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Chapter 1388 Support Puppet

"These people are newly recruited mercenaries, some are slaves captured by the Mughal Empire, some are starving refugees, and some poor people voluntarily seek refuge."

In Calcutta Fort, nearly 2000 natives joined the defenders.

Most of these natives are sallow and thin, a few are in a better mental state, and only a few are strong.

"People with good physique and height are almost all slaves captured by the Mughal Empire during the war, but they can make good soldiers."

The East India Company, which is responsible for recruiting natives, introduced it to Qin Zuoming, who was in charge of training mercenaries.In their view, these recruited native mercenaries can be judged like commodities.

Among the 2000 natives, less than one-tenth of them are able-bodied. These people seem to be exiled slaves who were once captured in the battle with the Mughal Empire.

"I will let them form a preliminary combat capability within a month, and within three months, they can defeat all the Tubang infantry and cavalry head-on." Qin Zuoming inspected the newly recruited Tubang soldiers. Although many of them were in poor health, But with a month of rigorous training, they can form the most basic musket line.

"We did defend the Calcutta Fort during the siege, but the Mughal Empire was furious. They sealed off the outside of the fort and strictly prohibited the nearby merchants and villagers from trading with us. This is not the way to go, and our business this year has suffered greatly. The profit is estimated to be less than one-fifth of last year's." The directors of the East India Company were somewhat dissatisfied with the current situation.

The East India Company is a profit-making organization, and even if it launches a war, it is only to seek greater profits.

"Their blockade is ineffective, we can still recruit soldiers and buy food from outside." Qin Zuoming said.

"It is true that if you have money, you can buy food and even things from some princes who are greedy for profit, but this kind of trade can only be done in private. Those princes are still afraid of the authority of the emperor. Their army is very weak and they have no decent fortifications. Once the emperor of the Mughal Empire crusades, it cannot be blocked like us. Private trade will limit the scale, we have to launch a war to make them submit, or support a puppet to trade with us." People from the East India Company Said to Qin Zuoming.

"You mean to implement the third stage of conquering the Indian peninsula and make them submit through war?" Qin Zuoming thought of the three-stage plan submitted by the East India Company.

Build bastions, sweep away competitors, and develop wars to forcibly open up the market.Now the East India Company is deploying at an extremely fast speed, and has quickly reached the third stage.

The last stage is also the longest stage. It is necessary to force the Mughal Empire to open the country through strong ships and guns.

"Now there are two ways for them to sign a treaty with us and fully open trade with us. One is to capture their capital Agra and force their emperor to submit. This method is the most deterrent to them." East India Company said the man.

Send an expeditionary force to conquer the capital of a great empire with a population of hundreds of millions!Such a strategy is indeed easy to make them succumb, but the difficulty can also be imagined. On land, they may be surrounded by the opponent's cavalry, and they will also face the difficulty of being copied from the grain road.

"The expedition to the imperial capital of the Mughals is too difficult. Do you know where Agra is? It is not at the seaside, but in the northern and central part of the Indian Peninsula. Does the expeditionary force need to go deep into the land to conquer Agra? The difficulty is not Average height." Qin Zuoming looked at the map.

Why is this imperial capital not by the sea, but in the hinterland of the mainland!

To conquer the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire, it is necessary to send several infantry regiments to land on the Indian peninsula, and then travel thousands of miles deep into the hinterland of the South Asian subcontinent to conquer the opponent's imperial capital!
The most terrifying thing about the Mughal Empire is the densely packed cavalry corps. It is said that more than 20 cavalry of various types can be recruited under the condition of national mobilization.In addition to the imperial capital, Agra, there is also a royal arsenal, which specializes in the production of matchlock guns and bronze cannons for the Mughal emperors.Although their arsenal produced firearms by hand using outdated techniques, it was still a little threatening after all.

The flexible and mobile dragoons can cut off the grain roads. When the Mughal Empire was still at its peak, these cavalry could attack around like the hands and feet of the Mughal Emperor.

"The second method is to let their local princes sign a treaty with us, and then trade with us alone. In this way, we only need to suppress the local princes and let them give us privileges in their territories. The advantage of this approach is The reason is that we can make them submit with only a small amount of troops, so that we can take advantage of the contradictions among the princes in various places to join forces. The disadvantage is that these princes may be pressured by the emperor or unable to cooperate with us due to their greedy and repetitive personality. Establish a stable trade." The East India Company also proposed a second way.

Make breakthroughs one by one to the princes of the various states of the Mughal Empire, and divide the entire Mughal Empire into pieces.It is easier to conquer them as long as they are not monolithic.

Qin Zuoming pondered for a while, thinking about how to operate.

Chen Bangyan came over and said, "It is not easy to get the princes of the Tubang here to sign an agreement with us. The majesty of the emperor of the Mughal Empire has made countless princes of the Tubang afraid, and a war must be fought against the Mughals. The prestige of the emperor of the empire made the Tubang princes feel that even if they became independent from the Mughal Empire, we could protect them, so they dared to unilaterally conclude a treaty with us."

"What you said is very reasonable. For example, there are at least dozens of powerful princes in Bangladesh. They usually obey the orders of the Governor of Bangladesh, and they do their own things in private. The second prince Shashuja also served as the deputy king of Bangladesh not long ago. , he has a higher status than the Governor of Bangladesh. If we manage to persuade the Governor of Bangladesh to become independent from the Mughal Empire, then we can sign a treaty with us, and we will provide him with protection.” Qin Zuoming pointed to the map of Bangladesh, and will The idea hit the Governor of Bangladesh.

"What if the governor of Bangladesh is unwilling to be supported by us as a puppet?" Chen Bangyan asked.

"Then we will support the independence of the princes managed by the Governor of Bangladesh, and put them in the position of the Governor of Bangladesh. As long as they are lured to benefit, there will definitely be princes who are willing to take risks. The so-called chicken head is not a phoenix tail. I think I can be a I don’t know how many princes the king has.” The East India Company said.

(End of this chapter)