Tainan Fucheng, in a private house bought by Liu Xian. This is the temporary governor of Taiwan Province. The real yamen is still under construction, and it will not be able to move in until next spring at the earliest.

"My lord, the seventeenth master has reported the money and grain booklet from Tamsui County. Tamsui County reported 192,000 acres of fields and 200,000 acres of tea gardens. The Seventeenth Master had already asked the gentry tenants of Tamsui to designate their own fields, and only said that they were going to set the boundaries of the land, and no one doubted it. Once it's all designated, close the net immediately! ”

The attendant Wu Huaien took the telegram sent by Tamsui and reported to Liu Xian.

Laying wires on land is much faster than laying cables under the sea, and while Liu Xuan was still busy, Liu Xian's telegraph network covering the entire counties in the north and south of Taiwan had been in operation for almost a month.

Wu Huaien is the old man in Liu Xian's attendant room, he stayed in the attendant room when Ji Xiliang was there, and now Ding Zhenduo is in charge, and he is still in the attendant room.

"Call back, known. Let him watch it! ”

Of about one million acres, only 20% of the fields reported are still insufficient. If Liu Xian doesn't teach this group of gentry tenants a lesson and don't let their group of people remember it for a long time, Wanwan people will not be small who is in charge now!

In late October, almost at the same time as the start of the action in Tamsui County, Changhua, Tainan, Fengxian, and so on, for about three or four days, the entire Qingfu Bureau in Taiwan's subordinate localities took a refreshed attitude and started to take a hard hand.

All the household offices of the county halls were arrested as soon as possible, and then the Qin army and a part of the Taiwan Green Battalion, which was controlled by Liu Xian, were dispatched in large numbers to control the cities and towns in various places. and even the official yamen. The latter is the aspect to be involved after the clearing of the acres of land this time, and there are so many hidden fields under the rule. Are your parents not at fault for being in charge? I can always take off a few official hats. And Qin Jun, as a sitting tiger, can't eat half of it. You can eat a third of it, too!

Liu Xian estimated that three or four million acres of hidden fields could be found in Taiwan, not counting tea plantations and woodlands. After all, in later generations, Taiwan's cultivated land was close to 10 million mu, and at this time, Taiwan's development was far less than that of later generations, but the land that was easily developed, that is, the plain area of western Taiwan, was almost fully reclaimed. It is not an exaggeration to take a middle number and count Taiwan's cultivated land to between 4.5 million mu and 5 million mu.

When the handle of Taiwan's gentry tenants was really caught by Liu Xian. There are only two choices left in front of the gentry tenants in Taiwan: one is to obediently admit punishment, regardless of whether they hate Liu Xian to death in their hearts, and obediently contribute a number of development funds to Liu Xian. Otherwise, even if the field is sold, Liu Xian will not be unable to do it;

The second is resistance, fierce resistance. But even if the gentry and tenants of the entire Taiwan rebelled, Liu Xian would be sure to flatten them all by the beginning of next spring. In this way, Liu Xian's harvest will be greater, and he can even take the opportunity to truly control the whole of Taiwan;

Which path should Taiwanese gentry tenants choose? There is no room for regret in life's decisions. Liu Xian is waiting for them to make a choice!

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Fog Peak Lin family.

Since Lin Wenming was beheaded. Lin Dai's became the Lin family's Dinghai Divine Needle. When Ling Dingguo killed people in the court, the Lin family could not sue him, and I don't know how many people have rebelled. The Lin family failed to sue in Beijing for the first time, and Ling Dingguo, officials in Taiwan, and many Taiwanese gentry who had enmity with the Lin family. One after another, the Lin family not only suffered a big loss in business, but those people's hands had already stretched out towards the Lin family's fields, and many relatives of the Lin family had gathered hundreds of people, planning to attack Changhua at night. It was intercepted by Lin Dai's family halfway, so that the Lin family did not continue on the road of self-destruction.

Lin Dai is Lin Chaodong's mother. The wife of Lin Wencha, the founder of the Wufeng Lin clan. After Lin Wencha was killed in battle, his second brother Lin Wenming was killed. Cousin Lin Wenfeng was imprisoned, Lin Chaodong was entangled in the lawsuit, and the entire Wufeng Lin clan was naturally in charge of the Lin Dai clan.

The current hard measures of the Qing Fu Bureau are a stab in the eye for every Taiwanese gentry tenant. As for the Wufeng Lin clan, it can be said that it is a blessing in disguise.

