The tax on three or four million mu of hidden land will cost more than one million quintals of grain a year, that is, nearly 1.5 million taels of silver. Ten years is fifteen million taels, what is this concept? Last year, the annual annual income of the Taiwan government was only 500,000 taels.

What camphor, tea sugar? Compared with the basic plate of Tian Mu, it is a piece of cake!

It is no wonder that the current Fujian people say that Taiwan is rich. Liu Xian was still puzzled. Taiwan's annual salary needs the cooperation of Fujian and Guangdong to get through, just like the state-level poor and poor counties in later generations, all of which eat the financial subsidies allocated by the state. Can such a place still be rich? Now he understands that it is not the government or the most basic people who are rich in Taiwan, but those gentry and tenants.

At present, the British are transporting more than one million taels of opium and more than one million taels of silver to Taiwan every year in the name of foreign medicine, and it is really not a joke.

"Sue them, either the hidden field will be confiscated, or they will pay me back in installments!"

10 years of interest-free repayment, 20 years of low-interest repayment, 30 years of medium-interest repayment, 50 years of high-interest repayment. Liu Xian was very well prepared and very humane. The two paths depend on how the gentry tenants choose!

Liu Xian had already asked Liu Xuan to write a copy of these things, and he co-signed them and reported them to Beijing.

It is unrealistic to ask the gentry tenants to give up the hidden fields; It is also a bit unrealistic to ask them to come up with ten years of tax arrears at once; Just look at the last four, and they choose one. The joint newspaper was published in Beijing, first, to tell Beijing about its own merits, and second, to let Beijing relax its vigilance against itself.

Taiwan has always been the hardest hit area in the eyes of the Qing government, and there have been rebellions every once in a while. In Beijing's eyes, the Taiwanese people are almost a potential ally for rebellion. If Liu Xian really has a bad heart, how can he rectify Wanwan like this? He should do everything he can to win him over.

This is also another expression of loyalty by Liu Xian. After all, the Qin army's navy still needs to be replenished, and the ships ordered by Liu Xian from Britain and Italy have not returned, and Qiu Baoren, Lin Yongsheng, Ye Zuqi, Xu Shoushan, Huang Jianxun, Zhang Cheng, Lin Guoxiang, Lu Han and other talents sent to Britain have just entered the school to audit. The strength of his men has not been accumulated enough!

Send someone to study in the British Navy and buy warships from the British! Yes, after Liu Xian had an awkward relationship with the British after the end of the war with Japan for two months, he once again released full of goodwill to the British.

Two ironclad ships, four mosquito ships, two iron-ribbed wood-hulled cruisers, a big deal of 420,000 pounds!

It's not that Liu Xian is spineless. Rather, it was because in terms of machinery and army arms trade, leaving aside the British Empire once or twice, it was enough to express the dissatisfaction of the Qin army group. In terms of this fleet, the Qin army really needs to continue to learn from the British.

Moreover, what the Manchus did not know at the moment was that Japan, with the money raised in their hands, secretly signed a ship purchase agreement with the British in August, and bought three ironclad ships and three iron-ribbed and wood-hulled cruisers in one fell swoop. If all these warships returned, the Japanese navy would immediately be able to leap to a high position that was even better than the strength of the Chinese navy.

And this news was revealed to Liu Xian by the British themselves!

What the intention was, Liu Xian could guess, and he could only immediately release goodwill to the British.

In addition, Liu Xian also placed an order for four warships with the Fujian Mawei Ship Administration. Two iron-ribbed wood-hulled cruisers, two purely wooden battleships, the price was set at one million taels of silver. This price of the shipyard will definitely not suffer, and it can still make a profit.

Three years ago, when they built the Jingyuan iron-hulled ship, the price was less than 230,000 taels of silver. Now, because of the emergence of the Qinnan Iron and Steel Plant, the price of iron and steel has dropped sharply, and a large number of teak from Vietnam and Siam on the Indochina Peninsula have been continuously transported to the mainland, and the price of wood has dropped again. In addition, shipbuilding is the same as engaging in real estate, the more the number of batches built, the higher the building, the lower the cost.

These four warships can have a profit of 200,000 taels, and even the shipmasters themselves can build one.

Lin Yongsheng, Ye Zuqi, Xu Shoushan and others, this group of naval talents that Liu Xian managed to get his hands on, will have at least one warship in the future. It is necessary to be able to suppress the Japanese while still maintaining the stability of the sea. In that way, Liu Xian could let go and raise troops against the Qing Dynasty.

Hongji, Shilu, Qinzhou Bay, the most fundamental arms and steel industry of the Qin army, are all linked by sea. Without the right to control the sea, Liu Xian's rebellion will be annoying.

……

Ilan.

On a low slope only a few dozen meters above sea level, the flames of the destroyed civil engineering village gradually extinguished. After a short rest, a squad of Qin troops with a small squad of Japanese advance team began to advance towards the village. In terms of size, the village is no more than a settlement of one or two hundred people.

