Li Xiao's huge fleet, riding the north wind, rounded the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, all the way south, and arrived in the central part of Taiwan, that is, in the early morning of the 29th day of the 11th lunar month, in the Datu area, where the Ding You Group is located. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The whole voyage was quite smooth, only about 2,000 old and weak, because they couldn't stand the rough sea, long-term seasickness, and died of illness on the way, and the rest of the more than 360,000 immigrants, all arrived in Taiwan in good health.

This time, the reason why they did not dock at Penghu first and then transfer to a small boat to go to Taiwan mainland like Ding You and others last time was because a simple port had been built from the Datuxi River to the mouth of the Taiwan Strait. Therefore, Li Xiao's team can smoothly sail directly to the big belly area and dock and disembark here.

Because when this port was just developed, there were many wild deer infested, so Ding You, the head of the Taiwan Colonization Group, named Lukang because of the object, he should not have thought that this name happened to have the same name as the largest port in Changhua County, Taiwan.

When the ship approached the coast of the Da Belly area, Li Xiao could clearly see in the brighter and brighter morning light that the entire Da Belly area presented a gentle terrain high in the east and low in the west. At the end of the eye, there is a dark cyan, majestic Taichung Mountains.

Li Xiao was pleased to see that on both sides of the Datuxi River, on the originally barren land full of weeds and shrubs, there were scattered village dwellings, and patches of newly opened rice fields connected to each other swept into the sky.

At this time, the late rice harvest in the field has already been completed, leaving only a bare and neat rice paddy, and the cut rice stalks are piled up with high towers, like silent sentinels, standing quietly in the sea of rice fields, from time to time you can see children laughing and running back and forth on the ridges, these villages composed of immigrants have been full of a leisurely and distant southern rural style.

At this time, Ding You, the head of the colonization regiment, together with Ma Huaxing, the deputy commander of the Taiwan Dispatch Army, Li Dingguo, the deputy commander-in-chief, Luo Zheng, and others, were on the Lukang wharf to welcome Li Xiao off the ship.

At this time, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers saw that the transportation task had been successfully completed, and their faces were full of relief. The two were thinking about it, and hurriedly unloaded the supplies brought by the passengers and Li Xiao, so that they could return to Penghu with the commercial goods loaded with more than 150 large ships to ask Zheng Zhilong for credit.

Subsequently, after Li Xiao and Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers said goodbye, they led a group of escort cavalry off the boat.

got off the boat, greeted everyone warmly, and praised Ding You and others for their governance achievements, which made Ding You, Li Dingguo and others very happy. Then, under the leadership of Ding You, he walked to the official office, and Ding You had already prepared a reception banquet for Li Xiao here.

Although Li Xiao and the others left first, the loading and unloading work on the dock was orderly.

In order to avoid confusion, ships take turns unloading full of passengers and supplies on the docks. The more than 360,000 displaced people who got off the boat were led by the dispatched soldiers to register on the spot, and then went to the tents that had been built in various places to settle down, and began to bathe, eat, and rest. All kinds of grain, money, and commercial goods on the ship were also registered and stored in batches according to their types.

Not long after, Li Xiao had a banquet and discussed it with a group of officials.

First of all, it is natural to discuss the next resettlement of displaced people.

According to Li Xiao's request, these more than 360,000 immigrants should no longer all be concentrated in Datu, but should be resettled in Erlin and Nanshe respectively, so that each place can be developed in a balanced manner.

Everyone agreed with Li Xiao's suggestion, and then Ding You and others made a proposal again to set up townships in Datu, Erlin, and Nanshe in order to better manage them.

Li Xiao agreed with him, and then on a rough topographic map of the three places, Li Xiao finally planned to divide Dadu into 5 townships, Erlin into 3 townships, and Nanshe into 4 townships, and named each township with its own name.

