Time is like flowing water, and in the blink of an eye, another month has passed, and it is already the height of summer.

Gao pragmatic returned to Guilin, and in this month, he completed all the backlog of documents, and also easily participated in the impeachment of a private post carriage according to the inspector, because of other lawless, careless and impeached Gao pragmatic officials There are also six or seven officials, finally let him not work in vain for a year, and it is difficult to go back.

After Huang Zhiting sent Gao Shishi to Guilin, she stayed for a few days and then returned to Siming Mansion, after all, she is also a person with serious business, and it is not good to delay outside for a long time.

When she left, she was naturally reluctant, and Miss Huang, who was used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, was teary-eyed at that time, looking at that look, even if she suddenly said that she couldn't leave, it was not strange for the wolf soldiers.

Fortunately, the wolf soldiers brought this time privately knew that there was something unusual between the eldest lady and the high press platform, and they lowered their heads one by one and almost stuffed them into the crotch of their pants, which was barely able to maintain the majesty of the eldest lady.

Gao Pragmatic didn't say much, although he had a good eloquence, he was reluctant to announce it at such a moment, and simply said two words to Huang Zhiting: "Wait for me." ”

Huang Zhiting's tears were actually brought out by these two words.

Everything that should be done is almost done, Gao pragmatic is not as interested in growing sweet potatoes as Zhang Ren, in addition to "going to work" on time every day, it is to receive instructions from Jinghua Group from all over the country to give him approval.

He hasn't made too many adjustments recently, and there is only one thing that can be regarded as a new instruction: he ordered Gao Qi to use Quanzhou Port as a base and send people to gradually investigate the port and the surrounding areas.

Xiaogang, also known as Beigang, also known as mosquito harbor, is located in Budai Town, Chiayi County, Taiwan Province, in the lower reaches of Beigang Creek in central Taiwan. During the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was once called "Xiaogang". It was also an important port for maritime merchants and fishermen to travel between Taiwan Island, the Penghu Islands, and Zhejiang and Fujian.

If you start from Quanzhou, you can reach it by boat directly to the southeast, and almost exactly pass the Penghu Islands on the way.

For a long time in China's history, the island of Taiwan was in a state of obscurity and little attention. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the mainland called Taiwan Island "Daoyi", during the Qin Dynasty, Taiwan Island was called "Yingzhou", and during the Three Kingdoms, it was called "Yizhou".

In the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, it was mainly called "Ryukyu", during this period, the contact between the mainland and Taiwan was more often visited by folk fishermen or people who went to sea, at this time the island of Taiwan except for a very small number of people from the mainland emigrated, there were some people who lived here for a short time, and more residents were indigenous people on the island of Taiwan.

In the Ming Dynasty, various experts in later generations estimated that there were about 100,000 indigenous people living on the island of Taiwan, who lived a primitive tribal life and lived on 36,000 square kilometers of land on the island.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were many names for Taiwan, such as "chicken coop", "Beigang", "Dayuan", "Taiwan", "Taiwowan", officially called "Dongfan", and during the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty officially began to use the name "Taiwan".

Although the management of Taiwan by the mainland courts in successive dynasties was loose, it was not completely laissez-faire. In the Song Dynasty, due to the further development of maritime trade, there was more contact between the mainland and Taiwan, and by the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, the government also sent troops to Penghu to administer Taiwan.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was established, and the number of people who emigrated to Taiwan increased at this time.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was still set up in the early Ming Dynasty until the 20th year of Hongwu, when it was abolished due to the implementation of the sea ban, and the residents were moved to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. In the 42nd year of Jiajing, because of the consideration of coastal security and other factors, the Penghu Inspection Department was re-established.

However, on the whole, because the Ming Dynasty had previously implemented a maritime ban policy and did not effectively manage Taiwan, it became a safe haven and activity base for some pirate smuggling groups, among which the more famous ones were Lin Daoqian and Lin Feng, and there would be Li Dan and Zheng Zhilong, the father and son.

What Gao Qi defeated in Minhai was Lin Feng's defeat in the battle for Luzon's remaining main forces and the Pirate Alliance.

Oh, and in fact, Taiwan now has another name on the European side, called "Formosa". This is still an old story in the 22nd year of Jiajing, when the Portuguese sailed to Japan, accidentally passed through the Taiwan Strait, and accidentally discovered a beautiful island, they called this beautiful island "Formosa", "Formosa" means "beautiful island".

However, although the Portuguese discovered the "beautiful island", they did not occupy it - the limited population of Portugal and the small number of indigenous people on the island of Taiwan are of little value to them.

In the subsequent history, if the little butterfly of Gao Pragmatic did not appear, it should have been the Dutch who replaced Portugal and Spain as the new maritime hegemon.

The Dutch would then establish the "East India Company" in Batavia, which would administer the colonies in Southeast Asia. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch would send some people to invade the island of Taiwan and build Fort Geranza on the island, and the following year, the Dutch built Fort Provencha on the Chiji Mountain opposite Fort Geranza. The Dutch thus began their colonial rule over Taiwan.

This place was originally a safe haven for the Oriental pirate smuggling group, but it was suddenly occupied by the Dutch, which of course directly affected the interests of Zheng Zhilong's group, which was trading on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty at that time. However, at that time, although Zheng Zhilong had negotiated with the Dutch, he was too busy with the issue of resisting the Qing Dynasty and lowering the Qing Dynasty, so he had no time to scruple. Therefore, in the process of the struggle between the Tatar Qing and the Southern Ming forces, the Dutch were steadily stationed in Taiwan for 38 years.

Until Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan - this is clear to everyone, so I won't say more.

In short, at this time, there were a small number of Ming pirates or people related to pirates living along the coast in Taiwan, but the population was very small. On the whole, Taiwan is still a primitive desert island, belonging to the terra nullius.

Gao Pragmatic asked Gao Qi to send people to explore the port, naturally not to exterminate the remnants of the pirates - or this is only a small part of the reason - he began to think about occupying Taiwan.

With the current maritime strength of high pragmatism, it is not difficult to occupy Taiwan, and even the Spanish, Portuguese, and even later the Dutch will probably not consider competing with him for Taiwan.

Portugal don't talk about it, it's been decades, and they have a lot of opportunities to occupy Taiwan, but they don't do it at all, because it's not profitable.

But what happened to the Dutch, didn't they occupy Taiwan later?

In fact, this truth is worthless: the Portuguese rented Macau, although it was still not very convenient, but they could finally trade with the Ming Dynasty. However, the Dutch have never obtained this "pass", and they have always relied on Zheng Zhilong's change of hands to do business with Daming.

This was obviously very inconsistent with the Dutch who were known as the "sea coachmen" at that time, so they started the idea of Taiwan and colonized Taiwan, hoping that one day they could gather strength to defeat Zheng Zhilong, and then force the Ming Dynasty to trade directly with them.

Therefore, to put it bluntly, everyone is not going to Taiwan Island itself at this time, but to find a "transit station" to do business with Daming.

And now the Ming Dynasty does not refuse to do business with people, although the merchant ships of the gringos are not allowed to enter the port, but the Ming Dynasty has allowed the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty to trade at sea, and because the imperial court is making more and more profits in it, this is already a national policy, and it will not be easily changed.

In this way, who would have a brain convulsion for a desert island and go against the most powerful Haimao Group in the Ming Dynasty?

Therefore, at this time, Gao Pragmatic will obviously not encounter too much external resistance when he goes to take the island of Taiwan.

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