Daming Military Empire

Chapter 390 The troubled times are coming
The period of Shah Jahan's reign was the most prosperous period of the Mughal Empire. At this time, the Mughal Empire annexed Ahmednagar, occupied Kandahar, forced Gao Kangda to pay tribute, and forced Bijapur to recognize Mughal Suzerainty, military power reached the extreme.

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 specialized production areas for commercial grain, cotton, raw silk, indigo, tobacco and other cash crops. Sell ​​to the European market.

In terms of industry and commerce, the Mughal Empire was also relatively developed. The technical level of the main handicraft production even surpassed that of the advanced countries in the European continent at that time. With the development of the economy, there was also a new profession of money merchants. They opened money shops all over the country. With the issuance of bank notes, the wealthy Banya merchants even once acted as royal merchants and financial brokers for the royal family, nobles and officials.

It was at this time that the Portuguese suddenly exerted their strength. Using Goa as their base, they quickly occupied the Mysore state with the assistance of the Ming Empire, and then took down Dakan and Birjar.

Shah Jahan was naturally very angry at this kind of invasion, but the defeat of the third prince Aurangzeb made him realize a problem. Portugal and the Ming Empire combined are more terrifying opponents than the Persian Empire, especially the Ming Dynasty The advanced gunpowder weapons of the empire have far surpassed the Persian Empire. It is not worth it to fight against such an opponent for a few insignificant states, so he chose to endure.

However, as a "talented and bold" monarch, he naturally would not bow his head to a powerful enemy. He has been paying close attention to Goa and Mysore. In order to regain these two places, he even suspended the war with the Persian Empire. The main force was transferred back to Delhi, and with the assistance of the British and the Dutch, he began to drill the main force against advanced gunpowder weapons, and even bought a small amount of gunpowder weapons from the Netherlands to equip the army. Let Portugal and the Ming Empire taste the power of the Mughal Empire!

While he was making intensive preparations, the goods of the Mughal Empire suddenly became extremely popular, especially the grain. The commodity grain in circulation on the market was almost looted, and even the grain in the hands of ordinary merchants was sold out. The price has risen by more than [-]%. As the largest landowner in the country, Shah Jahan is naturally making a lot of money. You know, almost half of the land in the Mughal Empire is the private property of the royal family. How much money did he make? One can imagine.

This kind of prosperous scene has lasted for more than half a year. The Mughal Empire, from the emperor to the lords to the nobles to the ordinary merchants, has almost made money and has hand cramps. Who would think that there is too much money? Both the emperor and the nobles are desperately searching for goods. Especially the food, even the rations of the farm laborers under them are almost cut out by them, as long as they don't starve to death, all the 'excess' food will be sold for money!
As a result of their doing so, the prices of all things in the Mughal Empire have directly increased, and many civilians have suffered unspeakably. If this continues, let alone clothes, they will not be able to afford food!

The Mughal Empire slowly showed signs of inflation, so what does inflation mean?

Inflation refers to the comprehensive and continuous increase in 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 food is around one or two stones, The total value of Mughal domestic circulation commodities is one billion taels of silver, and the currency such as gold and silver circulating in the market is about one billion taels of silver. Now under the control of the Ming Empire, the Mughal Empire has frantically poured in The currency in circulation, such as gold and silver, is almost equivalent to [-] million taels of silver, so prices in the Mughal Empire generally rose by [-]%.

There is also a more serious situation that everyone in the Mughal Empire did not realize, that is, the currency of [-] million taels of silver flowed in through buying things, that is to say, almost [-] million taels of silver had already been bought. Well, the goods circulated within the Mughal Empire are actually only half of what they used to be!

Why is no one aware of this?The main reason is that the market in the entire Mughal Empire is not closed, and there are still many goods that are constantly pouring into the Mughal Empire through merchants in Britain, France, the Netherlands, and even Portugal and the Ming Empire. Most people can still buy what they want. Yes, everyone didn't obviously feel that there were fewer commodities, so prices in the Mughal Empire hadn't skyrocketed yet.

In fact, according to the ratio of goods to currency, the prices of the Mughal Empire should have tripled, and if there is a war, the goods in circulation will decrease crazily, but the currency will not decrease significantly, and the prices of the Mughal Empire will rise by then What it will look like is really unpredictable.

This is Zhu Cijiong's wool-shearing plan. Now half of the Mughal Empire's commodities in circulation are in the hands of Daming and Portugal. According to the current price comparison of the Mughal Empire's commodities, the value of these commodities is about [-] million taels of silver. , that is to say, if these products are sold back at this time, they can probably earn about [-] million taels.However, Zhu Cijiong's appetite is more than that big!

With the war together, food and other daily necessities are the main commodities in circulation. The value of other consumer goods will not rise, but will fall. What he wants to cut is not [-] million taels, but [-] million taels, [-] million taels, or even [-] million taels Two, nine hundred million taels!

Just after the new year, goods from Ming, Portugal, Spain, and even England, France, and the Netherlands were cut off one after another. The situation in the Mughal Empire was that money could not buy things, and the prices of the entire Mughal Empire began to soar, especially Food and other necessities of life have doubled, doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and five times. It seems that there will never be an end!

No matter how high the price of food is, the lords and nobles everywhere will not care. It is impossible for them to sell their rations, and the common people everywhere will not be able to bear it. The aristocrats have almost plundered, and almost all the food stocks of ordinary farmers have been purchased by traders from all over the country. That is to say, about half of the farmers can't eat enough. The plight of other commoners can be imagined.

There is no food to eat, people are starving to death, what will happen?The peasant uprising in the northwest of Ming Dynasty is a good example. If you don’t rebel, you will starve to death. Do you choose to rebel or starve to death?

The Mughal Empire was in chaos at last, and there were constant cases of hungry people besieging the residences of lords and nobles. At first, these hungry people just robbed food, but later on, gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, women's property, there is nothing they don't grab , the lords and nobles everywhere finally tasted the evil results of oppressing the common people. Countless people were killed, and many were cooked. The degree of chaos even surpassed that of the Northwest Peasant Uprising in Ming Dynasty more than ten years ago!
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