The Taiwan issue was not something that Wang Yue urgently needed to solve, but now it was on the agenda, because he needed arable land to increase the food supply in the starting city.

Last time, the Tiance Navy's maritime surveillance warship sent the commercial representative Shaojin from Taiwan to Batavia, and Wang Yue specially arranged for people to inspect the situation in Taiwan's Tamsui area.

Mr. Schozin was honored to be sent to Taiwan by a maritime surveillance warship.

The Tiance Navy needs to understand the sea conditions in the South China Sea, and the civil affairs department has also accompanied the army to investigate Taiwan's freshwater area.

The main work of the civil affairs department in the south is in Hong Kong, and they will purchase land near Victoria Harbour in the future of Hong Kong, which will be used for the construction of the Hong Kong trading branch and the port land in the future.

Hong Kong's main port today is Tuen Mun, later known as Castle Peak Harbour. Although Victoria Harbour was one of the three best harbors in the world, it was not only wide and deep, but also able to dock aircraft carriers.

However, these were negligible for ships to dock during the Ming Dynasty, because ships in this period did not have such a high draft. There are more than a dozen places on Hong Kong Island that can be used as a natural harbor, and there is no shortage of this place.

According to the investigation of the civil affairs department, this place is a plain, there are seven or eight Han settled villages, the number of about 3,000 people, and most of the local alpine indigenous tribes are in the distant mountains.

Most of these immigrants were migrated from Fujian by the Zheng family, because Tainan is close to Penghu and is the most convenient place to take the stage, and there are vast plains in Tainan, so the largest number of immigrant settlements are in Tainan.

The first to immigrate to Taiwan was Zheng Zhilong's original boss Yan Siqi, who emigrated more than 3,000 people. Later, after the Zheng family was recruited, they emigrated 60,000 or 70,000 people to Taiwan, and the benefits they gave were three taels of silver for one person, one cow for three people, and the fields could be cultivated at will, as long as you could plant them.

With some of the farm tools and seeds loaned by Zheng Zhilong, the immigrants worked hard, and the harvest increased, "what they got in autumn is twice as much as that of Middle Earth", and "in addition to food and clothing, they pay rent to the Zheng family". Some of them returned to their hometowns, which attracted many spontaneous immigrants.

Zheng's motive for developing Taiwan was to collect land rent, and in the end, the sale did not make much money, far less than the benefits at sea, so Liu lost Zheng's attention.

The life of these immigrants was not so good, and the harvest of the fields was indeed much higher than that of the mainland, but they had to pay not only rent to the Zheng family, but also to pay taxes to another land snake, which was the Dutch.

The immigrants, who had lost Zheng's attention, gradually became Dutch taxpayers.

The Dutch have a wide variety of taxes and are quite perverted.

As far as the simplest walking is concerned, the Han people pass through the villages and mountains of the Gaoshan tribe, and they have to pay "tolls" to the Dutch authorities. The Dutch stipulated that the Han Chinese could not sell deerskins privately, but only to the Dutch authorities. Later, it was stipulated that Han people who bought and sold houses in Geranza, Chikan and other areas had to pay one-tenth of the tax. The Han people had to pay taxes to buy salt, and they were not allowed to sell sugarcane privately, but could only sell it to the Dutch authorities at a low price, so as to facilitate the Dutch to make sugar for profit. Han people buy sugar, candles, tobacco, fish, and even kill pigs for the New Year and keep warm in winter, and they have to pay taxes according to the goods.

A senior employee of the Dutch East India Company at the time said: "We can't think of any other way to get money from the Chinese." ”

In the fifth year of Chongzhen (1633), the Dutch authorities issued a ban prohibiting the Han people on the island of Taiwan from owning weapons, and those who violated the law were imprisoned or even shot, and those who dared to sell weapons to the Han people without authorization were also sentenced to death.

Han Chinese are not allowed to build houses in Gaoshan settlements, let alone contact and trade with Gaoshan residents without permission. They even offered bounties in Gaoshan villages, and anyone who caught a Han Chinese who entered a Gaoshan village without permission would receive a reward of five liels (Dutch currency) for each one caught.

The Dutch in the two cities of Geranza and Chikan, which they built, issued a "curfew", after nine o'clock in the evening, the Han people were not allowed to cross the distance of more than six houses without lanterns in the city, and violators were fined. If a group of Han Chinese are walking, only one lantern is allowed, and offenders are fined. And if a Han man walks with a lantern and accidentally walks to the house at the end of the city of Geranza, he will still be fined.

All this shows how seriously the Dutch oppressed the Han people in Taiwan.

What Wang Yue urgently needs to solve now is the land problem that these hungry people need, and the problem of the Dutch can only be dealt with later. His target area is fresh water, and the plains are well-watered and suitable for farming.

To transport so many hungry people to Taiwan, a large number of ships are needed.

Shen Tingyang had already made contact through a trading company in Shanghai and was leading the fleet to arrive. This capacity was not enough, and the shipyard in the starting city equipped the four wooden cargo ships that had just been built with marine thrusters, and went south with two other mixed freighters, two supply ships, and four maritime surveillance warships.

Not all of the navy's ships were coming to transport migrants, because supply ships and maritime surveillance warships were inconvenient for hungry people to board their ships.

These warships are heading south for another mission, because there will be a vicious battle to be fought in Shandong in the near future, and the object of the battle is not human beings, but nature.

Since the beginning of this year, the land has been dry and rainless, so it has become a breeding ground for locusts, and the locust plague is spreading from Henan to the surrounding areas. According to the official documents sent to the imperial court by the Yamen of the governor of Shandong and the government of Henan, locusts are sweeping over Shandong.

This was also confirmed by the southbound detachment passing through the junction of Shandong and Henan, where the locust plague was getting worse day by day.

It is said that the work of controlling locusts belongs to civil affairs, and should be within the scope of the work of the two governors of Shandong, namely the governor of Shandong and the governor of Denglai, and has nothing to do with Wang Zhuo, the current commander of Shandong.

But Wang Yue demanded that the locust control work be undertaken by the starting point city, which he saw as an opportunity to expand the city's influence. Moreover, the locust plague is undoubtedly worse than the drought in Shandong, the investment in drought control is too large, and the cycle is long, and the starting point city is now powerless, so let's treat locusts. This kind of thing cannot be counted on by the imperial court, if the imperial court does something, the world will not be full of displaced people.

The Tiance army entered Shandong with only more than 3,000 troops, which was not enough, so the recruitment work had already begun. In order to support Shandong, 12,000 troops of eight regiments of the public security army in Shuntianfu have already set off for Shandong.

The Tiance army suddenly marched eastward, but Chongzhen was frightened, and he hurriedly sent Xie Baoqing to the starting point city to ask Wang Yue what he was going to do, and after receiving a reply, he was relieved.

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