"Now that the mainland is stable, the north has been recovered, the number of refugees has decreased, and the number of immigrants to Taiwan has also begun to decrease. Those who immigrate to Taiwan are mainly landless poor people from the mountainous areas of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, but the imperial court costs a lot to move them to Taiwan.
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This year, Maoxiang was delegated to the third rank and assigned to the fifth rank, the Sima of the Prefecture. He was actually doing the errands of a county magistrate. However, he put aside the emotions in his heart and tried to calm down and do things afterwards, and he gradually became on the right track.
The four prefectures in Taiwan are all competing for immigrants. The first priority of all prefectural and county officials is immigration and investment, especially immigration. All officials are required to recruit immigrants and include them in the assessment. Is this still the first requirement in the assessment?
Ask them to mobilize their family, relatives, and friends to immigrate.
No one can stop talking about everything.
But immigration also comes with a cost. You have to go to the mainland to recruit people. The farther you go, the higher the cost. You have to pay for food on the way, as well as boat fare, and settlement expenses after arrival. Most of the new immigrants arrive are poor and cannot afford to settle down directly to reclaim wasteland.
, you must first form a cooperative to cultivate in villages, but these government-run villages must recruit people, and you must prepare cattle, seeds, farm tools, and build water conservancy for reclamation.
They even had to fight with Taiwan's indigenous feudal lords.
It's all costs.
At the beginning, they directly recruited those refugees who were in war and famine. They were too hungry to survive. As long as they could have something to eat, they would be willing to be sent to Nanyang to be piglets, let alone sent to Taiwan to immigrate. After being brought to Taiwan,
Just provide some food rations, and then collectively cultivate the wasteland.
They are all tenants of government-run estates. The wasteland they cultivate is still owned by the government, and the harvested grain can also collect land rent. Taiwan's government can still make money from this kind of immigrants to cultivate wasteland.
But as the Central Plains stabilizes, this kind of free refugees has no source. They can only compete with the Central Plains for people and use horse racing to attract landless poor people from the interior to reclaim their land.
But it’s getting harder and harder to find a way. You have to pay for the boat fare, food and food expenses on the way, and even have to settle down after arriving in Taiwan.
Taiwan is now extremely poor. There are still tax exemptions on land, etc., and the government has no money. Although there are special funds allocated by the central government for immigration, the amount is limited.
If localities want to immigrate in large numbers, they have to find other ways.
The only way to avoid the problem is that the government is not strong enough, so we need to rely on private power. Instead of looking for poor people to immigrate, we now look for rich people to immigrate, and we look for those gentry, landlords, powerful merchants to immigrate.
Because they are powerful, they do not need the court to bear the cost of immigration. The court only needs to provide policy conditions. For example, giving them more land enclosures, allowing them to occupy more land for reclamation, and even allowing gentry and merchants from the mainland to form commercial villages.
, recruiting tenants in the form of business names to cultivate wasteland.
Anyway, Taiwan is full of land now, but what it lacks is people.
Moreover, Taiwan's climate is very good, suitable for growing sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, etc. The mainland currently has certain restrictions on the cultivation of cash crops. It is completely possible to attract investors to come to the commercial settlement without increasing the government's expenditure, and it can attract people to cultivate and cultivate the land.
Grow these cotton, sugar cane, tobacco, etc., and then develop primary processing industries, sugar pressing, spinning, tobacco, etc., which can also increase taxes. As for manpower, let them recruit tenants themselves, or directly buy slaves to run the farm.
Let’s develop it first and then talk about it.
And if there are gentry landowners from the Central Plains who are willing to immigrate and develop, it will naturally be better. They have the strength to bring their own cattle, farm tools, seeds, and even buy slaves, recruit tenants, and reclaim more wasteland.
"There are only two things we need to do. One is to relax policy restrictions, allow them to trade and settle, and allow people to reclaim more land. The second is to provide tax exemptions, such as giving new land tax exemptions for more years. And
More tax reductions and exemptions should also be given to workshops such as sugar pressing and spinning."
"Although tax revenue will be temporarily reduced, Taiwan must first develop. Once developed, it will not be too late to collect taxes."
Rice grown in paddy fields can be self-sufficient and can be sold inland. In other gardens, sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, tea, etc. can be grown, which not only does not occupy precious cultivated land in the mainland, but also promotes the development of Taiwan.
Locating Taiwan's agriculture in the inland raw material production areas can have a great cost advantage. It can use the advantages of land and policies to develop large-scale economic estates, plant large areas, and even use slaves and hired workers for planting to improve production capacity and efficiency.
