In the seventeenth century, although the Indian peninsula had not yet completely become a colony, it had actually become a paradise for colonists from various European countries.

The colonists currently active in the Indian peninsula include the Dutch East India Company, the Portuguese East India Company, the Danish East India Company and the English East India Company. In addition, some sporadic ships from European countries will also arrive.

And now, the Chu Empire has been added!

The colonial competition in the Indian peninsula was already very fierce, and it became even more intense in recent years with the addition of the Dachu people.

Although so far, colonists from various countries, including the Great Chu Empire, have mostly colonized the Indian region by establishing trade strongholds, then opening up trade markets, and mainly trading in circles. The indigenous kingdoms in the Indian region are still

There is no threat of destruction.

But this kind of competition for trade Lilan is still very fierce!

The market is so big and there is so much money. If you make more money, others will make less money.

In addition, more importantly, as the Chu Empire strongly occupied the Nanyang Peninsula and penetrated the Nanyang Islands, in addition to the Dutch, the Nanyang region was also able to maintain strongholds in the Spice Islands and continue to carry out trade.

The last one took an active approach to the Chu Empire, and at the same time did not show much ambition in the Nanyang region. He only settled in Manila in the Philippines and only focused on doing business with the Chu Empire.

Colonists from other European countries have been expelled by the Chu Empire.

Of course, they can also continue to trade in Southeast Asia, but generally they can only go to Malacca to conduct direct trade with merchants from the Chu Empire, and cannot trade with the local indigenous people.

Because the Chu Empire used various treaties and military strength to forcibly monopolize the markets of Southeast Asian countries.

In addition, the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca has been strongly blocked by the navy of the Dachu Empire... It is said to be to combat piracy, but in fact it is to prevent ships from other countries from passing through the Strait of Malacca and going deep into the South China Sea.

The Nanyang region has become dominated by the Chu Empire. Even the Dutch have to do business with their tail between their legs. In the Nanyang region, they only do business with the local indigenous people in the Spice Islands, and other businesses are basically done with the merchants of the Chu Empire.

In order to avoid over-stimulating the merchants of the Chu Empire.

As for the Spaniards, they have already reached a series of trade agreements with the Chu Empire. In order to maintain trade with the Chu Empire, the Spaniards have made it clear that they have no intention of colonizing other areas in Nanyang, including the Philippines.

As long as the Great Chu Empire opened up trade with them, the Spanish's global fleet was allowed to enter some ports controlled by the Great Chu Empire, such as Malacca, and they were allowed to pass through the Strait of Malacca.

They can even abandon their colonial stronghold in the Philippines, which is Manila.

You have to know that the core reason why the Spaniards went to the Philippines to establish a colonial stronghold was to trade with the Chu Empire... not to compete with the Chu Empire for the Nanyang region.

This is different from the Dutch.

The Dutch colonized the Southeast Asian region in order to control the Spice Islands and conduct direct trade with the local indigenous people, especially monopoly trade.

As for the Dachu Empire, it was relatively friendly to the Spaniards. It did not impose any restrictions on trade, and was even more liberal.

Under the good relationship, the Chu Empire has even been negotiating with the Spanish to discuss the possibility of amicable transfer of Manila.

This possibility is not small.

In the colonial situation in Nanyang, when the Chu Empire was the dominant one, many forces were in chaos. At the same time, the local indigenous princes were barely powerful. In addition, even the powerful Chu Empire found it difficult to conquer due to the distance.

Under the circumstances of projecting a large number of troops to the distant Indian Peninsula.

The colonization of various countries in the Indian peninsula was chaotic and the competition was extremely fierce. These colonists not only fought with the local indigenous people, but also started wars with each other.

The Dutch and Portuguese have been fighting for many years.

After the Chu Empire entered the Indian region to colonize, in order to gain a foothold there, the Nanyang Trading Company chose to secretly join forces with the Portuguese East India Company in a tacit understanding.

So in fact, the Nanyang Trading Company is also at war with the Dutch East India Company!

This is on the surface, but there is more secretly...

Even the trading companies of the Great Chu Empire would have certain conflicts with each other, and then secretly take action.

Due to the chaos and fierce competition in the Indian region, official power projection is troublesome and costly.

Many of its own armed trading companies have fallen into internal strife. The senior officials of the Chu Empire intended to change this situation, which in turn promoted the alliance of many armed trading companies involved in trade in the Indian region.

The government took the lead and the family members sat together to demarcate the territory in advance to avoid internal chaos. At the same time, when facing foreign colonists and local indigenous people, each company had to assist each other, etc.

Under such circumstances, the various trading companies have reached an alliance agreement, and only then can the armed merchant ships of various armed trading companies jointly go to India for trade.

This joint operation was conducted under the official leadership, and there were even navy officials in the fleet to coordinate the entire process.

And this operation was also a huge success.

After the huge joint trade fleet arrived in the central region of the east coast of India smoothly, they jointly carried out a strong landing for the first time. More than two thousand sailors who landed on the ground defeated the local indigenous army and forcibly occupied a port.

city.

In fact, the Portuguese came to this area decades ago and occupied a place to build a colonial stronghold. However, the Portuguese were not very strong and were quickly expelled by the local indigenous people.
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The Nanyang Trading Company had been very interested in this area before and wanted to take it from the natives and use it as a trading base. After all, this place is not only the central area of ​​the east coast of India, but also has a large river that goes deep into the hinterland of the Indian peninsula.
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Occupying this place would mean that the Chu Empire had already penetrated into the hinterland of central India.

