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  Chapter 506 503 [Water Xi'an]

  According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, both Fujian and Guangdong have more than 4 million people.

  However, Fujian has a Taiwan prefecture, and Guangdong has a Qiongzhou prefecture (Hainan Island). A large number of landless people from Fujian and Guangdong were immigrated to the coastal areas of Taiwan and Hainan Island for reclamation.

  The cost of this kind of immigration is not high, just go by boat.

  In the first year, the land is often directly burned, and the primitive agricultural technology of slash-and-burn farming is very effective in reclaiming raw land. It doesn't take much effort to cut down trees, and the ash left by burning wasteland can also be used as fertilizer to nourish crops.

  In the central and northern regions of Taiwan Island alone, more than 600,000 Han Chinese have settled down one after another—50,000 to 60,000 of them were immigrated by Zheng Zhilong when he was a pirate.

   After counting the population of immigrants to Taiwan, and then counting the coastal port cities, in the huge Fujian countryside, there are actually only about 2 million farmers left.

  So, although there is not much arable land in Fujian, farmers really have no shortage of land to plant!

  The development level of Hainan Island is much higher than that of Taiwan Island. The number of registered Han Chinese and Shu Li exceeded 1 million. Most of the Han immigrants came to the island during the Ming Dynasty. The ancestors of these Han people, about 300,000 to 500,000, were organized by the Ming government to emigrate, and many of them were military households and exiled prisoners.

   This time, Zhao Han announced to the world and used policies to encourage overseas development. In addition to many street thugs, there are also a large number of businessmen who have heard the news.

  After they came to Luzon, they were told the principle of pioneering when they settled down, and they were not allowed to rob the territory of friendly indigenous tribes.

  The so-called friendly tribes are tribes who followed the Datong Army and attacked Manila together. There are also tribes that quietly accepted and protected Chinese survivors after the Tu Hua incident.

  These tribes have been registered one after another.

  At the same time, the coastal area on the west side of Luzon Island is divided into five administrative regions, and five magistrates are appointed to manage it. The pioneering areas of the Han people all radiated from the five major counties. For the time being, they only engaged in agricultural planting and port trade, and did not go into the mountains to find gold and silver mines.

   It is said to swallow the entire Luzon Island, but in fact it can only control the western coastal area, and 80% of the island is still in the hands of the indigenous people.

  With more than 2,000 Chinese refugees, Wan Zhaoan, who attacked Spanish plantations everywhere, has now become a plantation owner. He was allocated a tobacco plantation by drawing lots, and the girl he saved halfway was also taken as his concubine.

  One wife, one concubine, one father-in-law, the whole family has more than 200 mu of land, and 13 aborigines serve as tenants for them.

   They are all serfs left by the Spaniards. They are very good at growing tobacco, but no one likes to be lazy.

Wan Zhaoan called the tenants together, took out the employment contract and said: "Come and press your fingerprints. I will temporarily divide the tobacco plantation into 13 pieces of land and lease them to you for cultivation. The tobacco grown every year will be paid by us." Come and sell, 60% of the money will go to me, and 40% to yourselves. If you want to make more money, just farm the land honestly for me!"

  Indigenous tenants are used to being serfs. They don’t know what tenancy is, but they just press their fingerprints in a daze.

  Then, the native tenants were led out to inspect the land they cultivated one by one. After tossing for several days, I finally understood what it meant, and my enthusiasm for farming increased slightly.

  If you want to really make them work hard, you have to harvest the tobacco.

   When the time comes, call everyone and distribute the money in front of everyone. Some get less money, some get more money, and you can experience the benefits of hard work firsthand.

  Wan Zhaoan is considered kind-hearted, and actually leaves 40% to the tenants.

  True traditional landlords will not give tenants a share at all, but directly set the rent quota. Even in the event of natural disasters and no harvests, the tenants have to pay the rent in full according to the quota.

   Wan Zhaoan didn't think about exploiting the native tenants hard, because he was thinking about making the cake bigger.

  Four members of the family have not yet occupied 400 mu of land. It is a waste of manpower for 13 tenants to plant more than 200 mu of land. After all, this is a tobacco plantation, unlike grain farming, it is easy for a tenant to plant 20 mu of land.

   This guy then reclaimed wasteland in the surrounding area. As long as he has cultivated the wasteland for three years, the wasteland will be his, and the tax will be very light during the three years.

  The first generation of Luzon Han people who settled down took root in this way.

   What awaits them will be tax adjustments in the next two to three years. For example, heavy taxes are levied on tobacco and sugarcane, and light taxes are levied on planting grain, etc.—Don’t think about filing taxes indiscriminately, the number of Han people is too small, and the land of Han people is also small. Officials can see everything when they go to the countryside.

   Zheng Guozhong, who was sent to Nanjing and was in charge of the negotiations, was promoted to the governor of Luzon, and he was promoted several levels at once.

   That black buddy, Tie Hong, became the first Luzon General Soldier.

   In Luzon, where trade has been cut off for more than half a year, countless merchants came to Manila with a backlog of goods. Then after hearing the news, another swarm of goods was shipped to Cebu Island, and the goods were sold to the Spaniards and shipped to the Americas for sale.

  Cebu Island has become a new business center in Southeast Asia, and Manila has become a transit point for Chinese maritime merchants.

  In the winter of that year, a news spread widely: Luzon is rich in gold!

  In the coastal prefectures and counties of the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang, many traditional landlords whose land had been confiscated and had considerable wealth could not sit still after hearing this news. They recruited their own people and organized a trip to the southeast of Luzon Island, occupying land while panning for gold.

