muhammed shah enters his royal chamber, his wife malika mahtalat observes his stressful attitude, she tells him to share his problem with her --she would understand for her royal upbringing , she advises him to appoint nizam almalik of deccan as the new vizir, he was an absolute loyalist, brainy and skilled in warfare strategies
muhammed shah was weakening as the emperor, his court was divided by conspirators and yes men, he was associating with dancing girls, always in a drunken state, never allowed to think proper by his courtiers, his right hand man the vizir amin khan was dead, the strings were being pulled by forces of opposition
muhammed shah's grandmother orders him to get married quickly, he consents to her wishes, koki bi arranges all, sending in for iranian decorations , sees to every detail, sends a message to an associate to keep ajit singh at bay, abadallah khan was already in prison, mir khan was killed , she had the complete control of the hierarachy, she had a natural knack to solve problems and arrange things minutely
koki bi was a close favourite of muhammed shah, she was a born strategist, helping him solve royal problems, making schemes to remove his enemies, trading with him to obtain his royal seal, to secure a powerful position in his hierarchy , earning his confidence to become his document writer , reader and arranged his royal mail, scripting replies
huge battle guns and vannons in shah"s army were pulled by oxens firing and roasting their enemy in the moonlit field, their victory was certain, gold and silver were distributed amongst them encouraging them to go on,
it was a full moon night, the battle field shone with moonbeams , muhammed shah"s army was less than half of what abadallah khan had raised , but shah"s men were highly trained and ruthless and experienced, khan"s were merely kids and aged and amateur
tabash is told the rumour floating was those who had abducted maria had killed the three officers brutally, but tabash was one of the abductors , others being dead and him not the killer a flash in his mind showed him sultana with her eyes amazingly ruthless with her sword at her side
