On April 28, Zhu Cihong landed in Dongfan and set foot on the land of Treasure Island.

The Ming Emperor's first foray into overseas soil meant the importance of the island in the future.

Looking at the city of Relansha, which was bombarded by artillery, Zhu Cihong sighed: "This fortress is worthy of its name!" ”

Zhu Chenggong said with a smile: "This king is really not easy to fight. ”

Zhu Cihong complained: "Zhu Chenggong, you fought so fast, are you afraid that I will rob you of your credit?" ”

"Don't dare! The Son of Heaven toured south, the south wind arrived, and the flat fleet braved the torrential rain and landed all the way to the shore, thanks to His Majesty's blessing! ”

Zhu Cihong said: "There are few civilian officials, and the merits of the soldiers cannot be erased." ”

On the same day, Zhu Cihong canonized Zhu Chenggong as a viscount, stationed in Taiwan, and rewarded a township fief, as for the old mansion and fields of the Zheng family in Anping, Fujian, naturally all of them were returned to the imperial court.

The main purpose of such a rich reward was to encourage the soldiers to open up the sea frontier.

Based on Chikan Tower, Tainan City was built, and Relansha City was changed to Anping Town, as a tribute to Zhu's successful restoration of Taiwan.

After a few days of research, Zhu Cihong officially declared Dongfan a provincial-level administrative region, renamed Taiwan Province, and became the fifteenth province of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, the "fan" in the name of Dongfan mostly referred to foreign countries or foreign races, and it can be seen from the name that Taiwan was not valued in ancient dynasties, and it belonged to the place where there was no meat to eat, and it was dispensable.

Many officials believe that it is too much for a small island to build a province on its own, so Dongfan is basically managed by Fujian Province.

Because China has always been a continental country, there is almost no threat from the sea, and the awareness of coastal defense is not strong, and few people recognize the important role of Dongfan in China's southeast coastal defense.

However, there are many talents in the Ming Dynasty, and there must be people who attach importance to Taiwan, such as a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty, He Kai in the official residence, he wrote the Jinghai policy when he was in Chongzhen for eight years.

The importance of Taiwan is explained in detail in the book, and even the situation of pirates and the layout of the red ghosts on the island are well understood.

He advocated that the pirates and red ghosts should be dragged down through the sea ban, so that they could be in internal chaos and loot everywhere, and then the Ming Dynasty would take the opportunity to send troops to pacify Taiwan and sweep away the pirates.

Of course, during the eighth year of Chongzhen, when the rogue was really raging, even the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum was dug up, where did Chongzhen have the heart to take care of overseas affairs, and the matter was finally closed.

Historically, it was not until after the Opium War, when the great powers opened China's door from the sea, that China began to have a sense of coastal defense.

In the early days of Japan's Meiji Restoration, the preferred target of Japan's foreign aggression and expansion was Taiwan, and the Japanese army sent troops to Langqiao, which sounded the alarm for the Qing government, and officials with insight put forward the proposal of establishing a province in Taiwan.

The characteristic of the late Qing government is that it is conservative, and it is recommended that you just mention it, and if you adopt one, I will lose.

In order to perfunctory these officials, the Qing court made the governor of Fujian, who was in charge of Taiwan, stationed in Fuzhou for half a year and Taiwan for half a year.

It was not until the Sino-French War (1884) ten years later that the French fleet blockaded the Taiwan Strait, resulting in a delay in communication between Dongfan and the mainland for several months, and it was almost lost.

After the end of the Sino-French War, in order to strengthen coastal defense, the Qing government officially established a province in Taiwan, becoming the twentieth province of China, and Liu Mingchuan served as the first governor of Taiwan Province.

Now with the arrival of Zhu Cihong, this work has advanced by more than 200 years.

The Ming Dynasty wants to run Taiwan into an unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Taiwan is not big, the middle is mountainous, the population is mainly concentrated in a few places in the west, and the area of the whole island is equivalent to the size of Fengyang Mansion in Zhili (slightly smaller than Fengyang Mansion).

Zhu Cihong has three prefectures in Taiwan Province, including Tainan, Taichung, and Taipei, and 11 prefectures and counties including Penghu.

Yang Tingjian, the first champion of the Tianwu Dynasty, was appointed as the first governor of Taiwan.

The names of places with discriminatory meanings, such as chicken coops and dog beating, were changed to Keelung and Kaohsiung respectively.

Taiwan is not only a trading place, but also Tamsui City in Taipei Province, which was developed by the Spaniards from a fishing village to a street village and a trading port.

