Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

That one match made him hooked on wrestling, and he hasn't let go of it ever since. Many people tried to persuade him to look for other job opportunities in bigger cities since all of his neighbours were getting pretty rich by doing construction jobs. Meanwhile, he, despite passing the first level of the literacy test—which certified him as capable of reading and writing the Bharati language at a basic level—was spending most of his time in a wrestling ring while doing some menial jobs on the side to maintain his life.

It was not like Maharana Pratap wasn't interested in making money and becoming richer. No, it was the exact opposite. Maharana Pratap really wanted to make a lot of money and, in one step, reach the top. But unfortunately, he was too demanding, and he knew that normal construction jobs or the regular jobs he could get with his first-level literacy degree wouldn't take him far. Instead, they would imprison him within their system like a quagmire.

Maharana Pratap always believed that one day His Majesty would hold a big event surrounding sports, and it was this belief that propelled him to go deeper and deeper into the world of wrestling. Everyone called him mad when his intensity of training increased instead of decreasing, but he knew that he was not crazy. From the time physical education was made a mandatory course throughout the educational system of the Bharatiya Empire, he already knew that sports in the Bharatiya Empire were held in very high regard, at least by His Majesty, the Emperor.

So, believing his deductions and trusting his instincts, which were screaming that he was making the right choice 100%, he went on with his training. Very soon, around three years after he started his training, he had defeated all the wrestlers in his city and the neighbouring cities. He was left with no opponents. So, in order to not digress in his skill, he travelled all over the southern part of the empire, looking for wrestling centres to fully hone his skills.

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed, and finally, his dream came true when the government announced the Aikyotsava Festival, a festival celebrating the unity of the empire in the form of a sports competition.

That night, when he read the news about the Aikyotsava event, he jumped around in joy, catching all his students—whom he had brought up—by surprise, as they had never seen their master act like that. They had only seen him as strict and disciplined.

Without hesitation, Maharana Pratap signed up for the wrestling competition, and without surprise, he easily won the district-level championship and the state-level championship. Finally, he got into the final arena and continuously won the preliminaries and semifinals, competing against various wrestlers from different states.

In the end, unfortunately, he lost against a wrestler from Punjab. Although he had the technique down to a tee, his opponent did not lack technique either. Additionally, his opponent had a size advantage. Even though he tried to use his nimbleness to make a difference, it ended up not helping much since his opponent predicted his move and completely took advantage of his smaller size to suplex him, which ended the match.

That was almost eight months ago, and the aftereffects of the loss were devastating to him. But he did not sulk for long, since the whole reason he had dedicated six years of his life to hard wrestling training was not because he wanted to be the best wrestler in the empire. It was just that he realized he was fond of wrestling—or sports in general—so he thought wrestling would be the window to his future, and he was right.

Getting to the final and being sponsored by the Shetty Company brought him a lot of wealth, which he considered his first pot of gold. Using this money, he used his experience in the Aikyotsava event to hold a few tournaments in his local area.

At first, he was reserved and only held a taluk-level wrestling championship with the prize money being only 500 Varaha. But unexpectedly, he underestimated his popularity when the tournament he was holding was publicized through word of mouth. Nearly 300 wrestlers showed up to his event, so immediately he had to raise the prize money to 2000 Varaha for first place, 1000 Varaha for second place, and 500 Varaha for third place.

Additionally, he invited the construction company he knew and had them build a wooden compound high enough so that no one could jump inside the compound and no one could escape. He added two doors—one for entry and the other for exit—as well as an emergency door according to the Bharatiya Standards Organization procedures and charged 5 Varaha per entry to view the tournament.

He was lucky because the area where he held the tournament was right next to a national key project—the National Highway construction project—so there were a lot of labourers with pocket money in his area. The investment he had made at the beginning, thinking it would be a loss, immediately brought him a lot of profit—around 9800 Varaha to be exact—since nearly 3250 viewers showed up.

His eyes lit up after this one tournament, and he realized for the first time that he could leverage his fame from the national competition to start a new kind of business. Maharana Pratap, who had initially started his tournament organizing business with a reserved wrestling tournament, began to expand the sports he held. Around four months ago, he found out that team sports attracted a lot more crowds than single-player contact sports, so he completely switched to team sports, with the main events being cricket tournaments, football tournaments, and Kabaddi tournaments.

The word of mouth spread unexpectedly, and his events even attracted some companies for advertisements.

After organizing all these events nonstop all over the southern part of the empire, he had already earned nearly 265,000 Varaha, officially breaking through the middle class of the Bharatiya Empire and entering the ranks of the elite.

A few weeks ago, he decided to fully invest in the construction of a permanent stadium built with bricks and cement, with a seating capacity of 20,000 people, in order to host his events without having to pay rent to landowners and a lot of money to the construction companies.

The stadium he had planned was designed in such a way that it could host all sports events with minimal modifications. For this stadium, he had invested almost 90% of his assets and had also taken a small loan so that he could host tournaments on the side to further fund the construction of the stadium.

Today, like all the other days, he had come to the construction site to inspect the progress of his stadium, but unexpectedly, he received the letter from the Emperor's office.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The rest of the events that followed were history.

Maharana Pratap's emotions were greatly stirred since his decade of hard work was finally paying off, but he was also a little sad since he would have to put an end to his current profession and most likely find buyers for his stadium. According to the instructions given in the letter, he was required to have no assets directly tied to the sports industry, whether it was owning a stadium, owning a sports equipment manufacturing company, holding stakes in such a company, or other related ventures.

This might have been a tough decision for anyone else, but for Maharana Pratap, it wasn't very hard because everything he had done was to reach his ultimate goal, and becoming a stadium tycoon was never part of that vision. With only a little hesitation, he immediately sold his stadium to a local buyer at a higher cost because he had already demonstrated the profitability of holding sports tournaments. At the same time, news of his appointment as the Minister of Sports had spread throughout his locality, giving the buyer the impression that the sports industry in the Bharatiya Empire was about to experience significant growth, especially since they all knew that Maharana Pratap was a person who couldn't stand still and would organize tournaments almost every month.

In fact, the buyer's assumption was correct since, only a few days after the construction of the stadium was completed, it was rented by the local college to host a district college championship. Later, far into the future, it was sold for 3 million Varaha to a local cricket club, bringing in profits nearly 12 times the original investment.

Maharana Pratap officially took over the position of Minister in the Ministry of Sports, and he was formally introduced to his powers by His Excellency, the Prime Minister.

After gaining a clear understanding of what His Majesty expected from him, he decisively delved into the work of regulating sports and establishing guidelines for their growth across the Bharatiya Empire. Within a month, he had laid down the framework, and the Ministry of Sports was officially formalized by integrating it into the Cabinet and legalizing it through an announcement in the newspapers.

A few weeks after Maharana Pratap came up with the framework, the Royal Family officially established the five sports organizations in the Bharatiya Empire, which would go on to become international organizations, each worth billions of Varahas.