At that time, the Lin family took advantage of the aftermath of the Dai Chaochun incident to embezzle and seize tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, laying a solid foundation for the Wufeng Lin family, and strengthening its social status through marriage and other means, but the large number of lawsuits that attracted after that gave the public the opportunity to clean up the Lin family. To this day, this wave has not stopped. The Wufeng Lin clan can be said to be in Taiwan, except for his own in-laws and relatives such as the Banqiao Lin clan, there are enemies everywhere.

The gentry and magistrates of Changhua County were able to catch the Lin family, and the Lin family had more than 20,000 acres of mature land up and down, and more than 17,000 acres were registered. For the Wufeng Lin family, this is a very fatal thing. In the future, even if Taiwan's land endowment does not change, it will still be a thin endowment, and the Lin family will have to hand over more than 6,000 quintals of rice a year.

Even if Liu Xian had gone to the mainland to pound grain from the Indochina Peninsula in recent years, the price of rice had dropped in the Liangguang and Fujian generations, and 6,000 quintals of rice would still be worth 8,000 taels of silver.

Because of the prestige of the Qin army, no one in the entire Lin family dared to say that they rebelled against the county seat, but there were also people clamoring to 'force Liangshan' and raid the homes of some turtle grandchildren. This wave even Lin Dai's family couldn't suppress it, because behind this wave stood Lin Chaodong, who urgently rushed back to Wufeng from Fuzhou because of the Tianmu Qingfu incident.

Lin Chaodong, who is only 25 years old this year, is young and vigorous. Although he has a clear mind and is very sensible, he understands that using the strength of the Lin family to rebel is just asking for his own death. But that doesn't mean he's weak!

In the case that the general rate of land registration in Taiwan is only more than 10%, Wufeng Lin's official department has exceeded 80%. Lin's in-laws and friend families, such as the Yang family, the Li family, the Dai family, etc., are also as high as three or four percent. This is standing on top of the Lin family's head and, if you don't fight back, not to mention how low the Lin family's reputation is, it is the strength of the Lin family's own people, then it will also disperse.

It was at this time that the Qingfu Bureau's overturned hands and covered the clouds, and the rain exploded. In an instant, the entire Wufeng Lin clan was refreshed and had a clear mind. And the Qingfu Bureau of Changhua County was the first to complete the county-wide field measurement among the county halls in Taiwan because of the help and assistance of the Wufeng Lin family and his in-laws, the Yang family, the Li family, and the Dai family. More than 1.33 million mu of hidden land was found, and counting the acres of farmland that had been reported in Changhua County, the cultivated land in Changhua County was close to 1.6 million mu.

Liu Xian is not surprised by this number, Changhua County is located in Taichung, and the famous Changhua Flat Land in Taiwan in later generations is now completely included in Changhua County. It's the most fertile and flat of all the small plains in Taiwan. Only that piece of flat land can reclaim more than one million acres of fertile land, not to mention that the area of Changhua County is not limited to the size of that piece of flat land.

"Hahaha, hahaha......" Lin Chaodong looked up to the sky and laughed, "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil." God doesn't deceive me! Holding a letter sent by the Qingfu Bureau, Lin Chaodong felt how happy he was at this moment.

On the letterhead is the ticket issued by the Clearing Bureau. The Lin family has 3,500 acres of land hidden, and should pay back taxes for ten years. Even if Taiwan was a thin endowment before, there were only more than three buckets of official affairs per acre of land, and there were more than 1,000 quintals of 3,500 acres. Ten years is 11,200 quintals of rice, a total of 15,000 taels of silver. If the Lin family wants to take out this money, they must smash the pot and sell iron.

But now, because the Lin family has the highest rate of reported land production in Changhua County, the Qingfu Bureau cut half of it with a stroke of the pen. And because the Lin family took the initiative to cooperate when they were in Zhangtian, and there was a heavy meritorious service table, the taxes that the Lin family needed to pay were cut in half.

Fifteen thousand taels of silver became three or four thousand taels, that is, three thousand quintals of grain, which could be paid in five years. The pressure on the Lin family's body, which was as heavy as Mount Tai, instantly became light.

"Pay! I pay it to the Lin family. Lin Dai's excitement in his heart was also irrepressible, and he said to his son: "Yintang, if you send someone to reply, just say that this tax arrears, my Lin family is smashing pots and selling iron, and there will be no shortage of the court." ”

There is no better chance of revenge than now. and if you do not pay the money, the land will not be yours. And if you have to pay the silver and pay taxes for ten years, even the Banqiao Lin family, which has the strongest financial resources in Taiwan, will instantly become a poor egg with no place to stand.

In addition to killing the enemy, what could be more painful than seeing the enemy suffer? (To be continued......)