Seeing that Wang Yue was so polite, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I don't dare to have such courtesy from Master Lao Shaobao." ”

"Mr. Su, please take a seat, in terms of age, you can be regarded as the elder of this official." Wang Yue really respected this old man.

Su Minggang, 58 years old, is a native of Tong'an County, Fujian Province. He went to a private school at an early age, went to Indonesia to make a living, and was fluent in Malay and Portuguese. In 1619, after the Dutch occupied Batavia, Su Minggang led a group of overseas Chinese from Banten to develop Batavia.

In October of the same year, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, Gao Sheng, appointed him as the first Chinese Kapitan.

When Su Minggang first arrived in Batavia, the living conditions of overseas Chinese were very poor. He then purchased land from the colonial authorities, and only after overseas Chinese repaired river embankments and built houses did he have a better place to live. The Dutch colonial authorities in Indonesia also hired him as a member of the Appraisal Yuan to deal with disputes among overseas Chinese and to coordinate the relationship between overseas Chinese and the colonial authorities. He also contributed to the reduction of working hours of overseas Chinese and the resolution of internal disputes. Soon after he became a Chinese Kapitan, he was appointed as a local magistrate and was later elected as one of the executive officers.

Su Minggang not only has outstanding government affairs ability, but his achievements and contributions to agriculture have been recorded by history and are enough to go down in history; Indonesia's agriculture is the foundation laid by the Chinese ancestors led by Su Minggang, and his great achievements in immigrating to Indonesia are recorded in the historical materials of Indonesia's national development and the "Overseas Chinese Chronicles of Fujian Province".

Between 1633 and 1635, the Dutch authorities in Taiwan organized Chinese (retail households) to go to Chikan to cultivate sugar cane, cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, wheat, ginger, tobacco, and cocos. For example, in the case of rice, there was a lack of irrigation and insufficient rainfall that year. In 1634 it failed, and no one continued to plant it the following year. In 1634, he tried to plant cotton, but due to strong winds, the planting failed. In the case of indigo and hemp, the harvest in 1635 was acceptable, and ginger planting began in the same year, but the results were not good; Tobacco and Poria cocos are not harvested as well as in Guangdong, China.

In 1636, Su Minggang relinquished his seventeen-year tenure of the title of Kapitan, accepted the invitation of the Dutch, and moved to Chihkan, Taiwan, where he engaged in agricultural cultivation and built beautiful stone houses to settle down.

The Dutch authorities in Taiwan granted Su Minggang about 18 jia land in Chikan, and Su Minggang recruited many experienced farmers and related craftsmen from Quanzhou, Fujian Province, to immigrate to Chikan, opening a new page in the history of the Han people from Chinese mainland officially crossing east to Taiwan to reclaim land.

In the first year of sugarcane planting, Su Minggang produced a bumper harvest, and in 1636, the entire Chihkan area produced 12,000 catties of white sugar and 111,000 catties of brown sugar and sold them to Japan. Dayuan Dutch Merchant House optimistic estimate: "It is estimated that in three or four years, under the blessing of the gods, 1.25 million catties of rice grain can be collected from this place (Chikan), and Dayuan (Taiwan) no longer needs to ask for rice from other kings or lords, and it is not easy to fall into the danger of starvation." ”

Su Minggang has successfully cultivated in the Chihkan Agricultural Zone, with a bumper harvest of sugarcane and rice, and his farming method has become a model for the Dutch Dayuan Merchant House to continue to promote agriculture. By 1645, the cultivated land area in the Chichi region had increased to more than 40 times that of 1636, and Taiwan had gradually changed from a grain importer to a grain exporter.

After Taiwan was taken by the Tiance Army, Su Minggang, an agricultural expert, also entered the vision of the starting point city, and he was hired as a senior adviser to the Taiwan Agricultural Bureau. Over the past year or so, Taiwan's overall agricultural planning has been attributed to Su Minggang.

In fact, he is the real leader of the Chinese in Batavia, although he has been out of office for more than two years, but his prestige is still there, and Wang Yue needs him to sit in Batavia, so he is invited back.

"Bacheng can be included in my Ming rule, and Lord Shaobao's move is the merit of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, and it will definitely be remembered in the annals of history. Nanyang is good, the climate is warm, the land is fertile, and under intensive cultivation, it must be a granary. Su Minggang sat down and said.

Wang Yue said with a smile: "Bacheng will have to worry more about you in the future, civil affairs, agriculture, urban construction, commerce and trade all need you to check it." ”

"If it's ploughing and farming, I still have some experience." When Su Minggang said this, he sighed and said: "But in other aspects, the starting point city is actually doing better, and I am ashamed of myself." ”

In the more than a year that the starting point city has governed Taiwan, Su Minggang has indeed benefited a lot, as if opening another door.

Wang Yue said: "Bacheng Caochuang, we still need a respected person like Su Lao to sit in charge, and the follow-up official will send people from the starting point city to help organize government agencies." At the present stage, Bacheng is the same as Manila, and during the same period of autonomy, talented overseas Chinese in Bacheng can be nominated by Su Lao, elected by the local council, and approved by the Military Management Commission, to hold corresponding positions in the government. ”

In Bacheng's affairs, Wang Yue still trusts a time-honored brand like Su Minggang, and the Su family is also a big family in Bacheng, but Su Minggang's two sons went to Taiwan with him, and now they are also working in Taiwan's government departments, and Su Minggang came back with his old wife and two concubines.

China is a clan society, and Wang Yue's use of Su Minggang is also to dilute the clan power in Batavia.

Therefore, the presence of Su Minggang at the dinner was beyond the expectations of the other three patriarchs, and there is no doubt that Su Minggang, as the only candidate for the chief executive of Batavia, is expected by everyone.

In order to welcome Wang Yue's arrival, firecrackers rang out outside the Li Mansion, and Wang Yue said: "This official invited Su Lao, you should have no opinion!" ”

"No opinion, no opinion, Councilor Su is sitting in Bacheng, it's too late for me to be happy." Whether the three patriarchs are sincere or fake, at least on the surface, they are all beaming.

Wang Yue nodded and said: "Very good, the name Batavia was given by the Dutch, and now this official has changed the name of this place to Wanghai City, and Su Lao will serve as the first head of the autonomous government of Wanghai City." ”

The chief is a new term, and Batavia and Manila have a certain Chinese base, so the government affairs are temporarily self-governing by the Chinese. The starting point city now controls more areas, and it is scattered, autonomy is to reduce the investment in the early stage of the starting city, autonomy is a kind of transition, the transition period is about ten years.

In general, the arrival of the Tiance Army changed the social structure of Batavia, with the Chinese in charge and the Dutch in charge of the house.

To be a conscious person, Robben is very conscious. Yesterday, Wang Yue just left, he took people to start moving, under the "protection" of the army, moved out of the governor's palace, when leaving, a group of craftsmen were changing the brand, the old brand was ordered by Wang Yue to report the spring, hanging up is a number of Chinese characters on the plaque, I can't understand. This plaque actually reads "Military Management Council", or military management committee for short.

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