In February of the 15th year of Chengtian, Ceylon had just passed the rainy season, and this tropical country, which was like summer all year round, began to usher in the first dry season of the new year.

Although the temperature in Ceylon is always between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius for 365 days a year, the dry and rainy seasons here are surprisingly precise, alternating every three months.

Ceylon in February has just given off the rainy season that began at the end of last year. Road construction was once again carried out throughout Ceylon, and countless Ceyloneans, lured by food and wages, rushed to the recruitment offices all over the island, and trade became more and more frequent.

The vast majority of the first immigrants from China to Ceylon came from Nanyang. These people have long been accustomed to tropical weather and climate, whether it is the dry season or the rainy season. However, Chen Han's 'construction plan' for Ceylon is not as adaptable as that of human beings.

In Nanjing's plan, Ceylon was a bridgehead for Chen Han's invasion of India. Trincomalee, Colombo and Jaffna Peninsula will be the key targets for Tan Han on the island of Ceylon.

Whether there is a million people in this place, Chen Han has not been able to figure it out so far, but he only knows that the population distribution here is very uneven. Probably due to the topography, about 70% of the population is concentrated in the humid hills and plains of the southwest, which accounts for a quarter of the island, while the large dry areas, which account for three-quarters of the country, are inhabited by less than 30% of the total population. Half of the population of the dry regions (15% of the total population) is concentrated on the tiny Jaffna Peninsula.

Colombo and Trincomalee have the highest population densities, with an average population density of more than 200 persons per square kilometre. The lowest density of the island, Muraidi, has an average of only 5 people per square kilometer, which is a huge difference.

Of course, the excessive concentration of the population of Ceylon brought a lot of benefits to the rule of the Chen Han, and the Chen Han, who came to Ceylon with Middle-earth Buddhism, was also generally welcomed by the Ceylonese people, whether it was the Sinhalese, the main ethnic group here, or the Tamils and Moors, the two major minority peoples.

Buddhism returned to Ceylon, and its development in both the upper and lower classes of Ceylone's traditional society was changing with each passing day, much faster than Hinduism and monotheism. When the Dutch ruled Ceylon, it is not known how many Buddhists were dangling in the guise of monotheists.

Now, the big problem that weighed on their heads was gone, and the number of monotheistic believers was like a waterfall in Lushan Mountain, 'flying down 3,000 feet'. All Ceylonese were free to choose their own beliefs, which really made the Ceylonese very friendly to Chen Han, a new conqueror who was both familiar and unfamiliar.

They were familiar with the name Chen Han, and before that, quite a few Chinese merchants had come to this place. Indian merchants who traveled between Jinghai and India spread the name of Chen Han to all corners of Ceylon. And strangeness is strangeness, they are really unfamiliar with Chen Han.

Chen Han's strength, they only have a very hazy cognition - strong. But why is it powerful? How powerful is it? What they say, what religion they believe, and what culture they spread are all unknown to them.

It can be said that China is a familiar stranger to the natives of Ceylon.

This land has just been handed over to Chen Han, but Nanjing, which has already cut down Ceylon's 'black tea industry' that became famous in the world in later generations, has set its eyes on the gem industry here. Ceylon is one of the world's most famous gem kingdoms. As for the relatively backward agriculture and animal husbandry here, there is no intention of further development.

-- China does not allow the outflow of tea seeds, which is a national policy.

If the British dared to cultivate tea in India, China would immediately declare war on the British. Therefore, it is really difficult to say whether Indian black tea and Sri Lankan black tea, which will sell well in Europe in this time and space, and how many years it will take.

The island of Ceylon is not a small area of arable land, there is no tea, there is no rubber industry now, and there is still no rice, coconut and coffee can be cultivated here.

There is no need for the former to ship to mainland China, it is too far to make any money.

China's agriculture, which had been recuperating for more than a decade, had fully recovered and annexed the rice-rich northern part of Annam, and the tragic fate of the remnants of the Qing Dynasty had frightened Bei Zheng on the south side of Hanoi. At that time, Zheng Sen's health was not very good, and his eldest son, Zheng Kai, who he had never liked, brazenly launched a coup d'état with the support of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the result was naturally successful. However, Zheng Kai's half-brother Zheng Wei is still alive, Zheng Wei is very favored by his bedridden father Zheng Sen because of his intelligence and cleverness, and he is good at writing.

