After the victory of the autumn hunt in Taipei, the Ming army soon occupied the area north of Dajia Creek in Taiwan, and the whole territory was under military control, and more than 200 members of the Keelung Bay joint defense team and more than 500 students from the Dunan Island student battalion formed a task force to go deep into the villages and villages to post and publicize the "Letter to the Taiwan Compatriots," publicize the Ming policy, and comfort the local gentry and people not to panic and to do their own business.

After the situation in northern Taiwan was stabilized, the work of ending the state of military control in various localities and speeding up the formation of political power in various counties was also put on the agenda of the crossing team.

Ao Sayang is the magistrate of Miaoli County appointed by the Executive Committee, and in accordance with the deployment of the Executive Committee, he took the Dajia Inspection Office as the seat of the Miaoli County Ya, and prepared to build Miaoli County in Dajiabao.

McClain, the instructor of the 4th Battalion, returned to Bamboo Trench City and led a company to station in the Guerrilla Department of the Right Battalion on the North Road. Lei Nianping, who had been busy pacifying the people of Zhuyan, returned to Taipei as an assistant to Qian Shuiting, the first assistant, to help regulate the construction of Taipei City.

Yu Xi was appointed as the magistrate of Hsinchu County. According to the geographical demarcation, Hsinchu County currently has jurisdiction over three forts: Zhuqian Fort, Zhunan Fort and Zhubei Fort, and there are more than 100 Zhuangzi in the county. The team assigned to Hsinchu County went deep into the county's Zhuangzi to publicize the Daming policy, and at the same time sent a notice asking each village and village to send representatives to attend the meeting in Zhuqian City before December 7.

On the morning of the 6th, a group of people appeared on the main road outside the east of the Bamboo Trench City.

Walking in the head is Megumi Tanaka, the leader of the Hsinchu Jiuxiong Forest Working Group, a 20-year-old Japanese girl. Megumi Tanaka was very strong, her black and red face was covered with oily beads of sweat, her two eyebrows were long and straight, and her eyes were big and bright, and she looked bright.

Megumi Tanaka was dressed in a blue training uniform, with a red armband with the word "military management" on her arm, a yellow satchel on her left shoulder, a bamboo kettle on her right shoulder, a belt around her waist, and a musket behind her. She walked forward with steady steps, clouds of dust on the thousand layers of her feet, and oncoming pedestrians avoided the side of the road.

In the crowd behind Megumi Tanaka were two men dressed like Megumi Tanaka, and six people in robes and coats sat on ox carts, and there were servants in front of the animals holding the reins.

Taiwan does not produce horses, and it is difficult for horses imported from the mainland to survive because they are not adapted to the water and soil. There were nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were only more than 10 military horses. Ordinary people mainly rely on ox carts to get in and out.

Megumi Tanaka was the leader of the Ming Army's working group in the Jiuxiong Forest area, and there were five Zhuangzi streets in the Jiuqiong Forest area, and these gentry in robes and horse coats were the representatives of the villages in Jiuxiong Forest, and they went to the city together to attend the meeting.

Jiuxiong Forest was twenty miles away from Zhuqian City, and they rushed for nearly four hours. Seeing that the east gate was in front of him, Megumi Tanaka couldn't help but speed up her pace.

Seeing that they were about to enter the city, the representatives of the villages of Jiuxionglin began to be a little nervous, and they all had children and nephews who were imprisoned in the liberation camp of the Ming army. Thinking that they were about to enter the city to negotiate with the Ming army bigwigs, these people suddenly became nervous in their hearts, and the tossed ox cart couldn't sit still, so they quickly jumped out of the car one by one.

Among them, there was a rich old man with gray hair, who didn't care about the bones being bumped and sore, and caught up with Megumi Tanaka from behind out of breath, "Tian... Team Leader, etc... One... Down..."

This is Chen Fucheng, the representative of Jiuxiong Lin Street. He gasped and spoke in a thick Hakka dialect of sea and land, "Team Leader Tian, everyone set off before dawn, and after such a long journey in one go, take a break and then enter the city?!" ”

Mi Dafu also chased after him from behind and helped him translate. Mi Dafu is also a member of the Jiuxionglin Working Group, and he can speak Hokkien and Hakka.

Megumi Tanaka slowed down, took out a towel from his yellow satchel and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, with a hint of shyness, "I'm sorry everyone, I can't control my steps when I see the city gate right in front of me." ”

She saw a tea stall outside the city gate, raised her face and said, "Let's have a cup of tea and go into the city again!" ”

Megumi Tanaka speaks standard official dialect, and although the village representatives of Jiuxionglin speak Hakka, they have been the heads of the village for a long time, and they have often come into contact with people in the officialdom, so they can understand some official dialect.

These six deputies smiled and said together, "Okay, okay, everything is subject to Team Leader Tian's arrangement!" ”

Jiuxionglin is located at the junction of the Gaoshan Shengfan area and the Hsinchu Plain, rich in rice, and Jiuxionglin Street is also the largest market street in the middle and upper reaches of Zhuqian Creek. A week ago, Megumi Tanaka led the team into Jiuxionglin Street. Seeing eight Ming soldiers wearing blue cardigan coats, carrying guns to Jiuxiong Forest, the leader turned out to be a woman, and the people were startled at first.

Although Jiuxiong Forest is only more than 20 miles away from Zhuqian City, it is blocked by Zhuqian Creek, the road is tortuous and narrow, and it takes at least a morning to walk from Zhujiao, so few yamen servants run to Jiuxionglin, unless it is to levy grain and levy taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

The prime minister of Jiuxionglin Street and other leading figures immediately set up a tea and fruit table to entertain the working group, but Tanaka Megumi hurriedly stopped them and warned them that the working group was here to revive the revolution, not to covet enjoyment. Megumi Tanaka directly borrowed a courtyard from Guangfu Palace at the entrance of the street, set up camp, and hung a sign at the door of the "Chinese Revival Working Group in the Jiuxionglin Area of the Ming Dynasty".

