Chapter 177: The Imagination of the Taj Mahal

Poor Aurangbu was dragged into the carriage by others, but fortunately, the interpreter told him in advance that Shen Xing accepted his request, so that he was not scared to death, but just hugged his son and watched his beautiful daughters and gentle concubines crying and being taken away. And after the treasure he confessed was excavated under the leadership of Zhang Yuliang, Shen Xing was also very happy, and after estimating that the value of gold alone was more than 500 million taels of silver.

It is not an exaggeration to say that a mountain of gold has been dug up, and as for those jewels and jade, it is impossible to count, Shen thinks that it is also India's territory, which can be compared to other places? They are also one of the four ancient civilizations, and they have not been baptized by a major war, so it is reasonable to find so many things.

Inspired by Aurangbuze, Shen Xing ordered the Iron Guards to interrogate the captured nobles very humanely, and without a word of explanation, there was no fun for the treasures they had hidden. Although he doesn't beat you or scold you, he takes turns to talk to you every day, and if he behaves well, his sentence can be commuted.

So after a few months, it was really fruitful, and the nobles in Annam, Japan, which had been neglected in the same way, were slowly interrogated.

After the overall situation was stabilized, the 5,000 propaganda officers who came with them, accompanied by translators and soldiers, also began their work, and the Indian campaign was fought almost without gunpowder, so it did not have much impact on the local poor people at all, and it can be said that it was a great benefit.

Suddenly, a group of people who looked much like themselves divided the land and houses among them, and gave them medical treatment...... This is a great gift to them. Of course, there is no shortage of warriors in India who have risked their lives to resist foreign enemies, but the only thing these people can do is to escape into the mountains and forests, because every hard-fought resistance is very tragic in the face of machine guns and artillery.

Shen Xing honestly admired their spirit, in order to protect his land from falling into the hands of foreign enemies, he sacrificed his life and forgot to die, but his position was different, his concept was different, and in the end, he could only see who would die.

The winner is the king, the loser is the unchanging truth, the distance shot by the cannon is where the morality lies, no one can change it, Shen Xing told himself that he is not brutal and easy to kill, and what he is doing now is just to bring long-lasting peace to the people of the world. One day, the people of all provinces in China will understand their painstaking efforts.

With a large number of ready-made minerals and gold and silver being transported to China, the people of the Central Committee also fell into the big stone in their hearts, and when they heard that Shen Xing had launched a land movement in India, they immediately understood what Shen Xing wanted to do, this is a method once and for all, and India's millions of square kilometers of land will belong to China forever in an instant.

Therefore, if you want people to give people and grain to you, especially the large number of agricultural tools needed in various places, the committee has issued an order, and more than 100 manufacturing factories across the country have been casting day and night.

Merchant ships sailed to the Indian Ocean one after another, and the land of India was more fertile than Shen Xing imagined, and the water of the Ganges River flowed like the Yellow River to nourish the land. In later generations, Shen Xing sometimes couldn't understand that India has a population of more than one billion, but the land is only half of China's, why can it still support so many people, and there will be grain for export?

It was not until now that Zhang Yuliang sent all the land information of the whole of India to himself, and he really understood what it means to be more expensive, and there is no longer much of it, 90% of India's land is basically a plain suitable for cultivation and is in the subtropics, and rice and wheat are harvested three times a year, which can be done with your eyes closed.

Zhang Yuliang has learned from the past and the present, is a rare talent, of course he understands the importance of getting the land of India, this is simply a big granary more expensive than Wangxiang Island, not to mention the rich coal and iron ore resources.

"**, the people of this Indian province are so stupid, sitting on the big granary and starving and freezing every day! Oppressed like this, they don't know how to rebel, and if we hadn't come, they wouldn't know how many years they would have suffered! Shen Xing smiled and said nothing, India Ah San is different from others, and people are liberated by sitting on the ground and protesting lazily.

However, the effect of this is also very sad, until the 21st century, it seems to be silly and cute, and the water of the Ganges River is drunk as fairy dew. "Let's educate them well when we come, in fact, the people at the bottom are almost the same, and they only care about a few things, as long as they give them three meals and clothing, a house to live and clothes to wear, they will regard you as a god."

"**, you can rest assured, I understand that tens of thousands of Indian officials who have focused on training are already in the middle of training, and it won't be long before the whole of India will copy the Chinese cultural traditions, and Buddhism will become their main belief. Because the distribution of materials this time was carried out by the monk Lu, the effect was very obvious, and we did not deliberately interfere with their religious beliefs like Aurangbus, but only imperceptibly! ”

Shen Xing nodded with satisfaction, as long as this action continues, the people will soon accept everything in front of them, and the most important thing is to promote Chinese as their official language. Now that the recruitment of labor, led by the small feudal lords in various places, has slowly begun, the target figure of three million light and strong seems to be achieved in less than a few months.

If their families are settled well and given enough food and goods, there will not be much disgust at all, and I heard that many people are also vying to send their sons and daughters to the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce to sign up. As long as you work for three years, you can exchange for a house, hundreds of catties of grain, and dozens of feet of cloth, which is a gift from heaven for the poor people of India who can't eat two meals a day and sleep in an open-air straw hut.

