Sun Chengzong said with a straight face: "According to the agreement we signed, we did not prohibit your warships from appearing in the waters of Penghu, but we can also sink your warships, which is not a violation of the agreement, so now that we have caught your people, we must deal with it according to our rules." We will let them go and build castles and reclaim wasteland to atone for their sins, two years, and then let them go back in two years. ”

Knowing that there was nothing to be done at this time, Natz could only hope for the governor, so he took his leave, went back to put the merchant ships in order, and prepared to sail to Batavia to ask the governor for help.

There were more than 900 Dutch who surrendered and were fished out of the sea, and Zheng took them to Xiamen for three days of rest. At this time, more than 6,000 people gathered from various coastal areas in Fujian were also gathered in Xiamen.

Sun Chengshou said to Zheng Zha: "Ben Qincha has obtained the permission of the emperor to stay in Fujian for a year, and tomorrow you will take 4,000 people to Xiaosuoqiu, and divide them into two places to build a city in Tamsui and chicken coops." ”

Then he said to Chen Shiying: "Chen Qianhu can land in the southern part of the small sulfur ball, build a castle here, you bring the Dutch with you, let them do hard labor, you have a total of about 3,000 people, only build one city, it should be faster." ”

He also called Wang Mengxiong and said: "You go to receive Magong Bay, which was occupied by the Dutch, repair the castle there, and then build castles on small islands such as Fengjiaowei, Jin**, Yingli, Baisha, and Bawei, and send people to guard each fort, so that there will be no more situations where others drive straight into and we don't know it." ”

Everyone obeyed the order, and Sun Chengzong discussed with Nan Juyi to recruit landless peasants in various parts of Fujian. Of course, this matter could not be done by the governor, so Sun Chengzong gathered the officials of Fujian county commander and above in Fuzhou in the name of the Qincha to prepare for the mobilization meeting of the great migration mentioned by the emperor.

Five days later, the Qin mission came to Fuzhou, and the governor's yamen was already full of officials from all over the country. Seeing Sun Chengzong come in, he immediately knelt on the ground, and after Sun Chengzong reported to Sheng'an, everyone saluted again and sat down together.

Sun Chengzong said: "Ben Qincha came today, it is ordered by the emperor to supervise the payment of taxes in various places, Fujian still owes 30% of taxes last year, and some counties only receive 30%, the emperor ordered me to inquire, what is the reason." ”

All the officials were terrified and did not dare to speak, especially the county magistrate, who owed a lot of agricultural taxes, his face turned red and his heart was uneasy.

Sun Chengzong's gaze swept over everyone, and then said unhurriedly: "Hui'an's county order, can you tell me why your county can only pay 30% of the tax?" ”

A slightly chubby official in his forties immediately jumped down from his seat, knelt down in front of Sun Chengzong, and said: "Ge Lao, this county has many mountains and few fields, and the population is large. The lowly position did not dare to be forcibly collected, and for fear of something that he could not bear to say, he asked the cabinet elder to punish him. ”

Sun Chengzong asked with a solemn face: "Li County Order, your county not only owed taxes last year, I checked it yesterday, you owe taxes every year, but it was just a little more last year." ”

Li County Ling replied: "There are many people in this county and few fields, and it is already difficult to feed the population of this county, so taxes are often not collected, which is a dereliction of duty by this official." ”

Sun Chengzong nodded, but ignored him anymore, let him kneel on the ground, and called Fuqing, Futian and several counties with more tax arrears, but the answer was almost the same, there were many people and few places, unless they ran to the sea, they would get very little, and they could only barely support themselves.

Sun Chengzong looked at the group of county orders kneeling in front of him, sighed and said, "Get up." ”

After everyone got up and returned to their seats, Sun Chengzong said: "The emperor also knows that Fujian is mountainous and has few fields, and the population is large, so he thought of a way, if any prefecture and county cause poverty because of too many people, then find a new place for these people to live." ”

"The emperor sent people to investigate the situation of the small sulfur ball, and found that there was a large area of wilderness where the water was beautiful and the fields were fertile, and there was a large area of wilderness that had not been cultivated, so now he has sent people to build a walled city on it, which can receive a large number of landless peasants from Fujian."

"Each household gets a small sulfur ball, and one ding can get a hundred acres of land, and they are exempt from taxes for five years. And the imperial court issued cattle seeds and farm tools, which were repaid step by step after two years. And how many households in your county go to the small sulfur ball to open up wasteland, then reduce the corresponding amount of tax arrears by one and a half times, do you understand? ”

The officials were overjoyed when they heard this, such a good thing is not easy to encounter, and some of them thought ruthlessly, as long as they sent more than 30% of the people under their rule away, then 50% of their tax arrears would be settled.

Sun Chengzong seemed to see through their hearts: "But one thing to remember, no matter what method you use, you must not force or coax them. There is no human affection to talk about this matter, and the Jinyi Guard will investigate the immigration matter, so it is better that everyone should not fall into their hands. ”

The little evil intentions that the officials had just raised immediately reined in, and it was better not to go to prison. The people under his rule are indeed poor, and some have even reached the point of being impoverished, and now there should be people willing to go to such a good thing.

Not to mention that local officials went to collect immigrants, Zheng Zha came to Tamsui with 400 sailors and 1,000 Fujian soldiers sent to him by General Yu.

Tamsui is the estuary of the Tamsui River, Zheng Zhan divided half of the troops to Chen Houfu, the commander of the Fujian soldiers: "Houfu, you build a city here, I will take someone to the chicken coop, the two places are not far away, you can send someone to contact me if you have something." ”

Chen Houfu nodded yes, Zheng Zhan went to the chicken coop, and Chen Houfu asked him to remove his tools and began to set up camp near the mouth of the river.

Two hundred sailors lived on the boat, five hundred Fujian soldiers and two thousand people lived in the camp, and they were busy until the evening, when the camp was barely built into a rudimentary form. He set up a sentry post to let everyone rest.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden commotion outside, and he immediately got up, when a guard ran in: "General, the enemy is attacking." ”

He hurriedly got dressed, took his weapon and ran out, there were two sentries at the gate of the hastily made camp, Chen Houfu stepped forward to take a closer look, and said, "It's blowing arrows, what about the medical officer?" ”

The only medical officer in the team was brought over by the soldiers, undressed. He checked to see if the sentry had been wounded by a blow arrow, but he did not have the medicine to relieve the soldier of his coma.

Chen Houfu said: "Let them lie down first, and then I will deal with the natives when it is dawn." ”

The next morning, Chen Houfu took the medical officer and two guards to a nearby mountain. The four of them did not bring weapons, and after entering the mountain, they walked slowly, when suddenly a bamboo whistle sounded in front of them, and dozens of big men suddenly came out of the surroundings, holding bows, arrows, knives and guns, facing them.

Chen Houfu had already instructed the people who came with him, and everyone slowly raised their hands above their heads, and Chen Houfu said: "If you have something to say, don't be impulsive." ”

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