Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2119 Rajput's Plan ([-])

Northwest India is still a bit hot in December.

It is already mid-December today, but the daytime temperature of Diu Island is still at 12 degrees, and the humid environment makes people feel uncomfortable, especially on the east coast from the cool and dry Pampa Plain. people.

This is a group of young people from the east coast recruited in the Niulanshan area. There are about two hundred people. Most of them have an elementary school education, and a small number of them have a junior high school education.They came to northwestern India mainly to supplement the shortage of grassroots officials and civilian staff in enterprises and institutions. After all, people from the east bank want to expand their influence in the Rajput region of northwestern India, which naturally requires a lot of manpower. It is those who can read and write, understand the writing norms of official documents, and are also familiar with the East Coast culture and way of thinking about problems-this basically can only be recruited locally.

To be honest, the Niulanshan area is actually not willing to let these people go.Now the importance and development prospects of the Pampa Plain are well known throughout the country. In the future, various industrial and agricultural projects and urban construction will surely follow one after another.Although these students are of average education level, they are still qualified to work as factory workers or grass-roots clerks, so they don't want to let them go.However, considering that other regions have sent many groups of personnel to work overseas, your Niulanshan region has not been established for a long time. Is it ridiculous?Still not a member of the big family of the motherland?Besides, the salary offered by Diu Island is not particularly attractive to young people in wealthy areas, but it is quite good for the Niulanshan area where the average salary is relatively low.Therefore, under the interaction of several factors, these more than 200 young people finally made the trip. They took an East African shipping company—now the second largest shipping company in the East Coast Republic, surpassing the Caribbean shipping company—to return The cargo ship finally arrived at Diu Island after stopping at Xinhua Port.

The latest population of Diu Island has dropped to around [-].Because a large number of Indians were relocated, but the immigrants from the east coast were not replenished enough, the population here has not increased but decreased, which is quite annoying.At present, the people on the east coast of the island basically have no agricultural population. They are basically workers, soldiers, officials, businessmen, religious figures and their families. The whole island has given up agricultural production and relies entirely on imports from neighboring Indians.

But this is also impossible.The island of Diu is really too small. It is the size of a township in mainland China, and it is just a village on the east coast. It cannot develop any decent agriculture at all.In the Portuguese era, there were some incompetent agriculture on the island, just in the western half of the island, but now it has been occupied by people from the east coast, and the famous Guoxing Temple has been built.The monks have funds from the Religious Affairs Office, donations from believers, and usually go out to perform some rituals, and the income is still acceptable, so they don’t farm at all, but plant bamboo in the only remaining fields around the temple to beautify the environment.

The buildings that now occupy the largest area on Diu Island are undoubtedly various warehouses and freight yards.This is a logistics system operated by the local government, which stores a large amount of goods received from the Indian subcontinent, as well as goods shipped here from various overseas places.The well-known commercial clearing bank has set up a branch here, and businessmen from all over the world who come to trade must open special accounts in this bank to carry out transaction transfers in a unified way to improve efficiency.

This amount is undoubtedly very huge, and the average daily transaction volume is around 1 yuan.And this is the amount generated under the circumstances of the Mughal dynasty's many restrictions. As the country's finances become more and more tight and its control over the local area becomes weaker and weaker, the average daily transaction flow of the Commercial Clearing Bank is still expected to increase. expand further.And this seems to be the main reason why the east coast government is determined to strengthen commercial expansion in northwestern India-India is at a moderate distance from the east coast, has a large population, and rich products. It has a very good business tradition since ancient times, and the east coast is close The production bases (New Huaxia Island, Yicheng area) within easy reach are indeed an ideal place for dumping goods, and the merchants of Xinhuaxia Island naturally made a lot of money in it.

Speaking of the huge wealth accumulated by the merchants of Xinhua Island because of the Indian trade, the central government also saw it and formulated measures for this.For example, they recently planned to greatly increase the proportion of Xinhua Island's financial turn-in, and convert some technical assistance from the local area into money.Anyway, it's a colony, so it's not plausible if you don't squeeze out more money. Is it possible that the locals have to spoil them?

Of course, this move may cause dissatisfaction with Xinhua Island.That island supplies most of the native pepper, coconut, sisal, rubber, palm oil, cotton, tuna, prawns, and other commodities. The island also has abundant timber, coal, iron, gold, and transplanted golden pheasants. Nashu, if the Melina Kingdom on the central plateau is destroyed in the future, then there will be a relatively cool food production base, and the degree of abundance is needless to say.

