On the second day, Lin Chunhong signed an order to establish the governor of the Western Regions, and his capital was temporarily stationed in Jiayuguan, and he was in charge of many civil affairs west of Jiayuguan.

The establishment of the Governor of the Western Regions has long been a consensus among the envoys of the Pavilion. However, once this order was issued, it still shocked the entire Jingzhou officialdom. They really couldn't understand why Lin Chunhong issued an order on the Western Regions thousands of miles away in the distant Temasek.

After thinking about it, almost all the important officials believed that the Governor of the Western Regions would be the senior officials in the Maritime Governor's Office.

As expected, five days later, Lin Chunhong issued another order to appoint Lu Shiyuan as the governor of the Western Regions.

As for Luzon, the civil affairs of the Java Islands were taken over by Peng Xin. The position of deputy general manager of the Supervision Office was taken over by Tang Wenjie.

Peng Xin was overjoyed and did not care about continuing to visit Nanyang with Lin Chunhong. He immediately said goodbye to Lin Chunhong and returned to Jingzhou to hand over to Tang Wenjie.

Immediately, Lin Chunhong gathered all the important officials around him, and Ling Yunhua, director of the Navy's Military Information Department, gave a lesson to everyone, specifically introducing India.

"…India has always been just a geographical concept, referring to the entire Indian subcontinent. On this continent, the indigenous people have never established a powerful country, and no country can unify the entire India..."

"...India has been invaded by multiple ethnic groups. Perhaps during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Aryans invaded India from the northwestern mountainous areas, and India entered the nations. Buddhism introduced to China was born at this time. At the same time, India formed a caste system. The Aryans were high castes, while the indigenous people were classified into low castes. This was similar to the system implemented after the Mongols invaded China. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty Taizu Xiong was very talented and drove the Mongols back to the grassland in less than a few decades..."

"...After the Aryans, Dashi Darius I invaded India, and then Alexander of Macedonia invaded India. Later, the squatters, the slums, and the Turks invaded India one after another. Even the Great Yuezhi people in the Han Dynasty invaded India and established the famous Kushan dynasty..."

"Around the early years of Jiajing, the Turks and Mongolian mixed-blooded Baber led a large army to invade India from the mountainous areas in northwestern India, establishing the Mughal dynasty, which continues to this day. The current Mughal Empire is controlled by Shah Jahan and its country is in full swing."

Lin Chunhong carefully looked at the Mughal Empire map prepared by Ling Yunhua and suddenly discovered that the so-called Goa, Kochi, Guri (Kalicart), and Kolkata were all outside the territory of the Mughal Empire.

The so-called Shah Jahan is the emperor who built the Taj Mahal. If he had the national strength to build the Taj Mahal, the Mughal Empire would naturally be more powerful at this time.

Lin Chunhong realized that no wonder Portugal, the Netherlands and the English easily established strongholds in India. It turned out that these strongholds were just outside the territory of the powerful Mughal Empire. The strongholds were basically small country!

This group of Europa robbers took a big advantage! In history, Britain could easily conquer the entire India, and probably would have to wait until the Mughal Empire declined.

Ling Yunhua pointed to the Indian map and continued: "Looking at the geography of India and combining the history of India's previous invasions, we found that the Kashmir region and the western Afghanistan are extremely critical and are an excellent place for India to block foreign invasions. Its importance is roughly equivalent to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in Central China and the northwest mountain system."

"In the history of China, except for the Song Dynasty, all dynasties basically controlled the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and the northwest mountains in their hands to protect the security of the core areas of the Han people. However, no dynasty in India has ever done this, and it is normal to suffer invasion."

When Lin Chunhong saw Ling Yunhua vaguely touching the gate of geopolitics, he was overjoyed: "You are right. If you can control Kashmir in your hands, it will be considered as a life gate of India!"

(To put it bluntly, the geographical environment of contemporary India is actually very dangerous. Kashmir and Pakistan have a dispute. It is obviously a dream to use Afghanistan to protect India's land security. There is also a condescending strong neighbor in the north. All of this forces India to establish a large army. The Aksaichin, now controlled by China, is actually part of Kashmir. As long as China controls Aksaichin one day, it retains the right to break into India's core area at any time. India will not dare to act rashly no matter what. The products in southern Tibet are richer, but when it comes to strategic status, they are not far from Aksaichin.)

Ling Yunhua was affirmed by Lin Chunhong and had greater confidence. He continued: "The current Mughal emperor Shah Jahan is a talented man. He not only controlled Kashmir, but also sent troops to attack Afghanistan many times. Obviously, he saw that Kashmir and Afghanistan are the life gates of India."

"But this life gate can only be one of the fortune telling gates. Now that the sea fleet is rising, unless the Mughal Empire can establish a powerful fleet, it will sooner or later be annexed by other forces..."

