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Chapter 1376 The Second Mughal Prince
"Your Highness, the Second Prince, the East India Company built a castle on the Hooghly River under the pretense of establishing a trading post. Now their castle is more than half completed. They deployed 7 cannons on the bastion, and recruited from nearby villages and cities. We have sent hundreds of Sudra untouchables to protect the castle. We suspect that they will have plans for our Bengal province, so we have come to report to you, His Royal Highness the Second Prince."

Customs officials from Calcutta came to Dhaka to meet Shashuja, the second prince of the Mughal Empire, and reported to him the serious situation in Calcutta Fort.

The four princes of the Mughal Empire, except for the first prince, the other three princes were sent to the place as deputy kings by the emperor, and their power was second only to the Mughal emperor!
The second prince, Shashuja, served as the deputy king of Bangladesh, which is known as the treasure house of the empire. Here, he can cover the sky with one hand, and even the governor of Bangladesh is afraid of three points.

Shashuja looked as if he had been hollowed out by sensuality, and there were two enchanting women behind him fanning him.

As the second prince of the empire, his position is a bit awkward, with the emperor on top, and the eldest prince below who is about to take the throne, and he probably has no chance to be the highest emperor, so he can only indulge himself in the glory and wealth of Bangladesh.

"The East India Company trades here. We can buy some special gadgets from them, and we can also receive taxes. They build castles and let them build them. Maybe it's just to prevent pirates or thieves." Shashuja thought What a big deal, he said without interest.

"Your Highness, the second prince, the villain thinks that the purpose of the other party is not so simple. They seem to be building a business station, but in fact they are just using the army to interfere with our Bangladeshi affairs. Recently, they have a fleet of ships that came to the Hooghly River. The detachment has eight galleys, and a great deal of artillery. They are more dangerous than the Portuguese who came before, and we should drive them out of Bengal before they can gain a foothold. We are the party of justice, and they have violated the purchase of land The conditions at the time. When we allocated the three villages along the Hooghly River to them, they promised us to build a trading post, but now they are obviously building a castle for military use." The customs official said.

Shashuja tapped on the handle of the chair, thinking about whether to drive the East India Company out of Bengal.

The Mughal Empire was still on the rise at this time, and its territory continued to expand. As the second prince, he could still easily mobilize the Bangladeshi army.

"Looking at the villains, if we don't expel them from our Bengal in time, and wait until they gain a foothold and collude with the businessmen around them, it will be very difficult for us to remove them. They have huge ships and come and go on the sea. , coupled with the fortress by the sea, it will be very difficult for us to capture." The customs officials seemed to have foreseen the most dangerous scenario.

Even though the Mughals are relatively closed, there are still officials with a sense of crisis who are terrified of outsiders.

"Our soldiers won't get much benefit from fighting them, and their ships can't go ashore. The ashore is our cavalry's world..." Shashuja yawned, still not interested in driving the East India Company away.

"His Majesty the Emperor used to have a headache for the invasion of the Portuguese. The Portuguese suppressed all the Arabs and Persians who came to trade and harassed the coast. That's why His Majesty gave the East India Company privileges to check and balance the Portuguese and drive away the tigers. Now the East India The company is doing exactly the same thing as the portugals, they are a more serious threat to our bengal than the portugals who came before and become a threat to the empire. If the east india company can be driven out of bengal and win the big war, maybe It can be commended by His Majesty the Emperor," said the customs official.

Shashuja's eyes suddenly lit up.If he can repel the East India Company's infiltration of Bangladesh and make military exploits, his status among the four princes will be improved. Maybe he can take advantage of this opportunity to frighten the officials of the empire, and have a chance to sit on the throne of the emperor of the empire. !

Thinking of enhancing his prestige in the empire, Shashuja couldn't sit still: "I will let the governor of Bengal and the princes of the local states gather troops to teach these Chinese and British people who have not kept their promises, and let them know that we are Mughals. The Er Empire is not something they can play with at will."

"The villain will continue to go back to Calcutta to monitor them, and wait for your highness to lead the army to conquer!" The customs officer was relieved when he saw that the second prince Shashuja agreed to send troops to destroy the Calcutta castle.

Who would believe that the East India Company was here for serious business, having seen Calcutta's bastions, artillery and incoming warships?
Ordinary armed merchant ships are enough to maintain their safety here. Sending warships over is no longer as simple as simply protecting merchant ships.

The second prince of the empire, Shashuja, intends to conquer in person, but Bangladesh has not fought for a long time, and the princes of various states mobilized the army at a slow speed to satisfy the second prince's ambition of making meritorious service.

A 40000-strong Bengal army is beginning to gather for Dhaka. These 40000 people come from the territories of various princes, including cavalry feudal lords, farmers, and slaves. Among them, less than 20000 may actually fight.Even such troops are formidable.

The people in Calcutta Fort still don't know that the sudden appearance of the Nanyang Fleet here has made the Bengal province start to fear them, and the second prince is calling an army to crusade against them.

The Nanyang Fleet only stayed in Calcutta for a few days, and they took away Francis Day, who was familiar with the positions of the Portuguese and Dutch strongholds.

There are also about 100 sailors temporarily at Fort Calcutta due to illness and other reasons.

At this time, the strength of Calcutta Fort was 100 naval soldiers, 300 soldiers from the East India Continent, 500 state mercenaries, and a number of employees of the East India Company.

They did not expect that they would face the siege of 40000 native troops.

The Nanyang Fleet is heading to Pulicat, the stronghold of the Dutch in the South Asian subcontinent, to submit them to the rule of the East India Company.

"This place is located on the east coast of South Asia, close to Madrasburg, which we established locally. I propose to destroy Pulicat completely, and move the local Dutch people to Madras, and join us on the east coast. In the future, Dutch merchants want to do business in the Bay of Bengal, either to Madras on the east coast or Calcutta on the Ganges. In this way, we will firmly grasp the control of the Bay of Bengal.” Buddha Francis described the next action to Deng Qianlong.

He saw that the Chinese, the new shareholders of the East India Company, sent eight large ships at once in order to conquer India, four of which were sailing battleships with fifty guns. He couldn't help being surprised at the strength and courage of the new shareholders.And it's good to be close.

(End of this chapter)