Tang Tong also instructed his subordinates to begin searching for and cultivating agents in India. His newly established Intelligence Department quickly identified a dozen qualified candidates, and without further selection, Tang Tong immediately designated them all as candidates for cultivation. He provided them with military supplies and encouraged them to cultivate tobacco and opium in their respective territories. For the White Lotus sect, whom Tang Tong had brought from India, he allocated an area of approximately five square kilometers within the concession as the headquarters of the White Lotus.

At the same time, Tang Tong also arranged for people to provide the White Lotus with a large amount of material support, and placed a group of intelligence personnel in the White Lotus. On the one hand, it was to supervise the White Lotus, and on the other hand, it was to let the White Lotus become his own peripheral intelligence organization in the future to help him collect intelligence information from all over the country. Although Xu Qinglian knew that Tang Tong's approach was inappropriate, she could only accept it temporarily.

No matter what, keeping the White Lotus alive and preventing it from being extinct in his own hands was Xu Qinglian's last wish. Moreover, Tang Tong also gave the White Lotus a very favorable policy, that is, all Indians who joined the White Lotus would be supported to no longer pay taxes to the local government, no longer be conscripted for labor, and at the same time enjoy immunity from crimes committed in the Mughal Empire.

Tang Tong actually learned this method from Western missionaries, but it has not yet become popular in this world. Seeing that Tang Tong could come up with this method to recruit people for the White Lotus Sect, Xu Qinglian couldn't help but feel grateful to Tang Tong.

At the same time, Tang Tong also ordered his men to build the Taoist Laojun Temple, Ci'en Temple, and Confucius University in the concession, recruiting Indian believers and students. Buddhism originated in India, but Buddhism had declined in India at that time. Tang Tong brought these things here with the purpose of using these ideas to educate Indians.

Of course, these are all soft policies. Tang Tong's other more ruthless method is to encourage his subordinates and Indian agents to plunder the Indian population on a large scale. The men were sent to plantations and mining areas, and the women were used to encourage young men from the Ming Dynasty to immigrate to Southeast Asia. Whenever someone immigrated to Southeast Asia, Tang Tong's subordinates would give him a young Indian woman. Although this practice was ridiculous, it also attracted many young people from the Ming Dynasty to run to Southeast Asia.

In order to eventually turn India into a colony and to undermine the interests of the British in India, Tang Tong

The Dutch and Spanish also supported the establishment of concessions in India. How could they not be happy about this? They had long wanted to take a bite of this piece of fat meat. In the past, they had only been unable to defeat the British fleet, allowing the British to monopolize it.

After the Dutch and the Spanish, with the secret support of Tang Tong, intervened in India, the one who suffered the most was not Shah Jahan, but Thomas of England. When more than a dozen large tobacco and opium plantations suddenly appeared in India, Thomas found that something was wrong. However, before he could figure it out, his defeated general, the Dutchman Rayouz, suddenly sailed his fleet into the Indian port. The Spanish, who had always had a grudge against the Dutch, seemed to have temporarily given up their grudge with the Dutch and almost sent their fleet of only eleven warships in the South China Sea to India.

This was a provocation, this was a threat, a naked provocation. Thomas was no fool, and he soon realized that this was some kind of agreement reached by Lord Tang of the Ming Dynasty with the Dutch and the Spanish, targeting his British interests in India. However, the strength of the subordinates of Lord Tang of the Ming Dynasty was too strong, and Britain was too far away from here to send large-scale military aid. With only a few thousand people under his command, he could not care about anything.

This era was not like 200 years later, when Britain could mobilize tens of thousands of troops from the mainland, so Thomas did not dare to clamor for war in front of Tang Tong. He could only sit down and have a good discussion with Tang Tong. Tang Tong did not intend to eat the fat man in one bite. In the end, the four forces sat down and secretly took advantage of India's interests.

