Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 308 Three sticks shattered the dream of empire!
The three armies marched north.

Entered the Konkan state of the Mughal Empire, and on the next day, went to Satara city, on the third day, went to Pune, on the fifth day, went to Mumbai, on the ninth day, went to Basain, and on the twelfth day, joined the naval soldiers at the port of Daman and Diu.

On the 12th day, they marched 800 miles, captured five important cities, killed more than 80,000 of the Mughal Empire's remaining troops and the defending troops, and seized countless supplies of food and fodder.

It shook the entire Mughal Empire.

Wang Chonggu ordered a message to be sent back to the country, and the entire army was to rest and reorganize, consolidate the captured Kongkan State, and eliminate all the evil forces in the state, and kill them wherever they were caught.

But what Wang Chonggu did not expect was that this act of enforcing justice would be strongly resisted by ordinary people in Kongkan State, who concealed, hid, and even helped ruffians and scoundrels escape.

When Wang Chonggu learned that the people of the Mughal Empire had a special reverence and love for darkness and evil, he was silent for a moment.

There must be something hateful about a pitiful person. What the ancients said is not entirely right, but it is not entirely wrong either.

However, in order to consolidate the results of the war, Wang Chonggu immediately issued the most serious order, that anyone who had any dealings with evil would be killed.

In the previous battles, the officers' vanguard battalion had already suffered heavy losses. During the clearing mission, it also encountered schemes by the people of Kongkan State, the underworld, and the evil forces, and paid a heavy price for it.

Wang Chonggu simply let the "rear army", that is, the naval soldiers of the treasure ship fleet, take over the task of eradication. As for the places where evil and evil were hiding, they no longer went forward to check, but directly threw porcelain caltrops through the uncovered doors and windows.

In the face of thrown firearms, fragile hiding places would either collapse or kill or injure people. The naval soldiers would then kick down earth walls or other cover, rush in, and kill everyone inside.

Faced with the choice of life or death, the people of Kongkan State finally chose to surrender and revealed the hiding places of a large number of evil forces. All unstable factors were eliminated in just a few days.

However, some smart ones fled into the mountains and forests. The naval soldiers naturally would not venture into unfamiliar terrain. After judging the geography, they carried out the old mission outside Goa city.

Burning mountains and forests.

But unlike the uncontrollable, unanticipated and unforeseen fire attacks by Ding Qirui, Yang He and Chen Qiuyu, Li Xi led professional geographers and some Jinyiwei members with special abilities to keep mountain fires and forest fires firmly under control.

The dark and evil beings that had fled into the forests came out one after another, but were all killed by the naval soldiers guarding the periphery.

When the fire is extinguished, the evil and evil beings in the mountains and forests who were burned to death, or those who were able to persist to this extent and did not escape, the naval soldiers will no longer choose to check and hunt them down.

Being able to survive like this, I can only sigh that God is merciful.

Ten days.

Kongkanbang was cleared.

The three armies thoroughly consolidated their results of the battle, and Wang Chonggu expanded the territory for the Ming Dynasty and added another place.

The people of the Mughal Empire here all became obedient subjects of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the Ming army was really good. Apart from looting the treasuries of various cities and the homes of Brahmins and Kshatriyas, they treated ordinary people with absolute preferential treatment.

In fact.

These Vaishyas, Shudras and untouchables really don't have much money. The wealth of a city is concentrated in the hands of the Brahmins and Kshatriyas. These people all have names and surnames. After the three armies captured the city, they went to their gates more smoothly than when Huang Chao attacked Chang'an City and confiscated the properties of those aristocratic families according to their surnames and family trees.

Huang Chao would be grateful to those who compiled the family tree of surnames, and Wang Chonggu was also grateful for the hierarchical surname system of Brahmanism.

Anyone who studies this is a genius.

Wang Chonggu left all the wealth of the state in Daman Diu, and selected the valuable ones to be transported back to the country in batches by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Wang Chonggu turned his eyes to the northeast. The three armies had rested and were ready to attack Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire.

Thanks to the Mughal Empire's "excellent way of wealth distribution", Wang Chonggu ordered the three armies to abandon some of their baggage and food and carry as many weapons and equipment as possible.

Feed on the enemy!

Maybe it was cruel in other places, but it was not cruel in the Mughal Empire. After the three armies looted the wealth of the Brahmins and Kshatriyas in a city, they could not use up all the baggage and food they obtained, and there would be some left even if they distributed some to the untouchables in the city.

