Dominate the Country

"Your Majesty, General Huang has sent a good news. The army entered Luosi without bloodshed. The Eighth Dalai Lama personally went out of the city thirty miles to lead the people to welcome them."

In April of the eighteenth year of Chengtian, Chen Ming received the sixth report of the reorganized fifth division entering Tibet. The army entered Tibet peacefully all the way. No matter how much reluctance the nobles and monks in Tibet had in their hearts, they all surrendered in front of the reorganized fifth division of more than 20,000 people.

No one would joke with their own lives.

The reorganized fifth division of 25,000 people is not 250 people. For Tibet, where the population is less than one million, this is an irresistible force. As mentioned before, a reorganized fifth division is enough to kill all the people here, not to mention occupying the entire Tibet.

You must know that at this time, the Tibetan soldiers still used long spears and short bows. Even the matchlock guns that were two times behind were rare here. The only few cannons were left by the garrison troops in the Qing Dynasty.

With such little strength, they are going to fight Nanjing head-on. The high-ranking officials in Tibet know the fate of the Jinchuan nobles.

No one wants to see the Buddha they worship. Even the most fearless people are unwilling to lose their lives rashly. Therefore, on the way to Tibet, the army did not encounter any obstacles except for hunting and martial arts performances.

Huang Zicong knew the fundamental reason for the army to enter Tibet this time, so he did not deliberately provoke or humiliate the other party, so the army entered Tibet smoothly. Even if there were countless rumors on the way, when the army arrived outside the city of Lhasa, the Eighth Dalai and a group of high-ranking figures of the Tantric Buddhism were all respectfully welcoming them thirty miles away.

So, Tibet was controlled by Nanjing.

After Huang Zicong led the troops into Tibet, he sent a report to Chen Ming every month, and it was the sixth one so far. It has been more than six months since the reorganized Fifth Division entered Tibet.

Now the army has finally reached Lhasa after stopping along the way, and has firmly controlled the influential Eighth Dalai Lama. Chen Ming was relieved, but also felt a little unwilling.

The Eighth Dalai Lama, who was in the prime of his life, was too timid. Compared with his descendants, he was a "coward".

Even if he did not call on all the nobles in Tibet to take action to resist the army's entry into Tibet, he should have escaped early.

Go to Kathmandu, the capital of Gorkha, go to Sikkim, Bhutan, Ladakh, or even escape to the British territory, that would be fine.

Chen Ming just had the opportunity to attack the southern foothills of the Himalayas.

According to the original history, the Gurkha Kingdom should have stretched out its "evil" claws to Tibet long ago. Chen Ming's original plan was to let the traditional forces of Tibet be swept away by the Gurkhas, and then the National Defense Army came to Tibet as a "savior", so that it would naturally become a sacred and inseparable part of China.

However, the Gurkhas did not invade the rear Tibet repeatedly as in the original time and space history, nor did they chase the young Seventh Panchen Lama away, and the more than 3,000 monks of Tashilhunpo Monastery fled everywhere. So when Mamu Sanye, a member of the Gabu Party of the Gurkha Army, attacked Tashilhunpo Monastery, there were only nine people left in the big temple where the Panchen Lama was stationed. Mamu Sanye immediately moved into the meditation room of Panchen Erdeni, and the big and small leaders were stationed in various places, looting all the gold and silver Buddha statues, offerings, storage, and pearls, corals, and gems inlaid in the stupa. The golden book that conferred the title of the Sixth Panchen Lama was also looted.

Chen Ming was thinking that the Gurkhas would go crazy again as they did in history, so that he would have an excuse to formally intervene in Gurkhas.

Although the Gurkhas were famous in later generations, Chen Ming felt that it was just that.

During the Qing-Gurkhas campaign, the Gurkhas tried to attack the Shigatse Zongcheng. The Qing army commander Xu Nanpeng led 80 people to defend the city and killed more than 10 Gurkhas and 1 leader. After eight days and nights of siege, the Gurkhas still could not break the city, so they retreated to the border with the looted treasures.

This shows that the fighting power of the Gurkhas was just average.

Moreover, Fu Kangan was able to enter the Gurkhas with 6,000 people and approach Kathmandu. Although he was defeated in the end because of his arrogance, Chen Ming looked down on the fighting power of the Gurkhas even more.

In the famous Iron Blood of later generations, all posts about the British army have one feature, which is that they will mention the Gurkha troops. When mentioning the Gurkhas, countless IDs' eyes light up, and they all take out their treasured Nepalese sabers and talk about how brave the Gurkhas are, as if they have seen them with their own eyes.