Ling Yunhua's preparations were very sufficient, including history, geographical intelligence and intelligence analysis, which made Lin Chunhong very satisfied.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Yunhua began to introduce Mumbai:

"The shipping center we are preparing to build is composed of seven small islands, called Salset Island, and has a natural deep water port. In the thirteenth year of Jiajing, the Portuguese occupied Mumbai and has continued to this day. Although the Mughal Empire is strong, it has no concern at all about these islands and has never thought of recapturing Mumbai from Portugal."

...

When Lin Chunhong proposed to build Shanghai, Temasek, Mumbai and Mombasa into super shipping centers, it was unanimously agreed by the seven envoys, and it was suggested that Lin Chunhong take Mumbai into his hands as soon as possible, and it would be best to build Mumbai into a shipping center facing the West Bank of India, Dashi and Ottoman Turkic regions within five years.

However, when Ling Yunhua introduced the situation in India in detail, Zhang Zhao, Lu Shiming and Zhu Zhiyu suddenly discovered that the enemies they might face were not only Portugal and the Netherlands, but also the strong Mughal Empire.

Zhu Zhiyu said: "The Mughal Empire can currently tolerate Portugal's resting on the seven islands of Mumbai, which does not mean that they can tolerate us building cities on the seven islands and building a port that is enough for eleven-masted merchant ships to dock. What's more, if we want to build Mumbai into a super shipping center, it is obviously not enough for me to be a mere seven islands of Mumbai, and we still need a wider land for living and warehousing."

Zhu Zhiyu frowned and hesitated: "It is obviously not good for us to create too many enemies. We went to the west coast of India to trade and make profits. If we seize Mumbai and fight against the Mughal Empire, this deal is not worth it. It is better to point the finger at the Netherlands, Portugal, seize Goa, Guli and Kochi, and choose a place to build a super shipping center."

Lin Chunhong thought for a long time and finally shook his head and said, "The conditions for Goa and Kochi are not as far as Mumbai. First, Mumbai is a natural port, Goa, Guri and Kochi are obviously not as good as Mumbai; second, the population of the Mughal Empire exceeded 30 million, and looking at the whole world, there is no such huge market except the Ming Dynasty. Mumbai is closest to the core area of ​​the Mughal Empire, which is very beneficial for us to expand trade and implement penetration; third, Mumbai is much closer to the Dashi and Ottoman Turks than Goa. Therefore, the established strategy of controlling Mumbai in its hands cannot be changed."

"Zhu Muzhi said something very right just now. We went to the west coast of India to make money, not for territory. If the war with the Mughal Empire rises, it will not only not be worth the loss, but also affect our established strategy of infiltration into India..."

Lin Chunhong pondered for a moment and said decisively: "First rituals and then troops. If Shah Jahan knows the appearance, it will be easy to say. If he doesn't know the appearance, I don't mind that the Dragon Guard Army will fight in India all year round. As for Portugal and the Netherlands, all the etiquettes that should be spoken have been discussed, so I will give an ultimatum just!"

...

Since Lin Chunhong ascended Temasek Island, the entire Temasek has fallen into restlessness and fanaticism. The Ming Dynasty merchants and overseas overseas merchants have regarded Lin Chunhong's arrival in Temasek as a feast, trying to get a share of the pie.

The maritime merchants who accompanied Lin Chunhong to Temasek from Jiaozhi were just the tip of the iceberg. After ten days, more and more maritime merchants flocked to Temasek, trying to learn about Lin Chunhong's plan earlier than others to seize the initiative in the business world.

Lin Chunhong did not disappoint them. As soon as he arrived in Temasek, he threw out the news of forming a super fleet to Stockholm.

Sweden is too far away, but thanks to the increasing number of Swedes appearing in Nanyang and Jiang Shurang's visit to Sweden, maritime merchants with broad vision are no strangers.

What's more important is that the huge profits that Jiang Shurang easily obtained were vivid in his mind, which made these maritime merchants feel itchy.

After learning that Lin Chunhong would send eight first-class warships and sixteen second-class warships to escort, the maritime merchants decided without hesitation to do their best to send merchant ships to Sweden.

In just a dozen days, there were more than twelve nine-mast merchant ships signing up for the caravan, almost catching up with the fifteen ships sent by the Atlantic Merchant.

This is when Lin Chunhong did not allow the seven-masted sailboat to accompany him. Otherwise, the caravan would not know what it would be like.

In the following days, Zheng Cai, Zheng Hongkui, Wang Dajun, Li Duoyi and other wealthy merchants arrived in Temasek one after another.

Originally, Dadongyang Business and Atlantic Business had a tacit understanding in the direction of trade expansion. Dadongyang Business and the Atlantic Business and went west. However, Zheng Cai and four others were reluctant to give up this feast and came up with the idea of ​​signing up to join the caravan in their personal name.

Zheng Cai and four others reported twenty-one nine-masted merchant ships in one go. The combination of Fujian-born maritime merchants and Hui merchants shows their strength.

While Lin Chunhong was overjoyed, he seemed to intend to stimulate the enthusiasm of the wealthy merchants and publicly announced that the Ming Dynasty would establish a super shipping center in Mumbai on the west coast of India.
Chapter completed!