It’s just that in the past, Nanyang Trading Company worked alone. Although the company was not weak, their business was also large and they could not mobilize many troops for a while. Moreover, although the local indigenous people did not seem to be very good, they were not

Just sending a few hundred people there will scare them to death.

So Nanyang Trading Company thought about it several times but took no concrete action.

This time, many trading companies in the country joined forces to take action. There were no worries. Many trading companies in the fleet joined forces and mobilized more than 2,000 people to land. They fought several battles with the natives and killed at least tens of thousands of people on the opposite side.

After the indigenous troops came, the indigenous people on the other side knelt down and begged for peace...

Now that the other side is suing for peace, these trading companies are not polite, demanding a large amount of compensation, requiring them to fully open the market and monopolize the market, etc., and incidentally also ask for a coastal colony for the imperial official.
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This newly occupied colony was named Union City!

The meaning is the union of multiple armed trading companies.

And this is also the first overseas territory with real sovereignty obtained by the Great Chu Empire in the Indian Peninsula. Well, even though it was taken down by those armed trading companies, it is still the territory of the Great Chu Empire. After all, the Great Chu Empire

These armed trading companies do not have the authority to manage colonies, which is different from the colonial companies in European countries.

These armed trading companies went to such great lengths to start a war, and the territory they conquered belonged to the imperial government, so what did they gain?

This... they are actually going for compensation and market monopoly.

According to the conditions previously negotiated between the officials and these trading companies, the empire subsequently united into some surrounding indigenous countries, to be precise, with the countries they forced to sign open market agreements, and their trade was jointly and exclusively monopolized by them for twenty years.

Other trading companies in the empire are not allowed to get involved!

Of course, you have to fight directly to gain access to the trade market, and you have to stop merchants from other countries yourself. The empire only guarantees that domestic merchants will not run over and compete with you.

Through a war, it is their interest to monopolize the trade of an indigenous kingdom for twenty years.

As for the United City itself, it is just a trade transit point for these trading companies. Besides, if it is not handed over to the authorities, they will have to spend money and effort to build fortresses and station troops...

Directly hand over United City to the authorities, let the authorities take responsibility for safety, and they will continue to do business...

The imperial officials are also very happy about this... After all, the officials did not pay a dime, and they got an overseas territory for free, and then they can collect taxes and other things here.

As a result, United City appeared. The Dachu Empire officially set up an administrative agency of United State temporarily here, and hurriedly transferred a mixed battalion of troops from Burma to station. Naturally, the navy was also dispatched.

The fleet came to garrison.

The emergence of the United City also allowed the overseas colonies of the Chu Empire to extend from Myanmar to the east coast of the central Indian Peninsula.

In the future, merchant ships from the Great Chu Empire will be able to depart from Malacca, pass through Dagon Port (Yangon) in Myanmar, Chittagong Port, and then go to United City. They will be able to obtain supply guarantees and trade transfer stations along the way.

There is no need to look for indigenous ports, or Portuguese or Dutch ports for supply and trade, as in the past.

It has greatly expanded the scope of activities of the Chu Empire's overseas trading merchants, which will definitely affect the competitiveness of the Chu Empire's products in the Indian region.

Just like the products of the Chu Empire were in Burma and Western Burma!

By the way, the Chu Empire’s previous colonization of the Indian peninsula was not actually the focus. The Chu Empire’s official expansion efforts were mainly concentrated in the Arakan Kingdom to the west of Myanmar.

The main reason is that Myanmar has become a vassal state of the Great Chu Empire, and it can move nearby at a low cost... Moreover, the Great Chu Empire covets Chittagong Port and wants to control this most important port in the area around the Bay of Bengal.

Beginning in the past few years, with the support of the Chu Empire, the puppet kingdom of Myanmar sent a large army to attack the Kingdom of Arakan in the west, and once approached Chittagong. Although it was eventually repelled, it also severely damaged the national strength of the Kingdom of Arakan.<

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Last year, the navy and army of the Dachu Empire organized a joint fleet to personally conduct an expedition and land in Chittagong.

This time, the Dachu Empire's navy used its absolute numerical superiority to defeat a fleet composed of Arakan sailors who were famous for their good navigation in a naval battle.

Through this victory in the naval battle, the army and navy of the Chu Empire officially landed in Chittagong and laid siege to Chittagong.

This time, it was the Da Chu Empire Army who took action personally, rather than the puppet state's Burmese Army. Its powerful combat effectiveness was simply not something that the Arakan indigenous army could resist.

After only half a month of siege, Chittagong declared its fall and eventually fell into the hands of the Chu Empire.

Subsequently, the two sides launched a series of wars. After a year of recovery, the Burmese Kingdom, the weakling of the Chu Empire, once again moved westward. Under attack from both sides, the Arakan Kingdom became increasingly difficult.

However, this war is not over yet. The two sides are still fighting. However, the main body of the war has become the Burmese Army and the Arakan Army. As for the Chu Army, they are basically stationed in Chittagong. Only a small number of Chu Army are in the name of advisors.

The Burmese Army directs the Burmese Army in combat.

After occupying Chittagong, the Chu Empire also gained the most important trading port in the Bay of Bengal region, and by the way extended its official power to the entire Bay of Bengal region.

In fact, it was precisely because of the previous occupation of Chittagong that the Nanyang Trading Company was able to successfully launch such a large-scale operation in the central region of the Indian Peninsula. Otherwise, they did not even have a starting base.

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