Section 86 Three Divisions of Taiwan
Autumn has arrived, the rainy season has arrived, and there is a feeling of humidity everywhere, but people's mood has not deteriorated, because the high temperature of subtropical summer is worse than rain.
Zhou Lang had already found several tea plantation sites near the Han settlement and Shufanshe, and Zhou Lang chose the upper reaches of Xiadanshui Creek, the mountainous area in the northeastern part of Fengshan County, which is close to the stream, so everything is convenient, transportation is convenient, and support is also convenient.
Because tea cultivation must be at a higher altitude, it is only possible to choose mountainous areas, not in the hilly areas of Fengshan County, otherwise it would not be possible to choose mountainous areas far from the administrative center. However, the nursery was placed in the Chai Shan area of Tagu Port, and 100,000 seeds had been sown, and the old tea farmers were responsible for taking care of them, and many people were recruited to help.
After the autumn, the number of displaced people in Fengshan County has increased, Wang Fuqian is worried about this, the agricultural society is most afraid of the migration of the people, once the people flow, it becomes difficult to manage, so the successive dynasties have attached great importance to the prevention of displaced people, and the household registration policy is how it came.
But now there is no way to stop the displaced people, because these displaced people are not from Fengshan County, but have migrated from the north.
After Zhu Li occupied Penghu, Chen Zhouquan, who stabilized the rear, finally launched a counterattack against the Qing army, and Chiayi County, which had been tug-of-war in the past, was also broken by Chen Zhouquan because of Chen Guanghui's Northern Expedition, and Chen Zhouquan advanced the front to Chiayi County and quickly gained the upper hand.
Because of the loss of Penghu, the Qing army refused to mention all kinds of material assistance, and its morale was greatly damaged. Under Chen Zhouquan's onslaught, Chiayi County was quickly lost.
The landlord class in Chiayi County is almost all on the side of the government, Chen Zhouquan is not a good talker, and the composition of the Tiandihui makes them have a natural hatred for the landlords, and as a result, the landlord class in Chiayi County has been retaliated against.
Heaven and earth will strike at the rich, causing a huge panic. After the loss of Chiayi County, wealthy people fled to Taiwan's capital city one after another. Now that they have begun to flee to Fengshan County, there can only be one reason for this, Chen Zhouquan's army has begun to enter Taiwan County.
Taiwan county and government are located in a city, the basic location is the Tainan area of the later generations, at this time is the political center of the whole Taiwan, and the Anping Port in the territory is the largest port in Taiwan at this time.
However, because of the loss of Penghu, the port of Anping was almost blocked, and Zhu Li's fleet sailed into the vicinity of Anping many times, although it did not attack, but it had already caused panic in the capital city.
It is impossible to escape from the sea and land, but the news that spread from Fengshan County during this time said that the Tiandihui South Route Army that occupied Fengshan County was very friendly to the local people, not only exempted from taxes, but also cleaned up the officials and repaired the roads.
This series of actions, in fact, may not play a big role, at least those accumulated shortcomings are impossible to solve in the traditional way except for reform, but this is a symbol, let everyone see that the other side is doing things. Yongzheng's action to purge the government is so big, and it can't eradicate corruption, how good can Wang Fuqian do, build the Confucius Temple, people who read are still readers, people who don't read are still people who don't read, it can't be of practical significance, but everyone just agrees. These actions are actually a petition from the new forces to the common people, telling them that they are not rogues and that they intend to continue to rule in the traditional way.
For example, after the Manchu Qing entered Beijing, the first thing they did was to restore the official status abolished by Li Zicheng and send an army to protect the imperial tomb of the Ming Dynasty; After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he arrested a group of powerful people and high-ranking officials and forced them to pay military salaries. Any reader who sees these two situations knows what to choose.
Therefore, when Fucheng became dangerous, the landlords and wealthy merchants who fled to Fucheng slowly began to move south, and when they found that the situation in Fengshan County was indeed as rumored, they called for friends and immediately formed a torrent of southward migration. It doesn't matter if it's just the landlords and wealthy merchants, because the number of these rich people is a minority after all, and they belong to the elite class of this era, and they have knowledge that ordinary people do not have. But even ordinary people have joined this torrent, and it makes people feel a headache.
