Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 877 The King of the World
Li Zicheng and his party have never been on such a long boat.Fortunately, they may be used to riding horses on weekdays, and they are not seasick.

Of course, such a long voyage also gave them a lot of insight and a lot of experience.

In addition, the few of them all knew where they were going to live in the future, so when they were still on board, they consciously began to learn the language of a foreign country.Although they can't write or read, they can already talk about it when they go ashore.

The Dutch brought them to the Netherlands not only for their money, but also because the whole of Europe is now full of curiosity about the empire in the Far East.More so than before.

Therefore, there is a need for Ming people from the Far East to come to Europe to let them know about the situation of the Ming Empire.

In this way, Li Zicheng and his group were sold by the Dutch and sold to the French.

That's right, it's sold.

On the Dutch side, they already understood it when they were still on the ship, and these few Ming people were of no help at all to what the Dutch wanted to know.It can even be said that there are not some Dutch people who know more about the Ming Dynasty.At least some Dutch people had been to the capital of the Ming Dynasty and seen the prosperity there, but Li Zicheng and the others did not.

Thanks to the fact that the French knew less about the Ming Empire, after being fooled by the Dutch, the French generously took over the offer, bought Li Zicheng and the others, and sent them to Paris.

Li Zicheng and his party did not understand their situation until the Dutch handed over to the French and were arranged to sit on the prison cart of slaves.

However, facing these Xiyi firearms, they had nothing to do.Although Liu Zongmin tried desperately, but in the end he was not impulsive under Song Xiance's persuasion.

But after all, they are different from black slaves in Africa, and their treatment is relatively better.

After arriving in Paris, the French slave owner even held an auction for them.

"There are only five slaves from the mysterious East. You can have them quickly, but you can't have them any longer!"

"Do you want to know the etiquette of the East? Do you want to hear the stories of the East? Do you want to understand the culture of the East? It's all at the Johnson Auction!"

"A learned oriental slave, a status symbol, deserves your possession!"

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Because of the strong rise of the Ming Empire, the fact that they wanted to accept European countries as vassal states, and the popularity of steam engines in Europe, all of these made European nobles have a strong interest in the Ming Empire in the Far East.

Under the propaganda of slave owners, nobles and upstarts in Paris, etc., came to the Oriental Slave Auction one after another.

At this auction, Li Zicheng and others were not stripped naked for buyers to choose. After all, they were molded into slaves with good taste, far better than black slaves.

Therefore, at the auction, Li Zicheng and others were forced to show calligraphy.Especially when Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing wrote a series of beautiful Chinese characters with a brush, these French people applauded loudly.

There are also Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng performing Oriental Kungfu, and even let Liu Zongmin play against a strong black slave, which shows the power of Oriental Kungfu.

In the end, Niu Jinxing sold for the highest price and was bought by the royal family.The appearance is not very good, Song Xiance, who is short in stature, is the second highest price, and was bought by a nouveau riche.Liu Zongmin, who was strong and able to fight, came next, and Li Zicheng, who had the lowest price, was bought by a nobleman.

Back then, the Dutch, who knew them best, did not tell the French that this was a wanted criminal of the Ming Empire, who had once rebelled in the Ming Empire.Otherwise, such a restless person might not be able to fetch a high price.

At this time, what the Europeans are most interested in about Daming is the steam engine.Although many countries have steam engine drawings, they also call on their own elites to build steam engines.

However, the level is uneven, and the steam engines built are far less useful than the legends.Especially the use of steam engines to pull goods, that is, steam trains.Countries have basically encountered the problem of railway parameters.

When the blueprints were first sold, they were only steam engine blueprints, and the two biggest selling points of steam engines were steam ships and steam trains.But there is no relevant explanation on the drawings, Yushi, the Europeans barely built a steam engine, but the steam train is still blind and needs to be studied.

The learned Ming people caught them, and the first thing they did was naturally let them participate in the construction of the railway.As a result, Li Zicheng and the others had never even seen a steam engine, not to mention the railway, so naturally they couldn't use it for filming.

Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance were able to fool around with their knowledge.Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, two warriors, quickly lost their value, and were eventually thrown to the farm by their masters to work with black people.

The only thing that is better is that they are obviously more educated than the black slaves, so let them manage the black slaves.

For such a day, it was a shame for Li Zicheng's life. He thought about committing suicide, but in the end he endured it.

Back then, when Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting beat him down to eighteen riders, he fled to Shangluo Mountain, and finally made a comeback!

Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin were adapting to the environment while waiting for an opportunity.For them, it is absolutely impossible for them to be slaves for a lifetime!
At this time, no one thought that what would happen to just a few slaves?There are so many black slaves, they don't care about a few Ming slaves!

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At the same time, the South Asian subcontinent, which is the land of India in later generations, was ruled by the Mughal Empire. The emperor at this time was called Shah Jahan, which means the ruler of the world.

This is loud, but not without reason.

Before Shah Jahan became emperor, he tried to rebel and seize his father's throne, but failed.

However, he was lucky. His father became the emperor of the Mughal Empire as he wished after his death in 1628, the first year of Chongzhen.

Speaking of it, he is indeed a bit capable.After becoming emperor, he strengthened the centralization of power, expanded the army, quelled the rebellion in the principalities of the Deccan, and appointed his son Aurangzeb as the governor of the Deccan.

Externally, in 1631, he ordered the Governor of Bengal to suppress the Portuguese there.The poor Portuguese were not only killed by the Toungoo Dynasty in Dongwu, but also defeated by the local governor of the Mughal Empire. They did not go well.

By 1636, Shah Jahan had annexed Ahmednagar, forcing the rulers of Golkonda and Bijaypur to pay tribute.

The most powerful enemy of the Mughal Empire should belong to the Persian Safavid Empire. The focus of the struggle is not to destroy each other, but to fight for Afghanistan.

In 1638, Shah Jahan sent heavy troops to force Persian Kandahar governor Ali Mardan Khan to surrender, and in 1646 occupied Badakhshan and Balkh.

Basically, it can be said that the Mughal Empire was in the hands of Shah Jahan, fighting north and south, expanding its territory, and being invincible.Therefore, the title of ruler of this world is well-deserved, at least in the Nanyang subcontinent.

Relatively speaking, this time should be regarded as the surrender of the four parties. If it is a wise monarch, it should be recuperating to alleviate the livelihood problems caused by the military.

However, Shah Jahan did not do this. He felt that he was great, so he began to build a large number of large palaces, mausoleums and so on.He built the famous Taj Mahal in later generations.

On this plane, Shah Jahan was full of ambition and was about to start building the Taj Mahal when news came one after another, causing him to temporarily divert his attention.

First, the chieftains and lamas in Tibet fled into the territory of the Mughal Empire because they refused to accept the Ming Dynasty's reformation.

Shah Jahan didn't want to see the lama, but the news brought to him by the chieftain still made him pay attention.

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Gushri Khan established the Heshuote Khanate, and he knew about it.He had also learned about the situation of the Heshuote Khanate before.

Shah Jahan did not think that the Heshuote Khanate could pose a threat to him.They are all tribes fighting with cold weapons, that is, shrinking on the plateau. If they dare to invade the Mughal Empire, he is sure to teach Gush Khan how to behave.

The army under him is a mixture of hot and cold weapons, as well as cavalry, war elephants, etc., and they fought south and north, but they were all elites.He has confidence in his army.

However, Shah Jahan did not expect that Gush Khan would surrender to the Ming Empire.

According to the news of those chieftains, Gushi Khan united many tribes, and the total force even reached more than [-] horses, but he was defeated in the first battle, and he was defeated completely. The strength of the Mughal Empire was about the same.

Letting such a country occupy Tibet and have a geographical advantage over the Mughal Empire made him a little uneasy.

However, if you want to say how much this anxiety is, it is also false.If Shah Jahan could really be prepared for danger in times of peace, he wouldn't make a lot of construction and continue to torment his people.

Not to mention anything else, he has no ability to destroy the Mughal Empire's feud Persia!
Shah Jahan just felt that in Tibet, the Hoshut Khanate was replaced by the Ming Empire, which he did not want to see.Pretty much, that's all.

However, what he didn't expect was that later, the governor of Bangladesh sent someone to report to him, which really caught his attention.

The governor of Bangladesh said that the Ming Empire sent troops to destroy the Toungoo Dynasty in Dongwu.Although for now, after the Ming Empire occupied Dongwu, it was using troops to the east, and there was no possibility of going west.

However, when the north and east of the Mughal Empire bordered the Ming Empire, Shah Jahan felt the strength of the Ming Empire, and his uneasiness in his heart finally increased a lot.

For this reason, he ordered the Governor of Bangladesh to pay attention to the movements of the Ming army on Dongwu's side.

Ultimately, what led to Shah Jahan's concern, and even more unsettling, was a visit from the newly occupied Dutch in Colombo.

(End of this chapter)