On the east coast of the Indian Peninsula, a small team was marching upstream along the Guwom River.

This team included blonde Britons, black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese, and local guides with dark skin. The most peculiar thing was that the team also hired an elephant to carry their luggage.

The captain Chen Bangyan, who belongs to the Nanyang Fleet, fanned with a straw hat. The hot weather in the South Asian subcontinent made him feel uncomfortable. Even if it is not far from the sea, it is still hot, as if the gravel ground is burning. Even if you wear leather boots, you can feel the hotness of the ground.

"Have we not arrived at the reservation yet?" asked a soldier with a musket in the team.

"The land of the South Asian subcontinent is extremely vast. Almost all of them have fallen under the offensive of the Mughal Empire. There are many independent small kingdoms and feudal lords in the Deccan Plateau and coastal areas in the south. If we want to legally establish cargo warehouses and build castles on the east coast of the Indian Peninsula, we need to be reasonable and legal, and not anger the feudal lords here. This is our trip to visit the owners of this coast." said a British man from the East India Company.

After the Kyushu Army took over the East India Company, Francis Ri proposed to the Kyushu Army the strategy of maritime blockade of the Mughal Empire, that is, to establish fortresses in three areas of the West Coast, the East Coast, and Bangladesh, and infiltrate from three directions of the coastline.

Currently, the East India Company has a factory in the Surat port of the Mughal Empire on the west coast. Francis Day took the new major shareholders to the East Coast to purchase land.

Yes, by purchasing land from feudal lords, they would be able to freely build castles and warehouses on the coast—a common method used by East India Company.

Their vision is extremely vicious and they can often find potential areas, such as São Paulo, Hong Kong Island, Macau, Shanghai, Kolkata, Mumbai and other places that are often unknown before Western colonists entered.

This time, Francis Day took a fancy to a small seaside village called Madras Patam on the southeast coast of the Indian Peninsula, and encouraged the new major shareholder to come specifically to buy land from the feudal masters here.

The feudal lords here say it is big or small. After the two gunships of the Nanyang Fleet docked, they would hire local indigenous people as guides to visit the indigenous feudal lords who owned this place.

"The Mughal Empire is an outsider to the Indian Peninsula, and their beliefs are different from those of the local natives. The feudal lords of the Indian Peninsula divided the people into four levels: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. People of different levels are strictly prohibited from intermarriage, so as to ensure that the two highest levels can permanently exploit people of the two levels below." Francis Ri said while wiping the musket.

He came to the Indian Peninsula to work for the East India Company for many years and was quite familiar with the customs and customs here.

"It's like the Mongol Yuan who entered the Central Plains before?"

Chen Bangyan compared the situation on both sides and found that Genghis Khan really changed the process of the world. Although the Mongol Empire disintegrated quickly, his descendants invaded many civilizations.

The Indian Peninsula also has local people, while the Turkic, Turkic, and Persians account for a minority, but they hold the regime.

"But no matter what, no one will be unable to get over money. We can definitely buy a fishing village called Madras and control foreign trade on the East Coast. When we recruit people from the lower castes on the Indian Peninsula to train them into mercenaries and drive the Netherlands away from the East Coast, we can completely monopolize all trade on the East Coast!"

"Then we drive the Portuguese away from the west coast and monopolize overseas trade on the west coast. At that time, the east coast and the west coast all fall into our hands, and we can make unimaginable huge profits from here every year!" Francis introduced his plan to everyone in a daze-like manner - driving away the Portuguese and the Netherlands, completely monopolizing the east and west coasts, and turning the Mughals into a raw material production and market.

"I hope the feudal lords here will not make excessively demanding. Our East India Company has not made any profit yet. If it costs too much, the people above may be dissatisfied." said the Chinese director who sent the East India Company to the government.

Their team was moving in relatively backward places, and the weather was hot and they were sweating profusely, so they didn't feel much excited.

"Leave the negotiations to me, and I will try my best to keep the price down and buy enough for our garrison to build the fortresses," Francis Rie said.

Their team followed the river for more than 60 miles, crossed a forest on the way, and came to the feudal lord who ruled the nearby areas.

They entered an ancient city, almost all thatched huts and earthen huts.

The residents here have dark skin, deep eye sockets, low cheekbones, simple clothes, and many people are still naked. The roads in the city are muddy dirt roads, with street stalls with fruits, cotton, firewood and other commodities. There are cows, which they regard as sacred animals, wandering leisurely on the dirt roads.

Chen Bangyan and Francis Ri entered this ancient city. Their strange outfits in the eyes of the local natives quickly attracted the people on both sides of the dirt road to watch.

"They are watching us!" An employee from China was stared at by these people and shouted.

"We are here to buy land if the movement is smaller." Chen Bangyan was afraid that the team members would cause trouble in this way and cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

The East India Company has only more than 30 teams. If they have conflicts with the residents of the ancient city, even if they have muskets, it is hard to say whether they can escape unscathed.

The hired local guide soon chatted with the people of the city.

After the residents of this city knew their purpose, they reached out to a group of palaces that looked like temples, which seemed to be the seat of the native feudal lords.

After the East India Company team learned the news, they marched towards the palace in a mighty manner. The elephant shook its tail and stepped out elephant hoof prints on the dirt road.

"If the negotiations collapse later, don't shoot and use force, otherwise we will not be able to legally occupy the coast after a conflict, but also make the people here hate us. Even if we occupy the land, we will have difficulty in this area." Chen Bangyan, who led the team, reminded everyone holding the musket.
Chapter completed!