Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

"It's mostly a country that practices Theravada Buddhism, with a population of 4 million people spread across its wide rural area."

Vijay looked at the map and nodded. He was quite familiar with the Burmese Toungoo Kingdom. When the Mughal Empire used to rule the northern part of the subcontinent, they used to bother this kingdom quite a lot. But when he took the throne, the border disputes between the two countries had been fully resolved, and an agreement had been reached on the borders. Trade had been developed, but aside from that, there was no other deeper relationship.

"Right below the Toungoo Kingdom is the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It is ruled by the Sukhothai dynasty, with the current king being King Narai."

"This is a unique country. Its size is 530,000 square kilometres, but over 90% of its 2 million population is located in urban regions, mostly because King Narai focuses a lot on trade. He keeps having disputes with his neighbours, which makes most of his territories very volatile."

Vijay distinctly remembers this country, since the name Ayutthaya has been derived from the hometown of Lord Ram, Ayodhya, and even the capital of this country is called Ayutthaya. Apart from that, he can only remember that the dynasty had changed its name somewhere in the 18th century and renamed themselves the Chakri family.

"The country right below it is called the Cambodian Kingdom by the people, but the royals call themselves the Chenla Kingdom. It is ruled by the Novodom Dynasty, with the current ruler being King Soriyo Reachea II. It has a population of 2 million, all rural, with an area of 230,000 square kilometres."

Vijay has an impression of this country too, not only from his previous life but also from the present. In fact, the Bharatiya Empire actually sends a small amount of money to this kingdom every year in order to maintain one of the largest Hindu-Buddhist temples in the world, Angkor Wat, in pristine condition. With this, the trade, although not too big, has risen over the years.

The country located slightly to the east of the Three Kingdoms is called Lan Xang, apparently meaning "Land of a Million Elephants." "It's ruled by the Khon Kaen Dynasty, sometimes called the Souvanna Phouma or Souvigna Vongsa Dynasty, with its current ruler being King Sourigna Vongsa."

"It's a small country with a population of only over 1.5 million, with a land area of over 230,000 square kilometres."

Vijay nodded in understanding. The Bharatiya Empire does not have much contact with this country, which in his previous life was called Laos.

"Finally, the two remaining countries are actually three separate countries called Dai Viet, Dang Trong, and Champa. But Champa was eventually annexed by the other two after its decline. Dai Viet is currently ruled by the Le dynasty, but the country is a monarchy in name only since most of the power is being held by the courtiers and the officials."

"It has a population of 10 million people and is ruled by the puppet king Le Hy Tong, with a land area of 150,000 square kilometres."

"On the other hand, the Dang Trong Kingdom is ruled by the House of Nguyễn, and the current king is Nguyễn Phúc Tân. Unlike the northern neighbour, this is a centralized country with an actual monarch. It has a population of 2 million people and a land area of 44,000 square kilometres."

Vijay was naturally familiar with Vietnam since this unassuming nation did something impossible by defending against the threat from both the Soviet Union and America, two of the biggest imperialist powers of the time.

"Finally, we have the familiar powers: the Sulawesi Confederation, with an area of 240,000 square kilometres."

"The Java landmass, ruled by two of the three Dutch kingdoms, with a land area of 400,000 square kilometres."

"The Kingdom of Mindanao, ruled by a democratic Sultanate, with an area of 101,000 square kilometres."

"The United States of the Philippines, ruled by an elected democratic government, with over 390,000 square kilometres of land."

"The remaining landmass found in Southeast Asia is mostly under our control."

"The land is either unoccupied or occupied by Aboriginal farmers and hunter-gatherers."

"Since no European power or local Southeast Asian power can fight for these lands, I have put them in the direct control of the Bharatiya Empire category."

Vijay nodded, "Go on!"

"Right, Your Majesty. The majority of Sumatra Island is empty, except the southern part, which is occupied by one of the 3 Dutch kingdoms. Once this kingdom collapses, the whole island will be under our control."

"With the capture of Kuala Lumpur and Malacca, the Malay Peninsula is already under the Empire's control."

"Adding those two together, it's a landmass of 460,000 square kilometres."