A large number of impoverished tenants and poor peasants, who had been affected by the war, had no savings, and it was a great trouble to solve their food problems.
This incident has become the biggest crisis in Fengshan County at present, what should I do?
Blocking the migration of displaced people is a way, because the north of Fengshan County has been under the control of the Qing army, although Zhou Lang did not attack the Qing army, but the important checkpoints are also controlled in his hands, and the army is stationed to prevent the Qing army from moving south. Letting the army hold back the displaced people and prevent them from moving south is one way.
The population of Taiwan Prefecture and Chiayi County is already larger than that of Fengshan County, and nearly half of the two million people on the entire island of Taiwan are near Fucheng, even if only a small number of people are migrated, it is a huge number. Without the original social organization and relationships, and without a source of livelihood, people will take risks. Blocking them is like blocking a torrent, and the outbreak of conflict is inevitable.
And these people are all because they can't survive, especially those landlords are caught between the Qing army and the Heaven and Earth Society, and they are already desperate, Wang Fuqian thinks that blocking those who read is equivalent to blocking the hearts of the people in the world. But you can't just let the scholars in and stop the common people.
Wang Fuqian's suggestion was to integrate the strong men into the army for placement, which was also a shortcut to the development of power in all dynasties. He gave numerous examples to illustrate, the most famous of which was the example of the Song Dynasty, where the emperor of the Song Dynasty placed the families of the displaced people into the army whenever there was a famine, resulting in the Song Dynasty having the largest number of troops in the world at that time.
But Zhou Lang is worried about this, there are a lot of troops in the Song Dynasty, but they can't win the enemy. With the same finance, raising 10,000 soldiers is an elite division, raising 100,000 soldiers, which can barely be used, but raising 1 million soldiers can only keep the soldiers from starving to death, and how strong can these soldiers be compared with the peasants.
So Zhou Lang really didn't dare to stuff these people into his own army.
However, we can only learn from the experience of history, after all, only China has had large-scale migrations in history, and other countries have not had such a large scale as China. Wang Fuqian believes that there is no need to provide them with military salaries, but only needs to let everyone have food to eat and organize them to support themselves, that is, Tuntian.
Taiwan also has barren land and uncultivated land, and most of the Hakka people in Guangdong live in the mountains and are called mountain people. Therefore, the pressure of the population will force people to the mountains, which is beneficial to the opening of the mountain and the cultivation of tea supported by Zhou Lang.
But now there is a shortage of tea trees and tea seeds, so a large number of homeless people who have nothing to do can only go to the mountains to make preparations first.
Such as cutting trees, shoveling grass, plowing the ground, getting the ground out first, and then waiting for the tea seeds.
In addition, Zhou Lang began to try his best to obtain tea seedlings, and the seeds were too late, so he wanted ready-made seedlings. Through Wei Lianli's search in Guangdong, he also spent a lot of money to ask Zhu Li for purchase.
At the end of autumn, a total of 130,000 displaced people flowed into Fengshan County, and they opened up 50,000 acres of tea gardens, but because of the scarcity of tea seedlings, only 30 tea trees can be planted per mu, compared with the mature tea fields in Wuyi Mountain, 300 plants per mu are sparse, and dense planting can reach more than 1,000 plants per acre.
However, the one-time introduction of 1.5 million tea trees can be regarded as a great acceleration of the cause of tea planting. But the effect can only depend on the growth of those tea trees, but it is estimated that it will not be optimistic, and several experienced tea farmers believe that if they can live half of it, they should go to the temple to make a wish.
With the help of Zhu Li, more than 3,000 tea farmers were hired from Fujian with high salaries, and it was with the assistance of these tea farmers that these tea gardens finally became what they were.
After the autumn, the displacement finally stopped.
Because the decisive battle of the Taiwan Mansion was divided into winners and losers, the Heaven and Earth Society defeated the Qing army, and the Taiwan Mansion fell into the hands of Chen Zhouquan.
