When Li Jicheng led a group of people into the Orissa Province of India, it was the winter of the 18th year of Hongxing's reign here in the Ming Dynasty, and the New Year was about to take place. Zhu Cixiang, who had been the leader of the Ming Dynasty for eighteen years, did not know at this time that his old enemy, the Dashun Empire, was invading India.
However, he still cares about India, an ancient civilization, especially after he read Princess Nisha's poems translated by Persian experts in Taixue, and he fell in love with India even more...
Unlike Li Jicheng, a bandit who only liked the wealth of Indians, Zhu Cixiang sincerely wanted to be friends with the Timurid Empire in India.
In his view, an independent Indian Timurid Empire was in line with the long-term interests of the Ming Dynasty. Because he knew that the reason why the British Empire became a super power in history was because of its exploitation of Indian Asan! Without the 230 million Indian Asan working for the UK, how could the UK have become an empire on which the sun never sets so easily?
Therefore, Zhu Cixi's India policy is to maintain the Timurid Empire as much as possible, establish a lasting alliance with the Timurid Empire, and not allow any Western powers to invade India!
Of course, Ming Dynasty himself would not invade India. Because the Ming Dynasty did not have the ability to exclude other powers while invading India, the invasion of India could easily turn into carving up India... How much can the Ming Dynasty divide? Not a good deal!
In addition, India has too many people, and it is too embarrassed to eliminate them - people just want to live in peace and become untouchables, who can bear to eliminate them? Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's occupation of India must be short-lived, and may even have very negative consequences.
Such as the unification of India and the end of the caste system in India!
These two major events that may lead to the rise of India in the future cannot be achieved by the Indians themselves or the external Timurid Empire. Even if Aurangzeb could rely on thugs brought from Central Asia to temporarily unify India, long-term division is indeed inevitable.
Because the Timur Empire is internally unstable, there is no system that can ensure long-term peace and stability for the country. Every succession of the throne is a conflict, and sooner or later it will be shattered - this system is not unique to the Timur Empire, all This is true for all Tianfang religious countries, including the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottoman Empire developed the "Parricide Law of Succession", which to a certain extent overcame the problem of internal strife, so it was able to confront the Christian world for a long time.
Therefore, it is definitely most beneficial to the Ming Empire to maintain the Timur Empire as much as possible instead of destroying it!
However, Zhu Cixi will not lower his standards for concubines just because he wants to establish friendly relations with the Timurid Empire... The examination for Princess Nessa must have high standards and strict requirements!
Zhu Cibing, who had just graduated from Yingtian Taixue, is now bringing four older widowed maids with thick limbs, who at first glance appear to be from working people (they will accompany Zhu Cibing to visit Princess Nesa, and they will also be responsible for serving the princess). Princess physical examination), listening to Emperor Zhu explain the key points of the assessment in the Yanshan Hall of Laoshan Palace.
"Lao Liu, how did your Arabic test go?" Zhu Cixiang asked about Zhu Cibing's foreign language scores.
The Imperial College run by Emperor Zhu was actually an institution of higher learning that focused on liberal arts and science. It offered many foreign language courses, including Latin, French, Dutch, English, German, Arabic and Persian - the purpose of offering these foreign language courses. , of course in order to better interpret "Zi Lun Ge Wu Chapter"!
Because scholars of Taixue have discovered that Eastern and Western studies on studying things are the same. Learning Western studies on studying matters is very beneficial to studying "Zi Lun on Studying Things".
Zhu Cibing was proficient in French before he was admitted to Taixue University. He could read the French versions of mathematical works from Europe (he majored in arithmetic), but there were also many arithmetic works from Tianfang Sect and India, so he took Arabic as an elective. .
"Good test," Zhu Cibing said with a smile, "I should be able to talk to Princess Nessa in Arabic."
The collection of poems that Princess Nisha gave to Zhu Cixiang was written in both Persian and Arabic languages, so Zhu Cixiang knew that Princess Nisha's Arabic was good.
