The reign of Shah Jahan was at the height of the Mughal Empire, when the Mughal Empire annexed Ahmadnagar, captured Kandahar, forced Gokanda to pay tribute, forced Bijapur to recognize Mughal suzerainty, and reached the limit of military power.

The Mughal Empire also adopted measures such as improving agricultural technology, expanding the planting area of cash crops, and increasing water conservancy and irrigation, which led to the rapid development of agriculture, and even the emergence of specialized production areas for commercial grains and cash crops such as cotton, raw silk, indigo, and tobacco, and the products were exported to the European market.

In terms of industry and commerce, the Mughal Empire was also relatively developed, and the technical level of the main handicraft production even exceeded that of the advanced countries of the European continent at that time.

It was at this time that the Portuguese suddenly made a strong effort, and they used Goa as a base to quickly occupy the princely state of Mysore with the assistance of the Ming Empire, and then took Goudakang and Birjar by chance.

Shah Jahan was naturally very angry about this invasion, but the defeat of the third prince Aurangzeb made him realize a problem, Portugal and the Ming Empire together are more terrifying opponents than the Persian Empire, especially the Ming Empire, the advanced gunpowder weapons have far surpassed the Persian Empire, for a few inconsequential states to fight with such an opponent, it is really a bit worthless, so he chose to forbear.

However, as a monarch with 'great talents', he naturally did not bow to a powerful enemy, he has been keeping a close eye on Goa and Mysore, in order to recover these two places, he even suspended the war with the Persian Empire, transferred the main force back to Delhi, and with the assistance of the British and the Dutch, began to drill the main army against advanced gunpowder weapons, and even purchased a small amount of gunpowder weapons from the Netherlands to equip the army, as long as the time is ripe, he will let Portugal and the Ming Empire taste the power of the Mughal Empire!

Just when he was in full swing to prepare, the goods of the Mughal Empire suddenly became extremely popular, especially the grain, the commercial grain circulating in the market was almost looted, and even the grain in the hands of ordinary merchants was bought out, and the price of all grain rose by more than fifty percent, as the largest landlord in the country, Shah Jahan naturally made a crooked smile, you know, almost half of the land in the Mughal Empire is the private property of the royal family, and how much money he made can be imagined.

This prosperous scene has lasted for more than half a year, and the Mughal Empire from the emperor to the lord to the nobles to the ordinary traders has almost made money to the point of hand cramps, who would be afraid of the money, whether the emperor or the nobles are desperately searching for goods, especially grain, and even the rations of the hired farmers under them have been almost cut by them, as long as they don't starve to death, all the 'surplus' grain will be sold for money!

The consequences of their doing so directly led to the price of everything in the Mughal Empire rising, and many civilians were miserable, and if it continued like this, let alone wearing clothes, they would not be able to afford to eat!

Signs of inflation are slowly showing signs in the Mughal Empire, so what exactly does inflation mean?

Inflation refers to the currency depreciation and price level caused by the amount of currency in circulation exceeding the actual needs of the economy, combined with the situation of the Mughal Empire, it is more popular to say that when the price of grain is about one or two stones, the total value of Mughal domestic circulation commodities is one billion taels of silver, and the gold and silver and other currencies in circulation on their market are about one billion taels of silver, and now under the manipulation of the Ming Empire, the Mughal Empire has frantically poured into almost 500 million taels of gold and silver and other circulating currencies, so prices in the Mughal Empire generally rose by fifty percent.

There is a more serious situation that everyone in the Mughal Empire does not realize, that is, the currency of these 500 million taels of silver flows in through the purchase of things, that is to say, almost 500 million taels of silver have been bought, and the goods circulating within the Mughal Empire are actually only half of what they used to be!

Why doesn't anyone realize this? Mainly because the market of the entire Mughal Empire is not closed, there are still many goods that are pouring into the Mughal Empire through merchants from Britain and France, the Netherlands and even Portugal and the Ming Empire.

In fact, according to the ratio of commodities and currency, the prices of goods in the Mughal Empire should have risen three times, and if there is a major war, the circulating goods will be crazy and reduced, but the currency will not be significantly reduced, and it is really impossible to predict what the prices of the Mughal Empire will rise at that time.

This is Zhu Cijiong's sheep shearing plan, now half of the Mughal Empire's circulating commodities have been pinched in the hands of the Ming and Portugal, according to the current comparison of the Mughal Empire's commodities, the value of these commodities is about 750 million taels of silver, that is to say, if these commodities are sold back at this time, they can probably earn about 200 million taels. However, Zhu Cijiong's appetite is more than that!

At the end of the war, food and other necessities of life are the main circulating commodities, and the value of other consumer goods will not rise, but will fall, and what he wants to cut is not 200 million taels, but 500 million taels, 600 million taels, and even 800 million taels or 900 million taels!

Just after the New Year, the supply of goods from the Ming Dynasty, Portugal, Spain, and even Britain, France and the Netherlands was cut off one after another, and the situation of money not being able to buy things slowly appeared in various parts of the Mughal Empire, and the prices of the entire Mughal Empire began to soar, especially the necessities of life such as food, which doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and ...... five, and it seemed that there would never be an end!

No matter how much the price of grain rises, the lords and nobles everywhere will not care, it is impossible for them to sell their rations, and the commoners everywhere will not be able to stand it, the rations in the hands of hired farmers have been almost picked up by the royal family, lords and nobles, and almost all the grain stored by ordinary peasant households has also been purchased by traders in various places, that is to say, about half of the peasants have not eaten enough, and the plight of other commoners can be imagined.

There is nothing to eat, people are dying of hunger, what will happen? The peasant uprising in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty is a good example, if you don't rebel, you will starve to death, do you choose to rebel or choose to starve to death?

The Mughal Empire was finally in turmoil, and there were constantly hungry people besieging the mansions of lords and nobles in various places, these hungry people were just grabbing food at first, but later, gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, women's property, there was nothing they did not rob, and the lords and nobles everywhere finally tasted the evil consequences of oppressing the common people, countless people were killed, and many were cooked and cooked, and the degree of chaos even exceeded the northwest peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty more than ten years ago!