Zheng Kai seized the central power of Northern Zheng, but the position was very unstable, and the fate of Hanoi was really trembling, so Zheng Kai simply chose to sacrifice the land and surrender.

As a result, there will be no shortage of grain production in China.

In the past few years, the Tohoku region has suffered from freezing rain and snow for several consecutive years, the crop production in the north has continued to decline, and agricultural fatigue has been triggered, and volcanoes such as Mt. Tsugaru Iwaki and Mt. Asama in the Kanto region have erupted on a large scale, causing widespread destruction of crops due to volcanic ash. As a result, there were widespread agricultural failures throughout Japan, and the price of rice skyrocketed. On the other hand, the shogunate was unable to take effective action due to the mercantilist policies of the elder Nakatanuma Yoshiji, which led to famine and soaring food prices throughout the country.

Even though China imports large quantities of fine grains such as rice and white flour, as well as coarse grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, Japan's grain prices remain high. Because the Tokugawa shogunate didn't make any big moves.

Mercantilism, what is mercantilism? That's business interests first. The shogunate did not set the price of grain at all, and grain merchants all over the country had strange goods, so that the price of grain became the same every day. As a result, Japan obviously has enough food to stabilize the whole country, but it still caused a large-scale Minyi and Misao incidents.

Tens of thousands of people died of starvation, and the feudal administrations were largely paralyzed, making it difficult to cope with the famine.

The ruling elder Nakadanuma Yoshiji stepped down in disgrace, and in such an embarrassing situation, Tokugawa Isaharu could not continue to protect him, but the 37,000 koku of the 'self-reserved land' that Tanuma Yoshiji had not been stripped of, so it can be said that he had retreated.

From an ordinary low-ranking samurai to the first lord of the Sagara Domain, Tanuma Yoshiji's achievements inspire 99% of all people in Japan.

After Tanuma Yoshiji stepped down, the mercantilism he advocated and the monopoly trading houses of iron, copper, lime, sulfur, and ginseng that had been established one after another over the past decade were abolished. Matsudaira Toshinobu replaced Tanuma Yoshiji and implemented the "leniency reform", that is, the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, setting up town halls in Edo, adjusting prices, rewarding the cultivation of grain crops, restricting the cultivation of cash crops, storing grain for famine, afforestation, and water control. I believe that Japan will be very exciting in the future.

Chen Ming was happy to see Japan suffer, this little disaster could not shake the foundation and rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, but during this period, the rumor that the shogunate was immoral, and the gods were angry' suddenly spread in Japan, with the help of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the source of this gossip pointed directly to the current emperor's Laozi - Prince Norihito of the Imperial Palace.

The Tokugawa shogunate's armies marched into Kyoto Castle for a time. The final result was that the son of the Xianyuan Palace Norihito came to pay for his Lao Tzu, and the Xianyuan Palace Norihito completely retreated, not to mention, the emperor's family finally increased to 100,000 stones, and the income was heavily cut off.

Japan's agriculture has caught up with natural and man-made disasters, and it will take three to five years for Japan's agriculture to regain stability. This is a good opportunity for grain merchants to make money, and the only people who can eat this piece of fat are China.

If Ceylon has a good harvest, it can be transported to India in large quantities. Don't look at the arable land area of India is so large, but the population of India is also very large, and the battles between the princes and nobles are constant, and they are facing the threat of the British, and there is always someone in need of food.

Although going deep into India, it is not an easy task for Chinese businessmen today. One Indian prince after another, one level after another, it is not easy to go deep into the interior to do business. But everything is explored little by little, and if you want to take advantage of it, you have to suffer first.

Just like China's operation in Kazakhstan, it was also 'at a loss' before, but now it will pay off. Or a super valuable return!

Most of the indigenous people of Ceylon live in poverty, but the production of gemstones here is not small, in addition to sapphire, there are tourmaline, cat's eye, spinel, topaz, garnet, amethyst, moonstone and other precious colored gemstones.

Ordinary people here have a good chance of being lucky enough to pick up a gemstone in their lifetime, and 90% of the land of Sri Lanka contains all kinds of precious and semi-precious stones, and it is said that rubies as thick as the palm of their hands have been unearthed here. But gemstones don't shine as soon as they are unearthed, they need a little polishing. A well-polished gemstone is worth much, much more than the rough.

Therefore, even if ordinary people are lucky enough to pick up a gemstone, it can only be regarded as a windfall, and it is impossible to get rich overnight.

