Northwest India is still a little hot in December.

It is already mid-December today, but the daytime temperature in Diwu Island is still at 27 or 8 degrees. Coupled with the humid environment, it makes people feel uncomfortable, especially the East Coast people coming from the cool and dry Pampa Plain.

This is a group of young people on the East Coast recruited in the Niulanshan area, about 200 people. Most of them have elementary school education, while a small number of them have junior high school education. They came to northwest India mainly to supplement the shortcomings of grassroots officials and civilian staff in enterprises and institutions. After all, East Coast people want to expand their influence in the Rajput area in northwest India, which naturally requires a large number of people, especially those who can read and write texts, know the standards for writing official documents, and are also familiar with the East Coast culture and ways of thinking about problems. This is basically only available for recruitment in the local area.

To be honest, the Niulanshan area is actually not willing to let these people go. The importance and development prospects of the Pampa Plain are well known to the whole country. Various industrial and agricultural projects and urban construction will definitely come one after another in the future, which can be said to be an urgent need for employment. Although these students have average cultural levels, they are still qualified to work in factories or work as grassroots clerks, so they don’t want to let them go. However, considering that other regions have sent too many batches of personnel to work overseas, your Niulanshan area has been established for many years, is it a shame?

Are you still a member of the big family of the motherland? Besides, the salary given by Diwu is not particularly attractive to young people in wealthy areas, but it is quite good for Niulanshan area, which has a low average wage. Therefore, with the interaction between several factors, these more than 200 young people finally made a trip. They took an East African transport company, now the second largest shipping company in the East Coast Republic, and overwhelmed the Caribbean shipping company, the return cargo ship, and finally arrived at Diwu after stopping at Xinhua Port.

The latest population of Diwu Island has dropped to about 4,000. Because a large number of Indians have been moved away, but the East Coast immigrants have not been able to supplement, the population here has not increased but decreased, which is quite annoying. At present, the East Coast people on the island have basically no agricultural population, basically all of them are workers, soldiers, officials, merchants, religious people and their families. Agricultural production on the entire island has been abandoned and all rely on imports from neighboring Indians.

But there is nothing to do about this. Diwu Island is too small. It is the size of a town in mainland China. It is just a village on the east coast, and it cannot develop any decent agriculture at all. In the Portuguese era, there were some ineffective agriculture on the island, just in the western half of the island, but now it has been occupied by people on the east coast, and the famous Guoxing Temple was built. The monks have funding from the Religious Affairs Office, donated by believers, and usually go out to perform some rituals, and their income is still OK. Therefore, they do not farm at all, but plant some of the only fields around the temple with bamboo to beautify the environment.

The buildings with the largest area in Diwu Island are undoubtedly various warehouses and freight yards. This is a logistics system operated by the local government, which stores a large number of goods collected from the Indian subcontinent and goods transported here from overseas. The famous commercial clearing bank has opened branches here, and merchants from all over the country who come to trade must open special accounts in this bank to uniformly transfer transactions and transfer funds, so as to improve efficiency.

This amount is undoubtedly very huge. The average daily transaction volume is around 10,000 yuan. And this is the amount generated under the Mughal dynasty's restrictions. As the country's finances become increasingly scarce and its control over the local area becomes weaker, the average daily transaction flow of commercial clearing banks is expected to be further expanded. This seems to be the main reason why the East Coast government decided to strengthen its commercial expansion in northwest India - India is moderately located from the East Coast, with a large population and rich products. The business tradition has been very good since ancient times. In addition, there is a close production base (New Huaxia Island, Yicheng area) on the East Coast, which is indeed an ideal place for commodity dumping. The merchants of New Huaxia Island naturally make a big profit in it.

Speaking of the merchants in New China Island who gathered huge wealth due to Indian trade, the central government also saw it and formulated measures for it. For example, they recently planned to significantly increase the fiscal remittance rate of New China Island and convert some local technical assistance into money. Anyway, it is a colony, so how can it be a good idea if you don’t squeeze more money? Could it be that the local people still have to spoil them?

Of course, this move may cause dissatisfaction among New China Island. The island supplies most of the local pepper, coconut, sisal, rubber, palm oil, cotton, tuna, shrimp and other commodities. The island is also rich in wood, coal, iron and gold, and transplanted cinchona trees. If the Melina Kingdom on the Central Plateau is destroyed in the future, there will be relatively cool grain production bases, and there is no need to say much about the degree of prosperity.

