But at this time, it was the seventh year of Chongzhen, and in the 1634th year of the Gregorian calendar, although Shah Jahan had conquered southern India, he was still using troops to Afghanistan.

At this time, in the extremely luxurious palace in Delhi, Shah Jahan was on the throne, and an old man with one arm was kneeling under him. His voice was still young, and he was talking to Shah Jahan.

"This is the case for the noble Khan. He was cunning and wise, and used despicable means to occupy Dongwu's land. As long as the Khan can send troops to fight the Mingren, I am willing to dedicate Dongwu to the powerful Mughal Empire and be willing to become the subject of the Khan!"

This person was King Gotalong, who was sent to Delhi by the Governor of Bangladesh. When he talked about the Ming people, his eyes were filled with hatred. When he finished speaking, he looked at Shah Jahan, he was hopeful.

When Shah Jahan heard this, he touched his beard and did not speak for a while. To be honest, he also knew something about the Ming Empire. In the past, why did he not continue to fight Donggo after taking down Bengal? It was because Donggo was a Xuanwei envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

His ancestors, the former Timur Empire, were extremely powerful empires, and all the famous surrounding powers were defeated and conquered. The territory of the empire was much larger than that of the Mughal Empire. Timur's ancestors were also a great khan with great talent. But even so, the Timur Empire at that time was forced to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty to show surrender.

Of course, this was a shame for the ancestors of Timur. Finally, when he was old, he seized the envoys of the Ming Dynasty and led his troops to fight the Ming Dynasty. However, he died of illness on the way to the expedition. Then, the second Khan, Shaharu, immediately paid tribute to the Emperor Cheng of the Ming Dynasty to show his surrender. Then, the Timur Empire no longer had the courage to express hostility to the Ming Dynasty.

Babur, the sixth-generation grandson of Timur, led his troops south to establish the Mughal Empire when the country was destroyed. The once glorious Timur Empire no longer exists, but the Ming Empire still stands in a rich place to the east.

Although Shah Jahan now feels that his empire is powerful and he still wants to expand the territory of his empire, he still has no confidence in his heart to let him compete with the Ming Dynasty for hegemony.

King Talong immediately woke up in his heart when he saw Shah Jahan's expression. Shah Jahan was afraid. Thinking about it, Shah Jahan and his ancestors have always been suppressed by the Ming Dynasty. If they had no scruples, they would be surprised.

Fortunately, King Talong also considered this. Therefore, when he saw Shah Jahan pondering, he spoke again: "The noble Khan, the founding of the Ming Dynasty has been nearly three hundred years ago, and it has long been corrupt and is no longer as powerful as before! Otherwise, Donggo would not have been independent from the Ming Dynasty and become a king."

"Dignity Khan, you don't know that before, my Dongwu army attacked the territory of Ming Dynasty, and I did not see any major army sending to conquer..."

When he heard that he said this, Shah Jahan frowned, interrupted without hesitation, and asked him, "Well? Haven't you been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty? Why did you say this again?"

The ministers of Shajahan beside him also shouted and threatened him that if they dared to deceive their Khan, they would tear him into pieces!

"Great Khan, I didn't say anything. This time, the Ming Kingdom sent troops, and it has been more than ten years since I, Dongwu, attacked Yunnan, Ming Kingdom. Think about it, if the Ming Kingdom was strong enough, why didn't he come to conquer Dongwu at that time, but dragged it to the present. Therefore, these two things have nothing to do with each other." King Talong quickly explained.

Seeing Shah Jahan still frowned, he quickly added: "To be honest, Dongwu is closer to Ming Kingdom, so he knows more news. Ming Kingdom is no longer as powerful as before. In the northeast of Ming Kingdom, a Jurchen tribe rose, which caused Ming Kingdom to lose its troops and generals, and finally lost their entire Liaodong. Liaodong is several times more powerful than Dongwu, and the Jurchen tribe's troops directly threatened the capital of Ming Kingdom. Ming Kingdom is not good!"

Hearing this, Shah Jahan's eyes lit up. He believed that King Long dared not tell lies in such a thing. However, he was not so easy to fool people. He immediately asked: "If the Ming Dynasty is so unbearable as you said, why does the Ming Dynasty still have the strength to capture your Dongwu? It also gave it to a vassal king and established a vassal state?"

His ministers were also staring at King Long, seeing how he would explain it?