"Most of Kalimantan, except for the northern part which has some remote sultanates, is not developed. Over 500,000 square kilometres of land is unoccupied. By simply placing a military base here, this whole region could come directly under the Empire's control." "And sire, as you know, we bought Timor Leste from the Portuguese, bringing another 50,000 square kilometres of land under our control. And finally, as Your Majesty had suggested, we tried to navigate the full extent of the southernmost island, but unfortunately, we can only come up with estimations of at least 500,000 square kilometres or maybe more."

Hearing these words, Vijay simply smiled because he knew that Papua New Guinea was a large island, over 880,000 square kilometres in size—one of the biggest islands in the world. But he kept quiet and continued to listen to Jalandhar, who was explaining so seriously.

"In fact, a few fishermen did contact a few aborigines on the land, and for now, we can confirm that, except for farmers and hunter-gatherers, there are no civilized powers on the island."

"Overall, Adding everything together, the Bharatiya Empire has direct control of at least 1.5 million square kilometres."

Vijay shook his head unnoticeably, '1.8 million square kilometres, and adding Australia, it's more than 11 million,' he silently added in his mind.

After Jalandhar Keshav left having reported the data, Vijay immediately called Ganesh.

Vijay looked at him with a smile. "Summon Commander Akhil, Admiral Gangadhar, Commander Yogendra Singh, Marshal Kiran Poojari, and Raja Sarvesh Ranavikrama." Vijay wasn't going to give the budding independent Dutch kingdoms a chance to survive, even if the probability of them surviving was very unlikely.

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In the meantime,

Mangaluru Stock Exchange

Kirtana Jyoti nervously got on top of the stock exchange building. She was already afraid of heights, but standing on top of the tallest building in Mangaluru made her head spin. However, fortunately, her determination was bigger than her fears.

Her company, Jyoti Minerals, was approved to be listed a week ago with the help provided by her husband's confidant in the Shetty and Co. Industrial Bank. Her perfect operation in snatching the mining location of another smaller mining company brought her a lot of leverage.

Joseph Sub Oppenheimer and the other board members did not have anything to complain about once they looked at her report card. In fact, due to the boom in the mining industry, the management of the Mangaluru Stock Exchange already had a very favourable impression of Jyoti Minerals. But when they saw the internal financial data of the company for the last three years since the ownership had changed, they were very impressed. There was not even the slightest loss—although the profits were not too high, they had been constant throughout the three years.

This may not be too appealing to investment firms since they look for low investment and high turnover, but for the Mangaluru Stock Exchange, stability is the key. The exchange does not gain too much from how much a company profits; rather, it gains from the reputation of being a platform for companies that produce constant profits.

Kirtana held her son by his hand. Surprisingly, unlike her, he didn't seem to be afraid of heights. Instead, he was looking down from the top of the building at all the people below and giggling.

Joseph Sub Oppenheimer, who for the first time was officiating a company going public for a woman, looked at Kirtana with some admiration.

"Young lady, you can now ring the bell. As soon as the sound is heard, the company will go public."

Kirtana nodded. She gave the hammer to her little son and asked him to hit the bell as loudly as possible.

In the meantime, she closed her eyes and started chanting the mantra

"Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare .... "

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In shock, Kirtana watched as the stock price of her company jumped from 9 Varaha per share to 9.45. Again, by the time the trading hour was opened, it had jumped to 10.35, then 10.80, 11.25, and finally, at the end of the day, the price settled at 13.5.

Her eyes widened in shock. The stock price immediately increased by 50%.

She had evaluated her company to be worth 15 million after considering that she had three high-quality mining locations in her hand, each valued at 4 million Varaha, and her experience, along with personal worth about three million. But as soon as she went public with 15% of the stock, the value of the company immediately jumped to 22.5 million Varaha. Out of nowhere, she had become 7.5 million Varaha richer and had abundant cash flow.

What's the concept, with the 7.5 million Varaha that she had earned, she could have actually bought her old company as a whole.

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P.S. The accuracy might be questionable since I only used a single source for my research. I'm sorry if I am wrong.

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