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Text Chapter 1134 The Life Gate of the Safavid Empire

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    *** The two pieces of news he just received were very important. Qin Mu couldn't help but ask: "Where is Su Jin's army now? Is there any news?" Su Jin's tens of thousands of troops were originally in the river area, but now they are in Punjab, India in the south.  The area was in a tight knot, and on the north bank of the Caspian Sea in the northwest, tens of thousands of troops from Li Ding and Qi Bai, as well as Kazakh and Ottoman troops, were fighting fiercely.  ¡Ê¨JWhere Su Jin goes will have a major impact on the war situation on both sides, so Qin Mu has this question.  He Liang, Secretary of the Ministry of War, replied: "Your Majesty, Su Jin has been busy stabilizing the situation in the Hezhong area, and sent troops north to sweep the Kipchak prairie. However, because the situation in the Hezhong area is relatively complicated, and the Persian Safavids also have no control over the Hezhong area.  It has been coveted for a long time, and now it is eyeing it. Therefore, the main force of Su Jin remains in the Samarkand area of ????the river. "The Safavid Empire was worried that the Safavid Empire would take advantage of the chaos to send troops to occupy the Indus River Basin, so Qin Mucai.  Let the Navy Department dispatch Indian warships north to seize the important port of Karachi near the outlet of the Indus River.  Now that Su Jin's tens of thousands of troops are being held back in the river, this makes Qin Mu feel very uncomfortable, but he is not so impulsive as to immediately send troops to attack the Safa Empire.  " However, it is not Qin Mu's style to be passively threatened all the time.  The first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and the third is to attack the city.  At present, it seems that although it is not easy to find relatively strong allies from the outside to deal with the Safavid dynasty, every country and every person always has his own weaknesses. It depends on how much you know about them and whether you can find them.  Where is the gate of life.  Now it seems that Li Ding is fighting fiercely with the Kazakh and Ottoman armies, while in the south it is mainly the Junggar tribe and Aurangzeb who are fighting for the Indian Punjab, and there is nothing wrong with the Safavid dynasty.  But you can¡¯t just look at the problem from one corner. If you have a headache, treat the head, and if the foot hurts, treat the feet.  The Safavid dynasty has posed a serious threat to Qin's Central Asia strategy and South Asia strategy, and it should no longer be taken seriously.  In the end, it is very likely that the fisherman will benefit.  The Safavid Empire was an empire founded by the Persians in 1501 AD.  Its territory starts from Khorasan in the east, reaches the Euphrates River in the west, reaches the Karakum Desert and the Aral Sea in the north, and reaches the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea in the south; it includes all of Iran, part of Iraq, Turkmenistan, western Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan.  South Stan.  Regarding the potential enemy of the Safavid Empire, the Ministry of War has already been collecting relevant intelligence, Qin Mu asked.  He Liang, Minister of the Ministry of War, answered fluently.  "Your Majesty, the current reigning Abbas II is the seventh king of the country, and his country calls the king Shah. Abbas II came to the throne nine years ago, when he was less than ten years old. The power was handed over to the Prime Minister Shata, but  This prime minister was too aggressive in politics and made enemies on all sides because of his crackdown on corruption, which made the factional conflicts in Safavid more and more serious" According to He Liang, Ismail, the founder of the Safavid empire,  In the first generation, this empire was established mainly by relying on two forces.  One of them is the Turks.  They were the main armed force when Ismail I established the empire. They were called "red heads" because of their use of red turbans. The second one was the Persians, who were mainly responsible for managing administrative and religious affairs.     to be honest.  It is a military force and a civil society, composed of different races. In this process, conflicts are inevitable.  Because the red head was not a traditional Iranian, Ismail I successively appointed five Persians as governors.  He was also the highest military officer of the Red-Headed Army, the second of whom was defeated and killed on the battlefield when his red-headed soldiers disobeyed his orders.  The fourth and fifth were murdered by his red-headed henchmen.  Later they even murdered Ismail II.  