Hearing Aurangzeb say that the Mongolian Khan learned from the Dutch and British in doing business, Urut and Zhuo sighed, smiled bitterly and said to Aurangzeb, the richest man in the world: "Emir, you don't know something, Khan He and Chagatai Khan had no intention of learning how to do business with the Mongols, so they just robbed them and it was over. What kind of business are they doing?"
"This...is the true nature of us Mongolians!" Aurangzeb felt a little chill down his spine after hearing these words, but he still tried to stay calm - he was also a Mongolian!
Although he looks very un-Mongolian, his genealogy clearly shows that he is an out-and-out Mongolian, and he also has the blood of the Golden Family. Although it is a bit thin, there is still a bit of it.
And he himself is also a great conqueror - known as the conqueror of the world, he can conquer the whole world!
This world conqueror must be very good at grabbing money!
So he shouldn't be afraid that the Mongol Khan will come and steal his money
However, Aurangzeb was still a wise man, so he felt that he should use his extraordinary wisdom instead of force to resolve the threat from the Mughal region.
If possible, you can also borrow some "more Mongolian" Mongolians from these Mongolian relatives to rob the damn Maratha Shivaji of his money. You must let these ignorant Marathas know that we Mongolia How terrible it is to be cruel!
At this time, Urut and Zhuo sighed again, and then said to Aurangzeb: "Before entering the Mughal area, the Great Khan had heard about the fertility of the Kipchak grassland and the richness of the river area. He felt that he could cooperate with Like Genghis Khan back then, he grabbed mountains of gold and silver from the fertile river. However, when the Great Khan's cavalry arrived in Alimari and Tashkent, the Great Khan discovered that the Western Region was now in a state of desolation, and there was not much money to grab at all.
The Great Khan, Chagatai Khan, and Golden Horde Khan had spent a lot of money on this western expedition. He even owed a large debt to Han merchants in the East. If they can't grab enough money, they can only try to help those Han merchants open a land trade route to the West and India to see if they can make money through business. "
No wonder. It turns out we didn’t grab enough! Aurangzeb said in his heart: Ever since Genghis Khan burned, killed, looted and looted the river, it has started to go downhill! Later, although my ancestor Tamerlane revitalized Hezhong for a time, the good times did not last long. With the death of the great emperor, the empire fell into a long-term civil war and eventually fell apart. Hezhong, which had some signs of revival, fell into ruin again. Now, European merchants are traveling by sea to India and China, and the river is naturally in a state of collapse. Where is there enough money to plunder for the Great Mongolia, Golden Horde and Chagatai Khanate?
It seems that this group of Mongolians who have risen again don't know the market very well, and maybe they can take advantage of it.
Thinking of this, Aurangzeb considered this and said: "Yes, the decline of Hezhong is because the trade routes are cut off. This is all the fault of the Uzbeks who rule Hezhong who only know how to fight and do not know how to develop trade! If the Khan hopes to revive the trade routes in Hezhong , I am willing to do my best to help Aamir Khan!"
"Alamgir, what are your orders?" Amir Khan immediately bowed to Aurangzeb.
"Amir Khan, I order you to go to the Khan's court as my envoy together with my son Akbar, and present the gifts of our Tamerlane Khan to the Great Khan, and at the same time, together with the Great Khan, Chagatai Khan, The Golden Horde Khan negotiates the terms for the Mongolian East India Trading Company to enter the Indian trade. Remember, the Great Khan cannot lose money in his business, and must give the Mongolian East India Company the most favorable terms!"
After all, Aurangzeb was punished by the Uzbeks in Central Asia, so he knew how many ruthless people there were in the Mughal region of Central Asia. The "ruthless people" who could get ahead in that area must be extremely ruthless. Yes, so if you can coax, just coax people with virtue!
"As you command, Your Majesty Alamgir."
Aurangzeb waved his hand, interrupted Amir Khan and said: "Call me Timur Khan!"
"Yes, as ordered, Timur Khan!"
Aurangzeb nodded, then pointed at Urut and Zhuo, and said to Amir Khan: "Amir Khan, you and Akbar will entertain the envoy of the Mongol Khan for me!"
