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    (); Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor, is sixty years old this year.

    His second wife, a Persian girl, died of dystocia twenty years ago.  Shah Jahan was distraught and spent more than ten years building a luxurious mausoleum for his wife.

    This mausoleum is called the Taj Mahal.

    Such a poignant love story, it is a pity that Taj gave birth to an unfilial son.  A few years later, when Shah Jahan was seriously ill, he was put under house arrest by his son for five years, until his death.

    "Your Majesty, the Lucky Prince (Crown Prince) sent someone back to report that the Chinese envoy with three thousand soldiers wanted to go to Delhi to meet His Majesty."

    "China? Let it go quickly, and receive it with the highest etiquette!"

    Shah Jahan was very happy, he had heard many legends about China.

    As for the Chinese envoys bringing three thousand soldiers, this is nothing to Shah Jahan.

    The army of the Mughal Empire quadrupled in the hands of Shah Jahan.  During his reign, he quelled the Green Rebellion, repelled the Portuguese, and even captured a Portuguese colonial port.  He destroyed two countries in the west, two countries in the Deccan Plateau, expanded beyond the Khyber Pass in the northwest, and seized a large area of ????Afghanistan territory from Persia.

    How could such a powerful emperor be afraid of three thousand foreign troops?

    In Gujarat, the Mughal crown prince Dara Shuko personally received the Chinese envoys.

    This old man, the eldest son born to Taj, has been confirmed as the heir.  His title is Lucky Prince, and his actual position is: Governor of Gujarat, Governor of Allahabad, President of Multan, and President of Kabul.

    The crown prince holds the local military and political power, and the other princes also hold the local military and political power.

    Such a system will inevitably lead to internal strife.

    Historically, the crown prince was beheaded by his own brother.  It was the one who put the emperor under house arrest. After the emperor fell ill, he first led troops to kill the elder brother of the crown prince, and then put the emperor's father under house arrest until he died.

    Dara Shuko's failure was mainly due to religious reasons.

    As the crown prince, he actually advocates Hinduism.  As a result, although the emperor continued to give him great power, religious forces and local lords turned to his brother one after another.

    "It's a great honor to receive Chinese friends." Dara Shuke smiled.

    Lu Tianxiang cupped his hands and said, "I have long admired His Highness's name!"

    After the two sides reported their identities to each other, Dara Shuke was a little surprised that the emperor of China actually sent his concubine as an envoy.  Moreover, is the skin of all Chinese people so dark?  Although whiter than Dalit, it also looks like a lower caste.

    But it's not right, this emissary named Zhang Ruifeng has the same white skin as a high caste.

    It seems that the taste of the Chinese emperor is very unique

    Dara Shuke made up his mind to present a Persian female slave as a gift, so that the Chinese emperor could appreciate the charm of white-skinned women.

    The crown prince advocates Hinduism and attaches great importance to skin color.  Except for the greeting at the beginning, I didn't talk to Lu Tianxiang very much, and kept communicating with Zhang Ruifeng through an interpreter.

    His character is like this, warm and generous, cheerful and gentle, arrogant and irritable!

    He has a good eye, and he is gentle and enthusiastic towards you.  He looks down on you and is arrogant and irritable towards you.  This kind of person is not suitable to be an emperor, but more suitable to be a scholar.

    In fact, Dara Shuko is indeed knowledgeable, and even personally served as the editor-in-chief, carefully translating Hindu classics and poems into Persian.

    He discussed Chinese poetry with Zhang Ruifeng, but the translation was too bad, so he asked again: "How about Chinese painting art?"

    Zhang Ruifeng said with a smile: "I have an accompanying official who is proficient in Chinese painting."

    Pan Wei, who was in charge of recording the customs with the group, immediately took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and made an ink painting on the spot.

    Dara Shuke couldn't put it down, and repeatedly observed and tasted it. After admiring it, he asked: "Are all Chinese paintings in black and white?"

    Pan Wei replied: "There are also colored paintings, but they need to be mixed with pigments."

    Dara Shuke said: "I can provide any paint you want."

    This guy was delighted to see Lie Xin, so he kept Pan Wei and insisted on learning painting skills with him.

    The envoys could only keep Pan Wei in Gujarat, and the rest continued to Aragh to meet the Mughal emperor.

    Before leaving, Pan Wei said: "Your Majesty, Ambassador Zhang, this Indian Crown Prince looks like Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty no matter what you look at."

    Zhang Ruifeng smiled and said: "It is Song Huizong who is the best. Mughal is really a big country, and it is best for us to divide China. And as the crown prince, he is actually a governor outside the country. The Mughal emperor is not afraid of the crown prince leading troops to Qingjun.??Take the opportunity to counterattack.

    Just two years ago, the Persian army marched eastward and recaptured Kandahar, an important town in Afghanistan.  In this situation, Shah Jahan could only choose to accept that he was no longer able to fight Persia.

    Zhang Ruifeng took out a letter: "His Majesty the Emperor of our country has also admired the reputation of the Mughal monarch for a long time, so he wrote a letter himself."

    The waiter took the letter and handed it to Shah Jahan.

    Shah Jahan opened the letter on the spot. Zhao Han's handwriting used Chinese characters, but it had been translated into Persian.

    There are three general contents of the letter:

    First, I have admired the Mughal emperor for a long time and am willing to make friends.

    Second, China and the Mughals have deep historical ties.  The founding emperor of the Mughals, Babur, whose ancestor was Timur, the overlord of Central Asia, was a Turkic Mongol, while the Han and Mongols were descendants of Yan and Huang.  Therefore, the Chinese royal family has a common ancestor with the Mughal royal family.

    Third, Emperor Zhao hated Europeans, successfully took back Macau controlled by Portugal, and successfully defeated Spain and the Netherlands.  China wants to establish diplomatic relations with Mughals, bypassing those damn Europeans, merchants from both countries directly trade by sea.  If given the opportunity, the two countries could jointly attack the armies of European countries.

    After reading the letter, Shah Jahan was very satisfied, and asked many more specific information.

    After dismissing the envoys, Shah Jahan called court scholars: "My ancestors, the great conqueror Babur, and the great distant ancestor Timur, were really Mongolians from China?"

    The court scholar replied: "The great Timur was indeed a Mongolian nobleman of the Chagatai Khanate."

    "I see." Shah Jahan sighed.

    His ancestry is very mixed. First, he intermarried with Indian Kshatrili, and then with Persians. It is already difficult to find oriental features from his appearance.

    Shah Jahan called the court officials and said: "Command the merchants on the seashore to organize a trade fleet." He also said, "Let your son form an envoy to visit the emperor in China and bring me to the emperor of China.  Go present."

    The gifts from the Mughal emperor included one hundred catties of iron and steel, twenty war horses, two elephants, ten Persian female slaves, ten boxes of Indian cotton cloth, and some jewelry

    This guy is very generous, as long as it suits his appetite, he is willing to give away anything.

    The British businessman fit his appetite and immediately reaped huge benefits.  The British East India Company's business in the Mughal territory is all tax-free.

    Otherwise, it would be difficult for the UK to gain a firm foothold in Asia.
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