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Chapter 1525 To be a puppet or a prisoner
When Kasim learned of the ambitions of the East India Company, he couldn't help being shocked by their ambitions.

If the huge Mughal Empire is broken down into several kingdoms, how many kingdoms should there be?

At that time, the Indian Peninsula may enter a state of many small countries, and hundreds of independent small kingdoms may be formed. In the Warring States Period, the Kingdom of Bengal may instead be the largest kingdom that has been split.

Breaking up a large empire into several small kingdoms is simply insane.

"What are you going to do? What can I do for you?"

Kasim was deeply shocked by this plan, but he knew that the East India Company never did things that were not sure. Now that they had found him, it showed that the other party had already made up their minds.

"Borrow soldiers, borrow food, borrow boats." Qin Zuoming said.

Kasim changed slightly: "You might as well ask me to hand over the throne of Bengal."

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood us. We are going on an expedition to the capital of the Mughals. We send all the soldiers, but we don't have the extra manpower to transport food. We need a fleet of ships and a team of horses from land and rivers. Our army provides food to ensure that we have enough food for the expedition. In return, we can share some of the spoils of Agra with you." Qin Zuoming said.

"Expedition to Agra, are you serious? You may be blocked by a large number of troops from the empire! The emperor of the empire has just passed away, and the hearts of the people have not yet broken down. As long as the eldest prince raises his arms, there may be a hundred responses. It's hard to walk in the river and plain." Kasim felt that these people who came to Dongfang Huaxia were simply a bunch of lunatics.

At the beginning, only 3000 people dared to fight head-on with the 7 Mughal army. Now they want to go to the capital of the Mughal Empire. They don't pay attention to the empire with a population of hundreds of millions!
"If we are just joking, there is no need to make a special trip to find you. We need to have a guaranteed supply of 6000 combat soldiers and 3000 horses." Qin Zuoming said.

Kasim hesitated for a while: "If you are determined to go on an expedition, I can send a cavalry force of 10000 to provide support for you. Our Bengal cavalry is not elite, but it can cover your flanks. But I have A request?"

"any request?"

"I hope that we will not take any action until the first prince and the third prince have a contest, and we will go on an expedition until they are both defeated. Otherwise, they may join forces to resist...foreign enemies."

"This is a matter of course. We have a saying that the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit. We are fishermen now. I need to meet the second prince Shashuja. He should not be dead yet, right?"

"No, I took care of him carefully."

As the king, Kasim personally brought Qin Zuoming and others to the prison where the second prince Shashuja was held.

Apparently fearing the revenge of his master, Kasim kept the second prince under strict guard and sent a team of his most trustworthy personal soldiers to guard the second prince.

The second prince is very sad now. If the history has not changed, he can still be the deputy king of Bengal for more than ten years, enjoy his sensuality, and enjoy himself for a long time.

Now, however, he was a prisoner, having had to amputate his arm after being shot by buckshot at the Battle of Plassey, and lost his arm in order to save his own life.

Shashuja's hair and beard were messy. When he heard footsteps in the prison, he looked at the person with dull eyes.

When he saw the other party's clothes, he came to the iron fence excitedly.

It was these few people who defeated him and reduced him to where he is now!

"Your Highness, Second Prince, are you alright?" Kasim added insult to injury, he was not at all polite to his former master, and his tone was full of sarcasm.

"If I can kill you, a traitor, with my own hands, I will feel very good!"

"Your Highness, Second Prince, you are joking. I want to be the king of Bengal. Tens of millions of people here depend on me to survive."

"I am going to kill you!"

Shashuja seemed very excited, holding on to the iron fence with both hands. If there were no iron bars blocking him, he would have thrown himself fiercely at Kasim who had betrayed him and the empire.

"It seems that his mental state is not bad, at least he still has the energy to tear you into pieces. But during this time, he must be disciplined and let him obey our orders."

Qin Zuoming came out of the shadows with his hands behind his back.His troops defeated Shashuja many times, but the two had never met.

"Who are you?! Your clothes, I know, you must be from the hateful East India Company!" Shashuja's face became more ferocious.

"Now your father, His Majesty Shah Jahan has fallen, and the eldest prince and the third prince are fighting for the throne. I wonder if you want to ascend to the throne of the Mughal Empire, so as not to continue to suffer the pain of being a prisoner? "Qin Zuoming looked at the troubled prince with a half-smile.

"Impossible! You don't want to lie to me! How could my father be dead!" Shashuja couldn't believe it.

"This is absolutely true. He unfortunately contracted a serious illness and passed away. Soon the eldest prince and the third prince will fight. As long as both of them die, you can become the emperor of the Mughal Empire." ?” Qin Zuoming was like a demon luring Shashuja into the abyss.

"You... What are you planning to do? You want me to be your puppet?!" As the second prince, Sha Shujia immediately understood the other party's intention. The other party wanted to manipulate him as a puppet!

Being held up to the throne by others, this emperor is also in name only, and it is estimated that it will depend on their faces at that time.

"Choose to be a puppet emperor and act according to our wishes, and you can still enjoy some of the glory and wealth in the world. On the contrary, if you continue to stay here, you will be just a prisoner with nothing for the rest of your life. You execute. How do you choose, Your Highness the Second Prince?"

Qin Zuoming's words made Sha Shujia's face turn pale.But Shashuja could not refute his words.

It seems that the choice between being a puppet emperor and being a prisoner who will never see the light of day in the dark seems not very difficult.

"Will he really be willing to obediently be our puppet?"

After Kasim, Qin Zuoming and others came out of the prison, they asked Qin Zuoming.

"When all the princes betrayed Agra, no prince would be willing to obey the orders of Agra. Who would want a weak emperor to stand on top of them and call the wind and rain?" Qin Zuoming replied.

(End of this chapter)