Where to choose to travel? This is not only a location, but also related to their starting base.
A good start means half the success. Travelers basically love to play games, and they know that one of the keys to strategic games is to get a good base location at the beginning. For them, this base must meet:
1. It has a good agricultural foundation and can ensure the supply of food.
2. There is a certain population base that can meet the labor demand after time travel in the future.
3. There are abundant natural resources that can meet the needs of industrialization.
4. It is located in a coastal area and has a port. After all, maritime trade is the easiest trade in this era to amass wealth.
5. It cannot be in the core area ruled by the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it will inevitably trigger a key encirclement and suppression campaign by the Ming government.
6. It is not in the place of the Four Battles. Whether it is Hou Jin, Chuang, Xian and others, it is not something that the time-travelers who have not established a stable footing can deal with.
7. It is easy to defend and has dangers from mountains, rivers and seas.
Obviously, in the time and space they are going to, there are not many places that can meet such conditions.
As a precaution, this question has been submitted to the discussion board for brainstorming.
The plans put forward by everyone on the Internet are basically concentrated in three places: Taiwan, Hainan, and Australia.
Australia received a lot of support, but the first one was shot. Not to mention whether Australia itself is suitable as a base for travelers, the reality is that it is simply impossible to get hundreds of travelers to Australia. There is basically no possibility.
Operability.
Taiwan Island is a hot topic of discussion. It can be said to be the best choice in terms of geographical location, natural conditions, and development potential. The island does not have the political institutions of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Dutch and Spanish built cities, they only
They can each occupy a corner, which is a vacuum zone. However, tropical diseases in Taiwan are very serious, especially malaria, which has hindered the entry of immigrants to a certain extent. In the late Ming Dynasty, the degree of development was still very low, and the population was even sparse. There was no manpower base for large-scale development.
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In comparison, Hainan is much superior. Since its development in the Six Dynasties, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had become a southern border county with hundreds of thousands of residents. In the tenth year of Yongle, there were 90,000 Han residents alone, with a population of 400,000.
, rich in human resources. In terms of agriculture, by the 43rd year of Wanli, the official and private land on the island reached 4.1 million acres.
What is even more rare is that the natural resources are not only rich but also relatively complete in categories, which are very suitable for industrialization. There are 88 kinds of minerals (including subspecies) on the island, and 67 kinds have been proven to have industrial development value, including gold mines and rich iron ores.
, Ilmenite and zircon are dominant minerals.
The key to the pre-industrial era was coal and iron. Hainan Island has a rare large-scale iron-rich mine in China - the Shilu Iron Mine. The ore has an average iron content of 51% and reserves of 400 million tons. It also has a variety of minerals.
What is commendable is that the Shilu Iron Mine is almost open-pit and can be mined by stripping off the topsoil without the need for a costly tunnel system.
In terms of coal mines, Hainan only has low-quality lignite, but across the Beibu Gulf is the Quang Ninh Hong Ji Coal Mine in Vietnam. In this time and space, the open-pit mine reserves are 200 million tons, and there are billions of tons of high-quality anthracite coal underground. The coal mine is close to the shore.
Sea transportation is extremely convenient.
With coal and iron, we can produce steel on a large scale. With steel, we can complete the mechanization of various industries and manufacture industrial products in batches.
Ancient society may have been able to produce stunning works of art, but it could not compete with the tide of mass-produced goods in industrial society.
If Hainan Island has any shortcomings as a crossing base, it is that it is too close to the mainland, and the Ming government's local rule is relatively strict. Except for the inland Li District, most of the island is "the land of kings."
The Ming government will not give up easily in the prefectures and counties where the people have been settled in this way for many years, and will definitely spare no effort to conquer these ambitious outsiders - whether they are from Xinbo, Australia or from another time and space.
Travelers will face attacks from the local and Guangdong garrison from the beginning, and must resist in order to gain a firm foothold.
