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Chapter 1372 Layout in East India

"The East India Company have been waiting for you for some time."

Chu Yun hadn't had time to rest after announcing the armament plan for the next ten years to many senior military officials, and he was going to meet the director sent by the East India Company again.

The East India Company is already a government-run industry, and it is deploying in the South Asian subcontinent according to the government's expectations.

This time the East India Company specially sent someone to follow the instructions from above.

"Our East India Company and the East India Expeditionary Army acted together, and have successively established two forts in Madras and Calcutta. The East India Expeditionary Army has 300 people, and recruited 500 people from the local lower castes as mercenaries for training. , in order to prevent the local mercenaries from rebelling, the mercenaries are using old-fashioned musket-loading muskets. This kind of firepower is enough to deal with the army of the local aboriginal princes." The director of the East India Company reported to Chu Yun that the local Case.

"Can the factories of the East India Company keep up?" Chu Yun asked.

The reason for deploying troops and naval bases in the South Asian subcontinent is of course not to satisfy the desire to conquer, but to make money.Sending former troops to the East India and hiring locals as mercenaries both require money, and the money is made up by the business of the East India Company.

If Chu Yun hadn't known that the East India Company in the world he was in before had gained huge benefits from the South Asian subcontinent, he would have been hesitant to deploy troops and naval bases in South Asia.

"We have already set up business stations and workshops in Madras and Calcutta to purchase raw materials and import goods from the local area... But if we want to really get huge profits, we need to complete two things. This is the original East India Company in the Francis Daycare, the steward of Surat Port, will pass on your report on the conquest of the South Asian subcontinent to the military master.” The director of the East India Company handed a report of the British to Chu Yun.

Chu Yun has a little impression of this person, that is, this guy has been encouraging the East India Company to conquer the South Asian subcontinent after Huaxia acquired the East India Company.

Chu Yun took the report and read it carefully.

In his report, Francis Day divided the conquest of the subcontinent into three steps.

The first step is to establish a main stronghold in each of the three regions of the West Coast, East Coast, and Bangladesh, namely Surat, Madras, and Calcutta, and start training mercenaries.This point has been reached.

The second step is to besiege the Portuguese, Dutch, Arab, and Persian strongholds in the South Asian subcontinent. All merchants who trade from the sea to the South Asian subcontinent must pay customs duties to the East India Company.If this step can be achieved, then the East India Company will be able to play with the overseas trade of the Mughal Empire by privately setting up customs and adjusting tariffs.

The third step is to use the seaport trading station as a base to infiltrate the inland, use the contradictions among the princes and princes of various countries to break through one by one, obtain the trade privileges in the inland of South Asia, completely squeeze and attack the local handicraft industry, and bring South Asia to South Asia. The subcontinent became a source of raw materials and a market for dumped products.

Chu Yun knows that if the Mughal Empire is dealt with according to this report, then in a few decades, hundreds of millions of people in the South Asian subcontinent will work for the East India Company, and the Mughal Empire's own industry will be monopolized by the East India Company .

"Francis Day is a talent. The Nanyang Fleet has assembled in Malacca, and will soon act according to the second step plan he envisioned. Our fleet will remove the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the Arabs. , the stronghold of the Persians, the family dominates." Chu Yun said.

During the all-out war in Southeast Asia, the Spice Islands Nanyang Fleet did the same, driving the Spaniards out of Manila, the Portuguese out of Malacca, and the Dutch out of Batavia.Now Chu Yun wants to drive away the flies from the fat meat in front of the door of the South Asian subcontinent, and enjoy it by himself.

"We, the East India Company, will be ready to take over their factories and employees," said the director of the East India Company.

"Let them hand over important strongholds such as Mumbai and Goa. If they obey our orders in the future, they don't need to move from the local area. After all, our businessmen still have to operate in the West. Usually, we don't see each other when we look up. The relationship should not be too rigid. Good." Chu Yun said.

"We'll take care of the inclusion of their employees and residents."

"By the way, according to the plan, your East India Company will need to assist the East India Expedition to expand the number of local mercenaries from 500 to 2500 in the next year. The next cleaning operation of our Nanyang Fleet may alarm the Mughals. The Er Empire... In order to prevent the Mughal Empire and other local kingdoms from attacking our strongholds, we must have enough local troops to defend." Chu Yun said.

"That is, we need to recruit another 2000 East Indian soldiers."

"If the competitors are expelled and the trade in the Indian Ocean is brought under our management, the second step will also be completed. At that time, we will infiltrate inland. Have you thought about the direction to infiltrate first?" Chu Yun added asked.

“We think that Bangladesh, Gujarat, Mumbai, and the Coromandel Coast are worth penetrating. For example, Gujarat has always been a place where Arabs and Persians came to trade, and Mumbai has a large amount of cotton. But we think Bangladesh is more suitable As the headquarters of our East India Company there. The Bengal rivers criss-cross and the plains stretch as far as the eye can see. The surrounding area is rich in rice and jute, which can provide us with food, raw materials, and labor.” The director of the East India Company said.

Bangladesh...

"Just do what you want. If anything happens, the Nanyang army will take care of it. Bengal is a good place. We need jute, coal mines, rice, and all valuable things." Chu Yun saw that the East India Company did everything. Now that the detailed planning is done, what else can he say?As long as they need to provide backup for them, the East India Company will be like a shark that smells blood, and will spontaneously hunt for prey without the need to drive them away.

Conquering the South Asian subcontinent is currently the most important plan for overseas expansion, and its importance may be higher than that of the Western Ocean. After all, it is much easier to send troops to the Indian Peninsula than to travel thousands of miles to Europe.

And the South Asian subcontinent has been regarded by Chu Yun as the granary of the empire and the source of cheap labor.

"Next, we will go to inspect the bicycle shop and Daimler's automobile factory." Chu Yun's assistant official said to him after he met with the East India Company officials.

This winter is really not relaxing.When Chu Yun heard that he had a full itinerary, he could only say that he had too many things to worry about.

(End of this chapter)