In the letter sent back to China, Wang Chonggu spoke highly of the Brahmins and Kshatriyas, calling them "Pixiu"!
The thirty and three hundred thousand ashes army became real ashes. The Mughal Emperor Akbar briefly woke up from his hatred for revenge on the Central Plains, but once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Brahmanism has all kinds of "magic medicines" except for the medicine for regret.

The commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty who had just arrived in the South Asian subcontinent, known as the Grand Master in the Ming army, was definitely not a good person because of his iron-blooded and decisive attitude when he captured Kongkan State.

In addition, the newly arrived treasure ship fleet of the Ming Dynasty was an elite force with excellent equipment, and it was not something that could be easily dealt with.

Portugal knew, and Akbar also knew, that no matter what kind of army it was, once it had tasted success in its campaigns, it would never stop easily.

At this time, even peace talks were impossible. If they wanted to stop the fighting, they had to first give the Ming army resistance and make it weigh the pros and cons of continuing the war or negotiating a ceasefire.

Before that, if the Mughal Empire wanted to maintain its combat effectiveness, its real army still could not fight against the Ming army. The only way was to let the Ash Army continue to fight and consume the morale and firearms of the Ming army. Even if the effect was not good, every bit counted.

As for the imperial dream of defeating the Ming army, leaving the South Asian subcontinent, dominating the world, making the Mughal Empire the world hegemon, and becoming the world emperor himself, it had long disappeared without a trace.

During the period when the Ming army was resting, Akbar deployed all the ashes army that had been prepared before the last war to Malwa.

The empire's real army, the direct army of Akbar, the emperor of the South Asian subcontinent, was all deployed in Rajputana, southwest of Delhi.

Due to the looting and killing of Brahmins and Kshatriyas by the Ming army in Kongkham, the Brahmin high priest Varna, who was migrating to the "original world of the human world", was extremely angry. He cursed the Ming army to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and before leaving, he called on more believers to go to Malwa to resist the devilish Ming army.

Although the Varnas and most of the Brahmins fled afterwards, many Vaishyas, Shudras and untouchables who listened to the "divine voice" really obeyed the "instructions of the gods" and even went to Malwa on their own without the organization of the Mughal Empire, which indirectly helped Akbar a lot. When Wang Chonggu led the three armies into Malwa, the countless "ashes" waving iron rods, wooden sticks and other "weapons" in their hands rushed towards the army with ghosts howling and wolves howling.

Wang Chonggu felt deeply that he had made a mistake when he and Hu Zongxian defined the Mughal Empire as an "empire" equal to the Ming Dynasty when they were in the cabinet.

It is not uncommon for faith to dominate national politics. This is also the case in many countries in Europe. Some doctrines of the church and Brahmanism define human birth as original sin, and people must atone their sins while they are alive.

There are royal families, nobles, and the Church on the European continent, and there are royal families, Brahmins, and Kshatriyas on the South Asian subcontinent. Wang Chonggu originally thought that the people on the two continents were the same.

That is, perhaps foolish by faith, but not brainless.

Wang Chonggu found that he was totally wrong. Although the royal family, nobles, and priests on the European continent were not human beings, they at least spread knowledge to the lower classes. Whether voluntarily or for missionary purposes, they led the European continent from barbarism to civilization.

The royal family, Brahmins, and Kshatriyas of the Mughal Empire did nothing to do with people. Not to mention the solidified hierarchy, they did not even spread any knowledge to the lower classes.

The people of the Mughal Empire were all Brahmans, but Wang Chonggu was sure that these ashes before him would probably not know what Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva were until they died.

Ignorance and ignorance.

Just like the monkeys in the forest, they have no idea what they are doing or why they are alive. They just hit wherever the monkey king points.

There is only one simplest and most practical way to deal with the wild land and the ferocious monkeys, and that is to knock out the monkey's brain.

After Wang Chonggu entered the cabinet, he had a chat with his peer Chen Yiqin, saying that this group of ashes were like the monkeys in Mount Emei.

Animals are still animals after all. Once they have hurt people’s hearts, they cannot be kept.

"Pass on my order, you will not be able to put down your sword from now on!" Wang Chonggu said coldly.

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Ming Dynasty, capital.

When military news from the South Asian subcontinent arrived, thousands of ships loaded with wealth that had plundered the European continent also arrived successfully at the port of Tianjin. The Ministry of Revenue, headed by Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, and all the officials were waiting at the port, but after boarding the ship and seeing the wealth filling the warehouses and grains, they "called for help" from the cabinet.

