The Eighteenth Palm: Governing Taiwan (Middle)
Historically, after Zheng Chenggong took possession of Taiwan, he established the first Han regime in Taiwan, which also brought a wave of Han immigrants. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although Zheng Chenggong died in the same year that he conquered Taiwan, the successors Zheng Jing and Zheng Kexuan continued to rule Taiwan for 21 years.
Under the management of Zheng Chenggong and his son, Taiwan gradually got rid of its backward state, caught up with other rich areas on the mainland of the motherland, and became a beautiful and rich island of the motherland.
At the same time, the introduction of Chinese Ming palaces, temples and various rules and regulations laid the foundation for Taiwan to become a society dominated by Han culture in the future, not just another overseas Chinatown.
Therefore, some scholars describe Zheng Chenggong's father and son as determining the fate of Taiwan for the next 400 years.
Zheng Chenggong is called a national hero not only because of his recovery of Taiwan from the Dutch, but also because of his contribution to Taiwan's development.
Shi Langzhi's reputation is not as big and good as Zheng Chenggong's, except for Shi Lang's repetition, and he has not contributed to Taiwan at all.
After the recovery of Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong changed Dayuan to Taiwan, and the city of Gelansha was changed to Tainan City, and began to operate Taiwan and Peng as the base of the East China Sea Fleet.
Since Chen Yonghua received Zheng Chenggong's order, he took He Bin, Ma Xin, Yang Xiang, and others to inspect Xingang, Mujiataowan, Xiaolong, Madou, Damujiang, Dawuyuan, Taliwu, Banxian and other places.
During his 10-day visit, Chen Yonghua has mastered the basic situation in Tainan through various channels.
Taiwan's land is flat and fertile, Taiwan is vast and sparsely populated, and the Gaoshan compatriots "plan to plant and do not greed for surpluses", and the land utilization rate is very low, which is convenient for immigrants to reclaim land and raise troops in tuntian.
In order to calculate the distribution of land, Chen Yonghua and Wang Zhongxiao organized household officials to conduct a population survey of the Tainan area.
In the past, there was no household registration statistics in Taiwan, and the war, starvation, and plague all the time have caused the population of the people to fluctuate greatly, and many aborigines have even lost their households. At the same time, however, there are also many refugees flowing into the Yuan.
At the same time, in order to understand Taiwan's population and completely stabilize Taiwan's public security, Chen Yonghua and his subordinates recounted the population and household registration of Tainan.
At this time, Taiwan was still a wild place, the whole Taiwan was developing, and the most densely populated was Tainan.
After the efforts of Chen Yonghua, Wang Zhongxiao and other officials in the past two months, the statistics of Tainan's household registration have come to fruition.
After careful review and statistics, a new population data has finally been released - there are 20,000 Han people in Tainan, 8,000 Gaoshan people, of course, not including some Gaoshan people who still live in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
Next, Chen Yonghua began to methodically target the current situation in Tainan and implement the corresponding political strategy, the first step is to appease the people and worry about farming
Thanks to Zheng Zhilong's policies back then, as well as the atrocities of the Netherlands and the military discipline of Zheng Jiajun, the Gaoshan people in Tainan were not very disgusted with Zheng Jiajun, or were a little happy.
After obtaining Zheng Chenggong's consent, Chen Yonghua issued two decrees.
1. Encourage the people to reclaim the barren land, and encourage those who live in seclusion in the mountains, including the Gaoshan people, to settle in the mountains, and those who go out to settle in the mountains. The county government shall register and allocate land. Chen Yonghua specially issued a decree that no tax shall be levied on any newly developed land for three years.
2. Three years later, Taiwan's grain tax ratio was reduced from 15 to 1 for 1 under Dutch rule, and miscellaneous taxes were no longer levied;
This initiative. Not only can we increase the number of household registrations, but more importantly, we can vigorously develop Taiwan.
These two decrees were vigorously publicized by Chen Yonghua every time he sent troops to a township, and spread them all over the island.
These policies need to be supported by strong financial and material resources. Otherwise, it simply cannot be sustained.
Fortunately, the Dutch practiced tyranny in Taiwan and looted a lot of money.
After Zheng Jiajun seized the Great Yuan, all these money, grain and materials belonged to Zheng Chenggong, and it was not difficult to implement.
At the same time, Chen Yonghua also asked Zheng Chenggong that now that the Dutch East India Company had been defeated, there was no need to attack any more cities except for some stubborn Gaoshan tribes who needed to be conquered.
can allow some soldiers to train in martial arts when they are not working; If there is a police, then Hogo will fight; If there is no police, it will be ploughed. Soldiers in the peasantry!
Zheng Chenggong agreed, and the more than 6,000 soldiers who attacked Taiwan immediately obeyed the order and led their troops to the designated place to open up wasteland and plant.
In order to solve the problem of low grain in Taiwan, Chen Yonghua asked Zheng Chenggong to bring in farming experts from the mainland to guide the people of Taiwan in farming.
Sugar is not a new thing in Taiwan, and sugar cane and cane sugar were the most important income of the Dutch in Taiwan after deerskin, when the Dutch occupied Taiwan.
In order to be able to ensure food, the production of sucrose should be increased as much as possible.
Chen Yonghua asked several students from Gewu College to improve Taiwan's sugar industry.
After the improved sugar frying process, the white sugar made is much whiter than the original white sugar, although the sweetness does not increase much, but the impurities are filtered, and the snow is much whiter.
Chen Yonghua extracted sugarcane into granulated sugar and sold it as a commodity to the mainland, Japan, the South Seas, and even as far away as Europe.
Under Chen Yonghua's tireless work and personal efforts, people from all over Tainan are working hard.
Tainan is vast and sparsely populated, and many of the land that was originally barren because of uncultivated land has been redeveloped.
While vigorously developing Taiwan's agriculture, Chen Yonghua also imported cotton cloth and other commodities from the mainland, which flowed into Taiwan, greatly lowering prices and improving the quality of life of the people.
In addition, at that time, the Taiwanese people would only use boiled seawater to make salt, so the quality of salt was very poor.
Chen Yonghua introduced the salt leaching method to improve the process, and the process is roughly as follows: first dig a ditch near the salt pan to make the seawater pour onto the sand to form salt soil, and then take the salt brine extracted from the salt soil to the crystallization pond to obtain salt grains through sun exposure to improve the quality of salt.
The people live on food!
After solving the food problem, Chen Yonghua proposed to Zheng Chenggong to establish a school.
At first, Zheng Chenggong was a little hesitant, because there are not many schools in the mainland now, and teachers and other resources are seriously scarce.
Taiwan's deserted service is new, not only the place is cramped, but also the people are scarce, and there is no need to build schools for the time being. In the future, Taiwan will develop, and it will not be too late to establish schools.
Chen Yonghua quoted scriptures and classics to emphasize the importance of education.
He believes that Taiwan is fertile for thousands of miles, far off the coast, and the folk customs are simple, and if we can raise talents and assistants to educate and recuperate for a period of time, we will be able to catch up with the Central Plains. It is necessary to choose a place to build a temple and set up a school "to collect talents, so that the country has wise men, the state is self-consolidated, and the world is prosperous."
In the end, Zheng Chenggong was persuaded to agree to set up a school to develop Taiwan's cultural and educational undertakings, and appointed Chen Yonghua to take charge of relevant matters.
Chen Yonghua's ability in internal affairs has been vividly and vividly embodied in this whole set of political and strategic measures. (To be continued.) )