Volume 15 Chapter 4 Development Planning

Zhu Cijiong's harvest in the Mughal Empire is not only the above, but also a major gain that cannot be ignored, that is, the land under the name of the Mughal Empire, which accounts for nearly half of the territory of the Mughal Empire.

What to do with these lands, and give them to all the civilians for free? Zhu Cijiong is not so generous, these lands, even if they just grow food for a year, the income is quite amazing, not to mention, there are still many cash crops that can be planted, and the income is even more amazing!

As for the peasants who farmed the land, this was also easy to do, and not all the civilians of the Mughal Empire participated in the riots, and there were many who were bold and robbed, and there were many who did not have to worry about eating and drinking for several lifetimes; There are many people who are cowardly, who dare not rob, who are poor, who are hungry, who must not let them starve to death, if they really have no way to starve, they should rebel again.

Now it's just right, no money, it doesn't matter, sign a deed of sale, sell yourself to the Ming Royal Xinglong Firm, to ensure that you have food to eat every day, but you must work, you must farm, you will eat enough if you plant more, and you will eat half full if you plant less.

After making so much money and shearing so much wool, it is time to consider the development of the Mughal Empire, after all, this will be the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and they must not always let them be poor, which is not conducive to stability and unity, and is not conducive to the overall development of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Zhu Cijiong is not such a stingy person, he will not do such a thing as a dime after making money, he decided to take out at least 100 million taels of silver to promote the economic development of the Mughal Empire.

How can we promote economic development? This Zhu Cijiong is already very experienced, first of all, he naturally builds roads, the so-called "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads." The roads of the Mughal Empire are much worse than those of the Ming Empire, and one million taels per province is definitely not enough according to the Ming Empire, so he directly allocated two million taels to each province to build a road transportation network.

Fifteen provinces, one time is 30 million taels, the hand is so big, the jaw of Cheng Guoxiang, the head of the household department, is about to fall, fortunately, this money does not need to be allocated from the treasury, but by the Ming Royal Rixing Bank, he just needs to send money.

Of course, it is not enough to have a road, but also to have a railway, the convenience of the railway, in this era, it is just like a myth, with the railway, whether it is to go out or do business, I don't know how many times, like Zhu Cijiong himself is a good example, he is used to taking the train, without the train he is even too lazy to go to Delhi!

At this time, although it was not as expensive to build a railway as in later generations, it was not a small amount to use a railway to connect such a large territory of the Mughal Empire, and he directly invested 20 million taels in the Ming Royal Machinery Group.

He also allocated 10 million taels to the Liao army, repaired, repaired, and took 300,000 captives to repair frantically, with big fish and meat, let them eat enough, and repair the railways in the entire territory of the Mughal Empire, return them to freedom, and let them go back to Monan!

Of course, it is not enough to have convenient domestic transportation, in this era, if you want to make a lot of money, you still have to do maritime trade, but the Mughal Empire does not have a decent port, and bulk goods are basically traded in Goa, although the Ming Dynasty and Portugal are hardcore allies, Zhu Cijiong does not want this money to be earned by Portugal in vain.

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

According to the foundation of the Mughal Empire and the needs of the development of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cijiong decided to vigorously plant cash crops in the Mughal Empire.

Like the spices of the Mughal Empire are very famous, the European powers even once thought that the 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 the market, so Zhu Cijiong is ready 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!

There is also cotton is also a good cash crop, with the development of the textile industry in Daming, the demand for cotton is increasing, and it is not worrying about the market.

The next step is mineral development, the Mughal Empire's iron ore reserves are quite rich, and you can follow the form of the Monan side to build several primary ironworks in the iron-intensive area, and process the iron ore into iron ingots and then transport them to Daming for deep processing.

Also, the gold reserves of the Mughal Empire are actually very rich, but they seem to be reluctant to dig, and always buy gold from other countries, Zhu Cijiong has nothing to be reluctant to, dig, dig hard, dig as much as you can, it's all money!

The economic development plan is almost here, and if it develops deeper, it will be a variety of processing industries, Zhu Cijiong doesn't want to let the development here be more fierce than the Ming Dynasty, and they should have other ideas when there is more money, and it will be troublesome when the time comes.

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

In the end, Zhu Cijiong was also very dissatisfied with the weak defense of the Mughal Empire, there were only a few cities in such a large territory, and this enemy would not be able to defend it as soon as it came in.

He allocated another 1 million taels to the provinces, not to mention more, the capitals of the provinces, as well as the cities of the state capitals, must at least be built, which is not only conducive to defending against foreign invasions, but also makes it more difficult for civilians to rebel, garrisons everywhere are guarded in the cities, muskets and cannons are erected, and it is almost impossible for civilians with kitchen knives and hoes to break through.

With so much investment, Zhu Cijiong believes that all civilians should be able to survive the difficult period of half a year, you must know that all kinds of infrastructure construction requires a lot of manpower, even if the poor civilians can't open the pot, as long as they are willing to work, they can still eat.

If you don't have enough to eat and you're lazy, then starve to death, no one can save you!

After his planning, in the next half a year, the Mughal Empire really didn't starve anyone to death, which is simply a miracle.

You know, the Mughal Empire has gone through chaos and war, according to normal circumstances, at least half of it has to starve to death, and the change of dynasties before the Ming Dynasty is a good example.

The Mughal Empire was no better off during British colonial rule, when a tsunami in Bengal flooded some of the farmland, and nearly three million people starved to death at a time!

I have to say that Zhu Cijiong's plan this time was quite timely, not only to protect most civilians from starvation, but also to lay a solid foundation for future colonial rule, since then the Mughal Empire slowly disappeared in the long river of history and never surfaced again!