The Great Ming Dynasty Dominate Overseas

Boats come and go, people come and go, all in a hurry, Semarang City is a busy scene, and the air is filled with sweetness.

Semarang City on the island of Java is a sugar city and a wine capital. It takes up more than 50% of the molasses produced in the southeast, and the rum produced also accounts for more than 50%. It is famous in the southeast!

Semarang City is located in the central Java zone of Java Island in the southeastern country. It faces the Java Sea and has a developed port industry. It is a distribution center for agricultural products and handicraft products. The city has a developed sugar industry. The main export crops and economic crops are rice and alfalfa. , Sucrose, rubber, coffee, tea, coconut and tobacco. Among them, sucrose is the most important crop in the city.

The name of this city is inseparable from a famous TJ in Ming Dynasty. According to legend, Zheng He, a Chinese navigator in the Ming Dynasty, landed here when he went to Southeast Asia. The city got its name. On June 30th of each lunar calendar is Zheng. And on the arrival of the "Holy Day", the government held a commemorative ceremony.

It can also be regarded as a holy city for the Chinese. In order to make it long-lasting and peaceful, it is more important to make it a city developed by the Chinese nation since ancient times. That's what the government said about Semarang City. When Sambo TJ Master arrived there, there was only soil in the area. People, there is no ruler, the first city owner is the deputy envoy of the Chinese Fleet Wang Jinghong!

According to legend, when Zheng He's fleet arrived here, the deputy envoy Wang Jinghong was very ill and the fleet was forced to anchor here. Zheng He led the people to land and found a cave where he could shelter. He left ten entourages, some medicine, food and a boat, and placed Wang Jinghong in the cave for recuperation before continuing his voyage. After Wang Jinghong recovered from his illness, he led the reforestation and built a house, intermarried with a local woman, and spread Chinese civilization and Zheng He's deeds. The population grew and became a town. Because Wang Jinghong and his entourage were buried in Sri Lanka after their deaths, they were named Semarang. The port where Zheng He landed was also named Sanbao Port.

Look, this is not the territory of China since ancient times or something!

Yan Changwu played the word "since ancient times" proficiently and made his subjects admire him. The boss grabbed the site so confidently that he wanted to give him a warm applause!

It has won the eyes of the superiors, and fortunately it has been selected as an important part of the sugar industry chain in Southeastern countries, and has become a base for sugar and wine making.

Semarang City has a large area of ​​sugarcane, which is an important production area of ​​sugarcane.

Even so, it is not enough to produce 50% of the rum, mainly through the purchase of raw syrup (the syrup that has not yet begun to make sugar after concentration) to make sugar to produce molasses, and the direct purchase of foreign molasses. Used to make wine.

So, wouldn't it be cheaper to make sugar and wine directly in the sugarcane producing area?

The answer is that the southeast countries want to support the city, and in Semarang City, there is no sambal and no crooked nuts. Generally, Chinese people need a permit to go there, which can be called a special zone!

In order to maintain the secrets of the industry, the two countries have established strict confidentiality systems, such as Jingdezhen porcelain making, Chinese medicine preparations, tea seedlings, silkworm pupa and making methods, Chinese gunpowder, cast guns, clocks, etc., which are not well known.

The Southeastern country pioneered the "Secrecy Law", and Mingguo copied it directly, keeping the Chinese's unique technology strictly confidential!

Some secrets were lost before, such as Jingdezhen porcelain making, tea seedlings, silkworm chrysalis and production methods, etc. After Yan Changwu came to power, he issued treasury money to organize technical research and improved technology, turning the lost technology into a yellow flower yesterday. Previous value.

For example, the Japanese people got the silkworm pupa and the production method, but the silk they made was far less exquisite than the current silk in Ming Dynasty, and it was cheap!

Then there is tea. After further selection and seedling, and improved tea-fried tea technology, Mingguo tea tastes much better than crooked nut tea, plus another feature, it is cheaper!

In this way, those foreign silks and teas all become tasteless, they are useless and can't compete with the Chinese.

The new technology has become a closely guarded secret between the two Chinas. Taking sugar as an example, there is a big secret. The Chinese pioneered the use of yellow mud to decolor the syrup to make white sugar, while in the Southeast, activated carbon was used as an adsorbent. The white sugar that comes out is particularly white!

Activated carbon is made by using the coconut shells that exist in large quantities in the southeastern country and burning them in a confined space to increase their pores. It is worthless to say, but at the time, it was just "high-tech". How can it be? Let the crooked nuts take away!

There is also rum. Why is the rum produced by the Southeastern country better than the authentic rum of the West Indies? It is because the Chinese improved the rum production process to make it more mellow and delicious. This technique, Must be left to the children and grandchildren to continue to enjoy.

So they concentrated on sugar making and wine making in Semarang City. Major companies moved into it to do business. Although it brought inconvenience to the Chinese themselves, the government propaganda was in place. The Chinese people are most concerned about passing good things to their children and grandchildren, so they don’t worry about trouble.

Semarang City has become an important base for sugar and wine making. Large molasses jars have been set aside from the ground. These jars are made of alloy steel and are manufactured with Chinese technology. The export diameter is 15 meters and the height is 10 meters. The big pot is no longer a problem.

Alloy steel is not afraid of liquid sugar corrosion and has a large amount of storage. Due to the prosperous industry, there are many such large tanks. Among them, there are as many as ten large tanks. They are located in the east of the city, between the port and the residential area. They belong to a company called " "Xingmin" sugar company.

This company is newly established ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Because there is no good place, we had to set up a camp on the east side of the city to place big pots.

It happened on November 5, 1654. Prior to that, Xingmin Company transported molasses in bulk through the orbit of the port. The staff fought for three days and almost filled ten cans, ready to go to the hospital and make huge profits. .

Because of being too busy, in a hurry, a big jar did not open the lid!

It turns out that there are lids on the top of the big jar to deflate the air.

Without opening the lid, the molasses fermented and released a large amount of carbon dioxide, but there was no way to go. It accumulated more and more, and the big jar exploded at a little more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon that day!

The big can is usually very durable, but it can't stop the angry carbon dioxide.

It exploded like a bomb, detonating all the nine pot brothers next to it!

A terrible shock wave swept out, the surrounding buildings were destroyed and collapsed instantly. Residents were swept into the sky by a powerful air current. Fragments of steel shot more than 50 meters away. What's more terrifying was that the high terrain was released from the sugar bowl. The molasses poured down like water, causing the entire port to fall into a huge disaster.

At that time, the port business was busy and there were a large number of people. The people did not expect disaster to fall from the sky. When they saw the rolling molasses flowing down, everyone was stunned. They ran away, but they could not escape the molasses and were swept by the molasses. Go in, in the sticky molasses, you can't get rid of it at all. The mouth and nose are blocked by molasses, and immediately hangs up, and the death is incredible!

The flow of molasses was so much that it stopped for five hours. The people who came to the rescue were blocked by the molasses and could not do anything to the molasses in the molasses. Watching the molasses swept through a large number of molasses, they rushed down uncontrollably. The sea!

After rough statistics, more than a thousand people died!