After Li Su came to Keelung, he immediately summoned officials from all levels of institutions and county commanders of all counties in Taiwan to a meeting, but in fact it was not a big deal, but Li Su wanted to have a detailed understanding of the situation in various parts of Taiwan, and then make an overall development plan, and strive to speed up the progress of Taiwan's construction.

Li Su is still concurrently serving as the assassin of Taiwan, but his assassin history is only in name and does not do anything, and it is Cui Wei who is appointed by him as another driver who really manages Taiwan. The other party is Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue's cousin, and he is also a relative of Li Su, plus he is an outstanding person, he governs Taiwan in an orderly manner, and he will carry out Li Su's orders to the letter, so he is quite trusted by Li Su.

In addition to Cui Wei, there are also Zhu Meng, who served as the chief of the police, and Chen Gong, the chief of the metropolitan procuratorate, both of them were originally Yang Jin's most trusted people, and later they were recommended to Li Su's subordinates, and they were entrusted with important tasks by him, one to manage public security, and the other to be responsible for the conduct of the metropolitan inspection officials, and these two departments were newly established by Li Su, and the position is very important.

Li Su summoned Cui Wei, Chen Gong, and Zhu Meng, and a number of officials in charge of commerce, taxation, fishery administration, and agriculture, as well as officials in charge of various counties, also attended the meeting. At the very beginning of the meeting, Li Su asked these officials to report to him the work of their respective departments over the past year and the problems encountered in their work.

Taiwan is now divided into five counties: Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Taitung, and Penghu, which is much less than the counties in Taiwan Province in later generations. Even in addition to Penghu, the location of the other four counties has changed dramatically.

Take Taitung County as an example. Its location does not overlap with the location of later generations, but includes all of Hualien County in the background. Most of Nantou County, as well as part of Kaohsiung County. As for Taitung County in later generations, all of them were assigned to Tainan County.

At present, there are more than 500,000 Han Chinese in Taiwan, and the number of slaves is more than 2.5 million. However, among the Han people, a considerable number of them are floating population, either engaged in business or work, often traveling between Taiwan and the mainland, and many of them have registered on the good side of the Tang Dynasty, and then obtained household registration on the Taiwan side. There are properties on both sides.

At present, Taiwan is still mainly based on agriculture, fishery, as well as food processing and port trade as the main economic pillars, of which agriculture is mainly planted by large plantations, with Tainan County being the most concentrated, and there are large and small plantations and farms everywhere, mainly planting sugarcane and rice, and also planting tea, stinky artemisia and other cash crops. According to Cui Wei's statistics, there are now more than 100,000 Han Chinese engaged in plantations in Taiwan, and the number of slaves on plantations is more than 1.5 million, which is the largest industry in Taiwan.

As for the fishing industry. Taiwan is completely commercially fished, and most of the big fishermen form their own fishing teams, and then use trawls to carry out large-scale fishing, and the fish obtained are sold directly to various processing plants. A very small part of it also flows into the fishing markets of various cities in Taiwan for local people to buy and eat.

The plantation economy and commercial fishing have provided Taiwan with a large amount of industrial raw materials. So the island of Taiwan is now full of all kinds of food processing factories, such as sugar factories. Wineries, dried fish factories, canneries, etc., these food processing plants range from few to many. From weak to strong, it has become one of Taiwan's major economic pillars.

As for the last port trade, it is Taiwan to take advantage of the natural advantages of its own island, vigorously develop the port trade of Keelung and Tainan, and countless goods are loaded and unloaded here every day, and the annual throughput of some ports is more than hundreds of thousands of tons, although this number cannot be compared with those ports in later generations, but in the era of Datang, it is already very amazing. Therefore, port trade is also the most important economic pillar of Taiwan.

In addition to the above four economic pillars, Taiwan's textile industry is also developing very rapidly, after all, cotton cloth has been more and more accepted by overseas businessmen, cotton exports have increased significantly, and Taiwan is close to the South Seas, every day there are a lot of cotton cloth through here transit, at the same time, this also stimulates Taiwan's local textile industry, so it will show a thriving scene.

However, because the textile industry is an intensive industry, it needs to use a large number of workers, and is limited by Taiwan's population, so the textile industry has now developed to a bottleneck, and now the textile owners are turning to the Academy of Sciences, hoping that they can improve the current loom and develop a new machine that reduces the manpower input of the textile mill and increases the work efficiency.

