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And the new rulers are just a bunch of dogs in the water.

Sivaji, the rebel, beat the country of Bigapur to the point where he was powerless to fight back.Some nobles from Bigapur fled with a small army, and were beaten up by Golkonda on the way.Such an army of rubbish, with only 2000 people left after escaping, actually wiped out the country of Tanjore.

Those big landlords who control the countryside seem to be deeply entrenched, but they dare not resist at all, and entire villages become slaves.

They didn't even dare to launch religious wars. The well-behaved Hindu country was occupied by more than 1000 Islamic remnants and obeyed the rule of pagan aristocrats.

How many Datong troops can such a country hold back?

A few days later, Zhao Kuangchen approached the emperor: "Father, my son intends to capture the kingdom of Tanjiaoer."

"You have a good eye." Zhao Han was quite pleased. "Should I spend a few years in the navy first, or lead the army next year?"

"Next year, sooner rather than later." Zhao Kuangchen was afraid that his will would be worn down, and he would definitely not want to go to India to make a fuss when he was young and vigorous.

Zhao Han helped analyze: "Even if the Han people want to immigrate, they will definitely go to Nanyang first. Therefore, for a long time, it is impossible for the land you occupy to have enough Han people. You can combine officials from Tanjore City and The nobles are killed, but other cities and villages must rely on the original nobles and landlords to rule."

"The situation there is explained in the Honglu Temple archives," Zhao Kuangchen said, "The landowners are basically in the hands of the Brahmins. After occupying the capital, the ministers will win over the Kshatriya who controls the army and give them more land and population. Let the Kshatriyas and the Brahmins fight, and when the two groups are nearly equal, the country will basically stabilize. As for the Han people, they only need to control the capital and surrounding areas, and slowly reproduce and immigrate.”

Zhao Han reminded: "Beware of the Dutch. The governor's office of the Dutch East India Company is in Ceylon, just across the strait from the city of Tanjore. You can sell the cotton to Han merchants, and the rest of the goods should be sold to the Netherlands. Still have to sell to the Netherlands."

"My son, please remember." Zhao Kuangchen nodded.

Zhao Han said again: "Guangnan Province can no longer cause trouble. The Datong Army stationed there, if you send 1000 people to India, they will be your private soldiers from now on. You have to pay them yourself. If the money is not enough, you can only reward them." For land and slaves, the imperial court will not send you money. As for ships, I will give you three old warships that are about to be phased out. You can use them as navy, trade, or even as pirates. Only a small part of the naval officers and soldiers on the warship will be given to you, and the rest you will go to the coast to recruit Dan people."

Some of the coastal Dan people have gone ashore to share their land, but most of them still live on boats.

More and more soldiers, sailors, and handymen in the navy came from Dan people, and a large number of Dan people went to Nanyang for reclamation.If this continues for a few more decades, it is estimated that the Danmin group will disappear completely.

Zhao Kuangchen said: "Father, my ministers need cavalry, two or three hundred cavalry is enough. Southern cavalry, the war horses are too short, and my ministers need tall horses."

"The horses are dispatched from the royal racecourse, and the riders are recruited from the retired cavalry." Zhao Han suddenly thought of someone, "Sun Kewang is in Taiwan, you can make him the leader of the cavalry. He has no team of his own, so he can only be loyal to you, and he can't do anything. Stormy."

Sun Kewang is in his 40s this year. He lives in the mountains of Taiwan as a village head. He is probably willing to go to India to make troubles.

Zhao Kuangtang went to visit his biological mother, Pan Qimei, and explained that he was about to go to sea, and was hugged by his mother and cried bitterly. Perhaps the mother and son would not be able to see each other in the future.

Next, Zhao Kuangchen wrote letters to his classmates in elementary school, middle school, university, and military academy.It's the kind of relationship that is relatively good. Inviting them to go to India together, anyway, they will definitely be granted land by officials when they get there.As for the infantry, cavalry and navy, Zhao Han helped to select them, so that the southern soldiers and civilians enthusiastically signed up to go to sea.

After the Chinese New Year, Zhao Kuangchen will go to Guangzhou and take a large group of people to India.Doctors, craftsmen, veterinarians, etc., also have a group of people, but basically they are young people without wives and children, and apprentices account for more than 90%.

India is very big, and it will take at least a hundred years to completely colonize and control it.

Zhao Kuangtang went to the south to open up frontiers and establish a country, and how much he defeated was up to him.And the place he didn't take down is where China will colonize India in the next 100 years.

