As a matter of fact, Ma Lin's implementation of the "abolition of the poll tax" and the "apportionment of land into acres" on Dongfan Island is only a pilot project. His real purpose was to implement such a policy in the Beihai country itself. After all, the fields of the nobles were not taxed, and even ordinary landlords did not have to pay taxes, which made Marin very depressed.

Why can't Europe fight a big war? Because the king can't collect taxes! The king's income consisted only of territorial gains and commercial taxes, and nothing else. In this way, it is strange that the kings of Europe can be rich. Without enough money and food, naturally it cannot afford to support a large-scale army. Then, naturally, there will be no large-scale war. Even, not to mention that you can't afford to raise a large-scale army, even if it's daily expenses, it's a bit stretched. In this era, most of the great nobles had to find someone to take out a loan in order to maintain it.

Therefore, Marin decided to promote the land tax system in the colonies in the future, and to promote it as soon as possible. That is, Marin intended to promote the land taxation system in the colonies from the beginning. Because, if it is not promoted now, it is estimated that there will be a rebellion when taxes are suddenly raised in the future.

Historically, the North American colonies rebelled because of the sudden tax hike by the British. However, the stamp duty and tea tax increased by the British are not harsh taxes at all in the eyes of modern people, and they will not make the people's lives miserable.

However, the descendants of exiles in the North American colonies were accustomed to paying no or too little taxes. Suddenly give him a stamp duty and a tea tax, and they will not be happy. Coupled with the fact that they have guns in their hands, they are especially reversed......

Therefore, the old American independence movement advocated in the history books is not for the purpose of being too righteous, but because these uncles are accustomed to the good days of low taxes, and suddenly raise taxes for him, even if it is a good kind of tax, it is unbearable for them. After all, "it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift". After paying less taxes for a long time, they mistakenly think that they should have been born to pay no taxes or pay less taxes. If the tax rate of later generations was in that era, it would not have scared those people to death? In short, everything is customary......

Because there was a lesson from the British, Marin decided to tax them at the beginning, so that the people of the colonies would get used to paying taxes. In this way, you can fully avoid the accidents caused by tax increases in the future. Since you have paid taxes at the beginning, who can talk about taxes in the future - since everyone pays taxes, why don't you want to pay them? Do you think you're a rice bingbing?

Moreover, now Marin's development in the American colonies is his personal investment, and no one else has been involved. However, the Americas are so big, there will always be other people involved in the future.

Therefore, Marin needs to set an example in advance and formulate a good tax system. In this way, disputes can be avoided as much as possible in the future. The "apportionment into the acre" system and the "abolition of the poll tax" on Dongfan Island were in fact explorations of the management of the American colonies.

The Ming Dynasty was different from Europe, which was still serfdom and could not talk about land taxes or anything. Dongfan Island nominally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, so naturally it could not apply the European serfdom system. Therefore, Marin also follows the local customs, and engages in the management mode of equalizing land and collecting taxes.

Moreover, in the future, the European and American colonies will eventually abandon the backward serfdom system and change to a system of private ownership and taxation of farmland.

Therefore, the tax system implemented on Dongfan Island can be regarded as an attempt and exploration by Marin. When this set matures, it will be directly applied to the American colonies. In the future, it will be applied to Europe and eventually complete social transformation......

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In fact, Yongzheng, who came up with "apportioning the land into the mu" and "abolishing the poll tax", was also unlucky. He was obviously the most promising Ming monarch in the civil affairs of the Qing Dynasty, but he was hacked out of Xiang by the ministers. The most important thing is that his son Qianlong actually allowed the ministers to hack him. Qianlong, an unfilial son, as long as the civil servants praised him as a "wise gentleman through the ages", as for the civil officials who hacked his father, they actually turned a blind eye. Knowing this, Yongzheng should have shot Qianlong's unfilial son on the wall......

Sometimes, Ma Lin has to wonder if the paragraph "Qianlong is a child brought by Yongzheng" written by Jin Yong is true, because this bear child does not protect his father's reputation at all, and it doesn't look like his own ......

In fact, this statement was not put forward by Jin Yong first, but a folk legend. After all, an emperor who allows his ministers to hack his father is too rare, which makes people wonder whether Qianlong was born to Yongzheng. Otherwise, how could other emperors not have such legends? In short, it's not that Qianlong is unfilial, or he really wasn't born to Yongzheng, otherwise he wouldn't be so cheating......

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The Taipei Basin has been knocked down, but it is very troublesome to develop the Taipei Basin. Not to mention anything else, the dense forests in the Taipei Basin are tricky to solve. It is not easy to turn the Taipei Basin from a primeval forest into fertile land.

First of all, as in the case of North America, Marin needed a lot of manual logging, cutting down most of the trees in the Taipei Basin and turning them into farmland. Among them, the most difficult part is not to cut down the big tree, but to dig up the roots. After all, the taller the tree, the more intertwined the roots become. It is very difficult to dig up the roots of the tree.

