The trade privileges of the Indian Ocean were in the hands of colonial powers such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. For Sun Kewang's hegemony and religious beliefs, the Portuguese paid a high price and supported the Ming army in defeating the Mughal Empire.
However, after Sun Kewang established a foothold in India, he immediately turned his back and disowned his people. His son Sun Zhengqi also inherited his father's policy and united with the British and the Dutch to abolish all Portuguese trade privileges in India.
But the Portuguese failed, and the British and Dutch took their place. They established a series of trading posts in various river mouths in southern India and the Bengal Delta, monopolizing the trade in the Indian Ocean.
Initially, due to sending troops to intervene in Annan's civil war, the Demier Empire also needed help from these naval and colonial powers. Therefore, it basically turned a blind eye to the British invasion step by step.
But soon, as the Demier Empire gradually realized how huge the revenue from the Indian Ocean trade was, the Eastern King began to build the Demier Empire's own naval fleet.
Cotton cloth from India became a sought-after commodity for European trade. Thousands of tons of silver flowed into Ximing every year, which contributed to the great industrial and commercial prosperity of the Demier Empire. The navy also had the financial resources to introduce Western technology and recruit people from the Indian Ocean.
Christian pirates gradually established themselves.
The scope of rule of the Demier Empire has been expanding. When the Eastern King Sun Zhengqi sent troops for the first time to reoccupy the Lower Myanmar region, a series of border conflicts broke out with the Tongshun Army in northern Myanmar, and with the assistance of the Dutch, they sent troops to intervene on an expedition.
During the Annan Civil War, the number of people under the rule of the Daimeer Empire had reached tens of millions, and its national power was almost as much as that of Dashun.
The conquest of India by Sun Kewang and his son was undoubtedly the most amazing and grand revolution in the global geographical pattern in the seventeenth century.
Under the rule of the Western Ming Dynasty, both the northern and southern capitals had a population of more than 500,000, and their scale was no less than that of the metropolises in the Central Plains.
The commercial centers followed closely behind the administrative centers of the empire and prospered. Riches flowed from the local provincial capitals into the treasury of Agra or Delhi. With them came various craftsmen and artists.
Although merchants have a low status and extremely heavy taxes, industry and commerce are still prosperous. The reason is that the luxurious palace life not only requires a large number of luxury goods, but also sets an "example" for nobles everywhere, and because the long-distance luxury goods trade is inherently
It is an industry with higher risks but extremely high profits.
From the national interest point of view, the prosperity of agriculture and industry and commerce can bring more tax revenue, so protective policies should be adopted for farmers and businessmen.
As individual aristocrats, they always try to obtain the most wealth in the shortest time, often killing agriculture, industry and commerce by killing the goose that lays eggs.
Some high-level nobles, such as Xiying Yuancong, as members of the ruler, are inseparable from the state power. Businessmen are different from farmers. They have cash in their hands, which the luxurious nobles want to take advantage of. Businessmen can ask nobles for help
Provide loans and bribes to obtain some contracts. The loans are not free and must be mortgaged with land taxes or other properties. Therefore, every big businessman has the support of the nobles. There are several businessmen under the protection of each nobleman. These
Merchants could evade tariffs and ship goods to all parts of the country, which actually meant that national taxes went into the private pockets of the nobles.
Dongwangsha made some reforms in this regard, but he was not as vigorous and resolute as his father who hated evil. Generally speaking, the Daimeier Empire during Dongwangsha's period was more like an Indian country than that during Sun Kewang's period.
In Hui, Han Chinese and Christian merchants controlled the commercial sovereignty of the empire, Han Chinese, Christians and Hindus shared political power, Sikhs and Han Chinese controlled the army, and Christians controlled the navy of the Demer Empire.
By the time of Dongwangsha, the army of the Daimeer Empire had expanded to 200,000 people, mainly infantry, with some tribal cavalry recruited from Afghanistan.
Learning from the experience of being expelled from China by the Dashun Army, the Ming army attached great importance to artillery, and their artillery technology was not much worse than that of the Westerners or the Dashun Army.
Horses, equipment, guns, and ammunition all needed to be imported in the early days. However, in the late period of Sun Zhengqi's reign, domestic production had basically been achieved. The Ming army restored its ability to be self-sufficient. Only the navy still needed to import ordnance from Western countries.
Due to the religious tolerance policy adopted by the Demi Empire, the resistance they encountered from the indigenous princes in central and southern India was far less intense than during the Mughal Empire.
Although the Rajputs once killed Sun Kewang, the first generation of Dongwang, they were later pacified by Dongwangsha. After the Monan Xuanwei Division was established, many Rajput princes also participated in the Ming army's pacification of the Deccan Plateau.
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Dongwangsha established the Deccan (Southern Plains) Xuanwei Division and gradually sent troops to destroy the Bijapur Sultanate in the Deccan region of India.
In this war, the Demier Empire not only received strong support from the Rajputs, but even the Marathas, who had always been brave and good at fighting, also sided with the Ming army.
Shivaji, a talented and famous Maratha general, also joined the Ming army. Due to his outstanding military exploits, he was crowned King of England by the Eastern King Sha.
King Shivaji of England, or Lord Shivaji, was the first Indian-born naval commander of the Demer Empire. He drew on the experience of the British and the Dutch to reform the naval fleet organization of the Demer Empire.
Introduced a large number of new technologies, and organized a naval offensive against Siam, crushing the port and forcing Siam to pay tribute to the Demire Empire.
Then the British King Shivaji led the navy through the Strait of Malacca and landed in southern Annam, bringing a large number of Ming army soldiers who were good at conquering and fighting, as well as a huge amount of military supplies and supplies to the Nguyen regime.
The prelude to a large-scale battle for hegemony between the Er Empire and the Shun Dynasty.
Both the Ming and Shun countries successively invested huge sums of money in Annan and engaged in confrontation at all costs.
It was just that at that time, the Shun Dynasty had to deal with the Junggar Khanate in the north and pursue the remaining Manchus in the east, so it could not concentrate its efforts on dealing with the Ming army.
After the Junggar tribe was completely wiped out, Li Laiheng, who was freed up, quickly took advantage of the geographical advantage of the Dashun army being closer to Annan and more efficient intervention. He sent Gao Yigong to sit in Lang Son and command full authority to attack the Ruan regime and Daimi.
The important task of the Allied Forces.
The Dashun Army's garrison in northern Annan gradually increased to more than 50,000 navy and army troops, while the Ming army led by King Shivaji only had 18,000 troops.
The balance of forces between the two sides gradually changed significantly. In the 31st year of Tianfa, the Shun-Zheng coalition forces won a major victory in the Battle of Chang Duc, defeating the main force of the Ming-Nguyen coalition forces and advancing to Hue.
In desperation, King Shivaji had to use the naval fleet to transport a large number of remnants of the Nguyen ruler's regime to flee overseas.
Due to King Shivaji's superb fleet command skills, the Shunjun navy commanded by Guo Xingye failed to intercept the main force of the Ming fleet, causing it to retreat unscathed.
However, there are also theories that this is because Guo Xingye had the Ming Dynasty in mind, so he opened the door and allowed the Ming army to retreat.