Istanbul, Topkapi Palace, Second Courtyard.

Grand Duke Golitsyn, the foreign minister of the Rakshasa Kingdom, met the leader of the Celestial Sect, the ruler of the Ottoman Empire and the former enemy of the Rakshasa Kingdom, Mehmed IV, in the courtyard where the Ottoman Sultan summoned his ministers and guests, and the ultimate ideal of the Rakshasa was to regain Constantinople and restore the Roman Empire to its former glory. And Constantinople is now Istanbul, the capital of Mehmed IV.

But now the Great Mongolia has been revived! On his way to Istanbul, Golizin learned some more terrible news from the East. Another important khan under the command of the Mongol Great Khanate, Sima Yi Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, had already captured Tashkent, an important town connecting the riverine region of Central Asia with the Kipchak steppe, before the arrival of this winter.

Although the two Uzbek states of Central Asia, the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, had been united, they were still losing ground in the face of such a formidable enemy, and they had nothing to do but appeal to their suzerain, the Ottoman Sultan, for help.

If the Sultan is unable to provide support, it is believed that these two khanates will yield to the Mongol Khan around next spring, and by that time, the whole of Central Asia will completely fall into the hands of the Great Mongols!

With control of Central Asia, both Rakshasa and Persia could be the next targets of the Great Mongol State, and the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Sultan's most important vassal state, was likely to return to the Mongol Great Khan, one of many smaller states that had branched off from the Golden Horde.

If weakened Persia falls and the Crimean Khanate returns to Greater Mongolia at the same time, then the bitter days of the Ottoman Empire are coming!

After carefully calculating in his heart and being very sure that the "advantage of the negotiations is mine", Grand Duke Golitsyn showed a confident expression in front of the Ottoman sultan.

"Your Majesty the Sultan, I believe you have heard the news about the revival of the Great Mongol State and the launch of the Western Expedition again, one Khanate that believed in the Celestial Religion has been destroyed by this powerful power from the Mongolian steppes in the east, and the other two khanates that also believed in the Celestial Religion are also in danger, if I remember correctly, the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate are both vassals of Your Majesty, right?"

After a routine greeting, Grand Duke Golitsyn began negotiations with the Sultan in fluent Turkish.

He began by mentioning the collapse of the Kazakh Khanate and the crisis facing the Bukhara and Khiva khanates. This Bukhara and Khivak are both the younger brothers of the Ottoman Empire, and they are also veteran younger brothers of the Catholic Sect, how can they be stronger than Ukraine, right?

"Grand Duke Golitsyn," said the Ottoman Sultan with a blank face, "Bukhara and Khiva are my vassals, and they are very important to me. And Ukraine is nothing more than a region of Christianity. Now although there are some Ukrainian Cossack chiefs who show loyalty to me, I know that it is not sincere, they are only trying to use the power of the Ottoman Empire to help themselves out of Poland and your Rakshasa rule. As soon as they get their goal, they'll turn against me! ”

There's a play!

Grand Duke Golitsyn immediately overjoyed when he heard this, "Your Majesty Sultan, since you are completely aware of the thoughts of the Ukrainian Cossacks, then we might as well sign an agreement that will ensure the permanent division of the Ukrainian regions between our two countries." We can divide Ukraine equally with the Dnieper as a boundary. So that the Cossacks of Ukraine will be divided and conquered, and they will never be able to get out of the control of our two countries! ”

"But in fact I did not want to occupy the lands of Ukraine!" The Sultan shook his head and looked at Grand Duke Golitsyn, who was a little dazed, "Grand Duke Golitsyn, in view of the current situation, I decided to say a little from my heart to you I never wanted to conquer Ukraine, I just wanted to invade Ukraine, and I have been violating!"

The Cossacks of Ukraine are the brothers of your Rakshasas, and for me they are just infidels. And I'm not going to turn them into Celestials, you know what I mean? ”

Golitsin really doesn't quite understand, what does this sultan mean? He doesn't want to conquer Ukraine, he just wants to invade it . Ukraine's territory is so good, can't the Ottoman Sultan look down on it?

Seeing that he was a little confused, the Grand Vizierkala Mustafa of the Ottoman Empire opened his mouth to explain for the Sultan: "Slaves from Ukraine are very important to our empire! According to the laws of the Celestial Sect, we cannot reduce believers in the true God to slaves, but the strong men and beautiful women of Ukraine are Christians, and their value is very high!

And the Rakshasas love to build deer defenses on the land you occupy. Previously it was the Tula and Belgorod lines, and now it is the Izyum line. These lines of yours are beyond the reach of the warriors of the Crimean Khan, if the Izyum line extends west all the way to the Polish border. Then it will be difficult for us in the Ottoman Empire to obtain white slaves, and the Crimean Khanate, which captured white slaves for us, will soon fall into poverty. That's why we started this war! ”

Now Golitsyn was a little speechless, it turned out that the Ottoman Empire did not look down on Ukraine as a treasure land by the Rakshasas, and the Sultan did not regard the Ukrainian Cossacks who took refuge as his sons, the Sultan just treated them, oh, as "goddaughters" who could be violated at any time.

