Henry Chu opened the car curtain and took a look outside the car. The street was full of vendors selling flying pancakes, fried triangles, lassi yogurt, and boyani stewed rice.

The high-pitched and low-pitched hawking sounds 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 Timurid Dynasty in India is a city of Tianfang religion.

The city is also the gathering place of India's wealth. Although the streets are a bit bumpy, the buildings on both sides are decent, no less than those in Nanjing and Shanghai. The magnificent 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 coastal areas of this empire have been plundered by enemies from the sea recently, and even half of Golconda was lost after many years of hard work. But those who really know this country know that

The Timurid Empire was at its peak...the country had never been more powerful!

Because the foundation of the Timurid Empire has never been in the east, not in Bengal, nor in Golconda. The roots 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 question of the source of troops!

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 small groups. Moreover, they are not particularly corrupt. They are actually 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 are no foreign masters, this Tianfang Sect regime will

It will soon become rotten and weak...

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 imagine what the real power is. In the original history, it was only with Aurangzeb, the "Puritan" emperor, who worked hard to urge, that Timur's empire could barely maintain its teeth and claws to scare people.

The fierce appearance.

Today, the Timurid 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! Since Central Asia was civilized by Tianfang, the Indian people

I've never had such a classy gentleman again.

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 "Xiaoge Lao" legion from Central Asia. The official name of this slave legion was the "Mongolian pro-army". According to the official statement of the Timur Empire, the teenagers who joined the Mongolian pro-army were all from Kipchak

Grassland (Kazakh), with Mongolian ancestry, and were not Tianfang believers before joining the legion - 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 difficult,

The questions written by Aurangzeb himself can be used to test the students of Tianfang religious college.

It is said that the scores of the "Xiao Ge Lao Enlistment Examination" are generally zero points. If anyone can get a three or five points (out of 100 points), it must be the "Mongolian academic master" from Central Asia. Absolutely

It is worth focusing on cultivating.

In addition to the "Old Army of the Small Pavilion", King Henry and King Charter also saw the new army of the Timurid Empire. This army was trained with the help of officers from the Safavid dynasty of Persia - these officers of the Safavid dynasty

They all originally served in the New Army, which was trained with the help of the British. As the Safavid dynasty quickly declined after the death of Abbas II, the New Army, which was originally regarded as the backbone of the country, was also close to being depleted. So a large number of them knew something.

The officers of the new Persian army who used 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's Ah

King Fangsuo’s carriage also came to Lahore. It seems that 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."

Was it taught by Tianfang?"

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 restore, 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 becomes 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 Sect.

"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, which made King Alfonso sweat profusely.

"Alam Gil, my new wife Maria is pregnant... this spring!"

"Really?" Aurangzeb looked suspicious. At this time, Zhu Cibing and Henry Zhu happened to walk 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... However, King Henry reacted quickly, and immediately smiled and said to Alfonso in French: "Your Majesty, congratulations to you.

, now the rumors slandering you can be disproven!"
Chapter completed!