Zhenghe Port is located at the mouth of the Ganges River.
This port was originally called Hukli Port.
In the 16th year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty, it was occupied by Portugal.
But like Goa, it is now owned by the Ming Dynasty.
In order to commemorate Zheng He, a navigator, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty also wanted to make people realize that this land belongs to the Ming Dynasty from the place name. It is related to the discovery of this place by Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, it was also to encourage Today's Ming Dynasty navigators opened up territories for the empire. Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao established provinces and counties in overseas places with a high degree of Chineseization, he directly named them after outstanding figures, without using translations based on local accents at all, so as to avoid In the future, people in this area will know the original history of this land from these names.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the entire eastern part of the Ganges River, which had become a Han settlement at this time, was also established as Zhenghe Province by Zhu Youxiao.
As for the Ming Dynasty's occupation of the Portuguese-occupied Hugli Port, it was inevitable. With the Ming Dynasty's external expansion, Western maritime hegemons such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands had to give way to the Ming Dynasty.
Today's Zhenghe Port is very busy.
All Chinese and foreign ships coming to the Indian Peninsula gather here.
Because this place was owned by the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese buildings here have been demolished, the church ruins have been converted into a Confucian temple and a Confucian school, and the hospital ruins have been turned into a Ming-style medical center that combines surgery and internal medicine. Then, the first president here Because the prefect of Ming Dynasty was from Suzhou, the ruins of the city hall were turned into a Suzhou-style garden.
The orphanage became an almshouse.
Iron factories, wood factories, textile factories, charcoal factories, spice processing factories, paper factories, soap factories, glass factories, shipyards and other factories were added, and they were densely distributed around the port.
In addition, with the large-scale migration of Han people from Fujian and Guangdong, and the large-scale immigration of refugees from Shaanxi and Shanxi to South Asia led by the Ming Dynasty to offset the damage of natural disasters and alleviate acute land conflicts, the population here is also very dense, and The proportion of Han people is very high.
It has become the third largest economic center in the entire Indian peninsula after Goa and Dhaka.
When the Allied forces arrived here, officials from North Korea and Japan could not help but lament that Seoul and Edo, the most prosperous cities in their country, did not have so many factories.
In short, the impression given to them is that advanced productive forces have actually appeared in the backward Indian peninsula.
However, since Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty invested in the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Development Company and took the initiative to colonize all parts of the world, the coastal area of the Bay of Bengal that was first colonized has not only developed industry, but also agriculture has become very developed.
Because the people of the Ming Dynasty who migrated here brought a lot of advanced agricultural farming technologies.
Agriculture is also about technology.
Farmers of different ranks grow the same food on the same land with the same basic climate, but the results are also different.
Farm work such as transplanting rice seedlings involves many technical details.
In terms of farming technology, the Han people, who have developed agricultural civilization for thousands of years, are naturally the most capable in this era.
Historically, the Han people who had turned steep hills and hills into rows of terraced fields, and who had achieved bumper harvests, were naturally able to cultivate better farmland on the Ganges plains of the Indian peninsula.
There have been three major economic changes in Chinese history.
The first time was the ancestors who made a living by hunting and gathering. Due to the shortage of food resources, they walked out of the mountains and came to the valley flats. They settled down through the development of planting and water control, and then civilization emerged.
The second time was when the economic center of gravity was difficult to shift. As the land in the north gradually degraded due to excessive agricultural reclamation and wars broke out, a large number of northern people began to move southward. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that the transfer was completed, which allowed a large number of hills and plains in the south to be reclaimed and gradually became a dynasty. The main source of taxation.
The third time in history was during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Reclamation in the most suitable areas for agriculture in the south was approaching a critical point. Many farmers had no land to farm, resulting in many refugees. These refugees often even appeared on a large scale, such as in Chengdu. During the Hua Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of refugees appeared in the Jingxiang area. If not handled properly, it could almost lead to a large-scale peasant uprising like the one in Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty. In order to reclaim wasteland, these refugees had to go up the mountains and go to the sea. The so-called going up the mountains meant They went to mountainous areas unsuitable for agricultural cultivation to create terraced fields. As a result, many Hakkas from Fujian and Guangdong poured into the southern Gansu mountainous areas during this period. A large number of refugees went to the sea to fill in lakes and beaches, and even traveled across the ocean. They went to the sea to reclaim the wasteland in Southeast Asia, which in turn triggered many incidents of massacre of Chinese by indigenous people during this period.
Now, the Ming Dynasty ruled by Zhu Youxiao is in this period.
But because the Ming Dynasty led by him led the large-scale migration of refugees to Southeast Asia and South Asia, the current large-scale migration of Han people is mainly out to sea, to places such as Nagasaki, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
Therefore, the land along the Bay of Bengal has now become a settlement area for Han immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, including Shaanxi and Shanxi people who were moved by the government, as well as Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang people who moved there themselves.
As a result, this area is filled with the fragrance of rice flowers. Chinese characters can be seen in every village. You can even see cultural symbols such as ancestral halls and Mazu temples where Han people worship their ancestors.
However, the same as in China, although everyone has the same written language, because the immigrants have different origins, each village has different pronunciation and each village has its own dialect.
Of course, there are also large-scale armed fights over water.
But it was also good for the court, and the court deliberately did this, because the Han people in different regions checked each other, giving the officials sent here by the court the opportunity to control them and prevent them from forming an independent Han government.
It also enabled the government to collect taxes and grain.
This area has become a large granary of the Ming Dynasty, and there is even a trend that India is ripe and the world is full of it.
Not counting the grain traded among private parties, there is a lot of official grain alone, and the official grain-carrying ships in Hugli Port have never been interrupted.
These official grains are now the source of logistics grain for the northwest and northeast of the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court did not place the food burden of the Western Expedition and the expansion of the Northeast on the people of the Central Plains, but transferred it to these agricultural areas developed for foreign lands.
After all, due to the bad climate and constant disasters in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still needs to feed back.
However, the current situation of natural disasters in the Ming Dynasty is still much better than that in the Chongzhen period in history.
Because the treasury was abundant and there was no war, the imperial court had enough financial resources and manpower to build water conservancy projects and increase public health projects. In addition, a large number of landless people migrated to colonial areas in Southeast Asia and South Asia, so these people did not have to go to southern Jiangxi and southern Shaanxi. Deforestation and lake reclamation in places such as , Jingxiang, Kuidong, Yunnan and Guizhou have also reduced the damage to nature and the ecological environment has been protected. Therefore, in the 18th year of the Apocalypse and the 11th year of Chongzhen in history, Zhu The school found that the natural disasters that occurred in various places were much smaller in terms of intensity and frequency.
Back to the topic.
When Zhang Tongchang, the commander-in-chief of the Alliance Army, arrived at Zhenghe Port and saw the white walls and black tiles scattered in the fields and the Han people wearing Ming-style Hanfu, he had the illusion that he had not left China yet.
However, when Zhang Tongchang arrived at Wangjinghong City (Patna), the closest Han settlement to the Mughal rule, and saw the dirty natives outside the city and the villages that looked very backward and poor at first glance, he realized that He was no longer in China, but came to the Zhenghe Province newly established overseas by the Ming Dynasty.
7017k