Of course, King Long thought about this question, so he did not hesitate and immediately replied: "Dignity Khan, this is the cunning of the Ming Dynasty. They thought that it was the domestic vassal kings that dragged down their empire's strength, so they wanted to enfeoff all their vassal kings abroad."

Speaking of this, he stopped and instead explained: "Great Khan, think about it, the vassal kings of the Ming Kingdom were all hereditary. It has been nearly three hundred years. How many vassal kings will be there in their country? The royal families of the Ming Kingdom are countless, and they can't even afford the salary of these vassal families. Therefore, they believe that as long as all the vassal kings are sealed out and no longer drag down the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom will recover and defeat the Jurchens in the north!"

One thing is clear, Shah Jahan is also aware of it. On their side, the royal families will fight each other, but on the Ming Dynasty, except for one person who can be the emperor, the others are all vassal kings and will not attack each other. If this is the case, there will indeed be many vassal kings in nearly three hundred years.

King Talong was struck while the iron was hot and continued to lobby: "In order to achieve their goals, Ming Dynasty focused on my Donggo. Therefore, I said that Ming Dynasty's attack on me Donggo had nothing to do with Donggo's previous attack on Yunnan. This time, it was related to whether Ming Dynasty could restore its national strength. Therefore, they used all their manpower and financial resources, and used conspiracies to seize Donggo..."

He was talking, and also observing Shah Jahan and his ministers. He felt that he had made it clear that the Ming Dynasty was no longer powerful, but the monarchs and ministers of the Mughal Empire seemed to have some concerns. He probably guessed in his mind that these words would still be difficult to convince these Turkic Mongolians.

Therefore, before Shah Jahan could speak, King Talong continued to say: "Dignity Khan, the Ming Kingdom has tasted the sweetness in Dongwu, so he did his best to give his efforts to the foreign enthronement of their vassal kings. I heard that their next step is to continue to enthrone the vassal kings, and their vassal kings are in Bangladesh!"

"What?" Shah Jahan suddenly shook his expression when he heard this. He leaned forward slightly and shouted sternly, "What did you say?"

"The noble Khan, the Ming Kingdom has changed Dongwu to Tang Kingdom, and the sea goes south, so there is only two ways to go east and west." King Talong analyzed seriously, "There are so many vassal kings in the Ming Kingdom, even if they keep going east to divide the vassal kings, they cannot enfeoff a few vassal kings. Therefore, the Ming Kingdom had to continue to divide the vassal westward. The next door to Dongwu is Bangladesh, and the situation is that simple!"

The reason why King Long was able to leave a reputation in his original history was naturally his ability. Just from the matter of Donggo, he could roughly analyze the strategy of the Ming Dynasty. I have to say that he has a good vision!

At the same time, he knew how to talk about Shah Jahan. After his analysis, Shah Jahan could not sit still as he saw. He stood up and walked back and forth in front of the throne, frowned and lowered his head and thought.

And his ministers were all thinking about this matter, and for a moment, no one spoke.

Or maybe he couldn't stand this atmosphere, a general turned to Shah Jahan and shouted loudly: "Khan, instead of waiting for the Ming army to take action first, we should do it first!"

A civil servant on the other side heard this and quickly spoke: "Khan, no, this is just one-sided statement of King Long. If Ming Kingdom doesn't have this meaning and we attack Ming Kingdom first, wouldn't we have to fight against each other? This is not appropriate!"

"Yes, Khan, what if the Ming Dynasty is still strong? If we take the initiative to provoke it, even if the Ming Dynasty did not think of coming to the west, it would be coming to the west!" Another civil servant also said with a worried look on his face.

Shah Jahan's general also insisted on his opinion and retorted: "So what if the Ming Dynasty is strong? How many troops can we send so far away from us? The Portuguese are so powerful. In Bangladesh, we have been defeated by us!"

At this time, the Portuguese forces were actually already in the evening.

In original history, the Portuguese began to colonize the world as early as the 15th century, and then Spain followed closely, competing with the Portuguese for colonies and succeeded in many places. For example, many colonies in the South China Sea were stolen by the Spanish.

At this point in time, the Dutch rose strongly and defeated the Spanish Invincible Armada with Britain, and began the global path to seize colonies. This is also the reason why the Red Barbarians, the great masters of the Ming Dynasty, always regarded the Florida as their enemy.