This kind of "chicken jelly" and "die-hard fans" is really incomprehensible.

Chen Ming also had respect for the Gurkhas at the beginning, but when he really thought about it, he felt it was false. If the Gurkhas were really tough, their own country would have been the king and the hegemony long ago. They are next to the big broiler, the Indian brother. Why would they work for others if they don't break in to drink and eat meat?

And those who really understand the history of the Gurkhas will also find that the Gurkhas in history not only failed to cut off large chunks of fat meat from the Indian brother to eat, but were frequently invaded and conquered by the losers and exiles of the war for hegemony in northern India.

The Gorkha Shah dynasty was officially established only 20 years ago. In the previous 100 to 200 years, it was a small vassal state living in a corner of Gorkha. Its founding lord Prithvi died early, and his son Pratap Sinha continued his father's unfinished work. However, Pratap died young just a few days after he ascended the throne. His two-year-old son Rana Bahadur Shah succeeded him, and his uncle Chanda Bahadur Shah was regent.

In recent years, the person who impressed Chen Ming the most about the Gorkha Shah dynasty was his uncle Bahadur.

This was a very visionary decision-maker. During his 15 years in power, he conquered all the princely states in the west of Gorkha, invaded India to the west, reached Kashmir, and occupied a large area of ​​Sikkim to the east. In history, he once invaded Tibet, China. Now Gorkha does not do this, but it also made Gorkha's territory reach its peak. Moreover, Chanda Bahadur was not a war maniac. He was very good at using diplomatic means to consolidate the existing achievements and make Gorkha stronger.

If the position of the Gorkha Kingdom was occupied by such a talent, Chen Ming would firmly support Gorkha and launch an offensive war against the northern princely states of India. Unfortunately, the king of Gorkha is Rana Bahadur Shah.

This is the biggest hidden danger of the Gorkha Kingdom.

When Chen Ming sent the reorganized fifth division into Tibet, he concluded that the Gurkhas would never dare to point the spearhead of the war at the rear Tibet in this life.

Chen Ming planned to change the route problem that he needed to adjust many years ago, and let Huang Zicong serve as a special envoy at the same time to tell Chanda Bahadur Shah that Emperor Chen supported him to abolish the king and establish himself, and the Gorkha Kingdom ruled by Chanda would become a loyal dog and a vicious dog of Chen Han in the southern foothills of the Himalayas from then on.

This is a general strategy. There are many specific details, a whole folder, locked by Huang Zicong in his small box, and he personally controls the key.

For example, the future uniform and instructor issues of the Gurkha army, the police and customs tax issues;

For example, the new education and financial consultants, legal consultants, and all consultants of the Gurkha;

For example, how much financial support Chen Han will give to the Gurkha, and what he will ask of them...

These are all problems, and they are all negotiable issues.

Chen Ming is baring his teeth and claws at India.

Anyway, France's retreat and China's advance has become a foregone conclusion. France, in the current revolutionary situation, will never be able to repay the loans owed to China. They have no ability to protect their colonies in India, so "exchanging" them with China is the most rational decision for Paris.

Under such a situation, China's entry into India has also become a foregone conclusion, so the competition between China and the British is equivalent to being exposed.

In this way, why should Chen Ming hide his actions against the Gurkha?

He showed it openly. Even if the British wanted to interfere, what could they do? How could they guarantee that the interference would be successful and not intensify the Sino-British conflict?

And Gurkhas are in the northern part of India, very close to Bengal and Kolkata.

Chen Ming didn't believe that the knowledgeable people there would not see the "harm" of the British!

As for choosing between Britain and China, China's chance of winning is definitely much higher than that of the British. Because the Gurkhas are more like the Chinese.

No one would leave a neighboring country that looks similar and is extremely powerful, and rely on a foreign country with a different appearance, culture, and skin color. [The Gurkhas are a part of the current Nepalese]

As for the possibility of China completely annexing the Gurkhas' land, it is really not great.

Even compared to the British annexing Bengal, the Gurkhas are less vigilant and less alert to China.

On the map of the South Asian subcontinent that Chen Ming placed in the side hall of the Qianqing Palace, there are several independent forces of different colors in China's sphere of influence in the area south of the Himalayas.

The Gurkhas are one of them, and there is another Sikh, and the Afghans can be the third.