At this point, from the Tamsui Hall and Kamalan area in northern Taiwan to the boundary of Fengshan County in the south, Chen Zhouquan has already been in his sphere of influence, and there is no doubt that he is already the biggest henchman of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time, and he is the emperor of the Great Fortune who wants to compete with the Manchus for the sky and the country with several banners.
Zhou Lang didn't care how much territory Chen Zhouquan occupied and how powerful he was, he only cared about Chen Zhouquan's first move. Obviously, it is impossible for him to nest in Taiwan, now Taiwan is divided into three, Chen Zhouquan occupies most of the central and northern places, Zhou Lang lives in a corner of Fengshan County, and Zhu Lian controls Penghu at sea.
In this case, Zhou Lang was very worried that Chen Zhouquan would go south to attack him, after all, one mountain could not tolerate two tigers, and Chen Zhouquan was afraid that he was unwilling to accept that there were two separatist forces on the island of Taiwan, even if Zhou Lang was his brother-in-law.
But for a long time, Chen Zhouquan did not take action, after all, he needed time to digest the fruits of victory. Chiayi County, Taiwan Prefecture and Changhua County are all the earliest developed areas in Taiwan, and Wufu Minfeng is now under his control, but it is still unstable. After the defeat of the Taiwan government, a large number of scholars have begun to take refuge in Chen Zhouquan, and there is no shortage of literate people in the organization of the Heaven and Earth Society, and a large number of small and medium-sized businessmen are related to the Heaven and Earth Association, and these people have now sharpened their heads and want to find a position under Chen Zhouquan.
Zhu Lian was also very quiet at sea, in the days when Chen Zhouquan stormed Taiwan, he was under the greatest pressure, the Manchu Qing mobilized the sailors of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong to besiege Penghu, and at the most dangerous time, Zhou Lang's fleet was also all in Penghu to support Zhu Li, otherwise he would have been wiped out by the Qing army now.
After Chen Zhouquan's victory, Zhu Li's crisis was not only lifted, but the Qing army retreated after seeing that there was no hope of rescuing Taiwan and that the attack had been fruitless for a long time. When Taiwan's capital city was breached, Zhu Mian also took the opportunity to reap a lot of benefits, a large number of wealthy businessmen in the city, and even civil and military officials later ran to the sea by boat, and as a result, they all became Zhu Li's prey, he not only robbed a large amount of property, but even recruited more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Qing army's naval division.
However, the most benefited was still Fengshan County under the control of Zhou Lang, which not only increased the population by 150,000 in the end, but also brought the population of Fengshan County to as much as 500,000; The most important thing is that among the rich people who fled, there were a large number of scholars, which solved the dilemma of Zhou Lang's knowledge level being seriously underground.
No one knows how long this pattern can be maintained, but everyone knows that contradictions will break out sooner or later, sooner or later.
Sure enough, a few years ago, Chen Zhouquan sent Chen Guanghui to Fengshan County, and Zhao Zhoulang went to Taiwan to worship Zheng Chenggong.
Everyone thinks that the break is just around the corner, because Zhou Lang goes, it is likely to be controlled by the other party, if he doesn't go, Chen Zhouquan has a reason to crusade against Zhou Lang, after all, now Zhou Lang nominally belongs to Chen Zhouquan's command, but he dares to disobey Chen Zhouquan's orders, which is tantamount to rebellion, and naturally it will be suppressed.
Wang Fuqian gave Zhou Lang a lot of strategies, pretending to be crazy and selling stupid schemes, pretending to be sick and delaying schemes, etc., in short, he couldn't go, and it was best not to tear his face with Chen Zhouquan.
There is such a hassle to use.
Zhou Lang directly told Chen Guanghui that he would not go to meet Chen Zhouquan.
If Chen Zhouquan comes to attack Fengshan County, unless Fengshan is defeated within ten days, as long as a port is left in Fengshan County, Zhou Lang will take his fleet to join the Manchus and bring the Manchu army to Taiwan.
Chen Guanghui even said that he had misunderstood, so he said that the emperor (Chen Zhouquan) just wanted to pay homage to King Yanping (Zheng Chenggong), and that's it.
Obviously, forcing Zhou Lang to the side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was something that Chen Zhouquan could not afford.