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The two pieces of news he had just received were very important, and Qin Mu couldn't help but ask, "Where is Su Jin's army now?" Is there any news coming back? ”

Su Jin's tens of thousands of troops were originally in the middle of the river, but now the Punjab region of India in the south is in a group, and on the north shore of the Caspian Sea in the northwest, tens of thousands of troops of Li Ding and Chebai should also be fighting fiercely with Kazakh and Osman forces. Where Su Jin goes will have a significant impact on the battle situation on both sides, and Qin Mu has this question.

He Liang, the secretary of the military department, replied: "Your Majesty, Su Jin has been busy stabilizing the situation in the Hezhong region, and dividing his troops to the north to sweep the Kipchak steppe, but because the situation in the Hezhong region is more complicated, and the Safavid of Persia has also coveted the Hezhong region for a long time, and now he is eyeing it, so Su Jin's main force is still in the area of Samarkand in the middle of the river. ”

It was the Safavid Empire again, and it was worried that the Safavid Empire would take advantage of the chaos to send troops to occupy the Indus Valley, so it was Qin Mucai who asked the Admiralty to dispatch Indian warships to the north to seize the port of Karachi, an important port near the mouth of the Indus River.

Now Su Jin's tens of thousands of troops were pinned down in the river by him, which made Qin Mu very uncomfortable, but he was not impulsive enough to immediately order an army to attack the Safa Empire.

However, being passively threatened is not Qin Mu's style.

The upper army is plotting, the second is the fighting, and the next is besieging the city.

At present, although it is not easy to find stronger allies from the outside to deal with the Safavid Dynasty, every country, each person, always has its own weaknesses, depending on how well you know it. Can you find his life.

Now it seems that Li Ding is fighting a fierce battle with the Kazakh and Osmanchu forces, and to the south, it is mainly the Dzungar and Aurangzeb who are fighting for Punjab in India. There was nothing to do with the Safavids.

But we can't just look at a corner of the problem, treating headaches and foot pains.

The Safavid Dynasty had already posed a serious threat to the Central Asia strategy and South Asia strategy of the Great Qin, and if it was not taken seriously, it was likely to benefit its fishermen in the end.

The Safavid Empire was founded by the Persians in 1501 AD. Its territory stretches from Khorasan in the east, the Euphrates River in the west, and the Karakum Desert and the Aral Sea in the north. South to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea;

It encompasses the whole territory of Iran and part of Iraq. Turkmenistan, western Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan.

As for the potential enemy of the Safavid Empire, the Ministry of War has long been collecting information related to it. Qin Mu asked, and He Liang, the secretary of the military department, answered fluently.

"Your Majesty, the reigning Abbasid II is the seventh king, and his kingdom calls the king Shah. Abbasid II ascended the throne nine years ago, when he was less than ten years old. The power was handed over to the prime minister, but the prime minister was too aggressive and made enemies on all sides because of the fight against corruption, which made the factional conflict in the Safavid more serious."

According to He Liang, Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid Empire, established the empire mainly by two forces.

One. It was the Turks, who were the main armed forces when Ismail I founded the empire, and were called "red heads" due to their use of red turbans

Second. They were Persians, and they were mainly responsible for managing administrative and religious affairs.

To put it bluntly, it is a martial arts and a culture, composed of different races, and conflicts are inevitable in the process.

Because Redhead was not a traditional Iranian, Ismail I appointed five Persians as governors. He was also the highest military commander of the Red Heads, the second of whom was on the battlefield where his Red Heads disobeyed his orders. Defeated and killed, the fourth and fifth were murdered by his red heads. Later they even murdered Ismail II.

As a result, the Safavid Empire had a number of red-headed rebellions.

From the 17th century onwards, the power of the Red Heads began to weaken, and the warlike soldiers of the past gradually evolved into administrative institutions and bureaucrats, but in any case, the Red Heads were still a force to be reckoned with in the Safavid Empire.