He also proposed Kaishan. Kaishan was to build three continuous east-west roads in the south, middle and north of Taiwan, passing through the mountains, connecting the east and west, and building post roads, which not only strengthened the connection, but also strengthened the control over the indigenous vassals, and even
You can use this to develop mines in the mountains, etc., and you can also purchase deerskin, camphor, medicinal materials, wood, etc. from the indigenous people.
Kaishan and Fufan were implemented together. Nowadays, many island vassals, especially those born in the mountains, are very barbaric and hate immigrants. There have been many attacks from down the mountain.
Building three roads through the mountains will allow the Ming army to penetrate deep into the mountainous areas, divide them, trade and transport first, and then suppress and conquer them, and set up a fort town in the mountains that integrates post stations, military forts, markets, and forts, where there are also
It is necessary to set up schools, recruit the children of the feudal lords to enter schools, attract the feudal lords to enter the market and trade, etc.
We can't simply conquer or encircle them. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. We can still use trade to attract them to communicate. As long as they are willing to trade, we can also guide them to cooperate with the Han people in mining, logging, etc.
Many mountain vassals are still accustomed to hunting for a living, with a small amount of planting. Each has its own hunting area passed down from generation to generation. In order to compete for hunting grounds, they often go out to hunt for heads. This barbaric custom makes them very hostile to Han immigrants. If they cannot change their
With this kind of tradition, conflicts will inevitably become more and more serious in the future, and the consequences and losses will be huge.
The imperial court can trade with them, bringing salt, iron, cloth, tobacco, grain, etc., in exchange for their minerals, timber, medicinal materials, etc., and they can also increase their income, benefiting both sides, a win-win situation.
Maoqizong sat by the fireside and carefully discussed his strategies for managing Taiwan with his son, filling in and modifying some details.
Chatted for a long time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Maoqizong looked at his son and felt very relieved. Maoxiang used to be a romantic and impetuous person. Although he felt that his talents were not appreciated, he could not do things in a down-to-earth manner.
.Even if I was in trouble for the palm print before, it has become even more so. Now that I have been to Taiwan for a year, my whole body has become darker and thinner, but I have also become more stable and down-to-earth.
He patted his son on the shoulder and said, "You are thirty-eight years old this year, and you have finally matured and stabilized. It's good as you are now. Just work hard in Taiwan for three years. It would be even better if you can strive to become a prefect for another three years.
Young people, don't be impatient. If you can stay there for six years, really do something practical, and make some real achievements in a government, then it will be your most precious political wealth and will never be lost.
You will suffer a loss."
"Young people should pursue a career, and romance is not the right path."
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Zhu Yihai was very busy throughout the first month. He had to meet with a large number of officials every day, including local governors, dispatchers, patrols, and prefects, all summoned in batches.
He had to find time to meet with envoys from all sides.
He also had to summon the generals in charge of the army. Zhu Yihai was so busy that he got angry. His mouth was full of bubbles and it hurt to drink water.
However, the queen was still vomiting at him, which was even more annoying.
Fortunately, Wen Anzhi is the first assistant and chief prime minister, and his ability to do things is indeed better than that of Song Zhipu. He can handle many things in an orderly manner.
It was not until the eighth day of the lunar month that Zhu Yihai had time to summon a group of officials from Taiwan.
I listened to them give a detailed report, talking about the current development, as well as the various problems faced, financial problems, feudal society issues, etc.
With the government's comprehensive support policy, Taiwan's development has actually been rapid. The year before last, the number of Han immigrants in Taiwan was only about 300,000, and this year it has just exceeded one million.
This is due to various policy supports from the imperial court, which encourages people to bring their families to immigrate, and even provides resettlement subsidies, allows people to enclose land for reclamation, and provides various immigration loans.
It attracted many inland people, especially people from Fujian. Fujian is more mountainous and less land, which makes Fujian people like to go out and explore. In the past, when the sea was banned, a large number of people went to Nanyang, and even did smuggling and piracy. In the early years, Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong and others ran Taiwan.
At that time, many people ran to cultivate wasteland.
But in the early days, I just went to reclaim wasteland, and I was young and strong, and basically didn't take care of my family.
Now the imperial court encourages direct immigration to settle down, and even encourages Han immigrants to intermarry with familiar vassals on the island plain. Many of the slaves left by the Dutch before were granted freedom and household registration.
But these local officials in Taiwan still feel that the population is too small. After all, they have set up a road with four prefectures below it.
But there are only about 200,000 people in a prefecture now, which is actually the population of a county.
Now the imperial court's request is that an additional county can be established if the population of 10,000 households is reached. They all hope to increase the population and establish additional counties and townships.
Zhu Yihai felt that the strategies for governing Taiwan proposed by Mao Pijiang, including immigration, investment promotion, mountain creation, and vassal expansion, were the most straightforward.
Now that the scale of immigration is slowly declining and costs are increasing, it is indeed a good idea to increase the number of commercial villages.
