In April, the Forbidden City trees are green and red, the Agricultural Institute collects and contributes all kinds of novel fruit and vegetable seeds, and the imperial garden behind the Kunning Palace has quickly become a trial ground for novel crops, in addition to sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, and a large patch of peppers and tomatoes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Grains such as rice, wheat, and millet have been crops in China since ancient times, and many crops familiar to the Chinese three hundred years after the death of the Ming Dynasty, such as potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and peppers that the people in the Yunguichuan area could not do without in later generations, were all Fanbang species introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty.

Hundreds of years after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, why tomatoes are still called tomatoes in many places is also because of this, it was only introduced from Fanbang in the late Ming Dynasty.

Now Emperor Chongzhen wants to eat spicy hot pot similar to that of later generations in Beijing at this time, and it will take a lot of effort.

Black and white pepper, hemp pepper and other essential spices, in the maritime trade before the Ming Dynasty, had become the majority of Chinese imports of five products.

Therefore, these spices and condiments originating in India and Southeast Asia were not a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty.

However, chili pepper is different, as one of the necessary base ingredients for eating hot pot in later generations, it has just begun to be introduced and planted in some places in Yunnan and Guizhou at this time, and it has not yet formed a scale.

Moreover, when the Agricultural Institute presented this new plant and fruit to the emperor as a treasure, now the Chongzhen Emperor recognized this thing at a glance as the chili pepper of the later generations.

At this time, its name was mainly called pepper by the people who first introduced it to cultivation, and because it tasted extremely spicy, it was also called chili pepper.

Because this chili pepper is the most needed condiment in Donglaishun, which is now controlled by Baohe Company, once it was introduced to the Tongju Agricultural Institute, it soon became popular in the spring ploughing of the Gyeonggi area this spring.

The imperial garden in the Forbidden City is not exempt from this custom.

On this day, the sun was shining and the weather was warm, Emperor Chongzhen and the Minister of Military Aircraft Sun Chengzong and Zhang Weixian discussed the progress of the military situation in Shanxi to suppress bandits, and agreed with Li Banghua's strategy, so he accompanied the concubines, while enjoying the flowers in the imperial garden, directing the eunuchs and palace maids to water and weed, while showing off their exclusive knowledge and anecdotes about these novel crops to the queen, Concubine Lan and others, and finally had a half day of leisure.

However, such a leisure time is not only extremely rare for Emperor Chongzhen in history, but also for the rejuvenated Emperor Chongzhen today.

Just after Emperor Chongzhen stole half a day of leisure, accompanied the concubine to serve flowers and plants in the imperial garden, and just relaxed for a long time, a military intelligence report from the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Zhejiang broke the rare peaceful time in the Forbidden City.

In a joint report to the emperor from Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan, they wrote that according to the military report of Xiao Yongqianhu, the Dutch red-haired ghost entrenched in Orange Castle on the southern coast of Dongfan Island marched north in early March.

On the seventh day of the first month of March, the Dutch red-haired ghost occupied the tribal territory of the Dongfan indigenous Matou Society, slaughtered almost all the more than 3,000 people of the Matou Society, and mistakenly killed nearly 100 Dongfanwei merchants who came to trade deer skins and other things with the Matou Society.

In the end, the central meaning that Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan wanted to report to the emperor was that the Dutch red-haired ghost had already been vigilant about the migration of the coastal victims of Fujian and Zhejiang to Dongfan, and Zheng Zhilong had also reported to the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion that if the Dutch red-haired ghost continued to go north, he would be ready to start a war with the Dutch.

It's really a tree that wants to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop, a wave here is not flat, and that side is a wave again!

After reading the military newspaper from Fujian and Zhejiang that was urgently sent in by the military aircraft department, Emperor Chongzhen was silent and fell into deep thought.

From behind this report, he somewhat understood part of the reason why Zheng Zhilong remained silent about the imperial court's policy of opening the sea.

Historically, the reason why Zheng Zhilong belonged to the Ming Dynasty and commanded thousands of ships and tens of thousands of horses, but he was willing to be a Jinxia coastal defense guerrilla, although his idea of "wealth and nobility do not return to their hometowns is like a night trip in brocade" is at work, but the grim situation on the Fujian Sea at that time was also an important reason.

