Bombay in Tianzhu was the largest city in Tianzhu that was closest to the battlefield among the British-controlled cities in Tianzhu.

Therefore, Bombay became the British forward combat command center in the Tianzhu battlefield.

After the Anti-Ming Alliance officially ceased operations with the Ming Dynasty, a large number of soldiers who had retreated from the front line began to swarm around the city of Bombay in a chaotic manner.

This city, which was already a bit chaotic, was about to fall into complete chaos.

The British Governor-General of Tianzhu was so annoyed that he had to dispatch a large number of Tianzhu gendarmes and police to manage and control their compatriots.

These soldiers are basically from Tianzhu.

The soldiers on the Tianzhu battlefield are all Tianzhu people. This sentence seems to have no problem at all.

However, among the participating parties in the war, the country Tianzhu was not included.

In fact, there is no country called Tianzhu in the world now.

In the north, there were only a few vassal states and imperial villas of the Ming Dynasty, as well as a group of independent Tianzhu kings who were subordinate to the vassal kings and imperial villas.

In the south is the British colonial governor's palace of India, together with the British East India Company, which has become ineffective, and a large group of princes of India.

Most of the people from Tianzhu were servants of the Ming Dynasty and the British, and were sent to the battlefield for hegemony between the Ming and British countries in the Tianzhu area.

More than sixty years ago, not long after the Ming Dynasty and Britain formed an alliance, they had just driven Spain out of the Ming Dynasty and the Little Western Ocean.

At this time, the Mughal Empire in Tianzhu fell into civil strife, so the Ming and British forces once again joined forces to carve up Tianzhu from the north and south.

During this period, the Ming Dynasty mediated the conflict between Britain and France. France gave up several colonial points in Tianzhu, but received certain compensation in Yinzhou.

The French Yinzhou colony did not gain and lose as many times as it did in history. They always occupied the entire Great Lakes region and both sides of the St. Lawrence River.

New France has developed much more prosperously than in history, and the number of white French-speaking people now exceeds 20 million.

The two great powers of Ming and Britain attacked the Tianzhu region at the same time, and there was still an obvious competitive relationship between the two countries.

Coupled with the powerful assistance of steamships, enough soldiers and weapons can be transported to directly engage local armed forces.

These factors have greatly accelerated the colonization process in the Tianzhu area.

It took a total of more than thirty years, almost one-third of the time it took the British in history, to divide this precious land between the Ming and the British.

The areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty were concentrated in the north, including the northern part of the modern Indian peninsula, northeastern India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other places.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty could have occupied more land in Tianzhu.

But while the Ming and Britain were carving up Tianzhu, the two countries also joined forces in the South Mexico region to seize the land of the Boers of Dutch descent.

Earlier, in the era of the alliance between the Ming Dynasty and Spain, when the Ming Dynasty and Spain jointly attacked the Dutch, the Ming Dynasty was still unable to conquer the South Mozhou region.

After all, the Boers there are descendants of the West, and the place where they have fully multiplied cannot be conquered by sailing ships sending thousands of soldiers.

Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish considered it, they allowed these Boers to establish an independent country from the Dutch.

By the time of the Ming-British Alliance, steam sailing ships had become popular, and both the Ming and the British were capable of conquering these places, so it was natural for them to do so.

Maybe it was because the Ming Emperor knew that the Nanmozhou area was rich in minerals, or maybe because it was a route node to the Atlantic Ocean and Nanyinzhou.

It is also possible that they were preparing to monopolize Xiaoxiyang, and after completely occupying it, they could cut off the British's retreat to Tianzhu at the right time.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty put more power into Nanmozhou, and finally captured the best-located Cape of Good Hope area, as well as most of the Nanmozhou area east of the Cape of Good Hope.

In the end, the British only obtained a few pieces of land west and north of the Cape of Good Hope, and between Southwestern Mexico (Namibia).

At that time, the British proposed to use part of the land in southern Tianzhu to exchange the land in the southeastern part of South Mexico or Madagascar to facilitate Britain's access to the Little Western Sea and Tianzhu.

But Daming refused after considering it. This may be the starting point of the rift in the relationship between Ming and Ying.

In order to appease the British, who were still allies at the time, the Ming Dynasty allowed the British fleet to dock in South Mexico for supplies, and gave Mauritius and the Maldives to the British.

At the same time, Britain itself also occupies several pieces of land northwest of the Cape of Good Hope, as well as the Namibia region further northwest, where it can build large-scale supply stations.

The British were barely able to maintain the Little Western route and control the Indian colonies they had carved up, so the British reluctantly accepted the Ming Dynasty's suggestions.

Over the next twenty years or so, conflicts between the Ming Dynasty and Britain continued to accumulate until the Anti-Ming War broke out.

