Zhejiang is a rich and prosperous place, for many years it has been smooth wind and rain, prosperous industry and commerce, rich and healthy, but in the late Ming Dynasty Chongzhen years, there have been many natural disasters with great impact, one of which is a very harmful natural disaster is a large-scale tsunami surge. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Between July and August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, a large-scale tsunami occurred along the coast of Zhejiang, and several coastal state capitals were seriously affected.

The reason why Pan Ruzhen did not dare to report at that time was also caused by the party dispute. In July and August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, was first critically ill and then died, Wei Zhongxian, who was at a critical moment, did not want such a disaster to spread to the imperial court, and was used by the Donglin Party as a handle to attack him, so he simply concealed it and did not report it.

Now, Wei Zhongxian has long since died, and Pan Ruzhen has long been beheaded, but the mess left by Pan Ruzhen has created a lot of problems for Fan Jingwen, who took over in a hurry at the beginning of Chongzhen's first year.

After Fan Jingwen took office, in the face of the situation that had been affected by the disaster for half a year and was about to get out of control, he immediately searched and inspected the grain stocks of various prefectures in Zhejiang, and summoned two wealthy families and wealthy businessmen in Zhejiang to raise funds and raise grain in the governor's yamen.

Later, with the inauguration of Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he also brought 500,000 taels of disaster relief silver allocated by the imperial court, of which 200,000 taels were left for Fan Jingwen to help the victims in eastern Zhejiang.

Fan Jingwen used 200,000 taels of silver to buy hundreds of thousands of quintals of grain in western Zhejiang and Susong in southern Zhili, and then used work for relief to gather the affected people in Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places to dredge rivers, clean up silt, repair sea ponds, repair bridges and pave roads, etc., and finally stabilized this imminent chaos.

Then, in May, Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, appeased Zheng Zhilong, a giant on the sea, and the imperial court then issued a decree ordering Fujian and Zhejiang provinces to relocate the affected people along the coast to the newly established Dongfanwei by the imperial court.

After receiving this will from the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang, Fan Jingwen was truly relieved.

In the face of the 300,000 or 400,000 people affected by the disaster along the coast, the disaster relief funds of 200,000 taels of silver could not last long, and the coastal state capitals that had been hit by the tsunami could not recover as they were in the past two or three years.

Even if you want to reclaim wasteland, you have to resettle in western Zhejiang, but unfortunately western Zhejiang is mountainous and has very little arable land, so it is impossible to resettle so many victims.

Therefore, the will of the imperial court gave Fan Jingwen, the new governor of Zhejiang, a way out, and this way out is still a bright road.

Speaking of which, it is not easy to immigrate to the east, once the Chinese people settle down and relocate, believing that the golden nest and silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, but where there is a little way to live, they are unwilling to leave the ancestral tomb.

Second, Dongfan Island, that is, the island of Taiwan in later generations, at this time in the mouth of the coastal residents of Fujian, is still a wild land, although there is a large amount of arable land, but after all, it has never been developed, and there are some wild tribes, immigration in the past is not peaceful.

But people have good and bad luck, and things happen by coincidence. Let's say that Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, made up his mind to do a great career as soon as he took office, and he would return to the court in the future. However, the southeast tsunami in July and August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse really brought serious losses to more than a dozen prefectures along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Moreover, since ancient times, there must be a major epidemic after the catastrophe, and even more so at that time, the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang were both short of medical treatment and medicine, and it was a hot summer.

Therefore, after Wen Tiren arrived in Fuzhou, he soon found that the disaster situation in the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang was far beyond his imagination, not only the victims were everywhere, but also the epidemic was epidemic, and the dead were not counted, counting the victims in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces who needed relief, I am afraid that there would be millions of people.

Wen Tiren knew that he and the court had underestimated the seriousness of the disaster, but above the court, the big words had already been spoken, and at this time, he could only take a limited amount of money to work for relief to the victims.

Just when Wen Tiren was anxiously supervising the disaster relief in the coastal prefectures and counties of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, reported to him a piece of news that he had been directly contacting Zheng Zhilong, the Haikou of East Fujian.

Wen Tiren was secretly happy when he heard this, this is really a pillow when he is sleepy, and it is too opportune to come.

The next thing, naturally, there was no accident, the imperial court agreed to the surrender of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and the governor of Fujian to Zheng Zhilong, and the specifications of the reward were higher than Zheng Zhilong's expectations, Zheng Zhilong not only became Fujian's coastal defense general, but also the Zheng family brothers also became the newly established Dongfan Wei commander and other large and small court officials, and they could justifiably occupy Dongfan Island.

After being appeased in May, Wen Tiren asked Xiong Wencan to go to Tong'an to summon Zheng Zhilong, and a kind of former pirate leader under his command, not only rewarded in public, but also quickly agreed with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui and his brothers Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and other cronies to transfer the victims of the disaster in Fujian and Zhejiang, enrich the development of the disaster relief strategy of the east, and the exchange conditions of the imperial court not to send liuguan and Zheng Jiashi to the east.

Xiong Wencan reported the situation to Wen Tiren, who was very much in favor of transferring the victims of Fujian and Zhejiang and enriching the development of Dongfan, and was able to transfer all the victims out without causing trouble to himself, which was a great thing he could not ask for, and it was also one of the strategies approved by the emperor's holy decree.

However, for Zheng Zhilong and others' exchange conditions that the imperial court would not send liuguan and Zheng Jiashi Zhendongfan, he was extremely unhappy in his heart.

But at this time, Wen Tiren, who was anxious about the disaster relief in the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, thought about it, and still pinched his nose and acquiesced to this article.

It's just that in the report to the imperial court, it was vague and did not mention this article explicitly.

In fact, even if Wen Tiren reported this condition to the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen would agree.

After all, in this era, without Zheng Zhilong's active cooperation, it is basically impossible to transfer the victims from the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang to Dongfan Island for resettlement, and even to develop Dongfan in the future.

And if you want to get the support and cooperation of Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates, you must give them enough benefits and sweetness.

For the transfer of the victims to Dongfan resettlement and reclamation, of course, the Chongzhen Emperor now has 10,000 consents, so Wen Tiren's performance was immediately approved by the emperor, and the disaster areas in the coastal prefectures and counties of Fujian and Zhejiang, the action of transferring the victims to Dongfan for resettlement was also quickly launched.

Fujian has always had a tradition of going to sea to seek a living, so the coastal victims did not have much resistance to the imperial court's willingness to give them a way out, transfer them to the sea for free, and go to Dongfan Island to divide their fields and cultivate their fields.

In addition, the Zheng Zhilong brothers and nearly 10,000 people under their command, most of whom were from the coastal areas of Fujian, were transferred and resettled very smoothly, and the two or three hundred thousand coastal victims who dragged their families and mouths were all sent to the other side of the strait in less than two months of day and night transfer.

There are several brothers and thousands of subordinates of Zheng Zhilong, who are worried about not being able to recruit people to occupy the entire island, and the population has skyrocketed more than ten times.

As for the victims in the coastal prefectures of Zhejiang, the situation is different from that in Fujian. Fujian is mountainous and has few fields, and the coastal residents mainly rely on the sea for their livelihood, but the coastal areas of eastern Zhejiang are different, and the Chuzhou Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, and Wenzhou Prefecture, which are a little closer to Fujian in the south, are slightly better, while Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in the north are very different.