But that's right, if you want to be a righteous son, you have to convert to the Heavenly Sect! The Sultan did not let the Ukrainian Cossacks convert, which son should you be? Isn't it just a "goddaughter"? Moreover, the Ottoman Sultan had not accepted his sons for a long time - because of the conversion to the Celestial Sect, the Sultan could not engage in slavery, and the Turkish Empire was a slave-dependent country.

First of all, the Sultan's harem was full of slaves, with blonde and blue-eyed white slave girls from Europe and crippled black eunuchs from Africa!

Secondly, the Sultan's most capable army, the Ghanishari Legion (Guards), was originally a slave army, recruiting boys from the non-celestial regions of Europe under the Sultan's rule as small slaves, and then training them to become the most elite warriors. Of course, this rule is a bit bad now, because the Ghanishari Legion has started to be hereditary.

Moreover, many of the Sultan's ministers were also slaves, veterans of the Ghanishari Legion who entered the officialdom by virtue of their military merits, and then rose through the ranks. The current Grand Vizierkara Mustafa is a veteran of the Ghani-Shari Legion. However, he was not born as a slave, but as a hereditary guard.

But the hereditary guards are no match for the bought slave guards - the little slaves can be trained to death, where can the hereditary second and third generations be rectified to death?

But now that the Ottoman Sultan is a bit of a back-to-back enemy, with the mighty Holy Roman Empire to the west and a revived Great Mongol to the east, maybe he also wants to have a "slave government retro"?

"If you Rakshasas want peace," Kara-Mustafa said, "then dismantle the Izyum Deer Line, which cannot be rebuilt for ten years, and promise not to encroach on the area west of the Dnieper. And at the same time to ensure the freedom of the Ukrainian Cossacks east of the Dnieper! ”

In fact, the original plan of the Ottoman Empire was to establish a free and weak Ukraine, as a buffer between the Rakshasas, Poland, and the Ottoman Empire, and at the same time to facilitate the Crimean Khanate to grab people.

But the current situation did not allow it, so the Ottomans had to take a step back. Recognize Rakshasa ownership of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, but ensure that the Crimean Khanate will still be able to obtain slaves from there for the next decade.

Golitsin thought for a moment and asked: "In the peace treaty signed between the Ottoman Empire and our country, is Ukraine east of the Dnieper River clearly belonging to the Rakshasas?" ”

"Of course." Mehmed IV gave an affirmative answer.

"Will the Ottoman Empire be able to guarantee non-encroachment on Ukrainian lands east of the Dnieper?"

Mehmed IV replied: "All I can guarantee is that the army directly under the Ottoman Empire will not invade Ukraine east of the Dnieper." ”

This means that the Crimean Khanate and the Ukrainian Cossacks west of the Dnieper will continue to invade!

However, as long as the Ottoman Empire's own army does not come, the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom is still sure to have an advantage east of the Dnieper!

He thought for a moment and asked Mohammed IV: "Your Majesty the Sultan, what if the Cossacks east of the Dnieper invade the region west of the Dnieper?" ”

Mehmed IV smiled with a nonchalant expression and replied: "The dividing line of the Dnieper cannot be changed, and the army of the Rakshasa cannot cross the Dnieper. A vendetta between Ukrainian Cossacks is no big deal, let them go! ”

Golitzin nodded, and said, "So. . . Are we going to set a deadline for the coming peace? How about 10 years? ”

"10 years. Very good! Muhammad IV laughed and said, "In 10 years, we should be able to defeat the barbaric and brutal Mongols!" ”

Delhi, Red Fort.

Aramgil, the conqueror of the world. Aurangzeb, at this time, was also in his magnificent palace, which was austere and unadorned, to receive the envoys from the Chagatai Khanate, Urut and Zhuo.

Although the Timurid dynasty of India and the Chagatai Khanate are relatives, they have not been in contact for many years - since the often defeated emperor of Babur entered India and turned over in one fell swoop, the Timurid dynasty of India did not recognize the Chagatai Khanate of Yarkand.

After all, the two sides are no longer on the same level!

What grade is Timur in India? The richest man in the world! The head of the family is a mountain of gold and silver, and it will not be spent in ten lifetimes! What grade was the Chagatai Khanate? They all ran to Yeerqiang to eat sand, how can they be on an equal footing with Indian Timur?

Of course, if the Khans of the Chagatai Khanate could put aside their pathetic pride and beg for the emperors of Timur India, the emperors of Timur would be willing to give a little.

Oh, a little bit of theirs, for the Chagatai Khanate, that's incredible wealth!

But those khans of the Chagatai Khanate are all brainless, and they don't know how to ask for food! They are a golden family, and their ancestors have been robbing for generations, and asking for food is the ancestral craft of the old Zhu family!