Because many places have not yet been developed, in order to save management costs, the area and scale of these townships planned by Li Xiao are relatively large, and the area of a newly planned township can reach more than three times the area of townships and towns in Zhaoyuan County or Huangxian County in Shandong.

Due to the establishment of townships and towns in various places, the official yamen, which was originally located in Da Belly, was inconvenient to do things because of the fact that the bureau was in a corner, and in order to solve this problem, Li Xiao proposed his own method. That is, in the middle of the three places, that is, between the Big Belly Creek and the Turbidity Creek, choose a place with convenient transportation, build a new city, and set up the government, military camps, schools, warehouses, etc. in the new city.

As soon as Li Xiao's opinion was put forward, Li Dingguo was the first to express his approval.

"Master Li's suggestion is good! With this city, it is better to prevent the natives from coming to sneak attack, and in the event of an attack by the Dutch or Spaniards in the future, our army can hold on to the city, and we can also increase the chance of victory. ”

Ding You and the others also agreed, and at this time, Ma Huaxing, the deputy head of the colonization group, asked: "But I don't know how big the city is to build?" ”

Li Xiao pondered for a moment, and then replied: "Because the current land of Taiwan is still deserted, and there are only a total of twelve townships to manage, and there are no industrial projects, this city does not need to be built too big." In my opinion, it is enough to build it into a city with a circumference of eight miles. ”

"Master Li. Then does our army want to buy bricks, plaster, etc. from Penghu and other places? Ma Huaxing asked again.

Li Xiao shook his head and said: "No need, our army has come to Taiwan, so we should focus on self-reliance." From then on, in Taiwan, our army will build its own brick factories, quarries, cement factories, lime yards, and all basic construction projects. ”

Ding You interjected from the side: "Master Li is very right, it is better to ask for people than to ask for it, if our army has more territory in Taiwan in the future, it must be able to produce its own construction materials, so as to ensure the construction of cities, houses, barracks, roads and other needs." ”

Li Xiao nodded approvingly at Ding You and continued; "What Captain Ding said is very true, you will take someone to test and build this kind of construction factory on the spot, and see that in a month, the factory construction can be completed and production can begin, and then the construction of the new city will start after the factory produces raw materials normally."

Ding You said generally; "Master Li, don't worry, I promise to do a good job in the preparation for the construction of these factories. After all, our army already has Chi Fengwei's experience in building all kinds of factories, and the craftsmen are ready-made, and these factories will only be faster than Chi Fengwei if they are to be completed and put into production. ”

At this time, Luo Zheng, deputy commander of the Taiwan Dispatch Army, who had not spoken, asked with a smile: "Then Lord Li has ever thought about what he wants to name this new city?" ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "This official has already thought that this city can be named Changhua City. I thought that in this wild place, the meaning of edification was demonstrated. ”

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, everyone agreed. Li Xiao smiled secretly in his heart, in fact, he was just copying the name of later generations, but this place name that only appeared in 1901 was indeed quite good, and Li Xiao was unceremoniously used it.

At this time, Li Dingguo hesitated, but still asked Li Xiao: "Lord Li, since the last general has been stationed in Taiwan, he has fought many times with the local natives, and found that although these natives are fierce in battle, they lack organization and are extremely poorly equipped, and they are not the opponents of our army at all. The last general thought, if Lord Li gave an order, he led our Taiwan army to send troops and soldiers to the deep mountains of Taichung, and ploughed and swept the caves of the evil natives, so as to completely eradicate them all in order to prevent future troubles. ”

Li Xiao looked at Li Dingguo's eager eyes, and said with a smile: "Ning Yu, you can't do everything, you are so evil to the natives, you guard many dangerous mountains and mountains, and there are many smoke and poisonous fogs, so it is not easy to attack." It is not easy for Taiwan to send troops to Taiwan to gain a foothold in Taiwan, and it is not easy to supply them, and if there is a big loss, the gains outweigh the losses. The number of immigrants in our army is still small, and the existing wasteland has not yet been developed, so the primary task of our troops dispatched to Taiwan is to first stabilize the inherent territory. Moreover, there are nearly 200,000 indigenous people in Taiwan, and only 3,000 soldiers sent by Taiwan, so how can they be killed indiscriminately. ”

