Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.6.4

12.6.4

That he requested, therefore, his repairing to that command immediately, and his keeping a watchful eye on that spot, as this would prove the only expedient for easing his mind, and letting him depart satisfied on his own expedition about Shah-abad and Rhotass. But that as on the other hand, his absence would cause many inconveniencies to him, he had contrived to lessen them, by requesting that meanwhile his younger brother, Mehdi-nessar-qhan, might exercise, as Deputy to his elder, his office of Paymaster-General of the army." Such a speech from a master and Lord implied a full command, and Hedai'et-aaly-qhan, although fully apprised from whence came the shaft, smiled consent, and appointed his younger brother to act as his Deputy in his absence; after which he departed to the spot allotted to his care. Meanwhile the Governor having set out on his expedition with a good army and a train of artillery, soon found means to humble entirely the refractory Zemindars of that country, who really deserved all the ruin that befell them. Few of the merchants of that district, few of its inhabitants, had not felt their exactions, and hardly any traveller could venture to pass through their lands, without being stripped, and in case of resistance, murdered. It would require a volume to enumerate the many violences, and the many extortions they were perpetually putting in practice against all mankind.