The war horses trampled out horse hoof prints on the dirt road. This was an elite cavalry, wearing iron helmets, heavy armor, with a scimitar at the waist, and a round shield and a short musket between the saddles. At the front was the flag bearer holding a flag.

A thin man wearing a turban walked in front of him, with a stack of beards. He was dressed in extremely noble clothes and had a sense of arrogance in his eyes.

The third son of the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, was less than twenty years old, but he had led his army to fight fiercely with the Persians. He is now the deputy king of Deccan, who is in charge of the territory of the southern part of the Mughal Empire and is still patrolling various parts of the empire.

This time he led a small team of cavalry to inspect the prosperous Surat Port.

Every year, the Mughal Empire was able to obtain a lot of special goods from overseas, as well as inferior artillery sold to them by Europeans.

When the officials of Surat Port heard the arrival of the Third Prince, they immediately brought people to greet him.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, please forgive me for your inadequate reception!"

The Surat officials respectfully saluted Aurangzebu. Although this prince was not the first heir who was optimistic about, he had the highest military attainments and had great military power.

At this time, the Mughal Empire had not completely conquered the Decan Plateau. The Decan Plateau was the front line. The emperor appointed it as the deputy king who managed the Decan Plateau in order to incorporate the entire Decan Plateau into the empire territory in the future.

Aurangzeb came down from the horses and brought his cavalry into Surat port with his cavalry.

Seeing that the third prince did not speak, the officials of Surat made a private eye contact, and they all followed along as if walking on thin ice.

Aurangzeb glanced at the streets of Surat and was quite satisfied with the prosperous port city.

The merchants and residents in the Port of Surat saw dozens of cavalry coming with horses and cast awe at them.

Even though the importance of artillery is becoming increasingly prominent, cavalry, as the founding army of the Mughal Empire in India, is still the main force of the imperial war, and the cavalry has always been very high.

At this time, dozens of cavalry appeared, and they must have followed some powerful feudal lords.

The third prince Aurangzebu was patrolling the streets and found something strange - many carriages were pulling fruits, vegetables and other supplies to the pier, and some people rushed to the pier with rice on their heads.

How many supplies are transported to the dock, how many ships need to be replenished, and how far they need to sail?

The puzzled Aorangzeb led his cavalry through the winding streets. Before he could get close, he saw more than 30 merchant ships with dragon flags anchored at the pier.

After a little reaction, he realized that this was a ship from the East.

The neatly arranged cannons on the ship made his hair stand up suddenly.

When did the warships in the east drive unscrupulously to the territorial waters of their Mughal Empire? And such warships are too terrible!

Aurangzeb turned his attention to the ironclad ship of General Fubo, which was stationed in Surat Port. His pupils expanded rapidly. He pointed at the ironclad ship with a horsewhip and asked the officials of Surat, "What is that?"

The Surat official replied submissively: "That is the Chinese ship."

"Nonsense! I'll ask you what kind of black wood it is!" Aurangzebu said angrily.

The Surat official was so scared that he knelt down: "Your Highness, it is not a ship made of black wood, it is said to be made of iron..."

When Aurangzeb heard the answer from the officials below, he showed an incredible expression: "Are you fooling me? The iron ship is extremely heavy and it is impossible to float on the sea."

The officials of Surat Port could not answer the question of Aurangzeb. They had no idea about the principle of the iron-clad ship, and just answered hesitantly: "If it weren't for an iron ship, the length would not be so long. No keel could withstand such a length..."

Aurangzeb heard the officials' tone and knew that they could not answer, so he asked again: "What is the purpose of this terrible fleet coming here?"

The official replied nervously: "They claimed to be starting from a more eastern place and heading to Britain and passing our port to replenish the supply."

"So you just allowed them in like this? Or did you claim benefits from it?" asked Aurangzeb.

Officials in Surat Port were asked about this by the prince, but they dared not answer and hesitated.

Aurangzeb seemed not to expect them to answer, but brought dozens of cavalry to the dock.

Several cameramen and apprentices were still taking photos at the dock, and they carefully selected several good scenes to consume the precious negatives.

The head of the East India Company in Surat conducted a handover of supply with the Western Company and the Fourth Fleet.

The East India Company and the Western Company and the Fourth Fleet belong to different systems. This time, the East India Company paid money to help their fleet purchase supplies, and the accounts need to be clearly divided.

"It was really wise for the military leader to spend money to buy the East India Company. It was equivalent to an additional supply station between us and the West. Our ships could replenish the supply here, reducing the probability of crew members suffering from illness due to lack of fresh food. In the future, more ironclad ships may be able to turn this place into a naval base." Sun Chuanting looked at Surat Port through the sea on the troop transport ship.

"If the East India Company people knew that you just treated them as a supply station in the Indian Ocean, they would be unhappy," said some officers.

"This place has a population of millions. If they can work for us, maybe the profit here is no less than that in the Western places." Sun Chuanting is not proficient in ocean trade, but he can simply compare.

The demographic dividend means cheap labor and huge market potential.

"We have only arrived in Mughals on this trip, and our voyage is less than halfway. I don't know what the situation is like in the West." Sun Chuanting seemed tired from standing, so he lay on the wooden deck, feeling the ups and downs of the waves.

"If our garrison in Britain knew that the military headquarters had added a steam iron armored ship to the original list and sent a thousand of our Far West Expeditionary Force. For the British, they would have made a big profit just by providing food with more than a thousand of us." The infantry officers who could not land were chatting while waiting for supplies.

They didn't know that their people in the West had clashed with the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean.

"Our Prince wants to board that ship, otherwise you cannot provide supplies to your ship!"

Surat officials stopped employees of the East India Company at this time.
Chapter completed!