It is said that the prefect is generally four products, at least from the four products, who called Taiwan a barbaric place in the eyes of the imperial court? Of course, it was treated as a government.

In fact, the prefect of Taiwan does not have many things, and the main affairs are still done in the starting point city, and He Bin is the main speaker of civil affairs in Taiwan.

He Bin was dispatched by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Taiwan's economic, commercial, agricultural, and industrial plans were all made by the starting point city, and the funds were also invested by the starting point city, and the Taiwan government really did not have much room for interference.

The helicopter's stop is not far from the Taiwanese government building, a five-story office building with an attached podium and backyard that covers a large area. There are two administrative teams in the building, one is the Yamen of the Governor of Taiwan, which is smaller in scale, but it is the face and symbol of the building; The other is the Taiwan Civil Affairs Office of the starting point city, which is very large-scale and the departments are very finely divided.

"Master Cheng, how are you doing? I think you're a lot fatter than you used to be. In the lobby of the prefect of Taiwan, Wang Yue said to Cheng Minghao with a smile.

The Taiwan Governor's Yamen occupies the first floor of the main building of the government building, plus the second floor of the main building, which is all the office space of the Taiwan Governor's Yamen. The interior furnishings of the yamen are similar to those of other prefects of the Ming Dynasty, but the difference is very large, because they are all paved with fired floor tiles, as well as glass doors and windows, so they are more spacious and bright.

The other floors of the government building and the attached podium belong to the Taiwan Civil Affairs Office of the starting point city, and in terms of property rights, the Taiwan prefect Yamen also belongs to the starting point city.

Cheng Minghao smiled a little reluctantly and said: "Thanks to Lord Shaobao's concern, Xiaguan is eating well, sleeping well, and worrying less, can he not be fat?" ”

Of course, Wang Yue heard Cheng Minghao's dissatisfaction, but he didn't care: "Lord Cheng, Taiwan is a newly annexed region, and everything must follow special exceptions. However, I can guarantee that you will definitely be able to learn more experience in civil affairs during your term of office, and Taiwan's rapid development is also a real achievement of Master Cheng. ”

The prefect of Taiwan Yamen is just a symbolic existence, and the prefect of Cheng Minghao is more like a subsidiary department of Taiwan's government affairs in the starting point city, because the legal charter used in Taiwan is promulgated by the starting point city, not the Daming law, and it is not the work of the Taiwan prefect Yamen to judge cases, because Taiwan has courts.

Cheng Minghao has been in Taiwan for more than half a year, and he has long seen the situation clearly, because Taiwan's control is already a fait accompli, and he can't get into it at all.

You must know that almost all of the basic people in Taiwan immigrated from the starting point city, and they all rely on the starting point city for food. Moreover, now Taiwan is temporarily under the jurisdiction of the governor of Yingtian, and the governor of Yingtian is Wang Yue, so his sense of existence as the prefect of Taiwan is very low. There are also radio and newspapers in Taiwan, which are the mouthpieces of the starting point city, and have nothing to do with the yamen of the prefect of Taiwan.

Although the Taiwan prefect is an ornament, it does not mean that Cheng Minghao is a person who chooses to be silent, otherwise he would not be the Cheng County Commander who risked his life to stick to Miyun. The way the city was governed in Taiwan was very different from the Ming tradition, so he and He Bin often had arguments. After all, Cheng Minghao is the nominal prefect of Taiwan, and he was invited by Wang Yue, so He Bin can be regarded as giving face. But even so, the established policy of the starting point city will not change.

"Lord Shaobao, most of the people in Taiwan are homeless people, and now they can achieve that the cultivators have their fields, have enough food and clothing, and the officials have nothing to say under the rule of Shaobao." Cheng Minghao said: "However, my Ming Dynasty has always paid attention to the outer saint and the inner king, and the treatment of Yi people should be based on Huairou education, supplemented by military affairs, the killing is too heavy, I am afraid of hurting people!" ”

Wang Yue was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, he turned his head and asked Xie Lin, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Public Security Army, who was in charge of the Taiwan garrison: "Brigade Commander Xie, are the natives on Taiwan Island still safe?" ”

Xie Lin said: "Report to the commander, over the past year or so, the indigenous people on the island of Taiwan have launched a total of 42 attacks on our residents, killing 116 of our people and injuring more than 200 people. Our army launched more than 70 sweeps, an average of four to five times a month, exterminating a total of 35 cannibal tribes and defeating 27 indigenous tribes that refused to submit to the king. So far, a total of 23,208 natives have been killed and 2,122 captured. ”

According to later statistics, by the 21 st century, Taiwan's indigenous population will be 480,000. How many are there in this era? There is no accurate number, there should be seventy or eighty thousand people, how many are killed?

Wang Yue nodded and said, "You have done a good job, you don't have to be merciful to these ignorant savages." ”

"Yes!" Xie Lin is on the right path. is still the commander happy, not like that Lord Cheng who is crooked like a mother-in-law.

Cheng Minghao said in disbelief when he heard this: "Lord Shaobao, this, this...!" This is too different from the Confucian philosophy he studied.

"Master Cheng, if education is useful, what do you need the army for? Can we make the puppet Qing surrender and recover Liaodong by indoctrination? ”

Wang Yue no longer paid attention to Cheng Minghao, and asked He Bin again: "Director He, how many mainland immigrants are there in Taiwan now?" ”

He Bin said: "Lord Shaobao, there were originally more than 70,000 Han immigrants in Taiwan, and last year, I concentrated 340,000 immigrants in the starting city, and about 10,000 prisoners were captured in the first war with the Zheng family. In the past year, because Taiwan has been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the people's living standards have improved rapidly, so there are more than 10,000 spontaneous immigrants along the coastal areas of Fujian. According to the registration and statistics of our starting point city, there are 551,210 mainland immigrants in Taiwan, including 3,053 newborn children. ”

Taiwan's population is already quite large, and there is no need for the starting point city to continue to migrate people here, and it can meet the needs by spontaneous immigration.

"Have the rubber trees been planted?" Wang Yue asked.

He Bin replied: "Ten acres have been planted, and a large number of seedlings can be raised next year." ”

The areas suitable for planting rubber trees are Hainan Island and Nanyang, which is also a major purpose of this reconquest of Nanyang, and rubber is an important industrial raw material. However, rubber cannot be planted directly from the fruit, otherwise it is miserable, because seedlings need to be raised before planting.

Taipei is now the most populous region in Taiwan, with more than 300,000 people living here, of which less than 100,000 are agricultural. This is also the characteristic of the starting point city, because the productivity is relatively developed, and the manpower required to cultivate the land is not so much.

Early the next morning, Wang Yue traveled in casual clothes to visit the local people.

Due to the higher salaries in the starting point and the prosperity of the local economy, the streets of Taipei have become a lively town, and all walks of life have sprung up.

The most common means of transportation on the streets is bicycles, and the largest number of bicycles are owned by the local garrison, which is the guarantee of their rapid march here.