Fortunately, Marin conquered the Taipei Basin this time and captured more than 6,000 natives. Among them, there are about 1,800 young people alone. So, Marin ordered a large number of shackles from Fuzhou, handcuffed these young aborigines, and then let the militia escort them to cut down trees and dig up roots. At night, these indigenous youths are temporarily locked in a makeshift rammed earthen compound......

In fact, Marin was not willing to abuse these indigenous people. Therefore, apart from handcuffing them and driving them to cut down trees and dig up roots, Marin did not mistreat the indigenous people. Moreover, Ma Lin also bought a lot of food from Fuzhou to supply these aborigines.

The reason why they had to be handcuffed at first was because these natives were used to freedom, and if they wanted to govern them, they had to be ruthless at the beginning and subdue them. Then, like a labor camp, let these aboriginal strong men help cut down trees for a few months and reclaim the land for arable land...... When they got used to it, Marin assigned them to the island's officials and soldiers as tenants to help cultivate the land.

The Taipei Basin is also 240 square kilometers large, and even if only 100 square kilometers are reclaimed as arable land, there are 150,000 mu. According to the calculation that each household can take care of a maximum of 50 acres of paddy fields, it can also accommodate 3,000 households and 10,000 people. If it is calculated according to the scale of 20 acres of paddy fields of a family, it can even resettle 7,500 households and a population of 20,000 or 30,000.

Of course, this is only based on less than half of the land in the basin, not counting the resettlement of those artisans and fishermen.

Moreover, the Taipei Basin on Taiwan Island is not the largest plain area. The largest plain area on the island is the Tainan Plain (also known as the Jianan Plain) in Tainan, which has an area of 4,500 square kilometers and rivers and canals, and is a famous granary for later generations.

In later generations, the cultivated land area of the Tainan Plain was as high as 3,250 square kilometers, equivalent to 4.875 million mu of land, accounting for more than one-third of the cultivated land on the entire Taiwan Island, and it was the most important agricultural area on the island.

However, for now, the most important thing for Marin is not to develop Tainan, but to develop Taipei and Keelung.

Because, Marin occupied Taiwan Island, not for farming, but for trade. The Tamsui estuary in the north of the Taipei Basin, facing Fuzhou, is the main point of maritime trade. Therefore, Taipei is much more important than Tainan.

Moreover, Keelung, on the edge of Taipei, also has a world-class Jinguashi gold mine that can be developed. Combined, the two are much more important than farming in the Tainan Plain. Therefore, the development of Taipei and Keelung is the best choice for Marin. As for the Tainan side, we will not send people to it until this side is almost developed.

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However, it is difficult to develop just the small Taipei Basin, which is not a small area. To develop the basin, there is no shortage of manpower. After all, Marin had a few thousand immigrants, as well as a few thousand captive aborigines.

However, in addition to the trouble of cutting down trees and digging roots, the shortage of ploughing cattle is also a huge problem.

Zhang Cai told Ma Lin that the merchant ships sent to Fuzhou had no problem purchasing other things, but it was difficult to buy cattle. Because, the Ming Dynasty is also very short of cattle......

Daming cattle are not expensive, and they can be bought for only 8 to 10 taels of silver. However, if nothing else, no one wants to sell their cattle. Because, in the era of farming, the ploughing cattle were one of the most valuable assets of the peasant, second only to the land.

Therefore, no one sells ploughing cattle until the last resort. Zhang Cai bid to a sky-high price of 20 taels of silver in Fuzhou, and only bought 100 cows back. Moreover, of the 100 cows, 30 are calves that have not grown up......

"I heard that Hu Jianjin Yijiang, in order to solve the problem of the shortage of cattle, specially bred a kind of dwarf pony to replace cattle to plough the land......," Zhang Cai told Ma Lin the news he heard.

"Jin Yijiang...... Pony ...... Cultivated land...... Isn't that Jinyi Jiangma? Ma Lin suddenly remembered that it seemed that the later Jin Yijiang horse was also a famous horse. Of course, its fame is not because of how good this horse is, but because it is well adapted to the hot and humid climate of the southern coast. It is hard-working and hard-working, and it is a rare breed in horses that can be cultivated in paddy fields.

It is important to know that it is difficult for ordinary ploughing horses to adapt to paddy field farming. Because, paddy fields are cultivated, and horseshoe is often soaked in water, and it is easy to rot hooves. Ordinary horses can't adapt to paddy fields at all, but Jinyijiang horses can adapt to this very well, and their ability to pull carts is also good.

So, after thinking about it, Ma Lin said to Zhang Cai:

"Since you can't buy oxen, you should inquire and see if there are any horses that can be bought for ploughing paddy fields. For example, the horse of Jin Yijiang you mentioned, just buy more and come back, and it's okay if the price is higher. Remember, we're not short of money! Marlin said coaxingly, and a wave of trench rushed in......

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