Chapter 965 [Everyone is silent]

When Sun Kewang received the news, he was both moved and hesitant.

He is more than 40 years old, his son has given birth to a lot, and he has a lot of land in the mountains of Taiwan.Although being poor is a little poor, he is the boss here, and he doesn't want to make trouble anymore when he is old.

But that was the founding of the country, and once he succeeds, he will be the hero of the founding of the country, not better than being a village head in Taiwan?

After thinking about it for a month, after the Lantern Festival, Sun Kewang set off with his second son.

After waiting for a few days in Guangzhou, Jin Wang Zhao Kuangchen came, and [-] retired cavalry had also arrived.Although they are retired cavalrymen, their war horses come from Nanjing Racecourse, and they are all selected from the best of the best.Moreover, the armor is complete, and the whole body armor is scary.

There are also some doctors, craftsmen, veterinarians and other personnel, and also brought a few low-level officials who voluntarily went to sea.

As for Zhao Kuangchen's classmates, there were six of them, and one of them was Wang Chongxi who ate bad food and went into the water together.

The three dilapidated warships were Zhao Kuangchen's naval team, and most of the sailors, sailors, and handymen were Dan people recruited from the coast.

When everyone arrived in Guangnan Province, a thousand Datong troops boarded the ship, escorted by five naval warships.When they arrived in Palembang, they were joined by two more warships, accompanied by more than a dozen merchant ships.These merchant ships were loaded with grain and spices. The grain was for King Zhao Kuang of Jin, and the spices were shipped to Ceylon to be sold to the Dutch.

After passing through Malacca and Chittagong, two warships joined each other and sailed to Tanjore.

The Dutch found them when the boat reached Masulibadam.In the end, near Pulicat Port, the Dutch fleet came to intercept, but did not choose to go to war, because the Dutch fleet lacked certainty of victory.Zhao Kuangchen was escorted by eleven warships, three old-fashioned warships given to him by the emperor, and more than ten armed merchant ships accompanying the army for trade.

During the negotiation between the two sides, Zhao Kuangchen did not say where he was going, but only said that the Dutch fleet could follow, and that he would know what the Chinese army wanted to do when the time came.

When passing by the capital of the Jinji Kingdom, Zhao Kuangyi stopped by the shore for supplies, and sent several envoys into the city to communicate with King Jinji.

A few years ago, a fleet of envoys passed by here. King Jinji was very discerning and sent several female slaves to the Chinese envoys.

This country will be Zhao Kuangchen's neighbor in the future, so we can build a good relationship first.Because even if it wants to expand, it is not to fight the Jinji country, but to bully the weaker Madurai.After taking Madurai, they went to attack Mysuru, which was a Hindu country ruled by the sultan, and no one would come to help there.

King Jinji didn't ask where they were going, thinking they were visiting Europe again.

Hearing that the prince of China arrived, King Jinji was very happy and warmly invited the prince to the banquet. After the banquet, he gave Zhao Kuangcheng two female slaves.

The Dutch fleet followed them all the way to Tanjore, and then the commander was dumbfounded.

"Boom boom boom!"

Not only the Chinese warships fired at the city wall, but even the accompanying armed merchant ships threw shells at the city (Chinese armed merchant ships can be equipped with up to six cannons, and the caliber of the cannons is also limited).

This port city is obviously defenseless.

Discovering the arrival of the Chinese fleet, they thought they could do business, and opened up the port to collect port taxes.

King Ashwin, who was as fat as a pig, was having fun in the palace, when suddenly he heard the rumble of cannons.He started to fight in a panic, and asked, "Did the Dutch call?"

Soon, a minister came to say: "Your Majesty, it is China and the Netherlands who have jointly called!"

The Dutch fleet watching the battle was mistaken for an accomplice of the Chinese fleet.

"Run!" Ashwin moved flexibly, running like a rolling meat ball.

The minister hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, the army should be summoned to defend the city. I have gathered a group of soldiers, but many nobles are fleeing, and the soldiers are also fleeing. At this time, you need to appease!"

"Holland and China are difficult to deal with alone, let alone two together, we can't defend the city," Ashwin shouted anxiously, "Where is my horse? Bring my horse here."

This king is purely useless, and was destroyed by more than 1000 exiled remnants in history.Those remnants of defeated generals, who didn't even have heavy firearms, captured the city with almost no decent resistance.

Just as Sun Kewang landed with [-] cavalry, he saw that the city gates were wide open, and countless soldiers and people were fleeing.