Li Xiao paused, and said in a deep tone: "For the indigenous people of Taiwan, in the opinion of this official, it is still not appropriate to blindly kill and coerce, but it is appropriate to focus on education and integration. From now on, we should deliberately guide such foreign aborigines, with all kinds of preferential conditions, so that they can admire our Chinese culture, let their children learn to read our Chinese poetry and books, and gradually get used to the life and way of thinking of the Han people, so as to completely integrate into our Han nationality and become the bloodline branch of our Chinese Han people. This work may take a long time, but in the long run, it is worth it. ”

Li Dingguo nodded thoughtfully and agreed with Li Xiao's statement. Seeing that he was silent, Li Xiao continued: "Ning Yu, you need to know that in the land of Taiwan, it is not these Taiwanese natives who will really become the enemies of our army, but the Spaniards who occupy Taipei and the Dutch who occupy Tainan. These guys who shamelessly occupy my Chinese treasure island are the mortal enemies of our army! ”

Li Dingguo's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked; "Did the Lord have any plans to wipe out the Spaniards and the Dutch?"

A cold light flashed in Li Xiao's eyes, and he said in a low but clear voice: "This official has a plan, after our army's artillery study is mature and can attack the fortified city, we will declare war on them in the way of first north and then south, completely eradicate the Spaniards and the Dutch, and firmly occupy Taiwan, the treasure island of China, so that it will become the inherent territory that our Han nation will never abandon." ”

Li Dingguo stood up freely, and he said to Li Xiao excitedly: "If Lord Li wants to attack the Spanish and Dutch in the future, the last general is willing to be the vanguard of our army!" ”

"Good! Since Ning Yu has this ambition, this governor will definitely fulfill you! Li Xiao laughed, his face full of relief.

The next step has been formulated for Taiwan's colonization, and a number of officials have begun to implement it separately.

More than 360,000 immigrants, after resting for a day along the Da Belly coast, were led by soldiers from Taiwan's dispatched army to settle down in various newly established townships and towns, and then received identity cards issued by the local township civil affairs offices, and officially became ordinary people of the LTTE.

Wang Dagou, an immigrant from Shaanxi, and his family were settled in a subordinate township in the Nanshe area, which is still a wild territory, and has a new name, called Yongjing Township, Changhua County.

After getting the identity waist card issued by the local civil affairs and the family's household registration book, Wang Dagou, the head of the household, sighed with thousands of emotions in his heart.

Wang Dagou's family is a native of Chengcheng County, Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, in his hometown, at the beginning of this year, a large number of rogues such as the King of Chaotian and Guo Tianxing had a great deal of trouble, and the village where Wang Dagou's family was located was burned and looted.

Wang Dagou's family hid in the mountains by luck to avoid being killed. It's just that the whole family has since become homeless people with no food and clothing, begging all the way to the east, and marching to Henan.

Because Henan was in a dilapidated depression, the family still had nowhere to live, so they had to travel east along the Yellow River all the way to the east and finally reach the boundary of Yanzhou in Shandong.

It has been more than half a year since this journey, Wang Dagou's father died of illness on the road, and the youngest brother Wang Sigou and sister Wang Wuni died of tuberculosis on the way because of long-term hunger.

When he arrived in Shandong, only his mother, daughter-in-law Xu, younger brother Wang Ergou and younger sister Wang Sanni were still struggling for their lives in hunger and cold.

No one knows if this family will survive this winter.

Thinking of this, Wang Dagou secretly sighed that he was lucky.