Shah Jahan had always dreamed of becoming the emperor of the world. After the four powers secretly signed the Guatemalan-Indian Treaty, Shah Jahan suddenly discovered that something seemed to be wrong with his Mughal Empire. First, there were more monks and Taoists from the Ming Dynasty and the so-called Bright Sect (White Lotus Sect) in various cities, and some Western missionaries were also running around the streets. These outsiders not only provided shelter for many lower-class Indians, but also clashed with local Indians from time to time. After causing bloodshed, the corresponding forces behind them would jump out and clamor for war.

At the beginning, Shah Jahan was still very tough and his attitude was quite resolute. However, no matter which forces his army clashed with, it was always Shah Jahan who was defeated in the end. When he made compensation, the other forces that jumped out to mediate would not be willing to lag behind and ask for benefits, making the treasury that Shah Jahan had emptied to build the Taj Mahal even emptier.

Later, Shah Jahan found that more and more local armed forces appeared under his jurisdiction. These local armed forces formed independent regions that were not under his control, making his Mughal Empire gradually become riddled with holes. What made Shah Jahan even more worried was that for unknown reasons, rebellions by untouchables kept breaking out in his country, making the situation in the Mughal Empire increasingly uncontrollable.

In this situation, Shah Jahan had to seek help from the Tang and others to help him suppress the untouchable rebellion. In fact, the rebellion of these Indian untouchables was also without the consent of the Tang. The colonial activities of the Tang and the British, Dutch and Spanish in India aggravated the economic collapse of India.

A large amount of fertile land was used to grow tobacco and opium, causing serious food shortages in India. People like Tang Tong certainly would not be kind enough to transport food here from outside. As a result, food prices rose day by day. People who had no food to eat could only end up becoming bandits, or work in Tang Tong's tobacco plantations.

When there are more bandits, they will naturally gather together to form a larger rebel force. Just like those people in the Ming Dynasty who have no food to eat, some of them were bandits at first, and finally someone with ambition and ability had the strength to gather these bandits everywhere to form a larger force. Once this rebel force has achieved some victories, it will attract more people who have no food to join it.

Tang Tong did not immediately agree to Shah Jahan's request. The British, Dutch, and Spanish agreed to Shah Jahan's request, but they only sent a few people symbolically, which did not provide much substantive help to Shah Jahan. The local armed forces also took this opportunity to rapidly expand their power. According to Tang Tong's original idea, they embarked on the path of separatist warlords. Shah Jahan's regime originally controlled only 70% of India, but now it can control less and less areas. Nearly half of India's land is controlled by various warlords of all sizes.

In the same year when the Mughal Empire began to be in turmoil, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty also had a difficult time. The White Lotus Rebellion in Shandong was not easy to suppress. Not long after, a female rebel named Hongniangzi emerged from Shandong. She quickly occupied the entire Shandong province and even marched into Henan and Anhui. Although she had only 30,000 troops under her command, she was more powerful than the Jiannu.

Not only was there chaos in Shandong, but another rebel group called Yan emerged in Shanxi. With tens of thousands of men under his command, they quickly occupied most of Shanxi and Shaanxi and could enter Hebei at any time. However, Yan, who was originally a subordinate of Gao Yingxiang, was not to be outdone and fled to Henan. In a short period of time, he had gathered an army of over 100,000.

Zhang Xianzhong, who had been recruited, raised the banner of rebellion again in Hubei. However, unlike history, Zhang Xianzhong actually led his men into Jiangxi. As for other small rebel groups, there were dozens of them. Although these small rebel groups were not powerful, they were very destructive. They robbed everything they passed by like locusts.

What bothered Emperor Chongzhen the most was the empty treasury. Due to lack of money, he had to increase taxes. However, most of the money from the increased taxes fell into the hands of corrupt officials. These corrupt officials had no feeling that the country was about to perish. The heavy taxes made more people bankrupt, and they had to join the rebels in order to survive.

It was like a vicious cycle: the less money there was, the more people rebelled. The more people rebelled, the more military spending was needed, and the treasury became even more depleted. In this situation, someone came up with an idea for Chongzhen. Although it was a temporary solution, it temporarily alleviated the treasury's emptiness. (To be continued. To learn more about the next chapter, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author! Support!)

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