Tainan Prefecture.

Liu Xian sat in the study in a white coat, the heat of the weather made his forehead ooze a layer of sweat, but his eyes were still seriously looking at the information in his hand. This is one thing he has been doing since the first day he took over Taiwan - designing a new plan for the Penghu Fort!

Devil No. 6 used the importance of Taiwan to trick Liu Xian, pointing out the external threats that Taiwan has been subjected to many times, from the first crow to the second crow, to the Japanese army's attack on Taiwan just now. The defense position is crucial!

Liu Xian was so angry that he directly used his words to demand the construction of new forts on the main island of Taiwan and Penghu.

In history, Liu Mingchuan also did this after fighting France. Over the course of three years, he added thirty-one new Armstrong cannons to artillery bunkers in Taiwan and Penghu. Two-thirds of them were caliber 9-12 inch heavy guns. Because of the investment in military spending, Liu Mingchuan directly asked for Taiwan's customs tariff.

Liu Xian had the same method as Liu Mingchuan, although he did not have Li Hongzhang as a backstage, Beijing didn't seem to want to stumble with Liu Xian anymore, so he readily agreed.

Liu Xian did not set up a new battery on the island of Taiwan, but set up and repaired four old and new batteries in Penghu, adding a total of 19 gun emplacements. Yishui ordered the German Krupp heavy artillery!

The British consul in Fuzhou specially crossed the sea to Tainan to ask to see Liu Xian, but Liu Xian avoided it.

And he also gave the Italians a million taels of silver for the ship's fare, and a million taels of silver for the mechanical ruling to the American Maisheng Foreign Company. This is not to say that Liu Xian has an intimate attitude towards the United States, but to use this to reward Mai Sheng Foreign Bank. For Germany, a fledgling empire, he gave a military expenditure of one million taels of silver, and a purchase order of one million and three hundred thousand taels of silver. All military spending is used to purchase light and heavy artillery, and in addition to Penghu, Liu Xianke also has Qinzhou Bay, Shilu Port, Ryukyu and Hongji Port to guard against. It can even be said that this amount of silver is far from enough.

And the expenditure of more than four million taels of silver made the balance on Qin Jun's account that had just been abundant also sharply reduced.

However, you get what you give. More than four million taels of silver were smashed down, and the strength of the Qin army, which was absorbed and digested in the coming year, must be incomparably brilliant and powerful.

In addition, Zuo Zongtang's intention to befriend Liu Xian is still obvious. Liu Xian really wanted a group of naval talents from his hands. Although Liu Buyun, Deng Shichang, Lin Taizeng and several others who have already emerged, or have deep backgrounds, are not among them.

Lin Taizeng, grandfather Lin Peilin, is Lin Zexu's younger brother. Therefore, Lin Tai once called Shen Baozhen, the Minister of Shipping of Fujian and Lin Zexu's son-in-law, as his uncle. In 1867, he was admitted to the Fujian Shipbuilding School to learn ship driving. After graduating in 1871, he traveled extensively on the Jianwei training ship, and this year he has become the first mate of the Jianwei.

Deng Shichang, 25 years old, studied in the Harbour Master School for five years, from beginning to end, he studied hard and continued to improve himself, and all his homework assessments were listed as excellent. "All the methods of wind and waves, yarn, astronomy, geography, surveying, calculation, and array, as well as Chinese foreign affairs, are not proficient in research." Last year, he was guaranteed a five-grade military merit and was appointed as the first mate of the "Chenhang" transport ship, and this year he was even promoted to the pipe band of the "Haidongyun" gunboat.

Liu Buchan, driving, guns, diligent and diligent, was the first in the class in many exams, and finally graduated with the first place in the class. Now it is the pipe belt of the training ship Jianwei.

Zuo Zongtang is willing to be such a talent, and Shen Baozhen is also reluctant.

However, the Qin army also has a number of talents such as Qiu Baoren, Lin Yongsheng, Ye Zuqi, Xu Shoushan, Huang Jianxun, Zhang Cheng, Lin Guoxiang, Lu Han, etc., and then there is Fang Boqian, a very controversial figure in later generations, and now the first mate of the Changsheng warship has also come to the Qin army. Liu Xian was originally very uneasy about the fleet, but after these people came, he immediately became relieved.

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Just when Liu Xian nailed his eyes to the design of the fort, many gentry and wealthy families in Taiwan, various states and counties, gathered in groups. Of course, something happened. And what is there in this place of Taiwan that can shake the gentry in the entire realm like this? That is a sentence made by Liu Xian in early September -- Taiwan's finances are shrinking, and the acres of land are somewhat blurred.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, Liu Xian's subordinates set up a Qing Fu Bureau, and now they are recruiting to expand their manpower. Obviously, when the Qing Fu Bureau is ready, it will have to go door to door to make up a land inventory.

Tian is the lifeblood of the Chinese, and now Liu Xian is about to move the lifeblood of the entire Taiwan gentry, how can the whole Taiwan gentry not be shaken?