Chen Ming's plan for dealing with India is not to annex the entire country. There are too many people there, and they have their own long-standing religion and culture. It is too difficult to annex and sinicize.

Therefore, Chen Ming will regard India as the Chinese version of "South America" ​​- the back garden.

"America is America for Americans!" Grant's words have been regarded as the outline by generations of presidents of the Lighthouse Country for hundreds of years. Although there have been some changes during this period, such as Cuba, such as Venezuela.

But overall, Latin American countries are really the back garden of the old Americans. It is a crucial link in the process of the Lighthouse Country maintaining its own interests and hegemony.

Chen Ming planned to split the Indian region into small countries, and let these small countries become vassal states of China, continuously delivering benefits to China, becoming a sales market for Chinese industrial products, and a source market for all kinds of raw materials in China.

Judging from the current population of the Indian region, a hundred years later it will still be the world's second most densely populated area after mainland China, and will also become China's largest foreign sales market.

Few people know the real intention of Chen Ming to send troops to Tibet. Chen Ming's real intention is not to drink, Chen Ming's "Xiang Zhuang dances with a sword to aim at Pei Gong"!

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In May of the 18th year of Chengtian, that is, the beginning of June in the Western calendar in 1792.

The large ocean-going merchant ship "Stockholm" departed from Stockholm, the capital of the Kingdom of Sweden, carrying the special envoy of the French-Swedish King Gustav III, and slowly approached the Port of Shanghai.

“…The densely packed sailboats in the Huangpu River seem to be more numerous than the entire Baltic Sea, and the beautiful clippers are one after another. This kind of ship, which is gradually being eliminated in the war, still has extraordinary significance in business. The first Western-style sailboat invented by the Chinese is destined to be recorded in the history of navigation. The slender and graceful hull is clean and tidy. When it draws a beautiful arc in front of you at a speed that conventional sailboats can't inspire at all, you seem to see the ladies dancing in the palace. They are so beautiful, elegant and noble.

“Shanghai is not the capital of the Chinese, but Shanghai is a model of China's new cities and a city that must be mentioned to understand China. It is not the largest and most prosperous city in China, but it is definitely one of the largest and most prosperous cities in China, and it is also the youngest among this group of cities with a population of millions.

It is only 300 kilometers away from the capital of China. It took Shanghai only 20 years to become a real city and have a permanent population of over one million. It is like a miracle given by God, so magical that it is unbelievable.

There are probably three people living here, equivalent to Stockholm, with surprisingly magnificent and wide streets and urban areas.

Jinghai is already the cleanest and most beautiful town I have ever seen. Singapore has refreshed my cognition. And Shanghai is the fact that I can't believe what I see with my own eyes. It is hard to imagine that there are more exquisite and gorgeous cities in the world. All the European rumors accumulated over the past decade are not as good as the small corner I see now.

Its luxury, nobility and cleanliness make every one of its citizens deeply proud. Seeing everything here, the Chinese people's strong and arrogant pride seems to have become incomprehensible. ..."

40-year-old Yegor Gaidar was riding in a carriage, looking at the beautiful Shanghai landscape outside the window in amazement and nostalgia.

For him, who is used to the dirty and messy Russian cities today, Shanghai is really as noble as heaven.

This is not just a small port area, but a whole city, a huge city beyond Gaidar's imagination. Every corner here is so clean and tidy. Gaidar finally had the most intuitive understanding of this most powerful country that is rumored to occupy the most vast land in the world.

Before that, the ceremony to welcome the Swedish delegation was held in the dock area of ​​Shanghai. Accompanied by Gao Yanming, the Swedish King's special envoy Eleanora also reviewed the three military honor guards present.

Amid the noise of Chinese military music that makes Westerners feel completely different, rows of soldiers wearing white gloves, neat military uniforms, The navy and army officers and soldiers held their guns with their chests puffed out, all with their heads held high and their expressions solemn. The strict formation made all the Swedes feel a sense of neat beauty. The citizens crowded in the dock area filled both sides of the avenue. The Chinese did not seem to be pretending to "welcome along the avenue", which made every member of the Swedish delegation feel honored.

Except for Robin Lustig who came to welcome, his face was slightly stiff.

Robin Lustig was very dissatisfied with Gustav III's decision. This was emotional. He was overwhelmed by "friendship". He actually negotiated peace with the Russians in a good situation. Eleanora's trip to China also brought a Russian who was in the way - Yegor Gaidar.

Robin Lustig was really worried that His Majesty the Emperor of China would be furious.

Gustav III, this is betrayal!