Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

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Agni, Rajendra, and Leela all gathered around the cradles where the babies were cleaned up of all the blood and liquid, wrapped in a warm towel, and placed like dumplings. Agni looked at his brother and sister unblinkingly as their aura shone bright and spotless. Meanwhile, the restless Rajendra kept wanting to poke the cheek of the babies, but Leela held his arm tightly and wouldn’t let go.

Vijay, on the other hand, was sitting next to Kavya, holding her hand and looking after her. Uncle Ravi, Aunt Nirmala, brother-in-law Adithya, and sister-in-law Harshpreet were all doing the same thing.

A few minutes later, Vijay finally came in front of the cradle and picked up the pair of dumplings with a heartfelt smile on his face. His heart was calm, and he was feeling content with being able to be the father of three children.

The girl was the first to be born and the boy the second.

In the anticipating eyes of everyone in that room, including Kavya, who was peacefully resting, and the nurses who had already moved to the corner, Vijay finally uttered the words:

"Tanvika Devaraya and Vedhant Devaraya."

Tanvika, taken from the Sanskrit/Bharati word for graceful, Goddess Durga or Beautiful, and Vedhant, similarly taken from Sanskrit/Bharati, symbolizing ultimate wisdom.

Uncle Ravi and brother-in-law Adithya profusely nodded their heads as they very much liked the names. As for his aunt and sister-in-law, they made it clear that they adored the names as well.

"You chose a very good name, Vijay. Well done," they said.

Little Rajendra still did not know anything, but he kept trying to touch the babies while Agni crossed his arms in an adult-like posture and kept nodding as if to say, ’I approve of this name.’

While coming, he had decided if everything went well and his siblings were born properly and healthily if his father named them some inappropriate names (according to him) , he would openly refuse the names even if he had to get beaten. And even if he did get beaten, he would not call his siblings by the trashy names his father had given them. Instead, he would give them his own names.

For example, he was named after the sacred fire, so could he name his sister Bhumi, after Mother Earth, and his brother Vayu, named after the air we breathe? But he did not have to use these names since he felt like Tanvika and Vedanta were good names.

If Vijay had known the little guy’s thoughts, he would have really given out a beating because he was naming his children, not Power Rangers or Powerpuff Girls, to give them names according to elements of nature. But on another note, not knowing caused a lot of trouble later because when Agni had his own children, the smart idiot really named his children according to the different elements of nature.

Agni not knowing he had dodged a bullet, was grinning sheepishly.

Time passed in this warm atmosphere until dinner.

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24th June 1661

"Kattappa, hand over these documents to Ganesh," Vijay ordered as he passed over a bundle of documents that he had prepared the whole afternoon yesterday.

Kattappa could see the sign of confidentiality on the document, so he took over the file and nodded seriously.

With a few royal guards in tow, Kattappa immediately set off on his horse.

Kattappa and Ganesh do not have much contact in normal times because Kattappa’s whole work is focused outside the Simhasana Bhavana, guarding its security, while Ganesh’s whole work is focused inside, acting as the chief secretary for His Majesty in the Emperor’s office. However, Kattappa is very familiar with Rajesh. He knows everything he does, even to the minute details like what sorts of food he likes and dislikes, what his habits are, what his personal relationships are like, along with many other things.

Ganesh is a very crucial figure in the Bharatiya Empire. He might not have a lot of power, but the news resources he comes across are not something even the Prime Minister can access. Hence, even though Vijay fully trusts Ganesh, it is his natural instinct to keep everything balanced. Most of the people surrounding Ganesh, working under him, although competent civil servants are also agents of the Royal Intelligence Bureau.

Kattappa, the captain of the Asura Royal Forces, a brother unit of the Royal Intelligence Bureau, naturally knows a lot about Ganesh.

"Here you go. His Majesty directed me to hand it over to you."

"Thank you, sir."

"Alright, I will take my leave then."

"Um... just a minute, sir."

"Huh? What is it?" Kattappa looked at him a little doubtfully.

