“The East India Company people have been waiting for you for a while.”

Chu Yun had not had time to rest after announcing his military plans for the next ten years to many senior military officials, so he was going to meet the directors sent by the East India Company.

The East India Company is already an official industry and is planning to be in the South Asian subcontinent according to the government's expectations.

This time, the East India Company specially sent someone to follow the instructions from the superiors.

"Our East India Company and the East India Expeditionary Force have successively established two fortresses in Madras and Kolkata. The East India Expeditionary Force has 300 people, and 500 people were recruited from the local low-level castes for training. In order to prevent the local mercenaries from rebellion, the mercenaries were given the old-style front-loaded smoothbore guns. Such firepower is enough to deal with the local indigenous princes and princes." The director of the East India Company reported the local situation to Chu Yun.

"Can the East India Company's factory keep up?" Chu Yun asked.

The reason for deploying troops and naval bases in the South Asian subcontinent is of course not to satisfy the desire for conquest, but to make money. Sending former troops to East India and hiring locals as mercenaries requires money, and the money is compensated by the East India Company's business.

If Chu Yun hadn't known that the East India Company of his former world had gained huge benefits from the South Asian subcontinent, he would have been hesitant to deploy dispatched troops and naval bases in South Asia.

"We have set up shops and workshops in Madras and Kolkata, to buy raw materials from the local area and import goods... However, if we want to make a huge profit, we still need to complete two things. This is the report of the former East India Company's manager in Surat Port Francis Day Care to the military master for your conquest of the South Asian subcontinent." The director of East India Company handed a report of the British to Chu Yun.

Chu Yun had a little impression of this person, which was that after this guy acquired the East India Company in China, he had been instigating the East India Company to conquer the South Asian subcontinent.

Chu Yun took the report and read it carefully.

Francis Day divided the conquest of the South Asian subcontinent into three steps in the report.

The first step is to establish a main stronghold in each of the three regions of the West Coast, East Coast and Bangladesh, namely Surat, Madras, and Kolkata, and start training mercenaries. This has been achieved.

The second step is to siege the Portuguese, Netherlands, Arabs, and Persian strongholds in the South Asian subcontinent. All merchants who trade from sea to the South Asian subcontinent must pay tariffs to the East India Company. If this step can be achieved, the East India Company will be able to set up customs and adjust tariffs to play with the overseas trade of the Mughal Empire in its control.

The third step is to start inland using the port commercial station as a base, and use the conflicts between the local princes and princes to defeat them one by one, obtain trade privileges in the inland South Asia, completely squeeze and crack down on local handicrafts, and turn the South Asian subcontinent into a market for raw material production and dumping products.

Chu Yun knew that if he dealt with the Mughal Empire according to this report, then in decades, hundreds of millions of people in the South Asian subcontinent will work for the East India Company, and the Mughal Empire's own industry will be monopolized by the East India Company.

"Francis Day is a talent. The South China Fleet has gathered in Malacca and will soon follow the second plan he envisions. Our fleet will remove the strongholds of the Portuguese, the Netherlands, the Arabs, and the Persians, and will dominate the whole family." Chu Yun said.

During the full-scale war in the South Asian Ocean, the South Asian fleet of the Spice Islands also did the same, driving the Spaniards out of Manila, driving the Grapes out of Malacca, and driving the Netherlands out of Batavia. Now Chu Yun also wants to drive away the fat meat in front of the South Asian subcontinent and enjoy it himself.

“Our East India Company will be ready to take over their factories and employees,” said the director of East India Company.

"Let them hand over important strongholds such as Mumbai and Goa. If they obey our orders in the future, they don't have to move from the local area. After all, our businessmen still have to move in the West. They usually bow their heads and look up. Don't have to be too stiff." Chu Yun said.

“We will handle the matter of incorporating their employees and residents.”

"By the way, according to the plan, your East India Company will need to assist the East India Expedition Army in the next year to expand the number of local mercenaries from 500 to 2,500. The next sweeping operation of our Nanyang Fleet may alarm the Mughal Empire... In order to prevent the Mughal Empire and other local kingdoms from attacking our strongholds, we must have enough troops to defend the area." Chu Yun said.

"That is, we need to recruit another 2,000 East Indian soldiers."

"If competitors are expelled and trade in the Indian Ocean is included in our management, the second step will be completed. At that time, it is necessary to infiltrate inland. Have you thought about the direction to take the lead in infiltration?" Chu Yun asked again.

"We believe that Bangladesh, Gujarat, Mumbai, and the Coromandel coast have value worth penetration. For example, Gujarat has always been a place where Arabs and Persians come to trade, and Mumbai has a large number of cotton production places. But we think Bangladesh is more suitable as the headquarters of our East India Company there. The rivers of Bangladesh are crisscrossed, the plains are boundless, and the surroundings are rich in rice and jute, which can provide us with food, raw materials and labor." said the director of the East India Company.

Bangladesh...

"Just do what you want, and there will be a guarantee for the Nanyang army when something happens. Bangladesh is a good place, jute, coal mine, rice, and all valuable things we need." Chu Yun saw that the East India Company had made detailed plans, what else could he say? Just provide them with support, the East India Company will be like a shark that smelled blood, spontaneously preyed on prey without driving it away.

Conquering the South Asian subcontinent is the most important plan for overseas expansion, and its importance may be above the West. After all, sending troops to the Indian Peninsula is much easier than going to Europe thousands of miles away.

The South Asian subcontinent has been regarded by Chu Yun as the granary of the empire and provides land with cheap labor.

"Next, we have to go to inspect the bicycle shop, Daimler's car factory." Chu Yun's assistant official said to him after he met the officials of the East India Company.

This winter is really a matter of people not relaxing. When Chu Yun heard his full schedule, he could only say that he had too many things to worry about.
Chapter completed!