It is conceivable that when the population of the whole island exceeds 100 million in the future and various infrastructures are relatively complete, the people of the whole island will definitely be very disgusted with the oppressive behavior of the local people on the east coast, and will definitely strongly demand that the local people reduce blood draws.But they can only do so much. They are closely connected with the local economy on the east coast, and many of the commodities used to make money are produced locally. Once they completely fall out with the local, the entrepot trade will plummet. Some economic problems will also erupt, and this consequence is not something ordinary people can bear.

Of course, Xinhua Island, as the most important naval base in the Indian Ocean for people on the east coast, is the berth of the Second Fleet of the Navy, and there is the Yicheng area of ​​South Africa next to it, so if you want to make a fuss, you probably won't be able to make any waves.If you are exhausted, you will protest and write down, and make some small moves to reduce the oppression of the local people.

Well, let's get down to business and turn our attention back to Diu Island.After many discussions, the current Executive Committee has agreed to establish the Diu Management Committee on January 1691, 1. The area under the jurisdiction of the Management Committee temporarily includes the Diu Island and Shallow Island areas, adding up to a total of about 1 square kilometers. It is the smallest provincial-level administrative region on the east coast.

By the way, Shallow Island is the name given by the people on the east coast, and it is the port of Candela, an important port in the state of Gujarat in northwestern India in later generations.In this time and space in the 17th century, Candela Port has not yet appeared on the map, and it is still just an inconspicuous small fishing village.Occasionally, some Green Christian merchants come to trade, but there are not many, and the annual foreign trade volume is very small, even though the nearby is the production area of ​​high-quality wheat, cotton, sugar cane, coconut and some spices.

People from the east coast first took a fancy to this place, firstly because this place is not conspicuous, and there is not much resistance to obtaining it, and secondly, it is also related to the geographical location here.Shallow Island and Diu Island are on the left and right, one controls the Kutch Bay and the other controls the Cambay Bay, firmly controlling the foreign trade of the ancient Cambey Kingdom and the Gurajput Kingdom.And once the foreign trade is controlled, it doesn't make much difference whether to occupy or not, isn't it?

Of course, controlling foreign trade in the Rajput region also requires bases. After all, the navy also needs ports, maintenance, and personnel for rest and entertainment.Therefore, Diu Island and Qiandao became two major bases, and they were naturally merged into one when the management committee area was newly established.

The first director of the new Diu Management Committee has basically been determined, and that is Captain Yao Tong who once commanded the Rajput servant soldiers to capture the Port of Salalah in the Muscat Sultanate.Captain Yao came from a well-known family. Both generations of his grandfather served as senior officers in the military, which laid a good foundation for Captain Yao to join the army.And just before that, someone Yao also led the army to fight well in Oman and made great contributions. Therefore, he finally stood out in the fierce competition and served as the director of this pocket management committee with an area of ​​only more than 100 square kilometers. About to be promoted to major, the most important step in life has been taken.

Captain Yao Tong just returned from Salalah Port the day before yesterday.He accompanied the last batch of Indians who left Hong Kong to Oman. So far, except for a small number of Portuguese and Indo-Portuguese on Diu Island, most of them are people from the east coast.It's crazy to think about it. People from the east coast actually resorted to moving mountains and reclaiming the sea. They sent Indians to Salalah to fight against Omanis, so that they had no time to go to the Swahili coast of East Africa to find people from the east coast. trouble.

However, with the Indians gone, there are still a few people on the east coast of Diu Island.Captain Yao Tong has already applied for the transfer of "at least [-] immigrants" to expand the population base of Diu Island, so that he can form a decent-sized army.In addition, there are currently only a few hundred people from the east coast of Shallow Island. This peninsula is larger than Diu Island, and the soil is good enough to feed a larger population. Therefore, thousands of immigrants are needed to enrich it.

Yao Tong thinks this matter is very urgent and must be completed as soon as possible.Now that Aurangzeb is exhausted on the Deccan Plateau, many generals, governors, and dignitaries in the area feel a little ready to move.These people are human beings, and they have already keenly smelled the different smell in the Mughal Empire, and feel that the order of the Indian subcontinent may be about to undergo major changes.After all, the rule of the descendants of Mongolia was still somewhat negligent, giving too much military power, financial power and personnel power to the local powers, so that when Emperor Aurangzeb led his troops to march south all the year round, and the veterans were exhausted and got nothing, these local powers They were all greatly encouraged, and felt as if they could follow the example of the Maratha people in the Deccan Plateau and wrestle with the central government.

People on the east coast have naturally seen this subtle change.Therefore, after discussing with the Portuguese, they intend to formally contact the powerful officials and generals in the northern Rajput region to see if there is any opportunity.Captain Yao felt that there were still some opportunities. After the [-] Portuguese army arrived in Goa in the future, the two sides could easily assemble more than [-] mobile soldiers in this area. Still more important, this is the opportunity!

(End of this chapter)