There is also a long-term conflict between Li and Han in Hainan. Since the Yuan Dynasty, there has been a Li riot on the entire island almost every three years. Less than thirty years ago, in the 27th year of Wanli (1599), 1627, the year they traveled through,
The Ding'an Li people and horses rioted in Dan Ya, and the Lin Li people responded. The Ming government mobilized 100,000 troops to quell the situation. How to live in peace with the local Li people is another problem.
Finally, pirates were very rampant in Hainan's history, and many counties in Hainan did not have north gates. The South China Sea in the late Ming Dynasty was an era when Chinese and foreign merchants and pirates showed their prowess. Both merchants and pirates had the opportunity to plunder.
Hainan, which is on the main maritime traffic route, has suffered from it for a long time. It can be imagined that the traveling generals with countless modern tools and supplies will be a big fat sheep that will be coveted in all aspects.
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From this point of view, although Hainan has a better foundation than Taiwan, it also faces much greater pressure.
"From this point of view, we should choose Taiwan." At the online meeting, after listening to some briefings about Hainan by the Executive Committee, someone suggested, "Taiwan has malaria. We can bring quinine and cinchona trees."
Planted in Taiwan. As for the population, there were so many refugees in the late Ming Dynasty. Using food and land as bait, it would not be a problem to transport hundreds of thousands of people over."
"It's easy to pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars, so what kind of luck do you use?" Someone immediately questioned.
"Ship, we can use a 10,000-ton ship to cross it, and load all the supplies and people on it. The entire maritime hegemon doesn't need any cannons. Let's see whoever doesn't like it rushes up and rams it."
"Are you going to burn it with alcohol or charcoal?"
"We have built our own ships. Taiwan has high-quality logs."
"Okay, then tell me where the sailor is?"
"You can train sailors yourself and recruit foreign sailors to Macau as instructors."
"What a joke, Zheng Chenggong's ships are all driven by foreigners? I can't stand you guys who worship foreigners the most."
“Can cinchona trees grow in Taiwan?”
"If you put it that way, rubber cannot be grown on the Leizhou Peninsula, and it won't be possible to grow it."
"I'm talking about Taiwan. Leizhou Peninsula and Taiwan are on the same dimension?!"
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When the topic started to touch on whether the treasure ship was a wooden 10,000-ton ship, whether Artemisia annua could prevent and cure malaria, and then whether Chinese medicine was pseudoscience, Wen Desi quickly stopped everyone's enthusiasm, and Xiao Zishan asked to speak.
"I think Hainan is more suitable." Xiao Zishan has been silent just now. He supports Hainan's plan in his heart, but he is not in a hurry to express his position. After everyone has made the pros and cons clear in the debate, he will also discuss all aspects of the issue in
I queued up in my mind, and the key points of my speech came naturally.
"Why Hainan is more suitable than Taiwan? Comparing the requirements of our base areas, Taiwan is far inferior to Hainan on several key issues.
"The first is the agricultural foundation. The real development of Taiwan's agriculture will roughly begin when Zheng Chenggong regained Taiwan and used it as a base to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty - almost in the middle and late 17th century. And the year we chose is 1628. At this time it
There is no agriculture yet, only a small amount of land reclaimed by some coastal immigrant villages. Hainan has at least 3.8 million acres of cultivated land, and there are dozens of water conservancy projects built in the past dynasties. Note that the number of acres of land is still registered, in the Ming Dynasty
The land concealed is quite a bit.
"In terms of population, there were very few Han immigrants in Taiwan in 1628. The large-scale industrial and agricultural construction carried out after we crossed over required a large number of people as labor force. Taiwan's population could not meet the needs, so immigrants had to be imported and refugees recruited from the beginning.
, organized them to drag their families and their families all the way through the government and counties, and to the coasts of Fujian and Zhejiang to arrange shipping. This was a complicated and arduous matter, involving the deployment of manpower and material resources, and dealing with officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty... We
Who among them has such experience and ability?