The small black village in front of me had just undergone a baptism of mortar, and under the light of the torches, almost none of the huts in the village were intact, and even the partially collapsed houses were still sprinkled with red blood.

It's brutal, but it can't be helped. The hostility of these students to outsiders is too deep-rooted to be reconciled by words. And what Liu Xian lacks most is time.

Therefore, 'Vaddin Kaishan' is a must.

With the Japanese standing team as the main force, these people play with knives neatly and have good obedience. After putting on the steel armor that the Qin army made for them, even their necks and faces were covered, unless the Wanwan natives were lucky, blowing arrows, bows and arrows just shot through their eyes, they couldn't help these soldiers at all.

It's just that the Japanese don't have a lot of weight and endurance, and these soldiers who stand up are powerful and explosive. At the beginning, he wore twenty or thirty pounds of steel armor to go into battle, and before he could get into the morning, he was tired and paralyzed. The training on weekdays, whether it was Qin Jun's training or their own training, was mainly based on exercising weight-bearing and endurance.

"Erming, you take someone over there and occupy that corner tower! Sun Datou, you lead someone to raise the fire and move forward. The others are with me, everyone stay vigilant! ”

Even if there is a standing team as a shield, the Qin army is not safe. One qiē have to be careful and then careful.

Half-loud, screams and the cries of women and children broke the silence. Blood and fire, as the Qin army continued to penetrate into the mountains of Taitung, more and more people fell into the depths of the mountains where they had lived for generations.

……

Thursday, December 11, 1874.

When a Dutch merchant ship from Batavia arrived at Dagou Harbor, a group of local Taiwanese workers hurriedly surrounded it, and a brand-new large steam pulley crane was standing on the shore of Dagou Harbor. Under the manipulation of more than a dozen workers, the cargo on this small steamer of six or seven hundred tons was unloaded in half a day.

Fidler pulled his wife, Anna, to the dock and took a deep breath.

Well, in addition to the natural smell of the sea, it still feels good, better than the smell of the Batavia marina.

Moreover, the entire port is very clean and tidy. Fiedler felt that this would not be the consciousness of the Chinese, but only the strict demands of the managers.

The entire Dagou New Area, including the port, is all cement compacted flat ground, snow-white lines are drawn to divide the port work area, and the neat dock warehouse buildings are scattered, accompanied by several lawns or tree green belts, which really surprised Fiedler. The lampposts are painted snow-white and adorned with beautiful windproof oil lamps.

Dock workers in uniform dressed in uniform shuttled back and forth with carts or horses, and policemen in teams of two, with batons hanging from their waists, leisurely passing by. Fiedler could even occasionally be seen in European women in clean and beautiful dresses in front of the fish shop on the side of the pier, picking through a row of goods.

Looking down the wide street, the old dog-fighting harbor, which Fiedler was familiar with, finally fell into his eyes. Liu Xian has only been in control of Taiwan for a few days? It is not easy to repair a dog-fighting port, and it is far from enough time to build a new port area.

However, the reconstruction of the port area is still something he must do. This is Kaohsiung in later generations, and it is one of the foreign ports that Liu Xian is preparing to focus on developing, and now the land use efficiency of the port area is too low and too poor. And it's not pretty!

As for the management office set up by the Qin army in the port of Dagou, hidden in an old-style house, Fiedler clearly saw it.

I haven't returned to Taiwan for a year, and now the scene of the port terminal and the changes in the entire port area. Fiedler, who was more mentally prepared, was still secretly surprised.

He knew that the Qing officials here had a great force, and he had defeated Russia, defeated France, and defeated all of Japan. His subordinates did not hire high-ranking officials from Europe and the United States, and the planning and development of the group were all completed by the Qing people themselves.

In the South Seas, the Netherlands and Spain were wary of this force. Even the Batavian authorities have slowed down the annexation of Lanfang. In the face of the Qin army, which was in the limelight, the Dutch did not dare to give him the slightest excuse.

"God, is this really a port under the rule of Qing officials? It's much prettier than Hong Kong. Batavia, Singapore, and Manila are not as good as them. "The beautiful and fresh port area in front of her brought a great surprise to Anna.

"Yes, baby. Even Amsterdam isn't as clean as it gets. I think it was the right choice to go back to Taiwan again. ”

"Where's our home, my dear?" Anna clung to her husband, her mouth full of coquettishness.

"I've already commissioned Mr. Alaide to help us build a villa estate in the Southside. I thought, that should be beautiful. Watching a horse-drawn carriage with Dutch flags and company flags flying in the distance, a heartfelt smile appeared on Fiedler's lips.

"Fishler, welcome back." Out of the carriage came a lean middle-aged man, who was Fiedler's Alley, his old friend.

"Yes. I'm back in Taiwan again. Hopefully it's the right decision. ”

"Of course you made the right decision. Although Marquis Liu's wrists are strong, his abilities are as strong as his strength. Look at this Minato area, it's 100 days......"

Taiwan's changes have never attracted the attention of domestic people alone. R1152