In the early years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's seizure of Taiwan, in order to buy people's hearts and minds and to settle down in Taiwan, a small number of people (some people say that Taiwan is all 40,000 people) obtained a patent license from the government, allowing them to reclaim land in Taiwan. Very few of these patent licensees are actually engaged in cultivation themselves. On the contrary, they distributed each piece of land to a few pioneers they found, just like the contractors of later generations, after the big head got the work, he did not do it himself, but transferred it to the small head below, and made a profit from it. This is the case in Taiwan, where the pioneers open up their fields and then rent them to the lowest tenants. When the subsequent influx of immigrants from the mainland increased, and the price of land rose, many of the pioneers actually became large foreign landlords, i.e., landlords who sat in the cities and collected 40 to 60 percent of the harvest. These landlords are known in Taiwan as small tenants: they are expected to deliver about 10 percent of the land harvest he originally received to those patent licensees (who are respectfully referred to as large tenants). According to tradition, only the license holder pays the land tax. Due to the rotten Manchu bureaucracy on the island of Taiwan and the incompetence of the officials themselves, patent licensees often avoided even the modest land taxes. For example, Liu Xian was shocked to find that the annual land tax in Tamsui County could only collect 780 taels! In addition, many of the patent licensees are in decline, and the small tenants are real gentlemen and large landowners, who do not pay taxes at all.

When Liu Xian was not an official in Taiwan, he would only point to Wanwan and smile at this situation. I don't have a backache when I stand and talk, and I don't have to be responsible for firing a cannon with my mouth full. Just like the public knowledge, cents, and countless people on the Internet in later generations. However, now that he is the governor of Taiwan, this situation cannot be tolerated.

Since the small tenants are the actual owners of the land, they are given title deeds and are taxed annually in accordance with their actual land. As for the original patent certificate that is still theoretically valid, the small tenant can buy it directly from the patent licensee, or reduce the annual rent paid by a certain percentage.

Liu Xian knew that Taiwanese people were very grouped, and when these people moved to Taiwan from Fujian and Guangdong, many of them were distinguished by clan or regional origin, and began to gather together to build villages and villages. The general trend of the whole Taiwan, six or seven tenths of the dwellings in Zhangquan, and the people of Guangmin are between three and four. In terms of north and south, there are more freshwater in the north, more people in Fengshan in the south, and more Fujian households in Zhuzhang Eryi. And almost all of these people who migrated from the mainland were poor middle peasants, or even had nothing. It is very rare for the truly rich to have those who take the initiative to move to Taiwan.

Although these people come to Taiwan, they have the spirit of taking risks and pioneering spirits, but they are trapped in a low level of culture, are clumsy in long-term planning, pay more attention to immediate interests, and lack a sense of the rule of law and social balance. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was an official who did not go to the countryside, and the power of the daily clans was great and cohesive. It is only natural for immigrants who come to strange places to get together. They form a certain group force by virtue of blood and geography, in order to help each other and seek common development in real life. In this way, although there is the cohesion of a small collective, its vulgarity and aggressiveness have also brought many corresponding negative effects, often because of the small anger, they gather people to fight regularly, and most of them are of the same clan, the same township, and the same county gather to fight. Therefore, in Taiwan, there are often fights between different villages or counties, and they are large-scale fights.

Moreover, because the overall environment is like this, the power of the Taiwanese gentry is very strong. In later generations, there were five major families in Taiwan. Although now except for the Wufeng Lin family and the Banqiao Lin family, they really have a certain strength, and the three families in the area are just small turtles. But no one can really despise the Taiwanese gentry.

Taking the Wufeng Lin family as an example, it was a real hero who could casually pull out one or two thousand Ding Yong. Although its power has expanded too rapidly, its strength is indeed too strong, which has attracted joint suppression by the government and the Taiwanese people. The head of his family, Lin Wenming, Lin Wencha's younger brother, and Lin Chaodong's second uncle, was accused of embezzling captives and taking the lead in threatening the government and other crimes, and was conspired by the government, and was suddenly beheaded by Ling Dingguo, a commissioner sent by the governor of Fujian. In the five years since then, the Wufeng Lin family has been frequently suppressed, and now in addition to the fields, the business has suffered extremely heavy losses.

Taiwan's gentry are the patriarchs of the clan, representing the entire surname clan, and controlling the power of the entire surname clan. Any one of them can't take out the strength of thousands of people, but he can also take out the number one hundred and ten.

But who is Liu Xian? He was the commander-in-chief of the Qin army who was born in military service. Although the Qin army in Taiwan was only one part of the Zhou army, the strength of a large garrison regiment was enough for Liu Xian to easily wipe out the entire Taiwan.

Don't say that not all the gentry in Taiwan are all Wufeng Lin family, even if they are all Wufeng Lin family, they can gather the strength of 100,000 people, and the Zhou army can be swept away with a thunderous momentum!

Liu Xian wished that someone would jump out, as long as he dared to jump, he would slap him to death!

A tax of seven hundred and eighty taels of silver in Tamsui County, what else can Liu Xian do except completely push the rules to the ground? Just that basic plate to intrigue with the Taiwanese gentry? Do they deserve it too? "I made him eat it and spit it all out of his stomach." When the Qing Fu Bureau was established, Liu Xian said this to his subordinates.

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"My lord, that Richard refuses to pay the camphor tax. Say...... Say, China's taxes can be received on the heads of the Chinese, but absolutely not on the heads of their Britons. ”

At the same time, the Taiwan Bureau of Commerce, which was established by Liu Xian, the first governor of Taiwan, and was in charge of Xu Yanxu, the former governor of Liuzhou, was directly dumb at the beginning. R1152