Seeing how happy he looked, Shashuja asked a little doubtfully: "What's there?"
After the words came out of his mouth, he remembered the content of the conversation just now, and thought about what this sentence meant. Immediately, he asked the Governor of Bengal in surprise: "You mean, there is a way to deal with the Ming army? Can it be defeated?"
Ming army?"
"Yes!" The Governor of Bengal was still excited and nodded vigorously in response, "Yes, we can definitely defeat the Ming army!"
When Shashuja heard this, he seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and quickly asked: "What method? How many people and horses are needed?"
"You don't need too many people!" the Governor of Bengal quickly explained, "We just need to wait. People from the Ming Dynasty came all the way, and they will definitely not adapt to the climate here in Dhaka. They will not adapt to the acclimatization. If many people die, they will leave on their own!"
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At this point, without waiting for Shashuja to express his position, he immediately clapped his fingers and continued: "You see, there will be rainy season, heavy rain, gloomy rain, and even hurricanes, etc. This is not easy to deal with.
When we first came here, a lot of people died! In addition, there are also cold and fever diseases. If you die once, a large number of people will die!"
After hearing his words, Shashuja couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
Cold and fever disease has always been a very troublesome thing, especially in the rainy season every year, the cold and fever disease will become popular, killing a large area, which is better in the rich areas of the city.
The people of the Ming Dynasty have just arrived, and the rainy season is about to come. Whether the people of the Ming Dynasty can adapt to the extremely hot and humid weather here, the cold-heat disease will inevitably break out. Maybe the more people they come, the more people will die!
This does not require a large-scale attack. A large number of people in the Ming Dynasty will die. The remaining people cannot hold on and may run back without fighting!
Wonderful, wonderful!
Shashujia was overjoyed when he thought about this and quickly stated that he would try his best to cover up the news of the defeat in the east and wait until the Ming army suffered heavy casualties before sending troops to recapture it.
After discussing with the Governor of Bengal, he adopted this strategy and waited for the Ming army to collapse.
In this way, the Ming army was less threatened by the Mughal Empire's counterattack, and the infrastructure construction in the large areas of Dhaka and Chittagong went smoothly.
There are busy construction sites everywhere, and the construction materials such as cement are consumed so much that cement factories have been built one after another. There are three cement factories in Dhaka and one cement factory in Chittagong.
The official roads outside the city have all been widened and cement roads have been built; the port has been expanded so that more ships can have shelter when a typhoon comes. On the shore, warehouses have also appeared in clusters to store the area for transportation.
specialties, or supplies shipped from other places.
These are given priority for construction and require the most manpower investment.
Secondly, Dhaka and Chittagong were rebuilt. According to the Ming Dynasty's custom, the government offices were used as the central axis to plan various areas in the city, including barracks, residential buildings, etc.
Originally, many of the aboriginal houses here had thatched houses, stilt houses, etc., but they were all demolished and all were built with cement sand and gravel as flat-story cement houses.
The original slums in the city were filled with sewage and feces and urine. However, under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, all of these were completely cleaned up. Anyone who dared to defecate in the open would be beheaded at worst, and would be made a prisoner at light punishment.
The team does unpaid hard work.
Paying attention to hygiene has been the inheritance of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Even one of the duties of the Jinyiwei is to inspect the hygiene of the capital. This shows that the Chinese nation pays great attention to hygiene.
Not to mention, Liu Weichao's staff had already made detailed plans for occupying Nanyang.
People of this era could not tell the difference between dengue fever and cold-fever diseases, but Liu Weichao knew that most of them were transmitted by mosquitoes. Therefore, in the epidemic prevention manual of the expeditionary force, killing mosquitoes, killing flies, and killing rats were all
The most important thing.
Look down on the original dilapidated towns of the indigenous people here. They were all rebuilt according to the layout of the Ming Dynasty with free labor, and they included measures to prevent the plague.
Under the supervision of the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force and with all-out construction, the port, the town, and the official roads of the port and town, the most important places, were completely new in just one month.
Originally, the indigenous people here were very lazy because they could feed themselves with just a little work. However, under the swords and guns of the Ming Dynasty, they were more diligent than ever before. The same was true, in just one month, so
They were even a little shocked by the results they obtained!
Because of their good performance, the indigenous people who were able to move into the city lived in cement houses, and they all felt like they were in a dream. The only thing that bothered them a little was that they had to learn to eat with tachyons instead of grabbing food with their hands.
When eating, I feel a little clumsy.
However, if you want to become a noble Ming Dynasty and be the envy of other indigenous people, being able to eat with tachyons is a status symbol! No matter how difficult it is to learn, you still have to learn it.