Immediately after the children sign up, they will be given new clothes and new shoes, as well as delicious meat to eat, which is also a great temptation for the participants, especially the female members who have been suppressed for thousands of years, who have not been possessed for a long time, and suddenly give you the beautiful clothes like the fairies, and some girls and children cried with joy on the spot.

After so many years of research and development and accumulation of experience, as long as it is not a war period, even if there is wind and waves at sea, they can save all people. Moreover, the possibility of encountering wind and waves is greatly reduced, as long as the islands and ports along the way have long been clearly explored.

Most of the seafarers are trained by professional marine colleges, and no one needs to worry about them in terms of technology and professionalism, but that's the case, Shen Xing still repeatedly told him not to be a person because he was in a hurry to save costs, even if he was slow, he had to take care of their lives at sea, after all, the lesson of Western robbers trading black slaves was really too appalling, tens of thousands of people were transported in a ship, and they were held alive in the cabin for several months, and half of them died of starvation and disease. This is something that people do, it's even worse than a beast.

With Shen Xing's warning, those merchants naturally took the matter to heart, because Shen Xing blatantly said that he would send secret agents to investigate, and once they found out, the nine clans would be wiped out. It's just a matter of others talking, but no one will think that Shen Yan's words are a joke.

Besides, the monthly income of each laborer is less than one-third of that of the local people in China, who will take risks again with such profits, Shen Xing's words have long been regarded as a wise saying, that is, money is endless, follow me and there will always be money to earn.

In less than half a year, tens of thousands of factories have been built out of thin air, roads, and houses are also being built step by step, although there is not as much wind and fire as China itself, but more than half of the Indian people have been mobilized, and their lives have changed from the despair and poverty of the past, and now they are changing every day, and they are all hope.

The arrival of the farming tools made Shen Xing the happiest, because with their spring planting, it could be carried out smoothly, because before that, the division of the land had already been completed, and even some parts of the Ganges that were prone to flooding were wrapped with cement. Everything is the old way, the land is nominally owned by China,

However, the rural people have the right to cultivate and concentrate on farming, but in order to avoid the phenomenon of passive slacking off and laziness, they will still send personnel to supervise. The recruitment of the army was also systematically trained under the intervention of Wu Sangui and Sun Chuanting, and the 500,000-strong army was placed on the northern border line under the supervision of the 50,000 People's Liberation Army.

Because according to the report of the spies, the Safavid Empire is in contact with the Ottoman Empire, and there is an urge to invade India, of course Shen Xing will not care about these things, and his main task now is to take his wife to have a good time playing this beautiful and exotic scenery.

The most impressive thing in later generations is that the Taj Mahal in India is one of the new seven wonders of the world, which is the mausoleum built by the fifth emperor of the Mughal Dynasty, Shah Jahan, for his beloved wife Taj Mahal, starting from the death of Taj Mahal in 1631, which lasted 22 years, mobilized more than 20,000 people, and finally completed in 1653, it is the essence of Mughal architecture, the spirit and soul of the Mughal Dynasty.

However, today Shen Xing is standing in front of it, it is only five years after it was built, and it is still so new and beautiful. The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, for his queen Taj Mahal. The daughter of a Mughal Persian official, Taj Mahal was favored by Shah Jahan because of her intelligence, versatility, and beauty.

"She is so favored by three thousand that she treats other wives and concubines less than one thousandth of her." They are inseparable for a day, even if they are on the battlefield or out on patrol, they must take Taj Mahal with them. It was during a southern expedition that Taj Mahal died in Burhanpur's military tent at the age of 38 shortly after giving birth to his fourteenth child for Shah Jahan. When he was dying, Taj Mahal asked Shah Jahan to build a beautiful mausoleum for himself so that people could remember her forever.

Shah Jahan, who lost his beloved wife, was so grief-stricken that he almost ignored the government, and spent his days depressed and tearful, and it is said that it did not take long for him to turn gray. The only thing that could give him comfort was that he had made up his mind to build the most beautiful mausoleum in the world with the authority of his word, and would do whatever it took to satisfy his beloved wife's last wish. He personally surveyed, selected a site on the banks of the Yamuna River, and invited famous Turkish and Persian architects of the time.

Of course, Shah Jahan himself was keen on construction and indulged in the construction of lavish palaces. Therefore, the construction of the Taj Mahal combined his deep friendship with his beloved wife and his obsession with architecture, and it was only natural that he would devote his life's wisdom and effort. Beginning in 1631, when Taj Mahal died, it took 22 years and more than 20,000 people to complete the project in 1653.

From then on, Shah Jahan wore a white dress to the Taj Mahal every few days to visit his deceased wife's coffin. Originally, Shah Jahan also wanted to build himself a mausoleum on the other side of the Yamuna River that was exactly the same as the Taj Mahal, the difference is that the Taj Mahal is made of white marble, his mausoleum is made of black marble, and a silver bridge is built in the middle to connect it, so as to show that he and his beloved wife are dependent on each other for life and death, and they are born together, and they are connected by a "magpie bridge" after death. What a romantic and wonderful conception it is. ”

Listening to Shen Xingru's narration of the origin of the Taj Mahal, more than a dozen women were fascinated by it, and the more emotional Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun also shed tears emotionally.