Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology - Chapter 359

Chapter 359: The Analysis Game (Big) Chapter 359: The Analysis Game (Big) February 17th, 1656 Dakshin Bharatiya Empire, The Region of Gujarat, Karnavati It has been a week since Vijay completed his inspection, and in the meantime, the commanders Narasimha Nayak and Ramayya Senapati have also returned to the empire safe and sound.

The three major generals, Dhruv Patel, Ganga Mahamurti, and Dikshit Reddy, had already replaced the two commanders in the region of Baluchistan and Acted immediately.

Their task was to bring the region of Baluchistan under control, and from what Vijay had seen, it was progressing well.

Now that there was no fear of outside interference, the empire could take its time, slowly widdling down the enemy one settlement at a time.

Setting the matter of Baluchistan aside for a moment, the biggest surprise was the Mughal Empire not choosing to act yet.

Throughout the last week, Vijay had thrown the bait to the Mughal Empire by appearing in various major cities throughout the empire to see if there was any reaction from the Mughal side.

Vijay had at least hoped that by acting as bait, the Mughal Empire would hasten their attack and reveal some intelligence, intelligence that would give away their plans.

Unfortunately, his bet was wrong.

The Mughals seemed to have been deceived by him too much and were taking a very cautious approach.

Despite Vijay’s plan not going as he imagined, there were some gains throughout the week nonetheless, as thousands of unusual pieces of intel were collected throughout the Mughal Empire.

This could only mean that the Mughals were finally preparing for an all-out attack.

However, they had yet to know where the attack was coming from, when it would commence, or how many troops would participate in this attack.

For this very reason, in order to gather as many answers as possible, Vijay brought together the intelligence chiefs of the empire, Roshan, Selvan, and Aditya.

He was currently in the Karnavati Palace, in a secret underground room.

With him were nearly 50 to 60 people.

Among them were the three intelligence directors, as well as two prominent mathematicians who had been recruited to crunch the numbers and provide quick analysis and probability reports.

The professors chosen were Ashutosh Mukherjee from the Bharatiya Institute of Technology, Jagdalpur, and Srinivasa Varadhan from the Bharatiya Institute of Technology, Hoysala.

Both professors were Leaders in the field of mathematics, especially in the subfields of statistics and probability.

The rest of the people were smart and capable analysts within the intelligence departments and the quickest human calculators from various universities of the empire, most of them being teenagers.

Roshan, who was rubbing his brows in annoyance as he had been searching for a solid piece of intelligence since a few hours ago, couldn’t help but ask, “Can’t we pinpoint where the army is being assembled by tracking the grain acquisitions?

This should give us a clear indicator, no?” Ashutosh Mukherjee, his face glistening with sweat from the exertion of connecting data and crunching numbers, immediately set to work.

He held a stack of papers containing the meticulously compiled numbers.

He immediately identified the data set needed to search and swiftly delved into the data.

Everyone was silent as they quietly watched the middle-aged mathematician flip the pages with a rustling sound, Anticipating a piece of good news.

*Tsk* Unfortunately, it looked like the news was not good as Professor Ashtosh clicked his tongue and replied, “It is not possible, Your Excellency.” This left everyone disappointed as they hunched forward in loss of hope.

“Grain acquisitions have been ongoing throughout the year in the Mughal Empire, and the grains acquired by even a single region are enough to feed an army of 200,000 people for at least a few months,” he explained helplessly.

“Hence, although we can see that there has been a substantial increase in grain acquisition over the last 10 days, it is not enough to pinpoint their exact location or where they would be attacking.” Everyone who was already disappointed before, couldn’t help but feel depressed since the Mughal Empire was not even actively trying to hide its data.

Even though they had the data, they were not able to make much use of it.

“This is frustrating, goddamnit,” the teenagers thought as they clenched their fists.

However, Selvan, who knew intelligence at a deeper level, suddenly thought of an idea and asked, “Can you please check where people are facing the most deficit when it comes to grain?

Or you can also check if some places have a higher price of grain than others.” The attention immediately shifted again, and Srinivasa Varadhan quickly got to the data.