The ships of the Ming army were strong and the artillery was sharp, and the whole of northern Taiwan already knew that there were more than 80 people in Jiuxionglin who were all lost in Monga, and the people of Jiuxionglin were worried about how to rescue them. Seeing the Ming army team marching into Jiuxionglin Street, many captured villagers and brave family members immediately ran to Guangfu Palace to inquire about their children's situation and whether they could be redeemed with money.

For a long time, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty exercised strict control over the crossing of coastal residents to Taiwan, most of the people who smuggled into Taiwan were men, and women in Taiwan were relatively rare, and the status of women has always been very high. In addition, because Taiwan is isolated overseas, women's religious restraints are quite relaxed, providing women with an open and free atmosphere, and the common people have little resistance to women coming forward.

Tanaka Hui clearly told them that the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty of the common people, the Ming Dynasty of all the Chinese people, and that the Xiangyong Dynasty was purely deceived by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and that the Ming Dynasty loves the people like a son, and will never embarrass his own people, let alone detain and extort his own people for money.

Regarding Megumi Tanaka's words, the people of Jiuxionglin were skeptical. Since ancient times, the imperial power was not lower than that of the county, and the yamen officials in the city could only go to Jiuxionglin if they paid donations and taxes. The common people thought that the working group was also here to scrape the ground, but they were soon conquered by the working group's honest and honest work style, and they were even more infected by the propaganda and agitation of the working group.

That night, Megumi Tanaka stirred up the drum music of Jiuqionglin Street and held a theatrical evening in the open space in front of the ancestral hall. As soon as the gongs and drums sounded, the people of the surrounding five villages and one street all ran to see the excitement.

The local lion team first performed the "Open Cloth Lions" to cheer up, and then seven or eight members of the working group performed the program separately and sang a lot of revolutionary songs for the revival of China.

Then, Megumi Tanaka preached the "Letter to Taiwan Compatriots" at the meeting, comforting the gentry and people of the four townships to live in their own business and actively participate in the Chinese rejuvenation revolution. In the end, she said loudly: "Taiwan is the Taiwan of our Chinese nation, and this world is the world of our Chinese descendants!" ”

The people living in Jiuxionglin are all Hakka people who immigrated from Guangdong and speak Hakka. Under Midaifuku's translation, they understood what Megumi Tanaka was saying. At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty slaughtered hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Guangdong, and there were all obscure records on the genealogy of the people of Jiuxionglin, and the Hakka people had always had an anti-Qing tradition, and Tanaka Megumi's speech soon resonated with the common people.

"That's right!" The crowd who attended the party applauded in unison.

The next day, Megumi Tanaka led people to talk from house to house to understand the local customs and customs, went to the fields to help the farmers work, and at the same time publicized the idea of Chinese rejuvenation of "driving out the Tartars and restoring China".

Seeing Megumi Tanaka's neatness and energy, the people of Jiuxionglin felt very cordial, and felt that the team leader of this field seemed to be the woman next to us. Hakka women who immigrated to Taiwan were particularly industrious and brave, not only sewing and weaving cloth to do household chores, but also often helping with field work. Hakka women have always been a pair of big feet, and they are more bold and spicy than women in other places.

Walking to the tea stall, Chen Fucheng sat down on a stool next to Megumi Tanaka. While drinking tea, he whispered to Megumi Tanaka, "Team Leader Tian, don't dislike my old man for being long-winded. We, the people of Jiuxionglin, absolutely support the 'expulsion of the Tartars and restore China', and are absolutely loyal to the Ming court. More than 80 of us were all bewitched by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they are all our sons of Huaxia, you must speak for our Jiuxionglin! ”

After the working group arrived in Jiuxionglin, it has been positively propagating the idea of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, encouraging the common people to actively participate in the Chinese rejuvenation revolution, but not forcing the common people to cut off their braids. Chen Fucheng and the others were worried that they would not be able to rescue their children and nephews if they had braided hair and gave a bad impression to the Ming army. So, after they discussed it yesterday, they cut off the braids directly.

"Old owner, delegates, you can rest assured!" Tanaka Hui smiled and comforted Chen Fucheng and others, saying that the army of the Ming Dynasty is a soldier of Huaxia, a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and will not oppress the common people, even if it is a Tartar, only if they really put down the butcher's knife and completely confess their guilt to Huaxia, the court will be lenient.

There are many slogans of Chinese revival posted on the wall of the east gate of Zhuqian City, two soldiers with a squad of policemen are on duty under the city gate, and there are some carriages and horses parked under the city wall.

The police were just formed by the Ming Army, and the Japanese Kuroda Masao was appointed as the leader of the police squadron. Tian Zhengxiong was a student soldier in the Dunan Island School Barracks, and he was also a ragand samurai, a descendant of the Kuroda Nagamasa family in Japan.

Lei Nianping and Yu Xi also selected three cadets from the cadet battalion as the squad leaders of the police squadron, selected Keelung Minzhuang from more than 10 work teams as the squad leaders of the police squadron, and selected more than 100 people from Hsinchu Minzhuang, who had actively joined the army, and the three squad officials who were retained, and organized them into a police squadron according to the organizational form of the army.

The police squadron is issued with black uniforms and militarized management. In addition to receiving training and education every day, they follow the troops and are responsible for maintaining law and order in the city. Black uniforms flashed on all streets of the bamboo trench, and there were disputes over garbage dumping and trading, and the police immediately intervened when the sound was a little louder.