Henry Chu opened the car curtain and took a look outside the car. The streets are full of vendors selling flying pancakes, fried samosas, lassi yogurt, and boyani rice stew.
The loud and low voices of hawkers lingered in my ears, and the aroma of food mixed with the stinky smells of various livestock floated over the entire street. This capital of the Timur Dynasty in India is a city of Tianfang religion and a gathering place of India's wealth. Although the streets are a bit bumpy, the buildings on both sides are decent, no less than Nanjing and Shanghai. The majestic Badshahi Mosque and the magnificent castle and palace stand tall, as if to show the glory and honor of Timur's empire to all visitors.
Although the eastern coast of this empire has been plundered by enemies from the sea recently, half of Golconda was even lost after many years of hard work. But anyone who really knows this country knows that the Timur Empire is at its peak... This country has never been as powerful as it is now!
Because the foundation of Timur's empire was never in the east, not in Bengal, nor in Golconda. The foundations of this empire and the Tianfang Empire that conquered India earlier have always been in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and distant Central Asia!
This is not just a matter of troop sources!
As long as foreigners have lived in the Tianfang Sect empire or the princely states in India for a period of time, they will come to the conclusion that this country cannot live without masters from Afghanistan and Central Asia, because only these foreign masters can bring things to India. good governance.
They are more serious and proactive, and they are not particularly keen on forming gangs and forming small groups. Moreover, they are not particularly corrupt. In fact, they are all good masters of the Indian people!
Therefore, the Tianfang Sect regime in India must rely on foreign masters to govern in a decent manner - in fact, other Tianfang Sect regimes have the situation of "foreign masters are easy to get things done". If there were no foreign masters, the Tianfang Sect's regime would soon become decadent and powerless...
Before Aurangzeb "conquered" Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the Timurid Empire had been suffering from the "severance of confessions" for many years, so much so that a Celestial Empire had to rely on the belief in Hindu Rajput Kshatriyas to support its appearance. , one can only imagine what the real power is. In the original history, it was only with Aurangzeb, the "Puritan" emperor, who worked hard to supervise, that Timur's empire could barely maintain its fierce appearance of showing off its teeth and claws to scare people.
Today, the Timur Empire already has sufficient and reliable supplies from Afghan and Central Asian masters, and it can also get supplies from the highest-grade "Xiao Ge Lao" among the foreign masters! Ever since Central Asia was enlightened by Tianfang, the Indian people have never had such a high-quality master.
Therefore, the current Indian Timurid Empire is indeed in a state of subversion, so much so that Aurangzeb can move his capital from hot Delhi back to cooler Lahore. In this summer, he even led The court and courtiers went to Kabul, Afghanistan, to spend the summer... After Babur the Great, the founding king of the Timurid Empire in India, no Timurid emperor could do this for more than a hundred years!
King Henry and the charter king Zhu Cibing from the Ming Dynasty also followed Aurangzeb and his courtiers to the cool Kabul.
There, they met the "Xiao Ge Lao" regiment from Central Asia. The official name of this slave army is the "Mongolian People's Army". According to the official statement of the Timurid Empire, the teenagers who joined the Mongolian People's Army were all from the Kipchak Grassland (Kazakhstan), with Mongolian ancestry, and none of them were from Tianfang before joining the army. Believers - they must pass the exam to prove that they are not believers, otherwise they will lose the opportunity to join the legion... The exam is of course very difficult. Questions given by Aurangzeb himself can be used to test the Tianfang religion. College students.
It is said that the results of the "Xiao Ge Lao Enlistment Examination" are generally zero points. If anyone can get a three or five points (total score of 100), it must be the "Mongolian academic master" from Central Asia. Absolutely Worth focusing on cultivating.
In addition to the "Old Army of the Xiaoge", King Henry and King Charter also met the new army of the Timur Empire. This army was trained with the help of officers from the Safavid dynasty of Persia - these Safavid dynasty officers originally served in the new army trained with the help of the British. After II's death, he quickly declined, and the New Army, which was originally regarded as the backbone of the country, was also close to being depleted. As a result, a large number of officers of the new Persian army who knew some European phalanx tactics were recruited to India by Aurangzeb.
With their efforts, a new army with as many as 80,000 people as its backbone "old soldiers" from Central Asia is rapidly taking shape - although the combat effectiveness of this army is not as good as that of Dashun trained by French military advisers.
When the autumn of 1674 arrived, Aurangzeb and his courtiers returned to Lahore under the escort of this new army.
With 80,000 new troops on hand, Aurangzeb became much stronger and finally had some confidence to "colonize Europe".
Today he invited Zhu Cibing and Zhu Henry to the palace to discuss this matter.
When the carriage shared by the two Ming princes arrived at the square outside the palace, Henry Zhu saw a very luxuriously decorated Western four-wheeled carriage at a glance. He said to Zhu Cibing very excitedly: "Uncle Six, that is Ah King Fangso’s carriage also came to Lahore, it seems Aurangzeb has made up his mind to send troops to Europe!”
Zhu Cibing also poked his head out and took a look, and saw the carriage and several Western knights in plate armor guarding the carriage. He smiled and said: "He will not be forced to convert under the pressure of Aurangzeb." Did Tianfang teach it?”
Aurangzeb had no interest in colonizing Europe before, so he did not regard King Alfonso who was wandering in Goa as a particularly useful bargaining chip. Not only did he not want to help him recover, but he wanted him to convert to the Tianfang religion. From now on Just stay in India and become a heavenly prince...
Of course King Alfonso refused. Goa was a Catholic territory, and if he wanted to join the Tianfang Sect, he would not be able to control the situation.
And...his authority in Goa comes from Catholicism-Goa's Catholics all swear allegiance to him, the God-appointed king!
If King Alfonso became a Tianfang cultist, then according to the Tianfang Cult’s “Beheading Inheritance Law”, his head should be cut off and put in a box and sent to Lisbon!
So when Zhu Cibing and Henry Zhu walked into the forty-column hall of the palace together, King Alfonso was frowning as he listened to Aurangzeb's introduction to the benefits of Tianfang Religion.
"Alfonso, if you become a Tianfang cultist, you can marry four wives and have an unlimited number of female slaves...and you don't have to worry about being overthrown by an unfaithful wife. In the culture of Tianfang Cult, According to tradition, this is not allowed! Even if you cannot satisfy your wife in that regard!"
His words were translated into Portuguese by a Goan nobleman (Portuguese) who could speak Portuguese and Urdu, and King Alfonso sweated profusely after hearing this.
"Alam Gil, my new wife Maria is pregnant... this spring!"
"Really?" Aurangzeb looked suspicious. At this time, Zhu Cibing and Zhu Henry walked in. The sharp-eyed Aurangzeb saw it. Aurangzeb spoke to Henry Zhu in Chinese (he was also a top student). Said: "King Henry, there is good news. Maria, the wife of the King of Goa, is pregnant!"
After hearing this, Zhu Cibing immediately turned back to look at his nephew, and saw that Henry Zhu had a guilty look on his face... But King Henry reacted quickly, and immediately smiled and said to Alfonso in French: "Your Majesty the King, congratulations. , now the rumors slandering you can be disproven!"
King Alfonso nodded, "Yes! As long as I return to Portugal with my child, I will definitely be loved by the people!"
