New Shun 1730

The current very favorable and proactive position for Dashun was of course created by the working people, stitch by stitch, shuttle by hammer. It was not done by wise and mighty rulers.

What a good ruler has to do is to conform to the general trend of the times. It is not necessary to understand the trend of the times, but just walk randomly and just catch up with the trend of the times.

Fortunately, Dashun has woken up and is no longer the sleeping empire that pokes and jumps.

Now Dashun took the initiative to jump up and down.

Jumping among the people in the front.

Du Feng is a typical example, who believes that now is the most popular period after the founding era, and the era when it is easiest to achieve class leaps and reach the sky in one step. A group of people who have received practical education and have taken the initiative to run to the border areas believe that they have the opportunity to become loyal The egoism of the dog is the professional officer corps of the hungry wolf.

There are also people like Niu Er who have received practical education and have practiced in Java and other areas with complex religions such as Muslim, Indian, Buddhist, and Christian. They have presided over the land reform in West Java, studied the Javanese village community system, organized slave labor riots, and basically organized slave labor riots. Representing the highest level of "Neo-Fan Studies" in the new era of Dashun, he is an administrative expert in the border region who is nowhere near as high as those in the Li government who can only recite old scriptures from thousands of years ago.

It is said that Niu Er is higher than the people in the Li government, mainly because Niu Er has understood a very profound truth in recent years: reciting the Thirteen Sutras turns out to be unable to resolve religious conflicts and land conflicts, nor can it be recited rice, cotton, indigo and grass. sugar cane. Moreover, in a place like Nanyang, even if you chant sutras with Ye and Mu in front of them, you will not be able to recite them.

This truth is very profound. It should be said that among the millions of students in Dashun, there are at most a thousand people who can understand these two truths.

Dashun had millions of students, but they were not ready to colonize India. They did not have the ability because they had not practiced in the messy place of Nanyang.

Another important result of Dashun's expedition to Nanyang was the emergence of a group of bureaucrats like Niu Er who had practiced in messy places.

This time they were sent to India to do this. In fact, they were neither here to inspect India's armaments nor to visit and learn about the so-called war.

The Privy Council of Dashun and the group of people headed by Liu Yu didn't pay attention to these things at all.

Fighting in India is very simple. Calculation is better than tactics.

They took this opportunity to congratulate the new governor of Bengal and sign a saltpeter trade treaty. They mainly asked him, a man who has performed well in Java practice, to inspect the religion, land, village communities, laws, and taxation system of Bengal. etc. questions.

Be prepared for Dashun to invade Bengal and implement colonial rule.

Therefore, when he led the team to Calcutta, he did not move very fast, and he stopped from time to time to talk with local people and landowners in the village community.

Conducting this kind of social investigation does not necessarily mean mobilizing the people. In fact, if you want to truly and effectively rule and exploit the people, this kind of investigation must be done, and it is even the basis of vassal studies in the new era.

This is just a tool, the key depends on how you use it.

The team arrived in Calcutta successfully and on their way to Ceylon on their ship, Niu Er already had a general idea of ​​some issues in Bangladesh.

He found that if he wanted to rule Bengal, he must pay attention to three issues.

First of all, Muslims, in the process of self-reliance of the Mughal Empire and the Bengal governors, they served as upper-level but weak-based rulers.

These upper-class Muslim elites speak Urdu, not Bengali.

There are a large number of lower-class Muslims, most of whom are tenant farmers, who speak Bengali.

Therefore, if you want to effectively rule here, you must win over the upper-class Muslim elites and let them maintain their advantages. You must not force them to learn Bengali and get together with the tenants at the bottom.

It is necessary to artificially create a trench between the upper-class Muslim elite and the people at the bottom.

This trench is both language and economic status.

This is an issue that Dashun must pay attention to when ruling Bengal.

Otherwise, there is likely to be a religious restoration movement similar to Dashun's "Guru School", led by the upper class elite whose status has declined, leading the bottom class.

He had seen the Muslim religious restoration movement similar to the "Ancient Confucian School" in Java. It is very dangerous, and its influence is extremely powerful and fast. It can easily organize the oppressed people at the bottom to carry out activities such as dividing land, teaching law, and purification.

We must cut off the connection between the upper elite and the lower class, just like Dashun bribed the students, and we must not let the retro movement appear.

It is taboo for scholars to participate in rebellion. This point makes sense in Dashun, and it also makes sense here.

In this regard, Niu Er wrote in an inspection report submitted to the Privy Council based on Java's experience: "The most critical point is that the elites of the city and the elites of the upper class cannot be linked by sects, so that their interests are equal. for the benefit of the entire sect.”

"The best way to put an end to this is to let the upper levels get enough benefits. When the lower levels resist in the form of sects, they will inevitably stand up and support the suppression, which will greatly divide their sects. "

"The biggest danger is that the interests of the upper-level Muslims are violated. This will change their identity and turn the problem into 'this is the entire sect being oppressed'. This is extremely detrimental to the rule of the Celestial Empire. Because Like scholars and students, they can make a sound."