Before the war officially began, the total population of the Tianzhu region ruled by the Ming Dynasty had grown to 105 million.

Among them, there are about 15 million Ming immigrants and pure-blood descendants, about 30 million mixed-race descendants, and the remaining 60 million pure-blood Tianzhu people.

Due to the very strict civil rights hierarchy established by Emperor Shizu and the increasing common ethnic consciousness of the "Ming people" during the process of external colonization.

When Ming immigrants were asked to marry overseas, they would find the daughters of other immigrants as long as there was even the slightest condition.

Children born in this way can successfully obtain the citizenship of the feudal state when they reach adulthood.

The first-generation immigrants themselves also had imperial citizenship rights, so immigrants who had the conditions would return to the Ming Dynasty to have children, so that their children would also have imperial household registration and citizenship rights.

If they married local women in Tianzhu, the children they gave birth to would only have the status of citizens of the local vassal state.

Whether she has the citizenship of a feudal country depends on the concubine's origin and status, and more importantly, the status of her father.

However, the aristocrats and wealthy classes among the immigrants were accustomed to taking "Hu Ji" as their concubines.

They are not too worried about the status of their offspring, and even need the assistance of such mixed descendants to manage and rule the natives of Tianzhu.

Therefore, while the Ming immigrants reproduced themselves, they also left a large number of mixed-race descendants in the Tianzhu area.

The overall conditions in the southern region of Tianzhu controlled by the British were not as good as those in the Ming-controlled areas in the north.

The total population is also relatively smaller, about 75 million people before the launch.

In response to the Ming Dynasty's continued immigration policy, the British actively recruited white Thais and Westerners to immigrate to Tianzhu.

As long as white people can speak English, they are welcome. Those who don't speak English but are willing to learn are also welcome.

The Tianzhu area now controlled by the British has a total of 5 million white immigrants and native whites, almost 10 million mixed-race descendants, and the remaining 6,000 pure-blood Tianzhu natives.

The Ming Dynasty’s traditional system of monogamy and multiple concubines, combined with the Ming Dynasty vassal civil hierarchy, played a huge role in the process of reproductive colonization.

After the Thai people learned about it, they also imitated it vigorously in the colonies. While maintaining the normal continuation of their own family lineage, they also reproduced a large number of mixed descendants as tools for rule.

If the reproductive colonial policy of the Ming and British sides continues, then in more than a hundred years, the pure-blood Tianzhu people may become a minority.

Just like the current Japanese and Koreans in the Ming Dynasty, they may even disappear completely in the future.

Then, the relatively marginal mixed-race descendants will take over the social status of the indigenous people.

If the social structure and system do not change, this process will continue to cycle until only pure-blood descendants remain in society.

At the same time, there were more than 20 million immigrants in Tianzhu from the Ming and British countries, and the world's technological level was more developed than at the same time in history.

The total population of the entire Tianzhu region before the war was still basically the same as the same period in history, about 180 million.

Because both the Ming and the British were accustomed to recruiting people from Tianzhu to fight in wars. In the past, they went to other areas to fight, but now they fight directly in Tianzhu itself.

In the entire anti-Ming war, the actual number of casualties on the Tianzhu battlefield should be the largest in the entire war.

Because this is the most agriculturally developed and densely populated area among all warring areas, and it can independently produce weapons and ammunition.

Then the Ming and British sides continued to engage in a tug-of-war here for more than ten years...

Tianzhu's soldiers were of low skill and often made various mistakes, thus forming a tug-of-war that repeatedly pushed each other forward, which made the war more brutal.

No one knows the specific number of Tianzhu casualties, and neither side of the war has official figures that are particularly accurate.

According to estimates by private newspapers, the number of direct deaths on the battlefield should exceed 10 million, and the indirect casualties caused by the war may be even higher.

So now the total population of Tianzhu region may have dropped to less than 160 million.

If analyzed based on gender and age ratios, the data will become even more ugly, because the number of young and middle-aged males has dropped dramatically.

The Ming Dynasty's goal in the Tianzhu battlefield was to completely drive away the British and completely monopolize the entire Tianzhu and Xiaoxi Ocean, so it was the attacker in the Tianzhu battlefield.

The British Governor's Palace of Tianzhu had difficulty communicating with the mainland and the rear, so it could only work hard to defend.

It happens that the current level of science and technology is conducive to defense, and India's local resources and food are abundant enough.

The key is that both sides are accustomed to using Tianzhu people to fight wars of attrition, and are reluctant to let their own soldiers directly go to the battlefield. At most, they will serve as officers to supervise the battle.

That's why British India has been able to hold on until now, so much so that some newspapers suspected that both sides were deliberately depleting Tianzhu's population.
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