Chapter 503 The Chancellor of Finance and the Poor

Chapter 504 The Chancellor and the Poor

"This is absolutely impossible!" Cornwallis, the Governor-General of India, shouted immediately, "Vijayanagar now belongs to the East India Company."

The British spent a lot of money on this war and only occupied two and a half provinces in the northwest of Mysore. At the same time, trade on the west coast of India was stagnant for more than half a year. They had already suffered a huge loss. How could they give up the spoils again?

Tipu Sultan ignored him and just looked at Hyderabad Prime Minister Abu Zam: "Are you just watching the people of Vijayanagar being ruled by infidels?"

Hyderabad and Mysore are both Islamic and even had an alliance decades ago.

Abu Zam also knew that Tipu was trying to divide himself and the British, but Hyderabad had lost more than 30,000 soldiers for the British in this war, and it was appropriate to receive compensation from Vijayanagar.

He coughed lightly and said cautiously to Xili: "Sir, if I can help you manage Vijayanagar, we can increase the tax by 30%..."

"Your opinion is not needed here." Seely interrupted him abruptly and knocked on the table, "Vijayanagar is not within the scope of negotiations."

Tipu Sultan stood up immediately: "In that case, let's meet on the battlefield."

In fact, he felt quite unsure when he said this. The British army currently has an absolute advantage on the battlefield, and Selingabatan is already in danger. But at the same time, he also firmly believes in the words of the Marquis de Lafayette - the British will definitely defeat the enemy before the end of the rainy season. Will retreat. So he also has to put on a tough stance when negotiating.

As expected, a look of helplessness flashed across Sir Seeley's eyes - the British Expeditionary Force had less than half a month of supplies left, and it must withdraw to Canada as soon as possible, otherwise the retreat is likely to turn into a rout.

After some bargaining, Cili finally accepted to hand over the part north of Bellary city to Hyderabad for "escrow" and allowed residents of other areas of Vijayanagar to go to Hyderabad.

Abu Zam quietly looked at Tipu gratefully, but at the same time he felt a little more resentful towards the British.

Seely and Tipu then started discussing Carnatic issues. According to the previous secret agreement between Britain and France, the Carnatic east of Mysore would terminate its alliance with the British and remain neutral.

In this Mysore War, the main force of the British army was concentrated in the northwest, and there was almost no assistance to the Carnatic, causing it to be beaten hard by Mysore.

If Tipu Sultan had not followed Joseph's advice to shrink his defense forces, it is likely that all of southern Carnatic would have been undefended.

So the Carnatic had no problem with ending the alliance - what use would a bossy man who only knew how to collect taxes but couldn't protect his allies use him?

After the three parties negotiated the status of Carnatic, Tipu Sultan said to the Carnatic negotiation envoy: "There should not be a war between Mysore and Carnatic."

He glanced at Cornwallis and Seeley standing aside, and almost said, "It was all instigated by the British," and then said, "So I am willing to return Tiruchirappalli to you."

Tiruchirappalli was a southern Carnatic province that was captured by Mysore soon after the war began.

According to the French suggestions, if Mysore wants to rule here, it will consume a lot of energy and will be hated by the Carnatic. It is better to return it in exchange for Carnatic gratitude.

Pondicherry, France's last foothold in the Indian peninsula, is adjacent to Carnatic. If the latter is convenient, Mysore may be able to contact France secretly.

The Carnatic envoy obviously did not expect to regain the lost territory, and immediately saluted Tipu Sultan excitedly: "On behalf of His Majesty the King, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to you!"

After several days of bargaining, Britain and Mai signed an armistice agreement on October 2.

Although Mysore lost the territory of nearly three provinces, its vitality was not harmed.

You must know that in history, Tipu Sultan still dared to fight the Fourth Mysore War with the British even after losing half of his territory, including Selingabadan and Bangalore.

Now that he still has strength, how could he not seek revenge from Britain once he finds the opportunity?

On the other hand, the British seemed to have defeated Mysore, gained some land, and maintained their dominance in the Indian Peninsula. However, they invested huge military expenditures and failed to receive any war reparations.

In addition, the British reason for launching this war was "Mysore's annexation of Travancore". Now that the war has ceased, no one has mentioned Travancore again. The British can pretend to have amnesia about this, but all the states in India, big and small, see it.

The overlord is still the same overlord, but it has lost its former glory.

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Outside Paris.

More than a dozen bigwigs from the Tax Farmers' Association, surrounded by servants and hounds, were chatting and laughing as they rode towards Fuld's hunting ground.

Hope smiled and said to the people around him: "You can probably imagine Brian's desperate expression when Mr. Charles said, 'Due to business problems, the loan mentioned before may not be provided.'"

A middle-aged man walking on the left had a look of pride on his face: "There are only two months left this year. How can our finance minister get 200 million francs?"

Another person laughed and said: "Soon, various government departments and governors will ask him for funding for next year. Only then will he experience the despair of hell."

The middle-aged man looked at Hope: "Mr. Hope, then we will speed up the tax package negotiations."

"No, on the contrary." Hope looked at the hunting fence in the distance, "Look, we are almost there. Brian is the one who is anxious now, we can make Viscount Berlant sick or something.

"By mid-November, Brian may not even be in the mood to bargain, and we can even sign an agreement for the same amount as last year."

Borolei urged his horse to come over and said loudly: "I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer is no different from those poor people who borrow usury, haha. As long as we hold our purses tightly, don't they have to beg humbly and let us make conditions?"

"You are right. "

When the group crossed the wooden fence of the hunting ground, they began to direct the servants to set up a temporary camp and sent out a team to command the dogs to find prey.

Fold and Hope were chatting about the prey in late autumn with a relaxed look, and saw a carriage coming quickly. Because the ground in the wild was not flat enough, the car was shaking from time to time.

Soon, the carriage stopped and a tall man in his forties jumped out of the car.

Fold saw the appearance of the person coming and couldn't help but frowned slightly: "Viscount Brant?"

Brant, the negotiating representative of the General Association of Tax Farmers, walked quickly to Fold under the guidance of the servants, and said breathlessly: "Mr. Fold, something happened... The assistant to the Minister of Finance informed me this morning that the tax negotiation was officially cancelled. "