The butterfly effect that Emperor Chongzhen traveled through time only affected some areas around the Ming Dynasty, and the global colonization trend was generally unchanged. At this time, the Dutch colonial power was the strongest.

The Portuguese were really out of reach. Before, they were expelled by King Dongwu, and their governor was ordered to be nailed to death on wooden frames by King Dongwu. In Bangladesh, the Portuguese were also expelled by the Mughal Empire. It was also because it was extremely unfavorable everywhere that Portugal wanted to take a gamble in Annan.

But one thing is that no matter the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch at the peak of their lives, and the Britons who began to show their edge at this time, in the eyes of the Easterners, they were all Western barbarians. The people of the Mughal Empire regarded them as powerful strength and could expel Western barbarians, which was a manifestation of their strength.

As Shah Jahan heard them arguing, he stood up and turned to look at his ministers, without saying anything for a moment, obviously he was thinking too.

When King Long saw this, he hurriedly said, "The Khan can send someone to ask. The Ming army is actually not powerful at all. If you want to defeat Dongwu, it is still the chieftain army. The Shizhu chieftain army in Sichuan, known as the Baigang Army, is the elite of the chieftain. The Ming army is no better than the Baigang Army. But this army was also transferred back to Yunnan last year. I heard that there was a chieftain rebellion in Yunnan. The Ming Dynasty was powerless to do anything about the rebellion and could only rely on this chieftain army."

Speaking of this, he raised his voice, as if he was sincerely reminding: "The noble Khan, now the chaos in the Ming Dynasty is endless. Now it is the opportunity. First, the strong will be the best, and then the disaster will be affected. If the Ming Dynasty quells the civil strife and regroups the troops to fight, it will be difficult to fight!"

He slapped his chest with the remaining hand and said, "As long as Dahan sends troops to dig Dongwu, my people are willing to be the supporter of the inner world, so as to use the means of Ming Dynasty robbing me Dongwu and dedicating Dongwu to the noble Dahan. Then, I am willing to guard Dongwu for the Khan. If Ming Dynasty fights again, unless I die in battle, I will not be able to harass the Mughal Empire."

Hearing these words, Shah Jahan was still a little hesitant. His ministers were also divided into two factions: war and not war. After a quarrel, Shah Jahan finally decided to let King Talon live in Delhi temporarily, and he sent someone to the east to find out if what King Talon said was true!

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen, who was traveling south in a concealed manner, naturally could not know about the Mughal Empire far away in India. At this time, he was sitting on the boat and listening to Concubine Tian beside him introducing the scenery along the way to the maids with curious expressions.

He listened for a while and felt a little bored. It was almost this time last year when he went south in a very low fashion, and the scenery he saw was naturally similar. It was a while since he had been fresh, and now he has less interest in watching it.

So Emperor Chongzhen entered the chat group to read the news, and a private chat attracted his attention.

The news was sent by Baotou Governor Yang Sichang, saying that the road was better. He received an envoy from Eziertu Khan, western Mongolia, who said that he would purchase the Ming Dynasty's flintlock rifle, and the amount was also a bit large. This time, the price given was no longer just cattle and sheep, but also a lot of gold, silver and fur. After Yang Sichang asked, it was said that Eziertu Khan had won several battles, and even defeated a Tsarist Russian army that returned westward, intercepting a lot of spoils.

Others may not know, but Emperor Chongzhen understood that this Tsarist Russian army returned to the west may have plundered a large amount of supplies from Siberia, and when he walked back, he happened to meet Eziertu Khan's army. Haha, it was so coincidental that Tsarist Russia was unlucky enough!

When he thought of Siberia, he remembered Li Zicheng, who had been setting out for a year. Now the Ming army has basically controlled the eastern part of Siberia and expelled the Tsarist Russian forces to the west. If the Ming Dynasty wants to continue to control Siberia, it must establish a stronghold like Tsarist Russia and declare its sovereignty. The best way is to choose a good address to establish a city, and then develop a train as soon as possible, even if it takes a train a month and travels, it is also good.

As for steam trains, although the military battle has been developed, there is basically no big problem with the locomotive. The key is that the rails or rails that are necessary for the train, no matter which rails are, they require a lot of steel. As for tracks of other materials, although the initial cost will be lower, the maintenance cost will be too high, which is very unrealistic.
Chapter completed!