Chapter 876: Federation of India
Although the first phase of the campaign in the Indian theater of operations ended victoriously, it was only a military victory. War has always been divided into three parts military and seven parts political. The Mughal Empire was vast, populous, and full of all kinds of complex contradictions, and with the company's current capabilities, it was simply impossible to digest the fruits of victory in a short period of time.
Therefore, after the end of the first phase of the Indian campaign, Ding Xinghao, as the general head of the company's intelligence department in India, also began to organize the foreign affairs special service of the intelligence department after the war began, and began to formulate the next action plan of the intelligence department.
The Far Eastern Army was overwhelming, with 200,000 troops moving through the Indus Valley, Bengal, Ganges and the southern coastal areas. In less than half a month, he conquered Agra Fort and eliminated the Mughal Emperor Raja Khan, as well as all the royal family members and a large number of important ministers of the empire.
The Ministry of Intelligence sent a large number of intelligence agents to spread the news of the fall of Agra Citadel throughout the Mughal Empire, and in a short period of time, the news that the Mughal Emperor Rajahan and the direct heirs of the royal family were all killed in battle spread throughout the empire.
Now the Mughal Empire has become leaderless, and the original empire has been complicated by ethnic and religious problems, and the empire has lost its centralized leadership, and has suddenly become a plate of scattered sand.
Governors and tribal chiefs shrank their forces and increased their forces in their spheres of influence, fortifying the fortifications of the cities in preparation for the threat from the Far East. Of course, there are some ambitious people who want to establish independent kingdoms in their spheres of influence. However, the strong strength of the Far East also makes them sit on pins and needles every day, for fear that one day the Far Eastern Army will kill their territory.
Just when they were fidgeting, the envoy sent by the Far Eastern Intelligence Department. He finally appeared in front of them, and communicated with the governors and feudal lords of the Mughal Empire, as well as a large number of tribal leaders, and conveyed to them the policy of the Far Eastern Company.
The Far Eastern Company had wiped out the Mughal Empire and rescued countless people of all ethnic groups in India from the tyranny of the dark Mughal Empire. However, the current situation in India is more complicated. It is facing a worrying grim situation. Regional differences, sectarian disputes, and ethnic contradictions interact with each other, and wars and conflicts, humanitarian disasters, and terrorist threats are intertwined.
The Far Eastern Company hopes to take practical measures with all parties in India, let down their guard, and in the spirit of mutual respect and trust, they can resolve the current crisis through dialogue and other peaceful means, restore social stability and normal order as soon as possible, and finally achieve comprehensive peace in India.
Moreover, the Far Eastern Company also reiterated once again that the Far Eastern Company is peace-loving. The aspirations and interests of all forces in the Far East and India are the same, and it is hoped that the Far East Company will work together with all parties in India to jointly build a prosperous, strong, peaceful and stable new India.
The governors and tribal leaders of the Mughal Empire received the envoys of the Far East and heard about the future policies of the Far Eastern Company, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, at least for the time being, the Far East was not ready to attack them.
In fact, this is similar to their previous judgment, after all, India is a vast area. The population is so large that the Far East simply cannot swallow it in a short time. Even the mighty Mughal Empire. More than 100 years after the founding of the country, the vast area of southern India was still only nominally ruled by the Mughal Empire.
As long as the Far Eastern Company protects the interests of the feudal lords and tribal chiefs everywhere and allows them to continue to enjoy the privileges they now have, they don't care who rules the Indian region in particular.
On the initiative of the Far Eastern Company. Feudal lords and tribal leaders from all over India sent representatives to Agra to attend the Federation of India, organized by the Far East Company, to discuss India's development plans with various forces in the Indian region.
The Foreign Service of the Far Eastern Intelligence Department came up with a plan to divide India into several hundred federal dominions, spread across various regions of the Mughal Empire. The situation is different in each federal dominion. Some of them were the vassals and governors of various places appointed by the original Mughal emperor, and some were the leaders and chiefs of various ethnic and religious forces such as the Xibe tribes, Hindu tribes and Tamils.
Of course, in the areas occupied by the Far Eastern Company, there were no people to attend the federal convention, because the forces of the Indus, Ganges, coastal and Bengal regions were all wiped out.
Although these areas of the Far East are only a little more than a quarter of the South Asian subcontinent of India, they are all developed coastal areas or the most fertile areas. And all of them are on the coast and on both sides of relatively large rivers, and are connected by perfect waterway transportation.
The lords of each Dominion of the newly established Indian Federation can fully enjoy the power of self-government in their own territories, which is equivalent to the emperor of the soil, and they can bully men and women and behave arbitrarily in their own territories.
However, a certain amount of grain crops, cotton, textiles and other materials must be paid annually to the Far East Company as a tax paid to the Far East by each autonomous territory. Although there were quite a few of them, the kings of these newly established autonomous territories agreed without hesitation.
The strength of the Far Eastern Army terrified them, and this Indian campaign took just over a month to sweep through the Mughal Empire. This era is not the "post-Mughal era" when the empire is weakest more than a hundred years later.
The current Mughal Empire was at its peak, and even the many princely states in the south were nominally subject to the empire. The Mughal Empire has hundreds of thousands of troops, including more than 200,000 cavalry, as well as elite war elephant troops and artillery units, and the forces in all parts of the empire dare not openly confront the empire.
The Mughal Empire's army, which was so strong, encountered the Far Eastern Army but only resisted for more than a month, and was wiped out by the Far Eastern Army. It is said that the Indus Valley, the Ganges Valley, Bengal and the coastal areas occupied by the Far East were all swept away by the Far East. Therefore, these princes from all over India did not dare to disobey the will of the Far Eastern Company, for fear that they would also be wiped out by the Far Eastern Army.
Moreover, these princes of the federal dominions will have their own independent kingdoms in the future, and they will be like emperors. Although there are a lot of materials paid to the Far East every year, they are borne by the people under their rule, and a little more tax is collected in their own territory every year, and everything is settled. (To be continued.) )