As a result, many red-headed rebellions occurred in the Safavid Empire.  Since the 17th century, the power of the red heads has begun to weaken, and the former warriors have gradually evolved into management agencies and bureaucrats. However, in any case, the red heads are still a force that cannot be ignored in the Safavid Empire.  At the same time, a new merchant class gradually became stronger in the Safavid Empire. They were mainly composed of Armenians, Georgians and Indians.  Prime Minister Shata¡¯s excessive policy has offended the red-headed Turks and the business class composed of Armenians, Georgians and Indians, and internal conflicts have intensified.  Six years ago, Prime Minister Sha Ta was assassinated, and the radical policies were temporarily put on hold, but this internal contradiction did not disappear.  From the outside, the main enemy of the Safavid Empire was the Ottoman Empire. It was because the Sunni Ottoman Empire persecuted Shia believers that Ismail I set up a banner of resistance and finally established the Safavid Empire.  empire.  There are endless wars between the two countries because of their religious beliefs and the competition for the rich plains of Iraq.  Abbas I??It occupied Baghdad in 1509 and was recaptured by Ottoman Suleiman I in 1534.  In 1623, the Safavid Empire reoccupied Baghdad, but it was recaptured by Murad IV in 1638.  This tug-of-war between Sunnis and Shia has lasted for 150 years.  Originally, in order to fight against the powerful Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire was interested in having good relations with the Mughal Empire in the south. However, in order to compete for the strategic location of Kandahar, the two sides also began repeated tug-of-war.  However, now the two most powerful enemies of the Safavids, the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire, are at odds with the Qin Dynasty and have even gone to war. It is difficult to cooperate with them.  Qin Mu said leisurely: "It seems that the only way is to find a solution from within the Safavid Empire. No matter how strong the fortress is, it cannot withstand destruction from within." He Liang strongly agreed with this, and he said: "  Your Majesty, the reason for the decline of the Red Head is actually due to external influence. Thirty years ago, Abbas I seized Hormuz in the Persian Gulf from the Ottoman Empire and expanded its relationship with the British.  The trade relationship between the India Company and the Dutch East India Company not only gave Abbas I a lot of wealth, but also acquired many advanced firearms.  It was able to get rid of its dependence on red heads, strengthen the central government, and push Safavid to its peak. In other words, Hormuz in the Persian Gulf is Safavid's most important destiny.  The navy is very weak, so almost all the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf are controlled by the Ottoman Empire. It was only with the help of the British navy that we could capture Hormuz. Our Daqin has the most powerful navy. If I capture Hormuz, or blockade it.  Exiting the Persian Gulf and intercepting passing merchant ships would immediately have a huge impact on the Safavid Empire and intensify its domestic conflicts. " "Not bad, not bad!" He Liang's strategy made Qin Mu couldn't help but nod.  If you use the army to attack the Safavid Empire, it will be difficult.  If you use the navy to attack Hormuz, or blockade the Persian Gulf, it will be a low-difficulty, low-cost, and high-yield thing. It is a great deal!  "Your Majesty, if you want to weaken the Safavid Empire from within, in addition to wooing the red heads, there is another force that can be used, and that is the Kurds. More than 40 years ago, a war broke out between the Safavid Empire and the Kurds  A bloody war. The cause of this war was a castle in the area near Lake Umiya in northwest Persia. The local Kurdish chief tried to maintain his independence between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire. He rebuilt the castle and was destroyed by the Safavids.  The empire was seen as a gesture of independence and thus threatened the Safavid Empire's control of the northwest. Many other Kurdish leaders, including the sheikh of Mahabad, also began to rebel against Safavid I's forces.  After a long and bloody siege, the castle fell. Abbas ordered a massive looting of the entire province and moved nearly 100,000 Kurds to Khorasan. Today, there are as many as 300,000 Kurds.  Your Majesty, I thought that by allowing Su Jin to contact the Kurds in Khorasan and give them some support, they might become a weapon to stab the Safavids in the heart.  "Okay! He Qing, please go back and let the Ministry of War come up with a detailed feasible plan as soon as possible." 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