"As you command, Timur Khan."
"Akbar, Aamir Khan. What else did you get out of that Urut and Zhuo?"
On the afternoon of the next day after Aurangzeb summoned Urut Khozo, the Khan of India's "Timur Khanate" listened to the report of his most trusted governor and son in the Red Fort Palace.
"Father," a tall, fair-skinned young man who was somewhat similar to Aurangzeb preached to Aurangze, "according to what this Urut and Zhuo said after being drunk, the Great Khan of Mongolia is now Not a real Mongolian, but a Jurchen emperor with some Mongolian ancestry inherited from the women of the Golden Family, and his surname was not the noble Boljijin, but Aisin Gioro and Wu .”
"Aisin Gioro and Wu are so long!" Aurangzeb complained, "Where is Chagatai Khan? Isn't he also the same Jurchen?"
"No, no, he is a Mongolian. Chagatai Khan Simayi is the descendant of Said who fought with our ancestor Babur the Great."
"Oh, he is a real Jaghatai," Aurangzeb nodded, "But his ancestors don't seem to be very good at fighting. How is he? Is he powerful?"
"Not great," Prince Akbar said.
"How is that possible? Didn't it mean that the coalition forces of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate were defeated by them?"
"In fact, it was the armies of the Golden Horde Khan and the Khan of the Western Zhou Dynasty that defeated the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate."
"Why are you sweating again?" Aurangzeb frowned, "How many khanates are there under this great Mongolian country?"
This person was sweating, that person was sweating, and Aurangzeb almost fainted with sweat.
"Father, this Khan of the Western Zhou Dynasty is not a Mongolian," Akbar said, "but a Chinese Han. He is the emperor of the Western Zhou Kingdom, one of the three kingdoms of China today. His surname is Wu and his given name is Shifan. He is Chagatai Khan. Sima Yi's son-in-law was also Sima Yi's backer. Sima Yi relied on his army to secure Chagatai Khan. The real power of Chagatai Khan was probably in the hands of this minister sent by Tian Khan of the Western Zhou Dynasty. "
"It's so complicated!" Aurangzeb frowned, "What about the Golden Horde? Are their Khans Mongolian?"
"Yes, the name of the Golden Horde Khan is Choros Galdan." Prince Akbar said, "Urut and Zhuo said that he is a Mongol Khan who is most like a Mongolian. His army was originally Mughal. The most powerful in the region. But when the armies of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Mongol Khan arrived in the Mongol area, Galdan's army was not worthy enough. So he had to seek refuge with the Mongol Khan and accepted the Golden Horde Khan Banned."
It still sounded a bit confusing. The more Aurangzeb listened, the more confused he became, so he stopped asking. Instead, he said to the Governor of Afghanistan, "Amir Khan, this time you and Akbar will go to the Kuritai Conference together." We must take the opportunity to find out the reality of this Khan and that Khan, and then sign a trade agreement with them depending on the situation. In terms of money, there is no need to argue with them, after all, Mongolians all over the world are one family!"
Amir Khan said respectfully: "Yes, Timur Khan!"
Prince Akbar looked at Amir Khan in surprise: "Amir Khan, what do you call my father?"
"Called Timur Khan!" Aurangzeb said calmly, "Although we in India do not want to call ourselves Moguls (that is, Mughals), and our country is also called the Hindustan Empire, but As a devout Tianfang believer, you should learn to be flexible!"
Learn to be flexible? Akbar was dumbfounded. Could his father Aurangzeb say this?
Aurangzeb looked normal and said calmly: "Akbar, please remember that everything your father Aurangzeb did was just to unify India and turn this fragmented area like a plate of sand into A unified empire. By then, there will be no Marathas, Bengalis, Rajputs, Afghans, Mughals in India, only Indians!
