Zhou Cheng was in the back hall, so he could naturally hear the noise in the main hall.

But it is a pity that Zhou Cheng does not understand the language here. If he could hear it, he might directly lead his army to kill these wallflowers first.

"I need to see your commander, Karamo."

Zhou Cheng asked the officer next to him to translate.

The translator officer's forehead was already beaded with sweat. He was really afraid that Zhou Cheng would ask him to translate what was said in the hall.

If translated, it would definitely cause huge contradictions.

After hearing the translation, the guard on duty thought for a moment and did not refuse.

After all, these outsiders are protecting their royal capital.

Not long after, Karamo came over.

"General Zhou, I don't know what you want from me." Karamo looked at Zhou Cheng with a bit of guilt in his eyes.

As the commander of the Imperial Guards, he certainly knows the current situation in the hall.

Zhou Cheng didn't say anything, just looked around.

Karamo understood what he meant and asked the surrounding soldiers to retreat in Pashto. He knew Chinese, and although his tone of voice was a bit awkward, he was able to communicate with Zhou Cheng alone.

Zhou Cheng was also very direct: "The destruction of the royal capital is imminent, and no one can make changes. Under such circumstances, these noble ministers of the royal capital are still arguing for their own interests."

"Perhaps in just a few days, the city will be shattered, Timur will lead his army into the royal capital, and then the entire kingdom will become a purgatory on earth. Regarding Timur's cruelty, I don't think I need to be too

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"Karamo, you are different from these decadent nobles in the royal capital. You are a real warrior, so the general and I hope that you can lead the guards and retreat with us."

Karamo did not expect that Zhou Cheng would tell him so directly.

But in the current situation, there really aren't many options.

"Can your Majesty follow us to retreat?" Karamo asked after a slight hesitation.

Zhou Cheng shook his head and refused: "This is impossible. If you want to take His Majesty with you, then he will definitely bring many members of the royal family with you."

"Even if he can really leave, Timur will never let him go and will keep pursuing him."

Karamo had no loyalty to the Tughluq dynasty, but he was loyal to King Mahmud.

He was the commander of the Janissaries promoted by Mahmud himself.

"If I can't take His Majesty with me, I hope I can at least take a prince with me. I think this won't have much impact."

Karamo said in a deep voice.

In fact, in the past few days, Mahmud had approached him alone, hoping that he would take the prince and follow Wang Jinyi and others to retreat and leave Delhi Sultan.

Timur would not let go of the Tughluq dynasty. At this time, leaving the bloodline became the only option.

So when Karamo heard Zhou Cheng's invitation to retreat, there was no reason to refuse.

Perhaps this can be considered a two-way journey.

Zhou Cheng frowned. In fact, he did not want to bring a certain prince with him, because his discussion with Wang Jinyi was to conquer Karamo and join the Ming Dynasty military household.

If there is a prince, then this prince will definitely become the object of allegiance to Karamo.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Cheng asked, "Can I know which prince it is?"

Karamo did not hide anything: "Your Excellency, this is His Highness the Eighth Prince."

Zhou Cheng was slightly startled.

Because this eighth prince is less than ten years old now.

Karamo saw Zhou Cheng's doubts and explained: "His Majesty said that the destruction of the Tughluq Dynasty is irreversible. Even if the Delhi Sultanate is restored again, it will have nothing to do with the Tughluq Dynasty.

It will be a new dynasty."

Hearing this, Zhou Cheng also understood Mahmud's sorrow and plan.

"There is still a lot of wealth in the palace. After the city was destroyed, Tamerlane became more advantageous. Maybe he should be taken away by us." Now that he has this, there is no need for Zhou Cheng to hide it.

Karamo looked at Zhou Cheng deeply, and then said: "Your Majesty has already made arrangements."

Zhou Cheng thought for a while and said, "Maybe we can also take away some of the treasures of other nobles."

Karamo refused: "There are enough. It's not that I want to protect these nobles, but if there are more, it will affect the speed of our retreat, which will bring about a greater crisis."

Zhou Cheng shrugged, obviously Mahmoud had arranged everything.

"Okay, then take me to see how many there are."

"good."

The Tughluq dynasty surrendered.

Before surrendering, Mahmud sent envoys out of the city to negotiate.

There are no extra conditions, I just hope that Timur can take back the order to massacre the city.

Timur agreed.

But after entering the city, all the nobles, including the royal family, were tried.

There is no accident, most of them are death sentences.

And all their property was taken away by Timur.

For ordinary people, there was definitely bullying, but there was no mass killing to vent their anger.

This is not because Timur is benevolent, but because he now needs a large number of slaves to build his territory.

The remaining soldiers were incorporated into Timur's slave army.

At this point, the entire Delhi Sultanate was controlled by Timur, and the Tughluq dynasty was completely destroyed.

Next, Timur turned his eyes to the east again.

Zhu Ying didn't care too much about Zhu Yunwen's relationship with Song Zhong.

He now needs to think carefully about Ming's colonial plan.

At present, the Ming Dynasty's standing army, including all military household soldiers, already exceeds two million.

This is an absolute first for the entire world, and no country can compare with it.

But at the same time, the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty also needed to be guarded.

The number of troops that can be mobilized at will is about 800,000.

If too many are transferred, it will have an impact on the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, among the four major feudal lords of Japan, there are 200,000 troops stationed permanently.

There are 150,000 troops in Annan.

This means that 350,000 troops have been removed.

Here in the city, including Zhu Yunwen's 50,000 elite troops, there are nearly 250,000 troops in total.

Now, out of the two million troops in the Ming Dynasty, there are already 600,000 troops in various vassal states and vassal states.

After this calculation, the Ming Dynasty still has 1.4 million troops, which seems to be very sufficient.

This is not actually the case.

Because this involves the ratio of combat soldiers to auxiliary soldiers.

The total number of two million soldiers includes auxiliary soldiers.

In fact, the number of real soldiers will never exceed 500,000.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's southern patrol army left Champa City, the remaining Ming forces in Champa City were Zhu Yunwen's 50,000 elite soldiers and nearly 30,000 Ming Dynasty naval forces.

A total of 80,000 troops.

Although the Champa Kingdom was not big, it was rich in products because it was in the Southeast Asian region.

The current population is around one million.

The standing force is nearly 200,000.

80,000 vs. 200,000, which seems like a big difference in the number of people, but in fact the Ming Dynasty’s military equipment can easily crush the Champa state.

Zhu Ying was not worried about the issue of military strength, but mainly about management issues.

Although the Ming Dynasty continues to strengthen popularization of education.

But as the saying goes, it takes a hundred years to cultivate trees and ten years to cultivate people.

Universal education is being extended to lower-level counties on the basis of the previous one, but this will also take time to settle.

It's been less than three years since the start of the war. How could we have such a large talent reserve?

The Japanese country has attracted a large number of talents because of the gold and silver craze.

Yunnan currently also needs constant migration of people.
To be continued...