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Chapter IV Development Planning

Zhu Cijiong's harvest in the Mughal Empire was not only the above, but also a major harvest that cannot be ignored, that is, the land under the name of the Mughal Empire's royal family, which occupied nearly half of the territory of the Mughal Empire. It is really hard to calculate how big it is. In short, it is a huge wealth.

How to deal with these lands? Will it be distributed to all civilians in vain? Zhu Cijing is not so generous. The income of these lands, even if they only grow grain in a year, is quite amazing. What's more, there are still many cash crops to grow, and the income is even more amazing!

As for the farmers who farmed, this is easy to deal with. Not all the civilians of the Mughal Empire participated in the riots. There were many people who were bold and robbed, and there were many people who would not have to worry about food and drink for several lifetimes. The timids did not dare to rob, and there were many people who were poor and hungry. These people could not let them starve to death. If they really hungry, they should rebel again.

Now it's just right, I don't have money, it doesn't matter. I'll sign a contract to sell my body to the Xinglong Business in the Ming Dynasty to ensure that you have food every day, but you have to work and farm. If you have to grow more, you will be full, and if you have to eat less, you will be half full.

After making so much money and cutting so much wool, we should consider the development of the Mughal Empire. After all, this place will be the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty in the future. We can't always let them be poor. This is not conducive to stability and unity, and it is even more unfavorable to the overall development of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Zhu Cijing is not such a stingy person. He will not do anything like this without losing a penny after making money. He decided to spend at least 100 million taels of silver to promote the economic development of the Mughal Empire.

How to promote economic development? Zhu Cijiong has rich experience. First of all, he naturally builds roads. As the saying goes, "If you want to be rich, build roads first." The roads in the Mughal Empire are much worse than those in the Ming Empire. It is definitely not enough to have one million taels per province as in the Ming Empire. He directly allocated 2 million taels per province to build a highway transportation network.

The fifteen provinces, 30 million taels at a time, were so big that they almost shocked the chin of the Minister of Revenue Cheng Guoxiang. Fortunately, the money did not need to be allocated from the treasury, but was allocated by the Royal Rixing Bank of the Ming Dynasty. He just needed to send the money.

Of course, it is not enough to have a highway alone, and there is also a railway. The convenience of railways is like a myth. With railways, it is many times more convenient to go out or do business. Zhu Cijing himself is a good example. He is used to taking trains, and he is too lazy to go to Delhi without trains!

Although the construction of railways at this time was not as expensive as that of later generations, it was not a small amount to use railways to connect such a large territory of the Mughal Empire. He directly invested 20 million taels of taels of construction and hard work, and the railways and trains could be built as much as possible!

He also ordered the Liao army to distribute 10 million taels, practice hard, and bring 300,000 prisoners to practice madly, big fish and meat, so that they could eat enough, and build the railways in the entire Mughal Empire, and then give them freedom and let them go back to the south of the desert!

Of course, it is not enough to be convenient for domestic transportation. In this era, if you want to make a lot of money, you still have to do maritime trade. However, the Mughal Empire did not have a decent port, and bulk goods were basically traded in Goa. Although the Ming Dynasty and Portugal were die-hard allies, Zhu Cijing didn't want the money to be earned by Portugal in vain.

Therefore, he decided to build a modern port in Dhaka in the east, Kolkata, Mumbai in the west, and Karachi in the west to communicate overseas and develop maritime trade, which in turn resulted in an investment of more than 10 million taels.

Also, if the infrastructure is built, you must have goods to sell. According to the foundation of the Mughal Empire and the needs of the development of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cijing decided to vigorously plant cash crops in the Mughal Empire.

Spices in the Mughal Empire are very famous. The European powers even thought that spices were produced in the Mughal Empire. In this era of lack of seasonings, spices are the best seasonings, and there is no need to worry about sales at all. Therefore, Zhu Cijing was preparing to vigorously promote spice cultivation in the Mughal Empire, especially the land under the name of the royal family. At least half of the spices must be planted, and he wants to monopolize the entire world spice market!

Cotton is also a good cash crop. With the development of the Ming Dynasty's textile industry, the demand for cotton is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no need to worry about sales when planted.

The next step is mineral development. The Mughal Empire's iron ore reserves were quite abundant. It can be emulated in the form of the southern part of the desert to build several primary iron smelting plants in the iron ore-intensive areas, process the iron ore into iron ingots and then transported to the Ming Dynasty for deep processing.

Also, the Mughal Empire's gold reserves were actually very rich, but they seemed reluctant to dig and always bought gold from other countries. Zhu Cijing had nothing to reluctant to do. Digging and digging hard, digging as much as they could, and that was all money!

The economic development plan is almost done. If you develop further, you will have various processing industries. Zhu Cijing doesn’t want to develop here even harder than the local area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. With more money, they should have other ideas, and it will be troublesome at that time.

After the infrastructure and various raw material primary processing industries are established, it is no problem for the civilians here to have food and clothing, which is enough.

Finally, Zhu Cijing was also dissatisfied with the weak defense of the Mughal Empire. There were only a few cities in such a large territory. Once the enemy attacked, wouldn’t it be flat and could not even defend it?

He allocated one million taels to each province. Not to mention it, the capitals of each province and the cities of each prefecture must be built at least. This will not only help defend against foreign invasions, but also make it difficult for civilians to rebel. The garrisons in various places are guarding the city, and it is almost impossible for civilians to break through with muskets and cannons.

With so much investment, Zhu Cijing believes that all civilians should be able to survive the difficult period of the past six months. You should know that various infrastructure construction requires a lot of manpower. Even the poor civilians who cannot afford to lose their money can still eat as long as they are willing to work.

If you are still lazy after eating, then go to starve to death, no one can save you!

After his plan, the Mughal Empire did not starve anyone to death in the next half year. This was a miracle.

You should know that the Mughal Empire had undergone chaos and war. Normally, at least half of them had to starve to death. The change of dynasties before the Ming Dynasty is a good example. When the war broke out, people immediately had to live in poverty. At the worst, the civilians even had one ten!

During the British colonial rule, the Mughal Empire was not much better. At that time, a tsunami broke out in Bengal that flooded some farmland, and nearly three million people starved to death at one time!
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