While the textile industry is developing rapidly, shipyards, steel mills, cement factories and other heavy industries have also started, especially shipyards and related industries, with the advantages of major ports, it is also developing very fast, but shipbuilding is a systematic project, all aspects need a certain amount of time to develop, but I believe that in a few years, Taiwan's shipbuilding industry will usher in a peak.

After learning about the above situation from the mouths of officials at all levels, Li Su had a relatively comprehensive understanding of Taiwan's agriculture, commerce, and industry, and on the whole, it has developed well in all aspects, especially the most basic agriculture, which has developed at a particularly fast pace; for example, 90 percent of Taiwan's grain is already self-sufficient, and the rest can also be imported from Linyi, and it has basically gotten rid of the situation of importing from Datang. It is estimated that this is also because most of the officials such as Cui Wei are Confucian children and are influenced by the idea of building a country with agriculture, so they attach great importance to agriculture.

"Cui Wei, I already have a general understanding of Taiwan's development, now you can tell me about the difficulties that Taiwan is facing now, and then combine everyone's wisdom to see if you can come up with a solution?" After digesting the current situation in Taiwan, Li Su spoke.

As soon as Li Su asked about the difficulties faced by Taiwan, Cui Wei, Chen Gong and others all looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and then Cui Wei said: "Your Royal Highness, Taiwan is indeed facing many difficulties, but most of them have solutions, but now we are facing one of the biggest difficulties, if this difficulty is not solved, then Taiwan's development may stagnate, and it may even be left far behind by the major cities along the Tang Dynasty." ”

When Li Su heard Cui Wei's words, and then looked at everyone's reactions, he had already guessed a thing or two in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Is it because of the population?" ”

"Your Highness is wise!" Cui Wei said with a wry smile, "Our area of Taiwan is more than half larger than Dengzhou, but the population of Dengzhou has long exceeded one million, but the population of our Taiwan is less than half of Dengzhou, and His Royal Highness also has to establish various types of factories to meet the requirements of Taiwan's self-sufficiency in all aspects, which requires more population, but although Datang does not prohibit us from introducing population, but due to the limitations of all aspects, our population growth is still too slow, and it cannot meet the needs of all aspects." ”

The population mentioned by Cui Wei refers to the Han population, and slaves are not counted, after all, most of those slaves are concentrated in major plantations, and some are concentrated in factories, but in the eyes of most people, these slaves are not people, but just a talking tool.

For example, taking agriculture as an example, as long as the people on the mainland are willing to come to Taiwan, they can immediately get 100 acres of land, and if they are willing to spend some money, they can buy more land, and the price of land is as cheap as if it were given away for free, and if any mineral deposits are found on these lands, they are all privately owned, and the government will only collect some taxes when developing.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Taiwan has no agricultural tax from the beginning, that is, the output on individual land belongs to individuals, but if you sell the production on the land, you have to pay a tax, in fact, this is also a disguised agricultural tax, after all, Taiwan's agriculture is a large plantation economy, and the output is to be sold, so almost everyone has to pay taxes.

In addition to agriculture, there are similar preferential provisions in industry and commerce, especially Li Su also abolished all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on industry and commerce, and at the same time separated the right to collect taxes from government departments, and set up a special tax collection institute for unified tax collection, such as the goods that leave the factory will pay a unified tax when leaving the factory, and then with the tax bill issued by the tax court, there is no need to pay any taxes all over the island.

It is precisely through the above-mentioned preferential conditions for agriculture and industry, as well as the improvement of laws, public security, environment, and other aspects, that more and more people have come to settle in Taiwan, but Taiwan's development is too fast, and all walks of life need people, so the population growth still cannot meet the demand.

Thinking of the above, Li Su smiled at Cui Wei and officials at all levels: "Now the total number of households in the country counted by our Datang is more than 3 million, about more than 10 million people, but because there are many runaways and missing households in various local governments, it has not been counted, so according to my estimates, the total population of our Datang should be more than 20 million, and now it has taken us three years, and we already have a population of 500,000 people. I am very satisfied with the current population growth and your efforts! ”

Li Su calculated the accounts for everyone, and praised everyone present a few words by the way, which made Cui Wei and them very excited, stroking their beards one by one, with a smug smile on their faces.

At this time, I saw Li Su and then said: "As for the issue of population, everyone is also very anxious, and the same is true for this king, but after thinking about it for a while, I have thought of a good way to introduce population from Datang!" (To be continued.) )