   There is no official government set up by Zhao Han at all!

   Until the number of gold diggers grew to more than 3,000, Zheng Guozhong, the governor of Luzon, requested to set up a sixth county here.

  Luzon is the first gold-producing country in East Asia. The gold mines discovered at this time are all in the southeast of the island. Moreover, mainly sands have been scoured for hundreds of years, and the output is actually very low, so low that the Spaniards are too lazy to intervene.

  Zhao Han didn't bother to intervene, because he had already received news that there was not much gold produced there.

  The real large-scale gold mine is still in the territory of the aborigines, who knows when it will be discovered!

  The Luzon copper mine was taken over by the government due to its large scale, and ordered the governor to organize manual mining.

  …

  Turn back the time to June.

  Gush Khan, who occupied Qinghai and Tibet, sent his sixth son to Nanjing to express his submission. As early as eight years ago, this guy had contacted Huang Taiji and expressed his friendly attitude towards the Manchu Qing regime.

   Even, this guy even sent his seventh son to Taiyuan to make friends with Li Zicheng.

   In a word, Gushi Khan is friendly with everyone, and he only wants to be the local emperor in Qinghai and Tibet.

  Since Gushi Khan promised to surrender, Zhao Han didn't want to cause trouble, so he sent envoys to canonize him as the king of Shunyi. When he freed his hand, Gushi Khan broke out internal conflicts again, and it would not be too late to recover Qinghai and Tibet.

   Just in time to deploy troops from Sichuan, and take advantage of the end of the summer harvest to go to Guizhou!

  The entire Guizhou, which nominally belongs to the puppet court of Yunnan, has been ruled by chieftain An Rupan in essence.

  However, it is impossible for An Rupan to sweep Guizhou. His way of unifying Guizhou is to entrust the small chieftains and make the big chieftains himself. There were more than 20 chieftains in southern Guizhou, who listened to both the Yunnan court and An Rupan, but they might not listen to anyone.

  Guiyang.

An Rupan was furious: "It's okay if the chieftain of Pu'an (Pan County) didn't come, after all, it's very far away. Why didn't Wolong, Dalong, Jinshifan, and Pingzhou Six Caves come? Gathering troops for a month, but still If we don't get together, the puppet bandits will almost kill Guiyang!"

  The two divisions of the Datong Army in Sichuan, one led by Huang Yao, fought from Xuyong to Chishui, and the other led by Fei Yinggong, went straight from Zunyi to Guiyang.

  The two divisions in Guangxi also entered the southeastern part of Guizhou.

   When the puppet imperial court in Yunnan received a request for help, they adopted a strategy of holding back their troops. Mu Tianbo did not send troops at all, because he was suppressing the chieftain's rebellion.

  The lord of Guizhou, An Rupan, ordered to gather troops, and only 40,000 people gathered for a month.

  Yanglongkeng was easily breached by Fei Yinggong's troops. After bombarding with artillery for a long time, the defenders directly chose to surrender. Continuing to the south, the Daming Qianhu from the Xifeng Station watched the wind and descended, and Fei Yinggong attacked Zha Zuosi within a month.

  In a certain time and space, this is Wang Yuan's hometown, and not far from it is the Longchang Station where Wang Yangming enlightened.

  Zha Zuosi is the domain of the Shuidong Song family, a chieftain family that has been sinicized to the point of madly producing poets. In name, they returned to obedience like a pan, but when they met the Datong army, they surrendered in a hurry.

  Continuing to the south, it is the lair of the Shuidong Song family.

  An Rupan was afraid that the Song family would surrender, so he personally led the army to take down the village first, put all the elders of the Song family under house arrest, and recruited more than 3,000 Song family soldiers by the way.

  Finally, Fei Yinggong led his troops to kill.

   10,000 regular soldiers, 3,000 peasant soldiers, and 20,000 peasant troops surrounded the Song family's Lianhuan Village from front to back.

   These are two villages, connected by a valley in the middle, they can support each other at any time, and there is also a Song's Beiya that is built like a palace.

  On the outskirts of the two stockades, each has half the troops, dragging out the artillery and starting to bombard it.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  An Rupan listened to the thundering cannons outside, only felt terrified, and sooner or later he would die if this bombardment continued.

  He has more than 40,000 people in his hands, and he has brought 20,000 people here, and 20,000 people are guarding Guiyang. There were more than 20,000 Shuixi elites who gathered directly in Chishui and Bijie due to the difficult mountain roads to guard against Huang Yao's front army there.

  If the Guangxi friendly army knows the situation, they will definitely envy the Sichuan soldiers, because it is so easy to fight.

  An Rupan did not drill the mountains, but mobilized troops to defend the city. Siege warfare is much easier than guerrilla warfare.

  A soldier climbed over the mountain and came down from the cliff on the east side of the stockade.

   "My lord, my son said to attack at night tonight!"

"it is good!"

  An Rupan was overjoyed.

  The enemy actually divides his troops to attack the two villages, and the defenders of the two villages can transfer troops at will through the valley. Coupled with his son An Kun, the army transferred from Guiyang will surely be able to respond to the night attack from inside and outside, and wipe out all the Datong army that was separated!

Fei Yinggong was sitting in the camp, and the spies who came from white soldiers also rushed in to report: "General, there are enemy troops in the south. They didn't take the official road, they went over the mountain and took the path, and they are hiding in the valley a few miles to the south. inside."

  Fei Yinggong couldn't help laughing: "I was planning to leave the empty battalion and dispatch troops to surprise Guiyang. I didn't expect the enemy from Guiyang to surprise me."

  (end of this chapter)