"The Navy will continue to increase troops on the island."

After Zhang Zong roughly finished reading the Taiwan Strait War Report, Wen Ji added a few additional sentences:

"There are a lot of headhunters and savages on Taiwan Island, and the military department hopes to eliminate them, and use men as coolies and women as immigrants."

"Continue to increase the number of troops? Location of Taiwan ......"

Zhang Zong thought about it and didn't say the next words.

If the Civil War really broke out, the northern army could attack the coastal areas of the Great Zhou from Taiwan Island at the same time.

On the map, this is almost the equivalent of a two-sided attack.

"The issue of fighting in the future, don't worry about it now, I'm looking for Brother Zhang for another matter."

"What's the matter?"

"Attract investment, what else can it be, I'm in charge of this." Wen Ji said with a smile: "Taiwan Island is very large, and after eliminating the headhunter savages, we can obtain farmland that is not inferior to a small province, and these fields are very good for growing rice or sugar cane." ”

"There's spice and timber on the island, and there's mineral deposits — there's a lot of sulfur and gold, it's a treasure trove, but we don't have anyone to develop it right now."

After controlling the entire Liaodong, the area under the actual control of the Chinese Empire actually exceeded that of the Great Zhou (the northernmost border had begun to approach the Xing'an Mountains), but in terms of population, the slaves were only about one-sixth of the Great Zhou.

The extent of this vast and sparsely populated area is really a headache, and naturally there is not a lot of manpower to develop Taiwan Island.

"But Jiangnan is different, Jiangnan is densely populated, and the Great Zhou can't help but annex land."

Wen Ji recalled the introduction of the Emperor of the Republic and the Huaxia Household Department, as well as the tasks assigned to him, and said lightly:

"Especially in Fujian Province, which is close to Taiwan Island, there are seven parts of mountains, two parts of water and one part of fields, and it is impossible to support that large number of people, and the bad habit of drowning babies has not been changed."

"They can't be blamed for this, but the imperial court can actually have a solution - as long as the Min people can have the possibility of feeding their children, who will throw their own children into the water?"

"So Brother Wen wants me to invest in Taiwan?" Wang Zong said: "There is an epidemic on Kotai Island, and I am afraid that many people will die. ”

"Initially, it is estimated that some people will die, but compared to drowning and starvation, this loss is nothing."

Wen Ji replied:

"What's more, our experience proves that as long as we don't drink raw water, don't eat those messy things, and pay attention to eliminating mosquitoes and flies, in fact, the outbreak rate of epidemics is not so high."

"Pirates can attract immigrants from Fujian Province to develop Taiwan Island, and there is no reason why we can't do it."

Zhang Zong nodded, this made sense.

"So, what's the benefit of me investing in this?"

"There are countless living people, and ten thousand families have Buddhas, this is one of them."

Wen Ji replied:

"Leave a way back for your own family, even if there is anything unexpected in Da Zhou, your Zhang family doesn't have to worry, this is the second."

"For the production on Taiwan Island, your Zhang family can share a share of the profits, this is the third."

"Is that enough?"

Enough is enough, fame and fortune are in it, whether it is as a family or as a Confucian scholar, these are enough.

It's just that once this matter is executed, it is actually equivalent to a part of the Jiangnan gentry represented by the Zhang family, which began to break away from the Great Zhou and be tied to the chariot of Huaxia.

"Also, Brother Zhang, the junior brother privately reminds you that in Huaxia, it is an iron law that Han is not a slave, and Taiwan Island is also the territory of Huaxia, and after you go back this time, you must disperse the slaves in your family as soon as possible - at least invalidate the deed of sale."

"I understand."

Zhang Zong nodded in approval.

He was not the kind of head of the family who harshly criticized his subordinates, and now he was just changing the deed of sale of the buyout into a hired laborer.

Well, maybe the beauties that will be raised at home will be the biggest trouble, but spending a little more money is not impossible to solve.

At most, it's an outer room.

……

On the island, China acquired a total of 21,000 pirates, pirate families, and pirate immigrants, with a population of about 100,000 men, women, and children.

Some of these pirates and their families will be relegated to the use of common people, and the rest of the Han immigrants will automatically obtain civilian status, which is 40,000 common people and more than 60,000 commoners.

In the process of conquering the island, the Chinese army captured about 3,000 local headhunter slaves.

According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the pirates, the total population of the known headhunter tribes should be 20,000 or 30,000, and if they are cleaned, they can probably get about 10,000 slaves.

In other words, the commoners, commoners, and slaves are all combined, and the population of Taiwan Island is around 110,000.

This is, of course, a serious shortcoming.

Taiwan will become the main source of sulfur in China in the next few years, and the local rice and sugar cane are important resources that cannot be abandoned, so the Chinese side hopes to increase the effective labor force of Taiwan Island to 500,000 within five years.

This requires a multi-pronged approach:

Immigrants from the nearest Fujian province will be the main force, which is expected to reach 200,000; Immigrants from the north are expected to reach 100,000.

The remaining 100,000 shortages rely on slaves, and there are two sources of slaves, one is the Nanyang natives, and Huaxia has a plan to use the navy to develop the Nanyang slave market, which is estimated to be implemented soon.

The other is from Fuso.

Yes, with the unification of the Oda family, the flow of the Fuso slave trade was indeed decreasing now, but the Chinese Empire was now more and more inclined to intervene in the Fuso Civil War by force, directly interrupting this unfavorable change for Huaxia.

……

At the end of 1791, at the meeting season of early 92, Xu Shiyang, who had returned to Quancheng from Yanjing, proposed a plan to transfer 30 of the 990 Jurchen households in eastern Liaoning to migrate to Taiwan Island in 1792.

The headhunters on Taiwan Island are savage by nature, hiding in the primeval forests between the mountains, and it is very difficult to find them, whether they will be bitten back.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang plans to use the Jurchens to carry out this kind of waffle action, anyway, no one from the headhunters and Waifan will feel distressed if they die.

Moreover, the Jurchens are also barbaric by nature, and it is appropriate to use them against barbarians.

The only problem to worry about is that migrating from the cold regions of Liaodong to the tropical and subtropical jungles of Taiwan Island, it is possible for a disease to wipe out half of the people.

But after all, it's a foreign fan, who cares? They left just to make room for the Han people to make land in Liaodong.

……

For the Chinese Empire, in addition to obtaining a large amount of much-needed resources and land, the island also had the advantage of obtaining a transit point to the South Seas.

The native state of Nanyang has never been strong in combat, but with a large population, intricate state and tribal forces, and the presence of local and foreign pirates, it is a huge hunting ground that is almost entirely based on the law of the jungle.

The population, resources, and food here are all treasures coveted by China.

Now, Huaxia, a greedy gluttonous beast, has finally opened the door to the primordial treasure house of Nanyang.