"Very good," Zhu Cixiang nodded, "Then you can test her in Arabic... Have you thought of all the questions?"
"I've already thought about it," Zhu Cibing said with a smile, "Study Euclid's "Elements of Geometry"... King Sengge's memorial said that Princess Nisha is proficient in arithmetic, so she must have studied "Elements of Geometry" , because "Elements of Geometry" was translated from Arabic and Persian. If she can really master it, then I will congratulate my brother."
Of course, Zhu Cixiang had mastered the mathematical knowledge in "Elements of Geometry" a long time ago, and he had also read the original text and knew that the most exciting part of this book lay in its rigorous logical reasoning - this is the foundation of mathematics!
If someone can read "Elements of Geometry" intensively, then this person's logical thinking ability will definitely not be bad. If a young and beautiful woman can read "Elements of Geometry" mainly by self-study without receiving systematic mathematics education, then she is definitely worthy of Zhu Cixiang!
"Very good!" Zhu Cixiang was very satisfied with this brother. "Lao Liu, among my brothers, you are the smartest. Work hard. When Jinling Women's University is established, you will be the first secretary!"
Siye is the principal. Jinling Women's University is the alma mater of the future concubines of the Ming Dynasty. Siye of Jinling Women's University is very impressive. The future queens, concubines, and princesses will all be his students. If the wind blows around this pillow, it will be like a pig. It can blow to the sky.
"My brother will live up to the trust of the emperor." Zhu Cibing was of course very satisfied with the work assigned to him by Emperor Zhu, and he quickly stood up and bowed to express his thanks.
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "Lao Liu, let's go after the New Year...remember, go and come back quickly!"
He paused, "I have just received a report from the Northwest Army. Aurangzeb has abandoned Samarkand and returned to Tianzhu with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the river. It is estimated that he should be able to return to Delhi next summer. By then you We’ve almost arrived in Tianzhu.”
Of course Zhu Cibing understood his brother's sentiments about his talent, and quickly assured him: "Brother, don't worry, I will seize the time and bring Princess Nisha back to you before the end of next year."
"Don't forget to test her carefully!" Zhu Cixiang warned with a smile, "The dowry cannot be missing... Tianzhu's wealth is second only to China. If the dowry is too small, it will not show the nobility of the princess! "
"My brother understands!" Zhu Cibing said, "The princess's dowry must not be less than 100,000 taels of gold!"
Now the gold price in Ming Dynasty has been in line with international standards. 100,000 taels of gold is almost 1.3 million to 1.4 million taels of silver, which is indeed a lot... At least in the eyes of Emperor Zhu, it is already very satisfactory!
However, if Princess Nesa knew about Zhu Cixiang's asking price at this time, she would definitely not be satisfied - it was too little!
It cannot reflect the value of this princess at all... because this princess is no longer an unmarried girl, but a rich widow!
The reason why she was "widowed" was because she did not hold a wedding ceremony with Prince Alim at all, let alone a bridal chamber. But she still held a grand funeral for them both as the widow of Prince Alim and the daughter-in-law of Anusha Khan.
Now that Anusha Khan is "dead", Prince Alim is also dead, and the other sons of Anusha Khan are "missing", so the more than 10,000 Uzbek cavalry who stayed with Prince Alim in Samarkand can only To pledge allegiance to Princess Nisha, and then Princess Nisha would pledge allegiance to Aurangzeb on their behalf... After doing this, Princess Nisha was not only a princess of the Timurid Empire in India, but He was also a vassal under Emperor Timur of India!
She cannot keep the territory and the army, but a generous annuity is indispensable - according to Aurangzeb's decree, after returning to India, her annuity will be increased from the original 400,000 rupees per year. to 10 lakhs.
In addition, Aurangzeb will also make up for the dowry she did not pay when she married Prince Alim, a total of 5 million rupees!