It turned out that after he arrived in Yanzhou, he happened to meet officials sent by Li Xiao to recruit displaced people to colonize Taiwan throughout Shandong. Wang Dagou's family, who were originally struggling on the death line, finally got a precious life.

Wang Dagou's family was then taken to Chifengwei by recruited officials, and together with more than 360,000 other displaced people, they took Zheng Cai's boat and traveled south to Taiwan.

Subsequently, Wang Dagou's family was arranged by the Department of Civil Affairs to this subordinate township in the Nanshe area, and the family wandered thousands of miles, and finally settled down in this place called Dawantou Village, Yongjing Township, Changhua County.

Wang Dagou was illiterate, and he asked the official who gave the waist card with a curious look what was written on the waist card.

The official smiled and read the words on the waist card to him, and it turned out that the front of the waist card was written in three rows of big characters: Wang Dagou, a villager in Dawantou, Yongjing Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, number: C word xxxxxx.

On the back are a few lines of small print: the waist card is a personal credential that needs to be carried with you for cross-examination. If there is any loss, it should be reported to the local civil affairs branch office immediately and the application for re-collection.

Because the amount of five acres of wasteland is not too much, and there are cattle and farm tools provided by the government in exchange for tax grain, Wang Dagou's family has been cleared and opened up after ten days, and the wasteland planned for their own family has come out.

Wang Dagou, who had thought that he would not be able to start planting early rice until February next year, was surprised to find that officials from the Department of Agriculture had sent a strange seed called potato to all towns and villages and asked them to plant it in the newly opened rice fields.

It is said that this potato is native to the Andes Mountains of South America, and was later brought to all parts of the world by Europeans. After the Dutch conquered southern Taiwan, they began to grow potatoes in the area.

The reason why Li Xiao chose the horse potato first, but whether it is the sweet potato that is popular in the vast number of travel novels, as a winter crop in Taiwan, actually has its own unique considerations.

This is because although the yield of sweet potatoes is similar to that of potatoes, the planting environment is similar, and they all prefer high temperature and humidity environments. However, sweet potato has one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, its maturity period is much longer than that of potato, and the growth period is as long as 4~5 months, which is close to rice, while the growth period of potato is only 2 to 3 months, which can greatly save planting time and save land fertility.

And with this gap, that is to say, in Taiwan, from the harvest of late rice in mid-to-late October of the lunar calendar to the re-sowing of early rice in mid-to-early February next year, it will take nearly three and a half months to harvest a fully grown phase of potatoes. If you plant winter sweet potatoes, although you can also harvest them, but under the premise of normal rice sowing in the following year, the winter sweet potatoes will not have enough time to fully grow because the temperature is slightly lower, and the growth period will be up to 5 months, so you can only harvest smaller sweet potatoes, and the yield will be much lower than that of fully mature potatoes.

Therefore, this is the main reason why European countries choose potatoes as their main food crop instead of sweet potatoes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, is a potato expert, and she once said that if there were no potatoes to eat one day, it would be a nightmare disaster for her.

Wang Dagou originally thought that to get such potato seeds, these officials of the Department of Agriculture who came to distribute them might have to charge a fee, but they did not expect that they said that these seeds, like rice seeds, are provided for free, but at that time, each mu of potatoes needs to pay a field tax of 2 stones.

This field tax sounds like a lot, but it is still very small compared to the production of potatoes. Because according to the species value data of the Dutch in Taiwan, the yield of one mu of fully mature horse potatoes can reach the level of 6 to 8 stones per mu! It far exceeds the yield per mu of traditional crops such as rice, wheat and sorghum.

Wang Dagou, who received the seeds, recited Li Xiao's good 10,000 times in his heart, and then took his family to sow the potato seeds into the ploughed land according to the method taught by the officials of the Department of Agriculture.

Under the blazing tropical sun, the people who concentrate on farming are drenched in sweat, but everyone's face is full of yearning for harvest and infinite longing for a better life in the future. (To be continued.) )