However, at the end of his search, he had a wry smile as he explained with a hint of amusement due to the ridiculousness of the truth and even a little sadness in his tone due to the desperate situation of the people on the other side of the data.

 “Unfortunately, the Mughal Empire seems to have inadvertently saved itself due to how cruelly it treats its people.” Hearing this comment, the lower-level agents and mathematicians couldn’t help but be perplexed, as they could not understand how treating their people cruelly could save the Mughal Empire.

However, Vijay, along with the rest of the intelligence top brass, did not have this doubt as they quickly understood what Srinivasa meant, the brightness in their eyes dimming a little.

Srinivasa reluctantly explained, “Well, the Mughal Empire seems to have been divided among the local nobles internally, and these nobles are recruiting civilians on a large scale.

Few reports even indicate that the top nobles of the Mughal Empire were raising their own armies.

Because of this, there are grain shortages throughout the empire since each noble is acquiring grain at incredible amounts, and the price of grain throughout the Mughal Empire is at an all-time high.” *Bang* “Bastards, will they not even let the people eat a loaf of bread?” The furious teenagers couldn’t help but act out their emotions as they started to make a ruckus.

However, with a look from the intelligence leaders, they quieted down, though anger and rage could still be seen in their eyes, burning like a never-ending fire.

Srinivasa: “Although some regions have a higher price than others, it is not enough to pinpoint where the enemy attack is coming from.

Up until now, from the data collected from various regions like Bengal and Uttar Pradesh alone, the grain acquired has reached 20,000 tons and wood 40,000 tons, enough to feed an army of 500,000 for a month or more if used properly.

This data is not unique to just these regions; it is similar across all regions of the Mughal Empire.

When adding all the data together, the Mughal Empire currently has amassed at least a few hundred thousand tons of grain and double that amount in wood, enough for an army of a million people to last for a few months.” There was dead silence in the room as the teenagers who had calmed down looked at each other.

Even though they were responsible for collecting and extracting the data from the intel, they could not have imagined that the data they collected would amount to such monstrous numbers.

Hearing the actual numbers, even the top brass of the empire, though they had already expected large numbers, found the enemy’s capacity to recruit a million soldiers a little ridiculous and overwhelming.

This data brought immense pressure upon them.

Bhartiya Sainik Pragya’s director Aditya’s mind was quickly racing, and he thought of various considerations before the battle.

He was also shocked by the number just now, but since he is actually from within the Mughal Empire and knew the military capacity of the Mughal Empire when they were pushed to the corner, He was not too surprised, hence, he quickly recovered and decided to focus on why they were there: predicting where the Mughal Empire would attack.

In this thought process, as if he remembered something, he quickly asked, “How about this, has the production and movement of weapons been analyzed, Sir Professors?

Please check if there is any clue that can be found with this data.” The professors looked at each other; this was indeed a good idea.

A few moments of page-turning later, Srinivasa Varadhan replied with a scrunched-up face, “I am sorry, Your Excellency.

It seems that each Mughal noble owns his own military factory in his area of influence, and these factories are continuously producing enough weapons for hundreds of thousands of people.

So, we cannot really pinpoint through this either.

The only positive news we got from the data is that if the Mughal Empire did not launch a war as quickly as possible, their economy would collapse due to the overproduction of weapons.

Since these weapons are only produced after consuming all the resources of the region, it is very certain that the economy of the Mughal Empire is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode at any given moment.

Silence fell on the room once again as the path forward was cut off once more.

Everyone was silent, except the teenagers of course, who started to propose various ideas such as tracking the data of iron ore or even tracking the data of garment production.

Unfortunately, despite the brilliance of some ideas proposed by these teenagers, which had caught the attention of the intelligence directors, all efforts ended in failure.

Each fiefdom within the Mughal Empire appeared ready to initiate battles independently at any time.

When something is ubiquitous, it ceases to be what we seek.

Seeing everyone trying very hard to come up with a solution and not even starting to get a clue about how to solve the problem, Vijay frowned, as he himself felt that it was tricky to derive feasible intelligence from the report.

*tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* The sound of his tapping reverberated throughout the hall as everyone fell silent, their expressions a complex mix of tiredness and determination to find the answer.

At this very moment, the silence felt very loud.

But Vijay, who was tapping on the desk, suddenly stopped as his eyes widened after he got an idea.

He remembered an event from his past life, about how the Russian intelligence predicted the American war on Iraq by tracking the amount of pizza being delivered to the White House.

Surprisingly enough, their prediction was right on the mark, and the Americans did go to war against Iraq at the predicted date and time.

Though Vijay could not exactly use this idea, he could change the way everyone thought about the current problem in front of them.

“We know the personal information about most of the Mughal military generals, do we not?” Vijay asked, a cunning smile on his face.

The intelligence leaders Roshan and Aditya looked at each other, but ultimately Roshan, who had the most knowledge pertaining to the question, answered, “Yes, Your Majesty.

But we could not trace the movements of these people since they seem to be moving in secrecy,” he answered, thinking that Vijay was about to ask if they could track these people, which honestly Roshan would have done even without asking If it was possible.

Vijay did not mind the doubtful gazes as he continued, “Bring in their data immediately.” Roshan, though unclear, Understood that His Majesty had something in mind, so he did not voice his doubt but quickly got to work.

He left the room and went to the local office of Bharatiya External Pragya, immediately retrieving all the details they needed.

When he brought back the data, Vijay had someone distribute it to the analysts in the room.

The mathematical and intelligence analysts looked doubtful, as they were unsure what they wanted to do with this data.

Vijay did not make them wait for too long.

He got up from his chair, walked to the centre of the room, and ordered, “Now, from this data, find out if these Mughal military leaders have some peculiar dishes or items they consume on a regular basis-be it a certain type of food, a particular pattern on their attire, or even specific preferences for wine or tobacco.” The analysts, who understood the orders, immediately got to work, and soon the data they were looking for was brought out.

“This guy only drinks a certain type of alcohol.” “Wow, this one actually wears silk undergarments of green colour.” “That’s peculiar; this one loves eating a specific type of biryani, but only before going to war.” Such data came out one by one, and the intelligence leaders quickly understood its significance as they joined the analysts in extracting usable information.

Vijay, standing in the midst of the bustling group, leading the charge against the Mughal Empire’s tight Intelligence firewall, looked like a seasoned general on the battlefield, smiling at his opponents.

Finally, the data was collected.

Everyone looked at Vijay, awaiting his next order, knowing exactly what needed to be done.

Vijay did not let them down either as he ordered, “Now correlate each and every peculiar data point with the region.

See which region of the Mughal Empire has the most of these correlations coming together.” The work started immediately, and the room exploded with noise as the sounds of papers being flipped became intense.

The analysts swiftly searched and scavenged through the collected data like vultures.

Patterns were quickly calculated and analyzed by Ashutosh Mukherjee and Srinivasa Varathan.

They crunched the probabilities and numbers, taking into account the grain acquisition figures of the region, Cross-referencing multiple datasets from the Suspected area, further mining more data that could be usable, and fitting together the pieces, the professors along with the group of analysts finally reached a conclusion.

” W-We got it!

” A professor declared.

“Hahahahaha” Cheers erupted as they finally knew where the attack was coming from.

*ahem* However, the happiness only lasted for a short time as they were reminded by Roshan to reveal the data.

The professors, regaining their serious expressions, replied, “Your Majesty, the Mughal Empire seems to have concentrated nearly 40% of their top military leaders in the region of Bengal.

According to the grain acquisition figures, an army of no less than 400,000 soldiers will attack the region of Gangapuri in the coming week.” Vijay was taken aback, as he could have never expected that the Mughals would choose to attack from Bengal.

But now that he knew the details, he laughed.

So what if it was the Bengal Tiger that was about to start its hunt?

He knew his Bharatiya Airavata wasn’t weaker either.

P.S.

Thanks @Abhi for the Idea.

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