There is too much wealth, and it will probably take a year or so to clear it all with the power of only one department. Moreover, among these treasures, there are a large number of Western gadgets. Officials in the Ministry of Revenue have basically never been abroad, let alone to the West. These foreign gadgets need more professionals to appraise and authenticate their authenticity.

Just after the New Year in Shaanxi, Chen Yiqin, a cabinet minister who had completed the land survey and returned the land to the people and was about to enter Sichuan to continue implementing national policies, was summoned from the Chen family. Several elders who had knowledge and insights about the West were immediately summoned to go to Tianjin.

The Chen family was very happy to meet the court's needs, and then named several lesser-known families on the southeast coast. They could not be called aristocratic families, and were not even big families. However, when the eunuch Zheng He sailed to the West during the Yongle period, he called on the ancestors of these families. Over the long years, these families had close ties with Chaozhou merchants.

In the 40th year of the Jiajing reign, when the emperor was dealing with the three major merchant groups of Shanxi, Huizhou and Chaozhou, he sensed a crisis and went into hiding.

Later, when the imperial court conducted a great purge, these families managed to get away with it by keeping a low profile. When the Jinyiwei arrived with the imperial edict, several family heads almost fainted on the spot.

Then, they calmed down when they heard that the imperial court needed help. Finally, when they heard that it was the Chen family who "gave away" the evidence, they all paid cordial greetings to the eighteen generations of Chen's ancestors. If it weren't for the imperial edict of the Jinyiwei reminding them that the family of the elder should not be offended, there would have been even more greetings.

But who knows, although they didn’t say it on the surface, in their hearts, the Chen family must have been cursed very badly.

In addition to these ancient families, a large number of people were recruited, many of whom were traveling merchants who frequently traveled between Europe and Asia. Even some Arab merchants in the Ming Dynasty were "hired" and went to Tianjin.

The Jinyiwei had very strict scrutiny over these professionals. They had to change into special clothes without even pockets when entering or leaving. At the same time, every hole on everyone's body would be checked to ensure that none of the Jinyiwei's achievements over the past six months would be leaked.

Soon, a large amount of treasures were unloaded from the ship. Among them, the first to be sent to the capital was the "Divine Comedy" written by Dante Alighieri, who was praised as a pioneer of the Renaissance in Europe. The three parts of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, each with 33 chapters, plus the preface, a total of 100 handwritten narrative poems, not a single one was missing.

Many things in the world have a price, just like the Heshi Bi that Emperor Qin Shihuang wanted to buy, which was only worth a fortune.

Only cultural heritage has no price. Such things that can serve as the cultural heritage of a group are as valuable as "Preface to the Lanting Poems" by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and are priceless treasures.

Subsequently, Petrarch's "Sonnets", Boccaccio's "The Decameron" and "Philocolo", Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" and "The School of Athens", Michelangelo's sculpture "David" and so on were found one by one.

Especially Michelangelo's sculpture "David", although many people in the Ming Dynasty could not understand it, they were deeply shocked by it.

When the Imperial Guards were delivering the David statue to the capital, they also presented a piece of news that the sculptor, the eighty-nine-year-old Michelangelo, had accepted the Imperial Guards' invitation and was coming to the Ming Dynasty from Europe.

The reason for the invitation is simple. The European continent has always funded navigators and artists to go out to sea to seek the wind since ancient times.

Not only Michelangelo, but also the Jinyiwei people active in the upper class of Europe have extended invitations to many talented people in literature, art, craftsmen and other fields. Some people chose to accept, some chose to refuse or ignore.

Michelangelo was one of the people who accepted the invitation, not necessarily the most important, but definitely the most representative.

Michelangelo came to the East for a simple reason: he wanted to see the art and sculptures of the East with his own eyes, and to confirm them with the art in his mind.

As for the Jinyiwei's behavior of robbing Europeans of their money, culture, and even talents, the three cabinet elders in Beijing, Gao Gong, Hu Zongxian, and Li Chunfang, could only describe them as "heartless, sick, beautiful, and crazy."

I hope the Jinyiwei can keep up the good work. Although the Tulip Project is still a secret in the court, the cabinet has guessed something. Li Chunfang even reminded the Jinyiwei's acting commander Zhu Qi that once the plan is exposed and the European continent falls into poverty, it will be easier to kidnap people, and those who did not accept the invitation before may now accept it.

Zhu Qi had a deeper understanding of this world-famous "Gancao Ge Lao".

While remaining vigilant, the "Roman Orthodoxy" found on the ship was sent to the cabinet...

(End of this chapter)