No matter how cheap the conquered native bones are, they will not work for the invaders for free after they are beaten.

Moreover, it is not enough to organize indigenous territory, but only those generals who lead troops to fight. Administrative officials must need it.

Most importantly, the original backward production model of the indigenous kingdom made the British colonial government unable to explore much of its benefits.

How much money can you make by plundering the agricultural products grown by the indigenous people?

By selling grain, in this era where there is no means of long-distance transportation and preservation, it is just ordinary bulk trade, but it is still close!

If the indigenous people want to plant valuable cash crops or enter factories to produce the goods needed by the British, the management cost invested is not a small amount!

Colonial policies rely on all force, and some garrisons must be kept, or garrisons must be recruited from the local area, and money will be spent everywhere.

In the Age of Discovery, there was never a shortage of countries that had lost money in colonization!

This is also why the whole world has not been completely dyed into 'white'.

It’s not that European colonists have insufficient martial ethics, but that many places have no colonial interests and are losing money every year by forcibly occupying them. Who is willing to continue investing in them?

Of course, it can also develop in the long term, relying on immigration and other policies to develop a plantation economy, but this is a time-consuming and inefficient colonial method and will not be carried out on a large scale.

This is also why the colonies expanded little by little. If they really carried out expeditions regardless of cost, the capital of any indigenous kingdom in this era could not withstand the bombardment of European cannons!

Even many areas with fierce resistance, even if the output benefits are high, they were abandoned by the colonists because of the higher cost of suppression and used the method of supporting the agent's puppet regime or signing unequal trade treaties to make profits.

This leads to an embarrassing problem.

Conquering low-cost indigenous territories often has a very backward productivity and requires a little farming to develop, such as the colonies of the North American continent!

Those territories that have abundant output and population occupied often have high cost of conquest, or even high enough to make the gains less than the loss.

At this time, the colonial state needs to weigh the pros and cons.

Of course, there are also lands where the cost of conquest is not too high, with a large population and sufficient benefits to extract it, but now this kind of good colony is almost occupied.

The coastal areas of the Indian subcontinent fall into one category.

If we go further, the cost of colonization will continue to increase. It is not that the Tuguo Kingdom in the inland Indian subcontinent is stronger in combat, but because the farther the European army is from the coastline, the greater the pressure on the logistics of war, and the cost of conquest will naturally soar.

In Li Wei's previous life, the capital of the Qing Empire was broken several times, but the armies of the great powers rarely went deep into the mainland. This is why only the territory and Tsarist Russia, which was on the verge of the Qing Empire, would invade the Qing Empire from the inland.

Of course, the Neon people who live next door also like to invade this rich land.

This is the colonial bottleneck encountered by the British now. The territory that conquers the difficulty of being within an acceptable range and produces a lot of profits is gone.

Even the colonial movement in the Indian subcontinent became increasingly deeper inland, resulting in the cost of conquest becoming higher and slower.

This cannot be accelerated by the London government urging it. After all, wars without much interest often become very slack.

Nowadays, the British colonial governments of India are generally adopting a policy of divisive and wining over the country. Even if they send troops, they only focus on taking care of the stubborn and extremely hostile Turkish kingdoms.

This will reduce the cost of conquest.

This has greatly preserved the caste system of the Indian subcontinent. Even the territory directly controlled by the British army was filled with a large number of high-caste nobles in India who helped the British masters control the people.

There is no way, there are too many Indians, and relatively speaking, the population of the British colonial government is nothing!

This is why Livi was not surprised to hear the news that the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland went to war with the Qing Empire in the Far East.

There are few colonial territories that can allow the London government to quickly obtain profits and political reputation.

Among them, the Qing Empire was undoubtedly the richest, much richer than the Persian Empire in Central Asia!

However, Li Wei couldn't understand why tens of thousands of Indian soldiers who could not defeat a small country on the European continent could be so violent in the Far East?

Obviously, it is impossible that the Indian soldiers suddenly drank Indian magic oil. The answer must be that the Qing Empire was even more fragile than he expected.

This made Li Wei, who was illiterate in history, feel as unbelievable as other European governments. Even when the London government received this news, it was impossible to believe it. After repeated confirmation, it was necessary to admit that the army of the Far East Empire was really good enough...

This also significantly increased the support rate of the Prime Minister Peter's government, who advocated this Far East War.

In Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland, public opinion was the capitalists and aristocratic classes. These people naturally enjoyed seeing their side defeating the Qing government at a small price, which allowed them to pay less money to obtain the trade dividends brought after the war.

It is not just the cabinet government headed by Prime Minister Pitt who hates the high tariffs in the Far Eastern Empire!

The Indian soldiers, the main body of the Expeditionary Force, really don’t have much cost to the current London government, and it is not as high as the cost of strategic materials to support the Far East.

"Your Majesty, the London government may have exaggerated this information, but the fact that occupying a provincial capital should not be faked unless the British commander in the Far East wants to go to the military court.

As for other information, there is not much to exaggerate.

After all, if you want to capture a provincial capital, the military points along the way must be occupied. The British could not drive warships to escort their army on land.

For a huge empire with a population of billions and regular troops exceeding one million, it is easy to understand that if you are prepared for war, the capital of a province has more than ten thousand regular troops exceeding ten thousand.

If the British Expeditionary Force in the Far East claimed to annihilate 100,800 Qing troops, it might be a lie, but just annihilate more than 10,000 people, this number should not be much water."

Manid, director of the General Administration of Military Intelligence, rationally analyzed.

"In other words, the Far East Empire, which has always been taboo by Europe, is just a paper tiger?"

Li Wei's eyes swept sharply at the cabinet ministers present.

At this time, the Minister of Navy stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, our naval warships are being built with all their might. In less than two years, we will have the strength to compete with the Mediterranean fleets of Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland. At that time, we will also have three first-class battleships!

However, we do not have the ability to launch large amounts of troops into the Far East before we resolve the number one enemy of Britain.

If forced delivery is made, the maritime transportation line will always be under the threat of the Royal British Navy."

“I know that before I resolve the British, I will not launch a large-scale military operation on overseas colonies. It would be worth it if several troop transport ships were sunk by the Royal Navy of Britain.

However, now the London government's energy is devoted to the Far East, which is of great benefit to the Roman Empire.

Let us do more.”

"Your Majesty, if the empire rashly declares war on European countries such as the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire, the London government will inevitably forcibly terminate the war in the Far East and turn its attention to the European continent."

The foreign minister who seemed to notice something advised him.

At this time, the Roman Empire was fully expanding its navy and digesting the fruits of the victory of the Fourth Anti-French War. If the war begins, all this will have to stop. Moreover, those European countries that are licking their wounds will inevitably spend all their money on supporting the revolutionary forces within the Roman Empire.

Instead of applying fiscal revenue to domestic production and military reforms as it is now.

Now, after experiencing a tragic war defeat, European countries have carried out reforms in different directions and degrees. Among them, the Prussian Kingdom, which had the greatest crisis of national destruction, had the strongest reforms.

The national mobilization mechanism has been completely lit up by the Kingdom of Prussia, and the government's power is used to conduct mandatory reserve training without hesitation against the will of the people!

The domestic military factories did not reduce their production capacity at all because of the end of the war. They continued to produce weapons and ammunition, just like during the war, for large-scale reserve militia training.

Although the army was laid off a lot (otherwise no one would have farmed or worked in factories), the laid off soldiers were not truly retired. They were just arranged for non-war period work, and local governments in various places carried out supervision to ensure that descendants of the war broke out as soon as possible to recruit them into the army.

The supervision method is very simple. Every once in a while, veterans from the area are summoned for military training, which not only ensures that they do not forget their combat capabilities in the army, but also regularly checks out the "fled veterans".

The martial customs of the Kingdom of Prussia allowed the inhumane reserve military system of the Kingdom of Prussia to continue, but did not arouse strong dissatisfaction among the people.

Of course, this model of universal reserve is not without sequelae. At least the severely damaged Lindenwan Brotherhood has recovered very rapidly under the additional military taxes and compulsory reserve policies collected by the Kingdom of Prussia.

Nationalism in this era has not been fully awakened. Many Prussian citizens feel that the burden they have on during peace is no less than during wars, and they also have to regularly participate in reserve militia training without military pay, wasting valuable time for work and making money. They are very dissatisfied.

When dissatisfaction accumulates to a certain level, there will naturally be people participating in the Lindenwan Brotherhood that promotes revolutionary ideas.

The Kingdom of Prussia is also the only major development area of ​​the current Lindenwan Brotherhood.
Chapter completed!