The second question is that Niu Er believes that Hindus were the ruled during the previous rule of the Mughal Empire.

They don't care if they have a different owner.

Therefore, they actually have no ability to resist for the time being, and their caste system makes them relatively reluctant to rebel.

People who are unwilling to rebel cannot live up to the value of preferential treatment.

But one thing to note is that Hindu businessmen have better relations with the British. Because after Niu Er's inspection, he discovered that in the Bangladesh region, Dashun's trading products may not have much sales for the time being.

He understood Liu Yu's reforms in Songsu, especially in northern Jiangsu, so here he raised a problem that must be solved.

"Near Calcutta, a large number of Indian merchants were very close to the British East India Company. They were partners of the British East India Company."

"They helped the British acquire silk, cotton, etc. here through the protection of the East India Company and the customs rights that the East India Company received from the Khan of India."

"This is not good for us. Obviously, they will not like us either. Because China does not need the silk and cotton here, and it also hopes to sell silk and cotton here."

"I think if you want to rule here, you have to organize a massacre."

"Since the Bengal Jiedushi is in our hands, and his failure is largely due to some Indian businessmen who have better relations with British companies."

"Then, in return, the British will surely continue to increase their wealth before we come here."

"If the Chinese choose to occupy this place, they are worthless."

"China does not need their acquisition channels, because China does not need the cotton and silk here."

"Similarly, because China does not need the cotton and silk here and will not choose to import it, then they must be against China and will never be of the same mind as China. They miss the British even more."

"In the future, when we escort Siraj to his restoration, we should arrest all these people who are worthless, who are bound to oppose us, and who have a lot of wealth, and all their property will be confiscated."

"This does not require the Chinese government to take action. After the restoration, someone will take action."

"No matter what, the British buy things and we sell things. This is different."

"Just like Xing Guogong's salt policy reform, what we need are those salt dealers who have sales channels. Even private salt dealers can be amnesty; but for those businessmen who hoard salt, in fact, there is no value. Since The imperial court can destroy the prosperity of Yangzhou, so I think the merchants here can also be like those salt merchants. "

"Similarly, the various problems encountered by the imperial court in Songsu's reforms can be used as experience here."

"The symbol of Duke Xingguo's success in reforming Songsu was the destruction of Yangzhou's prosperity."

"The symbol of our successful rule in Bengal must be the destruction of Dhaka and Murshidabad. Because in Dhaka and Murshidabad, there are a large number of people who make a living by weaving, or who work around weaving. People who live.”

"Just like the decline of the salt industry in Yangzhou, since China will not import cotton here, it must be prepared in advance. Cities like Dhaka and Murshidabad have the same problem as Yangzhou - the population has increased from ten Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, reduced to 30,000 to 50,000.”

This question is indeed true.

A city like Murshidabad was described by the British as "as large, densely populated and wealthy as London".

Every year, the cotton cloth exported to Europe from places like Murshidabad and Dhaka is worth more than 4 million rupees.

4 million rupees, it is a complete export-oriented industrial chain.

Now Dashun is completely different from the British East India Company, and it is impossible to choose to buy goods here.

To have good luck, it’s because my parents have too much inheritance and I don’t know how to waste the family.

Shipping to Europe... Dashun worked hard to capture the European market. As long as Liu Yu was alive, it would be absolutely impossible for merchants to transport Indian goods and promote the sprouting of capitalism in India. Those who dare to smuggle Indian cotton cloth to Europe without shipping Songjiang cloth, Liu Yu will tell them what a violent iron fist is.

So, this is somewhat similar to the Yangzhou issue.

If the industrial chain is shifted or abolished, hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people may become unemployed in a short period of time.

This is not a matter of the bankruptcy of the small farmer economy, but this industry of about 4 million rupees is an export-oriented economy. As long as they can't sell, they will definitely lose their jobs.

What to do with this group of people?

Although Niu Er has rich experience in Java, he still doesn't understand India, or he doesn't know much about India.

As for the Yangzhou problem, something happened in Dashun.

The uprising involving tens of thousands of people was suppressed by Liu Yu with brutal means.

Niu Er took it for granted that, taking history as a guide, Yangzhou's reforms led to an uprising of tens of thousands of people, so there should also be large-scale uprisings in Dhaka, Murshidabad and other places, right?

During the Dashun reform, I really felt that there were several waves of uprisings. Yangzhou, Huai'an, northern Jiangsu, and even Lingnan were all affected.

These are all experiences. Niu Er feels that it is best to be prepared for such a possible uprising.

And, in his opinion, this uprising will definitely be as immediate as the one in Yangzhou. Because the salt policy reform caused a large number of people in Yangzhou to lose their jobs, and as long as Dashun occupied Bengal and cut off exports, an uprising would also occur immediately.

Therefore, in the third point, he mentioned the land system problem in India. He mainly sought experience from the Songsu reform of Dashun, and thought it was best to cooperate with the land reform and not let the weavers revolt and cooperate with the tenants.