10 years have pa.s.sed . . . The Empire conquered Small An, the brave warriors of the princ.i.p.ality fought off the troops of the empire for 1 week but fell . What could do wick guns and spears with arrows against the guns of the system of Berdan, grapes and 24 pound guns . And also on the side of the empire were traitors from the local elite, who already 5 years before had secretly pa.s.sed over to the empire .

The valiant defenders of the princ.i.p.ality fell near the city walls and on the streets of the city . They were quickly forgotten . . .

Within 10 days, all the city walls were destroyed . Peasants and artisans had to pay an additional tax, in addition to local government, added colonial .

Good lands were given to new residents of the empire, the locals were moved to less comfortable . . .

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All customs and border points were replaced with imperial ones, the currency was eliminated and imperial currency was introduced .

All the amba.s.sadors were expelled, the princ.i.p.ality was forbidden to engage in foreign policy .

All mines, mineral deposits, water sources came under the control of the empire .

But on the other hand, new schools, medical hospitals, and a railway were built, so that you could quickly transport troops to the borders and take out resources from the new colony .

They built new factories, workshops, began to produce new types of heavy and light industry .

The irrigated lands were sown with a solid technical crop from which powder and textiles were obtained .

And the food, cereals brought from the empire . . .

And so, new technologies came to the princ.i.p.ality . . . new streets appeared, gas lanterns, the princ.i.p.ality from the Middle Ages immediately jumped into wild capitalism . . . but as it turned out not long after 40 years . . .

. . . Another 5 years pa.s.sed . . . The merchant opened a trading house, became even richer, bought a huge five-storey house in a new imperial district . I bought myself European carriages, put servants and guards in European clothes . . . As it turned out later, the merchant was an agent of the empire, he worked for the Asian Department .

The craftsman moved to Dehra Dun . . . on Kalidas Road . He settled in the brigadier general's outhouse . . . bought a trade line at Hatti Barkala bazaar, where he sold his copper and silverware, quilted robes and wadded blankets . . . As it turned out later, he was an agent of Etymological Intelligence of the British Empire, deputy chief of 4 divisions Central Asia and the Middle East .

And the researcher . . . he was engaged in science . . . while he was given . . . but he wrote something "not that", "not according to the format of the new empire" and he was expelled from the city . . . deprived of money, social status .

He lived in a cave eroded in a sandy hill near a salt lake . . . for 16 years . . .

Then he returned . . . when the old empire collapsed and . . . a new one appeared . Sick, poor, but happy . . . who was n.o.body, he became everything . . . he was given the opportunity to publish and engage in his research in the newly created university . The researcher became a doctor of sciences, a lecturer, the only academician in the former princ.i.p.ality of Small-An and the former colony!

I lived for another 20 years . . . after I left a scientific school . . .

80 years have pa.s.sed . . . his students worked closely with Chinese scientists, created a joint production of new equipment to search for minerals using drones . . . but this is another story .

As it turned out later - the researcher was a simple man, he was not an agent, a spy, but just an ordinary citizen of Small-An, even during it's colonization . . .