Ganesh hesitantly asked, worried about what answer he would receive, "Her Majesty... is she alright?" But by the end of the question, he was relieved because he couldn’t see any sadness or worry on Kattappa’s face. Everything should have gone well, right? He thought to himself.

Kattappa smiled and nodded, "His Highness Vedhant Devaraya and Her Highness Tanwika Devaraya have been born, and Her Majesty Kavya is also safe and sound."

"Ohh, thank God. It’s a very pleasant news."

"Indeed."

"Alright then, Chief Secretary, I will take my leave if there isn’t anything else you want to ask."

"No, no, please leave and come back." (In all of our cultures, we don’t say "leave"; we say "leave and come back." I know it sounds weird in English translation, but it is what it is.)

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Ganesh immediately took the file into the office, closed his door, and carefully opened it.

"What!" he exclaimed because His Majesty really brought him a massive surprise this time. Then again, he became excited because if everything His Majesty envisioned came true, no one in the world would be able to stand against the Bharatiya Empire.

The more he flipped the pages, the more excited he became until, at last, he flipped over to machine guns and siege weapons. His mouth became dry. Although he was a novice in mechanical engineering, he did not know how difficult these weapons were, but he could imagine how devastating they would be.

"Heheh, awesome," he kept giggling. Two good news in the span of a few hours was really too much for him to handle.

Moments later, his laugh abruptly stopped, and he sternly mobilized all the resources of the Emperor’s office, split the information into batches, and sent it to the people who had to know them.

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Ministry of Finance

"WHAT!!!", A loud scream was heard from within the top floor of the Ministry of Finance headquarters. "Gasp!"

" 400 million Varaha grants for weapons research?" Fortunately, Jagannath Mohan, knowing his habit, had the whole top floor isolated so noise could not reach the lower floors.

Jagannath Mohan was breathing heavily. 400 million Varaha just for weaponry research was an obscene amount of money. You have to know, for this kind of money, a small Southeast Asian nation could build a navy of its own capable of having some say in the waters of Southeast Asia.

"Just what kind of weapons are they fucking researching," he cussed in his heart. But unfortunately, he could not reject the application because it came directly from the Simhasana Bhavana, and His Majesty had explicitly asked for the money himself.

Sigh!

Jagannath Mohan let out a foul breath, but looking at the numbers 16740681240 on the wall, his heartfelt comfortable. The GDP this year had a jump of 63% from last year. It had been around 10 billion 100 million Varaha the last financial year, but this financial year, it has jumped to sixteen billion seven hundred and forty million Varaha.

And this jump in GDP was brought by the innovations in the mining sector with the involvement of the Devaraya Atmospheric Steam Engine and the 5th generation machine tools, which made the empire overall more productive in each and every way because even the agricultural machinery saw a huge improvement. Gaur Agricultural Tools, an agricultural machinery startup five to six years ago started by a BIT graduate, is now the top agricultural manufacturing company in the empire, and they have managed to produce a harvester platform where attachments could be added to it depending on the requirements, very much similar to the tractors of the future. What’s more surprising is a special attachment could be added to the harvester, which would convert it from an animal-powered harvester to a hydraulic-powered harvester.

This came after they had purchased all the patent rights of hydraulic and steam pressure mechanisms from the government that came out of the Heyrams and Naveen’s steam pressure cannon experiment.

The cannon might have been a failure, but the technological information and competence that came out of it were not. It was clearly proved by Pranav Dixit, the founder of the company, who had his researchers do targeted research on making a harvester capable of operating with the use of pressurized water.

Although it is still a little gimmicky since the pressure of water coming out of the atmospheric steam engine Vijay produced is not too great, the vision of automation in agriculture even before the advent of combustion engines made Vijay very happy.

Anyway, coming back to the topic, Jagannath Mohan, albeit relatively reluctant, still signed the document, especially considering that His Majesty had not made too many mistakes in his career.

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Several versions of similar documents were passed on to the Prime Minister, the Marshal, and the Admiral, and the bunch of them were all surprised and left with expectations.