"Even if we can transport enough refugees to the island, follow-up work will be very difficult. The refugees are basically destitute. We need to prevent epidemics, provide relief, resettle, arrange housing, seeds, farm tools... Where do these things come from? With our early strength,
It is beyond our capabilities to do such a big thing. In comparison, Hainan has a population of at least 400,000, which is enough to meet early development needs."
The discussion just now has exhausted the enthusiasm of most people, and the irrational speeches of some people have also made everyone feel disgusted. At this moment, Xiao Zishan's well-founded and well-spoken speech has been recognized by most people. Hainan, the future
The base area was determined through voting.
At this time and space in the late Ming Dynasty, Hainan established Qiongzhou Prefecture, which encompassed three states and ten counties: Qiongshan, Chengmai, Lingao, Ding'an, Wenchang, Lehui, Huitong, Changhua, Lingshui, and ten counties of Ganzhou; Danzhou and Wanzhou
, Yazhou three states.
If you take out the Yuan and Ming dynasty volumes of the Chinese historical atlas and browse through them, you will find that the prefectures and counties of Hainan are exactly in a complete circle along the coast of the island. Historically, Hainan Island used to be in a state of Li to the south and Han to the north.
After the Song Dynasty, Han Dynasty was outside and Li was inside.
Among these prefectures and counties, Qiongshan-Chengmai-Lingao counties have the longest history of development and are the main Han gathering areas and agricultural areas on the island, with half of the Han population gathered here.
Among the three places, Qiongshan County, where the Qiongzhou Prefecture is located, has the best basic environment: at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 3.83 million acres of registered official and private land on the island, of which the county accounted for nearly a quarter, and the registered tax population
Nearly ninety thousand.
But at the same time, it was also the political and economic center of the Ming Dynasty on the island. A large number of troops were usually stationed there. It also had political symbolic significance. The fall of a border city like Qiongzhou would be a huge shock to the Ming court. Needless to say, it would
This led to a large-scale military campaign.
Although Chengmai is not bad, it is close to Qiongshan County, so it is too close to the ruling center of Hainan in the Ming Dynasty.
Lingao became the best choice.
Lingao in this time and space is an unknown small county in Hainan. It is far less famous than Haikou or Sanya. It has a backward economy and almost no tourism. Unless you are a travel enthusiast who likes in-depth travel, most people don’t know that there is such a place in Hainan. If you use search
If the engine searches for the word Lingao on the Internet, most of the entries are from the People's Liberation Army's battle to cross the sea to liberate Hainan sixty years ago: The People's Liberation Army first landed at Lingaojiao. Yes, this Lingaojiao is in Lingao County.
The county seat is less than twelve kilometers away.
Although Lingao is unknown, it is a thousand-year-old county. Its history of establishing the county can be traced back to the fifth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the earliest areas where Han immigrants moved to on the mainland and has a long history of development. Although Lingao does not have the population of Qiongshan
There are many, with a registered population of 25,000 in the 45th year of Wanli. The alluvial plains on both sides of the Wenlan River were developed earlier, forming a certain agricultural foundation. If it can be supplemented by the development of certain water conservancy facilities, the agricultural potential is great. In this position
In front of you, Lingao is the land of plenty and plenty in Hainan.
Finally, it is separated from Qiongzhou Prefecture by Chengmai. If there is any disturbance, it will not immediately face direct pressure from the Ming government. In terms of the communication conditions and work efficiency of the ancient dynasty, matters across states and counties cannot be dealt with in a month.
If you don't come down, it will probably take longer in places like Hainan.
After this topic, some other issues were raised one after another, but as Lingao was the base at the beginning of the journey, there was no longer any objection. In Wen Desi’s concluding speech at the meeting: Everyone agreed that this meeting was a
"A successful conference, a united conference, a victorious conference." In future New World history textbooks, the conference was called the "first cross-generational conference" because there were too many representatives, and many people chose to stay in the
In the Old World, the entire list can only be viewed in the "Old World Cathedral" - theoretically it is not allowed to be viewed.