For Sun Kewang and Sun Zhengqi, the biggest problem in ruling tens of millions of Hindu and Hui subjects is undoubtedly the small number of Chinese as the main body of the ruling class.
Although after many years of operations in Lower Burma and later land reclamation in Bengal, the Shima tribe of Xiying brought into India by Sun Kewang has about 100,000 soldiers and more than 300,000 women, children, old and weak family members.
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However, after entering India, the Chinese, whose population is less than half a million, will be instantly overwhelmed by Hindu subjects a hundred times their number.
Such a dense population ocean may cause Sun Kewang's small boat to be completely destroyed in the stormy waves at any time.
Even though Sun Kewang relied on his broad policy of religious tolerance to win the loyalty of his Hindu subjects, this was only a short-lived situation after all.
Compared with the Central Asian Hui princes who ruled the South Asian subcontinent for a long time in the past, the Xiying tribe also had the identity of both pagans and foreigners.
The combined identities of Chinese and Christians made the Later Western Ming Dynasty one of the most unusual in the world.
In order to consolidate the ruling order of the Demier Empire and expand the ruling base of the Demier Empire, Sun Kewang and Sun Zhengqi both introduced many policies to win over the Hindu people.
Most of the administrative bureaucracy of the Demier Empire was held by local Hindu people in India. In this regard, Sun Kewang's performance was even better than that of the past monarchs of the Delhi Sultanate and the emperors of the Mughal Empire.
tolerant.
His focus was on the forces of Hui princes who lived in the Punjab and Delhi areas. Most of these Hui princes cherished their former dynasty and had close relations with the Afghans and Persians in the north of the mountain. Their business network even reached as far as Samarkand and Istanbul.
The threat from the Demier Empire is extremely great.
In the system of the Demi Empire, the Chinese were undoubtedly the first-class ruling group. As a supplement to the Christian population, the Portuguese, Dutch, British, Spanish and French missionaries, explorers and colonists, and even their pirates
, you can also regularly obtain high-ranking officials from the Daimier Empire.
White Christians, as well as the yellow indigenous people living in the Shannan area - that is, Bengal, Assam and Lower Burma - are all one of the "old roots" of the Daimier Empire and can be regarded as second-class.
ruling group.
Secondly, as the third-level ruling group of the Demier Empire, the Sikh cavalry gradually replaced the Afghan tribal cavalry.
The Sikhs are different from Hui and Hindu believers. They are more similar to the Chinese in terms of living habits and cultural customs. Moreover, their bravery and fighting characteristics, as well as the situation of being oppressed by Hui and Hindus at the same time, are also conducive to making them attached to the Sikhs.
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The overall status of Hindu believers is relatively close to that of Sikh believers, and they can both be regarded as the third-class ruling group of the empire.
However, because the population of Hindu believers is extremely large and the nationalities are diverse, the status of Hindu believers in different regions is often different.
For example, in the Ganges River Basin, the majority of Hindu believers can only serve as middle- and lower-level administrative officials, and their status is not as high as that of Sikhs and Afghans who can serve as senior military generals.
But in the Rajput (Monan) and Deccan Plateau (Southern Plains) areas in the south, in order to control the place, the status of Hindu believers is much higher than that in the north. Not only can they be crowned kings and serve as naval commanders like Shivaji,
Governors, and many of them can also serve as the highest-level governors, governors and other feudal official positions.
The Hui feudal main forces, led by the Delhi Sultanate and the old princes of the Mughal Empire, have been attacked and excluded by Sun Kewang and his son. Some ordinary Hui people have also been implicated as a result, and are often treated unreasonably in the Daimeer Empire.
persecution and unfair treatment.
In the Ganges River Basin in the north, princes and princes started to rebel from time to time, and some even tried to unite the Afghan tribes in the north of the mountain with the Safavid dynasty of Persia to realize the restoration of the Mughal Empire.
However, after the death of Emperor Abbas the Great in the late Ming Dynasty, the Safi Dynasty fell into a long-term decline.
Safi, the successor of Abbas the Great, was cruel and restrained. He ruthlessly eliminated anyone who could threaten his power and executed almost all the Safavid princes, as well as outstanding courtiers and generals. He paid little attention to political affairs.
They also have no cultural or academic interests, and may even have difficulty reading and writing.
During his reign, the Safavid dynasty began to decline. The Russian Empire in the north gradually extended its influence to the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia; the emerging Demer Empire in the east also competed with the Safavid dynasty for trade on the Afghan trade route and the Persian Gulf trade route.
dividend.
Suleiman I, who reigned around the same time as Sun Kewang and his son, ascended the throne under the name of Safi II. Because he was young at the time and grew up in the harem, he did not know the outside world. He was also prone to drinking and was in poor health.
Not good. In the first year of his reign, not only did there occur earthquakes, but the Cossacks also invaded the Caspian Sea coast.
Suleiman I had no interest in political affairs and preferred to stay in the harem. Government affairs fell into the hands of the prime minister and a council composed of eunuchs in the harem. During the reign of Suleiman I, the power of the eunuchs increased day by day, corruption became common, and armaments were relaxed.
Defeated by the Demier Empire and the Uzbeks one after another, the country's power declined day by day and it was unable to send troops to India.
In order to replenish the Chinese population, during the reign of King Shah Sun Zhengqi of the East, the Demier Empire not only began to select elites from the indigenous people in Assam and Lower Burma and promoted them into the Chinese class, but also repeatedly sent troops to attack Siam and intervened in the Annan Civil War.
, and competed with the Yanping Company for hegemony in Nanyang to obtain supplementary Chinese immigrants.
As early as when Sun Kewang first established the Daimier Empire, Sun Kewang, who had experienced successive wars in the late Ming Dynasty, imitated the Manchurian Eight Banners system and established a similar Five Elements Flags system in India.
The Five Elements Flag is divided into Chinese Five Elements, Shannan Five Elements (i.e. indigenous people in Assam and Burma), Shanbei Five Elements (i.e. tribal cavalry from Central Asia), Overseas Five Elements (i.e. colonists from Western areas), and Indian Five Elements (i.e. India
Native Hinduism, return to the elite).
Each of the five elements is divided into five flags according to the elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth. The cronies around Sun Kewang and his son, as well as the local nobles who had earlier surrendered to the Daimier Empire, serve as the leaders of each flag.
The Five Elements Flag system expanded the ruling basis of the Daimier Empire, allowing the imperial ruling order that originally relied on only 500,000 Chinese to rule 100 million Indians to expand to a system that relied on 2 million bannermen to rule 100 million Indians.
But even so, the insufficient Chinese population has always been a major weakness of the Daimeier Empire.
At the end of the 18th century, the sixth generation Dong Wangsha officially abolished the Five Elements Flag system, implemented a universal imperial citizenship reform, and granted full citizenship rights to all citizens. This greatly deepened the Indian color of the empire and gradually weakened the Chinese elements.