"Your Majesty, the Mughal Empire has a vast territory, a population of 90 million, and is extremely rich, but I didn't expect that the capital would be occupied by the Manchus so quickly without fighting, which is really incredible." Li Yan said with a frown.

Although the current Manchu army is indeed very strong compared to other countries, Dolgon's army of only 220,000 took about half a month to capture the capital of the Mughal Empire from the border.

Generally, an empire like the Mughals, with 90 million people, should be very strong, but judging from their performance in the face of the Qing army, they are too weak, and they are simply a rabble, which is what Li Yan is quite puzzled about.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 100 million people, and the territory under complete control was similar to that of the Mughal Empire, although the Ming army was also at the end of the dynasty at that time, and the combat effectiveness declined a lot, but in the end it also fought with the Manchus for decades, and finally it was under internal and external difficulties, only to be occupied by the Liukou Li Zicheng, and finally the Manchus picked up the cheap to occupy half of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention the comparison with the current Ming Dynasty, even if it is compared with the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, the Mughal Empire is too much worse.

Li Yan is difficult to understand, but Zhu Ci is not difficult to understand.

"That place is called India, and it is the best place to rule in the world, because there is one of the greatest sects in the world," Zhu Ci smiled faintly, and then slowly explained to Li Yan.

Later generations have said that the history of India is no history, because their history is only the history of one invasion after another, influenced by the Brahma and the caste system, the Indian people yearn for the next life, in the face of foreign invasion, they have no resistance, no resistance, and have been their slaves for generations.

From the first generation of Aryans, to the later Serbs, Huns, Yueshi, Xianbei, Tupu, and now the Mongols, the founders of the Mughal Empire, all foreign ethnic groups invaded and ruled India.

These alien populations that invaded India eventually became the high castes of India, but the ancient Indians who originally founded the ancient Indian civilization were untouchables for generations.

Falling for a while but being willing to fall and fall forever is very applicable to the so-called pariahs transformed into ancient Indians.

Because they yearn for the next life, they never resist, they are obedient, and they are willing to be their slaves for the rest of their lives, and a society composed of untouchables who think like this is of course very easy to rule.

After listening to Zhu Cijiao's account, Li Yan was taken aback.

"I am willing to be a nation that has fallen forever, and I still can't understand it!" Li Yan shook his head with a smile and said.

The power of religion comes from the control of thought, and the so-called faith, faith is identification, and identification is easy to be used, which is something that cannot be fully understood.

"But Your Majesty, if that's the case, wouldn't the Manchurians be able to rule this land very easily and control the huge population on it. Will this be too strong for the strength of the Manchurians, which is extremely detrimental to the Ming Dynasty? After a while, Li Yan frowned again and said.

An empire with a population of 90 million, coupled with a large and rich land, the Manchu people were not weak in the first place, and if they were too strong, they were prone to change.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yan made another suggestion: "Why don't the Ming Dynasty also send troops to the Mughal Empire and seize the remaining territory of the Mughal Empire!" ”

Last year, the Ming Dynasty had already captured Burma, which has a border with the Mughal Empire for more than 1,000 miles, and the Ming Railway has also been built to Burma, which can comfortably carry a large number of soldiers to attack the Mughal Empire.

The Manchus can capture the capital of the Mughal Empire so easily, and if the Ming army makes a move, it will at least perform better than the Manchus, and quickly occupy most of the remaining territory of the Mughal Empire.

It's a pity that Zhu Ciji didn't accept Li Yan's suggestion, and shook his head categorically: "No, it's not suitable for Daming to occupy such a place at the moment." ”

"Your Majesty, why is this?" Li Yan asked suspiciously.

"Because, their population of 90 million is really too much, and the number of people in the Chinese nation who are the main body of my Ming Dynasty is about the same, so it is not appropriate to assimilate and integrate into it like this! The Ming Dynasty can assimilate and integrate all ethnic groups, but it must be when the Chinese ethnic group in the Central Plains occupies the vast majority, and I will not allow any ethnic group with a similar number to integrate into it so casually, causing too much change to the Chinese nation! Zhu Ci's eyes narrowed slightly.

For this, Zhu Ciji is undoubtedly firm that part of the current population of the Mughal Empire must disappear. However, Zhu Ci didn't want this to be done by Da Ming, since there were Manchu people intervening in it, then this matter should be done by Manchu people.

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, but he was very smart, and he didn't need Zhu Ci to explain in detail, and soon he understood the intention.

Immediately, Li Yan's expression was straight, and there was a hint of firmness and coldness in his expression, and his thoughts in his heart were similar to Zhu Ci's.

"Your Majesty, in that case, isn't the Mughal emperor still dead? I should help the Mughal Empire fight against the Manchus! Li Yan said seriously.

Hearing Li Yan say this, Zhu Ci immediately smiled and looked at Li Yan.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

In February, a batch of flint guns that had been eliminated at the beginning were shipped to Burma by rail, which was the configuration of the first generation of Ying Long's army, but now there are only guns, no cannons. After all, the Ming Dynasty hoped to help the Mughal Empire resist the Manchus, and also achieved some shady goals for the Ming Dynasty through the Manchus, but the Manchu population was sparse, and the population of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty could not be compared with the entire Mughal Empire.

Therefore, the Mughal emperors, who had a batch of flint guns, but did not have matching cannons, were able to increase their strength a lot, but not too much.

Of course, this batch of flint guns could not be given to the Mughal Empire for nothing, Zhu Ciji and Li Yan set a 10,000 silver dollar, that is, a hundred silver coins of the Mughal Empire.

Although it was definitely not cheap, Zhu Ciji was not worried that the Mughal emperor would refuse.

The Mughal emperor abandoned his capital city of Delhi and fled to the city of Agra, two hundred miles southeast of Delhi.

The city of Agra was also the capital of the Mughal Empire, but it was only moved to Delhi decades ago, and now the Mughal Emperor has returned.

Unfortunately, the city of Agra was too close to the fallen Delhi, and the Mughal emperor only stayed for less than an hour, and then continued to move southward, successively to two big cities such as Gusi and Varanasi, and finally fled to the city of Raipur in the central and eastern part of the Mughal Empire!

The Qing army, under the command of Dolgon, also followed the footsteps of the Mughal emperor all the way, constantly attacking the city, and Agra and Gusi were successively captured by Dolgon and other Qing troops. It's just that no matter how much the Qing army attacked the city, it didn't escape as fast as the Mughal Emperor, and it never caught the Mughal Emperor, so he was angry that Dolgon didn't have a good face for a long time.

Although the Qing army was brave, the Mughal Empire was too large after all, and there were many cities, and the Qing army successively occupied the capital of the Mughal Empire and occupied about a quarter of the territory of the Mughal Empire in the northwest.

Food and grass were not a problem, and they could be collected directly in the captured Mughal cities, but the shells were gone, and all the cannons were silent.

Having lost the support of artillery, the siege of the city by cavalry and Persian infantry alone was too great for casualties to be advisable.

Therefore, after capturing Guxi City, the Qing army temporarily rested in Guxi City, and also accumulated strength in order to slowly digest the Mughal territory that had just been captured.