Delhi Palace, audience hall.

"Your Majesty Alamgir, what are you talking about? Our Ming Dynasty must partially restore slavery in order to form an alliance with India? However, whether our Ming Dynasty has slavery has anything to do with your Indian Timurid Empire? Do you still plan to come to my court?

Buying slaves on the land of China? Your Indian Timurid Empire rules so many untouchables, and you still need to buy slaves from abroad? Even if you want to buy slaves, can't you buy them in Africa? We will completely, completely, and forever abolish slavery tomorrow.

Got it!"

The person who was talking endlessly about the "Abolition of Slavery Declaration" in Persian was the Ming Dynasty envoy and Minister of Foreign Affairs Luo Zhichen. He thought that this trip to India was just to run errands, get gold plating, and maybe hook up with a man who could sing well.

The dancing Rajput girl - before he came to India, he had already inquired with the Indian businessmen in Shanghai. His family's hundreds of years of scholarly family status makes him the highest-ranking Brahmin caste in India! And he is also a very rich man.

The Brahmins...

But he never expected that the "Yingtian-Delhi Axis" was about to be completed, everything was negotiated, the trade agreement was no problem, it was easy to open a business office in Surat, and the arms deal was even easier to negotiate.

The warships of the Ming Dynasty entered the ports controlled by the Timurid Empire in India without hesitation, and they also had a very pleasant discussion about the division of spheres of influence in Central Asia...but in the end they got stuck on the slave trade.

Aurangzeb didn't know what medicine he took wrongly, so he insisted that Ming Dynasty allow the slave trade!

But the Ming Empire now prohibits the slave trade - in the few years when Zhu Cixi first arrived in Jiangnan, there were slave rebellions in Jiangnan every once in a while, which made the Ming court extremely tired of the slave-holding issue both inside and outside the court.

There came a knife-edge, and slavery was abolished forever.

Of course, there are always various exceptions in the feudal dynasty! Now in the entire Ming Dynasty, there is still one place where legal slaves exist, and that is the Ming Palace! However, the number of slaves is very small, and there are only a small number of non-conquering eunuchs and criminal palaces.

Talents are slaves.

Oh, there was also one who was born into slavery, the cheap daughter Kong Sizhen gave birth to for Fan Wencheng (Fan Wencheng was really capable. He didn't even touch Kong Sizhen, but she got him bad! Can you get pregnant just by looking at her?)

, I have always been a slave, and now I have grown into a big girl...

But these slaves are all problems left over from history and will eventually be completely solved in the future.

Aurangzeb, the emperor of the Timurid Empire in India, not only failed to realize the great progress made by the Ming Empire in abolition of slavery, but instead hoped that the Ming Dynasty would roll back on slavery, and also grossly interfered in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, which was really inappropriate.

Aurangzeb also nodded a little when he listened to Luo Zhichen's very non-standard Persian. First, it was difficult to listen; second, he didn't know how to explain the importance of the slave trade to the friendship between Ming and India...

He didn't know what to say, so he glanced at Shesta Khan on the side - I don't know what to say, so you should tell me!

Shasta Khan considered his words and spoke slowly: "Ambassador, maybe in your country, becoming a slave is a very unfortunate thing, but in our world of Tianfang Religion, becoming a slave of the Sultan or Emir,

Sometimes it is the first rung of an upward ladder... For some, only by becoming the slaves of sultans and emirs in their youth is the possibility of a brilliant future later on.

Of course, not all slaves are likely to have a brilliant future. Only slaves from specific regions, such as those from Central Asia, what you call the Western Region, and those from the Caucasus and the Balkans

Only after becoming the slaves of powerful people like the Sultan or Emir can a boy receive good education and training, and then become an excellent warrior, serve in the most elite pro-army, and become the pillar of the country.

After they have served the Sultan or Emir for a certain number of years, they will have a great chance of becoming a respected official, and sometimes even a high-ranking official! For example, the successive Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire

, there are many slave warriors from Ganeshali...

In fact, what we want to buy from Central Asia is not slaves doing hard work, but Guards soldiers, future high-ranking officials of the Timur Empire!"

What? Indians want to buy slave children from the Western Regions and bring them back to China to train them as soldiers and high-ranking officials? Luo Zhichen really doesn’t know what to say - will all the ministers in India have to purchase from the market in the future?

"Then, why do you have to buy from our Ming vassal states in the Western Regions?" Luo Zhichen asked, "You also have territory in the Western Regions! Don't they produce Ge Lao there? I heard that the people there are very poor, and they won't be reluctant to part with them.

Selling the child?"

This question... Shesta Khan really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still had to explain patiently. Who let the "Indian Pavilion" have the supply chain in the hands of the Ming Dynasty?

If Ming Dynasty imposes an embargo on India, it will be in trouble!

"We have some territory in the Western Region," Shesta Khan replied. "We control part of the land in Afghanistan and Tajikistan and recruit fighters from there. But we can only recruit adult fighters from there and cannot purchase them.

Boy Scouts... Because according to the teachings of Tianfang religion, we cannot buy Tianfang believers as slaves. Afghanistan and Tajikistan are both Tianfang believers, so we cannot buy teenagers there as scouts. And from Afghanistan and Tajikistan

The adult soldiers recruited are not as useful as the scouts who have been trained since childhood, and they are all illiterate and have no way of becoming officials."

The more Luo Zhichen listened, the more confused he became, "Do you want to buy the Mongolians from the Zhungeer Kingdom and the Heshuote Kingdom as slaves? I'm afraid that's not possible, right?"

"Of course that won't work," Shesta Khan shook his head repeatedly, "How can we buy the Mongols... It is impossible for Zhungar and Heshuote to sell the children of their direct tribesmen to

Us!"

"Then who do you want to buy?" Luo Zhichen asked.

Shasta Khan said: "Buy the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Khwarezm people who are ruled by the two countries of Dzhungar and Khoshut, as well as other poor young people from Central Asia."

"Aren't they also Tianfang believers?" Luo Zhichen was confused, "Doesn't it violate the doctrine if you buy them?"

"No, no, no..." Shesta Khan shook his head repeatedly, "They may not be!

The Jungar Kingdom and the Hoshuote Kingdom believed in Buddhism and adopted Buddhism as the state religion, so they suppressed the local Tianfang religion to a certain extent. The Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Khwarezmians and other tribes they ruled

There should be many converts among the common people. Therefore, their children can legally become slaves, be bought into India to serve as scouts, receive the best education and training, and become excellent warriors and bureaucrats!"

"But how do you determine the beliefs of those children?" Luo Zhichen really had the spirit to break the casserole and ask the question.

"We have a way!" Shesta Khan said seriously, "We will conduct an exam...a very difficult exam. It requires Arabic, Persian and religious knowledge!"

Of course he is talking nonsense! How can Indians be so serious about doing things? Aurangzeb did not dare to buy Scouts in Afghanistan and Tajikistan because he was afraid that the tribes there would become bigger because of this - if the Scouts were all from Afghanistan, then they would easily

Join forces with the tribes in Afghanistan to overthrow the Timurid Empire! If the Scouts come from the territory ruled by the Mongols in Central Asia, then there will be no problem...

"You need to take an exam to be a slave?" Luo Zhichen couldn't believe his ears, "What should I do if I don't pass the exam? Isn't it even possible to be a slave?"

"No," Shesta Khan shook his head and said seriously, "If you pass the exam, you can return it... and go back to Central Asia to starve! If you fail the exam, it means they are not believers and can become His Majesty Alamgir.

Slave warriors, then receive the best training and education!”

Is this still possible!?
Chapter completed!