Chapter 15: The power of administrative efficiency
Jodhaa and the entire court were a bit exhausted after the recent festivities in the French capital of Champagne.
Emir De Valois sure knew how to throw a champaign party
The Mughals took a party holiday of 2 years, to let war exhaustion tick away... We are integrating Persia and Manchu, and we simply can't pay it down with diplo points, due to diplo total being between 0 and 20 non stop.
Oh well. No targets anyways
Before the last peace deal with Austria and Tuscany, THIS happened..
Interesting. GB and Scandinavia used to be allies, but the meddling of the Mughals changed that
Jodhaa also ordered another batch of 75 twodeckers.
Our sailors were confident in handling them now
Scandinavia didn't sit idle in the American independence war. They actually invaded, and sieged London
But GB wouldn't go down without a fight. They were still making troops again after I peaced them out. They first killed the rebels, and then turned on the Scandinavians...
Jodhaa watched all this with great interest.
And with a hangover
Emir de Valois always was TOO generous with his champaign..
Jodhaa and her entire court were a bit exhausted after the recent festivities
But... Duty awaited once more.
Jodhaa grunted, and started her work once more.
The Ottomans are once again eager to help. Be my guest
Spain got overrun. Nothing more to say about it really.
One thing I like about Mare Nostrum changes: coalitions will keep on forming, as forcelimit and manpower pool are lowered late game due to territories/states mechanic.
It made coalition dodging in Europe interesting.
Jodhaa declared on a small coalition. Funny enough, the conquest in Europe even angered the Christian American native tribes
Russia. Once a big bear, now a laughable excuse of nation..
They didn't even have the ducats to upgrade their forts
Scandinavia couldn't join a coalition, as they were still busy with the American independence war.
Jodhaa took the opportunity to invade them.
"Hi Scandinavia! Yeah, it's me, Jodhaa. Say what? You will call the Ottomans if I dare to attack? That won't be possible I'm afraid."
The Ottomans couldn't help them out, as they were helping us versus Spain. History repeated itself..
The Mughal twodecker fleet arrived on the scene!
A LOAD of troops were busy in the American independence war... Which left their capital vulnerable
"Spread and siege, boys!"
The Scandinavians put up some small resistance. But they got CRUSHED.
We are on par with their army now!
Yeah, Mughal line infantry is now the best in the world.
"Oh my, our rifle men are so... powerful!"
Our quality troops made short work of the sieges and the troops in Scandinavia.
One of our advisors became famous for his work, and gave the Mughals -10% admin tech cost for six years.
"Now THAT we can use!"
Jodhaa invited Islâm Shâh Jahan to the palace. The man gladly accepted, and left his work at the Islamic center of Scholarly learning..
She needed his advice on some planned reforms of the government..
The advisor arrived, and gave counsel to Padishah Jodhaa Sharqi.
"These are enlightened times, my Padishah. The time is right for your proposed reforms. However, we lack willing people to fill the vacant government jobs.. Most of us look down upon government clerks and such, and noone wants to work for the government..
It would benefit our nation if we abolish slavery. The freed slaves will be grateful, and they will fill the needed jobs to make our government more efficient."
Jodhaa listened with great interest, and agreed.
Slavery was abolished in the Mughals, and another -5% tech cost was the short term reward.
Jodhaa once more focussed on reforming the Mughal government, just like she helped her father to do so, around 1720..
Meanwhile, the wars went on. A 40k Scandinavian stack was messing around Poland since the beginning, and now they got engaged, on Scandinavian Russia.
115% discipline, 8.1 morale, and +10% infantry combat ability.
Let's show those Scandinavians who is boss
*STOMP*
Jodhaa had other things on her mind now then gawking at the ... PERFECT ... line infantry.
She pressed her reforms, and advanced the Mughal empire to administrative tech 27.
The freed slaves filled up all the vacant jobs in the government and in the subject puppet governments.
This had drastic consequences.
Manchu and Persia integration finished immediatly, as the new adminitrative effiency 3 pushed their integration past 100%.
"Bye Persia.. You have been nothing but trouble!" Jodhaa muttered.
"Looking back, I should have paused their integration with clicking scutage on/off repeatedly until their LD would go +50%. That way, I would have avoided paying 700 diplo points too MUCH for Persia. But what is done, is done. "
"Bye Manchu.. You were one of the most stable vassals imaginable."