When the rainy season comes, even if it rains, most people still have to work. In the cement factory, cement boards are prefabricated, and public facilities are built while the rain is not heavy or does not rain.
For example, take the school, which is a place where children of common people in the Ming Dynasty can go to school for free. No one complains about such a place being built in the rain.
After the rainy season comes, some diseases do occur, namely the cold and heat diseases that local people fear.
Either you don't get sick, or once you get sick, you will definitely be sick.
This disease was first discovered in prisoner camps and immediately caused panic among the indigenous people.
However, the Ming army's reaction was very calm.
Prisoners were managed in teams. If a sick prisoner was found, the whole team would be immediately isolated, and then the root cause of the disease would be found to exterminate snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
In the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Army, military doctors all carried cinchona. This was brought back from South America by Zheng Zhibao and rubber trees, and many of them were planted in Qiongzhou. Not only when attacking South Asia, but also when attacking Southeast Asian countries.
, the military has special medicines for this kind of cold and fever disease.
The cold and heat diseases that everyone feared among the indigenous people in Dhaka and Chittagong were almost cured by Ming Dynasty military doctors, which shocked the local indigenous people!
Later, they discovered that since the arrival of the Ming army, the incidence of cold and fever seemed to have decreased a lot. It was as if the god of plague in charge of cold and fever was afraid of the Ming army and did not dare to come here.
This understanding immediately spread among the local indigenous people.
"The Great Tomorrow Soldiers are the Great Tomorrow Soldiers. Not only did they make the Mughal Empire's armies flee in confusion, but even the God of Plague did not dare to come!"
"No, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is truly the son of Heaven. He is protected by gods and Buddhas. Wherever the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty arrive, the God of Plague will certainly not dare to come. Otherwise, maybe the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will be able to kill the God of Plague!"
"That's right. Look at those who suffered from cold and fever. As soon as the doctors in the Ming army took action, they were cured immediately. Even the witches and gods are not that powerful!"
"So, the Heavenly Soldiers are the most powerful!"
"..."
After realizing the power of the Ming army, the indigenous people here naturally quickly realized the benefits that the arrival of the Ming army would bring to them.
"Look, after the Ming Dynasty's army arrived, Dhaka City was almost unrecognizable. Is this still the Dhaka City we have lived in all our lives?"
"That's right, the house I live in now is not as good as the house I lived in before. The Ming Dynasty's army is simply a living Bodhisattva!"
"No, where have you seen this good thing called cement before? I heard it was a good thing brought by the Ming Emperor from the sky. Even we can enjoy it. It's like we're in a dream!"
"Who says it's not? My child has received a notice that he will be able to study for free in a school in one month. This is like a dream. God, if this is a dream, don't wake up!"
"Yes, yes, if this is a dream, don't wake up!"
"..."
Under the guarantee of powerful force, they showed their kindness again, especially the Ming army's method of dealing with the plague, which was considered by them to be the supernatural power of gods. The indigenous people in Dhaka and Chittagong immediately returned to the Ming Dynasty. Even
Even the captives worked hard, hoping to perform better and become citizens of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible.
This scene was definitely not what Shashuja and the Governor of Bengal could have imagined. They had been dreaming, thinking that the Ming army would be defeated by the climate and the plague here, and then they would withdraw.
They didn't know that after the Ming army arrived here, they planned to build this place as an important port and supply point for the Ming navy to continue its westward march, as well as a base for attacking the interior of the Mughal Empire along the Ganges River.
It was also because of the concealment of Shah Shuja and the Governor of Bengal that the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who was far away in the capital, received no news from the east after receiving the first successful report of the invasion of Dongwu. So that Shah Jahan never received any news from the east.
Jiahan thought that everything in the war in the east was under control.
On the Goa side, with the full cooperation of the Dutch and the attack of the Central Plains Army led by the third prince Aurangzeb, who was famous for his military knowledge, the Portuguese in Goa were unlucky.
There were only more than 2,000 of them in total, and together with the indigenous and mixed-race people, the number was about 5,000. But on the land, there was an army led by Aurangzeb, and on the sea, there was the Dutch fleet, Portugal's mortal enemy.
The Portuguese only persisted for half a month before they could no longer stand it any longer. After offering conditional surrender, which meant abandoning Goa and ensuring their personal safety, the war in Goa ended.
The Portuguese didn't even take their half-breeds with them. They sailed westward from the sea that the Dutch had given way to and disappeared into the horizon.
Aurangzeb captured Goa and, in accordance with the agreement between Shah Jahan and the Dutch, leased Goa to the Dutch, and then purchased a large number of new firearms, namely flintlock muskets, from the Dutch.