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1 Mar, 1474 –We get a Gift to the State event
12 Dec – I order a marketplace in Malabar
8 May, 1475 – With a score of 53 to -40, Jaffna becomes our Vassal
11 June – I begin to Fabricate a claim on Kotte, the capital of Ceylon. I’d rather go south efirst, before hitting Vijayanagar
I couldn’t fabricate it before, but now that our vassal shares a border, it works
19 Aug – We get a National Epic Event
I fund it and we gain, for 20 years, a National Epic, that gives us +1 prestige annually
14 Jan, 1476 – I offer to annex Kochin, and they accept
18 June – We gain that claim on Kotte, the capital of Ceylon
20 Aug – We find an agent of Ceylon fabricating a claim against us in Venad. I begin to massage my army up, and move it to Ceylon
4 December – Kochin has joined our Illustrious Nation!!!
Results:
We get +5 prestige
Our relations with Madurai and Jaffna drop 30 each
We get -3 Diplomatic Reputation for 10 years
We gain 2000 Kochin Troops – both infantry
No ships though
Kochin – The Hindu Malayalam people work the spice trade in this jungle port province. They have a trade power of 2.7, development of 11, autonomy of 60%, 0.37 gold per month, 375 manpower, and nothing built here yet. Adjacent to our coastal provinces of Venad and Malabar, and adjacent to two Vijayanagar ones – Kongu, and Madurai.
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