Taiwan's land clearance, sorting out the annual endowment, counting the population, and pacifying the local Tibet are all being carried out one by one.

At the beginning of May, a major event occurred in Taichung Province.

The Ming army, which was scattered all over the country, developed agriculture, which caused a fierce resistance from the Potbelly Kingdom.

The so-called Potbelly Kingdom seems to be very awesome, but in fact, the area is less than one county.

The Potbelly Kingdom is located in Taichung Province and is jointly formed by the Babula tribe, the Maowu tribe, the Bazehai tribe, the Hongya tribe, and the Daukas tribe.

The largest of these is the Bazehai with a population of about 5,000 people, and the rest of each group has about 1,000 people.

They regarded themselves as aboriginal democrats, rejected the Han people, refused to belong to the Ming Dynasty, and were even more unwilling to accept the reorganization and land clearance.

During the Ming army's Qing Dynasty, more than a dozen Babula soldiers shot and killed Ming officers, and more aborigines of the Da Belly Kingdom armed up armed conflicts with the Han Chinese.

The potbelly king Alami refused to be appeased, raised troops against the Ming, burned down the Tongzhi Yamen of Taichung Prefecture, killed and injured the yamen, and the new Taichung prefect was besieged by the army of the potbelly kingdom.

The makeshift Taichung Mansion was already on fire, smoke was billowing out, and people were shouting and running everywhere.

The two stone lion bases in front of the government are tied to officials wearing Ming official uniforms.

One of them had his official uniform ripped open, his chest had been cut open, his internal organs were covered with blood, his head was tilted to one side, and he was already dead.

The stomach of the official tied to the other stone lion was also dissected, and Bai Huahua's intestines flowed all over the ground, he was not dead, and his eyes were full of regret.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, this group of uncivilized natives do not eat soft and hard, barbaric and ignorant! If you knew this, you shouldn't have gone to appease, but directly sent troops to suppress it!

The crowd around them was like a pack of bloodthirsty wolves, and hatred erupted from everyone's eyes.

A leader came out of the army of the Potbelly Kingdom, who carried a large kitchen knife in his hand, grabbed the hair of the official who was not yet dead, and cut off his head with a knife.

The people around them with rudimentary weapons immediately cheered.

The streets of the Taichung Mansion were already full of Han people's corpses, some of which had been beheaded and some of which had been burned to charcoal.

Those who are not yet dead have also become the prey of the pot-bellied army, and they hide in terror.

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The Ming army that went to support broke out in conflict with the Potbelly Kingdom, and another officer was killed, which caused Zhu Cihong to be greatly angered.

Zhu Chenggong pleaded: "Your Majesty, let the ministers lead the troops to slaughter them!" ”

Zhu Chenggong in history is not a good stubble, after the recovery of Taiwan, the potbelly kingdom and Zheng Jun clashed, he directly ordered the massacre, sent Liu Guoxuan to sweep several tribes, among which the strongest resistance Bazehai tribe, its men, women and children were slaughtered, almost wiped out.

Zhu Cihong nodded silently and said calmly: "Destroy his country, slaughter his clan!" ”

Historically, this group of indigenous people did not advance oil and salt, resisted the Ming, Dutch, and Qing Dynasty, and as long as outsiders resisted, there were many turmoils.

During the Yongzheng period, more than 10 tribes of the Da Belly Kingdom united with more than 2,000 people to besiege Changhua County in Taichung, burning dozens of miles of houses nearby, and the Han people fled in panic.

The Qing court's best thing was to suppress it, directly requisitioning more than 6,000 officers and soldiers from Guangdong and other places, as well as money, food, arms and equipment, and carrying more than 100 ships to Taiwan to levy the levy, almost destroying the village, leaving only a few women.

After the incident, the Qing court also changed the Dajiaxi Society, which took the lead in making trouble, to the "Dehua Society", and the Niu Scolding Society to the "Thanksgiving Society", which exterminated the Potbelly Kingdom.

Hearing this, Zhu Chenggong was overjoyed and hurriedly went to transfer troops, this is a battle to destroy the country!

The 5,000 Ming army arrived in Taichung on May 4 and soon launched an offensive against the Potbelly Kingdom.

In the face of so many heavily armed troops, the various tribes of the Potbelly Kingdom were frightened stupidly, and their resistance was extremely weak, and they kept retreating.

The pot-bellied king Alami in flower pants was depressed, so he had to lead people to run to the royal city in the mountains.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, the Ming army attacked Shalushe, booby-trapped the potbelly fan Ade Gourang, slaughtered hundreds of people in the potbelly kingdom, and the war spread all over the villages of the Wangcheng Potbelly Society.