This has just started, the siege is already over?

"Take off the heavy armor, and follow me!" Sun Kewang made a decisive decision and ordered the cavalry to take off the heavy armor, so as to increase mobility.

In such a situation, the heavy cavalry is useless, and the light cavalry can play a better role in combat.

After tossing for a while, the infantry was already running forward, and Sun Kewang led the cavalry to catch up quickly.

Three hundred cavalry rushed to the nearest city gate, hacking and killing those who stood in their way.But there was chaos at the city gates, which had long been blocked by crazy crowds. Sun Kewang led his cavalry around the city, and even passing through two city gates was blocked by traffic.

Until the third city gate, there were no fleeing people there, but there was an army.

However, the princes and ministers wanted to escape, but they were reluctant to part with their belongings, so they asked private soldiers to guard the city gates, hacked and killed all the people who dared to approach, and then transported the wealth and goods out.

Seeing that Sun Kewang led his troops to kill, the servants and infantry there scattered away.

When the princes and ministers saw this, they took their private cavalry and ran away, not even caring about the wives and children behind them.

Sun Kewang chased after those cavalrymen. This guy hadn't forgotten his cavalry and archery skills, and he hit the enemy cavalry in front with one arrow. I don't know if he hit it by luck.

After chasing and killing for several miles, the enemy cavalry didn't resist, they only knew how to ride their horses and run wildly.

There were only about a hundred of these fleeing noble cavalry.Scattered and fled in various directions, Sun Kewang only killed dozens of riders, and then turned to kill towards the west of the city.

King Ashwin was blocked by the fleeing people, and the palace guards killed him indiscriminately, and finally rushed out from the city gate.

At this time, a thousand large synchronized soldiers had already entered the city, and under the leadership of the merchants who had been to the city, they went straight to the direction of the palace.When they reached the gate, the king had already run away, leaving only some court servants who took advantage of the chaos to grab things.

Sun Kewang was intercepting and killing the fleeing nobles in the west of the city, when he suddenly saw an army approaching.

It was the king's palace guard, and they were pulling more than two dozen carts of goods.

When King Ashwin saw the Chinese cavalry, he suddenly lost his mind and shouted: "Block the enemy."

Then, he took more than a dozen court knights and ran away on horseback.The rest of the court pawns stood there in a daze, not knowing whether to run away, chase the king, or risk their lives to block the enemy.

Sun Kewang led his troops to kill them, and all these court soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy.

Seeing this situation, Sun Kewang didn't bother to pay attention, and led his troops to chase after the king.After they left, those court soldiers stood up one after another, swarmed to grab the king's treasure, and then took off their armor to flee in all directions.

Suddenly, Sun Kewang rode back in [-] divisions, and those guys stopped running, and took the initiative to put the treasure back in the carriage.

Although the king's mount is a steed, but it is too fat, purely based on weight, he is considered a heavy cavalry.Sun Kewang soon caught up, and the court knights ran away one after another, leaving the heavy cavalry king struggling there.

Sun Kewang didn't know that this was the king, but he must be an important person in this scene, so he was captured alive immediately.

"It's so easy to expand the territory?" Zhao Kuangchen stood at the gate of the palace, feeling like he was dreaming.

The commander-in-chief of the Dutch fleet at the port appearance battle also put down the binoculars at the moment, and muttered to himself: "It is so easy to take down Tanjore?"

The Netherlands also has a colonial port in the country of Tanjore, which was snatched from Portugal, and it is the port of Naga Patam, which is most valued by the Portuguese.When I married a princess from afar, other ports were willing to dowry, but this port refused to hand over.

After capturing the Portuguese port, the Netherlands did not expand, but negotiated with King Tanjore, forcing him to hand over the country's commercial privileges.

Knowing the target of the Chinese, the Dutch fleet left immediately and ran to report the situation to the governor.

A few days later, the Governor of the Netherlands sent an envoy to negotiate as the protector of Tanjore.

Zhao Kuangchen's foothold was not stable, and he was unwilling to provoke the Netherlands. The two sides quickly reached an agreement:

First, the commercial privileges of the Dutch in Tanjore are not revoked.

Second, Chinese businessmen have the same privileges as the Dutch.

Third, Naga Patam Port, still ruled by the Netherlands.

Wang Chongxi is now Zhao Kuangchen's counselor: "Your Highness, sooner or later we will have a war with the Netherlands, and we must ask the Celestial Dynasty to send troops to help."