So when Aurangzeb, the conqueror of the world, heard that someone was coming from Chagatai, he thought at first that his poor relatives wanted to open up and came to ask him for food from the richest man in the world, but after inquiring again, he knew that something was wrong!

This great Mongolian state has risen coldly, and the Chagatai Khanate has also been awesome, and it actually defeated the Uzbek coalition army in Central Asia - when he, the great world conqueror, went to conquer Central Asia, he just arrived at the "gate", and was cleaned up by the cavalry of the already weakened Uzbeks, so he was the conqueror of the world failed to conquer Central Asia, and it can be regarded as "the world conqueror lacks a corner", right?

And the Uzbeks, who were so powerful, were now actually defeated by the Chagatai Khanate in one blow. Could it be that he had already crippled the Uzbeks when he went to conquer them last time? With a little more effort, you can complete the conquest?

What a shame!

"Dear Urut and Zhuo," the world conqueror asked, looking at a mixed-race Mongol wearing a Mongolian leather robe and a hot face covered with Khan (the Mongolian component is a little less), "Does Sima Yi Khan want the money of the Timurid Empire?" ”

He still thought that the envoys of the Chagatai Khanate had come to ask for food!

"Your Highness, Emir!" Urut and Zhuo did not call Aurangzeb by the honorific title "Alamgil", but called him "Amir", the official title of the Timurid monarch, "I am not an envoy of Chagatai Khan, but an envoy of the Mongol Great Khan!" ”

"Great Khan?" Aurangzeb frowned, looking very unhappy.

Is this Mongol Khan great, or is it the conqueror of the world?

However, he still endured it and did not get angry, let alone let people cut down the envoy of the Great Khan - he understands history, and when the Mongols wanted to destroy whom, they usually sent an envoy to provoke the other party first, and the other party wanted to kill the envoy, and it was not far from destruction.

Although he is the conqueror of this world, he is not afraid of the Mongols coming to destroy him. But the envoy is innocent, and people just send a letter, how unreasonable is it to kill him?

"What does the Great Khan want to do?"

"His Majesty the Great Khan would like to invite you or your representatives to Alimari for the Kuritai Conference!"

Alimali is located at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, which was the capital of the original Chagatai Khanate, but it has been abandoned for many years, and now the Khan of Kangxi Khan is stationed there.

"Going to Alimari for the Kuritai conference?" The World Conqueror's brow furrowed even tighter, this Mongol Great Khan regarded him as a member of the Mongol Khanates! Otherwise, how can you tell him to go to the Curritai Conference?

But the problem is that he is the conqueror of the world, not a little Khan under the Great Khan of Mongolia!

How could he go to the Curritai conference?

"Your Majesty, you are the Khan of the Timurid Khanate, and the Timurid Khanate is a vassal of the Chagatai Khanate, so you have the right to participate in the Great Mongolian Kuritai Congress." "In addition, the Great Khan felt that the conquest of the Timurid Khanate in India was very successful, and he intended to give the Timurid Khanate the same status as the Chagatai Khanate and the Golden Horde. From now on, you will be the Khan of the Khanate, one of the three great khanates of the Mongols. ”

Ridiculous!

The conquerors of the world have an urge to cut people.

He is the conqueror of the world, what is "one of the three khanates".How much money is the Chagatai Khanate and the Golden Horde? How dare you be on an equal footing with the conquerors of the world?

However, the conqueror of the world finally held back and did not cut people. To be able to convince people with virtue!

"I'm so busy bringing all of India under the rule of the Timurid Empire that I can't find time to go to faraway Alimari." As he spoke, he pointed to a short, middle-aged man standing in the main hall, "I'll let Aamir Khan go with you. He was the Governor General for Afghanistan and Central Asia. ”

Urut and Zhuo were actually brought to Delhi by this Aamir Khan from Afghanistan, and he was quite familiar with the governor of the Timurid Empire, knowing that this was a relatively easy person to communicate with, and he did not expect to actually bring the world conqueror of India to Ali Mari. It would be nice to have a Governor of Afghanistan to go!

"Your Highness," said Urut and Zhuo, "there is one more small matter, which I hope you will make easy. ”

"What's the matter?" The conqueror of the world said, "Do you want money?" How much? Let's count it! ”

The conquerors of the world are rich! Although he himself lived frugally, and was not willing to eat or wear, his empire was the richest in the world, and there was no one!

"This." Urut and Zhuo did not expect the conquerors of this world to be so generous, but he did not come to ask for money, so he had to say to Aurangzeb, "The Great Khan wants to open a trade route between India and China, and for this purpose he has set up a chartered trading company called the Mongolian East India Trading Company."

"What?" Aurangzeb was taken aback, "Mongolia. The East India Trading Company? How did the Mongol Khan learn to do business with the Dutch and the English? ”

(End of chapter)