In order to achieve this ambitious goal, sometimes I have to be a tough king, sometimes I have to be a conservative Tianfang believer, and sometimes I have to be a Khan of the Mongolian Khanate who believes in Tianfang religion! '
If those khanates with Mongol signs are really powerful, then we must be a Mongol khanate! Otherwise, they will turn all or part of India into a Mongol Khanate, but such a Mongol Khanate will have nothing to do with us. My dear son, do you understand? "
"I understand, I understand," Akbar nodded, "If you can't beat us, join us."
Aurangzeb finally showed a smile: "Very good! Then starting from tomorrow, you will start learning Mongolian and horse riding and archery. You will also wear Mongolian robes and drink wine and eat meat like the Mongols!"
"Drink?" Akbar was stunned, "I am a Tianfang believer, can I drink?"
Aurangzeb smiled and nodded: "How can a prince of the Mongol Khanate not know how to drink?"
While Prince Akbar was learning to be a Mongolian, the real Mongolian Galdan was learning from Wu Shicong and Wu Xuanye in the military camp outside Tashkent how to fight without using Mongolian methods.
I saw two armies conducting exercises on a fairly open campus covered with white snow. One side of the exercise is three battalions of fusiliers and one battalion of cavalry. They have set up a classic "queue to kill formation", in which the three battalions of fusiliers formed horizontal lines and columns respectively. The two battalions on the left and center formed a large front and rear formation, while the battalion on the right formed a tight column. Behind the right column is a battalion of powerful lancers.
On the other side, there were also three battalions of fusiliers and one battalion of cavalry. The fusiliers of the three battalions were arranged in two large horizontal formations at the front and rear, and the cavalry was evenly distributed on both wings.
The two armies pretending to face each other were the Western Expeditionary Army of the Zhou Dynasty led by Wu Shicong and the Western Expeditionary Army of the Qing Dynasty led by Kangxi Khan Wu Xuanye.
These two armies are new armies formed to defend the Ming Army's model army. They are not large in scale. Among them, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty has a total of twelve battalions, including eight fusiliary battalions, one artillery battalion, and two cavalry battalions. An engineering battalion has a total strength of more than 10,000 troops. Kangxi's Western Expedition of the Qing Dynasty had one more cavalry battalion than the Western Expedition of the Zhou Dynasty, with a total of thirteen battalions and a total strength of more than 10,000.
In addition to these two armies, Wu Shicong and Wu Xuanye each led a garrison army - the army that was preparing to set up bases in the Western Regions. The scale was not large, counting only officers and soldiers, they were around 30,000.
These two garrison armies are composed of ten mixed garrison brigades. Each garrison brigade has 3,000 people and is equipped with artillery, matchlocks, spears, swords, shields and war horses. It is a more traditional mixture of hot and cold weapons. army. And all the officers and soldiers brought their families.
According to the plan, these twenty mixed farming brigades will establish farming strongholds in the Hezhong area and the Qinchak grassland respectively. A total of twenty strongholds have been established, and each stronghold must have a strong bastion, which is quite particular.
Golden Horde Khan Galdan and Chagatai Khan Sima Yi both "swimmed" over with their respective nomadic tribes. They didn't all come at once, but each brought a ten thousand household.
There was also a Turghut tribe that was nomadic on the Volga River. When they heard that the Mongol Khan was marching west again, they also came here. This is a "big gang" with tens of thousands of households!
In addition, there are also Kazakhs who have surrendered to the Great Mongolia - they also have Mongolian ancestry, and the Kazakh Khans also come from the line of Golden Horde Khans.
So now the Mongol Khan's Western Expedition army is pieced together, and the scale is still quite large. There are already hundreds of thousands of troops not counting his family members!
As far as Central Asia is concerned, it is simply invincible!
However, being invincible does not mean that there is some profit. Wu Lute and Zhuo did not lie. Kangxi and Wu Shicong, the two "colonizer apprentices", have now lost money!
Success is hard-won. It’s easy to watch others buy for zero yuan, but it’s your turn to buy for zero yuan. You can actually lose money on this zero-dollar purchase!
Moreover, the losses were quite large. The two of them alone brought out more than 80,000 officers and soldiers, not including their families. How big was the investment? In the current Mughal area, even if you scrape the ground three feet away, you won't be able to get rid of it!