At the same time, a new merchant class grew stronger in the Safavid Empire, consisting mainly of Armenians, Georgians, and Indians.

Prime Minister Shata's administration was excessive, offending the Turkic red-headed and the merchant class composed of Armenians, Georgians, and Indians, and the internal contradictions intensified.

Six years ago, Prime Minister Sha Thai was assassinated, and the radical administration was put on hold for the time being, but this internal contradiction has not disappeared.

From the outside, the Safavid Empire and its main enemy were the Ottoman Empire, and it was because of the persecution of Shiites by the Sunni Ottoman Empire that Ismail I raised a banner of resistance and finally established the Safavid Empire.

There has been an endless war between the two countries over religious beliefs and over Iraq's rich plains.

Abbasid I captured Baghdad in 1509 and was recaptured by Ottoman Suleiman I in 1534.

In 1623 the Safavid Empire recaptured Baghdad, but in 1638 Murad IV recaptured it.

This tug-of-war between Sunnis and Shiites lasted for 150 years.

Originally, the Safavid Empire wanted to make peace with the Mughal Empire in the south in order to fight against the powerful Ottoman Empire, but then in order to compete for the strategic location of Kandahar, the two sides also began repeated tug-of-wars.

However, now the two most powerful enemies of the Safavids, the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire, are at war with the Great Qin, and it is difficult to cooperate with them.

Qin Mu said leisurely: "Then it seems that the only way to do it is to find a way from within the Safavid Empire. No matter how strong a fortress is, it cannot withstand the destruction from within. ”

He Liang agreed with this very much, and said: "Your Majesty, the reason why the red head is declining is actually from external influences. Thirty years ago, Abbasid I, with the help of the British Navy, seized Hormuz in the Persian Gulf from the Ottoman Empire. Expanded trade relations with the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company.

Trade with the outside world not only allowed the Abbasid I to obtain a lot of wealth, but also a lot of advanced firearms, and it was in this way that the Abbasids were able to get rid of their dependence on the red heads, strengthen the central government, and push the Safavid to its peak.

In other words, Hormuz in the Persian Gulf is the most important lifeline of the Safavids. The Safavid navy was very weak, because almost all the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, and it was still with the help of the British navy to capture Hormuz.

I have the most powerful navy in Daqin, and if I seize Hormuz, or block the exit of the Persian Gulf, and intercept passing merchant ships, I can immediately have a huge impact on the Safavid Empire and intensify its domestic contradictions. ”

"Not bad, not bad!" He Liang's strategy made Qin Mu can't help but nod frequently.

If it is to attack the Safavid Empire with an army, it will be difficult and difficult.

If you use the navy to attack Hormuz, maybe blockading the Persian Gulf is a matter of low difficulty, low cost, and high returns, which is too cost-effective!

"Your Majesty, if you want to weaken the Safavid Empire from within, in addition to co-opting the red heads, there is another force that can be used, and that is the Kurds.

More than forty years ago, a bloody war broke out between the Safavid Empire and the Kurds. The cause of the war was a citadel in the area near Lake Umiya in northwestern Persia. The rebuilding of the castle by a local Kurdish chieftain, who sought to maintain independence between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, was seen by the Safavid Empire as a gesture of independence, thus threatening the Safavid Empire's rule over its northwest region.

Many other Kurdish chieftains, including the sheikhs of Mahababat, also began to gain independence from the Safavids. The army of Abbasid I laid siege to the castle for a long and bloody time, and after the war it fell.

Abbas ordered the plundering of the entire province and the relocation of nearly 100,000 Kurds to Khorasan, who now numbered 300,000 and were subjected to extremely cool oppression.

Your Majesty, the minister thought that if Su Jin could contact the Kurds in Khorasan and give them some support, it would be possible to make them a sharp sword piercing Safavid's heart. ”

"Good! He Qing, you go back first, and let the military department come up with a detailed feasible plan as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

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