And there are really a lot of gems here, and when there are many things, the price becomes cheaper.

For Nanjing, gems are a real 'big gold mine' that they need to excavate, and they don't care about some interests in agriculture and fishery.

The 'mining' of scarce gems is very 'child's play'. Most of the gemstone mining is a very primitive 'trade' in small artificial workshops. Usually near the banks of the river, manual excavation is carried out with the help of a pickaxe and shovel. The excavated stones are placed on a sieve or dustpan and washed with water, or washed in a nearby river. Then, an experienced person selects the small stones left on the sieve surface to select the original gem blocks that are not attractive and irregularly shaped. In a small handful of small stones, you can sometimes find one or two original gemstones. Of course, it is also very common for a gemstone not to be found. Then the next round of excavation, panning and screening will be carried out over and over again. Good rough gemstones, especially large ones, are usually taken by the top ones at a very cheap price.

The effect of this supreme decision, which is now held by Chen Han to rule Ceylon, is that the life of the people of Ceylon, who had been suppressed and persecuted by the Dutch, immediately improved with the naked eye. This laid a good foundation for the introduction of Buddhism in Middle-earth.

Far away in the ice and snow of Ili, Chen Ming silently followed the changes in Ceylon, and he was not amazed by the gratifying financial benefits of the newly established Ceylon Protectorate. Well, China's 'colony' will be named the Metropolitan Protectorate in the future, and if there is no Jiadu Protectorate, it will be the territory directly under Chen Han, that is, China's 'territory'.

There are still many wealthy people among the indigenous nobles of Ceylon, and the production of gems in this place has not been in the last one or two hundred years, but has been the case since ancient times.

It is difficult to say that those noble families do not secretly hide a batch of high-quality, large gems, which are all money.

Chen Han introduced the concept of 'auction house' into the gem buying industry in Ceylon, and the effect is obvious, those large and high-quality gems have been more and more registered on the auction house, although they want to cut a large profit from the proceeds, but compared with the price of the Dutch in Ceylon, it has increased many times!

After these nobles had money in their hands and their status was secured with Chen Han's permission, they naturally threw themselves into enjoyment. Some have even packaged up and sold their farmland and ore mining rights to Chinese companies that have come to pan for gold.

I started to make rice worms from the comfort of my home.

Therefore, many people throughout Ceylon have 'improved' their lives, almost at a thunderous rate, and in the blink of an eye, the demand for high-end goods and luxury goods in the Ceylon market has increased.

This change is almost unrecognizable to Europeans.

It's just that in the middle of April of the fifteenth year of Chengtian, Chen Ming, who was in Yili, focused all his attention on the northeast.

Whether it is Japan, Ceylon, or India, none of them can distract him from the slightest.

Since the beginning of March, after more than a month of hard work, the Aldan Mountain Plains have been swept away by Deng Yun's troops. It is impossible for the Russian-Qing coalition to remain indifferent when it encounters a 'tragic' incident in the rear, because the victims are the relatives of the soldiers. If left completely unattended, both Lepnin and Hylancha are convinced, the entire army will fall apart.

So they had to drill out of the fortresses and passes with dangerous terrain, and then there was a series of large and small battles on both sides, and when the time entered mid-April, the winter in Siberia would be completely over, and the main force of the Qing-Russian coalition army was completely surrounded in Yakutsk.

This place was the starting point of Russia's expansion into Eastern Siberia, a piece of permafrost. The buildings here resemble stilt buildings in southern China, built on wooden piles one meter above the ground. Otherwise, the permafrost that melts in the summer will be a nightmare for any surface.

It's the coldest city in the world.

Doors and windows should be set up with 3-4 layers to prevent the intrusion of cold air in winter. In winter, the breath exhaled by a person can be heard to turn into ice ballast, and the fish are as hard as stones when they are fished out of the river, and the small fish can be eaten as popsicles; Steel is as brittle and fragile as ice, the skin breaks in an hour outside, and the corpse never decays when buried under the permafrost, and the corpse was as fresh as ever when it was unearthed a hundred years ago.

If the cold resistance attribute of Lao Maozi is 5, here it is at least 8.

Fortunately, it was already April when the army caught up.

There is no Lepnin who is surrounded inside, and this guy is still hiding in the Aldan Mountains to fight guerrillas. But Yonghui and they are all in Yakutsk.

"It's all in one place. To live is to see people, and to die is to see corpses. Can't run away Yonghui. ”