In the autumn of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch tried to occupy the Penghu Islands, but in front of the Ming army's naval fleet led by Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian at the time, suffered a small defeat, and finally lost several ships and hundreds of people, and fled to the southeast ocean.

However, the Dutch fleet did not leave the coast of the southeast coast of China.

After the end of the bloody battle of Penghu, the remaining 500 people of the defeated Dutch fleet, under the leadership of Captain Sanke, turned the bow of the ship and ran ashore to settle down on the southwest coast of Taiwan, which was the Tainan of later generations.

From the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch began to garrison and colonize this place in Tainan, and in the past 30 years, they have built two strong fortresses for garrison colonization, the first of which was built close to the coast of Tainan, and the second was built by Fort Pulominsha, which is dozens of miles away inland.

It was from then on that the Dutch took advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty and had no time to look south, relying on these two strong military fortresses, and began a thirty-eight year colonial rule over southern Taiwan.

Among them, this Fort of Geranza is the so-called Orenziburg, which was renamed Anping Fort after Zheng Chenggong conquered Taiwan.

And the so-called Pu Min Sha Fort, that is, in the later famous Chikan Tower, Hongmao City.

However, in the second year of Chongzhen, Chikan Tower, which was later used as a symbol of the Dutch occupation and rule of Taiwan, of course, did not even have a shadow at this time!

Because the historical Fort of Promin was built by the Dutch who colonized southern Taiwan in 1653 AD, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Beijing for nearly ten years.

However, in this life, if the later famous Chikan Tower, or Hongmao City, the Dutch governor's palace in Taiwan, does not appear within three or five years, then it will never appear.

And this time, the so-called Orange Castle mentioned in the recital of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion is the city of Gerancha, which the Dutch successfully built in Tainan for three years.

Geranza is derived from the pronunciation of the Dutch word zeelandia, which is the name of a province in the Netherlands.

The Dutch red-haired ghost means that this place in Tainan is a colony of the Dutch, and it is the zeelandia of the Dutch East.

As for Orange, it was of no practical significance, except that after the Dutch occupied this place, they brought from Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, building materials that were relatively new to East Asia at that time.

These relatively new building materials for East Asian countries at that time were, to put it bluntly, red bricks and red tiles that were relatively rare in East Asia at that time.

The city of Geranja, built of red bricks and red tiles, had an orange color when viewed from the sea, so it was called an orange castle by the traders and mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company who came to colonize the city, which is also known as orange oranje in Dutch.

Of course, the Dutch were defeated by Nan Juyi's army on the sea of the Penghu Islands, and then fled to Tainan to build forts and colonize and develop their strength, which was not the only external force that Zheng Zhilong later attached to the imperial court.

Because two years after the Dutch failed to harass the Daming coast, the Spanish colonists, who had occupied Luzon for many years, also took a fancy to Taiwan, which the Ming Dynasty regarded as a desert island at that time, and sent troops to land and set up points on the east coast of northern Taiwan in the summer of the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the location where the Spaniards landed on the northern coast of Taiwan was the current Keelung Peace Island, Keelung, which became a chicken coop in the mouths of fishermen along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, because there was a mountain near the port where the fishermen docked to shelter from the wind, which resembled a chicken coop, and was called Jilong Mountain by pirates, fishermen and maritime merchants along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Of course, there is another saying, which is that when the local indigenous people trade with the coastal people of the Ming Dynasty, they call themselves Kaida Gran or Gran, and the Gran is similar to the Hokkien chicken coop, and over time, the fishermen of the Ming Minnan coastal area call this place the chicken coop.

At the foot of Jilong Mountain is Jilong Bay, there is a Jilong Port in Jilong Bay, and not far from Jilong Port, there is a small island, this island was renamed Heping Island after the death of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, but at that time it was called Sheliao Island, which was a village community of the indigenous Kaida Gran people.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Spanish fleet was the first to land on Sheliao Island, and then killed all the indigenous people who settled on the island, renamed the island San Salvador, and in the following year or so, gradually built a Western-style Fort San Sava on Sheliao Island, that is, the city of San Salvador, and began the colonization process of encroaching on the chicken coop and Yilan area in northern Taiwan.