"The imperial court can introduce policies to encourage merchant villages, allowing them to contract land in Taiwan for reclamation and planting, allowing them to plant sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, tea, mulberry leaves, etc., allowing them to freely recruit workers or buy slaves for cultivation, and provide tax and other preferential treatment
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Zhu Yihai did not directly allow the enclosure of land for commercial settlements as proposed by Maoxiang, but instead engaged in contract management like mining.
Merchants are allowed to allocate land for reclamation, but they need to obtain a contracting license, which is valid for five or ten years. The lease can be renewed upon expiration, but the ownership of the land for reclamation is still state-owned, rather than being directly reclaimed by the state.
This is the difference from civilian reclamation. As long as the land reclaimed by the common people is within the limit, it is their own. The land deed can be filed. One ding can be used to cultivate hundreds of acres.
However, although there is no limit for the nature of merchant villages, merchant villages are contracted and have no ownership rights. However, they can guarantee long-term leases, or even excellent lease rights, with a period of five or even ten years. As long as the land is not deserted,
Not taken back.
Even newly reclaimed land for commercial settlements can be reduced or exempted from the initial rent.
This is also an insurance policy to prevent all land in Taiwan from being occupied all at once. Immigrants in the future will have no land. If the powerful occupy most of the land, there will be serious consequences, so we can't just focus on the present.
You have to take a long-term view.
The immigrants who came first were allowed to select good land for cultivation and were given high land quotas, one hundred acres. Even women and underage men could receive a certain amount of land.
If they are able to farm, then a family can own several hundred acres of land and practice rotational farming. Although the yield of newly reclaimed wasteland is low, it can still produce good output.
The subsequent immigrants will surely gradually run out of land to cultivate, and those who have farmland will not be able to occupy that much land. That is also inevitable.
Just like in the mainland, especially in places with sparse land and many people, many people only have a few acres of land, or even an acre of their own land, and can only become tenants of landlords.
Everyone has land, and everyone is a farmer. This is basically impossible. In the end, it must still be a pyramid structure, with 10% to 20% of landowners occupying 70% to 80% of the land, and the remaining 80% to 90% of the common people.
They can only be tenants of the landlord.
After the chaos, some land can be reallocated and some land mergers can be alleviated, but it is impossible to solve this problem.
In times of prosperity, foreign expansion, conquering new lands, and immigration can also allow many people to obtain new lands and become new landlords or farmers. However, the prerequisite for this is that the original indigenous landlords lose their land and become slaves or farmers.
The tenants were even wiped out.
Taiwan is located overseas and has a lot of land that can be developed and utilized. This treasure land is quite rare. There are not many such places, and even Taiwan has to face threats from the indigenous people on the island.
Under the name of Zhu Yihai, the Young Mansion Supervisor, there was the first imperial team to come to the island to reclaim wasteland. Up to now, the royal estate has more than 75,000 acres of rice fields and more than 120,000 acres of sugar cane, cotton, and tobacco gardens.
Zhu Yihai's royal estate is the largest landowner on the island. Basically, it uses slaves and hired workers for planting. The slaves are from prisoners of war. There are also many slaves left by the original Dutch, as well as slaves bought from Southeast Asia and other places. The hired workers are
Many were previously recruited refugees.
The large scale of the royal estate is also related to the amount of capital he invested. From the beginning, he devoted all his efforts to development and invested all his money in management.
The emperor retained few royal estates in the Central Plains and did not compete with the people for land. However, he invested heavily in a desert island like Taiwan that was waiting to be developed. It was also to play a leading role. Although in comparison, the cost was higher than that in the mainland, Zhu Yihai felt that
Still worth it.
In recent years, he has also sealed a large amount of land in Taiwan to honorary officials. Those who have been granted titles have basically received an additional piece of land in Taiwan, ranging from hundreds to thousands of acres. These lands are all from Taiwan.
They need to organize their own people to cultivate and plant the wasteland, which is also a disguised form of using them to develop treasure islands.
“Mao Pijiang’s suggestion is very good,”
The emperor praised Maoxiang and then proposed that the Royal Shaofu will continue to take the lead in developing Taiwan next year and will increase the development of Taiwan's minerals, timber, etc. Now many gold, copper, and sulfur mines in Taiwan have been discovered, and they will all be officially launched next year.
former mining.
At the same time, new lumber mills and shipyards will be built in Taiwan, as well as camphor processing plants and deerskin processing plants.
"Next year, the imperial court will station the Fujian Royal Camp No. 1 Association in Taiwan, and the Royal Marine Division will also be stationed in the First Association. The provincial patrol garrison battalion will also be stationed in Taiwan No. 1 Association. A garrison town will also be set up, and their family records will also be moved.