Although both of them could seize a lot of territory through this Western Expedition, it could be used as a retreat for the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qing Dynasty. But economic losses will also weaken their ability to resist Ming's attacks in the future.
And you must not give up the newly won territory. This is a retreat. If you give up, if you can't defend the territory in the Central Plains, won't there be no end?
So they have to grit their teeth and continue to invest resources in it!
Because they had suffered too much loss, Wu Shicong and Wu Xuanye, who were commanding the troops for the exercise, did not look good. Although their Western Expeditionary Army performed well, under the control of the drums, horns, flags and officers, Move forward and retreat freely. Even the right wing of Wu Shicong's Western Expeditionary Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty simulated a "right hook" and made a virtual attack on the left wing of Wu Xuanye's Western Expeditionary Army of the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, Wu Shicong's left wing deliberately dragged its feet and moved very slowly, thereby delaying the time of contact with the dominant Qing army's right wing!
I have to say that this exercise was very well organized!
Even Galdan, who was watching and studying with Wu Xuanye and Wu Shicong, couldn't help but cheer loudly.
Wu Xuanye and Wu Shicong both turned around and glanced at this Mongolian young man with a very good face, who seemed to be very close to Buddhism at first sight. Wu Xuanye squeezed out a smile and said to him in Mongolian: "Galdan, wait until Buha is defeated." Ra and Samarkand, you and Sima Yi should also have an army of three to four thousand each. If we can gather a strong force of thirty thousand, we should be able to defeat the Rakshasa people, right?"
"Yes! It must be possible!" Galdan said with a smile, "Kangxi Anda, Yushuai Anda, although the Rakshasa Cossack cavalry is very strong, their infantry is far behind your infantry. And the Kipchak The grassland is far away from the Rakshasa's capital, and their army may not be able to come. What we need to consider is how to remove the Rakshasa people's fortress. The Rakshasa people are very good at building fortresses, and we have almost no way to break the larger ones they built. 's castle."
The Rakshasa people bullied the Mongols in the Siberian mountains and forests or on the Khalkha Mongolia, and it was enough to rely on a small number of brave Cossacks and advanced firearms. But to deal with the powerful Mongol Khanate like Junggar, which also has many muskets, a small number of Cossacks are simply not enough. Before the reform of Peter the Great, the Rakshasa did not have a European-style army to use. They relied on the shooting army and aristocratic militia, and they would not take any advantage at the hands of the Dzungars.
However, the Rakshasa people still have a way. Their way is to build a simple bastion. Although the bastion is simple, it is enough for the Junggar people who have no artillery and are not good at attacking cities.
"What's so difficult about this?" Wu Xuanye laughed, "Isn't it just a fortress? Li Zhongshan built one many years ago. It was a Portuguese fortress in Macau! I can also do his method, and I will teach you later. !”
Kangxi was also a master of learning. The parallel trench siege method used by Li Zhongshan was mastered by Kangxi after studying it with battle examples - it was nothing more than digging trenches to create blind spots, and then deploying direct-fire artillery to bombard the city directly.
When Galdan was about to say thank you, he heard the sound of horse hoofbeats. Looking back, it turned out that two flying horses, Suo'etu and Nan Huairen, arrived in front of Kangxi.
"Great Khan," Suo Etu Gong cupped his hands and said, "Tang Ma came to report just now, saying that two missions have just arrived from Aral Sea City, one from the Planning Rakshasa and one from the Ottomans!"
Kangxi was stunned, "What? The Ottoman envoy and the Rakshasa envoy came together? Aren't they hostile?"
Nan Huairen said: "Great Khan, the Ottomans have obviously made peace with the Rakshasa people. After all, the reputation of Mongolia is a bit scary!"
Kangxi smiled: "Let's do it together. I just want to open a trade route to the Western Regions, and at the same time let the Rakshasa people return the Siberian Khanate to me. Isn't this a high request?"
Wu Shicong laughed and said: "Not high, not high at all. Our great Mongolian country has this strength!"
(End of chapter)