Jodhaa and the entire court were a bit exhausted after the recent festivities in the French capital of Champagne.
Emir De Valois sure knew how to throw a champaign party
The Mughals took a party holiday of 2 years, to let war exhaustion tick away... We are integrating Persia and Manchu, and we simply can't pay it down with diplo points, due to diplo total being between 0 and 20 non stop.
Oh well. No targets anyways
Before the last peace deal with Austria and Tuscany, THIS happened..
Interesting. GB and Scandinavia used to be allies, but the meddling of the Mughals changed that
Jodhaa also ordered another batch of 75 twodeckers.
Our sailors were confident in handling them now
Scandinavia didn't sit idle in the American independence war. They actually invaded, and sieged London
But GB wouldn't go down without a fight. They were still making troops again after I peaced them out. They first killed the rebels, and then turned on the Scandinavians...
Jodhaa watched all this with great interest.
And with a hangover
Emir de Valois always was TOO generous with his champaign..
Jodhaa and her entire court were a bit exhausted after the recent festivities
But... Duty awaited once more.
Jodhaa grunted, and started her work once more.
The Ottomans are once again eager to help. Be my guest
Spain got overrun. Nothing more to say about it really.
One thing I like about Mare Nostrum changes: coalitions will keep on forming, as forcelimit and manpower pool are lowered late game due to territories/states mechanic.
It made coalition dodging in Europe interesting.
Jodhaa declared on a small coalition. Funny enough, the conquest in Europe even angered the Christian American native tribes
Russia. Once a big bear, now a laughable excuse of nation..
They didn't even have the ducats to upgrade their forts
Scandinavia couldn't join a coalition, as they were still busy with the American independence war.
Jodhaa took the opportunity to invade them.
"Hi Scandinavia! Yeah, it's me, Jodhaa. Say what? You will call the Ottomans if I dare to attack? That won't be possible I'm afraid."
The Ottomans couldn't help them out, as they were helping us versus Spain. History repeated itself..
The Mughal twodecker fleet arrived on the scene!
A LOAD of troops were busy in the American independence war... Which left their capital vulnerable
"Spread and siege, boys!"
The Scandinavians put up some small resistance. But they got CRUSHED.
We are on par with their army now!
Yeah, Mughal line infantry is now the best in the world.
"Oh my, our rifle men are so... powerful!"
Our quality troops made short work of the sieges and the troops in Scandinavia.
One of our advisors became famous for his work, and gave the Mughals -10% admin tech cost for six years.
"Now THAT we can use!"
Jodhaa invited Islâm Shâh Jahan to the palace. The man gladly accepted, and left his work at the Islamic center of Scholarly learning..
She needed his advice on some planned reforms of the government..
The advisor arrived, and gave counsel to Padishah Jodhaa Sharqi.
"These are enlightened times, my Padishah. The time is right for your proposed reforms. However, we lack willing people to fill the vacant government jobs.. Most of us look down upon government clerks and such, and noone wants to work for the government..
It would benefit our nation if we abolish slavery. The freed slaves will be grateful, and they will fill the needed jobs to make our government more efficient."
Jodhaa listened with great interest, and agreed.
Slavery was abolished in the Mughals, and another -5% tech cost was the short term reward.
Jodhaa once more focussed on reforming the Mughal government, just like she helped her father to do so, around 1720..
Meanwhile, the wars went on. A 40k Scandinavian stack was messing around Poland since the beginning, and now they got engaged, on Scandinavian Russia.
115% discipline, 8.1 morale, and +10% infantry combat ability.
Let's show those Scandinavians who is boss
*STOMP*
Jodhaa had other things on her mind now then gawking at the ... PERFECT ... line infantry.
She pressed her reforms, and advanced the Mughal empire to administrative tech 27.
The freed slaves filled up all the vacant jobs in the government and in the subject puppet governments.
This had drastic consequences.
Manchu and Persia integration finished immediatly, as the new adminitrative effiency 3 pushed their integration past 100%.
"Bye Persia.. You have been nothing but trouble!" Jodhaa muttered.
"Looking back, I should have paused their integration with clicking scutage on/off repeatedly until their LD would go +50%. That way, I would have avoided paying 700 diplo points too MUCH for Persia. But what is done, is done. "
"Bye Manchu.. You were one of the most stable vassals imaginable."
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