During the year or two that the Far East received the trade ports of Western colonizers along the coast of India, it imported a large amount of silver and imported a large amount of grain, cotton cloth and other commodities to the Mughal Empire through annual trade with the Mughal Empire, which indeed made a great contribution to the economy of the Mughal Empire.

In the face of the empire's booming economy, the Mughal Emperor Rajahan was very satisfied with the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Far East for trade, and the two sides entered a honeymoon period.

The Far Eastern Company's commercial representative in the Mughal Empire also took the opportunity to request the Mughal Empire to purchase Kolkata, located at the mouth of the Ganges River in the Bay of Bengal, and obtained the consent of the Mughal Emperor.

Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Once the capital and number one city of India, as well as the major commercial and financial center of Eastern India and Northeast India, the Port of Kolkata is also the second largest port in India in modern society,

During India's colonial period, Kolkata was the capital of British India for 140 years, from 1772 to 1911. Kolkata is blessed with the Hooghly River in the west, a river bay in the north, a salt lake four thousand kilometers to the east, and is surrounded by rice and jute.

After obtaining Kolkata, the Far East completed the final layout of the coastal areas of India, began to invest a large number of resources, carried out a large-scale expansion of various trading ports along the coast of India, built port docks, barracks and logistics warehouses, and gradually secretly built these places into military strongholds, and continued to penetrate into the surrounding areas.

In the past few years, the Far Eastern Intelligence Department has invested a lot of forces in India, using various means to penetrate almost the entire southern part of India, and even using narcotics to coerce and lure some people of all classes of the Mughal Empire. He became a peripheral intelligence officer of the Far Eastern Company and established a relatively tight intelligence network in various regions of the Mughal Empire.

The Mughal Empire practiced a feudal land ownership system in the nature of military fiefdoms. The emperor was the supreme owner of the land in the country, and with the exception of a portion of the land under his direct control, he granted large tracts of land to the military feudal lords of Islam from Central Asia and Afghanistan as their military fiefdoms. Called "Zajir".

The recipient is Zajidar, who has the right to expropriate the fief for life, but cannot be hereditary, and has no ownership of the fief. They were required to provide military service to the emperor.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, stimulated by the development of the commodity economy, the feudal lords of the Mughal Dynasty tried to transform the conditional feudal land tenure system, such as military service as a condition, feudal income, and non-hereditary inheritance, into a hereditary and unconditional sewing ownership system, which led to the rise of feudal separatist tendencies and seriously weakened the power of the central power of the empire.

The Deccan Plateau in southern India of this era. It is also made up of princely states, all of which are still hereditary holdings of Hindu princes or tribal leaders. The size of each of these princely states was very large, the largest being equal to France, and the smaller being almost equal to the land owned by an ordinary peasant. Even at its peak, the Mughal Empire did not completely annex the princely states of southern India.

When Western colonizers first arrived in India in the 16th century, they relied on coercion, inducement, bribery and bribery to buy off various princely states in southern India and Zajidar in various places to achieve their goal of establishing trade ports.

The Ministry of Intelligence spent a lot of supplies and bribed officials and officers from all over the Mughal Empire. He also co-opted the princely state leaders and Zajidar in various places, not only stealing a large amount of valuable information. It is also through transactions with them, and a huge chain of interests has been established.

As a result, the Far Eastern Company's trading bases along the coast of India were able to carry out large-scale expansion with the tacit consent of the local natives, and the Far Eastern forces were constantly infiltrating into India.

In addition to the construction of coastal areas in India, the company has also invested a lot of resources in Ceylon in recent years. Ceylon was firmly in the hands of the Far East. Ceylon, that is, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka means "Promised Land" or "Land of Light and Abundance" in Sinhala, and is known as the "Kingdom of Jewels" and "the Pearl of the Indian Ocean". By Marco. Polo is considered the most beautiful island.

The modern Sri Lankan economy is dominated by agriculture, with 4 million hectares of arable land, and the main crops are tea, rubber, coconut and rice. It is also the world's largest black tea production base. The annual output is 284.9 million kilograms. Sri Lanka is also rich in fisheries, forestry and water resources.

Sri Lanka is also a gem-rich island and is one of the world's top five gem-producing countries, known as the "Gem Island". Therefore, in the early stage of the economy, the mining industry has many advantages in its initial development, and the annual export value of gemstones can reach 500 million US dollars, and rubies, sapphires and cat's eyes are the most famous.

Since the great drought in Chongzhen, the company has also placed more than 100,000 displaced people from the north of the Ming Dynasty in various parts of Ceylon for tuntian. With these hundreds of thousands of Ming refugees, the company's agriculture and forestry department also began to vigorously develop Ceylon's agricultural resources.

The Military Commission also set up a Ceylon garrison and a Ceylon coastal garrison in Colombo, Ceylon, and now a large number of guerrilla fleets in the Far East Sea have rushed out of the Strait of Malacca, and the farthest guerrilla fleets have gone out to patrol the waters of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

The company has also established colonies in Madagascar, Mauritius, Maldives, Seychelles, Saint-Denis and other places, and established shore bases and military ports, equipped some overseas corps troops, and deployed several guerrilla fleets in these areas, basically controlling the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean and other vast sea areas.

Beginning last winter, the Admiralty of the Military Commission mobilized almost all of the company's sea-moving forces, and in a few months, the main forces participating in the Indian campaign, as well as a large number of equipment and supplies, were continuously transported to Ceylon.

In the transportation process, the most troublesome materials are a large number of war horses, which consumes most of the company's transportation capacity. Fortunately, the cycle lasted several months.

Throughout the winter, there was an endless stream of ships traveling between Liaodong and Ceylon, including sailing ships, improved sailboats, large sail carriers, and even several giant ships of 10,000 tons.

It was loaded with a large number of soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, including a field division, four overseas divisions of the newly formed overseas group army, four main cavalry divisions of the indigenous people of the Outer Northeast, ten divisions of the Japanese daring army of the newly formed samurai army, and a large number of combat and logistical support detachments. The total strength is more than 200,000.

The camps of more than 200,000 troops have been connected on the seashore of the island of Ceylon, and there are mountains of various materials in the material warehouses, and a large number of war horses are running and neighing in various military horse farms. Today, the island of Ceylon has been turned into a huge military camp. (To be continued.) )