"I know, now we have to occupy the entire territory of Tanjore." Zhao Kuangchen said.

Wang Chongxi said: "The richest land along the river must be controlled in our hands and given to officials and soldiers as rewards. All the landlords there will be killed, and the common people will be tenants for the land rewarded. As for the farther places, we will send people to the nobles Send a decree to the landlords that as long as they serve the new king, everything can go on as usual."

Zhao Kuangchen nodded: "I think so too. When the city is stable, I will send troops to occupy the fertile land along the river."

These two are kind enough. In another time and space, those thousands of remnant soldiers came to kill them, but they took the land that was harvested twice a year, and even the landlords and farmers were all used as slaves.Moreover, they have been slaves for generations, and did not "turn over" until the British came.

ceylon island.

Joan Matesolko, the governor of the Netherlands, who successfully negotiated, was not happy at all.

Tanjore is the state closest to Ceylon. Once China calmly immigrates here, it will be able to cross the sea and directly kill the Governor's Palace in the future. This makes Governor Joan feel like a stick in his throat.

But he didn't dare to go to war. Even if he could defeat the Chinese navy, with the current poor infantry in the Netherlands, could he take down the tall and strong city of Tanjore?Chinese soldiers are not cowardly Tamil soldiers.

A few days later, Zhao Kuangchen sent someone to send a diplomatic document and officially informed the Governor of the Netherlands: The Kingdom of Tanjore will be renamed the Kingdom of Jin from now on, and the king will be His Royal Highness King Jin of China.The capital, Tanjore (Tanjavur), was renamed Taiwu City.

Governor Joan was very speechless. If he knew that Tanjore could be conquered easily, he would have sent troops to occupy it long ago.

But who would have expected it?

The city walls are tall and strong, and there are more than 2000 defenders in the city, as well as muskets and artillery, and tens of thousands of people can be recruited to defend at any time.The king actually abandoned the city and fled!

The governor didn't expect it, and Zhao Han, who was far away in Nanjing, didn't expect it either. He thought it would be a fierce battle.

The Indian region has an excellent matching mechanism, and its combat power becomes weaker as it goes south.

Chapter 966 [Is this the well field system? 】

Zhao Kuangzhen ordered the infantry to defend the city, and asked Sun Kewang to lead the cavalry out to sweep the land along the river with irrigation canals.

Anyway, if the landlord is caught, he will be killed, and the rest of the people will be restrained and not allowed to leave the original village.

Seeing that the Han army only killed the nobles, the artisans, tenant farmers and untouchables all stood by and watched.Anyway, it's just a change of ruler, and their fate will not change in the future. Even if they desperately help the nobles fight, they won't gain anything after winning.

It took only a few days for Sun Kewang to occupy the [-] miles along the river.

Zhao Kuangchen’s middle school classmate, Guan Xian, who was once the chief of the county yamen’s household section, went to the riverside villages to gather information and report: “Your Highness, the information on Honglu Temple is too rough. Rural conditions."

"Tell me about it." Zhao Kuangchen said.

Guan Xian said: "The rural basic governance institutions are village communes, one is called Miraxi village commune, and the other is called Chaimingda village commune."

"The Miraxi village community is the most traditional. Hundreds of years ago, the Chola dynasty moved its capital to Taiwu (Tanjore). This dynasty made a difference. It organized the villages along the river into village communities and ordered the village community to be built. Irrigate canals. Although the Chola Dynasty has collapsed, these villages have survived and spread to all parts of the country.”

"This kind of Miraxi village consists of one or several villages, and the managers are all of the Brahmin caste. They use the clan as a link to jointly control the power of the village, and there is no leader. When encountering major issues, several families discuss and resolve them."

"Another kind of Qaidaminger village community has only risen for decades. King Nayak ruled this place and rewarded the land to military officers and nobles. A village is a village community, and the rulers are all Kshatriya officers."

"Milasi Village is similar to the gentry village of Ming Dynasty. Qaidaminger Village is similar to the military household village of Ming Dynasty."

"Here, there are no landlords!"

"There is no landlord?" Zhao Kuangchen asked, "Then who did we kill in the riverside village?"

Guan Xian explained: "We killed the village managers, who came from the Brahmin and Kshatriya castes. The land here belongs to the king and is collectively managed by the Brahmins or Kshatriya."

"Then how to collect taxes? These village managers don't have land, but they are in charge of the land. Could it be that they can fill their own pockets arbitrarily?" Zhao Kuangchen wondered.