor did he send a county prime minister to assist Siraj in accordance with the normal county system.Instead, Niu Er and other people who had rescued Siraj were sent as consolation envoys to follow Siraj.

But obviously, Dashun couldn't fight for him in vain.

No matter how stupid Siraj is, it is impossible not to know that Dashun would really protect him for the so-called "order of all nations", "order of the world", "the distinction between monarchs and ministers", "no rebellion" and other order reasons Get up, and help him regain his position as Jiedushi?

Now Dashun has used three battles, including the siege of Fort George, the Battle of Diamond Bay, and the surprise attack on Fort William, to completely change the situation in Bangladesh.

At least before that, in theory, the Jiedushi of Bangladesh, such as Jafar, still has the strength to compete with external forces.

Because in history, Jafar really thought about opposing the British East India Company again, and was deposed by the British because of this. He didn't become a Jiedushi until he figured out how to be a dog.

But now, after these three battles, especially after the battle of Diamond Bay, where the massacre was heavy, no matter who came to be the Bengal governor, it is absolutely impossible to regenerate the heart of resistance.

No guts.

also ability.

A major pillar of the feudal rule of Bengal, the organized cavalry force, was completely destroyed.

Therefore, whoever will be the Jiedushi must be a puppet, and Siraj has long thought about this.

However, the more he thought about it, Dashun's delay in raising conditions made him feel more uneasy.

There used to be money in the treasury of Bangladesh, but now there is no money.Jafar gave all the cash to the East India Company as a gift for helping him rebel and ascend to the position of Jiedushi.

According to Siraj's understanding of Dashun's exile in the past few years, Dashun doesn't seem to like the tax system, but is very enthusiastic about direct rule.

He was mainly afraid that Dashun would directly swallow up Bengal, and that he would be useless by then.

In fact, Dashun really wanted to rule Bangladesh, but its thinking was different from that of Britain.

Dashun has already approved the plan proposed by Niu Er.

His plan, from the perspective of land, can be understood in this simple way:

Originally, Chai Mingdaer was somewhat similar to a county magistrate. The land belonged to the village community and farmers. They were responsible for the taxation, public security, etc. of this "county", and paid taxes to the central government according to a fixed amount.Local expenditures, etc., are their own business, and the higher-ups don't care about it. They just collect according to the yellow book and the taxes that each county should pay.

Niu Er's solution is to quickly privatize.

Directly support thousands of middle-level Chai Mingda, and evolve their identities from "tax collectors" to "landlords" in one step.

Although, for the villagers, there is almost no difference from the perspective of tax payment, and it may even be lighter than the previous tax.

However, from the perspective of ownership, it is tantamount to directly issuing an administrative order to transfer the land rights of the original village communal land, farmers' private land, and small farmers' land directly to the landlord.

Farmers "pay taxes to tax collectors" from the original.

It has become the future "pay rent to the landlord".

Dashun only dealt with these few thousand new landlords, neither with the village community nor with the tax-collecting accountant caste in the middle.

Siraj wasn't even a rubber stamp in this conception.

(End of this chapter)