It can be imagined that when the population of the entire island exceeds one million in the future and all infrastructures are relatively complete, the people of the island will definitely be very disgusted with the local exploitation on the east coast and will strongly demand that the local area reduce the blood draw. However, they can only achieve this level. They have very close economic ties with the local area of ​​the east coast, and many of the commodities used to make money are produced locally. Once they have completely fallen out with the local area, the re-export trade will plummet, and other economic problems will also erupt. This consequence is not something that ordinary people can bear.

Of course, as the most important naval base of the East Coast people in the Indian Ocean, New China Island is the garrison of the Second Navy Fleet, and there is also the Yicheng area of ​​South Africa next to it. Therefore, if you want to make trouble, you will not make any trouble. If you die, you will protest and write down and make some small moves to alleviate the oppression of the local area.

Well, let's get back to the point and turn our attention back to Diu Island. After many discussions, the Executive Committee has agreed to establish the Diu Management Committee on January 1, 1691. The jurisdiction of the Management Committee temporarily includes Diu Island and the Asakusa area, which together has a total of about 100 square kilometers. It can be said to be the smallest provincial administrative region on the east coast.

By the way, Asakusa is named by the people on the east coast. It is the important port of Kandera Port in Gujarat, northwestern India in later generations. In this time and space of the 17th century, Kandera Port had not yet appeared on the map, and it is currently just an inconspicuous small fishing village. Some green merchants may come to trade, but not much. The foreign trade volume is very small every year, even if the nearby is the best place for wheat, cotton, sugar cane, coconut and some spices.

The East Coast people first saw this place because it was not conspicuous and had little resistance to gain, and the other was related to its geographical location. Asakusa and Diu Island one on the left and one on the right, one on the other on the Kachi Bay and the other on the Cambé Bay, firmly controlling the foreign trade of the Gulajput Kingdom and the Gulajput Kingdom. Once foreign trade is controlled, there is no big difference between occupying or not, right?

Of course, controlling foreign trade in the Rajput region also requires a base. After all, the navy also needs a port, a dendang, and maintenance, and personnel also need rest and entertainment. Therefore, Diwu Island and Asashima have become two major bases, and they are naturally integrated into one when the new management committee is established.

The first director of the new Diu Management Committee has basically been confirmed, that is, Captain Yao Tong, who once commanded Rajput servants to capture the Port of Salalai, the Sultanate of Muscat. Captain Yao came from a famous family and his grandfather served as senior officials in the military headquarters, laying a good foundation for Captain Yao who joined the army. It happened that Yao also led his army to fight well in Oman and made contributions, so he finally stood out in the fierce competition and served as the director of the pocket management committee with a territory of more than 100 square kilometers. His military rank is about to be promoted to major, taking the most important step in his life.

Captain Yao Tong just returned from Salalah Port the day before yesterday. He accompanied the last batch of Indians leaving the port to Oman. At this point, except for a small number of Portuguese and Indian-Portuguese people on Diu Island, most of them were East Coast people. It was really crazy to think about it. The East Coast people actually used a trick to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and took the Indians to Salalah to fight with the Omans, so that they did not have time to go to the Swashili coast of East Africa to find trouble for the East Coast.

However, after the Indians left, there were still a few people on the east coast of Diwu. Captain Yao Tong has applied to allocate "at least 3,000 immigrants" to expand the population base of Diwu so that he can form a decent force. In addition, there are only hundreds of people on the east coast of the island. The peninsula area is larger than that of Diwu, and the soil is also very good, enough to support more people. Therefore, thousands of immigrants are needed to enrich it.

Yao Tong believed that this matter was very urgent and must be completed as soon as possible. Now Aurangzeb is running on the Decan Plateau, and many generals, governors, and nobles in the local area are all aware of being ready to move. These people are all human spirits and have keenly smelled the different smell in the Mughal Empire, and feel that the order of the Indian subcontinent may be undergoing major changes. The rule of Mongolian descendants is still a little negligent, giving the local powerful faction too much military power, financial power and personnel power, so that when Emperor Aurangzeb leads his troops to the south all year round, and his teachers and veterans are exhausted and gaining nothing, these powerful factions are greatly encouraged, and they feel that they can also imitate the Maratha people on the Decan Plateau and compete with the central government.

The people of the East Coast naturally saw this subtle change. Therefore, after discussing with the Portuguese, they planned to formally contact the powerful officials and generals of the Rajput region in the north to see if there were any opportunities. Captain Yao felt that there were still some opportunities. After the 1,000 Portuguese army arrived in Goa in the future, both sides could easily assemble more than 2,000 mobile soldiers in this area. This is still relatively important in the battle between local warlords in the Rajput region. This is an opportunity!
Chapter completed!